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12 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1919. The Omaha; Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATEB VICTOR RQSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The .Asiocittrd firm, of wblfS Tha Be 1 a member. If -9tuttTl;' entitled to the um for puMlcatloo ef sll nawe aiapatclies emUttd to II or oth.rwti credited In this paper, end ilea the local newt publiibrt nareln. All nhu of pubUcatloa ef our eparial dlapalrhes art i!m named, BEE TELEPHONESt Print Branca lhrhante. Aik tor tha Dmnmui or Particular Person Wanted. For Night and Sunday Service Call Kdltorlel Department -Circulation Department UnnWu Department Tyler 1000 Trier 1000L Tylar 100SL. Tjler 1008L. OFFICES OF THE BEE ' - Hnmt Offica, Bee Building. 17th and Farnera. Branca omcw: Ames 4110 Vorra Mth I Per . Ktuma Silt Military . " Sid Uouocll Bluff! 11 Scott St 1 V.lmit Out-of-Town Officeat Nrw Tori Office I'M Fifth Are. I Washington Chicago Seeeer I Lincoln M15 reanoworth IS 18 N Street lit North 40tfl IS11 O Street 1330 H Btraet OCTOBER CIRCULATION ; Daily 66,315 Sunday 63,160 Arerase circulation for the month anbecrlbed and iworn to BT B K ftacan, Circulation Manater. Subscribers leaving tha city ehould hava Tha Baa nailed to them. Addraa changed aa often aa required. You should know tht)t Omaha is headquarters for the Fourteenth division of the United States Railway Mail service. What The Bee Stand Fort J. 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. How about saving daylight these days? Another snowfall might have been dispensed with. ! At any rate, the coal scarcity has not dimin ished the joy of passing the buck. If Mr. Wilson ever expects to change his mind, Mexico is a good place to start. The coal miners have put more steel work ers "on the street" than the strike did. Coldwater got the first car of state-mined " coal in Kansas. The floor is now tendered you. A prize of $100,000 is offered for an airplane that will rise vertically. What has become of the Edison helicopter? - A big Chicago hotel has reduced its rates almost to prewar figures. No sign of this be coming contagious, however. Ashurst of Arizona will be on the bad list at the White House soon if he does not cease criticism of the Mexican policy. In the matter of names, did you note that it is. District Attorney Slack who represent the United States ih the case against the miners? Mine owners do not want "inexperienced" men in their mines. They were not so par ticular in days gone by when recruiting strikebreakers. Toledo rides again on trolley cars, "paying the 6-cent fare that was so scornfully rejected on election day. Experience still teaches a dear school. , 6maha retailers are wrestling with i mighty stiff, problem, that of doing a day's business in five or six hours, but the determination with which they have taken hold is encouraging. . 1 Herr von Ludendorff says Germany will not interfere with the senate in the matter of the peace treaty, explaining: "No people with, pride and self-respect endures willingly a meddling or mixing in its affairs by foreigners." He knows this to be a fact now, but it took a very com plete licking to make him understand it. , One sugar investigation after another has brought out the same state of facts, and the same helplessness on part of the government for dealing with profiteers. The" attorney gen eral thunders in prospect as to what he is going to do after January 1, but the biggest question is what the sugar barons are going to do. "Patsy Havey will be sorely missed from the police force, of which he has been not only an' active but an honorable member for so many years. It Ms not especially a credit to public service that a man who has given such faith and zeal to his work and has so creditably dis charged all his duties should in the end be re quired to turn to private employment that he may receive his worth in wages. Sergeant Havey's record is one that the department may point to with pride? and from jvhich younger men may draw inspiration. Bars On American Ships? If the shipping board's only reason for in stalling bars for the sale of liquor on its new transatlantic passenger fleet is a thrifty desire to promote travel and revenue, its action is di rectly in conflict with the prohibition program deHberately adopted by congress and the states that ratified the 18th amendment. When prohibition was decreed, federal reve nues amounting in 1918 to $443,839,544.were sac rificed. Other millions derived by -states and municipalities from like sources are going the same way year after year. A careful estimate of property destroyed - or adversely affected places the total in excess of $1,000,000,000. In competition with foreign liners under whose flag it is not a crime to sell a bottle of beer or wine, the shipping board fears that while they are catering to standing-room only its palatial but cheerless ships are likley to be running empty or with only a few austere teetotallers in their cabins. But is not this the new national policy, and when it was pro claimed did anybody reckon or care about the cost? - We must commend to the old salts of the shipping board the stern philosophy of the anti saloon league, which takes no account bf the grosser things of life but finds its most satis ' tying rewards in denying to others the comforts to which they have been accustomed. Steam ships that cannot be operated at a profit on this plan will naturally be condemned as dissolute and immoral, and fit subjects for the junkman or the bankruptcy court New York World. SETTLE THE COAL STRIKE. If our optimistic altruistic, international ad ministration at Washington will only bestir it self and do something to settle the coal strike, it may make one credit mark on an otherwise blank sheet Sending miners to jail for contempt of court will not get coal out of the ground. Silly talk of "conscripting'men for work does not lead anywhere. The impasse was precipitated by the meddling of Dr. Garfield with a situation that was in a fair way to right itself. Operators had offered 20 per cent increase, and the men were demanding 31. The head of the fuel adminis tration, by a process peculiarly his own, arrived at the conclusion that 14 per cent was enough, and so announced. ( , The result is the most remarkable industrial condition ever known in America. Officials at Washington are devoting themselves td the al location of. such supplies of coal as are avail able, not entirely with' the" utmost success at that Locally representatives of the fuel con trol are doing their utmost to spread the rapidly dwindling stores of fuel over the needs of the community, which is patiently submitting to the restrictions ordered, and looking ahead to better days. Several schemes for settling the strike, short of government operation of the mines, have been suggested. Each of these contains the, idea of satisfying the miners to the extent that they will voluntarily resume work. None of them come from anybody connected with the government, as Washington seems to have lain down completely. As the paralyzing effects of the fuel shortage extend from one workshop or factory to another, increasing the misery and suffering of the citizens, cabinet ' officers "optimistically" hope that something will turn up and end the trouble. Would it not be a good plan to have John Lewis, William Green and a few others of the officers now held under bail ordered to report at Washington, there to meet a like number of coal operators, and arrange for a settlement? Contempt proceedings and investigations could be taken up later. What is now wanted in the United States is coal. , America and the Anarchists. Standing at Ellis Island, from whence they are getting their farewell view of the Statue of Liberty, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman turn to the law they have long flouted. Into the cpurts they have denounced and de fied this pair of professional anarchists dive for shelter. Not as seekers for justice, or suppliants for mercy, but to test the final technicality on which they hope against hope they may be per mitted to longer enjoy the liberty afforded by America. . r. Why does the government seek to oust this pair? Is the course in keeping with the theory of liberty that is guaranteed to all citizens? Does there come a time when the safety of our institutions requires repression of opinion or the beliefs of any? Sober consideration can lead only to an af firmatlve answer to these questions. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman for a genera tion have preached the destruction of all gov ernment, and because of their deliberate and per sistent refusal to be bound by the laws to which the mass of the people submit, have finally reached a point where expulsion from the country is the only reasonable way to deal with them. ' Americans do not lay a heavy yoke on any. Restraints on individual conduct are not special in application. The widest possible latitude con sistent with general good is allowed to all, and nowhere has the individual, been given such un restricted exercise of his powers and been so carefully and continually safeguarded in his rights as here. A large part of all our difficul ties has come from the fact that aliens have failed to appreciate the responsibilities that go with this. These privileges do not include incitement to riot, to the throwing of bombs, the assassina tion of public officials, or many of the other joys bf free and happy Russia. That is why. Emma Goldman and Aleck Berkman are finally going back to mingle with the multitude under the sovietsJ "A Police Court Case." Referring to the Jenkins episode as a , "po lice cqurt case," the New York World expresses the hope that if war comes with Mexico, it will be for a better cause. Ordinarily, the treatment accorded Consul Jenkins would be sufficient He is an American citizen,, and an officer of the State department of the government Raided by bandits,' he was forced to open a safe, from which not only his own mdney but a consider able turn of American funds was taken. Then he was held prisoner until a ransom of $150,000 was paid his captors. On his return to head quarters he was arrested by the Carranzista authorities, accused of aiding the Diaz rebels, and thrown into the penitentary at Puebla. "A police court case," perhaps, , but it looks much like an indignity that should not be borne. It is so viewed by the secretary of state and certain of the United States senators. If it wejw not enough, though, a considerable Jist of other outrages might be enumerated. Not the least among them may be recalled the ransom paid for the release of two officers of -the United States army, who were unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of Mexicans, while we might cite the murder of two others, and in general the record of relations between the two coun tries since the Wilson administration com menced, v We do not seek war with Mexico, but, just as it was with Germany, a condition worse than war is rapidly being established. Something must bV done to end the foolishness, and it should have nothing of the nature of the Vera Cruz expedition or the "pursuit" of Villa. Kipling asks reverence and respect for the battle fields of France. This request should not be necessary, but already some visitors have acted as if these places were pleasure grounds. If such would only take thought as to what hap pened on those fields, the cause for censure soon would vanish. Kipling is right when he says the ground is holy. Congressman Good of Iowa says estimates submitted from the departments will be cut by more than a billion dollars. He will not hurt the" feelings of the taxpayers if he makes good on this promise. A French rag picker has accumulated a large fortune by speculating in American army sup plies, ut he hasn't much on a great many Amer icans in that respect Bituminous Coal Profits From the New York Times. Secretary Glass is usually so correct in his figures that it is a surprise to find him appar entlyTon the authority of others, stating the profits of the bituminous coal industry for the year 1917 at a figure which exceeds the gross earnings. There may have been companies that made profits of 100 per cent, or even more, but there can be no argument from a few in dividual companies to the regulation of the in dustry as a whole. His response t the state ment of the National Coal association will be interesting in a controversial sense, but the wage dispute must be settled on present condi tions, not those of previous years. Secretary McAdoo made similar statements, which are even more open to criticism. The report which he made to the senate in 1918 covered several hundred cases, but included less than a score in which the net before taxes was 1,000 perj cent. The total capitalization of these cases was less than $200,000 in a billion-dollar industry. All these companies had investments larger than their capital stock, and paid taxes not hinted at in Secretary McAdoo's statement of their in come. The Wall Street Journal has analyzed these reports with results characterized by Sec retary McAdoo's adjectives, "shocking and in defensible." One $2,500 company earned 1,689 per cent, ac cording to the allegation, but in fact, after deduction- of taxes, earned 46 pr cent on its in vestment. A $20,000 company earned 2,134 per cent before taxes, but its earnings on invest ment were 26 per cent The grossest case of all, showing earnings of 225 per cent on invest ex I icv I WORK AMBITION ACHIEVEMENT WHATBOYSCAN-BE Sanitary Engineer. - By R. S. ALEXANDER. Millburg was dirty. It was un healthy. It had no decent sewerage system. Its water supply was im pure. Dick Reed hated all these faults in his home toWn and decided that when he grew up he was going to remedy them. He told his father about his decision. "So you're going to be a sanitary engineer?" said he. Dick hadn't thought about it tha: way but he now began to do so. He wrote to several big technical schools for information. 'He sub scribed for the "Engineering News," 220 Broadway, N, Y, and the "En gineering Magazine," 140 Nassau street, New York. He read two mentwas a $5,000 company, with investment of ! b9. Sewerage and Water Sup- $. nor rtf $84,944. and taxes $50.4.16. That i f'J -uivcu. left for the extortioners $34,508, or less for the shareholders than for the tax collectors. The largest of these profiteers had invested capital of only $140,000. It is obvious that conclusions based ion the showing of these .small concerns would be very far out of the way if applied to the industry as a whole. Too much of the antagonism between labor and capital is due to a suspicion about profits. The campaign in favor of nationalization of various industries, and against exploitation of labor, rests upon nothing stronger than the Mexican notion that labor earns more than it is paid, and that labor would receive more if profits were abolished. If profits are abolished, wages will go with them. Dollars will not work for nothing any more than men, and the hope of profit is the lure of capital to employ work ers. Probably there are more cases in which capital is underpaid than labor, for the com mercial mortality is higher than any battle statistics. The cases in which labor does not get its wages are as unsuitable to argue from in these matters as the figures given above. They prove nothing as to the whole industry, what ever they may prove in the given cases. When capital escapes insolvency, after having paid all the wages which the labor employed by it de manded, it is lain in wait for by radical agi tators who allege that capital and. profit are robbery, although there would have been no work or wages without the capital risked. If this seems a parody of a frame of mind impos sible for rational men it will suffice to quote the resolution adopted by the British labor party on Saturday declaring that "the only effective way to end profiteering was to end the capital ist system of production for profit, and advo cating the nationalization of all means of pro duction and the encouragement of municipal trading. Nothing can be thought trivial which gives encouragement to the supporters of such a program. He found out that a sanitary engi neer should know mathematics, The Home Missionary. By ELIZABETH MATEER. Peggy Carrol was sure of one thing when she graduated from col lege; she would not teach school. But in the middle of the summer came an offer to teach in a mission school in the south. Of all callings this was the1 farthest from her mind. But Peggy was a girl to whom novelty and adventure appeal- wasted on her.l She found in these simple mountain people a genuine ness unknown to her frivolous, col lege friends. For the earnest girl who is look ing for work which will demand her whole self and who recognizes other compensations than money, the home mission field offers a wide range for teachers, nurses, matrons, principals,' secretaries, and execu tives. J Each church denomination has its stations everywhere from Alaska and Porto Rico to the slums of our large cities. (Next week: "Actress") s Boya' and Olrla' Newepaper Service. " Copyright, 1(11. by J. H. Millar. EARLY WINTER NONSENSE, Rattle Nubb'a bride worships blm, dooen't ehe? Mattle Wall, aha plaoei burnt offerlnga bafora him three tlmea a day. Ufa. Ear! (who hae a train to catch) I ear, Cabby, can't you o faaterT Ancient Jehu Oo aye I I could, hot in no' allowed taa leae ma cab. Ttd-Blts. "Hae your eook bean wltU you lonf 1" "With uf She'a been acalnet ue al most from tha atart," Beaton Tranecrlpt Striker Aw, what da you want to ( back to work for? Man in Overalla Vail, you eotta (S back ao you can atrlke acaln, ain't you? Judge. THE CHURCH. The church la tha union of aoula whi aorva Tha Lord of Life, the Savior ef men. Throurh It tha light ot Truth ehlnea forth; , By lta erring feet ara net right again. Through It Ha renawa ue with Rti atrengthj inrouxo it ni unparia w u mm mi. And aver leada ua by Love divine Anrouaru inia eanniy iiiv 10 uwcw Ing place. BATOLL NE TRELK.- I tl White Slaves of America" ' A correspondent asks: "If 400,000 men must go to jail or dig coal against their will, isn't it time for some of our statesmen to write a vol ume on 'The White Slaves of America?'" Of course, the hypothesis is absurd. Every man-jack of the alleged 400,000 is free to stop work if he pleases without agreement or con spiracy with anybody else. Only conspiring to lessen coal production and freeze the country out is contempt of court. Nevertheless, the physics, and chemestry. So he spe cialized in these subiects so far ai possible in high school. Then h went tp a large technical school and took a course in sanitary engineer ing. When he graduated, he got a job as assistant superintendant of a fil tration plant in a medium sized city. Shortly afterwards, a new mayor in Millburg decided to clean up the place and, believing in patronizing home industries, he made Dick mu nicipal engineer. During his 4 years as city engineer. Dick has designed and constructed a sewerage system for. the city, designed and installed a new system for purifying the city water, and worked out several other measures for the improving of living conditions in the city. Since he took office, the death rate from certain diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria has been reduced to almost nothing ard . health conditions throughout the city are much bet ter. His term of office will soon be ended and then, if he should not be reappointed, he will be ready to go to some other city to carry on the same work, or to go into the service ed; to the amazement of her friends she accepted. Arriving at the school, she found instead of the crude, poorly clad specimens she had expected, a group of healthy, capable mountain beauties clothed in blue gingham uniforms and fired with a determin ation to learn that was quite new to her. In place of feeling sorry for herself, she wondered how. anyone so incompetent as Peggy Carrol had the nerve to think she could teach these wide-awake girls. By the end of the year, she had learned much more than she had taught. She had become so attached to the girls that she decided to visit their homes. After a two weeks' horseback trip through the mountains, she became a community worker in a little mountain neighborhood. Her du ties were as varied as the days of the week; one day she might ride 10 miles to see a sick woman; the next day ride, 10 in another direc tion to buy Supplies for the com munity store; and the next plan a church entertainment, or teach a Sunday school class. The sympathy of her friends was FROM HERE AND THERE. Question suzzests some interesting contrasts. Cobden's volume was di- of the state or federal government rected against real oppression. It struck at the employment of young children in the coal mines, the harnessing them to coal cars, the impossibly long hours, the demoralizing conditions of their slavery. It was, a' powerful book. In a sense it may be said tb have stirred England as the United States was stirred by "Uncle Tom's Cabin." t It hastened the reform of the evils it criticised. '., . There was no piano in any miner's house in all Great Britain. There was no union of miners. The coal barons were the bread lords, and paid what they chose to pay. The employ ment of children and women meant the destruc tion of the home; it was a crime against the rising generation. Nobody talked then of a six-hour day. Fourteen was the common limit. Cobden's title was justified, and got additional ironical force from the existence of negro slav ery in the United States, strongly attacked by some of the men who owned coal mines. We are glad no young children are forced to work, in our mines. We are glad that miners have a much shorter day. We are not unwilling to concede' that unions have had a large part in producing the change. But today in America the essential slavery is that imposed upon the consumer, the ultimate consumer of coal; the essential j tyranny is the class tyranny of the miners' Unions. One is tempted to suggest as an analogue the comparison between czar tyr anny, which was bad enough, and soviet tyr anny, which is very much worse, in Russia. The community's interests demand the use of every agency of government to increase pro duction of fuel. What is being done has the sympathy and support of the best people in every state. That it will prove efficient is the hope of America. Brooklyn Eagle. AV The Day We Celebrate. Charles E. Foster, attorney-at-Iaw, born at Lafeyette, 111., 1876. Francis ' A. Brogan, attorney-at-law, born 1860. , James A. Campbell of Pollard-Campbell company, railroad contractors, born 1862. Henry Wulf, assistant building inspector, born 1876. , Henry W. Blair, former United States sena tor from New Hampshire, born at Campton, N. H., 85 years ago. Edward H. Sothern, one of the foremost actors of the American stage, born in New Or leans 60 years ago. Rear Admiral William H. G. Bullard, U. S. N., director fo naval construction, born at Media, Pa., 53 years ago, - ' Atlee, Pomerene, United States senator from Ohio, orn in Holmes county, Ohio, 56 years ago. ' ' Charles S. Thomas, United States senator from Colorado, born at Darion, Ga., 70 years ago. . Dr. Henry J. Cody, late minister of educa tion in the Ontario government, born at Embro, Ont, 51 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Mr. E. M. Boyle, financial editor of the Phila delphia" Press, called at the offices of The Bee. Mrs. Wheeler gave a reception in the after noon, her home being transformed into a bower of beauty for the occasion. Mr. E. Rosewater, editor of The Bee, left for Chicago and New York to be absent about two weeks. Rev. E. A. Fogelstrora was in Boston solicit ing aid towards the construction and equipment of the Immanuel Deaconess Institute. Among well-known Boston people who responded to his appeal were Dr. Edward Everett Hale and Dr. Phillips Brooks. in investigating ana supervising health conditions, or he may set up himself as a consulting sanitary en gineer. . . (Next week: "Editor of Coun try Newspaper.") Boys' and Girls' Copyright, 1911 Newapapor Service. , by J. H. Millar. But What About Coal? The president's message is an in teresting and delightful essay on general conditions. But it is silent on the one overshadowing subject involving the welfare of this coun try. '.''.. What is the government doing to get coal? On this vital question the president says nothing. Kansas City Times. DOT PUZZLE. The movement of drifting ice in the far north Is about two miles a day. Chile has some of the richest iron ore in the world, and the govern ment is planning to increase its pro duction with the aid of European exnerts. Arc-lamp carbons are mechanic ally covered with a thin coat of metal, which Is then thickened by electro-plating in-a new European process. ( , . The lowest ! point reached by ice bergs on their journey from the far north is about 40 degrees, which would be opposite the coast of the central part of New Jersey. According to press reports, a metallurgical exchange is proposed for Zurich, Switzerland. . The pro posal is being put forward by the Societe pour Valeurs de Fer et d'Acier, Schaffhousen. A curiosity in Nicaragua is a Soapy lake. This sheet of water, the Lake of Nejpa, contains a strong solution of bicarbonate of potash, bicarbonate of soda, and sulphate of magnesia. The watter, when rubbed against any greasy object, at -once forms a good. lather. It is used as a hair wash and enjoys a local repu tation as a cure for external and in ternal complaints. Style XI-A Price $130 Ch oose Now! Christmas Victrolas! Christmas Records! Christmas Terms! 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