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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

Omaha, April 4.-To the Editor
OF the Bee: Some people have
blamed me for saying that the So
called daylight saving system is a
fraud. l still claim it is fraud.
In the first place it defrauds
millions of people of their proper
hours OF sleep, for by having the
clocks set forward it is dark nearly
the whole year at O'Clock in the
morning, and. that really means four
o'clock, a time that lots of people
find their best time for sleep. Morn
ings in this part of the country in
the summer time are the finest part
of the day and by depriving us of our
fine mornings, it makes it all the
harder for older people and especial
ly for the women of the homes. The
wives and mothers of a good many
workingmen have told me they do
not like to be compelled to get up
the year round in the dark to get
their men folks ready to go to work
and that the mornings when they
have to get up now is often the only
time of the day they can sleep de-
Gently.
One man who does nothing but sit
around and read and smoke and
gas" said, "what If the women do
have to get up before daylight in the
summer time? They have to do it
in the winter time anyhow" I told
him that was a very heartless way to
look at 1t, as the women had some,
rights as we'll as the people who
favor the daylight saving fad.
1 see that the fuel administrators
claim that s1,250,0oO tons of coal
was saved in 1918. Most Of the fuel
administrators were either lawyers
or college professors and I do not
think they know much more about
the coal business than l do. and I
do not know anything about 1t.
will not say the administrators lie.
but will say l think they are very
badly mistaken. They must study
funny kind of arithmetic when they
say fuel is saved when we have to
get up in the dark and call it seven
o'clock in the morning and burn
lights and fuel for an extra hour. l
do not see how they figure that any
fuel is saved by burning 1t an hour
longer each day.
Stock men told me last summer
that they ate their breakfasts by
electric light every morning last
summer, thing they never did be-
fore in their lives. / would like to
ask the daylight faddists what about
the saving there? From the way
people talk about this so-called saw
ing of daylight, I do not find one in
hundred that favor it.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
Reciprocal Demurrage" a Danger.

The legislature has just sent ahead a nea-
sure that embodes an idea of real value, but
in such form as will defeat its object. 1t looks
to the establishment of reciprocal demur
rage charge, whereby railroads will be held
responsible to shippers for failure to provide
cars within a specified time A little reflection
should have convinced the proponents of the
measure of the difficulties III their way.
Once or twice year it happens that the de-
mand for cars in Nebraska is far beyond the
ability of the railroads to supply. In the rush
days Of marketing experience has shown the
physical mpossbility of providing transport
tation equal to the demand. To penetrate the
railroads because OF failure to always have
"empties" ready when the shipper calls for
them seems unfair.
Nor is the proposed charge reciprocal in
its true sense Demurrage charged against a
user of cars for failure TO load unload within
specified time is intended tc ncease the SER
vice by eliminating unnecessary delays. The
rule works to the advantage of the prospective
shipper, by securing return of cars more prompt
ly Such is the chief purpose of the demurrage
rules.
Some regulation may be devised for meeting
any deliberate delay Of railroad in furnish
ing cars, or discrimination between shippers,
but the measure just sent through the legisla-
ture will hardly afford the relief sought.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
Burleson and HIS Bludgeon

Postmaster-Genera1 Burleson may usually be
depended on to do even the right thing in the
wrong way, and when he does the wrong thing
he has the faculty of exciting the strongest
indignation. The merits of his dispute with
the Postal Telegraph company are highly tech
meal and from the first there has been a sug
gestion in his manner of proceeding that per-
sonal anmosity was motive In summarily
removing the president and directors of the
company from all authority over its affairs
and, as he states in his official order, removing
''the owners" also-Mr. Burleson may claim as
precedent the case of the few railway presi-
dents who were similarly relieved from duty
by Drector-General McAdoo. But the ground
assigned for that action was refusal to cooper
ate in the Railway Administration working
plans. No such reason is alleged by Mr.. Burle
son in way to carry conviction, and on the
other side, we have the company's assertion
that the resistance was TO Burlesons plan to
put up telegraph rates where the company was
convinced that increase unnecessary. 1t is
not to be wondered at that even some demo-
cratic congressman are giving quiet aid and en-
enlargement to the plan for taking the Burle
son episode aggressvely in hand.-New York
Post
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
Medals for STUPIDITY

Frau Won Hindenburg, sister-in-law of the
field marshal of Germany and who is said to
enjoy his confidence, is out with proposal to
have leather medals struck for stupidity, to dis
tribute widely through the old German official
dom. This lady is of the opinion that the re-
mainder of the world has entertained for long
time that the greatest gift of the German mind
is stupidity
- But the sister-in-law OF the man upon whom
the kaiser relied for victory says that the British
sailors, disguised as Germans. started the dis
astrous KEEL revolt, and this the outbreak
of the revolution. So, at last, the secret is out
The Germans fought the with the senti
lent God punish England. upon their lips
And now they are told by the sister-n-law OF
Won Hindenburg that British sailors in disguise
precipitated the revolution. If this is so, what
a magnificent tribute is thereby paid English
resourcefulness and bravery! Over against this
exhibit are to be placed the maladroit machina-
tons of the German potters to start revolt in
he United States and to stir up Mexico. These
were stupid in the extreme.
But the British sailors did not do all the work
against the Germans Hindenburg was misled
as to submarine efficiency and as to the ability
Of the Unittd States to land considerable forces
in France. So the Americans did something,
also. to upset the German bean pot. Yes, Frau
Hindenburg is right, stupidity medals are in
order all around-not forgetting her distinguish
cd Observation-Disclosures American.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
f. title Folks C077ze~ 3

thrushes. wrens, tanagers. martins,
swallows and scores of others, they
seemed too much disturbed TO give
heed to the feast of worms to which
she was inviting them.
Where could they be going? What
danger had driven them from home
right IN their busiest season when
they were building their nests and
preparing for their summers work
in fields and orchards?
Before Peggy could even guess an
answer to these questions, General
Swallow. Reddy Woodpecker and
Blue Jay came rushing up, while
Judge Owl puffed noisily along be-
hind. General Swallow shrieked a
warning.
Flee. Princess Peggy Revolt has
broken out! Birdland has gone all
to smash"
Find a hollow tree, quick"
painted Judge Owl. And be sure
it's hidden deep in the woods"
What has happened?" cried Peg
gy, while shivers of excitement ran
up and down her back "Who is in
revolt?"
Jack Sparrow and his gang"
What are they revolving about?"
puzzled Peggy. Everything has
been so pleasant and prosperous in
Birdland since tanned the Giant of
the Woods"
They've got kinks-b brain kinks"
hooted Judge Owl.
whats that. some new kind of
disease?"
The craziest kind Of a disease"
affirmed Judge Owl solemnly. ut
turns folks topsyturvy and then they
want to turn everybody else topsy-
turvy, too"
Jack Sparrow caught It listening
to soap box speechmakers on the
city Streets" exclaimed General
Swallow,
And he has given 1t to the Eng
lish sparrows, the cow birds, and
all the shiftless. good-for-nothing,
talk-talk birds, who want to live off
the toll of Others" declared Reddy
Woodpecker
They say they are going to do
away with all rule and order in Bird
land. Food and nests will belong to
everybody in common. and the lazy
idlers will have as much right to
them as the workers, who have
earned them"
"Why, how silly" exclaimed Peg
gy. That's not fair nor honest and
would upset everything. Well not
stand for it here in free America"
"Hurrah for Princess Peggy"
shouted Blue Jay. "She will settle
this revolt"
Then she will have to get busy In
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
RIGHT TO THE POINT

Philadelphia Ledger: Some lame
pocketbooks will need to be helped
over the spring styles.
Minneapolis Tribune: Put Away
Your Furs' is the way a headline
reads, but il memories of summer
garb serve truly. this is the time to
bundle up in them.
Baltimore American; The prob
lem of defining beer is beyond the
courts. Leave it to the poets to de-
scribe that blissful twilight zone in
which one hears the birds sing at
sunset.
New York Herald: Fashion de-
crees that women's hosiery is to be
more diaphanous than ever this sum-
mer. Almost at the same time
comes the statement that the mild
winter will bring sWarms of mosqui-
toes in the warm months. Enough
said.
Brooklyn Eagle: Maine, which
went hell-bent for Governor Kent"
votes to retain her September cleo
ton. But, after all, her "Dirigo" has
become mighty unreliable weather
vane. whether vanity is in her mind
or not.
New York World: The United
States has enough enemy alien prop
erty to cover all claims against Ger
many: former owners may look to
Berlin for their pay. The simplicity
of this arrangement may cause envy
in the nations of the entente wonder
ing how they will get their bills paid
and suspecting that payment may
prove impossible.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
MEETING A MAN FROM HOME

Sing, Muse In the treble clef.
A little song of the A. E. F..
And pardon me. please. IL l give vent
To something akin to sentiment.
But we have our moments Over Here
When we want to cry and we want to
cheer.
And the hurrah feeling will not down
When you meet a man from your own
home town.
It's many lonesome. Lonesome day
Since you embarked from the u. S. A,
And you meet some men-its = great big
war
From burgs that you never had known
before:
And you landed here. and your rest camp
Was a man from some strange and distant
state.
Liked him? Yes; but you wanted to see
man from the town where you used
to be.
And then you went. by design or chance.
All over the well-known map OF France;
And you yearned with yearn that grew
and grew
To talk with a man from the place you
knew.
And some lugubrious morning when
Your morale is batting about ITO,
Where are you from?' and you make
reply.
And the o. d. warrior says: $50 am l."
And the universe wears a smiling face
AS you spill your talk Of the old home
place:
You talk of the streets and the homet town
jokes,
And you find that you know each others
folks;
And you haven't any more woes at all
AS you both decide that the world is
small
statement adding to its renown
When you meet man from your own
home town.
II you want to know why I wrote this
pome,
Well . j.. I've just had a talk with a
guy from home.
Capt F. P. Adams, U. S. A. in Golfers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
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than so years ago, ought to be given
as good as the land can furnish,
Then when people in that home
are taken sick they are not given
proper attention by physicians and
are not furnished proper medicines.
The janitor of the Soldiers Home at
Milford is a colored ex-convict who
was convicted of murder a number of
years ago and who now mistreats the
inmates of that home and calls the
veterans the vilest kind of names,
names not fit to be printed.
= 1t seems to me that the state of
Nebraska could find better man
for that position. and one who will
treat the veterans with respect
While | was at that home an old
soldier died and when his funeral
was held the .commandant refused to
attend and when the veterans, who
did attend. came back from the bur
ial, they found the commandant
playing cards. A man who will not
show more respect for old soldiers
than that is not fit to govern over
them.
Then the Home at Milford is not
built right for the comfort of the old
men in that institution, for the win
dows are all of them placed so high
that it is very much like prison. The
state of Nebraska ought to furnish a
decent place for those old men for
their few remaining years.
! think the legislature ought to
make thorough investigation of
conditions at the Soldiers Homes at
both Milford and Grand Island. for
the conditions at Grand Island are
about as bad as they are at Milford.
Let the people of Nebraska arise in
their Indignation and demand that
conditions at the soldiers homes be
improved for their comfort and hap
piness, for it is a disgrace to the
state of Nebraska now.
JOHN D. SAWYER.
Late Co. K, 5th n. Y. Engineers, L.
S. A.. from 1851 to 1866.
Ny. address is No. 1926 South
Twentythird, Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
Case Against the Dog.

Shenandoah, Ia. April 4.-To the
Editor of The Bee: l. l.. Edmands
seems to be of the same childish no.
ton that most children of about 6
to "A years of age have, that is, that
a cur dog is worth more than any
thing or anybody excepting of course
his own immediate family and that
if it was not for the dogs the viscious
wild animals, burglars, tramps and
criminals would take everything
worth having and make slaves of all
honest people or kill them or some
thing worse. Now I have no such
fear and have tried in vain to find
something that some dog would do
where the human effort required to
get the dog to perform said act was
not greater than the effort which
would have been necessary, for the
human 10 have done the useful part
which the dog performed, but on the
contrary have found the dog to be
a money and material loss as well
as waste of human effort to try
and train the dog to do anything
useful in a civilized community. 1t
may be that some dogs are useful in
war and for handling sheep, but my
experience in handling cattle has
been that it is oftener that the dog
proves TO be nuisance than help,
and as for burglars they are not
afraid of dogs, as one of our fellow
townsmen left cross bulldog locked
in his house and some burglars broke
into his house and stole the bulldog;
and who ever heard of a dog biting
a tramp? / have seen people try to
set a dog on tramp. but the dog
would never take hold of tramp.
AS soon as the dog gets its nose with
in three feet of tramp its bristles
will Immediately fall and it will wag
its tail as though it had found long
lost friend and be willing to follow
and obey him ever after. It may be
that dogs are really useful in the
Arctic and Antarctic regions to haul
sledges, &c, but in a city they are
undoubtedly a great nuisance and
they are such a destructive and filthy
beast that | will give $500 reward to
any one who will be instrumental in
eradicating them from an area of
two blocks each way from my resi-
dence. I believe Omaha has very
wise mayor when he recognizes the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
Around the Cities

Detroit is reported to have &C
cumulated 100000 quarts of booze,
| as result of the recent Ohio deluge.
Luckily the city's supply of clear
water is equal to the demand.
mot for $1,000" exclaimed taxi
driver in Chicago when requested
by the court to apologize to police
man. Defiance cost him s25. Still
some people think peace prevails by
the lakeside.
Sioux City building contractors
and bricklayers are wrangling over
the wage scale for the year. The
men demand 81 an hour and the
builders offer SIN cents an hour.
The argument promises a showdown
April !.
Public school facilities in Sioux
City have not kept pace with the
city's needs. The school board will
submit to the voters at the spring
election a 100000 bond PROPOSE
school buildings and equipment.
War among the fish dealers Of Gin.
cinnati caused slump in the price
of sea food and consumers hoped
the markets joyfully. The shift to
fish hit the egg market and prices
took the toboggan. When profiteers
fall out consumers get benefit.
Kansas City's chief Of detectives
reports that the Malta e9torted
more than 100000" from resident
Italians by Black Hand methods
during the last year. A reign of
terror grips Little Italy in conse-
quence and the, police authorities are
begged for protection and relief.
Philadelphia druggists are going
to the mat with the telephone people
April l. The druggists insist on the
existing split Of 30 per cent of the
receipts of the nay telephones in
their stores, which the company con-
siders too much Orders are out for
the removal of the phones and about
1000 are booked tc go.
New York City anticipates grow
ing rush of tourists from various
dry belts during the next four
months. and sees a rising scale of
prices for farewell souses. Little old
Chicago looks for considerable bust
ness in that line, and st. Louis, Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and Boston are
ripe for overflows. Go to it. You'll
be long time dry.
Sioux City and other Iowa munich
palities are in the same boat with
Nebraska communities. Both must
go to their respective state capitals
every two years to obtain permits
sion to do certain things or prevent |
certain things being pushed over.
Sioux City wants permission for a |
larger annual budget with which to
meet increased expenses, particular
ly pay increases for firemen and |
policemen.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

Bruning, Neb., April $40 the
Editor of The Bee: Will you please
answer in the columns Of The Bee
at your earliest convenience for the
benefit of an eighth grade pupil, who
is the chief justice of the supreme
court (nationaD, and was Hughes
chief justice at the time he resigned?
l say not. but others say he was.
AN EIGHTH GRADE PUPIL.
AnsWer-Edward Douglas White is
chief justice of the supreme court of
the United States; he was appointed
by President Taft in 1910. Charles
Evans Hughes was an associate JUS
tice of the supreme court of the
United States when he resigned to
accept the republican nomination for
president in 1915
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

You may have noted that the democrats
are now yelling loudly that the present legs-
lature is extravagant because it has made an
appropriation for new capitol building. Yet
every one of these critics knows that the build
ing is needed, and has been for years, and that
three democratic legislatures deliberately side
stepped the situation, and thereby made it that
much worse. Nebraska republicans will cheer
fully accept any responsibility for waste that
may be based on providing new state house
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

friends. And as II the birds knew
that the worms were awaiting them
a great flock was sweeping toward
her.
"Yo no, breakfast is ready" shout
ed Peggy, gaily. But to her sur
prise, the birds paid not the slight
est attention to her call Uttering
shrill cries of alarm and flying their
swiftest, they rushed past without
looking downward. They seemed in
a panic-like an army of refugees
fleeing from some grave peril.
"Yo no! Yo no! What's your
hurry" shouted Peggy, but not one
of the birds answered her. Old and
young, robins, orioles, bob-o- links.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

1t was quite thoughtful of the peace dele
gates at Paris to apprse the late chairman (by
right of seniority OF the senate's committee
on foreign relations of changes made in the
draft of the League of Nations constitution.
This will help him revise his speech and bring
it up to date, but it will not affect the attitude
of his paper, which has roundly abused all who
suggested any alteration OF the original docu-
ment which the president himself said was
merely tentative
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
"THE MYSTERIOUS KNIGHT"
CHA prE>p

d ALMY spring has come and all
~ the earth seemed busy and hap
Ply. Peggy. digging in her garden,
glowed with the Joy Of living. 1t
would be fun to plant her seeds,
more fun to watch the plants spring
forth from the ground, and the most
fun Of all to gather her ripened
vegetables in the summer and fall
AS her eager space turned over the
soft soil, dozens of worms were
brought into view.
MY. what a feast for the birds"
thought Peggy, raising her eyes to
search the sky for her feathered
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

Marse Henry Watterson is now back where
he started. free lance in journalism, but that
will not dim the brilliance of prestige in the
least He still retains the right, the exercise
of which has made him great, that of indepen-
dent personal views on whatever question is
presented. .....
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

dog nuisance, and I hope your city
council will be as wise and try to
eliminate the nuisance.
P. S.-Most stories Of the great
services performed by dogs are pure
bunk and should be classed with
fairy stories and Arabian knight
stories A. J. HEST.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

The Rainbow boys are on their way back
from the Rhine The sorrow is they did not
get to show themselves in Berlin That division
marching down Unter-den- Linden would have
had moral effect worth many days of speech
making and the like at peace conference.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

The code bill, now in its final stages of pas
sage, is intended to provide business admins
traton for Nebraska, and is being enacted to
redeem platform pledge. That is why it
worries the democrats, who did nothing to save
money when in control.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

Canucks returned from the battle front do
not take kindly to the home grown movement
for abolishing rum and tobacco. They have
imbibed definite notion of what liberty means,
and are not backward about expressing it,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

Efforts to get men who are needed at home
out of the army are in active movement, and the
boys are helping along by volunteering to 60
back and help finish the job. Thousands of
youngsters are showing an unselhsh patriotism
in this way that is encouraging.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

Railroad earnings for February show another
such deficit as must convince anybody of the
beauties of governmental operation of the trans
portation systems.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

General March warns discharged soldiers
that they must wear the red chevron with the
uniform. This may later be extended to in
clude the "conscobs.'
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07
FINE FOR RHEUMATISM
Musterole Loosens Up Those
Stiff .Joints-Drives Out Pain

You'll know why thousands use
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

American soldiers are exhibiting their pro-
olivity for gathering souvenirs in way that
irritates the Russians in Siberia. The foreigner
has some difficulty in understanding our peculiar
brand of democracy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-07

Doctors are now in pursuit of the specific
germ of lethargic encephalitis, and we hope
they have better luck than they did in their quest
for the flu bug It's great game if you don't
weaken