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Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
ENDING Strikes

The difficulty of reaching any sort of COM
promise or adjustment in these intolerable in
>terruptions of industry is that the unions can
not be depended upon to keep agreements; that
strikes have already carried wages up and
hours down till the employers are within sight
of the end and feel that every concession will
be the occasion for demanding more conces-
sions. and also. and probably chiefly the very
general feeling that the present strike epidemic
mas been fomented by the |. w. W.. the syndi-
calists, the anarchists and by every revolution
ary element and that the success of any of the
larger strikes would encourage further attacks
upon industry not merely for higher pay and
shorter hours. but to expel the owners of the
plants.
OF course, all demands cannot be complied
with. The employers afford to stop rather
than to run at a loss and there is no use of
making goods that are too expensive for peo-
pie to buy. The people show little disposition
% economic, but it is evident that the point
must be reached beyond which the employers
cannot grant concessions, and they think that
that point is very near. But besides the ques-
ton Of what employers can afford to pay, there
S the question of the significance of these
strikes Are they revolutionary? The indica-
lions that they are are stiffening the resistance
to them. There is a widespread feeling that if
these strikes should succeed the results would
go further than wages and hours.-Philadelph
Record.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
e. -<zhzle cToAks Corner 3
Stolen Ride on Mail Train.
BY r. 8. ALEXANDER.

Hunting Eye was standing at the
railroad station as mail train
stopped. He had never seen an en-
CINE or a train and was much afraid
Of this new monster. But when he
saw men moving about inside the
cars he got back his courage and de-
cided to climb into car and hnd
out about the iron giant.
Barely had he crawled into the
car and crouched down into cor
ner before the train started to move
and he was borne rapidly out OF the
city.
Here, what are you doing in this
carr" asked a clerk as he pulled
Hunting Eye out of his corner.
Don't you know better than to try
to steal ride on mail traius"
II got on to see what it was about
and it started before | could get off,
well, We'll put you off at the
next town. Sit over there in the
corner"
The Indian boy watched the clerks
as they storted the mail, taking the
letters and parcels from one sack
and throwing them into several
others.
What are those things?" he ask
ed clerk after the sorting was hn
ished.
"Those are letters. A person al
one place wants to tell a person at
another place something. SO he
writes it down. puts it into all en-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
Politics and Prohibition.

The president has once more very deity
passed the prohibition buck to congress. His
challenge was promptly accepted by the house,
and probably the senate will meet him halfway
also.
When the democratic congress determined
to follow the lead of the car of Russia and
fastened "war-t time" prohibition rider onto
great appropriation bill, it was allowed to 60
by, for the fervor with which people entered
the war led to general resolve to do anything
that might aid in winning it. No provision was
made for enforcing the policy, and it was under
stood that when peace was declared the amend
ment would become imperative. The drys
zealous1y pursued their advantage, and an
amendment to the constitution providing for
nationwide prohibition went through a-whoop-
ing and was adopted by the states in scramble
as to which would be first to endorse. Then
came the armistice and possible hiatus between
the ending of the temporary and the beginning
of the permanent dry spell.
The democrats allowed the situation to ride
along, most folks believing that with demobil-
ization the president would proclaim a truce in
the drouth, which was not to set in prior to
July !, almost eight months after the fighting
had stopped. But Mr.. Wilson had other views.
He asked republican congress to repeal this
portion of his party's legislation. So long as
state of war continues, the president is clothed
with extraordinary power, which he appears
loath to renquish The army has been de-
modified, the navy has gone out of commits
sion, commerce is, resumed with our late
enemies, and everything points to peace save
the technicality of ratfying treaty. Therefore,
state of war" prevails, and the drouth that
set in some places on July continues
The attorney general pleaded the need of
proper statute law for the enforcement of the
policy. This congress has undertaken to sup
ply but the president yet demands that it pass
the repeating act he proposed in June. He will
thus be relieved of the necessity of procaiming
the war at an end, and consequent termination
of all the great extra-constitutional power he
now wields. If the senate views the situation
as did the house, the bibulous will have to look
to the president. for relief, or 60 without egg
nog on Thanksgiving.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
Will Women Vote Neat Year9

Will all the women of the United States
have the privilege of voting for presidential
electors next year?
Seventeen states have now ratified the equal
suffrage amendment Utah having done so
within the last few days. Coorados favorable
and early action is also expected, so that l8,
or one-half of the total required number, will
be on record in the affirmative
The trouble is that not enough legislatures
to put the federal amendment into effect in
time for the national election are scheduled
to meet next year, SO that unless the woman
suffragists are to be disappointed it will be
essary for considerable number of governors
to call special sessions. The question is whether
sufficient group of executives can be pre-
vailed upon to summon the lawmakers.
AS woman suffrage is bound to come very
soon it would be proper and gracious policy
for governors and legislatures everywhere to
acquesce in the fact and give all the women of
the country chance to participate in the 1920
election. Twelve millions of them are eligible
to do SO, anyway, under state laws-Providence
Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
OUR 1LLITERATE ALIENS.

Returning to Washington after visit OF in
quiry to Pittsburg, Senator Kenyon expresses
sorrow and regret for the appalling conditions
he unearthed there. He found thousands of
aliens, ignorant of our language, our customs
manners, laws, government, and with no SYM
pathy for our institutions, employed there. This
condition he says challenges attention, and
must be remedied.
Who is to blame for this condition? Surely
not the illiterate aliens Their presence has
been known for many years. Long ago the
"Pittsburg survey" familiar to all sociologists
developed the fact that in 4 region covering
eighteen miles UP and down the Monongahela,
Allegheny and Ohio rivers visitor speaking
only the English language required an nterpre
ter to get about. This sodden mass of ignor-
ance has been increased rather than diminished
in that line
Annually prior to the war hundreds of
thousands of illiterates were imported from
Europe, to be employed in the great industrial
centers, and no attention was given them by
any one. They were left to herd in racial
groups, to read, if at all, the papers printed in
their native language, to preserve as far as pos
sbe native customs, and were worked on the
old-time shifts of III and Is hours, with a.
hour turn once month.
A government inquiry reported on the situa-
ton of the foreign laborer in America giving
official support to all that was brought out by
the private inquiry. The effect of the prevailing
system of employment. not in the steel indus
try alone, but along the railroads, in mines, and
wherever large bodies of unsked labor was
required, was plainly set before the people.
And the people paid no heed. So long as these
men did the drudgery for low wages, the pub
lic government, everybody seemed content.
What effort was made to "Americanize"
these newcomers, prior to the time we got into
the war? If they are ignorant and do not un-
derstand our ways, whose fault is it? Certainly
not that of the 100000 illiterates now in the
United States, most of whom are centered in
the states where the iron and steel industry is
the leading factor of life. Americans have
pro6ted by their presence have exploited them
to the limit and are alone to blame if the
neglected element has now assumed menac-
ing aspect.
Some better way of treating the foreign
born coming to this country must be found. If
the remedy entails change in industrial prac-
tees and it certainly will, the fact should not
be permitted to interfere with a reform that
is for the general good of the nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
Disturbing Sir Isaac Newton.

Having upset all the political, social and
economic laws, theories, hypothesis and the
like, as we'll as the sum total of human ex-
perience to date, the advance guard of the new
world now has extended its activity to the
astral realms, and our relations with the uni
verse are to be overhauled. An Italian scien-
tist, Prof. Maiorani, take up the law OF gravi-
tation as reasonable subject for revision, and
goes about his moderate task with admirable
zeal. Newton's theory, he proclaims, is only
an approximate hypothesis 1t contains ele-
ments of truth but falls far short of being exact.
Without going into details or becoming
dogmatic, we may congratulate Prof. Maiorani
on having started something just as Sir Isaac
did, that storied afternoon in the fall of 1905,
when he wondered what made the apple fall
and bump his nose while he was peacefully
browsing in his garden. Science has made some
wonderful announcements, based on the New
tonian theory, but may have to revise them,
just as Plato's maps have been redrawn The
discovery of radium, predicted on projection
of the law of attraction to the development of
the atomic theory of matter, resulted in COM
plete revision of the theory and the practics
of chemistry, but without disturbing the ratio
of weights. Copernicus was derided, and Ga
lileo had very unpleasant experience, but it
turned out that each was right as far as he had
gone, and Maiorani may be absolutely correct.
An astute and experienced local astronomer
and mathematician summed up the case tersely
and succincty: He will have to prove it."
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

planes in the plant world long be-
tore humans had any idea of such
things. And just as nations have
fought to acquire land on which to
start colonies of their people, the
plant armies invade territory where
they cultivate new colonies of their
species. For that purpose there are
artillery plants which are supplied
with guns that shoot. We call
them seed-pods, or seed vessels, but
why not seed guns, since they were
the first guns on this earth?
When you begin to investigate
you will be surprised to find how
many there are.
AS a child it was my delight to
touch off the cultivated lady-slipper
guns in our garden, hear them pop!
and be showered with their tiny
seed shrapnel.
All artillery plants do not need
outside aid to fire their guns; many
guns work automatically and, be-
fore ones eyes, they shoot out their
seeds to an incredible distance.
The wild bean gun (pod) bursts
when fired and throws its ammuni-
ton into the air as the two halves
coil and spring apart. The Chinese
wistaria employees the same method
with a wild scattering of seeds.
But the witch-hazel, blossom
ing in the autumn woods, has guns
that are yeritable "Big Berthas" in
their long distance range. When
the ragged battle flags of pale yell
low blossoms are flung to the
breeze the guns are ready for ac-
ton, and each little nut-shaped gun
begins to open at the top. AS it
opens, its sides press in with such
force that the smooth seeds are
shot sometimes as far as 80 feet.
Next week: Moss Signs on the
Trees.")
Boys and Girls Newspaper Service
Copyright. 1919, by J. H. Millar.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
Artillery of the Plants.
BY ADELIA BELLE BEARD.

The bombardment is going on
now, and if Our ears were attuned
to the finer sounds we could hear
the boom of the guns, the rush of
shells and the rafting of shrapnel
as the artillery battalions of each
plant army put down their barrage.
Men did not really invent the gun.
There were guns as. well as air
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
FIGHTING H. c. OF L.

While high prices rule
And profiteers pool,
Inscriptions they operate.
How long must we stand It;
Investigation, we demand 1t:
'Tis the people who pay the freight"
While congress dilly-dallies
With argument and sallies,
Great things they pr3gnosticate.
While they are still prating,
The masses are waiting:
'Tis the people who pay the freight"
Let there be new laws
Without any flaws,
NO trusts or no syndicate,
It will stop this unrest
And be for the best
For the people who pay the freight"
BELLVIEW,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

the next town and you must get
off"
Much as he wished to stay on the
train and hear more about the mail
system, the little Indian boy had to
get off and again take up the trail
toward the east.
|. Who is at the head Of the Post
Office department.?
2. Do the states have any post.
office system?
3. How does the government get
paid for handling the mails?
Next week, Hunting Eye Tries
10 Vote~
Boys and Girls Newspaper Service
Copyright. 1919, BY ], H. Millar.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
Diyorce-Custody of Children.

w. e. S.-kindly answer the fol-
lowing at your earliest convenience:
l. Can a man, whose wife has
started suit for divorce, and for va
rious reasons wishes hearing of the
case postponed indefinitely, leave
state and get a divorce from
her without filing cross-petition in
same state her suit is filed?
2. Can he compel suit to be tried
sooner by filing cross bill?
8. If he has been ordered by court
to pay temporary alimony and does
not do so, can ali the back alimony
be collected from him at a later
date?
4. Has the mother or father the
better chance OF getting custody of
minor child?
Answer. No. 2. Either party
is entitled to an early hearing. 8.
Yes a. Mother
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

"As result of several visits to Omaha" Sen
ator Miles Poindexter has announced himself
as candidate for president, according to the
veracious Washington correspondent OF the
VIII. The scribe might have gone farther and
added that as result OF several visits to Omaha
and for other reasons, his senatorial boss has
decided not to announce his candidacy for the
high Office
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
WILL.

E. L. R.-WilI you please tell
through The Bee if one would make
a will and have a notary public put
their stamp on, would it hold in
law and would that be all that
would be necessary to be done?
Answer-The will would be void.
Better secure the services of a
reputable lawyer.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
Marriage OF Cousins.

]. J.-Please answer In your Free
Legal Aid column il marriage be-
tween cousins is legal in Iowa. If
not, since when? My cousins were
married last spring. If it isn't legal,
what can they do?
Answer Marriage of first cousins
is prohibited IN Iowa.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

Even if relatives and friends did provide the
$150,000 paid to free Consul jenkins from the
Mexican bandits, the fact that he is an Ameri-
can citizen and a representative of our States
department ought to count for something But
will IL?
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
Federal Road.

s. c. Eff a county don't build
the federal road on the railroad
right-of-way can it get its portion of
the federal money and does the land
have to be decided to the government
the federal road is built on?
Answer-A. 1t can. B. The
land is not decided to government.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

1t was the democratic senator from Ne
braska who objected to vote being taken on
the passage of the prohibition law over the
presidents veto. His persistent msrepresenta-
tion Of Nebraska on the prohibition question
has been consistent. at least
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

Illinois high school students propose estab-
fishing soviet to run the school, and the prin-
cipal plank provides for less work and more
play. Why not cut out all work and just mon
key around all the timep
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

velope, puts stamp on it and the
government carries it where he
wishes to send it. The government
has a postof7ice in each town where
mail is received and sent out.
The sack of mail we sorted was
taken on at the town where you got
on. The other sacks will be thrown
off at the towns along the way. They
will either be sent on to other towns
or taken to the postoffice and the
letters and parcels sent out from
there. ...
well, we are slowing down for
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
Claim Against Government.

H. A.-Will you please answer in
your valued paper the following
question of law: Two months ago,
the 18th of this month, I ordered
s6S worth of groceries from the
government, through the postoffice
here, and have never received them.
How must 1 so at it to recover my
money?
Answer-Write to the United
States district attorney, Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
Our Free Legal Aid
State your. case clearly but
briefly and reliable lawyer
will furnish the answer or
advise in this column. Your
name will not be printed.
Let The Bee Advise You.
Custody of Children.

X. Y. 1.-THE court in granting
the custody of children takes into
consideration solely the best inter-
ests of the child. irrespective OF the
wishes of the parents.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

Baby finger prints make lovely wall deco
ration, whether in dado or panel or merely ap
piled haphazard, but the Omaha landlords do no
like them.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

King Albert goes home with another dis
tincton.t He is the only king ever permitted to
address the congress of the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

General Pershing is to inspect army posts
and war plants which is assurance that Omaha
may as we'll begin preparing welcome for him.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

Omaha continues to lead as the premier
feeder" cattle market of the country. Exports
from here in the last few weeks promise much
juicy eorn-fed beef for Christmas.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

III. Senator Borah says he is bewidered by the
presidents double-hcader on the end of the
war. So are some others.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
What The Bee Stands For:

|. Respect for the law and maintenance of
order.
q Speedy and certain punishment of crime
through the regular operation Of the
courts.
8. Pitiless publicity and condemnation Of
ineficiency, lawlessness and corup-
tion in Office.
4. Frank recognition and commentator
of honest and efficient public service
5. Incubation of Americansm as the true
basis OF good citizenship.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

1t will now be in order for somebody to de-
mand the removal of Judge Wakeey, who has
refused request for an injunction against a
roadhouse
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

Omaha is not bad place. launch pres
idential boom. Bryan and Weaver both hoped
off here. 1t is the finish that counts
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

MI. Wilson finds himself very much as did
his illustrious predecessor, Grover Cleveland,
with congress on his hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

Three goods things-The Bees shoe fund
Ak-Sar- Ben Stock and the school bonds-push
them all T..
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

/ Slowly the joys of life are receding; deadly
bacillus has now been found in ripe olives
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
TODAY
The Day We Celebrate.

H. H. Claiborne, attorney at law born 1868
c. w. Britt, judge of the municipal court
of Omaha born 1864.
Queen Marie Of Roumania who has signi-
fed her desire to pay an early visit to America
born a. years ago.
Sir Conyngham Greene, the retiring British
ambassador at Toxic, born in Ireland, IS years
ago .
Most Rev, Paul Bruches Catholic arch
bishop of Montreal, born in Montreal, "a years
ago.
Maj. Gen. Charles S Farnsworth, U. S. A.,
recently in command of Camp Bowie, born in
Lycoming county, Pa, 81 years ago.
DR.. ]. A. C. Chandler, the new president
of William and Mary college, born in Caroline
county Virginia, AZ years ago.
George H. Tinkham, representative in con-
gress of the Eleventh Massachusetts, district,
born in Boston, 4o years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Miss Clara Brown has returned to town.
Mrs. John L. Webster and Miss Webster
have returned fromJa four months stay abroad.
r. H. Wcks secretary of the State Land
and Loan company has gone to Pierre, S. D.
The Misses Barlow of Colorado Springs are
visiting Mrs Arthur Remington
Senator Mandcrson has left Washington for
his home at Omaha by way OF New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29
Various Questions.

l.. F. F.-Write to A. Shotwell,
county attorney, of Douglas county,
= Nebraska
L. S.-Impossible to answer your
question without examining all the
papers. Ordinarily provision of
that kind Is not binding.
G. M. R.--Write to United States
district attorney, Omaha,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

Back to the minesr' is the order we are
waiting to hear.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-29

The possible wet spell is shrinking fast.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08

Malcolm, McCaHum
Quits SIG To Take
JOB In Greenwood

One Of the hea, known and most nop.
War trio MGR along %automohilN row Ia
about 20 shake this dust OF Mknnhls
from hir shosa, He IA Malcolm Mccall
lu,n.
Mack "a he IA familiarly called M
md down the rev, has severed hls con-
u~ections with the Eight. sixteen Tire
md Yplcanising COMPANY 10 eecopt A
an'endid n~csltiou with n, X. Meyrlck.
ori dealer and tire distributor ut
Greenwood, Mites. with hiA denarturc
ono u tho boat tire teams In the city
IL GiehaNdeh
MeCaNun ard his business associate.
Nelson Jones. have long had the repu-
tntion OF being the epeed bose for
Goodyear ana Kelly tirea and. A. Jones
nNts II, 1T won't teen lika the old
place with Mack gone"
McNaAum has done considerable globe
trotttng IN hin day ne has sean nrnc-
'ieally everything worth saolng and he
snows a good ttins whom hA gives "
me "oneN over" Ncrce HE ACCEPTANCE
| VI tho offer from Greenwood
The hoari At directors ~ the Eagirt
sixteen company AZ \ meeting thu ether
night accepted Mccailnrn'a r~etiRnatton
| with openly exprssaNd reluctance
| wished him the beat oS iuck -in HE new
! field and elected Nielsen Jones Vice.
president aud general unanA2ef.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-08
Car OlDRers Are
Numerous Among
Factory Workers

Proof that shows 70 what extent
the automobile 10 used to drive 70 work
amnna the great mass Of owners, 10
that 81 the hugo parking places pro.
viaed BY the principal manufacturers
and industries ~ the country" says y.
a, Kissel, president 81 thu kissel Motor
Car company.
poratlons, shipyards. manufacturers IN
almost every l,ne OF endeavor have pro.
vided great parking spaces, whicn are
filled with tho cars OF their enip'oyes,
mechanics and offloA brain workers
tlt has been found that the auto
mobile saVea az least half the time y
takes 10 walk from home 70. place OF
omnloyment, thersnN giving tne owner
additional time az home beIors the
Whietin blows,
fright now l understand that a NUN.
her OF ble office buildings both IN chi
eago and New York are considerins
building areciAl garages or parking
places either in the Easements or on
the roofs for the cars OF tenants and
asrhs conRested business streets I'M.
.tnedlateIy outside tho parking 1ones ~
practically every American city, where
thousands Of automobiles are parked
daily by business men n sfnpsoyss,
lnaieAtN that tho parking problem 10 .
serious one and must be given thought,
Of course We cannot permit cArs v
block traffle4-neither must We stop the
! use OF the automoeile - means q
e~epyayanee tof the ownex ion ehae =