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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 18, 1920.
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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?
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"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. Below are listed a few of our bargains:
Ftor Sample Three-Plec -
UVING ROOM 8VITK
Worth fS75.00 for S13S.SO
Massive mahogany frame, boxed ends, full
tapestry upholstered. - v
Other beautiful suite In can and mahogany,
upholstered in velour and silk damnsk of a
specially high grade quality, very special at
MISCELLANEOUS
BARGAINS
1 lot of Oak Dresser.
priced for quick clear
ance, up from.. . .Si;.' !1
On lot of Wood Beds
at SD.75
One lot of Wood Beds,
all style and finishes,
reduced to SI 1.50
On lot of Wood Beds
at S4.00
On lot of Library Ta
bles, values up to $35,
reduced to 116.50, $12.83
ind $1.28
Year eholc of 15 Gas
Stoves at each.... $15.00
TMs Beautiful Qneen
Ana S-Flece Iiiniu-
l;K.a Suite, -value
sua,
S263
Finished in walnut.
. Suit constat of six
jhatra, china closet,
buffet and round ta
ble. 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
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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.
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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..
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