4 D The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE UF.E PUBLISHING COMPANY. NELSON B. UPDIKE, Tubliiher. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ttia Auoriatnt Vrmi. of which The Un ti mmilwr, l( a clutlTfir BiitHlnl hi the o for publication of tl ni diti'Jm credited to It or not ethwwiis cndltnj in thli ppr. ud il Uit linl nt putiiuhfd herein Ali right of puWlciUon of our (pwtl aiiustruM are i trwnta. BEE TELEPHONES Frltst Brtnnh Xichann. Ak foi tht Tvl- 1 CiCCi Pwsrtmeni or rrm Wtntrd. syicr iww For Nicht Calls After 10 P. M.t Erlltnrtil tXnartmant - -- -- -- -- -- Tyltr 1000L t'lrculiilon lirtmint - Tlr 100IL AdrtrUiuii Dwutnieut - - Xjlet 1009L OFFICES OF THE BEE lliln Officii: 17th and Fimin Council Bluffi IS Scott St. I South Side HIS M Bt Out-ol-Town Offictsi Km Yih Ms fifth At. I Wuhlniton 1 SI 1 O St Chicago 8ter Bid. I Ptrli France 420 Run Bt, Honor The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. A Pipe Lin from the Wyoming Oil Fields to Omaha. 3. Continued improvement of the Ne braska Highways, including the pare menf 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. LUUKltbY AS AN ASSET. There was a time when the dancing masters taught manners "the etiquette of the ball room," it was called along with graceful bows, undulating gestures, and skillful balancing on the heels and toes, to such orders as "first couple forward and back," "grand right and left," and "balance all." Perhaps they do it yet, although we understand the so-called square dances have long been out of vogue, that waltzes are infre quent, and that the universal dance is a "one- step," whatever that may mean, reminiscent of the shuffling of a nervous bear standing on his hind legs and shifting his weight from one foot to another. However, some of our young friends tell us there is no longer occasion for the graces taught with such assiduity forty years ago, nor of the polished and formal verbal utterances which once characterized the social functions of young people. What a fellow wants now is a close dance, a cigarette and a drink if the latter may be had. Then another dance, another ciga rette and another drink. And so on. Not 'till midnight. Dear no! But until daylight. This may or may not all be true. We have it only on hearsay. But what we shall say on the general subject of manners is not hearsay. It is truth, observed time and again. There is much rudeness abroad in social circles, much contempt for conventions, much individuality which in fact is boorish ignorance or general disrespect for associates of both sexes. Some attribute these conditions to the entrance of tobacco Into parlors and ballrooms. Where social smoking is, there will be a certain laxity, a sure lowering of dignity, and a lessening of respectful consideration for ladies young and old. Others say there is no longer the refine ment and discipline in the homes of the people which train the young in that constant con sideration for the rights and feelings of others, which is called courtesy. We do not know; it is not for us to inquire. But we believe if the fathers and mothers of today realized the value of courtesy in life, they would never leave it to school teachers or dancing masters to begin or "finish" their boys and girls in it. To be courteous requires the ' mastery of certain rules of conduct, to be sure such as rising when a lady enters the room, and to remain standing until she is seated; or to remove the hat and remain uncovered while speaking to her in a hotel lobby or other public place but it also means something far deeper than these outward signs. It is a matter of the spirit, It is kindness of character. Where that exists there will always be respect for others. The young man who possesses good man ners, who from a kind heart learns the arts of courtesy, has a great asset. Everybody admires good manners in others. They are rare enough to attract much attention. They give distinction to young or old. They invariably please, re gardless of sex, color, age or condition. And always they pave the way to favor. In this age, when favor counts as much for advance ment in every occupation, business and profes sion, it is an injustice to any youth to rob him of the discipline that will make of him a cour teous gentleman, and gain him admission to places much desired from which thft rude, the vulgar, the ignorant and the brazen always have been and always will be excluded. In courtesy there is much profit, much pleas use, much favor and much distinction. A Bid for the Democratic Nomination. President Wilson, in an interview with the New York World, makes a bid for the demo cratic nomination at San Francisco. The build ing of the Chicago platform, he avers, "seems essentially and scientifically Prussian in inspira tion and method" a suggestion particularly cool and impudent from the man who enjoined Strict neutrality on the American people when the Prussians were trying to strangle civiliza tion in Europe. He is delighted that the League of Nations is to be an issue in the campaign, and wishes it made the sole issue, which is his way of delicate ly indicating that he himself is the only logical man for the democratic nomination. He does not at this time desire to discuss partisan poli tics there will be plenty of time for that in his letter of acceptance, and still clings to the hallucination that his word is "the word that America has given to the rest of the world." The next president will recognize the senate of the United States as having the final and de cisive word on American foreign policies, so far as they relate to treaties. Mr. Wilson con tinues stubbornly to ignore this constitutional fact. Colonel Harvey was in the neighborhood of the Chicago convention. We can think of no democrat who had a better right to be in the vicinity. The Colonel is first a patriot, and sec ondly the most thorough and caustic critic of Wilsonian shams, inconsistencies and worse, in the country. Indeed, he ranks with old Nemesis herself as a dispenser of retributive justice. The president, it is said, will use a bicycle this summer. .Very well; just so it isn't a motor Sunday a Day of Tragedies. Sunday has become the most dangerous day of the week for pleasure seekers. In years gone the Sunday excursion train that was in collision, or that plunged through a rotten trestle; or the Sunday excursion steamer that turned turtle or burned to the water's edge, with scores of sick ening fatalities, shocked the country. , It is different now. The excursion trains no longer attract horrified attention. The fatali ties continue, but they come to us so regularly in every Monday paper that they no longer un settle our nerves. Perhaps we need not expect anything else with automobiles in charge of drivers who are inexperienced, careless or dis posed to take chances. The railroad crossing, the narrow place in the road with a declivity at one side, the sharp turn, and the insane desire to pass another car on a crowded road, all contribute to sudden Sunday death or injury. We have become ac customed to it, and it no longer stirs our emo tions, but the loss of life is said to far exceed the occasional railroad wreck or steamboat dis aster of former years. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE THREATENS The appearance of the bubonic plague in Mexico, and the death of a man in Pensacola, Fla., whose symptoms led local physicians to suspect it a true case of plague, is more than un welcome after the experience of the country with the flu, which assumed in its mortality re cord all the terrifying aspects of the black death. Since the middle of the Fourteenth century, the plague, under its various names, has de vastated Europe, Asia and Africa. Between 1334 and 1351 it swept many millions into the grave in China, India, Persia, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, England and Norway. In 1720 a single case at Marseilles resulted in the death of 86,000 people in that one city. In the first half of the Nineteenth century Constantinople, the Balkan peninsula, Greece and Italy suffered from it In its latter half Russia, Asia and Africa had awful visitations, Bombay being especially unfortunate. We have at hand no complete statistics of the present century, but there have undoubted ly been genuine cases in our hemisphere. In November, 1899, New York City received two cases from South America, but was able to re sist the spread of the disease. In 1900 Japan brought it to the Hawaiian Islands. The same year New York had two cases, and San Fran, cisco 42 fatalities from it. Medical scienccand sanitation have so far been able to keep it in check when isolated cases appear, but there is always the danger of a sudden spread of it by flies and other in sects that may overwhelm medical resources and give it the wide sweep of the flu, which came here from Europe because no sufficient guard against it was maintained at our Atlantic ports. There is an anti-plague serum which has proved effective in many cases. The characteristics of the true bubonic plague do not make pleasant reading, and we shall not rehearse them, hoping we shall hear no more of it in the United States, but every precaution against it should be taken. Plagues have had a melancholy interest to humanity ever since the original ten in Egypt, attributed to the wrath of the Almighty because the Israelites were forbidden by an obstinate king the privilege of going into the wilderness to celebrate a festival. They were not bubonic plagues. A recital of them carries their mean ing without medical interpretation. They were the turning of the river into blood, frogs, lice, flies, murrain (a disease of cattle and domestic animals), boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the slaying of the first-born. A man may be a master of finesse and all the complications and suggestive leads and plays in bridge whist, and yet be blind to the perils of a woman's jealousy. The same hot weather that dejects a man freshens and beautifies a woman. TWILIGHT. It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly dark and darkly pure, Which follows the decline of day, As twilight melts beneath the moon away. Byron. What a Bushel of Walnuts Did. Late in the year 1867 one of the little French boys was told to scurry down in the woods and pick up a bushel or so of walnuts to give their neighbor, Daniel Denton, who was going to Ne braska to file on a timber claim in the far west, twenty miles from Lincoln, Neb. Daniel tucked the walnuts away and schoonered out to Salt Creek. J. M. French grew up to be a timber buyer and the walnuts grew into trees. This spring Mr. French bought and shipped from the Denton timber claim three cars of walnut logs which ranged from twelve to sixteen inches in diameter. Trenton (Mo.) Times. The New York Sun on Harding. In the nomination of Warren G. Harding, United States senator from Ohio, as its candi date for the presidency, the republican party has done the wisest thing it could have done. Senator Harding is the exemplification of the best type of Americanism. He comes from New England and Ohio stock and is a fine ex ample of the American who has started at the foot of the ladder and climbed, hand over hand, unaided, to the topmost round. Senator Harding hails from the small town of Marion, O., where his life activities in jour nalism, ownership journalism, for he is the owner of his newspaper, brought him favorably before the people of his state, with the result that after successive stages of advancement he was sent to the United States senate. In this body he has borne himself with splendid dienitv and in respect of ability has always given a good account ot himself. In personal appearance Senator Harding is a superb specimen of the American man. He is tall, six feet and more; has a powerful frame and in features as well as in frame shows rugged strength, great poise. He !s a true Ohioan of the best type, gracious in manner, winning and warm in personality, a man who makes friends as McKinley made them, a man who if elected will bring back to the White House the cordial human spirit of McKinley. But apart from the merits of Senator Hard ing he was the best selection of the convention for the reason that he should be able to redeem Ohio to the republican party. Examined with regard to both strategy and the qualifications of the candidate, the republican convention has shown clear thinking and sound acting. There were many very good men under consideration, Dut tawng into account geographical location as well as the man himself, it is clear that the convention did a fine piece of work in fixing upon Senator Harding for the presidency. New York Sua and Herald. THE OMAHA SUNDAY A Line OMype or Two Hw is tht Lin. 1st ths sulpt fill whtrs they as. LOVERS. Wheneo and whither this dancing- gleam, Light of my heart, my heart? Comes It out of the sunset stream Caught and held on a bright moonbeam, Held, while the stars of morning spoke In silver tones, till the dawn awoke? Whence and whither this lilt I sing, Joy of my heart, my heart? Is It the sound that the four winds bring To forests, echoing, murmuring, Whose rivers, lapping their way along, Bear to the ocean depths their song? Whence and whltther this burning flame, Heart of my heart, my heart? Brand aglow, from the gods it came, His be the glory who bore the blame. Through the ages the cleansing fire Leaps to splendor in souls' desire. Flame, sound, gleam! Oh heart of me Wrapt and lapt in ecstasy! C. S. P. W. GOV. JOHNSON has been charged with being an emotional statesman. And yet when a newsboy thrust a headline under 4iis nose, "Johnson Boom Explodes," the Governor1 batted never an eye. SMALL TOWN STUFF. (From the London Times.) A tomtit has built its nest in a pillar-box at Pickle Gate, in the Weald of Kent, and has laid seven eggs, which it is hatching. A robin's nest containing several eggs has been found in the lettter-box of a house at Sherbrook, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Derby shire.. Thanks for the Ad. (From F. P. A.'s Conning Tower.) In "Adventures of a Nature Guide" Enos Mills says that the beaver is the most in veterate player in the world; he loafs most of all animals in the woods; he is master of the fine art of rest. Old Stuff. In "The Well In the Wood," by Bert Leston Taylor (1903), one of the "most prominent charac ters is the Lazy Beaver. IN return we should like to quote something from Mr. Adams' latest book of verse, "Some thing Else Again," which the publishers say they sent to us. But somebody around the shop admired the book so greatly that it never got to our table. A NEW FACE IN THE ACADEMY CHOIR. (From the Kendallville News-Sun.) Mrs. Warble Robins of La Grange visited friends here this afternoon while en route home from Syracuse. ACCORDING to Mr. Vollmer, department of criminology of the University of California, "crime is due mostly to sex, pugnacity, and the fever for acquisition." That about covers it. The Second Post. (From a natural born comedian.) Kind friend Sara: The reason I advertised for a hard working girl regardless of and no matter what she works at is that I am a poor hard working man myself having been such since the year 1899 that is the year or in other words the last year I was in the show Biz. I am a natural born Comedian. I never forget what 1 once learn. I was on the Stage in Action 24 long years of my life. It has been 35 years since the first time that I ever appeared before the footlights. I have got pienty of Acts, Mono logues, Jokes, Sketches Rapid fire conversation & etc.. So if it is your ambition and desire to really become an Actress, and if you care to ac cept me as your instructor, & Partner after com pletion of your environment, in other words after you have acheived success & become an ef ficient performer, which is beyond a reasonable doubt you certainly will, if you take me as your teacher, then and not until then will your ambi tion or desires be realized. There is one thing that you always must remember, and that is that this earth, you & I are living on wasn't built or mode in 5 minutes. So it is the same with Actors & Actresses they are or never waa or never will be made in 5 minutes or 5 years either. I've been at it now for 35 years since I began and I can still learn something about it, Its a true saying an old adage that there never was or never will be a thoroughly educated man or woman. That is true! for instance Take Noah Webster that founded our Dictionary. Just as he got it all complete and ready to enjoy it He died and for got it all. So my dear Sara you cannot start to soon the quicher and sooner you start the be ter off you will be. Do it while you are young little Girl and when you become an old Woman then you will be independent, never will have to labor or work hard then, Now Sara you will have to write and let me know when & where, time & place, where I can call on you, as I have no office for you to call at. Now Sara here is another factor I wish to mention to you, is that I can tell you more in 5 minutes when I am in your company than I could write in 50 letters like this, As Shakespeare quoted The tongue is swifter and faster than Pen and pensils. Yours respectfully, etc. TAKE it from the management, "the bridal paths afford a splendid diversion for the guests at Manoir Richelieu at Murray Bay, Que." ,But we should think the newly-weds would be em barrassed by so much rubbering. , Gumming It. (From the Hillyard, Wash., News.) Alderman Johnson came to city council meeting Tuesday evening without his false teeth. He has all the ear-marks of a comic actor in the movies with his chin making love to the end of his nose and some of his fellow-councilmen suggested that he enter the movies. Mr. Johnson says that the things didn't fit and he got tired picking them out of an oil pan every time he sneezed while working around autos at the Crad dock Garage, so he is having a new set re constructed. A GOTHAM shop David H. Lowenthal & Co., to be exact announces "individualized modes in dresses of restrained good taste." Quite so, we should conjecture. REMEMBRANCE. Wistful forget-me-nots bloom but In the spring, What time we turn toward every coming thing Gone is the dull, dead season of the cold, Gone are the passions and the tears of old, Forward 's the word! the harvest is our mark. Yet is the day the heir to all the dark. Taught by that speck of blue. We shall the past renew. Those borders, richly set with blue In May, Ere Leo rules the sky shall pass away. Shall all sweet recollections then escape? Nay, here is fair Anchusa from the Cape That flowers freely all the summer through, And brings remembrance soft as evening dew. Though myosotis fade Anchusa is her shade. H. A. L. FOR star slugger of the Academy's Bloomer Girls, Micksee nominates Miss Irma Battle of Greenville, la. The outfield backs up when Ima appears. SINCE the latest decision of the Supreme Court there has been talk in New York of clos ing the saloons and stopping the sale of liquor in hotels. MR. JOHNSON'S BUSY SEASON. (From the Alden, Minn., Advance.) Mauritz Johnson of West Carlson says that they are not sure about who will be the teacher at school number 61 next win ter. Mr. Johnson is now milking ten cows and about 125 Plymouth Rock chicks and some fine Duroc Jersey Brood sows beside thirty-five acres of corn and 52 acres of small grain and all looks fine. THE firm of Duduit & Duduit, of Ports mouth, O., is composed of Richard B. Duduit, F. E. Duduit and William V. Duduit. Curiously enough they have not chosen for slogan, "Du duit Now." OVERHEARD at the Garfield Park Town and Country Club: "You topped your ball." "No, I hit it with the bottom of the club." NOW that the smoke of battle has cleared away, you will be glad" to be' reminded that the second quarter of your income tax is due the fifteenth. B. L. T, BEE: JUNE 20, 1920. stopped How to Keep Well - By Dr. W A. EVANS Sueetlunt concerning hyglms, sanl on and prevention of dlMe, snb tnitted to Dr. Kvone by reader of Tbe llee, will he answered personnllY, eub jret to proper limitation, where a tamped, addressed envelope Is en closed. Dr. Kvttn will not mnh diagnosis or prescribe for Individual diseases. Address letters In care of The lies. Copyright, 1110, by Dr. W. A. Evans. They built MALARIA REWON PALESTINE. Writing on this Sunday morning for the people who will read on an other Sunday morning, I have de cided to translate some information about malaria conditions in Palestine as the Australians found them in 1917 and 1915. The British advanced through Sinai in 1916. They did not suffer from malaria there except as a few troops formerly in the Egyptian delta had relapses. When they occupied the line from Gaza to Beersheba during the summer of 1917 they did not suffer from malaria. There were enough mosquito breeding places, but Maj. Evans of the Australian army says the native population had moved out of the country and the mosquitoes were not Infected. Turkish army tian army, toman empire. In the autumn of 1917' Jerusalem was captured and the valley of the Jordan was occupied. The Jordan is a swiftly flowing stream with clean cut banks fairly free from spectively) growth of all kinds. It lies in a valley eleven miles wide and 1,300 feet below the 6ea level. Surround ing the valley is a brim of moun tains 4,000 feet high. This makes a deep, hot, dry saucer in which in sect life exists in great abundance. a Wasserman if a spinal tive it is This valley is watered in part by irrigation ditches built by Herod and in operation continuously since that time. Some of the feeders, creeks or other and rivers of the Jordan are clear. you should rapid streams with well defined banks, while others are sluggish sloughs running through marshes. There are many springs, Bible read ers will recall some of the springs of Palestine. The British recognized that ma laria would be a problem in the summer of 1918 if they conMnued to occupy the valley or the Jordan, as seemed inevitable. Up the river from Jericho and crossing the old Roman road were two tributary riv ers, Wadyel Anjah and Wady Nuera meh, lying wholly within their lifies. A third stream, Wady el Mellahah, rose in a marsh within the Turkish lines, flowed througn a marsh in no man's land, and there crossed into the area occupied by the British. The Australians dug straight, clean banked ditches to carry the water of these stream's within their lines, drained the marshes, and For Rent Typewriters and Adding Machines of All Makes Central Typewriter Exchange Doug. 4120 1912 Farnam St. Plllllllilllllll If It's Worth Anything Herod's irrigation ditches. an aqueduct to bring in a water supply. All the ponds were covered with heavy petroleum oils. Insofar as was possible the stagnant waters were cleared of weeds, brushes, algae, green scums, and all vegetable growth. Some bodies of water were stocked with mosquito-larvae-catching minnows. The men were issued mosquito screens, gloves and mos quito netting. These precautions entirely would have saved the Australians from ma laria had It not been for the mos quitoes which bred in no man's land and behind the Turkish lines, and which infected both armies. The Australians' malaria hospital rate was 2 per cent. On the other hand the Turks kuffered greatly. Maj. Evans said their hospitals were always filled with soldiers sick with malaria and the captured Turkish soldiers had to go straight to the hospital. Maj. Evans says the great prevalence of malaria in the The Archbishop's Visit. Omaha, June 17. To the Editor of The Bee: Can It bo possible that the pro-British believe that the United States is only an English province. A Washington dispatch that appeared in yesterday's issue says that a protest has been filed with the "State Department" against admission to United States of the Most Rev. Daniel J. Mannlx, arch bishop of Melbourne. Archblshlp Mannlx is a typical Irishman of the caliber of Archbishops MacIIale of Tuam, Croke of Cashel, and Feehnn of Chicago, and he would as quickly die for Ireland as blessed Oliver Plunkett, archOishop of Armagh, or as Wolfe Tone, Lord Edward Fitz gerald, Father Murphy and the men of 1798 "who fears to speak of ninety-eight." His patriotism is as pure as that of the young Ire landers of 1S47, the Venians of made the capture of Palestine easy. Malaria, which is said to have wiped out the Grecian empire, to have destroyed the power of Rome, to have defeated Napoleon's Egyp 1867, or Patrick Pearse, the first president of the Irish republic, and tho other Sinn Fein martyrs con sequently England's hatred for such is thus credited with hav ing wrested Jerusalem and all of Palestine from the grasp of the Ot a man. The proposition presents itself, this Irishman who represents the religion of St. Patrick and the patriotism of Robert Emmet will be in Omaha next Tuesday. Will the Irish-Americans of Omaha turn out together with their fellow citizens to give him a reception worthy of the cause he represents. In their devotion to Ireland the Irish women never hesitate. Whether it be picketing the Washington residence of the British ambassador, or the Countess Macklvsitz marshaling the Sinn Felners for a seige on Dublin castle, or Miss Parnell in the old Land League days, organizing the women to take her brother's place, who was thrown into prism with thousands of others during that period. That monument on the banks of the Shannon in the city of the Vio lated Treaty is to the valor of the Probably Safe. W. C. F. writes: "After being treated by injection of neo-salvar-san and salvarsan (one each) re four years ago, is it pos sible that a patient is cured? A Wasserman test showed negative be fore the injection of salvarsan, and recently taken showed no trace of the disease." REPLY. If no symptoms can bo found and fluid Wasserman Is nega altogether probable that you are safe. Two salvarsan injec tions are not sufficient to effect a cure. Probably you took mercury treatment in addition, as have done. 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The elite of the Irish race, those who were ever and always faithful and true will undoubtedly do their duty on this great occasion. Tuesday. June i ZZ. The opportunity offers itself to show the archbishop and the world that the Stars and Stripes out 'stand ard and not the hated Union Jack, also that the "Star Spangled Ban ner," such as Francis 6co" lwr wrote it, is our national anthem, and not "God Save the King, nor "God Bless the Prince of Wales. JERRY HOWARD. Pungent Paragraphs. Ladles and gentlemen: Meet Mr, O. Flation. Greensboro News. The profiteers are an optimistic lot. They take the world as they ind it Sioux City Journal. The socialist campaign is a com edy, with Debs in the cellar role. Louisville Post. ' Uou will have a choice of the best instrun merits in our store Saxophones and Cornets Mandolins, Banjos and uuitars; Violins and Cel los; Piano Accordions and Drummer's Traps, in every desirable grade. 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