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THE 17EE: OMAHA, ftOiNDAT. 'KOVfiAlBUK 8. 1920. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEB PUBLISHING COMPANY. NELSON B. UPDIKE, Publl.her. P ' MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TtM Aieoelated Prws, of wblca Tb Ba li etember. U iIus1It entitled la Ui im for imblleatiuo el all ntw dnystonee cndiud to II or aut otherwise rrxlitxl In this paper, ud alto the om publlthKd strata. AU Mains of publlcauou of our apeclal ilinwirhM ere 4lto twentd. BEE TELEPHONES Prttate Branch Exchani. for Tvlr 1 OAfl Uie Department or llim Wanted. 1 JTiCr aVW For Night Calls Altor 10 P. M.l Editorial Department Trier 10001 Clrcnlatlm bepanmenl ....-. Trier 1MUL Adrertillni Department - Trier 1001)1. OFFICES OF THE BEE Main Office: 17th and Faraan Council Bluffa 19 Scott St. I South Side 1311 M St, Out-o(-Town Off Icon ' - New Tork Iff fifth are. I Waehlngtmi 1311 0 fit. CMcaro ' Slerer Bids. I Parle Prance HO Kue Ht- Honoro The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Patienger Station. 2. Continued Improvement of ' the Ne braska Highway, including the pave ment of Main Thoroughfare iMBing into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the Cora Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. GROUP GOVERNMENT. We may always depend on Mr. Bryan for at least novelty in suggestion, His present pro posal that the president resign, and, by moving up Mr, Marshall, he in turn to, appoint Senator Harding as secretary of state and then resign himself, in order that the president-elect may J I at once become president in fact, is engaging for its simplicity, but may not bear out the J purpose he has in view. The four months that elapse between election and inauguration is not too long a time in which to prepare for the duties the newly chosen pretidenj is to a3- sume. He must be allowed some - time for reflective contemplation, for consultation and determination of policies, a business that can not be carried on during the campaign, and which 'should be reasonably well established when he goes into office That is one of the chief reasons for the setting of inauguration four months after election. Another phase of the question is brought forward bv a corrcsoondent. who fancies, the "parliamentary" system as affording the flexi bility our government needs. Under this the ' defeated government would immediately retire, and the victors would take over power at once. Even that would only furnish relief in event of threat of calamity, which is not present nor a conceivablaeflanger under pur, present system. One of the remajkable and pleating results f ii. . .1. ... f r . or me election was me uiier lauure oi ppeais to groups. Trades unionists, farmers, women, and others were beseeched because of special in terests to vote for Cox; Senator Harding em phatically declared against any approach to class government; the issue was -made very plain on this line, and the outcome is to be in- tcrpreted only as indicating lack of progress towards class consciousness or group govern ment in the United States. Such agreement; of purpose among the heterogeneous elements of our population holds great promise for the fu ture, as it shows a desire on part of all to attain a common goal, regardless of racial or other divisions,. evidences of a condition from which all are trvinir to cret awav. Group government tends almost inevitably") . to class government. This is clearly shown by the experience of Germany, where groups in parliament reached their highest development, theirharpest delineation, as well as their most delicate subdivision. Group government has long been a familiar experience of France, al though it has not been accentuated by the in tense factional discord that marked proceedings in Germany, where parliament was more of a debating society than an agency of government. Groups btgan to appear in the British parlia ment shortly before the end of the Mast cen tury, but only since the war has this manifesta tion of class distinction assumed definite out line there. However, it has proceeded far enough to convince Americans of its undesir ability. , Mr. Bryan's plan is about as impractical as are most of his proposed panaceas for our po litical ills. This answer ought to meet the aspiration fqr "parliamentary" government, Jor our present system provides amply for the -expression of popular will, admits a change in the popular branch of the government every two years if sought by a sufficient number of voters, and in the executive in quadrennial periods, under the same conditions. This is turning over ' rapidly enough to meet requirements of either political or industrial growth. 1 Future Relations With Japan. Honeyed words from Baron Shibusawa will not deceive Americans as to what really is in volved in the issue between California and Japan, and which is now becoming a national issue. The federal government, at present nego tiating a treaty with Japan, will surely recog nize the sentiment of the Californians, as ex pressed in the adoption of the alien land law, and will also' take note of the fact that generally Americans are inclined to support the people of the Pacific coast. One of the remarkable traits of the Jap is that he does not seek to pioneer a country, but prefers to insert himself into one where prosperity is already established and where he ctflTsupplant his competitors by methods that are " peculiarly Japanese. Eastern Siberia presents a magnificient field for the builder; Japan's J : .:n:. 1 j .n t.. t j i K suipius luiuiuua tuum wcu uc einpioyca mere in developing the resources of an admittedly rich region that only awaits enterprise. But that calls for a quality of which the Japanese has so far shown little sign, enterprise ' and initiative. v Five years ago Baron Shibusawa made a Hasty trip to New York and returned directly , to Tokio, from which point he sent out a ten- tative oroDOsal that foreshadowed in a wav the fate that overtook Shantung. It was that the United States should furnish the capital and Japan would supply the expert management, and between them the exploitation of Chinacould be carried on with profit to both. This pro posal, of course, did not attract ajny favorable response, but it Joes indicate the course of Japanese thought It seems quite likely now that Japanese ex clusion will be insisted upon by treaty pro vision Exoerience under the Root-Takahira agreement was not satisfactory. While ob serving it in the letter the Japs avoided its spirit and pursued their penetration of Cali fornia persistently. Senator Harding gave the Californians an unequivocal pledge on the point, while the action- of, President Wilson at Paris, where he shut out the Makino racial equality resolution, may be taken as-an indication of how he views the situation. At any rate, the thought of Americans just now is in the di rection of nationalism, and while they abate none of their devotion to tfce cause of huuinanity, nor their willingness to share with their neigh bors, they do feel justified in determining who is to be admitted into the intimacy of the house hold.' -. "Wilson, Not a Quitter." In lending a consolatory message to Gov ernor Cox, Private Secretary Tumulty indulges in an expression that may call later on for a little discreet interpretation. "Woodrow Wil son is not'a quitter," jays Mr. Tumulty, thereby implying perhaps many things. It is not ex pected he would abandon the fundamental principles' of his causes but as a rational man Jie might admit himself mistaken, to say the least, as to how his views and projects were regarded by the public. Tiis does not requirr "quitting" in any sense; nor does it necessarily mean what Governor sCox conveys in his utter ance: 1 v . v ' v In spirit I am as proud as when the fight started. I would not retrace a single step nor yield a single jot in' principle. It was a privilege to make the contest for the right in face of overwhelming odds. Accepting tfte Cox view, the voters of Amer ica have started the country off on the wrong trackf He may yet live to see how far he is mistaken- in ths, as he was in his estimate asi to the turn the vote would take. The prin ciple mostly concerned, that of peace on earth, has suffered nothing but has gained much through the defeat of Cox. Senator Harding and those who supported him are no less de voted to the cause of mankind than those who are numbered with the minority.' It is. unb.e co'ming in the highest "sense for the late can didate and the secretary of the president to insinuate that they, whose party scarcely ex ceeds the size and importance of a faction now, alone are right. Woodrow Wilson is not a quitter; he has not been so accused by any. Yet we may con fidently expect to hear from him some sort of admission that he may .have misjudged his countrymen in his effort to do something which has turned out so disastrously for him and his supporters. "It's no disgrace to run when you am scared," and no man's reputation ever suf fered severely because of his. disclaimer of in fallibility. , Debs MuVt; Stay in Prison, s According to word from Washington, Mr. Wilson does not contemplate pardoning Eugene V. Debs, now serving a term in prison at At lanta, following "his conviction on a charge of sedition. It would, says the president, be set ting a bad precedent. In this regard he differs from his secretary of war, who went into the pardoning business on a wholesale scale about two years ago, when he liberated a battalion of slackers from the military prison at Fort Leaven worth. Many of these were surely entitled to clemency, because of the nature of their de fense, but most of them were as. culpable as Debs, and deserved punishment fully as much. DebsV is in prison because he flouted the authority of the United States government in time of war; he was convicted d "attempting to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty in the military or naval forces," of "attempting to obstruct the recruiting or en listment service of the United States," and of "uttering language tending tovincite, provoke and encourage resistance to ttte United States and to promote the cause of the enemy." In other words Debs undertook to destroy the -government of the United States by crip pling it in time of war. If he had had his way, we would have lost and Germany would have won. It is not easy for the lay mind, however, to draw the fine distinction that is necessary to distinguish Debs from the slackers who" were caught up in the draft, but who refused to obey orders, preferring to serve in prison rather than in uniform. These too, "except those, who act ually had conscientious scruples, against ,war, sought to destroy the government by crippling its effort at defense. v Patriots may extract a little comfort from the reflection, that the president has at this late date inferentially rebuked the secretary of war for his order that liberated the "conscobs" indiscriminately. When Harding Meets Obregon. Arrangements for a conference between the! presidents-elect of the United States and Mex ico at or near Brownsville are said to be under way; Such a consultation may well be produc tive of considerable mutual benefit. Ten years of turmoil in Mexico seems to be' coming to an end in the approaching inauguration of General Obregon, while the "watchful waiting" policy of the Wilson administration will hardly pre vail under his successort. No good reason ex ists why the southern border of our land should not be as safe as tbt on the north, other than the disposition of our neighbors on the south. If Obregon is able to carry out his own pro gram, he will restore iitdustry, make property secure, and generally tranquilize Mexicaivpoli tics. Should he accomplish this, he will do more than any of his numerous predecessors to re store good relations with the United States; at least he will remove much of occasion for strain. Senator Harding will undoubtedly meet General Obregon in a spirit of amity, and cer tainly, will accord him courteous and even sym pathetic attention as he states the case of his own country. And Obregon will find that the president-elect of the United States is a man of broad humanity, anxious to keep the peace, but' determined to maintain the dignity and preserve the rights of his government and its. citizens. If the meeting is held as planned, it ought to do much towards bringing about the settlement so sadly wanted. We hope the teachers will come back again next year, and as a united body. But, we wish them well, whatever they decide to do. France was willing a year ago to accept the Lodge reservations. That landslide was going some when it caught Champ Clark. "Less talk and more action" will help much. A Line 0 type or Two Haw to At Lino,' lot ths quips fall hers they may. After the Avalnnclie. There In the twilight cold and gray, JJfaless, but beautiful, he lay, .Stilt grasping in his hand of Ice That banner with the strange devlce "Peace! Progress! Prosperity:" IT was no secret that the democratic admin istration was unpopular, but did you realize that it was quite as bad as all that? The election of 1920 might be termed the Great Aversion. THE only interesting statistics, are those which are not obtainable. Frexample, it would be interesting to know how many votes "in a presidential election represent a last-moment change of mind. AND HOW THE LADIES VOTED. One of Them: "How did you vote on revi sion of the banking laws?" Another: "I didn't know anything about it but I voted for it, because I thought it wouldn't do any harm to revise anything." "Well, I didn't know anythlngabout it. either, but I didn't vote for it, because I thought they were doing too much revising." A CHEERFUL tlmewas had in Lock'wood, Mo. ,A handbill announced: "Dinner and supper served by the Cemttery Association election day." Far From the Madding Crowd. ' Sir: Did 71 miles of desert today in five hours. Flat? No. Lumpy. Will rest here and study the many good points of Needles, and resume our investigation of the g. c. of C. on Sunday. If you have lots of time and are not a bathroom bigot, never travel by railroad again. Motoring is the life. . J. U. H, WHEN one is. sequestered from the wprld one develops, reports Comrade Debs, "an aston ishingly keen faculty for sensing things." Where upon he predicts a socialist landslide in 1924. Really uncanny. LET'S GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE ZINTSMASTERS. -From the Marshall, Mich., Chronicle.) ' Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Zintsmaster have re cently installed a private golf course of nine holes near their fine country home. The golf links are private and will be used by the family and friends. 'Next season the Zintsmasters will issue membership cards for the season of 1921 with no charges whatever. They will keep several dozen golf clubs and balls on hand so their friends can play without purchasing these articles. Their home has several large rooms suitable for dancing, one being 18x27 feet, and are all connected with double openings, and have oak floors. They havev recently in stalled f. player piano; aso a private electric lighting plant and automatic electric pump. - Everything will be ready tor enjoyment for the Zintsmasters and their many friends the coming season. ANOTHER fear that was disposed of was the fear that Mr. Harding, if elected, might have a democratic senate on his hands. home brew 'vse (obeisances to riquarius) yeast and things that boil yeasty things that boil i time them with my big ben 1 am napoleon bring up, the cannon , ogosh listen to the music ot the brass band hello cleopatra" . isn't it warm tonight ' let's crank up x , the old boat ' blue elephants gorgeous blue elephants -yft'aylng rdandolinzh one spoke to me i knew him in afrlker footstepsh here and there this walk won't stay shtill I'm all right but the walk'zh drunkazell home brew how i love it doggoned shtuffs got best 111 kick yeversaw w. s. , "WOODROW WILSON is One Alumni." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A host in himself. AD in the Iowa City Press-Citizen: "Tomor row See that Beautiful Looking Blonde, Lionel Batrymore, in her latest picture, 'The Master Correspondence From Japan. Tokyo, Oct. 6. Nowcometh the Wrold Sun day School convention, to decide whether the Christian Japanese not quite up to v entrance requirements of the Land of the Free is to be permitted to enter the Pearlyr Portals side by side with the immaculate soul of the Occi dental, or be restricted to the tradesman's gate. JBut already Buddha has put the Evil Eye upon the godly assemblage; four hours before the time set for the formal opening of the great new tabernacle it was burned to the ground.' One dear old lady delegate, however, absolved Buddha from all blame with the remark: "It was to be expected; the carpenters worked on Sunday" , , SIB. THE manager of the Hotel Pomeroy, Bar-1, bados, W. I., warns: "No cigarettes or cock tails served to married ladies without husband's consent." - t I Music Hint. Sir: P. A-lf Scholes, In his "Listener's Guide to Music," revives two good laughs thus: "A fugue is a piece in which the voices one by one come in and the people one by one go out." Also he quotes from Sam'l Butler's Note Books: "I pleased Jones by saying that the hautbois was a clarinet with a cold in its head, and the bassoon the same with a cold in its chest." The cor anglais suffers slightly from both Symp toms. Some ambitious composer, by Judicious use of the more diseased instruments, could achieve the most rheumy musical effects, par ticularly if, a la Scriabin, he should have the atmosphere of the concert hall heavily charged with eucalyptus. E. PONTEFEX. IS Mr. Harding still a private citizen, as Mr. Wilson reminded him, or does his election allow him a measure of liberty of speech be tween now and March 4? CONSIDERABLE MENTAL HAZARD. Sit: Are you interested In the fact that the Rev. Jay Crowe is a missionary at Shanghai? No? Well, then, permit me to hazard the opin ion that the persons who speak of areoplanes are the ones who in former days made men tion of areated bread. CALCITROSUS. "CONTEMPLATING young lady stenog rapher desires position from 9 to 12 a. m. Phone Uptown 1S04-W." New Orleans Times-Picayune. - Is fhere anything you'd like to have her con template for you? THE TRAITOR VOTE. Sir: As Mr. Cox predicted that every traitor In America would vote for Harding, it would seem from the size of the vote, as Artemus Ward said of Traitor's Gate, "that there was room for several mlddlin'-sized traitors to go through it to onst.' C. P. M. EVEN landslides have their compensations. Colonel Lewis escaped a close shave. t A CHANGE FROM LATIN ROOTS. (From the Reedsburg, Wis., Free Press.) Miss Edna White resumed her school ' - duties after a week's vacation for -potato digging. WHEN do they count Mr. Harlan's votes? Or don't they? ' B.L.T, Saving Gasoline. A Parsons newspaper says the. economy wave has hit that Kansas town. The young people are conserving gasoline by halting their automobiles in some quiet lane near town. This is a new definition of economy. Topeka State Journal. - - - -i'" - -i i The Garter Record. The world's most efficient garter was the base v ball magnate who suspended seven Sox at one tiroe.Cleveland Plain Dealer, i How to Keep Well ' By OR. W. A. EVANS Questions concerning feyglene, sanita tion and prevention of disease, sub mitted to Dr. Evans by readers of Ths Boo, wit! bs answered personslly, sub ject to proper limitation, where a stamped, addressed envelope is en closed. Dr. Evens will not malts dlagnoaia or prescribe for Individual diseases. Address letters in cars of The Bee. Copyright, 1020, by Dr. W. A. EvsdsT HOW TO GROW OLD. I publish a scries of receipts for attaining old age. ' They come to me from various sources: airs. II. rettit of Wyoming, 111., was 97 in September. 1920. She ascribes her long life o work and heredity. She comes of a long-lived stock and she has three children each over 75. She always gets up to breakfast and after breakfast does some work, preferably in her garden. She eats what she pleases. Mrs. J. H. Cutter of Evansville, Ind., is 94. She attributes1 her long life, excellent health, and unusual vigor to mental poise. In early, life she was a pampered, ill-tempered invalid. According to her friend, Dr. Paine, under the influence of religious teaching she discovered and corrected her bad montal habits, cultivated a graceful behavior, and developed charm. To her physical health she devotes a Wood deal of attention. It iaher habit to remain in bed reading until noon, then to take a cool bath, dress, eat lunch, and enter on her life of mild activi ties. She does not come of long lived stock. About 100 years ago, Hufeland, a German physician, wrote a book telling how to attain old age., In this book he says that Terenti, wife of Cicero, in spite of the many vicissitudes of her life, lived to bo 103. Llvia, the wife of Augustus, was domineering and tempestuous, but she lived to be SO. An actress of the time, Luecui, appeared on the stage at 112. Sis was on the stage 100 years. Galena Copiala, a dan cer, lived to be very old; She per formed before Pompey, danced probably, when she was 90 years of age. A few years later she per. formed before Augustus. It may be that births were not recorded in that day. Hufeland, after investigating the age of Bible characters, Concluded that "the duration of life 3,000 years ago was about the -same as today." The apparent difference is due to difference in the way of reckoning. Buck "Daws of - Modern Med icine" quotes Pythagoras, one of the great characters of ancient his tory, as having lived to extreme old ager He attributed this to modera tion in eating and daily gymnastic exercises. In his book of advice "Just to Keep the Kecords Strulglit." Omaha, Nov. 6. To the Editor of The Bee: So much recently has been said in the Omaha papers re garding tho heroic- work of Mf Charles H. Van Deusen, newly ap" pointed Chief of Detectives, during the riot of 1919. when Mayor Smith was so nearly killed, before a few bravo men rushed to his rescue at tho risk of their own lives. I be lieve in fair play mid feel sure that you do, therefore, call your atten-. tlon. to your article of September 29, 1919, when you recorded the In cident about Vie riot. In that article you stated matters as they were and now it sepnis that the scenery has been shifted and not alone has Mr. Van Deusen re placed A. C. Andersen as chief, but also as the ono that rescued Mayor Smith. As a matter of fact, allow me to recount this unselfish deed and attention to duty by three de tectives and State Agent, Mr. B. F. Danbaum. Mr. Danbaum, driving his own car with Detectives A. C. Andersen in the front seat and Detectives L. O. Toland and Van Deusen in the rear seat, drove through the mob ho counseled moderation In all things as the essential for long life. But he added: "A man at 80 and beyond should reckon himself as having ceased to live." Dr. A. W. Foreman is only 80, but he has "lived 100." i He was one of 19 children, of Whom 14 lived to be over 70. In his creed for long life there are four articles: "First, I was born right." He came of long-lived stock. 'Second. ? I always have been a hard worker. Third, I never permit myself to get angry. Fourth, I always manage to have lots, of fun." J. L. Hammett, wKo is in the 80s and very active, does not think hi3 people were long-lived. His father died at 80 and his mother at 84. His grandfather (his father's fath er) died at 34. However, that was due to an accident yellow fever. Doesn't Need Operation. Sam writes: "1. WUat can be done to cure varicocele, besides an opera tion? 2. I am a member of a gym nasium which I attend three times a week and take part in boxing, handball, and basket ball. Is it possible that pueh exercising would be harmful to me?" REPLY. 1. (a) Wear a suspensory, (b) Getting married ia the best cure. 2. No. Varicocele Is of slight Importances on that nevcr-lo-bo-forKOtten Sep tember evening, not caring for stones, olubs or fhotguns, and grabbed the mayor .away from the mob. After Mr. Russell Norgard had untied the rope, these brave men drove throiiBU tho crowd to the city Jail for first aid to tho mayor, and then finding they were still being pursued by the mob, again placed the unconscious mayor in tho auto and by round ubout way took him to he Ford hospital. I Hon't know if the mayor ever knew who rescued hiinT at least he has never said anything about It to my v knowledge, and as my brother, A. C. Andersen, has .re peatedly stated, he was only doing his duty. Above are the facts even as re corded by your papor and also set forth in the' little Blue Book, called "Omaha's s Riot." i Hence, I am much surprised to' now see the ar ticle In all papers stating that Van Deusen and Danbaum drove an automobile through tho crowd and rescued the mayor making' the im pression that these two were ths only ones, when the truth is that jy. C. Andersen got to the mayor first and lifted him in the auto. Let us be fair to all the boys. There was enough honor for all in that night's work and it is only to keep the records straight that I ask you to give this article space In your paper. CHARLES J. ANDERSEN. M,,iiiMiniMlMiMli.HstMawieepaf..l A package of lorna doonE Biscuit in the pantry means many a shortbread treat for the family. Tender, mealy, and with just -enough rich ness. Try them today. y NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY RECEIVER'S SALE Carbon Paper and Typewriter Ribbons In Order to Liquidate the Stock and Equipment of Office Equipment Co. 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