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The Morning Bee" mornin g—e v e n i n g—s unday THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN, JOY M. HACKLER, Editor in Chief. Business Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS j The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, !• exclusively entitled to ♦he use for publication 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 recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee’s circulation is regularly audited by their organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for a T1 I a* i non the Department or Person Wanted. AI I&fltlC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—15 Scott St. So. Side. N. W. Cr. 24th N. New York — World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. HIS WAGON AND THE STAR. Woodrow Wilson is praised most, and perhaps will be remembered longest, because of his idealism. His chiefest characteristic, from the time he first came into notice was that he had vision that encom passed greater and higher things than had been achieved, for mankind, for his government, for the people around him. Of course, the league of na tions is uppermost in the minds of everyone, yet this was not the sole nor the full measure of the Idealistic concept that actuated the man. His earliest work was a consideration of the American government, publication of which gained for him a professorship and started him on his career as an educator. Through his experience as an instructor, he ever leaned more to the side of the ideal in preference to the material. Just before he was elected to be president he had published “The New Democracy,” almost revolutionary in some of its thought, which brought on him the sternest criticism from the materialistic thinkers. When he went into the White House, he carried this along and in a most effective way showed how a high standard of social justice can be maintained in an entirely practical way. In this he sustained the Roosevelt thought of a square deal. He was visionary, but it was the vision of a better world, of life on a higher plane, of humanity lifted from sordidness to a clearer and happier existence. Impractical, maybe, but only when judged by standards that embody selfishness and narrow motives. He failed to realize all he might because of his unwillingness to accept less than he set out to achieve. “Hitch your wagon to a star,” was Emerson’s advice to those who read him. Woodrow WilsOn hitched his wagon to a star, one that shines clear and luminous for all. In the same way other great men have aimed for an exalted goal. This has been especially true of those men who have filled the high office of president of the United States. These men, too, had lofty conceptions of public duty, of service to their countrymen and to the world. If the Ameri can people have come to be great, it is because of their good fortune in having not only wise men but men of vision to lead them; men whose heads have been far above the mists and clouds of party or faction, and who have looked all around to see what is good for the* people and then have tried to get it for them. Woodrow Wilson’s idealism was intense, and it set in motion such a cycle of thought as will not be stilled until it has had even greater effect on the world than is noted now. Humanity moves upward in spirals, and it is certain that eventually the race will reach the place to which the great American, now so sincerely mourned, tried to advance in a straight line. GREATNESS BELONGS TO HUMANITY An expression of Ramsay Macdonald, premier of England, in welcoming Ambassador Kellogg of the United States, will find response in every patriotic heart. Referring to the illness of Woodrow Wilson, Mr. Macdonald said: "This is a moment when partisanship and party allegiance sink Into insignificance. The whole Eng lish nation tonight is standing with held breath waiting for further word of this great American. Our party differences flare up like a great beacon and die down like the flames of a great beacon, for what is great and inspiring in the actions of public men belongs not to parties, not to nations, but to the whole humanity." Truly, this is so. It applies not only to Wood row Wilson, but to all those great men who pre ceded him, in every nation. Man can not live alone, tier can nations. Mr. Macdonald pleaded for more and greater neighborliness among nations. This, he said, has gone far between the United States and Great Britain, but not far enough in the world. In order to he neighborly nations need not in terfere with each other any more than one family group interferes with another. Close enough to provide for the give and take that is the basis of tranquil life in a community. Common action on common interests, and individual action on those things that are exclusively of private or personal concern. When the fires of selfishness sink a little lower, men will be able to see the beauty of being neigh borly in all relations. NEBRASKA’S REPUBLICAN DELEGATION. A little problem for the political authorities to deal with has been shunted onto Nebraska by the action of the republican national committee. The number of delegates from the state accredited to the national convention has been increased by two. That is in recognition of the vote cast for the re publican nominees. So far so good. The statute governing the selection of delegates, however, was made in contemplation of only 16 being selected. Four of these are to be nominated and voted for at large, the remainder to be equally apportioned among anti voted for only by the con gressional districts. The question now arises, What will be done with the extra two? Plainly, they can not be apportioned equally between six districts. Are they to be added to the four at large, and be selected by all the voters? The latter method would seem the proper one, yet, in event it is adopted, by what process will the committee go about to get the names on the ballot? Nominations will he easily enough secured, but will ♦ he secretary of state be authorized to put on the ballot, “Vote for six,” when the law allows only, “Vote for four?” Nebraska’s republican delegation is being sought ■this year by two aspirants, and it is reasonable to »xpect that either of them will lie pleased to have the additional delegates. Senator Howell, who is the national committeeman from the state, has pointed out that the delegation can not go unin structed; it must follow the lead of the majority of votes. If any irregularity appears in the selection of the additional delegates, a way is opened for a contest before the national committee. A chance for a very pretty argument is here pre sented, yet such may be avoided by an agreement to abide by a definite plan that will assure the state having its proper quota seated at Cleveland, no mat ter which of the candidates it may be instructed for. Wiseacres should get into consultation and solve this little puzzle. BRITISH RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA. Recognizing the soviet government as the de jure government of Russia, Ramsay MacDonald has started something. He has merely done in this what all others have been willing to do. Jan Smuts, early in the summer of 1919, told the English that the world would have to recognize whatever government the Russian people set up for themselves. Charles Evans Hughes has said in effect the same, and so has Calvin Coolidge. The exception rests on the agree ment made between France, England, Italy and Belgium prior to the Geno#a convention, that Rus sians, no matter in what form they came, would be required to accept responsibility for external debts and also to adjust alien property claims. It was at this time that Tchitcherin set up the counter claims on account of damage sustained by Russia, incident to the occupation of Archangel in 1918, and the Kolchak and other anti-bolshevik movements. Whatever merit these claims may have, they can not offset the rights of private citizens of foreign countries whose property was seized by the soviets. Under the proposal from MacDonald for renewal of relations between the British and Rus sian governments, commissions will examine and adjust all claims. This has been agreed to by the soviets. One of the impressions is that the English claim against Russia, amounting to about $3,300,000,000, will be canceled. This is having a had effect on France, where a claim amounting to almost as much is held. Private investors in France, in addition, own imperial Russian bonds to the amount of more than a billion and a half dollars. The French are not ready to forgive this debt, unless something is forgiven them. The case of the United States is different. What our government asks was expressed by the president in his message to congress in December: "Whenever there appears any disposition to compensate our citizens who were despoiled, and to recognize the debt contracted with our govern ment. not by the czar, but by the newly formed , Republic of Russia: whenever the active spirit of enmity to our institutions is abated; whenever there appear works mete for repentance; our coun try ought to be the first to go to the economic and moral rescue of Russia.” MacDonald’s recognition is said to rest on a desire to extend the trade of England, in hope of relieving unemployment. Also, we are told that Russia can not buy in England or elsewhere until credits are arranged, and that this will be the first thing the MacDonald government will have to do. The settlement does not seem to be either com plete or attractive on the surface. The remarkable Mr. Creel breaks off his tale right at the most exciting point. He says he with drew from the transaction, but does not say what he did with the $5,000. Are we to surmise, or wait for the next installment? f This is the time of year when seed catalogues bloom, and the busy householders raise expansive gardens around the fireside. Best of it all, some of these dreams come true in June, July and August. Congressman Sears got into the Record, even if he did not get to vote. And at that, the judge is rarely late when anything important is going on and needs his attention. • Quentin Roosevelt has been selected by a French sculptor as a model soldier. He is a fine type of some 4,500,000 the United States had under arms a few years ago. Arlington Heights will be a most appropriate resting place for Woodrow W'ilson’s body. He fought for freedom as valiantly as any »man in the vic torious ranks. “Beware of, the Greeks when they come hearing gifts,” the old Trojan post-mortem verdict, will prob ably be revised by inserting oil men in place of Greeks. More power to Judge Fitzgerald, if he will just make good on his declaration that he proposes to clean up the criminal court docket. Almost 2,000,000 men are on the railroad pay roll in the United States, showing how big the trans portation industry really is. The groundhog saw his shadow, and the weather bureau predicted more snow. The snow is here. An other case of team work. What a pity Warren G. Harding had not been able to treat some of his undesirable friends as W'oodrow W'ilson did his. Candidates for office still are cropping out, so nobody need worry about the ticket not being filled by primary day. Naturally, not even the smell of burnt wool, much less that of oil, attaches to any democratic garment. However, Woodrow W'ilson was not responsible or accountable for all the things said or done in his name. Henry Ford has won the first round in the Muscle Shoals fight. He is still far from a contract, though. One of the essential qualities of good oil is viscos ity. The Teapot variety certainly spreads. In Nebraska the gate-lifting pig is being super seded by the mortgage-lifting cow. Doheriy seems to have dealt wholesale in cnbinets. 1 Homespun Verse —By Oinnhn'v Own P«*l— Robert Worthington Davie L J ETERNAL FAITH. "you're ni.v trustworthy guide," said the groom to his bride in a sweet and Inerrable tone; "you're the dearest of dear In the universe here, and I'm Joyous to call you my own. I'll ever tie truo In the deads that t do; I'd die at your call, Mary Jane; loti may know when I'm dead and repose overhead that your love wasn't given In vain. And When we grow old, I II he happy to hold your artist like Ungers and say: I ou ip the Mil me little girl, and as changeless as penrl as you were when we Journeyed nwa> I on tc the same faithful wife that you were when out life was young and the thoroughfare new. And I'm feeling, my dear, as I felt In the year 1 uttered those promises true; I will earnestly pray to bo ull that I may while the virtues of living remain You're the soul of my Soul where the melodies toll In the heart of my heart, {dary Jane. “The People’s Voice” Editorials from readers of Tho Morning Bee. Readers of The Morning Bee ore invited to use this column freely for expression on matters of public interest. \ Farmer Review# the Situation. St. Paul, Neb_To the Kdltor of The Omaha Bee- There is much ad vice and plenty of remedies suggested by thuse who think they understand the ills that have brought distress to the business of agriculture. 1 haven t read anything along this line from an honest to goodness dirt farmer and. as I happen to belong to this class, and who ought to know his business from a to z, and he sure does, though many seem to Ciirry the Idea that the I secretary of agriculture, banker, or some one not connected with this business, only Indirectly, can better supply the facts. For 35 years I have been trying to extract some kind of a living from 160 acres of land. In all this time there has been but one period when the visions of the farmer seemed to have arrived. A world war on, and we in it. Turn to former history, the farmers must he mode the goat, and he alone was prevented from becoming a profiteer and reveling In sudden wealth. Tills act cost the food pro ducers more loss than the entire debt of ttie nation today. But why dwell on one act of discrimination, when the number is legion and all entailing loss to the farmers. Had any or ail other business been so attacked they would soon tie known only from memory. The reason the farmer is in his present condition is almost, if not entirely, his own fault. a < tie could have heen the aristocrat of the world had he organized and produced order ly marketing of his products by to operative methods, and perfected his business and taken it from the con trol of others to himself alone, where it properly belongs, and where it must eventually be before there is any per manent real help in sight for hitn. Few realize, 1 think, that the far mer controls or manages but a small part of his business, and this the least important. He plows and sows, and If the elements of nature so de cree, he harvests, perhaps abundant ly, more often otherwise.? Then a fel low in another line yf business sets the price; he cares little If It means loss or gain to him that produced it Is Jt any wonder that the farmer has to balance his year’s butiness with red Ink? No other business on earth is so handled and it cannot but be unprofitable as long as this condition exists. The matter of taxes, freight rates. World Court and other disagreeable things now In existence, will become pleasant affairs to the farmer, for he will be able to pass them on to the other fellow when he controls the price of his own product; he will only be on an equal footing with ather lines of business. Many honest efforts have bean made by those who were in a position to make some wrongs right, and this end was reached in many legislative acts. But something always seemed to happen, to prevent the benefit to be realized. We will take the federal farm loan act to Illustrate. The law provided a wonderful, substantial help for the farmers' finances, but it didn't get a chance to function to any ex tent till a few democrats saw iff It oodles of easy money if certain pro visions of the law could be ellmina ted. They first got rid of the stockhold ers' control; this was the most essen tial. Then get this power in their own hands was the next step This was all accomplished so quietly that the farmer didn't know when or how It was done; so he enjoys the distinc tion of owning stock In the federal farm loan and denied representation therein. Well, the result is that this bunch has t>ccn able to absorb the in terest on all the stock (5 per rent of all loans) and other earnings. In for tunes, piously doubled salaries, and are now trying to create another of fice, with the mere bagatelle of *25,. 000 per year. The Intent of the law, as well as nearly all the benefits, are eliminated at present. The farmers pay interest on 5 per cent of his loans that he never received only as stock. The dally papers could help correct many wrongs "by wide publicity. E. E. WE8TCOTT. Bark of Dairy Movement. Gordon, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: In regard to the dairy business, we are glad to note that there Is some interest being taken In that line, and some good dairy cows brought into the country which la a step in the right direction. People are Inclined to think that If dairying was gone into in general that It would cause an over produe* tion and such a decline In dairy prod ucts that it would not he a paying proposition, that the market would be overstocked, etc,, when the facts of the matter are the dairies of America don't produce enough for home use and largo quantities are Imported annually from foreign coun tries. Over 70 per cent of Nebraska's butter Is shipped outside of Nebras ka; all of the money stays in Nebras ka, an<l if wo had a million cows in the place of 4&0.000, of which «r have now. all of the money would still remain In Nebraska. Dairy cows help the tenter to buy land; they help the land owner buy more land. The merchant and the hanker don't worry almut the account of the farm er who has a few dairy cows. Nebraska now produces over *5. 000,000 pounds of butter annually, she Is near the top as a butter state, anti with our wonderful resources In the way of cheap feed, such as alfalfa and sweel clover and tile pest of climate and the twst of water, she f an easily become the leading state in dairy products. Omaha now leads the world In the manufacture of creamery butter, an.I 7fi.fil cents out of every dollar which the butter manufacturer receives for his hut ter, the farmer gt is. So under these conditions wouldn't it lie advisable for the people of Sheridan county and northwest Ne braska. where there can be raised the best feed* for dairy put poses on earth, to give this Important business more attention, nnd provide them selves with a daily Income of a suit nature and from a sure soil ret. with Sheridan uounty's natural resour.es developed there Is no reason win it should not become the banner dally county of tiie stale J. M. DAHTUk Thieve* In l/onrlon. Many thousand* of x.Iunhlo dogM disappear every \ ear In London, an Kngllsh d»»g fancier say* iinn of the favorite method* Us**«| by the tl'*R thief for enticing away hi* prey Is to smear a little aniseed on the bottom of hi* tton »|m leg; another device ts for i he thief to i-arrv a pi» . ! pop peied liver In his p k. t | n eitln ■ * use the fragrant nd. il.ti... t th« dog ns the thief saiintei l»> . and th** animal follows around a .onwnient corner and la whisked up and Is pi oh ■ Ny half a mile away before the own#* m allzes Ids loss Outlook. “Woman In learning to Aland on her own feet.'" That's fine. Perhaps she will keep off the feet of men who have street ear sent*—Pai >aic News Sunny Side up Jake Comfort,nor forget ’Jhat Sunrise never failed us yet “ ^CeliaTftaxier j A CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE. I am going to file for office pretty quick. But haven't made my mind up which to pick. But whatever one I run for There's one bunch I'll se is done for— I will make some fake reformers mighty sick. I am weary of reformers and reform. All their virtuous pretenses make me warm. They all think, with excess virtue. All things you like will hurt you, So they ask new laws to keep you from all harm. I am tired of having laws for this and that. O so weary of all "antis” lean and fat. We’ve so much of prohibition I am in a dazed condition— How's a fellow to discover where he's at! • Curses on this thing they call reform by In w. . All this legal rule Is sticking in my craw. So for office I am running That I may go out a gunning For professional reformers via jaw. We heartily wish we could do some thing about it. While on the way to fill a speaking engagement, as Is of ten our custom, it Is really wonderful how the merry quips and timely quirks pop into our mind; marvelous beyond compare how rhythmically the sentiments ebb and flow; fairly appall ing how the eloquent sentences frame themselves. The same thing Is equal ly true while we are wending our sorrowful way back to headquarters. Hut the moment we stand up and say ".\<r. Toastmaster," each merry quip, each timely quirp vanishes into the limbo of forgotten things; nary an ebb or fluvv of sentiment is there, not one solitary sentence bursts forth In elo quence. It Is Very Discouraging. /Considerable experience on the state house run at Lincoln Impels us to remark that the very best way of speeding up the work of th» supreme court would be to make It vastly more difficult to appeal trivia! cases from the district courts to that august body. The man who pawned his cook stove to get enough money to buy in us tickets for his family will now have to retire for a little while. A Nebraska ■ '.tv man recently nioit gaged his flivver to get money enough to pay the license on it. The legislator who sought the enactment into law of a bill compell ing all railroads in Nebraska to elim inate curves recalls to mind the legis lator in a far-off session who intro duced a bill for a law making it a penal offense to discharge firearms upon a public highway, "except to kill a dangerous animal, or an officer in discharge of his duty." KER08EN1CAELY SPEAKING. There was an oil king named lx>heney Who for legal advisers named many. But the exploding Teapot Made things so awfully hot it's difficult nuw to spot any. The family auto still befng laid up with a fractured kadukey, plus a bad ly sprained godingus, we are not greatly interested in the mounting price of gasoline, except as It may have a bearing on some political am bitions. We venture to raise our voice in feeble protest against according to Nebraska second place on the ticket of the new political party. One who has so valiantly championed the cause of the common pee pul. who has so of ten and so loudly lifted his voice in protest against the Injuries wrought by the iron heel of despotism, finan cially speaking, as Hoy Harrop has been wont to do f»*r lo these many years, should not be made to run sec ond to a man whose chief claim to fame is that he once owned a $160,000 hull. If that is Mr. Poynter s chief claim upon fame, then we insist that Hoy has scattered far more than that and should therefore be accorded first place. Catching democratic leaders who smell of oil is no new thing Away back in 1908 one of the high officials of the democratic national committee was asked to retire because he was caught lingering too near the outlet of a Standard Oil Co. pipeline. Of course thrre isn't a chance that the old-fashioned torchlight political parades will l*e revived during the coming campaign. Anything that reeks of kerosene will be sidestepped whenever possible by both political parties. Possibly the Tec.pot Dome matter will do what the Eighteenth amend mer.t '.\a‘ supposed to do. but didn't -crowd the liquor question out oL politics. W. M. MACPIN. “From State and Nation” ! —Editorials from Other Newspapers— J Orman ( hildren in Travail. Prom the Mfnnespelis Tribune. Some very unpleasant pictures about the condition of children in Germany are being drawn for the enlightenment of the American Com mittee for Relief of German Children. Among them is the portraiture of Dr. Haven Kmerson. formerly health com missioner of New York, who made an Investigation as for December and the early part of this month Dr. Kmerson tells us that 2,000.000 children of school age are in pressing need of food and clothing, and that 500,000 more, under school age. are In like streas. Inadequate nutrition has produced an unbelievable amount of tuberculosis, scurvy, rickets and blindness In children. Overcrowding snd Insufficient ventilation account for much of the pulmonary trouble, which Is not uncommon In children as 6 months of age. Meat supplies are from on# third to less than one half of those of prewar days. Ani mal milk is very far below normal needs, and mothers' milk Is In many cases too small In volume, and In many other cases lacking In proper nutriment, because the mothers them selves are poorly nourished. It Is said that 10 per cent of all babies become public charges from birth, and that 10 per cent of the peo-1 pie find refuge as families in munici pal lodging houses because they are unable otherwise’to sustain life with in themselves. Ir, many cities birth and death rates run about 50-50. IR>s pital quarters for children ere inade quate, and some kinds of equipment are pitifully small. In Dresden un employment went up from 1,500 last year to 80,000 at present. Stories of this character are almost incredible In view of conditions that prevailed In Germany prior to 1914. In ntupy things having to do with the social weal and with economic efficiency Germany formerly waa held up ns an example to the rest of the world. German standards were some thing to emulate wherever there was concerted striving fur social and eco nomic advancement. Doubtless the German people are somewhat more helpless and dlscour aged today than they ought to he be cause they had learned to depend so much on the functioning of a strong ly paternalistic government when knlaerlsm was at tta height. This Is not the time, however, to rngnge in academic talk about c-auaes of present conditions. The fact of these condo lions is the thing now to be dealt with. It Is enough for those of wor thy human Impulse to know that there is widespread privation and suffering among the children and mothers of Germany. Rrochuree are well enough In their time and place, hut they do not assuage hunger or meet the requirements of the 111 clad and the poorly housed. Misuse of tiuveniinrnt U Nat Part ban. From tho kanuy nty Time* Tim politician* ai Washington who me busy hI I heir tusk hr making parti m ammunition out of the oil scandal hoiilil bo admonished thnl the rmm try Is not Interested in their Industry' It makes no difference whst party Inla'I Is worn by the men who shall he shown to share the guilt In these .ill lease (I iiisio lions. The shame and th. humiliation are national, not ikiiii Han. If these revelations are lo he used mtl-elv to gl\o partisanship an oppor tunity to iletm i e the i| i test |..n as to whirl! political party has been most wasteful In the administration of the public revenue. It Is Imagiuahlo that (he democrats, who now are exposing the guilt of certain republicans, coukl he shown to hai* made a record of " '-(' <t u 11« overtopping the Teapot ••’■me tl'ilf I 'hall mall Hull of the deinu, nil. national uommlitre should hr warned of I luit. ' ■Mi Hull, being the politician that he Is. i.uicehea li to he h|s function lo take a political profit fa. h!s party out or the charges against cx be. re (ary ball Thai Is hecatjge Mr Kali is a republican. Hecause Mr. Kail Is a republican. Ilia t ...ffldge adminlstra tlon must be Indicted also, and Mr Hull Is blindly partisan enough to be lieie that hla foolish boinbaat will dr ceive intelligent people. What he does not see is that the surest result of his political animus will he to recall to the public the record his own party made in its conduct of the war. when the public revenue was poured out o lavishly that the soil thus fertilized grew a large crop of overnight mil lionaires. His party, which refused to prepare, for war before it came and which made the excuse for extravagance that it had to prepare for war after war rame, is the party that built cantonments on the «-oat-plus system, resulting in such vast expenditures that the government afterwards brought legal proceedings to recover millions from the contractors. If Chairman Hull wants to bring out the war expenditure of his party h- ran take no surer method of do ing it th.»n by trying to make a wholly partisan i*«u* of the oil lease revelations. What he and every other American should deplore is the abuse of the theor> of government which has made it possible for private in terests to us«* the public administra tion for their own eijd* If Mr. Kail s guilt is established what else will l»e shown except that he took the same view of the ue«>s of government that is taken by e\ery political boss in the country? \\ h t are our state and city political machines for except to make money out of politi***. out of office. patronage, legislation, con tracts? In tome localities these ma chines are republican, in some they are democratic. But everywhere their business l» the mime. They are, organized tfi secure political power I and to use that power for profit. This Is the mi suae of government that is undermining and destroying American political institutions. Gov ernment futictions often are built up and extended artificially simply to give this misuse effect—the more gov ernment the mote business for the politicians who live on it. The system cannot be rooted out by party recrimination. It can be ended only by the American people acting together, not as member* of political parties, hut as citizen*. Has High Ideal of Uiiitg. If there is anything more distress ing to the earnest, thoughtful man than to see so many people live with out working, it is to see so many work without living.— Boston Tran scri pt. When in Omaha Hotel Conant \1*\ h RThFMFNT (ill \ «.'•YtVCVSVTv^CVft i Famous Old Recipe | | lor Cough Syrup | x ltooUjr Md rhwply made at homo, ® hut It hoata thorn all for *' x quirk roaulla. ® Thousands of housewives have found that they ran save two-third* of the money usually spent for cough nreparat one, by using this weil known old recipe for making cough • rrup. It is simple and cheap but t has no equal for prompt result" It takes right he’d of » rough and gives immed itr rel .f. usually stopping an ordinary rough in -4 hours or less. to t ■_' vutires of pme\ from any druggist, pour it into a pint bottle, and add plain giunulate i sugar syrup to make a full pint. If you prefer, use clarified mo’ hones or corn syrup, instead of sugar syrup. K thep wav t tastes gooii. keeps perfectly, •ml lasts a family a long time Its truly astonishing how quickly it acts, penetrating through every tip passage of the throat and lungs — loosens and raises the phlegm, soothe* and heals the membranes, uni gradually hut Miirly the annoying throat t ckle and dreaded cough dis appear entile v Nothing better for bronchi! ", spasmodic croup hoarse nes*. or bronchial isthtni • I’rie\ is a spec: a I ami highly con cent rated compound of genuine Nor * «v pine extra, f know n the world mrr for its heilmg efTeet on membranes. Avoid disappointment bv asking your druggist for min es of iVnex ' with full d reel ons and don’t aerept. anything else Guaranteed to g.ve absolute sat "fart on or money promptly refunded 1 he l\nei to. ft. Wayne, ind LISTENING IN oir the Nebraska Press. The Clarkson Press wants it dis tinctly understood that when It comes to real hands, Clarkson has one that ranks up with the best of them. • • • Evidently Dwight Griswold or doe freedom, one or both, soldiered a. \vhlle at Camp Cody. The Gordon Journal savs: We fellows who spent several months at Camp Cody, N. can wish former Secretary Kali no greater penalty than that he go hack to his home state and stay there.” • * * i "Cancel the Teapot Dome lease and drain the pipes afterwards," demands the Clarks Enterprise. • • • Ole Ruck wonders why the society pages never print pictures of girls washing dishes or making bread in stead of always showing them bath jing. or playing tennis, or walking in I the flower garden with a. big dog. The Board of Inquiry seems to be over looking something. • • • Editor Slone of the Hartington Her ald Insists that "the only sensltde thing for the voters to do is to go to the polls prepared by acquainting themselves in advance with the entire political program." Editor Stone has outlined a mighty big program for the voters. • • • Editor Huse of the Wayne Herald asserts that the people are anxious to see justice meted out to any one who has violated a public trust, "they should not be deceived by peanut politics as played by many in Wash ington in the hope of public prefer ment and power.” . • • Editor John Kearne* of the Beatrice 'Dally Express rushes to defend the custom of young folks exchanging tender missives on St. Valentine's ; day. "They may bring results, or they may not,' says John, "but they, can do no harm, and if they bring a ’ little pleasure to the youngsters, who ' shall say them nay? There's none too much fun In the world at best.” • • • George Burr of the Auror^ Register says that Adam McMullen quit the newspaper business to engage In the practice of law. There are members of the editorial profession who will insist that such an exhibition of rare judgment Is entitled to suitable recog nition • • • "It's about time,” shouts John Sweet of the Nebraska City Press, "that soifte one put a permanent wave In the American flag.” • • • "It is time for a party to split when it begins straggling,” asserts the Elm Creek Beacon. • • • Guv Doran exhibits surprise that the lid of Teapot D"me was pried ■ if. "Evidently a cog slipped,” is his n pla nation. _ ~«inB /- . > Abe Martin J 3 Nobuddy loves a fat man, an’ th’ demand fer stout Kdrls is hardly worth mentionin'. Bad weather no longer an alibi in these days o' closed cars. ^Copyright 19-4. 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