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Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
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as powerful as it has been in the
past, but is not as yet given up the
fight, and still seeks to impose its
will upon the American people. It's
aim Is to force upon the people the
intolerable conditions Of the past, be-
fore any organized effort was made
to break its strange hold.
In order that the efforts of the
plunderbund may result in harm
to the people it Is necessary that the
people themselves should be awake
to the danger that confronts them.
Labor recognizes the value of free
dom and knows that freedom and
liberty can be maintained only by
constant effort and eternal vigilance.
Strength does not come by wait
ing and tomorrow offers no better
chance to advance the cause than
does today. 1t will be no easier to
make the necessary sacrifice at
future time than to do it now. Every
moment of postponement weakens
the will to do and courage is lost
by delay. The time to do the work
required If the rights of the people
are to be preserved is now. This
should be the motto OF the union
men of this city. and can eb made a
winning motto II we can just wake
up.
All workers must realize that they
must be organized in order that eff
fective work man be DONE He who
is smugly satisfied with his own in
dividual place in the organization
and is not concerned with the gen.
eral welfare is a lagagrd. He must
wake up and help carry the gospel
of organization to those still without
the fold. He must impress upon the
unorganized worker his duty to the
movement for the betterment of the
workers as a whole. The critic and
complainer is merely a destruction
ist and he who looks on wrong and
evil without protest cannot complain
if wrong and evil flourish over him.
For democracy the war was fought
and for this cause our boys fought
and died on the bloody battlefields
of western France. BY the splendid
sacrifice OF labor the war was won,
and the foundation was laid for the
establishing Of democracy through
out the whole world. The effort
made and the blood shed must not
be allowed to have been in vain.
Democracy must triumph, and the
only true foundation for democracy
is justice to the worker, for only by
this means can democracy endure.
For the sake Of suffering human
ity, Wake Up!
MILTON L. HUNTER,
Vice president, Hog Butchers
local S3. A. NJ. G. & B. w. of A.
Affiliated with A. of l..
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
ITALY AND THE ApRIArIc.

All that Italy went into the war to obtain
is wrapped up in the issue between that coun-
try and the Jugoslavs. To get the correct per-
spective on this, certain historic facts should be
kept we'll in view. In 1861 Italy celebrated the
formation of nation from the various princi-
palities of the peninsula. This was more in
name than in fact, however. Rome did not
come under the rule of Italy's king until in
1870 the French troops, who upheld the tenn
poral power of the pope were removed to join
in the Franco-Prussian war.
In 1866 Prussia deserted Italy, then her ally
against Austria, and left considerable part of
what is unquestonably Italian territory under
Austrian domination. Later, to protect herself
against possible French aggression, result of
agitation in favor of restoring the papal king
dom Of Rome, Italy joined the Triple Alliance.
This did not quiet the desire for return Of the
unredeemed parts of the Italian kingdom Aus
tria noted this restlessness, and while Bismarck
and his, successors connived to embrol Italy
and France, the arch schemers at Vienna thrust
a wedge Of Jugoslavs into the region along the
east coast of the Adriatic, to racially overcome
the Latins there.
This was the situation when Italy entered
the war. Germany and its allies offered to
restore that part of Venetia still held by Aus
tria if the Italians remained neutral. England,
France and Russia promised all Of italia r.
dedenta." The nation proclaimed in 1861 was
really about to become one, but did not feel the
impulse in all its force until after the collapse
of Cadorna's army in the fall of 1917. Then,
awakening to the danger of treachery within
and foes without, the Italian people became
really a nation, its aspirations clearly ex-
pressed, and its determination fully established.
This is why no set of delegates or statesmen
dare return from Paris and tell the Italians
they have bargained away a portion of what
Italy went into the war to secure
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
Roll Call of Lame Ducks"

Nothing of novelty is to be noted in the
provisions made by a benefcent administra-
ton for the warehouses; of its party who failed
to secure votes enough to hold them in their
jobs. New places are always provided so that
the connection between the faithful and the
payroll may not be entirely severed. In the
present instance, the war has been a godsend
to the democrats, who enabled to line up
a very respectable "lame duck" parade through
situations or snecures growing out of the
war. In one day last week, eight of these were
given new jobs, including Senator Shafroth
Of Colorado, who has voted at his partys cali"
for 10, these many years He draws billet on
commission to have charge of paying losses
sustained by mining men in the production Of
chrome, manganese, pyrites and tungsten for
war purposes" 1t will not be hard for COM
mission to find out who did and who did not
sustain such losses, but how long will it
keep up?
Then, Ed Heating of Colorado lands job
on the commission to begin" the reclassifca-
ton of salaries in the District of Columbia.
This job pays S025 month, and will last as
long as the commission can string out e.worlz
Hamlin of Missouri and Cooper of Wisconsin,
the latter republican who won democratic
favor by his embargo amendment to the armed
neutrality BILL will share with Heating the
arduous work. Swagar Shirley of Kentucky
draws the prize plum, $4,000 job with the
railroad administration.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

General" Jacob S. Coxey Of Mas
silon, O., breaks into print OCCASION
ally, forming a few embers Of the
fires of publicity which famed about
| him a quarter of century ago.
Being q man of means, reputed to
be q millionaire and having visionary
victims on public questions, little
difficulty is experienced in getting
into print on dull days. Just now
the General Is projecting a cele-
bration of the silver anniversary Of
the march of "Coxey's-e army" on
Washington. The start was made
from Massilon, March 25, 1894. and
finished at Washington, April 80,
Some time between these dates the
celebration will come off, and no
sign of keep off the grass will mar
the Historic occasion" Eleven
years after the march Coxy went
through bankruptcy court, wiped
out embarrassing debts and subse-
quently "came back with a fat
purse. ....
While General Co1ey won the
spotlight all along the time of March
the real leader and manager of the
ragged army was Col. Carl Browne,
picturesque agitator from San
Francisco, a pal and associate shout
er of Dennis Kearney of Sand Lots
fame. Browne affected the buck
skin costume of the stage western
and acted the part when his batal-
lions kicked for better rations. 1t
was Browne who staged the ruse
which misled the national capital
police and enabled Coxey to reach
the steps of the building as planned.
Subsequently Browne married Cox
ey's daughter, took up his home in
California and became prosperous
family man.
Major General Sir Frederick Bar
ton Maurice Of the British war Of
flee, who is now visiting the United
States, rendered distinguished SER
vice in the world war as well as in
Britain's little wars in the past rs
years. Entering the army in 1892
he became a captain in 1899. a major
in 1911 and a lieutenant colonel in
1913. Promotion and medals came
to him for service in the Tirah cam
paign and in the Boer war. During
the world war he was chief director
war Office and was rewarded with
the Order Of KnIghthood.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, who Is
the principal figure at the Suffrage
Jubilee convention at st. Louis is a
native Of Ripon, Wis, and a grad
uate of the State Industrial college
of Iowa. Law was her first choice
Of profession and she studied law
for that purpose, but teaching open
ed more remunerative doors for her
talent. In a few years she rose to
the rank of general superintendent
of the schools Of Mason City and
there laid the foundation of her
subsequent career as orator and or
ganizer. In 1890 she became state
organizer for the Iowa Woman Stuff
rage association and two years later
was drafted into the national and
international organizations. She has
lectured in hundreds Of cities in the
United States and Europe and sew
eral in Asia.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
BY DADDY

(In this story Peggy and Billy solve .
kidnapping mystery in which they find
old friends involved.)
CHAPTER 1.
The kidnapping.
NHRILL cries, coming from the
- house next door. halted Peggy
~ and Billy in their evening play.
Help! Police! Send for a de-
tective!" shrieked various voices.
What an awful row! The boy
who howls must be having a ter
rible tantrum!" exclaimed Peggy.
HE ought to be spanked" declar-
ed Billy Belgium. Then he listened
intently to the confusion. But ]
don't hear his howl in all that noise.
must be really wrong this
time"
Just then a servant rushed from
the house, nearly knocking over a
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
CENTER SHOTS

Minneapolis Tribune: With a sal
airy Of $250,000, it Is no wonder
President Ebert Of the German re-
public puts up stiff fight to hold his
job.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: 1t is
worth the country's while to keep
the railroads from going into the
pork barrel with public buildings
and rivers and harbors.
Detroit Free Press: Important as
1t may be at a later date the question
of the hour is not who caused the
war or what to do with William
Hohenzollern. The question is to get
a peace treaty signed so the world
can return to economic sanity.
Kansas City Star: Nearly every
one in Washington, and nearly every
legislature in the United States, is
searching about for means to raise
more revenue. There are many is
sues abroad. but the one receiving
Of more revenue" A business con-
Germ would have tried reducing ex-
penses long before this. The plan
may occur to the government
agencies some day.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
A PLACE CALLED HOME.

You long to live in Paris;
Jack wants to visit Rome,
But shall hit tho highroad
For . place called HomA
I used to hate the farming
When was Just . boy.
And wanted to go forever
From the state Of illinois,
But have been In Flanders
Where land was plowed instead
With shells. and In the burrows
Shone little pool Of red.
I used to feel that father
Was pretty hard on me;
That mother might have understood
The longing to be free.
But when you've been through fighting
And gas, and bomb. and shot,
You know q fellows people
Mean . devil Of . lot .
So you can stay in Paris,
And Jack can visit Rome,
But shall hit the highroad
For . place called-Home.
NAN REED. in Leslie'a
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
Locating the Trouble.

Omaha, March 22.-To the Editor
Of The Bee: 1t Is somewhat anus
ing to see the proposals from Ger
tain sources" for the Starting Of q
building boom in Omaha"
It is not lumber, nor brick, nor
stone, nor lime and sand that COM
prise the real raw material for the
construction Of buildings. It is land,
The higher land goes. the fewer ne"-
pie will own it, and the more diff
cult it will be to employ labrr t''
capital in the erection Of buildings.
Yet there are men so absurd as to
congratulate the people upon the
fact that business sites are selling
for 81 900 per front foot, and farms
at from $500 to $500 per acre. 1
wonder if these same people would
felicitate the shoemaker on the in
crease of the price Of leather, or the
carpenter on the high cost Of lum-
Der, or the bricklayer on the diff
Guilty Of finding bricks.
Land Is the raw material from
which is drawn all the things that
go to satisfy human want. Land is
the raw material from which cities
are built, and on which all the in
situations of man must rest When
ever any man renders service to an
other man for the use of anything
which that other has not produced
and for which that other renders no
service in return he is a slave-for
slavery Is nothing more nor less than
the condition of one rendering to
another a form of, involuntary SER
vice for which he receives no return.
Let those who have the land on
which houses must be erected put
that land on the market at a figure
that will justify it, and building will
follow The contrary, however, is
the rule. The more building is at
tempted the higher will soar the
value of land. Yet this must be so
long as the people sustain a dis
honest tax system that Furnishes en-
terprise and rewards Incidence.
l.. j. QUINBY.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

A group of radicals cheering anarchistc
Sentiment and clamoring against the govern
ment is not sign that America is in the hands
Of the bolsheviki any more than it was true
thirty-odd years ago, when the Haymarket
rioters threw bombs among the police and the
bystanders. 1t simply is continuing proof that
free government is inevitably accompanied by
lunacy
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

Paris newspapers are having their troubles
with the censors over the peace conference, but
the official blotter-out of thought no more
douse the spirit of the French editors than
could the kaiser daunt the poilu. Some day the
real history of this remarkable gathering will
be written and it will be worth waiting for.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

policeman who was running UP to
see what the racket was about.
"Oh, Mr.. Policeman, come quick
kidnapping mystery In which they find
ly," cried the servant. Reginald
has been kidnapped"
That news startled Peggy and Bill
ly, Reginald Jones' Brown was the
right name of the Boy Who Howls.
But only his family called him Reg
inald. Every one else knew him as
"Howler."
They named him that because
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

A Nebraska man proposes model farm COM
munities As memorial to Theodore Roosevelt.
Such tribute would be appropriate for the
man who did 90 much as president to set on
foot the work of reclamation of arid lands and
extending the productive area of the United
States.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
SMILING LINES.

She--Look at that sour-faced old maid
who has been sitting in one place trying
to find out what the couples coming near
her are saying. Isn't she a regular sport
spelling wallflower?
Ee-I would call her rather q rub
Der plant,-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

The democratic member of the legislature
who did not bring forward bill during the
session has an opportunity to help the state
in other ways. He can help to kill some that
others brought in
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

"Charley" Wooster and his Merrick Farmers
Union have gone record as opposed to good
roads, but this will hardly stop the movement
and the men who voted for the resolutions will
share in the benefit that comes from improved
HIGHWAYS
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

II that League of Constitutions is subject to
amendment by so many other nations, folks
will wonder why Americans could not have
word to say about fixing it over.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

Income tax receipts so far are said to exceed
last years collections by Is per cent Small
wonder, when the basic rate was increased three
Zines, and all others raised.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
Wake Up.

Omaha, March 21-To the Editor
of The Bee: The world war is over
so far as guns and ammunition go,
but the war for the freedom of man
kind has Just begun The voice of
industrial autoCracy is heard very
often in recent days. Its voicing
can be construed in but one way, and
that is that it intends to try for re-
juvenation. It had been badly bat
tered by the forces of justice during
the war. and its status now is not
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

Let US hope the mass meeting to discuss
the building situation gets at bottom facts with
breaking anything.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

Lumber dealers have met in Washington to
determine what may be done in the way of let
ting down prices. This ought to encourage
Omaha folks
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

ever had was IN getting out the Unite6
States casualty lists."-Lifs.
$50 this 10 your famous Beacon streetf"
said Mayor x, as he strolled with his
friend along past the state house. Frank
ly, I'm surprised I had always heard
that It was very exclusive street, you
know"
well, 30 II u.s." said the other man.
"Eh. old chap, how can you say sor
Why 1t fairly verges on the Common
Boston Transcript
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

At any rate, mistake exists as to the fact
that an army truck was being used to handle
contraband BOOZE This starting point ought
to make the rest of it easy for the military
authorities
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

time he wants to give his version of the secre
Stacker" instructions.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

English soldiers are marching in triumph
through streets of London, but it would be more
impressive if they paraded down Unter-den-
Linden.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

Sir Horace Plunkett says the Irish question
must be settled in Ireland. This will strike
most people az being the right place.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

One OF the great difficulties about bringing
down prices is that nobody wants to start
cutting first
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

At that. the man who captured first prize
for his definition of love has left the world in
doubt as to what it really is.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

The Wilsonan democrats are. still busy
reading Champ Clark out of the party, but the
old boy will take a lot Of chasing before he is
wholly gotten rid Of
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

Thick and thin supporters of the president
are having some trouble just now to keep up
with the various turns of gossip from Paris.
II may Be we'll to wait till the verdict is in after
; n e ~. -.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

NO" cried Peggy. This looks
very suspicious to me. Some Of our
friends may be mixed up in 1t. We
must try to find who the members
of the Black Hoof are"
tTomorrow will be told how Peggy and
Billy go out into the night to search for
tho kidnapers)
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

"Promptness Is essential"
Then I know I can't fill the position"
sighed the returned soldier, as he started
to leave the room. "All the training l
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

In plain words, the conditions at the Geneva
School for Girls are disgrace to Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

+ Ak-Sar-Ben's determination to give an ex-
position instead of a carnival indicates real
Progress.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

Our navy is getting ready to start cross
ocean flight. Where are the army brdmens
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
IODAY]
The Day We Celebrate.

Rev. Edward Hart jerks, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church. born 1862.
N: P. Dodge, real estate, born 1872.
Claude kitchin, representative in congress Of
the Second North Carolina district, born at
Scotland Neck, N. c.. so years ago.
Charles A. Kennedy, representative In con-
gress of the First Iowa district, born at Mon
trose, Iowa, so years ago.
DR.. Aven Nelson, president of the University
of Wyoming, born I'M Lee County, Iowa, 80
years ago.
Garrett P. Serviss, wel-known author and
scientist, born at Sharon Springs, N. Y, IS
years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
Let 1t Go At That.

BurWeH, Neb., March Ito the
Editor of The Bee: I notice in your
various editorials with reference to
the League of Nations you are given
to public doubling as to whether the
people believe in the constitution OF
the League Of Nations.
Well, next time you have doubt
of that kind just remember that here
at least is one person who has faith
in Wilson and Lloyd George. Who
does not believe that the Knox
Lodge-Penrose bunch have the good
Of the world in mind when they OPP
pose that constitution. M. c. MEAD.
Have You Investigated All?
Omaha, 4102 North Twenty
third Street, March 81, 1919.-To
the Editor of The Bee: Possibly
there can be no good come from my
writing you concerning your well-es-
tablished policy against law enforce
ment, but at any rate it will be a
relief to my pent up feelings in the
matter. l know that some of the
public believe as I do about your
policy and 1 have no doubt that a
very large part of the public, al
though readers Of your paper are
absolutely disguised because your
paper seizes every opportunity posi-
BILE to misrepresent and criticize the
police department or other law en-
forcing body, while you, at the same
time, have not one word of condem-
nation of the criminals who are the
object Of capture. l need mention
only a few of the many instances:
The capture by shooting of des-
perate young criminal night before
last, the capture of the soldier with
out leave and the Willard bootlegging
incident. The misrepresentation in
your news columns are indeed repre-
hensible and seem to oppose law
enforcement. 1t seems you would
have the peace officer meet and cap
ture the DESPERATE criminals only
with soft words.
There is a new order of things in
Omaha and 1t stands for law and
order even though drastic measures
must be used. / know that there is
general dissatisfaction by the people
in Omaha because 1t has no news
paper that is big and broad enough
to always be fair and square in it's
news columns with the public. 1t
is not a matter Of merely doing the
peace officers Justice, but it is q
matter of being just with the public.
I hope you will see 1t in this light.
E. L. IRELAND.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24
In Omaha 80 Years Ago.

The Newman NJ. E. church on St Marys ave-
nue., was formally opened by Bishop Newman
and Rev. Ensign, who will be the pastor.
DOC" Ware, King of the Cards" enter
tanned the Press club which expects to have Bill
Nye and ]. Whitcomb Riley as its guests next
week.
Residents of North Sixteenth street secured
an injunction to stop the several street railway
companies from laying tracks on that
thoroughfare. The companies had their men
all ready to start midnight drive.
Dick O'Keefe and Pat 0. Halves have been
politicking in the South Omaha city election.
the thief who stolGhis horse and phaeton from
in front Of the First CONGREGATIONAL church.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-24

Get into the garden game. 1t pays.
The Washington herald., 1919-10-03

There Is nothing that people COM
plain about more bitterly than they
do about losing love.
Ny husband no longer loves me, A."
walls the heartbroken wife.
My friends no longer love me"
complain the lonely.
No one loves me. No one wants
me. I am left desolate and forlorn. -
cry the old.
And the loveless invariably attribute
their misfortunes to the sins of others.
1t apparently never occurs to then,
that the fault Is theirs, and that
when those who have once loved US
cease to love US 1t Is because we
have become uniovable.
The loudest lamentations over lost
love are those Of neglected wives.
These consider themselves the victims
Of the perndy and faithlessness of
man. and this view Of the subject
10 generally shared by the whole fem
mime sex.
Such a woman never asks herself
she 10 presenting the same line
OF attractions to her husband that
first caught his fancy. When she
we SoohS sAc ~ds pfctly anQ neat
Perhaps as a wife she has grown
slouchy and careless Of her appear
apce. As a girl she was gay and
good-humored and companionable. As
wife she Is whiny and complaining
and fauithnding and nagging, and
about as pleasant a companion as a
wet blanket stuck full Of nettles.
When We lose our friends We srow
cynical over the lack OF loyalty In
humanity. We never look into our
own souls and ask ourselves what
we have done to ALLEVIATE the affec-
ton Of those who have once loved
us. or what there is in US to attract
anyone to US at the present moment
When we were young We drew peo-
pie to US by our enthusiasms, By
our high spirits, by our interest In
everything that was happening. by