I 'I THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1920. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publlihtr. 111 I ' i MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FKa ' - Dm aikUk 4Ka U la m ... ii I. aw. ehislnli enUUea u tae um for publication of til sews dispatches credited to II or lot otherwise credited In this paper, and also Hie wcsi nw BtiMitnati tmln. AU rlLU ct publication of out special aiigwirim era aiao nwifa. BEE TELEPHONES Prlrsts Branca Xtehuigt. Aik for . , TU ItVsA tat Doputiuwil or J'aww Wanted. ' 1 J'r WV or Night Calls Alts 10 r. M.I Mirorlel Department I'lrrultUon Department adrertlstos beiwrtinmt Council Bluff N. Tors t'hkvfo OFFICES OP THE BEE Main Office: 17th and Fan an 19 Soou St. I south Sid Out-ef-Tewa Off least rifle, An. I Waslitnitnn Trier vxm. Tyler 10OSL Tjlar lOOsli nil N St. 1311 0 I tHaiar Bid. I I'erla Franca 4M Bus St. Honors The Bee's Platform 1. Nsw Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improTomont of the No braska Highways, iacludiag the pare msjnt of Main Thoroughfares loading into Omaha' with Brick Surface. 3. A short, Iowrato Waterway from tho Corn Bolt to tho Atlantic Ocean. J 1 4. Homo Rulo Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Gorernmont. A WHO SCRAPPED THE LEAGUE? At Des Moines and in Omaha, Senator Hard ing definitely stated that the League of Nations had been scrapped by President Wilson. This has been challenged by the supporters of the president, who apparently have forgotten the history' of the covenant. It may refresh their mtSnories to give them a few excerpts from the - record. Conceding that Secretary Baker is cor rect in his statements attributing the genesis of 5 .the league, idea to the League to Enforce Peace, and admitting that the subject had drawn forth considerable discussion for months before the signiifg of the armistice, it yet remains true tht the covenant, as presented to the senate, had wt taken on its form until after, the president hacl made his second visit to Paris. . ' i, When Mr. Wilson came back from the Paris conference in February, 1919, he brought with him a draft convention, containing the 'outline of the League of Nations covenant. This he submitted to a conference of members of the foreign affairs committees of the house and sen ate. It was then discussed and criticized, and some modifications ( suggested. But it is well to keep in mind the fact that the president knew the complexion of congress had been changed by the election of 191?, and the committees vwith whom he advised would not be the same after March 4, 1919. . However, he accepted their ap proval as warrant to go ahead. On March 4, the day the Sixty-fifth congress expired by limitation, 37 senators subscribed to a resolution, which was inserted in the Record, setting Vorth: j That it is the sense of the senate that, while' it is their desire that the nations of'the world should unite to promote peace and gen- ' eral disarmament, the constitution of the League of Nations in the, form now proposed to the peace conference should not now be accepted by the United States. That it is the sense of the senate that the negotiations on the part of the United States should immediately be directed to the utmost expedition of the urgent business of negotiat-, ing peace terms with Germany satisfactory to the United States and the nations with whom the, United States is associated in the war against the German government, and that the proposal for a League of Nations to insure the permanent peace ot the world should then be taken up for careful and serioiis consid eration. This was ample notice to the president that the senate was disinclined to ratify a treaty con taining the covenant provision. He disregarded the warning, seemingly satisfied he could force through the senate acceptance of his plan. . His answer to the 37. senators, who asked that the covenant be separated from the treaty, was given at the Metropolitan opera house in New York on the evening of March 4, 1919, as he was about to take ship for Parte to conclude the negotiations. He said: : When that treaty comes back gentlemen on this side will find the covenant not only in it, but so many threads of the treaty tied to the covenant that you cannot dissect the cov-' nant. from the treaty without destroying the. whole vital structure. It is clear from the record that Mr. Wilson acted with deliberation in the matter. He tied .the treaty and the covenant together, and in sisted on having all or nothing. He knew that the treaty without reservations would not be ratified; he instructed his supporters to vote against ratification with reservations. They car ried out his orders, and the treaty was twice sent down to defeat by democratic votes, cast' under instructions from the White House. It was scrapped because Woodrow Wilson could not have his own way, regardless of con- sequences. - ( Navy Triumph Over Fog. An important contribution to the , science of navigation was made last week,' when the destroyer Semmes was easily navigated through the Ambrose channel leading into New York harbor under fog conditions. One of the vexa- ' tions of entrance to the great American port has been the delay occasioned by fog. Many a good ship has come to grief through attempt ing to negotiate the passage when all aids to navigation are obscured. Delay has been an " expensive affliction to the shipping industry, but it is now fairly overcome. A cable "has been stretched over; a distance of 16 miles, covering the dangerous course, and from it the passing Ahip picks up signals ' that enable it to pro ceed as. safely as if sailing in broad daylight. ; The successful tryout of the device marks an other step in the elimination of natural hazards supported by "those that go down to the sea in ships."' It removes a menace from the path of the sailor, and will greatly facilitate the prog ress of trade, for it is hardly likely that other harbors will neglect to provide the simple and effective1 means thus made available. With har bor fog conquered, the mariner may return to i his other task of overcoming fog at sea, and presently it will come to pass that ships will be far safer to ride in than automobiles on a city street. v : ' S . ' ' A Less Tight Little Isle. , Consternation sits in the British House of Lords, or at least among what is" known slangily 1 as the "beerage." The cloud of prohibition that hangs, over the tight little island has no silver lining for those who owe their'wealth to brew-, ery or distillery stock. The question of prohibi tion rests largely Tn the hands of the people themselves, through local option elections. The . bitterness of the contest, and the fear of certain elements of being deprived of their nip is indi cated by the attack on the American dry leader, "Pussyfoot Johnson, by a mob at Reading. Reports from the northern end of the Brit ish island tell of impending local option elec tions in almost every center. Edinburgh, as well as Glasgow, will vote on the question of "no license" before the first of the year. More than 300 of the 1,200 local areas in Scotland are already dry, and many more are expected in the November municipal elections. - Wet orators in Scotland are pointing to the United States as a horrible example of the re sults of shutting off traffic in alcohol. The high cost of living, the sugar shortage and labor troubles are all blamed on the lack of a wee drop. The attempt to take advantage of the remoteness of America and paint a distressing picture of our condition under the dry amend ment is evidence of the weak case of the wets in Great Britain. "Truth in Fabric" Legislation. A campaign begun long ago, having for its purpose the protection of the buying public against fraud and deception by unscrupulous manufacturers, is now being extended to include woolen products in its scope. What is known as a "truth in fabric" bill is before congress, introduced in the house , by Representative French of Idaho and in the senate by Senator Capper of Kansas. Its object is to require that goods made of wool be plainly branded to show whether they consist of pure or virgin wool, of "shoddy" or worked over wool, or of a mixture. This measure has the support of the wool and sheep growers of America, who are making a vigorous campaign in its support. One feature of our national life that is not all creditable is that we have been compelled to enact stringent legislation, and to maintain ex tensive and expensive organizations to prevent fraud in foodstuffs, and now we are about to be required to extend this to wearing apparel. The purpose of the law is good. Just as a buyer of spices is entitled to know if the article consists of pure spice, orjs a mixture of inferior and often deleterious substances, slightly fla vored with the genuine, so when one buys a woolen fabric it ought to be made plain that he is getting virgin wool. If he wants to pur chase shoddy under its own name, the bargain is his, and he ought to have the privilege. De liberate deception, however, should be punish able. Many years ago the dairymen succeeded in getting oleomargarine on a basis where it could not masquerade as butter. But . the trade in oleo has prospered, and millions' buy jt today under its true name. So jt may be with wool. At any rate, it is unfair to everybody to have shoddy sold as anything but shoddy. , Pure wool is entitled to the protection asked. LeRoy S. Estelle. The death of LeRoy S. Estelle will bring profound sorrow in a community where he spent the larger part of his long and useful life. He w'!l he missed from the bench, where he served with such distinguished ability; his breth ren of the bar will mourn him as a kindly, genial companion, whose nature was to be helpful and of service to 'all, and those who-met him as a friend will realize how much that really meant. Above all other considerations, Judge Estelle will be missed because of the high quality of citizenship he exemplified. His loyalty to Amer? ican institutions was proven by his service as a. boy in the Union ranks, and his deep devotion to the country he then helped to defend never wavered. As a pioneer he endured the hard ships and vicissitudes of life on the frontier, but he aided in bringing a splendid state and city out of the wilderness. Through it all he was supported by a sturdy belief in the doctrine of liberty and justice secured under the laws of the land, was a courageous upholder of the cause of right, energetic in the assertion of those prin ciples on which free government rests, and guided by a conscientious regard for them in all his ways. His long years on the bench were the result of public confidence in his probity, and his record there will be his monument. A Line 0' Type or Two Hsw ts the Lias, 1st ths quips fall wasro they nsr. AULD LANG SYNE. Tn Scotia ylnce men didna think It was a crime to take a drink; They werna selfish, soor nor sad, I And thought that whisky wasna bad. They gathered every noo and then Wi" cronies who were rantln men, ' And owre a glass or twa they sang Until the ancient rafters rang. But noo the unca guid will light To tak awa' a Scotchman's right To doucely meet and raise a glass Jn honor o' some bonnie lass. If they succeed then hearts will bleed In mony names ayont the Tweed, Where drofithy chlols will aften pine JTor cantie days o auld lantr syne. , THISTLEDOWN. WHETHER Mr. Wilson offered or did not offer the United States army and navy to Rou mania and Serbia toiay be of academic im portance; but it is nothing to worry about. By the time the army and navy were ready to move the troubles of Roumania and Serbia would be over. . . , WHAT? "PERSONALLY?" (Oliver Madox Huelter, Corr, from Mexico.) From my conversation with members of the present administration I am personally convinced, etc. GADDER H. S. E. offers an explanation of the paradoxical sinking of the Cork mayor: he has an iron constitution. ANYBODY SEEN THIS BIRD? (From the Mount Sterling Democrat -Message.) Liost, strayed or stolen, one large yellow rooster; young, in years but old In experi ence. Reward for return to Mrs. Mary E. Drew. . Learn the Game. Are you learning to play the game of life or are you sitting in the bleachers? 'It is possible to look on without seeing, listen without hearing, work without under standing. All of us are on the side lines, in a sense. For while we may learn our own job to perfection; yet lacking that healthy sense of curiosity we may remain ignorant of the work done by the man at the next desk, the next bench,, our superior's problems, or the require ments, of the position just above the one we hold. ; ' A story is told of two chess players who had met every day for twenty years ,in an old fashioned chop house, silently played their game, and departed. All this time a third man sat beside them, watching their contest of wits. A day came after all the years when one of the players failed to appear. Seeing the idler there as usual, the player, asked him to take the part ner's place. "Sorry, but I don't know the game," was the answer. . For twenty years he had been idly looking at the game, not into it. If it had been in a factory or pffice, that the opportunity came to this onlooker for advancement, he was the type that would have had to reply, "Sorry, but I don't know the game." Henry Morgenthau says that unless the United States joins the League of Nations it will mean war with Mexico inside of a year. Mexico hasn't been admitted into the league, and'would seem to have more to fear tram it than from its neighbor. Some of us can recall that the Boston high brow group also opposed our retention of the Philippines in 1899. They have swung to the other pole in the meantime. F. D. Roosevelt says it is either join the league or prepare for war. Pity he could not have shown some of this foresight in 1916. The drive for safer streets is on, its success depending on your own personal contribution. Help others by being careful yourself. When a traffic "cop" asks you to stop it is no time to discuss fine points of law. W ' a , Colonel House has "matched" the president. They are waiting on Mr. Bryan now. Blazing cotton gins are not an indication of returning reason. "Billy" Sunday a big leaguer? You know it CONDITIONS in Petrograd,as reported by the Finnish Red Cross, indicate that bolshevlsm is, if.anything, a shade worse than the bubonic plague. You Win, Probably. Sir: I bet 6 to 7 that wfien the votes ape L-rounted the Socialist candidate will be in. Do I win or lose? - G. W. L. WHEN we have canned "personally" (al though, frankly, we have small hope of iarnng it), we are requested by J. T. B. to pickle "in conference." "When I call upon some 2x4 official," he relates, "the stenog shifts her gum and tells me he is in conference." And his pious hope, which we share, is that when these two-by-fours call on St. Peter, the busy inside guard will report that he is in conference with the Angel Gabriel. SMALL TOWN STUFF. (From the Wolsey, S. D.. Herald.) ' Notioe to whom It may concern: If Mrs. E. E. Lehman will be kind enough to Cease talking about me and telling things that are untrue she will save herself a great " deal of trouble and worry, as I am sure it would be very hard for her to prove the f things she is telling, and as for me locking my door when I see any one coming to my house that also is an untruth, and will say if she will only attend to her own business she won't have time to help others with theirs. Mrs. Thomas and Family. . "I ASKED in an Oskaloosa bookstore," com municates W. L. N., "for E. V. Lucas 'Adven tures and Enthusiasms,' but they did not have it. 'But,' butted the lady, 'we have other good books of adventure.' " '';' A MAC-EDOXIAV WAIL. As one of your most faithful old contribs, I d like to ask (you will not think me rude?) If it is not a fact, your royal nibs. That you possess some sense of gratitude. Each day you practice your' seductive art Is it not true (you are not bored, I trust) You feel a nice warm glow around your heart To'rd those who fain would make the Line or bust? - If you're the grateful cuss I think you are, If you hold kingly memories of me. You'll sit right down; light up a fresh cigar, And then proceed to grant my earnest plea. "' .. ' When you receive (as oft you must) a wheeze That fails to fit ihe columnar design, ' Just tell the bird who sends it will you, please ? 1 I'm not so damned particular In mine. ; MAC. ACCORDING to Comrade Morley, Bob Hol lidav claims that in San Francisco one can wear a shirt and collar longer without being laun dered than anywhere else in the United States. Mr. Holliday is in error. In East Gloucester, Mass.; a shirt and collar will survive a week longer than in San Francisco. THE POOR LITTLE CHAP WAS BURIED WEDNESDAY. Sir: Could you give me the name of'the mis guided Boy Scout who gave my Janitor a "save your coal" tag? FLAT DWELLER. The Second Post. 1 (Received by a mail order house.) Dear Gentlemen: I will kindly let you know about my fountain pen. How she got the dam age. I took her of my pocket and tried to un screw the cap from the pen. But it didn't give no way. So I put her in warm water for five minutes and tried again. But dldent move yet So I tried with a piece of cloth around it, and she opened. And I wrote a little yet and then she broke apart. But then that dident bother very much. But then just as I had a good start the foolish thing broke apart to pieces. So 1 thought I would send her to you and have her reparied. Please repair her as quick as you can. "WE have also augmented our selling force by such men as Mr. Marshall, Mr. Lueth, MV. Samuels and Mr. Watt." A.i, Starr Best (Inc.) Boy, our earmuffs! R. F. D. (From the Red Oak, la., Express.) - A baby boy was born this morning to ' Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McFarland on route 2. "THERE will be a dance at the pavilion 8 miles south of Sundance-on Aug. 38." Crook County Monitor. I hat is one of the days we should pick out tor tripping the 1. t. t. PULL UP A CHAIR, WATSON. (From the Evanston News-Index.) Wanted to buy Twin beds and. high chair. Tel. 4018. " 1 My Dear, You Should See Them! ' (A Pittsburg-. Kan., letterhead.) ' COMMERCIAL HOTEL Corkle Sisters, Proprietors, " Newly Decorated and Refurnished. ' , MANY readers have gratified our curiosity about "the funniest thing ever printed in this column;" and, as we expected, no two thus far agree. Pray continue. WE COULD NOT POSSIBLY GUESS. Sir: Why Is it that when one wires to a hotel for a four or five dollar reservation one always gets the five-dollar room? W. S. L. CAMPAIGN forecast: Slowly rising tem perature. B. L. T. Unusual Reward. Prof. Goddard is to shoot his rocket on its trial flight to the moon shortly. A perfect hit entitles him, of course, to the usual prize, one cigar or a chance on the kewpie doll. New York Globe. r MY OWN. Oh, I must answer to a name And live upon a certain street. And stairs within a dingy house - J Must bear the burden of my feet. ' Still, when the night is - dim and sweet, In dreams I roam the silent hills; Where aisles of shadow, vague with lights, Are petaled soft with daffodils. I foot it through the silver dark. . I shout aloud to field and tree; And all this gypsy heart of me Is longing, longing to be free. .' i f ' Oh, I must answer to a name ' And live upon a certain street: But who shall take my dreams from me Or keep my life from being sweet I (Contemporary Verse). ' How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS ,. ,'....' Qutations concsrnlnt hy-flsns, sanitation and prsvsnllon si diaaaaa, subrrilttrd la Dr. Evans by rsadsrs el Ths B, will bs answsrsd personally, subject to roper limitation, wbsrs stamped, addrsssad envelops is enclosed. Dr. vans will not make dlsfnasis or prsscr.be for individual 'diseases. Address Isttsrs in ears of The Bes. , . . 1 Copyright, 1929. by Dr. W. A. Evans. RURAL SCHOOL CONDITIONS From La Crosse county, Wiscon sin, there comes a story which up sets many of the ordinarily accept ed notions about contagion among children. During the session of 1919 20 the superintendent of schools decided that hS would find out how many of the children in the rural schools had had various form of con tagion. What he was interested in was in getting - information that would be of help in preventing epi demics in his rural schools. The rule is that when one of txft cases of contagion appear In a coun try school the school is dismissed for a month or a session and the pupils miss the things on the schedule for the next month or two. ' This superintendent was plan ning to prevent that. He had each teacher find out from each school child and the parents just what forms of contagion the child had and therefore to what the child was Immune. ' , Most mothers think all children have measles. Not so. Only 62 per cent of these children have had the measles. At least one-quarter of that group never will have measles. The next most prevalent disease had been whooping cough. Forty per cent of the children had had whooping cough. Should a case of whotfping cough come into a rural school district in La Crosse county, the school teachers and parents need keep an eye on only a little more than half th6 school children. Who thinks of chickenpox as a widely prevalent disease? Thirty nine and two-tenths per cent of those children had had chickenpox, and mumps was fourth with 31.2 per cent. We have an Idea that children do not have smallpox and that when we see a pocmarked person he or she is foreign-born, ignorant and illiterate. One hundred and thirty six of the children in the rural schools of La Crosse county, Wis consin, had had small dox. But then why be surprised? Only 295 of the entire 2,452 had ever been vaccinat ed. The whole school population could have been vaccinated for less than the cost of one case of small pox, and there had been 136 cases. We do not think of tVDhold fever as. a diseasei of children and yet 24 of ; these children had had typhoid fever.. Typhoid fever has become a disease of the smaller cities and rural districts. There is good chance that not more than 24 of the 600, 000 school children in Chicago have had typhoid. It is reasonably cer tain that no one could find 136 chil dren who had had smallpox in Chi cago. Fi'ty-five children had had diph theria, 23 had had infantile paraly sis, 124 had had scarlet fever, 11 had had tuberculosis, five had had acute meningitis, and over 4,000 had Recovered from influenza. Bettor Bo Examined. Hopeful write3: "I had typhoid fever nearly a vear ago and still fell the effects of it. I feel tired. Could the fever be a cause of this condition, and what can I do to build myself up? I have taken a tonic for some time, but it does not seem to help me." REPLY. Have an examination. Bright's disease, heart disease, and some oth er organic diseases are- likely to fol low as an aftermath of typhoid. ' Better See Physician. D. F. S. writes: "For about a week I. have had on my face a circle about Specials! All Week At Bowen's Doing things out of the ordinary, such as awakening interest in true, values, induces this store this week to offer the great buying public a week of bar gains. Quaker Oats Two Packafes 25c Jet Oil Shoe Polish . 9c Bottle Wood Clothes Pins 2 dozan pins in packaga Two Packages 15c Bowen's Brooms 4 , 33c - WATCH for the. BAG of GOLD FREE! C the size of a dime. It is red and the inside is white and puffy. It itches and gets no better. Can you tell me the cause and what to do for it?" REPLY. This may be any one of several skin eruptions, among which Is ring worm. If it persists and takes on more of a ringworm appearance you might try a salve of ammonlated mercury; The chance is that you need a physician's diagnosis i and treatment. f Smoking Probable CauNC. ' W. A. H. writes: "On; entering the army my physical condition was O. K.'d by the crmy doctors. Six weeks" later I was examined for overseas duty and was rejected. I had trouble with my heart. It was called "arythmia." Three years pre vious to my entering the service I had not put a clgaret near my mouth, but when I got among the fellows I became a very heavy smok- er.i Do you think this sudden at tack on the tobacco could have caus ed imy heart trouble? "I served about a year on this side and when I was discharged in De cember, 1918, I stopped smoking. I have at times what might be call ed an empty feeling around my heart but never an ache, or pain. Would you please tell me just what this trouble is and my chances of get ting rid of it?" REPLY. All that I can make out Is that you developed an Irritability of the heart while in the army. This could easily have been a result of over doing "With tobacco. Your trouble seems to be over. An empty feel ing around the heart is of no im portance, provided there Is no evi dence of heart trouble and the pulse is regular and otherwise normal. ODD AND INTERESTING. An eloctrtfal novelty is a toaster and fcod-wnrmer that will toast sitles of 20 pieces of bread at once. A hanger has been patented that suspends a towel from two corners tn air can circulate through and ry it. , The Greek government is planning direct communication with Rome, by improving present railroads and building some new ones that will connect with a ferry across the Ad riatic at its narrowest point. An attachment for farm tractors invented by a Loiislana man is intended to stop 'them the instant they strike ars 'obstruction which . would cause them to overturn. ' The Union of Netherlands Daily Newspapers publishes a notice that. beginning July 1. the size of all th newnpapcrs will be reduced to sav printing paper, and that the charg tor advertising will be increased 60 per cent. Widespread interest having been taken In a new artificial -wool, an exhaustive investiRatlon Into tho properties and merits of the fiber has been made by Professor Kber MidRley, head of the department of textile industries of tho Bradford tec hnical college. The state of New York has ordered, two and one-quarter grams of ra dium, at a cost of 1226,000. to com bat cancer and other malignant dis eases, and ono gram, about ono thirtieth of an ounce, costing $120, 000, has arrived in a lead cylinder eight inches in dlasieter and 13 inches long. BUSINESS IS COOP THANK YOlf LV. 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