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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
ThlnQs Worth While

Subjects of increasing interest are telephon-
ing without wires and flight by airship across
the ocean. Both ideas are in such hopeful
way that they may be said to be practically as
sured and likely to be soon put in operation.
These matters are better worth thinking about
and spending money on than is poison gas or
cannon with range of 80 miles, though guns of
that caliber promote anti-rnitarism by render
ing useless girdle of Notifications around city.
In the recent Paris was saved twice by
battles on the Marine, which was quite as near
as hostile batteries could be allowed to ap-
proach In proportion as the spirit of militarism
is banished from the world the constructive
forces of peace get to work. Their possibilities
were never more interesting. 1t is hard to say
how rapid the march of important inventions
will be when nations agree to go forward ami
cably instead of with deadly cross purposes.
Carrying on a conversation audibly between
distant points anywhere on the globe is an al
most startling conception. But it seems near at
hand, and so does air flight over indefinite
spaces at speed of 800 miles or over an hour.
How about telephotography, or the vsualiz-
ing of distant objects with the aid of the electric
current? 1t has been waiting for development
since 1884, when it was first brought to notice.
Experimental results were favorable but the in
venton has not been pushed as have the tele-
phone, airpiane and wireless telegraphy, all of
which are in practical use and have been ad-
vanced by the expenditure of billions
Telepathy, or the supersensory transfer of
thought and feeling, is more reconcile and neb-
ulous. But, with peace, new wonders will
doubtless unfold.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
Hours for Work on the Farm.

Considerable discussion is going on as to the
effect of the daylight" time schedule on farm
operations. Just how there nbe any is not
easy to understand. Turning the clock ahead
has not altered the progress of the sun in any
degree; Old Sol comes in the morning and goes
down in the evening, just as he has "snce first
the flight of years began" Nothing in the law
fixes the hours for farm work. Whether the
clock marks the hour Or 7, II or II, the day
has just so many minutes of daylight, and from
now until fall most of these will be utilized by
the farmer, just as has been his practice through
countless generations. He will rise with the
sun, and go to his rest when the day is done, and
spend the intervening hours i'll productive toll.
Therefore, clock or no clock the routine round
of morning chores, forenoon in the field, dinner
time and noon rest, afternoon again in the
field, and evening chores, followed by supper
and off to bed will go on to the end that the
crop is planted, cultivated harvested and mar
keted That is all.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
AIMED AT OMAHA

York News Times: An Omaha
judge granted nine divorces in one
day and 1t wasn't an extra good
day for divorces.
Fremont Tribune: If Omaha is
going after the Wesleyan university
now located at Lincoln there may be
a new reason for the creation of a
league Of nations. There may be a
ha and Lincoln.
Harvard Courier: The board of
governors of Ak-Sar-Ben is drawing
up plans for million dollar COM
pany to establish permanent agri-
cultural exposition in Omaha. Since
Omaha is the leading agricultural
city of the country it is fitting that
it should be the home Of one of the
big agricultural expositions.
Central City Nonpareil: Victor
Rosewater's Omaha Bee tells the
dear public that Omaha tops all
neighbors except Des Moines when
it comes to lumber prices. That's
no news. Omaha always manages to
top the market price on all commod-
tiles and always has. The Omaha
profiteer is very live and omni-
present animal at all times.
O'Neill Fronties: II do not want
to be required to go around by a
crosswalk in going from the Hen
shaw to the Merchants hotel" says
Mayor Smith of Omaha in opposing
a jay-walking ordinance pending be-
fore the city commission. Why
should any ore care to go from the
Henshaw to the Merchants, or from
the Merchants to the Henshaw, since
the state went dry?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
The League of Nations

WHY is it that the matchess cathedrals OF
France built hundreds of years ago, still stand
to receive the hushed and wondering Yankee
pilgrims shaming by their strength and stately
beauty the weakar and more tawdry structures
OF our own day and generation? Is it because
the care and toll and love, not of a few years
but of centuries, went into their building?
The men who laid the first stones of the
shell-torn marvel at Rems, the hilltop cathedral
at Bourges the imperishabe Notre Dame at
Paris did not live to see those temples COM
pleted. knew that it would never be their lot to
see them completed. Preposterously idealistic
and impractical they worked with their eyes on
the future Their work was good because it was
not done for themselves. They buided for the
Lord
Now, before the peoples OF the world, are
laid the architects plans for a great mansion,
and soon work will begin on the foundations.
RI. indifferent to the needs OF future generations
the builders plan it only for the convenience
and short-sighted comfort of their own i'm
mediate occupancy. that mansion will not be
good to look upon. nor will it withstand the
tempests OF the waiting centuries But it will
still be standing beautiful, strong spacious, a
thousand years from now, if those who lay its
foundations today build it for the Lord-tor
posteritv-Stars and Stripes, France
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
Japan and the Mexican Land Grant.

Talk of either Mexico or Japan seeking to
force the United States into war through land
deals is idle The situation is not without a
tinge of humor, however. In the present con-
stitution of Mexico is provision that SPECIFIC
ally prohibits any such holding or concession as
is contemplated under the story from California.
Foreigners can not own land within sixty miles
of the Mexican sea coast, or within thirty miles
of the border Carranza has declared forfeited
all holdings that fall within this inhibition.
Under Diaz California syndicate obtained
possession of a large tract of land lying just
south of the Arizona-California international
boundary prepared for its irrigation by waters
OF the Colorado river, and set about selling plots
to settlers. When the revolution upturned
authority in Mexico, the Yaqui Indians drove
the settlers away from this section. Now that
title to the tract is threatened by Carranza, its
transfer to a Japanese syndicate is proposed,
with the alternative that the United States gov
eminent take it over Nothing could be simpler.
The California spectators are not especially
concerned as to whom they sell, SO long as they
get their price 1t has been stated they bought
100000 acres for about 50 cents an acre; the
price quoted for the Japanese is $50 an acre. 1t
is not at all likely that the Mexican government
will countenance the DEAL one way or another.
nor does it appear that it is within our province
to prevent that country from allowing a
Japanese colony to become domiciled on its
waste lands, any more than we could with
proprety object to the settlement OF large tracts
in Brazil and Chill by Germans or in Argentina
by Italians
That land will be taken up and used some
day, but it is not an imminent source of war
Just now We have far more pressing business
than this to settle with Carranza
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
3- title cT0zfy' Corner 3

they cried. Come, see the funny
mulen
II was a bit offended at being
called funny mule, but when saw
the sad faces brighten I remembered
that had thick skin and just hee-
hawed back at them. Then ! did
circus tricks, and you should have
seen the change in those children.
Their sadness turned into curiosity,
their curiosity turned into wonder,
their wonder turned into fun and
their fun brought out gurgles.
chuckles and laughs until that yard
of sorrow became garden Of mirth.
"'Oh, I'd like to ride that mule
like l rode the horses at home.'
piped up one voice, and that gave
me an idea. Kicking open the gate
/ offered my back to the children.
At first they were bit afraid to
ride, but after one of the older boys
took chance and was given trip
around the yard others followed, un-
til / was riding three or four at q
time.
MY, but 1t was jolly fun, making
those poor orphans into happy chill
dren; such fun that l never heard
the fire alarm ring. and such fun
that / never thought of my good
deed until the supper call sounded
and they had to leave me. That is
why l have come back here with my
good deed unperformed. That Is
why l NOW fear your anger. Judge
Peggy"
I'VE all fear your anger. Judge
Peggy. Be merciful!" walled Billy
Goat, Johnny Bull and Judge Owl.
Peggy, in whose eyes tears had
come as she heard Balky Sans
story, rose and faced the four men,
bers of the Black Hoof Clan.
Gosh growled Johnny Bull, Il
wonder IL she Is going to eat
us alive"
tTomorrow will be told how Balky Sam
Billy Goat. Johnny Bull and Judge owl
get surprise,)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
GRAIN EXCHANGES REBATE RULE.

The legislature is striking at the fundamental
rule OF the grain exchange, unwittngly, perhaps,
but as directly and destructively as if it were
deliberate. No complaint is made as to the
charges for the handling OF grain on the
Omaha market nor is any allegation Of dis
elimination set up, other than that brought by
certain cooperative marketing groups among
the farmers.
These are not objected to per Sc by the
members of the Grain Exchange, who are will
ing that they or any similar groups come into
membership under the anti-rebate rule. But
the practice of these farmers organ zations is
subversive OF the rule against rebates This
rule not only prevails in Omaha, but in all
grain markets in the country, where the bust
ness is organized and carried on under the law.
1t has been sustained by courts on many
occasions, and is recognized as vitality essential
to the orderly conduct of the commission bust
ness. To destroy it affects the integrity of the
market.
Under the bill that is going through at Lin
coin, this rule will be in effect destroyed, for it
will permit the distribution of savings in cost of
service which means commissions paid, to be
distributed proportionately to the amount of
grain shipped, a practice that amounts to
rebating costs This gives the big shipper adj
vantage over the small; it enables one group
of farmers to carry on business at expense of
another, and brings disorder to the market.
The proposed law is unsound in principle,
will be dangerous in practice and ought not to
be passed. even were it necessary as Senator
Peterson states, to make concession to certain
elements of the farming industry in order to
avoid the condition that has overwhelmed North
Dakota. The Omaha grain market has been of
immense value to the farmers of this region,
and it should not be hampered because one
group of producers declines to be governed by
a rule that forbids discrimination between
patrons.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04

Party utilization cuts little figure
In the tenure of office of the speaker
OF the British House Of Commons,
provided the occupant of the posi-
ton preserves the impartial pre-
cedents and traditions of the
Mother of Parliaments. Rt Hon.
James William Lowther. the present
speaker, has occupied the chair since
1913, throughout the Liberal Parlia-
mentS preceding the war and the
present coalition party control, Mr..
LoWther is Tory in politics and has
been in Parliament since 1888. He
was educated at Eton, Kings college,
London, and Trinity collge, Cam
bridge, graduating from the latter
institution with high honors. He
is 65 years of age. AS speaker he
receives a salary of $4,000 a year,
and upon retirement will be given a
life pension of $4,000 year.
DR.. Alexander Wekerle, reported
imprisoned by the new communistic
government of Hungary, is a former
premier and finance minister and has
been identified with the old regime
before and during the war He is
nearly rs pears of age. All through
his career he has been identified
with political and ecclesiastical re-
forms and has shown great ability
in rescuing the government from
financial morasses. On becoming
prime minister in 1906, DR.. Wekerle
began a vast work of administrative
reform and became widely popular
in Hungary for his settlement Of the
baptismal phases Of mixed marri-
ages. and broadening the scope Of
rligious liberty.
General Mangin, selected to lead
the prospective allied advance into
Hungary, is a French officer whose
brilliant fighting in the late war
made him world-famous. In August
1914, he commanded brigade;
three weeks later, so swift was his
promotion, he was in command on a
division. And from that day until
the cessation of hostilities his work
was as brilliant as it was successful.
Mangin has been called "Foch's
counterpart" And, indeed, there is
a striking similarity between the
two men. Both give the same i'm
preston of great mental force COM
bined with physical strength. Each
has the same cool. clever, calculating
brain and inflexible will; the same
gisr of swift decision and indifference
to what anybody may think about
him; and each has made the science
OF war a life-study. General Mangin
is known as a strict desciplinarian,
but he is just and patient, and his
troops adore him.
The distinction of being the oldest
American woman writer of promi-
nence belongs to Harriet Prescott
Spofford, who enters upon her S5th
year this week. When she was in
her teens, she began to write, and
she says she hopes to write for a
long time yet. One of the reasons
that Mrs. Spofford has kept her
eagerness for work is that she is in
terested in everything-in the Euro
pean situation. in politics and in
suffrage. She has been an advocate
of suffrage for nearly 70 years, since
the first day she heard Lucy Stone
speak for it. Mrs. Spofford was born
at Calais, Me, but while yet a child
her parents removed to NeWbury-
port, Mass, where, or at Boston, she
has since resided. Her literary work
includes some excellent poetry as
we'll as many refreshing short stor-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
Tax on OIeomargarine.

Omaha, March 31.-To the Edi-
tor of The Bee: In looking over an
article entitled, Effect of Food Con-
troll on the Food Supply" by DR..
Harry E. Barnard, the following eX-
tract has set me to thinking.
Isn't this a form of "class legisla-
ton and, if so, why is it permitted l?
The United States and other gov
ernments buy oleomargarine, which
l think is a pretty good recommen-
dation for the product:
CAS- / look back over nearly 20
years Of active control work I find
but few flaws that have checked the
development of food industries, or
tended to increase food prices.
Among these few, one law in par
ticular stands out as a striking ex-
ample of vicious legislation, deliber-
ately enacted and enforced against
one legitimate industry for the pur-
pose Of stimulating another. That
law is the oleomargarine law on the
federal statute books and it's coun-
terpart as it is enforced in many of
the states. Oleomargarine legisla-
ton, demanded by the dairy inter-
ests to protect them against the as
sault of illegally sold oleomargarine,
has taken the form of revenue leg
islation and by the imposition of
taxes has sought to cripple compete
ton. And for many years per-
fectly wholesome food, made of the
finest of raw materials, in sanitary
and inspected factories, has gone to
market bearing an indefensible tax
or has sought the user under the
name of butter through illegitimate
channels which would have little
reason to exist if the evasion of the
tax did not offer handsome profits.
And today the housewife who wants
yellow oleomargarine either pays 10
cents a pound as a tax for the privil-
eye of pleasing her eye, or goes to
the trouble herself of incorporating
the color in the spread before plac-
ing it on her table. But the butter
manufacturer is legally authorized
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
In the Right Direction.

After experience through several sessions
working under the new limitation shortening
the period for introduction of bills, we certainly
have a vindication of the demand for more
time for consideration of proposed laws and less
time for filling the bill hopper. The universal
complaint against American legislatures goes to
the uncalled-for multiplicity of half-baked and
indgestible legislation which keeps the people
guessing as to what laws they are expected to
obey and the courts busy u their interpreta-
ton While we will always have good bills and
bad bills and some of the good ones will fail
and some of the bad ones succeed, the average
of the work of the legislature seems to be no.
ticeably improving. 1t is sign for progress
in the right direction which should be kept up
and encouraged.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
Unity With Diversity,

Omaha. April Ito the Editor
of The Bee: Will some Methodist
among your readers be able to give
me the name Of the sermon by John
Wesley in which are found the fol-
ing sentences:
MAY we not be Of one heart,
though we are not of one opinion ?
l dare not presume to impose my
mode of worship on any other. l
believe it is truly primitive and
apostolical. But my belief is no rule
for another. | ask not therefore of
him with whom l would unite in love,
Are you of my church? OF my
congregation? Do you receive the
same form of church government,
and allow the same church officers
with me? Do you join in the same
form of prayer wherein | worship
God? l inquire not, Do you receive
the supper of the Lord in the same
posture and manner as l do? Nor,
whether in the administration of
baptism, you agree with me in adj
hitting sureties for the baptized, in
the manner of administering it, or the
age of those to whom it should be
administered. Nay, I ask not of you
Gas clear as I am in my own mind)
whether you allow baptism and the
Lords Supper at all. Let all these
things stand by; we will talk of
them, If need be, at more conven-
lent season. Ny only question at
presnt is. is thine heart right as
my heart is with thy heart? If it
be, give me thine hand"
These sentences are found on one
of the Eages CT "A Book of Devo-
tional Readings" published in Lon
don. I shall be obliged if anyone
can tell ne the name Of the sermon
by Wesley of which iney are part
The passage has very pointed
significance with reference to the
recent action of Evangelicals exclud-
ing Liberals from membership in the
Church Federation.
ROBERT F. LEAVENS.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
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to use the same color in the same
way and for the same purpose with
out declaring the presence of added
color or paying any tax for the
privilege. OF course, there is no
justice in either case. Added butter
undeclared adulterates the butter
just as it does oleomargarine, and
the tax is an indefensihle burden
laid on the workingman's table. And
the burden is as unnecessary as
it is indefensible. Every food law,
federal, state or municipal, controls
fraud, and it is just as easy to stop
the sale of oleomargarine for butter
under that law as it is the sale of
watered milk. or imitation vinegar,
or adulterated spices.
''The argument advanced by the
dairy interests that their product
needs protection, is, of course, as
silly as it is unfounded, any product
that is constantly advancing in price
needs no protection from COMPETE
ton. The demand for butter from
every consumer who can afford to
pay the price for favor, food value
and universal adapta bility in the
kitchen will take care of COMPETE
ton. Butter we'll made from food
raw material needs no protection
Oleomargarine, an equally good food,
should have free access to the table
of every one who wants it,
SQUARE DEAL"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
TOD Y
The Day We Celebrate.

Paul L. Martin, dean OF Creighton College
of Law, born 1881.
Fred A. Castle, proprietor of Hotel Castle,
born 1862
Louis R. Metz, capitalist born 1873.
Robert F. Maddox. president of the Ameri-
can Bankers association, born in Atlanta, 40
years ago. ~
RI Hon. Sir James H. NJ. Campbell, lord
chancellor of Ireland born IS years ago.
Earl of Derby, former British war minister,
ambassador in Paris, born in London, 81
years ago.
Iris Speaker one of the most widely known
of professional base ball players, born at Hub
bard City, Tex, 81 years ago.
In Omaha 80 Years Ago.
Shadows of Great City opened at the
Grand.
A smoker is to be given F. n Conner, E. B.
Smith, Frank N. Clarke, Perry Badolet and Ed
Lytle, outgoing officers of the Omaha Whist
club.
Council Bluffs motor cars for the first time
ran around the loop" in Omaha
General Test has figured out population
for Omaha of III ,45S, based on the school CEN
sus returns.
Max Meyer is suffering from painful at
tack of erysipelas, which has confined him to his
home.
Edward Rosewater, editor of The Bee, is
back from the east
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04
AWoman Banker

Women more and more find
it an advantage to have bank
account. The war has especially
emphasized this.
Women who have not pre-
viously carried bank account,
as we'll as those who have, ap-
preciate the cooperation of a
woman banker, and the service
of real banking department for
women.
THE SERVICE OF THE FIRST
makes this ideal arrangement
possible. Our women's de-
partment is especially equipped
for the comfort. and convenience
of women. Nothing was over
looked that will tend to make
banking pleasant.
The women's department of
the First is in charge of a wo-
man banker. Our Miss Stem
considers it a pleasure to consult
with you, to advise with you,
and to furnish to women the
same service the bank renders its
men customers.
We cordially invite you to
visit our women's department.
become acquainted with our
Miss Stem, and avail yourselves
of the banking service we are
pleased to render, and remember,
there is always a Welcome for
you here.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04

tie song, sung by sad little voices on
the other side of high brick wall.
Sad are we and sad our stations,
We who come from war-torn nations,
To thee, America, sing:
To thee, our hearts and hopes we bring.
Looking through a gate I saw a
crowd of children within a large
yard. They were orphans, sorrowing
over their troubles. tt touched my
heart to see little ones in grief
they should have been playing in
the care-free joy Of childhood!
Hee-haw. Don't feel bad! Bet
ter days are coming" / cried to
them.
MY message instantly stopped
their SOrrOWing A mule A mnlev
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04

Holding up the constitutional convention be-
cause of failure to make provision for collecting
the vote of soldiers overseas seems just little
farfetched at this time when is not at all likely
that any soldiers entitled to vote will be across
the water when the next election is held in Ne
braska
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04

big Bill" Haywood and his mouthy gang
are to have another chance at freedom while the
law they fouted and the courts they denounced
consider if they are entitled to new trial. One
Of the ronies Of the law is that it protects to
the uttermost limit those who most hagrantly
disobey it,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04

Director General Hines Of the railroad ad-
mnstration has rejected the schedule of steel
prices fixed by the war adjustment board under
the Department of Commerce. Having already
declined to buy coal at the old Garfield prices,
Dictator Hines might almost be said to be a
bear" on the present market If he can start
the basic industries to lower price level, he is
going to help out more than the railroads.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-04

According to the federal court, the tele-
phone companies of the state, acting under the
direction of the postmaster general, have a
right to soak patron. for changing phones &C
cordng to schedule. This government owner
ship certainly solves lot of problems the cor
porations did not dare to tackle.