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Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
A Simple Solution

At last solution for the cost of living prob
lem has been found and it is seriously set forth
by such eminent economic authorities as the
Wall Street Journal and the New York Sun.
The thing is so remarkably simple that it is
remarkable it was not thought of sooner and
Immediately acted upon.
The first premise is that all food costs are
based on the cost of wheat, and comparative
tables are set forth showing how the prices
for corn, hogs, eggs and even cotton, rise and
fall pretty much with the price of wheat.
Therefore, all that is necessary, they say, is
first to lower the price of wheat and all these
other essential foodstuffs will come tumbling
down to level of prices at which all the people
can have all they need. The proposition is for
the government to pay the farmer the $226
bushe as agreed upon, and then sell the wheat
to the public for $1.76 bushel. The govern
ment would of course lose by this transaction;
but only some $250,0OO,0OO; which, it is pointed
out the people would gladly pay because they
would be so greatly benefited by the drop in
cost of all other foods.
The only puzzling part of this proposition is
why the price of wheat to the public is set at
$l76. Why not bring it down to $l.00, or 50
cents or even give it away free if the lower
the price is made the greater will be the drop
in prices OF other foodstuffs? Then this could
be made permanent policy of the government
so that from now on all that need be done to
secure cheap food will be to artihcially lower
the price of wheat.
Was there ever a pretter example of the
"reductio ad absurdum" argument?-Boston
Post
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
The Search for Men

The paragraph that follows was written by
Mr. Haywood Broun as part of book review
in the New York Tribune:
at is something of a blot on all forms of
art in America that in no profession except
base ball is the search for new talent dligent
and careful enough to cover every village and
hamlet If Al Smpkins or Joe Spruggles, in
the tnest of upstate towns. can throw good
curve and get it over the corners John Nc
Graw or Pat Moran or somebody else will give
him his chance Immediately to prove his worth
in fast company. Opera impresarios and book
publishers are not SO far-reaching in their in
vestigations nor so quick to act"
industrial companies? Are the churches? The
search for new talent occupies much OF the
time Of the executives of any large organiza-
ton Not McGraw nor Moran alone, but every
big league manager combs the country for new
players; every club has scouts that watch the
games in small cities, and even on sand lots
Men like Cobb and Speaker are discovered as
the result of this process; and not these great
players only, but also all the other men who
have made the standard of ability in base ball
so high. No team of large city, not even the
constant tailenders, is obliged to tolerate real
incompetency very long at any position Mana
gers buy few players from each other, but
most of their men come to them as result of
close investigation in small towns. 1t is big
part of the base ball business and a profitable
idea for any other business that needs more
men or better men. The recruit needs train
ing, of course, but he receives that training
when he comes out of his secusion and goes
to work for first rate boss.-Colliers.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
Strike in the Steel Mills.

Next to general tieup of the transporta
ton industry of the land, the most serious labor
disturbance will be strike in the steel mills
1t will fundamentally affect all other lines of
activity, including the railroads Such strike
is imminent, and at the moment appears to be
inescapabe. 1t turns on the elementary diff
ference involved in the policy of employing men,
Judge Gary as the head of the United States
Steel corporation. has refused to meet or treat
with a committee claiming to represent en-
ployes, his position being that he will deal with
a body representing men actually at work in
the employ of the concern, but can not meet
body that comes from labor union. For many
months an active campaign of organizing effort
has been carried on at the great steel and iron
making centers. This has met determined op
position from representatives of the Companies
concerned, but has persisted. How many Of
the men have been taken into the unions can
not be told by anyone accurately, as they have
been received into the forty-four different ma
tional or international unions whose crafts or
trades are represented in steel mill operations.
This condition makes the question broader
and more important one than if it we're con-
fined to single union composed exclusively
of those directly engaged in the industry. The
men have set forth their demands, chief of
which is the right of collective bargaining, as
opposed to SHOP unions" followed by num-
Der of points chiefly of interest to the workers
and the companies involved. President Wilson
asked that the strike be postponed until after
the general conference he has called for Octo-
Der 6, but the unions have voted to go ahead.
How extensive the walkout and its accompany
ing shutdown will be can only be told after fact,
but the situation is extremely grave.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
f. z22hz@ Folks Corner 3

"Hee-haw! What's the matter
now ?"brayed Balky Sam.
Hoo! Hoo! Who is raising this
hullabaloo? hooted Judge Owl.
Hey! Hey! l want an extra"
shouted an anxious voice, and here
came rushing the Prince of Dollars
himself.
Extra! Extra" And into view
trotted the newsboy. 1t was Billy
Belgium. Extra! Extra edition Of
the Birdland Gossip. All about
why Anita, the charming mermaid,
is hiding from the the Prince of
Dollars"
"Ah That's just what l want 70
find out" exclaimed the prince.
throwing q scent piece to Billy.
Here II is then" replied Billy,
handing him a piece of ordinary
wrapping paper on which an item
was printed in penciled letters The
prince eagerly read the item out
loud. and all the birds and animals
crowded around so they could hear.
Every one of them wanted to know
why the charming mermaid had
run away from the prince, who
loved her SO dearly. This is what
the prince read:
"Birdland, Summertime, 1919
Carrie and Homer Pigeon, while fly
ing over the Valley Of the Woods to-
day, saw a beautiful maiden sitting
before a cottage door and singing.
They knew at once she was the
charming mermaid. for none other
could sing so sweetly. And this is
what she sang:
1.-The Prince of Dollars is idle and
rich,
While I, poor mermaid, have
scarcely stitch;
Until he becomes the same as me
cannot be the same as he"
The prince looked up puzzled
from the extra. But I love her and
she loves me, that makes me the
same as She" he said. ..
There's more of the extra on the
other side" said Billy. The prince
turned the sheet over and read:
"'My troth has been plighted to
Blacksmith Joe;
must wed him tonight! Oh, woe,
= Oh, woen"
The prince gave a cry of grief.
"Alas. alas. my beloved is to wed
another" .. ....
"But 1t isn't tonight yet" cried
Peggy. ''The sun has just set and
the moon isn't up. II we could only
stop the wedding!"
''Hee-haw! I'll stop it," brayed
Balky Sam. I'm happy bach
elor, and I think the prince is
lucky not to be married, but If he
wants to marry the mermaid, marry
her he shall. I say SOL"
so say I, even II |, too, am a
contented bachelor" hooted Judge
Owl.
$50 say we ALL" screamed the
birds and animals, and away they
rushed pell-mell. Peggy, Billy and
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
"Iniun Dav" for Nebraska.

Governor McKelvie has set apart Friday Of
next week as day on which he requests "our
people to meet together, and that the public
schools take up the subject of the American
Indian and in fitting manner observe the day"
The Bee commends his suggestion that the
public schools take up the subject of the Amer
lean Indian, and that the people in general
will do we'll to give it some attention. Not from
the standpoint of the Misunderstanding
Tales" the Simon Girty stories, "Hiawatha, !"
Ramona" the Buffalo Bill yarns or anything
Of that sort. Some fairly interesting informa-
ton may be had in an easily digestible form, so
that it may be readily assimlated, in John
Fiske's Discovery of America" volume l. in
Parkman's "Jesuits in America" and "Pontiac's
Rebellion" These writer's deal authoritatively
with topic on which the density of popular
ignorance is appalling. After attaining fa-
miliarity with the facts set out in these, the In
dian will take on new interest for many, be-
cause he will have been stripped of the glamour
thrown about him by romanticists, poets and
plain liars, and will appear man, facing the
problems of primitive existence slowly strug
Cling up to the light. Indian Day" will be a
good thing for Nebraska or any other state, if
it be intelligently directed to getting at the
truth with regard to the red man.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.

"Only Woman" writes to The Bee that
she finds in the Declaration of Independence
the strongest possible argument against the
League of Nations. She advises that this i'm
mortal document be republished day after day
for time, until all readers become familiar
with it. This may not be complied with, for
obvious reasons, but The Bee joins her in
recommending that all read the stirring SEN
tences of the Declaration of independence, and
ponder them well.
In setting forth that the United States are
and of right ought to be free and independent,
the Fathers did not mean it was to lead to any
form of magnificent isolation" They had in
mind that Americans should be forever free to
manage their own affairs without interference
or dictation from another nation. Intercourse
with the world should be unrestricted, save as
the growth and welfare Of the United States re-
qured. Friendly relations should be cultivated
and maintained with all, without sacrifice of
national dignity and honor or the abatement of
home control of domestic concerns.
This was the ideal in 1776 and it was main
tanned up to 1919. All of a sudden we are told
that in order to proceed in harmony and live
in amity with the rest of the world, we must
give over considerable part of our national in
dependence into the keeping of super-nation
Some things we have always done for ourselves,
and few of which involve warmly cherished
rights, are to be decided for us in the future
by great body, in which we have but limited
rights or voice
A large and perhaps a preponderant portion
of the people are not in favor of surrendering
now or any time the rights sanctihed to our
country by the War of independence and in the
free exercise of which America has grown so
wonderfully. At no time has the exercise OF
those rights, even to their utmost, menaced in
any way the peace and happiness of the world,
and it strikes lot of folks as odd, to say no
more, that they must now be surrendered in
order to secure the stability of human govern
ment and the tranquility of nations.
Read the Declaration of Independence and
decide whether it does not yet afford fairly
good starting point for American aspirations.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
Relation of Wine and Song
A speaker at musical gathering in Pitt

A speaker at musical gathering in Pitts
burgh. quoted Musical America" announced
his fear that prohibition would increase the
demand for light and frivolous music. DE
prived of alcoholic beverages" he said "in-
toxication by music will be sought by those
whose emotional vibrations attune them to such
stimulant." The result, he concludes, will be
much musical composition of an 'inebriating"
and other undesirable character.
The inference that the age of booze was not
productive of the kind of musical composition
he deprecates will hardly stand What pro-
duced jazz. we wonder? We won't undertake
to say, but it doesn't sound exactly like w.
c. T. U. convention to US. What sort of emo
tiona vibrations were the musical revues of
the last 20 years written to catch? But we
don't need to be confined to the moderns What
of that Venice that would always leave off
talking to hear Gaiuppi playi Didn't Brown
ing say he was equally good at grave and gay7
We Judge that those balls and Mosques burn
ing ever to midday, when they made up fresh
adventures for the morrow, were not danced
to measures entirely wanting in emotional at
tunement.. even though Venice did not lack
the stimulant we are now deprived of.
On the whole-bah! Music will continue to
be good and bad as it has always been, ire
spective Of the habits of the age. If the age of
alcohol produced "Salome" so did il a
Messiah" The age Of restraint probably will
not do worse or better.-Kansas City Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
Danger to Age IN Exercise
From the London Mail.

The septuagenarians who have written ac-
counts of their cycling feats are obviously men
of exceptionally sound constitution. 1t would
not do for every old man, or even for all in the
SOS and COS to initiate them by riding % or
20 miles in day.
1t is not easy to prescribe suitable exercise
in any variety OF men in later life. In the ma
jority OF people one or another vital organ has
grown weak and there is always danger OF put
ting too much pressure on blood vessels. But
exercise is as necessary at this as at any time
of life.
Walking, of course, is the ideal form. There
should be no haste, no effort that would cause
breathlessness and so raise the blood pressure,
and the walk should not be continued to the
point of WEAKNESS. The best plan is to take
three or four short walks in the day. :,
Walking without some object soon pals,
and therefore man should have other forms
of exercise available. Up to late age. golf
is safe and an excellent reason for walking.
Croquet on fine summers afternoon is admir-
able. Every middle-aged man should have a
garden to work in. but the more he avoids
heavy digging the longer he will live. Potter
ing about in a greenhouse, however, is not
exercise, and it is by no means a healthy occu-
patton. More severe exercises than these can
be undertaken by exceptional men who have
continued to use their muscles throughout lite.
But there is undoubted danger when violent
exercise is resumed in middle age after period
of sedentary life.
The chief danger of overstrain after S. is
to the blood vessels. Even a minutes quick
walking will often do man of this age serious
injury In nearly all violent exercise one holds
the breath now and again, matter OF no impor-
tance in youth, but great danger in late life.
The heart is another danger spot, and un-
less it is known to be sound any great strain
should not be put on it after 50. 1t is not the
risk of sudden death or paralysis alone that
confronts the man getting on, in years who
overstrains himself; lesser injury may be done
which leaves him more or less i'll for the day
or even several days. The basal fact to con-
slider is that every part of the body is less
efficient and may be dangerously weak as age
comes on.
In some the need for quiet, even life may
not arise until 90 or later, but in the majority
it is we'll to begin to be cautious when in the
hftieth year. Probably, indeed, men would live
longer if they confined themselves to the gentler
forms of exercise soon after 40, even when
there is no sign of failing power.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
FROM A WINDOW IN FEZ.
Life on Moroccan Housetops Sug-
gests Days of Haroun ell Raschid.

The motor paused before a green
door in Fez, where a cadi in silk
en- craftan received us. Across
squares Of orange trees divided by
running water we were led to an ar
caded apartment hung with Moroc-
can embroideries and lined with
wide divans; the hall Of reception of
the resident general. Through its
arches were other tiled distances,
fountains, arcades; beyond. in green
er depths, the bright blossoms of a
flower garden. Such was our first
sight of Bou-J cloud, once the sum-
mer palace of the wives of Moulay
Hafid.
Upstairs, from room walled and
ceiled with cedar, and decorated
with the bold rose pink embroi-
dcries of Sale and the intricate old
ncedlework of Fez, looked out over
the upper city toward the mauve
and tawny mountains.
Just below the windows the flat
roofs of a group Of little houses de-
scended like the steps of an irregu-
lar staircase. Between them rose
few expresses and a green NINA
ret; out of the court of one house
an ancient fig tree thrust its twisted
arms.
The sun had set, and one after
another bright figures appeared on
the roofs. The children came first,
hung with silver amulets and am
Der beads, and pursued by negresses
in striped turbans, who hustled up
with rugs and mating; then the
mothers followed more indolently,
released from their ashy mufflings
and showing, under light wells, long
earrings and craftans of pale green
or peach color.
The houses were humble ones,
such as grow up in the cracks of a
wealthy quarter, and their inhabit-
ants doubtless small folk; but In the
enchantedI African twilight the ter
races blossomed like gardens, and
when the moon rose and the muez-
zin called from the minaret, the do
mestic squabbles and the shrill
cries from roof to roof became part
of story in Bagdad. overheard a
thousand years ago by that arch de-
tective Haroun ell Raschid. Edith
Wharton in Scribner's Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
ODD AND INTERESTING.


Labrador has an area or 100000
square miles, but the population is
only 1000.
The British House of Commons
possesses a postoffice of its own
which handles over 2,500,000 pieces
Of mail--.to say nothing of tremen-
dous numberNof elegrams-during a
single session.
One of the newest uses of alumni
mum is its employment in making
the soles of shoes to be used by
workmen employed in damp and
wet places. The aluminium -soled
shoe lasts much longer than an or
dinary shoe and is said to be imper-
vious to moisture.
Hindu children are remarkable for
their precocity. Many of them are
skillful workmen at an age when the
children of other nations are learn
ing the alphabet. A boy of may
be skillful wood carver, while
some of the handsomest rugs are
woven by children not yet in their
teens.
The stork is treated with great re-
spect in Holland The house select
ed by the stork for resting place
is considered fortunate, and special
facilities are provided by the house
holders to enable it build a nest
comfortably. At The Hague many
of these birds are maintained at pub
lie expense.
Silk is the most costly Of all f1bers,
and in the raw state represents a
value SO great as to be guarded in
it's transportation like a shipment
of bullion. 1t is shipped from coast
to coast in special, solid, express
ments ranging in value from
$5,000,000 to $25,000,000.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
What About Fiume1

Opinion as to the action of Gabrielle dan
nunzio and the mutinous Italian troops, who
seized Fiume and expelled the allied forces,
unites on the foolishness of the project. Gen
orally, it is accepted that on Italy rests the
duty of getting the rebellious soldiers out Of
the city How this is better to be accomplished
is not so clear. At Paris the Peace conference
is waiting on word from the United States,
which is not as yet forthcoming. Premier Nitti
has not been able to present definite plan for
consideration and that delays action by Presi-
dent Wilson, who is expected to uphold his de-
cision awarding Fiume to the Jugoslavs. The
affair presents very pretty preliminary test
for the League of Nations. Although that body
is not yet formed and operative the underlying
principles may be applied to this case, and the
question of moral obligation as we'll as the right
of self-determination settled. D'Annunzio is
determined to hold on; what will Italy or its
Allies do with him?
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
"Jerry on the job"

Omaha, Sept 1S-To the Editor
Of The Bee:-Thanks for your edi-
tcrial in today's issue headed, Presi-
dent and Ireland" most earnestly
recommend a careful study Of said
editorial, especially by those whom
you refer to in another editorial that
says: IF the Irish are fooled by the
presidents explanations, it Is because
they want to be-" On this occasion
l have an idea that the rank and file
Of the Irish are on the alert con-
corning the league Of nations.
But, alas! alas! the Omadhauns
and Bodrahs together with the cor
rupt politicians have been hood
winking the Irish for decades as they
are proficient in their deceitful trade
of misleading the unsuspecting,
therefore it is we'll to be on guard
against the schemes of these trick
sters.
The elite of the Irish, those who
were ever and always faithful and
true to "liberty's cause need no
tocsin or any other alarm to notify
them Of their duty. However, it is
pitiable to witness the schoneens and
tho spalpeens of the race paying
homage to the House of Morgan, the
House of Rockefeller, the House of
the Packers and swarm of lesser
autocrats. Perhaps they inherit such
slavery from their ancestors who
were accustomed to take off their
caubeens to the landlords in Ireland.
JERRY HOWARD.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
q u pAY
The Day We Celebrate.

Gen. Bryon Root Pierce. one of the few sur
viving general officers Of the federal army in
the civil war, born at East Bloomfield, N. Y, 90
years ago.
Ex-Princess Cecilia, wife of the former
German crown prince. born in Mecklenburg 80
years ago.
Dr. Charles A. Prosser who recently re-
signed as director of the Federal Board for
Vocational Education. born at New Albany.
Ind, 48 years ago.
Dr. L. Clark Seelye, president emeritus of
Smith college, born at Bethel Conn, 81 years
ago.
Pierre Maupome celebrated three-cushon
billiard player, born at Vera Cruz, Mexico, 80
years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
Everybody knows what q

bill" Everybody knows what a
rider is
5th. 1t is not we'll for our
national honor to promise in 1919
that we will help any particular
nation or nations in a war which
may not occur until 1850. For one
thing Is certain: we will not fight
where our strong sympathies do not
lie. And it may easily happen that
when the crisis comes, our SYM
pathies will have to be forced by
propaganda, or we will refuse to
keep our written promise. We chose
the right side in 1917, without any
alliance or league: can we not be
trusted to do so again?
E. M. AKIN.
1918 Farnam street.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20
CHAPTER 1.
The Extra.

(ILNXTRA! Extra! All about the
~ mystery of the charming
mermaid and the Prince Of Dollars!
Extra! Extra!"
Peggy jumped quickly from the
hammock when she heard this cry
coming through the stiffness of the
early evening Extra. Extra!"
The loud newsboy call would
have been exciting enough on
the city streets, but here in the
woodsy quiet of her lakeside sum-
mer home 1t was startling. Extra!
Extra!" The cry came nearer and
Peggy ran out to the road to look
for the newsboy who was still out
of sight among the bushes and
trees.
Clumpety-clump! Up galloped
Balky Sam, the army mule, to see
what the excitement was about Be-
hind him were Billy Goat and John
ny Bull, the dog.
"Woof! Woofn' snorted Lonesome
Bear, rushing from the underbrush.
Glitter! Clatter! Cree! The birds
rustled through the trees-Reddy
Woodpecker, Kingfisher, Blue Jay,
General Swallow, Mrs. Swallow, Mr..
Robin, Warbler Ovenbird Nightin-
gale, Judge Owl, and all the others
eager to hear the news.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20

Army surplus food was sold to packers
and wholesalers is the charge now made to ex-
plain why it was not delivered to purchasers
who sent their orders to the postoffice. Oh,
very well, as long as it did not break prices,
Mr. Baker Is content
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20

The Bee has been on the wrong track" a
great many times during the last forty-eight
years. as viewed from the standpoint Of some
body who was trying to cover up something
However, II is steadily battling for the people
lust the same
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20

The only perfect foot among seventy women
doctors assembled from all over the world at
New York was exhibited by a Japanese Write
your own moral to this.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20

Crowder lieutenant general on his retirement.
He earned his promotion if any officer did
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-20

From Chicago comes the announcement that
the Anti-Saloon league is going into politics
actively" What would you say the brewers
called its past efforts?