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The sun., 1919-08-30
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.

MINIATURE ALMANAC
Uuied States Coast and Geodeuc Survey
STANDARD Time
Sun rises..6:la A Sun sets....7: SO P NJ
Moon rtseH II 20
HIGH WATER THIS DAY
Sandy Hook II :35 NJ Gov. Island.lt:15 NJ
He'll Gate 6PM
Low WATER THIS DAY.
Sandy Hook 5:2e A NJ Gov. Island. .6:l5 A
He'll Gate .....S:l9 A NJ
The sun., 1919-08-30
AnR1vEp FROM NEW YORK.

ARRIVED FROM NEW YORK.
SIS Helig Olav at Copenhagen.
SIS Mesaba at London.
So Mar Trreno. at santsnder.
S. Shauna, at Rio.
Sc Antonio Lopez. at CadiZ.
So Newa, Al Aarhuus.
SIS siljan. at GothenburE.
SIS Fagersand N Christians.
IS Trieste at Castellammare.
SIS Moncaliere, ut Genoa.
IS Celaeno, NJ Rotterdam.
IS Sneford. n Copenhagen.
So Vittorio Emanuele Ill, at Copenhagen
SIS Cape Lookout, at Liverpool
IS Norman Bridge, at Liverpool.
So Cheyenne, at Barrow.
sS Hamlet. at Barrow.
So Henry Clay, at London.
The sun., 1919-08-30
OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS.
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INCOMING STEAMSHIPS.

Due To-day.
S. Brazileira, Cndiz. July 10
So Dennistoun, Gibraltar. July ~.
SIS Mailxman. Bordeaux July 30.
SIS Bylayl, Dartmouth, July 81.
IS Brez Izel. Havre. Aug. 1.
SIS warkworth, shields, Aug. 2
Sc Alenthus, Fowney. Aug. ,.
IS Brandenburg. Bordeaux. Aug. 10.
IS Aguila, Liverpool Aug. 6.
SIS Trafalgar Greenock, Ang I.
SIS Lake Fontana. Portland. Eng, Aug. q
SIS Vitruvia, Ardossan. Aug. 5.
SIS san Gennaro. Genoa. Aug. Is.
So Gregory. Para. Aug. 10.
Sc Abangarez. Santa Maria. Aug. ID
IS Peerless. st NazaIre. Aug. Is.
SIS Graf Waldersee. Brest Aug. Is.
IS South Bond. Brest, Aug. -.
IS Iowan, Brest. Aug. 10.
SIS santa Leonora Brest, Aug ~.
SIS Columbia. Glasgow, Aug. 20.
SIS II. r. Mallory. Brest, Aug. D.
IS 0rzaba, Brest Aug. q.
IS Pastores. Brest Aug. 81.
Due Tomorrow.
IS Sierra, Brest. Aug. q.
Ss santa Malta, Brest, Aug. 10.
SIS Arizonian, st. Nazaire. Aug. 10.
Due Monday.
IS Rochambeau. Havre. Aug. q.
Ss Liberator. Brest. Aug %.
SIS Huron, Santo Domingo. Aug. 20.
SIS Coamo. San Juan, Aug. 81.
Sc El Alba, Galveston. Aug. &c.
SIS Creole, New Orleans, Aug. q.
Sc Won Steuben, Brest. Aug. "a.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Universal Military Training.

The senate's subcommittee on military az
fairs has agreed on a plan for universal mill
tary training for the youth Of America, and the
house committee is working along similar lines.
This makes certain that the matter will be
brought forward in congress for consideration
sometime in the next few months Compulsory
training does not include compulsory service in
the senate plan. The selective draft law estab-
lished the service principle beyond question. 1t
is the right of the republic to exact from each
citizen whatever of ability or power he has that
may be needed for the common good. Train
ing in military science goes beyond the simple
use of arms; it carries with it physical and
moral development, the discpnng Of mind
and muscle, teaches lessons of obedience and
self-reliance as we'll, and gives to the youth at
time when it will be of greatest service in
the way Of forming his character. It will be
applied at that time of life when the youth best
can afford to devote few months to the service
of his country, and will interfere very little with
his future work. Alongside comparatively
small body of highly trained professional SOL
diers will be set up citizen army, ready to
take the field with little delay in an emergency.
The plan contains no germ of militarism, holds
no menace to our liberties or threat to another
nation. 1t only means that America will not
again be found unready for self-defense if this
or similar scheme be adopted.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Medals for Valor."

The secretary of the navy has asked his
board of awards to reconvene and revise the
list of recommendations for medals and other
war honors. This followed when two other
high officers joined with Admiral Sims in de-
clining to accept such distinctions because they
thought the awards had been unfairly made.
Mr.. Daniels slips out of an awkward place by
stating that the lists submitted were but ten
tative and not final. This, however, will not
distract public attention from the fact that they
were submitted, and had it not been for the
protests of nficers who resented the manifest
injustice, would have gone through. Under the
circumstances it is likely that naval medals
awarded for valor will be given to those who
have won them somewhere else than In re-
volving chair before a rol-top desk This does
not discount the service Of the men who served
on the staff, or who were charged with arduous
and important duties ashore, and were thus un-
able to share In the glory won at sea. They
were just as essential to the winning Of the war
as were the men who did the fighting. Elimina-
ton Of distinction won by political influence is
aimed at, that the medal may mean what it
purports to be-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
|meVELXETE lz,,]
HAMMERS :M4V~~e1'l
By Arthur Brooks Baker MR1SA Wa8%
JOHN LAUDERDALE KENNEDY.
By Arthur Brooks Baker n

The getting money is job where lawyers
rarely sleep. Their talents in this line of work
have made all others weep. They call the smart
stenographer to fill printed blank and charge
you for her services fee that's tall and rank.
They write text whose wind is long and name
alone is "brief," and when you get the bill you
need some medical relief.
But while they gather in the stuff with tai
ents rich and rare, they see it futter on again
to decorate the air; for books Of solid ivory en-
cased in hides Of sheep they pay on the INSTALL
ment plan at prices far from cheap. They sit
behind mahogany artistic and refined and nest
their feet in Persian rugs to incubate their mind.
But when they learn the bankers trade, be-
ware and still beware 1t is the ne plus ultra in
the game of getting there. Behold in John L.
Kennedy this keen and brilliant type, imbued
in the financial arts with talents round and ripe.
In law and courts he reached point of high
and helpful rank and now is once removed from
chief in a distinguished bank.
He graced the halls of congress with his
presence and his voice, good republican and
thus the right and proper choice. He helped
create the savings banks to gather in the kale
at Offices where Uncle Sam sometimes delivers
mail-he fought for postal savings banks sue
cessfully and now he's in the U. S. National to
teach his uncle how.
(Next subject-Joseph Barker.)
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Mr.. BRYAN COMING BACK.

The question of leadership of the demo-
cratic party seems to be solved William Jsn-
nings Bryan shows every symptom Of intention
to resume his direction of the partys affairs, and
is just now acquainting or preparing to acquaint,
the people with what he has chosen for the
paramount issue of the coming campaign.
II will do little good for the followers of
Woodrow Wilson, now eagerly striving among
themselves for his mantle, to struggle against
the inevitable. Bryan holds control over the
unwashed that none of them may hope ever to
attain In the case of Gilbert Mcneil Hitch
cock, with whom the great commoner has re-
Gently signed an armstice his cake is dough
already. The southern senators have aligned
themselves in support Of Oscar w. Underwood,
and this Is accepted Is indicating that the
place of senate leader will go to him. Hitch
cocks failure to put through the treaty as the
president ordered, together with his varying
course in the senate, has done away with his
chances for party leadership. He will however,
be figure of strength until after the conven-
tion and this must be reckoned with.
Mr.. Bryan always has been strong in the
south. The old time democrats have accepted
him and his many policies without question,
simply because he has never sought to inter-
fere with their local affairs. They are not
so keen about national control IL they may be
assured Of undisturbed dominance at home
The Bryan-Hitchcock rapprochement Is of
significance chiefly in Nebraska, where the long
existing feud has at times imperiled each in his
wider relations to the party. With this tenn
porarily laid aside-and it is merely adjourned,
for neither has ever forgiven the other-some-
thing like an harmonious delegation may be
sent from Nebraska to the next democratic con-
vention.
Omaha will soon be told of Mr. Bryan's plans
by the peerless himself. In the meantime it is
good to see the old champion grding himself
for another round against the demons of Wall
Street and the monsters of monopoly
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Wood Alcohol and Christmas Ioy,

Prohibition had an effect on Christmas that
hardly was expected, and yet is not especially
surprising. Persons accustomed to spicing
their holidays with alcohol are not always
either particular or careful as to how it is pre-
pared or procured. In the present state of pub
lie mind something piquant appears to attach
to securing the forbidden liquor in sur
reptitous manner, although the sales from
which the wholesale death list resulted seem to
have been open enough. 1t Is important, though,
for the future that customers of bootleggers or
speakeasies take due precaution to see if the
concoction furnished them be compounded from
ethyl or methyl alcohol. The changing of the
carbon content alters the nature of the fluid,
and while the wood alcohol will be as potent as
anything in the way of inducing intoxication,
it has the further quality of bringing either
death or blindness, and science knows no anti
dote for it. The unwise will imprudently daily
with the danger, but the man who looks for
ward to other days in hope of better times will
cautiously approach the "hootch" that does not
come with its title as clear as can be made in
these days Of "dry" ascendancy, for now if ever
death lurketh in the cup"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
GlZ Zz22zz& cToz@ Corner 8
Homes of the Muskrats.
BY ApELIA BELLN BEARD

He is very active just now, the
savage little muskrat-no sleeping
through the winter for him. The
only terror cold weather brings is
the deadly trap which springs and
catches him without warning. Once
in its clutches, it is all up with Mr..
Muskrat, because his warm, winter
coat is coveted by humans who
dress and dye it and call it Hudson
Seal.
Many boys trap muskrats and sell
their skins; they do it near my
home. From the price they receive,
you would never think \ Hudson
Seal coat would cost almost $500,
but then it takes a good many skins
to make one coat. In spite of the
trappers, there seems little danger
that these small animals will be ex-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

terminated, for like Molly Cotton
tail, Mrs. Muskrat rears several
large families in one season and they
grow up very fast.
Muskrats live in and near the
water and they are very good SWIM
mers even under the ice. They have
two kinds of homes: burrows and
houses which closely resemble those
of the beaver. The burrow is quite
elaborate with numerous galleries,
some leading to the several rooms
from under the water front door
and others extending inland with
back doors opening on dry land.
When these burrows cave in, they
are liable to do some damage to
levees and dams as we'll as fields.
The house stands in shallow
water and looks like a heap of
drifted sticks, marsh grass, and
reeds. Nevertheless, it is we'll built,
supported by growing reeds, and
held together with mud. Above
water level, there is a room from
which several passages lead down.
ward; the entrance is under water.
You cannot get very near the
muskrat house without a boat, be-
cause the marshy ground is so in
secure, to try it means being very
spry and jumping instantly from
one sinking foothold to another
as l have done-to keep from going
in over shoe top.
(Next week: Tenants of the
Barn.~
Boys' and Girls Newspaper Service.
Copyright 1919 by J. H, Millar,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

racy. The splendid morale OF the
people, upon which rested the sue
cess of the army and navy, was in
no small measure due to the CO.
operation of the advertising profess
sion.
United States Government-Com-
mittee on Public Information, Chair
man: Robert Lansing. Secretary of
State; Newton D. Baker, Secretary
Of War; Josephus Daniels, Secretary
Of the Navy; Carl Byoir. Associate
Chairman"
Do you suppose that the govern
ment would have made and sealed
such a document If the Nonpartisan
league had really been nothing but
I. w. WIS, pro-Germans, and the
like, as all the newspapers were pub
fishing? Hardly! The government
commends the Nonpartisan league.
In my article published in The
Bee, December 9, I neglected to
make it clear that my statements
concerning strikes, are entirely apart
from the statements about the Nom
partisan league. The Nonpartisan
league does not favor strikes, but
rather the use of the ballot box, in
settling differences. When better
laws will be enacted, strikes will not
be necessary in order to compel big
business interests to pay living
wages.
CAS- eminent mon usually have
very poor handwriting, was unable
to mako out the chairman's name.)
MRS. VICTOR WALTER.
(Editor's Note: Ths name Of the
chairman not inserted above 10 per-
haps that Of George Creel, and It is
not at all surprising that the Nom
partisan Leader got such q certifi-
cate. It may interest Mrs. Walter
to know that "Pancho" Villa once
received from the secretary of state
of the United States a note thanking
him for his services to humanity"
The conviction of Townley on a
charge of sedition is also in point.)
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Stressed Steel Mills

Assuming that the returned miners stay on
the job and do not anywhere lay down on the
job-assuming that there will be high eff
cheney output of coal in the bituminous fields
from now until midsummer-will the obstructed
and retarded industrialism Of the country by
that time have caught up and be in a working
situation where the output from the mills and
factories will be on something like equal terms
with the demand! 1t is safe to answer that the
strike will not be fully overcome by the end of
the next calendar year, even if the coal mines
produce up to capacity, everywhere, through
out the whole of next year.
According to a statement In the last issue
Of the Iron Trade Review it is . question wheth-
er restrictions will not have to be put upon the
operations of furnaces and rolling mills in the
great steel centers not because OF interference
with operations by the steel strike, but be-
cause Of the depleted. condition Of coal stocks
and because of the difficulty of obtaining enough
coal to operate continuously at full capacity dur
ing the next two or three months. As ITO de-
mand for steel products it is said in the Review
article that new steel orders, no matter how
attractive in size or price, have gone begging.
Many mills have closed their badly congested
order books to every importantly or device of
buyers"
Expert business In steel has been severely
restricted Steel, as everybody knows, ramihes.
into every other industry under the sun, and
behind the steel industries variously and gen.
orally and as condition precedent to function
ing of the steel plants, there is coal-coal up to
the blast furnace and power machinery needs.
As never before the attention OF the American
people 10 focused upon the potentahty tor
harm Of the abuse Of organized power by an
organization controlling such basic utility as
the country's coal supply.-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

The Day We Celebrate.


George A.. Sargent, manufacturers agent
born 1873.
R. A. Leussler, assistant general manager
of the Omaha Street Railway company, born
1866.
Horace Chiffon, former United States SEN
ator from Texas, born in Smith county, Texas,
6o years ago.
Charlotte Walker, prominent emotional &C
tress and film star born at Galveston, Texas, 81
years ago.
Clarence Ousley, late assistant secretary Of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, born in
Lowndes county, Georgia, 56 years ago.
William ]. Fields, representative in congress
of the ninth Kentucky district, born in Carter
county, Kentucky, As years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
The new county hospital was completed and
ready for inspection by the county commits
sioners
Mr.. Oscar K. Davis assumed the editorial
management of the Merchants Criterion, 4
wholesale trade journal.
Mrs George H. Willard of Lead City, S. D..
was visiting in Omaha.
w. F. Patterson, the founder and editor of
the Progress, paper published here in the in
terest OF the eolored man, severed his connec-
ton with the sheet to 60 to Des Moines Mr..
F. L. Barnett was to continue the paper.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

channel Of a mighty rushing river,
where only u pile of boulders, in a
dry valley, remains to tell the tale.
When these boys tramp over a
long gravel ridge, even though it
is miles from any lake, they know
that only waves can grind rocks up
into sand and gravel. So they say,
There must have been a lake here
once" When they see a hill of
pure sand, they say, "Only wind
piles up sand like this. This is a
sand dune" When they climb over
clay hills, with occasional swampy
spots, they recognize the end of an
ancient ice sheet. Other bills they
can see have been left when rivers
have cut away the soil on either
side. If Frank and John lived in
a mountainous country, they might
see hills that were made by the fold
ing of rock when the interior of the
earth shrank. If they ever go to the
drumlin region of Wisconsin or
New York, they may be puzzled at
seeing many hills, all of the same
strange elliptical shape-a shape
similar to that of an egg. But even
if they cannot determine at first
sight that these hills were formed
under the great ice sheet, at least,
they will know that investigation
and reasoning will reveal their his
tory. This knowledge makes every
place they go more interesting.
Next week: Reviewing for
Exams.")
Boys and dirls Newspaper Service.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
LEAST OF THESE.

God save you all, and give you grace,
That live within this dwelling place.:
May you not lack for meat or wine.
Or hre-lisht. or candls-shins,
Or aught that you may most desire.
But a. you stir your Christmas fire
Think upon US whose fires are dead,
Whose cup 10 dry, who have no bread.
Think upon us whose hearths are cold,
Whose eyes are dim, whose hearts are old.
We are the aged and the poor;
We have no choice but to endure.
We are the children to whose eyes
No gift will bring . rapt surprise.
We are the weak, the halt, the blind;
We are the suffering OF mankind.
God rest you all. and give you grace.
That dwell within this happy place.
Your house Is warm with candle light . /.
All. leave your latchstring out tonight.
EDITH BALLINGER PRICE In the
New York Times
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Reading 4 Landscape.
BY IRENE I. cLEAvES
Trancis w. Parker School

Gee" sighed Frank, I'D like to
be alive Z few hundred thousand
years from now, to see what this
canyon will be like by that time"
"Yes, or a hundred thousand years
ago." agreed John. "I'll bet there
wasn't even gully here then"
These boys knew that the pretty
little limestone canyon, 20 feet deep,
with tiny stream at the bottom,
which they had been exploring, had
not always been there. They knew
that it would not keep its present
form forever. And they know that
when you look at any landscape,
you can read its past and foretell
its future. They like to imagine the
days long past, when there were
arctic conditions where they now
live, and when great icebergs
ground each other to pieces in the
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Announcement that W. D. McHugh is to be-
come general counsel for the International Har-
vester company at 100000 \ year recalls the
fact that once the senate declined to confirm his
appointment to the federal bench because Of
democratic opposition. In a worldly way they
kicked him upstairs"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Hope Abandoned.

We must say to the dreaming
reminiscencers and restrospectors of
this Elysium of Ecstasy that not one
of 1900 empties on the sidetrack at
Louisville, awaiting a base on balls
from the Supreme Court, is headed
for Texas. The water supply is the
only hope for moisture.
poct
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

A returned Knights of Columbus director
says what Europe needs most of al is red blood.
A little less bad blood would be good thing,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Representative Britten thinks Europe will
be in 4 turmoil for many years without Amer
ica's steadying hand. What they seem to want
over there most of all just now is unlimited
food on credit that they may go on fighting
over how to establish absolute equality and
peace on earth.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Whatever the census count may show, the
fact remains that Omaha's greatness does not
depend 20 much on the number of its citizens
as on the vim and vigor of those who are here
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

New York woman solved the servant
problem by adopting brother and sister who
ministered unto her. Some men have tried to
get around It by marrying the cook but it
doesn't always pan out that way.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Commencement Of work on new buildings
and announcement Of plans for others afford
pretty fair indication of what Omaha faces for
the coming year Faith is bearing fruit.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Chance for BRYAN.

At the present enhanced price Of silver that
son of the people, William Jennings Bryan,
ought to shy his castor in the ring for the fourth
time.-Los Angeles Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
dmittedlY Exnertmenfs

Bonner Springs is to have an ath-
letic club, according to The Chief
tain. The experiment of starting a
brand new athletic club in territory
which has long been dry will be
watched with interest.-Kansas City
Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Reckless driving still takes heavy toll in
Omaha Some way ought to be found to make
streets safer for pedestrians.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Talked Too Much.

While Maynard has perhaps talked too mucl
the country has listened too much to a remarl
it should have passed over like it does lots o
others.-Raleigh News and Observer.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

A dollar is dollar according to New York
Judge when applied to larceny, but It is only
about 50 cents when you try to buy something.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
Tn Tn the Air

John Barleycorn Is still in doubt
as to whether he is to be exported
as friend or deported as an enemy.
New York World,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

The revenue collector has little mercy on
the public, and will not send out income tax
blanks until after Christmas bills are out of the
Way
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Wood alcohol is mighty poor substitute for
the real thing Better let it alone, or put
your worldly affairs. into order, so as to make
it easy for the administrator when you are gone.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Omaha women announce their determine
ton to persist in the boycott on eggs. At Lin
coin the price bounded right back as soon as
the pressure was removed.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
On the Retired List.

On the Retired List.
We don't know what Dr. Garfield
will do now, but we suspect that he
and Colonel House will form an
alumni northumberland Rapids
Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Omaha detectives show about the same de-
gree Of judgment in picking up Migrants" that
they did in carrying out raids last summer.
lust little common sense would help lot.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Josephus Daniels got away with 4 good
many things, but finally came cropper on the
medal business. Even an adn,iral's patience has
it's limits, and nothing is frmer than navy tradi-
tions.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Mr.. Bryan advises that the treaty be rati-
fed with the reservations. He still has lucid
intervals.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29
What The Bee Stands For,

|. Respect for the law and maintenance OF
order.
2. Speedy and certain punishment OF crime
through the regular operation of the
courts.
5. Pitiess publicity and condemnation OF
inefficiency lawlessness and corrup-
ton in Office.
4. Frank recognition and commentator
of honest and efficient public service.
S. Incubation of Americanism as the true
basis of good citizenship.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

'why did wilkins decide to stay In the
srmy?"
HE didn't see any other way Of getting
an overcoat this winter."-The Home
Sector.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-29

Dasher-Ths parcel post package Is
being delivered In unusually quick time
How do you account for it?
Mail Carrier-The department thought
1t contained time bomb, sir.--Judge.