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Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-29

What would the sugar men have done for an
alibi if the country had not gone dry?
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-29

Andrew Carnegie is credited with having
given away $350,000000 Only few enjoy this
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-29
Miss Emily Hubeny
Tells How Cuticurs
Healed Pimples
Being forced to perform outdoor
work I was troubled with heat pimples

M> over my hands, face and
neck. The pimples weres
H=x very hard and red and were
in great blotches. Ibecame
a sufferer Of severe itching
and loss Of sleep. Scratch
81 ing burst the pimples and
coating of scales came
over the irritated places that caused
great Disagreement.
This trouble lasted two months
and then used Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. found that they relieved
me and l used four cakes Of Soap
with three boxes Of Ointment when
Twas healed" (signsd) Miss Emily
Hubeny, Rolling Stone, MINI.
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Tai
cum are all you need for all toilet
uses Battle with Soap, soothe with
Ointment, dust with Talcum.
Soap Csc, Ointment rs and SOC, Talcum
Csc. Sold throughout the world. For
sample each free address: "cuti<ura Lab
eratories, Dept. H. Maiden. Mass"
- Caticura Soap shaves without mug.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-29
TODAY
The Day We Celebrate.

James J. Fitzgerald, secretary Of the Com
mercial Savings and Loan association, born
1862
Alfred G. E1ck, lawyer, born 1878.
Willard Eddy, attorney at-law, born l845.
Most Rev. Sebastian G. Messmer, archbishop
of Milwaukee, born in Switzerland, II years
ago
Byron P Harrison, junior United States sem
-ator from Mississippi, born at Crystal Springs.
Miss, 50 years ago.
RI Hon. Andrew Fisher former prime min
lister of Australia, born in Scotland, 81 years
ago.
John H. Small, representative in congress
of the First North Carolina district, born at
Washington N. c., 81 years ago.
Charles J. Glidden. one of the first makers
of automobiles in America. born at Lowell,
Mass, e. years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-29
,ou should know that

Somebody's getting it. but who9
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-29
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.

room 308 New York Life building, to elect
new officers.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Westminster
Presbyterian church gave pink social at the
home of Mrs. William Randall, 800 Park ave-
nue.. The lawn was lighted by Chinese Ian
terms and every guest was presented with
bouquet of pink flowers.
The marriage of Dr. James w. Mexican and
Laura B. Wilson, both of Walnut Hill, took
place at the residence of the brides parents.
J.. A. McDougall and Miller Borglum have
gone on a hunting trip into western Nebraska
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-29

The - - swims far out at sea,
Trace the lines to fifty-three.
Draw from to and so on to the end.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-29

I'm the next installment will be told the
story of a jolly race in Birdland.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
Shortage of NeWSprint
IErnrn tho Man, va.,- na,1 :,

lF'rom the New York Herald.
There is no exaggeration in the as
sertions made by manufacturers and
by publishers in attendance upon the
special meeting of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association.
held in this city, that the supply of
newsprint in sight falls far short
OF the actual need as measured by
present day demands. 1t is signi-
ficant that representatives Of tbe
publishers, who have conducted an
exhaustive investigation into the sit
uation, agree that the responsibility
Tor this shortage does not lie with
the manufacturers of newsprint.
in their resolutions, unanimously
adopted, the members of the A. N. p.
A. urge that publishers in all parts
or the country-tLe publishers of
small city, town and country news
papers as we'll as those of the large
cities" materially increase advertise
ing and subscription rates and at the
same time limit the size of ther
issues"
The limitation of the size of the
newspapers is the chief desideratum,
since that alone will contribute to
the reduction in paper consumption
which must be brought about if hun
country are not to find themselves
unable to publish because of lack of
the raw material for their finished
product.
The daily newspaper at two cents
and the Sunday newspaper at five
cents are to-day the cheapest COM
modities which the public can pur-
chase. Taking into account not only
the high cost of newsprint but also
the very heavy increases in the cost
Of mechanical production which pub
fishers have to meet, the price of
newspapers is ridicu1ously low.
Unless the radical reforms recon-
mended by the A. N. p. A. are adopt
ed bv all newspapers publishers ii
is only question of time when the
public will be compelled to pay ten
cents for the large Sunday issues aid
perhaps five-certainly three-cents
for the daily issues.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
The RiUdlS
ByB BRIGGS

o Amy, how are you? Such pleas
ure, my dear,
To run across you while I'm shop
ping down here!
What rivals we were in the dead
Used to Bel"
Come cross the street and have
luncheon with me.
You're changed, of course, Amy
All, thank you, dear; yes,
My family all say I'm so young in
this dress!
Yes, table for two, please. We're
lucky, I'll say,
To get nice corner at this time of
day
How well I remember that night at
the dance,
When first you gave Kenneth your
languishing glance!
1 hated you! Hated your pink and
white face.
And your gauzy doll dress with it's
ruffles and lace.
And wished that my eyes were a
heavenly blue,
And that could be dainty and timid
like you.
I tried 1t. The next time Ken came
to the house,
I grew quite hysterical over a mouse!
Ken looked at me queerly and said,
Good Lord, Kate,
Now what in the mischief has
changed you of late?"
oh, Amy, I'd love you, had you now
the power
To rouse the fierce hatred of that
tragic hour!
It's quite too absurd, over salad and
tea,
To be sitting here smiling in such
callous glee,
Yes, only last Monday saw Ken
meth King,
And, Amy, he's fat and baldheaded,
poor thing!
And Mabel is wrinkled and frowsy
and old;
AS a beautiful charmer, her days
were soon told.
Oh, don't you know Mabel? Why
Kenneth, poor dear,
Has been married to Mabel this
many year! EFF. A.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
(COntinued.)'

(Continued.C
The year / came to Harrisburg,
1879, the entire cost of operating
the Harrisburg schools was $7O,-
730.79. Twenty-Five years ago 1t had
risen to $116,9 6,976.19, and in 1918
1t was s541,5S9.41. This year partly
because of the much greater cost OF
the intermediate schools, and partly
because of the very considerable IN
creases in salaries and other
charges, the cost will be over $780,
600. The schools are costing ten
times as much now as they did forty
years ago, although the populatlon
has not quadrupled.
The percentage of our school
population attending the high
schools is very high as compared
with other cities. Ten years ago the
percentage was about nine. now 1t Is
about sixteen. This is very signifi-
cant as indicating the avidity with
which our young people are taking
advantage Of the educational oppor-
tunities afforded them.
Simply as pointing to the progress
the district is making generally, 1t
NAV be noted that this year for the
first time in its history the district
has a budget, and last year the
board established a property depart
ment and employed a superintend-
ent to manage it, and q purchasing
, department with a qualified head.
This and other innovations should
mark q distinct advancement and
result in a more economical ex-
penditure of public moneys and a
better coordination of their expen-
diture.
Our public schools are good. In
equipment and facilities we must be
far ahead of most cities of our class.
It is obvious that in this respect we
have made great strides. Indeed, I
have no particle of doubt that larg-
er proportion of the young people OF
Harrisburg are getting better edu-
| cation now in our public schools
than has ever before been afforded
by any schools, public or private,
in the history of the city. If there
is any danger before us at the mo-
| ment that needs to be guarded
against 1t is possibly that, as before
the war we were drifting fast to-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
THE TREATY

n HANY things have contributed
M to the failure of the Peace
Treaty to receive the approval
of the United States Senate, and
there have been errors in many di-
rections and too much politics on
both sides, but back of it all the
seeker for responsibility will run
upon this fact. from whatever angle
he may start:
That President Wilson could have
avoided nearly every difficulty and
a treaty suitable to all concerned
would now be in force IL he had
taken to France with him repre-
sentatives of the Senate and at least
one member of the Republican side
to consult with him in regard to the
wishes and opinions of the body that
he knew must ultimately pass upon
the finished document.
Senator Lodge boasts that the
Senate has killed the treaty. but
whether it is dead or not, the blow
that laid it low was delivered by the
President himself when he decided
to make it one-man agreement.
One-man government never did
have the approval of the people of
America and it never will. One
mans opinion as to what is good
for the Nation with respect to its
international relations and obliga-
tions cannot be forced upon the
country. If the President is really
desirous of saving any portion of
the treaty he will have to make con-
cessions. If he can satisfy a ma
jority of the Republicans of the
Senate and continue to hold the
whip over the usual number of
Democrats, he may be able to get
the treaty through in some form at
the regular session of Congress
opening in December. II he will
not yield on any points he certainly
cannot complain if others are
equally hard-headed.
The fate of the treaty lies in the
Presidents hands now, just as 1t
has from the very beginning and as
it will continue to do until it is
finally disposed of one way or
another.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
LET'S KEEP THEM

TJHE President should not hesi-
tate for a moment as to what
shall be done with the I'm
perator and other ocean liners taken
from the Germans and turned over
10 the United States Government at
the time the armistice was signed.
The United States needs those
ships. England wants them, but we
have them and we should keep
them. Great Britain now is owner
Of some hundred ships built in
America during the war and sold by
the Shipping Board. With the
United States needing every ship
that can be put into the water, our
Government turned over to the
British 100 cargo carriers that
should now be under the American
nag. That ought to be about
enough. The German liners should
remain permanently under the Stars
hnd Stripes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21

ward a materialistic educational
basis-the kind upon which the
German Empire made shipwreck-
we may now place undue emphasis
upon things that money may buy,
and unwisely and wastefully, from the
point of view of good housekeeping
and fine educational ideals. be dis
posed to discard what is a little old
and go after something that is new
and different. The war has seemed
to leave us somewhat confused and
limited in our capacity for clear
thinking, and before we get both
feet onto the ground again there
may develop a tendency to extrava-
gance in, building and equipping
school houses, carrying these be-
yond the real requirements of our
young people for the best education
that money and effort can supply.
We can get along very we'll for
two years more without begin
ming any new building construction,
except an addition to the Steele
building.
AS have said, our public schools
are good. They can be made better.
They are what we are satisfied with.
They will be better when we want
them to be better. We will want
LneIn 10 DS DelIeT WueH we TedllLS
their supreme importance. If they
shall develop as rapidly in quality
as they should, there must be u
greater interest among our people,
manifested by a greater willingness
to lend a hand in the development
of the schools and a more kindly
and sympathetic criticism of their
administration. Our schools are bet
ter than they were twenty-five years
ago, as they were better then than
they were twenty-five before, but
they are not nearly as good as they
ought to be. They are not finished,
for, like democracy itself, they
never can be finished. A real ex-
cellence of anything that has life in
it is its augury of greater worth
and power. and this is true of our
public school system. What can be
more inspiring to the patriotic Har-
risburger than a vision OF the posi-
bilities of our public schools from the
basis of their present achievement?
(The End.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
Helium Gas For Balloons

The Navy Department is building
at Fort Worth, Tex, a huge plant
for the manufacture of helium gas.
The output will be for the use of
the army and navy to fill balloons.
1t takes about forty thousand
cubic feet of gas to fill an ordinary
observation balloon, such as is en-
ployed for directing gunfire. For q
big military dirigible the require
ment is from two million to three
million cubic feet.
Hence the obvious Importance of
making the product cheap. A year
and half ago it cost $1,7O0 n cubic
foot to manufacture. Later, it de-
creased to $50. Today, it is very
much cheaper; but nobody will say
how much 1t costs, because of rapid
change as processes are developed.
Natural gas in the region about
Fort Worth contains ~ per cent
helium. Thus. there is plenty of it,
but the problem is to separate it
without too much expense. Expert
ments have hardly more than begun
and experts think that possibly
helium gas may yet be made avail
able at 25 cents per one thousand
cubic feet.
If this can be brought about
tIlC llSAI LC" gCoiS we oIldkl
live to see regular air lines of di-
rigible balloons operating. for freight
and passenger service, between New
York and Chicago and other i'm
portant points, even across the con-
tinent.
The all important point is that
helium is perfectly safe. 1t will not
burn and cannot explode. Dirigible
balloons in the war were rendered
of small account by incendiary pro-
jectiles, which set them on fire.
One spark, to ignite the hydrogen,
and the biggest airship became al
most instantly a mass of flame.
In the next war military and naval
balloons will be relatively invulner-
able. because they cannot be set
afire. They will play, therefore, a
vastly greater part than in the recent
conflict. But in the meantime
helium gas may revolutionize trans
portation, rendering commercial air
ships fireproof.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
Make Glass Rule Impossible

[From Philadelphia InQuirer1
Charles E. Hughes, with his usual
clearness and foresight, points out
the importance of providing suitable
legal machinery for industrial JUS
tice. He Is sure that this must be
done, at least in the case of those
vital enterprises upon which our life
depends. He has no doubt that the
apostles of violence will be silenced;
meters to disorder and revolution
frustrated; law and order preserved
and an inflexible demand for loyalty
on the part of officials voiced by the
people. All of these things are
needed, but with them there should
also be some legal form of meeting
and adjusting labor disputes, or at
least labor disputes in which all of
the people have an intimate and
living concern.
This same thought was voiced in
a slightly different manner the other
day by Franklin Roosevelt, Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy. Being a
Roosevelt, he was bound to put vigor
and punch into his views, but he did
not halt at mere boards of arbitra-
ton. He insisted that we should
have courts-industrial courts, If
you will-in which both sides to a
dispute might get a hearing. and a
decision that would be binding on
both sides.
Here, therefore, we have two re-
spected public men, belonging on
different sides of the political fence,
but both advocating a measure in
tended for the general good. 1t
stands to reason that the PROPOSE
tion which comes from men of this
character must be both fair and
practical. 1t is a big step forward
to be sure, but 1t Is the natural out
come of the chaotic conditions
which have prevailed since the war
1t is one of the things prompted by
the unusual Industrial situation, but
there is no reason why a remedy
which would solve existing troubles
would not be good also for normal
times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
A Language of Grunts

An italian missionary to Central
Africa has found tribe which uses
q language that cannot be written
or recorded. The Bacongo tribe has
handed down all its history from
generation to generation by words
of mouth, as the language is COM
posed of queer sounds which, to a
European ear, seem to be a varia-
No one has yet discovered the
means of interpreting these sounds
into letters or signs. The codes of
morals and governments are ex-
pressed in proverbs. The motto OF
the tribe is: wherever man has
passed, misery follows"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
TWO EXTREMES

RYETTHER the Esch railroad bill
IN passed by the House or the
Cummins bill in the Senate are
desirable measures from the stand.
point of their strike provisions. The
Esch bill leaves the situation pre-
eissly where it is; the Cummins bill
eocliskly tries to take from the
bEcrkman the strike privilege. Be-
Tween the two lies sanity in the set
Element of labor difficulties and the
protection for the public.
It Is highly desirable, indeed wei
nigh necessary, that coal mining
raiiroading and the like be continued
without interruption. To leave the
opportunity for strikes as open as Il
Is now would be criminal; to try tc
take away the right to strike woulC
be to rob the working man of 6
weapon which he feels he must kav,
- = last resort The Teasonabl,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
PROSPERITY, IF

/" HE steel industry. a basic busi-
ness by which the barometer of
trade may be fairly well read,
is booking many orders for 1920 de-
livery and the outlook is extremely
bright.
Next year will be one of wonderful
prosperity for the United States,
if
Capital and labor can settle their
differences and get down to work,
or even IL they can only declare an
armistice.
Greed or stupid stubbornness on
either side may make of the now
promising 1920 a nightmare on the
calendar Of years.
Next year will be prosperous,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
EDITORIAL COMMENT

with a rum punch gripped in
one hand and a cigaret in the other,
and a song on his lips"-that's the
way a story about the Prince of
Wales in Halifax begins. No Won
der he intends to limit his stay in
the United States to ten days.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Stamps are sticking better, infiu-
enced perhaps by Mr.. Burleson's ex-
ample.-Boston Herald.
No anti-Red ordinance will COM
mand popular support in Cincinnati
at this time.-New York Sun.
Nowadays even an inferior grade
of pottage costs almost your entire
Observation-Disclosures City Star.
We fought for freedom. and now
we have so much of 1t that we don't
know how to handle it.-Asheville
Times.
There can't be so much unrest at
present among organized workers
So many of them are resting
Brooklyn Eagle.
One big trouble with the labor
movement is the fact that we have
too many cabooses and not enough
engines.-Railroad World.
A republic is form of govern
ment in which the majority get Of
least two guesses as to which mi
nority will rule them next.-New
York Evening Sun.
Senator Williams says the British
empire has six voices but only one
vote" Sort of a parallel to HI
Johnson's status in the Senate
Little Rock Arkansas Gazette.
Perhaps the relatives of the mas
sacred Armenians may find some
comfort in the report that an Ameri-
can dentist has been in attendance
on the Sultan of Turkey.-New
York Morning Telegraph.
Hiram johnson says that Article
x of the League Covenant would
place the world in straight-jacket
Judging by what the world has beer
doing these past five years we'll say
that straight-jac is highly ad.
visable.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
LOWER FLOUR PRICES

A ENCOURAGEMENT by julius H.
n Barnes, director of the United
States Grain Corporation, that
In about three weeks the Govern
ment will put on the market a good
grade OF pure wheat flour, made
from the finest wheat, at about two
rents a pound cheaper retail than is
quoted at present in the New York
iair price committees list of foods
and prices, will be happily received
by multitudes looking for some re-
lief in the almost intolerably high
prices for all manner of food es-
sentials.
This prospect of cheaper flour is
made possible by the large stocks
now on hand. Ten million barrels
more were in stock on November !
Of this year than at the same time
In 1918 and exports were just about
equal to those of a year ago.
These official figures show how
groundless were the -four shortage
rumors circulating all over the
country = few weeks ago, which
drove thousands of timid persons
to the grocery stores to stock ur
tor the winter. Just how these false
reports started it is difficult to un-
derstand in the light of the state
ments OF the Grain Corporation
officials. Like most rumors, they
have been proved false, which
should be a lesson for those willing
always to believe any wild story that
comes along.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-Ex-Governor John K. Tener has
been speaking in behalf of the Elks
campaign in Pittsburgh and is
quoted as saying that prohibition has
helped the order as well as many
others.
Charles M. Schwab is to speak
at the Carnegie memorial in Pitts
burgh.
Col. George Nox Mccain, the
correspondent, has been writing a
series of character sketches of the
big labor leaders now in the lime
light.
Herbert Hoover, the former food
administrator, has been visiting in
Philadelphia.
M. Hampton Todd. former At
torney General, has startled Phila-
delphia by some sharp criticisms of
the handling of the Johnson art be-
quest.
pr. IT. S. Arbuthnot, Pittsburgh
medical man, army surgeon and hun
ter, is home from British Columbia
with stories of splendid big game
hunting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
What Is q Tidal WdUe?

A tidal wave. odd as it might seem,
has nothing whatever to do with
the tides. Any great onrush of the
sea that overwhelms the land is
called a tidal wave. In 1857 such
a wave threw the United states
cruiser Monongahela clear out of the
harbor and into the town of Fried
richstadt, on the island of Santa
Cruz.
Such waves may be due to various
causes. They may represent
heaping up of masses of water by
hurricane of wind. Or an earth
quake under the sea may be the
cause.
Submarine volcanic eruptions are
of not very infrequent occurrence,
and earthquakes are likely to ac-
company them. Or a mere slipping
of strata in the sea floor may cause
earthquakes. If. incidentally to the
volcanic or seismic disturbance, one
part of the sea floor sinks or another
part rises, there must be a conse-
quent rush of water, which may as
sumo the proportions of what is
called q tidal wave.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
What PerShing Did Say

In the Home Sector Hudson
Hawley writes of General Pershing:
1T is worth noting that the gen.
eral never did actually utter, La
fayette, nous VOLTA any more than
Clemenceau ever really said of the
Fourteen Points, And the good Lord
Himself had only tent
Neither did he say, All that we
have is yours in just those words.
though he made his famous offer to
Marshall Foch right enough. But
he did say. to representative of the
Federal Council of Churches, way
back in December, 1917: Germany
can be beaten, Germany must be
beaten. Germany will be beaten
And that he says, laughing
is about the only thing that I've
been credited with saying that ]
ever really did say.'s