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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1919)
' -J : THE OMAHA SUNDAY EEEi TlFrEMRPR 1 iota i! iipwai i i iik Mil njjni im in iiikv it f MiiiiiiRr" inn a a v z 1 1' Ji'UlJ f LiiuJ LLiLiHtiiLU I i TTl I ill nTH I fiTTl nTH rnTl rTfi nTi rrTfTu I 1 1 III B B, - KTvoj- i y i r i i r it a bib a, -iir- - jl jt . w ii 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii i im 1 1 1 1 - " m 1 1 1 1 1 i til -i nirt - . I it i i J I j r-jr 01 !8 Surety nis Christmas M . Ib ffl.llulJJ.1 .!. . E H ivmBcAn m r.i - i .i n i if n mi i i t-- ..vrv,w iii wiiFimiamui In i Mi H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 IIU i II WMLI mm i e-j rnn rmf r H I 1 II V i h nunrJi. I tits tiUMh. I I Im mil i 111 t niinirTni k P Ff - i s 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 in w i . -i -;lk About Oar Special 3-Piece Offer V LrsK v 1 Ornamental- jjjCdjHB to have THEIR Christmas free illuminated by electricity. ft rN Economical and Ma POWER COMPANY I Ml ' L UJ' ' fjW Electrk Serrice Company JIJ SXSl j ill 1 1 BP It !i . T C Germany Expects America, mio Turned Tide of War," PUBLICITY MEN PONDER OMAN'S To Relieve Her Suffering!jgj FOLK Only America's Unsellfilsh Devotion to Cause of Hu manity Can Save People From Disaster, Declares Famous German Editor Complele Disinterest edness, After Changing Prussian Victory Into Defeat, Would Be Shirking Moral Duty, He Says. By MAXIMILIAN HARDEN. Strand Banattehto Serfe f JirticW tb Mart rmni Uttar - WHttn far rmlmraal Berriec The Catholic rrtr, the old cetter. lranicR toward the conservative and the urban e'emect of wealth ; ("democrat,") joined hand with Berlin, Kot. 14. (By Mail.) part of the social democracy Every topic discu6ed somehow j t11 had approved of the war, had finally lead to the question: "riow ! voted the funds for it and had even about the winter?' i consented to submarine warfare, in And under the roof of thi cnes-! order to form an emergency govern- ucd mnoxrer njiii aozen ol ttiem are l "ir!-u xx: it r TU. Electrical Gifts No gift would be appreciated more Make your selection ' NOW. The firms on these pages -will serve you. Make Your Gifts Electrical to Be Sure They Will Please Floor Lamps Our assortment is large and varied in all the much wanted v styles. Complete with mahogany base and colored silk shades. Very specially priced. Come and look them over. Here's a partial list of a - lew of the happy, useful gifts waiting for your choosing: Percolators Table Lamp Irons Flash LifhU Fixtures Heaters - Floor Lamps Toasters Electric Washers handle only machines of known quality. Come in and tsk for demonstratiosu An electric washer would make a oost acceptable Xnoas gift. BUY ELECTRICAL GIFTS AT AN ELECTRICAL STORE laney Electrical Works f723 South 24th SL Phone South 73. Opposite Sata SO Poatof&ce. I nesune. we treexe. will w live in darkness, will we share our residence with proletarians billeted Itcerer We will hare strflcea, will railroad trains stoa rnnninz. will mail de- I livery cease, will the industries of whoje province close down, as a result of a cual famine? - Are we to hear the roar and rape of a new rebellion, to see the bloody sunrise of bolsherism? He who asks, either hopes or IVj fears to get an answer to his pet- I I tion- Wonld il be t0 i one IfJT I should ask America to condescend JjM? ' to contemplate this cluster of cares fl ! weighing down a people of great ft Jt I performances, performances ren- j dered in the services of huraanirj' as j well as its own? " Shirking a Duty. As long as the United States in tervened in the qnarrels of Europe, as long as they brought about a de cision in the ght, complete disin terestedness, although a convenient escape would be shirking a moral duty. ) Was not there inscribed on the , Stars and Stripes, long, long ago, the promise of an era of justice and J kindness? And how could such a Wv deepest sense of the word, ever pre ifsm should even those at the :e- I commandment of neighborly love were not to apply to them? KHP j On November 9, we celebrated the t ! first anniversary of a revolution which, in reality, was none at all Ulu After deed of tti men r-: ntlc heroism on the part of our army, after sacrifices never heard of be fore, and the rreatest industriaJ achievements on the part of the na Bl tion, we lived to see the most ter- . rific defeat known in the history of all wars. j Twice Misjudged America Why this unexpected defeat' fol lowing performances so grand? Because a military commander, intoxicated with isolated success. flushed with the omnipotence of caesar, twice rauea to conceive a j proper estimate of America as a fac- Statistics Shew That- 5 000 Citizens Are Traveling Out , Of Omaha Most of The Time. The latter is being sustained by an army of mercenaries, gradually drilled, continue the state of siege, permitting all sorts of encroach ments and violence, and -will prob ably last until the people are called upon to elect a new central parlia ment And the party of Ebert and Noske will either return to radicalism or break into two faction. This is presupposed on the situation as it is and on the chance that it will last through the winter. Longing for Change. It is bad, this situation, bad enough to drive to despair. No woader the people suffering this state cf affairs .are longing for a change of system and are dissatis fied with the balance sheet, for the first year presetted by the republic, although they might be willing to concede the good intentions of the present government. The first year cost 40,K)0.000.(X marks, expenses of the "reichswehr" (army of national defense) amount ing to 1,500,000.000 marks per month. The national debt will reach the figure 'of, 204,000,000.000 next March (before the war it had reached 5,000,000,000 marks). As yet no one can tell how much the victors, tinder the cover of "rep aration." will exact from us, al though everybody anticipates :t filled with terror. We hare no raw materials, no coal, no houses to find shelter in. There has been no building for years and there is no material far construction work now. 1 Unemployed Army Grow. Unattainable prices of all receH sites ot trie led to ever-increasing demands for nigher wages. As soon as they were won, after strike, eco nomic loss and unbearable overbur dening of industries, prices would immediately climb higher again. Qr culus vitiosus (vicious circle). The same circle affects our rate of exchange question, so terribly se rious. Indefarigably the money press it running, turning out paper currency. The army of the unemployed is tor. increasing, is being pauperized by First when he, in January, 1917. tDe Prevailing system ot giving taem concluded to begin an unrestricted money wnicn is onry a mrie less submarine war, a decision that put "'Tf. l!-e1 .f an end to the pkns of Wilson the fc"dm food, faei and clothing out peacemaker, rendered, though it was. -3 r til ELECTRICAL GOODS PLEASE PRACTICAL PEOPLE Let this Christmas He a practical gift-giving Christmas: An Electric Washing Machine, an Electric Grill or an Electric Toaster, are all practical and desirable gifts. An Electric Range or an Electric Coates' Heater will bring happiness to any woman the year 'round. Every housewife would enthuse over the gift of an Electric Sweeper. Smaller articles are also offered. on the strength of estimates which assured the downfall of England within three months, the capture of Calais and a peace to be dictated at Paris. And the second time in April, 1918, when he, although disappoint ed by the meager results of his of fensive thrusts, failed to fall back it upon a strong oeiensrre, noioing in-: , tJ tact in his hand the efiective mstru T ment jsf our army, and to begin " instead of hoping for a mirade and : whittling and finally breaking down i the army by advances as needless :as they were barren of results jwhen he failed to perceive the eu- j emy's superiority (in men and xna- , tenali, particularly in the latter), in , ..-.,:,. -i, k l .... ! ending stream pouring in from and when be, only after sword was broken, finally to enter your parlors lor an armistice. Army Fed Cm Hope. V(V ; America, im hi. own rri 1 consented Hoover Cleaners Fireless Cookers Grills Percolators Irons Curlers Sewing Machines Heaters Lionel! Jrains Flash Lights Heating Pads Junior Stores Xmas Tree Lamps Mangles to them. '.Vol" Militarists and monarchists whose wheat refuses to grow on republican soil are shrieking day in and day out. "It is -the result of your revolu tion! Repent and return to the abundance of a military monarchy, to the venerable tradition of a Prus sian Germany, and the sun of your ormer happiness will shine again" , Much Worse to Come. Silly prating? Certainly. But in riew of the masses' misery, this sort of propaganda is more effective than all the sunning of a Lord Northclifre. Do the western nations, proclaim ers of a new world order, intend to augment and intensify this propa ganda? This very day, one year after the armistice was signed, there are still hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war languish ing in prison camps on foreign soil, condemned to a life of slavery. And what will be much worse is A Floor Lamp Is the Ideal Gift for the Home Our assortment is complete. Double silk' shades in Blue, Old Rose, Mul berry or Gold. Stands in Mahogany or Jap Finish. Any Style or Shade, $19.75 to $45.00 Christmas Tree Outfits, 8 lights $ 3.50 Hot Point Electric Irons 6.75 Electric Table Stores r "... 12.50 Electric Toasters 4.00 v. MOLA ELECTRIC WASHERS It Will Pay Yam tm Visit Our New Retail Store v nil att Wilcnn Vlorrrir Pnmnanv J yCUiv J II UVU liivvu vvuiiiiui 'Farnam SL Phone Tyler 1491. LET THE WILLIAMS' SERVICE HELP YOU THIS CHRISTMAS. Williams has placed over 5,000 Electric Washers and 2,500 Elec tric Vacuum Cleaners and hundreds of other Electrical Appliances in Omaha homes. Backed by a service department, thoroughly reliable merchandise, and Williams himself, are the reasons. 312 South 18th SL Tyler 1011. 312 South 18th SL Tyler 1011. A CHRISTMAS GIFT WORTH WHILE Useful gifts are the moat appreciated of alL Give your Mother, Wife or Sister a gift that is a REAL one. If we men had to do the washing, nothing would be too good for us to cut out the drodgery. Why let the ladies do it, then? Aren't they as pood or better than we men?, These machines are the labor savers. They have all the latest improvements and on avceoust of the recent arrival of a back order, I can still let you hare a machine at the old price which is $10.00 to f 15.00 leas than yon can buy the same type jot machine elsewhere. We eaa show yon other types, too, that will also meet your approval, something different" and very clasry. Before yon buy it will pay you to see . HODGE 2516 North 24th SL Vt Block North of Lake SL Phone Webster 582. still to come. After the peace is rat- An army fed on hopes of certain fi of oSccrj ud of'o5cias whose extradition the allies demand, will be presented at Berlin. Hat Another Chance. Never alas I could I deny seri ous mistakes committed by Germans in the war, in the occupied territory, in the prison camps, mistakes that in many cases amounted Co crimes. And now, at the conclusion of this dreadful period, this era of the DanCe of Death, an attempt, strik ing like a Sash of lightning, is to be made to drag hundreds and thou sands of Germans, hardly reunited to the bosom of their families, from their homes and hearths, to confront a hostile court. But renounce forever the idea of an arbitrary procedure which is all our military monarchists are wait ing for, hailing it as the most effec tive means to further their plana. America, always magnanimous victory, fighting neither for eternel ideals nor for home and hearth, could never outlive the storm that broke the blossom of hope. Twenty-fiTe throne? burst ere a finger even touches them; an em peror, kings, dukes, princes, desert ing their posts, flee to foreign" lands, or. at least, quit their palaces. Everywhere republics are pro claimed.. Reviewing the field of ruins ancrMebris. one might take the wreckage for devastations caused by a revolution. Eut neither a military strike nor a battle for wages is a revolution. A revolution originates in the mind, is impossible without a mental crisis, without an earthquake trans fSrrning the minds. r Form Strange Coalition. Distress, ever ready, according to the poet's dictum, to make strange KdWlnw led into coalition three T-.ariM formerlv aeoarated bv deep 'and ready to lend a willing ear to ravines. They suddenly 'chose a j those saved by her timely wterren name containing in some -form the i tion, prepared to listen to them, al word "people." A word to replace j though their desires had not any too meaning. The name of "German j often sprang from a noble heart, rational peoples party" has already 1 here has another chance to prove profited our conservative junkers her unselfish devotion to the cause the neat sum cf L100.O00 adherents, i of humanity. Canadian Women Plan Pilgrimage to Flanders London, Dec 20. Canadian wom en wives, mothers, sisters will make a pilgrimage in the spring to the graves f soldiers who lie in Flanders' fields, and arrangements are being made here to provide for iheir comfort during the break in the journey trom canaaa to r ranee. '? Vie Panartian T?f! Cross sorierv bat taken a two years' lease on a large house in rwcnsingxon wn.cn win uz converted into a women s noteL Odoriferous Atmosphere Cause of Dowdy's Arrest Charleston. V. Va, t)ec. 20. Melton Gowdy, negro, wanted for the theft of pole cat and opossum hides, couldn't escape the police. In fact, lie was the most advertised nun in Charleston after he lanced from a train. He carried the pelts in suitcases and the odoriferous at mosphere that followed Gowdy made a rciiukt impossible, Paris Shivering in Face Of Worst Winter In 5 Years Paris, Dec 20. Parisians are shiv ering at the approach of winter, and in aH circles the same question is being asked, "Shall we have coal Despite the optimistic assurances of the government the coming win ter promises to be worse than any in France during the five years oj war. The stocks of coal in Paris have shrunk to practically nothing, and many large factories have been 1 obliged to dose. The underground railway trains have reduced their speed by one-third, and it is a mat ter for serious discussion whether it will be possible to maintain the normal service throughout the win ter. This also applies to the tramways and motor omnibuses. Most of the coal depots are closed, and not one is working normally. Coal tickets art sseleti. Arthur Thorn, manarrr of iht publicity -bureau of the Chamber tif Commerce, remarked Sattrdar that mere residents of Omaha were ex tensive traveler than those of any other city iu the country. "But that isn't rtry good adver tising for our fair city, is it," in quired W. A. Ellis, assistant co:u missiocer of the chamber, who chanced to overhear the remark "People should be glad to stay in a city with as many advantages as you claim for Omaha." Mr. Thomas, whose bus:uess it is to point out the merits of growrtg Omaha, frowned and hesitated. "Well, they always come back." he ventured. "The fact is they have to get away to appreciate Omaha. If they didn't go to Kansas Gty once in a while, for instance, they wouldn't realize that our streets are well paved, that our " "Stop." shouted Mr. Ellis, "Ie heard all about that from vou at leist 45 times in the last 10 dart.". "But the fact still remains," con tinued the publicity manager. 'thn; there are at least' 5.(KiO reside:;.! -traveling sorrewbere all the t:mr. These are actual figure. I'm vow trying to figure out how ne can get them all hotne when they tats our census next tuor.th. "It is important that a iru? and actual census of our city .-be taVea, but how can it be accurate when there are from 5.000 to 10.0W people away? The bureau of publicity m-HI assist ia raking the census and if possible the absentees will be lasted." A ITS. Trotsky Acting as Head of Bokhevik Military Forces, Copenhagen, Dec 20. Soviet newspapers declare That Trotsky is now acting as a military com mander. The Pravda states that when Trotsky was pretest lately with the Fourth and Seventh armies he took part in all the staff discussions and sometimes "enforced hi judgment -against opposition with success " . No strategical decisions by Tchrr rmisoff, the present bolshevik com mander in the north, are valid, adds, the Pravda, unless countersigned by" Trotsky. The Pravda's local correspondent writes: "Impressive it is to see our -great leader still in the modest shiny blue trousers which he brought back trom his American exile, his peasant Fheepskin coat and with no sign of the warrior about him except hi ' high boots, riding down the lines welcoming the proletariat defenders with the old cry "Hail, children !" and getting their enthusiastic re sponse, "Hail, Comrade Trotsky; we are glad to do our best" An anti-bolshevik paper, the Ob novlenie, spoils this idyll by declar ing that Colonel Pashutin, a iormer Tsarist officer, was so incensed by Trotsky's inexpert criticism that he knocked him oft his horse. Pashutin was immediately shot dead by Trot sky's Eashkir bodyguard. - Says Women Should Wear ' Imitation Fur Pieces Boston, Dec 20. Girls and women would never swagger down Tre mont street in hundreds of dollars' worth of fur coats if they followed the advice of Mrs. M. R. L. FresheL of this city. Instead they would swagger in an imitation fur which would be just as realistic Mrs. Freshel is president of the Millenium Guild, and claims ihzt it is aa inhuman and unnecessary act to torture animals so that female vanity may be satisfied to preen it self in their pelts. ; - Clad in a "leopard skin" coat, so lifelike to have caused expert fur riers to lay wagers as to its genu ineness, Mrs. Freshet demonstrated that there is a solution to the need less sacrificing of animals to the fashionable fur craze. : ' . "Ignorance and vanity on the ' part of many people." Mrs. Freshel asserted, "are responsible for the cruel trapping methods considered most efficient by those who cates to the demand for a product which is a luxury, and in no way essentia' to human life. It is practically im possible to trap an animal witbxmt causing torture and snfiering." Says American Soldiers Act as Mormon Agents London, Dec 20. While the Daily Mail states it has received many letters protesting against the renewal cf "Mormon activities" ra England, Ardeen Foster, 1 Vernon Square, W. C states he has die covered that American soldiers are acting as Mormon agents. "Men wearing the uniform f American soldiers," he said, "met young women, especially ia sub urban districts, and induced them to join the sect No reflection is cast upon the American army, sp far as I can learn; these recruititife agents for emigration to the United States were Mormons who hai? joined np and come over here tr i their respective regiments. Peer's Sister Resigns In -71$ - a? 7' I si r. I I -r .j-a-' Argument Ainut U. S. Flag Rutland, Vt, Dec 20. Miss Ar. rie A. Aitken, superintendent of she Rutland hospital, ha resigned fol lowing an investigation begun into an anti-American incident which oc curred at the-hospital recently. Mis Aitken is a sister of Baron Beaver brook, a Canadian. An aiderreanic investigating com mittee was told that Miss Anna Mc- 1-ane of Weodstockv N. B. when shown a -picture bearing an Ameri can flag, said it would be pretty if it were not for that dirty red. while" and blue flar." American nurses rr ported the affaiT to Mis Aitken. but she, h was testified, reprimaadt-d them 1
