Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-05
In 1920 Omaha Will Be a
Splotch Looking Like the =
US. Hit Witha Tub of Ink
BY WILLIAM TANQUERY.

Omaha's mighty business team went to bat with
every member of it knocking home for 1919.
Team work did it.
And the Omaha spirit.
The Woodworking toilers of pioneer days who hewed
and titled and forged and upbut the destiny of the city,
have in these latter times of industrial hysteria become
Jazz demons of commerce and misunderstanding
atmosphere that Immediately noted by the newcomer,
electrfes him with energy and ambition before he has
walked dozen blocks from the station.
Few cities can show the record Omaha has made for
the past year in all lines of trade and business activity
The spirit of progress lowered the city during
the yearinsprng the industrious little gnomes at work
factory and store, with the result that the balance
sheet shows staggering totals of accomplishments in the
various lines of endeavor
Keeping everlastingly at it produces results-and
this is what Omaha has done.
Neither war, coal famine, strikes nor blizzards
thrown amid the wheels, they ground up in
the irresistible goround without moments cessation
jar being noticed.
The future be judged better in the light of the
past and with the performances of the last IL months to
stand upon the outlook for the coming year enough to
make any business grin cheerfully if he breaks
\ his arm trying to pat himself on the back.
/ Optimism is the motif of the song being sung
throughout the country but it rises from Omaha in
i
try like thunderS from affair."
Chicago and New York probably show great in
but this because they squat in their places
like giant octop gorged with the stuff poured into
their maWs from all over the country They huge
hoppers into which the wealth of the country is poured
for distribution to other points Natural conditions
responsible in great measure for what achievements
they can point to-
But Omaha is different, in that it is more like
young Hercules who has to fight his way through appar
emily insurmountable difficulties.
7 Omaha is seaport, and water freightage is
tremendous asset aested by the history of the cities
of the world which still exstant after 1000 years.
all being seaports having outlets to the seainand
cities being for the most part dead and buried in the dust
OF the ages.
Omaha without this natural advantage has had to
go out and "get" its business.
1t has been "go-getter" and as such has been the
fastest operator of its kind in the country.
Kansas City stirred the congressional pot to froth
in effort to land the aerial mail route.
But the planes going to land here, it will be
noticed.
Chambers of Commerce throughout the country are,
general rule, prosy old institutions that work during
the year like to burst out at the end
of that time with literary conflagration in flamboyant
type and hatone pictures telling what great city our
city, is.
The Omaha Chamber doesn't wait until the end of
the year. it has something to report every day of the
week and month the dynamo works night and day, and
the switch is never turned off.
1t is for these reasons that Omaha can submit re.
port that is enough to make the tax grin like
man who has Just fallen heir to Million and it is for
these that at the end of the coming year Omaha
will be spotch the map that will make the man in
Mars think the old world has been hit with tub of ink