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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JANUARY ( 1, 1921. 6 The Omaha &ee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. NELSON B. UfDIKK, PoblUhtr. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED MESS Tlx atoodotod Pnn, of wtjcn Tbi Bo li I ntnlxr, to loilnly ootlUrd to lh dm for publication of til ntwi dlopotehoi c roll ted to II or not oUtirwlta f4lud in this oapor, ond olio tb Im1 non puMlthed hmln. All rtitu or puoiicouoa " out ovocuu REE TELEPHONES Print Bronco Buhuifs. A for Tyler 1000 tho DoDortinont or I'tnoo Wontod. ' Far Nlsbt Cllt Attar 10 P. M.t iMt.wi.i rbmiiBUKi Trial 1060L ClreoUUoo Doportramt - Triot 1J08J. Iditrtliin Douortaont - WW lWfc OFFICES OF THE BEE Udn Offle: ITth and Fonta . ' t" Council Bluff! IS Scott Bt I Bout Bid 2S18 I It Out-of-Town Ofticoai ' Now Tori JM Fifth Am. i WtoMnitoa . 1!U Bt Btoior Bldi. 1 fruto Franco 4M tut Bk Boner The Bee's Platform . New Union Passenger Station. ; - 2. Continued improvemant -of the No braika Highways, including tho -: merit of Main Thoroughfares leading', into Omaha with a Brick Svrfaeo. t 3 A short, low-rate Waterway from the Cora Bolt to tho Atlantic Oeeaa. ', 4. Homo Rulo Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. The arrival of each new year finds hope ris ing anew from the ashes of the old. ' On the theory that mankind gains in knowledge from its past mistakes this is justified. Each year ought to offer greater opportunities for full living than the one preceding if we have learned from our experiences. In just such .measure as Americans have understood the events of the last few years may they expect to profit in the coming twelve-month," In .spite of all the treaties and agreements, the world was not at peace in 1920. Territorial disputes, . internal dissension, intolerance and barbaric efforts of one tribe, class or nation to get the upper hand over those with whom. theV should have been outline in harmony have been characteristics of the disastrous " period which no w must close. Those nations linked in the artificial creation of the League' of Nations have been consumed with jealousy and suspicion of each other, and even the nations so firmly. allied during the war have allowed their selfish in terests to estrange them one from another.. What has happened on a world sale .has occurred also within the confines of each country. In America there has been they same friction, though of a more orderly kind. Some; of; us have been hugging old illusions to our breasts and refusing to recognize that the time has come for examining their utility in" the light of new conditions. . ' - With the turning of the year, a better, fairer spi.iijs to be desired. If there are wrongs',' it will not do to cover them up they must be remedied, conservatively and expertly. It must be realized that injustice rankles and if long un corrected results in drastic remedies that have in them something of vindictiveness that sauses further ills.- These days perhaps are not different from those that have been known in other ages, but the oDoortunitv lies in more intelligent settle ment of their problems. Sincerity is the need, together with a spirit of co-operation, of give and take, and a real desire for adjustment ac cording to justice instead of prejudice. The farmer has had his difficulties, and busi ness men have had theirs, nor. will it be denied that working men and women also have had troubles of their own. Not by accusation and counter-accusation will these y difficulties be smoothed over, but peace and prosperity can only be hoped for in theV degree that the spirit of fair play is more thoroughly established as the guiding motive of the year 1921. v ; . . Trade With Russia Postponed. - As he is preparing to shake the dust, of the United States from, his feet, Ludwig C. A. K. Martens utters a dire threat. Not only will the $6000,000,000 of concessions granted to .Wash ington Vanderlip by the Soviets be forfeited, but the $50,000,000 of goods ordered in this-country for" delivery in Russia will not be received. ' Tne first part of the calamity may ie,borne,'vas most if not all the six billions consisted of something that is yet to be developed. Likewise,' something of the sting of the second part vanishes when conditions surrounding trade with soviet Russia are more fully comprehended. .' - , The secretary of the treasury, a. snort time ago warned exportets that Russian gold, would not be accepted at the treasury. A more difficult phale of the possible traffic now appears.' Judge Esche of the British high cWtvery lately held that as the soviet government has not . been recognized by the British government, its ex propriations of property are not valid. This was in connection with a lot of lumber offered' m England by soviet trade kommisar, Leonid Krassin. The original owner set up a claim to the property, and it was held to be good. The principle involved is simple; however effective the seizure of private property-may be in Russia, when the goods are removed beyond the confines of that blessed region, ownership reverts to the original proprietor. This makes trade with Lenin, Trotzky & Co., extremely dif Jcult. Dealers who traffic with them are likely, to be held as receivers of stolen goods. , The stubbornness -'of the world in declining to-adopt the bolshevik program' may facilitate a settlement of the Russian problem. Whether it will be a recognition of the existing government, which is rapidly divesting itself of its com munistic features, or whether the end will come I another ."revolution" in Russia, it seems al-.- V certain that finally the politics ' of the Soviets will be compelled to. yield to . the de mands of trade. Back on the Home Job. A titrl mnr than a errain of comfort can be extracted from t,hc news from Marion that Mr. Harding has laid aside foreign ' affairs and is giving consideration to home problems. In this there is nothing selfish, nor anything detrimental to the material interests of the nations who now look to America not only for leadership but for practically all other things they need. If we as a people fail them, it will be because we' have first failed ourselves. Therefore, what concerns America is of real importance to all the world. If the present administration could only have made a practical application of the intense ideal ism that it aroused; and have shown some de sire to make things in the home land secure, it might better have sered humanity. Mr. Harding realized this, and strongly emphasized it in alt his addresses during the campaign. He is pledged by his party and his record to give attention to the domestic affairs of the United States ahead of any other; to interpret his ideas in terms of nationalism, friendly and desirous of assisting all others, but not on the basis of the all en folding internationalism, which , would leave America as helpless as Europe.. As we preserve and husband our own strength, so can we lend a helping .hand to those who need assistance, and we will best keep fit as a nation by giving closer attention to the home job than tq any other: Human Coats of Unemployment. The announcement of the National Associa tion of Manufacturers that its members are striv ing to avoid curtailment of operations that lead to unemployment can be accepted as generally true. Under no system of enlightened life could it be thought that throwing large bodies of men and women workers out of, employment would benefit' any portion oi society. This is even nliore true now that the poverty of Europe has out down the export market for American goods, making the home market almost the only outlet for production. ' Unempjoyrrient means a lack of money, or in ether .words, a lessened buying power. It also results eventually in a shortage of goods which in due time calls everyone back to the mills and chops for a period of intensive labor which may have its disadvantages the same as idleness. The problem of vnemployment and irregu'ai, employment in the latt few years has come to be looked upon as one of great social gravity. King George of England, in addressing parlia ment spoke of this as the darkest cloud on the horizon. Over there for several years a pension system for. the unemployed has served to em phasize the waste of industrial shutdowns. . It is . J. A. Uo.bson, in his book, "Work and Wealth,' who' speaks thus of the question: 'i A' weekly wage of bare efficiency is ; socially -far superior "to a higher average ' wage accompanied by great irregularity of ,' work. The former admits stability of modes of. living and ready 4 money payments; it conduces to ttcadmess of character and pro ? vision .. for the future " without anxiety. , Rapid and considerable fluctuations in wages, even wtih full employment, are damaging to " character and stability of standards; but ir 'regularity of employment is the most de structive agency to the character, the stand-, ard ' of comfort, the , health and sanity, of wage earners. The knowledge that he is ' liable at any time from commercial or natural causes that lie entirely outside his .control, to lose the opportunity to work and earn his livelihood, takes out of a man that confidence in the fundamental rationality of life which is essential to soundness of char acter. Religion;' ethics, education, can have little hold upon workers exposed to such powerful illustrations of the unreason and injustice of industry and of society. These are not.inconsidered words, nor do they assert anything that is not a matter of common knowledge. How idle h is, then, to pretend to see in the present depressioin any nefarious de sign, or anything except the workings of an im perfectly organized industrial life. Davis Cup Is Coming Home. Reference to the sporting' page will remind dwellers in the north temperate zone that under the Southern Cross the weather is that of early summer. So they need not marvel that the great international tennis match has just been won by the American team ,at Auckland. New Zealand. The Davis cup, emblematic of supremacy in lawn tennis, will return to the-United States, and the probabilities are that it will remain in its home country for a long, long time. William' Tilden II and his partner, William M. Johnston, are not only expert racquet wielders, but they are young men who give promise of many years of usefulness at the sport. The victory ,at Auckland was fore shadowed by the performance of the Americans while in England last summer. At that time when Tifden won the- world's singles champion ship he was received by the critics with tolerance rather than enthusiasm, and his victories were ascribed, to some misfortune of his adversary rather than to his, skill, -strength and endurance. Even at that, the British reviewers, after he had met and vanquished their best and all with such consummate ease it appeared none were really a match; for hirrt, grudgingly admitted the possi bility of his being a tennis champion. , Brookes and Patterson, the Australian team who had so successfully defended possession of the Davis cup since Brookes had aided in its capture some ten years ago, were defeated by Tilden and Johnston at Wimbeldon, a fairly accurate forecast for the championship matches. Tennis players, and Omaha has its fair share, will rejoice that' American. supremacy at the game is once more established. Cooling the Japanese Teapot ' Hysteria, over the Japanese question appears to be dying down- on both sides of the Pacific. Indications are that Calif orn a wjll be willing to amend its land laws in such way as to debar all foreigners' from 'owniag Ian J there, thus elimin ating some of the resentment aroused by - the singling out of Japanese. The law thus drawn would resemble, closely the provisions of a statute in -Japan prohibiting ownership of land there' by foreigners'., . , In the matter of granting Japanese immigrants citizenship, there can be no open dispute. Na tions naturally can' not put themselves in the position of insisting that their citizens be en abled to swear away their allegiance. Given a genuine desire on' both' sides for peace, enough of international friction can be obviated to pre vent an appeal to arms. The activity of the American ambassador to Tokio, . Roland S. Morris, in bringing about better understanding, will no doubt furnish a brilliant chapter in diplo matic annals.' It has not been only by confer ences in Japan, but by meetings with Califor- nians at- home and with their representatives in Washington that' Mr. Morris has brought a better feeling into being.' D'Annunzio, who has concluded that Italy is not worth dying for, can not be numbered among the .subscribers to the "my country right or wrong" theory. Why bother about a limousine? Let the president-elect take a street car to the Capitol grounds and walk the rest of the way. - The administration at Washington announces that it. is ready for the. change, but the voters beat 'em to it. All together, and make this the biggest yet for everybody. And Champ Clark is leaving congress before annexing Canada. ALincO'TypcorTwo How to tho Una, lot tho aulpa fall whoro tfco? may. I STVLITES AND THE SABBATH. Simeon Stylltes. on your shaft of granite, Through thirty winters patient In your, pain Till Death, relenting, plucked you off the planet In good l'opa Leo's reign The flesh of modern saints, more frail and tender But housing still the spirit that endures. Has cllmbeU to epic heights of self -surrender Transcending even yours. Where thro' the storm the lamplight faintly flickers. On Sabbath nights we stand amid the snows Before the guarded portal of MeVicker'o And blow a frequent nose. Like you, Stylltes, near the gate of Heaven, We quaint, ascetic suppliants stand In line, And they that got around at half-past-seven Get In at half -past-nine. , Too late to see LIsette, who came from Paris And brought her educated cockatoos, But not too late for Rosenbaum and Harris (That classy team of Jews.) These are the hallowed griefs that test and try That sift the spurious metal from the gold. We are not daffy, Simeon merely pious, Like you, In days of old. B. W. W. " 'A THING of beaiitv is a tnv TrtrMrr " Rett Jf, miraculously, it happens in Chicago, it can, -T..v .... ,,vt, o nUi u yasj, inn, uviniiigness. The old Field Museum, seen beneath a summer moon, when the mist is on the lake, is as beauti ful as anything on the earth's crust. Not to pre serve the exterior were a sin against Beauty, which is the unforgivable sin. Correspondence From Germany. Wiesbaden, Dec. 6. The American Delegate on the Reparations Commission at Wiesbaden gave a Thanksgiving Dinner at his home to a party of ten or twelve Americans. He charged each guest a certain sum to cover the costs of eats. In Chicago, wouldn't these be known as paying guests? H. S. F. .. t MORE diplomatic was the gentleman who invited a group of friends to sample his wife's remarkable cooking, and who said to them, after i. i- '. you say Just for a jke on the little wife, we each leave two dollars, under tne piater . SMALL TOWN OUTRAGE, .(From the Freeport Journal-Standard.) - Baileyville. Last Monday morning peo-' " pie were surprised when learning that our otherwise so quiet hamlet was visited by . burglars. The night before, between 7 and-' 8 o'clock, Mr. Coert Hock and his daughter had been at church and after returning home Miss Hock went down cellar, and was surprised and frightened that the outside door was open which had been locked and closed for the winter. She called her father ' and together they investigated what might be the cause and they found that the door -had been pried open by force and the door ' broken. ' At first they thought there was nothing missing, but by closer Investigation they found that there were three Jugs mles iW. two with grape wine and one with vinegar.- The wine jugs were not full any more -foe- Mr. Hock did not save the contents for others and the other, jug was, no doubt, not sampiea ana taken Dy mistake. - - WE could wish that the French bacteriologist had disepvered his remedy for tuberculosis in some insect other than the butterfly. We do not like to think of the butterfly as useful. That ruins it as a symbol and as a natural object. Rhymed Devotion. ' t -(Robert Louis Stevenson to his wife.) When my wife is far from me The undersigned feels all at sea. -R. L. S. I am as good as deaf When separate from F. ' I am far from fcay vWhen separate from A. I loathe the ways of men When separate from N. Life Is a murky den- 1 When separate from If. My sorrow rages high When separate from T. And all things seem uncanny When separate from Fanny. A SCIENTIFIC reader, P. D. B., buspei-ts a connection between the earthquake reported from the Island of Yap and a- conference the same day between Bryan and Borah. HERB IT IS AGAIN. (From the classified ads.r Saleslady, attractive, energetic, ambitions hustler. Selling experience essential but not ' necessary. Fred'k H. Bartlett & Co. HER attractiveness, perchance, is also essen tial hut ftnt nprccarv. "FAMOUS Panty Case Had Its Thrills hY Recital ot the lribulation3 ot an Unhappy Pair. Laporte Argus. Condensed: An unhappy pair of Pantys. '' HARRY HAS NOW SHINGLED HIS ROOF. (From the Illinois State Register.) Two women In particular were walking along Monroe street in front of the Gaiety - theater when one of them suddenly uttered a cry of exclamation. Harry Thornton, manager Of the Gaiety, was standing on tho -sidewalk nearby. Suddenly Thornton took off his hat as the gaze of the women waa concentrated upon it. Much to his surprise . the top of the hat waa smoldering as a largo, piece of burning wood carried from the fire had dropped on it and started to burn the material. He quickly dropped the hat to the sidewalk and proceeded to , stamp out the fire with his foot. Certainteed shingles will prevent nearly all roof fires. Sold by Springfield Roofing & Supply Co. Adv. MR. DEMPSEY and his assistant manager were guests of the Rotary Club in Salt Lake City, and when called upon to make addresses, each, reports the inspired compositor, "responded with short boasts." . Soliloquizing In Harmony. (George Santauana, in The Athenaeum.) There is an unco venan ted society of spirits, like that of the morning stars singing together, or of all the larks at once in tho sky; it is a happy accident of freedom and a conspiracy of solitudes. When people talk together, they are at once entangled in a mesh of instrumentalities, Irrelevance, misunderstanding, vanity, and propa ganda; and all to no purpose, for why should creatures become alike who are different? But when minds, being naturally akin and each alone in its own heaven, soliloquize in harmony, saying compatible things only because their hearts are similar, then society is friendship in the spirit; and the unison of many thoughtsytwlnkles hap pily in the night across the void of separation. "OR," ors L. A. M., apropos of the fear that Vox Pop might begin praising us, "or, as Dan O'Connell said, 'Whenever the government praises me I immediately examine my conscience to see what crime I havje been guilty, of'." OF all falls in history, from the Fall of Man to the Fall of 1920, the Fall of Fiume is perhaps the least soul-devastating. ' PASSING ER STRANGE. Sir: I think your item about the saleslady who made "lingerie" synonymous with "rest room" is a variant of a Fort Sheridan incident of some twenty years ago, in Bubstance as follows: Officer's wife ... . But what I set out to ask is, isn't it str arise thatthose who have so much to say about a present era of petticoat government are so un observant as to ignore the fact that nearly all the former adherents of that party have cast off their entlre-r-cr allegiance? . ' BALLTMOONET. . OR, 'as Mr. Balfour remarked, "I am more or less happy when being praised, not very un comfortable when being abused, but I have mo ments oi uneasiness, when being explained." B. L. T. Well how do you like 1921 so far? Turn Day to Knight The marriage of August Knight to June Day might be called an event of the season. Maybe wc can look for a little Fourth of July along about Seotember Morn. Los Angeles Times. How to Keep Well By DR. W A. EVANS Quootiono concomlnf hytiona, oanltatian and provontion at aUaoaaa, aubmittool to Dr. Evana ay rood or of Tho Boo, will bo anawaraa Boraaaally, oubjoct to Erooar limitation, whara atampaa, addrooood anvolopa la oncloooa. Dr. vana will nat maka Uacaaia or proscribe ior individual dlaoaaaa. Addroo kttora la cera of Tho Boo. Copyright, 1920, br Dr. W. A. Evani. america's best health year; We have a right to congratulate ourselves this New Tear's morning on our continued good health. When the great Influenza wave of 1889 swept over the country the waters did not settle down until the third year. The high death rates of 1889 and 1890 were followed by higher rates in 1891, rates almost as high in 1892, and fairly excessive In 1893. v The 1918 epidemic created havoc In that year, but the year 1919 had a death rate below normal. The United States census office reports a rate of 12.87 per 1,000 for the year, the lowest ever known. The weekly statement issued by the census office and covering sixty cities, in which live over 26,000,000 people, indicate that the rate for 1920 will be lower than that of 1919. The statistical bulletin of the Metro politan Life Insurance company shows that the death rate of their policy holders in the rlret ten months of 1920 was 1.6 per 1,000 lower than in the corresponding period of 1919. They say the marked decline in the tuberculosis death rate is a large factor in the improvement this year. Nothing quite like this low rate is to be found in the experience of in sured wage earners during the entire period of record keeping. The New Tork City health depart ment bulletin, commenting on the low death rate in the first ten months of 1920, says: "The most prominent feature of this reduced mortality is the deaths reported as due to consumption &.Z86 in 19Z0, 6.452 in 1919." Commissioner Copeland gtveaj the use of alcohollo stimulants" as one cause of the decline in consump tion. 1 Chicago reports a very great de- yer cline in the consumption death rate during 1920. In November, Dayton, O., had 121 deaths from all causes, as compared with 166 per year on an average for the years 1914 to 1918. The estimated number of deaths in 1920 In Chicago was 84,480, as com pared with 83,494 for 1919. Rates of 12.62 for 1919 and estimated 12.6 for 1920 both unusually low rec ords. Some cities report rates enough under the average in 1919 and 1920 to compensate for the rise above the average in 1918. In other words, averaging 1918, 1919, and 1920. we get a figure that is about the average for 1911 to 1917 inclusive. The Metropolitan bulletin says: "Typhoid fever continues to de crease, as does diarrhea in babies." It Is a little beside the argument, but Dr. L.I. Dublin says the death rate among negro policy holders in his Insurance company there are al most 2,000,000 of them decreased 9 rer cent in eurht years The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance company, a company operated by negroes, substantiated Dr. Dublin's statement. When the bells rang in the New Tear last night they rang out the best health year we have ever known. Nineteen hundred and twenty set a mark for 1921 to shoot at. To equal the record everybody will need to go some. The health departments will need to go some. The health de partments will need to bend every energy. The doctors and nurses must do their part. But the biggest part of the task comes back to the in dividual citizen. He must keep him self healthy. As you crawl out of bed this New Tear's morning. Mister Citizen, flop your1 wings and crow a little. . Tou have the right. Then register your determination to do your best to make 1921 equal to 1920. Tllht Right-or-Way Caso. Silver Creek, Neb., Dee. 28. To the Editor of The Bee: ' In order to protect itsei; against the opera tion of the statute of limitations ai to adverse possession as provided for in the Morris net of 1912, the Union Pacific Railroad company in 1913 began actions, ot ejectment against farmers all - along their right-or-way on even-numbered sec tions, who would not lease from the company right-of-way lands occupied by them. Upwards of 40 such suits were brought in my own county (Merrick) alone. The farmers thus attacked decided to fight and later realising that no one alone could fight his case to the supreme court of the United States, through their attorney asked the railroad company to agree on a test case which might stand for all, so that all together might bear the burden of making a proper defense. But this the company refused to do and by thus taking a mean ad vantage of a legal technicality forced each farmer to make his own fight, let his case go by default, or lease which last agents of the company persistently urged upon the farmers, offering to lease at 31 a year for each tract of land for 20 yars, the com pany to pay all court costs thus far incurred. After advising with some of my friends who volunteered to chip in and help me bear the ex pense and feeling assures! that others would do so when called upon, I alone of all those in Merrick coun ty and throughout the entire Union Paclfio system for that' matter de cided to fight to a finish and em ployed Hon. W. H. Thompson of Grand Island as my attorney. In both the district court and our state supreme court on appeal, the case was decided in favor of the railroad company. Later on the supreme court hav ing denied a rehearing-rMr. C. C. Flansburg of Lincoln Was Invited Into the case for the purpose of assisting in preparing It for appeal to the supreme court of the United States, which waa done and the necessary papers and documents were forwarded to Washington about a week ago, teceipt of which has been acknowledged. . In the Nebraska State Journal of T 1. A . L. J ment regarding this case then, in preparation, which hus been re produced or commented upon in dif ferent papers throughout the state. The writer of the article waa quite correct in tho main, although ln acurate or misleading as to certain minor particulars. For instance, ho said that the litigation developed the fact that the Ostorman uniform right-of-way law "is of no avail or aid to the farmers In whose interest it was passed." That is absolutely correct as every right-of-way farmer well knows, but such fact was patent on the face of thlngsoand did not need to be "developed. It is true that the- company was automatical ly deprived of Its right of eminent domain, but that was of no advan tage to the farmer and apparently no loss to the company up to this time, except that It puts a sort of stigma upon thorn which they richly de serve. That law Is now obsolete absolutely dead, with nothing about it that could be "enforced" by any power on earth. . However, the fight over that law accomplished one very beneficent purpose In that ' it advertised the situation to the people of the whole state and that was the chief reason why I fought for the bill during three legislative sessions, and not because I ever for an instant thought it would ever be of direct benefit to any farmer along the road. v And what future work? An act of congress. For even If I should win in this contest for the outside 100 feet, there would still be left 60 feet on either side that Drooerlv belongs to the farmer. .But hat 60 feet could not well have been cov ered In this suit. I have In mind a bill which would settle this thing absolutely In favor or tne rarmer, and. tf necessarv. some time congress will enact it into law. CHARLES W008TER.' . oiiaiioiioitotmiiaiiottaiiaiiiisiiaiisjisiiiiitBita!iatisitiinoiinoiisiiMiatBiiaiiaiiuiiaiiai:aiisiiBtiaiioitaiiaMaiiaiioiioitoii iioi'iiitaiioiiBiisiiniioiraiioitati04iaitoHiioitoiioiraiiatiBiioiiaiisi:oiitiiotaiioiioitaiia)roHaiPOiotioiioiaiiaiiiioiioiiiii Clearance Sale Of Electric Household Appliances - i i;.i.4iiliiiijuiiiluiiiiiiiiiiiiiji!iui.ii:iuiiii!Xu - Our First Awaited Clearance Sale i I i.j: l.il.JiirJ.iiiriliilil'iliili.i :lMliJ,ilMli of Electric Household Appliances Starts V Monday, Jan. 3rd Watch Sunday Papers for Full Details life "B 1 Power Co. farnom at Fifteenth 2314 It St Sa Sid
