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the Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY lHS VEX PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1919. FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Yti iHmliiy Phm. nf vhlna Tea Baa la a member, la at- Ndnli anutlad la tae uie for DuMloaUaa af all un dlepatchaa twilled to H or not otharwtM eredltaa Id lata paw. ana 1m m loaal nam pubiiabad barain. ail ninii of puouoeuoa 01 our Matal dlapettoai an alas rwanad. BEE TELEPHONES i Mtete Bias oh Itebanta. Aak for the Tvlr 1 fllMl Maiuaaai ot r articular rareon wuua. j - ' Far Nlaht and Sunday Service Calli MHorlal DeparUnent ..... Tyler 1W0I pirsulattoa Department . Tyler 100'L. kdmUtlas Department ... . Trier 100IU OFFICES OF THE BEE ' Bona Office, Bee Bulldiaa. 17th and Faraea. Branca OCflcti: . a ma Wnrta 14th I Park Mil tree tlla Military An fciuta tide Mil N Street Jeuncll Btuffl 19 Scott St. 1 Walnut ll North 40th 1 . , Out-ef-Town Oflieaat jew Tork Offlo US Pith An. ) Wuhlnftaa . Mil O Strati itcago Beefer Bioa. I uncoin i n siren OCTOBER CIRCULATION! aily 66,315Sunday 63,160 Iterate etrcolatlna for tha ajenta eubeorlbed and fwora to to at awffan, uircviauon Maaaaw. : lwbacriber leaving tha city aheuld have Tha Baa nailed mam. AMreee cnenfefl aa otien as required. You should know that - Omaha has 226 grocery and 155 detail dry k goods stores, all equipped with modern appliances for doing business. 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 office. , 4. Frank recognition and commendation of honest and efficient public service. 5. Inculcation of Americanism as the true basis of good citizenship. No reprieve for Turkey today. Curtailing street car service still further may (ave coal, but not tempers. Spring clothes and cigarettes are going up. IJkigho, and winter just started. Better enforcement of traffic ordinances will at a ooon to others than motorists'. Time and a half for over-time on the sec tion I Hurrooi "Jerry, go ile the car-r-r!" 1 ) The "Tiger of France" is more like a com fortable old torn cat in the village where he was reared. , . - ' If the miners will please go to work, they will relieve the democrats of a deadful cause lor worry. . Nebraska women will vote for president in 1920, but that carries no comfort to " the democrats. i No public probe of the police department? (A11 right, bat that is no reason for deferring reorganization. I Plutocrats and proletarians will have turkey .'or dinner tomorrow, but the boozhwah will !aave to be content with a substitute. "Bill" Carlisle also holds the record for abiquity, and it is up to Wyoming to provide ilm a permanent and durable address. Uncle Sam is going to put enforcement of the dry law into the hands of local authorities. Here's a lot of fun ahead for somebody. ,D'Annunzio is reported to contemplate a raid on Spalato, the American naval" base on the Adriatic. It is a good wager that he does not go very, far there. j A Bombay movie theater is reported to be giving a drink of whisky with each admission ticket sold. Think what would happen here if inch a plan were tried. ; Chicago's crime wave1 subsided rapidly after .He. police made a few arrests. 1 Wonder if it would have the same effect here. The plan ap pears to be worthy, a trial. ' Nineteen million Americans are eligible to service in the army under the draft law. Some body ought to point the attention of Venus tiana Carranza to these figures. Consul Jenkins is safe in the Mexican jail, o why should the government be in any haste? Precipitancy might not be pleasing to Senor Carranza, who is yet "our great and good friend," you know. Chairman Cummings has called the demo cratic sachems to council in Washington on January 8. Old .Andy Jackson will probably rise up. that day to tell his degenerate de scendants a few things about democracy. If the Bolsheviki Would fc?o v According to Santeri Nuorteva, their Fin nish agent, our Russian bolsheviki would be "glad to go home. All the State department has to do is to write us a letter, and we'll all go." The desired- "letter." Envoy MartensVx- filains, would be a safe conduct into Lenine's ines. Mr. Nuorteva says there are 87 ships in Petrograd harbor ready to come for the' bol sheviki who are so ready to go. 1 This eagerness to shake from sanctified shoes the polluting dust of a capitalistic United States may not seem consistent with the court fight which many of them have made against deportation; but Mr. Nuortevar may be right about it, and about the 87 ships. If he is, there ihould be no difficulty in making an arrange ment s Americans wish to get rid of unwelcome visitors. The visitors say or Mr. Nuorteva lor them that they simply yearn to get away. Why is not this a' program upon which both ides can unite with the utmost harmony, and ma enthusiasm? Few things should be easier in a troubled world than an understanding be tween a host who would speed a parting guest nd k guest who yawns to be speeded, v Of course Mr. Lansing does not wish to ac knowledge Mr. Martens' ambassadorial capac ity, but there is no need. The returning en thusiasts can be taken across the line some Sow, even if they have to be landed from air planes. No trouble or expense could be too treat And though they might live to repent the flitting, there would never be on this side of the sea any display of public mourning. Nan York World. WHAT -CONTEMPT OF COURT MAY MEAN. One or two democratic editors, venting un concealed political partisanship, are virtuously reading The Bee a long lecture, and moraliz ing on our contempt of court proceedings. But they overlook the main point It is not The Bee alone that is involved, but he entire in stitution of a free press. If the ruling from Judge Redick's court is the law in Nebraska, newspaper publication in this tate will be under judicial censorship on the narrowest basis. Fearless and impartial dissemination of news, involving persons who may be principals or witnesses in some law suit, will be forbid den. Exposure of, brazen fraud or official dis honesty will be stopped, as prejudging prosecu tion in the courts. Now, it is not The Bee or its editor that is on trial here, but the right of free speech and free press, which is finally as vital to the liberty of the people and the perpetuity of pop ular government as is its equal but not superior companion, the unbought, . even-guided, even tempered and independent judiciary. Let it not be overlooked that if making pub lic the .defense of a man accused of crime tends to impede justice,, the converse must hold good, that condemnation of a man in advance of the judicial finding of his guilt must be quite as culpable. Those who rush forward to de nounce one who has perpetrated a crime may as well be mulcted for contempt as those who permit the individual under disfavor of the court to try to set himself right before the public. Regardless of political bias, or friendliness or unfriendliness to us, we urge editors to study what is involved in this case, for it may be anyone's turn next. Operators' Profits and Miners' Wages. The astonishing statement made by the for mer secretary of the treasury with regard to the profits of the softj:oal operators mus have come as a shock to a great many. It remains something of a shock, because of its generality. Dr. Garfield tells us, and he is correct in this, that any increase; in wages now given the miners must be paid by the public or by the operators. ' Very naturally, the public will agree with Dr. Garfield that the price of coal is high enough. Extraordinary profits were permitted when the government fixed prices on coal, in order that production might be artifically stim ulated. War conditions no longer control, al though the demand for coal is but slightly les sened by reason of that fact. Europe, South America and even Asia are asking for coal from America, while the domestic requirements are but slightly curtailed, under peace. That these conditions should be made the basis of ab normal profits is unreasonable, though. It is not easy to ( understand the motive of Mr. McAdoo in coming forward with his re markable statement, no more than are its con tents comprehensible without more details. iTo say that profits have ranged from 15 to 2,)00 per cent is too sweeping a statement to permit formation of conclusive judgment. Between the two points is so wide a range that even the casual will wish for more specific information. . The statement may be of service in one way. While the government is to assume the respon sibility for the new wage scale, it has the right' to avail itself of all avenues' of information. The public is willing that the miners get fair wages, that the operators recover a proper re turn on their venture, but it has a right to insist that neither of these, nor a combinat'on of them, be permitted to exploit coal consumers for inordinate gains. City as an Employer. ' A new definition has been given to the re lations between the city and its employes by the decision of Judge Troup, in extending the provisions of the workmen's compensation law to cover policemen who lose their lives in line of duty. This naturally will include firemen and all others who work for the city in any capacity. Careful reflection leads o endorse ment of the judge's views. It is not enough that relief is provided for the dependents of policemen from a quasi-public source. The benefit fund is something quite apart from the insurance provided for under the compensation act, just as no account is made of the accident or other protection carried by a workman em ployed by a private concern. That city em ployes should be deprived of compensation under the law for no better reason than be cause they are working for the public does not accord with good morals. Within the last few weeks much has been said to emphasize the peculiar relations existing between these and the public, particularly the responsibility po licemen and firemen owe the community they serve. Accepting this as the correct view, . it must be true afso that something is due these men, and the least of this obligation from the public to its servants is expressed in the mea ger indemnity allowed under the compensation law. The city's appeal to determine the point will, be watched with care, for if the point is not upheld in the supreme court, we may be certain some other way will be looked for to properly relieve the situation. Italy and the Red Program. . -The House of Savoy is seriously threatened in Italy by the socialists, who hope to overturn the government' It does not matter that the royal family is among the most democratic in Europe; that the king, the crown prince, and most of the male members of the line took active part in the war. The wave of anarchy is rising higher each day, and the late elections, which gave the socialists their greatest repre sentation in the Italian parliament, indicate the dissatisfaction of the masses with conditions. Industrial as well as politicalaffairs in Italy contribute to this. In fact the one is responsi ble for the other. The country passed almost directly from a costly war with Turkey into the world war, having no time to reorganize or recuperate. Much of the Caporetti disaster can be traced to this fact as it was weariness of fighting that laid Cadorna's soldiers easy prey to the socialist and clerical tempters, whose treachery almost wrecked the campaign for the Allies. This has simply been continued into the early time of peace, and promises great trouble for the government. . 1 D'Annunzio's rebellion has been made the easier because of its appeal to the popular mind. Analysis of the situation is not easy at this dis tance, but the fact is clear that in none of the allied countries have the socialists made greater headway than in Italy, where they are pushing with great energy to establish their control and set their program into motion. Bringing Home the Castaways From the Kansas City Star. They are rolling up the rugs at the Hotel de Crillon and sending the chairs back to the up holsterers, for the American peace mission is coming home without any peace. (And speak ing of the thaira, they are, we believe, what the upholsterers call overstuffed, there being 80 of these peaceiess peace delegates sitting in them.) I The overstuffed peace mission there we go again 1 We mean the peace mission from the overstuffed chairs has been functioning under a1ow boiler pressure lately, for several ship loads of delegates already have come home, and the Crillon of late months has been a mere cave of echoes compared to what it was in the height of the season. Whole suites are now deserted, whole floors empty, so that a fourth assistant cartographer, who should now sing- out for a third assistant messenger, would hear his voice reverberate through 40,000 square yards of mar ble corridors, and leaping from Henri Quatre drawing rdom to Louis Quinze breakfast room, be flung back from shower bath to shower bath and shatter at last against the onyx walls of 200 tenantless chambres a coucher. The 80 refugees thus left marooned by the rising tide of peace will be welcomed home. We have begun to think we would have to send a relief expedition to re$cue them. Eighty ex perts on boundary liness tould easily be lost in the Hotel de Crillon, where we might have forgotten all about them until the next renbill came in. But now that they have been recalled to our attention we'll be glad to see them and hope they'll like America. They may find us a little provincial at first, with our foreign accent and narrow nationalism, but those impressions will wear off in time if they survive the first shock. We do not know what the returned mission will find to do in America, but something may turn up. The commission on economic resources of Austria, which has been studying the eco nomic resources of that country from the upper windows of the Crillon, might be set to work figuring out how America is going to pay the bill for its European fling. But the commission n the boundaries of Czecho-Slovakia looks like a dead loss. Still, when we pick up a band of castaways flying their last shirt from the broken mast and reduced to French breakfasts and several acres of marble bath rooms, we don't stop to figure the cost of rescue.- We take them aboard from their tossing life raft and nurse them back tp heakh and usefulness. So here's to the returning peace mission. We hope they'll soon be strong and well again and be able to tell the story of their terrible privations in Paris, providing they can pick up our language. Getting ctJob Much is heard these days of men searching for employment and finding none. It is some times difficult to understand how this can be, in view of the fact that employers all over the land are searching for competent , employes. The man and the job do not seem to find each other easily. Finding a good job is an art, one that many have not mastered. One needs but make in quiries to discover that few employers have a completely satisfactory list of employes. There are ' commonplace men holding good places because employers are unable to find better men for the job. There are excellent men holding inferior places because they lack the ability to bring their claims before employers who have better places to be filled. One city may have more men than jobs, but the coun try, taken as a whole, has jobs waiting to be filled. There is employment if the man out of a job will only, get to the right place. It does ltot follow that a man hunting a job is a poor employe, although many employers take thaf stand. It may mean the individual is welj equipped but a poor hunter when he seeks a job for himself. Some soldiers are able to walk into fine employment, find it even waiting for them, while others, equally willing to work, are forced to hunt and keep on hunting before they connect with satisfactory employment. Ohio State Journal. One VELVET. ri aa rvi ivi r u : a9)vv Bu Arthur brooks falter mlk JERRY HOWARD. He's as Irish as the city hall in Dublin by the sea. His language is as Irish as a brogue could ever be. He lances Mother England with diversions keen and sharp. He always boosts the flag of green that bears the gilded harp. , He makes excited speeches on St Patrick's natal day. He says the Irish nation dhould rise up and break away. ' J Like many of his countrymen, he leads in politics. He lands on Brother Capital with fre quent verbal bricks. He boosts for Brother Labor with orations warm and strong. The great parade of progress, if he leads, will move along. (This is the trend and inference of speeches that he speaks aW frequently they land him in the office that he seeks.) I:, letters to the papers- he assaults upon the slats our sacred oligarchy of annointed pluto crats. He holds that we, the public, could more easily dispense with those who gain their live lihood by profits and per cents, than with the toiling multitude, who gratify .their likes through labor freely interspersed with riots and with strikes. ' The sentiments he speaks and writes In such impressive notes have gathered him a fol-lowing-with multitudes of votes; have sent him to the legislature, where he never shirks his labor for the welfare of the gentleman who works. The man who wins the labor vote for many years on end' is apt to be, and so is he, the workers' honest friend. . Next Subject William A. Redick. i 1 The Day W Celebrate. Richard Croker, former leader of Tammany Hall, oorn at Black Rock, Ireland, 76 years ago. v Sir Andrew Macphail of Montreal, one of the leading writers and thinkers in the Dominion, born in Prince Edward Island SS years ago. Prof. Adam Shortt, former civil service com missioner for Canada, born at Kilworth, Ont, 60 years ago. Walter George Smith, Philadelphia lawyer, former president of the American Bar associa tion, born in Logan county, Ohio, 65 years ago. Cass Gilbert, eminent New York architect, president of the National Institute of Art and Letters, born at Zanesville, O., 60 years ago. ' Alben W. Barkley, representative in con gress of the First Kentucky district, born in Graves county, Kentucky, 42 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. The Union National bank moved into its new quarters at the southwest corner of Six teenth and Dodge. Mr.; and Mrs. Thomas Swobe celebrated the 21st anniversary of their marriage by en tertaining a few intimate friends. Capt George O. Baker of New Bedford, Conn., was, in the city visiting his brother, the superintendent of The Bee building. The cap tain had been in command of a whaling ship since 1863 and had not spent more than a year on land during that time. , A bazar was held at Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Millard's for the sale of fancy articles in the interest of the Children's hospital. 'Mrs. Walter C. Wyman sang at the meet ing of the Ladies' Musicale. "The happy hand ful of women who attended had the felicity of being carried out of themselves by the witchery of a magnificent contralto voice." Mrs. Wyman studied several years under Murchisi) Mrs. Monell and Mr. and Mrs. John Monell gave a brilliant reception at Mrs. J. J. Monell's. 7 jrrj a .iiFv Two Questions Answered. , Shelton. Neb.,' Nov. 1. To Vthe Editor of. The Bee: Two questions that I would like answered are tha following: 1. What Is the rmme ef tha ruling house 'of England? (Queen Victoria was the last of the house of Hano ver, I believe). 2. What ia the statue of woman In Nebraska politically full. -iiuf-frage or partial and"' whan will full suffrage be given them? Also if you will please give your authority for the answers to these questions. H. A. V. Answer Early in the war the reigning, house in England took the family name of Windsor, discarding the former names because of their Teutonlo origin. This tact was gen erally published at the time, being accomplished by a royal proclama tion. Women in Nebraska have aa yet only part suffrage. They may, un der a recent ruling ot the attorney general, vote for president and vice president of the United States, and then must jump down the ticket to offices below those created by the constitution of the state. The suf frage amendment to the federal con stitution has not yet been entirely ratified by the states, and so we can not tell you when universal suffrage will go into effect. Toncbing On and Appertaining To. Omaha, Nov. 20. To the Editor of Tha Bee: I will avail myself of the U. S. P. O. to state that the W.-H. crows over a rival before it has cleaned Its own record of filth. You don't ,see any adverse criti cism on the ' article of their friend, Ludendorff, now running in their columns, though his "nibs" (me) would have bought several extra copies for the privilege of clipping his sage contributions, but now those same excellent compositions are as extinct as the dodo. They are with the lost books of Llvy and the lost plays of Aeschylus. Oh, why did I trust them, out Of my hands? Oet but of my sleht you atupld. Cried tha ansrtaat of erowai How good and fair the children ara, There'a none but a parent knows, i j I don't like to shed tears in pub lic, but the W.-H. forces me to make a spectacle of myself. If I read the stuff to some people I know of they would die from laugh ing, 'i JUNIUS NO. HI. s Note on Notes. TheSVerage American doesn't care much for notes, especially notes to Mexico and more especially notes to Mexico in which a wealth of faultless rhetoric, perfect spelling and splen did punctuation is wasted. Indeed, there are many Americans who would enjoy our government's notes to Mexico . more if there were a "neither" and a split infinitive in them , occasionally. Kansas City Star. ofays' Com&r Written on a Tree Stump. Bf ADBUA BELLS! BEARD. When you are on a hike through the woods, stop and examine the stumps of newly felled trees or the ends of new logs. There is some thing written on them, something of interest that every outdoor boy or girl should be ableto read. It is, Trie raessAGe earn amtp DAILY CARTOONETTE, I SEE MY MUll Hf.5 ( fix m I LOOSt SH0tt ll I AtlTMJr TAITt J rviAJiiLiJUJ. - y i ML. written in cipher, but is easily read once you master the signs. Look closely at the top of a stump, which shows clearly the in side growth of the tree, and you will see that it resembles the drawing given here. There will be its rings", one inside the other, its radiating lines, its band of sapwood and its outer bark, and each of these has its own story to tell. The rings announce the age of the tree. For every year there is a ring, and all you have to do to know how Ions the tree has been growing is to count the rings. We are told that we may even .find written there which years were damp and rainy, and which were dry, because damp years make a wide ring and dry ones a narrow one. ' The rings have something to say about the points of the compass, too, for they are usually wider on the north side. That makes the meeting point of the radiating lines nearer the south side than the north side of the tree, so, as a rule, we may read the longest of these lines as saying, "We are pointing to the north." As with the mOss on the trees, however, it is not well to trust entirely to the writing on one single stump; read all you can find, 'then accept the evi dence of the greatest number. The story the bark! tells also has to do with the question, the very im portant question when you happen to be lost in the woods, of where to look for the north. It answers this by usually growing thicker on the north side of the tree. When a tree has been sawed off, leaving a level top on the stump, the signs can be more easily read. (Next week, "Winter Tree Buds.") Boya and Girls' Newspaper Service, Copyright, lilt, by J. H. Millar. An Unlucky House. The house which the ex-kaiser has , purchased at Doorn ia re ported to be unlucky for its male occupants. However that may be. the house is certainly very .uniucity in having its present owner. De- htroit-Free Press. A Back Number. Since the coal strike came on the stage the steel strike seems to have retired behind the scenes. is it 1 possible that a strike fostered by the "reds" cannot flourish without the full glare of publicity? Morning Oregonlan. ADVENTURES -THAT MADE-AN-AMERICAN i Lhe.Dtfcuxtinxl tone of a fine violin is per" manent' in act, it loecomes morg beautiful as years come and go. is tut one piano in tke world tkat vas this wcrnderful rca" tare ofevery fine violin -tKc Tnatcnle55 Its "tension resonator fo&lusive because pat ented)inalces its tone supreme, not only at nrsf, but as long as the in strument ttselr endures ffiqiesf mcedr- 'nighest praised Christmas- . PIANOS Afen Uprights, $325 up. CranJs, $650 up. Used, $125 up. Cash Prices Are Time Prices 1513 DOUGLAS ST. The Art and Music Store MADE to ORDER ARE YOU PRE PARED TO SHARE IN THE SEASON OF GAYETIES JUST AHEAD? ' We take special pride in tailoring -Evening Clothes that give the wear er distinction- Clothes o correct in detail that they put a man at his ease at the most notable functions. DRESS SUITS AND CUTAWAY FROCKS FROM $85. TUXEDO SUITS FROM $80 AND UPWARDS. NICOLLTheTailoi WE Jen-ems' Sons 209-211 South 15th Street Hunting Eye Hears the Story of the First Thanksgiving. By R. . ALEXANDER. "Come in and have dinner. It's Thanksgiving, you know," invited a farmer as HantingEye was going by. ' So the Little Indian Boy went into the kind farmer's home and was fed on turkey, mince pies, cranberry sauce and many other wonderful things of which he had never dream ed in the Great North Woods. "What is Thanksgiving?" he asked his host "It is a holiday when everybody eats all sorts of good things." "How did it come to be called Thanksgiving?" "Once upon a time all of this country belonged to your people. There were no white people in it. But finally a band of white men and women sailing in a huge canoe came DOT PUZZLE. over the Great Water to build new homes- here. Their voyage took many days. Many of them were sick, all Were discouraged, for the Great Water was between them and their homes. It was winter when they landed. They had not even skins-with which to build wigwams. They had to go into the forest and cut trees from which to build rough cabins. "Many of them died from disease during the winter. Some of them starved. Within three months after they landed more than half of them were in their graves beneath the snow. "When spring came they plowed the ground and planted it. All the summer they cared for the growing grain and in the autumn they were rewarded by a rich harvest. There was enough for everyone. No dan gerf starvation during the winter to come. So they -set aside a day upon which to give thanks to the Great Spirit of the white men for His kindness in thus providing for them. "From them grew the great people 27 e ' u .35 akW si l 43 21 2 a 4 a 3b A 4i .42 5 45 2o 19 all 3ie V : 5b fei to e58 Not playing tennis, ball or hockey. Some people think I'm a great Draw from one te two and so aa ta tha and. who now live in all. this country. And even now they keep this cus tom. Every autumn after the harv est is gathered the ruler of the na tion sets aside a day upon which all the people feast of the good things given by the land and give thanks to their Great Spirit for His kind ness to them." " (Next week, "Hunting Eye De posits His Money in the Bank.") Borf and Olrla' Newipaper Service. Copyright. 11. by J. H. Millar. "BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK YOW LV Nicholas oil Company 1 11 Alertness Plus Ample Facilities We give every banking institution credit for the best of intentionsit being the earnest desire of each one to do its level best. - but no banking service can be more broad than its facilities permit. No banking service will be more broad than that which the SPIRIT OF ITS MANAGEMENT prescribes. The service of the U. S. National combines the most adequate facilities with the constant endeavor'of its manage ment to build its business through . its alertness in keeping just a - a a.l step aneaa or tne times. BfSIUf ll a$$$ frv We heheve that I iPJii&fe the urest way I tftVT customers is to I if5L! fWi serve old customers well. I ' '-