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6 THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING ) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD RQ3EWATEB VICTOR KOSEWATER, EDITOR IEI BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRHTOK MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PKZSS Tat Associated Press, of which Th. Be Is a ambar. If eluilvalr antltlad lo th. an tor publication of all bws dispalciMS eradlMd to U or not ottMrwIsa credited tn thli paper, ud also the local news publinhed Herein. Ail tiibu at publication of our special dispatches art al reeerred. BEE TELEPHONES! Print Branch Eircanca. Art for the DesarUnaDt or Particular Person Wanted. For Night and Sunday Sanrica Caili Tyler 1000 Editorial Dtoartmeiit Circulation Department AdTMtilln Department Tyler iwn. Trior vmu Tjit loom. OFFICES OF THE BEE Bona Office. Be Building. i;th and Faraam. Ajnai 4110 Nortb S4th Park Benaoa 6114 Military Aa, South Bid Council Bluffi It Scott BL I Walaus Out-of-Town Officaai New York Cltj m Fifth At Waabinatoa Chtcaco Beeser Bldf. I Lincoln MIS LoanawortB tSl N Stmt Sl North eOt 1311 0 BtrMt 1530 B Stmt OCTOBER CIRCULATION! ! ef r? O 1 1 nr uaiiy 00,0 io ounaay oo,iou Ararat elreula'ton for tre month subscribed and (worn to to E B Began. Circulation Manager. Subaeribera leaving th city should hava tha Baa malted to them. Addreaa changed aa often aa required. You should know that Omaha has more large cold stor age houses than any city of its size in the United States. What The Bee Stands Forr 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 corrup 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. "Back to 'the mines!" off. Do not waste fuel just because the strike is Itwill be "do or don't" for the president on me question vi reservations. The coal strike in Chile haj just ended. Summer it coming down there. Armistice Day seems to have counted for something somewhere, but not in Omhaa. Maybe the price as well as the scarcity will assist you in saving fuel again this winter. The Ohio drys celebrated just in time, the weti having won about all they went after at the polls. Those Oklahoma egg-throwers may not ef fect the election of a republican to congress from that state. Week-end parties and, mother-in-law visits a.e limited in England, where food restrictions are in favor of the host. VWe challenge the Omaha butchers to fol low the Chicago example and sell porterhouse steak at 18 cents a pound. A big balloon with a bar is about to start acrosi the country. It will have no dearth of patrons wherever it stops. Mr. Wilson has learned to sisrn hi name' with his left hand, fie will get plenty of prac tice within the next two weeks. With diampnds at $900 a carat and cotton a dollar a pound, it looks like a tough winter for whatever is left of the middle class. If the hunt for "reds" had been as vigorous months ago as it is now, the country might have been spared a lot of annoyance. Representative Voight of Wisconsin may be labeled "republican," but he does not represent the party's attitude on the Berger case. The National Farmers' congress honors it self in choosing a Nebraska man to be its head. Our farmers are leaders in agricultural pursuits. A Paris newspaper calls the proposed reservations harmless and platonic, while the president says they will ruin all his work. Both may be right. Waste in construction at army camps is becoming more appalling as the inquiry pro ceeds. No wonder the democrats did not want an investigation made. , Refusal of naturalization to an alien who hid behind his birth to escape the draft is put ting a real premium on citizenship. Any man who was not willing to fight for America should not enjoy its privileges. Extradition of the Kaiser ' Evidently the president of the Dutch Bar issociation thinks in German, though he uses the-Dutch language.- That is shown by a re cent speech of his, protesting with vehemence tgainst yielding to the allies if they should de nand the extradition of the former kaiser. The question, curiously enough, seems to xcite more interest in Holland than it does in Germany, and, still more curiously, the Dutch friends of the kaiser are using arguments of which the Germans of today are far less fond han they were while the war was in progress tnd soon after the armistice was signed. . " The head of the Dutch bar could find noth . ng better to say against the extradition of he kaiser than that the demand for it was a manifestation of hatred. and the lust for re renge. He quite forgot the possibility that vhat he called hatred might be a righteous inger. and that, instead of lusting for revenge, he allies might simply be desirous of bringing ' o justice a great criminal. ; His attitude of mind is truly Teutonic, but it is a little out of date, as for some time all ex cept a few of the most junkerish Germans have tired of having their attention called to the in consistency of denouncing hate as criminal, when they themselves for months and months preached it from, their pulpits as a virtue. As matter of fact.he allies show no great eager less to get the kaiser into their hands, and no eal ceruinty as to what they would do with im if they did. , ; If half of the current stories about him are true, his old illusions already have turned into out-and-out madness a fate worse than hit bit terest foes would inflict if at liberty to do with hira what they chose. New York Times, LETS ALL GO TO WORK. N Two great obstacle! have been removed from the path of American industrial activity, the tteel workers' atrike and the itrike of the toft coal miners. These affected basic Indus trie!, and 10 involved the entire machinery of production In the United States. For the mo ment the way ii clear, and business hai op portunity for going ahead at full speed. The action; of the miners in calling off their strike wti in accord with popular expectation. Whether or not it it influenced by the desire of the leadera to avoid any clash with the gov ernment, or whether they merely make a vir tue of necetsity doet not matter. The weak ness of their position must have been clear to them, their utter failure to secure any popular support for their caute having foredoomed it to defeat. Now they may take up in an or derly fashion the adjustment of wages and the other points of difference between the men and the operators and come to an agreement with out uptetting the entire social life of the kind. Increased orders for steel indicate the atti tude of the business world. With a certainty of fuel supply, the manufacturers may carry on the campaign for. supplying the world'i de mand! for goods of all kinds, and prosperity continue. All the trouble is not removed through the willingness of the miners to re turn to the pits. Since early in the spring a continued com plaint has been made by the operator! that the railroad administration was not providing cars needed to take care of coal output. Mines were idle many days because of this. A more effi cient method of handling the business must be found, if the nation is to have the full benefit of the relief now afforded. Let us all go to work now. "Zone Fare" System a Failure. Any time for a dozen years or more the trolley transportation expert would have told you the "zone fare" system was the ideal equit able basis on which to operate street railways. It would equalize payment and service, and would solve the increasing financial problems of the ' companies. Finally the public service commission of New Jersey was impressed with the idea, and the zone system was ordered into effect in lieu of the 7-cent fare at Newark and other cities. A 3-cent rate was established for the most traveled zone, and from that the charge graded up higher charges for the longer rides. The result was disappointing to the experts. Instead of its being popular with the public, the new plan met disapproval from the start. Travel fell off, chiefly in the zone where it was expected to be heaviest, the cars lost money, and now the' companies are before the state board asking permission to return to straight 7-cent fare. The one inescapable conclusion from this is that custom is stronger than logic. People are in the habit of thinking of a "street-car ride" as that only, regardless of distance traveled. They will pay by the mile of a steam-road, be cause they have always done so, or on a rural trolley line, for it is analogous to the other. But they began dropping the nickel into the box on the old horse car, and have followed that practice through its development into trolley, elevated and subway systems, and man agers may as well reconcile themselves to the fact, and not persist in trying to measure the service and sell it to the public in desginated quantities. Money for Medical Research. Just now, with all the outcry against profit eers, predatory wealth, plutocratic oppression, and similar hubbub, it is grateful to note that the one who is above all a target for missiles of criticism has not forgotten the work he set on foot some years ago. v John D. Rockefeller has just handed over another $10,000,000 to support the medical research work of the great institute that bears his name. This magnificent donation will insure that the world is not to be deprived of the benefit of the scientific philanthropy so nobly en dowed. Men of science will not only seek the cause and cure of physical ailments, but will spread the knowledge throughout the world, that all may benefit thereby. Better use for money could hardly be imagined, nor is it con ceivable that such an enterprise is possible un der government auspices, even when set on foot by a despot. Continuity of the undertak ings of these investigators demands that they be freed from even the remotest interference, from public or private, that the mutations of politicals or individual whim may not disturb them at any time. This latest gift provides the means to make the work self-sustaining and independent. It will go oh, and in time its fruits will be enjoyed by all. "Old Jawn D." and his collosal fortune will stand as a text for soap-boxers and a target for uplifters, but the solid chunk of tnoney he has put behind a great agency for human better ment and the amelioration of living conditions suggests that he is neither all bad nor wholly selfish. In the Berger Case. Several interesting points are presented in the case of Victor Berger, who has just been denied a seat in the house of representatives to which he was elected from Milwaukee. His ejection does not turn on the fact that he is a socialist, for he once served a term in con gress, representing the same constituency. Be fore he became a candidate in 1918 he had grievously offended against the government. As a leading member of the socialist party, he directed the proceedings at St. Louis where the pro-German anti-war resolution was adopted. A great many members left the party on account of this, but Berger persisted in his course, and in Chicago and elsewhere did all he could to hamper the government in its ef fort! at raising an army and carrying on the war. When given a chance to address the house he declared that he would retract nothing he had said nor change anything he had done, but would say and do it all again under the same circumstances. To permit such a man to sit in congress would affront the intelligence of the world. Expulsion from the house is not sufficient punishment for his offense, but con gress can go no farther. It is up to Milwau kee to see that he is not returned. Lady Nancy Astor says she is proud of her American birth. About the worst that can be said of her is the family she married into. Lincoln 'Again in Controversy From the Kansas City Star. The announcement that John Drinkwater's "Lincoln" is to be produced in America indi cates that the English author and producers of that play, which has had an immense suc cess in London, are under no apprehensions as to the results of a test that would seem to involve the correctness of many ancient liter ary maxims. No, man, say! Schiller, can be eloquent' save in his own language. Hugo'! "Cromwell" was not the Cromwell Englishmen know. Neither Voltaire nor Taine succeeded in giving French men an accurate idea of Shakespeare. Can an Englishman portray Lincoln acceptably to Americans. There has been some debate on that point in London, where it seems to be recognized that English opinion of the play can hardly pronounce the last word. Lord Charnwood, himself a biographer of Lincoln and with a deeper insight into the Lin coln character and tradition than is possessed by any other Englishman, has limited his in dorsement of the play to saying, in effect, that it probably conveys a worthy impression to an English audience. He has to admit that an English audience may have no very accurate notion of what would be true or false in an atmosphere necessarily so refractive. To the criticism of an American officer who witnessed 'the play the biographer confesses, "I do not think it possible that an Englishman who has lived nearly all his life in England could ever get the local color so as to fit the play for pre sentation on the stage in America, for a genera tion yet." Few English writers, he points out, can even get the local color of Scotland. The justness of the criticisms and of Lord Charnwood's observations, are made clear by any one of the more glaring incongruities pre sented. General Scott wearing a handkerchief in his cuff, or General Grant saying, "My word I" Such falsities would not mar the play for Eng lishmen, but how would they strike American audiences? How far can we trust Mr. Drink water's knowledge of Lincoln or his times if he can suppose these mannerisms to be American or to have been so in the 60s? The Ameri can officer who brought out Lord Charnwood's admissions comments also on the clicking of heels at Grant's headquarters. We suppose he is right in that criticism also. The army of the Potomac was a great fighting machine", but we cannot suppose its officers were formed on the life guards' model. There may have been some heel clicking around McClelfan, but probably not around Grant, who went to receive Lee's surrender dressed in a private's blouse and with out his sword. There can be no question of the reception of the Drinkwater play in America. It will be well received and probably will repeat its Eng lish success. But it must be as an English play, unless indeed the American producers choose to redress it and in that case it is hard ' to say where such a process should stop. Probably it ought to stand for what it is, and leave an American stage Lincoln to the develop ment of time. Perhaps the controversy over the Bernard statue of Lincoln recently set up in England goes to show that time has not yet come. Life-Saving at Sea Tlie house of representatives the other day passed by unanimous consent an amendment to the so-called seaman's act, which would have the effect of reducing the safeguards placed around passengers at sea. The matter is now before the senate committee on commerce. Would it not be well for the senate to inquire a little into it before accepting without ques '' a oroposal which may open the way to an o.iier Titanic disaster? Section 14 of the seaman's act provides that passenger vessels shall have a certain number of lifeboats and liferafts, the Titanic and other catastrophies having shown that shipowners would not adequately provide for safety at sea unless compelled to do so by law. These boats and rafts are not of much use unless there are men on hand who can lower them and manage them in a rough sea. Accordingly the law pro vides for a certain percentage of able seamen on each vessel and also established a certain standard of skill. The standard specified in the law is the British standard, broadly speak ing. The British standard for able seamen calls for an experience of 36 months in a merchant vessel, with a reduction in case the seaman has had previous experience in a training vessel or fishing vessel. Now the house amendment cuts down this standard of experience to six weeks in a train ing vessel or nine months in a merchant vessel. Thus, if this standard were adopted, a shipload of passengers might find themselves in a crisis in the hands of an unskilled crew a certain way to invite disaster. Washington Post. Scientific Exactitude. "This is a 16-year-old royal princess. The mummy has been preserved for 2,000 years." "Does that include the 16 years she lived?" Passing Show, London. CfteVELVET HAMMER. 75". .Arthur "Brooks "baker Postal employes will face the rest of the winter with a little more equanimity, Uncle Sam having given them a slight raise in pay. CHARLES EDWARD BLACK. When Adam recognized the need for put ting something on besides the purple twilight and the pumpkin-colored dawn, the clothing business thereupon achieved its early start, progressing upward day by day till now it is an art whi.h aids the human male to walk abroad upon the earth without exciting (very much) the sad beholder's mirth. When Charles was young and incomplete he gave his time and pains to selling simple coverings for simple human brains, thus evi dencing for himself a certain sort of lack and winning him the sobriquet and handle, "Hattie Black;" but now his learning has become more broadened and discreet and he can deal with lack of clothes from collar bone to feet. But "Hattie" says, let others clothe the mass and hoi polloi. He decorates the chosen in habilaments of joy. The' males who .stroll through gates which swing to social com petence, and those who hang around and hunt the weak spots in the fence, the lads who dress as Solomon was never yet arrayed, all have their names upon his books and boost his help ful trade. , He sees the great and solemn point in this distinguished sphere that man is less important than he wishes to appear; and as official hu morist at banquet far and wide, he pricks with gay and sprightly wit the pompous human hide; for mortals often prosper with their large and empty bluff till humor strikes the bubble and betrays its fragile stuff. (Next Subject Joseph Hopkins Millard.) Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Mr. Fred Metz and family landed in New York on their return from Europe, where they had been for nearly a year and a half. A meeting of the Western Art association was held at the Lininger art gallery, when plans were made for the exhibit to be held, November 18. - The Omaha Real Estate Exchange was or ganized with headquarters in the New York Life Insurance building at Seventeenth and Farnam. Mr. Robert Hunter, in charge of the for eign advertising department of The Bee, was married to Miss Hattie Ochiltree. Mrs. J. B. Meredith and Mrs. D. L. Collier gave a handsome reception at Sunnybank. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Annis left for Wash ington, D. C where tbtv w.art to spend the winter. Ak-Sar-Ben Appreciates Help. Omaha, Nov. 10. To the Editor of The Bee: As chairman of the finance committee in charge of the Ak-Sar-Ben Exposition company's stock, drive, I wish to thank you very much for your grenerous sup port In helping us put this under taking "over the top." The editor ial and news space In your paper during the drive were big factors in making it a success, and I as sure you the board of governors of Ak-Sar-Ben and the directors of this company appreciate your co-operation. With very best wishes and kind personal regards. I remain, very truly yours. J. E. DAVIDSON", Chairman Finance Committee Iieagne and Future War. Omaha, Nov. 9. To the Editor of The Bee: As a reader of The Bee I wish to congratulate you for your effort In placing before your readers some of the technical points of the so-called League of Nations and op posing said points. I for one am opposed- to the league as a whole and in the file of The Bee you will find my letter dated July 28, where I pointed out that the peace conference has failed to settle the Balkan question. Instead it left the Balkan states In worse condition than ever, consequently the league is not worth the paper. 1 made the above statement not because I pretend to be a diplomat, but as a result of my personal ob servations as a workingman well traveled. The question now is: Was I right or was I wrong In the above state ment? Let us again look at the flies of The Bee and we will find . Paris dispatch dated September 5 Please compare the date with the date of my former letter. entitled "Great Discord Developing in Bal kan States About to Start Fresh Bloodshed," etc., and concluding as follows: "Diplomats here (Paris) agree the situation was never worse in the Balkan states, even in the days of Ottoman suzerainty." I hope the above dispatch is suffi cient to convince any one of my statements of July 23 were correct. I congratulate The Bee sincerely on its stand against the league. I may state that the so-called self determination of small nations is dead. What do I think of the League of Nations? It is not a League of Na tions it is an alliance. It will not prevent wars. That is a dream or a bluff. It will reduce armaments. O yes; we are about to pass a bill provid ing a peace army of 557,000 men instead of about 80,000, as before the war, and as well as compulsory military training for 18-year-old boys, and have them subject to call in service any time the War de partment wishes. Of course this call comes only in case the volun teers are not coming in fast enough. This is quite an evidence of how much confidence is to be had in the League of Nations. Diplomats, whether outside or in side of League of Nations, will not prevent wars; on the contrary, they are making it, and conduct the war from their soft chairs. Put them at the front, as well as the kings and emperors, and the war will not last, nor can we expect to have one. STEPFAN KLEFSKY. Inmirlng Delivery. Admiral Kato is visiting all of the allied countries to convey the greet ing's of Japan on t he termination of the war. No country seems to trust the postal service just now. Punch, London. ofays' (om&r 2 A Strike. A strike is a test of endurance, with the general public enduring more than its share. Washington Star. THRESHERS AT SUPPER. Begrimed with, duat and panting for a drink, They scent the savor of the frying ham. And In a bolnt'rous but good-natured Jam Collect around the summer kitchen alnk. They wash and splash, but have no care to prink. (Avoiding things In dress that look like Fham), And, threshing over Jokes that cut and slam. They seat themselves and plates com mence to clink. The straw boss, saying all are hungry, chaffs The cook to put more water In the soup; Another, forking up hjs onions, laughs And asks the waiter for a silver scoop. And stacks of biscuits vanish with the quaffs Of milk provided for tha funny troupe. WILLIS HUDSPETH. If c t Jo astoundinq is tke veoxxvf zuid permanence of tone, cjuality achieved tbjr the "tension resort aton? construction of the piano tkat it has nojj onkr twm the grateful adiniration oWtists, hut has excited also the interest of scientists. who find in this maten less pianoforte ja final answer to the problem oTcreatirtg a piano wiilx tone proof against deterioration in "beauty and resonance. Cash or Time AH Same Price. 1513 Douglas St. Th Art and Mutle Storo. - The Working Mosses By ADELIA, BELLE BEARD. There seems to be a good deal of moss of one kind or another scat tered around, anrt when we rnm to think about it we naturally won der why. We find it almost every where, in every part of the world. Moss on the trees, moss on the ground, moss on rocks, in bogs, and on the water. It grows along the roadside and deep in the woods. It is wonderfully pretty and in teresting stuff in spite of the dry and difficult names botanists have given to different varieties. Some Jf m tJTMiS KIND O IfK W ricas grows I J II ' OU BEAD VrfOCJD AaaLSBceitA. of it is like miniature forests of tiny palm and evergreen trees, some like vines and ferns and other kinds bear small, flower-like crests of brilliant colors. Often it is dry and springy, deep and soft, and in the shady woods it makes a fine mattress or cushion for a tired boy or girl to rest on; but if you think it has no other use than that you are greatly mistaken. Mosses are among the most indus trious of nature's skilled workers, and they never ask for a vacation. Everything is busy in the well or dered world of out-of-doors, and it is the mosses' part to help keep this earth in good repair and fit it for us to live on. What is used up must be replaced, and the mosses are tre mendously busy making new soil. They work in various ways. When they collect gases from the air to send down into the ground, and when they draw lime-solutions from water to distribute in places where they are needed, they use chemical methods; but they use actual force when they pry off particles from hard rocks to add to the bits of earth, dust and leafy refuse gathered and held by their closely-massed foliage and roots. The saprophytic mosses that grow on decaying logs take from the dead wood and give back to the soil in gredients which the trees, when alive, absorbed from the soil. Other mosses fill in and build up marshy places, making soil for larger plants. They are all workers, you see. Won't it be worth while to find out more about them? ("How About Nuts?" next week.) MADE to ORDER You'll Enjoy Cold Weather Snugly Protected by One of Our Famous Overcoats We have never exhib ited so many different patterns and fabrics for overcoats as are on display today. YOU'LL LIKE OUR "Warmth Without Weight" Woolens, their peculiar texture holds the heat-keeps you warm without weighing you down. Sel f -lined fabrics with beautiful plaid backs are in great favor. THESE, and hun dreds of other rich novelty overcoatings, as well as Velours, Chinchillas, Kerseys, and Meltons await your choosing. Come in and select your pattern . BE READY to enjoy Cold Weather. OVERCOATS $50 $55 $60 and upwards. NICOLLThelbilof WS Jerrems Oons 209-211 So. 15th St. 3 f9h ADVENTURES -THAT MADE-AN-AMERICAN DOT PUZZLE. . With the Rural Mail Man. By R. 8. ALEXANDER. "Heyl Stop him! Stop himt" Hunting Eye heard this cry behind him. Looking back he saw a horse running along the road toward him. After it ran a man. He hid in the bushes by the roadside and when the horse came past leaped out and by hanging to the bridle stopped it. "That's lucky for me," said the man coming up, "if he'd gone much further I'd have had mail scattered all over the road. Get in. I'll give you a ride." "Who are you?" asked the Indian boy. "I'm the rural mail carrier. You see the town back here has a post office. The whole country is divided into 'districts and about the middle of each district is a town with a postoflice. Each district is divided into rural delivery routes. The route starts from the postoffice and goes out one road to the end of the dis trict then comes back by another road. A carrier goes over each of these routes once a day. He de livers to the farmers the mail ad dressed to them and carries back to the postoffice the mail they wish to send." Just then the carrier pulled up to a box set on a post by the side of the road and took a package from it. "Letters aren't always that big. are they?" asked Hunting Eye. No, we carry small packaees a 58. . 10 s If IO h 4, Z A 9 . o Ll . . .(,5 0 53 w 46. .X. 47- 53 52 So 91 4s 4a r 61 I Trace the dots to sixty-nine, And vou'll see a tint's fine. Draw from one to two and so on to the and. ernment runs the mail system? 2. Who is at the head of this de partment? 3. How is he appointed? 4. How is your postmaster ap pointed? 5. What it his term of office? 6. How are the letter carriers chosen? 7. What is the Postal Savings Bank? (Next week: "Hunting Eye Earns Two Dollars.") Boys' and Girls' Newspaper Sprvlca. Copyright, 1910. by J. H. Millar. "Business Is Cooo.TmhkYou" -WHY s well as letters. The carrying of them' is called parcel post. A letter below a certain weight will be car ried anywhere in the United States for the same price. But for the carrying of parcels the country is divided into zones and it costs more to send a parcel to a distant zone than to one not so far away." But the carrier had now come to the end of his route and Hunting Eye learned no more about the mail service that day. Questions. 1. What department of the gov- vNOT f ft; wf (Wo LV.N1CHOLA5 Oil Company mi I ' ' ' m 7 b ifiv . 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