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Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
AROUND THE CITIES

Back in Detroit, where Q drouth impends.
hotel men shoe away the curious BY posting
the sign: Don't ask us what we are going
to do? What are you going to dor En-
phasis on the you"
Down in old st. Joe dieting squad is
trying to cut under Chieago's So-cent grub
fest The limit Of high living for St
Joe's prize feeders is 10 cents day-a
regular bargain-counter rate.
A newly planned apartment building IN
New York. adjoining the Grand Central
terminal, will cost $4,000. 900 for site and
building. The promoters look for a gross
return Of 100000 on the Investment
Galveston gives il out warm that hostile
aircraft coming into the metropolis OF the
gulf hurricane belt will get an artillery re
ception on the London plan. Anti-aireraft
the federal government
St. Joseph Ia talking up an oil pipe line
from Kansas. with big oil refinery at the
home base. The Doherty interests, which
control some Kansas fields, a. well - 'nstu-
raj gas properties, have given St Josephites
a hinS to get together and say something.
Chicago invested $4,000 In an up-to-
date market house. located In South Chi
cag0, and Is diligently seeking tenants 1of
the stalls. 1t has been idle for almost
year. Even now. with the Il. G. Of L.
in the saddle, the market house doesn't
make a move to give the rider fall
According to the Chicago Tribune ten
families own q very large part of the city's
real estate. Five families are supported by
enormous land holdings and one family owns
per cent of all Chicaso's land. The ten
families are nonresidents and are steadily
increasing their holdings. Their interest in
the city's welfare lies in the revenue de-
rived. 1t lacks the personal touch. the
civic spirit which unites q community for
progress and betterment The Tribune sug-
gests that the nonresident land-holding evil.
common to all cities, should be checked by
imposing an Inheritance tax SO graduated
that no family or group Of families can ever
accumulate so much property as To destroy
the fact of our republic"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Discussion is again waging over the regularly
recurring proposal to sell the remaining Ne
braska state school lands. For this plan the
customary arguments are advanced that the
leasing system stops improvements and prevents
conversion into tax-paying land holdings and
actually produces less income to the school fund
than would accrue from reinvestment of the pro-
ceeds Of sale. But we have gone over ibis ques-
ton time and again and had reason to believe it
was settled for good on its merits some fifteen
years ago when the legislature passed law
stopping all further sales. except where options
then existed in unexpired leases, and decreed
that all the remaining school land should be held
in perpetuity as school endowment
So far as we can see, nothing has happened
since that time to impair the soundness Of this
decision and il there are abuses under the leas-
ing system they can certainly be remedied with
out selling the land To that end, we suggest
that the objections raised can be readily met by
making the leases for longer periods but subject
to reappraisement at intervals not exceeding FIVE
years and adding stipulation that lessee pay
into the county treasury an amount in addition
equal to the local taxes he would pay on the
accepted valuation, the same as If he owned it
or leased it from private parties. Longer term
leases would encourage Improvements as much
as sale contract and the payment in lieu Of
local taxes would remove an exemption that
seems unfair to the county.
The clamor for putting the school lands on
the market need not disturb the conscientious
law-maker, for II doubtless emanates from folks
who expect to profit by the sale. We have had
scandals growing out Of school fund investment
in bonds and securities but nothing like the scan
dals that could easily be bcgotten from the sale
Of school lands -
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Wor's Ertremest Cruelty

Gcrmany's peace proposals have not termi-
mated the warthe reign Of frightfuness is not yet
at an end; the latest tidings of horror, emanat-
ing from London, announce that owing to the
scarcity OF metal non-war manufactures must be
curtailed, with the result that no more women's
hair pins are to be made in England The news
will cause universal suffering on both sides OF the
Atlantic, as many Of the better grades OF hairpins
come from abroad.
II one will sum up the various crises during
any day wherein the hairpin figures as a life.
saver he will readily perceive the weight OF this
baleful edict In the early morning the good wife
skewers the matutinal couture with an indefinite
number OF hairpins, which will be put TO divers
Ases before being returned to the bureau. What
tales might be told of recalcitrant buttoncd
shoes, whose daily tyranny grinds the feet OF the
poor. What unending vistas may be conjured up
OF the knots solved, the corks removed the locks
picked, the clocks probed-all with the SAND
feminine weapon Man may scorn, but he will
use the despised hairpin. He will twang shafts
Of wit 1t Its ubquity and versatility, but finally
borrow one. He will try all other tools first
but the humble hairpin last and most effectively
Surely this prohibition will be resented BY ali
the militant women of England. They should
rise in their war-begotten might and declare II an
impious tyranny. Let them rightfuliy represent
that while unbelievable thousands Of hairpins
would be required to build one small bridge
one alone Is sufficient to conquer the equally
strategic and numerous CULTS between button
and hole in these days of spsttcrdashes Spare
To is the insignificant but indispensable hairpin
forfend from the scutcheon this impending BLOT
\ perfdious Albionl
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
Wotul Wonton Waste
Life :


We are undoubtedly the most wasteful people
in the world. In America frugality is almost
lost art Countless men and women are actually
suffering, both physically and mentally, because
they do not know how to stop waste in their
own homes. Waste is devastating thing. It
goes on under our eyes; It goes on while we
seep-it is always going on. There is as much
difference between honest wear and tear and
waste as there is between an honest man and
thief. We waste our time, our money, our food
In household about IS per cent Of the heat from
the furnace is wasted. Our children take more
than they can eat and waste the rest, but before
we correct them we should look at our own
plates. The amount of gas wasted id jets I'M
necessarily kept burning in a single day all over
the United States would, il we could compute it,
be staggering indictment of our folly. The
American business man goes on the principle that
it is easier for him to make more money to pay
for the waste in his home than it is to waste"
his time in trying to stop it. His wife is uncon-
sciously influenced by his example
What can we do about it? Something, any
way Weycan talk about it. gestculate about it.,
think about it, and make up our minds right now
to fight it in every way possible.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
People and Events

The first Mrs. Bob Fitzsimmons foot-loose
and full OF experience, is doing modified Billy
Sunday revival in Chicago Local reports say
the former Mrs. Bob lands on Satan's Stats every
time and lays him out in three rounds.
husky Chicago girl Of q, being short Of
Christmas coins donned mans clothes and SHOW
eled coal the greater part of day before her
long hair crept out Of her fur cap and gave her
away. However, she won S. and pair OF bis
tered hands.
Tradition, il not experience, insinuate that an
awakening follows the trance of the honeymoon.
The nature of the awakening varies. Sometimes
il is a Jolt bride suing for divorce in Pitts
burgh alleges that her jolt was. the discovery
that her husband has wooden leg She made
the discovery three weeks after the wedding, and
forthwith shook the decciver, In so many words
she tells the court nothing less than whole man
goes with her.
Real Malaga grapes IN large punches, 400
pounds OF them retailing at 80 cents pound,
together with 5000 Killarney roses, were the
principal decorations OF the bower in the St.
Louis club where the coming-out party of Miss
Katherine A. Parker was staged. Besides the
centerpiece Of fruit and flower, the walls of ball
room and dining room were covered with lattice
work of papier-machei through which southern
smax twined. H was 4 gorgeous setting for
youth and beauty and elders of St. Louis social
400.
PITY the sorrows Of the poor rich! Mrs.
Florence Florman of New York has bodies OF
money coming, but she is young and the years
which release the wherewith in lunches move
slowly. At rs she gets 100000, and a like sum
at the age Of 40 Meanwhile it is huge strug-
gle making ends meet and support husband and
A touching appeal to court to advance slice OF
the first 100000 is under consideration by a
magistrate whose heart throbs responsive to the
cry Of distress
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
storyette Of the Day.
BITS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Tasmania has adopted the daylight saw
ing" plan.
In Honduras three crops Of wheat can
be raised year.
Japan has had sixty capitals. msny Of
which are now mere villages or only empty
names.
Greece owes to an Enslishmsn. Colonel
Leicester Stanhope. its first newspaper. pub
lished over ninety yeasay ago.
The Bolivian government now maintains
a motor bus service on 15o-mile stretch Of
road at the top OF the Andes.
It is officially estimated that there are
nearly 100000 square miles on the MAIN
land Of Canada still UNEMPLOYED.
venezuela Ia building modern highway
6ss miles long from Caracas to San Cristo-
bal In the extreme western part Of the re-
public.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
Rights Of -Neutrals in Peace Negotiations.

Gcrmany's suggestion that ncutras will not be
permitted to participate in the peace negotiations
until after the belligercnts have agreed on terms
opens broad question The right Of neutral ma
tions to take part in any settlement Of war issues
that may affect them has been too well established
N times past to admit Of serious question>now
War involves not merely the active bclligcrents
but directly or indirectly all their neighbors and
in the present instance this means all the world
II the neutrals are to be concerned with whatever
measures are taken to secure the future peace Of
the world they must have stake in determination
Of the conditions on which their international re-
lations are to depend.
Every peace treaty made In Europe within the
last two centuries has contained the germ Of a
future war and hostiities invariably have been
resumed at the earliest date possible Much Of
this has been due to the intervention Of neu-
trails in the peace negotiations, noncombatants
fastening to seize as much as they could out of
the redistribution Of territorial or other rights
This practice is not SO likely to prevail in the
approaching conference, at which the greater
question will be how much Of its ambition each
Of the great powers Of Europe is willing 10 forego
that harmony may prevail.
For the United States the whole proceeding
is novel, While we are chief among the neutral
nations, we have kept aloof from the family quar-
rels Of Europe, and II may be the time has not
yet come when we will voluntarily abandon the
splendid isolation" to which We were dedicated
by George Washington in exchange for a share
in the politics of Europe sure to entangle II we
enter.
In no other war have the neutrals been so
intimately involved as in this and no lasting peace
can be made without the full approval of all the
nations OF the world
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

lie celebration was worth coming
many miles to see.
And, with Gary's most beneficial
school system carried into every city
like Omaha and Detroit. and with such
celebrations as illuminants of the WIDE
spread Christmas giving" why Will
1t not always, everywhere, be better
wiser and very, very much cheaper
cultivate and conserve the child rather
than punish and degrade the adult al
such a tremendous cost? II. b
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

King Ferdinand Of Bulgaria bulks large in
peace conference dispatches. His speed in plung-
ing to the front is one Of the notable upheavals
OF war time. Trimmed and humbled to the dust
by his neighbors four years ago, Ferdinand is
now the champion Of the Balkans, while his for
mcr naughty neighbors are nowhere. The tran
stion from humble pie to gorging feast Of ter
rtorial loot measures the importance Of jumping
on the right side Of the fence.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Fifty per cent Of the criminals Of the world,"
says an upiter, "can be traced to Incompetent
mothers" The other half may be credited to in
competent dads. An even split Of wickedness 10
! notable concession coming from purveyor Of
the old Adam.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

We are the children Of an age and land Of
lmtless opportunity we Of Omaha and OF the
eighth federal, land bank district.-World-
Herald
Wen, tits good to get ourselves properly de-
lined located and labeled even at this stage o.
the camel
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Duty prompts the Missouri Pacific railroad
TO challenge the right Of the state railway COM
mission to interfere with train schedules, Still.
as matter Of courtesy a nod of cheerful recog-
milton will come its way>if the commission APP
proves the railroad request
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

At the 2-cent-per-voter limit for campaign ex-
pense for United States senator's. the candidate
running for that Office in Nebraska would have
10 hold his outlay down to $1,000. We know a
lot Of people whoswould like to have for years
salary the difference between 5000 and what the
last successful candidate really spent to be re-
elected
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
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Cleaning Snow From Walks.

Omaha, December 2S.-To the
Editor of The Bee: 1t seems to me
that 1t would be good plan for our
city commissioners to strictly enforce
the ordinance requiring residents OF
the city to clean snow from their
walks within twenty-four hours from
the time the snow quits falling.
Ii all snow should be promptly
cleaned from the walks, even if the
fall is light, especially on sloping
streets. there would not be so much
danger to pedestrians.
There are many blocks where one
or two families clean all snow from
their walks as soon, as 1t is through
falling, while the rest either do not
clean them at all Or else do a half
way job by cleaning a pathway and
leaving most of the snow on the walks.
A great many of the sloping walks
have been made very dangerous this
week on the South Side by the failure
of property owners to clean off the
Wight snow that fell Saturday and Sum
day
When property owners at the bot
tom of a sloping street clean off their
walks and people further up the slope
do not then the ones at the bottom
Of the slope have to take all the ice
that comes from the unclaimed walks
from the melting snow.
The rain Christmas night made
sloping streets where the snow had
not been cleaned from the walks ex-
tremely dangerous by only parity
melting the snow that had been left
on the walks before the rain fell.
hope the city commissioners will in
sist on every resident of the city
lsoy nj afF
each snow and greatly lessen the DAN
ger to all who have occasion to use
the walks. ! cleaned my walks from
snow three times recently before the
snow had ceased falling and then did
not have much to clean off when the
snow finally quit falling. ,'
FRANK A. AGNEW.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Some time must pass before the land banks
make pereeptible impression on farm loan bust
ness Federal loans make for red tape, which
must be fist unwound
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

The best New Years wish we can offer orr
incoming governor is that he will get his eyes
opened to Whist the gang Of democratic political
hishbindsrs are handing him before they tie too
many tin cans to him.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Weather reports Of the present week simplify
the winter tourist task Of picking suitable eli
mate. The great variety offered serves to empha-
size the fact thatNihe corn belt article alone in
surcs the real comforts Of home.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Water rates and light rates are both to come
down in Omaha together with the advent Of the
new year Other items Of the high cost Of living,
however, seem to be going up all together.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Possibly the New Year water wagon is no.
worth while, still IT offers needful exercise fol
the May-day event
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

The Russian bear has no time for peace talk
! Just now The task Of replenishng its stock Of
ammunition for the spring killing forbids wasting
thought on side issues.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

The hope Of salvation for Boston goes glm-
mering. A wet majority Of 234Oo constitutes a
showing Of gross sinfulness that strains the re-
deemng power Of the sawdust trail
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

The problem presented by those consolidated
railway franchises puts up to Omaha the same
old Morganatic question: Can you unscramblc
cggsi"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

In his exhaustive dsquisition on street rail-
way franchises. Corporation Counsel Lambert
speaks Of shutting cards" What is his favorite
game auction, poker or pinochlci You guess
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Still as we understand II, the new AVIATION
school is not intended as rcformatory for high
hiers
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
One Year AGO To-day In the war.

One Year Ago Today in the War.
Russians captured important city of
Kashan, Persia
League to avert future wars by
means Of world court launched at
New York. H.,
Paris reported that French re-
manned masters Of trenches recently
won In the Vosges.
Swedish forts fred on German tor
pedo boats pursuing a steamer I'M
Swedish waters.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Recent events support the impression that
Son-in-Law McAdoo is wise old scout.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
LINES TO LAUGH.

was going at very slow rate, hardly NOV
ing. In fact, how was 1t that this man you
struck was knocked two blocks ahead?
Motorist-The only way ! can explain,
your honor, is that the man Is In the rubber
Observation-Disclosures American,
Neds-Do you mean to say she isn't ner-
vous even during severe thunder shower?
Alys-Not unless there is young man
around.--Somerville Journal
"Errand boys are very scarce. I can
furnish you with an office girl"
These Innovations disturb mo. can't
get used to EN-" =.
N"You won't notice the difference. This
girl can whistle. louisville Courier Jour
nal
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

Just watch the Omaha federal land bank sprout
and grow!
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
NOVEMBER CIRCULATION.
55.483 Daily-Sunday 50,037.

Subscribers leaving the city temporarily
should have The Bee mailed to them. Al
dress win Be changed a. often Is required.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today.

General George M. o'Brien is lying
dangerously i'll at his residence, 610
South Eighteenth. He is attended by
Drs. Leisenring and Neville
A hackman employed by Atwood &
Fox, in driving rapidly around the
corner at Sixteenth and Farnam,
knocked down a young lad by the
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
TODAY]

Speech is the golden harvest that
followeth the Towering Of thought
Upper.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
THE WILLOW.

o willow why forever weep,
As one who mourns an endless wrongf
What hidden woe can lie so deep?
What utter grief can last so long?
The spring makes haste with step eiAts
Your life and beauty to renew;
She even bids the roses wait,
An gives her first sweet care to yoa.
The welcome redbreast folds his wing.
To pour for you his freshest strah;
To you the earlier bluebirds sing,
Till all your light stems thrill again
The sunshine drapes your limbs with light
The rain braids diamonds In your hair;
The breeze makes love to You at night
But stifl you droop. and still despair.
Beneath your boughs at fall Of dew,
By lovers lips Is softly told tg
The tale that, all the ages through,
Has kept the world from growing old
But still. though Aprirs buds unfold,
Or summer sets the earth aleaf,
Or autumn pranks your robes with cole,
You sway and sigh In graceful grief.
Mourn on forever, unconsoied.
And keep your secret, faithful tree:
No heart In all the world can hold
A sweeter grace than consistency.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29
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what are you doing with that diction-
ay?" ss-,l T.
II gotta little spare time now" replied
the umpire. TN just looking up few Of
them names the Boston highbrow rooters
called me."--Brooklyn Eagle.
Aunt suppose, Edith. you said, This
is 20 student" when Mr.. 'siowboy proposed.
Niece-No: fully intended to. but
was SO excited forgot and exclaimed AT
last"-Boston Transcript
How fast can this car gof"
sixty miles an hour" ~ 81
Thank you. That will relieve me Of the
necessity of trying to ind out Its maximum
speed for myself"-Detroit Free Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-29

address communication relating to and editorsi
MA tier TO Omaha Bee. Editorial Department
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-12
BOARDING.

THE WEBSTER
HO0MS and hoard. absolutely nrst-
very sonnble Madison @4%5 1911.
lolG Fast Clay.
WANTED, gentleman to hoard in
pr hs j,f f"ml II Efry desirbe par.
changed. J BIZ. care Times Dispatch
MRS: r. LEE PAGE offers comfort
able rooms. excellent mcais. every
conNcnioIC", rcaSou;hiS rates. late din
nor 81" West Franklin street.
r:oSEGlt.L tcaroom aud grill Club
brcaEias ShoppinG or business
l .[Sl.a1: specta d,snes e,cry day;
Table d'hotc dinner. $50 L. NJ, and a
IL carte All day. Mrs Horace Wexford
Jones. 20 West Franklin.
rF bG5IA NTT ar ra"i rq1.. ana 22nlg
Grace.
FlMIT .cLAIS ,anl. board, csNeellent
Grace street.
'l5 Wcs, h'rnn:iin ,A,,rsc'>vo rooms.
board: moderate prices couples or
gentlemen: church hin II COS care
Times Dispatch.
WANTED. c"ngcIIiAl courlc or gem
tl"m"m 10 board III refined home Of
%mlI a. par, Of f"miiy ,;ooh or.
suburbs. u so" cerc Times dispatch,
r:l:AuTII'tG. Iar2c second stop,, and
back rooms: private bath. excellent
meals. i@3 East Grace"
BOARDING.. larI" and sin@I" room
with board mon"r:,t" rates: all COLI
v'uicu"cs Madison lf&5-J. 2l5 south
Third
CpurLE o. gentlemen for bright
front room. \lso table board"rs. >
Nest Main street
ONE large bright room. suitable FOR
.. ia West grace.
EoAl;pERS wanted Tor nicely tur-
nisb"d rooms. -" West Main street
vol; ron, with ho;,rd l,rs:" pleasant
room s"cVud n"or -" West Grace
street Randolph i2;'-.I.
PHEASANT rooms aud table board "oo
i;as, Franklin.
E;puMS Win goou board reasonable
rates, 81 W"s, Franklin street.
rEINATE family. carton IIcishts.
d"lph t:2i-j.
WANTED. couple or " gentlemen to
hoard in private family. .ioS Han
over tvcmuc. Boulevard iio"-W.
l:oAl:Dri;S wanted FOR nicely furuisuc,.
steam heated rooms, with excellent
board tcniraliy located. 10. East
N"in. Mrs. MiI"S.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-12
FOR lsENT-Itooms.

FURNISHED room, all modern con-
Ncnicuccs. desirable residence sec
top. boulevard 1913.
NICELY furnished room. hot water
heat. No: West Cary Street
NEW. unturnishcd room for rcu,: gen
Ncmcm preferred. 10 South Morris.
I toE rcnt. : furnished rooms. hot water
rHn, priyat" bath. private family
Z "or n'ock West Grace. Madison l50I-J.
FURNISHED room: cNtry couvCnicncc
f"u',h Hoo Virginia i:rilline. Fifth
aud Moiu.
"rrIrAN'rs Cor o. ). FURNISHED or
travtiNc kit"hcncttc ii desired. Phone
Madison 6"Tl !. Nest Grace. second
apartment
TWO Ncv. desirable unfurnishcd
rooms. sni,al.l" Tor, light h"ns.ekeep,
:n@ centrally located: treat Eight and
bath. 'sc 1T phone. Madison 3'lc-W.
TWO nicely furnished rooms central:
board - desired; gentlemen preferred
can Madison 5l32-J.
EURiISiil:D rooms for rent. ccntraI.
i0t North rifth Street
FURNISHED. centrally located. VIII
FRONT ana back r,rlul second story
front steam heat electric lt::his. -,
East Grace.
TWO large connecting rooms suitable
lich, housekeeping. Randolph ?aSS-J.
FOR rent, ono lar>s" umturniShcd room
aud kitchcncttc. Ia: East Maiu
street.
For rent. 3 looms, With private h.th.
Grace. To " gentlemen. Address l. H.
car, Times pi"pat"h.
Two nicely furnished rooms Tor light
n"uSckccpiu2. 10 North TNclfth