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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1919. The Omaha Bee , DAILY ( MORNING ) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD EQ81WATEK VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TH BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TM AwcUud Frew, of which Tbe Bh III ninbtr. I olaetMlj muled to Ik um for publication of tli nm dtipattsbes credited to H o not otherwise credited la this DDr, tod also the local am pabllttacd hsrein. AU rights of nuUlottloa of our special dispatch ere also mmiL " BEE TELEPHONES i ' Tyler 1000 1 Print Brush Bichante. Ask ' PeeerUMnt or Particular Person for the Wanted. For Nliht and Sunday Sonrka Calli Editorial Depsrtmont ..... Tlr 10O0L. , nnulatlOB Department ...... Tyler 10081. adterUsing Department ..... Trior 1008L. OFFICES OF THE BEE Home Office. Boo Building. 17to and raraaa. Branca Off lew: turn 4110 North 14th I Park MIS Learenworth Renson 114 MMIUrr Are, South Bid 3311 N Street touocil Blufft IS Scott St. Walnut lit North 40th Oat-of-Town Offices! Sn Tort Cltl !M Fifth Are. I Washington 1S11 O Straw Chicago Boeaer Bldf. I Lincoln 1330 H Street SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION: v Daily 66,084 Sunday Bl,893 Iterate circulation for tha month subscribed and sworn to b 8 B Basin. Circulation Manager. Subacribara leaving tha city ahould hava the to them. Address changed aa often a Bee mailed i required. You should know that Omaha alfalfa mills have a capac ity for grinding and turning out 2,000 tons of alfalfa meal a day. 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 of 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. Plain talk continues at the city hall. Mr. Wilson is now reported to be resigned lo reservations. This nukes it unanimous. Belgians, have a list of 1,150 Germans they want tried for high crimes. They must have kept pretty close tab on the-invaders. "Booze burglars" are spreading terror among the well supplied, who are at the disad vantage of not being permitted to call the police. England will complete ratification of tha treaty on Armistice day, so we have a chance to catch up with the head of the procession after all. King Albert did not find many ruins in New York, but he has been able, to visit a number of notable shrines, the last, one being Mount Vernon. With all his eccentricity and .sublime egotism, "G. B. S." fs a wise old bird. He de clines to say at what age a woman is most interesting. FACING THE COAL STRIKE. The strike of the soft coal miners now ap pears to be inevitable. Steps taken by the gov ernment, so far announced, include a revival of the fuel control under the railroad adminis tration, which will allocate fuel supply, and an undivulged movement to be made by the secre tary of war. This latter probably will amount to no more than protection for such miners as continue at work. Secretary Lane gives the comforting assur ance that between 150,000,000 and 200,000,000 tons of bituminous coal is produced by non union labor, and that this will be sufficient to meet railroad, domestic and public utility re quirements, leaving the industries of the coun try to be supplied from other sources. Dr. Gar field thinks that by careful apportionment of the fuel on hand or to be produced business may be kept moving. This is reassuring, but jt does not alter the immorality of the course pursued by the soft coal miners. Their leaders attempt to shift en tire responsibility onto the operators, but even when all the claims and assertions of the union officials are admitted, there yet remains the unalterable fact that two wrongs do not make a right. No amount of injustice or oppression I on part of the mine owners can justify a wrong action on part of the miners. And this rule works both ways. Having selected a moment when whatever inconvenience arising from a shortage of coal would hit the country hardest, the miners ask for sympathy because they say their employers will not negotiate a new wage scale. The mine owners set up that the existing agreement has yet several "months to run. Here is a dispute as to facts that might easily be adjusted, yet neither appears to have gone to any great length in trying to reach a settlement. Such conferences as have been held have failed be cause each side demanded the whole of its con tention. The public, and this includes mine owners and miners, is interested primarily in having a steady Supply of fuel. A way should be found to provide this. If the miners are determined to, try the issue by process of striking, jiow is is as good a time as any, for the sooner it is settled the better it will be for all. If a group of men, pursuing a selfish object, can upset the life of the country we should know it and begin to look for the remedy. Talking of "cabbages and kings," would it be out of the way to suggest to the Water board that plans be now laid for extending the "muny" ice service next summer? Bar silver has climbed up to $1.28 an ounce through the operation of the law of supply and demand, that was to have ' been repealed in order to establish the sacred ratio. The real tug of war on the dry law is about to start in the way of a fight for permission to sell 70,000,000 gallons of red eye held in stor ageHlWhen this is disposed of. good nightl You know there are "kiddies" inyOmaha who will suffer for want of footwear this' winter unless somebody helps them. That is why The Bee's free shoe fund is started. Come on in. The committee on profiteering is on the right track. In its call for a public meeting it has debarred discussing of who started it or who is doing it, confining air debate to how to stop it. First effect of the coal miners' strike is re vival of "Old Doc" Garfield's defunct fuel ad ministration. Other recently interred bodies may also be exhumed if the affair goes on long enough. , , The Mexican government is now trying to make it appear that the kidnapping of Consul Jenkins was a "frame-up." It was, all right, but entirely on the part of the peculiar citizens of a singular country. Debate as to whether labor is in danger from the League of Nations is time wasted. Just now the greatest enemy organized labor hat in the world is the radical element in its own ranks, which is driving to destruction. "New Apartment11 Fiends England Restless Under Load. Social unrest in England is not confined to the working classes, nor are the political or economic problems entirely those of Irish home rule or the adjustment of wages. The United Kingdom came out of the war with such a load of debt, and with productive industries so gen erally dislocated, that the way to recovery is extremely difficult. Just now Lloyd George is asking a vote of confidence on the budget, which is to be taken after two full days of de bate, when the premier and Bonar Law, gov ernment leader in the house, will present the government's side of the question. Drastic remedies .are proposed for meeting the situation. In lieu of the extremely heavy taxes asked by the government, it has been sug gested thaj a gejieral scaling of the debt be made. Confiscation by the government of a certain proportion of the capital of the king dom is an easy, but not at all a popular way of settling the question. The premier has pointed out many times that the way back to pros perity lies through steady, productive effort, a revival of industry and the abandonment of ex travagant ways of living. Nowhere has there been a greater orgy of spending than in Eng land since the armistice, and the effects of this are felt by all. Naturally objection turns first to the cost of keeping an army of 750,000 men and the great navy in commission. A demand is made "that these be reduVed to or below former peace-time strength, but England can not carry out its part of the obligations as sumed at Paris unless it does maintain a con siderable force. Careful review of the situation justifies the opinion that England's problem is very much "the same as ours. The disturbance went deepen there, because the strain was longer borne, but order ,will come only when the people get ready to go to work, and this will not be changed by upsetting one government and put ting in another. It was estimated that this. month would find New York short more than 60,000 living apart , ments, the shortage becoming apparent with the annual moving which takes place in that i city at this time. . I San Franciscans may have no conception of 1 what is meant by almost a whole city taking a, up IIS oeu ana warning iui oumv ... ...h.ni. n m, i t niir 117. fi vr uridine i wui til " i i v. ii - " . ., - i wnn arp never duuv 1 ui less win.., v. .&. a . n . i r t nfir.i c ill i , i r i , i u r ill , i 1 1 1 l iuiuu u .3 1 X' . l.v . uu.v. v where they go so long as it is somewhere else. Yet, others are known as new apartment fiends. They never live anywhere but in newly painted premises. To them the smell of fresh paint is not bilious, but inspiring. They love the bloom of unwashed floors, the virginal var nish of the woodwork, the lily whiteness of the kitchen sink. A few months' residence, per haps only a few weeks, and they are off in search of fresh fittings and apartments new. " Some keep their receipts as trophies ot the chase, and we know of a grandmother who boasts that in her 40 years' residence in San Francisco she has never lived anywhere except s a first tenant f- It is a strange madness, but though often amusing in an individual has its pathetic side ,' when it afflicts a whohv Community. Small -wonder that the mover's supposed necessity i - the landlord's oooortunity. Rents in New York.. I k tor instance, have doubled and even trebledyland foreseeing the possimiuy 01 a ran in prices '.many owners have held up their new tenants for three-year leases at present sky limit rates. San Francisco Bv";- Hazard of Modern Industry. Accompanying the announcement of steps being taken to meet the emergency arising from the impending strike of coal miners, is an ac count of hdw twenty-one were abandoned to their fate in a blazing mine where the flames drove back the rescuers. This will excite sym pathy, and the mind will dwell apprehensively on the dangers of coal mining, from which the average mortal instinctively shrinks. Work underground is extra hazardous, and long has been so recognized, the fact figuring as an ele ment in the wage scale. But the coal miners are not the only ones who risk their lives in industry. The annual toll taken in the United States by industrial accident exceeds the battle loss of the A. E. F. in the world war. It is not especially creditable that this should be so, but it is true that every effort is being made to re duce the number of accidents, and that consid erable progress has been made. Machinery can not be made absolutely safe nor entirely "fool proof," while human fallibility must always' be reckoned with. In spite of the best effort to secure the universal application of the rule of safety first, loss of life or limb emphasizes the fact that modern industry projects even into peace time have quite as much risk as most of us care to face. The "Backyard" Aairplane. Invention of a reversible propeller for air planes is heralded as a great step ahead in making the flying machine available for general public use. At present one of its disadvantages is that much clear space is required for landing or starting.' If the machine is to become suc cessor to the automobile, it must have some thing of the motor car's flexibility and adapta bility. Starting and stopping on restricted area is a prime requisite. But the new invention is said to permit stopping within fifty feet of dis tance. Should it be possible to "take off" in a similarly reasonable amount of room, the "back yard" airplane may be in reach. Machines are now made with so limited a spread of wings that they may bt landed or started from a coun try lane. Maybe the visions portrayed by car toonists and others who like to poke fun at peo ple will be brought o pass, and we will soon see the heavens filled with fleets of flying machines, darting hither and thither as their drivers fancy. It will be a welcome day for the man who travels afoot. Universal Training From the St Louis Globe-Democrat In any summary given of the legislation pro posed by the leaders in the National Guard movement to have a national military system adopted, the basing of the purposed universal training upon the public schools seems to be intended. The Boy Scouts are spoken of and then the high school, with the statement that after the high school period the boys should be given a short term of intensive military in struction and then dismissed into the body of the people, subject to call for service in much the same way our national army was raised. In this way we should have no standing army ex cept a volunteer one of whatever size congress might determine, and the National Guard, sub ject to call to federal service at the will of the president, also of whatever size both congress and the willingness of the young men of the country to enlist in its ranks might determine. We may add that the latter factor will always serve to keep a volunteer regular army or Na tional Guard from becoming too large. Basing universal training, or any element of it save that of educating officers, upon the pub lic schools is a delusion.. It is an established fact that less than 10 per cent of the youth of the country graduate from high school. The remaining 90 per cent must be given the mili tary training also if it is to be general in char acter. They need the disciplinary and educa tional value of it more than do the high school boys. It is the disciplinary value of universal training andUhe physical benefits the youth of the country would receive, which is its strong est argument. This benefit and value would serve the country better if given to those boys who by reason of the necessity for earning a livelihood are-compelled to leave school at or before the completion of the grammar grade, and who as a consequence are deprived of the discipline of school life and the physical bene fit of athletics. Universal training in this sense appeals to the American people, but not uni versal militarism, and it is evident it cannot be based upon the high schools nor upon the grammar grades except in the form of physi cal culture, of which the grades have now en tirely too little. War Philosophy in Peace Time Why are there now so many murders,' riots and other acts of violence showing a startling loss of social control as compared with the period during the war and that before the war? The increase in violence surely does not mean that human depravity is running deeper or that "the world is growing worse." The American people have just come out of a great war, a vast conflict of physical forces grappling to the death. During an extended period human life was cheaper than it ever was before in recent centuries. "Treat 'm rough!" and "Go get 'em!" were admired slogans. The heroic figure was 'the man. the woman or the child who showed contempt for death and stoical indifference to pain and other forms of suffering. Millions of the swarming peoples of the earth were taught that killing the enemy was a sacred duty, while sacrifice of self, if necessary, was also a sacred duty. Contempt for death if it came to oneself and exultation over the death of one's enemies in large num bers this was the lesson. The old standards as to the sacredness of human life were broken down. It was after the American Civil war that the James brothers and other outlaws committed train and bank robberies and armed bands were formed in many places to spread terrorism and to profit by threats and violence. The phi losophy that the individual should personally cultivate extreme contempt for death to him self and should be honored for his prowess in bringing death to the enemy brings some startling results. A nation caunot wage efficient var unless it tells its youth to go over the top and kill. Out of millions of youths thus in structed, a small percentage retains and applies affer the war these lessons of violence. The accepted war slogans, with their im plications of violence and disregard for human life, clearly are of little service when the fight ing is over. Chicago Daily News. Che VELVET T AX JT-. M Ta. n ia rvi vi r u vv?w Bi) Jlrf fiur "Brooks "Baker m EVERETT BUCKINGHAM. The Spaniards do not use the bull for weinerwurst or steak until he gives them all the sport one simple bull can make; they do not value him so much as source of soup and beef, but rather as the means of much emo tional relief; but here in dear America the fact is widely known, we do not like to see him stabbed, but love to hear him thrown. - In such endeavors, master skill and more than master luck is credited by many to per formances by Buck. He manages the stock yards, where the fated quadruped give- up his short and simple life that others may be fed; while, so the dieticians state, we shorten our careers by eating of the late lamented lambs and shoats and steers. The legislature often seeks to teach him novel tricks, and manfully he struggles with the legislative hicks, who think if they can pail a cow in manner smooth and wise, that they can tackle other jobs less fitted to their size. But after they have rioted a bright and breezy spell, Buck gets them all tamed down again and shut in the corral. He feeds the hungry delegates who come to see the sights. In all illuminations he's among the leading lights. He heads the table of the Knights we know as Ak-Sar-Ben distinction which would swell the heads of many lesser men. Some men arrive by skill and speed and some by tact or luck, and some by throwing printers' ink or what is thrown by Buck. 1(Next Subject William F. Gurley.) The Day We Celebrate. Countess Magri (Mrs. Tom Thumb), the world's most famous midget, born at Middle boro, Mass., 78 years ago. Gen. Adelbert Ames, one of the few surviv ing general officers of the Union army, born at Rockland, Me., 84 years ago. William McAdoo, late secretary of the treas ury in the Wilson cabinet, born at Marietta, Ga., 56 years ago. Maj. Gen. James B. Aleshire, U. S. A., re tired, former quartermaster general of the U. S. army, born at Gallipolis, O., 63 years ago. Charles H. Cahan, who rendered notable service during the way as director of public safety for Canada, born at Yarmouth, N. S., 58 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. The marriage of Maud Colton Noteware and Charles William Hamilton took place in Boston. Frank Murphy accompanied Mrs. Hamilton and Frank Hamilton to attend the wedding. Wanted Girl for general housework. 715 North Twenty-third street. Mrs.' M. C. Peters. A very large audience greeted Emma Abbott, now playing ati the Boyd, in "The Bohemian Girl." ' The public library has recently received sev eral valuable additions to its long list of books. The library has been conveniently arranged un der the direction of Miss Jessie Allen, librarian. Miss Margaret Williams entertained a few of her friends at a "candy pull." A very enjoy able time was had. Among the guests were: Miss Dewey, Miss Orchard, Miss Ida Sharp, Will Creary, Will Doane and John Patrick. In Matter of Strike. Columbus, Neb., Oct 29. To the Editor of The Bee: Everybody would like to see the threatened coal strike averted and it seems that the blame rests on the strikers, who of you that are blaming the strikers would work for $75 per month? - I Just read an editorial today that stated, in spite of the present unrest throughout the country, big busi ness was going strong according to the latest Wall street reports. When business of any kind begins to lose profit, rates and prices are ad vanceed, and there you are. This boost in prices practiced by business has become such a- com mon custom that any man who takes advantage of the means is called a shrewd business man. Now comes labor, sits down and reflects, finds his books show no profit at the end of the month, and decides to strike for higher wages.' One is called good business and the other bol shevism. We find that in the business world are men who demand and get their pay in advance without giving a guarantee that they will deliver the goods. Business has always fixed its own profits, why can not labor do the same? We have bullded a civilization whose foundation is profit. Why not let labbor in on the ground floor where it may gaze upon a gilded stage. and watch the magnificent stunts of profiteering acrobats? There would be a full hoiute and a full house would make a fine hand for Uncle Sam to call the bet of all other competitors. JESSE S. KINDER. Misses His "Liberty." Omaha, Oct. 28. To the Editor of The Bee: As one of the many who have served overseas and have participated in the three major oper tions in France, I take the liberty of expressing my opinion on the utter selfishness and disregard of the American soldier in France In re gard to political questions. Nation-wide prohibition was voted and ratified by states with a total disregard of the some 2,000,000 Americans who were in the trenches sacrificing their all that this nation might triumph, but were absolutely denied a voice in these drastic meas ures. If that is democracy, then give the president a crown of thorns. There Is little wonder there Is po litical and industrial unrest in this country. It is surprising to me that there is not something far more worse. When a willful few can take the personal liberties from those who have carried the nation's flag to victory through the most strenu ous and trying times in history, then I say it is time to migrate to some foreign shore, which is exactly what thousands of returned veterans are doing. ONE WHO SERVED IN VAIN. Reaching the Prollteer. Tryon, Neb., Oct. 27. To the Edi tor of The Bee: If you tan allow me the space in the Letter Box would like to let off some steam in regard to high cost of living. I have read, page after page, ar ticle after article, and all kinds of remedies, from preacher to layman, and from statesman to the chore boy, hut none from the farmer. So here goes. Let the federal and state govern ments enact a law making it com pulsory that every article or com modity for exchange or barter be branded with the. price that It cost, each and every man handling such article, and make it a penitentiary offense for not doing so or for put ting on a different price. For instance, if a profiteer bought a bushel of potatoes for $1 and tried to hold the consumer up for $5 for the bushel, he and his bushel of spuds would last about as long as a snow ball in hades. Our law-making bodies can give the public relief, but for different reasons won't. One reason I will mention is they want a hand in the profiteering. DELL M'CAIN. (Farmer) . ECHO SEAT. It Is th greenest nook eslde the way! A dark hill climbs behind1 it, dark with plnea. Where one may know not If 'tis day or night; But, all In front, the laughing river shines. And, near the river bank, there is a seat, Bo old none knows the time it was not there. Where many rest them from the summer heat, And breathe the cool, down floating, pine sweet air. Then, they who still are young enough to play. Toss one another's name across the stream. And laufth to hear a hidden mocker gay In accents clear the cadence word re deem! And there are others. In youth's later bloom. Who of the cavern dwelling nymph re quire What fortune shall be theirs, or who loves whom (Say. did that hidden one grant their desire?) How many a voice since then Is lost, is still. Of those that called with fresh and lusty cheer: Or if they call.Vtls past some heavenly hill, The voice responds not heard of earthly ear. ... It Is so many absent years gone bv, Since I the airy magio put to test, I doubt me, if the Echo would reply To those old names I lock within my breast. Edith M. Thomas liv the New York Sun. DOT PUZZLE 'jL Earn Monev Hew to Outside f School A Business That It Eun. By MARIS SCOVILLE. "Mrs. Viers, 816 East Green street, said she never gave so successful a luncheon as when' she entertained the Vassar society for an "autumn" luncheon on Tuesday, October 6, and I made the place-cards, shades and favors. "Let me show you what I can do! I have samples of my work and ap propriate ideas for every kind of tea or luncheon the year 'round. 'Phone me and I will come to talk your next party over. Price list en closed." Helen was a saleswoman. She knew how to sell her talents. Al ways clever at school with her water colors and brush, she sent the above note every three months to friends of her mother and to those women who she. knew belonged to clubs or ? Everydty Science 7 Home Mechanics Printing on a "Round Press." ' By GRANT M. HYDE. "I was watching the printing press at the newspaper office today, dad, and I couldn't see any type." "Was it a rotary fress?" "Well, it had a lot of rollers, rolls of paper and it ran awful fast. And folded newspapers came out ready for the carrier boys." ! - "That is a rotary web perfecting press, sonny such as most newspa pers of more than 4.000 circulation use now." "But there wasn't any type." "No stereotyped plates of the pages, instead. It's an interesting invention, and without it we couldn't have newspapers of half a million circulation a day. Do you remem ber the printing press in the little office in grandfather's town? Well, that was the small newspaper press, called a cylinder, or "flat bed," press, because the type forms of the pages are placed on a flat bed and slide OLD STYLE FLATBED PREM I cvuMoaa. J ' NS ' NEW STYLE ROTAPV PRESS .was J mux -Or - SUTM o jj o J PAPEE. did frequent entertaining, always giving the name of some certain hostess she had helped of late with an especially attractive luncheon. For the painting of simple place cards and the making of shades in various hued crepe paper petals she charged 10 cents apiece. The hos- i tess furnished the materia! and the i idea or certain color scheme she wished carried out. But Helen herself was constantly on the alert for new ideas in favors and decorations, so that in time she became known as a person whose opinion it was well worth consult- Liwg before giving a dinner, luncheon or tea. Helen found ideas through reading the magazines her mother took each month, getting books on similar subjects at the library and visiting the art departments, jn the stores. On her 14th birthday Helen had started by sending little notes to members of her mother's sewing club saying that she could paint place-cards and enclosing a sample of her work. This small beginning led to the adding of shades, favors, etc., until today, Helen at 17 and a ; senior in high school, has a substan- j tial weekly income and two girl friends to help fill her orders. (Next week: "The Secret of the Whole.Thing.") Bovs' and Girls' Newspaper Service, Copy right, 1919, by J. H. Miliar. Japanese Coal Mines. The output of the coal mines of Japan increased from 1,083,000 tons in 1913 to 22,901,000 tons in 1916 and 27,500,000 tons in 1918. The growth of the industries is shown by the increase In industrial con sumption from 7,530,000 tons In 1914 to 10,426,000 tons in 1916 and 16,020,000 tons in 1918. back and lorth under a platen cylin der. From this diagram you will see how the pressman slips paper sheets into the grippers of the cyl inder and the type form to receive an impression on one side. It's slow, because it is fed by hand, and the sheets must be run through again to be printed on the other side. (Next week. "Why Doesn't a Self Starter Start?") Bovs" and Girls' Newspaper Servlca. Copyright. 1919. by J. H. Millar. One Thing is Certain As long as you live you will need money. Save your . money now, then in old age when you really need it there will be no vain regrets. The poorhouses are filled with people who knew this. 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