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Report on Sugar , Prices Expected to Clear Tariff •Commission to Deliver Find ings in Investigation of Fluc tuations to President by Next Wednesday. Washington, April S.—The tariff commission's preliminary statement In reply to President Harding's re quest for Information on the sugar price situation will indicate by an nr lay of figures, it was declared that sugar prices have fluctuated over many years without regard to the import duties imposed by the va rious tariff laws. Members of the commission hope to have the reply in tile hands of the president next Wed nesday. Whether the report will contain a definite statement covering assertions that current high prices are traceable directly to the present tariff law was not revealed, but it appeared that a majority of the commission agreed that the figures to be submitted failed to connect the duties carried in the present law with the recent rapid in creases in sugar values. Those fig nres. it was said, covered monthly averages of prices as far hack as the enactment of the l’ayne-AMrich law. Kconomists of the commission for several days have been going over the data gathered by staff experts and the whole report to be sent to the president has been the subject of ^ extended discussion by the commis sion membership. Although it was denied that any controversy has aris en. the differences in views of the re publican and democratic members was said to have cropped out continuously 'n discussions of what the commission will have to say to Mr. Harding. If there is no definite statement eliminating the tariff from responsi bility for the present prices, it was indicated that a majority of the mem bers believed the figures contained in the preliminary statement would serve the same purpose. Others, how ever. were said to hold entirely dif ferent views and it seemed, therefore, that the president would be l«"ft to draw his own conclusions from the data which the commission has gath ered for him. Postal Receipts Increase in 50 Industrial Cities Washington, April 8—.-Postal re ceipts in 50 industrial cities for March showed an Increase of 12.91 per cent over March. 1922, the Post office de partment announced. While tiie increase was roportedvns general throughout the country', the southern states showed particular gain*. Cities showing marked in creased receipts Include: Cheyenne, Wyo., 43.23 per cent; Butte, Mont., 24.19, and Reno, Nev., 17.19. The latest fad among Polish women is that of going about bareheaded. ONE OF OURS Ry WIIXA FATHER. sT Famous Nebraska Author. (Continued From Saturday.) SYNOFHIS. Claude Wheeler. liunx on a Nfbr**ka ranch with hi* parent* and a younger brother, KaJph. ha* to quit Temple col lege. a Kin a 11 denominational school at Lincoln, at the end of hi* third year to take rare of the home place, while 111* father, Nat Wheeler, and Ralph spend moot of their time on their < dorado ranch. Claude’s older brother. Buy 11**, run* an Implement, htoro at Frankfort. Lrnest lla\el and 1-conanl Dawson, young farmers, are chums of C laude. While in Lincoln, Claude has become a close friend of the Krlich family, consisting of a motherly widow and her five son*. Claude realizes hi* hive for Knld Koyce, daughter of Jason Roy re, Frankfort miller, Before asking Knl<L t«» marry him he asks Mr. Kovce for hi* consent to the match. Knld telis Claude their marriage would not he for the best. CHAPTER VII. Claude was well enough to go into the fields before the harvest-was over. The middle of duly came, and the farmers were still cutting grain. The yield of wheat and oats was so heavy that there were not machines enough to thrash it within the usual time. Men had to await their turn, letting their grain stand in shock until a belching black engine lumbered into the field. Rains would have been dis astrous; but this was one of those “good years” which farmers tell about, when everything goes well. At the time they needed rain, there was plenty of it; and i.ow the days were miracles of dry. glittering heat. Every morning the sun came up a ied ball, quickly drank the dew', and started a quivering excitement in all living things. In great, harvest sea sons like that one, the heat, the in tense light, and the important work in hand draw people together and make them friendly. Neighbors helped each other to cope with the burden some abundance of man-nourishing grain: women and children and old men fell to and did what they could to save and house it. Even the horses had a more varied and sociable ex* Istence than usual, going about irom one farm to another to help neighbor horses drag wagons and binders and headers. They nosed the colts of old friends, ate out of strange mangers, and drank, or refused |i> drink, out of strange water-troughs. Decrepit horses that lived on a pension, like the. Wheelers' stiff legged Molly and Leonard Dawson's Billy with the heaves—his asthmatic cough could be heard for a quarter of a mile— were pressed Into service now. It was wonderful, too, how well these in valided beasts managed to keep up with the strong young mares urih geldings: they bent their w illing heads and pulled as if the chafing of the collar on their necks- was sweet to them. The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took Us due from al lanimal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. Horses and men and women grew thin, seethed all day in their own sweat. After supper they dropped over and slept any where at all, until the ted dawn broke clear in the cast again, like i the fanfare of trumpets, and nerves and muscles began to quiver with the solar heat. For several weeks Claude did not have time to read the newspapers; I they lay about the house in bundles, unopened, for N'at Wheeler was in the field now, working like a giant. ; Almost every evening Claude ran down to the mill to see Enid for a few | minutes: lie did not get out of his ; car, and she sat on the old site, left j over from horseback days, while she I chatted with him. She said frankly i that she didn't like men who had i just come out of the harvest field. : and Claude did not blame her. He I didn't like himself very well after his clothes began to dry on him. But the hour or two between supper and bed I was the only time he had to see any i body. He slept like the heroes of old; j sank upon his bed as the hlng he de sired most on earth, and for a bliss I ful moment felt the sweetness of : sleep before it overpowered him. In tlie morning, he seemed to hear the shriek -of his alarm clock for hours j before he could come up from the deep places Into which lie had plunged. All sorts of Incongurous ad ventures happened to him between I the first buzz of the alarm and the I moment when he was enough awake to put out his hand and stop It. He dreamed for instance that It was eve ning, and he had gone to see Enid as usual. While she was coming down the path from the house, he discover ed that he had no clothes on at alii Then, with wonderful agility, he jumped over the picket fence Into a clump of castor beans, and stood In the dusk, trying to cover himself j with the leaves, like Adam in the garden, talking commonplaces to Enid through chattering teeth, afraid lest at any moment she might dis cover his plight. Mrs. Wheeler and Mahailey always lost weight in thrashing time, Just as the horses did: this year Nat Wheeler had BOO acres of winter wheat that would close upon 30 bushels to the acre. Such a harvest was as hard on the women as It was on the men. Leonard Dawson's wife. Susie, came over to help Mrs. Wheeler, but she was expecting a baby in the fall, and the hear proved too much for her.. Then one of the Yoeder daughters came; but the methodical German girl was so distracted by Mahalley’s queer ways that Mrs. Wheeler said it was easier to do the work herself than to keep explaining Mahalley's psychol ogy. Day after day 10 ravenous men «at down at the long dinner table in the kitchen. Mrs. Wheeler baked pics and cakes and bread loaves as fast as the oven would hold them, and *rom morning till night the range was Poked like the fire-box of a locomo tive. Mahailey wrung the necks of chickens until her wrist swelled up, as she said, “like a puff-adder.'' Ry the end of July the excitement quieted down. The extra leaves were taken out of the dining table, the Wheeler horses had their barn to themselves again, and the reign of terror in the henhouse was over. One evening Mr. Wheeler came dow n to supper w ilh a bundle of news papers under his arm. “Claude. I sen this war scare In Europe has hit the market. Wheat's taken a jump. They're paying SB cents in Chicago. We might as well get rid of a few ihundred bushel before it drops again. We'd better begin hauling tomorrow. You and 1 can make two trips a day over to Vioount, by changing teams, there's no grade to speak of.’ Mrs. Wheeler, arrested In the act of pouring coffee, gat holding the cof fee-pot in the air, forgetting she had it. “If this is only a newspaper scare, as we think, I don't see why it tyread is Your Best Health-Builder RIOTOUS, joyous health —the kind that com mands your admiration — it the product of perfect nourishment plus exercise. And “perfect nourishment” depends more often than you think on the kind of bread you cat. From BETSY ROSS comes 38% of the food en ergy required by the body daily. It supplies 57% of the proteins and 77% of the organic salts and minerals necessary to perfect health. Truly, BETSY ROSS is your best food, for no single food you eat contains nearly so much of the essential body requirements. You cannot serve too much BETSY ROSS for few people eat nearly as much bread as they should. But always remember there are many grades of bread, and only the best will serve you best. Try this recipe, tonight: Cheese Toast With a biscuit cutter, cut circles from very thin slices of bread• Ptit very thin slices of cheese between bread to form sandtviches. Hotter each side of the sandwich and brown a very delicate brown in a frying pan. These toasted sandwiches are served hot. I should affect the market," she mur 1 inured mildly. "Surely those big bankers in New York and Boston ! have some May of knowing rumor j from fact.” “Give me some coffee, please," said her husband testily. “I don’t have to I explain the market, I've only got to 1 take advantage of it.” "But unless there's some reason, I why are we dragging our Mlieat over | to Vicount? Uo you suppose it's some scheme the grain men are hiding un der a rumor? Have the tlnanciers and the press ever deceived the pub lic like this before?" "X don't know a thing in the world about it, Evangeline, and I don't sup 1 pose I telephoned the elevator at | Viscount an hour ago, and they said ! they'd pay me 70 cents, subject to change in the morning quotations. Claude,” with a twinkle in his eye, j "you'd better not go to mill tonight. ■Turn in early. If we are on the road j by 6 tomorow, we'll be in town before i the heat of the dhy.” "All right, sir. I want to look at ! the papers after supper. I haven't j read anything but the headlines since ! before thrashing. Ernest was stirred ! up about the murder of that grand duke and said the Austrians would make trouble. But I never thought j there Mas anything in it.” "There's 70 cents a bushel in it. anyway,"' said his father, reaching for a. hot biscuit. "If there’s that much, I'ni_ some how afraid there will be more,” said Mrs. Wheeler thoughtfully. She had picked up tho paper flybrush and sat Maving it irregularly, as if she M'ere trying to brush away a swarnt of confusing ideas. "You might call up Ernest, and ask him what the Bohemian papers say about It," Mr. Wheeler suggested. Claude went to the telephone, blit teas unable to gel any answer from the Havels. Thejt-liad probably gone to a barn danee down in the Bo hemian township. He went upstairs and sat down before an armchair full of newspapers; he could make noth ing reasonable out of the smeary tele grams in big type on the front page of an Omaha newspaper. The Ger man army was erUering Luxembourg; ho didn't know’ where Luxembourg was. whether it was a oily or a country; he seemed to have some vague idea that it was a palace! His mother had gone up to "Mahailey's library.” the attic, to hunt for a map of Europe, a thing for which Nebraska fanners had never had much need. But that night, on many prairie homesteads, the women, American and foreign born. were hunting for a map Claude was so sleepy (hat he did not wait for his mother's return. M» stumbled upstairs and undressed in the dark. The night was sultry, with thunder clouds in the sky,and an unceasing play of sheet-lightning all along the western horizon. Mosquitoes had got Into his oom during the day. and after he threw himself upon the bed thev began sailing over him with their high, excruciating note. He turned from side to side and tried to muffle his ears with the pillow. The disquieting sound became merged, in his sleepy brain, with the big type on the front page of the paper; thn.-c black letters seemed to be flying about his head with a soft high sing song’ whizz. (Continued in The Morning fire.) Throe Attempts Are Made to Burn Catholic School Montreal. April 8.—Three attempts, during the last week, to set fire to the St. Edward academy, a Catholic institution, and also to start fires In other schools in the same locality, have been reported to the school com mission, it was learned today. In each case, pupils discovered lighted paper upon which gasoline had been throwh. Shopmen Got Increase. Cleveland, April 8.—A wage in crease of 7 cents an hour for practic ally all groups of its shop employes was announced here by the Wheeling & Lake Erie Bailroad company. Model Son Asks Court to Stop 76’Year-Old Dad From Doing Hard Work Hjr Universal Service. New York, April 8.—Jacob Nardl resorted to tho court* Saturday in his j determination to perform a filial duty. lie asked a magistrate in Brooklyn : to restrain his 7« year old father from j working. The model son said that he derived (a comfortable living from ids fruit store and there was no need of hie Mather doing manual labor, i "He's too old to work, but he's do ■ irig all sorts of jobs," tho son said. • "As soon as one gives out he gets ! another.” Our Children ANGELO BATRJ. ISeiug Honest With Them. Mother and Benjie were out in the flower garden sniffing tho perfumes and drinking the color with eager eyes. Says Benjie. “Why, mother, why do you pinch off the little seeds? I think they're kind of pretty." Ben jie is fi. Then mother (who says, "I make It a point to tell the child exactly the truth about anything he asks about.,") told Benjie a long, long story about the plant and its flowers, and the bees and thtj moths and the butter flies and the wind, and the pollen dust and the seeds, and the baby plant and the mother plant's ceasing to live and to give out any more bios sums once the seed was set. It was such a long talk with so much truth In it that it lasted the whole time they were in the garden. The perfumes and tho colors and the lovely shapes of things, the lights and th<- shadows and the funny little hugs, all passed unheeded while moth er. flushed and tired with the effort, made plain to Benjie the truth about seeds. As they turned into the path that led to the house, Benjie's crinkled brow smoothed out and he said: "Anyway you buy seeds from the store man, don't you mother? ' and raced up to the brown butterfly that had tantalized him by dancing up and down In front of him just out of reach all the way up from the garden. "I don't believe he understood it all,” sighed mother. ''I'll have to try again.” It is true one must be honest with children and talk to them with the appreciation of one human being to another, but that does not say that the whole range of human knowledge should be scoured for an answer to their question of the moment. They hear a stream of sounds, that's all. They are lost in it and wearied beyond expression. They will goon learn to protect themselves from It. The lieit< i n.iy to do. when they ask ouestioi.s that involve the whole of human experience, is to answer just the question they ask, briefly, accu rately, In simple language, and no more. T>ct that sink in. When 1t does they will come back for the next step. 1 pirk the seeds up because the plant would stop flowering if I left them on, Benjie,” would have an hw • <1 th<> question the child asked. All that Interested him was the mot net - action, t'hildren are always CASTORIA For Infants and Children IN USE FOR OVER 30 YEARS Always bears _ — Signature OLD MAN JOHNSON ON HIS KNEES 'J4 JL*aU >rv*j - ■fa V>&* HjOul*, -&*»-%_ C-«ruJeA^!% *-v\.■ \X^^<^tu_~«v£xJU , ''MCfc. o>* >V^J^ A.txxA^*-C. Ag ■. igrv -p»fc-ti* V»/«ofc.-o»«V 4. U)lmr.r AXk^JlKjiSLki t ^J2j[ 7K"Aav NOW SHOWING ^SHr also WILL ROGERS IN “Fruits of Faith” jj IMHHnHnMRBBX n-.. WHEN IN NEED OK HI.l.l* TH% OMAHA BEE WANT ADM. f . ■' Tw<t> Daily 2jI5. 8 IS. Now Playing Frank McIntyre & Co. In "W»dn«Mliy at th« Ril«M Roy? A M»y» Trie* A Wilson Frank- —Adala DAVIS A DAJtNF.LL Offer ‘‘Birdseed" C arle. I rani is A Claire Crvstwl BfnnrU A Co. topics of I hr Day. Aesop's Fa'hies Pulhr News | MMI l>ORMs"olrFK AIOCUF I Present me "Famous Operatic ' ISweethearts"! I Matinee* ISc to fife riu» U. 5.1a* Nighl* | tfrc (o jl I NOW MOWING MARY BROWN > TROPICAl MAIDS “HELLO BILL" A COMEDY IN THR! I M I NI S WIT M A I INI < MOWU-s ot DAN< I Rs I Mliim I'Kofiiplav, V'mlM Hrnnn* in "WHEN THE DEM R Y * ( ALU" A S^nilinill, ( nmyollin* Rnmtiwr of tho Ruining >%nd» interested in action of any soit and will ask about it and imitate it. That waa what Benjie was doing He was not asking at all about the [creation of plants. Ilia experience wax i limited to the action and it was about [ that he asked. He lecognized nothing deeper than that. The^ don't cheat the children out of the joy of their present day by loading It up with the experiences of the day still to come. As the days pass, add to the experi ences and the strength and the gra'Fii of Hie children. They are gradually prepared for their burden. 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