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. -m ' .. -THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1920. ' 1 1 ; 1 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY v TBS BSS PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR NELSON B. UPDIKE. PRESIDENT i i ii ii ii- mi r - MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . Tba Anoetaud Praia, o wbldi Tha Ba Ul Kmtw, It ax . rroataly an titled lo tha um for publication of all saws dltpatobaa , emlitad to U or sot otlttrwlaa crwiitd In thli vum. and sin tin oral nwi pttblldxd hwala. AU rlgbu of twMloaUoB o out apodal . Slapatehaa art alas iwmd. i I If it BEE TELEPHONES Print Branch Exchana. ark tar to Tl.1fWl DaparUMOt or Particular rron Wanted. I JICT 1UUU For Nltht ud Sunday Ssrvlea Calll Mrtorlal Department Tylat 10ML Circulation Itapartment .......... Trior lOOil afttarUatiif Daparunoit Tjla 100IL s OFFICES OF THE BEE t Bom 081c: 17th and Faraim. Branca utncea: Ana 4110 North ilth I Park ' HIS tasrstwortk BoDtm (lit Military An. South 8ld Ml 8 N St. Council Blufli 19 BcoU St. I Walnut - fit North tOth Out-of-Town Onicesi now Tor Offlca tS Fifth An. I Wailiinitoo t'hicafo Statu Bide. I 1S11 O St Parta Vranc 120 But St.. Honor 1 1. 2. 4. The Bee's Platform Nw Union Passenger Station. A Pip Lin from th Wyoming Oil Fields to Omaha. Continued improvement of the Ne braska Highways, including the pave ment of Main Thoroughfares leading into Omaha with a Prick Surface. A short, low-rate Waterway from the Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. out decrease in wheat prospects, as compared with last year, the entire food situation may be expected to drift to higher prices. With beef and mutton high, whence may we expect lower prices for leather and-wool? The free soenders mav as well figure on spending freely for necessities as well as 'lux uries. THE ORIGINAL RELAPSE. The failure of the president to appoint the railroad labor board provided for in, the Cum . mins-Esch act for such emergencies as the one created by the ( switchmen strike, has aroused bitter criticism. During the spreading transpor tation paralysis last week, when tens of thou sands voluntarily quit work, and hundreds of thousands who wanted to work were thrown out of employment because of lack of material' on which to busy themselves, the White House remained silent, gloomy and Inactive. "For six weeks now .the president has failed to act wlu'le Rome is barging," said the chairman of the senate interstate commerce committee, in dignant over presidential indifference to the unhappy state of the union. Seeking a valid reason for, Mr. Wilson's costly procrastination and its alarming conse quences, Washington suggested a relapse in his physical condition. It may be that the recent improvement in his health, so gladly noted everywhere, has ceased. We trust sucH is not the case. The original relapse, from which so long a train of evils has come to the the United States, was mentat, not physical. It was a relap.se from a true conception of the duty of the chief ex ecutive to watch carefully over the welfare of his people and attend promptly to his constitu tional duties at the seat of government. It came when Mr. Wilson lost fidelity to his own coun try in a submerging wave of internationalism that washed him from American moorings and landed hint in France. As its undertow caught him,! an inkling of his duty caused him to cry -to. congress: "I shall be in close touch with you. ' . 4 and you will know all I do." Then he was swept away and for seven montfu con gress never heard a word from him. He him self put a censorship on the cables and mails that not only kept the truth from his own coun try, but deprived the peace conference of the vital facts of American sentiment. Thus it .happened that Mr. Wilson was glorified in . Europe only to be repudiated and sternly re buked when he returned home. A few days ago a Washington dispatch said the president was greatly -depressed because in his drives about the city the people no longer showed friendly interest in him, and for that reason his public appearances would cease. This may or may not be one of the many inspired false statements given out to keep the people in ignorance of the president's condition. If true, it indicates that he now has some realiza tion of the actual public opinion of tiim. In that case his depression is fully justified. . In all the history of the republic no presi dent has ever compared with Mr. Wlson in direct official responsibility for so many and so costly disturbances to business, so much un wholesome restlessness among the people, such acute clan consciousness, such weakening of ' national loyalty, such a drift toward heresy to American, traditions, such a disregard for the wise admonitions of the founders of the na tion. And he has done more to stir up violent . antagonisms to America abroad than all our other -presidents combined. , Bargaining for Nebraska's Votes. The coalition for the "control of the dele gates of Nebraska in' the Chicago convention, said to have been entered into between the Johnson and Wood campaign managers, is an affront to the voters of the state. That it may be of advantage to either or both o( the out side candidates need" not be considered. Ne braskans will resent being dealt with as a "posket borough" to be delivered in fulfillment of any soft of bargain. On the surface it means that, Johnson and Wood are now united against Pershing, the genuine Nebraska candidate. Deeper down, it may be found that Wood ' supporters have despaired of carrying the state for their man, and are now negotiating with the Johnson lead ers on an arrangement that may be consummated somewhere else, but the outcome of which means tying up the Nebraska delegation with a bundle of others to be traded at Chicago. Do Nebraska republicans, always loyal, to their state and their party, relish being thus dealt with; do they like to be lumped up and handed over to one side or the other, for the advantage of candidates whose sole concern in Nebraska is to have control of the sixteen delegates, to do with them as expediency or personal interest dictates? ! John J. Pershing represents no faction. He is party to no bargain. -A vote for him does npt mean that a trade is later to be carried out by the bosses outside the state. He is sincerely offered as a candidate behind whose name lurks no sinister group of interests. Nebraskans can vote for him with the as surance that in doing, so they are supporting a fellow citizen who is absolutely on the square, and who is pledged in advance not to use their votes to dicker with at Chicago. Bonus for the Service Men. Arguing that a bonus to the 4,000,000 service men will require the levy of a new and onerous' tax, the New York ,Times, which has been staunch and steadfast in its support of the pres- dent, says: On second thought the republican leaders in the well-named popular branch of congress. wno are responsible tor the continuation of the excess profit tax, may hesitate to push the sales and real estate tax scheme to produce money to pay bonuses to 4,000,000 and more men, the very great majority of whom arc em ployed at good wages and salaries and do not need the gift. The people are already weary of the high cost of living to .the point of re volt against the majority party in congress now responsible for taxation. This is the same spirit that led a considerable number of democrats to oppose' the war because it was going to be dreadfully expensive. Any attempt to make political capital out of the pay ment of additional compensation to the soldiers is unwise. The term "bonus" is not correctly used in this connection. What is undertaken is to give the men who wore the uniform pay they earned. Justice supports the move, fairness de mands it Money to meet it must be raised by xation, and while everybody will be glad when taxes are lowered, objection to paying Mie debt we owe the soldiers must rest on stronger basis than a desire to escape taxation. People are not likely soon to forget that a considerable part of the present burden of debt is directly due to democratic incompetency and extravagance in managing the war. It would be the crowning shame of the present adminis' tration's record in this regard if the soldiers of the great army were defrauded in order to pay for waste that marked the whole course of the war. Another Committee Reports. The joint congressional printing committee's report finds that many government publications, including army and navy war service journals, have been used for propaganda favorafle to the liquor interests and the League of Nations. Legal proceedings are advised by the commit tee against George Creel, former head of the 'committee on public information, for transferring a wartime publication, the Official Bulletin, pub lished at a cost of $600,000 a year, to Roger W. Babson "without the government receiving a cent in compensation." v Waste, abuse and inefficiency, it is found, were the conspicuous features of Mr. Creel's ef- fort for "public information." The public will not register surprise at these findings. In every department thus far explored a welter of waste, extravagance and incompetence have been found in the Wilson administration, all beautifully em phasized by the final royal pageant staged in the spectacular excursion of a shipload of pres idential retainers to Paris, which made the mag nificence of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba '.ook like 30 cents in comparison. A Flier in Overalls. When, a business men's "overall" club was organized in Birmingham to discourage the high price of clothing, the price of the stout and useful garment of the trades hopped from S2 to $& And Birmingham, devoted to iron industries. can hardly complain, being in a cotton state, of Hie patriotic effort of dealers in cotton overalls to' augment the value of the state's principal crop. Tis a queer world that wags its way under the laws of supply, demand and avarice Price Trend Still Upward. 7 A survey of the editorial and news pages of more than two hundred papers last week showed t multitude of movements to increase prices by the advocacy of higher wages and not one to ' decrease prices, except in advertising columns and efforts to chetk rent profiteers. Just how we may expect lower prices for food, clothing and other commodities, with all wage and salary adjustments on the upward trend, : beyond comprehension. With a tfemend Omaha's Registered Voters. One of the natural and expected results of giving woman the ballot is a considerable ex tension of the voters' rolls. While not all who are entitled to vote have as yet gotten their names inscribed at the office of the election commissioner, that official gives it as a safe es timate that now 55,000 voters are listed. This should ensure at least double the total usually cast at elections in Omaha. That entails some thing else. Only a year or so ago the wards and precincts were entirely rearranged, in order that the casting and counting of the votes might be facilitated, and too much work be not thrown on any of the boards. Not enough time inter venes to make needed arrangements for the coming primary, so that it is morally certain that the judges and clerks will have a greatly increased amount of work to do. These are matters of detail that concern the officials more than the public. What is of general interest is the fact that the newly created voters have taken such a healthy view of their privileges and have arranged to get themselves in line to ex ercise the franchise. Now it is up to them to go to the polls and there finish the job.. Al ready they have learned that the privilege of voting carries with it something of responsibil ity, and they may learn still more of this when they get a ballot in one hand and a pencil in the other, and begin making crosses that are to express their choice for candidates.. A NEW YORK banker. Hebarking at Havre we read in a Paris journal, said to a Parisian friend, "You are the bravest and finest people in the world, but you dispute too much, and meanwhile no work is done." .There's a fine case of the pot bawling out the kettle. AS we understand it. the Allies do not ap prove of the French move, but they think it very good tning. Very Favorably. Sir: Our class in prehistoric archaeology. was hearing about cave men. Said Prof. Starr: "Now-a-days we see many Jokes aoout cave, men tn the newspapers; even In B. L-. T.'s column, where people do not look for real jokes." How does that strike you? m. k. AS an archaeologist, however. Prof. Starr will agree that some of the trade classics printed here are as good jokes as any excavated. RITE-O! (From the Holdenrille, Okl, Tribune.) Thousands of Masons go to Me'Alester to take the Scottish Rite degree. The largest still In the state was recently unearthed a mile north of that city. OLD B. B. reports to us that he saw a golfer yesterday carrying a large bottle of perfume home to his wife. Evidently, opines Bill, he ex pects a busy season. ' StUl Running Ture to Form. Sir: When informed by a Michigan station master that the 7:45 train was "pretty much on time," I.took a walk and made it easily at 10:15. UAUUISIW "BEN DAVIS Company PJarrs for Normal Volume of Building." Indianapolis Star. Is this the concern, sntckers I. M. W.. which whittles out the apples? LOOK-A HERE. MR. MAXWELL, WHAT D'YE MEAN BY CALLING IT DENAB? Sir: There are at Seast several thousand per sons in this more or less fair city who take some interest in astronomy. In their name will you kindly, ask Mr. Maxwell why he persists in call ing the well and favorably known star Deneb Penab7" B. JUCK8, "SHERIFF Said to Admit Snuggling." St. Paul headline. Who was the thrice-happy snuglee? NORTHERN LIGHTS. Pale ghost of light, ; . Prom ev'ning sky evolvlng, Then wavering; dissolving, On wondered night, ,.t. Blue flaming arc, - ; Thy shaking burst of glory ' With silent oratory Prays through the dark. ABD-ELKADER.' The Invulnerable Candidate. Conventions have a strong prejudice in favor of selecting candidates whose nomina tion lessens anxiety during the campaign. New York Iribune. Exactly so. And where is the candidacy which has inspired in so large a degree as that of General Pershing, the belief that it would be successful in November? Studpr the life of Nebraska's candidate and compare it with those of other aspirants, and judge for yourself which is most invulnerable to political attack. . Temporary rerouting of the street railway tracks is imperative, and it does seem to offer a good opening for a general rearrangement of lines. You might also get ready for Arbor Day, which is near at hand. Omaha switchmen are to be congratulated. A Line 0 Type or Two Hrw la th Um, tat th a.lat ff I hra n my. How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS "SHE pronounced it 'bean' instead of 'been,'" reports Col. Fred Smith. Apparently she never read the lines " . 'For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been.'" DARN IT, IT'S AYWAYS A FLIVVER. (From the WInfleld, la., Beacon.) Several parties have phoned asking what wag the shooting which took place on Main street Tuesday night about 7:30. We have inquired around and found that a back-firing Jitney was the cause of the cannonading. OUR research department is still looking for the origin of the expression, "Hew to the line," etc. . Meanwhile we read in the Mining News, of Florence, Wis.: "The words df the immortal Lincoln, Hew to the line, and let the chips tall where they may.'" . ' WE ARE MUCH RELIEVED. (From the Pratt County Republican.) Notice I was not scared and it did not completely demolish the rear end Of my coupe. A. C. England. THROUGH THE YEAR.' When the springtime promise fills the morning air. Each young leaf and petal gleams more fresh and fair Through the glistening dew-drops sparkling everywhere. When the heat of summer parches hill and plain, And the thirsty garden quivers as in pain, t With what healing gladness comes the dancing rain! When the fruitful autumn, through a purple haze, Her abundant harvest lavishly displays, We acclaim her bounty with rejoicing praise. When the hand of winter grips the dying year, And the world seems gloomy, sombre, dull and drear, . How we love the firelight, with its warmth and cheer! I would give you, dearest, of my heart and brain, AU the richest fruitage: soothe fatigue and pain With a love as healing as the summer rain. Through the changing seasons, one thing still is j true 1 Fervent as the fire, tender as the dew, Is the love, my darling, that J hold for you! IRIS. SOME of our acute readers are beginning to suspect that Iris has a sneaking fondness for her husband. JUST MISSING THE SHOULDER-BLADE. (From the Kendall Record.) Mr. Houck was kicked in the abdomen on the rtght side. It is said that no bones were broken, but he was severely bruised. "LOST, at White House, skunk throw. Lib eral reward. Mrs. J. P. Haskin." San Fran cisco Call. .Why not follow, in a manner of speaking, one's nose? The Incoherent Dictator. Sir: Inspired by your column, I set out! to make of myself a non-Perkins type of stenog rapher. Successful in the nth degree, am I unreasonable in believing that I deserve some thing! unusually satisfactory in the way of an employer? Unfortunately, I wa4 brought up in a home where the general idea seemed to ' be that one cannot articulate distinctly during the process of yawning or chewing. This fact is proven while I endeavor to build an intelligible business letter out of the sounds emanating from the mouth of a man, chewing, or yawning, or both, as he dictates, swiveled around, back to me. ROBIN ETTE. A HORSE was transported from Loz On glaze to Santa Barbara by aeroplane. This al most matches Pegasus. THE EFFEMINIZINO OF THE LESS DEADLY SPECIES. (From the Winnipeg Free Press.) For sale, male and female hens. Phone ' . Garry 585. , "H. K. BALD Makes a Statement to Vot ers." Bayard, Neb., Transcript. You add it j ' GUESS WHERE. (From the Asheville Citizen.) W. A. Davis of Woolsey is confined to his home on account of a sprained angle. "WANTED Second hand cook at Hale's Cafe." Waterloo Times-Tribune. And lucky to get that SPRING or no spring, we shall open the season today. THE driver, son! B. L. T. 1 GOOD CAUSE FOR BOASTING. t Since boosting and 'bragging, along with bolshevlsm and other queer mental slants seem to be spreading, the health men might ai well get into the game. Forty years ago yellow fever kicked communi ties around as it pleased. . Now al most anybody can kick yellow fpvpr. Now conies Guayaquil, Ecuador, j saying "Yellow fever! Bah! Give us something hard." The first record of yellow fever at Guayaquil was in 1842. During that year it was esti mated that one-half the population of the city died from the disease. In the last 20 years the disease, having been driven from No-th America, Central America, Cuba, Rio Janeiro, in fact all Brazil and Panama, seemed to find a natural home in Guayaquil and vicinity. The Gorgas commission reported that yellow fever could be eradi cated from the west coast of South America by eradicating it at Guaya quil. The international board of health of Ecuador entered into an arrangement to wipe out the disease. Under the arrangement ths authori ties were to isolate the cases and fumigate the houses. The interna tional health board was to mosquito . proof the water receptacles. Dr. Connor reports on the mosquito proofing measures and the effects on yellow fever. The city water supply is inade quate, and each family has a water barrel or tank.' These were found to bo uncovered and infeBted with motquito larvae. Experiments were made with minnows placed in these tanks and barrels. They found that a minnow called the chata ate lar vae voraciously, was hardy under tank life conditions, would not juriip out of the water, and dived for the bottom when water was being dipped from the barrel. Other kinds of minnows were less effective, for one reason or another. The second measure was covering the ' tanks and barrels with fine screening. The third, inspection to see that the screens were in use and in good order. The city was divided into 10 dis tricts, and an Inspector called at tach house at least once a week. Galvanized iron, copper, screening and wooden covers were found most satisfactory. In the case of tanks emptied by a faucet and filled through a pipe the cover was sealed on, and the inspector saw to it that the seal was not broken. The yellow fever mosquito is a house mosquito, and in order to control it nothing more is required than attention to breeding places in and very rlose to houses. Dr. Connor does not report on thp final outcome of the work. That is reserved for a later report. He says: "Yellow fever cases decreased rapidly as the tanks were made mosauitonroof. and when the num ber of breeding places in tanks was , deduced to 5 per cent of the total , number insoeetea tne disease naa been controlled, but was not con sidered eradicated." Case of tho Teachers and Their Pay. Omaha, April 9. To tha Editor of The Bee: How much jack is a teacher worth? Does she earn two thousand dollars? IS eighteen hun dred bucks too much value to place upon her who produces scholars? Can we write In cold type, as we can for the clerk, the dollars and cents she produces: should we try to do this, or Just lump 'em off, or weigh 'em like cattle and gooses? Or should we continue to figger this way that their value can never be measured, therefore we won't try, we'll give 'em taffy and sigh, and tell 'em their work is much treasured? Or, should we refer 'em to Kalama zoo, or Wahoo, or Saint Louiemo, where salaries smali can't pay at all, for their fodder or one movie show? Shall we tell 'em they ought to be tickled to death, a much pay as these cities to get, that what others pay is sure the right way to be just to good teachers, you bet? Shall we meet the request the School Forum has made? Shall we think of the kiddies in school? Shall we keep our good teachers, or get cheaper ones, and make poor edu cation the rule? Is the fact that a few girls who don't earn their salt, now draw pay as teachers, good rea son why no increase be granted in structors who now need the dough to finish the season? Does stingy mazuma paid teachers increase ef ficiency more and mora, or woald liberal pay soon pave the way for the superintendent to strengthen the corps? Do children today the germs be carried In clothes if not properly fumigated?" , REPLY'. 1. The incubation period of scar let fever is usually three to four days, maybe as long as seven days. 2. No. 8. There is very little danger that scarlet fever will be carried by the clothing. Ordinary sunnfng and air ing , is enough disinfection for clothes. The bacteria of scarlet fever are carried in tha mouth, nose and ear secretions. ji.iii n tomorrow deserve good teacher and fine? Who suffers most under cheap education, Instructors or your child and mine? Doe the matter of pay affect teachers alone, or ia it 'mongst kid dies divided, affecting their Uvea so innocent pure, through the kind of instruction provided? Is this mould ing ot bread by tHe baker well paid, more important than character moulding; more Important to drive a nail straight, than to shape straight the lives our teachers are holding? Can effect of poor teach ing and closing of schools because of poor pay be soon righted, like troubles with labor strikes, back In a day, or will some young lives be much blighted? Will four hundred dollars prom ised next year take care of the teachers today, who've sacrificed bonds, insurance and savings to stay at their post on small pay? Will it recompense teachers who. have been forced, and are still being forced to borrow, from friends, from loan sharks, from any old source t keep them alive till tomorrow? Will this four hundred dollars stretched out next year, from fall till a year rrom next June, help teacnera earn credits, live, regain nesuwi. , .v- tioa coming so 00?1?-.i5ht0,i expect them to be satisfied for small favora always be thankful: have no idea, keep perfectly mum, while labor's pay cornea by the tank lull? Are teachers unreasonable, all bol shevistic, when they daro to make formal request, and wage a cam. oalgn for pay that's Jn keeping with work that's with dignity blest? Are their actions not right In the stand they have taken; can their motives be called unfair when they want, as Walt says, "A prune to eat, and de cent rags to wear?" Is the opinion of principals mighty, two or three grade and high bosses whose salanoj big keep them on easy street and who don't know the class teach ers' losses is their sayso worth much when they say. " 'Tis absurd, this request ot the Teachers' Forum. They should all be content, keep still and repent. If they don't we'll sura have to score 'era! If the boartis gone the limit, can't pay them mora money, the treasury's busted wida open, is it a sin for the teachers U make a campaign for he, p and to keep on a nopin t i. imouvu, TRADE , Most Prefer to Have Teeth. C. writes: "I am 64 years old. Since 1896 I have had no teeth at all, either natural or artificial. Prev ious to that for years I had poor teeth. And yet today VI am doing hard work and am in fair health for my years. -- "1. I wonder if. teeth are abso lutelyessential? , ' . "2: Is there any truth in newspa per accounts of persons getting a third set of natural teeth? If they do get them, why do the few only get them?? . REPLY. 1. A man without teeth must limit himself to soft, foods. These suffice fairly well for old people, but not for -nnne-er nnpfi. 2. Some people fall to cut all their teeth. These unerupted teeth oc casionally erupt in late life, result ing in so-called tnira sets or teem. Scarlet Fever Germs. , K. N. writes: "1. How long can a scarlet fever germ be carried by a person before it breaks outr "2. Does it take a stronger solu tion to kill scarlet fever germs than any other infectious disease, such as smallpox, diphtheria, etc.? If so, what would be the best solution and method to disinfect properly? "3. How long can scarlet fever The Day We Celebrate. - Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, commanding the American forces jin the occupied area of Ger many, born at Sharpsburg, Ky., 61 years ago. John W. Davis, United States ambassador to Great Britain, born at Clarksburg, W. Va., 47 years ago. John Hays Hammond, jr., inventor of the wireless-controlled torpedo, born in San Fran cisco 32 years ago. , - " 1 Thirty Years Ago In Omaha. A fire at Fifteenth and Douglas destroyed $110,000 worth of property belonging' to Brown ing, King & Co., the Falconer company, Mrs. Benson and others. A jail delivery was frustrated at the city jail at 10 in the evening. The Armour-Cudahy company rented a five story warehouse on .eavenworth near Thir teenth street to be used as a distributing depot. Ernest M. Pollard Republican Candidate for Governor Republican primaries April 20, 1920. There are six candidates for Governor. If you are not satisfied with the present Gov ernor of Nebraska, CONCENTRATE UPON Ernest M. Pollard of Cass County, a farmer and fruit grower. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, was member of State Legislature, 1896-1900; member of Congress, 1905-1909: member of State Constitutional Convention, 1920. The farmer voters in particular and Republicans generally all over the State are concentrating their votes upon Pollard, believ ing that by bo doing they will strengthen the whole Republican Ticket and make victory certain at the November Election. BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK YOU LV. Nicholas Oil Company Vote for PERSHING Then vote for these delegates who will sup port him loyally and represent you faithfully. DELEGATES AT LARGE Charles H. Kelsey Titus Lowe Elmer J. Burkett George H. Austin ALTERNATE DELEGATE AT LARGE Carl E. Herring DELEGATE SECOND DISTRICT 7 C. E. Adams ALTERNATE SECOND DISTRICT Hird Stryker John H. Caldwell REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES, APRIL 20 arid the electrically- T "r H sealed package brines aZTT x0 I IVRIGUEY5 to you -j M I with all its goodness jJ perfectly preserved. 1 Sealed Tight- l I fl" Y A r
