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12 THE BEE; OMAHA", SATURDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING ) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BT EDWARD JtOSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TBI BEE PUBLIBHINO COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ha umiiirf Pn. of ahtnk Tha Rm Lb a member. If alMaal antltlad la tha uss for pubUaaUoa of aU o.wt dlspatobaa arsdlta? to II or ant otferxwlot sradltcd la this Hill also la HMt cm pabllaliad Herein. AU mm puoucuio 01 w tMUl oirmciim ara also nssma. Mr TELEPHONES I frtfias Brtix Rnbuio. Aik for th. Tvr 1000 bspMlnUBt or Particular Psrsoo Wstttsd. JTlCr A WV Far Nl.hr snJ Sunsk Sarvtca Colli' BaHorUI DwrtiMfit War JMJL Ctnalattaa l.iartmnt ..... Tj or 100JL AArortttlni Drportnwnl ...... Trior 100IL OFFICES OP THE BEE Hob Offlp. 8m Bulldlnfc 17th and Fsrnsav M 6114 Military Ars. South tits OoooOl Iraffs 15 toatllt. I Watoiu Out-of-Towa OfftM( ' Tort Offlor M Fifth Ate. Washlnftoe Chlcass flir Bldi. Llnooln MIS tenaworth Mil N atrial tit Nona 40th Btnot Daily 66,315 Sunday 63,160 it, rift olrrolaUoa for tha month lutasnma ana iwsn pi B. B. Bum. ClreuUtloa alanafsr. Subscrtbsrs laavinc tha city aheult hava Tha Baa mallad ' ta than. Addraaa changsd aa aicaa aa rsquino. You should, know that ) Building permits In Omaha have more than doubled in number and in value in 1919 over 1918. That The Bee Stands Fort , 1. Reipect for the law and maintenance of ' order. 1 Speedy and certain punishment of crime through the regular operation of the courta. I. Pitiless publicity and condemnation of ' inefficiency lawlessness and v 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, i Will it make meat any cheaper? . Settling for Scapa Flow has put; a different grin on Heinle's face.. ; ' v . Milwaukee's Americanism was put to the ultimate test yesterday. , i y Mr. Ringer may surprise, but he will not shock, Omaha by his disclosures. Having dehorned the beef trust, Mitch Palmer now feels fit for the h.'c. of 1. finish fight. ' Pershing will christen the air mail hangar in Omaha, but that should not send him up in the air. Mexico comes forward with a woman bull fighter, who will not be lonesome in a land of 14 . t Duu-tossers. ,. The Anti-Saloon League comes right back and says the "flying parson" did say it, And there you are. .The federal court at Kansas City has track of t least one of its missing I. W. W. defend ants he is in jail in Omaha. ' ,The Allies propose to go ahead and settl; with Turkey without waiting for the United States. We give them full consent ' tne Satisfaction expressed by both sides Is to outcome in the packers' case may cause the consumer to wonder what happened to him. You have perhapsnoticed that the only com plaint about the Hays plan for a republican policies committee comes from the democrats." r Attorney General Palmer says it was not a settlement but a victory in connection with the miners strike. :The main thing is the country has fuel again. i , Attorney General Palmer proposes to hang profiteers "higher than Haman." Mr. Wilson said something like' that seven years ago, but nothing ever came of it. v r . : A local tinker is reported to have supplied 200 customers with "stills within the last six months. This may account for some of the things that have happened. A,big shipment of machine guns consigned from Germany to Mexico by way of Holland has just been held np at Amsterdam. sYet they ask ns to give them credit. Clifford Thorne,, representing the wholesale grocers, does not. extract as much satisfaction out of the packers' settlement with the govern ment as might have been expected. His belief that, the unscrambled eggs may be served again as an omelette may have some foundation. . A church commission just home from Europe reports that the communion of saints may be possible in the next world, but just at present that of Christian gentlemen in this Tale of tears is subject to modification growing out of patriotic devotion to their respective coun tries. One of the sad but seemingly inevitable outcomes of the war. Reduced to Simplest Terms 4 The following extract from Secretary W. B. Wilson's annual report for the Department of Labor reduces the problem of industrial peace to its lowest and simplest terms: 3 We are all interested in industrial peace. 1 But there can be no permanent industrial -'peace that is not based upon industrial "justice. ... Nor is it permissible that either side to an industrial controversy be the sole judge of what constitutes justice. -;The means must exist by which all men may know that justice has been secured. - Such "means" do exist and are within reach. It only remains to establish them in concrete and working form, and when they have been fairly and impartially established for determin ing justice as between industrial disputants they will have been established to make known to all that justice has been secured. But they cannot be established when capital, by rejecting the principle of collective bargain ing, insists upon being the sole judge of what constitutes justice in any controversy. And they cannot be established when labor, by re jecting the principle of a binding arbitration, insists for its side upon being the sole judge of what constitutes justice in any controversy. . The way to industrial peace lies clear enough ahead.. Only the refusal of a combative and srubhom element both among large organiza tions of capital and large organizations of labor now blocks the road, and they must be made to get out of tht way. New York Would, UNSCRAMBLING THE PACKERS. . Out of tht mists that surround the mea picking Industry just now on fact shines clear. Meat eaters must have meat, and this must be prepared for their uses through some agency, Whether It will be to their advantage to have multiplied the toll-taking elements of this agency that intervenes between the producer and con sumer is to be demonstrated by experience. Will it make any material difference In the cost of living if one form of food is controlled by on combination of dealers and producers and another by another? It tht tribute-payer especially concerned at to who gets the extra profit taken from him? , Aside from this, the victory of the govern ment ever tht "Big Five" packert is of academic interest chiefly. To require that tht immense combination! of capital refrain from operating under unified control may avert tht dangtr of tht threatened "monopoly," but it will not do away with tht necessity for the employment of that capital in tht preparation and distribution of the various articles in which the demobilized organization wat concerned. As a matter of fact, the big packing com panies had proceedeLso far in the way of re organizing their business into separate units that the exactions of the decree had been met before it was presented. Some of the minor particulars are not likely to be so readily ad justed. The sale of stock yards shares, "pre ferably to live stock producers and the public," involves something more than a mere declara tion on part of the government of demand and on part of the packers of acquiescence. It may be questioned if the public will ehow any more enthusiasm over the purchase of government- regulated stock yards than it has for the government-controlled railroad shares. ; This also must wait on the future. Finally, a matter of no particular Importance, confining the use of packer-owned refrigerator cars to packer-produced commodities may tye the means of some inconvenience to other ship pers.. However, this may be regulated so that the cars may be of utmose service to the public. Cynical observers will recall as they read the congratulatory messages exchanged between the government officials what happened when the Standard Oil company was "dissolved.", It is possible that nothing of the kind will ensue as a result of the settlement with the packers, but it it equally possible and more probable that the business will suffer but little through being divested of its side lines. The main thing is that Americans are yet dis trustful of too great combinations of capital employed and directed by corporations. Real izing the tendency tocombination and the ad vantages that arise from proper consolidation and co-operation, abhorrence of monopoly breeds insistence on limitation of the activities of associated capital. This attribute of true democracy is a determining factor and must al ways be reckoned with in any clash between the public and the "trusts." Cutting Down Expenditures. A welcome message comes from Washing ton, Majority. Leader Mondell having an nounced that the 1921 appropriations will be pared to the limit. The present congress already has shown what it can do along the economy line. Through a monumental exercise of legis lative incompetence, the democrats failed to complete the job of making appropriations be fore the party lost its control of congress in March. At the time they alleged the appropria tion bills were defeated by a republican filibus ter. If so, it was a good thing for the country, for even with the rush incidental to having but a fortnight to give to, the job when called in cnriat ftirtn. tha rfnnhlirans succeeded in lopping a billion dollars off) the measures the democrats had sought to put through, saving the taxpayers just that much. The tax levy could not be changed, as it had been irrevocably fixed by the democratic congress. With this record already established, it is very certain the expenditures for the following year will be held to- a limit as low as the proper adminis tration of national affairs 1 will permit This means lower taxes for 1921, and a consequent relief from the strain borne for the last three .at .a. a.. . years. Mr. Mondell thinks estimates may De cut by at least a billion dollars. If this is true, it will effect a further saving in taxation of more than half a billion, after allowing for the half billion deficit created by the funding of interest on loans to foreign governments. The nation will welcome a policy of rigid economy as a step to the solution of problems arising from the war. Underwood or Hitchcock? A momentous decision is to be arrived at in Washington tonight, if the program is carried out The democrats of the senate will decide which is Ho be boss of the minority, and the choice lies between Gilbert Monell Hitchcock of Nebraska and Oscar Underwood of Georgia. The Underwoodites are anticipating possible defeat by setting up a protest against the calling of the conference when a considerable number of their faction is out of bounds and can not be brought back in time to vote. THfy charge Hitchcock with bad faith in this. Ik the ques tion were to be settled by seniority, the Ne braska democrat would get it as he got the chairmanship of. the senate's foreign relations committee when William Joel Stone died. Were the matter left to the White House for decision, the mantle of the late Thomas Staples Martin would settle about the shoulders of the ac credited author of what Mr. Wilson has de nominated the best tariff law the United States ever had. Republicans will not worry a great deal over the point, as the decision is not likely to seriously affect the course of legislation or mark an epoch in history. It is of some inter est to note, though, how harmonious the breth ren on the other side of the fence are become. When the Dry Movement Hit New York Another High Cost" Inquiry. The attorney general of the United States is going to start another inquiry into the high cost of living, this time clothing to be the sub ject of inquiry. Perhaps in good time some thing may come out of all this investigation, just as we expect that . eventually the law of supply and demand will bring a better adjust ment Up to now the inquiries set on foot by Mr. Palmer have been of no more service or avail than' were those of his predecessor. In fact, each new step taken by the Department of ustice to locate and head off profiteering has been marked by another notch in the upward climb of prices, and some of these notches are quite a spread apart. Mr. Palmer may think he can "kid the people along" all the time, but most of them are getting: suspicious and want to bt shown. From the Brooklyn Eagle. New York City, on the evt of absolute and complete prohibition and already in tht grip of wartime prohibition which tht supreme court of the United States sayt may not be lifted, it nevertheless the greatest repository of distilled spirits in the world at the present time, accord ing to estimates by Brooklyn liquor dealers. "It dazes me even to conjecturt tht vast amount of whiskv in bond in New York now." said Bernard J. Feely, president of (the United Liquor Dealers' association of Kings county. I know that every bonded warehouse in Man hattan is filled to capacity and that space has been at a oremium for a lone time. New York City is dry enough but potentially it is the wet test spot on the globe. "Unless something is done to relieve the situation the whole country, and particularly New York, will feel the effect of the resultant financial upheavel. It is impossible to simply annhiliate hundreds of millions of dollars worth ot property, the ownership of which is distrib uted all over the country and not cause trouble. f we are hopeful, faintly hopetul, that is, mat rresident wnson yet win exert nit pre rogative and end. the wartime- prohibition act by a proclamation of peace. , That seems to be our one chance." The murk of gloom created by the action of the supreme court did not hang long over the liquor dealers alone today. Wall street, widely scattered banks and financial interests generally evinced'a desperate interest born of immense loans made on bonded liquors loans which will be altogether unprotected by convertible col lateral unless sale of the liquor stocks is al lowed. A group of prominent Walt street op erators and New York bankers was said this morning to be organizing to go to Washington as a unit and seek to lift the ban for at least two weeks prior to January 16, when the con stitutional prohibition amendment becomes operative. It has been estimated that the loss resultant from the continued enforcement of the wartime act will pass the billion dollar mark bv hun dreds of millions, reaching a total so stktreerine that it can be estimated vaguely. It is estimated that the government's loss from taxes alone will reach $600,000,000 and at least an equivalent loss will be suffered by owners of hard drinks, light wines and ' beer. . , The liqu6r dealers today were considerine the institution of civil suits against the govern ment to protect themselves from this loss if the worst comes to the worst. One plan widely discussed is to organize all of the dealers in the country for a concerted action in the civil courts along this line, on the ground that the government has no right to condemn property the legitimacy ot which it has recognized by taxation. . Dealers sav that the oossibilitv of disoosinc of their stocks abroad. is very remote because of the impossibility -of obtaining ship space for export with so little time remaining. After the prohibition amendment becomes . operative it will be impossible to export. -Moreover there is very little demand for American wniskv abroad it appears. Isaac Rosenfield. vice president - of the Sunnybrook Distilling company of Louisville, Ky., formerly one of the country s largest dis tilleries, has just returned from abroad where a study of the situation at first hand convinced him that no market existed there for American made whisky. "We have 25,000 barrels of whisky, or about 1.250,000 gallons, in bond," said Mr. Rosenfield. "The supreme court's decision apparently means, in effect, that we have no alternative to destroying this property. Either we must destroy it or ship it out of the country by Janu ary 16 and I have definitely established the fact in my own mind that there, is little possibility of selling American whisky abroad." At the offices of the United Food Products corporation, formerly the Distillers corporation, one of the largest whisky concerns, it was said today that the company's loss would be minor as it had seen ahead and long ago began the conversion ot its plants and resources to the manufacture of food products and now had only a relatively small stock of hard liquor on hand. Unionizing College Professors There is more of novelty in the name of As sociated Teachers' union than there is in the fact that its purpose is to organize educators of college and university rank along lines hardly distinguishable from those long ."since found necessary or essential to the protection and wel- iare ot industrial workers. Already and for many years jpast professional men of various kinds, including the lawyers and the doctors. have had their national, state and county asso ciations, exercisincr over their memhers and over- outsiders powers analogous to those of the labor! too, the very human jtendency to abuse powers as well as to use them. The professors carefully explain that their union will never strike in sympathy with other unions. Whether or not that is a superiority or an inferiority, in comparison with the unions that (to indulge in sympathetic strikes, depends upon the point of view, but it at least indicates that these more highly placed teachers are not as "class conscious" as are the members of or dinary unions in other words, that they do not identify themselves fully, as yet, with "labor." The failure or refusal to do this will be a source both of weakness and of strength weaicness in times ot war between themselves as'"la,bor" and those who pay; their salaries, and strength when the relation is peaceful. At any rate, the repudiation of this effective weapon indicates that the professors are wise enough, or cautious enough, not to invite the kind of criticism that would be hardest to meet, as they would do if they announced the inten tion to take part in conflicts ,not their own or to seek aid in attaining their ends from beyond their own numbers. New York Times. 'Jfis&ee's i i on av The Day We Celebrate. , George M. Tunison of the law firm of Jef feris & Tunison, born 1882. . Prince George, fourth son of their British majesties, born 17 years ago. Maj. Gen. John F. Morrison, U. S. A., born at Charlottesville, N. Y., 62 years ago. Theodore E. Burton, former United States senator from Ohio, born at Jefferson, O., 68 years ago. Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, president of the University of Chicago, born at Jamestown, N. Y., 70 years ago. Stephen B. L. Penrose, president of Whit man college, born in Philadelphia 55 years ago. Cyrus Townsend Brady, noted clergyman and author, born at Allegheny, Pa., 58 years ago. Branch Rickey, president of the St. Louis National league base ball club, born at Lucas ville, O., 38 years ago.' Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. A Christmas literary entertainment called, "An Evening with the Florentines," was given at the Park Place school. The pupils also brought warm clothing for the poor as a Christ mas offering. Mrs. Frederick Lowe gave a reception. Miss Anna Millard gave a dance in honor of Miss Brown at Fort Mead. Bronson Howard's bright and witty comedy, "Henrietta," played to a crowded house at the Boyd. Gifts, money and supplies of all sorts were being brought to tfhe Mission chapel on Dodge street to- brighten the Christmas of the poor. Personal distribution was to be under the super vision of Rev. Mr. Savidge. Turkeyt sold for I cents and 10 cents a pound , , Where Do We Stand? .. York, Neb., Deo. 17. To the Hdl tor of The Bet: la It not time to wt knew where we etand In thla coun try, whether It Is a constitutional republlo or an old medieval auto cracy T MP. Wilson hat given am pit groundi for raiting this ques tion. When aomt of hta oartr leaden ' did not want to be rubber-stamped posed, he said that those who would not work on the team ought to get off the team. Then on Ootober SI, 191S, he asked the country to give him a wax-nosed congress bo he could pull, bend or twist It In any snapt or direction ne eared to turn it, but the voters were not up to the Wilson ' date on this being a one man country, to they turned him down In very neat fashion. Here it what made them do ft: After asking the people to give him such a congress he tells them why he wanted It He said "that he might be the sole and unhampered spokes man for thla country." We heard somewhere that "he kept us out of war," and later he eaid "he realized what it meant when he led this great nation into war." But some of us yet have an old book that says "congress has power to de flare war," etc., and then in the Ar ticles of Confederation ot the states we read this: "The United States in congress as sembled, shall also have the sole and exclusive rlgh't and power of de termining on peace and war." And the U. S. constitution, article 2, reads like this (or used to) speaking of the president and his power in relation to war and the making of treaties: He shall have power by and with the advice and consent or tne sen ate to make treaties, provided two- thirds of the senators consent." Now listen to him when he says it must be ratified as written with out the dotting of an i or the" cross in of a t. After he had surrend ered his fourteen points on which he got the armistice signed as the basis on which the settlement was to be made, then he accepted the Shantung steal. He says it was not right and that he protested against it, but became a party in and to it In order to get Japan into his League of Nation. So there he could give and take, barter and trade his four teen Dolnts. his conviction of right, for China in order to bring home an English insurance policy for the United States to underwrite the con tinuity of the British empire, which is the very heart of his covenant. Then he says to those whose power, duty and responsibility Is equal to his own, now you take that as It Is and don't you change it In the least or I won't accept it, and then I will blame its failure on you and all the other troubles I will lay on the re action of the treaty. . Now get this: At Cheyenne in his speech he said this: "We had Just as well know where we stand, that the making of treaties in this coun try rests with the executive and I shall reserve the right. to say when the senate has acted whether it has ratified or rejected the treaty." Now after the senate has done what Its best judgment has dictated was best to do to safeguard this country, he refuses to recall the treaty back to be acted on, and says he has no changes in mind, hut he shifts the responsibility onto the senate. Now that Just leaves one big plain duty for congress to do, that Is, pass without delay a resolution declar lne the war ended and if Mr. Wilson wants to- sit in the corner and pout. that is his privilege, but about rour teen points of thirty days each and he will have plenty of time to re flect on his action. In the mean time -an echo from the Chevenne speech ought to be heard In Wash ington, saying "It is time we knew where we stand In this country, whether there is byf one df us or wnetner tnere are omers. i FRANKLIN POKE. " SAID TO BE FUNNY. "Tha raaaoa. yea don't admlra Wan..'. aparaa la that you don't undaratand thara " oald tha vndauntod anthuilaat. ' "won," aommontod tha oandld paraoa. lan't that raaaon anouiHT" WasMn.tnn Star. Tha ' Raformar Do rou think t tatoomanahlp la thla country la on tha aoennaT Tha Polltlolan My toy, no atataamaa ta xnia eouniry wouia aoonna Brooklya Cltlion. anything. "Thoae lone tpoachaa of youra havan't haired much toward full dinar pall." "I'm afraid not." anawarad 8ana.tar Sorghum. "But thoy hava produced an overflowing waata baiket" Washington Star. - Otla Why did yon tranafor your aa. eount from that up-atata bank, where you Cheater Well. I'll toll you. On. i. 1 waa riding with tha president In his fllvar, and the cashier passed ua In a twln-alz. L.I18. "Bat wua a now-ful annaal frum da pulpit, Pahson Slmms." "I'm right glad ro' thouaht ao. RmM., Jackson. Wua yo' moved?" Tea. ash: moa' sow-full T VmA in hoi' mahsalf In frura puttln' aomethln' In da contribution hot." Boston TranacrlDt. FROM HERE AND THERE. twice Us own A bee can carry weight in honey. The mills of the United States every year export more flour than all the rest tf the mills in the world ppoduce. Camel hair brushes are not made of the hair of camels, but of hairs from the tails of Russian and Si berian squirrels. American experts have perfected the highest grade of photographic paper, which formerly was lm ported from Europe. I Live cattle were first exported to England from America. In 1861, but it did not become a regular business until several years later. Pamphlets owe their name to Pamphela, a Greek lady, who left behind her a number of scrapbooks containing notes, recipes, anecdotes and memoranda. The oldest map in existence is a piece of mosaic In a Byzantine church at Malaba, in Palestine. It represents part of the Holy Land and Is 1,700 years old Coffee was first used In Abyssinia in the ninth century, later In Arabia, and then to Constantinople, where it grew" into extensive favor, and where the first coffee house was es tablished. Practically all of the valuable rubles of ancient and modern times have been found in the Mogok valley of Burma, where much of the work is still carried on by the natives in the most primitive manner. Tht eulphur-dloxide fumes escap ing from the dumps of waste around the nickel mines in the Sudbury re gion of Ontario are said to amount to 1,000 tons a day. No satisfactory method of saving this sulphur has yet been devised. . The first watchmaking school In Canada has been established in Mon treal to teach the trade to returned soldiers. Each man who becomes proficient Is assured of Immediate employment, as there is a great scarcity of watchmakers in the Do minion at the present time. The Melbourne Dally Age, in a re cent editorial giving a resume of patent ' legislation In various coun tries recommends that Australia adopt a law compelling foreign pa tentees to manufacture in Aus tralia all of the patented articles to be sold in this country in order to build up Australian industry and employ Australian labor. . That which is popularly known as the "funny bone" Just at the point of the elbow is in reality not a bone at all, but a nerve that lies near the surface which on getting a knock or a blow causes the well-known tingling sensation throughout , the arms and fingers. It la a fact that, while the common snail has lungs, heart and a gen eral circulation, being in every re spect an air-breathing creature, it is never-the-less able to live indefinit ely without tnhaling air, an element which is supposed to be essential to the existence of all creatures en dowed with lungs. Fifteen million copies or tne rarm schedule have been ordered printed by the bureau of census for use in ratherinsr tha agricultural statistics of the nation for the 14th decennial census. Tht enumeration will be gin on January 2, 1920. and it la planned to complete the gathering of both population and agricultural figures by February 1, Mctrola for Christmas! '' THE great est singers, musicians, and entertainers in the world enter your home with the coming of your Victrola. Nothing else will bring so much pleasure to every member of the family. 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