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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-26
viii be controlled from Dover.
DIG 1Oo~FEET BELOW
BOTTOM OE SEA

The deepest water along the route
Of the tunnel is $50 feet and it is
proposed to 60 deep enough to have a
cover OF the chalk sea bottom 100 feet
thick between the top OF the tunnel
and the bottOr Of the channel. This
will protect the tubes from the sea
and also from destruction by enemy
activities in time Of war.
The tunnel will carry besides the
train tracks, telephone and telegraph
wires and pneumatic tubes for the
dicpatch of letters and parcels. Trains
will operate by electricity.
Less difficulty in construction is
expected than was met in building
the east River tunnel between Man
haitian and Long Island. There it was
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-26

- Curve Of .tilnnef7at British coast
line to approach several miles back
Of Dover. Section of interior Of tube
showing electric trains. 2. Dip in
tunnel which may be flooded in time
of war. 9. Greatest water depth, $50
Meet. 4. Thickness OF chalk above tlln
mel, 100 feet. Entrance to cross
tube connecting tunnels, one every 200
yards.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-26
Billion Dollar Tubes viii Be Con.
structed by French and Eng
lish; Five, Years Needed for
Work.

Must Bore Through Chalk $50
Feet Below Sea Level; Trans.
~ r~,s7
ri Continental Trains Will Start
From London. "
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N. e. A. Special 10 The Tribune.
Plans for a tunnel % miles long
between France and England to cost
a billion dollars or more are SO far
perfected that construction can start
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-26

This is wonderful time for YOU and for every
other man and woman in the world The average
individual has hitherto had little or share in the
direction of national affairs even in the ultimate
decision upon matters vitality affecting his per-
sonal welfare and the conditions under which he
lives and works. Today the statesmen Of all ma
tions are agreed that the people rule and that
they are but the instruments Of the popular will.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-26

Too Much Or Not Enough Wheat? !
Canada's Distinguishing Tangle
Japan Makes Shipbuilding Record
Burning Down Houses to Keep Warm
Eastern Editors and Western Readers
A Negro Explains the "Jazz'-
Salvation Army Drive For Home
Service Fund
American Enslavement to Drugs,
The Best of the Current Poetry
Personal Glimpses of Men and Events
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
Wage Scale for Preachers.

In one of his Illuminating discourses Rev.
BILLY" Sunday called attention to the fact that
"a prize fighter can earn more in fifteen minutes
than country parson can in fifteen years"
That this is true is no credit to the church as
an organization. A more immediate instance is
brought to view at Beacon, N. Y, where the
pastor of Baptist church has gone to work in
a hat factory to exc out his salary. The con-
gregation pays him $1,000 year, and he earns
double that making hats. No objection would
ordinarily lodge against this, but the fact that
strike is on against the hat factory, and the
preacher is working as a strike-breaker gives
it tinge of unusual interest. His congrega-
ton, which contains many of the striking work.
men, is indignant at his course but he justihes
it by pointing out that he can not live on $1,000
year any more than can the strikers. The
parson has the better of this argument Saliva
ton is free, but minister of the gospel de-
serves and should have decent wage for his
work. If this pastors congregation is on strike
against wages double the amount allowed him,
what answer can it make to him? If preacher
is not worth living wage to his congregation,
he is not worth anything. Church members
who do not realize this ought to take short
course in economics.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17

were carried on by private persons
and anyone who wanted to go to
school had to pay for that privilege
Soon, however, the men who were
running the government saw that
one of the most important things
they could do would be to provide
an education for all the boys and
girls of the state. So they estab-
lished free schools for everyone.
Does the state run this SCHOOL,"
eyes, through the township. You
see, in most states each township is
divided into school districts with one
school in each district. In the city
the districts often cover the same
area as the wards. All the districts
in the township are grouped under
one head. The township heads are
under the county superintendent.
The state superintendent is over all
the schools in the state. In the city
the schools are all under the city
superintendent. who is usually di-
rectly under the state superintend-
emit. The head of the schools is gen.
orally chosen by the school board.
the members of which are, in most
cases, elected by the people. The
board also chooses the teachers and
carries on a good deal of the BUSH
ness of the schools.
"The federal government has bu-
reau Of education which studies
school problems and aids the state
schools in many ways"
Next week: Hunting Eye Meets
the Mavor")
Boys and Girls Newspaper Service. Copy
right, 1919. by ]. II. Millar.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
One Industry Not Moderm9zed

Americans like to think of themselves as a
progressive people, especially in business and
industry. They like to read about the rest
less energy and bold innovation of the great
captains of industry who are always scrapping
expensive machinery to put in something bet
ter and newer. They have come to believe
America achieved and holds its leadership be-
cause of this unwillingness to be bound by
past methods.
But the national vanity will come down a
little perhaps when the revelations of the coal
strike are fully grasped That great industry
seems to have been conducted in an amazingly
haphazard manner, the evils of which appear
to have been communicated to the great coal
users also to the railroads, public utilities and
large industrial plants. Neither the coal opera
tors nor large consumers have made any effort
to- provide coal supply beyond the demand of
the passing day. AS pointed out by The Stars
Washington correspondent, who looked care
fully into the questions of production and dis
tribution, there is system in neither No coal
is stacked at the mines, there is none, or little.
stacked anywhere.
Consumers have been accustomed to buying
their coal as they want it. Consequently there
is big demand in cold weather and light de-
mand in the summer. In order to have enough
men available to produce the coal in seasons Of
heavy demand, so large force is required that
it must be idle good share of the time in sum-
mer.
The situation is like that of club that main
tains staff of walters large enough to serve
heavy dinner demand, and then keeps the same
staff for breakfast and luncheon, when very few
persons wish to be served. 1t is convenient to
club members to have such service. but it is
luxury they expect to pay for.-Kansas City
Times.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
Must Respect the Laws

w. D. Haywood who enjoys the distinction
|of being secretary Of the mpudenty treason
liable i. W. w. organization, has an appointment
to speak in Detroit. The members of the Amer
|ican Legion in that city have been considering
|if they would not prevent Haywood from delv-
ering his harangue. The mayor of Detroit has
eissuaded the American Legion from the adop-
ton Of such course. He says he will have an
Eample police force present on the occasion and
|if Haywood violates the espionage laws he will
Ibe prosecuted.
There are laws applicable to such cases
They may not be as far-reachng as they should
|be under existing conditions; if not, the laws
should be strengthened and rendered thorough
liz applicable. Until that is done dependence
must rest on such laws as we have. Violence
must not take the place of laws in any event
Drastic methods are often necessity, but they
must be legal methods.
The hope of the nation rests on respect for
law. There's no other road to order. Our own
Governor Roberts has gained distinction and
won praise, not in his own state alone, but all
over the country, on account of his strenuous
efforts to maintain order through the enforce
mept Of the laws.-Knoxville Journal and
Tribune
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
neVEIVET g.
HAMMER, IN s%''
| Bp Arthur Brooks Baker mmSSA WN$
WARD M. BURGESS.
y Arthur Brooks Baker ;

He takes hand in every sort of enterprise
and trade which holds reasonable hope Of
profits to be made; for money is a medium he's
qualified to spend for any worthy personal or
other proper end; and ere man disseminates
the justly famous tin he must connect with
some device by which it's gathered in.
He's president of Omaha's refined electric
lights, the source of pep and glory for our long
and busy nights. He helps large and heavy
bank to wrestle with its aim, light and airy
detail of his complex business game. He's in
a wholesale dry goods house to get them at
the start and in retail one to finish up his
work of art.
The tall and stately revenue he daily gathers
thus he spends with some alacrity and frippery
and fuss. His nights are for society, the big
initial S, with quality and georgeousness and
emphasis and stress. He trips the latest meas
ures in his tightly fitting shoes and shares with
dame and debutante his deep and vital views.
When Vanderlip advised us all to skimp and
save our stuff by cutting out expenditures for
foderol and fluff, he nominated Burgess to
promote this trend and bent by showing us the
ways in which our coin should not Be spent;
and as model which the poor should never
initiate, he was an argument Of touching clar-
ity and weight.
Next Subject: John Lee Webster.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
MAKING THE ISSUE CLEAR.

The presidents thunderbolt has cleared the
political atmosphere amazingly, but It has moi
lessened the difficulty Of his party in the least
degree Democratic senators express the ut
most establishment that such . message as that
concerning the treaty should come from the
White House, and some even profess doubt ~
to ito having been made by the president
Republicans, while naturally regretting the i'm
passe. look ahead with confidence to the appeal
to the people proposed by Mr.. Wilson.
The New York State Chamber of Com
merce, At its regular monthly meeting held .
fortnight since, adopted this resolution:
Resolved. That some form of interna-
tional covenant which seeks to prevent war is
. moral necessity;
That the differences between the president
and the senate should be composed without
delay by such mutual concessions regarding
reservation as may be necessary in the
treaty to secure ratification.
Senator Walsh of Montana, who has been a
staunch supporter of the administration, gives it
as his opinion that it is possible for the sena-
tors, eighty of whom voted for ratification in
one or another form in which the question was
presented, to reach such an understanding as
will secure the two-thirds vote needed
The special representative of the French
government, just returned to Paris, reports
there that the opposition to the League of Ma
tons draft in the senate is not political but
fundamental growing out of the constitutional
limitations Me- Wilson has so cavalierly
ignored.
These are but indications of the feeling out
side the White House. The president says he
will not compromise, but insists that the senate
% cod oS
the republicans of being responsible for the
situation created. The issue could not be more
plainly stated Senator Borah sums up the
republican attitude on this in Willingness to
meet the president upon this ground, and that
in such contest before the people the president
will be decisively beaten"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
THE LURE OF PEACE.

1t was the lure Of Peace that led
Along the bloody way!
Our brothers lay there with the dead
What were their words the last they
said?
'Peace! 1t will come-some day"
1t was the lure Of Peace that held
Our numbers in stern line;
"A hundred guns their victims felled;
Down with all war; our cannons
kreled--
This is for Peace, divinei'
1t was the lure Of Peace that braved
A thousand tortures there.
Peace! Peace! Twas all our soldiers
craved
Who fought like Grant knights, and
A wide world from despair.
We who have put our griefs aside
We who so soon forget
The lure of Peace today deride-
Naught leads us on but Party pride
And warfare's future threat!
-Lurana Sheldon. in the New York Times
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
Home Building Campaign for Omaha.

The Chamber of Commerce is interesting
itself in home building campaign, with view
to reducing the shortage of housing facilities
for Omaha. So far it has only gone to the ex-
tent Of indicating how many dwellings should
be erected in order to meet the normal growth
of the city. The problem involves something
more than this. In no industry are conditions
so precarious as in the building. Anyone who
has tried within the last year to get bids on
construction knows how uncertain prices are.
Contractors are not to blame for this, because
everything that goes into a building has been
subject to extreme price fuctuation, the course
being almost universally upward, so that only
"cost-plus" offers are possible in lieu of bids.
This has discouraged BODYBUILDING, as most
prospective owners have hesitated because of
the cost If something happens to bring down
the price OF material and to stabilize the market
for labor, the campaign proposed may easily
be set into motion, for Omaha certainly needs
the new homes to accommodate its people.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
How Reservations Are
Retarded Abroad
From the Minneapolis Tribune.

The treaty isn't dead in Europe if it is dead
dead
Here is some of the evidence. Read the ar
ticle from the Manchester Guardian on this
page interpreting the situation at Washington
to the British public. Reservations are natural
and reasonable from the American standpoint,
according to this great journal, one OF the most
influential in England. and friendly to the pres
ident of the United States.
Then there IL the meeting of the premers
Of Britain, France and Italy now in London.
This meeting is supposed by the British press
and public to be primarily for the purpose Of
fixing up some kind of an agreement between
Great Britain. France and Italy, and probably in
GLIDING Belgium, to serve as substitute for
the council Of the proposed League of Nations.
Some such arrangement has seemed to be
necessary to deal with Germany's refusal to
sign the protocol and comply with the provi-
sions of the armistice What is expected to re-
suit is an alliance between these war allies
strong enough to make Germany toe the mark
and serve as a protection against Russian rad-
calism
But that it is not intended to be more than
temporary arrangement is indicated by press
dispatches from Paris and London to the effect
that both the French and British governments
have intimated that they will accept the senate
reservations to the treaty rather than have the
United States stay out of the League of Ma
tons.
While none OF these representations IS ON
cial taken in connection with the circumstances
of the meeting of the premiers, the whole sit
uation is consistent with the theory that the
senate reservations are not meeting with the
objections abroad that they have encountered
at home. Indeed it is Paris talk that Premier
Clemenceau is in London to confer with
Premier Lloyd George as to whether they shall
venture to let Washington know that the treaty
will be acceptable with reservations and to what
extent. In support of the contention that there
in Paris and London no serious objections
to reservations is the fact that there has been
no formal or official objection expressed.
Europe is anxious to have the United States
concession and cooperation could have as
much opportunity to guide things in Washing
ton as it seems to have in other interested cap
itals. there would be every reason to expect
ratification of the treaty without much further
delay.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
Treatment of Citizen Slacker..

In common with the press generally, the
New York Times inveighs against the tender
ness shown towards alien radicals, and indicts
the Department of Labor for its attitude of
leniency. This situation would call for severest
condemnation at any time but the course of the
Department of Labor is more than matched by
that Of the War department. Two wrongs
never made right and the only reason that
may be ascribed for the Times having censured
the one and not the other is that so many things
connected with the administration deserves
apprehension the editor had difficulty in making
a choice between them.
One of the most fragrant abuses of official
power, as we'll as show of favoritism towards
a dsloyal Stacker, is the case of Allen S. Broms
of Minnesota. Broms was tried by court-mar-
tial at Camp Dodge, convicted of treason and
sentenced to twenty years imprisonment at the
disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth. On
review his conviction was affirmed, but the SEN
tence was reduced to three years. When the
host Of convicted slackers were being dis
charged from prison at Leavenworth. under d.
rection of the secretary of war, Broms was in
cluded by mistake. As soon as the blunder was
discovered steps were taken to secure his re-
turn to prison, that he might serve out his SEN
tence. The order for his recommtment bears
the significant final endorsement:
By personal direction of the secretary of
war, disapproved in view of the fact that the
prisoner is in legal possession of discharge
certificate and has been released from con-
finement.
Mr.. Baker personally intervenes to secure
the liberty of this man who was condemned for
= he nd
who is now, according to the American Legion
of Minneapolis, secretary of the Communist So
ciety of Minnesota and engaged in propaganda
for the overthrow of the government.
All the tenderness and solictude for traitors
is not shown by the Department of Labor how
ever blamable it may be-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
Landlord and Tenant.

r. T.. S.-My mother Is an Old
lady and in feeble health. We have
been living in the apartment we
now occupy for several years. Dur
ing the recent coal shortage the jan
itor stated that he could not heat
the apartment SO that the average
temperature would be above 70. 1t
Is necessary for my mother to have
q temperature Of so or IS, owing to
her poor blood circulation. | told
this, not only to the janitor, but to
the owner, and he said that he could
not do anything about it. My mother
contracted a severe cold and has
been in bed ever since. Is the owner
Of the property liable?
AnaWer-He Is not.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
e. e -<2z1@ cTozks Corner 3
Young Citizens
~ ~
|kJ3 Adventures Ef
Hunting Eye Goes to School

Hunting Eye Goes to School
| BY r. q. Alexander.
The school bell was ringing IS
Hunting Eye came up. Several chill
dren were running into the school
house. Hunting Eye followed them
and sat down in the back of the
room. At first all the pupils and
the teacher looked at him curiously.
Soon, however, their strangeness
wore |off and presently one offered
him book and another a pencil and
before long they were quite friendly.
When recess came they all gath
cred around the boy from the North
Woods and asked him all manner of
questions. When their questioning
died down bit the Indian boy be-
gan to ask few himself
"What is this2" said he.
"A school,"
"A SCHOOL," .
eyes, school where you learn
reading and writing and geography
and such things"
"Who runs it?" asked Hunting
Eye.
"Here comes Teacher, ask her"
"The state government runs the
schools" said the teacher. Long
ago the government did not think the
schools important enough to take
up its time in running them. So they
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17

all the different parts of woodcraft
it is the most interesting.
In learning to read the strange
tales Alright, you really become a
detective of the wild, and the more
practice you have, the longer the
stories grow, because there are a
number of things about tracks that
you do not see in the beginning.
At first, you have to give your mind
to identifying and following the
footprints, but later you will notice
whether they are fresh or old,
whether the animal was running
fast or travelling at its usual gait.
If going at full speed, there will
probably be tracks of a pursuer
close behind. In that case, you will
generally find at the end signs of a
struggle which did not end happily
for the hunted animal.
1t is much easier to follow the
trail when the ground is covered
with snow soft enough to take foot
prints clearly, but mud will show
them and 50 will sand and dust.
You can sometimes find deer tracks
along a dusty road. Even near
big city, bits of country may be
reached in short time where you
can find tracks of some kind of wild
creatures. They may be rabbit tracks,
three toed and in close clusters
which show the deep impressions
of long jumps, or weaseps narrow
tracks, or the delicate footprints of
the meadow mouse and his relatives.
Remember that a deer track re-
sembles that of COW but is very
much smaller; fox track is like
dogs with often the imprint of hairs
between the toes. Mice and SPUR
rel tracks look much alike, only the
squirrels are a good deal larger.
(Next week: "Our Five Senses"
Boys and Girls Newspaper Service.
Copyright, 1919, by J. H. Millar.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
IN THE BEST OF HUMoR.

He-Thsre's something about you Ike.
She-I always thought you were the
most conceited Of men.-FloridA Times
Union.
do you think 1t 10 safe to trust money
to the mails?" asked Mrs Gabb.
"A blame sight safer than trusting II
to the females" growled Mr.. Gabb.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Mrs. Crabshaw-I often doubt II there
10 any such thing In this world a. poetic
Justice.
Crabshaw-If there were. my dear,
something would surely be done to some
Of those fellows who write free verse;
Life.
I've got to have hat ana pair of
shoes"
you change that old song for the sake
Of variety and say you've got to have q
shoe and pair of 7"-Florida
Times-Union.
"Oh, Mrs. Aristocking. come on. let's
go to the matinee this afternoon at the
Jewel"
But Mrs Parvenu, don't Ike to go
there; the acoustics are poor"
Maybe 80. but the singing 10 usually
good.-Florida Times-Union.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17

Senator Thomas thinks the statement of the
|president is very unfortunate" If he were not
n courtly gentleman, endowed with great
sense Of propriety, the senator from Colorado
might have expressed his views much more for
|cibiy. Those who know him understand what
The meant
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
Landlord and Tenant.

e. c. ks the fuel administra-
tor personally liable for exceeding
his authority in closing up places
of amusement where such place did
not use any coal or coke for heating
purposes?
Answer-He would not be liable
unless he acted in bad faith.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17

Germany promises to provide America with
Eample supplies of vat dyes, apparently unaware
that plans are being laid to make all needed
fright here at home, in spite of the democratic
proposal that we must trade with Germany in
|order to permit that country to pay its debts.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-17
Restraint in Use OF Language.

The old saying that the fools are
not all dead is a gross underesti-
mate. AS matter OF fact, the fools
are greatly in the majority. If they
voted together they would elect the
ent.-Philadelphia Ledger.