THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1920 'he Omaha Bee ABLY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY TBS BBS PUBLISHING COMPANY. NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publisher. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TV 4anwlaa Praia a rfckh Tna Baa la ft BUBSST. U SS lutnlr aatlUad to Um am tar publication o til nm UPwba adltod ta It or eat otlunrlM endltsS Is this rpw, sad uo lbs t-sl am ruMlthx) kenia. AO nibt of cuMtcattoa of on wAU BEE TELEPHONES Hnm Bruek Bxekinn. Ask for the Tvlstr 1 0OO APMUMBt or Ponoa Wsatsd. I For Niftit Call After 10 P. M.i Wterlsl DmrtinMl Trtor IWWL inalMlsa DwortiMnt T? WOJL AsrUstas Daptruaant ijw iwmi. OFFICES OF THE BEE thin Of flea: lTth sn6 rtrasm Bluff! 19 Scott St I Booth (Ida ll St. Out.of-Towa Offices! h Tor 3U ITIftB At I Walntoe 1111 O klesfo Statu Old. I Pla rraaeo 420 But tt. Hoc on The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improvement of tba Ne braska Highways, including tha pave mant of Main Thoroughfares leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A ahort, low-rate Waterway from tha Corn Bait to tha Atlantic Ocaan. 4. Homo Rulo Charter fr Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. THEY DID NOT DIE IN VAIN. Rev. Dr. Benjamin Lincoln McElroy, pro ssor of theology, for fifteen years in Ohio vesleyan university, after a distinguished career prominent Methodist pulpits, ht. no delusion, illusions about the fundamentals of life. His a.p of history and human nature and world editions, present and past, is sure In an ad ess at Columbus Sunday in refutation of the idely disseminated slander that our gallant sol era whose stars turned to gold in Europe died vain, he said: It is too earlv to anoraise the results of the kar. It is exasperating for fathers and moth- rs of boy who have not returned to be told hey died in vain. It is not true because they kccomplished their major purpose. 1 he present chaos must not deceive us. Strife is the father of things. Principles are aised in blood. There stands a theologian and a preacher ho sees things as fhey are, not as hazy visions h the horizon, and who is untroubled by my- nous voices in the air. Son of a gallant sire ho followed "Pap" Thomas in the War of the ebellion, endowed with a lofty patriotism and und sense, he talks the language of reason id of all human experience when he lavs trife is the father of things; principles are ited in blood." AH. history verifies him. The illucination that human nature can be changed, id bloodshed cease before "the last days" rophesied by Isaiah, when the peoples of rth "shall beat their swords into plowshares, id their spears into pruning hooks," and "na- oft shall not lift up sword against nation, :ither shall they learn war any more," ha ken hold on manv nrcachcrs and orofessrirs ho have been mis-led by- a false teacher. They ndly believed "the last days" here for a while, it most of them know better now, as little by ttle they have learned of the bargainings and landonment of principles indulged in at Paris y , America's chief advocate of international ipergovernment, whose meddling and muddling ey now are ablt to appraise as they see some its disastrous results amour; the European itions. i It is to bolster np a league of nations that ks America to give up its sovereignty to a reign council of selfish diplomats, that par- sani iit the United States have tried to make believe our soldier dead died in vain in the enches and on the battlefields of France. But e patriotism and common sense of the people ive so far successfully opposed the personal nbition of a misguided president to pledge our ns and our resources to fight the wars of the orld under a League of Nations falsely hailed the end of war. , That league now exists, and ar-cortiinues. for "strife is the father of things," d "principles are raised in' blood." The major purpose of our dead in France is comrllished It was to bring the Imperial erman government to terms and end the war. Curious Coal Plana Suggested. Information from official sources seems to recast the elimination of small coal mines from il consideration in order to release coal cars ed by them to the larger concerns. , One idely circulated federal trade publication untfy says there are "some two thousand more inct in the country now operating than are ecessary or desirable." These mines cannot pmpete in normal markets, but they do lap up little of the cream in boom markets. And ey increase coat production. The trade publication quoted lets the cat out the bag when it says that to a certain extent jhe small mines fix prices." What is meant is iat the small mines retard the profits of the g ones because it is impossible to "organize" em for quick action when profiteering activi- ps are possible. However that may be, the pub b has noticed little hesitation in stepping up the limit on the part of mine owners; and states where locally dubbed "wagon-mines" dst people would be put at the mercy of any rice organization while now their little home ines meet local needs promptly. But'When presumable mouthpieces of federal ureaus seriously propose cutting small mines 'jt of car service, the average business intelli nce of the country will see a purpose that pdes no good to coal consumers, and the public enerally will resent such a suggestion. The Resent administration at Washington has been 'o free with its regulations, which invariably live "regulated" prices upward. It will be a jod thing for the people, who pay all the ex- ;rimental regulation bills, when the election i yar, a new administration it installed, and so ch loose regulation of business affairs, big hi little, is stopped. ' Prospects forV Suffrage Good. Surface indications are that women will be emitted to vote for president in 1920. Two f three parliamentary skirmishes, in the Ten- fbssee legislature, now convened in extra ses- On, have been won by the suffragists, who are ereby encouraged to look for final victory. kit how the provisions of the Tennessee con- Uution, referring to the -manner of endorse es of amendments to the federal constitution, to be circumvented has not been explained. Irj know what they mein. Norfli Carolina's gislaturc is also convened for a similar pur- pose, with a message from the governor earn estly adjuring the members to give assent luffrasre. These things look very promising the cause, but there is an underlying current innrehtnsion. due to the uncertainty of the out come. Until the final vote is taken in these states, the women who have worked so hard foi the ballot are not going to start their jubilation They have counted tr.r caickens a time or two in advance of the hatching, and not going make that mistake again; Whatever of sunshine may flit across the path of the nineteenth amendment in either Tennessee or North -a lina is filtered through a screen of state's rights feeling that may become opaque at any time to for of Another Snarl in Europe. Recognition by France of General Wrangel as de facto head of the Russian government has added another turn to the tangle in Europe This step is reported to have been taken without conference with England and is said to be looked on as a mistake in London. British labor, which is largely socialistic, has demanded "no war," and mildly insists on giving the Soviets a place among civilized governments. The Colby note to the Italian ministei, setting out American views, have put something of a damper on the program of the British labor group, and the action by France has fairly shocked the social ists here, who were co-operating with English, Italian, Dutch and German comrades to estab lish something like a respectable status for Lenine and lrotzky. i Russia owes France a billion and a half, money loaned to the former government, and most of which is owed to the thrifty peasants, who now stand ready to back almost any form of government for Russia that means payment of this great debt. The bolsheviki have modified in some degree the repudiation of all the imperial Russian debt, but have not gone tar enough to reassure the French creditors. Therefore Wran gel, as the one most likely to recognize the obli gatiori, is given whatever help may flow from the fat that lie has the countenance of the French government. It may be that the French have shown a way to solve the problem. A responsible government must be had in Russia. The bolsheviki are im possible. Communication with the outside world i6 imperative, for without it industrial Russia must entirely collapse before another spring. Germany can not provide all that is needed for. the restoration of the debilitated industrial life of the late empire,. Peace with Poland will not ensure a final settlement of the main question. Facing these facts, if giving to Wrangel the im petus that seems to be contained in the French action will tend to shorten the tragedy of Rus sian misgovernment and hasten the restoration of responsible national life to (he people, th,e course taken may be approved, even if it does disappoint those who have been devoted to the idea of self-determination even to the extent of accepting bolshevism and all it holds for the de struction of civilization. ' What is chiefly needed is to arrange its af fairs that a land so rich in all material resources, of such magnificent possibilities, need not go naked and hungry, freeze and starve, for want of rational application of the riches that now lie unused in its reach. Just now the Russian faces extermination by famine and pestilence because he will not work. Bolshevism brough him to this pass. Communism can not help him, and he must be taught to help himself. Wrangel may be the agent through which the change is to be wrought. The Pleasant Side. We look for much good to result in certain directions from increased railroad passenger and freight rates. They will rehabilitate the roads. There will be increased daytime travel to save Pullman excess expense; and automobile travel will increase during eight months of the year, thereby stimulating the automobile business, which is full five years from its peak, if, not longer. Truck transportation will extend from SO or less miles to 500 miles, relieving cramped rail conditions. Transportation of all sorts will benefit on state and county roads and on water ways as well. One great artery of transportation has sunk almost to innocuous desuetude during the past 25 years the great Ohio river once alive with passenger packets and towboats that pushed billions of tons of coal and steel from Pitts burgh and Wheeling to points on the lower Ohio and tipper and lower Mississippi and their numerous tributaries. The rails have robbed them of their traffic by low freight rates. Now they will have a chance to "come back" to their natural usefulness. Transportation of all sorts is cheaper in America than in any other country, it is said. What is needed now is not so much cheapness as efficiency and reliable continuity. That will come with rail rates that make water and truck transportation reasonably profitable. ' Working and Thinking. Work often does for a mind what the hoe does for a garden; it roots up and gets rid of notions that are like rank weeds New York Mail. No man can think normally who does not work at least some of the time. The normal man is the one who works. The idler is an un safe counsellor. Work makes a man steady, and teaches him to approach every problem under the influence of true principles of life. The necessity for work is all that makes life worth living. Without it there would be no progress, no ambition, no achievement. Thank God that you have to work, with reasonable in tervals for play, for otherwise this would be a dreary, humdrum, dull and lonesome world. Mr. Bryan comes up for air long enough to divulge his belief that neither Cox nor Harding is orthodox on the dry question. The old doctor had a chance to get a man he could trust on the ticket, but turned it down. ' Now we know why the Filipinos are so anxious for independence. Randall of California proposes to give them bone dry happiness. We used to believe that whatever goes up must come down. Nowadays it keeps on going up. Tennessee will tell 'em on Monday, accord ing to current advices. Until then, simply wait. , H. c. of 1. seems to be subject to. levitation, not gravitation. . The gentle bolsheviki scorn ceace without victor) A Line 0 Type or Two Ho to ttw LIM, lot tko lolM tall whoro tno mu. A PROMINENT citizen of West Virginia was found dead in a rooming house in Gotham. He had been robbed, which is nothing strange in that city, nor were the other mysterious cir cumstances more mysterious. Truth is less strange than fiction, and is even more stereo typed. There was nothing in this story to in terest a writer of fiction, with the possible ex ception of the streetdoor of the house and the door of the room where the West Virginian was found. These doors, although closed and ap parently locked, yielded when one put his weight against them, few doors are as fas cinating as the Sire de Malatroit's, but all doors are inherently interesting to the teller of tales. "There are a thousand doors to let out life." THEY order these things, as usual, much better in France! The case of Mme. Bessarabo, who pistoled her husband and packed him in a trunk for shipment, is lightened by a number of unconventional details. For example, in her autobiography, she had described herself as a woman who, starting on her wedding journey, discovered that she did not know how to pack a trunk; but hubby was so neatly packed that the police believe she had the assistance of a male. Our heart specialists, like Beatrice Fair fax, should instruct their readers in the gentle art of stowing unworthy helpmates in a trunk when the emergency arises. PROBABLY there is not another govern ment on the map, not even ours, which could have handled the Mannix affair so maladroitly as the English government. The art of mud dling through cannot be acquired; it is a gift, bestowed only upon the Anglo-Saxon race. It is the ordinary business of government to know what is going on, but it is part of the art of government apparently to forget or ignore cer tain things which are happening. Still at It. My loveless lady of the ancient day Sought love with what of Cupid's arts he'd glvo her. I sse her now in shimmy shrines, and, say, She still beguiles her time with beaunand quiver. Q. A. K. IN Toledo, relates a special to the New York Times, everybody is talking golf, 'and even street car conductors talk glibly of stymies and dormies." Now, shrunken as is our stock of nectar, we will give a quart of it to any person who eer heard, a street car conductor, in To ledo or elsewhere, use the word stymie or dor mie. Why do they send people who know noth ing about the subjects to report golf, yacht mica, auiuin. Liiurcn ceremonies, scientific lec tures, and other things which only specialists should cover? APROPOS. Sir: I was seated at Mother's luncheon table, on the right side of the guest of honor, one of Philadelphia's best dowagers. In my flurry to make conversation I sought her various inter ests, and hit on the topic of gclf. "Do you play the game?" I oreried. 'No, child, I should say not," was her answer. "Heavens, no! I have never had a caddy in my hand." H. E. E. M. MARK SULLIVAN suspects that "neither of the candidates is going to develop a person ality that the American public Will regard as vital. But this is wholly in keeping with the trend of the times. In making the world safe for democracy it is necessary to discourage per sonality, not to develop it. Harding and Lox combined would not make one good personality. My Dear, I Shouldn't Wonder a Dambtt. (From the Florida Grower.) After trying several leaves the butterfly found one to Its taste and settled down to slumber. Can one whoee day has been full of activity suddenly cease all motion and sink Into the quietude of sleep? No more eajslly than can an active child. There must be a transition, a gradual lotting down of the nervous tension. So the butterfly waved its wings up and down rather nervously at first, but then slower and slower until all motion ceased. Have we not here the es sence of a lullaby, a monotonous repetition that gradually becomes slower and slower; a lullaby of motion rather than sound; a lullaby given by the tired one herself, be cause there is none other to give it? OUR v. c, Christopher Morley, considering the perils of the colyumist's job, lists as the most serious the danger that the writer, shoveling out paragraphs upon the defenseless world, "may come to think that his own ravings really amount to something." This danger is, we think, remote in the case of a colyumist worthy of the name. There is, however, a nearer peril, more blighting in its influence. And that is that he may think, or come to think, that the ravings of anybody really amount to something. POMES YOTJ MAY HAVE MISSED. In Kentucky. The moonlight falls the softest I In Kentucky; The summer days comes oftest i In Kentucky; v Friendship is the strongest. Love's light glows the longest, Yet wrong is always wrongest In Kentucky. The sun shines ever brightest In Kentucky; The breezes whisper lightest In Kentucky; Plain girls are the fewest, Their little hearts are truest. Maidens' eyes are bluest In Kentucky. The bluegrass waves the bluest In Kentucky, Yet bluebloods are the fewest In Kentucky; Moonshine is the clearest, By no means the dearest. And yet it acts the queerest - In Kentucky. The song birds are the sweetest In Kentucky; The thoroughbreds are fleetest ' In Kentucky; Mountains tower proudest, Thunder peals the loudest. The landscape Is the grandest) And politics the damnedest, In Kentucky. JAMES . MULLIGAN. MAY we not surmise that it will be a longish while before Poland undertakes another defen sive war on some other nation's territory? The mays appear to have it. IF the Soviet government (for want of a better word) succeeds in dropping the foundling Bolshevism "at the doort of the Western Pow ers," the W. P. will do well to drown th red headed brat forthwith. But it will be just like them to take it in. THE flea, we learn from Dr. Heisler of the Rockefeller Foundation, is a very delicate ani mal, which cannot stand much sun. How, then, does he account for the sprighthness of the California flea? "IAPAN to Refuse Flatly to Return Half of Saghalin." Headline. Oh, sorryl buppose we drop tne siiDject. HYTHE. Eneland. which is appearing in the date-lines, is not familiar to us. It is likely pronounced "Higham." CAPT. AMUNDSEN has left Nome to drift northward with the ice pack. The lucky stiff I THE flurrv over Wiz Ponzi appears to be about over, and the birth rate has dropped back to normal, which is one per minute. "BOLSHEVIK Cavalrv Takes Przasnysz." And small wonder, considering the dampness of theterrain and the lack of sanitation. B. L, T. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Quootkmo concarnla fayfiono, saniti tloa and prevention el dloouo, oub ralttod to, Dr. Evani by readers of Tne Bee, will be answered personally, subject to proper limitations, where a stamped, addressed envelope ie en closed. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis or prescribe for individual diseases. Address letters In cars of Tha Bee. Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Evans. WEANING PUBLIC FROM BUNK. In the popular mind tjiere still re mains the opinion that grip or in fluenza cripples for itre. Those who recover from tha acute attack never feel well afterward Many of them sicken wltn consump tion; others develop kidney and heart trouble; others remain In a state of chronic mental depression. Stories to this affect were freely in circulation in the wake of the epidemic of 1890, and there being no health columns in the newspapers of that day, a Frankenstein was creat ed and said Frankenstein Is worry ing and frightening people today. If by talking we could add a bunch of diseases to our collection, most peo ple, who had influenza in 1918 would have one or more choice "com plaints" by now. The Buffalo health department conducted an investigation early in 1918 which led them to believe that the wake of the flu was not so bad. During the epidemic 23.000 people in Buffalo were reported to the health department as having the flu. The department sent an investigator to each case in the late winter to see how many had died and from what diseases. How many had completely recovered. How many thought thtey had not fully recovered and what was the trouble when there seemed to be after effects of flu. In the early summer of 1919 they made a second investigation of the same general type. In the summer of 1920 they came out with a third statement. The number of people of all ages dying from consumption is as fol. lows: 1917. 365; 1918, 398; 1919, 321; 1920, 252. The numbers of re ported cases and deaths since 1914 by years are: 1914, 1,172 cases, 633 deaths; 1915, 1,249 cases, 609 deaths; 1916, 1,197 cases. 658 deaths; 1917. 1,409 cases, 699 deaths; 1918. 1,295 cases, 713 deaths; 1919, 1.104 cases, 523 deaths; 1920 (six months.) 530 cases, 252 deaths, or at rate for 12 months of 1,060 cases, 604'deaths. In other words, consumption seems somewhat less prevalent in Buffalo since the influenza than be fore it. The earlier studies showed there had been no particular In creases of other organs. Dr. Frouezak is doing his part to kill the Frankenstein of 1890. But his evidence is not unsupported. While the Chicago death rate from consumption is falling yearly, the health commissioner tays the drop this year is unusually great. The weekly report of the census office shows that practically all Am erican cities are experiencing the lowest death rates in their history. For the week of July 24 twenty-one had rates lower than 10. All this spring and summer the general con ditions of health have been the best ever known. AH of this Indicates that influenza did not cripple orgins and impair general health in 1918 and 1919, as so many people still believe. the Dropsy Only Symptom. D. M. B. writes: "What fc cause and cure for dropsy?" REPLY. Dropsy is a symptom. It results from Bright's disease, heart disease, and liver disease and some other di seases of lesser Importance. A per son with dropsy must first find out what disease causes his trouble and then direct the treatment in accord ance with the facts. Itemed y Is Mental. L. S. writes: "I am 78 years old, in general good health, and smoke a light cigar now and then. I never u.'ie tobacco in any other form and nave no use for spirituous drinks. I am troubled with dreams. I usual ly retire about 11 p. m. and rise at i a. ni. 1 sleep on my right side. I eat moderately. What is the cause of the dreaming? I am out In the THE -UNTAMED- fresh air at least two or three hours every day." REPLY. A small allowance of light cigars is not liable to hurt you. You ap pear to be doing about all that is practicable in a physical way to in duce quieter sleep. You will find the trobule is mental. Disturbed, dreamy sleep results from worry or fretting or fears or some other form of mental or spiritual unrest. The only remedy Is the cultivation of mental poise. L mbodiment of the most advanced prin ciples in pianofbrtcv creation, carried to fhe highest degree jref attained in me modern arand or uprioht. the O Piano invariably takes first place in the estim ation of every artist who gives it arv un biased test. It would make the most beautiful gift yyow could give HER. See tke new Balvy Grands now fin our' (ooxs. Our Refinished Pianos and Players Are Money Savers Everything marked in plain figures. You can buy for cash or time payments. 1513 Douglas Street , The Art and Music Store K. M. A. 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An official of the American Auto mobile association said today that this was at least one day faster than and previous unofficial record. Pos tal authorities declared that the ma chine's time compares well with that of all except the fastest through trains. The route traveled by the ma chine is 3,347 miles long, stops be ing made and drivers exchanged at Ely, Nev.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Omaha, Neb.; Davenport, la.; Valparaiso,, Ind.; Lima, O.; Wheeling, W. Va.; Cumberland, Md., and Easton, Pa. It was an ESSEX Oh, what a can t GUY L.SMITH f "SERVICE FIRST" OMAHA 2563-5-7 FARNAM ST. PHONE DOUGLAS 1970 PL GOOD GASOLENE "BSMSS is good thank you" -- 1 BLITZEN GASOLENE It is the sortof gasolene you used to buy "before the war" and is the most volatile gasolene we know at the price. Tests have proved it to be the most effi cient. It explodes evenly and completely and has no heavy oil ends. Our Vulcan is the next best grade of gasolene. 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