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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1920)
8 D THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 18, 1920. V HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE LITTLE PROSE IN MAN'S JOB .No Soft Snap With Nothing To Do But Think Of Pay. The old, old saw that you can't , see the woods for the trees, origi nated up state some time ago be (ore folks came down out of the back pastures and ganged together around the movie booths. Today we might citify the sentiment into "you can't see your neighbors for the crowd there is." Loneliness brought us out of the wood, but it doesn't help us to see people any better though we daily rub elbows with more varieties of the speci men man than Marco Polo saw in all his travels. The object of this moralizing is to ask the philoso phical reader to 'consider if mo tcrnien. for instance, are human beings or just husky equipment? There are a great rrmny appar ently inexplicable facts and phenomena attendant on a motor man's daily life that will not fit into the average man's philosophy of living. How can he stand on his feet for nine hours per diejn, at $3.50 up to $5 a day, for 50 weeks per annum and still be happy when the averaare human raises an Al grouch and aching feet after a two- hour wait in hue for- anything ( There must be some subtle 'influ ence, some golden panacea that , keeps motormen human. For they are human being and not equipment The secret is out. He Tossed a Coin. ' Eleven years ago when people still took the family out to the park tor a trolley ride, in the days when ' Fords came under the luxury tax a motorman 'tossed a coin between work for the trolley company and steam railroading. The trolley com pany won. This man is still on the job rolling down the highways and byways of the city behind the glass windows and still finds an intense human satisfaction and fascination in his work. There must be a change and variety and a touch of romance about the everchanging panorama of scenes and faces in cident, to a run over the rails to have tempted this particular motor man. He had just done his hitch for Uncle Sam, had been wounded in the line of duty and forced to seek less strenuous employment War to Trolley Cam. When asked why an ex-soldier fresh from adventure should take to the prosaic task of switching the controller back and forth all day, he answered with energy that there was nothing you could call prosaic about street railroading. There are too many foolish and interesting hr man beings on the cars nd be sides that, the outdoor sir's ot it the variety of scenery m'': it a real job to hold down. "I'll tell you," he said, "a few things about are human beings and not equip ment. The secret is out. The Motorman? l ilfejTCTftWisa ieam tin ii l it) i 1 1 Wf it i "Most of the folks in this town, the hard-working laboring class, get up around 6 in the morning. That daily call comes to my ears, however, two hours after I and many of my fellow workers have been on the job, speed ing out the cars like runners along the spokes of a gigantic wheel over the hills, through the valleys and cuts and over the bridges to our termi nals and outlying towns to pick up our brothers who ride in to keep the wheels of industry on the go. The lie-a-beds miss much. Vou who sleep would better be up and see with all the sight you have the beau ty of the early morning and be bet ter men for it Who Said Job's Cinch? "Such is the beginning of our daily tour. Holidays and other days are all alike to us who clang our gongs and pull the bell cords. Yet folks don't understand the nature of our jobs. How often have I heard some average citizen Solomon re mark, 'What, a cinch, those guys have All they do is turn a handle, clang the gong, run along and get the best in wages. See how fat they are and lazy, just standing all day, and yet they have the crust to want -more pay. Let s see just what sort of a cinch this days work is, any how. V "Take myself, for Instance," he said. Now to take him is to take into account what is most typical of the best in'our motormen. He is a big genial man with unfathomed good will, strongly flavored with an outspoken do.wn-rightness. Further more like many men who have to deal with the crowd day in day out, he has developed a habit of silent observation on duty which distils most of the philosophy and humor out of the day's run and lightens the task for all concerned re-Inventory Sale of QUALITY FURNITURE We are giving most wonderful values in order to re duce our stock for inventory. During this great sale a tremendous reduction will be made on every piece of fur niture in this store. 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Sam number place n a handsomely de signed William and Mary Jacobean din ing. room salt worth I2S S179 We Invite Young Couples te com to our tore at any time to seek the advice of our experienced talesmen, without Incurring the lightest pressure t buy. Further more, we guaran tee we can n yeu money on any furniture you buy. We offer lot furniture f Nti merit, w 1 1 de signed, h a tly constructed and at price to meet the demands of alL JFIBEe FURNITURE Beautiful S-plec fibre Sun Room Suite, finished In frosted brows, upholstered In floral oretoDne, ever-sprlng constructed, value $169, at.... $95 00 Table to match, $23.00 value, at $16.80 Other Suites as low a ..........$58 00 KITCHEN CABINETS This $45.00 Cabinet, S29.00 Extraordinary bargain. Only ff of these) exceptional eabineta on band; metal sliding top, metal bread box. and all of the latest labor-saving devices. OAK FINISH,' genuine "Kitcb.. en Maid Kitchen Cabinet;" white enameled; $65.00 value, at $48.00 "Kitchen Maid" Kitchen Cabi netOak, finish, porcelain top; 71.00 value, at $52.00 W Tmj the Freight tot 1M Mile. liberty Beads Accepted at Far Varoe. Wl L 1 1 --iiC iO II Ml C0RNE& 14 AND DODGE STREETS Opposite UP. Headquarters.OMAHA. a Shall we "take him" and get up at 4 a. m., start the kitchen fire and get the house warmed up for the wife and little girl who will get up lateX "About 4:45 a. m. I catch one of the all-night cars and start out for the barn. Getting there a little after 5 o'clock I report to the yardmas ter and my car and conductor are assigned. . The run will keep , up until 1 p. m. when I get two hours off for dinner. Then I go on again from 3:30 until 5:30. There you. have a 10-hour day, most of which I am standing at my work. . "You can imagine how much one of us feels like stepping out in the evening after a day on that schedule. By the time I get through supper and ring up the coal and wood for the morning, to tell the honest truth Nl'm too tired to even go out and 1 1 i . T raise a garaen u i wanted io. i play with the baby a while and talk to my good wife and by 9 o'clock I'm ready to hit the hay. I never go out in the evening except to a lodge meeting or the union. We men have to get our regular sleep. Why? Is it because the job is a cinch as Mr. Wise Guy would say? Oh no, just let us see what it actual ly is that makes a motorman tired. Airplanes Make Trouble. "Now an outsider , might think a motorman's life is a sort of carefree uueventful one. The car steers itself nnd all you do is handle the power. Far from it. Just ask one sonre time what he has to be on the continuous lookout for. "In the first place," said the man at the controller, "there are hundreds .of automobiles which try to skin across the tracks just ahead of your car. Then there are the old and feeble people hobbling across the road. Worse than them, the young and full of pep, who like to play games and take chances with us. And lately to make everything more hazardous still, old folks and young folks, alike are getting the habit of standing in the middle of the track with mouth open and eyes up watching for airplanes. Then in addition to the few hundred combi nations of danger the above named can make, we have the ever present traffic copi outside and the air brake indicator inside demanding constant attention, so mucn tor the things that keep us in a constant nervous tension. "How would you like furthermore, to be bumped along over the uneven ties all day, your leg muscles jarred and your arm sore From ringing the old gong, and all the while all the weathers that blow get at . you, thunderstorms wet you and the cold of winter blows through the cracks in the vestibule. Then when you have nothing else on your mind the gang out back wants toJcnow why the devil this v and that they don't get each to his own destination with greater dispatch. This job on the front end is a cinch, is it, with no time for exercise so a man can keep fit and the Insurance sta tistics showing how every 45 our5 of 100 motormen die of kidney trouble or B right's disease? A cinch? Sure, for the undertaker." . . Yet these men still stick to the old job and find a fascination in it that will not let them quit. Then, too, there is the humorous side of the business, more so even than to most. There is no job like the rail road man's for chances to study the i great American traveling public. This Type Worries Some. Aside from the international aspect of the various routes and sections of the city there is a cer tain class of freak individuals who j defy classification, woolly-headed j fools who are no respecters of place or habitation except in their one J failing of trying out their theories i on the public servants when possi ble. This includes the well-intentioned but skeptical woman who first doubts the sign on the car, then asks the conductor. ' Of course, the men who see this slice of life smile sadly at each other and say, "Just like a woman," for men invariably j are too proud to ask even though on the wrong car. "Occasionally these, cranks will i get your goat," said one motorman, "but as a rule, the people are fine and will meet a man half-way. It certainly " makes the motorman's load lighter and you go home feel ing better for a good day's work done. It improves the trolleymen just 'as much as the public, too. "Well, friend," the big motorman concluded, I guess you ve got a fair idea of what we are up against in a day's work. Here s comes my car, and I'll have to catch on and finish out the day's run. So long and good luck to you." Chiropractor Forced To Change Location By Larger Practice Gray and white, sunlit and airy rooms, with equipment of latest con struction are the salient features of Dr. Lee W. Edwards, new location in the Ottawa building, at the south west corner of Twenty-fourth and Farnam streets. For many years Dr. Edwards has been located diagonally across the, street. -In crease in practice necessitates the chanee.. The grip of chiropractic is taking hold of the public, said Dr. Ed wards, "and the remarkable work done by the pioneers in this profes sion is beginning to bear fruit. Slow ly the mind of the public is begin ning to realize the absolute neces sity for chiropractic." Some 15 or 16 years ago Dr. Ed wards, at that time a practicing physician, entered the world of chiropractic. Pushing the profession, ignoring odious criticism and fight ing unjust legislation have been some of the tasks accomplished by Dr. Edwards. Dr. Edwards is a pi oneer in this profession in Nebraska and it is largely due to his efforts that chiropractic occupies its present high standing in this section. Close Relationship Of Teeth and Health Known to Everywoman Each year finds mortal man to say nothing of "Everywoman" ap preciating to a greater degree the close relationship between good teeth and good health. There never has been a question as to the essentiality of good teeth to beauty, or even good looks, but when modern research proved con clusively the fact that a thousand and one ills of humankind could be traced directly, tol disorders oi the teeth dental surtrerv came' into its ) well deserved oyn by leaps and oounas, and now the public realizes that just as much care and discrim ination should be used in the selec tion of their "tooth specialist" as m the selection of a physician or sur geon to attend the affection of any portion of their ailii:; jnatomy These are days when vour dentist should "not only be able to diagnose scientifically and exactly, but he should have the modern, sanitary surroundings and equipment neces sary to the satisfying fulfillment of correct methods in every branch of dental treatment and surgery, The Kli'Kenney dentists 'of Omaj ha have left practically, nothing un done in their efforts to give to either men, wom'ii or children, - not cjily the best obtainable in modern dent istry, but their assistants ' are men of proven- ability to. render," jhe greatest possible service to each and every patient regardless, as .to whether it is a simple job-'of tooth extraction or a complicated case of filling, crowning or bridging. ' More than 90 per ceitt . of the porld's platinum comes from, the Ural mountains in Russia, where' it was discovered in ' 1819 ' and - ftrst utilized in 1825 for coinage. ' New Style of Titles Used in Production Of Play "Everywoman" N "'Pvrvwnmr! " h Pamnne Plav. : " - crs-Lasky screen version of Walter Browne's stage success, U an un usual photo-play not only because its universally appealing story is acted by an all-star cast and its act tings are of unusual magnificence, but also because in the assembling of the film the greatest care has been taken to make the presentation a triumph of attractiveness. To this end a new form of decorative sub title has been used with striking ef fect. i Throughout the picture modeled titles, the work of Willie Hopkins, a Scotch sculptor noted for his "Mir acles in Mud," which were so popu lar on the screen a few years ago, are utilized. . These decorations are allegorical figures, modeled from liv ing models and carrying out the de velopment of the story of Every woman's pilgrimage in quest of lov It is Mr. Hopkins' belief tha. artistic titles are an essential to the completeness of a picture. A fine picture,, artistically titled, he con tends, is different' from flie ordinary picture as a good book bound in vellum is different from a trashy novel bound in buckram. To his work for the titles of "Ev erywoman" the sculptor has given his best effort. So successful has he been that those who have seen his work believe that the innovation of sculptured titles will soon become a' recognized and popular part of mo- . tion pictures. Danish oil mill are experimenting with raisingsunflowers with a view to making an oil useful in maigarjo, from their seeds and cattle feed from the residue after pressing.. COST OF SUGAR HIGH by using fArrelu s I AKFAST WEDDING BRE . . " " ' '' ' - . ' V CANE AND MAPLE SYRUP . ' - - . . . - '' . 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