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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER : 5, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD BOSK WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TBI BKB PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIXTOB MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Ajwoiiud Tnm, et which The Bee Is a member, to a elaetfaly esUUed to tin ma for publication at all new diipatehtt etedlt to It ef not oUienrtee otediud la thla pi. ud eleo thi loeal am pabUihed hewn. All rlfbta at publteeUon ot gar sasslal dUpttcM art u BEE TELEPHONES i Sw2uMBttFtMe5rMD ??BtSf. Tyler 1000 For Nlfht and Sunday Serrtca Calli MtorUt Depertawit W OraaUtloa Department - - Wer 1O08L adTorttalas Department - -' - Trier 100&U OFFICES OF THE BEE Bom Offloe, Bm Buildlflf, ntfe aad Fun urn. 4111 Nona wo i rare all Military Am. South Wda Couaetl Staffs IS Beat Be. I Walnut Out-ol-Tmm OfflcMi New Tack CUr IM Fifth Aw. I Waehlngtoa. Csieafa Owter Bid. Unooln MIS ImftDwntt MIS If Street lit North Utt 1811 o 1330 H Street OCTOBER CIRCULATION i Daily 66,315 Sunday 63,160 twin atreolatlsa for tha month mbaorlbf4 and twom la hf K. a lie an. upumon MBipri Subacrlbara leaving tha city should hava tha Baa mailed to than. Addreee changed a often aa required. You should know that Omaha has 13 -public playgrounds tor children, supervised by ex perts during the summer months. What The Bee Stands Fort 1. Respect for the law and maintenance of order. 2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime through the regular operation of the courts. J. Pitiless publicity and condemnation of inefficiency, lawlessness and corup tion in office. 4 Frank recognition and commendation of honest and efficient public service. I. Inculcation of Americanism as the true basis of good citizenship. Good morning, teacher; glad to set yon. If Dr. Garfield can end the coal strike, he hat ear fall permission to go ahead. Is Omaha en the upgrade? Look at the big public improvements under headway. Sending suspicious package! through the mails as a "joke" may lead to serious trouble. Pigs seem to be waiting for some other thing to overtake them on the down grade. Looks like a waste of effort, but Ohio and Kentucky took a vote on state-wide prohibi tion yesterday.. Seventeen hundred oil burning steamers are, now under the American flag, and oil wells do not go out on strike. ' Having grabbed the strike bear by the tail, the miners will now be grateful to anyone who will help them let go. ' Arizona's road race has now attained the distinction of "classic," two drivers having lost heir lives while competing. NEBRASKA'S SCHOOL TEACHERS. Omaha is proud today to receive once more the school teachers of the state, its best asset No state in the union made more liberal pro visions for the training of its children than did Nebraska; in no other has this function of com monwealth existence been more zealously guarded or promoted than here. " Realizing the advantage of well trained minds, of practical and comprehending knowledge of the arts and sciences, to the future well being of the world, Nebraskans have learned also to appreciate the school teacher. Most encouraging is the ' fact that the teacher is coming into a fuller knowledge of the high responsibility of the calling. Conven tions, such as that assembling here today, take on more , and more importance annually, as methoda are compared and ideas advance. Pre serving the fundamentals of the three R's, pub lie school education is extending its scope and increasing its effectiveness by ways that are not 'understood unless by those who are daily in contact with the activities of the honorable pro fession. The teacher is more and more a scientifically trained worker, dealing with the most precious material known, under whose skill, patience and' sympathetic understanding the child mind opens and the juvenile soul ex pands, until the beauties of the world we live in are realized and the way to meet life's difficulties is shown. Omaha is glad to have the teachers gathered here today, just when our magnificent city school system is about to start on even greater things. Our citizens are alive to the value of the visitors in other ways, but welcome them most because they typify the aspirations of Americans for higher and better things. Affairs at Vienna seem to have reached a normal state again, the ancient and honorable sport of Jew-baking having been revived, f Is notifies still adiourned at Washington? Watch the democrats in the senate trying to put something over on the republican majority. Governor McKelvie is going to inspect a lot of state capitols. He should take a pho tograph of Nebraska's along, to show others what we are putting up with. ' ' The Rockefeller "welfare" system is under going its acid test in Colorado just now, where Striking miners are being evicted from their homes by "C F.. & I." officials. - Omaha will have its pleasantest duty of the year this week, that, of entertaining the Ne braska school teachers. This is always a source of joy for the citizens, who appreciate the importance of their guests. - Herbert Asquith is planning to upset Lloyd George by attacking his fiscal policy. He will have a hard time to make British taxpayers ".'jjnk the "little Welshman' does not under stand how to extract money from tight pockets. One there was a time when government employes did not require any specific instruc tion in how to assume an easy and confident attitude in front of a mahogany bar, with one foot on a brass rail. That has become a lost art Two or three weeks ago there was not time enough to allow submission to the voters of the bond issue for repairing the court house, but . here is election day, and the democratic county board have not yet decided what sum to ask for.' One thin in connection with the creamery I business does not appear to have been touched upon et Mr. LOivers consuuaxion. inai that any increase in price of butter fat is promptly passed along to the man who buys the butter. Need Not Marry Her Despite the tradition of the novelists, the gallant rescuer is not always obliged to marry the maiden in distress. Because Uncle Sam has saved the remnant of Armenia from starvation it is not at all necessary that he should become politically wedded to the yuong Armenian nation ,"for better or for worse." There is a deal of sentimental agitation to the contrary. Well meaning, but misinformed, persops are insisting that because they suffered at the hands of the Turks the Armenians are Aherefore a perfect people, and that every po litical claim they may advance is entirely war ranted, and that since fhevydesire bountiful America as mandatory over "Their new nation, yet to be constituted, therefore it is America's duty to acquiesce without questions or condi tions. In the interest of clear thinking the distinc tion, between the two causes should be pointed out, especially to thbse altruistic men and women who are directing the campaign for the raising of funds for the succor of Armenian sufferers. Relief work, especially of an emer gency nature, has a dear claim upon America's interest and generosity, a claim she has been nobly quick to recognize. While it is both im practicable and unwise that this country should indefinitely continue to seek to alleviate all the suffering and poverty of the human race, yet in special need our hand will be instantly and owerfully stretched forth. New York Herald. Threaten Defeat to Treaty. Administration senators, led by Hitchcock of Nebraska, acting with the avowed opponents of the Versailles treaty, and under direction from the White House, now threaten to make good on the declaration made by Mr. Wilson at Cheyenne and defeat the treaty if the 'ma jority undertakes to dot an "i" or cross a "t" other than was done by the president This attitude is sssumed in the face of the well estab lished fact that it ean not obtain a two-thirds vote for ratification without definite reservations. The administration group admits that certain reservations will be adopted by the senate, but hopes to withhold sufficient votes to prevent ratification. The issue is squarely presented.. Mr. Wilson went to Parjs determined to write the treaty. He was not permitted to do this, for European diplomats insisted on having something to say. The "fourteen points'" were sideracked and out of the peace council came a covenant to which many Americans do not find it easy to assent Our people are not especially averse to helping set mankind forward. They have held a beacon light of liberty for all men since the foundations of the government Mfcere laid, but they have al ways maintained independent control of their own affairs. This is chiefly why they look askance at any scheme that promises inter; ference with this independence. The prospect of being bound by a super-government, in which they have but small voice, is not at tractive in any way Nor can they convince themselves that the great heart of the world will break if the imperious will of Woodrow Wilson is not allowed to have its sway. But the president has told the country it must have his treaty or none. His wisdom does not admit of question by any, particularly not by the senate of the United States, which body is charged by the constitution with the duty of helping tov make treaties, something , the ex ecutive deliberately overlooks in his dictatorial attitude. He formally demands that the sen ate abdicate its duty and accept what he sends it A portion of the democrats are willing to submit to this imperial mandate, but several of them have joined with the republicans in a reasonable effort to make the Versailles treaty safe for America as it it for other nations. They have patriotism on their side, and the majority ofthe people are fast coming to un derstand the situation. Uncovering Democratic Incompetency, i Democrats in congress object vigorously, tearfully, indignantly, and futilely, as the in quiries set afoot by the republicans disclose new and more deplorable instances of waste and corruption . in connection with war ex penditures. Representative Aswell of Louis iana roared, his wrath into the Record on Mon day, protesting against any Investigation, and charged that the republicans sought only partisan advantage. He had for his text the fact that R. H. Long, democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, had been located by the searchlight. The only in ference to be drawn from the gentleman's argu ment is that it is all right for a democrat to profiteer at expense of the government, and all wrong for a republican to call attention to it From that "continuous wood, where rolls the Oregon," to the front line of battle in Ar gonne Forest the record of profiteering, of gouging and. scamping on contracts have been traced. The orgy at Camp Sherman, where workmen put in their time gambling while hos pital patients froze in their beds, is but an ex ample of the wondrous efficiency with which the democrats prepared for war. Judge Hughes recommended a colonel for court martial in connection with the airplane scandal, and Sec retary Baker intervened and hushed the matter up. No amount of bombast or personal abuse indulged in by congressmen will change the record of incompetence made by the democratic administration. Sooner or later the whole discreditable story will be given to the world. It is coming out in piecemeal now, and, the bits that are given to the public are shocking because of the immor ality they disclose. No wonder Mr. Aswell and his associates in congress object, to the pro ceedings; but they will have to accept the find ings and the people will pass the verdict on the unworthy stewards. Nebraska's corn fields will afford remunera tive employment for a large number of idle coal miners, if they still prefer to earn a living. Husking corn is hard work, but not more so than digging coal, and it is carried on in the open air above ground, where a good man easily can earn $6 a day and board. But he will have to put in more than six hours. One of the most glittering successes of the year was the pure food show, managed by the Omaha grocers. People are interested in what they eat, and how it is provided, and learned many things at this exhibition. Rich Suborners of Revolution From the New York Time. In the course of the Lusk committee's In vestigation of boleshevist propaganda. Deputy State Attorney General Berger -examined the publishers and editors of from 40 to SO "ex treme radical publications," issued in this city, "which read 3,000,000 readers, largely in the great industrial centers," where there has been the most radical agitation and disturbance in the last few months. These journals are bol shevik! of the straitest sect They are working for the abolition of the wage system, the over turn of the government, a proletarian dictator ship. Their circulatiori is almost entirely among, the propaganda is almost entirely aimed at foreigners ignorant of the American institutions they are incited to destroy. , ' The money that supports these missionaries of revolution comes mainly from propagandist sources. All but two of the editors and pub lishers of the between 0 and 50 organs of bol- shevism "admitted that the income from their. papers would not pay expenses, and that they would be bankrupt except for gifts from wealthy people." That is, 3,000,000 ignorant aliens, who know little or nothing about Amer ican polity, are regularly and constantly urged on to destroy it by journals supported by rich, homebred bolsheviki, amateurs of excitement and revolution, .who seek to dispel ennui by vio lent sensations, whose leisure and wealth make them regard with disdain "common, ordinary" Americanism, or whose half-baked intellectuals have been infected with socialist-radical "thought." It is so distinguished to be superior to the herd, to vulgar love of country to be cosmopolitan and international! It is such sport to exercise influence and power, to move the hearts of millions to mutiny and rage! Revolutions are "such fun." "I have not the authority," Mr. Berger says, "to make public the names of those who are subsidiizing radical publications, but they are, in general, the same people who subsidized the pro-German propaganda, and furnished the money for the pacifist and peace-at-any-price campaigns, and contributed to the cause of the conscientious objectors." Their names have been given to the federal government What strange tenderness in the Department of Jus tice, what indulgence to "the guiltiest and most unpardonable of all the apostles of disaster and massacre, what unintelligible ignorance of a public sentiment growing sterner every day, protects and shields these "angels" of bol shevism in the United States? "Mr. Berger was asked if the federal gov ernment had made full use of its power to deal with the press preaching revolution. He re fused to answer the question." It will have to be answered at Washington. Possibly Attor ney General Palmer will throw some light on the subject when he complies with the Poin dexter resolution; but the question must be answered. Uncle Joe and the Lobby sts Joseph Guernsey Cannon, more affection ately known throughout the length and breadth of the land as "Uncle Joe," is nearing his 84th birthday. He loves his fellowman and is one of the most affable members of congress toward strangers. But Uncle Joe hates "bounders" and lobbyists and is still young and vigorous enough to resent their attempts at familiarity. For the benefit of a couple of .men with legislative axes to grind whom he was endeavor ing to impress with his own importance around the Capitol, one of the well-known lobbyists held up Uncle Joe near the cigar counter in the house restaurant. "Hello, Uncle Joel" he ex claimed. "Haven't seen you for some days. You sure are looking fine. Won't you have a cigar with us one of your old favorites?" Then the cold, steady, steely look in Uncle Joe's eyes gave him a warning. He tried to bluff it off. "Why, Uncle Joe, you don't seem to remem ber me 1" But he reckoned without his host you just can't bluff Uncle Joe. He has played the great Americanjndoor game too long for that With shoulders thrown back, -arms stiffened at his sides, eyes piercing the presuming acquaintance, he raised himself on his toes, leaning closer and daringly toward the face of the other, and said: "No, I don't remember you. Why, if when you get to the pearly gates you don't look more familiar to St Peter than you do now to me, he'll say to you, 'Get to hell out of here, I don't know youl ' Washington Star. SfteVELVET HAMMER BuJiTtfiur "Brooks "Baker FRED H. DAVIS. He heads the big First National, a bright and busy bank, a service which we all should very reverently thank, for when we give our boodle to the hands of other men we re never fully certain that we'll get it back again. We hesitate to trust it to our stocking, purse or pants, . but anywhere and everywhere there looms the threat of chance. Fred Davis knows that people are the best security, with characters o! solid weight and fleckless purity, and many players in the game of business deep and strong have had this firm financial aid to push the thing along: for he's an able judge of man, that fine unfeathered bird of which the great majority are slow to keep their word. He's built a 14-story house with polish, weight and floss to testify how thoroughly he puts his game across.. The tenant who is screened behind this rich and royal front is doing in his own behalf a wise and stealthy stunt; for where the elevators run with silence, speed and ease, the client falls more noiselessly for the tall and heartless fees. He gathers in the joys of life from circles high and tight for part of what we make by day we ought to spend at night Where self expression takes its course in dances light and fast, he proves that youth does not depart be cause some years have passed; Indeed as. ob servation shows, the chosen and elite accumu late their age upstairs, but seldom in their feet (Next Subject-William F. Rigge.) IQDAV The Day We Celebrate. Charles Unitt, county commissioner, born at Dudley, England, 1855. John D. Ware, attorney-at-law, born 1861. Sir Marcus Samuel, former lord mayor of London, whose rise from poverty to wealth is one of the romances of the business world, born 66 years ago. Will N. Hays, chairman of the republican national committee, born at Sullivan, Ind., 40 years ago? Truman H. Newberry, United States sena tor from Michigan, born in Detroit 55 years ago. Most Rev. J. J. Harty, head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Omaha, born at St. Louis 66 years ago. Dr. William O. Thompson, president of Ohio State university, born at Cambridge, O., 64 years ago. Thirty Years Ago In Omaha. , The young friends of Frank Haskell gave him a very pleasant surprise, some 35 guests enjoying the dancing, music and games. Miss Dillrance and Mr. Corts were married very quietly at Bishop Worthington's residence and went east directly after the Ceremony. Messrs. H. L. Fowler, E. S. Harroll and Eli N. Doud were elected members of Emanon club. Mrs. A. J. Monson, accompanied by her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edjuel, went to Auburn. A. E. McEndree has returned from Elkhart, Ind., where he went to attend the funeral of his father, Our Free Iigal Aid State your case clearly but briefly and a reliable lawyer . will furnish the answer or advise in this column. Your nam will not be printed. Let The Bee Advise You. ' Notary Pnhlle. J. R. Is an acknowledgement to a aeea Deiore a notary public who is a local agent ror a bonding: com pany, but who has no stock or Is not an officer In Bald company, a , gooa acKnowieagementT Answer It la. . Fraud. I T. S. I read The Bee regularly and have been watching: your Legal Aid column with a great deal of In terest I wish you would answer for me the following Question: was cheated out of my property and the person who defrauded me im mediately transferred it to a rela tlve of his. The relative Is perfectly responsible, although the man who cheated me la not Can I bring afl action against nis relative T Answer Where one person ob tains property of another by fraud, equity will raise a constructive trust in favor of the defrauded party and he may follow the property in the hands or the third party tak ing It with knowledge. Doctors. T. H. T. I placed myself under the care of a physician and he rec ommended that I undergo an op eration. I consented to the opera tion, but while I was under the In fluence of an anaesthetio the eur geon performed another operation that he claimed was necessary. I never authorized the second opera.' tion. Is the doctor liable? Answer Consent will be pre- sumed from voluntary submission to an operation. Insurance. C. D. Will an insurance company that has in its policy an Incontest able clause be permitted to offer as a defense lapse or forfeiture of non-payment of premiums or that the insured abandoned the contract? Answer It la a proper defense. Building Contract. M. 8. A. I entered Into a con tract for the construction of a home and the house was to be completed at a certain definite time. The con tract provided that I agreed to it in writing, but which I did not do. However, I had a lot of extras put on the house and which required some additional time. The contrac tor now claims that these contracts for extras were supplemental con tracts and that I waived the time of completion and that I was not entitled to the amount of damages that the contractor was to pay pro vided the house was not completed at the time specified. Will you please let me know who is right in this controversy, as I Intend to be guided a good deal by your an swer. Answer The law In this state Is well settled that a clause in a builder's contract providing: for a written demand by the builder for additional time to complete the building is legal, but may be waived by the owner entering into supple mental contracts for extras which require additional time for the com pletion of the building. Bond of Cashier. T. B. I had In my employ a young man who had been working for me a number of years as cash ier. I concluded to have him bonded. I made a statement to the bonding company that I had the accounts of the cashier regularly audited and found that the same were correct and had never discov ered that he had done anything out of the way. I employed an au ditor who gave me this information. Later, I discharged the cashier, and had another auditor go over his books and I found that he had been robbing me for many years past. I then notified the bonding company and they. refused to pay or be held liable for my cashier's dishonesty during the time that their bond was DAILY CARTOONETTE. I CRMTBItf THIS ROCKUP.lLL HRVE TO USE Some rn BURSTING POVVUER? JT iv. r MADEAN-AMERICAN Hunting Eye Trie to Vote By R. a ALEXANDER. "Ar you trying to vote, sonny?" a kindly faced old gentleman asked the question of .our little Indian friend. Hunting Eye had seen a line of men in front of a booth and had taken his place at the end of the line to find out what they were going to do. "Vote?" asked Hunting Eye. "Yes, vote," answered the old gentleman. "We have to have cer tain officers like the judge, the sheriff and the governor to make and enforce the laws. Among your people your chief does it all and he is chosen either because he is the best fighter or the son of a chief. But smong ns these officers are elected by the people for whom they make and enforce the laws. "When a judge is to be elected, the persons in the county who want to be judge send in their names. The names are put on a piece of paper, called a ballot. These per sons are called candidates. Then the people from all over the county come to a booth like this and mark on the ballot the name of the can didate they want to elect That is voting." Thev came to the door of the booth. A clerk handed Hunting tye a ballot and he was just going to follow his kind old friend when a man standing near called out, "Here you can't vote. Get out. I'll put you in jail for such tricks. "Whv can t 1 vote? "You're not 21 years old. Only men over 21 can vote. Also a man must be a citizen of this county to vote and you aren't a citizen. Move on and let the others vote." . As the Indion boy left the booth he thought of the strange customs of these people. Among his people the old men about tne council nre decided questions and made rules. Rnr here 11 but the verv youngest braves sat at tha council and helped make the laws. Hunting Eye had many things to think about as he continued his journey toward the east. 1. WVr waa Htintlnr Bya not a eltl n a. What elasaea et man ever SI aan not vote? S. What la woman a aufrracar 4. What la tha registration of voteraT B. Ia realisation a stood thins T (Next week: "Hunting Eye Rides with the rural mail man. ) Boy and Girl,' Newapaser Sendee Copyright. 19U. by J. H. Millar. sL van sun in effect. They claim that I misled them and that, although I, in good faith, stated to them that his books were always correct, and he was honest, that that amounted in law to a warranty as to his honesty and relieved them from the obligation of their bond. They stated further, that if they had known the actual facts they would never have signed the bond. I can prove that I was innocent in making the statement to the bonding company, and it was not done for the purpose of deceiving or defrauding them. I am very anx ious to know what my rights are and whether or not the bonding company is liable. Answei" The bonding company is not liable. ' The Dollar Sim. it isn't by their fruits we know these California producers. It's by tnelr prices. Philadelphia Inquirer. uo There comes a time in the lives of us all when words cannot express the sorrow that comes when death invades the home. Few, if any of us. are trained to accept death when it enters bur homes, with the fortitude that is supposed to be part of the religious training of mankind. Rebellious thoughts are bound to occur, and trifling incidents magnify themselves until the relatives are in a state of nerves. Our thoughtful service has been designed to eliminate, so far as possible, the wor rying details that come at this time, and we save many of the little business steps which v seem a burden to those who have them to do. uonttul servico alwzvs" mEPHONK DOUG 525 CUMING ST. AT rAfETEEN Moss Signs on the Trees. By ADBLIA BELLS BEARD. Almost every boy and girl has heard that one way to hnd the north is to look for moss on the trunks of trees, that mpss grows only on the north side. But does it? Investigate the matter for your self. It will be an interesting bit of woodcraft to study. ' Examine trees that stand more or less in the sunshine and others that grow in the dense shade of the woods and you will find conflicting evidence. Woodcraft, however, de mands that you use your reason as well as your eyes. Begin by asking yourself why moss should prefer the north side ot anything, men re- NO.THAT O N0T7MC NOaTfrl. THE MOSS Ofl TIISTRtE TCU.fi THE TRUTH-IT laOM THE NORTH ftlDC member that moss grows best in the shade and requires a good deal of moisture, that the north side of an object is always in the shade and holds moisture longest because the sun cannot get to it and dry it out So moss on the north side of a tree gets what it wants, shade and moisture, and generally grows deep est there even when it is found on the other sides as well. But that does not apply to trees that grow so close . together that their trunks get no sunshine at all. On these moss will grow as readily on the south side as on the north, and when a tree leans so that the upper side catches and holds the most moisture that side, be it north or south, east or west, will gather the deepest moss. It is here you must use your com mon sense in settling the question and choose only the trees that stand DOT PUZZLE 47 I 44- M.57 4l . Va 12. a. Baarf - 39 ia o 1 3 ' 25 3& lb' s' .14 3b. . ' V ,a a. Look who's here. He's very funny, Trace and you will see . Draw from ona to two and ae aa to tha anS. straight and have anouorh lunahine to dry all sides but the north. Even it i . men on ire aion cannot always be trusted, yon must get the verdict of a number, and when yon have tested the signs of the agreeing majority with a good compass you will know iust how far van ran relv on the moss signs of the trees. (Next week, "The Working Mosses.") Boya' anfl Glrle' Nawapapar Servloa. Copyright, lilt, by J. H. Millar. "Business is Gooo.Thank You" -WHY- NOT IV. 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