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Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-06
Believe Man Shot
In K. c. Gun Fight
To Be ''Frisco Pete

Henry Wegworth, alias Frisco
Pete. who issued a defy to Omaha
police to capture him alive, is be-
lieved to be the man who fought a
gun battle with police in Kansas
City, Mo-, Saturday night. according
to word received here from police
of that city. The man was shot in
the ankle while attempting to es'
cape. -.
He refuses to reveal his true iden.
tity, but papers found on him indi.
cate that Ne came from Omaha. A
city detective has gone 70 Kansas
City in an effort to identify the man
Wegworth escaped from Deputy
Sheriff Johnson of Douglas county
three weeks ago while being
brought to Omaha to answer a
charge of burglary in connection
with the "highjacking" of the home
of Charles Storz, 1901 Writ street.
Invented by a Nebraska man, a
new attachment for electric washing
machines converts them into elec'
trically heated mangles, capable o!
= -,
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-06

Word reached Omaha yesterday
that President Wilson had renomi-
mated Thomas ]. Flynn for another
term as United States marshal for
district of Nebraska. Although the
nomination must be approved by the
United States senate it is practically
the same as an appointment.
Mr.. Flynn has served as marshal
for four and half years with head
Quarters in Omaha. His term ex-
pires January II, the date on which
he was confirmed to the Office, al
though he had served six months
previous to this confirmation.
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LPAIAIER. SEES RED

1t has been characteristic of Attor-
ney General Palmer ever since he en-
tered the cabinet, to cry "bolshevism'
and II. w. w" on the occasion of any
disturbance in the ranks of labor
The switchmen's strike has been no
exception. Now we have the word of
the brotherhood heads. who are in a
position to know, that Mr.. Palmer
conclusions have no foundation in fact.
The department of justice has been
seeing red" so long, says the Detroit
News. that its eyes appear to be out
OF focus for perfectly natural and logi-
cal Industrial conditions.
THE government will not shirk it's
responsibility" said Mr.. Palmer. This
again will be recognized as character
istic of Mr.. Palmer and of the entire
administration at Washington. For
nearly a year now the government,
thru one official or another, has been
announcing that its striking achieve
ment in behalf of labor was imme-
diately imminent All last summer the
president and Mr.. Palmer and Mr.
Hines of the railroad administration
at intervals issued statements of irp-
pending Improvements which would
mako higher wages demanded by the
railroad employees unnecessary.
President Wilson, particularly,
pinned his faith upon a labor adjust
ment board, and when the Esch- Cum
minis bill appeared he used it as a rea-
son for deferring decision upon rail-
road wage demands THE bill has
now become a law" he announced just
after signing it, land the way is now
open for immediate action on the wage
matters. I am sure that every agency
which will be involved in the creation
! of the labor board and in the conduct
Of negotiations fully appreciates that
the wage demands are entitled to the
earliest possible consideration"
That was on February IS. On April
IS, in the face of an emergency
brought about by the governments
representation. the president an
nounced his appointments for this la
Dor board.
Mr.. Palmer may be right that the
government will not ''shirk its respon-
sibility." But the conclusion is hard
to escape that much of the present
hardship. loss and distress might have
lheen escaped il the government had
been more prompt in meeting its re-
sRonsibility AMI perforntns its o5vi-
Gus duties.
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OUR CHEAP DOLLAR.

About the time the armistice was
signed we complained about the low
purchasing power of the dollar, which
was then estimated at approximately
so cents. Basing calculations on Brad
the federal bureau of labor statistics
and the reports of the Federal Reserve
bank of New York and approximating
their conclusions. the people of the
United States today find themselves
with a dollar worth about So cents
compared with the dollar of 1913.
For this condition almost everybody
remedy. Many blame the profiteers
and let it go at that. 1t is possible
that much of the fault lies with the
people themselves. They have been
extravagant and unproductive. They
have received wages which they did
not earn and they have spent their in
come-sometimes their capital-in a
wished to buy.
The decentralization state
and municipalities set an example of
extravaganza without parallel in world
history. The people generally, with
the spectacle of this debauch before
their eyes, have followed with no pale
imitation. aided as they have been by
the receipt of wages undreamed of a
few years ago.
The remedy is increased production
and decreased extravaganza in con-
sumption.
The government must save, the peo-
pie must save and everybody must get
down to work. A further reduction in
working hours either in factory, mine
or transportation will mean additional
hardships for the people at large.
higher wages will be merely an ag-
gravation. for the world needs goods
instead of inflated money with which
to buy them.
THE explanation of the So cent dol
lar" says the Wollman Review, lis
perfectly simple. We have a tremen-
dously increased per capita circula-
ton o. money and expansion of cred
it. We have a greatly lessened per
capita production of the things which
money and credit buy. We have been
making matters worse by spending our
increased income in a market relative
ly less able to meet this growing de-
nnand"
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Q. Does the japanese cherry tree bear
fruit III. V. s.
a. There are two distinct species OF jap I.
anese cherries. The tree that hears the
wonderful blossoms, which are celebrated
in Japan by the Cherry Festival: does not
bear an edible fruit This Is the SPECIES
States Some of the drives along the Speed.
way of tine nations capital are bordered
with them. Japan has cherry tree that
is native to the mountainous districts Of the
island. which bears large. delicious irult;
o. When did the term Kitchen cabinet
as applied to the unofficial contleeh1 " "a au-
A. This term was. first applied TO small
group of men, during President Jackson $
administration They were not saTs Sse on
consulted frequently and to have Influenced
the presidentt action and decisions upon
O. What is a tall spine. M.
A A tail spin is the vertical descent OF
an airplane- nose foremost rotating ABOUT
tail usually describe circles Of concentric
paths around the vertical to the earth, the
tail describing the larger circle
O. Do spiders and flies walk or crawl
A. The Bureau of Biological Survey says
that spiders and flies walk.
q Weht should the temperature be Tor
hot BAH and cold bathf
A. ( hot bath may be from 100 to 112
degrees Fahrenheit A cold bath should be
o. Can you tell me anything about the
life of A. Mitchell Palmer s-R. o. F.
A. Alexander Mitchell Palmer was born
in Moosehead, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1872.
He attended Swarthnore college, from
which he graduated in 1891 With highest
honbrs. While In college he helped form
n hapter of the national Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity, Of which President Wilson is
also a member. Mr.. Palmer married Ro-
berta Bartlett Dixon, Of Easton. Maryland.
November q, 1895. Was admitted to the
bar in 1898. Member 61st-65rd congress.
19O9-19I5. Appointed judge United States
court Of claims April 1915, resigned Septem
Der. 1915: appointed alien property cutcdia n
by President Wilson October p. 1917; made
attorney general March s. 1919. He Is a
member>of the Society Of friends
fAny reader can get the answer TO any
question by writing The Topeka STATE
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin. director. Washington, d. G. Tbs
offer applies strictly TO Information The
Bureau cannot give adviceAeu legal. medi-
cal. and financial matters. 1t does not
attempt OF settle domestic troubles, nor 10
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Dorothy Dix Tails
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid Woman Writes.

But the Blame Where 1t Belopgs-2.
Always somebody else is to blame.
Never he himself; and his case is
hopeless for there can be no reforma-
ton for a man who does not admit
that his sin is his own, and try to
overcome it.
And there are the ne'er-do wells
who stick like cookie burrs on the
skirts of every family, and are just as
irritating. They are strong, able
bodied men. They have plenty of in
telligence. There is ne reason on earth
why they shouldn't support themselves
and their families instead of the bal
ance of US having to do it.
We are forever getting the ne'er-do-
we'll job, because he always protests
that he is anxious for something to
breath of relief, he is back ON our
hands again. He has lost his position.
No fault OF his, ever. He found out
that the work injured his eyes or back.
Or else the job was in an unhealthy
place. Or the superintendent singled
him out for persecution. Or his con-
science wouldn't allow him to do
something he was asked to do. Or his
wife's mother fell sick and he had TO
stop and nurse her.
He always has a perfectly good
cause for quitting work. and if you
start him in a business of his own it
ends equally In disaster. It'srtoo fasay
or too dry. or a hot summer or a cold
winter, or the trusts crush him, or
there's a cyclone, or blizzard, or
something that other people survive
but that carries him under. But he
is never to blame, on, dear, no! Sick
ness the Jealousy of superiors, the
capitalistic class, the elements did it.
Everything in nature is to BLAND but
himself.
And he is hopeless. He never faces
the. truth that the reason he co1idn'
get along with the superintendent was
because he was lazy and slack. That
the reason he is always the one who is
first when a working force is cut down
is because he is an indifferent worker
that the reason he can never get along
in any business is because he lacks
prudence and foresight pep and gin
ger, and all the other qualities that
make 4 man pull off a good job in the
face of obstacles.
One out of every twelve marriages
in this country ends in the divorce
courts. Probably 10 per cent OF the
marriages bring misery and sorrow to
the men and women who are tied to-
gether. instead of the happiness they
| expected. Each blames the other, and
as you cannot change other people
you can only change yourself. condi-
| lions go from bad to worse as the time
goes by.
But if husbands and wives had the
courage to put the blame where it be-
I longs they might get back the dreams
of their youth-a happy home.
Many a man might see that the rea
son his marriage is a failure is be-
cause he is cold and unloving to his
wife, he is cross and tyrannical and
dictatorial to his children. and he
brings nothing home with him but
grouches and gloom. And many q
woman might face the fact that it is
her temper, her extravaganza, and her
| ceaseless naggiRg that has alienated
! her husbands affection and wrecked
her marriage.
! Copyright. 1919. BY the Wheeler Syndicate
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The switchmen's strike, like almost
every other extensive strike in the past
year. has resulted in heavy losses to
employers and the public and no gain
TO the strikers. The coal miners alone,
of all those workers who have gone
out in large numbers have anything to
show for their attempt at tying up the
country's industry. The advance in
wages that they obtained probably
could have been obtained in other
ways less expensive to. them, to their
employers and. to the country. But il
the lessons learned by labor, by en-
ployers and by the public, in the past
year,-shall result in the elimination of
the strike as a means of adjusting diff
ferences between employer and em-
pioSe. perhaps the price is not too
great. If the country once could feel
safe from industrial disturbances, 1t
might soon reach state in which
there would be no occasion for such
disturbances.
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THE FIRST DINNER AT HOME.
CHAPTER Sc

CHAPTER Sc.
MY. but this is good.'' >Robert had
kept his promise to come home earl.
The dinner was good and he praised it
unstintedly. Where in the world did
you learn to cook?'
I didn't learn. I followed Mary's
advice"
What was that"
Common sense and her cook book.
When 1 told her she knew nothing of
cooking she said she could read; that
cook books were made to SELL and a
lot of other nonsense. So when L said
L knew nothing of cooking, she told
me to do as she had done"
"Mary's a brick"
1 then, told him all Gardner had
said about women not knowing how
to loaf-businesh women.
Il guess he is right. l never had
thought about the sloafing part, but
don't believe you business women
know how you carry your business
with you. You often break right in
when, you are talking. or even wnen
reading. to say something about a
customer, or a hat
Isn't it natural to, talk of the thing
in which one is most interested p
~''Y es-that's where the rub comes
Gerry. When woman gets so inter
ested in business she can't think OIL
talk of anything else. a man feels as
if he were only some sort of needless
alta cIIment, and sort of wonders what
he is there at all for. There! Don't
pay any attention to what l say. This
dinner was delicious. Come on. IT
help clear away and we'll so to that
little motion picture house around the
corner
Reward Of merit. Robert?"
Yes, and because of good dinner
making a comfortable feeling ANNA
out of a grouchy man
NO grouches during our vacation
Remember!'
'All right. I'll do my best to be
amiable.''
Very happily / cleared the table
Robert helping. Then he insisted upor
drying the dishes. i pinned an apron
around his waist, and 1 knew from the
very way he jerked it into shape thai
it was no new experience for him.
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The Woman Who Loved and
Earned a Modem s.o:y :. Home and Bu.ins..
A Modern Sto.y or r
Blu JANE PHELPS

BE sure you wipe them, dry" I
told him, Especially the knives and
forks. We must take good care of
Mary's silver
We both laughed merrily. Mary's
silver being nearer pewter than any
thing else. But at the same time /
noticed the easy way Robert dried
the dishes. He was neither awkward
nor did he make any fuss over doing
it. as man unaccustomed to helping
about the house would have done.
Where in the world did you learn
to dry dishes? I can tell you are an
old hand, so tell the truth"
Z said it gayly. but I felt a little
Tightening OF my throat. and my heart
| beat a little faster while I waited for
his answer. That / knew what ii
would be, goes without saying.
"Oh, have dried Marion's dishe:
good many times, 1 rather enjoyed
it, because We could talk. Otherwise
! 1 should have been in the living room
alone while she did them. She never
makes company of me. you know"
| Yes, know" thought as / said
it. 'I know more than you think
! do" But I would have nothing MAJ
this first day of my vacation. so
added Now you can help me.
! shan't make company Of you either
We soon finished, then went to the
show. 1t was a very good picture and
over, as it was still early and a lovely
night, we took quite a walk before
! we reached home.
Hungry, Robert ?"I asked, smiled
1 as 1 thought how quickly having &
| place of my own made me think Of
D.! eating,
LAS a bear-tho I suppose shonlt
be ashamed TO say it
"All right. bought some oyster.
today Wen have a nice hot stew
Robert hung around me while
made it, altho I told him it neYel
would be ready If he didn't go ant
| sit down. L wondered if he had fol
lowed Marion around the kitchen
Someway 1 knew he had, and that sh
had liked him to do SO.
But said nothing of these Thoughts
to Robert, and our first day passed
off happils-finished up in 'blaz'
of glory" Bob quoted laughingly a!
we turned the lights off.
Tomorrow "A hurt with som,
CnlaNa
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Notwithstanding reports Of scarcity
at record high prices Of all kinds of
building materials. Of new and ever
Increasing demands for advances in
wages and OF high money rates causing
cancellations OF contemplated build
ing. some estimates OF these cancella-
tions. says Bradstreet's, aggregating
the sum of one billion dollars, the fill
ing OF new plans for building goes on
rapidly at most American cities. Re
ports from 14s cities of the United
states show s0,593 permits issued in
March providing for the construction
Of f139.104,1s5 worth of new building
or OF alterations. These figures mark
an increase Of IFS per cent in permits
and OF 155 per cent in value as COM
pared with March a year ago at the
same cities.
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK |
BY LEE PAPE.

Me and Pubs Simkins was taking a
wawk this aftirnoon. and we stopped
and started to look in. the window of
a delicatessen store at all the different
things In it, Pubs saying, I wish we
was inside. don't you love the smell of
the inside of delica lessen store?
like it all rite. don't love it, I sed,
and Pubs sed, Hay. tell you lets watts
do. let's go IN and ask for sumthing
they amt got, like picked bananas
or sumthing jest for a Excuse to go in
and smell a wilt.
+ WITCH we started to do, going in and
jest standing there smelling It'll the
man came up to us, saying, We'll,
boys? Meening wat did we wunt to
buy. Being a fat man with a big
nlushtash to attrack attention away
frum his bald he'd. and. Pubs sed.
Have YOU got eny picked bananas :?
Picked wat sed the man.
Bananas, sed Pubs, and the man
wawked back TO the other end of the
store looking as If it wouldent of took
mutch more to insult him. and Pude
whispered. Lets pertend we're looking
Ierround to see what elts we wunl to
buy.
i Witch we started to do. Pubs saying.
| o boy. don't that smell CRATE? Meen-
ing the hole store. and 1 sed. I've smelt
better smells than this. Wich 1 have.
sutch as stake and onions and flowers.
and we kepp on pretending to look
Ground, and after a vile the man
Game over agen, saying. Do YOU kids
want enything. yes or MOP
No, sed Pubs. and the man sed.
Then take a wawk- Meening for us
I TO get out of the store.
Wich we did,
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Dinner1Stories

Mamma, 1 lost my gum cried lit
tie Harold.
Hush. darling" she cut him off,
then smiled apologetically at her
guests.
Mamma. I lost" this time the
m other, smiling vacsntly over her por-
ton of the chop suey lunch. effective
ly stopped Harold with a sharp pinch
of his leg under the table.
When the guests had all gone Har-
old pouted the explanation: 'All /
wanted to tell you. mamma. was that
I'd lost my gum in your chop suey,
but you wouldn't let me finish
And you enjoy the moving pic
tures?''
"Thoroly." replied Miss Cayenne.
But the charm of the human
voice. a
This absence of the human voice
is what occasionally charms me. /
am sure of not hearing anything that
is ungrammatical or improper"
Il bought new hat for my wife
today, and ran all the way back with
it"
What did you run for?'
Il was afraid the styles would
change before L got home
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JUST FOLKS.

BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

4
His name is seldom mentioned in the press.
No medals come to him to marx his
fame.
He is not noticed as world success.
Yet he is brave who keeps his post each
And, truly lives unto the faith he knows,
For oft his fondest plans must go astray,
And he is victim to life's various woes.
The commoner must see his loved ones DIE,
Must suffer pain and heartache ana
Lacking the comforts greater wealth could
buy.
His courage does not flash across tmen's
view,
Yet it Is there like gold in rock and
It holds him to the tasks he has TO do
And strengthens him to make his fight
alone.
And toll for love of those who wear your
To keep ysur post of duty. come what may.
And ask no favors from the hand of
fame.
To play life's game and miss the thunder
To serve the world and seek no word
of praise,
And walk erect altho on rugged ways.
Few know the glory and the peace OF life,
Nor are they Drawer than the patient
throng.
Who bears the burdens and the hurts OF
strife.
Content 10 live and love and plod along
They miss the soft sweet hours OF careless
ease.
Yet know the self-same sorrows of thc
great.
They may not follow fancy as they please,
Yet they must bear the ironies Of fate.
copyright 1920 by Edgar A. Guest.
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ment when the bond issues were float
ed. The committee probably will find
that one of the chief reasons for the
deprecated price of liberty bonds is
that Industrial concerns are offering
for sale bonds bearing "a much higher
rate OF interest than that carried by
the governments paper. Persons Of
fering liberty bonds for sale, there
fore. must compete with these more
profitable securities. Safety seems to
receive little consideration.
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
MY FRIE<D-THE DOG.

MY FRIEND-THE DOG.
Treading thru a maze of instinct,
all too misunderstood, decade after
decade, a certain intelligence of faith
and loyalty and service has touched
the path of a mans life as has none
other of the dumb world.
I am referring to my friend-the
dog.
He it is who has learned to think
and to understand in the terms of man
who is his master But back to the
early days of the chase we must go to
understand fully. There was that
earliest instinct to kill-for food. Man
had it, the dog had it--and has.
but where in all the brute world
has there arisen one to cope with the
intelligence and feeling and aspiration
of man, as does my friend the dog :?
The tiger exists thru stealth, and so
does the Zion, and the leopard But
the dog gives warning. He scents the
mind of his master. He leads. He
co-operates.
As no other animal. my frierd- the
dog has bridged the great ehasm that
divides the intelligence of the lower
animals from that of man.
My friend the dog understands. He
knows his master. He loves him with
an iritenseness that is almost sacred.
He would gladly die, for his master
HE often does. Ready at an instants
nOtfCe LOT any eITSISciSS.- ne ieieiISt
offers nor gives quarter He is loyalty
to the end. His is the fight to the
finish.
My friend the dog is a true sports
man and a gentleman among his kind.
But deeper than all else, Is his ten
derness and affection. You interpret
his words in the wag of his tail, in the
touch of his nose, in the warmth OF
his eye.
There are times when feel that
, no solace of inspiration is quite equal
to that of being all alone with my