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8 B THE BEE; OMAHA. SUNDAY. MAY 15, 1921. Omahan Finds Citizens of Shattered Rheims Bent by Sorrow But 'Carrying On' Sobered and Saddened by Devastation of Their City They are Erecting Homes and Buildings from Ruins Workers Busy Cleaning Up Wreck- age in Hindenburg Line. Editor' Note: Tlili I it letter written to The Itee by Robert Cowell, who l touring In Europe.) By ROBERT COWELL. Tan's, May 3. It was a real joy to get into Switzerland after Italy, not withstanding the fact that we had much snow while there, and, indeed, more winter weather than we have seen since January, 1920, when we left Omalia for California. We first stopped at Geneva, on beautiful Lak? Lenian. To ' Omaha' friends who have never been there, and who may go, I would say, "Stop at the Beau Rivage hotel." The hotel faces thj' lake, and if a front room is selected the view will be found to be superb. As a background for the beautifji lake the view of the Jura mountains, with Mont Blanc in the background, .15 or 40 miles away, is a sight f gaze upon and wonder at. The tips of the higher mountains are alwa;. -snow-capped. While we were there they were covered down to the foot hills, and indeed for a short time wc had snow on the lowlands and in th city itself. ' The city and the peop'c were scrupulously clean. People Are Charming. One goes, of course, to see the homes of Rosseau and Cilvin. I ... ) z1 ill m w w Letters From a Home-Made Father To His Son have never been an admirer of the latter, but I am sure that the exam ple of his .life and the effect of his teachings have had a good effect on the people, tending to make them more serious and stimulating them (or the life that now is, rather than having them glory in-the past. At any rate, their country is beautiful and the people are charming. From ' Geneva we went to Berne, an interesting rnd prosperous city. Everyone goes to see the old church with its quaint old clock, where fig ures march around when the clock strikes. Then, too, you must see the Ogre fountain, with its figures of the Jew eating Christian children, having the head of one in his mouth and a number of others tied around his waist, to be feasted upon later. This is interesting as showing what the people in their simplicity were made to believe in the days that are ! gone. Goes to Rheims. Beautiful Lucerne we" enjoyed im mensely. The lion cut out of and into the mountain rock is worth go ing to see. Then the work of the glaciers of millions of years ago is an education. With Swiss thorough ness everything is splendidly ar ranged and enjoyable, from the won derful mystic maze to the Alpine climbers. But I' mut get to Rheims. The Verdun battlefields saw perhaps the most stubborn fighting of the war. One visits Rheims perhaps mainly to see the Hindenburg line and the fa mous cathedral. We left Paris at 7:30 a. m. for the city famous for so many things, first for its magnificent cathedral and also, before the war, a being the center of the cham pagne trade. The cathedral was start- cd in .400 B. C. and has been the scene of the consecrations of nearly every French king from Clovis. We .walked and rode over the city, end when we stopped in front of the ruins of the cathedral and walked within ' its broken and crumbled walls vediu not, wonder that the whole civilized "world has been shocked at the story and the destruc tion. One does not feel like, singing a hymn of hate; it is not hate that fills one's breast, but contempt. You despise the men who ordered such insane havoc. I cannot believe that the German common people would have wished such destruction. A whole people does r.ot lose its soul. .' Lack Understanding. If such a thing were possible, that people would die or become like beasts of the field. The leaders had some senseless motive, evidently, that they would strike terror into the hearts of the French people and break the'spirit of the nation. They seemed to lack understanding of other civilized people. Somehow one would . wish to have the ruins remain asthey are for all time to tell the world, as in no other such effective "way, how debased a people may become through war. . Far more eloquent pens than mine have drawn the picture and told the story, so I will not attempt description. The sight filled me with sadness; it was frightfully depress ing. Thank heavens, there is some thing stimulating also; you are im pressed as in no other way by the courage 6 the French people. -Broken by Sorrow. Everywhere, all over Rheims, one sees men and women, bent with years and almost broken by sorrow; patching, building, digging, still carrying on. I have a greater ad miration for them than ever before. They are not bo volatile as they once were; more sober, everywhere, but still filled with indomitable spirit and. patriotism. We left the city by automobile by Way of the ancient Porte de Mars, which was just behind the line from l'J14 to 1916. We saw the . Aisne canal which connects the Aisne and Marne rivers. We visited the Berry-au-Bac iirthe Aisne valley and saw what was known as the cholera farm, where the Germans built a strong fortress. We motored to Craoune and crossed the Hinden , bnrg line, visiting the extreme east of Chemin des Dames. Once Beautiful Avenues. . We motored through what were once beautiful avenues where before the war thousands of trees cast their shade on each side of the roads.- Now as far as the eye can sec, there is nothing but desolation. Thousands of stumps remain- of charred, . broken or mangled trees, inexpressably sad to every lover of nature.- ' - , We stood on top of what had once been a.high hill at Berryau-Bac. Op posite was the German army for manv months during the war. Nie vitle's men facing them. The French thought to take the Germans by sur prise and the order was given for attack. . The Germans had improved the time by placing mines under the biD that the French were to ciimb, ' Robert Cowell. and just when they had reached the top, the mines, were " exploded and in the twinkling of . an eye 2,000 French soldiers were numbered among the dead. Five craters testify to the effects of the explosions. Here also men are . working and cleaning up, finding constantly bones of the brave attackers, to gather them and place them in the simple boxes which one sees everywhere in the many cemeteries throughout this district. Grave of Unknown Soldier. We passed through Craonel'e ' Pon- tavert and Cormicy, where wet ob served - ruins everywhere. Towns that had been prominent and historic before the war had been entirely wiped away. Not one of the original buildings left standing. At Craonne I was walking over what once was street w:ith . curbing and I saw. a large stone which had bee theliase of a public buildig or moumet. I have just returned from a ride over the Champs Elysee and , tl'e Bois du Bologne. We drove past the Arch de Triumphe. Beneath the arch I saw the flower-bedecked grave of the unknown soldier and I came back filled with admiration for this people who know how to do things and do them so well. Surely :io city or nation could select a more fitting spot for such a purpose. British Charged With Publishing Sinn Fein Orj:an With Confiscated Plant "Irish Bulbtu:" Brtng Issued To Discredit Move-limit. Theories on the Einstein Theory. Dear Son: I been interested laterly in a fel low called Einstein. He came over to this country about- six weeks ago to have his theory examined. No body's been able to diagnose it yet, but that makes it all the handier t'er discussion. Einstein calls it the Theory of Relativity, though it don't deal much with family affairs. In fact the more I study it the more I realize what a great mind he must have cause I can't discover what it docs deal with. Needless to say everybody else is in the same boat, yet everybody has their theory about it. 'Most folks claim that what he's tryin' to say is that yilent motion changes the shape of things. Ezra Hcabody holds to nave proved tnis bv experiments. Ten years ago Ezra's feet passed but o' sight over l:. i : 1:1. - ..-1'. ,.: 1113 llUriUM d tUUJlC KJ BCIUU suns. He had to wear a circingle fer a belt cause nothin else would fit him. Then he heard about the Einstein theory an started vilent motion round the block every mormn' be' fore breakfast. It's changed his shape so there ain't a boot-bhek in town today what can kid him he needs, a shoe shine when he don t. An' Ez points out that if you want "more proof just watch the change in the shape of an egg dropped out a window, or tn a tomato tnrowed against a stone wall, or .a hat movin swiftly in a strong wind. fooch rnsbee holds the same idear. He had it reasoned out that if" vou drove a runabout automobile fast enough it would eet so stretched it would look like an eight-cylinder tourin' car. Havin' worked this out very careful on paper he drove down Main street as tight as he could go in his Ford to try an fool the boys into thinkin' he'd bought a' new ma chine. It cost him $10 "in fines an' didn't fool . nobody. But he claims it was Ford's fault rather than Einstein's cause the car wouldn't go fast enough. Proves Lots of Things. . Then of course there's other theories. Henry Peters insists that Einstein, is tryin' to prove the stars is crooked. As I tell your mother, though, I think Hemy's been readin' so much about the ciime wave in the papers lately that it'? unbalanced him a little. An' then Squire Freeman claims the theory proves you can't hit a table twice in the same place. F.ut as I say, who wants to. None of these things seemed to me quite reasonable so I looked the matter up in the Worlds Almanac. Now I'm more mixed up than ever. . The almanac says: "Accordin' to Einstein there ain't no such thing as unlimited space. The worlds go round in circles. The brought me any comfort was the thought that through it all wc must be gettin' somewhere.' Now to find we're just revolvin' like a mcrry-go-round is discouragin. It don't care how light the years is, goin' round an' round past the same old suns is mqnotonous. "There's old Jupiter 1 How've you been since I saw you last. Doesn't seem possible it's 15,000.000 years, ago. Well, I "got to be movin'. he's wrong, but as soon as they make sure nobody else understands him any better than they do, they'll let on it's as clear as spring water to 'em. an' the truest thing in the world. Pooch Frisbc says the Einstein theory is the greatest invention since Ike Newton discovered the apple. Ihe laws of gravity don t seem strange now cause we've had a chance to get used to 'em, but I noRi FLORENCE I I I I S. B. COR. 16 (h A. JACKSON STS. 13! i i ii "hit ri rc iu m Can. "Commerce" or "Central" Bake the Best Biscuits On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons young women from the Domestic Science Classes of "Central High" and "Commerce High" will compete in a Biscuit Baking Contest. Competent and impartial culinary ex perts will "score" each girl's work and award suitable prizes each afternoon. You are cordially invited. " By JOHN S. STEELE. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee New. Service. London, May 14. The Irish war is full of humorous incidents, and one of the most humorous is the publi cation by the British government. of a fake'revolutionary newspaper more violent than anything Sinn Fein ever produced. ' - When the open publication of Sinn Fein newspapers in Ireland became impossible Desmond Fitzgerald, the Sinn Fein minister of propaganda, established a secret press. The press was a mimeograph machine and a. battery of typewriters, and on it he turned out the Irish Bulletin, which was produced in large quantities and mailed to newspapers and individuals throughout the world. It was fair and moderate in tone and careful never to exceed the exact facts and it proved a most useful organ ol propaganda. At first the British ignored both it and FitzflreralH. hut soon tliev be- ! gan to realize that his work -was ef fective and Fitzgerald had to go "on the run." He managed to evade arrest until a couple of months ago, when he was taken and joined Ar thur Griffith, v John MacJS'eil, and other leaders of Sinn Fein in Mount joy prison. For a time, however, the British were unable to locate his secret press. Finally they found it hidden away in a building occu pied by Irish Protestant church so cieties the last place in the world in which one would look for the home of a seditious, publication. The seizure of the plant and the arrest of part of tlie staff did not put, an end to the Bulletin, how ever. It began at .once to pro duce twice as many numbers, as be fore and some of more violent tone than anything that had preceded them. In common with many other recipients"! thought that the new editor lacked Fitzgerald's dis cretion, but now I learn that the violent numbers have been prepared and circulated : by ' government agents with the aid of the seized plant. Even the paper used was that captured in the raid. The object, of course, is to dis credit Sinn Fein. The fake Bulletin makes a false statement which is at once nailed and disproved by the government publicity department and the violence of the language makes the whcjle Sinn Fein propa ganda seem ridiculous. Hie trouble is that the fake'is so clever that it is sometimes hard to tell which is the real and which is the false Bulle tin This is, not the first venture of the British secret service in spurious publications. Some time ago it was admitted in Parliament that the se cret service was responsible for a number of forged issues of Pravda, the bolshevik official organ, which were printed in London and smug gled into Russia for distribution. The doctrine preached in the fake Pravda was calculated to make any respect able in the Red sense bolshevist blush. ' i "Started vilent motion round the block every mornin' before break fast." . sistem of which this world is a part moves through a circle of 15,000.000 light years an' at the end of that time it recommences its long journey. an' repeats it over again." I can't think of ariythin' more de pressin. Life always seemed mo notonous enough before what -with puttin' on your clothes an' takin' 'cm off again, washin' your hands an' gettin' 'em dirty, goin to bed an' gettin' up. The only r thing that There's a fellow named Einstein makes me punch a time clock now every time I come round. Labor am t got no rights at all these days. See you when I go by again." 1 o me it sort of takes the pleasure out of dyin. There's no fun just to "The iron curved gracefully down go racin' over the same course again. Ihe scenery ain't much an' when you've taken the trip once you've seen it all. Unearned Increment. "Furthermore," says Einstein,' "if the earth was to run off its track an' go crqisin' round through space fer 1,000 years, when it finally got tired gallyvantin' an' come back to work none of the folks what had been sit tin' on it durin' the trip would know they'd been away. The minit it ran off the track everybody'd stop. When it got back on again we'd finish kick in' the dog or fallin' out of the win dow or whatever we happened to be doin' at the minit. ' I don't say Einstein is right about this, mind you. He may be, an' then again he mayn't. Ail I say is that if it's true it would be an inexpensive way of passin' 1,000 years till prices settle down a bit. An' if a man had sense enough to strick something in the bank beforehand they'd owe him a tidy bit of interest besides. On the ottar hand it would b; iiii baressin' to have the lan'lord tryin' to collect 1,000 years' back ten. :'! at once. An' suppose you was caught in the dentist chair with that buzzer business in your mouth. That would be a fine way of passin' 1,000 years. Worse still, suppose you was caught listenin' to Mr. Einstein explain his theory. It strikes me that the secret of a successful theory is not lettin' any body understand it I've hfd situa good theories myseif durin' my life, but the trouble was that I always tried so hard to explain 'em to folks that they never did me any good. Just as soon as people know what you're, talkin about they'll find plenty of ways of provin' you a liar. , .' It's hard to argue with a man, though, when you don't know what he's drivin' at. Folks can't prove s'pose Newton had just as much trouble puttin' 'em across as Ein stein is havin'. Twin Discoveries. "Look what I found," says, New ton, bustin' in excitedly on his fam ily. "This apple, havin' detached itself from the branch, struck me forcibly in the eye." "Yes," says his wife, a plain but vigorous woman, "An' if you don't quit lyin' on your back watchin the apples you'll find this flat iron on ward an' struck him in the chest." bein' released from my hand'!! do the same thing." The great man sacrificed hisself to" the experiment an' discovered an other thing. Flatirons don't travel in a straight line through the air Startin' in the general direction ot bis head the iron curved gracefully downward an' struck him in the chest. After a life time of further ob servation ' Newton announced two facts to the astonished world: (1) An apple released from a height seldom rises into the air, Ex haustin' experiments proved the same to be true of rocks, dead cats, window weights, an' babies. (2) "Flatirons travellin' horizon tally don't keep goin' that way fer ever but tend to sink to the floor. On this theory in dealin' with flat irons it is a fatal mistake to try an' dude 'em. This last discovery alone caused a tremendous savin' of life. An' now after we'd got comfort ably settled in Newton's way, along comes tinstem an upsets the whole theory. "The docterin' of the conversation of energy becomes merged in the conversation of mass," says he. 1 Talk like that makes me cinical. There was enough confusion with out his sayin that. The very apples, havin' been seperated from iheir branches, hesitate, not knowin' what to do under the new rulin'. . It's a mess. Minton Pebble says the Einstein theory is just a question of mind an' matter. Nobody minds an' it doesn't matter. Perhaps he's right, yours sientifically Amos H. Amesby ' Fath. Coprright, 1921, by Ed Streeter. OIL COOK STOVE Demonstration All Week Dainty Luncheon Served Easy to cook with easy to control and easy to keep clean that's the story of the Florence Oil Cook Stove. NO Hot Stuffy Kitchen NO Headaches with a "Florence" Burns kerosene. No smoky wicks. Cooks, bakes, roasts evenly and thoroughly. Powerful burn ers direct the intensely hot, blue flame close up under your cooking. The heat is auto matically controlled by turning - the lever ' I f- handles. 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The last visitor on my list today had about 19 years to her credit and the face and form of a 20th century Venus. In other words, she was de lightfully yong and ravishin' to the eyes. Her hair was the spun-gold kind that's marcelled by nature, in stead of depending on the curling irons or the patent crimpers,, and her eyes were as wide and as clear blue as an infant's. "Too good to be true!" I murmurs to myself on looking her' over. "If she's as pretty on the inside as she is on the out. 1 hope she s got a heart to match her hair." She begins to shake my sweet il lusions by parking several .cakes of gum comfortably in her mouth. Then she takes out a near-silver vanity and engages in a few moments of cheer ful reflections in a two by two mir ror." "Well, girlie." I opens, "do you seem to have a heartstring that needs adjustin'?" "You said it I" she responds in the kayest of slang. "I've got a chance at jthc orange blossoms crownin'-a wedding veil, but I'm standin' off a little on account of the groom. I don't know whether he's worth tyin' to for life, or whether I'd better go slow and risk pickin' a better onel" "Sounds rather cold and calculat ing," I says. "Then your heart's not involved at all?" "Oh, hardly," she demurs, yawnin' between words, '"but he's a good lookin' chap and he'll stand for a lot. He's got that dog-like devotion you know, that's flatterin', to a girl like me." "Thinks you're beautiful, I sup pose, and tells you about it with out mincin' words?" "Yes," she answers complacently, "aside from my chewin gum and usin' slang, he thinks I'm, just about perfect. He's all carried away with this high ideal stuff, but I'm sick of it. I've posed as the perfect lady of his dreams until I'm bored stiff. And. yesterday she goes on, warmin' up to her subject, "when he starts the regular spiel about my beauty and my dainty loveliness and all that sort 'er thing, I just lifts my eye brows and murmurs: 'Aw, save your words and say it with flowers!'" "He did take offense?" I enquires. "No," she replys, "he didn't. I've got to hand it to him on his good temper. He merely remarks that ex pressin' your love with flowers is a beautiful idea, and changes the sub ject." "But the big joke happened last night," she says, "when he arrives on the scene bearin' one rose in his hand, Imagine itl" she raves on. "The big boob havin' the nerve to hand me one bud, and not an Amer ican Beauty at thatl 'Just a common garden variety that he'd ' probably picked in his mother's back yard! He hands me that, and says a line about it expressin' his pcrefct love. Then he kisses my hand and meld Professor Predicts U. S. A. Will Become U. S. of World Chicago, May 14. Leceuhes at the 13th annual Bahai congress, re turning from tours of Europe, Asia. Africa and South America, told of the spread of the Bahai movement. "Through Bahaism," said Dr. Jcnabi Fazel Mazandarani, formerly a professor in the Imperial univer sity of Teheran, Persia, "racial, na tional and religious prejudices will be wiped away. Instead of the United States nf America there will spring up a United States of the World." . i away before I can find words to ex press myself I"- i "It wa's an awful blow to a girl like me," she explains, "that's accus tomed to gettin' three dozen carna tions at a swat. 'And the more I think about it the wilder Iget. So I rushed in here today to ask advice about ditchin' him and startin' the look-out for another beau. I never could stand a guy that's not willin' to pay the price of a paste-board box with a florist's name on the lid." - Well, as soon as I see she's fin ished the story, I begin mentally re viewin' the facts in the case and this is my conclusion; here's a boy with the senses of an artist and the soul of a poet worshippin' a little com mon clay image and thinkin' it's gold. Because her face 'and form are beautiful he's got the idea that her soul matches them, and accordin' to my ideas, the quicker he 'meets' the big disallusionment the less he'll suffer in the long run. In fact, they' claim surgery's the surest curel "Girlie," I says after a few mo ments of deliberation, "you're en tirely too classy to tie up ..'ith a slow skate like this one you've just been tellin' me about. . And the sooner you let him know it the better. What you ought to do, is to get him in a crowd and give him the merry ha, ha on this one rose story. Let them all enjoy it, see! 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