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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1920. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR NELSON B. UPDIKE. PRESIDENT ' MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Xh Aamlatl Pml at wfiirfe Thm Rn 11 a BMnhar. la ax eluMnlr UUJ to the uh for publlraUon of aU nm dlnxtcbt mdiwd to tl or Dot olbarwlH cndiud Is thli HP. u4 alao tb 1001 Brt ruMiuwd n.mn. au rtgbtj u puducuioo ot our apaciai oiapawnea an alto imw, v BEE TELEPHONES Print Branch Eichuisa. Art for lb T-Jlm 1 fWt Dapaiunant of Particular fanou WaaUtl. 1 JflCr 1UUU For Night and Sunday Sarviea Call: Xdttorlal Dapartnwril - Tjlar 1000L Ctreulatloa Itetwrtmeot .. Tjr 10OL AUmUataf DtparuiKiut Tjlat 10061. OFFICES OF THE BEE Homa Offloa: 17th and rarnam. branch OfBwa: Amaa 4110 Vorth iith I Park M15 IaranwoMh Baaaoa tlli Military Are. South Kda J.I II N 8c CouadJ BluiTt IS Boott St. I Walnut ' (It North 4Mb Out-of-Town Officaai New Tork OOca 3SS rift At, i Chloato Staaac Bide I WaiMndoa Llnoolo 1311 0 at 1330 H 81 PEACE BY RESOLUTION. Two days will be given over this week to discussion in the house of the Porter resolution, which is to declare a state of peace between the United States and Germany. This is ex pected to be opposed to the limit by the demo cratic organization, or at least that part of it which still is controlled from the White House. Mr. Wilson is much averse to having anything done that will interfere with the anomalous state of affairs he has achieved through his in sistence that the treaty be defeated in the sen ate if reasonable interpretive reservations were insisted upon. It is not alone to establish freedom of com munication between Americans and Germany, bringing about a resumption of business rela tions and permitting intercourse that should be allowed, but to put an end to a number of extraor dinary powers with which the president was clothed by special legislation for the period of the war. Some of these he has already relin quished or they have been done away with by laws passed for the purpose, but a great many unusual items of authority remain in the presi dent's hands. To offset the effect of the pass ing by a republican congress of a resolution declaring peace, which the democrats expect the president to veto, it is suggested that the execu tive voluntarily relinquish his control of busi ness and remove restrictions one by one. Nothing in Mr. Wilson's war record justifies the belief that he will give up control of any thing until he must. He enjoys himself as much as any autocrat ever did, and exercises his au thority as exclusively. Many leaders of his party believe that the time lias come when the country can safely be trusted to the govern ment as contemplated by the constitution, and these see with regret the disposition on the part of the president to hold onto all the tremendous extra-constitutional power vested in him for the period of the war. That this should be so pro longed when the country is at peace in all but the fiction growing out of the failure of the president to enforce his dictatorial will on a co-ordinate branch of the government, is not pleasant for patriotic democrats to observe. Yet it is certain that in congress the admin istration group will use every means to defeat the Porter resolution, and almost as certain that it will be vetoed by Woodrow Wilson, who kept us out of war until he was re-elected in 1916, and who now -wants to keep his country out of peace as long as he can, that his party may possibly get some partisan advantage from the absurb situation, , Peace Coming to Germany. Having failed to secure from France con cessions sought, among them permission to send troops into occupied portions of Ger many, Herr Ebert's government is showing signs of accepting another point of the peace treaty as definite. The collapse of the com munistic movement shows how insincere it was, a hollow, empty bluff, by which it was expected to frighten the Allies into doing something for "order" in Germany. The next movement along this line is to be the separatist attempt by which the Rhineland will be de tached from Germany proper. That should have no real effect on the ultimate settlement. The Germans are slowly coming to know that the terms of the Treaty of Versailles are to be, met, and that to carry out their part of the bar gain they must go to work. Industry is re viving in spite of the political confusion that has thrown up 'such a dust cloud, and as the food situation improves, the German is settling down to face the future, which holds for him only the prospect of long years of patient struggle against a mountain of debt, from which he can escape only through ' hard work and etonomical living. His dream of world dominion is vanished, save among a few whose brains still are hazy from the effects of has heesh of kaiscrism, and he knows that his place in the family of nations will be just what he makes it through energetic application of hjs . talent and ability. Peace is coming in Germany as rapidly as anywhere on earth. cessions from other parts of the state may have this number doubled. A battalion of infantry can easily be raised and maintained here, but the citizens will have to give the boys more en couragement than ever they did in the past. Many years ago the city had two companies of which any community would be proud. Two finer organizations than the Omaha Guards and the Thurston Rifles never existed. Omahans who yet recall the incident feel a genuine up lift in remembering that these organizations returned once from a great national competition with all the first prizes that were offered for infantry and machine gun' competition. It is possible to again have military organization here as creditable to Omaha as those of the past were, but it can not be done by the boys alone. The public must help. Good Advice From Mr. Taft. William Howard Taft did what would ordi narily pass for a good day's work in and around Omaha on Saturday. He delivered four ad dresses to four different audiences, and each on a different phase of the single topic of good citizenship. This not only shows the scope of Judge Taft's ability and the breadth of his ex perience, but also indicates In some degree just what is involved in good citizenship. All the meaning of that term is not summed up in a single phrase, nor is it expounded in a few words and simple maxims. We have no intention of elaborating on this theme, but merely wish to call attention to the sound advice the former president gave on two of the points he touched. The distinction he draws between bolshevism and Americanism is broad enough for anyone to recognize. Our present social and industrial organization is productive of and conducive to happiness, and is the best plan yet devised by man to secure that end. It involves individual liberty ac cepted with its accompanying responsibility, and when properly employed includes the de cent regard for the rights of others flat in the end begets true happiness, and through which only can come that boon. His advice to labor and capital to organize, to recognize each other's rights in this respect, and to bargain together fairly and keep faith with each other is also sound. The "bourboh" employer and the radical labor leader are alike dangerous to society, as sources of trouble. When employers freely deal with labor unions, building up instead of trying to destroy capable and conservative leaders among workmen, rela tions will be more nearly ideal than will come under any other formof bargaining. This is wisdom from a man of vast experi ence, whose opportunity for forming judgment on important questions far exceeds that of the general run of humanity, and therefore deserves the careful consideration of all. A Line 0' Type or Two Haw to tha tlaa. lat tha aulaa fall wtiart thay mv. Peace Not Wanted Yet. It is not peace President Wilson wants, but politics. He has sent word to democrats to kill the proposed peace resolution if they can, which is doubtful. The gentleman in the White House has his plans, and is not relaying them from his impenetrable retreat; but they are all made subject to political developments during the next ninety days. Meanwhile his congressmen may be at ease, may play within the , prescribed limits, but in dependent thinking on their part is viewed with stern disapproval by their master. He will play the sole thinking part. Meanwhile, taking lib erties with Tennyson: Is there a man dismayed? Not though they all well know Woodrow has blundered; Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die! Why? Well, one reason is that a declaration of peace would automatically take from Mr. Wilson extraordinary powers over the people such as no man ever held before. True, they were granted solely for war purposes, but the president loves them. Anyhow, is there not still war? Are not pernicious men denying the authority of the executive to force his will on all the earth, including the senate wing of the Capitol? Is not that war, abominable war, against the only man now on earth who is al ways right about everything And knows it? Choosing a Husband. A wise man is doubtful about woman suf frage unless note this unless they are wiser in picking husbands. Sound philosophy. The vagaries of women in yielding to the courtship of man are inscrutible. The lure of good man ners, good clothes, personal appearance, finan cial prospects, ante-marriage generosity, and other masculine punts, aided and abetted some times by a temporary infatuation, and always by a doubt as to the supply of future suitors, account for many of the matrimonial misfits. Some day, perhaps, we shall haxe a textbook on Choosing a Husband which shall be com plete and reliable, and. insure a sane and de liberate study of health, habits, temperament, character, social standing and intellectual en dowment before the irrevocable step of mar riage is taken. Meanwhile marriageable women should be taught the difference between in fatuation, which is a transient passion, and true love, which never dies. The season is on. Stop, look and listen 1 Safety first! National Guardyin Omaha. A committee has been named to look after the reorganization of the Nebraska National Guard in Omaha, and it has announced for the first of its purposes the securing of the munici pal auditorium to be used as an armory. 'This preliminary step is in the right direction, but something more is needed. In days of yore The Bee earnestly endeavored to get the citi zens interested in the Guard, to the extent that suitable provision could be made for housing the companies. As contemplated in the law that is now going through congress, Omaha will be entitled to a minimum of 200 members of the new National Guard, and with some con- The Second Marriage of Mary. Mary Pickford, whose sweet smile and great personal charm have won for her the good will of millions of moving picture patrons, and who has made a large fortune as an actress, did not find happiness when she was first married. Or if she did, it disappeared later, for she divorced her husband. Then, in less than a month, she married again, which carries the impression that her second love came before she was free from her first matrimonial venture. Shall we blame her for that? If so, our condemnation should spread in other directions as well. The environ ment of the moving picture lot is no more con ducive, to permanent marriages than the legiti mate theater, which never has been noted for ideal matrimonial conditions. Miss Pickford has been so winsome in her pictures, so enchanting in her personality, and so lovable in the parts she has played, that nobody could convince her public that her pretty ways and clean plays are all mere "nuke believe." " Somewhat spoiled by great success in her twenties she may be; somewhat im perious with the power of her wealth and beauty she may have become; just a little con taminated with selfishness by the rivalries and dislikes of what is after all, and in spite of great achievements, a hard life for any woman, she may not be the perfection of bewitching ador ableness which she has seemed to be. But, nevertheless and notwithstanding, the public hopes she has found the right man in Douglas Fairbanks, and that her second marriage may bring to her the domestic joys to which all good women are entitled. Republican women will do well not to be dragged into democratic muddles. Remain loyal to your own party, and let the other side settle its own family fusses in its own way. Henry Lane Wilson has not modified his previously expressed views as to his illustrious namesake, and maybe the feeling is mutual. "Mitch" Palmer appears to be using Quaker artillery exclusively in his battle with the profiteers. Again is the Omaha air mail service assured by congress. Trapped Easter is both unusual and unwelcome. THE director of the Astrological Research society informs a palpitant world that the peace treaty, league of nations section an' everything, will be adopted soon after the new moon of April 18. We are inclined to doubt his forecast, but we confess that we are not able to explain away the fact that both Jupiter and Neptune "will be exactly on the cusp of the house signifying congress." Moreover, Plan chette and Ouija are in close conjunction, and the mome raths outgrabe. ASTROLOGY was ever an amazing thing. There was, for example, the horoscope of the satirist Boileau, which mentioned that he would be "un bon garcon qui ne drait jamais de mal de personne." 'His Hair Turned White In a Single Nljtht." Kir: In records extending- over 105 years, there are reports of 14 cases of physicians who have definite knowledge that this phenomenon took place. Three of these met all the condi tions of scientific accuracy. Good dermatologists are convinced from their knowledge of the struc ture of the hair that such sudden loss of color eannot occur, but the evidence seems to indicate that it does. M. F. A BALTIMORE banker advertises his refusal to do business with prohibitionists. We view with alarm this growing intolerance. One notices it in clubs. When a prohibitionist comes in there is a general edging away from him. Sometimes it is a bit embarrassing. EVIDENTLY NOT A SUBSCRIBER. (From the Boyceville, Wis., Press.) A Troublesome Neighbor. We're due to lose our neighbor shortly as Mr. and Mrs. Ray Marcy will occupy the Dr. Oliver residence in the western part of the city. The residence occupied by the Mareys has been purchased ,by Joe Bodett and weve already got In touch with, the local board of health, as we under stand that Joe Intends to keep a few chickens, one or two foul-smelling hogs, and a small herd of cattle within smelling distance of our. back door. Surely the woes of an editor are many. "THERE he blows!" cry the lithrv lookouts. For a young whale, F. Scott Fitzgerald, has swum into their ken. "There he blows 1 Shall we lower. Captain?" "Lower and be damned 1" says the Cap'n. 1 IT IS SO HARD TO FIND ROOMS. (From the London Times.) A landlady complained to the Willesden magistrate on Monday that she had let two rooms, only suitable for two people, to a young couple, and now a baby had arrived. The magistrate said that was not a sufficient rea son for granting an ejectment order. (From Wilmette Announcements.) Careful young couple is very anxious. to se cure a small furnished house or apartment for summer months. SOME say Von Kapo has committed suicide. and some say he has fled. He is probably alive. The old guard runs but never falls on its sword. "Kind Captain, I've Important Information." Sir: I rejoice exceedingly In the errors, solecisms, personal prejudices and mishand ling of many matters of opinion and taste as laundried editorially in your column of in tellectual glass and diamonds. It is the people we differ with that make the world a joyous playground for philosophers. But what you say about Conrad generally is to be agreed - with. I'd as soon read Icicles as Mr. Conrad. I notice, however, that you say "he knows the sea and communicates its mystery and ro mance better than anybody since Homer." If you were born on the salt sea wave and have sailed the seven oceans you are an authority to. the extent of your own opinion. But if not, what then ? Turn you now to Chapter XII. of 'The Wrecker" (good old R. L. S.) and read the ride of the "Norah Creina" from ' hell to breakfast in search of the "Flying Sand." Well, to a man who has sailed from Norfolk to New York and from Mobile to New Orleans and has also ploughed the Wabash river irj a storm, Stevenson brings the terror, mystery and romance of the sea more vividly in ten pages than Conrad can in a book. Skin your eyes over the description of the storm through which an angel's wail sounded and "I could have thought I knew the angel's name and that his wings were black." Not from Homer, through Virgil and "The Tempest," to date was there ever a more immersing plunge into the very bowels of ocean, ships, and men. There sang the great poet, not the cold analyst. Conrad! Pass the pickles. THE OLD BOS'N. AVAST there, Dick Deadeye! If you are go ing to limit us to a single chapter, we're with you. There never was a storm better put on paper. SINCE THEN SHE HAS NEVER DARED TO LOOK AT A PROGRAM. (From the Cleveland News.) Rosa Raisa, of the Chicago Grand Opera company, was born in Russian Poland, and her early visions of life were colored by the horror and bloodehed of the program. THE CANDID REAL ESTATE MAN. (From the Dea Moines Capital.) We are pleased To drive you out at any time And many others. Ends and Means. Sir! . . . Then there's the lady who fell in the mill pond. She was enjoying the air along the banks of the pond, which were quite steep. It was some time before her cries for help were heard and the miller came to her assistance. She was dragged from the water, when suddenly a commotion- was noticed in her rear, and two good sized perch were found in her bustle. Old Woods and Waters should try the pond. A. M. P. "I WrOULD rather die and go to hades than vote for woman suffrage," declares a Mississippi representative. Who invented the phrase, "southern chivalry"? Was he trying to kid somebody? "A LARGE quantity of bunting, including 1.000 yards of creen material from Chatham Dockyard, is to be supplied to the Greek gov ernment." London Times. More discrimination against the Irish. "PHYSICIANS declare the waman is in a com ma, and is not able to undergo a drilling." Milwaukee News. Send for a proofreader! "AUX grands inaux les grands remedes." A Tulsa dry cleaner advertises, "Dying saves buy ing." Ve rather expected some cutup to say some thing about Gen. Wood putting Mr. Wilson in a Hole this summer. B. L. T. Cfte VELVET TJ A X M Ta. M T oqJmliur 'Drook.s "Baker rVs-sa "mad To the Weatherman: Let u have spring! DR. A. P. CONDEN. The motor car constructed with extreme expense and pains is often tinkered by a guy who hasn't any brains. He doesn't set the gaskets tight, he leaves a valve rod loose, and soon the sanest motor grows unfit for human use. The owner hastily decides the thing was bum and punk; he sells it to the gent who deals in derelicts and junk. The human mechanism's made of well con structed gears, and with the simplest sort of care it ought to run for years. But if you keep the water low and alcohol too high, if when it creaks for castor oil you feed it cheese and pie, the man who operates upon your pipes of human brass should be a mechanician of the A. P. Con den class. For he's a busy surgeon who can take your works apart with all the swift precision of the master of the art; and when he's finished working on your only set of guts he has no lost or extra screws, no unassembled nuts. When you are under chloroform and helplesi to resist, he only throws away the parts thai never will be missed. He's built an operating room with lights for night and day. Regardless of the overtime he sils and saws away. He carves his fellow citizens with sympathetic skill. He's great on cutting up his friends and cutting down the bill. They often let him have a leg they do not think they need because they love to see his great dexterity and speed. Next Subject: Bishop Stuntz. How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE. Here is something new under the nun. The school children of Stough ton. Wis., have written a book. The subject is influenza, especially its prevention. The book Was written after the epidemic of 1918 had sub sided and In preparation for the 1920 lecurrence. It will be Interesting1 to learn how Stoughton fared this winter. According to the census of 1910 Stoughton had less than 5,000 peo pie. A committee of 200 students was selected from the social science, English, commercial and mathemat ics departments. Members of this committee Inter viewed more than 600 people. Start ing by interviewing their own par ents and gathering information as to the number of cases in their own homes, they extended their work to interviewing the local physicians, visiting the university clinic at Mad Ison, and getting the opinions of the state board of health. They went to encyclopedias, books and journals for additional information, and wrote to the United States public health service and board of health for their circulars of instruction. , The students of the English de partment took the moss of data col lected and wrote it into the booklet. Those of the mathematics depart ment made the statistical tables and graphs. Those of the manual arts department prepared tho charts. Those of the commercial depart ment handled the accounts of the cost and sale and typed the manu script. Representatives of the pub lic speaking department presented the matter to the student body. Fin ally the principal of schools wrote a foreword andvfour members of the faculty served on the committee of 200. The best Dart of tho booklet con sists of rules for the prevention of influenza furnished by the public health service, the Wisconsin board of health, the Madison health de partment and the New York City health department as well as some others received from other sources. However, there is considerable data collected by interviews and from the literature. Of course, mistakes and incorrect opinions occur here and there, but perhaps the work is all the better for these evidences that it is a' dem ocratic output. Now that this de mocracy has functioned so well in relation to influenza, I wish it would go on. How valuable it would be if it could report on school inspection, control of other form 8 of contagion and still other subjects. A true de mocracy should be self-Investigating, self-educating and self-training. How to Reduce Weight M. E. B. writes: "1. Could I suc cessfully reduce 75 or SO pounds by living- on fruit without injury to my health? And about how long should it take? "2. Or could I reduce so much by the five grain arbolene tablets you prescribe? Can I get them from you?" REPLY. 1. Yes. Eat some meat, milk, fats and watery vegetables along with the fruit. Do not eat fruits coi tain ing much sugar. . Above all avoid breads and other foods made from flour, candy, and other foods made from sugar in whole or in great part. 2. 1 do not prescribe or advise arbolene or any other reducing med icine. I I TOD AVI The Pay We Celebrate. Henry S. Culver, born 1871. Joe Stecher, champion wrestler, born at Podge, Neb., 1893. John R. Booth of Ottawa, an emi nent leader in Canadian finance and Industry, born in County Shefford, Quebec, 94 years ago. William M. Wood, the foremost figure in the American woolen indus try, born at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., 69 years ago. ' Prof. Edgar L. Larkln, director of the Lowe astronomical observatory, born in La Salle- county? 111., 73 years ago. Mike O'Dowd, celebrated middle weight pugilist, born nt St. Paul, Minn., 25 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Frank E. Lewis of this city was shot by an Indian at the Pine Ridge agency. A boy named Randall was award ed $15,000 damages in a suit against the C. B. & Q. R. R. for burns sus tained in a railway collision. Rev. Morgan Morgans, lately re turned from the Holy lind, was holding revival meetings at the First Christian church. Dr. and Mrs. John Williams of the Central United Presbyterian church celebratod the 23d annivers ary of their wedding. , OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Ostrich egg-shells serve as water vessels among the African women. More fish Is eaten by the Japanese than by any other nation. In the Amazon there are known to exist at least 2,000 species of fish. Reptiles rarely die In dayllpht unusually between nightfall and mid. night. In Samoa nearly all babies are taught to" swim beforo they are 2 years old. Z is the least used letter. In ordi nary books It occurs on un average twice in 3,000 words. A Seattlo man is tho Inventor of a double eggbeater that can bo op erated in two receptacles at once. A fiber board base for ink bottles to prevent them upsetting has been patented by a Kansas inventor. A PittsHeld boy, 9 years old, says lie has five eggs for breakfast every morning three boiled and two fried. "There are four of us," he says, "and wo have live eggs apiece every morn ing." , It is unlawful in Turkey to Bote a man's residence for debt, and suf ficient land to support him is also exempt from seizure. TJABt -aiiaw iTOg h MARK Vf"" u " " r mBUSNSSS COOP THANK YOlf IV. 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V The principal item of our expense is coal, and trie cost of coal has increased 1 14 since 1915. We delayed asking for an increase in rates, hop ing that prices would go back to normal. There is no relief in sight so we are now forced to apply for an increase in rates. NEBRASKA POWER CO. 555' V
