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II THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE J, 1020. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE DEE PUBLISHING COMTANY, NELSON B. L'l'DlKE, Fubliahtr. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Awn-iaitd Trru. of which Tha Bea la member. Is x ' almlt.lj tuuilsd to tea um for rutiliratlou of ail nawa diapatchaa ' aramiad to It or not nthtrwiaa crMttM In thla wir, and alto tha looal nam publl.hul lifnin. All rljhia of publication, of our apacial dlipatciies art alio rtaned. BEE TELEPHONES Mtats Branch Itrehaiifn. Aak for tha Tvlatw 1 faflA Dspanmul or Parson Wanted. 'J' vrvv For Nijht Call After 10 P. M.i rMltorlat Department Tyler 1000T. Clrfulallnn Department Tyler 100SL IjdvarUalnf Deparunmt - - Tjler lOuSL OFFICES OF THE BEE slain Offua: j;th and Karaan Gouaatl Bluffi IS Bcntt St. I South Ride 1311 X St. Out-of-Town Official Kw Tork 181 Ktfih Are. I Washlniton 1SU 0 ftt.v Chicago Staler Illu. l'aria Kranos 420 Bue St, Honor The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. A Pipe Line from the Wyoming Oil Field to Omaha. 3. Continued improvement of tha Na braika Highway, including the pave ment of Main Thoronghfaret leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 4. A short, lowrate Waterway from the Corn Belt to the Atlcntic Ocean. 5. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. READY FOR THE MARCH. ' ' The eyes of the whole country are on Chi cago this week, the great rnajority of them in full trust and confidence; but a minority seek ing flaws and faults in the work of the conven tion. No doubt exists in any well informed mind capable of separating desire and fact, and of arriving at an impartial conclusion, that the strong drift of public favor and public hope for the future of the country is toward the repub lican party and its aspirations. To express the truth bluntly, the people are tired of democratic rule. Seven hard years of it have fastened upon them the conviction that the democratic party is incapable of conducting the government honestly, fairly or efficiently. This judgment is irrevocable so far as the campaign qf 1920 is concerned, and has been reached not only by those republicans who have never fal tered'in their party allegiance, but also by the great number of former republicans who were taken in and done for by the anti-preparedness pacifist policy of Wilson in 1916. In addition there is a very considerable number of demo crats who have not been able to stand for the vagaries and fads of the present administration, and it is their purpose to administer such a rebuke to their party at the coming election as will not soon be forgotten. Their number has greatly increased since their repudiation of Pres ident Wilson in the congressional elections two years ago. Their strength is formidable. Hope abides, however, with the thick and thin democrats snugly installed in federal office, that something may happen at Chicago to brighten democratic prospects. The hope is vain. The anvil chorus of the democratic press, now noisily engaged in attempts to incite fac tional animosities, will have- more difficult music to .play after the San Francisco conven tion reveals the state of their own party, dis integrating north and south under the intolerant and vindictive policy of President Wilson to ward democrats who refuse to place their con sciences and sovereignty in his keeping. But aside from all that, the country yearns for a return of republican characteristics in the government for the sound Americanism and uniformly high business qualifications of repub lican administrations. It is surfeited with stub born " and narrow partisanship, costly in efficiency, reckless extravagance, sectional fa voritism in distributing the burden of war taxes, the fixing of war prices to admit of southern profiteering in cotton and sugar, and the general business incompetence, of the un American democratic administration of Wood row Wilson. It wants a change and is going to have it; and the republican primaries have shown that neither the party nor the people at large, are .caring-particularly who leads its march to better government. It wants to march, that is the main thing, and is ready to make it a trium phant march. The country has again reached the definite conclusion it always comes to when the democratic party has been in power a few years, which ,is 'that it never can be trusted to treat ,he-country right This time it has sought to destroy the nation's traditions and entangle it inextricably .with the jealousies, disputes and Wrs of 'Europe. 'It will never again attempt such a thing' after it reads the verdict of a patriotic nation next November. Fair Committee Action. ' The republican party has reason to con gratulate itself on the disposition of contests brought before the national committee last week. For many years contesting delegations have protested committee decisions with charges of partiality and steam-roller tactics and always with truthfulness. A new order has prevailed since Will H. Hays was made national chairman, and after a strenuous week in which Wood and Lowden .delegates sought the seating of their friends, and Lowden was awarded 88 delegates, Wood only 34, Johnson 7 and Harding 6, the Wood committeemen, the greatest sufferers from com mittee action, unanimously declare that "the work of the committee has been fair and square." This is a wholesome change from the meth pds inaugurated by Mark Hanna in the first McKinley campaign, when every committee de cision on a contest was dictated by him regard less of its merits, and committeemen gave their factional , feelings full sway. Will Hays has made good his pledge that the committee would act with judicial fairness. The ardent friends of the candidate hurt most by its decisions now proclaim the committee's decisions just and in full accord., with the weight of evidence presented. Il ia a real achievement. ? It is a great spread of lively, entertaining and instructive special correspondence from the Chicago convention with which The Bee is re galing its morning a"hd evening readers this ;week. The same complete news and comment service will be handled by The Bee when the democratic . convention is on at San Francisco. iS The Bank of England is to move into a lowering skyscraper six or seven stories high. A dizzy qH town, Lunnon. Business is needed in politics, but let it be Understood not bad business. A Heavy Lost to Meet One thousand representative Massachusetts farms show a decrease of 25 per cent in the number of laborers on them, with 12 per cent less the country over, compared with one year ago. Where this labor has gone may be sur mised from the fact that laborers in the same period have increased from 10 to 93 per cent in textile industries, 55 per cent in clothing occu pations, and 37 per cent in automobile factories, "All drawn" from the farms, says the Spring field Republican, "by high wages, short hours and the pleasures of town life.' But move ments of this kind have been going on for years, and the present shortage of labor, not only on the farm, but elsewhere, has another and more patent cause than the mere shifting and chang ing Of employments. The Republican calls at tention to- the fact that our present shortage, now put at 4,000,000 workmen, is almost wholly the result of the cessation of immigration and the return of much of our alien labor to Europe. We have for many years "developed industrially on a large annual immigration." That immi gration stopped six years ago, and we are now feeling in every industry, and in tha of the farm particularly, the loss of it. ' We may charge it all up to the war. The labor needed in useful employment has been busy making things to kill men with, and in the killing of men. Now the world must pay for all the waste of muscle and life. The Keg Has Run Dry. The Supreme Court of the United States has settled it irrevocably. The Eighteenth Amend ment is adopted, and the act of congress for its enforcement is constitutional. The liquor busi ness is down and out, so far as its lawful prose cution is concerned. It has been four hundred years since Bishop Still wrote the lines that follow, now pathetic: Back and side go bare, go bare, Both hand and foot go cold; But belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old. The time has come for the literature of drink to become obselete. The arts of conviviality are lost. You can't shake your shimmy on tea. The Selective Draft Law Expires. The compulsory military service law, com monly called -the selective draft daw, enacted in 1917, expired Monday. There are in the South ern district of New York 11,000 cases pending against alleged slackers, and two tons of docu ments in the district attorney's office containing evidence. It is announced that every case will be tried. Much doubt of the wisdom of the selective draft existed when the law was passed, but it created a great force of men who went cheer fully into the military service of their country, and are now more than glad that they did. Com paratively few dodged service, and of all who did, those who sought and got service proof commissions in Washington offices, where they dawdled through the war, are in the most un satisfactory mental condition today. General Pershing's intention soon to retire from the army is not surprising. A man who has done the great things he has should not be :onfined to detail work. The general no doubt will find a field in which to give his talents full opportunity, and the whole country will wish him many happy and successful years in it. Chicago doctors have issued 500,000 rum prescriptions since January 16, two-thirds evasions of the law for "sufferers" from boils, hay fever, catarrh, ulcerated teeth and forty other ailments. Victims of bronchitis were most favored. Not one prescription was issued for chronic thirst for alcohol. Now it seems that Norway declined the mandate over Danzig. Another country not looking for trouble. This is one of the weeks that will be memor able in the history of the U. S. A. A president is in the making. The Last Call. If you have been conservative And lived true to your vow, And still have on your heavy ones, Prepare to shed them now. Tennyson J. Draft, in Kansas City Star. SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE. I want more pay for what I do, And so does everyone else. I charge more for the goods sold you And so does everyone else. I shove up all my fees each day And those who deal with me must pay. I think that is the only way. And so does everyone else. But still, I yelp and wail and sigh And so does everyone else. I kick on prices, when I buy And so does everyone else. You boost and boost and so do I And still we sit and wonder why The things we have to buy are high And so does everyone else. Should Extend the Law. We always have heard that a limited amount of profanity is pardonable when one barks a shin on a rocking chair in the dark. When one gets up in the dark, however, and with a warm bare foot treads upon a cold rubber doll with a whistle in it, we think the limit should be ex tended. Kansas City Star. A Suitable Hymn. A new preacher was asked if he would like any special hymn to be sung to agree with his sermon. "No," he replied, "the fact is, I scarcely ever know what I am going to say until I arrive in the pu1pit.' "Well, in that case," said the vicar, "we will sing 'For Those at Sea.' "Edinburgh Scotsman. An Early Populist's Confusion. , It is sometimes said that a reputation for wit is fatal to a serious legislative career. But the statement is not altogether true, for more than once a bit of wit has prevented legislative folly. It is a tradition in Philadelphia that during the constitutional convention it was proposed to incorporate in the constitution a provision that the United States army should never exceed 3,000 men. According to the tradition the de bate, which was posstbly informal and outside the regular sitting, was abruptly cut short when Benjamin Franklin solemnly suggested that there be incorporated another clause making it part of the organic law of the land that no for eign nation should ever invade the country with an army of more than 3,000. A somewhat similar point was scored in the state legislature a few years ago when, during a discussion not over well based, it was proposed by a shrewd Yankee from the hills of Sunder land, F. L. Whitmore, that a law should be enacted providing that ho one should be obliged to work between meals. Springfield (Mass.) Republican, A Line 0' Type or Two Haw to tha Una, let tha ula fall where they mi. CAxorrs. (Reprinted In the midst of alarums and ex cursions.) - When quacks with pills political would dope us, When politics absorbs the livelong day, I like to think about the star Canopus, So far, so far away! Greatest of vleloned suns, they say who list 'em; To weigh It science always must despair. Its shell would hold our whole dinged solar system, Nor ever know 'twas there. When temporary chairmen utter speeches, And frenzied henchmen howl their battle hymns. My thoughts float out across the cosmic reaches To where Canopus swims. When men are calling names and making faces, When all the world's a-jangle and a jar, I meditate on interstellar spaces, And smoke a mild seegar. For after one has had about a week of The arguments of friends as well as foes, A star that has no parallax to speak of Conduces to repose. HOWEVER (a purist tells us that one should not begin a sentence with however; and cer tainly one should never end it with the word), a presidential campaign is tranquilizing in one respecti It covers up for the time the fact that money Is hard to borrow and business is hard to carry on, and that things may be going to pot generally. When the tumult and the shout ing dies, the public picks the wool out of its eyes and blinks at the sun. PROBLEM: HOW TO GROW TET REMAIN VIRTUOUS. (From the Connersville, Ind., News-Examiner.) The city has built a character, synony mous with honesty, integrity and decency, and the building has taken one hundred years of time. To lose any part of it, in the flush of its growth from puerile proportions to full civic adolescence, would be a dis ter and a shame. It is taken to be Inevita ble that the booming of business and the growth of the city should attract some un dercurrents of society this way, but the feeling is that these same currents need not and should not ever grow proportionately stronger than they were in the calm old days when Connersville was small. QUESTIONED as to the Eighteenth Amend ment, Gov. Lowden said: "My position is that the Eighteenth or any other amendment or law should be enforced without fear or favor." It required courage to say that, but the Governor was there with the intrepidity. Hint to Contributors. Sir: I am beginning to understand your re peated assertion that humor is not the purpose of your column. Every time I send you a line, if it be humorous or even only witty, you bar it at once and refuse to print it. H. J. "PRESIDENTIAL candidates," says the Liter ary, as a seed catalogue. Digest, "are chosen by national conventions of political parties." Which leads C. J. to bother us with the question, "Who, then, selects the nominees?" QUESTION: IS HE WORTH MORE DEAD? (From the London Telegraph.) John Percival Wood. If this should MEET the EYE of the above, who was last heard of about 12 years ago in Seattle and Portland, Oregon, he will HEAR of SOME THING greatly to his ADVANTAGE by ap plying to the undersigned. Anybody giving proof with regard to his death will be hand somely rewarded. M HOTEL in the south advertises that its golf greens are always in the pink of condition. Down there the dandelion is known as the pink. HAIRD HIT BUT HOPKFUL. Oh wad my muse were as o' auld! But fickle lass, she isna'; That she'd be kind instead o' cauld! But wae's my hairt! she disna'. . Lang while the lassie, when I wooed, Her favors freely gi'ed me. The noo she's o' anither mood, For losh! she disna' heed mfe. Her 'oors nae mair wi' me are spent, ' Wi' her awa I'm weary. Sae noo I hae nae rymes tae prent, And oh, I miss my dearie. t O coorse I canna' sing, ye ken, Wi' her no sitting near me; But gin she's kind and eooms again , I hae nae doot ye'll hear me. ARIES. THE number of persons in the United States and Great Britain who think or talk of the friendly or unfriendly relations between the two nations is so small that it represents in the total populations what the chemist calls "trace." WE SET OUT LTCOPERSICON. Sir: I have been making garden recently. My neighbor on the right asks me if I am plan ning for any tamatas. My neighmor on the left suggests I ought to plant some tumattoes. All the time I have had in mind setting out tomay- toes. But now I am all confused. What shall I do? TAGDA-MAD. THAT shameless pair of St. Louis delegates, Moore and Goldstein, should be grateful for es caping the sunrise firing squad. Never before has a national convention been so shocked. WELL, PERHAPS SHAKESPEARE WAS RIGHT. Sif: Did you know that Mr. Seattereood was a circulation manager for the Chicago Ameri can? R. E. W. IN point of avoirdupois, Chicago is this week the literary center of the United States. All the gathered talent needs is something to write about. The Backward Step. Sir: I have it on the authority of as fa mous a writer and as accurate an observer as Gautier, that prohibition will put the race one step back in its upward progress from the merely animal. He says: "Le triple et glorieux privilege de boire sans avoir soif, de battre le briquet, et de faire 1'amour en toutes saisons, ce qui nous distingue de la brute beaucoup plus que l'usage de lire des journaux ou de rabriquer des cnartes." He says several other mouthfuls in the same sentence, but what I want to ask is how boire sans avoir soif when you can't get le hooch? L. F. H. "CROSS the equator, son," said the delegate from Manila to the Inquiring Reporter, "cross the equator and solve the high cost of living." Doesn't 'this oiseau know which side of the equator he lives on? YE ED'S ALL-SEEING EYE. (From the Lake Mills Graphic.) We saw one of our Lake Mills girls try ing to "shimmy" along the sidewalk, while walking past the show tont last week with her girl chum, in an effort to oatch the eye of one of the young show fellows. It was a disgusting sight and we know full well where it will end if it continues. We ought to mention the girl by name in order to protect our well behaved young ladies, but let us hope she reads this and corrects her conduct on the street. WHILE you are waiting for the convention to be called to order you might be glad to learn that Lake Erie Holladay practices law in Dres den, Tenn. No Better Place to Acquire It. (From the Lima Republican-Gazette.) Wanted Lady to work in restaurant; one who has had experience. Apply at In terurban Eating Parlor. , THE solitary candidate for vice president is attracting; much attention. Visitors crowd against his cage at the Congress to have a squint at him. KINDLY ADD OUR HA-HA'S. (From the Chula Vista Star.) Ha-Ha Joe Soper was unusually happy one day this week. We hear he popped the question and was accepted. Here's our best wishes. OUR guess is that the nominee will have an "o" in his hi B. L. T, How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS Questions ronrrrtilna; hyflme. sanl- tntimi anil prevention of disease, sub mitted to Dr. Evans by readers of The H, will he answered neroouully, sub ject to proper limitation, where a stumped, addressed envelope la en cloi.nl. Dr. Kvnns will not mnke diagnosis or nrescrin for individual dlseue. Address letters to car of The lice. Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Evana. LIBRARY DUST. The problem of dust in libraries Is one that perplexes librarians. The people in the stock room of a large library seldom get enough sunlight They work in a dusty atmosphere. In spite of all they have done a coating of dust settles on the books. When they take orders from the shelves they are certain to breathe in more of this dust than is good for them. It is true that library dust is not very harmful. It is probable that but few disease producing bacteria have survived drying and the dust particles are not or a size, shape, or physical or chemical quality calcu lated to do great harm. Nevertheless librarians are a pale lot and dust is a factor, though not the most important one. I do not re call ever having seen a rosy cheeked librarian and certainly I have never seen a peachblow complexloned librarian who had worked long at the trade. J. W. Redway, who writes on the dust problems of libraries in the Medical Times, thinks most of the dust in libraries is carried in on the feet of patrons. Air washing devices in use serve to remove most of the ordinary atmospheric dust except smoke carbon. Smoke carbon con tains a good deal of sulphur and this makes the paper of the books brittle and eats up the binding. The only methods of keeping down dust due to coal soot are to locate the library in a part of town where there are few smokestacks, to install the best air washing device available and to use a vacuum cleaner with frequency. A special vacuum cleaner for books has a nozzle closed at the end and is slotted on the under side. Dusting or brushing books fills the air with dust. Wiping them smears the grease and grime into the paper and leather. To keep down foot borne dust several things should be done. The library should be sur rounded by a lawn and the cement or stone walks should be kept clean by washing. The entries should be provided with rubber foot wipers. The best flooring is tile except that it is noisy. A rough polished wood floor is highly objectionable. If the floor is of a coarse-grained wood it can be covered with rubber mats. Of the wood flooi materials comb grain southern pine and Oregon fir are the best. Varnished floors are not dusty, but the varnish wears off quickly and it is not easily replaced. An oil dressing is excellent, prqvided the first dressing saturates the sur face of the wood and subsequent dressing is well done. Dust which has picked up oil does not fly readily and after getting into the air quickly falls out Washing oak floors with lye !s very apt to ruin them. In a certain library where an oak floor had been spoiled in this way the following plan was carried out: A layer of cement was placed on the wood. While it was still soft a layer of felt was placed on it and pressed in. Next the felt was covered with a layer of cement. When it had dried it was covered with linoleum of good quality. Dust will not fly from a floor covered with good quality lin oleum. Vegetable Diet Is Best G. writes: "1. If salt is harmful In cases of high blood pressure, how about sodium phosphate, Epsom oi Uochelle salts? "2. Are coffee and tea harmful? "3. What are 'the best remedies) for high blood prsssure with nerv exhaustion, accompanied by giddi ness?" REPLY. 1. The continued use of any on of these is harmful beyond question. 2. Yes. 3. The treatment of high blood pressure Is essentially dietetic. The nearer one comes to living exclu sively on vegetables, fruits, cereals, and breads the better off he will be. The bowels should be regular. 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