THE BEE : OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1919. THE 'OMAHA BEE DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATEB y VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR te BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Frees, of which The BnIii meoibar. U tx ataartalr entitled u Uu dk lot publication of tU news dlspatcnee f oredlwd to It or not oth.rwlee credited In thu neper, and also i it tocJ ntw published herein. All lifhu of etiblfoatlon of our aptaui aispaicnae are auo reeema. RFC TELEPHONES i Mnti Plmuth CirHtnH. Alk for thenar I A innn f Department or Particular Pereoo Wanted. J,cl Fr N!h and Suad Sarvtca Call: f Mitorlal Departrowit Wer 10WU Cireuletton Department h h AdttrUalng Department ..... Tyler 100SU OFFICES OF THE BEE Bon Offlca. Bm Building, 17th ud Ftroun. Otncee: . . Anna 4110 North 2n Para wis wwrowonn Beam SUt Military Are. South Bid .2318 N Street CvoacU Bluff! IS Scott St 1 Walnut , 81 North 40th Out-of-Towa Official Je To CUT IM rtfth Ate. I Weahlnstoe 1311 0 Street Beeger Bias, i iinouin OCTOBER CIRCULATION Daily 66,315 Sunday 63,160 1 Average circulation for tha month euDecrtDea ana sworn so uj J t g Bans, Circulation Manager. Subscribers having tha city should have tha to than. Addreaa ehangad aa often I Boa mailed I required. You should know that Omaha has more than 30,000 : children in daily attendance at its splendid free public schools. What The Bee Standi 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 ol ; . 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. Watch Ak-Sar-Ben expand 1 Over the top again for the Red Cross. We may yet have to teach the bumptious Mexican to say "Uncle." "Boss" Murphy says he is not going. All right, but some of his henchmen are. Sinn Feiners object to colleens flirting with the Sassenach. Hooroo, but the hunt is up nowl Prohibition may have excited bolshevism in Russia, but the chances are it has lived since on vodka. A loan to Poland of $250,000,000 is about to be floated in this country. Presently they will : all owe us something. Secretary Baker is opposed to a separate department of aviation. Three years ago he did not want an army. Vort Bethmann-Holweg is passing the buck to his associates. He need not worry there is obloquy enough to cover them all. The president has put out his Thanksgiving proclamation. Most of us may return thanks that we are alive, but that is about all. Some Italian coal miners haye solved their share of the strike: "No beer, no wine, no work. We go home." They will be missed but not regretted. Boston need not be inordinately puffed up by reason of having a few illuminated crossing policemen. It is not the first time a copper has been "lit up." Nebraska is not a good place for growth of the Nonpartisan league. Political ideas of all sorts have a hearing here, but it is hard to coax people off into vagarious experimentation. Herr Hohenzollern's physician has been '.iorced to return to private practice, being un able to exist on the allowance made him by his employer. H. c. of 1. is surely a leveler. Army trucks are rusting in the field at Lin coln, while congressmen at Washington are trying to get the War department to take care of them. This is a proof of efficiency plus. How sweet of the democrats to rejoice that Governor Coolidge was elected and law and order vindicated. But just think, what a shout they would have sent' up If Long had come through I . A Borrowed Industry For local color New York has borrowed . i . . r ....... flnirtai f tha orlnh tr m pp t xrcciy iiuiii c v 1 1 j " the needs and desires of its cosmopolitan pop ulation. From fashions to foods assorted va- " rieties without end, and the popular demand never seems to slacken. In a market where millions of persons mingle and traffic it is Xsigainst human nature that tastes and habits should be made uniform in obedience to written By way of enriching the life of the city, prohibition now has the honor of presenting to New York the bootlegger in his well-known : part. As a fitting companion, the maker of moonshine whisky is also introduced, under the fostering influence of the moral forces of Mr. Anderson's Antisaloon league, as filling a new- want. s I A Carolina mountaineer with a few bushels I of corn in a hidden cove could turn out his own Udeadly quality of whisky under conditions that J tare denied to the enterprising chap who is re stricted to tne narrow limits oi a tenement ouse back room or a Bronx basement, but their purposes are the same. Years ago, Detore the eighteenth amendment was dreamed of, the ripn-citizen Indian on his reservation was birred hy statute from the purchase of alcoholic beverages, but the illicit trader found the means to1 carry on a prosperous commerce under the noses of government agents. The up-to-date New York bootlegger, in delivering his wet goods to thirsty clients, may travel by subway or taxicab, but with him the inducements to beat' the law and outwit the federal officers will be just the same. Our own auto bandits and gunmen in their crude way have adopted the practical methods of the stage robbers and bad men of the wild -west, but they wear tailor-made clothes and make other concessions to eastern conventions. Now that the bootleggers has put in his appear ance in New York, it is too much to ask of him that he shall dress according to character in the style of the Carolina mountains or the movies. Other things may be changed accord ing to localities, but underneath the surface there remains the same difference of opinion between those who propose laws and those who jiolatt them for profit New York World. JOB FOR NATION'S TEACHERS. In a considerable variety of ways the great problem of civilization is being presented to the Nebraska teachers now in convention here. Able 'speakers, each a notable figure in the broader fields of educational work, have out lined in one or another form a phase of the work that is expected. In each of these the thought centers directly on the point of indi vidual reesponsibility. In his Thanksgiving day proclamation, the president says: To attain the consummation of the great work to which the American people devoted their manhood and the vast resources of their country they should, as they give thanks to God, reconsecrate themselves to these prin ciples of right which triumphed through His merciful goodness. Our gratitude can find no more pressing expression than to bulwark . with lovaltv and oatriotism those principles for which the free peoples of the earth fought . and died. Along with the gospel of love must be taught the gospel of work. Instillation of principles of patriotism, civic righteousness, and high regard for the law, which is included in the former, will be unavailing unless along with it goes convincing instruction in constructive effort. Children must be taught that work is man's greatest privilege, that the most arduous toil is drugery only when the toiler has no vision. False social values are to be dispelled, and a more correct measure of worth estab lished. Greed will not disappear while men worship its fruits. Public school teachers can bring about the desired change more certainly. than any other agency, for tthey have the greater opportunity. To them the future belongs, and as they build it so will civilization prosper. Reconsecration in the sense the president advises is helpful, but the inculcation of healthy ideals and sound ideas in the minds of the school children of the land will solidify the coming generations , on the great principles for which Americans fought. Omaha the Air Mail Terminal. Decision of the Postoffice department to make Omaha the western terminus of the air mail service rests on reason. From no other point can so wide a territory in the west be served by rail as from Omaha, and it must fol low as well that here is the logical place for the radiating air mail delivery. On a direct line between New York and San Francisco, to which point the department expects in time to exjtend the flying mail, Omaha affords the same relation to this new departure as to the over land traffic of the railroads. It is the great center of the country, has so been recognized by careful watching men, interested in the de velopment of transportation, whose wisdom is guided by the choice just announced from the head of the air mail. That the mails can be carried by flying machines has been thor oughly demonstrated, and that the commercial use of the machine is increasing is admitted. The Gate City is to be in reality a transcontinental stopping place for the air-lane travel and traf fic of the years ahe.ad. When Training is Needed. Congress will, it is reported now, heed Gen eral Pershing's advice as to the size of the regular army, but disregard his views on the more important topic of universal training. This is to be regretted. General Pershing is a professional soldier, but he is a citizen and a patriot, and out of the depth of his experience has drawn wisdom for the use of his country. When a member of the committee of congress asked him why it was the "A. E. F." decided the war so speedily after its entry, he answered that the Allies held the lines while we were training. . People are apt to overlook the fact that fourteen months elapsed between the declara tion of war and Belleau Wood, where our men were yet considered an experiment by the sol diers of Europe. General Pershing also em phasized the fact that an officer can not be properly trained in ninety days. More time must be given to the study of the details of the profession. It is no discredit to any that the larger part of our young officers went into with little equipment for their work beyond a holy determination to win and a fine concep tion , of patriotic obligation. They never had a chance to learn what is incumbent on an officer. A miracle was wrought, but it might have been done much better had a little preparatory work smoothed the way to a big job. This lesson of the world war should not be thrown away by Americans. i ' Clear Track for Ak-Sar-Ben. Subscriptions to the full amount of stock offered by Ak-Sar-Ben have been taken. It was a foregone conclusion that the drive would be a success, for no thought that it would lag ever entered the minds of the enthusiastic work ers who enlisted in the enterprise. Just as the group of Omaha business men who set the in stitution on foot a quarter of a century ago were unable to foresee the great service it has been to the community, so it is impossible for those of today to foretell what will be in days to come. It is certain, though, that the new course on which the institution has been launched leads directly to greater growth, to a more substantial and dignified usefulness. A great exposition will be a worthy substitute for the carnival, and with one of its amusement feeatures diminished, the annual fall festival of Ak-Sar-Ben will have a quality befitting the importance of the interests involved. The track is cleared and Omaha's wonderful booster or ganization is headed for a higher goal. J' Representative Aswell of Louisiana, who complains of the "partisan" activities of the republicans, objected to allowing Republican Leader Mondell two minutes in which to ad dress the house on Roosevelt's birthday. No body will ever accuse him of not being true to his party. Southern cotton growers are now proposing to "withdraw" a large portion of the already short crop until they think the price is high enough to warrant selling. Yet the president called the coal miners' strike "immoral." Creel, the unforgettable, is not telling what he thinks about congress. A definite recollec tion persists of the time when this same Creel apologized abjectly to congress for some things he said in public The iitt that the captain of the Lusitania did not obey orders he had from the British admiralty does not relieve the Germans of their responsibility for that foul deed. , Roosevelt on Mob Rule Some of Theodore Roosevelt sayings were put into the Congressional Record by Senator McCormick of Illinois, in connection with a short address on the birthday of the late former president Some of these are so pat in their application to the present situation that all should read them. The Class Agitator Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is, in the long run, with absolute certainty, that class' own worst enemy. President Roosevelt in Omaha, April 27, 1903. No Class Gains from the Misfortune of Another There , is no worse enemy of, the wageworker than the man who condones mob violence in any shape or who preaches class hatred; and surely the slightest acquaintance with our industrial history should teach even the most shortsighted that the times of most suffering for our people as a whole, the times when business is stagnant and capital suffers from shrinkage and gets no return from its in vestments, are exactly the times of hardship and want and grim disaster among the poor. If all the existing instrumentalities of wealth could be abolished, the first and severest suf fering would come among those of us who are least well off at present. The wageworker is well off only when the rest of the country is well off. and he can best contribute to the gen eral well being by showing sanity and a firm purpose to do justice to others. President Roosevelt at Syracuse, September 7, 1903. One Law for AH Mr. Shea, I can only re peat what I have said. I am a believer in unions. I am an honorary member of one union. But the union must obey the law; just as every man. rich or poor, must obey the law. President Roosevelt to a strike committee,' Mav 10, 1915. Predatory Wealth One great problem that we have before us is to preserve the rights of property; these can only be preserved if we remember that they are in less jeopardy from the socialist and the anarchist than from the predatory man of wealth. Quoted in Lewis' "Life of Theodore Roosevelt." Neither Plutocracy Nor Mob This govern ment is not and never shall be a government by plutocracy. This government is not -and never shall be government by a mob. It shall continue to be in the future what it has been in the past, a government based on the theory that each man, rich or poor, is to be treated simply and solely on his worth as a man; that all his personal and property rights are to be safeguarded; and that he is neither to wrong others nor to suffer wrong from others. From President Roosevelt's Message to Con gress, December 5, 1905. The Two Evils The triumph of the mob is just as evil a thine as the triumph of the plutocracy, and to have escaped one danger avails nothing if we succumb to the other. There is nothing to choose between. Fundamentally they are alike in their selfish disregard of the rights of others. From President Roosevelt's Message to Congress, December 2, 1906. Rough Work. "Perhaps I ought to tell you," said the ap plicant for a position, "that I have just finished serving a prison sentence." "Oh, that's all right," said the employer. "I won't hold' that against you. But, wait a min ute. What kind of a prison was it?" "A model institution, sir. The warden, God bless him, was a father to me!" "Ah. In that case, I'm afraid you won't do. This job is not suited to a 'hothouse plant.' What I want is a man with calloused hands and a corned-beef-and cabbage appetite." Birmingham-Age Herald. CfteVELVET Pu Jttibur "Brooks "Baker rmMt WILLIAM F. RIGGE. , The Creighton university, like others of its kind, is after all the harmless information it can find. So long as science makes no quarrel, with truth that's signed and sealed and never fusses with the facts reliably revealed, it's free to wander cheerfully on every kind of quest, to prosecute its keen pursuit with energy and zest. The work of Father Rigge is the study of the stars, the habits of the comets and inhabi tants of Mars. He lies in wait with telescopes on triggers made of hair, the secrets of the universe-to open to the air, and stars which at the work of other scienitsts have laughed wake up in horror when they find he's got 'em photographed. , He plots the swarming heavens and he al ways lets us know the stars and constellations which another month will show. He prophe sies what's coming and he writes it for The Bee, that those who care what stars are there mayvgo and look and see, though many healthy citizens can plod along for years evincing little interest in hot and distant spheres. For human creatures are, alas, an unobserv ing bunch. Their points of greatest interest are always love or lunch. Exertions of the eye, imagination, mind or ear are found by nearly all of us too frightfully severe; and so we scorn the upward call of heavens all alight and scheme for more indulgence of some ancient appetite. (Next Subject Albert Webb Jefferis.) The Day We Celebrate. Nels Lundgren, real estate and insurance, born 1867. John W. Hughes, secretary Guarantee Fund Life association, born 1882. Samuel Corneer, secretary and treasurer of the Union Fuel company, born 1860. ' John Harburg, Wright and Wilhelmy com pany, wholesale hardware, born in Iowa, 1859. Mme. Sklodowska . Curie, distinguished French scientist, chief professor in the faculty of sciences of the University of Paris, born in Poland, 52 years ago. Maj. K. M. Van Zandt of Texas, commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans, born in Franklin county, Tenn., 83 years ago. Charlotte Crabtree (Lotta), celebrated act ress, now retired, born in New York City, 72 years ago. William Denman, former head of the United States shipping board, born in San Francisco, 47 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Complete figures for the judicial district make certain the election of Judge Clarkson over Judge Davis to the district bench. "The Still Alarm," with Harry Lacy in the title roll is pronounced an exciting play, which filled the Boyd to standing room capacity. The hero fireman gets the pretty girl and puts the villian in the discard. W. H. Kurtz, secretary of the Patrick Land company, while riding horseback was thrown over a steep embankment near Farnam and Thirty-ninth streets and broke his collarbone. The vinegar works of Brecht & Sons and S. F. Henner & Company have been consoli dated and will , hereafter be known as the Omaha Consolidated Vinegar company. Gefftral D. B. McKibbin and wife, who have been the guests of their son, General Purchas ing Agent McKibbin of the Union Pacific, for the past six weeks, left for Hot Springs, Ark. Judge Brewer is expected here next week to hold federal court in conjunction with Judge Dundy. Captain Charles F. Humphrey, assistant quartermaster at Cheyenne, who has been here on business, has gone to Fort Sidney, For the Volunteer Soldier. Fort Crook, Neb., Nov. 4. To the Editor of The Bee: Our attention has been invited to a little piece of poetry published In the Omaha Daily News, November 4. 1919. To make a summary of it, it told the public that every volunteer in the military service during tha war was a slacker. It inferred that they vol unteered in. order to get assigned to some organization that would never go over. It seems that anyone with the average intellect would never make such a statement Thousands of young men volun teered that would never have been inducted. They gave their services willingly to their country, lots of them now dead, others cripples for life. The majority of these men came in the service before the draft boards were even organized. Is it fair to these men, volunteers, who answered their country's first call to arms, and to the mothers of many of them who are still sleeping In Europe, to call a volunteer a slacker? It is untrue that we volunteers have shown a hatred to all Inducted men. Many of them had very good reasons for not volunteering. We have been content to let them make whatever explanation that they deem necessary. But, on the con trary, they not only form their own opinion, but they desire to inform the entire public that the volunteer is a coward. Just consider - the matter in your ,own mind and see whether or not you are of the same opinion as the writer of that little piece of poetry. If a man was afraid to go to the front, would it be probable that he would volunteer in the infantry or artillery? For instance, the First, Second, Third, Fourth, -42nd di visions all volunteer organizations. By a few volunteers of the 20th infantry. N. F. HARRINGTON, Company I, 20th Infantry, Fort Crook, Neb. Suspects a Plot. , Omaha, Nov. 6. To the Editor of The Bee: I would like to men tion a few things in regard to the piece in the paper last night stating that the police were making a clean-up of "undesirables" and that everybody must be at work. Now that Is all right. But why do they let the gamblers, pool room slickers and other people that prey on the workingman for a living alone, and jump onto every workingman that Is a stranger and perhaps without much money? It is so the world over. The police must have some deeper scheme that the public knows nothing about in arresting and framing up on workingmen as they did recently, when they took $130 and sent that California lad to jail for 15 days. A WORKING MAN. ? Home Mechanic ? Bigamy and Concubinage. Sargent, Neb., Nov. 5. To the Editor of The Bee: Why is the crime greater for a man to marry two women than for him to marry one and live with another without marriage? It seems that the former is a penitentiary offense, but the latter is going on all over our country without hardly a comment. We have had an example right here. A railroad man living with his wife and family In another town married a girl in our town. He goes to Jail. A traveling man living with his wife and family in another town comes here, lives with another wo man as his wife, and he goes free. Can you explain why this should be? WILLIAM NEILSON. Too Good to be True. Humors persist that Lenine has been assassinated, but we have't had any luck for so long, we refuse to get optimistic over It. Lexington Herald. DAILY CARTOONETTE, I'MOINQTOLET M HRlRftOU) UNTllHlGiH FRlCESCOMt nrTm . mi n v v. i JLi y i DOT PUZZLE. V - 2, 38 2o 'A 13 43 44 I ? 4 45 ?53 S!? , 50 SI 55 Does the Self-Starter Start? By GRANT M. HYDE. "Why doesn't the self-starter in the car work this morning, Dad? I stepped hard on the button and nothing happened." "No current, I guess, sonny. Bat tery is low." "What has the battery got to do with it?" "A self-starter, my boy, is noth ing more nor less than a powerful little electric motor which runs on storage battery current and which revolves the engine shaft. Until a few years ago, all cars had to be cranked by hand, because a gasoline engine, no matter how powerful it is, will not start of itself like a steam engine someone must crank, or turn the engine shaft, until the charges in the cylinders begin to fire. Now the cranking is done by little electric motors called start ers. "In our car the electric motor is beside the engine's fly wheel so Fifty-seven lines and you See a that's in the zoo. Draw from one to two and io on to the end. that, when you press the starter but ton, you not only swStch on the cur rent but push the motor shaft into gear with the fly wheel. On other cars the motor is geared by chains, friction clutches, or in other ways, to the engine shaft. "To supply current for the starter motor, as well as the lights, electric horn, and ignition in the engine sparkplugs, modern 'cars have a gen erator which makes electric current whenever the engine is running The current which it creates is stored in the storage battery ready for use at other times. "When the starter doesn't start, it is usually because we have used so much current with starter or lights that we have almost exhausted the supply in the battery. Sometimes the battery is wearing out, for they seldom last, more than two years. Sometimes one of the battery wires usually the positive terminal is loose or corroded. And it may be other things, but it is usually be cause the battery needs charging." (In the newspaper office again next week "Stereotyping.") Boys' and Glrle Newspaper Service Copyright, 1919. y J. H. Millar HOW to Earn Monev Outside f School The One Thing You Need Most By J. H. MILLAR. "He is gone," sighed Mr. Wil liams "the old-fashioned boy, the boy of the Alger books, who began at the bottom and fought ,aiid plugged his way to the. top by his grit and courage he is 'gone. In- stead' all the kids think about today is how they can get the most money by doing the least work." Mr. Wil liams was disgusted and angry. "Oh, it's not quite so bad as all that," replied Mr. Frick. "There are plenty of gobd, industrious i boys, but let rue tell you the kind that are scarce. Boys with initiative are the rare species. You will find a hun dred that can carry out an order fairly well for every one that can see the thing to do and do it before the order is given. Initiative go ing ahead and doing things on his cwn responsibility is the most im portant single quality that any boy can have." "Right you are," replied Mr. Wil liams. "I recall two fellows that I used to know in my college days. One was a big husky six-footer named Jackson; he was a cracking good football tackle, a social leader, and an all around college man. Everyone said Jack would make a big success in business. That was twenty years ago; he lacked some thing: today he is shipping clerk in a small Kansas City factory. "The other fellow was 'Noisy' Thomas. We called him Noisy be cause he talked so little. Nobody paid much attention to him; he was a skinny little runt with a drooping shoulder on one side and pigeon-toe on the ctlier. I remember one even ing he remarked, 'Some one at this school ought to sell typewriters.' Two days later his ad appeared in the college paper and all year he had two sophomores selling type writers for him. That's the way he worked and do you know that fel low has made such a success in the lumber business that today he can ride, in the same direction for forty miles through the woods of Maine and his horse's foot will never be off his own land I". Even i you are only working to make monev outside of school hours, remember about Noisy Thomas. He succeeded because he was not afraid to go ahe?d and do things. (All girls will be reading next week, "A Shopper for Modistes.") Boya" and Girls' Newapaper Pervlco Copyright, 191, by f. H. Millar. THE WORLD'S AGE. Who will ay tha world la dylngT Who will say our prime is paat? Sparks from heaven, within ue lying;, Flash, and will flash, till the last. Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken! Man a tool to buy and aell; Earth a failure. God-forsaken, Ante-room to hell Still the race of bero-splrlts Pass tha lamp from hand to hand, Age from ase the world inherits "Wife, and child, and fatherland" Still the youthful hunter gathera Fiery Joy from wold and wood; He will dara as dared his fathers Give him causu as gaod. Whlla a slave bewails his fetters; While an orphar pleads in vain; While an infant lisps his letters. 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