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The Morning Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N 1 N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publiabar N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief ftusintsn Mgr. __ # MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pres*, of which The Bee is a member, ia 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. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulations audits, ■ nd l'he Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for A T 1 AAA ths Department or Person Wanted. /VI loHrilC 1UUU • OFFICES Main Office—17th an*! Farnam Council Bluff»—15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W.Cor. 21th and N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syndl. Trust Bldg. Foe Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Francisco—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta— Atlanta Trust Bldg. THE WHEAT GROWERS AND THEIR PROBLEM. The condition of the American wheat farmer de mands the attention of the best constructive brains •f the nation. It is not enough to say: "Let the law of supply and demand work out the problem.” It la not fair to put the entire load on the farmers themselves. They have been doing their part val iantly, carrying the burden of high costs for the things they must buy, paying their debts wherever it has been humanly possible and thousands of them meeting with a smile the grim specter of ruin and the wiping out of the results of a lifetime of labor. The American manufacturer sells his product upon a domestic basis, secure behind adequate tar Iff protection. The wages of American labor are on a domestic basis, secure behind this same tariff and behind the further protection of a restricted immi gration law. These things are as they should be -the present high standard of living in America is the product of these things. The wheat farmer is entitled to his place in the national sun. He asks no more for himself than he has gladly voted for years to give to others. He aska anly that he be given the same consideration. The Omaha Bee will 'publish on Sunday next, January 20, a special wheat growers’ edition, in which will be outlined the condition of the middle western wheat farmer and the steps necessary to meet the situation. The wheat farmer must be placed in position whera he can sell at domestic prices. To this end the congress of the United States must co-operate by voting an adequate increase on the tariff on wheat and the railroads must be urged to readjust their ratea to the sea, putting them on a parity with Canadian export rates. These steps taken, in con junction with a curtailment of 20 to 26 per cent in* wheat acreage, will solve the wheat farmer’s prob lems, making his co-operative organisations genu inely effective. This is the program of the Omaha Bee—it is for the purpose of presenting the facts and figures sup porting this program that The Bpe will publish its special wheat growers’ edition. MOTHER EARTH’S LITTLE WRIGGLES. Readjustments in the western Pacific ocean bed art still disturbing the Japanese. While the process is slow, and painful to the dwellers on the surface of tha aarth, jt is positive and enduring. The great Tuscarora abyss, that lies just east of Japan, is an inexorable demand on the island empire, and will harass its people until something like an equilibrium lias been established. We talk confidently ffid thoughtlessly of a solid earth, when we are daily given proof that conditions are such as discount this belief. It is rather difficult to look upon the enormous masses of granite, porphyry, sandstone, and the like that make up the backbone of the continent, and think they are not •verlasting, but experience gives a contradiction to This thought. All our mountain ranges were thrust ipward by a folding or wrinkling of the earth’s sur face, the result of its cooling. This eagle process produced enormous creases. One of these creases is at the bottom of the Pacific, and is known as the Tuscarora deep. Japan shelves off abruptly into this great abyss, the differ ence in altitude between the summit of Fujiyama and the bottom of the great ditch being something like seven miles. One both sides the pressure is enor mous, and the effect produces a shifting of strata in the direction of raising the sea bottom. This will go on until the great crevasse is filled sufficiently to withstand the steady push of the mass of material on cither side. It does not, therefore, require a prophet to pre dict an earthquake in Japan. Admiration must be felt for the quality of courage that sustains the Japanese, who carry on in face of the knowledge that any moment of the day may see their work demolished by a tremor of the earth. Yet it is that tublime courage that has led man upward through Ihe centuries, and made him master of all earthly things. ONE BRAKE OFF IN HOUSE. A victory for free and unlimited debate of rev enue and tariff measures was won in the house on Monday through a combination of insurgent repub lican and democratic votes. They repealed what is known as the “Underwood rule,” which was put through in 1913, when the democrats were pressing their power and were anxious to drive the Under wood tariff measure to its passage. It restricts the offering of amendments to tariff or revenue meas ures, and virtually gives the ways and means com lllttee control of that class of legislation. Under this rule two tariff 'measures have berfc •ent through the house, the Underwood and the Ford ney-McCumber laws, and the great war revenue measures of 1917 and 1918, and the republicay measure of 1921, which materially reduced taxes, as well as a number of minor bills dealing with the same subjects. Just now a revenue measure is im pending, and under the plan adopted in the house it will be open to any form of amendment from the floor, unless a new method is discovered whereby progress will be facilitated. The effect is to put into the hands of a well organized opposition a weapon to thwart the majority in any effort it may make to secure the enactment of a revenue law. How far thie will be carried can only be guessed at, but the numberless suggestions for modifying the Mellon plan for reducing taxes warrant the belief that the committee’s work will > have a strenuous time. If nothing worse happens, it may repeat the experience of the tariff bill in the senate in the summer of 1922, when roll call after roll call was had, solely for the purpose of delay* That game may suit the type of politicians who play it, but the people are getting impatient of that sort of thing. F**e speech in congress is as desirable •s it is anywhere, but when it is used only to hold | back legislation that is demanded by the public, sim ply for partisan advantage, it ought to prove a boomerang. NUISANCE TAXES TO DISCARD. Open hearings on the revenue bill bring out the views of interested taxpayers in a manner that is instructive, if not surprising.. The first day was given over to a consideration of so-called “nuisance” taxes, and the trend of the debate was altogether in direction of repeal. This must not be lost sight of in connection with the general problem. When the great war revenue measures i< ere being framed, the one great idea, which mounted over ail others, was how to raise money in an emer gency. The war could not all be paid for by direct levy, and enormous borrowing resulted, yet it was urged by all who had any familiarity with govern ment finance that as much as possible should be col lected in taxes. Out of this grew the further neces sity of finding places to lay >he tax. The famous baby carriage budget, on which Lloyd George rode to fame and power in 1909 was outdone by the revenue laws of 1917 and 1918. Not only was the "pram tax” duplicated, but the hokeypoky of the little boy and girl also contributed to pay for the war. The revenue law took rjote of about every thing that happens between the cradle and the grave, and taxed it accordingly. In 1921 a law was enacted j that did away with some of tjie onerous taxes,' but ! enough is left to remind a lot of people they are liv ing under an organized government that has need for considerable money. We fe^l that general approval will be given the move to repeal all forms of nuisance taxes. The amount of revenue produced is slight-compared to the irritation that accompanies the process. If1 it is needed to abate the proposals for cutting rates an incomes, that may be endured better than to con tinue a tax on soda water and movie tickets. THE IGNORANCE OF ADOLESCENSE Mary Stuart Sullivan, aged 14, may be wise be yond her years, but she simply does not know what she wes writing about. Mary is the girl who re cently won a prize from a magazine that offered it for the best answer to the query, “What makes a woman old?" Mary said the real cause was “Cowardice and selfishness." Mary is being reared in the wrong environment. Evidently her education is lopsided. When she has emerged from the public schools and matriculated in the school of experience, she is going to be dis illusioned, and at the same time have her former education straightened out to a plumbline. Real, genuine women grow old prematurely, not because they are cowardly and selfish, but because they are brave beyond compare and self-sacrificing beyond the comprehension of the ordinary man. The bravery that sustains them in going down into the Valley of the Shadow, and the self-sacrificing love that enables them to rear the little ones they bring back to love and nourish and protect -those, dear Mary, are the things that cause real women to grow prematurely old. It isn't the cowardice that evades duty or the selfishness that centers all in self that make women old before their time. That prematurely aged face, that woman broken before her time, these are not evidences of cowardice and selfishness. Quite the contrary dear little Mary of adolescent age and little experience. They are the evidences of obedience to God’s immutable laws, of heroic sacrifice and of bravery beyond human comprehension. You will learn, Mary, if you live long enough to be the real woman that the Infinite intends you to be. IN LIFE, AND IN DEATH. For more than 56 years and Mrs. Conrad Kugland lived happily, contributed to the upbuilding of the Nebraska community in which they lived for more than half a ceptury, and watched their chil dren and their children's children growing up- to useful manhood and womanhood. On the night of January 8 this aged couple retired to bed in the cosy little cottage which had so long been their home in Aurora. And as they slept side by side the Angel of Death touched them, and on the morrow loving children found them, side by side in the slumber that knows no waking on this side of eternity. What greater blessings could this aged man and woman have asked than that they might die as they had lived, side by side, crossing the dark river to gether and walking hand in hand upon its further shore? m Amidst all the stories of marital infelicity, or divorce scandals and eternal triangles, the clean, pure story of this devoted Aurora couple comes as a benison and a blessing. It is as a breath of fresh air in a room whose atmosphere is befouled, as a rose in a bunch of noxious weeds. It is such as they who build deep and secure the foundations and the bulwark of civilization, the peaceful home and the loved fireside. To them America, and the world, owes more than can ever be repaid. Along with Smedley D. Butler, the fight between the Varea and the Pinohots, and the traffic problem, Philadelphia has just had a torrential rain storm. The latter did more to clean up the town than any thing else that has happened lately. General Dawes certainly has little regard for precedents. He has actually sent for th*1 head of the German state bank to get some information as to its condition. Bishop Overs of Liberia says that after nine months in the wilderness be could not bear the sound of a piano. No need, bishop, to go to the wilderness to attain that aversion. We had an idea it was Senator Howell who thought of having the government own a competing line to regulate freight rates. Nebraska is getting along so well without a gov ernor somebody may yet imbibe the notion of doing away with (he office. Japan ia being well ahaken if not taken. Homespun Verse —By Omaha'* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie FELICITY. Bach night a* I all at th* table and < hew My bread and my butter and alp at my tea And dream of the deed* I am atrlvlng to do— I think how contented I am and how free. And when I recline In my chair by the door, Amt br»er,e» of Winter are howling their zeal I think of the ehelter I have, though I'm poor— I trealtire ir.y haven am) comfort and reat. When neighbor* come In In the gloaming to »peml An hour or ao and to lend me their cheer I m glad, and when evening approachea tne end, I dream of the bleselnga and privilege* her* I'm glad for ao much that in given to me, Though I *m denied th* dlveralon of king* I'm rich anil have renaon for living to be Bnduwed with yguberant commonplace thing*. “The People’s Voice” editorials from readers of The Morning Bfe Readers of The Morning Bee are Invitee* to use this* column freely for expression on matters of public interest. Veteran Opposes link Plan. Children, Neb.—To the Editor of The mnaha Bee: Herewith nij signed hailot. with hopes thut there tno neve bn born any league or court whatso - ever by or upon the lines as framed by any body or parties which In any way involve the United States and any other nation. May we over be free to fight if yur rights be unrespected and, by the eternal, refuge to he drawn into any war If we have no cause to fight other than rotten politics Hiid selling us out processes by which our league artists would ever be tempted. l,et our sen ate and president and. by all means, our representatives, deal with such stuff. R. H. DOTY, Kx Soldier. Defends Tax-Exempt Bonds. Lincoln_To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I have sent the follow ing letter to Representative W. O. Sears: Yesterday's State Journal spates that the Green resolution (H. J. 1), propos ing to amend the United States Con stitution to permit the federal govern ment to tax all state, county, school and municipal securities in the same ratio as it taxes its own securities, was reported Out of committee and will soon be up for passage. •I take the liberty of writing you on this matter, as It will have a great bearing on business and flnancia! con ditions among the farmers of the mid dlewest. The Farm- Mortgage Bank ers' association Is sending out thou sands of letters to the bankers and others in this statte urging that tele grams and letters be sent you in favor of the Green proposal, and I thought that you might not be unwilling to hear a little of the argument on the other side. The profits of the mortgage bank ers have been reduced materially and made reasonable by the competition of the federal and Joint stock land banks. This explains why they are spending so much money and going to such great lengths to secure the passage of the Green resolution, for. as they point out tn their literature. If so called tax exempt securities sre abolished, the usefulness of the fed eral land banks will be destroyed and they no longer will be formidable com petitors of the mortgage bankers. These are the same people who at tacked the constitutionality of the farm loan act and for IS months sus pended its operation. Under the farm loan act a little over J 1.000,000,000 has t>een loaned to farm owners by the Joint stock and federal land banks at Interest rates of from 5 to 6 per cent interest without com missions and for long terms. The Green proposal will bring about ths taxation -of the farm loan bonds bv which we raise the money to loan to the farmers. What will that mean? In order to sell the farm loan bonds then, their Interest rate will have to be raised high enough to cover the amount of the taxation of these in fants on their hands. Surely we are all agreed that the federal constitution should not be amended promiscuously nor without extremely careful analysis of the con sequences to established business. I know of no poorer time to he rocking the boat. The mortgage liankers in their literature In support of the Green proposal constantly refer to the farm loan act as class legislation and as special privilege to the farmers. Perhaps there Is some truth in that. But there is nothing new in class leg islation. Where there Is a reasonable It has ^jeen upheld time after time by our courts. Cheap, tong time credit is the only government help that I know of that the farmer has ever gotten. Now he is prostrate on his back. It may lie 10 years before h* gets back to normalcy, and In the meantime he needs careful nursing. Surely this is no time to hit tliefarirsT over the head with a legislative club like the Green resolution. In closing. I cannot help but tall your attention to the fact that the proposal before you would enormously add to local taxation in Nebraska. Every school district, every city and town and every county would have to go to the legislature for permission to raise Its tax levy limit in order to be able to pay the added Interest on its bond* which federal nnd state taxa tion of their Income would bring about. This would run Into millions. The east would undoubtedly benefit: there most of the bonds are bought anil held, but out here It would all be loss. It would Increase farm loan Interest rates from 1 to 1H per cent and In crease local taxes from 10 to 20 per cent and not bring tn Nebraska uny gain whatever that I know of. I hope you will vote against the Green resolution and use your Btflu ence accordingly, and I am aure H will be appreciated by the taxpayers and Interest payers of this state. W. FI. BARKLEY, President, the Lincoln Joint Stoi k I.and Bank. Hopeless for I’eare. Missouri Valley, la.—To the ICdltor of The Omaha Hoe: 1 think thopeare plan Is a Joke. Any turn who thinks he can stop men or nations from tight Ing li* agreement Is off his base. Yon may delay, hut you can’t never stop war. It Is not In the plan of nature or order of things for It to he Stopped. A court or league would lie simply h pow wow for graft and crookedness that would aggravate things ami make It worse when It did come. You've pot to remove the causes for war he for* yon strangle It ami there is no court or league that ever will tie de vise?! that can do that It goes too deep Into the rtaht to live and accii initiate an t dominate by brains and strength for any agreement. Human nature Is human nature' the world over, tt can t tie d tie and never will he done An Idle dream like prohibi tion and a few others K. W H. Ihine Enough for Europe. St. Paul, Neb.—To the Kdltor of Thu Omaha Her: The state of the Kuropean nrrinri at thla time. Judging by their actions pro and con, really demands that our relntlmia and deal Inga with them be ndghtv small Thla because they an* warn i/'-l. wiyj lit Me. If any. conception of right or wrong, honor or dishonor, or little lhat one might call human character lotus. Then, too, the motive behind a bunch of Europeans In thla coun try, Who ar«* an devilish anxious to entangle 11a up In the atTnire of auoh a bunch, can well bo suspec ted To my mind, more loyal men have been lined up and shot at daybreak than thla tame hunch. Thla alone U all sufficient to turn down all and everything that emanate* from that source In the direc tion of any fut thar entanglements Our humiliation 'over what has already been done In their behalf Is all sufficient Public opinion won't stand for any more. A presidential candidate c*n doralng anything more In that dire. Mon will soon know scupethlng lilt him lifter the flection lv 1£ \\ UHTCOTT. I « i “From State and Nation’’’ —Editorials from Other Newspapers _■ The Pomp of Power. Lmdii) Rogsrs In New York Ouiieok The royal pioceselon lo parliament is imposing. There are heralds—the Windsor iierald. the Richmond herald, the Chester herald, the York herald— equerries, gentlemen ushers to his nia esty ami her majesty, treasurers, piivate secretaries and the lord great chamberlain. When, parliament was opened In No vember, 1922. (the sword of state was carried by tlie marquis of Salisbury and the cap of maintenance by the duke of Devonshire. There were the groom and nvistrogs of the robes, the woman of the bedchamber and the lady of the bedchamber. Field Marshal the Earl Haig was the gold stick in waiting, and there was a silver stick in waiting also, as well as a gentleman usher to the sword of state. Uniforms and deco rations give an appearance of a cos tume hall. But the official order of ceremonies Insures the observance of proprieties It stipulates that "the knights of the several orders are to wear their re spective collars" and, full dress with trousers." hour state landaus precede the state coach. In which ride the king and queen. The king wears a field marshal's uniform covered by a military greatcoat. As the procession slowly moves to the parliament buildings 41 guns boom a solemn salute. The king goes to the robing room to don his robes. He enters the cham her of the lords and Is handed a scroll containing his speech. He reads It. His concluding sentence always is: "And I pray that the blessing of Al mighty Hod may rest upon your de liberations." Then, as a chronicler In the London Times reports, describing the opening In 1922: "The men In scarlet and ermine rise and bow. The women In their ermine dresses of many colors and their dia monds sweep a courtesy that reminds one of a field of corn bending to the breeze. The pages, the grooms and the court ladles gather up their ma jesties' trains. The king passes out in his crown, the queen In her gems and the opaline loveliness of her ves ture. The ceremony, which has occu pied about five minutes, is over. The Way to Kasy Street. From Forbes Mosasins. The career of Mortlz Thomsen, for' m»r sailor. Immigrant laborer, farmer, merchant and. Anally, great construc tive business magnate, to whom the Pacific coast owes not a little of its development during the last 33 years, is a typical American business ro mance His plants—flour mills, bis cuit factories, candy factories, clay works, coal plants, etc.—dot the Pa cific coast from the Canadian border to the south of California, and his ac tivities extend even Into Mexico. He Is president of 14 enterprises and an influential factor In financial Institu tions, Insurance companies and the like. , I find It no harder to lie president of 14 corporations than It was to be president of one," says Mortlz Thom sen "Kow? It is largely a question of bookkeeping, of getting everything down to figures. I think we have bookkeeping down to a science In all of our plants. I get an exart state ment from/ every company every day. "Running a big business or a num ber of big businesses gets down pretty much to finding the right man for the right place—and keeping books. I am always on the lookout for talent. When a young fellow comes to me, I ask him all sorts of questions to find out what he Is likely to prove best fitted for. If I give him a start, ] let him know very plainly that he must be willing to commence at the bottom and work hard. I train n.-y own man agers Whenever I find a man in any kind of responsible position I say to him, 'Refers you sign s check for $3 or $5,000 h« sure you get value In re turn for the money.' ” Mr. Thomsen's main hobby Is his business. He particularly enjoys look ing well ahead and trying to reason out how things will develop. "You must study human nature as w:ell as figures." he declares, "when you are trying to analyze what other people are likely to do under given ctrcum stances." Asked for the reasons In hla own opinion, why he had l>een so success ful. Mr. Thompsen replied, .with a chuckle. "Perhaps because I had no education. If 1 had spent my youth and early manhood at collegp, maybe I would havo ducked the hard work which 1 had to go through. And I rather think that It was this early habit of hard work that had a good deal to do with what followed." A Good Word for Brains. From tha Naw Tork Herald Prof. Wingate Todd of Western Re serve university takes the encourag Ing view that the most intelligent type of human being not only lives longer than the lowest type but la actually Increasing In number*. Prof. Todd bases hla belief on measure ment* of skulls In the dissecting room of a Cleveland medical school. The lowest type "has sn ill filled skull and a thick one." whereas the skull of the highest type Is well packed with brains. And wherens the stupid snd criminally Inclined may not reason1 ably hope to exceed an average ago of 41 years, the more Intelligent reach an average age of 4!> years. Prof. Todd divides us Into four groups. The group Just above the criminal and stupid bottom layer Is "dogged, uninspired, unaffected by changes In social conditions" and Its "numbers have remained relatively stationary In all the changes of for tune In the lael 10 years." Next comes the “honest. Industrious t*vor. with but little margin to help In time of distress." This type "bulks more largely In our population of recent years ” The highest type "Is highly strung, nervous, respnnsl'e to the tens! change of fortune. The ..a tlon In his numhe-s Is atarMln* and shows the effect of Industrial changes on an unstable nervous system " As s rule Prof. Todd seems to Im ply, there Is a connection between the ment"l and nervous tvne to which the Individual holenrs and the eon nom'c and social eta'll* to which he attain*. Rut this distribution of re n ard Is not mathematically exact Rerhans an much denen *, upon en vironment and opportunity as upon nativ* ability. At least that Is the opinion of Dr. J. McKeen Oattell, president of the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science and famous as a psychologist. If Lin coln and Darwin had been Inter changed at birth. Dr. Cattell told his fellow psychologists. In an address at I'lnrlnnatl this week. there would have been no Lincoln and no Dar win." To become great each needed the stimulation of the circumstance* he actually encountered. This quarrel between heredity and environment Is an old one. In Amer ica we have had the spectacle of large numbers of men rising to dis tinction from humble beginnings, which seems to show that sound stock will tell In spite of odds against It. Rut the American faith in equal ity of opportunity Is in itself a part of the American environment. It puts heart Into many a man who In other countries or ages might have been content with obscurity and poverty. The Filipinos Must Wait. From the Phllsdslphi* Public Ledger. A Filipino commission In Washing ton has made an appeal for immediate Independence. Incidental to sn assault upon Governor General Wood and his policies. These Filipino politicians make their appeal partly because they have made Independence a burning political Issue and partly because they are Ignorant of what Independence of the Philip pines would mean. Separated from the United State*, the Philippines would become the po litical footliall of the Pacific at a time when the eituation In that part of the world Is becoming Increasingly lm portant and Is fraught with far-reach ing potentialities. A Filipino republic would be Its own worst enemy. But It would be frame than that: It would be a menace to the peace of the world. A scramble for possession of the political football would be Inevitable, and In this scram ble the interests of the greatest pow ers would clash. The great powers have been irre sistibly drawn toward the far etfst as a future stamping grotmd. At present the balance among them is artificially maintained by the Washington treaties. They will have quite enough to squabble about if they once start squabbling. A small and Impotent free nation In such a troublous area would become a constant souce of friction. The Filipinos must wait until they are out of their political swaddling clothes. The United States, whether It wants to or not mu't hold on to them until they are able to fend for theme selves "Bargain Counter Polities.” From the Kaneae City Star. President Coolidge. in an address delivered at Riverside. Mass., August' 2S. 191S. said: "1 am not one of those who believe votes are to tie %vnn by misrepresenta tions. skillful presentations of half truths and plausible deductions from false premises tlood government can not be found on the bargain counter.” The president has adhered to this policy store he has achieved national office and distinction. His annual message, for example, is entirely free from subterfuge and evasion. He has l-een honest and direct Andh* seema to have been getting aTong pfetty well politically, too. The president g conception of poli tics is respectfully commended to nymbcrs of congress at a time when political considerations eeern to be given first place. It is especially com mended to those who are disposed to put tax reductions and the soidier bonus on the bargain counter. EFFORT Effort wasted 18 Money waste'1 % Save effort by Saving money in this bank Interest at 3no The Omaha National Bank Spiritual Leadership, A World Need "The man who should be president is described by Glenn Frank, editor of the Century, In the January issue of that magazine. The next chief execu tive of the United States, he feels, "should be a man who can give the nation what may be broadly termed spiritual as well as political leader ship." He adds: I mean that he should be a -man of wide ranging Intellectual Interests, In touch with the new Ideas, the new Idealisms, and the new spiritual val ues that have been thrown up by the sciences, philosophies and adven tures of the modern mind. Human society the world over Is facing the possibility of disintegration. The world order cannot be pulled together by any one 3tar play by any one statesman. The roots of civilization most be watered by the tides of a new humanism. Humanity needs the re vivlftcation that only some movement sweeping the world like a new renal* sance can bring. If the next presi dent should be a man whose mind was in touch with the great basic Ideas that must underlie such a social re newal, he could give the whole world a new spiritual lead by the simple de vice of -putting the prestige and at tention getting value of his office back of these Ideas. Our country Is so big that few men besides the president can get its attention snd force It to think all at once about an Idea. The tragedy is that we have allowed the presiden cy to become a taak that makes the president a desk slave snd prevents the average president from giving such spiritual leadership In the na tlon." Center Shots Now that It has been {Uncovered that the humble dlshpan is an effective radio antennae mother may get her dishes done right after supper every night and maybe father and the girls will help her_Albany News. Girls don't seem to wear anything any more that's likely to creak when they take a full breath or shift their position or anything, and that's an other thrill we miss.—Ohio State Journal. We can't see why there is such a fuss about so many of the docb rs diplomas being fakes when so many of the ailment* they are called to cure are the taiw.—Erie Times. No wonder a New York landlord fainted when ordered to produce the hooks showing his promts in -ourt.— Buffalo Express. hike the numerous oracies of old. Paris has decreed that the short skirts will he worn longer.—Portland Oregonian. England is a funny country. It takes only one election to repudiate a policy over there.—Chattanooga Times. Well, the world is gradually getting hack to normal A revolution has broken out in Mexico.—Toronto Star. Abe Martin •Look out fer tW feller who say* money hain’t ever’thing. • Ther's nothin’ in fergittin’ our trouble® when we know they’re waitin’ out in front. (Copyright. 1»J4> ONE THING AND ANOTHER American doctors and philanthrop ists have bought an eight acre site on the Mount of Olives In Jerusalem where they will erect a modern medi cal college and hospital. Probably the most costly tomb . : existence is that which was erect- -J to the memory of Mahomet. The dia monds and rubies used in the decor tions are worth 515.000,000. The average amount of light o talned for 1 cent from incandesce#^ electric lamps at first was about candlepower hours, hut It is now per slble to obtain with the ordinary 4 watt lamp 170-candlepower hours f"1 1 cent. The seismograph, the instrun * • which records earthquakes, is so s< sltlve that it will show how much th* buildings on opposite sides of a bus street tilt inwards when traffic its heaviest during the day, and h they recover their position wh»n ceases. The approximate chemical ana'ysi. of a man 5 feet 8 inches in height, weighing 148 pounds, would be: ‘Oxy gen. 32.4 pounds: hydrogen, 11? car bon, 31.5: nitrogen. 4 ?: phosphorus 1.4: calcium. C.S; sulphur. .24 chlorine 1.12: sodium, .12: Iron. 1.02; potasr:un .24. magnesium. «4- flour, m .02 t .‘ 14S.20 pounds. When in Omaha Hotel Conant I If You Are His Victim! i 9 Tonight homes that have never before experienced the invasion of burglars will be looted, thrown into disorder, and heavy losses will occur. 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