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The Morning Bee HORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th* Aasovlat-d Press, of which Tha Be# la a member, la exclusively -ntiUad to the hie for repubUcattnu of all newa dlsfatchee credited Ur it or ■,'it otherwlre credited in r 11II i.aper, and also the local oevra, published ncreiQ. All rights ot republlcationa of our special dlapatchea are slur reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Privet® Branch Exchange. Aak for the Department *T1 a* or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: A * l«ntic l.ditorlal Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. 1000 OFFICES Main Office— 17th and Famam Co. Eluffa ... 16 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th aiU N ... , New York—286 Fifth Avenue W ashington - 422 Star Hldg. Chicago - - 1720 Steger Bldg. * J -■ * '■ ' "'■■■-■ -- -- SWEETER WATER FLAVORS JUDGMENT. Improvement clubs arc taking up the cause of the city water plant, fearful of the possible effect of the assault that is being made by the personal foes of Senator Howell and the opponents of municipal ownership. This is a hopeful sign, for when the citi zens rally to their own defense, designing schemers will be stopped right at the plate. Little harm will come from an honest inquiry into the cause of the recent failure of the water supply._ Those who arc in charge of the plant know this, for they want to know what to guard against in the future. When it has been discovered, full explanation should be made to the people, that all may understand that it was neither willful neglect, nor lack of competence that < aused the breakdown. Such an inquiry we may be sure will not be neg lected by the men who are operating the plant. The proposed investigation to be carried on by those whose enmity to the Metropolitan Utilities district is but thinly veiled under professions of concern for the future will not bring out the facts, nor will it give assurance of protection in days to come. These men are searching for a weak place in the armor of •Mr. Howell, and think they have found one in the calamity that overwhelmed the city. Mayor Dahlman is also a member of the board of directors of the Municipal Utilities district, and he knows as well as any one what is being done. There tore his statement that such an inquiry as Commis sioner Koutsky suggests will accomplish no good comes with great force.* Jim Dahlman is labeled politician, and is accused of favoring the corpora tions, but he knows how to shoot square. His oppo sition to Koutsky’s scheme is not especially to de fend How'ell, but to assure the people of Omaha that their confidence in the men who manage the great business enterprise that is owned by the people and carried bn in their name is not misplaced. It will be a long time before the memory of this experience is wiped out, but that is no reason why the misfortune should be made the greater through a rovert effort to break down what has been done by means of a partisan inquiry. The question is not me of Mr. Howell’s personality, nor of Jim Dahl man’s, or that of any member of the water board or the city commission. All the citizens of Omaha, who are the owners of the water plant, the gas plant, and the ice plant, are the ones who are concerned, and they arc making their wishes known. "WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY.” ‘‘It is an absurd move, and is giving the miners no worry,” says John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, discussing the proposal to use a substitute for anthracite coal. He goes on to explain that in the places where hard coal is used nil appliances are fitted for burning that sort of fuel, v.nd that it will cost a lot of money to make the changes needed to use any other sort. Mr. Lewis, in his present sense of security over looks the fact, that such changes can be made, and that if jhe and his associates carry out their expressed intention of stopping the supply of hard coal on Monday next, the changes will have to be made, for the great population of the eastern states that de pend now on anthracite will not consent to lay down to await the pleasure of either coal baron, the owner or the miner. Once Mr. lewis has taught the people the lesson he is bent on pressing home, that life without anthra cite is bearable, he will have killed the goose that is now bringing forth many golden eggs to be shared between the operators and the miners. He may also lind that the business of the country ran be transacted without the assistance of the big organization he rep* resents. Changes quite as sweeping and as radical have been made in America in the past. Sometimes the readjustment has not been easy, but it has been found to pay in the end. The miners and the mine owners are playing a dangerous game just now, and it will not help for either side to taunt the public that it is helpless. The cost of changing furnaces and fire pots may be even less than the extra tax that will be levied for the uncertain, privilege of burning hard coal. KEEP SUGAR BEETS GROWING. A “comprehensive” investigation into the beet sugar industry is to lie made by the tariff commis sion. Here is one federal inquiry the beet raisers will welcome. If it is indeed thorough, its findings >hould disclose information that will settle several points that have been much in dispute. One of these will be whether the farmers in the North Platte valley out in western Nebraska really can compete on even terms with the cheap labor of Cuba. Hawaii and other centers of the cane sugar in dustry. We do not believe they can, and for that reason advocated the tariff on sugar, which would permit the payment to these men of a price f6r beets that would justify raising them. Free traders insist that the country would be as well off if no sugar were produced in the United States, save in competition with th\ foreign product. What would follow the extinction of the sugar indus- ; try in the United States has fairly well been indi cated by experience since the war. In 1920, when the Cuban producers found themselves in position to control, they whooped the price from 4'i cents to 11 Vs cents for raw sugar on the dock at Havana. Once let the foreign producers get full control of the American market, and they will exact tribute to the last notch. Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Califor nia are the principal sugar producing sections of the United States. Louisiana and Mississippi con tribute some cane sugar, but the greater part of the home output is from beets. This now competes in the home market on an even footing with the cane article, and its development should be encouraged, for it is the best insurance Americans hare against extortion from foreign producers. tyc arc waiting for some of our cynical friends to note the extension of churehes in Omaha with the remark that the additional facilities are needed. Lord Birkenhead says he sought to praise Presi dent Wilson. Maybe we do not understand the Eng ':«h way of saying things. t'heap fuel will solve a lot of problems CANNING INDIAN CUSTOMS. Much interest is felt in the announcement that Dr. Melvin R. Gilmore is to be director of the Heye Foundation in New York, and to give his time to the collection and preservation of Indian lore, customs and observances. Dr. Gilmore is eminently fitted for this work. Begifin^ng his studies in Nebraska long ago, he has followed up the work through the Dakotas, until he now ranks among the first of Amer ican ethnologists. His sympathetic interest in the red men, as well as his scientific zeal for knowledge of their tribal and individual life, make it certain that he will overlook nothing that will be of value. Extinction of the weaker is an inevitable conse quence of the meeting of two cultural streams. The Indians are being caught up into the stronger cur rent of the white man’s civilization, and their own is disappearing. Civilization is rather a strong word to apply to the culture of a people who scarcely had attained the upper grade of savagery when Euro peans came among them. They were living in the stone age, and some persisted in it until well along in the last century. Some modern investigators in cline to the opinion that perhaps a considerable num ber of these savages had relapsed from a former high state of civilization, which fell into decadence be cause of its inability to perpetuate itself. Whatever may or may not be said on that point, the fact is that the cultural progress of the tribes found in America has not been in any sense neg lected by men who are qualified to study and pre serve the lore. They have been closely studied and carefully recorded by European and American scien tists for three centuries or longer. Records in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution are complete, and cover music, dances, religious and other cere monies, industries, crafts, social and political customs and practices, and a vast range of knowledge, all minutely inquired into and set down with greatest of care. Dr. Gilmore undoubtedly will add greatly to the intimate knowledge we already have of these people, just as Alice Fletcher made the Omahas a better un derstood tribe by her work among them, as Mooney shed light on the Kiowas, Apaches and other tribes he studied, and as many other workers in the field have crowned their labors with interesting reports. While “Indian ways” are disappearing before the more virile culture of the white man, the knowledge of them is not being lost, save as far as the Indians themselves lose it, as was the case among the Oma has, when fully half of the “unwritten work” of the tribe’s ceremonials was lost by the accidental death of its sole custodian. BOY SCOUTS BRING HOME GIANT. A giant 8 feet 3 inches tall, and weighing 359 H pounds, all solid bone and muscle, was brought home by the Boy Scouts from their camp at Camp Gifford. No, it was not all in one piece, but was walking around in the persons of 375 boys, who spent their vacations down on the banks of the river under the bluffs above Bellevue. The figures represent a gain of .93 pounds in weight and .261 inches in height when distributed among the boys. Some of them did far better than the average. One lad came back almost a quarter of a foot taller than he went aw ay, his exact gain being 2.8 inches. Just what does this mean? Mothers know some thing about it, for they prepare the food that nor mally goes to fill the hollow legs of the growing boy. Fathers know something of it as well, for they provide the food the boys eat, and they also buy the clothing the lad so soon outgrows, and thus are con tinually reminded of the change that is taking place. It is but obedience to the law of animate nature, yet it is the wonder of life. What does it mean to the world? None can an swer this question with exactness, but in a general way it means that sturdy lads are growing up healthy and strong and active, to take the place of the brawny men, who arc passing out at the other end of the procession. And these boys are getting p little better start than their daddies had, just as in turn their daddies had something on their grand dads. Our boasts of progress would be empty and in vain if this were not true. And it is much better for all concerned to have that giant’s flesh and bone parceled out among 375 boys than to have him stalking around our streets, merely attracting attention because of his hulk. The Boy Scouts will make good use of their growth. OREGON TRAIL AND PONY EXPRESS That the west is taking more and more interest in preserving the traditions of its earlier days is evidenced by the preparations being made for a celebration of the old Fony^ Express days, and by the establishment of an annual Oregon Trail Days festival at Gering. Early in September pony ex press riders will start from St. Joseph and San Fran cisco simultaneously, and race across the continent. A grandson of Buffalo Bill, himself one of the Fony Express riders, will be among the riders on the an niversary trip. Gering’s celebration this year, August 28, will be only a one day affair, as it will he merely the first efTort at establishing the annual festival. But it will be marked by a parade of old-time prairie schooners, the old stage coach, and a reunion of the pioneers of the valley. As the years come and go the scope of the celebration will be enlarged until it will be come n national affair of great historic interest. While the west, is young, as time is measured in the life of nations, its earlier days arc now far enough in the past to bring a renewed interest in the preservation of their history and traditions. Present day history in the making will be preserved in motion pictures, but the old pioneer days must be preserved in memory and print. The children of today who study the history of the Oregon Trail and Fony Express days will find there in much that is inspiring. Those dayB have no parallel in the his tory of any other nation. Paris proposes to make the “five-gallon" hat fash ionable. Cheyenne, Albuquerque, Tucson and other points west and southwest will note this with interest. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie BEWILDERMENT. Gold moon and gilded star Somnolent brilliancy. Why needst I gaze afar When close I can not see ' Trees silhouette the sky, The night 1h weirdly still l.ike shadows distant lie The valley and the hill. The ripple of the stream , In rhythmic whispers rise As some ethereal dream Inspired by Paradise The galaxy of night Is opened wide to me Why needst I seen the heigh! When close I can not see? t Edward Rosewater's Interest 1n a permanent exposition for Omaha nsver flagged. At the time of hia death be was discussing with E. H. Harriman and other men of wealth and influ ence a project for a great museum In which the west would be presented In Its past and present to visitors to Omaha. Yesterday we printed his editorial after the close of the state fair at Lincoln in 1876. Here is one he published four years later, on September 25, 1880. ‘‘THE LESSON OF THE FAIR." "The most successful state fair ever held In Nebraska has drawn to a close. Omaha has every reason to feel proud of the manner In which her citizens have fulfilled their part in the ex hibition. The state at large is equally to be congratulated over the fine show ing which Nebraska has made of her agricultural, horticultural and stock interests. The attendance has been very gratifying; the weather, taken as a whole, has been good; the racing has been the best seen in the state. Both exhibitors and visitors feel satisfied, and the management have reaped a substantial pecuniary success as the result of their untiring labor*. "When the fair was first transferred to our city many of the merchants doubted the practicability of making It a success financially. Others were In clined to question the advantages which would accrue to themselves as exhibitors Both of these classes have been most agreeably disappointed. The merchants, manufacturers aqd mechanics of Omaha came nobly to the front, and filled every portion of space allotted to them to overflow ing. Every class was admirably repre sented. Omaha's exhibit alone would have made a fine showing. The state outside of Omaha was In no way be hind the city. Both combined made such a flattering showing that crowds of Nebraskans were drawn to the grounds, and the financial success of the state fair was assured before the week was half completed. "Those who questioned the personal advantage of exhibiting their goods were soon undeceived. Fully 60,000 visitors crowded the grounds and buildings during the progress of the fair. The value of the advertising thus given to their goods and wares can not be estimated. Thousands of those who were present at the fair as visitors will in the near future be purchasers of the exhibits which they saw for the first time. The return to the exhibitors in dollars and cents will doubtless be a hundredfold, and Oma ha merchants will have no reason to | regret their wisdom in contributing in money and exhibits to Its success. "The lesson of the fair is already learned by many of our most promi nent business men Omaha must have a permanent exposition. Such an ex hibition tho fair Just concluded baa shown Omaha Is amply able to sup port. There will be no lack of means to carry it out, of exhibitors to fill all tho floor space, of visitors to make It a financial success. Our rapidly grow ing city demands such a bazar In w-plch to display her wondrrfu! In dustr'a] and commercial advancement. A pet -nanent exhibition of resources of the mehopolis of Nebraska would be worth millions of dollars to the state in the advertisement which It would give to strangers of the possi bilities In store for unemployed capi tal. Let us by all means have a per manent exhibition." Center Shots Motorists dispute the right-of-way with locomotive* onlv once.—Detroit New e The sums demanded In alienation suits must almost make a bricklayer envious.—Boston Traveler. Autos should he tanked up. but not the drivers.—T-ainaing State Journal. Optlmus—Have you heard the lat est Ford Joke? Cynlcus—Tea. he wants to be president.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. I-ady—Would you mind changing thia portrait you painted of my hus band for a landscape? I'm going to get a divorce.—Iyandon Passing Show All that the hard-boiled egg needs usually is for some two-fisted guv to crack it.—New Orleans Times Picayune. Lndv fliwpecting Stuart house, to agenll—It seems to smell very musty. Agent—Slightly, madam, perhaps, hut not more so than la In keeping with the period-—Punch. (■ambling In Wheat. Wheat Is the greatest gambling commodity in the world. Why. then, should a farmer he a gambler on the outside and three limes out of four (or lessl a loser? When Ihe world goes hungry for white bread the wheat grower can piny his own game profit ably and tho gamblers can go hang. —Kearney Hub. Daily Prayer Ood b* msrrjful unto us. and Mf«« us; and cau** Mia far® to shin* upon un; that Thy way may b* Known upon earth. Thy saving health among all nations l.et tha prop)* pfalaa The#*, O CN>#I; l#*t all th* people praise The* O let the na tlona he glad and wing for Joy: for Thou ■halt Judge tha people righteously, and govern tha nation* upon earth—P* 61: 1-4. Our Ood «n<1 Father, we render Th*o our thank* and praise for nil tho good of thl* <lnv. Now were Thy mercies In tho morning, and aweet 1* Thy love in th* evening hour We Mem Thoe that Thou hunt given tie tht* day our dally bread; that Thou hast not forgotten ua even In thoar self-centered momenta when we f#»rgot The*. And now we pray Thee to watch over and preserve ua. body ami aoul, during the hour* of tho day and flight. May our reel and sleep I** MWoct to lie. May we be brought to this new day refreshed ami encour aged for all ita dutim and privilege*, Ita sorrow* and Joy*. When we come at bint to life'* eve ning hour, and the night of death be gin* to fall nlMiiji ua, may we by faith look beyond Ita dark nr *a to the breaking of the eternal day We all aak in tho name and through the merit* of our laud and Savior, Joau* t'hriaf Amen. ROBERT HUOM MORRl*. p. p . Phl*r1fIphl^j Pa ‘•THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” Cdltorlol from roadt't of Tho Morotng Boo. Roadori of Tho Moratap Boo aro lavltod to woo thlo columa frooly for oxproooloo oo mattoro «f owbllo latoroot. Correction. Through a misreading of the manu script, a communication to The Oma ha Bee published yesterday gave an incorrect signature. This letter was by Roy A. Card. Open Letter to Commissioner Hop kins. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I have sent the follow ing open letter to Commissioner Hop kins: In fairness to the quartermasters of the United States army posts and in fairness to th<> bakers of Omaha, I will correct some impressions that may have been gained by the public from your announcement that bread was sold at army posts for 4 cents per pound and that Omaha bakers could follow this example. As a quartermaster captain, I feel quali fied to make these corrections. It is true that bread is sold by the quartermaster at 4 cents per pound; but it is also true that most of the items of usual bakery costs do not enter into the bread sold. The quar termaster pays no bakers’ salaries nor helpers’ salaries; he uses enlisted sol diers for this special duty. They are paid as soldiers. He uses practically no modern machinery to replace hand work. He charges no power and light to the cost of producing bread. His fuel is furnished Without cost to the bakery. His bread Is not wrapped, nor Is It delivered. None of the fol lowing expenses Into enter his costs of bread: Wrapping supplies, wrap pers’ salaries, repairs, depreciation, salesmen's salaries, auto truck ex pense, auto truck salaries, retail store expense, shipping cartons, transporta tion of supplies and baked goods, traveler salary and expense, postage, shipping clerks’ salaries, advertising, office expense and supplies, office sal aries, interest, insurance, taxes, dona tions and rent. In addition to these facts, the quar termaster's bread Is frankly of a lower grade than the OmaJia. bakers’ bread. The army bread contains no milk. Bakers are the world’s largest users of milk today, with the excep tion of the butter makers. The quar termaster uses a cheaper grade of standard flour, while bakers use the highest grade of short patent flour Omaha’s flour mills grind a large part of the flour used by the army posts today, so you can verify this state ment. As an ex-service man, you can probably remember the bread served you while in the army, and without any criticism of that bread a fair minded judge would have no difficulty in choosing between that hand-made Wholesome bread and the scientifically made, more w holesome breads sold on the Omaha market today. In passing, let me correct one other statement of yours when you quote wTfi?\v,>reao in fhlca*°- r am familiar with the situation there, and there Is *n?v* n 7>"t bread *nd!t is 4 3 2 1 aInC<‘ th'‘r“ Wa* 5. was 1 rnt ^ F'"a>l>' bread was gKen froe W|th everv purchase Of Other goods eyrenase In Chicago. today, you will pay 10 • - cents retail fr,r a pound k-if ' bread, and 15 to 13 cents retafl for a Pound and a haif loaf TW, ' beeen no decline |n bread prices m hicago and. while it 1, tr™ here is some 6-cent bread In Chicago lm?e has dn fT a'IVOr,1',‘nK Purposes-, there has not been a dav In the oast PotTxiVun* Chi*" ,hp ,hlne 'ii'1 Omaha"1 ln Chi<*a*yrnAvr'y CaCed^y;y---Corp, Oraml Judy I* Tailed For. Omaha.—To the Editor of The ,tee: Thpr* scefns to he ‘a (he cm '"""•‘"s’1" "f opinion among he citizens of Omaha that there (tomethlng radically wrong w th the Metro™, W,h.‘ch ,hp «ffair, of * duct^r rno ’“h'” dislri^ <"e pon ,t™ , I1 on hR,ln't had the evt. denre before hi# eyrg ,very faucet was turned on it would seem fantastic to imagine that a mode™ city of some 200.000 people could bl otaliy without a supply of water sh!'”'? s.uch‘n condition were brought nature ^ ? *'Kantic upheaval of ft™t UCh nH nn earthquake or by hiBh .rja.,"su'is"A^ !** , r '"ipp,U''1 hy the district “lwn consistently murky, and to with llnXlT ,hl,r * ba,h «“»• fMle.1 he, - h,,r* ,ho appearsnoe of iron^rust°d WHh a *tronK solution of It will also bo recalled that during h r!«na months approximate. he ’mo™0 W* bPpn ^Pended by rnimI ar.Tnt.°f ,h'’ Metropolitan t tdities district for improvements to the Florence water station, such im provements purporting to be for the purpose of increasing the rapacity and improving the quality of the wafer supply. In view of these fact*. and of the complete breakdown of Omaha's water system. I, would appear that someone in authority connected with the Metro polltsn I'filitlcs district has either rn tlrcly neglected the business of sa|d district or else Is totally Incompetent to conduct the affairs of same. It Is too early to determine the merits of the new Altering svsfem but some one In authority certainlv completely ignored the public welfare when the Installation of the new equipment was allowed to Interfere with the sediment basin system which has stood the test of so many years. The only reason that the present terrible situation has not caused un told suffering and death Is the sudden change In fhe tent perat tire, ther mometers registering from 40 to TO degrees instead of SO to 100. of course, at the present writing tt Is impossible to foretell the extent of the fever epidemic which mat- follow, although physicians generally agree thai such an outbreak Is probable. Tilt Citizens of Omaha should take Immediate steps to have this matter NO CURE NO PAY Chiropractic Enammntion Fraa DR. FRED B. PHELPS 212 KARBACH BLK. Phona AT 8781 18th, Naar Dmifla NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for July, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .72.472 Sunday .75,703 Does not Include returns, left | nvers, samples or papers spoiled In printing: and Includes nr special sales. B. BREWER. Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of Aufust, 1923 W. H. QU1VEY, ( Seal I Notaiv f’ublu thoroughly investigated and the af fairs of the Metropolitan Utilities dis trict put Into such efficient shape that a similar condition will never again arise. Mr. Koutsky's proposal for an Investigation hy the city coun cil Is an excellent one, but falls short of what is really needed. An investiga tion to really develop the true facts will of necessity have to be conducted by a body of men called together for that single purpose and clothed with authority to compel the attendance of witnesses and the taking of testimony under oath. To really fix the re sponsibility and make certain a sim ilar situation will never again arise, such an investigation will have to be conducted by a grand Jury. In the Interests of the public wel fare It Is the duty of every citizen of Omaha to demand a thorough and im partial probe by a grand Jury, with out fear or favor for any one and disregarding the influences brought to bear to whitewash the present affair. ROBERT H. MANNING. Not in Brookhart'* Way. Gibbon, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: It is somewhat strange that the republicans of Iowa should have sent to congress a man possessing the socialistic views of Senator Brookhart. The action of the senator in running on the repub lican ticket can be more easily under stood as coming from the desire to run on the ticket offering the best chance of election. But when he makes the statement that the action of the Fed eral Reserve board caused the farm ers of this country a loss of $32,000, 000,000, it is hard to see how even a socialist could accept such a statement as coming from anyone but a dema gogue, The senator disregards the fact that the readjustment following the war was even worse in foreign countries than it was in the I'nited States, also that this country became the dumping ground for food products from other countries because they were worth more here than anywhere else. Deflation would have come even if there had been no Federal Reserve board, and. in that case, might have been worse. And. after all. inflation which could have heeen avoided, was the greater evil, and deflation was inevitable. It might be compared to a man going out on a spree. He can avoid going on the spree, but he can not avoid the after effects. As to the deflation of land prices, of which the senator speaks, if might be said that land prices are gtill much too high, considering the value of what the land-produces. And, as the farmers, through their willingness to speculate in land, were partly to blame for the high price level to which it rose, they should rot put all the ldame onto some one else be cause the inevitable has happtned. Conditions existing today ran be im proved in many ways, but it will never be done by radicals of the Brookhart tvpp. GEORGE LUKENBILL. Putting Tilings Over. Omaha —To the Editor of The Bee: X attended a meeting of an improve ment club called for the purpose of “discussing the water situation ’ In dications later pointed to the fact that the action the club was to take had been agreed upon previous to the call. In the discussion reference was made to "the nerve of Commissioner Joseph Koutskv in asking for an investiga tion of the water situation when he eould not efficiently handle the sewer system under his department," Another reference was made to A. I> ‘Hunt and his political activities while connected with the old water company, previous to municipal own ership. I wondered if Commissioner Koutekjr was expected to revolutionize a sewer (System that was in the process of building for rears previous to bis ad vent into office, about two years ago. 1 also wondered why Mr. Hunt should be made subject of attack, since he was retained in the employ of the water department ever since It was taken over by the city. Was it be cause said department had need of a man of Mr. Hunt's atdiltv In the line of political a. uvitv now- compl tired . of? What gets me. s that chicanery of the above description is so rasily and j successfully put over by designing' persons. 1 J. C. ! LISTENING IN On the Nebraska I’ress In Initiating a "Buy Wheat” move rnent Omaha business men are show ing a commendable spirit of co-opera tion. If the movement spreads to sufficient proportions It Is possible that It will affect wheat prices enough to afford the farmer temporary relief. It is ohr opinion, however, that the price of wheat will raise, if the mar ket is not manipulated by speculators, only when there Is a real demand for wheat; when people are buying It to use, not merely to bring the price up. The "Buy a Bale of Cotton” move ment brought higher prices to cotton raisers after the world war and helped them tide through a period of extreme low prices, but a justi fiable market price for cotton pre vails today only because there is a real demand, because the ultimate consumer is buying the thing pro duced. The Omaha movement seems to use an artificial means of raising the price, but if it accomplishes its purpose until the conditions of sup ply and demand have so adjusted themselves to bring the producer a reasonable price for his wheat, it is Indeed a worthy effort. It will be Interesting to watch the results of the movement.—Aurora Republican. The great trouble with the Amer ican people is that they are in too much of a hurry to obey the detour signs.—Fairbury News. "They must hinder your work very much." a man said to a mother busy about the kitchen, with a 2-year old clinging to hf i- skirt. "I’d never get through my work without them,’’ was the injtant rejoinder, and In it lay the answer to much of our sentiment al commiseration of hard-worked mothers. It may he hard to carry on the drudgery of daily life with the little ones clamoring around; it is 10 | times harder w ithout, for sheer lack of something to make it worth while. —Grand Island Independent. Someone suggests that a child should he named after Its mother, in stead of its father. The idea has possibly grown from the practice of putting everything in the wife’s name.—Grand Island Independent. Saw two young chits in the chow house a few evenings ago soberly pick ■ ip their glasses of water, look straight Into each other's eyes clink the glasses and murmur, "Forever " I was pleased to note the revival of the old time manner of convivial pledging. Personally I would rather have the word of a friend given over a glass of wine than the signed bond of any professional uplifter we have ever known—Clay County Sun. There is a proposal in the English parliament to provide for alimony for men as well as women where divorce Is granted. What’s sauoe for the goose should also be sauce for the gander.—Kearney Hub. Omaha. Lincoln and Fremont join in requests that the freight rates on farmers’ products be low ered. The in terstate commerce commission hike* rates in farm states the same day. This shows that the regulation of rates by law does not Always produce justice, it making all the difference in the world who lays down the law.— Aurora Register. Many farmers are putting what wheat they have in bins and are hold ing down the Hd for better prices. This plan might Influence Liverpool.— York News-Times. A motorist changes his style of driving after he gels majried—he learns to use both hands on the wheel.—Fremont Tribune. Edgar Howard refers to Magnus Johnson as "that sturdy Norseman." The allusion may pass in Nebraska, but we re not so sure about Minne sota. where the line between the ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ ' I Abe Martin t>lM i ! N(^! \) fegr Cliff Mopps, candidate fer county commissioner, wuz kicked By a cow t'day-while bein’ photogrpplie^, in the act o’ milkin’. “The "trouble with swell stationery,” *ay* Miss Blondy Rickets, “is that we spoil so much before we get started.”,, I Copyright, l»:z ) Norskys and Hvenskys is more close ly drawn.—Kearney Hub. /j Senator Capper says that “dtver slty of crops" and "'orderly market ing" i* the solution of CMT Wtricul tural diflk ulties. It is evident that the senator never had to deal With a landlord who dictated what should bo planted in his land, nor with p. banker who insisted that with the liar\je»t time there must b*- a settlemenf of obligations.—Clay Center Hun.' Isn't America Awful? As the radicals of Chicago- aaid. ihis is a country of oppression and/fyran ny. and the marvelous tjbiBS Vwi»t several thousands of Europear.^m trying to get into It without pSlit-' ‘ regard to the toes of the infn igration agents. 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