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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
LET'S ALL GO TO WORK.

Two great obstacles have been removed
from the path Of American industrial activity,
the steel workers strike and the strike Of the
soft coal miners. These affected basic indus
tries, and so involved the entire machinery Of
production In the United States. For the mo-
ment the way 10 clear, and business has op-
portunity for going ahead At full speed.
The action of the miners in calling off their
strike was in accord with popular expectation.
Whether or not 1t is influenced by the desire
of the leaders to avoid any clash with the gov
eminent, or whether they merely make 4 viz
tue of necessity does not matter. The weak
ness Of their position must have been clear to
them their utter failure 10 secure any popular
support for their cause having foredoomed 1t
to defeat. Now they may take up in an or
Derby fashion the adjustment of wages and the
other points of difference between the men and
the operators and come to an agreement with
out upsetting the entire social life of the land.
Increased orders for steel indicate the atti-
tude of the business world. With \ certainty Of
fuel supply, the manufacturers may carry on
the campaign for supplying the worlds de-
mands for goods of all kinds. and prosperity
continue All the trouble is not removed
through the willingness Of the miners to re-
turn to the pits.
Since early in the spring continued COM
plant has been made by the operators that the
railroad administration was not providing cars
needed to take care Of coal output Mines were
idle many days because OF this. A more eff
Gent method of handling the business must be
found, if the nation is to have the full benefit
of the relief now afforded.
Let US all 20 to work now.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
Lincoln Again IN Controversy
From the Kansas City Star.

The announcement that John Drinkwater's
Lincoln" is to be produced in America indi-
Gates that the English author and producers
of that play, which has had an immense sue
cess in London, are under no apprehensions
as to the results of test that would seem to
involve the correctness of many ancient liter
airy maxims.
No. man, says Schiller, can be eloquent save
in his own language. Hugos Cromwell" was
not the Cromwell Englishmen know. Neither
Voltaire nor Tame succeeded in giving French
men an accurate idea of Shakespeare. Can an
Americans There has been some debate on
that point in London, where it seems to be
recognized that English opinion of the play can
hardly pronounce the last word.
Lord Charnwood, himself biographer of
Lincoln and with deeper insight into the Lin
coin character and tradition than is possessed
by any other Englishman, has limited his in
dorsement of the play to saying in effect, that
it probably conveys worthy impression to an
English audience. He has to admit that an
notion of what would be true or false in an
atmosphere necessarily so retroactive. To the
criticism of an American officer who witnessed
the play the biographer confesses, II do not
think it possible that an Englishman who has
lived nearly all his life in England could ever
get the local color so as to fit the play for pre-
sentation on the stage in America, for a genera
ton yet" Few English writers. he points out,
can even get the local color of Scotland.
The business of the criticisms and of Lord
Charnwood's observations, are made clear by
any one of the more glazing incongruites pre-
sented. General Scott wearing handkerchief
in his cuff or General Grant saying, my wordw
Such falsities would not mar the play for Eng
lishmen, but how would they strike American
audiences? How far can we trust Mr. Drink
waters knowledge of Lincoln or his times if he
can suppose these mannerisms to be American
OR to have been so in the Cos? The Amer-
can officer who brought out Lord Charnwood's
admissions comments also on the clicking of
heels at Grants headquarters. We suppose he
is right in that criticism also. The army of the
Potomac was great fighting machine, but we
cannot suppose its officers were formed on the
life guards model. There may have been some
heel clicking around Mcclellan, but probably
not around Grant, who went to receive Lees
surrender dressed in pTivates blouse and with
out his sword.
There can be no question of the reception of
the Drinkwater play in America. 1t will be
we'll received and probably will repeat its Eng
lish success. But it must be as an English
play, unless indeed the American producers
choose to redress it and in that case it is hard
to say where such a process should stop.
Probably it ought to stand for what it is, and
leave an American stage Lincoln to the develop
ment of time. Perhaps the controversy over
the Bernard statue of Lincoln recently set up
in England goes to show that time has not yet
come.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
Ertradhion of the Kaiser

Evidently the president of the Dutch Bar
association thinks in German, though he uses
The Dutch language That is shown by re-
cent speech of his, protesting with vehemence
against yielding to the allies If they should de-
nand the extraditon of the former kaiser.
The question, curiously enough, seems to
Excite more interest in Holland than 1t does IN
Germany, and, still more curiously the Dutcn
friends of the kaiser are using arguments OF
which the Germans of today are tar less fond
han they were while the war was in progress
md soon after the armistice was signed
The head Of the Dutch bar could ind moth.
NO better to say against the extraditon OF
he kaiser than that the demand for it was a
manifestation of hatred and the lust for re-
yenge. He quite forgot the possibility that
What he called hatred might be a righteous
niger. and that, instead OF LISTING for revenge,
he allies might simply be DESTROYS OF bringing
o Justice great criminal.
His attitude of mind is truly Teutonic, but
It is little out of date, as for some time all ex-
cept few of the most junkersh Germans have
fired OF having their attention called to the in
consistency of denouncing hate as criminal,
when they themselves for months and months
preached it from their pulpits as a virtue. AS
matter of fact, the allies show no great eager
less to get the kaiser into their hands, and no
aeal certainty as to what they would do with
lin if they did. .
II half of the current stories about him are
true. his old illusions already have turned into
out-and out Madness fate worse than his Bit
terest foes would nfct If at liberty to do with
him what they chose.-New York Times,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
"Zone Fare" System 4 Failure.

ANY time for a dozen years or more the
trolley transportation expert would have told
YOU the zone fare" system was the ideal eqult-
able basis on which to operate street railways.
1t would equalize payment and service, and
would solve the increasing financial problems
of the companies. Finally the public service
commission of New Jersey was impressed with
the idea, and the zone system was ordered into
effect in lieu of the 7-cent fare at Newark and
other cities A Scent rate was established for
the most travelled zone, and from that the
charge graded up higher charges for the longer
rides.
The result was disappointing to the experts.
Instead of its being popular with the public,
the new plan met disapproval from the start
Travel fell off, chiefly in the zone where it was
expected to be heaviest the cars lost money,
and now the companies are before the state
board asking permission to return to straight
7-cent fare.
The one unacceptable conclusion from this is
that custom is stronger than logic. People are
in the habit of thinking of "street-car ride
as that only, regardless of distance travelled.
They will pay by the mile of steam-road, be-
cause they have always done so, or on rural
trolley line, for it is analogous to the other.
But they began dropping the nickel into the
box on the old horse car, and have followed
that practice through its development into
trolley, elevated and subway systems, and man
ayers may as we'll reconcile themselves to the
fact, and not persist in trying to measure the
service and sell it to the public in designated
quantities.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12


of it is like miniature forests of tiny
palm and evergreen trees, some like
vines and ferns and other kinds bear
small, flower-like crests of brilliant
colors. Often it is dry and springy,
deep and soft, and in the shady
woods it makes a fine mattress or
cushion for a tired boy or girl to
rest on; but if you think it has no
other use than that you are greatly
mistaken.
Moses are among the most indus
trious of natures skilled workers,
and they never ask for a vacation.
Everything is busy in the we'll or
dered world of out-of-doors, and it
is the moses part to help keep this
earth in good repair and fit it for
us to live on. What is used up must
be replaced, and the MOSES are ire
mendously busy making new soil.
They work in various ways. When
they collect gases from the air to
send down into the ground, and
when they draw lime solutions from
water to distribute in places where
they are needed, they use chemical
methods; but they use actual force
when they pry off particles from
hard rocks to add to the bits of
earth. dust and leafy refuse gathered
and held by their closely-massed
foliage and roots.
The saprophytic MOSES that grow
on decaYing logs take from the dead
wood and give back to the soil in
gradients which the trees, when
alive, absorbed from the soil. Other
moses fill in and build up marshy
places, making soil for larger plants.
They are all workers, you see.
Won't it be worth while to find out
more about them?
("How About Nuts?" next week
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
TODAY
Thirty Years Ago In Omaha.

Mr.. Fred Metz and family landed in New
York on their return from Europe, where they
had been for nearly year and half
A meeting of the Western Art association
was held at the Lnnger art gallery when
plans were made for the exhibit to be held
November 18.
The Omaha Real Estate Exchange was or
ganized with headquarters in the New York
Life Insurance building at Seventeenth and
Farnam.
Mr.. Robert Hunter, in charge Of the for
eign advertising department of The Bee, was
married to Miss Hattie Ochtree.
Mrs. ]. B. Meredith and Mrs. D. L. Collier
gave a handsome reception at Sunnybank.
Mr.. and Mrs w. E. Annis left for Wash
ngton, D. c. where thsy ware t. anend the
winter.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
f. Lzht& cToAy Corner 3
With the Rural Mail Man.

By X. 5. ALEXANDER.
"Hey! Stop himl Stop himr'
Hunting Eye heard this cry behind
him. Looking back he saw a horse
running along the road toward him.
After it ran a man. He hid in the
bushes by the roadside and when
the horse came past leaped out and
by hanging to the bride stopped it..
That's lucky for me-" said the
man coming up, IF he'd gone much
further I'd have had mail scattered
all over the road. Get in. I'll give
you a ride"
who are your" asked the Indian
boy.
"I'm the rural mail carrier. You
see the town back here has a post
office. The whole country is divided
into districts and about the middle
of each district is a town with
postoffice. Each district is divided
into rural delivery routes. The route
starts from the postoffice and goes
out one road to the end of the dis
trict then comes back by another
road, A carrier goes over each of
these routes once day. He de-
livers to the farmers the mail ad-
dressed to them and carries back to
the postoffice the mail they wish to
send"
Just then the carrier pulled DIP to
a box set on post by the side of
the road and took a package from
it.
Letters aren't always that big,
are they?" asked Hunting Eye.
mo. we carry small packaqes as
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
THRESHERS AT SUPPER,

Begrimed with dust and painting for a
drink,
They scent the SAVIOR of the frying ham,
And in a bostrous but good-natured jam
Collect around the summer kitchen sink.
They wash and splash, but have no care
to prink.
avoiding things In dress that look like
sham),
And, threshing over jokes that cut and
slam,
They seat themselves and plates com
mence to clnk.
Tho straw boss saying all are hungry,
chaffs
The cook to put more water in the soup
Another, forking up his onions, laughs
And asks the waiter for a silver scoop,
And stacks of biscuits vanish with the
duaffs
OF milk provided for the funny troupe.
WILLIS HUDSPETH.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
League and Future War.

Omaha, Nov. 9.-To the Editor Of
The Bee: AS a reader of The Bee /
wish to congratulate you for your
effort in placing before your readers
some of the technical points of the
so-called League of Nations and op-
posing said points. I for one am
opposed to the league as a whole
and in the file of The Bee you will
find my letter dated July %, where
pointed ont that the peace
conference has failed to settle the
Balkan question. Instead 1t left
the Balkan states in worse condition
than ever, consequently the league
is not worth the paper.
I made the above statement not
because I pretend to be a diplomat,
but as result Of my personal OBJ
servations as workingman we'll
travelled.
The question now is: Was l right
or was wrong in the above state
ment? Let us again look at the
files of The Bee and we will find a
Paris dispatch dated Septembe S
[Please compare the date with the
date of my former letter.1 entitled
Great Discord Developing in Bal
kan States-About to Start Fresh
Bloodshed," ETC., and concluding as
follows: Diplomats here (Paris)
agree the situation was never worse
in the Balkan states, even in the
days Of Ottoman suzerainty." 1
hope the above dispatch Is suffi-
cient to convince any one of my
statements of July % were correct.
congratulate The Bee sincerely
on It's stand against the league.
may state that the so-called self
determination Of small nations is
dead.
What do I think of the League of
Nations? 1t is not League of Ma
tions-it is an alliance.
1t will not prevent wars. That is
dream or a bluff.
1t will reduce ornaments. o yes;
we are about to pass bill provid-
ing a peace army of $4,000 men
instead Of about 10000, as before
the war, and as we'll as compulsory
military training for 1S-year-old
boys, and have them subject to call
in service any time the War de-
partment wishes. OF course this
call comes only in case the volun-
teers are not coming in fast enough.
This is quite an evidence of how
much confidence is to be had in the
League of Nations.
Diplomats, whether outside or in
side of League of Nations, will not
prevent wars; on the contrary, they
are making it, and conduct the war
from their soft chairs. Put them at
the front, as well as the kings and
emperors, and the war will not last.
nor can we expect to have one.
STEPHAN KLEFSKY
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
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Ak.Sar.Ben Appreciates HELM.

Omaha, Nov. 10.-To the Editor
Of The Bee: AS chairman Of the
finance committee in charge of the
Ak-Sar-Ben Exposition company's
stock drive, l wish to thank you
very much for your generous sup
port In helping us put this under
taking lover the top" The editor
ial and news space In your paper
during the drive were big factors
in making 1t a success, and / as
sure you the board Of governors Of
Ak-Sar-Ben and the directors Of this
company appreciate your co-opera-
ton.
With very best wishes and kind
personal regards, ! remain, very
truly yours. J. E. DAVIDSON, \
Chairman Finance Committee
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
The Working Moses.
BY ApELIA BELLE BEARD.

There seems to be a good deal of
moss of one kind or another scat
tered around, and when we come
to think about it we naturally won
der why. We find it almost every
where, in every part of the world.
Moss on the trees, moss on the
ground, moss on rocks, in boys, and
on the water. 1t grows along the
roadside and deep in the woods.
1t is wonderfully pretty and in
teresting stuff in spite of the dry
and difficult names botanists have
given to different varieties. Some
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
DOT PUZZLE.

eminent runs the mail system?
2. Who is at the head of this de-
partment9
3. How is he appointed
4. How is your postmaster ap-
pointed?
S. What Is his term of Officer
6. How are the letter carriers
chosen?
7. What i. the Postal Savings
Bank?
Next week: Hunting Eye Earns
Two Dollars.")
Boys and Girls Newspaper Service.
Copyright, 1919. by ]. H. Millar.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Paris newspaper calls the proposed
reservations harmless and platonic, while the
president says they will ruin all his work. Both
may be right
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
InSuring Delivery,

Admiral Kato is visiting all of the
allied countries to convey the greet
ings of Japan on he termination Of
the war. No country seems to trust
the postal service just now.-Punch,
London.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Refusal of naturalization to an alien who
hid behind his birth to escape the draft is put
ling real premium on citizenship Any man
who was not willing to fight for America should
not enjoy its privileges.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

dollar pound, it looks like tough winter for
whatever is left of the middle class.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Those Oklahoma egg-throwers may not ef
feet the election of republican to congress
from that state.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

The National Farmers congress honors it
self in choosing Nebraska man to be its head.
Our farmers are leaders in agricultural pursuits.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

The coal strike in Chile has just endet
Summer is coming down there
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
Scientific Exactitude.

This is l6-year- old royal princess. The
mummy has been preserved for 1000 years"
Does that include the l6 years she lived?"-
Passing Show, London.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

II the hunt for reds" had been as vigorou:
months ago as it is now, the country nigh
have been spared lot of annoyance.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Lady Nancy Aston says she is proud of he,
American BIRTH About the worst that can be
said OF her is the family she married into.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

We challenge the Omaha butchers to fol
low the Chicago example and sell porterhouse
steak at 10 cents pound.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Mr.. Wilson has learned to sign hi. name
with his left hand. He will get plenty of prac-
tce within the next two weeks
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Waste in construction at army camps is
becoming more appalling as the inquiry pro-
ceeds. No wonder the democrats did not want
an investigation made.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Weekend parties and mother-in-law visit
a.e limited in England, where food restriction
are in favor OF the host
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

A big balloon with bar i, about to start
across the country. 1t will have no dearth of
patrons wherever it stops.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Representative Voight of Wisconsin may be
labeled Republican" but he does not represent
the party's attitude on the Berger case.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Postal employees will face the rest Of the
winter with little more equanimity, Uncle
Sam having given them slight raise in pay.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

A Strike.
A strike is test of endurance,
with the general public enduring
more than its share.-Washingto
Star.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

we'll as letters. The carrying OF
them is called parcel post. A letter
below a certain weight will be car
ried anywhere in the United States
for the same price. But for the
carrying of parcels the country is
divided into zones and it costs more
to send a parcel to a distant zone
than to one not so far away"
But the carrier had now come to
the end of his route and Hunting
Eye learned no more about the mail
service that day.
Questions.
/. What department of the gov
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

The Ohio drys celebrated just in time, the
vets having won about all they went after at
the polls.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Armistice Day seems to have counted for
something somewhere, but not in Omhaa.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Maybe the price as we'll as the scarcity will
assist you in saving fuel again this winter.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
What The Bee Stands Fors

!. Respect for the law and maintenance of
order.
2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime
through the regular operation of the
courts.
s. Pitless publicity and condemnation of
ineficiency lawlessness and corrup-
ton in office.
4. Frank recognition and commentator
OF honest and efficient public service
s. Incubation of Americanism as the true
basis of good citizenship.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

1t will be "do or DON'T for the president on
the question of reservations
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Do not waste fuel just because the strike is
off.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12

Back to the mines!"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-09
Seeing A M erica
With Rachel
Cr0thers
By Rebecca Drucker

In so far as our plays reveal intima-
cies the life of the citizen ou,slde
New York is safe. The high life" ira
dition may have gone out, but in it's
place has come the tacit assumption
that the life and manners and view
point of New York are all the dramatic
material we have, in spite Of the fact
that New York is only a fractional part
of the wide and varied life of this
country. If by chance the raw ma
terial of life elsewhere is found to
make play, its color and strangeness
are taken out, its rough surfaces are
ground down-and when the texture
and substance Of New York are achieved
the play is stamped with the seal of
Longacre Square and sent forth. Rural
drama may then safely be sent back to
the rural citizen. He enjoys it because
it is so unlike anything he knows.
The supremacy Of the playmaker who
turns them out with such precision of
machine made finish in an Office on
Longacre Square is not threatened by
the appearance Of occasional hand
.loomed products. But, while these are
insignificant by their infrequent oc-
currence in an average theatrical sea-
son, they are disturbing by the wholly
disproportionate effect they cause.
Where is the reasonableness, Long
acre playmaker may ask himself, in the
success of play like "The Copper
head" or "Old Lady 81" or "Seven-
teen? What excitement is there in
the contemplation of the injustice done
to an octogenarian in an obscure part
Of the country in a half-forgotten quar-