Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-03

Nirillty, activity, ambition, industry
and genuine progress and progressiveness
are Characteristic of the people of South
Omaha. These are facts that are patent
10 anybody who visits the busting com
rnunity in the south part of Greater
Omaha. They have firm foundation
and a good and sufficient cause behind
them.
The cause He's In the character and
antecedents of the citizenry.
For the South Side is a great crnciole,
n crucibe of humanity. As metals
and ores are put into crucibies OK
clay or graphite and exposed to terrific
heat to purify them and make them fine
SO the inhabitants OF the South Side
have been put into a crucible and made
fine and amalgamated.
A large proportion of the inhabitants
were born in foreign lands. There they
grew up with more or less freedom
most Of them with Tess"
But their hearts and souls ana minds
were above their environments. II they
hadn't been these people wouldn't haW
toiled and saved and hoped. And when
their little boards grew enough so they
could buy tickets to America, they left
, the lands of their nativity and sailed
across the seas and Travelled In railroad
trains to the promised land" OF their
dreaming and striving. To many OF
them this promised land was none other
than Omahas South Side, where the
great packing houses throb and smoke
and steam with industry while daily
thousands OF workmen convert souealing
pigs and lowing cattle and bleating sheep
into a great variety of products for the
delectation and nourishment Of man.
1t is well to remember that the sloth-
full the unambitious and the vicious for
eigners never emigrate. They are salts
fled. Thus the emigrants, by an auto
matte process, are only those with in
herent energy, ambition and thrift.
Arriving in South Omaha, after their
weary journey. father gets a place in the
packing house and the family is
astounded TO see him earn money equi-
valent to roubles. to 10 crown. to 8
marks every day.
Thrift persists and as the family gets
more settled they visit the stores. Then
the old-world garments begin TO give
way TO new-world clothes.
They are astonished to find that, not
only is education free to poor people as
1t is to lords in the old country. but
they find that If little Ivan or Gregory or
Fritz or sonya or Olga or Gretchen
doesn't go TO school, man comes around
and wants TO know why and threatens
to send him to Siberia or somewhere II
little Ivan. etc. don't go TO school and
learn. And it's all free! And Ivan, etc 4.
do go TO school and studies and learns.
Learns. indeed For it seems that when
people have been oppressed ana denied
the good things of life. they Just ac-
cumulate a greater amount OF desire and
ability for learning. like steam that IS
confined I'm boiler acquires greater and
greater force until 1t finds an outlet. Or
like land that lies fallow - for many
years acquires a great fertility which
manifests itself when a crop is planted
on It.
And so father keeps on bringing in his
roubles. his 10 crown his marks day
and Ivan. etc. keep going to the school
which is free and the family believes.
indeed, that It has reached the promised
land and the old country and its hard
ships fade fainter and fainter ana tia
new land becomes more and more dear
ana the Stars and Stripes are almost
worshipped.
The whole family Is learning to talk
English and finally one Of the older girls
starts to business college. She bas
learned that with six months education
she can get a position as stcnographer
Ad earn more in a month than her
iAther could earn by hardest toll IN a
year In the old country
L.
i've years pass and you can't tell thi,
'''ihiy rom born Americans except thar