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-as. THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 8. 1020. 4 1 A 4 . 1 a The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING ) EVENING SUNDAY TUB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, NELSON B. UPDIKE, Publisher. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Aaaociaud Pros, of which The hea U sumbsr. If stninlr mulled to Ui u for publication of U mm dliptlchM srKUled to It or not oUitrwtM erwlltod ta this paper, and alio the low! news publiahed herein. All rUbu of publication of our apaoial Uavtthea ara alao reeenrwL BEE TELEPHONES Prima Branca Eichaiiaa. Aak for tba ' "TVl 1 fWVi DeparUBenl or Person Wanted. 1 ylCT 1WV For Nijht Calls Aftar 10 P. M.i editorial Department ........... Trier 1000L Circulation Department .......... Trier 10uL rutin Department ........... Trier 100DL OFFICES OF THE BEE Haul Office: 17th and Famam IS Seott St. I South 8lda till H U. Out-ol-Town Offlcaai MK Fifth Ara. I Waahtnrton lill O IK. Bteger Bids. I I'aria franco 420 Hue SI Honor Council Bluff! Kar Tork Cnicaio The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. , 2. A Pipe Line from the Wyoming Oil Fields to Omaha. 3. Continued improvement of the Ne braika Highways, including the pave ment of Main Thoroughfares leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 4. A short, low-rate Waterway from the Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 5. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, With City Manager form of Government. RUDE DISPARAGEMENT OF BUSINESS WOMEN. In the current Forum is an article by Henry Norman entitled 'The Feminine Failure in Business," in which the matter it treated as one already settled by experience and the author's accusations. "Woman looks upon the business world," we are told, "pretty. much as she views her own social world. She knows the value of playing one person against another, of using a bit of flattery here, of arousing a mild Jealousy there, of utilizing her sex as her most powerful weapon, her personal charms as the Rarest, swiftest means to every end." Even more serious delinquencies are charged gainst woman by Mr. Norman. We find such Remarks as these: "She is not a good lawyer because she has no innate sense of justice . , . The cold reasoning faculty is not hers . . . Woman is fundamentally an entity of personal trppeals; she is swayed by her likes and dis likes; she cannot separate her emotional self from her intellectual . . . She has neither i4e, physical stamina, nor the intellectual elasfic fty to successfully cope with her male competi tor. , . If a woman loves a man he can do too wrong in her eyes; if the laws of the uni verse interfere with her own ends, the laws must be modified or set aside. . . Woman is a: natural partisan in every walk of life. Her instincts, inherited from cave dwelling ancestors, are to stick uncompromisingly to her own peo. pie, to fight for her own side and to fight fiercely, blindly. Competition is something to be combatted with bitter hostility. . . Give a woman a little authority, pay her a decent salary, and she immediately becomes a dan gerous partisan, dangerous to herself and her employers." With woman hardly on the threshold of the business experience and training that are to be hers, she is condemned perpetually by Mr. Nor aian, who says: I In business pursuits women are hot likely to go further than they have already gone, "'either in the relative number of them em ployed or the varieties of work they represent. The fact is, in business woman has reached the zenith of her powers. This is to because the average business woman "has been , weighed in the balances and found wanting." " Viewed from a common-sense standpoint , the business woman is in business because she has to be, because she has to earn her living; shrewd men of affairs have found out where and how to employ women where their pe- culiar talents will be developed most profitably to those who pay them. The mushy talk of woman's refining influence in executive busi . ness has no foundation in fact. She does not go into business for the sheer excitement of : competing with men and demonstrating her - superiority. The motive that drives a woman j to work in office, store or factory is precisely I the same motive that drives a man into the . same placesthe need of money. Any other j explanation is pure buncombe and subterfuge. ) A bold man, this, thus to pass judgment. It ' It not so long ago when men's business thoughts xao in tens and hundreds of dollars. Two gen ! erarjons ago they gained courage to think and & in thousands and in tens of thousands. Then ftame the era of corporations combinations of the capital of many men which taught men to think in units of hundreds of thousands and millions; while the late war has compelled them feo ponder over billions. x Why cannot women develop from small to large affairs? Why should she now be ex pected to cope with her male competitor and Iris experience, against which the cleverest of bosiness men a century ago would have con tested in vain? We believe there is a great fu ture for women in business, but her advance ment must be along the same natural lines which have brought efficiency to men during the thou sands of years in which he alone has carried the purse. ' There is as yet no general willingness among men to divide cash assets with their women, or to encourage them in the arts of finance and business. They are using them in commercial pursuits now because they are useful in busi ness. The woman who can be profitable to her employer in business can be more profitable to herself once she has mastered fundamental busi ness principles. Is there any unprejudiced man so daring in bis opinions that he would deny woman's capacity to absorb and apply them zfter the same experience a man must have to do the same thing? We trow not Mr. Norman's attack should be an inspira tion to business women rather than a discour agement. He is himself grievously in error, bat we wish for his own sake that he had not permitted hh obliquity of judgment to betray him into the statement that a woman "has no innate sense of justice." He is without thepale fcf charitable consideration in that It ha been a long, long time since we saw 'so many attractive, intellectual and beautiful girl faces, and such handsome, intelligent and bright boy countenances, as those shown in the bif group picture of the Central High school graduates in The Sunday Bee. 0r judgment would be that in the years to come these young people will win distinction in many walks of life. . Five thousand swivel chair warriors will cease to feed on the War Department pay roll after July 1, thanks to a republican congress, which cut off the fund they have enjoyed for boat twenty months since, the vac ceased, A Monthly Rapture. Why waste time with old poetry when one may have new verse once a month when "Poe try, a Magazine of Verse," comes regularly to gladden and inspire? Old fogies go to Burns, Tom Hood, Butler, even Swift and Byron, when Longfellow, Whit tier, Tennyson, grow tame and uninteresting. And all the while "Poetry" is to be had, with lines like these: Love me, child of the morning 1 Happy blossom in the wind, love me. See, I am sad I have dwelt long in chaos, And my hands and my feet are star-pierced Love me ... . Away with the manicure and the chiropodist, with their delicate attentions! Let us love "star-pierced" hands and feet, and be forgetful of warts and hangnails, corns and bunions, with "Poetry" to charm away our aches and pains. You may, if you wish, become a "supporting subscriber" at $10 per annum, to this "organ of the art" of poesy, and revel in the profundity of lines ouch as we regretfully use in closing: Toe worm of love, A-spinning its cocoon Of silken cloth, Of delicate silence, whence so soon It should emerge, a lunar moth. Honest to goodness, can you beat it for afflatus? The "worm of love," the tadpole of the Muse! A Senatorial Quotation. Senator Park Trammell of Florida is ac cused of alluding in the senate to "the same old story of Nero's wife fiddling while Rome burns," to the covert amusement of his col leagues, who wear their history more correctly. Nero himself played on musical instruments during the fire, but probably not on a violin. His first wife, Octavia, was divorced, and killed when twenty years old. His second, Poppaea Sabina, was a dissolute beauty, who approved Nero's cruel murder of his mother, who herself had murdered her uncle, Claudius, in order that her son, Nero, might have the throne. Royal Roman society was rotten in Nero's time (the first century) and so was politics, for the Roman senate congratulated Nero on assas sinating his mother, and Seneca, the philosopher, whose face, done in stone, is one of the archi tectural ornaments on the west side of Omaha's public library, wrote a defense of the foul deed inspired by the emperor's lust for another man's wife. After the fire at which the "fiddling" was done, Nero accused the Christians of starting the flames and inflicted hideous punishments upon them. He was a bad lot the most vicious tyrant in history a born criminal stained with every despicable infamy known in his time, and finally killed himself. Eleventh hour sensations in a convention representative of the entire United States should not be accepted at face value. The men repre senting the republican party at Chicago know what they are about and that their task is to unite on the strongest man. Do not doubt for one minute that they have in mind the cool, level-headed judgment of the people at home, and will strive to win its full approval. One-third of the houses in Vera Cruz are to be burned because of bubonic plague. This acute malignant contagious disease originated in Asia, and has caused frightful mortality in Europe. It is disturbing to have it gain a foot hold in America. Delaware's legislature was stubbornly op posed to woman suffrage to the end. The frantic appeals of the women, and the stern demands of both republican and democratic leaders the country over, did not budge it. Rural zone populations show a decrease in three and increase in four of seven counties re ported. The heaviest decrease was 6.6 per cent and the largest increase 10 per cent Prohibition enforcement authorities say New York is the wettest town in the country, Chi cago next, and' Philadelphia third. Can it be that the American Federation of Labor is in session at Montreal with a view to refreshments? We trust no confiding Visitor in Chicago this week will buy the Masonic Temple. aHaWBMaMaMIBBN A Song of Books. Oh for a booke and a shadie nooke, Eyther in doore or out; With the greene leaves whispering overhead Or the streete cryes all about; Where I maie reade all at my ease, Both of the newe and old; For a jollie goode booke whereon to looke, Is better to me than golde. Old English Song. Whence Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Of the countless persons who habitually use 'Tweedledum and Tweedledee" to signify a dis tinction without a difference, few are aware that the phrase was originally coined to express con tempt for musical controversy. The circum stances under which the words came into the English language were these: . In 1720 the Royal Academy of Music brought to London a distinguished Italian com poser and conductor, Giovanni Bononcini, and the incident was regarded as a deliberate at tempt to assail the prestige of Handel, who had for years been established in favor of George I and his court. The great Marlborough family was then at odds with the house of Hanover, and anti-German feeling prevailed among old Jacobite families. These factions speedily took the Italian newcomer under their wings, and the result was that, for the first and only time in British history, rivalry between two mu sicians assumed a political aspect. The feud was embittered by the real success of Bonon cini's opera, "Griselda," a charming aria, which was revived by Madame Galli-Curci two or three years ago. It was whlie this controversy was at its height that the following satirical lines appeared and were recited throughout London: Some say, compared to Bononcini That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange that such difference should be Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee. In many quarters these lines have been at tributed to Dean Swift, but it is now believed that they were written by a forgotten rhymester, John Byron. At any rate, the final line passed immediately into the proverbial storehouse of the English language and is as widely quoted today as anything in Shakespeare. A moment's examniation of the sounds of "tweedledum" and tweedledee" shows; that they are onomato-poetic words coined to describe ordinary violin phrases. It was the poet's way of saying that all fiddlers looked alike to him. No doubt it did a good deal to make people see the ridiculous side of the controversy, but it did not deter Handel from his pursuit of Bononcini. A few years later he was able to prove that the Italian had deliberately palmed off as his own madrigal by Lotti, whose works were at that time almost unknown in England. Sioux City Jovnai A Line 0 Type or Two Haw to Iha Llt. lat tha aalpi fall whara they nay. A BIT OP OLD IVORY. (By a Chinese Poet Pursued By Eunice Tletjens Pursued by J. V. S.) After the train had run over The neck and legs of Wung Fu And they had carried what was left of him On the bank and laid It under a cherry tree, A bystander who had witnessed the accident Asked: "Was he much hurt?" IT will be a great relief to Mr. Bryan when the republican convention is over, as the selec tion of a good man and a strong platform is giv ing him the greatest concern. THE TRAFFIC COP A THOME. Sir: If you were a woman, how would you like to be married to a traffic cop? Few men can, or do, divest themselves of their business or professional worries when they reach their homes at the close of day. Perhaps a traffic cop does; perhaps when he doffs his cap and coat, he likewise divests himself of the facial expres sion that cows millionaires, mere men, matrons and, mebbe, mayors, but it is doubtful. An auto crat of the avenue by day, is he an humble hus band by night? Can he, by the raising of a hand, stop a flow of words as effectually as he stops the flow of traffic? It would be interest ing to discuss with her who knows best the home habits and conduct of a traffic cop. JOEDE. VARYING the goldfish figure, Mr. Collins recently wrote, "No more privacy than a traffic cop." We doubt whether ate. has a private life. HERE IS SOMETHING OUT OF THE COMMON, WATSON. From the Coffeyville, Kan., Sun. One hundred dollars reward for the re covery of the body of Hale Short, drowned in the river on the night of the 17th. The body can be recognized by the form that Short had an impediment In his speech. For any information you may need call on Thornton Bros, and let us show you our method of relaying wornout shears at a rea sonable cost. Thornton Bros. We also weld broken castings, no dif ferent how difficult the job may be, we make it like new. WHEN Governor Johnson bowed and bowed to the upper windows of the skyscrapers Thurs day, he got a great hand from the window wash ers. Every little helps. PROTECTIVE COLORATION. A brown leaf and a gray leaf And a blackened leaf beside; The forest floor is littered so, But one has never tried To sell all things the forest holds, When April keeps her spell, Who has not sought the woodcock Where she broods immovable. A brown leaf and a gray leaf And a blackened leaf indeed . May show a shrewd duplicity To eyes that truly heed. But none may know, descrying Where the brooding woodcock sits, Whether, nestled in her leaf bed, Consciously she counterfeits. HIRAM W. HEEZE. "THE Butler campaign," says the manager of it, "was at all times a national campaign, and never a state or even a sectional campaign." This is, to say the least, reassuring. READING FOR J. U. H- Sir: If you will allow me to pinch-hit for you, I will tell J. U. H. what to read. Without knocking Dr. Eliot's selections, which roost on my shelves, I want to say that a liberal educa tion can he derived from the leisurely perusal of the following half dozen volumes: Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura," Montaigne's "Essays," Dickens' "Bleak House," Chesterton's "Ortho doxy," Sumner's "Folkways," and Synge's "Play boy of the Western World." This list, framed ten years ago, has withstood the test of time, and takes in everything ever worth while, com prising wit, wisdom, narrative, philosophy, and humor. Only one book read in all that time stands a show. This is France's "Penguin Island," which, it must be grudgingly admitted, was read on your own recommendation. L. A. N. RAZOR blades are also useful, it is sug gested, for trimming wire screens, and they then make good saws for the children to play with, being harmless unless taken internally. THE BREATH OF FLOWERS. (Francis Bacon, On Gardens.) And because the breath of flowers Is far sweeter in the air (when it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, there fore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; eo that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morn ing's dew. Bays likewise yield no smell as they grow; Rosemary little, nor Sweet Marjoram. That which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air is the Violet, especially the white double Violet, which comes twice a year, about the middle of April and about Bartholomew-tide. Next to that is the Musk-Rose; then the Straw berry leaves dying with a most excellent cordial smell; then the flowers of the Vines it is a little dust, like the dust of a bent which grows Upon the cluster In the first coming forth. Then Sweet Briar;. 'then Wall flowers, which are very delightful to be set under a parlour or lower chamber window; then Pinks, and Gilliflowers, specially the matted Pink, and Clove Gllliflower; then the flowers of the Lime Tree; then the Honeysuckles, so they be somewhat afar off! Of Bean flowers I speak not, because they are field flowers. But those which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest but being trodden upon and crushed, are three that is Burnet, Wild Thyme, and Water Mints. There fore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure, when you walk or tread. WHEN a political convention is on, there are few things more interesting than gardens and classical literature. A NOTEWORTHY IMMORTAL. Sir: As an important member of the Acad emy Executive Staff, may I not nominate Ira Ami, assistant cashier of the Farmers' State Bank of Bulpitt? He might run this as a side line. A. C. D. "MUST personal ambition and political ex pediency swerve us from the true course?" asks Gen. Pershing. Well, since personal ambition is at the prow and political expediency at the helm, it is hardly a question of being swerved from the course. . RAIN DANCE. The rain comes down in the night with the clashing of silver cymbals. The rustle of silk and the patter of dancing footsteps; The rain flees back to the hills 'mid a spatter of distant clapping. BERTHA TEN EYCK JAMES. "I HOPE to have a look-in at the conven tion," communicates M. C, "although it re sembles vaudeville in that one sits through hours of boredom hoping for a bright moment." SPEAKING of the new leisure class, we find the following in the Seattle Times, under "So ciety Notes": "W. B. Eshelman, carpenter. EU Z691." THE HARD BOILED KIDS. From the Peoria Journal. Wanted S or more furnished rooms for light housekeeping. Have two indestructible children. J. Krejl. VOX POP protests against wasting daylight in order that the farmer may make the first show at the village movie. What does he say to this? In Wilmot, Wis., the pastor dismisses services half an hour earlier than usual in order that the village blacksmith may make the PLEASE PASS THE CONDIMENTS. From the Evansville Journal. Jack Seasongood, manager of the Y, W. C. A. cafeteria, leaves Friday for De Pere, Wis. TAKING it by and large, the present method of selecting candidates does not appear to have fulfilled all that was expected of it. ' '.THOU shalt not pussyfoot!" commands Hiram. But the republican elephant is as light on its pads as a gazelle. B. L. T. "Patched trousers may cover an honest heart" if cat high enough in the waist How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS Questions roncornlnf hygiene, sanl. tation and prevention of disease, ant), milted to Dr. Evans by reader of The Kee, will be answered personally, sub et to proper limitation, where a stamped, addreaaed envelope Is au rloaed. Dr. F.vnn will nt innke diagnosis or prescribe for individual diaeaaes. Address letters In care of The Bee. Copyright, 1S20, by Dr. W. A. Evans. MINOR SURGERY WAR LESSONS. Here appear some of the improve ments in what might be called minor surgery which the war taught us and which Dr. Maxelner says in Modern Medicine can be used to ad vantage in Industry: In shock It is very necessary to warm up the pationt. Accurate tem perature recording shows that he is cold. The fundamental essential is to warm him up quickly and to keep him warm. Wrap him in a few blankets and put a few hot bricks around him one to the foot and one to his back and you will do him more good than if you gave him all the whisky in Dalrymple's cellar. If he is wet dry him, but above all warm him. The next essential Is to give him water if his stomach will stand it, warm coffee or warm tea or ordi nary water. Do not let the taking of medicine interfere with drinking of water. If he can take aromatic spirits of ammonia, by all means give it to him, but if it is liable to upset his stomach and interfere with the taking of water do not give it. If water cannot be given by stomach and the need is great, it should be given by rectal injection, by injection into the tissues or into a vein. It was found best to inject teta nus antitoxin into every person hav ing a wound that was at all dirty. This was as much a routine as was cleaning and dressing. The best way- to give it was 500 units once each week for three weeks. The giving of 1,500 units at one dose at the time of treatment was a good, but not the best plan. Dr. Maxeiner said: "In our opinion the courts eventually will hold that 'the man who failed to use antitetanic serum as a pro phylactic measure is both neglectful and liable.' " The war proved that most wounds should be cleaned up and then closed by suture. The percentage In which this was found to be the best pro cedure varied between 80 and 90. The best surgeons cut away all mangled tissue, including loose ends of bones, cleaned the wound well and sewed it up. In most cases where this was not possible the wound was packed with gauze for three days and then sewed up. Badly infected wounds were washed with Dakin's fluid every two hours until the bac teria In the discharges were but few in number, after which they were sewed up. Badly fractured limbs were put up in a Thomas splint on the field. When the authorities changed their treatment so that persons with badly fractured limbs were not handled until after the fractures had been well splinted they cut the death rate of such cases almost half in two. The cutting and tearing of a jagged bone end does great harm. Sinclair glue is much superior to adhesive plaster. The formula of Sinclair glue is: Glue, 49; thymol, 1; calcium chloride, 1 ; water, 50. The massage of fractured limbs and passive motion of neighboring joints should be begun the day after the dressings are applied. I can divide a cake into three and take it in three oranges a day." REPLY. This treatment has relieved many when combined with other treat ment Take one-half cako or one cake three times a day. In addition massage the skin well and keep it extremely clean. Express black heads once or twice a week. Limit your diet especially as to sweets and starches. Treating Hay Fe-vt-r Now. Mrs. B. writes: "1. Do you think May 1 too early to start calcium chloride for hay fever? I want to mend the roof before it rains, as you call it. It did me worlds of good last year. "2. I wondered if I should take it each year or pass it up one season. From not being run down with hay fever last summer, I have gained several pounds in weight this winter, and never felt better in my life." REPLY. 1. No. Z. Keep on taking it. To save others the trouble of writing I will give the method. Dissolve 4 ounces or calcium chloride crystals in 1 pint of distilled or rain water. Take one taespoonful, well diluted, three times a day. Begin sometime before the onset of the season. Some take calcium lactate In place of chloride because it tastes better. This 1 helpful in hay fever, asthma ami other spasmodic disorders. Fall of tho Mighty. It makes one smile to hear a man vho used to drink nothing but straight whifky talk hopefully of the possibility of making beer and light wines legal. Toledo Blade. 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PRINTING Wry M COMPANY , f5il y!tvL--- Muw bomusi rARXAN !! n't COMMERCIAL PRI NTERS - LITHOGRAPHERS STEEL OlE EMBOSSERS IQOSC ICAF DEVICES rbotasraeh from DBdarwood A TJssarwooe. Hi Z, Every one of them from your own home town Lead a good healthy life Learn a trade or get a schooling Get military training Be with men from your own home State Here are your Home State Regiments of the Regular Army 65th Rest. Infsntry, Csmp Funston, Kan. 80th Ragt. Field Artillery. Camp Funaton, Kan. 2d Reirt. Cavalry. Fort Riley, Kan. Eth Rest. Engineers, Camp Humphreys, Va. What troops arc those?" "They're Regulars. But they're Regulars that belong to us, units made up largely of men from this part of the country. It's a new plan the War Department is putting through, to get a closer relationship between the Army and the people in each community." Men who read the same newspaper you do, men rooting for the same ball team, men you've called Bill and Harry since you were a young ster it's men like these you'll be with when you join the new democratic peace-time Army. Ask if there's a vacancy. ' U. S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION Army Building, 15th and Dodge, Omaha, Neb, UNITED STATES ARMY r V. ssi V r. f .4 ' . tn !rv aJa.V, I ( - "ma. , , . t -., aft - . . -TV,.