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"" ' ' TiiwirilriiWiwMlliW'iiWTtii f'l - i 1 . rMBMMgMMBnWMWMWWPWirrwniiT TTTTmBiirniwiiifwi n 1 - 1 1 THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY, MARCH SO, 1920. The Omaha Bee AILY (MORNIN'G) EVENING SUNDAY BEE PUBLISHING COM PANT. FROPRIETOE NELSON B. UPDIKE. PRESIDENT MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' B AunrtiMd Pre. ot wbfck TJ Bo to nabi, If -S5!25 10 'or rubllction of ll ikwi dlapuehM MUM to It or not ottimwlw crrdlieil In thii iiwr. ud Hm th S pubUiiMd tirin. AU ruiu el puNkauoa at oui uwsul ' BEE TELEPHONES Brrarh Eirtiirn. Aak fnt th nr AAA fitpvtmiot ot Prticulr rrm Wanted. 1 ylef lUUU for INifht and Sunday Service Call: proulMlfB foeptrtment ........ Idnrttdnf Department ........ OFFICES OF THE BEE Borne Ofli-e: 17th end Funun. Brwcli Offlcei: P.rlt Smith Side Walnut Out-ot-Town Offices: J" Tort OBlot MS Fifth Aie. Wxhlngton Cblcaio Bieu Bid I Lincoln 4110 North SUb I Rill Mlllt.r. li. CouacU Bloffi 15 Soou St. I Trier looor, Tvler 1H0SL Tyler 100SL 2613 LrrortS) 33 1 N St. 81 North 0tn 1!U O St. Xi30 H St. DEFINITE TURN TO PERSHING. Indications arc plentiful that the candidacy of John J. Pershing is being more seriously considered every day by republican leaders. This growth may be ascribed to several causes, but most of all to tlie character of the man himself. General Tershing has gone quietly about his duty as head of the American army, at tending to the multiplicity of detail that falls to his, supervision, just as he did in France, when he organized and directed the A. E. F. and turned that expeditionary force into a mighty and victorious army. He has not been puffed up by success, nor led into a false posi tion by any prospect of advancement. This quality of constancy has endeared him to the people as well as to the leaders, and many who were at first not especially inclined to accept him when put forward by his friends now turn to him as one who most nearly meets what the American people expect in their president. He is neither a pedagogue nor a martinet. As. general of the army, he has been a strict disciplinarian, for such a man is required to keep the tremendous mechanism of which he is the balance wheel in perfect working order. This requites rare executive ability, just the ort that is needed in the White House now. He is enlightened, but is not devoted to the mccomplishment of dreamy projects; his ideals re lofty and pure, but he also has the practical common sense to give the American republic such careful guidance as will keep it moving teadily along the road of progress and with out jeopardizing it by unwise experimentation. To such a man people turn with confident expectancy. How well he meets the people is known in the west. His manner in the east may be learned by reading this from the Troy Times of a month ago: . Pershing's Day was Pershing's day. He carried the .town. There is nothing to which people surrender more quickly than to the smile of a strong man. And Pershing had it. Instead of sitting in solemn state to re ceive tribute, he met his welcomers more than half way and with an alert geniality captured all. Again was it proved that "the x bravest are the tenderest." Troy enraasse shook the general's hand yesterday, but it will never shake him. He can come to this sector as often as he pleases. And that is the sentiment that is growing ajnonjf. tbri(;an people in regard to Persh ing. He is Nebraska's man, deserving all the support and meriting the confidence of his fel low citizens of this great commonwealth. Thomas J. Maclpy: A Man. , The announcement of the death of no man in Omaha, probably, will cause more of sincere regret and sorrow than that of Thomas J. Mackay, rector of All Saints Episcopal church. As pastor, he belonged to his parish and his church; as a man he belonged to the community, and it would be difficult to say which he served more zealously or to better purpose. Upstand ing in his beliefs, firm in his convictions, warm and generous in his impulses, he was a singular ly admirable compound of those qualities that make one both helpful and lovable. Omaha had plenty of opportunity to measure his capacity, his sincerity and his devotedness to 4ruth and right as God gave him to see the right. Those who were admitted to intimate friendship with him enjoyed the rare privilege of knowing a man whose sober, sensible views j of life were tinged with no shade of doubt or distrust, who looked squarely at his duty and proceeded to its discharge with high courage and understanding sympathy with those about him. He dwelt close to men, and understood their problems and perplexities. His counsel was that of a father or a brother, his leader ship that of one who realized his responsibili- 9 ties and yet did not seek to avoid the burden of them! Simple, modest, honest and sincere, Thomas J. Mackay did a work in Omaha none can measure, loved and honored while living, and his parsing, on will leave much mourning In hearts of men and women to whom his presence was a benediction. Money Supplanting Disinterested Friendship. Fifty years ago township delegates to county conventions looked with suspicion on candidates who suggested paying for their dinners at the county seat on convention day. County delegates to congressional conven tions considered it an honor to represent their county and paid their expenses gladly. When the direct primary system was adopted friends of candidates began to be quoted at so much per head. Instead of walk ing to the polls they learned to ride at some candidate's expense. Politics, from the pre cinct up, became thoroughly commercialized. The candidate with a barrel was always popu lar. The days of unselfish political friendship faded, until at the present time a man who would throw a rotten apple haphazard among Se delegates or alternates to a national con ation would be morally certain to soil the Clothing of a man who was looking for a postmastership or consulship or "something equally as good" after the election. It 'S not a wholesome evolution- in the politics of a republic. How Roma Rebuked Bad Treaty Makers. An unkind student of ancient Roman his tory recalls the fact that when the Roman senate found it necessary to withhold its con sent to a treaty, the officials who negotiated it were turned over to the enemy as a penalty for their failure to properly protect the Roman nation in their dealings with foreign govern ments. . Livy relates an instance of this kind, in which, after the senate had voted against rati fication, the empire's representatives at the peace conference with the Samnites were tripped of their clothing, their hands manacled behind their backs, and surrendered to the Samnftes in disgrace. One can imagine what would have happened to a peace commission from Rome in those days of her power, if its members had ne gotiated a treaty placing her legions at the command of a council controlled by aliens. Unhappy Facts for Bird Lovers. The robin, whose" breast, a touching legend has it, was reddened by the blood of the Savior on the Cross, while plucking thorns from the cruel crown on His brow, is perhaps the best loved of birds. His notes, when he comes with the advent of spring, are always welcomed The poets have sung his praise Gray, Pope, Thomson, Wad'sworth and a multitude of others and his popularity is well nigh universal. It is, therefore, too bad that the naturalists cannot give him a good character, and the fol lowing paragraph, quoted from a letter in an eastern paper, will shock people who have never looked up the personal habits of robin redbreast: It is very pretty to idealize the robin, as one of your contributors did recently, but in sober truth the robin is a crook and a bully. He will fight any bird that wears a livery of a similar color to his own. He is a wife beater and his general conduct at home is disgraceful. And that wider sentiment, which includes all birds as creatures near to heaven, and ascribes to them the gentlest and most lovable dispositions, must be disturbed by the cold facts of science about birds in general, so great is the contrast between the lines of the poets and the truths of the ornithologists. Shelley, in his marvelous production, "To the Skylark," one of the finest short specimens of poetical genius, begins: Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. So entrancing are the strains of the "un premeditated art" of our song birds that we shrink when we learn that at heart and, in fact, they are all ruffians and murderers, "naturally cruel and without feeling." The females are faithful to their mates, but "if they are widowed three times in one day they will con sole themselves on the morrow with the first suitor that comes along." A Victory for the People. Granting a permanent injunction against the Board of County Commissioners, forbidding them to proceed under the contract recently let for the paving of certain Douglas county roads, Judge Sears has again vindicated the majesty of the people. At no time has The Bee ques tioned the motives of either the board or the bidder, but it did seriously challenge their judgment. Our views have been upheld by the court, the objections raised to the contract have been adjudged well founded, and the deal by which the county wotild have suffered ma terially has been called off. The work of pav ing will not be long delayed, a matter of six weeks being required for readvertising for bids and the letting of another contract. Prompt proceedings under the order of the court will permit improvement being started early in the summer, the best working season of the year, and the public may reasonably expect that the money voted will be expended in accordance with the understanding and pledge given when the bonds were authorized. Big Givers Big Getters. Possibly Senator Borah, in his lively cam paign to check primary election expenditures, has in mind thi protection of our diplomatic service from the appointment of large con tributors to important foreign missions. People whose memory runs back a few years will remember' that the names of am bassadorial appointees, with the amounts they paid to promote President Wilson's election, made an impressive spectacle for the common people to gaze at. As we remember the long list those who put up the largest sums got the most desirable posts. "Nick" O'Brien will be sadly missed when any group of old time railroad men get to gether. He was one of that glorious company of builders who opened up the great western empire to commerce. A price of $7,500 a.foot for Douglas street frontage is not a sign of shifting, but of ad vancing values. Buy your Omaha real estate now. No need of going to the movies to see a hold up any more; they are being brought right into the home life of the people. March's entrance may not have been leonine, neither was his going-away perfor mance especially lamblike. Omaha has been pretty fortunate in the matter of bigfrtorms so far this year. Knock on wood, everybody. Well, what do you know about paving con tracts now? What Is Success, Anyhow? It is with less of irritation and with more of edification than usual that otic reads the rules for attaining success in life which Charles M. Schwab, speaking from experience and there fore as an expert, offered this week for the con sideration of the interested and attentive stu dents of Princeton. Of course he, like all advisers of like author ity, was too cautious to attempt a definition of "success in life." Had he done so, some dispu tatious hearer might Have declared that what he called success was really failure, and that would have been embarrasing. It was pure luck, too, that nobody laughed out loud when he laid down as the very first of his rules that he who would be successful must abandon the hope of having a good time. History tells us but there! What's the use? Mr. Schwab risked no troublesome contro versies or untimely rt miniscenses, when he ad vised the would-be succeeder to be of rigorous integrity, to be a loyal worker, to get an educa tion as liberal as he could, to make friends in stead of enemies, to concentrate attention and energy on a chosen object, and to change from one employment to another only for better rea sons than that difficulties have come up and troubles arisen. Those are all fine rules, but still there is room for doubt of their efficacy of their in variable efficacv, that is in winning success. Something else is needed. What it is Mr. J Schwab did not disclose, not from an ungener ous tendency toward secrecy, but because neither he nor anybody ele knows just what that something is. Observance of all his rules lrads us often or oftener to what he might call failure than to what he would call success to obscurity and a narrow house, instead of to fame and wealths-New York Tims' A Line 0' Type or Two Hew to the line, let the tp. fell where they nay. WALTER HILL has bought y at auction, for $710, one of Thackeray's letters. It was addressed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and explained that her poem was not suitable for the Cornhill Magazine, but that his rejection, etc.. and so forth. We should not care especial ly to own this litter, but we should like the letter which the publisher wrote to Jane Austen declining "Pride and Prejudice." Oulja In Ojui. (From the Ojai, Ca!., Journal.) Will the party who took a. ladles' gold watch last week, kindly return the watch and avoid further annoyance. No questions asked. I am fully convinced where the watch has gone and have concluded thts may bring the party to do the right thing. A Subscriber. DIAGRAMMED, (from the Musical Courier.) Josef Hofmann was present at an in formal musical gathering, whero a self important young thing was asked to play something, and. instead of being reluctant to perform before a piano expert, she rather jumped at the chance, and dashed tor rather, splashed) through a Chopin prelude. Then she said to Hofmann: "I don't know why I happened to play that piece; it just seemed to pop into my mind. Keally I have, not played it for months and months." "Ah," remarked Hofmann quietly, "then you have played it before? I thought you were improvising." COARSE work, Josef. You should have stopped with "before." ARMS AND THE WH1STLI". Thoso gods of old, become obeser, Do masquerade as our police, sir; Our trossway god, with stars, blue suits, And whistles for their attributes. Tootlings, I sing, and tyrant nods Of these my tootelary gods; Tin whistle gods, whose blast seraphic Doth park or stem the teeming tratlic. What time I shrink, weighed down with r ackets, Where taxis swarm like yellow jackets, Mid wains and tumbrils hurting hellish (How Homer could that scene embellish') My deity, with whistle loud, Transports me in a hollow crowd As Homer's gods In cloudy pen Cabined their Trojan fancy men. PAN. WHEN those eminent economists, Messrs. Vanderlip and Eastman, disclosed some time ago that they turned their clothing and gave it another ride, we remarked that the buttons presented more or less of a problem. Now we note in the London Times the following ad: "Overcoats and suits turned (equal to new), button same side as before. Walter Currall Co.. 6 The Broadway, Water-lane, Ludgate hill." HAVING been landlord and tenant, we know the point of view of each; and we assure you that one is quite as reasonable as the other. How to Become a Humorist. (Old Jim Ford in Vanity Fair.) In almost every community there dwells, in comfortable ease, a retired humorist who, for a few pennies, will gladly tell you all he knows about his trade as practiced by the ancients. Select from his scrap-book a few hoary themes that can be revamped and applied to current events in that vein of budding jocosity that passes for humor. Your sidesplitting com ments of the Signing of the Armistice, or the League of Nations, are certain to enchain the fancy of the exchange editors, on whom you must keep an eye firmly fixed while you write, The obvious joke, in which the tirst line reveals the inevitable climax, is always popular. ' The country boy with the hickory pole and the bent pin must catch more fish than the well equipped city sportsman. The fabled hare and tortoise live again in the high-bred racer dis tanced by the farmer's sorry-looking nag. Fem inine apparel has yielded an income to humor ists of every age and clime. The crinoline, the trailing skirt, the "peek-a-boo" waist have all been fish to the jokesmith's net. Prohibition has merely reversed the crusty humor of inebriety into the Jolly fun of not getting any thing to drink. Pack your humor in marketable five-inch sec tions, and afterward gather it up into a book with a picture on the cover of a man laughing his head off. You may also deliver it as a lec ture, and even soli the moving picture rights. IT is never too late to learn. From their more recent disquisitions we observe that pro fessional golfers are learning something about the game, and are advocating methods pre cisely the reverse of their former instruction. A HAPPY DAY. Soft winds, pale clouds, and the rain drops blowing, Meadow and garden showering: The scent of earth, and of young things growing Up to a perfect flowering. A quiet room with a wood fire going, Slipped feet on the fender: Your eyes on mine, with the love-light glowing, Intimate, warm, and tender. I HIS. CAR BARN TRADE CLASSICS. Sir: The cashier at the terminal was familiar with the average earnings of the various car routes. A conductor who that day had been operating on a lino of known productivity handed in a very meager total for the day's re ceipts. "Well, thanks for bringing back the car." said the cashier, after verifying the total. "Oh. that's all right," responded the grateful conductor. "Thanks for the use of it." The companion piece to the foregoing is the. one about the enterprising conductor operating on a. line having very little travel, who one evening handed in a very large return for the day. He explained that business that morning was very light, so they spent the afternoon running up and down several of the main lines. c. n. u. "FOR rent One furnished room, suitable, for I or 2 ton gentleman." Steubenville, O., Herald-Star. We should not like the room below. FOR trading purposes, the threat of bol shevism stands the Germans in good stead. EVENTUALLY, WHY NOT NOW? (From the Coldwater Reporter.) One goose to exchange for a gander. Phone 01 !-;. For sale or exchange A gander for goose. Phone 041-D. SPRING to the golfer is something more than Spring. L. L. T. How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS Strong for Individuality. Wife How did you come to propose to me, John ? Hub I wanted to be different from other men, I suppose. Boston Transcript. Deaf and Blind. It must take a good deal of skill and finesse for "Ambassador" Martens of Russia to man age to know so little about Russian activities in the United States. Indianapolis Star. The Day We Celebrate. G. W. Clabough; general manager Omaha Gas company, born 1859. D. C. Dodds, railway mail clerk, born 1869. Joseph Caillaux, the former French premier recently tried on charges of treason, born 57 years ago. Duke of Buccleuch, the premier duke of the Scottish peerage, born 56 years ago. William G. Besler. president of the Central Railroad company of New Jersey, born at Galesburg, III., 5o years ago. De Wolf Hopper, a veteran of the musical comedy stage, born in New York, 62 yeras ago. Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys, president of Ste vens Institute of Technology, born in Edin burgh, Scotland, 69 years ago. " Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Miss Emma Juch and her grand opera com pany of eighty people arrived in the city for an engagement at the Boyd. A meeting of leading citizens was held at the Boyd theater to consider the Immauuel hospital project. One wing of the building ha 1 been erected with the $25,000 already raised and $20,01.10 in addition was needed to get the hos pital in readiness. A committee of nine was :; pointed to solicit subscriptions. Confirmation exercises were held' at Trinity cathedral, fifty people being: confirmed PERILS OF HOT, DRY AIR Hero is a dialogue between Mrs. Starrett, S3 years old, but bright, snappy, and clear eyed, and Dr. John Dill Robertson, before the Live (.ino Hundred Years club of Chicago. Mrs. Starrett, who was principal of the Starrett school in Chicago for a long time, lms lived in Portland, Ore., for four or rive years. ' Mrs. Starrett "I Would like to ask Dr. Robertson a question. A while ago I had an accident which confined me to the house for a long time. I noticed how dry my skin and hair were. It made me very uncomfortable. It was winter time and the house was heated by hot air. I had them pour water on Turkish towels and hang them around the room. I thought this made mo feel much better. Was I right?" Dr. Robertson "You were. In the Portland climate you stay out of doors much of tho time. Your accident confined you to the house. day and night and you noticed for the first time how the dry air ruined your skin and hair. To humidify the air of a hot air heated house is all right, provided enough water is evaporated. To get proper results use plenty of towels and keep them very wet. The skin is a very important organ and does not stand drying well. Some people harm their skins by washing too much with soap and water. To substi stute grease and face creams at times will be found to bo an im provement." .Airs. Starrett "I would like to ask another question and make an other statement. 1 went into a school that was heated by steam. I thought the students were suffering from dry air. I had them soak bur lap in water and throw it over the radiators. Soon the air felt much more comfortable. it seems to me children sitting in dry aired school rooms must have more colds and coughs than is healthy for them. Is that right?" Dr. Robertson "Again you are right. One reason for the 'increase In pneumonia rates is the growing habit of living in dry aired houses. One reason for the healthfulness of western Oregon and Washington ts the moisture in our air. Your winter climate being mild, your people do not need to stay indoors much. One of the harden lights the Chicago health department is putting up is for smoke f-ee outride air and good ventilation Indoors. "Wrapping the radiators with wet burlap is all right, provided enough water is evaporated. Certainly that method will cause more avaporation than will the dinky pans on the health department radiators. I want to say that I did not put those pans on the radiators. They were here when I came in and I havo heard lliev went on in Dr. Kvans' time. The burlap will require fre quent wettings." The Mrcnuous Life. Steel Worker writes: "In your ar ticles you repeatedly lay stress on what you apparently conceive to be a fact that a man past 40 should have at least eight hours' sleep per day: that tn one obtaining constant ly less rest there is a gradual break ing down of the tissues. Of the ID, 00U men at. the steel mill where I am employed, 8,000 work either 72 hours or 84 per week. "Superintendants and their var ious assistants spend a still longer time on the job than any of the above, often for 3t hour stretches, their rest broken almost nightly with calls from the plant. While not wishing to take issue with you I am inclined to think the effect of long hours at work la at first physi cal. "Conscious of the fact that the hours they work is in itself a re flection on their ability, reproached at home for not being a part of the domestic life their earnings make possible, censured bj wife and chil dren for a remissness they feel hopeless to correct, not only the domestic life but also the spiritual life snuffed out, they drive some times a wearjy bod, but always a weary mind back to work. "Take it from me if they were not physically fit they should never have been made boss. I will admit thev age fast." Reply: The men are wearing though they do not recognize it until they begin to notice they are aging fast. However, the British commission on the health of muni tion workers found that moderately long hours did not do a much harm as was generally thought. You will get a good deal from their re port. It was reprinted by the Unit ed States Department of Labor. m- n YuU of Pukt and Money. Central City. Neb, March To tho Editor of The Bee: After devoting weeks of arduous labor to the task of amending: the present constitution of Nebraska, the consti tutional convention in its closing session at Lincoln took one. step that if deliberately planned could not have been more effective In ad ministering the death blow at tho special election to bo held in Sep-U-in her. The stop in question wn that of walking open-eyed or blindfolded into the trap of Lincoln politicians, whereby from all indications a con tract will be tendered the Nebraska State Journal for printing 300,000 pamphlets containing tho proposed changes and likewise for printing the ballots for the whole stalo of Nebraska, tho continuation on an enlarged scale of the process of graft which has been in constant operation from the days of Nebras ka's infancy. Thus, the publishers of Nebraska have been oponly discredited, for the convention went on record up holding the belief that Hhe pamph lets mailed into each and every home would be more effective than if the proposed amendments were published In the newspapers. Ne braeka editors will not permit them selves as a body, however, to be blinded by tho rebuke of those who oi ly a tVw months past sought their support for election to the constitu tional convention, but if they have any symptoms of pride in their mental composition, the battle of adopting the proposed constitution al changes should be left to the 300,000 pamphlets, the Nebraska State Journal and the delegates themselves. With the presidential election crowding close, there is a superabundance of subjects to com mand their attention, and print paper at $Ii.7" for 1,000 sheets is too great a luxury to cast upon waters when tho tide is ever out ward bound. We still have our state constitu tion, and it will so stand until amended. In view of the attitude of the convention toward the pub lishers of Nebraska, the preseat constitution may be placed on an equal footing with the old time re ligion. , ROBERT RICK. ' Publisher Republican. FROM HERE AND THERE. The largest flour mill west ot th Mississippi river haa been put it operation at Astcrla, Ore. The miif has a dally capacity of 4,000 barrelt ot flour. The old traditions which represent the doctor and death as alwayl hunting in couples et 111 survives i( Spain. In all well-to-do families thi house of death la always deserte immediately after the funeral, an4 the bereaved ones retire and pasi eight days in inviolable seclusion. The belief in the luek bruigin power of the horseshoe attained in greatest diffusion at the end ol the 18th and tho beginning ol the 19th century. Lord Nelson had a horseshoe nailed to the masj of the Victory; and In many towns it was not unusual to see half of th houses with horseshoes fasteneo over the door. "BUSWSS s coop thank you' LY Nicholas Oil Company A. HOSPE CO. PIANOS TORI) ATTt REPAIRED ill Wtrl GBtnwtari im Pooirlas gt. Tl m. -"Mir -fir. The Cost of Producing Electricity Has Increased Since 1915 the cost of labor, coal and taxes, the principal items in the production of elec tricity, has increased 78 per cent. The cost of labor has increased 47?c. The cost of coal has gone up 121. Taxes have increased 52. Labor at 1915 prices cost us $378,000, at 1920 prices it will cost us $555,000 increase $177,000. Coal at 1915 prices cost us $356,000, at 1920 prices our coal will cost us $787,000 in crease $431,000. Our taxes in 1915 were $161,000. This year they will be $245,000-increase $84,000. The total cost of these three items alone in 1915 was $895,000. This year these three items will cost us $l,5S7,000-total increase $792,000. The price of electricity has NOT increased, although the present rates were fixed by the city council three years ago, based on 1915 production costs. These conditions have forced us to ask the city council for increased revenue Nebraska Power Co. T3T"
