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Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
People and Epents

Class cleavage grows with the
! days in Washington, The eleares
| division lies between those who have
booze in their cellars and those who
have not,
New York state savings banks re-
port a phenomenal increase" Of de-
posits since Victory day. Ending the
scare eased the strain on thrifty
stockings.
A rowing evangelist OF the dry"
variety liked from Chicago to Au-
rora to obtain private treatment for
a pain in the stomach" The morn
ing after he fessed up to taking too
many doses and handed over the
price for lapsing from sobriety,
Keep your feet dry during In
clement spring weather and dodge
the fiu," warns the health commits
sioner of Chicago Good advice worth
needing everywhere, especially il
compounded with the old reliable
tonic, keep your head cool"
Evidence in abundance supports
New York's claim TO being the Babel
of the modern world. Few known
tongues are missing from the elatter
and the discord. In the years to
come perhaps some imaginative his
torian may point to a dismantled
skyscraper as a representation of the
Tower of Babel,
Fifty thousand dollars as a re-
ward for 20 years of faithful, loyal
service was the appreciation be-
slowed by the will of the late Mar
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
EDUCATION THAT Is WORTH WHILE.

A correspondent expostulates with The Bee
for what he conceives to be its lack Of apprecia-
ton Of the value OF scientific education Ac-
eephng his mildly administered reproof as being
kindly meant, we must rejoin that he did not
read the article he refers to closely enough to
catch its spirit, or that some awkward twist of
the wording thereof has conveyed to him a
meaning we did not intend. Nowhere is there
to be found a profounder regard for the
great men OF science than is held by The Bee
Andfhe list of scientific benefactors of man may
be extended much farther than the illustrious
examples cited by the professor in defense of
his thesis
This adds to rather than detracts from the
force OF what The Bee tried to say. We did
not and do not object TO the teaching of science
in the schools. working knowledge of the
physical laws Of the universe is essential to
proper understanding of life in its simplest
phases, nor can the classics be assessed in just
proportion without some understanding of the
profound truths science has so patiently discov-
cred and made available for mans uses The
proper combination of the twin streams OF
knowledge constitutes the true cultural educa-
ton.
What The Bee is inclined to question is the
sort of education, which, under guise of "voca-
tiona" or other practical" method takes up
each pupil as a laboratory experiment A sys-
tenn of sehol training based on dividers cal
lipers, try-squares and surface gauges, metcu-
lously fitting its victims into predetermined
holes, whether round, square, oral or triangular
holds little of promise for intellectual advance
however it NAV offer reward in a material sense
And it was this turn of the German system that
brought ruin in its train.
Our schools should furnish the boys and
girls such grounding in the elements of educa-
ton as will at least give them definitely an idea
of fundamentals. If vocational training then fol-
low, we'll and good, but the end of school work
should be to produce citizens rather than ar
tisans or accountants.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Gingering the Drg LUs0

Great fluctuations in Nebraska. Some foe
OF the human race, in fact, several foes of the
human race. have been emitting, utterng and
vending Jamaica ginger to dissolute populace.
According to the Nebraska calculations,
Jamaica ginger contains 90 per cent Of alcohol.
Naturally there is trouble In MI Bryan's
state ]. G. is Jack" The druggists say that,
in giving an opportunity to their customers, to
make use of 2 or 8 per cent Of alcohol in their
prescriptions they are not violating the actual
law or the great moral law of the middle west.
The district attorneys don't Know what to say.
Their dubiety is essentially the same as that of
ordinary men, wet or dry, in these United
States Somewhere, in the dark backward and
abysm of time. old settlers may imagine that
there was a certain cataclysm in the good old
Yankee state of New Hampshire. Some unfor-
tunate or designed confusion Of signals wrecked
a train loaded with Jamaica ginger somewhere in
the Granite state. Its people, "of the purest
New England stock rushed madly to the res
cue. They "swiped" the dangerous contents OF
the train. .a
This little anecdote may or may not teach us
that most people are substantially the same
New York Times
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
"politics is Adiourned'' AGAIN.

Homer Cummings, brand-new and energetic
chairman of the democratic national committee,
lays down a smoke barrage behind which he
hopes to maneuver his cohorts into position
for 1920. He has challenged the republican
party to assume position on the League of
Nations. OF course, Mr.. Cummings realizes
that this is not partisan question, any more
than was the war one of party. He knows as
we'll as anybody that only in the minds of des-
perate democratic leaders has the criticism of
the plan assumed tinge of partisanship. How
ever, just as his predecessor set up false cry
in 1916, and every agent of the party rung the
changes on 'He kept US out of war;" so do the
sachems of democracy now propose to draw at
tention from the party's record of failure in
the war by vociferously shouting that the re-
publicans are opposed to peace Such nonsense
may mislead few, but the great masses Of the
Americans will be we'll advised as to the hollow
ness Of the democratic pretensions. 1t is not
likely that the voters will be buncoed again as
easily as they were in 1916.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
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PASSING the Buck

A very noted cartoon of Thomas Mast con-
corning the old Tweed ring in this city, which
has been often reproduced, showed a circle OF
the members of the gang, each man pointing to
the other as the one responsible for the frauds
1t represented what is in poker vernacular
called passing the buck" There are those
who believe it might be invoked to indicate the
attitude at the present time of different factors
in business. Everyone comedies that, in the
process of readjustment from inflated values to
what may be considered normal, there must be
a loss. When it comes, however, to settling
the matter of who shall bear this loss, agree
ment stops Each one along the line, from pro-
Queer to consumer, seems anxious to place the
burden on the other. All the others would
cheerfully permit the consumer to foot the loss
but they are becoming convinced of his unwill-
ingness. to bear the burden, and without his con-
sent the plan cannot be carried out. The con-
sumer's attitude is that what loss must be in
Cured should be assumed by the others, begin
ming at the producer and ending with there
taller, some or all of whom made larger than
ordinary profits while the boom was on As the
whole business structure depends on the con-
sumer it is likely that in the main his views
will prevail, and that the losses of readjustment
will be apportioned between the. producer,
wholesaler, or jobber, and the retailer. A re-
duction in prices seems essential to insure a
continuance of buying on satisfactory scale
by the general public-New York Times
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Sunnressinr NIGHT Noises.

otis sweet to hear the honest watch dogs
bark bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw
near home" unused Childe Harold. But the
Omaha city commissioners say nay; no well
coming bark or baying at the moon will be toler-
ated hereafter in our town. Towser and Tige,
Prince and Spot, and all the others of the four
legged chorus are served with notice that they
will vocaze in concert, in solo or duo, at the
extreme peril of their canine lives.
This action by the eminently wise city
fathers may be accepted at its face value, and
undoubtedly would be, were it not accompanied
by evidence of discrimination. While Towser
is required to maintain silence even when the
full moon floats in majesty athwart the skies of
night, Tabitha or Thomas, or both, may lift
their voices in such tuneful caterwaulings as
best express their mood, amatory or otherwise.
Why the distinction does not appear. When
it comes to a choice between the two, most of
US will take the lusty, full-throated yelp or the
hoarse, meaningful "woof" Of the sturdy dog
in preference to the whining new or ear-tor-
turing wall of the nocturnal wandering feline.
However the die is cast, the edict has gone
forth, and the dog is doomed to silence or to
DEATH
A lot of folks will wonder why, if silence as
even falls is sought, the commissioners do not
go after those thoughtless motorists, who crack
the solemnty OF midnight or "the wee. sma'
hours ayont the twal" by driving with the
muller cut out. The barking dog is not the
only offender against the bucolc simplicity of
our bone-dry nights
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
SIMPLE MANS SIMPLE CREED

Elisher-he's our hired man
Allows there amt no better plan
OF circumventn' woes an cares,
Than smllin' when y come down stairs
An lives up to It, square an blunt.
Like general run Of preachers won'ti
EIisher smiles an fore you know
The rest of US is smiin' 81
Ketchin' like 1t isl My law.
It fits from him to me an nav.
An then across TO Uncle Dri
Or Marry Ellen mebbel why.
I've seen It set the pup
A'waggin' fore the sun was upl
Then bimeby, as like as not,
Some man will pass that's mehbe got
A mortgage that his crop can't, fetch,
But like enough the man will ketch
Elisher's smile an drop his frown
An tote the smile away to town.
An peddle 1t where. bein' wuss,
The people need II more than usi
The Teller at the griss mill gltO
the spirit Of the smile-it fits
Across an through the blacksmith's door
An breezes through the general store
Then out again, an wreaths. doggone,
Whatever face 1t fasten on
Because Fishers smile is jls
As ketehln' as the pink eye isl
An then the Teller brings it back
At night along the back urds track,
An scatters 1t on either side
The county road, both far an wide,
Until, by time when we get in
From work the smile is back again
Sack home agin! an seems t. bless
Elisher for his cheerfulness.
because you smiled" it seems to say:
1.-THE world has had a holiday"
John d. Wells in Buffalo News.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
World Observance of Epidemics.


From Capetown comes suggestion worthy
Of careful consideration. 1t is offered modestly
enough, but accompanied with the reflection
that the great nations have overlooked some
thing in the way of safety in not making work
able provisions at least for the report and OBJ
servance of epidemics such as that of the "hu."
The correspondent of the London Times calls
to notice that neither the British nor the
American men of medicine seemed to realize
the gravity of the situation that faced them,
nor does he find in the record any evidence that
cooperation was consequence of the discovery
of the serious nature of the plague. 1t is pro-
posed that an International agency of some sort
be established, which will be capable of dealing
with such visitations Detection of epidemic
disease in a remote quarter of the globe may
thus be brought to result in its isolation, or to
give threatened countries an opportunity to
guard against its spread. The Medical Core
spondent" of the Times is apprehensive of re-
currence Of the "au" scourge, and the fact that
the exact causative agent Of the disease has not
as yet been located justifes the suggestion that
the scientific men Of medicine come into closer
union for observance and report not only of
this but of any malady that may threaten man
kind with affection such as that endured last
fall and winter, and which has not been wholly
allayed.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
The PoiLN's TkouQkts

What does the poilu think as he sits back
in the corner of his little old smelly cafe listen
ing to the occasional shouts of laughter from
the uproarious group of Yanks dining at the
center table and keeping silent when the speaker
~ the moment proclaims to all within a kilo-
meters range that America saved the world
and Americans won the, war? The poilu smiles
and borrows light and, saluting in his friendly
fashion, goes his way. But what does he think?
Perhaps, as he joys along to his barracks,
his thoughts run something like this:
They tell US we are all one great army
under a supreme communicate soldiers to-
gether in the army of democratic civilization.
Then why do We not share and share alike :
Why are we paid but few sous, while these
Americans throw francs around as though they
were confines! And the cigaretsl Zutl Who
ever saw so many cigarets2 noticed that that
great slabs of butter brought from their own
stores. We have none. Why?
God knows it is not because we have not
done our part. Time has shown that America
was as vitality concerned in this war as France,
and vet, for three most terrible years, we had
to hold the bridge while the Americans slow to
move and all unprepared, came to our assistance.
They were wonderful when they did come.
Never did troops throw themselves more gall
anty into fight How freely they spent their
young blood in the Argonne, and yet--what
were their losses there compared to ours on the
acres before Verdun? Count their dead and then
count ours. There are more than a million
French graves to tell who saved the world"
We wonder, ometimes, if his thoughts ever
run like that But none of us knows for sure
what the poilu thinks. He never tells.-Stars
and Stripes France
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

riett G. Smyth Of Philadelphia on
his stenographer, Mrs. Daniel r.,
Coogan. The lucky steno gets S20,-
600 outright In cash and the income
Of a trust fund OF $4,000 for life
Talk about finding money! In
curry into some of the easy ways of
getting the coin disclosed a village
station agent at Solvay. near syria
cuse, N, Y, who pulls down a sal
airy Of $3.50 a year. Besides sell
Ing 500 tickets a month the agent
looks after express packages and
things and takes a turn at the tele-
graph key, occasionally hiring some
help, The railroad administration
insisted on paying him the salaries
OF three jobs Being a patriotic
American he could not refuse.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
AROUND THE CITIES.

Savannah, Ca, plans to celebrate
the centennial Of steam navigation
on May %. Wonder IL 2019 will
mark the centennial Of ocean cross
ing airships?
In three months past Richmond
Va, absorbed or otherwise disposed
of $4,000 quarts of liquor obtained
on physicians prescriptions The
name Of the prevailing epidemic may
be guessed.
New York reports an embarrassing
scarcity of school teachers. From
10000 to $4,000 children registered
in the schools "are daily receiving no
instruction at ALL" according to an
official statement.
Philadelphia points with pride to
local justice speeding up in one in
stance. A highway robber. caught
in the act, was indicted, convicted
and sentenced to 10 years in the
penitentiary within four hours after
committing the crime.
The second million-dollar hotel
project is under way in Sioux City,
a company having been organized to
see it through. 1t will be known as
the war Eagle" corporation, so
AttAl4lEh III it64llpIy VI LilG lAulhH WAL
chief whose remains are buried on
the crest of a city bluff.
Chicago talks and talks about big
public improvements, but isn't NOV
ing to make good. The city has
S14.000,000 in authorized bond is
sues available for specific public
works. At present the main job is
politics. Little else will be doing az
the city hall until the April election
is over.
Public ownership of street car
lines continues a live issue at Cleve-
land. The existing control expires
May /. 1884, renewable is years be-
fore 1t ends This brings the 15-
year limit into effect in May Of this
year. City authorities propose putt
ting up to the voters the question OF
municipal ownership at the Novem-
Der election, and renew the contract
for a year pending the result Of the
trnf aFat raUiatarad mill
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Some Responsibility.

According to the regulations Of the
Ontario (Canada) License Board, a
duly qualified medical practitioner is
legally entitled to carry in his
house or in his office 10 gallons of
liquor. He can procure 1 quart for
medical practice from any qualified
druggist, or he can purchase from a
vendor or distiller any quantity up
to 10 gallons. When the physician
in his judgment considers a larger
quantity of liquor necessary for his
patient than the prescribed six
ounces, he can issue a prescription
for / dozen bottles of ale, beer or
porter containing not more than
three half pints each, or / quart of
wine or distilled liquor, which can
only be procured from one Of the
seven vendors of Ontario. None of
the foregoing liquor mentioned can
be legally used for beverage purposes.
AL 1.-The provisions mentioned for pro-
curing liquor are absolutely for med
ical use only.-From the Canadian
Practitioner and Review.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Uneasiness is expressed in Paris that the
United States may be at war after the others on
our side are at peace with, Germany, owing to
the delay of calling the senate together to Sc
cure ratification Of the peace treaty. This con-
tingency did not much worry the president when
he refused TO cali an extra session. -#
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

The last day but one of the session of con-
gress disclosed deserving democrat who ought
to be enshrined forever in the hearts of the
faithful Iii the minister TO Costa RIGA, who
halls from North Carolina. He came home in
April 1917, and has not since revisited his post
Of duty, but has drawn his $4,000 year and
perquisites with faithful regularity all the time
Why should a democrat york;
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Another draft evader has been sentenced to
ten years in prison by California court-mar-
Aai He should worry though. Others have
gone through a similar experience and have re-
ceived honorable discharge from the army, full
pay and new suit of clothes
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
In Omaha so Years Ago.

A big crowd at the Coliseum wit
messed a 10-mile wheel race be-
tween Senator" Morgan and Law
lor's Unknown" who turned out
to be a man named Harrison and
was left far in the rear.
At the odd Number Pleasure club
ball at the South Side, A, o. II,
hail. Daniel p. Donovan and Miss
Mary Hickey led the grand
march.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Easson cele-
brated their 18th wedding anniver-
sary with an entertainment for their
friends
Mr.. F. f. McMullen, secretary to
General Manager Burt of the Elk
horn, was married to Miss Bertha
Paul at her home in Onslow, Ia.
Charles III. Dewey Is on the Pa
cific ocean bound for Asia,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
IdlosYncracY Of Kansas.

Kansas has an illiteracy rate of 81
per cent, and yet there are people
not in this class, wearing asafetida
bags around their necks, or carry
ing lump of camphor in their pock-
cts, or communicating the atmos-
phere with garlic or onion breaths as
preventive against influenza;
VIII the janitor please open the win
dow wider Bulletin, Kansas State
Board of Health.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
TODAY
The nay We Celebrate.

Willis j. Abbot. noted editor and
author born az New Haven, Conn.
Sc years ago. .....
John M. Parker Of Louisiana, vice
presidential candidate OF the pro-
gressive party in 1916, born al
Bethel Church, Miss, SO years ago.
Elsie Janis, a popular star in mu'
steal comedy, born at Columbus, o..
20 YEARS ago.
HaRry b. Walthall, who enjoys q
wide following among photoplaS
patrons, born in Shelby county, Ala
bama, Al years ago.
Percy AIackaye. celebrated poet
and dramatist, born in New York
City "a years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Returned Nebraska soldiers are said to be
broke and out of work in New York. This is
one of the beauties of demobilizing troops so
far from home when ample facilities for the
work were available closer to the point of en-
listment or draft.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

The police have several local problems to
solve interest in which far exceeds the tracking
Of pint of illicit "hootch" to its lair. Among
these burning questions are those of the mid
night marauders who are terrifying women in
homes
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Wen get no tomatoes from Dade county,
Florida, but the Texas kind is nearer and many
folks like them better So the deluge on the
peninsula does not worry us as much as it might.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Greet boasts that the much derided Official
Bulletin" took in $4,000 for subscriptions,
which means that the government got some
thing for nothing.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Whether or not ireland be free, there is
nothing to prevent anyone from wearing the
green on Monday.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

When the lumber dealers and the realtors
go to war, the home owner present or pros
pective, can cry, go it, husbandl Go it, BARR
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Who said Americans are not thrifty lot?
War savings stamp sales for January reached
the enormous total of As cents per cap.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

The anarchist who shot Clemenceau will not
do it again. He has been sentenced to death
by court-martal, and the French have habit
Of carrying out such sentences. 81
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

March is taking on the aspect of May in
several respects, but we will willingly foregc
the tornado part of the program.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Uncle Sam thinks he extracted more than
billion dollars from his nephews and nieces
yesterday, but the process was neither noseless
nor painless
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Auto dealers will devote the next few days
to listing orders booked last week.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

The Council of National Dafense is going
to try its hand at saving the federal free en-
poyment agencies This is more than the
democratic congress would do.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Ordering a sitting committee in the house
suggests that the end of the legislative session
is nigh at hand Planting season is not far off
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

"Prinee Arthur" has had another reminde
that the private line from his Omaha head
quarters to Lincoln has been cut
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

The rule that drafted men who were dis
missed from service because of physical dis
qualifications are entitled to the $50 bonus is
good
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Herr General Hoffman, wants an army of
Allies marching side by side with Germans to
fight the bolshevilsi. And Ludendorf to lead
Them we infer.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIEs

$50 the doctor told you to so to q
warmer climate. What was the nature
Of the trouble you consulted him about
II went there to collect a bill"-Boston
Transcript.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Pershing has reviewed an American army on
German soil, which just about establishes rec
ord for us.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

This is not the first time trouble has come
up over coal bills at Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Bank Teller-Tm sorry, but cannot
cash this check until you are identified.
Is there anyone nearby you know?
The Lady-Certainly. I've got the BABY
out in front in the go-cart Ill bring him
right in.--Judge.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

"Aiy doctor warns me not to overeat."
"Any objection to that?"
mo. Only could have got the same
advice from the food controller for moth
ing."-Passing Show.