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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY. MAY 22, 1920 12 Si i i I r. 1 I in:'. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publisher. it MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th AaaMuatsd Pnw. o vlct Ths Baa la Mt. li -atnUtalr antlUsd to lbs m for publication of all nana dUBaaahas isdltad to It or not otaarwlaa endiuj In this Bapar, and alap tta looal at pubhitMd aareia. All titbit publloauoo ot omf abactal alapalnhai ara also nMrrwL BEE TELEPHONES Print Braaak Mrobmaa. Art (or u Trls 1 VW1 sMpartmanl et Particular Parana WioUd. 1 Jr Cl WU Per Nlk sad Suaaay SerrtM Call I BtorlaP Dapartnanl Wf 1MJJ. ClraulaUaa Dmiunaat WW WML Adwtlalnc SspaitinaM Jlsr lOOSt OFFICES OF THE BEX Boma Offlca: 17th and famaaa. Branca omoea: Ajaas Hit North Booth Bos MU K tt. ( ounoll JOdtl 16 Scott St, I Walnut M WMa Rb fats ' Mil UaToaworth I , Out-of-Tows Offlesat Haw To Mat IM rift Afa, Waaalaauai UU 0 M. Cbtoaao Sugar Bide. ?ana francs IX Bat SC. Honor The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. A Pip Lin from th Wyoming Oil Field to Omaha. ' 3. Continued improTement of tha Ne braska Highways, including tha pave ment of Main Thoroughfares leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 4. A abort, low-rat Waterway from th Corn Belt to th Atlantic Ocean. 8. Horn Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. .1 - THE CULMINATING DISGRACE. Beyond all question the most damnable fact brought out in the navy investigation, the recorded truth which covers Secretary Daniels and his close associates with disgrace, and which should and would result in their dishonorable dismissal from office by any administration not lost to all sense of shame because of physical, moral and mental disability, is that of the failure to warn American shipping of the U-boat raids in American waters after definite warnings from Admiral Sims. A secretary of state was forced to resign be cause he called the president's cabinet together when the executive was disabled by a stroke of paralysis. Consider Secretary Daniels's conduct, and re member he is still in high favor at the White House. . " Admiral Sims warned Secretary Daniels by two cables on record in the Navy department, that "any time after May 29" a huge submarine might be expected in American waters to sink shipping. Not the slightest warning of this raid was given by the secretary to American shipowners or captains! Vessels were allowed to sail to the very waters ' threatened on and after the date. Not until three days after "May 29," when ten American ships had been sunk, and a few survivors had reached port, was any warning sounded. Was there, everanything like it? There was. In June, a month later, Ad miral Sims cabled another wirning of a Ger man submarine due in American waters after July IS. Was there any warning? There was not And on July 21 it began to sink American ships for the second time permitted to sail to their doom without a word from the United States Navy department. ' Twice the direct warning from our admiral "tn European waters was absolutely ignored by a naval outfit in Washington that ought to be impeached and thrown out. Again: Lansing, who called the cabinet to gether while the business of the nation was in confusion owing to the president's disability, is in private life. Daniels, who allowed Ameri can ships to be cleared from port to sail over dangerous waters after the warning of his ad miral, is still in high favor with Wilson. Calling the President's Bluff. ; The house having pissed the Jynox resolu tion, rescinding the declaration of war with i Germany,, it is now the president's move. Mr. Wilson has intimated that he will veto the reso lution, relying on democratic strength in con- - gress to support him. His calculations probably are accurate enough, and this will make it safe that the constructive state of war will be """maintained because the president so wills. Such A course is not likely to have any effect on the treaty, which has twice been rejected, by the senate because of the Leagne of Nations cov enant It will, however, continue the executive in the exercise of the extra-constitutional pow i ers granted during the war. The expected veto message will, according to the forecast, con tain the keynote of the Wilsonian campaign, to be echoed at San Francisco, in event of his ad herents controlling there. No issue was ever more squarely joined. The president who kept us out of war four years ago, now proposes to j keep us in, for the identical purpose of hi- fluencing a national election. Wisdom in Barber Shops. Your bossf barber is having his troubles these glorious May days. Increasing overhead expenses, increasing demands from his em ployes, who come and go, are often incom petent, and always want more and yet more, are the conditions that drive the smiles from his face. But don't think he has nothing up his sleeve. A man dropped into a chair for a shave yes terday. "Where's Jim?" he asked. "Gone, and Ed with him," said the boss as he plied his lather brush. , And so, two idle chairs in the handsome little parlor. But not an idle brain in the boss's head. "D'ye know what I'm going to do?" he queried. "I'm going to get me two partners first-class barbers.. We'll share the rent and other charges and divide what's left. We'll all be on the jbb all the time. No strikes, no walk outs, no dissatisfied customers, and from $10 to $20 a day for each of us. How's that?" It looked good. And the hope that springs eternal shone on the boss barber's face as he poised his razor. 4 J " ' "Red" Warfare Up to the League. The first real problem of conduct U now presented to the League of Nations. Persia requests tha it make the Russian '' reds" be have. None of the little wars in Europe or elsewhere has so far entangled the great and solemn conclave of nations, but here is a case where one of the weaker member of the cov enant is assailed by a rank outsider. . The bolshevists pretend that Persians suc cored Denikine and the remnant of his rotted army; to this Persia replies that th fugitives were disarmed and interned, according to the law Of nations and practices of warfare. What .the Soviets really want is that the late general of the counter-revolution - be turned over to be dealt with as have others similarly accused when taken by the gentle warriors who bear aloft the banner of brotherhood in the joint names o Lenine and Trotiky. The whole thing might be settled in s'ome off hand way, were it not that Great Britain has assumed something of a protectorate over Per aia, under tha treaty framed last August and this, as well as the role of leader in the League of Nations puts a rather knotty problem up the Lloyd George government The answer pot yet forthcoming, but whatever it may be, the episode does not help bring about the good feeling sought between the Soviets and the solid governments of the world. Back of it all may be discerned control the Baku oil fields, seized by the bolsheviki when Azerbaiian went red. and possession which is sought with considerable avidity by the Persians and Armenians. The mandate for that region gets less and less attractive Americans every day. to Administering Our "Provinces." The policy of the government in dealing with the inhabitants of islands that have come into our possession or under our tutelage is coming in (nr considerable criticism lUSt now. bome Ot this emanates from sources more or less sinis ter, and is subject to liberal discount, but enough of it is founded sufficiently well to call for se rious consideration. Porto Ricans have just occasion for com plaint that they have not received all that is justly due them. The native population of the islands was manifestly unfitted for American citizenship when they came to us as a side issue of the war with Spain. Twenty-two years have passed, and conditions there are not greatly im proved. The submerged population has been kept in subjection, has been and still is being exploited, and gets but little of the benefit that properly should be derived from the fact that the island is part of the leading enlightened na tion of the world. This should not be per mitted to go on indefinitely. Even if it is ex pensive, the Porto Ricans ought, to be given government for which the United States will not have to apologize. In Haiti and San Domingo, we are carrying "the white man's burden" with'a vengeance. If the military administration is permitted to go ahead there, it will in time give to that beautiful but u'tfhappy island a new birth of liberty. This can be done without disturbing the' negro dominance, but will come through the exter mination of the outlaw "caco" bands and the reclamation of the fertile places that are now waste. Prosperity is reviving there under the control of the military, but not as much can be said for the so-called civil administration for which we are responsible. Virgin islanders 'complain they enjoyed more liberty when Danish thap is now their portion as. Americans., This discontentment may arise from the fact that tey have not yet adjusted themselves to the chafcge in government. Given time, they will come to realize that they have certain advantages they did not before enjoy, and may yet be happy under American laws. The lesson of the whole situation is that we have not yet solved a great social question that is right at ouriront door. We do not need to visit the head of the Mediterranean in quest of backward peoples to .bring up to the light. The government at Washington should understand that these nearby islands are places where we have work to do, and are not, as in Mr. Bryan's estimation they appeared to be, merely safe nooks into which to thrust "deserving demo crats." , A New Religion From Oklahoma. "True Democracy," said Senator Owen of Oklahoma in a recent speech, referring to the political party at whose altar he is a devout attendant, "is a religion." ' ' This statement explains many things fanatical andv otherwise in his party's daily do ings. Being in itself a religion, which is the form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god to whom obedience is due, and also the feeling of fear and awe of an overruling power, the democratic party deserts the worship of the orthodox God in the heavens, to prostrate itself in humble adoration of a mundane diety. And who can be" the godhead of this erst while irreverent and shifty political partynow recognized and exalteB in the Congressional Record as a religion? Obviously there is but one Superior Intelligence qualified for and de serving of the supplications, vows, hallelujahs and hosannas of faithful adherents to the new international religion, now on earth in his 'own proper person and acting by his own proper authority .to lead the world in paths it has not trod, and to punish all who refuse to bow down before him I Verily, now many crooked things are made straight. The new religion is officially recognized and proclaimed. Bob Owen has done it. Its Great Sanhedrin will soon assemble at San Francisco to receive and obey the Commandments of the exalted One, and teach its individal and col lective mind to "run along with his." fn the distribution of honors, surely the dis coverer and pious postulant from Oklahoma should receive holy orders of great dignity and power 1 v But how, we wonder, will those democrats who have reviled the democratic deity, spurned his edicts, mutilated arid ridiculed his words, arisen in rebellion against his acts, and in a thousand ays Remonstrated their infidelity and unsaved condition; be received when the cur tains of the temple are set up over by the Golden Gate. Will they hear: "Verily, verily I say unto you, they have tKeir reward." "Tom" Marshall again pushes aside the empty honor of a presidential nomination Jby the democratic party. He properly should have been president most of the time since the ar mistice was signed. Poland is bragging about its mineral wealth, and proposes to become a rival to the United States. Why not? The world needs it The one note "of .humor in the slump of prices is the effort of the "Mitch" Palmer or ganization to claim credit. Chicago is eating lamb raised and dressed in Argentina, a fact that may interest western flock masters. '' " Now that the air irlail service is going all right let's go after a new p"assenger station. "Paricho" Villa finds politics pays better than farming in Mexico. Congress also threatens to quit "jazzing." A Line O'Type or Two Haw to th Lisa, M tt falsi Ml hsrs tkay my. MR. PALMER'S attention Is called to the case of People v. Berezniak, 292 111. 305, which contains this posy: "The proof is unquestioned that he was born in a foreign country and that many others iiuthe profession in Chicago, are guilty of like misconduct in their profession." A FRIEND OF HUMANITY. Eir: Passing through the town of Watervllet Mich., we had to detour because of a broken bridge. The road was a dirt road, and not a good one. In a back yard I noticed this sign: "Damn Tou, Keep in the Road." J. J. IT is the idea of Hon. Chris Morley that the Kaiser's throne would make a pretty good hoe shining stand. Perhaps, too, his crown could be used to block hats on. THPRING THONG. In red and In green Blushed th quickening acene; Blue beamed the turquoise sky: Spring clouds scurried, And still I worried. With Icicles yet In my y. But lo! this spring ditty I Just saw a pretty Girl etep from a candy atoie, And her lips looked at mine Till my spirits like wine ' , Melted and laughed once more! RIQ. MR. WILSON'S taste in drama is for vaude ville and circuses. Wonder what his favorite musical composition, picture, and novel may be? we can guess, Dut we should like to know. OSTENTATION. ' Sir: Way back, when you ran a line of Vul. gar Displays of Wealth, the popular subject was remnants or an egg on one s visage. Times have cnangea. Mignt I revive the series with the sug gestlon that a bun In public is a V. D. W.? E. M. , "'CARAMBAl' he exclaimed. 'My watch is gone i xoanez. Then they do use that expression. OUR CLEVER CREATOR. (Ad Powell Land Co., Burlington, Colo.) The summers are simply delightful there Is no sunshine like that found In the Burlington section It la a clever combina tion of warmth and coolness. OUR STAFF SAPPHO. Sir: I heard about this old girl Sappho who was one of the first women feature writers. So like. Oh, sezze, she was the Laura Blackburn oi me Grecian line, waving never read any of the Greek lady's stuff, I don't know whether this Is a back hand or a -glad hand. Tou can figure It out. D. BELL. OUR apologies to the shade of Shakespeare. We hung a "doth" on him t'other day. It should be,M"Thus conscience does make cowards of us BIRD BAIT. Birds In the thicket and birds on the bough You may want to attract them and never know how, So here are some rules that tell without fall How to spread salt on each shy little tail: Tou must banish the cat, You must plant this and that, Mulberries, sunflowers, choke cherries fat And other good things For our friends that have wings. 'And build cunning houses For them and their spouses ' High up in a tree Where no one can see. And place drinking cups For delectable sups, And make bathing places s Imcool, shady spaces, And be gentle and prayerful - And ever so careful. And then, If you're good. And do just as you should, Perhaps your retreat Will grow sweeter than sweet 1 With little eyes peering, And little wings steering. With Hittlngs and flutterings And musical utterings, With billings and cooings And feathery wooings, And spring time and summer will be even more Lovely than ever they were before. C. G. "WE have waved over 8,000 heads success fully," boasts the French Hair Shoppe ih Cleve land. 'Snothing. William Jennings Bryan used to wave more than that in a day, and many of them were permanently crimped. IN the new Parisian gowns, reports the in comparable Heraminer, are "square, diamond shaped holes two inches in diameter." FXEETIXG SHADOWS. Tea, even as white clouds, drifting, , Darken the newsprung grass, White thoughts of thee across the heart Trail shadows as they pass. Let not the clouds come back with rain, Let not my thoughts with tears Come back, and this bright day shall be The crown of all my years. LAURA BLACKBURN. JOAL reports to us from San Francisco that the greatest sufferers from the h. c. 1. are the cats of Chinatown. The Second Post "Will you kindly mark on my order of suit for personal use that I have very promi nent calves and bow legged and oblige." THE card of a Jackson Boul tailor advises: "Have your next suit made bv a real tailor." He hands you the card as you are leaving. The Frenzied Reporter. . (From the AtlantaConstitution.) Every style of costume was represented on the "promenade." There was the bouf fant taffeta and befrilled frock of tulle, above which showed the flower face and radiant expectancy of the winsome debutante, while' the gowns of slightly maturer mold and color encased the young married women of society and social grande dames shown In rival splendor In the handsome heavier ma terials, fashioned in statelier effects. Like a wonderful prism, the vast audience glowed and shone with marvelous colors of fabrics, iridescent spangles and sequins of jet Huge fans of ostrich waved in lovely antithesis to the fur scarfs and stoles which softened every line, and against the colorful back ground shone an unexcelled display of price less jewels. No more charming or self possessed hostess ever 6at down to her own board than Miss Atlanta when she joyfully spread before her visiting hosts the feast of music and purred a libation to the god of 'music. ' i "LA FEMME DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS." Sir: A Greek cafe offers "Hungarian Ghou- lash." Is this a graveyard stew? R. W. B. "IT is possible that real elections mav be held ifv Mexico in the future." says Senor Belasco or is it Signor Ibancz?, "Why," adds M'sieu Nostrom. "should we not be optimistic about it?" Well, why not? Real elections may some day be held in the first ward of Chicago. When the Whistle Blew. Sir: Anent the shortage of help in London a letter from my sister recently received relates that Just After writing her acceptance of an In vitation to meet the princess Helena Victoria the whistle ciew and sue had to lower the dust to the Janitor. j. t. M. NOT POSTED. Sir: Heard at headquarters today: Switchboard operator: "Guy Bates ptjst? Wait a minute. I'll see." (Business of consulting list ef American Legion posts.) "No, we have no Guy Bates post. Must be In Some other department." LEGIONNAIRE. "GENTLEMAN wishes room in widow's home. Quiet No other roomers." Omaha World-Herald. - Quiet seems to be this person's obsession. CAN TOU WAIT? (From the Ottawa Republican.) Clad in youthful beauty, innocence, a wisp of tropical grass and the leaf of a fig, Clarlne Seymdur is beautiful as the Idol Dancer. Coming to Coliseum, Marseilles, before It Is shown In Chicago. . JOHN WANAMAKER surely started some- hina , B. L. T, , How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS 8uliona conernlns; brglenoi sanl on and prTcntloa of disease, sub mitted to Dr. Kvans by readers of Tb Bee, will be answered personally, sub ject tra proper limitation, wbere a stamped, addressed envelop 1 en riosed. Dr. Evann will not make diagnosis or- prescribe for individual diseases. Address letters In rare of The Bee. Copyright, 19 Jo, by Dr. W. A. Evans. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S MONUMENT. "A friend about a fortnight ago," Mrs. R. J. O. writes, "heard a lec ture by Dr. Stephen Smith of New York. Dr. Smith is over 97 years of age, but his talk gave no sign of age In thought or delivery. This friend told me that In 1859 or 1860 Dr. Smith made an appeal to the so ciety women of New York City which caused them to finance a group of earnest young women to go to London to study rn the school founded by Florence Nightingale. She asks for more information on this subject." Florence Nightingale was born in 1820. This being the centennial of her birth, historical data about nurs ing Is a part of the order 6f the day. There was organized nursing before the time of Florence Night ingale. The four-volume Hlstory.of Nursing by Misses Nutting and Dock shows there were a multitude of nursing movements in the countries of Europe before Miss Nightingale's Influence was felt. The horrible neglect of the sick an'd wounded In the Crimea caused a wave of public Indignation to sweep over Great Britain. Miss Nightingale was a woman of influ ential family and had studied nurs ing under Pasor Fleidner in Ger many and in the hospitals of France at the beginning of the Crimean war she had had considerable practical experience as a nurse. The combination of family stand ing, exceptional education, fine in tellect and nursing experience caused her to be selected as the per son to rectify conditions in the Cri mean hospitals. When she resumed her work in 1856 she had placed nursing on a firm foundation. In that year she started St. Thomas Training School for .Nurses. The thorough training of nurses and the solidarity of thQ profession dates from that school. I have not been able to find a rec ord of a group of New York women going to London to work in St. Thomas In 1859 or 1860. The first nurses' training school In America gradually evolved between 1859 and 1863 in the-New England Hospital for Women and Children. This movement was largely a New England, and particularly a Boston, movement. By 1872 New York seemed to have waked up. The wQinen hadgot a taste of public affairs by reason of their relief activities in the Civil war. In that year a group of society women set out to organize a training school at Bellevue. I suspect it was to this agitation Dr. Smith alluded in his address. An investigation exposed the fear ful condition in Bellevue. The women petitioned the governing body to permit women nurses on De cember 23, 1872. Four members of the medical staff Dr. Stephen Smith, Austin Flint, J. R. Wood and Markoe fought for them. They finally won and female trained nurses were installed in four wards. Out of this there gradually ffrew a training school for nurses which was formally incorporated in 1872 The society women, when told that $20,000 would be required to start the school, promptly raised the amount. A letter from Florence Nightin gale to Dr. Gill Mylie was influea tial In winning the fighj, for the women. When it came to selecting a superintendent. Bister neien graduate of St. Thomas, then living in Baltimore, was finally found. So much for 50 years ago. jn April, 1920, the National Association for Public Health Nursing met in Atlanta. Almost 4,000 public health nurses attended this meeting. nothing that will really cure itT" REPLY, Is the soft palate longT Gome coughs ax the result ef too much soft palate; others of too much ton ells. Gentlemen," Wear Blinders t M. R. writes: "As the style has changed and women ar wearing short skirts. I have noticed that I am slightly bowlegged, and the most self-conscious soul in this universe. Can you suggest something that would help me out of this predica ment?" REPLY. You have two choices. You can wear long skirts or you can make the men wear blinders. - Needs Other Training. Mrs. T. D. writes: "My baby boy Is 27 months old, but does not eat very much. He takes not over a pint of milk a day a little beef juice, a teaspoonful of potatoes, an egg either soft boiled or beaten up, almost a cup of strained oatmeal with cream or cream of wheat, orange juice and a oupof chocolate pudding. He will not eat any other kind of puddings, no bread, hardly any soup, no vegetables. He Is a very light eater, but he Is as strong and well as he could be. I take him out every day, and he sleeps well and has a fine color. I had him weighed, and he was four pounds underweight He Is ' troubled very much with constipation. I have tried to. give him something every other day. Do you think that Is too often? Do you think Castorla Is all right to give him? Do you think It Is because he eats so little that he Is underweight and do you think he will eat more as he grows older?" REPLY. Finicky eating Is a sign of ner vousness. You will need to exercise care In the training of your child In other fields ss well as In diet The underweight is a result of under nourishment In all probability. If your physician finds no other cause for the underweight It Is up to you to train him to eat more. If he will not eat Enough milk as such perhaps you can get him to eat milk powder. milk puddings, other dishes made with milk. Vary his cereals and vegetable. It Is harmful to give purgatives habitually. For Rent Typewriters and Adding Machines of All Makes Central Typewriter - Exchange Doug. 4120 1912 Farnam St. $158,000 Worth of Pianos and Player Pianos . . r - To Be' Disposed of at Once We don't claim ta sell all the Pianos sold in Omaha but we do SELL THE BEST. 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