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THE BEE; OMAHA, MONDAY APRIL 12, 1920. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THX BIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR .- NILSON B. UPDUB. PRESIDENT , J MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PBXSS I JB AmmIm Tnm. (4 which Tha B to a , to a. httll autltd ta th m. for puMlouloa of tit inrt dUMleim endltoe la It or oat othvwlw endlud In thli putt, Hd ala Um mi ubU4 amis, all Mats of svblleatloe f oiu axoU! ' BEE TELEPHONES frinto Brwok Bnbuiw, Aik lot Umi Tl 1 AAA DWIWU or PtrUeuUc rm Wulii 1 JltT 1UUU rar niikt u Siutfay Service Cent Iditarlal BmrMunl ........... Tytr IWM, CliealMta boMnmeat TtIm lMI AfwUlu Dapartmml .......... Tjl IMUi OFFICES OF THE BEE r Boo OOmi inh ui fuaua. Bnaea OOoaas Mm . !9 North 14th I Park Mil tunaworth "Mi u Miuurr m i Bouta aiM urn w at. CogaeU )fft 15 fcott St I Wtlsut tl9 North 40th Out-af-Tawa Of&CMt Kt Tstk Oflaa SM rifth in I Wuhlnitea isii rt WH BMa. I ruu raw 410 lu St., noaora JAe Platform 1. New Union Paasenger Station. 2. A Pipe, Line from the Wyoming Oil Field tt Omaha. 3. Continued improvement of the Ne braska Highways, including the pay, ment of Main Thoroughfare leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 4. A chert, low-rate Waterway from the Corn Bolt to tha Atlantic Ocean. A CROWING APPREHENSION. Between notability and notoriety there is an unpleasant distinction. To be notable is one thing; to be notorious is quite another. The sense of disfavor, unpopularity and odium coa- veyed by the word notorious should be given careful heed in the Los Angeles colony of mov ing picture celebrities. The public, which grows fond of its favorites on the screen, has had several shocks from them recently owing to domestic troubles of a disagreeable nature which have become widely known. Too much of that sort of thing will lead to discrimination tin the purchase of tickets, once the picture patrons become convinced that moral rotten ness is pervading screen life. Until quite recently the general character of the leading actors and actresses in moving pic tures has been remarkably free from criticism and the box receipts of their managers have been enormously augmented because of that fact. It should not be forgotten by the men and women whose gifts of expression in pho tography have made them famous throughout the country, and attracted hundreds of millions of dollars to their performances, that the movies are now the national family amusement to an extent which the stage never even remotely ap proached. The entire family goes regularly to them. The significance of this fact must be ap parent. The public, accustomed for several years to respect and admire the stars, has learned to love them, and to have the personal interest in them which affection inspires. People crowd the theaters not so much to see this or that play, as to enjoy a kind of personal as sociation wisji the leading performers. They have a "close up" interest in them rather than in their plays. The great value of this fact to the- business needa no demonstration. Every body recognizes it. ( Is this invaluable asset to be destroyed by scandals? Is the public to be chilled and dis heartened by miserable evidences of Immorality and disregard for marital obligations by its favorites? The family has made thefortunes of the moving pictures. It will not continue to do so if those who make the pictures trample under foot the dearest principles of clean family life. Fathers and mothers will not take their children to see pictures of men and women who have degenerated fromt notability to notoriety. Even so amusing a comedian as Mr. Charles Chaplin was to adult audiences in the days when he, played opposite the rollicking "Keystone Mabel" Normand, and still is to children, cannot afford such a public display as he made in a hotel lobby in Los Angeles the other night? It has added to a growing suspicion that things are going wrong among the present public favorites on the screen. We speak both for the public and the players in appealing for a decent regaVd for the proprieties by the talent in moving pic tures. It would be a deprivation and a shame for the decent public to be forced to cease its generous patronage, and a serious business blow to the moving picture industry as well. ' Clean amusement by clean performers has built up a business of prodigious proportions. It will be seriously impaired if the players become unclean. to distant places. In their minds their former home on Dixie's land "became synonymous with an ideal locality combining ineffable hap piness and every imaginable requisite of earthly beatitude," to use Bryant's words, which are fairly descriptive of the average ardent south erner's notion of the south generally. Nebraska' Duty and Opportunity. If the candidacy of John J. Pershing had no other appeal than that to state pride, Ne braskans could not well forego the privilege of voting for him. Fortunately, Pershing has other qualifications that attract the notice of voters. He has proved himself in the severest of schools, that of actual life. His conception of the relations between individuals, between citi zens and the government, between- nation and nation, is founded on experience. Not as a sol dier alone has Pershing served the republic and the world. It has been his lot to share tasks of statesmanship, of local government, of the administration of little as well as big affairs. What better qualities of business ability can be sought for than were shown by General Pershing in directing the organization and management of the operations of the A. E. F. in France, the greatest single undertaking of its kind in our history? The human attributes he, has shown all through his career have made him loved and respected by all who have come into contact with him. He is a leader, not a politician; a fighter, not a militarist; a man, and not a marti net. This is the kind of man Nebraska offers to, the nation as its choice for chief magistrate. Back of the offer should be the undivided ap proval of every republican voter in the state. Support Pershing at the primary and so honor the state that is proud to claim him as e citi zen. It is a privilege as well as' a duty and an opportunity. The Slacker Not Without Hope. It is too early yet to be sure that Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, millionaire and draft dodger, lately convicted and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, will be properly pun ished. True, he has been sentenced and put to work as a convict, but the influences which save scoundrels from the just sentence of courts may be depended on to operate in Bergdoll's behalf .when the public is not looking, or has forgot ten. It is notorious that a lively sympathy for slackers and pacifists of all degrees exists in high and powerful quarters in Washington, and that it has made some shameful demonstrations even in time of war with at least the tacit approval of our pacifist administration of the War department Not yet have a thousand or two vicious alien enemies of our government, arrested for deportation, been sent overseas. It is more than suspected that they are slipping slily through the net of the law with the connivance of men sworn to execute it, and are scattering over the country to do further mischief to society when occasion arises. With a govern ment so weak in the protection of American in terests, so absorbed in a hopeless scheme for world regeneration, so neglectful of home necessities, we cannot yet regard Bergdoll's ease as settled. .Eight to five is a good bet that the Philadelphia millionaire will be out before March 4 next. The Law and the Profiteer. When the federal judge at Puebla ordered the United States attorney to desist prosecut ing profiteers, he laid down a principle of law that is crystal clear. He also made plain how Lhopeless is the pursuit of the profiteer through the courts. A federal judge at St. Louis recently held in a case where a jobbing firm had sold for 19j cents a pound sugar purchased at 9 cents, that the law does not fix a reasonable or an un reasonable profit. Announcing this decision, the court administered this rebuke, which would be blistering to any but the indurated hide of the profiteer: In the presence of the existing rapacity and greed of the profiteer, I confess it has been difficult for me to approach this ques tion in a judicial frame of mind. It is to me a matter of most sincere regret that I find it my duty to say, as far as the application of this law to the facts presented in this identical case are concerned, that it is invalid, for the reason that I have stated. It is regrettable that a law which was intended to be so benefi cent as this law is intended to be, and which was intended and designed to remedy an out rageous and crying evil, should be found to fall short, by reason of constitutional diffi culties, of the end sought to be attained. There never was a time when a curb on human greed and rapacity was so urgently demanded as it is demanded now, and I re peat that the abhorrence which I feel of the selfish hoggishness of the profiteer is such that I can scarcely deal with the question with the amount of judicial plumb with which I ought to deal with it. But, in my opinion, gentlemen, these considerations do not war rant a ruthless overriding of the rights of the citizens to have stated in a criminal statute the certain and definite rights which hedge him about as a citizen, and the certain and definite definitions by which he, or his coun sel, can ascertain whether or not he is guilty of a felony. In simple language, "Let your conscience be your guide." The profiteer will find much con solation in this, for he is told that, however wrong he may be morally, the law has in it a loophole through which he may escape with Jus loot Indignation expressed by victims has no effect on these greedy souls, who have ex torted huge sums from a patient public It might be possible that in another case the court will submit to the jury the decision as to whether the profit taken is unreasonable, but, so far as any benefit to the public appears, the Lever law is as useful as if it never had been passed. A Fond- Look Backward. A customs house officer on the Canadian border has found a maple syrup can two-thirds full of guile. It produced syrup when tipped to one side, and rum when tipped the other and more productive way. Alas 1 to what base uses may an entirely innocent product be put, thus to disguise an outlawed traffic. The incident carries our thoughts back to an elm-shaded college campus and an old, old dormitory, long crumbled into dust It was full of harum-scarum college boys back in the period when the old-fashioned oil-burning German- student lamps were used, before electric light bulbs were invented. A kerosene can sat in every closet of that dormitory, and in several of them were two cans. The second can, with a potato stuck over the end of its spout, made frequent trips across the campus, and always came back sweating and you'd scarce believe it full of cold, contraband beerl Those were the days of irresponsible'youth, of long, long thoughts, of visions of future glory, of scandalously pretty girls, of excursions into untried human experiences, of joyous mornings and mysterious summer night dreams never to be forgotten. Dixie's Land Wat on Manhattan. That stirring old song, "Dixie," was sung at large and informal gathering in an Omaha church last week. It was written by Dan Em niett of Mount Vernon, Ohio, who was one of the early negro "minstrels of note. He sang it all over the country, and it became a popular favorite, particularly in the south. Bryant, in his "Songs From Dixie Land," ays the phrase was originally "Dixie's Land," a tract on Manhattan Island owned by a man named Dixie when the slave trade flourished there. His slaves increased so rapidly that many of them emigrated or were sold and sent Mrs. Hoover is averse to Herbert's being a candidate. Herb himself showed some re luctance, you may recall. Maybe the president is not altogether dis pleased with the way private control of the roads is working out. The weatherman put a damper on the Sun day joy ride, and so curtailed the casualty list Norris Brown has the right hunch on Persh ing it's Nebraska's g chance. Thirty-cent sugar and no fruit for the can ning season what's the use? A Line 0' Type or Two Htw to tht ilM. lit the ails Ml they nay. Quandary of an Intrigued Reader ef "White Shadows In the South Seas." "Why do I want to go down there? la It to save the gentle ex-cannibala From the miaslonarlesT la it to take my ehoea off and walk on Centinedes? Or ia it tha Interesting Marquesan polysyllables That make mo leal that I must go there And complete a Polynesian Dictionary Before the curiously-named brown girls Are all gone? RIQ. AMOY, reports Col. Fred Smith, is the dirtiest city in China. The street cleaning there, we conjecture, is done with a horn. HERE IS A REAL SPORTING EVENT. Sir: I'll donate a barrel of guaranteed 6 per cent, or better, to any bug that can produce a bottle of home made beer witn H per cent or better. H. C. U THE French occupation of Rhineland is the highest-handed outrage that has occurred since Belgium attacked Germany in 1914. No won der the Frankforters are hot. OF course when Mr. Colby said, in 1916, that "there is not even a scintilla of legality ir. Eng land's claim to rule Ireland," he did not expect that he would live long enough to be secretary of state. "MAD ambition ever doth caress its own sure faie, in its own restlessness." However, A. Z, overheard this in a hotel in Modesto, Calif.: "I know what I can do and what I can't do; I realize my own limitudes." "COMING, Mr, S. T. Dickens, piano tuner and entomologist." Chatfield, Minn., News Democrat. Add famous doublings. THE POWER OP WORDS. . Sir: The use of English to accomplish re markable feats is not apparently conflnd to the country newspaper. The Pictorial Review for April, in an article on "Any Old Barns in Tour Midst?" has this to say: "They drained a swamp and made a lake out of it" P. H. WHOA! ANT FRESH FISH TOD AT? (From the Crestline, O., Advocate.) To the public This is to inform you that . I'm getting some fresh fish either this week or next It's the same man who sold last sum mer. Don't forget to come out and get some of the first fresh fish of the season. I'm not going out to sell any fish until I have some fresh fish. The fish have blue eyes and white wings; it makes anybody hungry when they look at them. Twice a week I deliver them to you and the rest ot the week I'll sell them at the jniddle of town. TONT PETER. WE can remember "way back when" an Irishman and a German mixed like oil and water. A fellow feeling has made them wondrous thick. The American Alchemist. Sir: "The alchemist's dream of producing gold from bass metals is not extravagant," says Professor Soddy, of Oxford. "To get gold from lead expel the atom of lead one alpha-particle, which will make mercury; expel from the atom of mercury one beta-particle, which will make thallium; and from the latter one alpha-particle, which will turn the thallium into gold." Obviously, Professor Soddy is not familiar with the scientific progress made in this country. There is no doubt of the soundness of his con clusion, but his method of procedure is open to criticism; it is archaic and too intricate. Instead of bothering with alpha and beta-particles of lead and mercury, we have a simpler, yet wholly convincing way of proving the practicability of transmutation. It is well known to our scientists that when nature expels a considerable number of calories from the atmosphere, the expulsion at once re acts on mercury, which drops, thereby causing to take place in lead a pronounced physical change requiring- the services of a plumber. When a genius of that species can be prevailed on to give attention to the matter, he, to whom the length of time for making the experiment does not make one alpha-particle of difference, leisurely puts in an appearance and calmly pro ceeds to demonstrate the simplicity with which lead can be transmuted into gold. J. J. C. "FORMER Montana woman, Fount Hagler, looking for husband. Box 3841, Portland, Ore." Adv. Try the lions' cage. A GOING CONCERN. (From the Taylor County Star-News.) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stlbbe have a big baby boy to remember 1920 by. Three short years ago this family was not in existence. Now it's a self-supporting family of four, father, mother, son and daughter, owning and occupying their own farm. This is the kind of citizenship we old pioneers can praise. THE SECOND POST. (The writer conceivably desires leaf lard.) Dear Sirs:' Please write how much it is a pound. And send the fat not rendered hogs fat We means, but send hogs fat but not rendered. I mean the fat on both sides of the hog which is is the inside of a hog. "ALPHA CHI OMEGA announces the pledging of Lillie Mae Bursth." Daily North western. With pride? WHAT L. C. J. would like to know is, how the Kurds got. that whey. "IN THE HOUR OF GRIEF." (From the ad of a Dubuque mortician.) To all who have commissioned us to serve them we have rendered a tactful, diplomatic ceremony. We furnish burials of beautiful dignity. LIFE'S GREATER MOMENTS. Sir: Among Life's Greater Moments should we not add the time when we discover yiat a blotter may be turned over and used on the other side? ' C. F, J, A GOOD many Ruhrbacks are flying over the Rhine. B. L. T. V3UC T LsUV Lsl W HAMMFD Pi Jtttbur 'Brooks "Baker This is the candidate's busy week. SHERIFF MIKE CLARK. The gentleman who practices with motives dire and dark should shillfully conceal his plans and purposes from Clark. We all should do the things we ought instead of what we like, or in default should well beware the subtle skill of Mike, whose vengeance stalks on rubber heels the wicked and the frail and fills his hos pitable home, the Douglas county jail. The aruy who coos your silverware, who lifts your watch or knife, the fellow of peculiar views who runs off with your wife, the per sonage who gathers up the fruitage ot your toil by selling you imoosine shares in nonexistent ott is often guest of honor dining a la h. c. L at Clark's unduly popular and poulous hotel But of the famous human race the big ma jority is, one may say, as straight as you, almost as straight as me; and adding these to all the friends with whom the sheriff scored by giving them at county cost their room and bed and board, we find him in possession of a fol lowing so strong that every time he wants to run they push his race along. The sheriff is a commoner, a purely ocoole's choice, who apes no far metropolis in manner, garb or voice. He competently represents the rough and ready west, in pride of which im portant fact he swells a good-sized chest And those afraid or those ashamed of anything Ihey've done are warned that he's a smart and rapid artist with his gun. Next subject: Robert Cowell HWto Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS HEALTH CARE IN JUNGLE. A recent number of the American Journal of Public Health gave some insight into the health customs and habits of the natives of South Af rica, a few of which are of some interest to us. When very tired they lie on the stomach and have a child walk or crawl UD and down tholr hapfea. Doubtless the massage and manipu lation is of service by pressing fa- Tigue products out of muscles, quick enine lvmohatln mil ranillsrv Mr culation and overcoming tendency to sioucn aown wnicn comes wnen a person is very tired. , They bathe whenever they can get to clean water. The first step in the bath is plaster the body with mud. Then they wash off the mud. In hot weather they wash out their nostrils. In winter they grease the DOdy witn oil. This is done to keen the body warm and to prevent chap ping and other winter eruptions. In the spring they wash the grease off witn earth and a crude alkaline soap. The place from which they get their drinking water Is always up stream from the bathing place. They clean their teeth with the index finger. I am not certain but that they nave something for us In this. In spite of all our propaganda Dr. Fones told the recent meeting of the Illinois State Dental society that not more than 10 per cent of our population own or use tooth brushes., pther speakers agreed substantially with the estimate. Perhaps a part of our general re luctance to use .tooth brushes is due to the shortcomings of the instru ment Mothers are told to clean the teeth of young children with a small cloth wrapped around the index flnRer. Some of the teeth of an adult can be much better cleaned with the finger than with any brush. I would like to see the National Dental society make some experi ments with fingers versus brushes as tooth cleaning tools. The South African native has learned that his people are healthier when they build their villages in the uplands. They do not build In the swamps when it can be avoided. They have no sanitary conveni ences and the soil around their homes soon becomes badly polluted. They have learned the dangers of such a condition and after living in a place long enough to pollute the soli they pick up and move. Their villages never remain in the same location. When the Arms Sleep. S. P. writes: ."I read in your col umn a letter telling of arms 'going to sleep.' May I tell what has helped many others as well as my self? If the person suffering from arms and hands becoming numb and aching will pass a finger along the cord straight down from the ear he will find a sort f triangle formed by the cord and collar bone. Gently massage cord at triangle with a rot ary movement. In a few minutes the pain will disappear for a time at least and by repeating the mas saging as often as needful a cure is effected In time. The simple rem edy never has failed whenever tried. Have told of it in hopes that some one will find as much relief from it as I have done." Just Matter of Attention. A. L. writes:- "Is it possible for a person to hear his own circulation? I am troubled with high blood pres sure, and cannot seem to get relief, although I am strictly on a diet. How long would one be troubled this way and with noise in the head?" REPLY.. Any one who chooses to listen can hear his circulation. Any one who wants to can feel his pulse "beat in his stomach." Listening to the circulation and feeling the stomach heartbeat are favorite pas times of neurasthenics and some worriers. .Doing so adds to their troubles and perplexities. Where He Succeeds. The democratic donkey covers a good deal of ground when he puts his ear to it Boston Herald. Tho Day We Celebrate. Vice Admiral Sir Rosslyn Weymss, former first sea lord of the British admiralty, born 66 years ago. . Col. Luke Lea, former United States senator from Tennessee, born at Nashville, 41 years ago. Rt. Rev. Arthur C. A. Hall, Epis copal bishop of Vermont, born in Berkshire, England, 73 years ago. William B. Bankhead. representa tive In congress of the Tenth Ala bama district, born in Lamah coun ty, Ala., 4 years ago. George M. O'Neil. catcher of the Boston National league base ball team, born in St. Louis 22 years ago. Thirty Tears Ago In Omalia. Frank Helbert of this city was killed by a train at Arlington, Neb. The pupils of the public schools contributed $3,114.3 to sufferers from famine in South Dakota. Jim Crawford was appointed manager of the Gate City Athletic club. Building permits were issued to the amount of $19,000. FROM HERE AND THERE. For "small change" in ' Abyssinia blocks ot salt are commonly used. Baby carriages which are propelled by electricity are now to be had. The Chinese boil all their bread instead of baking it or, if baked at all, it is browned after boiling. The Japanese have a pretty cus tom of celebrating the blossoming of the fruit trees by a general holi day. The largest plants in the world are seaweed. One tropical varietty is known which, when .it reaches its full development, is at least 6Q0 feet in length. The shortage of paper has led the Postomce department at Washing ton to rummage in its storage vaults for the remnants of post, card issues of 25 years and more ago, and these are now being placed on sale. Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren have been the only men in the history of the United States who have served as governors of states, foreign ministers, heads of cabinets, vice presidents and presi dents. When the Chinese wish to declare the -' extreme vexatiousness of any piece of work, they say "It is more trouble than a funeral," the obse quies of a parent being reckoned the most maddening affair in hu man experience. 1 NSntajjg Ohe Shirt With, Comfort Points Your 'ollar will set comfortably on a Beau Brununel 6hirt the neck is cut at tho proper slope. Than an manr ethar m. l i why joull eajar weariaf eouWySMrbi wLBEALCOMBiNAnow Cf STUMO GOrfOKT "BUSINESS IS COOP THANK YOtf LV Nicholas Oil Company AV&nderM to &Y?2st You can go direct to the Coast and sea beautiful Alpine scenery en route from an open observation car. You can see "Fifty Switzerlands Iiv One" without side trip9 or changing trains by going over the Canadian Pacific Railway. Leaving Calgary Canada s Denver you follow the Bow River through the Gap into the Rockies and then for twenty, four hours trail one waterway after another, past Banff, Lake Louise, Emerald Lake, Glacier, Sicamous, and down the Fraser Canyon to Vancouver, The Canadian Pacific Railway makes direct connections with steamers bound to Alaska and the Orient as well as with trains to all points on the Coast Canadian Pacific Ticket Office Thos.-J. Wall, Gen'l Agt. Patgr. Dept. 140 So. Clark Straet, Chicago, 111. Canadian nnupapm and information rtgording Canada en fil at IhUaSk Ml? tt aVjfSSt Vote for PERSHING Then vote for these delegates who will support him loyally and represent you faithfully DELEGATES AT LARGE Titus Lowe , Charles H. Kelsey George H. Austin Elmer J. Burkett ALTERNATE DELEGATE AT LARGE Carl E. Herring ( DELEGATE-SECOND DISTRICT C. E. Adams ALTERNATE-SECOND DISTRICT Hird Stryker John C. 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