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Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-14

wards best chocolates for 60 cents
or 80 cents, depending OH whether
you took box that was all decor
ated up with scenes and ribbons and
stuff, or just plain white box. Why
a fellow who took his girl a box of
candy that cost more than 81 was
either q foeJ =. ~;eh dead in
low
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-14
Held to Firm Purpose to Form American
Army to Fight Under Stars and Stripes

Viewed Situation 1917 With Frank Apprehension
Was Felt All Sides
Off St. Mhe Sa
Thoroughly American Sector
Vital to Enemy.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-14
Walking Still Free.

About the only thing essential to
the perfect courtship that doesn't
cost more is walk in the park" an
ilounced Slim from Dundee.
why, we're losing all our old
buddies because of this old high cost
Of loving" squeaked a silent youth,
home from the university for the
holidays. Everybody is fallira
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-14
A Serious OHense,

Silk umbrellas sheltered her from
the rain for $l.9s, according to a
Wanamaker quotation of 1902 An
Omaha firm, the head Of which has
some sons of loving age himself,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-14

his memory was yet fresh from the
price OF S24 he paid for the II he
sent the day before.
In telling of his good fortune to
his friends that night, the recipient
of the requested raise, was greeted
with stories of being turned down
by their bosses in like petitions for
salary increases. They attributed
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-14
A Married Mans Wall.

TO hear you bleat, anyone would
think you were married." conf
menced his chief. 81 don't see how
this high cost of things hits you
single fellows at all. Maybe it does
boost your board a bit, and cut
down on your drinkA but that's
about al
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-14
BY JOHN B. LONG.

Omaha swains are waxing elo-
quent.
Popular conception of the magic
letters II, c. L. is all wrong, they
claim.
"The high cost of living is only
fad, the high cost of loving is driv-
ing US mad,' they whistle and sing
to the tune of an erstwhile Jazz
melody.
And they've got the dope all duped
up to prove their contentious.
Welcome Conservation Measures.
Of all the folk in Omaha who be-
walled the orders of the terminal
fuel committee that theaters, motion
picture houses and drug store soda
fountains be totally inactive during
the coal shortage, every mothers
son who has the habit of fitting
about after the fashion of the male
butterfly welcomed the "conserya-
tion measures" with glee, because of
/the many nights ahead which an
other jazz selection characterizes as
"quiet little evenings at home" with
the maiden of their choice.
An unusually active Omaha
"fusser," who by night hovers about
one of the recent buds of the COM
ing-out season in this city, and by
day labors spasmodically at one of
a number Of desks in a large Office
downtown, bearded the lion in his
den the other morning and gently
felt out his boss for additional good
news" each weekend.
Closing his appeal for more. re-
muneration, with a bold mention Of
the increased cost of everything. he
stood with quaking knee and beating
heart, awaiting the expected ava
Arizona republican., 1919-10-24

dinary power of concentration. Again writing, and utterly absorbed. I used to watch his face. He would scowI, or he would set his teeth, or he would grin; by the expression of his face you could see the thoughts that were go- ing through his head.
 We talked of everything under the sun, everything except politics. I re- member that he talked about Ameri- canism and how we owed it to our children that they should be brought up with American ideals and with full regard for the duties and responsi- bilities of American citizenship. He never spoke of money or of money making; neither seemed to interest him. His chief aim in life even then seemed to be to make the world a better place to live in.
 People have said that he was dog matic. He did not impress me SO. cannot remember a single instance in all the time I knew him that he impressed me as one who wanted to run his own opinions down the throats of his hearers. He was always sure of his ground, that was all. He knew himeslf thoroughly and recognized his own measurements. When he had gone over the whole field of argument in his mind, and had come to a conclu sion which he believed to be right, he expressed his opinions with all the
 force that he possessed. That was all
Arizona republican., 1919-10-24
The Labor Conference

collective bargaining" which there has been
 more or less definite break in the labor conference at Washington is well understood by the out slider. To him it seems to be merely an arrange ment by which employees in a body through their representatives may be brought agreement with their employers relative wages Theoretically this arrangement may be carried with employers either by organized unorganized employees. We believe, though, that is proposed only by organized labor and collective bargaining is made to include agreement to working conditions and other mat ters which trench in degree upon the conduct Of the business. So collective bargaining is only little less vague than the expression industrial democracy" which has never been exactly defined.
 One objection, and perhaps, the most serious one entertained by advocates of the open shop to col lective bargaining is that it may be, and generally would be, conducted through business agents on the part of the employees these business agents not be- ing in the empoye of the concern. That. oppon- ents of collective bargaining contend, would be a recognition of the union fully and a surrender of the open shop principle.
 Replying to that organized labor points out that the employers make the services of attorneys and agents who not connected with the con cern in an industrial capacity. But it may be said in way of re-rejonder that these attorneys and agents are not in any way connected with the re ation between the employer and the employe but with the adjustment Of matters in which the em- ployes are in nowise concerned.
 The trouble in the labor conference seems to be lack of definition of collective bargaining; no limitation of the extent to which it may go If it limited it might be acceptable to many per haps to most open shop employers. But it probably would be accepted by the Steel Corporation tho head of the opposition to it in principle and which would look upon the acceptance of the prin- ripie as a surrender
 We hope that someway may be found out of the impasse which the conference had long been ap- preaching and which it reached on Wednesday There has not been enough of the spirit of concession a willingness to look at things they are; there has not been enough of that patience with which we should proceed step by step to things as they should be.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-24

prlsed them in camp and captured | them. But that was not the end of the l troubles that Roosevelt and his party had to meet. If anything, it was only the beginning, for the thieves had ex- hausted their own food supply and the Elkhorn expeditionary force was near ing the end of it's own resources. The ice jam held firm. There was no go- ing forward or backward, and soon captors and thieves together were liv- ing on baked flour paste made with muddy water and without baking powder. Roosevelt and his men went share and share alike with the thieves. The average westerner, of course. would have hanged the thieves out of hand, but evidently that did not occur to Roosevelt. His duty, as he saw it. was to land those thieves in the coun- ty jail, which was in Dickinson, and he determined to do it, whatever the cost.
 After two days exploration in the cold March weather, Roosevelt came at last to the ranch of a man named Jap HoltZ, west of the Killdeer noun tains, and, realizing that further trans, portation by boat would be slow and tedious, determined to take the thieves, across country He sent Sewall and Dow down the river with the boats, and, packing the thieves into a wagon himself followed on foot The thieves were in an ugly mood. He did not dare to put himself in a position where they | might catch him drowning He or dered the driver. therefore, to walk his horses, and with a cooked Winchester in his hand, trudged for two days through the sticky gumbo. He spent the intervening night at a ranch house, but, though the thieves slept, there was no sleep for their captor. Propped against the door, he watched all night long, gun in hand.
 He did not seem worn out or un- duly tired, as he told me this story He had just come from the Jail, hay ing deposited his prisoners at last, and had had no sleep for forty eight hours: but he spoke with the vivacity of a man who is never caught other than wide awake. He was frankly thrilled by the adventures he had been through. It did not seem to occur to
 him that he had done anything partic-
 ularly commendable, but he was, in his
 own phrase, pleased as Punch" at
 the idea of having participated in a real adventure. lie was Just like a
 boy.
 I thought then. and I have con
 tinued to think since, that Roosevelt
 rendered a brave and important serv-
 ice to the community in bringing ir
 those thieves. Many men would have
 thought twice before they decided tc
 build a boat and float down that icy
 river in icy weather after three des-
 peradoes; and having taken the triI
 and having captured the thieves, ninC
 out of ten would have hanged the mer
 and returned home, thinking theil duty done. But Roosevelt had a deer respect for law and an understanding of the needs of that lawless frontiel which made him willing to endur, privation and bodily suffering for tn, sake of strengthening the laws feebl } arm.
 For the law had hard sledding il l Dakota in those early days. Whel the country was first opened, ther r was generally no law at all except tn law of "the drop" which means tn
Arizona republican., 1919-10-24
Traffic Guards

We need, not only the three traffic guards which have been stationed at street intersections. but others. The citizens will object the expense of putting many policemen for his pur- pose as may be required teach the automobile owning population how to drive. There is no city in the land that stands in greater need of such ln- struction.
 People cannot will learn from perusal of the traffic ordinance, if they do persue it. Nor are the lessons sufficiently impressed by an occasional arrest for violation the ordinance They learn only at the schools which have been established and which will be established at the principal tersections down town.
 Phoenix it is said, has more automobiles ac- cording it's population than any other in the country and there is probably other town where the ordinary precautions against accident so recklessly disregarded. Drivers sweep by inter- sections or turn at unlawful rates of speed. They pay no attention to the iron policemen at intersections; they "cut corners" and in one way and another they keep the bewidered pedestrian jumping sdewise and very often he cannot jump quickly enough.
 Two drivers approach a crossing at right angles. One of them has the right of way. The other either does not know it or becoming confused forgets it, and there is a meeting They have failed the spur of the moment to interpret the ordinance on that point That is of the reasons why the traffic guard needed decide the nice question of the right of way
 After few weeks these lessons will be pretty well impressed upon automobilists all of whom will have passed under the instruction of the traffic guards and they will then know how to behave them selves when they beyond his supervision.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-24
The Memorial Campaign

The great value of the Roosevelt Memorial Cam paign," says writer, "lies in the fact that it will call to the minds of those who contributing, and of the public at large, the qualities of courage and of individually resourcefulness which distinguished Theodore Roosevelt It is this doctrine opposed to paternasm which must ultimately prove the sal vation of all democratic institutions.
 It was the great aim of Roosevelt to bring the people to rule themselves by informing themselves of the peed of by nquiring more closely into the things to be done and by the exercise of discrimination in the choice of servants to do it. He did not want the people to regard as infaible, ire sponsible rulers who by finesse corruption had succeeded to places of power. Such govern ment could be democratic. Though the people knew or said or thought they had the power trol their servants, they did not use it but con- tented themselves with the idle possession of it.
 The more we know of Roosevelt, and this pagn is bringing into intimate knowl- edge of him, the will know of sef-rule and the less will we rely bndly upon government the bearer Of burdens.
 Therein, will be the true Roosevelt memorial one to stand for all time In it's erection will be building something ourselves. Even if the strange unthinlable thing should happen, that should for get the name of Roosevelt and it should pass from the knowledge of that such character had ever lived, the memorial would be always present in his conception of the relation of the citizen his government and that conception will in the course of the memorial campaign.
 The American people love Roosevelt other American loved in his own generation. We did not know how much loved him until he died. We did not know how much could miss him. Many had believed. and had all been taught, that could be great to leave at his passing a void that could not be immediately filled But now months after the death of Roosevelt. there is to take the place of that leader and guide We look and then upon this that prominent figure and him. but turn away in dis appointment and despair of finding a successor
 Surely we should perpetuate the teachings of such and make the most of his guidance while living. That is why not that raising fund for a suitable memorial but why conducting a Roosevelt memorial campaign.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-24

pull up stakes get away from the exactons which the printers of New York have imposed upon them for years.
 There was never good reason why New York should have become a publishing center. It has never had such 8 literary atmosphere Boston, Philadelphia was nearer Parnassus however far re- moved. We are not claiming literary atmosphere for Chicago. At any rate it is not of so pungent character as to overcome the fragrance of the stockyards.
 However literary atmosphere is not essential successful publication. Its too great purity might indeed become a handicap The business depart ment without which publications cannot long exist could hardly survive in a too highly rarefied atmos- phere. That of Chicago is sufficiently rich and heavy for the sordid business department.
 As a distributing center Chicago has ad- vantage over New York. The products of these publications are sent all the country, days in advance of the uniform publication date and then they held until there ample time to reach the farhermost points, Astoria, oregon, San Diego, California before they released anywhere for sale
 The congestion of these publications in New York has resulted in rather unnecessary conges- ton writers, big and little, though there very few big ones on and about the Island of Manhattan. It would not be hardship for them supposing their proximity to the presses to be essential, their household goods and gods to Chicago
 It may be asked what assurance the publishers have that they will be beset by the extravagant demands of the printers of Chicago well those of New York They have assurance that Chicago printers in ordinary circumstances might not become as unreasonable those of New York. But they have not been in the past and we be- lieve that the events of the past two weeks have set even the New York printers to thinking that they have pressed the publishers too far; that sbly they have driven them to a position of nde pendence of the printers. The Literary Digest has proved that possible a magazine, if printer earth suddenly transferred other planet in the twinkling of eye.
 The Digests issue not entirely pleasing but it readable. Within less than another week the Los Angeles Times which had probably received it's first hint from the Digests performance issued an entire newspaper page, headlines and alL in which the printers had no part, and in doing so, overcome difficulty that the Digest had been able master, that agning the right ends of the lines
 We suppose that people feverishly mak- ing improvements of the typewriter adapt it to the new method A letter is said have been de- vsed that will socosely resemble type sharpness of outline, that it cannot be distinguished from printers type. and can be easily read. Probably improvements of photography will quickly follow so that illustrations be brought out as clearly as if they were stereoyped.
 When all this has been done though there may be strikes of pressmen and photo engravers there will be no printers strikes the magazines, and it will be all one whether they are published in the commercial and financial air of New York in the livestock atmosphere of Chicago
Arizona republican., 1919-10-24
AN imITAToR OF KING cANuTE

"Tbere is something to be learned from the old s,orv of King Canute," Representative Robert Luce of Massachusetts pointed out to ms coleasues III W .1 ra Inf a sneech the other day. You remem- her how he brought his throne down to the edge or the incoming tide, and he bade the "vaves to stop; hut the waves kept coming on and coming on' ana Canute said Stopl' after the fashion or the gentle man who called us together and kept us from our vacation in order that the cost of living might be re- duced He too said Stop to the great tides that are rising He too, put his throne at the edge or inc waves and when they began to lap his feet he not only had his throne moved back, but he got out of if and ran away the farthest side of the con- tinent."
 Some of the members of the house thought that Representative Luce being brand new member, coud not stand up under fire of questions as eblv as he could bring in amusing stories but they found him there" They had not known that he is rrobaby the informed man on the cost of living nroblem in congress for he was chairman of com missions on cost of living in 1910 1916 and 1917- Washington Star
Arizona republican., 1919-10-24
ROOSEVELT, RANCHER
 AND DEPUTY SHERIFF
(ey Victor Hugo stickney, M. D.

(By Victor Hugo Stickney, M. D. Theodore Roosevelt was a strange and wonderful sight the day saw him for the first time.
 It was in Dickinson. in what was then the Territory of Dakota, forty miles east of the wild little frontier town of Medora, where he made his headquarters and near which his ranches lay. I was a practising phy- sician and was just leaving my office on my way to lunch when, a block or so away, l saw the most bedrag- gled figure 1 had ever seen some limp ing down the street. Strangers were always interesting to us on the from tier, and this stranger struck me at once as being the queerest specimen of strangeness that had descended on Dickinson in the three years had lived there. He wore glasses, for one thing, which in itself was considered immoral out in the country, and his fringed buckskin jacket and "chaps" were covered with sticky gumbo mud. He was all teeth and eyes. His clothes were in rags from forcing his way through the rose bushes that covered the river bottoms. He was scratched, 2 termined as a bulldog. He was aetu- ally a slender young fellow, but re- member that he gave me the impress sion of being heavy and rather large.
 As l approached him, he stopped me with gesture, asking me whether I could direct him to a doctors office. I was struck by the way he bit off his words and showed his teeth.
 l told him that I was the only prac- ticing physician not only in Dickin- son, but in the whole surrounding country.
 By Georgel" he said emphatically Then you are exactly the man I want to see. I've just come forty miles or foot from the Killdeer mountains bringing down some horse thieves at the point of a Winchester, and my feet are blistered so badly that I car hardly walk. I want you to fix me up.'
 l took him to my office, and while I was bathing and bandaging his feet which were in pretty bad shape, h, told me the story of the capture O. the three thieves. A desperate char. acter named Finnegan, with two ac. complices, it seemed, had been steal ing everything they could lay thei hands on in the country around Elk horn Ranch, which was Roosevelt, place; and westward to Montana Finally, hearing that a vigilance com mittee was on their trail, they deter mined to make a break out of tn country, and in March, after the ic started to go down the river, stole tn boat that Roosevelt used for the pur pose of crossing the Little Missouri when it was high, to make their es cape. Roosevelt, in addition to bein, the owner of the boat was a deput' sheriff, and he determined therefor that it was his duty to capture thos thieves. He had Maine man in hi outfit, a fine old fellow named Sewal who knew something of boat building and three days after the thieves stol his skiff. he was floating down tn river with Sewall and another Main man named Dow, in pursuit.
 The thieves, it happened, were hel up by an ice jam some sixty or sev enty miles down the river. and afte three days Roosevelt and his men sur
Arizona republican., 1919-10-24

law of the quick shooter After that came the law of the vigilance con- mittees and the rope; and then, some times pretty slowly, came the law of the land in the person of a sheriff, who was generally the worst ruffian in the country.
 We had a sheriff in Dickinson in the early days, just to make believe that we were a law abiding commun- ity; but he wasn't of much actual use. Whenever there was any trouble he could not be found, and when he was finally located, it was generally in some cellar, out of the way of the shots.
 We talked of many things that day while l was repairing his blistered feet. He impressed me and he pug zled me, and when 1 went home to lunch an hour later, I told my wife that I had met the most peculiar and at the same time the most wonderful man l had ever come to know. I could not quite figure him out could see that he was man of bril- liant ability and I could not under stand why he was out there on the frontier, but in the east, in the turmoil of large affairs.
 It happened that I ran across him rather often during the months imme- diately succeeding, and whenever
 saw him I had a talk that would stick in my memory.
 He attracted and fascinated me. He was himself a most genial person, whl
 seemed to love to be one of a jolly
 group and who could entertain crowd better than anyone else I ever knew
 He had a wonderful fund of informa
 tion and seemed never to have
 enough, for if he wanted to know something about matter on which ht
 thought you were informed, he woull
 pump you absolutely dry. I remem- Der that I was sfrucl< hv his extraor.