Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, May 25, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
. .THE BEE: ' OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920. Mi ft is. E I i The Omaha Bee fiAILY (MORNING) -EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, NELSON B. UPDIKE. Pnbliahar. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS T aamiaiad Proa, at woick IMBnUI "'. to ahultel antlUed to the um lot publication el ail news dlspalebei etedttd to ti ot not otherwise credited la tail paper, ana also tee Ineel newe published aerato. AU itgbl ef puaileaUoo. of our special eispatchea an alao weened. BEE TELEPHONES Friaaae Bras A fecheoae. Aik for Ilia Trl 1 ftfaft Department 01 PerUculei Tanon Wanted. IjlC 4WV Far Nifht and SuaiUy Secvlaa Celli Atonal Department Tj at lMOti CtreuimoB Department Tr e JMJL aanrusiae Department ttUt VMt OFFICES OF THE BEE Boom OBoei Hta ea rameat, Branch unites: , AM tilt North ta I goQt WU Mil M St. Couaoll Bluffs It Boot St, Walnut North 401 Pare Mil Uaveuwort I Ont-ol-Tewn OMcaal Jfa Talk OBoa tM Fifth An WeehMutea 1111 it. Ckicaeo Btaeer Bid. Paria France N Bua St. Baneie TAe flee Platform 1. New Union Paiaeager Station. 2. A Pip Lino from tho Wyoming Oil Field to Oman. 3. Continuant improvement of tho No braaka Highway, including tho pave ment of Main Thoroughfare leading , into Omaha with a Brick Surfaco. 4. A short, low-rate Waterway from tbt Corn Bait U tho Atlantie Ocoan, i 5. Homo Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government, i AN UNLOVELY EXHIBITION. Mr. Will H. Hays, chairman of the repub lican national committee, was addressing a largo audience of republican women in Wash ington one afternoon last week. Seventeen "women not interested in the subject of Mr, Hays's oration, headed by Harvey W. Wiley's wife, broke upon it with a series of questions. . Much confusion ensued. It soon became evi dent that they were not republicans and were there solely to disturb the meeting. Mr. Hays listened patiently to the uproar, amid which questions like the following were shouted at him by the unwelcome invaders: "Why doesn't Delaware ratify the suffrage amendment?" "When are the govenors of Connecticut ani Vermont going to call special sessions?" "What are you going to do about Delaware?" "Why don't you do something about Con necticut and Vermont?" When the speaker had an opportunity he informed the unruly women that he and his , committee had no authority whatever ever the legislature of Delaware or the governors of the other states mentioned a fact the disturbers would have known but for their remarkable ignorance. The ladies present grew very' indignant anil wanted the women thrown out, but Mr. Hays smiled his way through the turmoil with his ac customed urbanity. His hecklers, it seems, were members of the National Woman's party of the offensive kind known as "militant suf fragists." We mention the incident as an unhappy illus tration of the wrong way for women to go about getting what they want in politics. Rudeness, impoliteness, violation of both the laws protect ing peaceable assemblages and those of propriety, do not win public respect or favor able consideration for either men or women, - They show a total lack of the first essential to the accomplishment of political aims. One may easily imagine the effect -of such a scene upon even a friendly legislature or governor. If outbursts of similar character become general, women's influence in politics will wane rapidly for disorder is always offensive in public affairs as it is in private. Women, like men, fail when they lose the respect of their fellows. Of course, this particular group of women is crazy for publicity. Unable to get their names in the papeu by sensible or deserving utter ances, they nave adopted the tactics of the hoodlum, with the natural result of drawing upon themselves the condemnation of orderly people. i The Protective Tariff Policy. . It may be accepted as certain that the repub lican convention will not recede from the tradir ttonal policy of the protective tariff. It is almost equally certain that the democratic party will follow the established record and re affirm its free trade doctrine. While this matter is not likely to be made a major issue in the coming camjaign, because ef the re-establishment of the tariff commission, it wilf certainly have some weight. ' One factor in the industrial situation is that thf'gap between exports and imports of manu factured articles is narrowing. The exports for April fell below the figures for March, while the exports were in excess for the latter month,' a lessening in the spread between the two amount ing to $93,000,000 being noted. Moreover, the exports for April fell $31,000,000 behind the record for last- year, while he imports were $222,000,000 over. These facts are significant, and should warn us that our home market is not yet secure from outside encroachment . The French government has modified its ex isting tariff by a decree prohibiting the impor tation of a long list of articles of ordinary use, to the end that the home market can be con served for home producers. Austral! has just adopted a new tariff, based on the protective and . reciprocity features Canada has made familiar to us. Spain and other nations are moving along the same line, totally disregarding that famous clause in the "fourteen points" which contemplated free -trade. Americans must not delude themselves that the supremacy they have enjoyed in the world's markets for the last six years is permanently Axed. Our business men have much yet to con quer, and can not hope to win by yielding the citadel, the tremendous, consumptive power of the American people, to foreign competitors. ica as a whole and the remainder chiefly to the Dutch East Indies. South America received $195,;0O0,QO0, of which $148,000,000 went to Braail, against $47,000,000 in the same months last year; $30,000,000 to Colombia, as against $13, 000,000 in the corresponding months last year, and $17,000,000 to Venezuela, compared with a little less than $9,000,000 for the year before. The net average price paid for coffee in Braiil by American importers was almost double that of the previous year, being 22.7 cents per pound against 11.8 cents. ' If prohibition be the, cause, our souther neighbors have benefited" as greatly as any through our country going "dry," And the food minister of Great Britain complains that the 70,000 tons of sugar England "saved" by being rationed has "disappeared down the dry throat of America." Our new law is discom moding others as well as ourselves. - -l Nebraska Memorial to Soldier Dead. Argument in favor of the proposed memorial to e soldier dead should not be needed. The sa spirit that led the citizens of Nebraska in 1861, in 1898, and in 1917 to rally to the call of Old Glory should be sufficient guarantee the success of the movement on foot to raise a million dollars for the purpose of erecting a great building on the University campus at Lin coln in honor of the soldiers of the state. It is to be a memento of the living as well, to remind all of the part the boys and young men of this great commonwealth did in defense of the na tion's institutions. The outlined plans call for a structure that will serve as a gymnasium for the students at the university, but will also include accom modations for the archives of the several patriotic organizations of the state, headquarters for the Grand Army of the Republic, the Woman's Relief corps, the Spanish-American War Veterans and the American Legion, besides a great stadium on which to hold athletic ex. hibitions. ' The magnitude of the project and the porpose in view should appeal'to the people of the state most potently. It would be possible to make provision for such a building and its equipment by taxation, but to secure as the free. gift of the citizens, with its dedication to future generations in the name of the citizen soldiers of Nebraska seems . far more worthy. A memorial to perpetuate the. sentiments that actuated these men m serving s they did when called upon will be forever not only a tribute to their valor and patriotism', but a genuine inspiration to the future children of Nebraska. The campus of the great University of, Nebraska, where the youth of the state iurn for the high education that is provided for them by the people is the appropriate location for such a monument . . Considered from any angle, the project is one that allure to the imagination as well as the J Jiooier impulses of citizenship. Therefore it is a "drive" Nebraakans well can support and its accomplishment ought to be easily achieved. r, Prohibition and Coffee Drinking. ' Whether it be the result of the discontin uance of the uses of alcoholie beverages er not. a sharp rise In the consumption of coffee in the United States is noted. At present the nation's coffee bill is a little more than $1,000,000 a day. Compared with one-third of that sum two 'years ago. This ia not all accounted for. by the in crease in prices, for the quantity imported in pounds has gona up from 1,052,000,000 pounds in two years to . approximately 1,500,000,000 Bounds, aa increase of almost one-half. Where we drank two cups ef coffee in 1918 we are now drinking; three, - Brazil has been the greatest beneficiary ef this stimulated appetite far its -principal prod uct Of the $236,000,000 sent eut ef the coun try to buy coffee in the nine months ending with Uvh, 1920, $322,000,000 ..went to Latin Amer. An Unwarranted Fear. The Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, always an interesting man in the Protestant Episcopal pulpit, and sometimes an instructive one, fears the bishops of his church may assume auto cratic power. Speaking at the Church of the Ascension in New York last Sunday he said: In America today the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church are reaching for more authority. In the middle west this takes the form of a desire to dictate to the parishes who their rectors shall be and in general to invade parish j self-government This, and other tendencies the doctor sees, he regards as so un-American as likely to alienate the church from the American people. We cannot agree. Bishops may have authority to decide who shall minister to their parishes without condemnation as un-American. In the Methodist Episcopal church the bishops do ex actly that, and we have never heard even a hint that they or their church in this country are not soundly American. t Dr. Grant said further: The moment an American bishop sets foot upon a British ship on his tour to Lambeth Palace, he is called by the officers of the ship "my lord." In England he is "my lord bishop and is a witness of the domestic, social and political impressiveness of the British "episcopacy. m He is vf ry likely to return to America with the words "my lord" agreeably ringing in his ears and is easily turned in his own country to alliance with the powers that be and is tempted to form an ecclesiastical machine by which he may himself come, to higher au thority. If Dr. Grant thinks the bishops of his church are made of such soft stuff as his words imply, we are ,sure his opinion is not shared by the general public. We may have a president who swelled unduly under British adulation and gold plate, but we have never heard of an American churchman who showed any such symptoms, i 1 k A Striking Decision. Broad tolerance characterizes the Methodist Episcopal church and its constitution, so far as requirements'for entrance into membership is concerned. There has been in its ritual for the reception of new members the. following ques tion and the answer demanded: Do you believe in the doctrines of the Holy .Scriptures as set forth in the articles of religion of the Methodist Episcopal church? I do. , Last week the judiciary committee of the church" reported .the question and its answer both unconstitutional, and the general confer ence abDeg Moines adopted the report, acting as the supreme court of the church, by a vote of 390 to 369. This leaves as the only essentia) requirement for membership "a desire to flee from the wrath to tome, and to be saved from their sins." Pos sibly those who would strike out the much debated amusement prohibitions from the church discipline might 'find the way by an at tack on their constitutionality. One of the 21 men who formulated the constitution has told us the commission appointed for that purpose was practically unanimous in the opinion that the prohibitions are clearly unconstitutional. Engineers in session at St. Louis say a billion i, wasted in fuel and power fn the United States each year. That wouldn't be much "at the present rates for fuel. A Line 0 Type or Two 4aw to th Lin. Itt tk aalii fall whara thay aias. Mississippi is after $10,000,000 penalties from the Standard Oil Auteists, take warning. Somebody ought to tell sugar , that other things are coming down. , Some way should be found to break the Vieiqus circle. ' - - FIRST IMPRESSIONS. I thought they pumped the meek cow's tall To get the lacteal f ow. I chertehed fondly this belief Till i was six or bo. KATHERINE. Although we have' not read Mr. Ibanez's novels, and have no intention of doing so, we are reading his Mexican letters with, much profit and entertainment We have yet to strike a dull paragraph. A SLAVE TO HIS ART. (From the St. Louie Post Dispatch.) John Knott, cartooniat and creator of the comic serial "Penny Ante." testified in the Circuit Court at Clayton today that It is necessary for him to play poker In order to get humor, atmosphere and genuine color for hia drawings. THE late Joselito Gomez, toreador, left a fortune of more than half a million. Figuratively and literally, there is no occupation so re munerative as throwing the bull. i NEXT. In the good old days of Dia,z it wae pretty hard to see aa How the happy peon could ever revolute. But came the Ma.deristas to smash the Federal Mas, And every Mex was learning how to shoot. Then followed Cast Villistas, mixed up with wild Huertistas, To say naught of Zapatistas who were mainly out for loot. Then loomed the Carranzistas, and once again Villastas; And now Obregonigtas take to saddle and to boot. E. S. P. "EGYPT is famous for one Nile; Paris for one Eiffel -Tower; Southern California for one stalwart newspaper." Loj Onglaze Times. How we Golden Whales do spout I IN WHICH THE VILLAGE MARSHAL BAWLS OUT ALL AND SUNDRY. (From.the Stevens Point Journal.) Editor Journal In reading' the article in regard to autoists, I will say that if any of the Plover village officer have anything to say in regard to autog I would like to have them sign their names in making any further statements aa I had not considered any movement whatever. However, I will say this, that I will not lay off of my work that I may be here to watch autos as I have too much paper hanging and decorating to do to waste the time in Plover. I will say also that only about 15 per cent of the auto drivers are feeble minded and all in that class can stay on guard as we intend to look after the other 85 per cent of the peo ple and protect their lives and limbs, j One thing more I will say is that playing a tune on your cut outs while passing through our " little village may prove expensive as the cost of living is going up all the time. Will do like congress, we will investigate. Any article that is not signed I know nothing about, and furthermore our speed limit is 20 miles per hour and not 8, as some say it is. E. L Moore, Village Marshal. LENIN and Trotzky are not dictators, be cause they can be recalled by the people, says Mr. Hjllquit. Of course. The cat can be belled any time the mice decide to do it. A Confession. (From "Memories of Vailima.") "At least," I said, "you have no manner, isms." He took the book out of my hand and read, "It was a wonderful clear night of stars." "Oh," he said, "How manyj many times I have written 'a wonderful clear night of stars!" " But I maintained that this, in itself, was a good sentence and presented a picture to the mind, "It is the mannerisms of the author who can't say 'says he' and 'says she' that I object to; whose characters hiss, and thunder, and ejaculate and syllable ' "Oh, my dead,'' he said, "deal gently with me-I once fluted!" DO you remember Baudelaire's description of Don Juan's passage to hell? You will, then, ad mire these opening stanzas of a pome by Alys Hale, the Uzark Harpist: I had spent the night in bright" Sin's halls. A youth was I, at the age where nature calls Loudest and strongest to the earth-made pole, And I kept the pace with a death ridden soul. I had fed onsin till my heart was sick! And I longed to die, and die right quick! O, I had dived in the waters of Sin's sweetest Joy, But found that wild river was death to a boy. I raised a phial -to my lips And beckoned a boatman with wide oar-dips To ferry me over the stream so wide, Where I would be free from the world's mad ride. MR. MARSHALL'S remedy for unrest is "equal and exact justice 4o all men." But that would put half the population in jail. 1 The Old Vests' Homo. (From the Jefferson County, Colo., Republican.) A leper home In Kwangju, Korea, la asking for men's vests. The lepers like these vesta as a protection against the cold, In Korea a vest costs about 10. The Pres. byterian Missionary society i endeavoring to collect and send as many as possible.' They go duty free. Any one willing to donate one or more discarded vests kindly leave with Mrs. 8. Z. Krumm at 1105 Twelfth street, as soon as possible. AS even our Immortals are mortal, it is fitting that they Should be accompanied to their last resting places by one of their number. And so it is with melancholy pleasure that we nomi nate for the post Mr. William M, Tears, Fu neral Director, of Austin, Tex, . The Second Post. ' (Report of a' Kansas agent.) You ask me fore my opinion of this claim the only thing I can say is that the Mule was found dead and looked like he was killed by lightening and . that there ' was a bad storm about that time and the neighbor living just a'crost the road declared that he was killed by lightening that he knows at about 7:30 there was nothing dead there and In the morning found him and he also heard the lightening strike something near his house, however it appears a strange thing to have one farmer have such losses but things will happen, while Mr. Klenda has suffered three losses in your Company and his business has been a loss to you he is about the only person that had this hard luck and its through no fault of his for he is a looses as it is the mule was worth more than the insurance covered him. I have give this loss my personal inspection and seen the dead animal. "He (Jean Moreas) wandered from De cadence, the school of which he seems to have founded." New York Times. But, as a matter of fact, did he? DOING AS GQOD AS COULD BE EXPECTED. (From the Canby, Minn., News.) Herbert Johnson 'is recovering from in juries received some time ago, when a Fordson tractor partly run over his head, driving his face in the mud a foot Her bert had his mouth and nose jammed solid with mud, but quick assistance dug it out. He is getting along good at present now. POETRY has its contortionists. Thus Keats: .YProne he lay, chin uppermost." MR. DELANEY does "exclusive undertak ing" in Clinton, la. It is becoming a real pleas ure to die, "BEG YOUR PARDON." (From the Pas Herald.) The report of the wedding of Tom Bear and Lizzie Flint at Pinuitona, published in The Herald a few weeks ago, is all wrong, ' writes Magistrate - May, who says it was a fight instead of a wedding. We are glad it is not as bad as first reported. THE FORWARD PRESS OF DICING. Sir: Wrong. A man hammers with the dice box before eaoh throw, not after. i CAPTIOUS.. ROYAL SIMPLICITY. (From the New Yprk Sun and Herald.) The Queen wore a beautiful flowered blue brocade gown and Jewels. The King . wore a gardepia In bis buttenhole. MEXICO'S troubles are only beginning Obregon, we read, is a born orator. How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS Sueatlotia eonrarnlnf hyflnna. Mut ual and prerantlon of disease, aub mlttcd to Dr. Kvana by roadrra of Th BfW, will be anawM-ed personally, ub java to, propaa limitation, arhar a atampaq, addroaard tnvrlope ia cn fioaed. Dr., Uvana will nut make dlagnoaia or preaerlbe for Individual dinaaars. Addreaa letters in car of Ths Be. Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Evana. FORESTALLING DEAFNESS. I frequently have advised those with tieafness approaching to pre pare by learning some substitute for hearing. The method to which we generally refer is lip reading. I recently have had several com munications from persons who ad vocate the sign language.- . Among other objections Ihave received is the statement that some persons cannot learn lip reading and others learn it with difficulty. . There is some ground for this crit icism., Laura A. Davjes gives 17 hints for the lip reader's friends in a recent number of the Volta Re view: 1. Always face the light. 2. Speak deliberately and natur ally. Do not mouth nor exaggerate words. 8. Enunciate clearly and distinct ly, but speak softly. 4. Speak smoothly and connected ly, not in a Jerky or word-by--word way. 5. Make your pauses at natural places in the sentence. 6. Change the thought into other words if not understood readily. 7. Don't sayxone word over and over. Change It. Use a synonym or phrase. f). With proper 'nouns use ex planatory phrases. 9. Use. words of plain lip move ment In place of obscure ones. 10. Long words are usually, easier to see han short ones. 11. Connect the unknown thought with the known. Give a clew to work from. 12. Do not insist on word-for-word accuracy. 13. Hold the head up, so the tongue movements are plainly visi ble. ' 14. Don't gesticulate, or the Up reader's eyes will follow the -hands and hot the lips. 15. Talk directly and simply. 16. Be patient. 17. Give your lip reading friend a half hour's practice some time. It will be appreciated more than you know. No one can read these hints with out appreciating that there are limi tations to Hp reading which most people overcome satisfactorily, but j to which some are unequal. At that, the lip reading has some resemblance to stenography. There is a good deal of guessing as to Just what a certain combination means. It may mean one word or it may mean some other quite different one. The deaf claim that the mental alertness, judgment, and sense ex ercised in interpreting lip movement is mind training, and that it is a compensation for the relatively fewer mental impressions of the. deaf. Those who use the sign language say the same of their method. Sjgns made with the hands and with ges tures are likewise interpreted by the "hearer." Their quick and cor rect interpretation spells mental training. There is no basic differ ence between the interpretation of the motions of the lips and tongue and that of the hands. Some say a deaf person, to get the maximum out of life, should be able to read the lips of the ordinary person and should also acquire the sign manual. The latter say the deaf . Seconds the Motion. Grand Island, Neb., May 81. To the Editor of The Bee: Miss Robert son of Omaha asked in your paper if Grand Island would second the motion that the name ot Mrs. Ryan lr. her capacity as chairman of .the state fair price commission should bo "stricken out." I believe that these which have t6 fight for a liv ing aa well as those which have to look out for a household will sup port the idea. And there la no reason, why not? There Is no op position to such a motion and move to such a movement. Let us re quest the resignation of the "Fair Price Commissioner." Such a posi tion Is not to be used' as ticket Into society nor as a fundament for auto cratic egotistical ideas. Let us see what she did for Grand Island; she called two meetings. First meeting were a insufficient amount ' of interested business men present. The second meeting, well they formed a committee and that still exists, but the ' people of Grand Island are still waiting for a reduction pf prices- In fact, in Scottsbluff you buy sugar for 16 ceiits a pound and in Grand Island you pay 24 and 25 cents, bft Scotts bluff Is blessed. So far the fair price commissioner has as yet not bought her railroad ticket in order to boost the prices. After Mrs. Ryan's visit in her role as chairman of the fair price commission, her home city, you, better don't tell any business man that his price is too high, be find nflore expression when talking with each other. The' movies have been a blessing to the deaf. They greatly broaden his interests. Both relatively and absolutely he gets more out of them than do the hearing. His trained ability to interpret the movements of the Hps, the meaning of gestures, expressions and attitudes gives him an advantage over those who hear. In addition, the movies make the drama attractive almost for the first time to the deaf. Next Fall when you order your Furs taken out of our Cdncrete and Steel Storage Vaults, you'll pat yourself on th back for consign ing 'em to our lov ing care. PHONE TYLER 345 DRESHER BROTHERS Dyers, Cleaners and Safe Fur Storage 2211-17 Farnam St. tell you. "I comply with the wishes of Mrs. Ryan." It looks to me that Mrs. Ryan Just fellows the footsteps of her su perior Hon,. Mitchell A. Palmer, at torney general and agent de provo cateur at Washington, D. C, with greatpromises and for fullflllments, but everybody has his day and if we have to watt till 1921. A CITIZEN AND TAXPAYER. About tho 'rice Slump. Omaha, May 20. To the Editor of The Bee: Assuming that present retail prices heralded as discounted 30 per cent are not at a loss (any merchant professing that brand of generosity needs watching and shunning), rather establishes acknowledgement on "this surface evidence alone of a 43 per cent mar gin (percentage figured on the net cf a SO per cent slump to total the original retail figure), this exclusive of what is not known of the mer chants actual cost paid the jobber or manufacturer, presenting rather indisputable and entangling evidence of violating reasonable profits and of infringing on profiteering legisla tion if there be any real binding re straint of that sort. This flash of inevitable reductions may be en couraging but bigger "back-ups'" are yet to come, and some of the "goug era" may yet get their just deeerta of getting hurt for being indifferent to fairness and eeonomlo law, "PUTRIDITT.- "BUSMSSS COOP THANK YOU LY Nicholas Oil Company -'tis not sufficient Jo B. 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Employers in every State, in almost every line of business, are looking for men with this training. , Ask if there's a vacancy. . , . ' . U. S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION Army Building, 15th and Dodge, Omaha, Neb.' UNITED STATES ARMY You will soon be able to bear the corn irow. :- la . I