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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
CONGRESS TALKS OVER RECONSTRUCTION PLANS

lar east trade has been< handled
through New York.
Mr. Boardman will petition con
gress for the return OF the many
Pacific coast steamers, which were
chartered by the government for the
transport OF troops These steamers
in the future will be employed foI
the TTanSpaeific trade
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
| to the Transmissippi Readjustment

to the Transmissippi ReadjustmeHt
congress.
Especially the middle west
should become awakened to the
prospects of the oriental trade as
well as the manufacturers OF the
Pacific coast. With the declara-
ton of peace comes an unlimited
demand Tor a wide trade with the
peoples of China and Japan. The
farmers and businessmen of the
greater west ought to cooperate
with the Pacific coast shipping cen
tiers in this trade"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
Table Rock Couples Marry.

Table Rock, Neb., Feb. 18.-(Spe-
cial. )-Francis S. Babcock and Miss
Rose Kolacny, both of Table Rock,
and Stanley H. Vosika and Miss
Ona Stastny of Dubois, Neb., were
married at the court hous Wednes-
day, County Judge D. w. NELL Off
eating.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
PACIFIC TRADE
PROBLEMSL Laid
BEFORE MEET
Commissioner Of San Fran
cisco C. of C. Discusses Re-
adjustment Of Trans
Pacific Trade.

THE readjustment of the Trans
pacific trade is one of the great
est problems confronting the coun-
try at the present time, " said G. c.
Roardman. San Francisco delegate
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
"Cure Your
Rupture Like
ICured Mine"
Old Sea Captain Cured His Owr
Rupture After Doctors Said
Operate Or Death"
Rla Remedg and Book seat REse.

Captain Ceilings sailed the seas fol
many years; then he sustained BAG
double rupture that soon forced him &c
bedridden for years. He tried doctor
after doctor and truss after truss. Nc
results! Finally, he was assured that
lie must either submit to a dangerous
and abhorrent operation or die. He die
oeitherl He cured himself instead.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
Giant Battle Plane is to
Fly During the Auto Show

A giant battle plane, another fea-
ture of Omaha's 18th annual auto
pobile. show, will fly to Omaha
March 9 or 10 from Scott field,
Belleville. Ill.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
Government Loan Taxation.

Finally, it would be AN excellent
thing if this congress before it adj
journs should express its opinion to
the secretary of the treasury with
respect to the matter Of further
government loans against taxation.
Taxes that retard and discourage in
dustrial development constitute a
very serious matter. Loans in post
war period offered upon an interest
basis that requires tn exercise of
large patriotism to float becomes a
matter that deserves, at this time
especially. serious attention" N -
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
Mormon Church Represented
at Reimbursement Congress

David A. Smith, one Of she elders
and leaders Of the Mormon church
is attending the congress as the
special representative Of his church.
He arrived from Salt Lake City
Tuesday afternoon Other clergy
men attending the congress are
Charles r. Bair and w. 4, Mann OF
Council Bluffs. They both represent
the Episcopalian church.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19

tions..~and agricultural productions
through their respective chambers
to work together, whereas now we
often find these interests antagonis-
tic because of the absence of means
through which to cooperate.
mo single factor in our readJust-
ment period will exercise more inn
Gortant influence than the decision
upon the question of government
against private ownership of all OF
our instrumentalities of transporta-
ton. In the field of railroad opera
ton
THE advantages are:
Qualifications of operation.
ability to absorb losses rand
spread them in general taxation:-
ability to authorize outstanding
securities by taxation, or to arbi-
trarilv fix a rate high enough to
provide operating expenses and
amortization, thus avoiding pyra-
, miding of securities against the same
mileage and taxing the development
upon the present rather than upon
the future generations.
Disadvantages of Ownership.
THE disadvantages are:
Less satisfactory service through
eliminating competition.
Rates to be fixed by the govern
ment as owner without any higher
power to which to appeal if the
rate is unjust or exhoribant.
Increasing the debt Of the nation
from $15,000,000000 to S20,000,00O,-
900 on top of an already large debt,
and with the possibility of serious
effect upon the rate which the gov
eminent would have to pay through
the volume of its securities out
standing.
Loss of initiative that arises
| from individual management, or
from the hope of gaining reward for
courage and ingenuity in the deve!-
opment and conduct of enterprises.
SERIOUS effect upon the states
through the fact that the property
of the federal government would
not be taxable and the revenues OF
many states would have to be en-
tirely readjusted owing to the fail
ure to retain revenue now derived
| from railroad taxation.
The danger of log rolling and
political influence with respect 10
extension of roads and improve
ments thereon, leading to develop
ments where not necessary and 70
failure to develop at points where
the greatest needs exist,
"The advantage must be weighed
against the disadvantages and it
must be deliberately determined
whether we desire in this country TO
enter upon an era of government
ownership and operation of the
greatest of instrumentalities of
commerce, or whether we desire, as
in the past, to develop and operate
kthese instrumentalities through
private initiative, giving the govern
ment such supervision as will check
abuses and by encouraging compe-
tition in service at least make for
higher degree of efficiency at a
lower cost than would be possible
under government ownership.
Telephone and Telegraph.
what is true Of the railroads is
equally true of the telegraph and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
Photographs

With one of the most
90 m pie tie commercial
photograph studios in
the city, we are able to
photograph your goods
in such a manner that
engraved plates of quail
ity can be made from
them. We can handle
your sample or copy
work very successfully.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19

the overhead resulting from the
large cost of original production
would make it extremely difficult
for the government to successfully
compete. with other .aritime coun-
tries. Government operation is al
ways more expensive tl,an private,
and this would add to the differen-
tials already involved.
The Merchant Fleet.
"The sale of the fleet owned by
the United States government to
private corporations and individuals
would give a certain assurance of
better service, but these ships can
not be sold unless the government
is willing to write off the difference
between the cost of a similar ship
abroad and the cost of the ship in
American shipyards.
Permanently to develop the
American merchant mdri.R, how
ever, demands private initiative.
1T is we'll that we 'shonld come
to view government activity in
building roads and waterways as
different from the building of rail
roads and ships. These ale highways
over which traffic may be carried
by the public without cost, and
these services, which supplement
rail transportation and ship opera
ton, should be provided by the gov
eminent only and as completely as
possible.
unlike railroad transportation
and ship operation, which have to
do with a rate structure that is an
extremely complicated piece of ma
chinery, the government control of
roads and waterways is simple and
feasible and would exercise potent
influence upon the rate for trans
porting commodities by rail and
water, since in a measure both
waterway and road become compel
itors of railroad and ship.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
Telephone and Telegraph.

What is true Of the railroads is
equally true of the telegraph and
telephone companies. There seems
TO be a more general impression
that these services might properly
belong under the Postofice' depart
ment, but efficiency of operation is
necessary and the efficiency of gov
ernment operation is By no means
assured. Neither cost nor service
can be guaranteed under govern
ment control, much less develop
ment that will anticipate the needs
of a growing country.
"Only slightly different is the sit
uation with respect to our shipping.
By the close of 1919 the United
States government will be in control
of far more shipping III der the
American flag than private interests
control. These ships have cost the
United States government from $500
to $500 ton as against a little over
500 a ton representing the cost of
ships recently built in tie British
Yards.
II operating costs ware the samcs
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
Art Work

AN expert force of
artists is always ready
to serve you with first
class, up-to-the-minute
drawings, or retouch
your copies in such a
manner to assure per-
feet illustrating in your
advertising campaign.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19

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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19

To Be Tortured By TruSsss."
Captain Ceilings made study Of
himself, Of his condition-and at last he
was rewarded by the finding OF the
method that so quickly made him a we'll,
strong, vigorous and happy man.
Anyone can use the same methods
its simple, easy safe and inexpensive.
Every raptured person in the world
should have the Captain Ceilings book,
telling all about how he cured himself,
and how anyone may follow the same
treatment in their own home without
any trouble. The book and medicine are
FREE They will be sent prepaid to
any rupture sufferer who will MI out
the below coupon. But send 10 right
away now - before you put down this
paper
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-19
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Smyrna times., 1919-10-29

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being gd1nT true the h kidneys. . and 11o6a,. asr
4 organs CiS Glsa.sS age can be deferred
II order olaa ola Ss ser beyond that en-
sEe plOav he average person
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~ on mas s,,ssbility due to ad-
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Smyrna times., 1919-10-29
AUTO THIEVES MUST FACE
STRICT FEDERAL LAW
UNDER BAN OF FEDERAL AS
WELL AS OF STATE AUTHORITY
Drastic Fines are Now in Sight for
Amy One Found Guilty of Such
Observation-Disclosures.

MASuOlucdHOTs-Wd drnlnR.
Charles C. Guyer, secretary of the
Wilmington Automobile Association.
is in receipt of a copy of the national
auto theft act recently passed by Con-
gress, and which makes the "auto
thieves" liable to drastic penalties by
Federal as well as by State laws.
Section 2 of the act reads:
That when used in this act, (a) the
term motor Vehicle" shall include an
automobile, automobile truck, auto
mobile wagon, motorcycle, or any
other self-propelled vehicle not de-
signed for running on rails; (b) the
term Interstate or foreign COM
merce" as used in this act shall in
clude transportation from one State
Territory or the District of Columbia
to another State, Territory OF the Dis
trict of Columbia, or to foreign
country, or from foreign country to
any State, territory, or the District of
OOAuAlD1oAs
Penalties are provided in the other
sections as follows:
Sec. 8. That whoever shall trans
port or cause to be transported in in
terstate or foreign commerce a motor
vehicle, knowing the same to have
been stolen, shall be punished by a
fine of not more than $4,000, or by
Imprisonment of not more than five
years, or both.
Sec. 4. That whoever shall receive
conceal, store, barter, sell or dispose
of any motor vehicle, moving as, or
which is a part of, or which consti-
tutes interstate or foreign commerce,
knowing the same to have been stolen,
shall be punished by a fine of not mole
than $4,000, or by Imprisonment OF
not more Jnan five years, or both.
Sec. 5. That any person violating
this act may be punished in any lis
trict in or through which such motor
vehicle has been transferred or re-
moved by such offender.
Smyrna times., 1919-10-29
WITH YOUR KIDNEYS

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The sun., 1919-02-16
By BENJAMIN DE cAsSERES.

THERE used to be Nine Muses., but
l. Irwin S. Cobb has given us the
tenth. 1t is Eats, goddess of jam and
Holsters, caviare and corn pork. In his
new book, Eating an TUo or Three Ian
gudges, be has put the stomach on olym-
pus, where it belongs
And, come to think of it, why is Eats
not the first Muse? Is she Tor he or it,
not The mother of the other NineF Look
at it from any standpoint at all, it must
be confessed that without food there would
be no thought, without a stomach there
would be no brain, without digestive ap-
paratus no genius.
Cinderella Stomach. That's the trou-
bic. The highbrows have always been
ashamed of the ugly little sister, and she
has been showed into a corner with her
porridge bowl and spoon. But you cant
keep Miss Eats down. Even genluses
eat, although none ever pays his rent, for
a genius is known by the landlords he
doesn't keep.
We 90 so far as to proclaim stomachlc
theory of genius. 1t is highly probable
that if the great Beethoven had not eaten
a certain amount of sauerkraut and pork
at a fateful hour on marked day he
would never have been inspired to com
pose the Ninth Symphony. King Lear
first resided in a huge piece of roast beef
which William ordered with a scuttle OF
ale. Emerson's great apothegms pre-
existed whole and undivided in the Boston
baked bean before it became vascular
thunder, then printers ink Edgar Al
Ian Poe confcsses somewhere, rather
ashamedIy, that Ulalune, that sublime
monument of words, flashed on him after
dining on a bagful of peanuts. Balzac
could not work on his COmed'e Humane
without crowding every room in his neither
caravanserai with hot Murphys and black
coffee. Be it ever so humble, the stomach
is father to the man.
Sir Toby Beleh is the end OF every
mans desire if he have NAV and money
The sun., 1919-02-16
"Who Cares?"

THE blurb on tire jacket of Cosmo
l. Hamilton's Who Cdres' announces
that the writer has handled difficult and
hitherto uninterrupted theme in an accom-
pished manner" That statement is in
teresting as illustrative of the fact that
there are more ingenious writers of fc-
ton than the novelists, for a microscopic
examination of the book reveals neither
originality of theme nor skill of style.
Who will find pleasure in this bookf
Now that factory girls are attending night
schools and studying economics and So
ciology, and department store sales girls
are going in for cultural ttudies, they can
no longer be expected to spsnd their time
on such reading as this.
The book starts out rather promisingly,
for the young girl immured in the lonely
country house, watched over by two ex-
acting grandparents, is real. The pathetic
fight of the old man against encroaching
sehiity is genuine and story worth while
might have been made of the situation .
But no, Mr.. Hamilton must jerk the girl
from reality TO absurdity, marry her in
moment and whr her through series OF
senseless adventures. Who will prefer the
risque fimfammery he gives here TO the
sincerity Of the story he might have toldf
WHO CARES' BY CosMo HAMILTON. Lii
tie Brown Co. $3.50.
The sun., 1919-02-16
"The Eagles Eye"

I I is not necessary and hardly desirable
L for Americans to be prouder than they
are Of the course of recent events. Mod
esty will be as far from those of us who
read The Eagles Eye as our men are In
the Army Of Occupation. "The story of
The Eagles Eye has been produced in
motion pictures by the Wharton Releas-
ing Corporation. See the finn" This bit
of advice is moi. original with us but Will
be found in neat insertion directly under
"The End" of the story.
The next best thing to seeing it in NOV
les is to read it. The true story of the
Imperial German Governments spies and
intrigues in America, from facts furnished
by William J. Flynn, recently retired
chief Of the United States secret service,
novolized by Courtney Ryley Cooper to
read like any ordinary detective story,
should not lack readers 1t is astonishing
how like fiction fact appears when dressed
up BY an author with due regard for the
dramatic and sentimental.
Small space has been gwen in the news
papers to the revelation of German IN
trigue in this country for number OF
reasons. Had it been understood at the
time the reign Of terror which existed only
in German Imagination might have be-
come a fact So quietly was the colossal
task Of combating the systemized plots
carried on that we all, or most of US,
wondered that the German activities were
so negligible.
We knew about the intended invasion
of Canada by the reservist army, and it
was more or less clearly understood that
the fires and explosions In our munltion
plants were the work of spies, but sur
prisingly few have heard of the plan to
cripple the entire American. fleet by blow
ing ND the Hotel Ansonia while ME naval
ball was in progress. Nor have we heard
of the later attempt TO blow up the fleet
while it was passing in review before the
President.
The crimes of Won Bernstorff, Albert,
Won Papen, Boyd and Wolf Won lgel
are paraded before our startled eyes, re-
vealing more horror than most men dream
of in lifetime. Against them were
plotted the secret service and the Grim
inology Club, Harrison Grant and Dixie
Mason Of their members the lovers of our
novelzed edition. Mr.. Cooper's style is
of no literary importance, being of a
rather commonplace Victorian flavor.
His task has not been an easy one, and if
at times he inadvertently makes tragedy
appear comic We must not be Too hard on
him.
THE EAGLES EYE. BY WILLIAM J.
FLYNN and COURTNEY RILEY COOPER.
New York: Prospect Press. $50.
The sun., 1919-02-16

Vachcl Lindsay is contemplating com
posing all future poems on the phono-
graph. Perhaps he will do an epic on
some ancient Babylonian subject which,
hike ancient Babylonian verse, will be
complete in twelve cylinders and twenty
four ehantos-
The sun., 1919-02-16

The Dutch and the Ftlmands made of the
stomach the bourne from which no biped-
ded traveller returns. And the French.
artists ever, are the Renoirs of food. In
France the Chefis always the Prime Min
lister, no matter what Poincare rules.
But to return to our Irwin Cobbchops.
Eating in TUo or Three Languages is the
story Of perpetual battle for a meal on
the Foodcard Front.t 1t is the smiling
lamentation of hurjEry war correspon-
dent who had to face conservation por-
tons in England and France, and of his
threat to annex slaughterhouse and
twelve grills de luxe on his return 10 Amer
lea. He had dream, did Irwin, that Miss
Liberty had thrown way her torch and
raised in her left hanE huge platter full
of goodies.
While in Europe, where he spent nights
and days hunting for zeal food, Irv threat
ened Herb Hoover ini This wise:
came and knew the secret of what the
provincials in that isection of Europe
[Francel do with water. They loan it to
magicians to keep goldfish in. But | pre-
fer TO drink little of it while I am eat
ing and to eat good deal while l am
drinking it; both of which, l may state. |
am now doing to thu best of my ability,
and without let or hndrance, Herb"
In England Irv was reduced to three or
four dishes.
Il partook of t,4st at what was sup
posed to be a luncheon, which the Lord
Mayor of London attended, in company
with sundry other nqtables. Earlier read
ings had led me TO expect an endless ar
ray of spicy and succulent viands at any
table a Lord Mayotmight grace with his
presence. Such, though, was not the case
here. We had eggs for an entree; and
after that we had, plain boiled turbot,
which to my mind i no great shakes of a
fish, even when tuckered up with sauccs;
and after that we lad coffee and cigars;
and finally we had Feveral cracking good
speeches by memLtrs Of a race whose
men are enormously believed by some
Americans TO be practically inarticulate
when they get up on their feet and try TO
talk"
In France also he had a narrow escape
from starvation. There is a tale of a
lobster named jess Willard, which chef
handled under his nose for days; then
split it up into about seven thousand por-
tons The torture must have been ex-
quisite Yprcs was being shelIed, Amiens
was a ruin, RheimA was being battered to
a mud pie; but day and night Irwin
plotted the fall Of porterhouses, things en-
casserole and nessflrode pudding. Every
where he got the "a! ha!-and frightened
his belt. The best eating, he tells us, was
to be had with the American Army. "'rhe
food was of the belt quality and there was
plenty of it for all, and some to spare
And he ascribes the good fighting of the
Yankees to the fact that they were well
fed between fights.
This is n book for all healthy gluttons
1t is beyond the reach of the Eighteenth
Amendment; although the Twenty-fifth or
so may put it in the verboten class. We
hope by this timd Mr.. Cobb has iammcd
himself full. The moral of this little book
is, Eat, drink and be merry. for to-mor-
row is payday.
EATING IN Tfo OR THREE Ian
GUAGES. BY AvIN s. CoBB. George H.
Doran Company. 60 cents.
The sun., 1919-02-16

William Heinemann has published
move, called Mockeyy, by "a raw youth"
named Alexander MacFarlan. If you can
believe some book reporters on the other
side, MaeFarlan is a find. Dodd, Mead
& Company will bring out the book here
this spring.
The sun., 1919-02-16

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The sun., 1919-02-16

Edgar Lee Masters has been in town
getting material for n Harlem Rirer In
thology.
The sun., 1919-02-16

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THE EAGLES EYE. BY WILLIAM J.
FLYNN and COURTNEY RILEY COOPER.
New York: Prospect Press. $50.