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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
Homecoming Fancies and Facts.

Some time before the bottom fell out of
the world war, Secretary Lane set about a
crusade to provide each returning soldier with
farm 1t would not be such farm as was
given the boys in blue when they got back
from Dixie in the sixties, for no such land is
Uncle Sans to give nowadays. Mr. Lane had
visions, however, of the boys taking hold of the
logged-of lands in Wisconsin and Minnesota,
Oregon and Washington, retaining the arid
wastes OF the west not yet under irrigation,
draining the age-old swamp lands in the Miss
issippi delta, or otherwise making productive
areas now useless.
To the propagation Of this thought he has
given great attention, and maybe deserved bet
ter success. For the boys are coming home,
and, strange as it may seem, not many of them
have evinced any great tendency to enter on
"back-to-the-land" movement. A few of them
are hunting for jobs other than they left; seek
ing for the most part to better themselves, a
natural endeavor, but along lines far removed
from the grubbing of stumps, the digging of
irrigating bitches or the drainage of swamps.
Mechanics are looking for employment at their
trades, lawyers and doctors are setting out to
recover interrupted practice, and clerks, ac-
countants, teachers and others like them are
getting back to the normal life as fast as they
can, giving little or no sign of an uncontrolla-
bic desire to live out of doors.
Thus is another vision likely to dissolve.
The lands the secretary of the interior would
have bestowed on the boys may yet be brought
to serve mans needs, but the war did nat last
long enough to implant any especial yearning
for the cows and chickens where ideas of trolley
cars, time clocks, movie theaters and steam
heated apartments held sway before interrupted
by war's(stern alarums Our boys are mostly
in favor of employment in the cities, now as
heretofore
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
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Wnr Prices Ckmbina Dopn

It really begins to look, judging from some
of the happenings of the past week, as though
producers were commencing to realize that war;
time prices cannot be maintained. The realiza-
ton of this seems to have come to some with
rather severe wrench as the taking Of ex-
cessive profits had been continued long enough
to have crystallized into a habit. There had
been, Furthermore, so little objection manifested
by the general public toward paying more for
everything that it appeared to be an easy mat
ter to 60 ahead on such a basis. The
patient ultimate consumer, who was con-
tent to deprive himself of luxuries and even
of some of the things he used to consider as
necessares, and to pay exorbitant prices for
what he did get-all because he believed these
were help to winning the warts beginning to
look after himself more now that the war has
been won. Manifestations OF this change of
sentiment have come to the retailers and have
by them been pushed on to the wholesalers
New York Times
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
Naturalization of Waterways.

Lord Robert Cecil deity counters the pres
ident's proposal for the naturalization of all
interoeeanic waterways with statement that
the United States must determine questions
with regard to the Panama canal. This inferen-
tally carries with it notice that Great Britain
will look after the Suez canal, and incidentally
the Straits of Gibraltar. Nothing of cause for
establishment is seen in this declaration, for it
is in line with the British attitude on che free
dom of the seas question: The empire depends
on its naval supremacy, and is determined to
maintain it. Nothing can be palmer. The in
clusiveness Of the presidents ideal has no sup
port in England. The Dardaneles and the
Bosphorus probably will be neutralized, but
the Mediterranean will continue water way
under the protection of the British navy. 1t
will therefore fall to the United States not only
to maintain but to guard the Panama canal; its
free use guaranteed to all the world, but always
at our pleasure. Lord Cecips statement ought
to serve to further clear the way at Paris
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS
Be Better Looking-Take
Olive Tablets

If your skin Is yelIow-complexion
pallid-tongue coated-appetite poor
you have a bad taste in your mouth
a lazy, no-good feelpg-you should
take Olive Tablets.
DR.. Edwards Olive TabIets-a sub
stitute for calonel-were prepared by
DR., Edwards after II years Of study
with his patients.
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tabletsare a purely
vegetable compoundmixed witholiveoil.
You will know them by their olive color.
Tohave clear, pink skin, bright eyes,
no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like
childhood daysyoumustget atthecause.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets act on the
liver and bowels like calomel-yet have
no dangerous after effects.
They start the bile and overcome con.
stipation. That's why millions Of boxes
are sold annually at 1Oc and 25c per box.
ALI druggists. Take one or two nightly
and note the pleasing results.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
In the Wake of War

one of the big tasks before the
British government is the task OF
demobilizing 100000 women NUM-
ton workers without starting
trouble.
"Lordy, lordy," exclaimed
doughboy along the Rhine. first Il
was shillings. and then francs and
now its marks. ! lose every time,
Why in heck don't they like money!"
Red, yellow and black, are the
colors proposed for the flag of the
German republic, when IL arrives.
Red symbolizes the old war splrits
black, the deeds perpetrated. and
yellow-probably a tribute to the
kaiser's farewell streak.
A two-days leave granted zoo
American sailors in London, just be-
fore the start for home last month,
exhausted available sleeping accom-
modations. Emergency relief was
had by quartering the Gobs in the
stately ST. Stephens hall, Westmin-
ster, and In one of the law courts ON
Fleet street. Galleries of sculptural
statesmen, warriors and barristers
looked on the invaders. but the Gobs
snoozed just the same.
Napoleon, who ought to have
known, fixed the real death-blow to
his vast schemes of ambition in
1908, though he did not finally fall
until 1915. Up to 1908 his arms had
been deemed invincible; but in that
year he invaded Spain, and one of
his generals, Dupont, was forced to
capitulate with $4,000 men. In his
attempts to redee mthe setback
Napoleon poured into the peninsula
armies and treasure the want or
which was fatal to him when he was
at last driven to bay.
Fiction fails to provide such re-
markable stories OF strange meet
ings as some brought about by the
war. Twelve years ago the eldest
son of an English doctor quarreled
with his father and emigrated to
Canada. He held no communication
with his family, and when the war
broke out, joined up. Last summer,
near the close of the great conflict.
he was badly wounded, and the doc
tor who attended to him at the
casualty clearing station proved to
be his own father, the meeting re-
sulting in a happy reconciliation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
OUT OF THE ORDINARY

A woman. who died in Cumberland,
N. Y, left $1,000 to a Masonic lodge
to keep flowers on her grave.
Verboten signs still remain in CO.
blenz, but the native flirts require a
American translation.
Carriages for all the old women
who wished to attend her funeral
were ordered in the will of Mrs Lu-
ella Mazalini, probated at Hazleton,
Pa.
A chambermaid in a Chicago ho-
tel who has been in this country
two years sports a $500 diamond
ring, which she boasts, she has
bought out Of her frugal earnings.
A Galveston widow says the latest
proposal she has received was from
q Houston insurance agent who said
he had loved her ever since her first
husband stung the company for
$4,000.
A Chicago druggist fired a shot
gun at burglar who entered his
store. putting the intruder to fight
and thus saving about S175 in his
cash drawer, but smashing with the
SHOT $3.50 showcase and $3.50 worth
Of bottles.
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels son,
while a plebe in the naval academy
at Annapolis, Nd, was severely
hazed by first classmen. Recently
he resigned from the academy and
hunted up his chief prosecutor and
gave him beating.
The Brooklyn IN. ~ bureau Of
charity gave a dinner Christmas
night to 76 penniless and blind old
women and provided them with a
Christmas tree. When asked before
hand what presents they wanted,
each declared that the best would
be face powder - .
George Butcher Of Glassboro, N.
j., who was a drummer in the Civil
war and is on the records as having
been killed in July, 1853, put in an
application for a. pension about five
years ago, and after being officially
dead for half a century, has now Sc
cured evidence which he is confident
will bring q pension.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
A SONG FOR HEROES.

A song for the heroes who saw the sign
And took their place in the battle line;
They were walls OF granite and gates OF
And they cried out to God, They Shall
not pass"
And they hurle9 them back in a storm of
And the sound will echo on over the years
And a song for the end, for the glorious
And the soldiers marching up over the
bend
OF the broken roads in gallant France,
The homing heroes who took the chance,
Who looked on life, and with even breath
Faced the winds from the CULTS Of death,
Their hearts are running on over the
Over the battle wrecks--over the waves
over the Scared fields--over the foam
on to America-on to homel
And a song for others, the heroes slain
In Argonne Forest-ln st. Gobain-
In the flowery meadows Of Pieardy-
In Belgium-in Italy,
From brave Monticello to the sea.
song for the heroes gone on ahead
To join the hosts Of the marching dead
A song for the souls that could lightly
fling
Sweet life away as a little thing
For the sake Of the mighty need OF earth,
The need Of the ages coming TO birth.
All praise for the daring God who gave
Heroic souls that could dare the grave,
Praise for the power He laid on youth
To challenge disaster and die for truth.
What greater gift cnnNthe High God give
Than the power to die that the truth may
live!
Glory to the Lord the Hero OF HeaYenl
He whose wounds In His side are severn
Glory that He gathers the heroes home,
out OF the red fields, out OF the foam
Gathers them out Of the Everywhere,
Into the Camp that Is over There
EDWIN MARKHAM.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
CENTER SHOTS

Washington Post: Since the boil
sheviki insist upon violence, why
not let them have It? When Lieb-
knecht got enough he quit.
Minneapolis Journals: Bill Ho-
henzollern is said to be losing his
mind and also growing a crop of
whiskers. What's the connection?
Baltimore American: Oh, we'll,
with the development of aeroplane
traffic it will not take long to fly
over into Mexico and get an eye
opener.
Philadelphia Ledger: The diff
culties he is experiencing in putting
into effect the new telephone rates
may convince the postmaster general
that there are limits to the powers
of his office, even under war condi-
tons
st. Louis Globe Democrat: Even
decisions of the United States SUI
preme court on what is law depends
on a majority vote 1t may be noted
that Justices McReynolds and Clark
dissented in the Reed bone-dry
amendment decision. Law isn't as
definite as mathematics.
Brooklyn Eagle: Huriey's notion
of writing off" s1,000,O00.OO OF
the cost of building merchant ships,
so as to enable America to compete
with other lands in carrying ocean
freights, is a delight. Will he write
Oft the bond interest America Is
paying, too? And IL not, how will
the United States dodge anything by
his bookkeeping?
New York World: Railroad prop
erty in New Jersey is valued at
S64,500,000 for purposes of taxa
ton this year. The figures will be in
teresting for comparison with those
of the physical valuation Of railways
by the government when the latter
become available. Values as COM
puted by assessors and engi-
.neers are not necessarily identical.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
Around the Cities

The Board OF Public Works OF
Kansas City, Mo-. has drafted bud
get of improvements for 1919 eati-
mated to cost S6,5O0,000.
Portland, Ore, ran up a score Of
over 1000 divorce suits filed last
year. Matrimonial matches. famed
by web feet, flicker and so out.
ST. Louis changed the name Of the
Central High school to Theodore
Roosevelt High school, making the
third high school bearing the names
of northumberland, Mckinley,
and Roosevelt.
Detroits street railway system,
under a ruling Of the War Labor
board, may retain its women con-
ductors. In Cleveland a strike set
Element puts women conductors off
the job in March.
A demand for increased gas rates
in Sioux City started a movement for
municipal ownership. The gas COM
pany emulates Barkis provided the
price is just right. An examining
board is going over the books,
A roar on excessive gas bills
echoes in the city hall of Chicago,
complaints average 800 a day. re-
quiring employment of extra clerks.
So far the gas company and the
extra clerks are the chief bene-
ficiaries.
Sioux City coal dealers look upon
mild winter weather as an enemy
of business as usual" Big stocks
of goods on hand and moving slug
t-I1 lee rgTN
visions of bargains later on. Con-
sumers are not worrying.
Tacoma, which still holds the fort
at the foot of Puget Sound, recently
pulled off a modern hotel drive and
raised 100000 in stock subscrip-
tions for a hosiery. which is expect
ed to catch some Of the business now
jumping from Seattle to Portland.
Down at Jefferson City, where law
makers show Missourians how to
run things, the establishment of a
state lunch counter daily fills the
elect with inward joy Competition
with the pie counter will not be
tolerated, nor any inclination toward
trust, but the regulations may be
suspended in favor of slab of pork.
Mayor Meyers of Minneapolis is
getting in bad with the International
Association of Elevator Operators
The mayor persists in popping up
and down four flights of stairs every
ray, both for exercise and recrea-
ton, sighting the elevator and its
conductors. However, most of the
job holders lack the knee pep to fol-
low the fashion set by the mayor.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
RECIPE TO DARKEN
GRAY HAIR
A Cincinnati Barber Tells How e
Make a Remedy for Gray Hair.

Mr.. Frank Harbaugh of Cincin
natl, O., who has been a barber fol-
more than forty years recently made
the following statement:
anyone can prepare a simplG
mixture at home, at very little cost
that will darken gray hair, and
make it soft and glossy. To a hall
pint of water add 1 ounce bay rum
a small box of Barbo Compound AMI
4 ounce glycerine. These ingre
dents can be bought at any druI
store at very little cost. Apply Il
the hair twice a week until the de
sired shade is obtained. This will
make a gray haired person lool
twenty years younger. This is no,
a dye, it does not color the most del
icate scalp, is not sticky or greas!
and does not rub off ADV.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
s1GNPoSTs OF PROGRESS

The average wage per man OF the
United States Steel corporation en-
ployes in 1918 was about ST., 500 COM
pared with $677 in 1904.
Investigation shows that the mo-
tor truck is making longer hauls for
the farmer at a decreased cost as
compared with horses.
One of the most notable develop
ments in the demand in China for
things western is the increasing call
for modern sanitary appliances.
Marriages in 1918 fell below the
figures of 1917 everywhere, but 1919
will show the big marriage crop.
Boom in the furniture business -
100000 new homes.
Massachusetts ice dealers, by cut
ting four-inch ice, placing two
cakes together and freezing them
are getting eight-inch ice in spite
of the mild weather.
The railroad administration re-
quires the railroads to pay $4,000
for each new freight car, formerly
costing $500, and $4,000 for each
new locomotive, formerly priced at
100000.
The efficiency of the workers at
the great Hog Island shipbuilding
plant increased 20 per cent after the
armistice was declared, with the
prospect of the return to this coun-
try of millions of men needing Jobs.
During the year ended June 80,
civil service examinations for gov
eminent positions were taken by
!,
25,457 the previous year. This is
an increase of AL per cent in the
number of women applicants.
The Philadelphia inventor of a
sun-power engine, which is said to
be working successfully in Egypt, has
figured that it would be necessary to
cover but 20,250 square miles Of the
Sahara desert with the engines to
obtain as much power as the worlds
coal supplied in 1909.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

French leaders are not at all uplifted by the
thought of compromise with the bolsheviki.
Why should they be? France has just emerged
from a desperate combat against the forces os
autocracy, and is not in the mood to surrender
TO the same agency in another guise
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Assertions that 100000 American workers
are out of employment are too wild to call for
careful consideration, even when made by
federal employment director Such a condition
would infer that practically our whole indus
trial life Is suspended, which is not true.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Secretary Baker explains that he liberated
turned to useful employment This does not
tell why he gave them honorable discharge
from a service they disgraced.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Senator "Jimham" Lewis, who soon will
adoSt the prefix lex" says America will not
abandon one of the sacred fourteen points. In
view of the fact that the president already has
abandoned some of them, modified others, and
is stepping rather lightly around the rest, we
wonder where the Illinois statesman gets his
dope.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Forty thousand ministers are going to set
behind the war" garden movement; may we
remind them that here is one iplace where
work will get better results than simple faith?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

The "sufs" have won victory in the courts,
but as no general election will be held in Ne
braska till next year they will have a long time
10 think it over
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

Pater Families (sternly)-You can't
walk in this house and hang up your hat,
young man.
Bashful Wooer (meekly)-I know I
can't sir. You're sitting on it.-Baltimore
American.
"say," said a captured German officer.
you Yankees are devil dogs, You fight
all tho time"
Mister" replied his Yankee captor,
you don't suppose we came 5000 miles
to get licked. do you?"-Detroit Free
Press.
you don't seem to have as much trou-
BILE with horse thieves as in the old days"
NO." sighed Cactus Joe. Amt 1t aw-
full how the automobile has took the poe
try out Of life ?"-Washington STAR
1.-THE professor seems to be a man Of
rare gifts" remarked Mrs, Naybor
"He is" agreed the professors wife.
He hasn't given me one since we were
married. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Proceedings at Lincoln support the belle
that partisan division is not always necessary
to engender difference of opinion.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Kansas City is. getting phase of the street
car strike trouble from which Omaha was hap
PLY spared. Mixing dynamite with labor dis
putes seldom wins anything for the men in
volved
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Smoked Yankee" soldiers are great curios'
ity to the Germans. They were also something
Of a terror to the Hun army.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Observers say the open winter has improved
the crop outlook for Nebraska amazingly. Hur-
rah for the weather man!
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

keeping prices stable" has a different
sound now~than four years ago when things
began to run wild all over the place.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Mr.. .Marcosson says the American melting
pot" has become a caldron. Yes, and it needs
skmmng, too.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

General Pershing has ordered every man ip
MS armies to write home at once, giving an ac-
,ount of himself This is all right if he only
IAN get the message through the mails.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Congress is trying to find way to end war
expenses without giving business a setback
One good way would be to pay. bills contracted
and head off waste that is threatened.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Delay in establishing an air mail service to-
Omaha may be sustained by local business
houses if only the existing system be brought
up to something like operating efficiency
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Cheaper water for Omaha homes will help
a little on the high cost of living problem.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Portugars little revolution is still going on,
but has hard time making the first page.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Colder weather is coming, but most folks are
we'll fortified for it by the long continued mild
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
In Omaha 80 Years Ago.

VIM. T. Booth. managing director
of the New York Life Insurance
company, has been in Omaha for
several days.
The Turnverein celebrated its Esd
birthday anniversary with a concert
and social Entertainment. Musical
numbers were contributed by Miss
Minnie Brandt, and Messrs. F.
Lehman, Gredig. Cajori and
Rauseh.
Creighton college has taken over
the real estate willed to it by the late
Sarah A. Creighton. 1t is located on
Douglas street and is valued at
$4,000.
VIM. R. Huntington with the
Wells Fargo Express, has left with
his wife, formerly Miss Iowa Ball,
for New York City, where he has
been transferred.
Rev. Geo. E. Gardner of St.
Joseph is visiting his brother, Dean
Gardner.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

''Why don't you borrow It from Grid
son. He's a friend Of yours and always
has plenty of money?"t
I'D have to listen to one Of Gridson's
little lectures on thrift. don't need 500
badly enough for that."-Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26
TODAY
The Day We Celebrate.

AIEo UtEE VIC NNINWItlVls
Rt. Rev. A. +. Wilmington Ingram,
bishop of London, born in Warces-
tershire, England, 81 years ago.
Rt Rev. Daniel Sylvester futile,
presiding bishop Of the Protestant
Episcopal church in the United
States, born at Windham. ~ Y, so
years ago.
Frank c. Lowden, governor Of
Illinois. born at Sunrise City, Mimi,
SIS years ago.
John Barton Payne, an eminent
Chicago lawyer who served as legal
counsel to the Emergency Fleet cor
poration and the Federal Railroad
administration. born at Pruntytown,
Va, "a years ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

"Hiram. what do you think? Our son
in the city has telephone right beside
his bed"
Il always knew he was lazy, but
never imagined he'd go so far as to lie
down to talk."-Baltimor American.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Our wobbly War department needs sta
bizer now, if it ever did
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-26

Col. Tom Swobe was always what would be
called "a good old scout" He had his ups and
town at all times to the extent of his ability.
1t was largely through his enterprise, associated
with Samuel Shears and Jacob Markell, that
Omaha was able to boast its second big first
class hotel, hotel that did much TO put us on
the map with the travelling public and served
rBut-times change, and so did the fashions in
hotels. #~