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Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14
industrial Irreconcilubles

Coal is everybody's business Without it the
mechanism Of industry would come to an im-
mediate stop. Hence when the miners un-
justifably demand an increased wage, public pro-
test is inevitable and proper. But stupidity on
one side, by sort of fatality engenders more
stupidity on the other. No sooner do the miners
put themselves in the wrong than the operators
70 them one worse by fiat refusal to meet the
representatives OF labor in general conference,
though this is the method agreed upon for thresh-
ing out differences. Such is the situation in the
Ohio fields. In central Pennsylvania the oper-
ators announce themselves as prepared to hight
government arbitration. Why this arbitrary at
titude? Is it due to fear on the part Of the mine
owners lest through conference or arbitration
light be thrown upon the secret profits OF coal
mining? Wages are an open book: the public
knows exactly what is paid for mine labor. Prof
its of the mines are kept sedulously concealed
In his statement of opinion opposing the indus
trial relations court, Governor Miller OF New
York said that the greatest thing the state can
do toward settling disputes between capital and
labor 's to secure exact information of the facts
involved in these disputes so that the public may
know what the facts are" To prevent the pub
lie from obtaining such facts has been the gen.
eral policy Of the coal operators. If the strike
comes on April l, as seems to have been made
certain by the action of the mine operators. they
will go into it under the double handicap OF hav-
ing discarded the accepted mechanism OF indus
trial peace and of maintaining secrecy upon es-
sential points which the public has right. to
know and eventually must, for its own protection
insist upon knowing.-Leslie's Weekly
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14
A Cossack at Close Range.

The conception Of Uncle Sam as poor boob
whose pockets can be picked and whose nephews
can be killed without risk by any clever adven-
turer is apt to be dspelled by the reception given
General Scmcnof. This brutal Cossack
brigand was backed by American and Japanese
troops for time, that is true. The fear of the
spread of bolshevik influence made n,adhouse
of Siberia. A large section of American public
opinion found itself lauding these savages at the
very time our soldiers were menaced by them
and thousands Of women and children, not to
mention more or less violent Russian citizens,
were being slaughtered.
The public airing now being given the charac-
ter of this plunderer who had the consumnate
gall to land on our shores is valuable piece of
sanitary work. Uncle Sam in the last few
years has obtained what may be called the low
down and the close up on some Of his associates.
Once more it is shown what mixing in the
private affairs Of foreign nations sometimes lets
country in for.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14
Mr.. Wilson'S Prophecies

Mr. Wilson continues to predict an carly
democratic triumph. The latest prediction !.
contained in a letter to an officer Of Chicago
post OF the American Legion. who had requested
him to discuss current political issues In de-
clining the request Mr.. Wilson said:
Certainly service men, above all others, are
qualified to express their devotion to the prn-
cipes we believe in 1t was for those that they
offered their lives. For my own part, believe
those principles to be in themselves so power
full that no political blindness or niquity can
defeat their triumph l believe that triumph
to be Immediately at hand, and that we shall
very soon indeed wipe away the ugly record
we made in failing to fulfill the objects for
which our gallant comrades fought.
Immediately at hand must mean November
since the first test of sentiment will occur then
Mr.. Wilson's further calculation probably is that
another triumph will take place in 1924, and that
with the democracy again in control at the White
House as we'll as on Capitol Hill the ugly rec.
ord" he refers to-the rejection by the senate OF
the Versailles treaty-can. and will, be wiped
away"
What will be the procedure? A renewal in
some way of the Versailles pact, and its subnls-
sion to the senate for ratification Is that to be
feature Of this years campaign? If so. it will
add to the interest of campaign which will not
lack for interesting features. -..
Mr. Wilson makes his predictions so con-
dently, he must feel sure of his ground; and that
argues communication with the friends in dill
ferent sections of the country. Undoubtedly, he
is taking lively interest in politics; ond the sug-
eestion is very persuasive that his friends are at
pains to report to him their observations as to
local sentiment, and their views on what they
observe.-Washngto Star. -,
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14
Girls Winning at Marbles, Too.

On the heels of the announcement by a
wealthy Chicago woman, who is lecturng on
sociological psychology, that women have
emerged from their serfdom and are now victors
merely demanding the right to be left alone, to
develop, to demonstrate and to expand, comes
in news item from Boston an alarming proof
of this demand for expansion. Woman's in
vasion of mans sphere has extended to girls on
the playground The boys of Greater Boston
are making stand against their entry into
sport hitherto almost exclusively their own
marbles On the sidewalks of the suburb. since
signs OF spring appeared, passersby forced to de-
tour to the curbng, have found girls almost as
numerous as boys in the game. The sisters
play for keeps, too, and often with skill that
has sent the brothers home marbleless.
The boys Of Greater Boston are taking
stand, says the correspondent but does not add
in what way the conflict is waged, and whether
or not the girls resort to strictly feminine meth
ods of combat. Neither does he tell US of the
outcome. Merely taking stand in a community
in which the feminine element outnumbers the
male sounds much like fororn hope, with de-
feat not so far acknowledgements Star
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14
Prosperity and Free Trade.

One OF former Governor Coxs favorite as
sertons is referring to the tariff, that the demo-
Gratis showed the country could be prosperous
without tariff. Assuming that this demonstra-
ton took place under the administration Of
Woodrow Wilson, it may be permissible to en-
anime the record. One Of the earliest engage
ments OF the democratic president in 1918 was
TO have free trade tariff bill enacted which he
later praised as the most efficient ever adopted
As result, the revenues of the United States
fell million dollars a day behind the cxpendi-
lures, and surplus Of $550.OOO00O on March a.
1918, was turned into deficit OF $350.OO0,0OO on
March 4, 1915 the first two years OF Mr. Will
sons service as president being marked by a net
deficit of $700000000. On the other hand, no
winter since the terrible hard times Of the demo-
cratic administration approached that of lol4-l5
Unemployment reached its high tide, idle, hungry
men swarmed in cities. and bread lines miles long
were noted in New York and Chicago. Activ-
ity on war contracts relieved this dire condition,
but, will Mr.. Cox or any other democrat mairl-
tain that the prosperity that came with the war
is ascribable to the Underwood free trade tariff?
These champions OF repudiated policies give the
public intelligence small credit. Many men yet
alive recall the effect of the Wilson tariff of 1894
that plunged the country into such wide depres-
sion, and they have not forgotten the sad ex-
perience of lol4-l5 Free trade never did bring
prosperity to the United States; protection has
kept the home market for home products These
facts are elemental.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14
Hints from Experience
Warning Thea,sr Managers and
Producers Ought TO Heed,
From the conlinent.l }

The reactions OF reckless evil in a moral uni.
verse ought 20 be studied more by men who cal,
eulale on the pleasures OF sieksdnsss aud the
profits OF immortality |. would seem as II the
wicked would some time learn from experience
what the Bible desired TO teach them ages ago,
that those who hsadsIrenely pass on" by the
way OF folly. selhshness, ayariee and vice, are
simply pursuing their own punishment Leaving
! the future lie aside, there Is enough OF such
result visible IN this present worldly lie 10 pei
susde any unbewitehed person that Il doesn't pay
10 be wicked even on ones own aeeount-still
less does !, pay TO try 10 lead others into wick
sdness,
II Is q Bit OF encouragement In this line TO
observe that some people who had never realized
this well before. caught the idea al length from
what has happened TO the liquor trade Thou
sands OF men once thought nothing more profit
able in business lie than the heariless oeeupa-
,ion oi making men drunk and stealing from
them in the process their money. their sense and
their conscience. II certainly did look Al one
time 10 be the prime commercial proposition IN
all the country for little risk and big returns. But
/, doesn't look so today. After all that has hap
pened 10 the liquor traffic, an organized assault
on sobriety aud deeeney appears as business
idea subject 10 discount worse than German
marks. And II Is interesting 10 see that many
critics in . way more pungent than polite arc
directing the attention OF the moving picture
promoters TO the lesson underlying the fate oi
at San Francisco who has had the unpleasant
duty of trying to punish Fatty" Arbueke as he
deserves. speaks ,ypieally in saying
The public is tired OF seeing morally rotten
but highly paid actor or actress glorhed and held
up as an idol The public is tired OF having sex
flung in their faces. People who live decent lives.
the mothers and fathers with families that they
arc trying to raise TO be upright and decent. are
tired OF seeing film after film pic,uring inhdelity
and red love. They are tired OF seeing the other
man as a permanent fixture in the honie-ac-
eording to the movies. They are giving the pro-
ducers their chance to reform from within. If
they don't, public opinion won't do any REFORM
ing at all II will simply annihiatc the motion
picture industry altogether. just as it did the
saloon"
There are sensible advisers saying virtually
the same thing to the promoter OF the speaking
stage And il seems TO be because theatrical
managers have begun to catch.the significance OF
the warning that they are glad to encourage
movements like that afoot in New York city TO
establish voluntary Jury" OF citizens to pass
judgment on the moral influence OF current plays
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14
The Force of Heredity.

Blood does tell. The revelation of Ne
braska woman that the young man arrested on
charge OF burglary is not her son, but only
adopted as such does not prove this. 1t does
harmonize. however, with the scientific fact that
some persons are born with hereditary strain
of physical or mental disability that no environ
ment, however good can alter.
The children of this family have grown up in
the same environment as their foster brother.
They are dgent and correct in their conduct,
while this youth, who was adopted as two-day
old infant appears to have followed an opposite
course.
1t is true that within respectable families
there occur black sheep They. too, may be
born with wrong tendencies, and they may fall
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

acquired a plsih8Tie abiamsn as a
consequence, II Is not AZ all likely
10 be fooled this year hy ANY clap
Trap stuff labeled HpFogFsssiEs." !. Z"
The season il aRsR for third parties
anl natrshaoling from democrats
ahd republicans began the moment
the alleged third party Was or
sanl1sd, Evidently the auaFTies ~
"nrosfesslNes' arc eompistsb shot
up and even the optimistic York
leader ~ "pFagresslVesh reads the
handwriting an tho wall, The fight
IN this off year ~ between the tNo
great parties sldesha~s are out ~
fashion. Nebraska will elect re-
publican ar a democrat "a succeed
Senator Hitchcock, aud likewise a
partisan for governor ~ Nebraska.
Charlie Bryan iaols a loud horn
before the primaries and wants 10
he candidate for United States
s.aat0F himself II he concludes 10
support Senator Hitchcock for res
v.y, ,loH IL sIll be purely for partisan
reasons. Everybody knows Hitch
cock and Bryan ''do not eongeal." as
the darky said when explaining why
he and his wife had separated,
Knives may he concealed, but each
faction has one under its blanket,
nnd each faeIion il seekins the loea-
ton Of the NTH rib OF the other.
fho republicans u Nebraska have
Reason Ia count confidently on n
victory this fali, Any good man for
governor, weli'halaneed state
ticket and Il, u, Howell as the sem
atorlal nominee will sweep the state,
There are no divisions or faetlonal
fights ON within the republican
ranks. The ticket which viii be
nominated at the primaries viii be |
representative. and such differences |
between leaders as may now exist |
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

people. for it is a plan which would
help them with their health prob
lens"
REPLY.
II this has ever been tried / have
not heard OF the fact.
Try 1t. II you get in over your
head you can discontinue it. Who
will answer the questions? 1t cam
not succeed long unless it is done
in good faith.
II you use it to push certain drugs
or methods or in any way to bring
profit directly. it will react on you
in time, doing you more harm than
good in the long run.
End EPSON Salts Orgy.
E. r. writes: What effect will
EPSON salts have on the system II
taken two teaspoonsful at a time
about four or five times each week."
ett' REPLY.
1t will knock you out if you stick
to it.
Rice Is Good For You.
Miss F. writes: "Is rice healthy
food, and is It fattening?"
REPLY.
It is. .... .- ...-
That is my answer to both the
front end and the hind end of your
question.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14
Political Joke of sessoo.

Omaha, April il,-ro the Edito.
81 The Bee9 The alleged fusion OF
bryanrNorlon-wray and Hitchcock
for the spoiis OF office is the po,
iitieai Joke OF the season. Norton
as the eoncentrator is swelling his
importance out OF all proportion.
hrsah as friend, philosopher aud
guide Tor the puzzled parilsans CONF
posing the hopeful hosts who We're
so completely paralyzed in 1890 is
TO laugh, Why Judge Wray con-
s6nts 10 be used is immalefiai, hut
some folks think he discovered that
the third party move was a fiement
OF very much distorted imasina-
tion and really was about as much
OF an uprising OF the peonle as Gem
efal cosey's army In the panicky
days or 1895 WAS a revolution. The
senior senator's shifiy sheet comes
In with an editorial on ~ United
Democracy" which Is just about as
vigorous as one Of Sorton's stump
speeches, II sounds 30 IKE u swan
song that the reader turns sadly TO
the other stimulating editorial effort
In tho same issue entitled ~
Shirker Among Workers and won.
der II Sewbrnnch did not get his
editorial titles mixed.
Where In the stalwart Arthur Null
leng What explanation ts offered
for the sudden obsolescencc Of John
A. Moorehead? Has Gunthcr no
longer any influence, and must the
skilled. spurred and successful Dahl
man take a back seat? Shall DR..
Hall OF Lincoln confine himself TO
the counting room and Earl Gaddis
quit his nonsense. Just because Judge
wray's withdrawal from the guber-
material campaign takes the third
party out OF Nebraska politics ms a
factor this year" 10 quote the
swectly sympathetic simplicitudes Of
the man who startles World-Herald
readers by an unexpected comeback?
Charles w. Bryan struck note In
spring not alone to Nebraska demo-
Gratis. but to all other Nebraska pro-
gressives" read the first two lines
of the leading editorial In the World
Herald OF Tuesday morning.
The second paragraph is also H.
Eliminating because II begins with
the words "Mr. Bryan bears upon
his body scars" The institution re-
sponsible for those scars is not apol-
ogetic or contrite. but the senatorial
contest comes on apace and II be-
hooves the senatorial organ to pla-
cate the man Of scars, and so II
praises his plea for harmony.
All OF which being interpreted Is:
"The democrats Of Nebraska are In
hopeless minority. The only
chance to win in the coming election
Is by herding all the branded cattle
into one bunch. grabbing the NAV
ericks and stampeding some of the
better bred stock. Even then 1t will
take. skillful cowboys and much
lasso work to count enough horns
to break the November market or
even demoraliZe II"
Nebraska is republican. 1t wan
dered off after strange gods a few
times in the last generation, but it
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

into evil environment outside the hems, That.
however, is beside the question,
The plain iset Is that there are some whom
the constructive forces OF education aud good
environment can not redeem, The public is
too sp, TO rely on such things as school lunshss
ioF making children bFsiny when the hard truth
Is that their brain pan is TOO small 10 allow the
brain to grow or their natural tendencies so dis.
Iortsd that nothing within human power can
save them,
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14
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Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

VAL vanish with the primaries, We
shall SO a. lRs polls q unlled parry,
proud - its president pleased VIII,
lis record ln stats and nation antl
eRlltied 10 the further s0nfldehee ~
the Nebraska voters,
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Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

There is shortage of hogs now, and prices
are booming. That's the well known law of sup
ply and demand. If, as is more than probable,
there is superabundance within two years,
prices will slump. That will also be according
10 the law Of supply and demand, however much
anyone may hate to admit it.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

Today's line of cheer, from the New York
Globe: An archeologist who is Of philosophic
turn Of mind must become very gloomy as he
contemplates the highly organized civilizations
Of ancient times and reflects on the trifing ad-
vance, measured in human terms of the past few
thousand years.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

Fatty" Arbuckle has been exonerated and
given certificate of good character by jury.
Now, if the judge will apologize and the distris4
attorney beg his pardon, perhaps the ends of JUS
tice will be served.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

The industrious man who tried to store up
during the winter enough beer to last all sum-
mer had the right idea, perhaps, but he didn't
finish wen.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

It's hard to get the middle west interested il
bigger navy, since no gun yet invented ca
reach this far from the coast
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

1t is characteristic of the radicals that tn
are not pleased, even when they have their ov
way.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

= Don't worry; this is good for fruit.
Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14
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Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-14

Nebraska had barberry bush league long ago.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
asking for a Job
al Concy Island

)ln the summers | used to spend weeks in
Maine, trapping wild animals and making
friends with them. SO one summer when the
family thought I was setting off for Maine I
took the train to New York instead l had
heard the call Of Coney Island. 1t was like
paradise to me, and all that first day
wandered about, going from one animal show
to another, planning to ask for job.
Remember, of course, that | was a bewild-
cred youngster fresh from the conservatory
'1beying a call that was stronger than any
Ching l had ever felt before in my life 1t
meant everything in the world to me to be
,aart of some show.
At last | screwed my courage up to ap-
preaching the woman who owned one of them.
We will call her Mile. Ida, for that wasn't
her name. She had horse show, with
couple of NANCY old lions, badly fraycd tiger
and three leopards, which had left their youth
far behind them. Mile Ida received me as
if she had been a queen, and loved her for
it. In my eyes she was queen.
She was over fifty then, and she had been in
the animal business all her life. She was an
I'D ternlagant, cheat and q blk; but /
hought she was marvellous, even beautiful.
She was SCARED from her battles with animals
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
Neuer Let q Lior,
Get Behind You

Many thoughts surgcd through nay head
while I heard the barker telling the crowd
that Captain Barnum would subduc the great
man-eatcr. Then, when everything was ready,
the people surged in and I was presented.
My heart pounding when I entered the
big cage and ordered the animals to their
positions.
They looked at me suspicously, while
snapped out commands and pckcd them with
the whip when they hesitated. I displayed q
lot of authority didn't feel To this day
don't know how I got through it. lost ali
thought of the audience and outbursts of ap-
plause surprised me that there were mo-
ments when l was badly ratified. But didn't
let the animals see it. At first they wero
surly and ill-mannered and old Sheba, the
lioness, seemed to have passion for getting
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
Mile. Ida, Who Looked
Young at Twenty-Five Yards

When she had lost her youth! Poor old
Scared Nile. 1da--hcroine Of a thousand
arenas, battered tough, beloved cheat. a natu
ral born swindler, who could pump tears into
her eyes at the very sight of person to whom
she owed money. She was genius at evading
debts. think if she had put as much love and
talent into improving her show as she did into
stal!ing off the people who had bills aeainst
her, She really would have been one OF the
worlds greatest" instead of the propretress
OF little show which seemed alwavs ON tho
verge OF topping over into the sheriff's hands.
But only Ida knew how much money she had
tucked away where creditors could never find i
When she went into the arena she alwavs
caubed her face with makeup until the
wrinkles were filed and then painted on ton.
Az Twenty-Five yards or SO she looked cuite
Youthful. shall never forget one afternoon
Wien she flew into fit of rage at an ;n7menso
negro husky who worked with the show
She threw herself at him Just az t;erass
would have attacked, clawing him and h;t;nr
He grabbed her NV tho 1''s''
New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
All the Joys of Success
Except-Salory

Mile. Ida watched me from the rear, and
when the performance was over she congratu-
lated me- After that she used to take short
vacations and was left in complete charge.
The fall came and was held to my promise
to return to the conservatory. Of course, |
knew that my musical career was at an end
not alone because l had found the work l
wanted, but also because the whole summer
had passed without my fingers touching
a keyboard. But had promised, and 80 there
was nothing else to do.
| went to Mile Ida and told her that was
leaving and asked for my salary. l hadn't seen
so much as a cent Of my large wages of IS
week all through the summer She commenced
to weep and dab at her eyes with her hapdker-
chief. She was ruined-a ruined woman, who
had been pursued by misfortune all through
her life! She didn't even have money enough
to feed her poor dear animals and I was try
ing to drive her into the poorhouse. And after
all her kindness to me, too! was an migrate.
And she thought was gentleman. More
tears.
But by that time had learned to talk the
circus language
"Come on lay off that stuff. Forget it,"
answered in my best arena voice. "You can't