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The Morning Bee MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S UN DAY — ■— . THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher. — ■ —- ■ ■ - - - MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. * —■ - ■ ...—- - - - — BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department lantie or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: 4 000 Editorial Department. AT lantie 1021 or AT. 1012. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs— 1ft Scott St S. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York— W'orld Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City —Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syndi. Tru^t Bldg. Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Francisco— Hoilrook lildg. At lent*-Atlanta Trust Bldg GOING HOME FOR THANKSGIVING. There is flurry and hurry in millions of Ameri can homes today as smiling mothers prepare the Thanksgiving turkey, crimp the edges of luscious mince and pumpkin pies and, by the way, a square pan is the only thing in which to bake a pumpkin pie—sort the cranberries, select the solidest and clearest jellies, and run to the door to see if the long absent sons and daughters are co’ming back to ihe old home nests to gather around the Thanksgiv ing boards. On rushing trains that are headed towards all sections of the republic, thousands of men and women, some still in the first flush of manhood and womanhood, some graying about the temples, are counting off the miles that separate in diminishing number from mothers whose eyes are filled with joy and fathers who say little and feel much, waiting in anxious expectation for the return, even for a day, of the long absent loved ones. Mother remembers what her little boy and little girl liked best in those long dead days, and with loving care she prepares those very things again, for getful of all the years that have come and gone since she gathered son and daughter about her knee and heard them lisp their goodnight prayers. Men grown cynical through buffeting with ad- | verse fortunes, lose their frowns, erase the wrinkles from their faces and grow brighter of eye as they watch the landscape flitting by, drawing nearer and nearer to the home of boyhood. Forgotten for the time are all the buffeting of fate as the returning wanderer looks forward to the family reunion. And as the Christian father reverently bows his head to ask the blessing upon the reunited family circle, doubts and fears vanish as the mist before the rising sun, and faith and sweet content comes as a healing balm to every heart. A typical American institution is Thanksgiving day. It brings together from the four quarters of the earth the scattered family, renews the ties of youth, makes fatherhood and motherhood seem more divine, and draws every soul nearer to the Giver of all good gifts as the family gathers once more around, the piano or organ to sing again the songs learned in childhood. In many a home the family circle will be broken, but if there be a vacant place at the family table, rest assured that there is no vacant place in the heart of the smiling mother whose every loving look is a benediction to sons and daughters who have come back to rest again under the old roof tree. Father may not say much, but who can tell what his proud heart feels as he looks again into the faces of his boys who have gone out into the world to play the part of men, and have come back in response to the home urge that fills the heart of every true son of America on Thanksgiving day. Going home for Thanksgiving. Yes, by thousands and by hundreds of thousands, they are counting off the hours until they can wave to the mother waiting at the door, until they can grasp father by the hand and hear his hearty welcome. SPEEDING UP JUSTICE. Within 11 days after he had assaulted and robbed a man at North Platte, and fled to another state, Ray Hattan was apprehended, brought back to the scene of his crime, tried and found guilty, sentenced and landed in the penitentiary. Similar speed in a thousand and one other criminal cases would deter crime more effectually than all the preachments and law enactments of a decade. Even handed justice is not enough; this country must have speedy-footed justice. And one other thing is needed, and that is to put a new bandage over the eyes of Justice so she will be unable to distinguish between the prisoner who is penniless and. the pris oner who has thousands at his command for defense. Technicalities, tedious delays, quibbling and legal contentions combine to create a disrespect for law that is threatening the foundation of our political structure. Claiming to be the most highly ..civilized nation on earth, we lead all the nations in law breaking and in failure to punish for law infraction. The “sob squad” is always working overtime to shield criminals from punishment, and public opinion is lulled to sleep by specious pleas for mercy. There are more murders per 100,000 of population in the United States than in any other civilized nation, and convictions are fewer per 100 murders. Contempt for the penalties imposed for infrac tion of laws is fostered by pardons and paroles ob tained through the efforts of the ever busy ‘‘sob squads” and the pull of professional politicians. In Chicago there is a man sentenced to imprison ment for from one year to life for a deliberate mur der, yet he has never been in prison a day since sentence was pronounced, and he openly boasts that as soon as the first year is up he will be pardoned • by the governor. Such a spectacle puts a premium on murder and dangerously approaches making a ' virtue of crime. In Nebraska not one murder in 20 has resulted in the execution of the murderer, and the average life sentence for that crime amounts to less than 10 years. In Great Britain the average length of time elapsing between the arrest of a murderer and the trial is less than 30 days; in the United States the average more than that many weeks. There the time between conviction and execution averages less than four months; here it averages that many years. It is a waste of time to talk about diminishing crime so long as we permit criminals to profit by the lavv’s delays and finally escupe adequate punish ment through a mistaken notion of what constitutes mercy. Omaha now has a splendid opportunity to set the pace in a new dispensation. The men charged with the brutal murder of McArdle are entitled to a speedy and fair trial. They are entitled to no more. A speedy trial they should have, despite technicali ties and political pull. Arid just ns it must be speedy, so must it be fair. Swift justice is their due, guilty or innocent. When the criminal world comes to understand that swift justice awaits the guilty we may hope to note a decrease, in crime. PRAYERS THAT ARE ANSWERED. Does this hard-boiled age believe in miracles? Or will the carping, captious skeptic acknowledge that prayer is answered? Let us look at two instances noted in the press dispatches. Little Helen Hamilton of Camden, N. J., given up to die from heart failure, prayed that she be spared to live until her 13th birthday. Her Kfe had not been one of great happiness. Her father dead, her mother forced to earn the bread for two, the little girl had tasted all the pangs of poverty, and finally what little joy life held for her was snuffed out by a heart too weak to stand the strain even of her feeble motions. Bedfast, condemned by the family doctor to an impending fate that might overtake her with any breath she drew, she prayed that the end be post poned until she could celebrate her birthday. This began many days ago, and with the rising of each sun Helen renewed her prayer, and with the close of evening she asked for strength to go through the night- Friends came in the form of strangers, and left tokens of loving interest; from all over the land and even from abroad presents and messages ar rived, sent by sympathizers who had read of the yearning of the little sufferer to have her short life crowned with the one small boon. And Helen lived to see her birthday dawn, amid the radiance of plenty for herself and her toil-worn mother. A man accused of murdering his wife rose in an Austrian court, exclaiming: “May God Almighty punish me with instant death if I am guilty!” Those were his last words, for he sank and expired imme diately. Coincidence? Maybe; and perhaps some long and learned explanation may be given of why Helen Hamilton survived. Yet, is it not as easy, and no greater tax on credulity or trustfulness, to think that in some way a loving Father interposed in the one case, and an outraged God of Justice smote the offender in the other? A great many folks still hold with the father of “Little Breeches:” "I think that n-savin' of children And bringln' them back to their own Is a dern sight better business Than loafin’ round the throne." SPEEDERS ON THE COUNTRY ROADS. A nice smooth stretch of highway ran ahead for two miles, so the driver stepped on it. Two men were instantly killed, one fatally injured and the fourth escaped by some strange chance from the fate that overtook his companions. This was down in Nemaha county, the party being on the way to Oma ha. From Polk county comes the tale of the death of one man and the serious injury of another, in a collision between two cars. From Gage county comes the report of another collision, attended by serious results. These things happened on country roads, where traffic is not crowded as on city streets, on a night when a full moon made light almost equal to that of day. They are referred to merely <to suggest that all the reckless driving is not done by city drivers. Some of the blame for the growing list of auto mis haps and fatalities must rest on those who spend most of their days in such surroundings as should tend to implant sedateness of carriage, rather than recklessness of movement. Preaching appears to be lost on some drivers, and scolding is of no greater effect. The psycholog ical test proposed by Prof. C. O. Weber might be the means of eliminating some of the unfit, but what ever the remedy, it should soon be found and then be vigorously applied. Under existing conditions, the highways as well as the city streets are taking on a terror to all who use them. Nebraska’s claim for admission to the Big Ten should rest on something else than the seating capa city of the stadium. We long have had a ljotion that the chief drawback to the Cornhuskers has been the kind of team they usually turn out. Minnesota, Iowa, and others of the Big Ten can testify as to this point. Omaha drivers hereafter will very likely regard the traffic laws of University Place, whether they do those of Omaha or Lincoln. It isn’t always the big gest town that has the most exalted idea of public rights. Having landed the prize for baled alfalfa at Chi cago last year, Dawes county is going out for it again. This is just fair notice to other sections where they think they raise alfalfa. Police are digging up many unpleasant facts in connection with a bunch of bootleggers now in cus today, which will in some way affect the future of the men. Chicago has a policeman who can outrun thieves, which is better than shooting at them on crowded streets. Rummy Bill McCoy now knows what the inside of an American jail is like from the inside. Senator Norris is not the only Nebraskan who is disappointed by the governor. Would you say that Mr. Laughing Horse is giving his neighbors the horse laugh? New England under ten feet of snow will still talk of Nebraska blizzards. At. least one turkey question will be settled Thursday. Homespun Verse —By Omaha'* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie A FATHER'S FELICITY. When you fondle the cherub and play with the baby Who lie* in the cradle tied. Voif are glad, you tiro jSioud. and you murmur aloud The phrase* all father* have said. Your life niRy l>* drear and burdensome here Rut a home and a family bring Out the he*t and the true of existence to you, And you’re really too happy to sing. You laughingly acorn the adversity born As the hour* go quietly by; There Is pride In your heart lliat will never depart, m And a rapturous gleam In your evd « There's a spark that reveal* what n true father feels— Rut he nevei, oh. nevor rant say' And the ret Irenes tell* how t lie happiness swells In the heart that is hidden away. And the silence expresses much more than caresses The love and the prlda and the bliss. While the c\e* that are gleaming, the mltul that Is dreaming— Show more of true-love than a kiss | “The People's Voice" Editorial* from reader* of The Morn ins: Bee. Readers of The Morning B*e are Invited to uee this column freely for • xtireaaion on matter* of public Interest. Outlines Republican Needs. York. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I. too, have been a life long republican and have deeply re gretted at times to see men nominated for governor and other offices who were utterly unfit for that or any other position of public trust and whom we could not support. Nebraska for about Do years has had no governor, or, in other words, one who recognized his duties as pre scribed by law, and who did not mess with other people* business. They seemingly were too big for the job and evidently missed their calling, instead of the call to the governor ship they should have been called to pitch hay or feed hogs on the farm, which they might have done with more credit to themselves and us all. fitness seldom enters into the qual ification of our governors, but they ure made chiefly for the purpose of paying a political debt and not se lected because of their abilfty. Ro long ns the republican party ad heres to that policy so long It Invites and experiences defeat at the polls. Nebraska need never be counted In the democratic column, and when It is, It invariably is because the debt paying Is so apparent that republicans rebel with disastrous results. Republicans alone are responsible for conditions as they exist politically, because they have the balance of power and could order otherwise if they would. The debt paying play in politics is, as I see It, the only party wrecking element. I believe that In the future for all time the republican party could be the ruling party In Nebraska If the "scratch my back and 1 will scratch yo*rs" policy were abandoned. it seems a difficult matter to get a man in the govv-por'a chair who has even good com 0 i sense. Nebraska has men who are big enough to be president, bpt they have not been discovered yet. Don't you think it about time for Nebraska to get out her magnifying glass and discover some timber that will make a governor tljat at least will use horse sense? Let the office seek the man once and we will all be proud of Nebraska. Uf course we can pursue the same old policy and bump our heads against the stone wall again, but what’s the use. Let the debts remain unpaid and all pull together for success. J. A. PYLE. ' Facts Regarding the Fanner. McCook. Neb.—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee: In recent months there has been a groat deal of'casting about for means of helping the farrr.<er out of his current dilficuitlea. Most of the plans proposed have been im practical w hile some have carried dan gerous potentialities. Faulty analysis "f the situation. In accurate conjecture as to Its causes and misconception of the rural psyc hology have led to much confusion. initially, it should b» understood that the agricultural class on the whole Is inarticulate. The politicians who parp"rt to speak for the farmer rarely express his ideas. The farm paper editor endeavors usually to form rather than to follow the opln ions of his readers, and most farm papers represent special interests or small sections of the country. The fanner with the self-confidence grown of his practical Independence has never taken the trouble to create means of broadcasting his Ideas. Busi ness men and manufacturers, profes sional men and tradesmen are more or less closely organized, and the opin ions and convictions of the class are \erv accurately interpreted by Its leaders and spokesmen. The farmer, made Independent In thought and ac tion by his chronic Isolation, does not think or reason along c lass or creed lines to nearly the same extent as dues the town man who is in constant intercourse with others of his trade nr profession. It Is. therefore, far more diffic ult for anyone to speak authoritatively for the agriculturist than It is to assume the same privilege for bricklayers or doctors or coal miners. Reports of the condition of agricul ture which have reached the world at large have lacked much In complete ness and accuracy. Certain interests have endeavored to make political cap ital out of a present discrepancy be tween the price of wheat and the cost of Its production. From their repre sentations It would appear that all farmers are largely wheat raisers and that the condition cited 1* one which affects agriculture ns a whole. The truth of the matter ts that there are very few farmers who depend upon wheat culture alone, and it is further true that a large majority of the farms In the United States do not grow wheat at all. Some farmers buy tbelr bread and nearly all of them buy their flour. Those fow men who do depend largely upon the raising of wheat for a living have seen their profits cut down or wiped out entirely during the last few years But the wheat farmer Is used to such occur rences. In most of the wheat country the firmer thinks he Is doing well if he actually makes money above all ex penses one year out of three. There Is frequently a stretch of two. three or four years, during which weather condition! are not favorable and when low yields are the rule, occasionally there Is an almost complete failure, and only In exceptional years Is there i bumper crop of wheat In any of the sections where that grain Is raised on a large scale. The wheat farmer may hope and work fur a full crop every year, hut he does not expect to get Daily Prayer_I Pruytn* »!*»}■ with *11 pr*r«r "nd ■uppllt Htinn in tneh spirit—Bph b in W> com* before Thee. <»ur Father and our Ood, to worship, to pralfle Thy name, and to thank Thee for Thy great mercy and Thy many blessings We confess <»ur sins. hilt, we cons* with boldness to Thy throne of grace, for nur trust Is ill Him Who is our Advocate and out Mediator. Wo pray that Thou wilt show to each on. of us Thy will for this day. and help us to do It. not going In our own selfish and sinful ways. O Lord, grant that Thy will may be d«*no more and more by nil men. and that Jesus may not only he given a pi me In the throne room of our hearts, but may we let Him l»e floated on the throne and crown Hint Lord <»f all. <>ur Father, we ask that Thy Holy Spirit mav be nur comforter nur guide and »mr helper this da\ Mav we let our light ho shine tod a \ in the home, on the street, at work or at play that other* m$y |>o dl'nwn to lllnj Who In the Light of the World. We pray that It may be our eatneMt desire to kimw Oh r 1st better, and t<» make Him known. Help ns t«» watch and be f/litliflll. SSI when Hr come* He may tbn] us with lamps trimmed and hurtl ing Ami all we ask Is Iti Hi* own Moaned name Amen KIEV T T. (jJCAP. I.title Rock. AnitiiM* ! LISTENl NG IN On the Nebraska Press Tbe Newn.on Ornve Reporter wants to ascertain the identity of the fellow who left a bottle of hootch in a nearby outbuilding. The hootch will coagu late the white of an egg in 14 minutes, eats a hole in a rug in 13 minutes and burns with a bright blue flame. If lhe owner fails to elaiiVi property be fore Monday next the Reporter's lino type man will use It under the lino type meling pot. • * • J. R. Sutherland, who presides over the editorial destinies of the Tekamah Herald, predicts that Coolidge will have the Nebraska delegation to the next republican national convention. * • • The Grand Island Herald concludes that Governor Pinchot is rocking the boat, thereby putting President Cool idge In an uncon.<ortnble position. ^ * * * The Gordon Journal thinks that all this talk about more liquor consumed now than ever before is the bunk. The editor saw the Notre Dame-Corn busker game and says he didn't see a drunk during the subsequent cele bration. "How different," muses the Journal man, "from that, night 10 years ago when Nebraska beat Minne sota in a thrilling contest." Yes, a luge number of us noticed the dlf lerence. • • • Kdgur Howard writes the Columbus Telegram from Washington that he considers Ralston of Indiana the best bet for tlie democratic, presidential nomination, but Insists that his heart is still for Bryan. • • • Just a little reminder that the neigh borly spirit still exists in Nebraska. The Bradshaw Monitor announces a husking bee for the benefit of Roy Lincoln, whose corn crop remains un gathered because he has been sick for several weeks. • • • The Arnold Sentinel publishes a complaint from a rural subscriber who says that too many town fellows get tanked up and then go out to the country dances and make trouble. Why complain when there ought to be convenient neck-yokes for the( fanner boys to take along to the dance. Joe AMen of the York Republican applauds Mr. Coolldg* for insisting that all her wearing apparel he made in the good old IT. 8. A. it and Is not greatly disappointed or disturbed when his books fail to show a satisfactory balance on the right side. He knows that In his business the occasional good years must be made to protect the poor yeaiu which are sure to follow. While diversified farming is the safe and reasonable practice, it cannot be said with truth that there is no money In straight wh^at farming. All through the fcraln belt will be found men who have made moderate for tunes from the culture of wheat alone The worst feature of exclusive wheat raising is the enervating effect on the land, and it is this feature rather than any other which is inducing farmers to adopt crop rotation. The wheat raiser has been called a "90-Say" farmer, and while It is not true that the man who devotes his whole attention to small grain can loaf all but three months out of the year, it Is a fact that this style of farming requires less continued effort throughout the year than does the di versified practice, and It is for this reason that some men cling to wheat, although they know that the possi billHe* for profit are less than they would be in other lines. If a man chooses to limit his earnings to the benefit of his leisure It Is no one's affair unless the "virtue" crowd suc ceeds ^obtaining legislation prohibit ing rest. Aside from the wheat farmer's con dition, which la only serious In sec tions where repeated failures have worn out resources, or in individual rases where hard luck or poor Judg inent have contributed, there is no crisis In agriculture as might he sup posed from current report. The re ldjustment of values which wiped out a lot of paper profit* in all lines of In dustry had til* same effect In agrlcu! ture. Prices of farm products fell more rapidly than did prices of fabri rated #oods, as Is always and natur ally the rase, but all indications would lead to the conclusion that the low point has been passed, and while ogri cultural products are on their way up It seems that the prices of commodi ties which the farmer has to buy are generally still on the way down, EARNEST CORDEAL. Too Great a Price. O'Neill. Neb—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Every fall the papers ire full of the tragedies of football. Today we see where a boy was killed at Cliadron In a game between Chad ron and a neighboring town But we are informed that the game went on and that a victory was won to the tune of some 88 to 6. Wonderful "nerve” It must have taken to continue that game: And It may he. as the sports will tell us. that the boy died while grandly tight ing to make that victory possible— for the glory of the team. We will grant that the boy was a red blooded American and that hP died while bravely fighting. But what of It? We still contend that too great a price was paid for the victory. And If we. who never knew the boy. 500 miles away front the scene of the tragedy, feel thusly about the matter, how must that old father anil mother have felt that evening ns they gathered about the table for the evening meol and looked upon the vacant chair? They and they alone can properly cs llinale the price that was paid for the victory upon that sad day. We don't want to be an old fogy, but we do wonder sometimes h"w long the fathers and mothers and the lax payers of our country are going to stand for such foolishness. Football Is a college game and has absolutely no place In our hlfeli schools. Boys of high school age are too immature to participate In a game of such a strenuous nature as football Shall we go one step further at the risk of being octraelsed from the pres cnee of all "sensible O'ople " \\ ell, we ll tread softly, but here goes We would suggest that our next legisln (ure lake the matter up and pass a law prohibiting football In our public schools A St HOOLi MAN. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for October, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEF Daily. Sunday . f>..p« not Intluri* return*. loft over*, "ample* or paper* ffKdlfd l» ptinfinu anti include* nr apocio • ale* B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. I SuhicHlitd and iworn I* he lore me thi* Bth day oI Novembei, IR7.V W M QUIVIY. (Baal I Notary Publu “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Disappointed With Peace. From th« St Paul Plspetrh It Is verj’ difficult, to understand the temper of the large and Influen tial section of the French public which seems to be deeply disappoint ed at the agreement by which Great Britain and France have averted a break. M. Poincare, who has been Iron enough certainly before this to have satisfied the flintiest national ist that he Is no traitor, has without doubt suffered by his elasticity. In stead of relief that the crisis is over, and Jubilance at the maintenance of peace, most of the Paris press hope fully explains that the agreement Is "only temporary.” Had there been no agreement, an open rupture of the entente was Inevitable. Great Britain would have had no other course except to replace the entente with a German alliance. France could have prevented thifl only by mobiliz ing and striking without delay at Germany before the union with Great Britain could be developed. As the Temps, which speaks for the French foreign oftlce, said a day or so aeo, "France cannot afford to fight Ger many and England at the same time." Therefore. In the view of the Temps and the foreigr office, the entente was worth rescuing at some cost. Yet on Thursday M. Poincare was called upon, somewhat petulantly, by the commission of foreign affairs of the chamber of deputies to ex plain and Justify the concessions he found It necessary to make In order to avert the break with England. When It seemed likely three or four days ago that France would make a new invasion of German ter ritory, the franc fell to "0 for SI. id did not recover until the danger was past. All foreign bonds. Including the French, broke sharply. These, too, have recovered with the clearing of the crisis. But Andre Tardieu, who It Is only fair to say, has never felt that M Poincare was firm enough, has attacked the agreement as a grave capitulation. There has of course been no capit ulation at alt. M. Poincare has not even made a concession. If by that be understood "gratutious conces sion. ’ The French premier has yield ed because the consequences of not yielding were more than he cared to face and because there was not much to be gained even at so great a cost. Even at the best for France, the oc cupation of new territory would have been costly. It would have meant the dispersion of French forces, the weakening of the French military po sition In Germany. Sound French military counsel advised against it. Marshal For-h ts saM fn brve no*- eed it on strategic grounds. No new pro ductive guarantees would have been gained for the collection of repara tions. Neither from a military or an economic point of view was It well advised. Its sole result would have been to antagonize the world, reduce further German capac ity to pay. and very likely consoli date the Jaicling Frc'-ns of the re'rh on a unified anti French program. Very likely the best and most sober opinion In France Is heartily pleased at the agreement. But this section has not yet been articulate, and it Is sadly disconcerting to realize that the first expressions of French opinion are shot with disappointment that the new Invasion was sacrificed for the entente and peace. ■ »_ Bargain Hunting a Sport From the New TorX Times Crowns have fallen, maps of the world have altered, hut the spirit which thronged the Homan market j places and the medieval fairs has not rhanged. The old bargain hunt is still on; and from the story of a re cent riot, where women were Injured and traffic tied up for several m‘n utrs. we see that the bargain hunter germ" is as virulent as ever, if not more so At the store where the Hot occurred, they tell how » richly dressed woman walked In and ordered 10 dresses at a dollar ea-p. to l-e carried to her Packard car Just around the corner And one of the la.xe department! I stores, which holds dollar day sales] once a month estimates that 100,000 persons pass through the store on j that day. The personnel and habits of bargain hunters vary according to their neigh borhood. The elegant shopper dis guises her purpose and asks for good value," but the masses frankly de mand something cheap. In the city's great bargain hunting district every day Is a sale day. Something like 750,000 seekers pass daily, and on a Saturday afternoon the air is thick with jostling humanity. Girls bring their sweethearts to help In the se. lection; whole fumily groups come by. And sometimes the noise of a family quarrel arises—a mans harsh voice saying: "Aw. what d’you kvanta go in there for—you've just come outuva bargain sale;” and a woman, dark eyed and intense, "Yes, but this is an other one." To her, bargain hunting is a sport and a riotous diversion. She puts her whole strength Into the game and her hand Is against every woman who opposes her. Stories are told of literal violence over the bargain counter. Sometimes a tug-of-war will ensue; sometimes strategy Is used to win a contested garment. Progress ill Sanitation. From the Salt Lake Tribune. At this season of the year, when the good health crusade is being actively conducted all over the United States through powerful and system atized agencies that are seeking the co-operation of every citizen, It feems pertinent to point out one of the triumphs of modern sanitation his torically connected with the date. It was just 26 years ago today (No vember 22. 1S97), that there was pub lished to the world vital statistics on the yellow fever epidtmlc in southern Mississippi, covering the period of that year up to the date of publica tion. Cases, 4.286: deaths, 446. Then came the recognition and demonstra tion of the true etiology of yellow fever—the disease being due to the action of a specific virus tn nsmltted by the bite of a specific Rpecfes of bouse mosquito, and with the virtual elimination of the poison carrying in sect* (June the practical elimination of the. disease in this country, the epi demio of 1897 being the last serious one of Its kind within the borders of the union. Few scourges in the United States, or In the world at large, for that mat ter. have wrought more havoc at cer tain periods than this type of fever. It was first definitely recognized In 1447 in the West Indies. In 1691 if was exceedingly fatal in Barbadoe*. where it was called the "new distem r>er." It raged extensively in the lower Mississippi valley in 187S, the deaths In New Orleans and Memphis; alone exceeding 5.000. Until the American occupation of Cuba in 1498. it was never absent from/ the island. It appeared in the F’ana- i ma canal zone in 1905. but was checked there and virtually external-1 nated when the Americans applied the: modern method* of sanitation and I drainage. Application of the lesson taught by overcoming the yellow fever scourge1 ‘.s fast wiping out the major part of the epidemics that have been man s terror through the lohg ages. Every disease must have a definite and posi the cause: discovery of that cause points the way to its removal. While there are a few- diseases that as yet Abe Martin Joe Kite bought a second-hard car, t'day, that’s only gone 300 miles, an' he says he don’t see how it ever went that fer. Gran'maw Moots is 97 t’day, an’ it begins t’ look like she’d carry her appendix t’ th’ grave. _(Copyright. 1923 )_ baffle the skill and science of the best minds of the globe, the progress made within the last g-neratlon has been so great that the average of human life has been definitely and markedly prolonged. The spread of intelligence regarding proper methods of living assuredly re sults In prolongation of life. More and more do the mass of the citizens in every civilized country understand . .. i oea, n >aw can lye broken without an attendant penalty. The good heaith crusade Is •’ccomplishlng untold good for humanity. The Vanishinc Moose. ^ From the Philadelphia Public LeSjer. The good, brave days of 1912 and even 1920 are no more. The bull moose chant no longer stirs to mighty Impulses. if Hiram Johnson does not know it now, that conviction is about to be borne In upon him- His entry into the presidential derby is received by the old-time progressives with cynical shrugs and by the con servatives with smiles of suspicion. His Chicago announcement leaves politicians and public alike cold. Most of bis old-time backers are now- in ntt! er camp*. He has used up the momentum he acquired in the days of T R. 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