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BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATER VICTOR RQSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANT. 7R0PRIET0R " MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESs Tba AMociatnl Preaa, ol which Tha Hm 1i inetnbar. If '(Indnlr tltld to tht nw for puWIeatlon of all newt dtapatrtiaa andlud to It or nut otharwiaa crMltad in thla paw. and alao th local im publiahed narrln. All ruhla of publication of our Kwalii dUmtohat it alao rraarrad. BEE TELEPHONESi M Tyler 1000 Print Branch llrhsnn. Daptrtmaul or Particular Paraon Far Nlht and Sunday Sarvtca Callt tdltorial Dararuueni Trlar 1WL Circulation Department Trior 100RL. dwuatnr Dapartmont ..... Trlar 1008L. OFFICES OF THE BEE Homa Offlca. Ba Building, 1"U and Farnam. Branch Orrlera: mr 4110 North Nth I Park Swift Silt Mlllurr Ave. South lldt Council Bluffa 1.1 Scott St. 1 Walnut Out-of-Town Official Krw Tnrk Offica ! fifth Are. I Maahlmion Cnti-aio Serm Blrti. I Lincoln MIS rearer worth 1.1 IK N 8trMt lit North 40th 1311 G STeat 1.130 H Stratt OCTOBER CIRCULATIONi Daily 66,315 Sunday 63,160 Avar ate circulation for tho month tubacrlhed and tworn to b E. R Ragan, Circulation Mauacer. Subacribera leavinf tha city ahould hava Tba Baa mailed to them. Addrea changed aa often aa required. Vou should know that Salesmen from Omaha jobbing houses go into every state west of the Mississippi river, and many in the east. 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 of inefficiency lawlessness and corrup tion in oriice. 4. Frank recognition and commendation of honest and efficient public service. .5. Inculcation of Americanism as the true basis of good citizenship. Chicago will remain dry perhaps. Agitation against the skip-stop system is again heard. What. Omaha needs is more cars. "Tom" Marshall is about to find out that it is more trouble to make a ruling stick than it is to announce it. Nebraska eggs go direct to New York and sell for 86 cents a dozen, one of the beauties of the parcels post. The man who prophesied that the Dodge street grading would take all winter knew whajt he was talking about. The polite burglar is on his rounds again. He is quite as effective as the roughneck, too, and apparently more elusive. From the number of cooks taking a hand in the preparations, the new mess of railway broth ought to be a marvel. Burglars are now using auto trucks to carry away their loot, showing how the science has progressed along with industry. The president certainly knows how to be firm when it comes to his dealings with the senate. His treaty or none is all he asks. Carranza has lifted the lid on bull-fighting in Mexico, but this will now check the throw ing he has been doing towards Washington. , The drys are planning a great celebration for January. Think what a jamboree it would have been if the verdict had gone the other way! Guests of the Omaha police force will have to put up with lesser accommodations than were contemplated, but the ride will be just as exhilarating and the judge quite as severe. Twenty-five thousand empty beer bottles sold by the sheriff at auction brought $400, but think what he might have got had he not poured out their contents ahead of the sale. Rescuing exposed wheat from the weather in western Nebraska is a great game, but the railroad administration is doing well in its practice. , Only half of the potato crop will reach mar ket becriise of lack of facilities for handling. The answer ought to be plain. Until a better way of doing things is found, prices will always be high and food scarce. Coal miners who are trying to freeze the nation into surrender may succeed, but they will find a hereafter hotter than any fire ever kindled from coal. Public patience with "red" unreason is about exhausted. Europe does not like the senate's attitude on the treaty, but it was not expected that any effort would be made to suit the political tastes of our friends across the water. The senate is far more interested in how its actions will af fect Americans. Money Is Not W ealth Broker William F. Fitzgerald of Boston, chairman of the democratic prosperity commit tee of Massachusetts, read his fellow democrats a wholesome lesson in a recent newspaper in terview, giving his reasons why he bolted Long and supported Coolidge. He says: "When an individual faces life with a be lief that he can get something for nothing he courts ruin. "Everybody is intent on making money and not creating wealth. "Money is not wealth, and unless all men are willing to work and work hard, there can be no prosperity and no safety for the Amer ican people. "Today a man to be a machinist needs only a union card; ten years ago he had to read a , blueprint. "The drones with money are more danger ous than those without money. Production is needed the world over. The nation needs men -who can create real wealth; but money mad ness is nation madness and evasion of work '.$ invitation to poverty. "The man who hates work is a thief. In competence is theft "The people gave Calvin Coolidge 124,000 plurality because they knew he represented un diluted honesty. This aroused understanding must be maintained. - "When the people understand the need for work and demand that men in positions of po litical trust shall be honest and competent, then shall we have a strong nation and a safe one." Wall Street Journal. FINAL VOTE ON THE TREATY. . Matters are moving rapidly at Washington, steadily shaping to the final vote on the treaty as modified by the explicit reservations made by the senate. It can not yet be told if a two thirds vote will be forthcoming. The democrats, led by Senator Hitchcock and under orders from the Whh 5""r; re confident they will have enough votes to defeat the ratification. ' Then, relying on the ruling made by the vice president, the administration group expects to bring forward its compromised plan. That the president expects this program to win for him, and to save his face through adoption of "mild" reservations, has been made clear. From Europe comes announcement that the pact will be put into effect without regard to the United States, in event the president pock ets the treaty when sent back from the senate. The effect of" this is not fully explained. It will not be possible to bind the United States under any of the objectionable clauses of the league covenant. If our friends on the other side are desirous of the presence of the American re public in the super-council, they are now fully advised as to conditions on which entry will be made. Another twenty-four hours will bring the definite test between the views of the senators, who are for America first, and the president, whose world-vision includes home affairs only as they are related to universe. Are we to re tain our government at Washington, or transfer it to Geneva? Soft-Coal Mining a Seasonal Industry. One of the points in connection with the soft coal mining situation is that the mines do not operate continuously. Dr. V. H. Manning, di rector of the United States bureau of mines, gives the information that for the five-year period preceding 1917 the bituminous mines were worked from 195 to 232 days each year; in 1917 the busy period extended 243 days, and in 1918, under abnormal war pressure, it mounted to the peak of 249 days. Figures for 1919 are not available, but operators admit that the time worked in the mines will fall far below that of last year. Nor are these days consec utive, so that the coal miner may have the rest of the year for engaging in other em ployment. His working time is strung over the whole twelve months. 1 Primarily, this is due to the fact that soft coal deteriorates when brought up from the seam. Consumers are averse to carrying any considerable stock ahead, because of the in convenience of storage and the fact that the coal breaks down, takes fire spontaneously, and generally is not a desirable stock, save for im mediate consumption. Producers are not eager to provide at the mines any extensive storage plants, preferring to leave the coal in the ground until called for, and then to load direct from the pit into the cars that are to haul the fuel away. Under these conditions, steady operation of the mines is not possible, and soft coal miners find themselves listed among the "seasonal" workers, with the disadvantage that their sea son is not well defined. Were means provided whereby a surplus of coal could be brought to the surface and properly stored, so that work in the mines might be steady, a great deal of the friction complained of -would be removed. As it is, the lack of efficiency in producing and handling bituminous coal is one of the biggest items in our annual budget of waste. Guaranty Not a Subsidy. In the Esch bill to govern the railroads on their return to corporate ownership, which has been passed by the house, is a provision to con tinue the government guaranty of income for six months. This is much to the dislike of the democrats, who oppose it as equivalent to pay ing a subsidy to the roads. Those who have followed the experience of the government since it assumed management of the transportation industry will more than likely agree that the Esch plan is simply an act of justice. So many violent changes in methods of operation were made in the process of ad justing the roads to unified control that even to set them back to former conditions could not be accomplished without laying a very heavy burden of expense on the owners. This may be intensified by the new law under which , future doings of the railroads will be supervised and regulated. With this in view, it seems but reasonable and just that the public should bear a portion at least of the cost that will be entailed in the transition. The railroads did not seek the situ ation, and perhaps it wa3 not contemplated when the government took hold. Many unex pected problems were encountered, and a great deal of expense was laid on the individual lines in bringing them together. More will be in curred in the course of separation. Continuation of the government guaranty then only amounts to the discharge of an obli gation assumed when then the roads were taken over. It will terminate within six months, which is short enough time to allow for resump tion of business by the restored lines, and will be paid only to such lines as do not earn suf ficient revenue. Viewed from any point, the plan looks less like a subsidy and more like sim ple justice than anything the democrats have done. Keeping the Country Dry. Wets, who had relied on decisions in Rhode Island and Kentucky federal courts for ending the drouth, are being disappointed by decisions given elsewhere. In New York and Chicago they have met reverses, particularly in the de cision of Judge Carpenter of Chicago, who care fully reviews the war-time prohibition enforce ment act and finds it wholly in the power of congress. Relying on previous decisions, nota bly that on which the Kansas prohibitory laws rest, and which sustain the state in the exer cise of the police power, the court finds that congress, acting for the entire country, can ex ercise similar power in its discretion. The pro hibitory law, therefore, is good and enforceable, despite the fact that General Pershing says the army has been demobilized and the president's pronouncement that the war is ended, made when the Volstead act was vetoed. Appeal has been taken to the supreme court, which is not expected to act before the begin ning of December, and thus the prospects for a wet interim prior to the taking effect of the federal amendment get less and less. Persons who view the situation dispassion ately find it quite interesting. A dry nation is yet sufficiently novel to enlist the attention of even its own people, and the process of keeping the country dry is going to be watched closely from all sides. Ware You Get Zat Stuff? From the Chicago Tribune. , With reference to the proposed alliance with France for the defense of France President Wilson said that we are under a debt to France which can never be paid. General Pershing, the popular story goes, stood before the monu ment and said: "Lafayette, we' are here." Al fred Capus, editor of Figaro, says that the United btates is a laggard in duty. We say: "For the love of Mike!" France fought Great Britain in our revolutionary war to deprive her hereditary enemy of her greatest colonial possession and did it. A Bourbon king made war on a German who sat on the English throne to split his empire in two and did it. Generous Frenchmen, liberty-loving French men, such as Lafayette, were among the in struments used for this, but the effective in strument was a monarchially controlled army and navy, which did the bidding of empire for the pay of empire. It does not hurt the United States any to accept the imperial work of a French king with gratitude and not to look too closely at the facts, but it will hurt to gro cl in complete de nial of the facts. So nn-.ch for the debt to Lafayette. It France could have had any assurance in 1914 that she would have, as the result of the war, what she now has she would have de clared war on Germany. There nearly was a a war over Algeciras when Germany threatened to block French imperial progress in North Africa. France and Germany have been in im perial conflict since the year one. We seem to forget that when the Franco-Prussian war be gan Napoleon III was the dreaded military despot of Europe and that Great Britain greeted his overthrow with a diplomatic popular relief. A danger had been removed from Europe. France did not want the war with Germany in 1914 because the French feared the outcome and hated the struggle. Germany did want it because the Germans were confident as to the outcome and invited the struggle. If the French had been confident they would have welcomed it. They wanted Alsace back. They have it. They wanted the Germans pushed back of the Rhine. They have them there. They wanted to make Germany pay indemnities. The Ger mans will pay. They wanted the Saar basin. They have it. They wanted a free hand in North Africa. They have it. The Germans, for the time being, are where Frenchmen want them to be and where they have fought for cen turies to keep them and hold them. For these results the French would have fought any war at any time. They are on top of the pile again in continental Europe and if they will overcome their prudent thrift enough to raise larger families they probably will stay on top for another century. At the moment when these benefits were despaired illusions the United States began the greatest movement of troops overseas that the world ever knew. If the hundreds of thou sands' sent had not been enough, millions and millions would have followed them. Germany was licked from April 6, 1917. The United States did this for its own safety. It preferred to fight a war in France rather than fight one on the ocean or in the United States. It knew it had to fight Ger many and wisely preferred to fight with allies rather than fight alone. It was a bit of rare American wisdom. We got what we went after. That was pro tection from what would have been a certain German menace. In getting what we wanted we were directly instrumental in giving France more than she dreamed she could get. We supplied the men, which France did not have. France supplied squipment, which our men did not have. The United States gave lives. France gave our soldiers guns. France fills American imagination and af fection. We like Frenchmen much better than we like Englishmen, but we ask nothing what ever of France or of any other part of the world, and we owe France nothing and owe the world nothing. Our most conservative statesmen now are merely -trying to hang onto things which America has. No one is trying to get anything. The United States is the only competent na tion among the victors which is merely strug gling to retain what it had before it made sac-rifices.- With profound respect and much admiration for' France, we must inquire: "Ware you get zat stuff?" ! Ok VELVET;, HAMMF.Dls Tiu iTtnur TJroorts "Baker LOUIS CHARLES NASH. The grand court ball of Ak-Sar-Ben is quite a sight and scene, and here you meet the gen tleman whose job's to pick the queen, surround her with a bright bouquet of maiden bud and bloom, a gay and smiling barrier to every sort of gloom. A safe and solid guarantee of diplomatic tact, that any mortal can perform so perilous an act. For Blondin with his tight-rope stroll along Niag'ra's brim knew nothing of the near ap proach to dangers fierce and grim, to luckless steps which might offend a solid family's pirde and make the stepper need a cyclone hole in which to hide. But who can deal with- pride in birth, in beauty, brains or cash with such conspicuous success as Mr. L. C. Nash? He used to run the street car lines, a fine utility affording insufficient scope for his abil ity; but now he steers a famous store where people spend with speed, for still we try to find and buy the things we think we need, although the void which yawns and gapes between the price and us is causing many husbands to recalcitrate and cuss. But those who spy a big supply of good and valid cash may apprehend they'll find a friend in Mr. Louis Nash. For in his charge he keeps a large and widely varied pile of merchandise to glad the eyes and make the owner smile. Right here we cease this stately piece of "vel vet hammer" verse. It makes you sad? Quite so; it's bad, but other things are worse. Next Subject Harley p. Moorhead. The Day We Celebrate. Hugh T. Cutler, assistant secretary United States Trust company, born 1886. Th omas R. Porter, newspaper correspond ent, born 1869. Rev. William A. ("Billy") Sunday, the fa mous evangelist, born at Ames, la., 56 years ago- Gabriel Hanotaux, celebrated French states man and publicist, born at Beaurevoir, France, 66 years ago. Dr. David Snedden, president of the Na tional Society for Vocational Education, born in California, 51 years ago. J. M. Hannaford, federal manager of the Northern Pacific railroad, born at Claremont, N. H., 69 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. The home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Lininger was the scene of a large social gathering of Omaha's first citizens. The occasion was a promenade concert given for the benefit of the Burt street home for women and children. About $256 was realized. Congressman and Mrs. Dorsey were stop ping at the Millard, en route to Washing ton, D. C. Detective Burnett of San Francisco was here visiting his old friend, Captain Cormack, of the police force. Miss McKenna gave a tea in honor of Miss Forepaugh. The affair was a "combined chrysanthemum and beauty show." i About 25 young people of the Methodist piscopal church met and organized an Ep worth league. eest The League of Nations. Omaha, (So.) Nov. 17. To the Editor of The Bee: As a former soldier and newspaper man and now principal of schools near Omaha, I want to ex press my entire approval of the wise and sensible attitude which your paper has taken on the league of nations covenant. Now, as a matter of fact, we who are opposed to the league covenant in its present form are not viewing the question from a narrow and partisan standpoint. It is true, of course, that during the war, Major General Leonard Wood and Colonel Roosevelt were kept at home; It is also true that during the sittings of the peace conference Mr. Taft and Mr. Root were also left at home when their advice would have been of great value. Nevertheless, with the exception of a very few repub lican senators, the league covenant could probably command support provided there were ' four specific and absolutely clear-cut reservations. These four reservations provide for the following: The equalization, for all practical purposes, of, the vote of each and every one of the prreat powers in the league assem bly; the right of these members of the league to withdraw from the lpfstiie with two years' notice; the right of each member to decide for ;tse!f as to whether or not It will at-'cepl a inundate; and, iRSt and !i(st important of all. the right of each and every member to decide for itself as to whether or not it will go to war. The United States believes in a league of nations. She stands rtady to co-operate with France, Great r.ritain, Italy and Japan in any cause which is just and which her own conscience tells here is just. She will not, however, be blindly led Into war, or surrender her fight to de cide for herself aa to what her obli gations are, or as to whether or not she will order her young men to Kive their lives In wars which can not, dirrctly concern her. America fought during the war in trrder to strike down the militaristic autocracy of Prussia, and. once the issue was clear she hesitated not a moment. Now that kaiserism is struck down she does not propose, however, to surrender herself, body and soul to the dictates of an inter national council. As every Ameri can citizen should know, America f-tanda for an honorable peace, and for justice as between the nations of the world. All she desires is that she have the right to uphold ami -protect the "principles which gave her birth," and which made her what she Is today, viz., the lriend of mankind. HARVEY J. CLARK, Principal Schools, Pacific Junction, Iowa. Force of Example. Perhaps a part of King Albert's popularity is due to his refusal to make speeches. He may have ob served Bryan's career. Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Comparisons. Lake Superior and Ireland about the same size. are DAILY CARTOONETTE, I'LL US50 THIS COW! ND tit DID &tte JkMs ' Corner ADVENTURES -THAT MADE-AN-AMERICAN Hunting Eye Earns First Dollar. By R. 8. ALEXANDER. "See that snake?" asked the farm er at whose well Hunting Eye had stopped for a drink. "He's a big dangerous one and I'd like to have him killed, but if I throw at him I'll missliim and he will get away." The Indian boy had often helped Swiftfoot hunt them, with stones among the moss and leaves of the Great North Woods. He took a round stone and threw it at the big black snake sunning itself on the cement walk. "Good," yelled the farnief. "You've broke his back. That is worth some money to me. Here is a dollar." "What is a dollar?" asked Hunt ing Eye. "People must have some thing by which they can measure the value of articles so that they may buy and sell and exchange things quickly and easily. Among your people this ineaure is called wampum and Is made of belts of beads. Anybody is allowed to make it. With us it is called money. It is made of gold, silver and copper, three metals which are very scarce. "The government makes it.' It casts these metals into coins like the one I gave you. That is called minting money. No one but the government is allowed to mint money. If everybody were allowed to mint money there would be a thousand different kinds of coins and no one would know the value of them. So the government makes them according to a definite sys tem. It makes a number of differ ent kinds of coins but all the coins of the same kind are alike and con tain the same amount of metal. "Each of these different kinds of coins1 has a different value. The one having the smallest value is a penny. Ten of these make a dime, and one hundred of them make a dollar. That is what you have. There are various other coins which you will find out about for your self as you use the money." "What is the paper you have in your hand?" "That is paper money. The gov ernment keeps some of the gold and silver itself and issues this paper money in its place. It also allows banks to issue paper money on cer tain conditions. This money does not have any gold and silver behind it. There is no paper money in amounts lower than one dollar." (Next week: "Hunting Eye Hears Story of First Thanksgiving.") Boys' and Girla' Newspaper Service Copyright, 191, by J. H. Millar. Cramped. "The fiat suits me very well," said the prospective tenant, "but the kitchen won't do." "What's wrong with it?" asked the agent. "It seems to have been cut to fit a woman who weighs about 90 pounds. My wife weighs 200 pounds. She's got to have a kitchen she can bustle around in without getting jammed between the sink and the gas stove." Birmingham A ee-Herald. Established 1866 Helping Small Business Houses "Make Good" Newly established business houses can always make profit able use of our Com mercial Department. Our efforts in ad vancing the interests of small and growing concerns through ex tending credit and by well timed advice have been unusually successful. We seek new busi ness on our record. The Omaha National Bank Farnam at 17th Street Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000 How About Nuts? By ADEI.TA HKLLK BKARD. Get your baskets or bags and let us go on the trail for nuts, now is the tilde. Better bring your belt axe or a hatchet to cut a stout stick fcr beating the trees. ; The air is clear and frosty, there is throbbing life within us, and there is a thrill, too. A good sized thrill always goes with the first nutting of the season. VVith baskets and bags full to the brim, we will inarch home) again in triumph, but not be fore we have sampled our loads of toothsome wild meats and tested their sweetness. Is it fun? Is it? But stop a minute. Here is a new thought. There is something more than ,fun connected with nuts. To know the edible things that grow wild is an important part of Wood craft, as you would soon discover if you were lost in the wild country rt'ith nothing to eat but what you cctild find growing there. Nuts arc the, most nourishing of seM to Bt LOST ALL WICHT, BUT we WONT STAUVt. TMfrte Aite TlPNTr or Nuts heue DOT PUZZLE. 22. 24 2b27 PQ - JO .35 31 16 .I - 4o As 32 0' 44 .45 76 .46 48 Kilty-four lines traced young Willie, And he drew a lovely . Draw frum one to two and bo on to the end. tm LAitQ,raT OP AMERtUUV Wat) Hurt n THt OUT T C R NUT rue aMau-ean ail wild foods. You could live a long while on nuts. They take the place of meat for a time and satisfy ycur appetite while strengthening ytur body, but some of them are rather rich food. Our richest Amer- j ican nut is the bfitternut. Do yon know it, have you ever tasted it? The butternut grows plentifully in Ohio and farther south. It has a wild flavor which is not liked by every one and it is quite oily. Its sliell is rough like the walnut, but longer, not round, and the outer husk is green and sticky. When you ' pound it the juice stains your hands I Drtwn. The small, three sided beechnut h.'tS a most delicate flavor. It takes a good many of these to satisfy a heirty appetite. Between the but ternut and beechnut, the largest and smallest of our native wild nuts, are t lie walnut, hickory nut, chestnut, hazelnut and cliiuquipin. The chin quapin grows only in the south. (Next week: "Written On a Tree Stump.") Hnys' nn1 Glrln' Newspaper StvIi'. Copyright. 1919. hy J. II. Millar. Showed (iood Sense. 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