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The Morning Bee MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y . THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UrDlKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY V HACKLER. Editor in Chief. Business Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to «he/use for publication of ail 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 circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. ! BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask far a y i 1 ATtH the Department or Person Wanted. ^ * HMIUC lV/VHJ OFFICES Main Office—17th and l'arnam Co. mull S-15 scott St. New York—World Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. \_ s»o. oiae. w . ^r. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. Dos Angeles—Higgins Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. / IT WOULD BE TREASON IN WAR. A witness testifying before the committee that is examining the internal revenue bureau at Wash ington disclosed some facts that should be most illuminating to the public. Under oath he told the committee that while employed by the government as a section chief in the tax department he was paid $5,000 a year, with a prospect of ultimately re ceiving $7,500. During three years since leaving the government’s employ he has averaged $75,000 a year in fees. He declined a salaried position with the Standard Oil company as tax accountant, preferring to oper ate on commission. His knowledge of the inner workings of the revenue bureau, gained while in government employ, was his chief asset. The $75, 000 a year he has enjoyed since he began operations, is money paid him because of his ability to aid great corporations to get around the provisions of the law. The knowledge and training he acquired when in public service is now turned to private advantage and against public interest. • * • Is it any wonder that the Treasury department has brought charges against this man? Or that Sec tary Mellon has issued an order forbidding employes of the Treasury department to practice before it as tax experts within two years after leaving the service? What is the difference between this witness and William Gibbs McAdoo, who suddenly bloomed out / as a high-priced lawyer, immediately after he had resigned as secretary of the treasury? We blame thia man, and all others like him, who take advan tage of the information.that came into their posses sion while trusted employes of the public. How about the man who set up in the same business, presenting his case to boards the members of which owed their positions to his favor, having been ap pointed by him or through him to the places they filled T A far deeper reaching scandal is here involved than that surrounding the oil cases. In the latter it was merely a corrupt bargain, struck between con scienceless parties, who shrewdly endeavored to cover their tracks, yet who still remain within the reach of the law. In the case of the “tax experts,” a degree of unmorality is exhibited that is beyond understanding. The United States government un dertook to pass a law that would lay a tax equally on everybody whose income fell within the range and scqpe of the statute. Trained men were sought to administer the law, which necessarily was in volved, and contained provisions that might be twisted or distorted from their purpose. m w * These men went into the public service, and re mained long enough to familiarize themselves with the law, and to discover loopholes through which certain portions of taxable incomes might be slipped without the payment of tax. How many millions have thus been relieved of their share of taxation, escaping through gaps in the law made by technicali ties, no one, not even the experts themselves can tell, but the total must be large. One man thus gain ing $75,000 a year in commissions, must have led many a shivering dollar into a safe funk hole. Mf. McAdoo, passing through Omaha on his way from South Dakota to his home in California, makes light of the charges brought against him. He points to his endorsement in Georgia as a complete vindi cation. Yet only a little while back he admitted that his law firm had taken a single fee from a great steel corporation, $150,000 in a lump, to help the company get out of paying taxes apparently due the government. His law firm would not have received that fee had it not been that the head of tl.e firm had just left the Treasury department, and was sup posed to know the devious ways by which taxable income could be slipped past the collector. *' * * Taxpayers are entitled to the best advice possible with regard to the law and their responsibility under it. Nor is it just to ask anyone to pay more than his due proportion. Conceding this, how are we to regard the men who gained confidential information while acting as trusted employes of the government, snd then go out and sell their information to patrons who are looking for ways to evade the law? In time of war fhat would be regarded as treason. Men have been sejit to prison for offenses far less heinous. Secretary Mellon has plugged the hole as far as possible, but nothing can undo the harm that has al ready been done. Mr. MeAdoo bears his burden jauntily, but the people may hold a different view. Common honesty still is an American virtue. SOAP. After all, we have some things these days that reconcile us to what we may have missed by not liv ing in King Tut’s time. So far as inquiry has been pursued by the wise men who can decipher the in scription on Kgyptian monuments or Babylonian bricks, neither the inhabitants of the Nile valley nor the Mesopotamian knew anything about soap. Dr. L. W. Bosart, chief of the chemical division of a great soap making concern, says that what is nW-n tioned as soap in the Bible was probably ashes of vegetable material containing alkaline carbonate. The first authentic reference to sonp is made by Pliny the elder in 79 A. D., who refers to a sub stance used by the German tribes for coloring their hair. It was made by mixing tallow and wood ashes. * Dr. Galen, a number of years later, writes that soap is very useful in removing the dirt from the bodies, and therefore is a valuable addition to the physician's kit of tools. Over in Spain, about that time, a mix ture of olive oil and alkali begnn to be popular, al though it is not recorded that anyone over lost caste by reason of not using it. Of course, people washed in those days. Bathing * was a general custom, but the practice had to be car ried on without the aid of <oap. Oil of various kinds and perfumery served as detergent and emollient com bined. A machinist or a pressman can tell you the advantage of oil to remove dirt today. Last year 2,500,000,000 cakes of soap were produced in the United States, which is about the average annual output. This is one point where we are far ahead of the folks who Jived in the old days we wonder so much about. STREET CORNERS AND GRADE CROSSINGS George M. Graham, chairman of the traffic plan ning and safety committee of the National Auto mobile Chamber of Commerce, has given some valu able advice on the subject with which his committee has to deal. He does not minimize the danger. He knows that with the tremendous increase in the use of the self-propelled vehicle has come one of the most serious problems of the day. It has made a grade crossing of every street corner. Automobiles registered increased from 13,000 in 1900 to 14,500,000 in 1924, an expansion of 111,000 per cent. No amount of effort has been able as yet ade quately to provide for this unparalleled growth in the use of the highways of the country. Mr. Graham offers for the present the need of educating both pedestrians and drivers. Each must understand the responsibility resting on him and by ft.king care avoid accidents. Traffic rules should b# uniform. At present they are varied and uncertain. Each community has some that are peculiar to itself. Drivers can hardly be expected to keep all of them in mind. A national code should be adopted and enforced. For the reckless driver, the one who mixes boot leg booze w'ith gasoline, Mr. Graham has only the severest condemnation. He says: "Why any mercy should he shown this type of offender is something the automobile industry does not understand. The fear of God should lie put into every murdering criminal. This can not be done by fines. The heedless pay these fines and dismiss the matter almost as a joke. Judge Bart lett of Detroit has expressed the opinion that only jail sentences stop the reckless driver. The auto mobile industry pledges its full support to every judge w ho imposes jail sentences for proved offenses, no matter how severe may be the penalty." Revocation of license and impounding of cars also are recommended as punishment for reckless ness or carelessness. T^ke away the car, too, says Mr. Graham, if you want to stop the heedless driver. ‘‘No good citizen can rest content until safety reigns supreme on every street and highway,” to which sentiment we say ‘‘Amen!” ZANGWILL TELLS OUR WEAK POINTS Israel Zangwill got back to England with a more completely arranged set of reasons why he does not like America. He evidently had time on the way over to catalogue his complaints, and get them into shape for public presentation. This latter came at the earliest moment, through a published article in one of the London papers. By and large, he finds we are a hopeless lot. New York is the slowest city on earth. This is because more people want to use the streets than can get by in speedy fashion. The American busi ness man is a sucker. He falls for breakfast foods, daily dozens, and all sorts of devices. Our politicians are a lot of low-browed swindlers, who play down to the masses. Nothing of this kind ever happens in England, politicians over there being all constructive statesmen. However, Mr. Zangwill takes time to commend our taxi drivers, who are inexpensive and never blackguard a fare who neglects to tip. And our theaters show great activity and enterprise in behalf of art. Prohibition he says is a farce, and the klan is a dreadful thing. All this Mr. Zangwill might have found out, with out subjecting himself to the inconvenience of com ing all the way over from London. He also might have learned with even less trouble that American Jews are not inclined to follow the Zangwill leader ship, and that is probably what is troubling his dreams, more than the slowness of New York or the failure of prohibition. Yet, now that we are discovered, and our short comings shown to the world, will we profit by it? Maybe the next time Mr. Zangwill visits the United States bootlegging will be out of fashion, and the traffic jam in New York will have disappeared, while everybody wri!l knock off about 4 o'clock in the after noon for tea. A man who has lost faith in popular government and is convinced that it is hopeless to fight graft and inefficiency, would not seem to be a good man to elect to represent the people, the vast majority of whom have not lost faith and are confident that virtue will triumph. \ Governor Bryan seems to have been inoculated against a recurrence of his anti-tuberculosis cam paign. That is to say, not until after the November election. If W. J. Bryan is again sent to a democratic na tional convention as an instructed delegate, who will be the victim of his betrayal of confidence this time? Another million dollars for the sugar beet raisers of Nebraska will go a long way towards sweetening the situation in the irrigated sections of the state. If men prefer to revel in filth, that is their busi ness. But it does seem strange that men should prefer that to seeking the beautiful. And the time was when Mr. Bryan’s birthday was celebrated by feasting and merrymaking at Lincoln. “Gloomy Gus’’ is having a hard time to get by these days. Georgia certainly did treat Mr. MoAdoo hand some. --- ' Homespun Verse —By Omaha’. Own Poat— Robert Worthington Davie __——-—-' IF WE KNEW. If we knew whnt Is About im. which At length will Science find.— If the magic umllaroveted wan familiar to the mind - Earth would he a wondroua playground—we could aim ply turn a switch, Uve In Idleness and leiatire, end he jovial and rich. There would he no rlaaa dlatlnetlon; there would he no needy, poor; Work and worry would not ever knock upon an open door. We would honor one another, universal trust would be. And the world would wear the gailands of resplendent Calvary. If we knew the coemh secret* that are dormant In the \ earn, \N> would entile awn\ our aorrowe. w** would laugh nway our tear*. | We will witch the Lend of Silent e with n yearning t» nee hut (rue, Vnet have faith until we need not say so hapless, if , we knew*'* ^ “The People’s V oice’’ Editor.*!* from ifadtn of The Mottling j Readers of The Morning Toe are invited to u»o thi* column freely for expreaalon on mat l era of public interest. rite Case For ( apital Punishment Hershey. Neb. To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: In our day capital pun ishment inflicted according to due process of law is viewed as a relic of barbarism. In nearly every state in the Union the legislature* have been urged to strike from the statute books "the laws of blood which command judicial murder—which are repugnant to our civilization.” The Bible speaks of capital punish nient in no uncertain terms: hoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” (Gen. 9, 6> “All that take the sword shall perish with by sword.’' (Matt. 26, 52). Here God clearly ordains that the murderer's temporal punishment shall be a vio lent death inflicted by human hands. The infliction of capital punishment for murder is thus seen to lie not merely a human right, but a duty enjoined by divine command, and its refusal to mete out justice according to this ordinance Is a flagrant disre gard of the divine law. Nowr behold the appalling state of affairs in our own country at the pres ent lime. As pointed out by a maga zine writer, the chances are 1 to 1 that the murderer will never be ap prehended, 10 to 1 that he will never be convicted, 20 to 1 that he will not be executed. (And there are 10.500 homicides committed annually!) And why this laxity in the enforcement of law? Undoubtedly the only explan ation is the weakening of the moral fiber in our nation, which no longer looks with horror upon crime as did the early pioneer?, but under the sway of a Christian education has become blunted in its moral sense. That public sentiment on this sub ject lias greatly degenerated we sr*e. in the fiist place, from the fact that capital punishment is regarded as brutal, savage, Inhuman. At the ex ecution of Lieutenant Becker the press in part spoke of “judicial mur der,'' and some accused the governor of New York of the murder because he refused to pardon the man or com mute his sentence. In St. Louis, Mu., a judge refused to condemn a mur derer to hang who had shot down an officer while in tlie discharge of his duty because lie did not want to be a party to "what, after all. is only a legalized form of manslaughter.” But w ho has more love for humanity than the Lord? Yet at the time of the de luge He destroyed all the people on earth except eight souls. It was the Lord who overthrew the cities of So dom and Gommorah with brimstone and fire from heaven. And what shall we say of the mis placed and misdirected sympathy to wards criminals? Many persons have more sympathy for the criminal, how ever diabolical his deed, than for th» unfortunate victim and Ills bereaved family. A generation of noodles, many of whom consider It a point in their favor that they are unable to see a chicken beheaded, has made its ap pearance upon the fane of the earth, who are In favor of ha\ing the worst and most dangerous law breakers treated with the greatest eoftness and gentleness, and so harsh measures by the government are frowned upon and capital punishment Is abolished. Kven w hile capital punishment is still written upon the statute*, the govern ment. is persuaded to lay the sword aside. And. .instead of capital punish ment bein'; inflicted upon the mur derer. lie is coddled, nursed, and the jail in which he is housed Is fur nished with every modern conveni ence. equal In most respects to a S3 a day hotel: library fitted with library c hairs, potted plants, flowers daily re newed from the parks, mural paint ings, and what not. Again, there Is the fine old parade horse, heredity, which is trotted out at frequent in tervals in favor of abolishing capital punishment. These murdering men— they can’t help it, poor dears—they are horn that way. The criminal in stinct Is in them. The place for them is a sanitarium, not a prison, or, in deed. the gallows: they need a phy sician and a trained nurse, not the hangman. But why speak of the criminal only? Why not speak of the millions whom the government is sworn to protect from the criminals? Why not have a little sympathy for the 10.500 unsuspecting men. women and chil dren doomed to die In our country during the next 12 months by an as sassin’s hand? Why not have a little sympathy for the girl doomed to be slashed to ribbons with a razor, or found in a trunk, her body dismem bered. before the first of March of next year? Let us look at the consequence of this "tenderness of life" and “sense "f humanity." Michigan hail 16 mur tiers during tile six years preceding the abolishing of the death penalty, and In the following six years 152. Maine had an average of two mur ders a year until 1904. when capital punishment was abolished. In 1905 it had 18. The records show that in (iermany (before the war) five mur ders were committed to every million people, anil that ’95 per rent of all murderers received their proper pun Ishment. In the United Slate* during the decade, 1902-1911. of 86.931 mur derers capital punishment was given to 1,149. or, in other words, to one of every 75. Some years ago 86 mur der* were committed in St. lands, s city of 700,000, In on# year Of tills number not one of the murderer* paid I lie dentil penalty. The same year In the city of London, with a population of 7,000.000, there were 20 murders committed. Of this number IS mur derers were speedily tried and ex ecuted alty has always resulted In sn In crease In the number of crime* coni miffed. An editor of a church paper wrote a few rears ago: "Missouri lias abolished the death penalty and Is now- reaping the results. Kansas City and St. Louis lead the country In mur dere.’’ Others have experienced the some. Iowa abolished the death pen alty, but reinstated it when brutal crimes began to multiply. W hen in Vermont the slackness of the law had brought about an increased murde* record, a murderer received the death sentence, and the wholesome effect waa soon noticed. Colorado reinstated the death penalty after three lynch ing, had occurred In fact, nearly every state and nntion that ever tried the experiment of abolishing capital punishment restored the death pen alty. Although not invited to give his opinion on whether or not hanging should be re established In Missouri (Missouri had abolished the death pen alty at that time, hut reinstated It again-, one of the bank robbers who shot two policemen at St. Louis, has contributed his mite; "We figured vve would get 'life' for holding up the bank, and they couldn't do any more to us if vve killed a couple of cops, so vve decided to shoot our wav out," he declared. Some years ago four deaperadors held up a bank in St. Taruis. and in the pursuit killed n policeman and fa tally wounded another. One of the wretches, when asked by the police sergeant whether it did not require some courage to hold up a hank (sure Iv a stupid question!, answered: "Yea, it docs require something of n dare devil spirit." Proud of his work! All the accomplices in this holdup and murder, now in custody, were quite chipper and jaunty when examined concerning the affair; at why should they not be, since the worst that can l>e tlielr fate ls to be sentenced to life imprisonment, which, of course, as everybody knows, means about 12 ''cars, ant] then a pardon! Win should .voting desperadoes, grown „„ ignor ant a, swine al-out religion all but brute. In their Instincts, and with con. sciences subnormal, if at all active why, vve nak, should not etirh bru t a "zed and degenerate young men seek occasion to make an easy living by holding up citizens or be», their brains out with a piece of gaa pipe since the only risk tliey incur, in case of capture, is a few vents of con finement lit prison - And since they "•111 tint be hanged, even If they klil "lx prison guards, why not take a onutirp of an ••ampr? Thus the argument that capital pun .'aliment ls not « deterrent to murder Is contrary to experlenre. nut there are still other arguments. A common ' ' ‘ 18 ,'ln* «« cannot restore life ,n a man who has been executed If It Is afterwards proved that be was lnno tent I reply: ,10| every dav spent In prison likewise life which can never be restored’ others would have us under*'m.l that punlahnie.it ns/0'v "’ "al','\ °f 1 af'Tinloff a criml nal No; punishment for crime is not a reformatory measure, but a vindhv lion nf the niajeatv of the ),«. Still 0 tets point to the commandment Ihou aha" not kill." and fad real l/e that only he who takes the sword commits murder, civil government does not take the sword, but "beareth" 1 *’•' dmn«i authority. (Matt •*§ Rom. 1,1.4). ' menT ,*M“' ,""‘n' *,UU men I, a duty enjoined In Rod. that I It the most effective deterrent (a titt" det and means hv which the lives Of others ate best safeguarded Cup) til punishment should not he alml l.-died Mini should he reinstated where It ha, hern expunged ft out the .venal WILLIAM BA HR. Abe Martin V_ J ~-C'\l\yJFKYexF£CQ Iiiim ( -u|ii<l neve i waits fer th’ finish. Practice makes > at eleasness. (Copyright, llSg.i The Result of Unprepared ness in the | War of 1812 Experience, which is the best criterion to work by, so fully, clearly and decisively reprobates the practice of trusting to militia, that no man who regards order, regularity and economy, or who has any regard for his men honor, character or peace of mind, will risk them upon this issue.—Washington's warning against mili tary unpreparedness. nALII. lit: second war with Britain concerns us from a na tionalist viewpoint because its conduct demonstrated that people and government ico.ned nothing from the experi ence of the war of the revolution or from the warnings of Washington on the necessity of military prepared ness. After the revolution the army had been allowed to dwindle to the merest skeleton of a military organ ization, and early in Washington's administration congress fixed its (length at L’5S officers and 5,156 men. During (he French war scare of 1799 flic army was increased to 51,000 of ficers ami men, but the next year it was reduced to a little more titan 4.000. Jefferson, as we have seen, virtually abolished the military and naval establishments, but just previ ous to the incoming of the Madison administration congress authorized a force of approximately 9,000 officers and men. Despite the imminence of war, however, this force was not kept up; and when hostilities were suddenly declared in June. 1519, the regular establishment numbered only 6.70O effectives. The republicans were for a land war and the conquest of Canada, and gave little attention to naval requirements; partly because Britain was popularly supposed to tie invincible at sea. and partly, it was charged, because it was feared a naval war might redound to the glory of the federalist martime states uf New Eng land. The advance on Canada, therefore, fell to untrained militia and enthu siasts but unequipped volunteers, w ith results that might have been foreseen. Governor Hull of the territory of Michigan, with no more military ca pacity than the bestowal of a briga dier general's commission could give him. crossed into Canada, but being speedily outgeneraled retreated with his force of 2,200 men and allowed himself to be shut up in Detroit, which place he presently surrendered to an inferior fores of British and In dians without firing a shot. .tn expedition of militia sent out from Indiana under General Hopkins anil another under Gen. William Henry Harrison, were halted by the °l>en mutiny of the troops, who re fused to proceed after a few days' march and coolly took their several wavs home. The New York militia under General Van Rensselaer re fuse,] to cross into Canada to the sup port of an American force that nl ready had crossed and captured the enemy's position st Queenstown. Gen era! Dearborn. Instructed to strike at Montreal, was halted at the Canadian boundary when 3.000 of his militia de clined t„ set a foot on the other side of the line. During the year 1612 no fewer than 65,000 militia and volun leers were called Into the service to conquer a country defended by no more than 4,500 British regulars with no results whatever. M'lille flie government was thus ex perimenting with a militia army that was better informed on tlie point of its legal rights than in military science, the navy, manned by sailors, who knew their business, was making the flag of the republic terrible at sea. The American navy, fortunately, never has been manned or command ed by volunteers from law office. Store or political stump. Of the campaign of 1813 in which two American expeditions for the con quest of Canada were thrown back by a force of only 2,000 British, the conclusion of Gen. Emory Upton in his "Military Policy of the United States," may he cited as revealing the true cause of its humiliating failures, lie says: "The campaign affords the most satisfactory den jnstration of i lie great importance of. once and for all, doing away with a military sys tem which, as under the confedera tion, still based itself upon the sup port and co-operation of the stales." In 1814 the British, who had had a j fleet in the Chesapeake for a year ' without stirring the government to] any measures for defense of the cap: ; tal, landed a force and marched on ! Washington. The government calird I hastily on the militia and a force of! 5,400 men, including only 600 regu lars. were assembled. Without or ganization and under officers as raw as the men this force met the British at Bladensburg, Md„ and was chased off the field by the enemy, who num bered less than 1,500. The American militia didn't fight; they ran, as is at tested by the fact that they lost only eight killed and II wounded. Even Jefferson, the arch foe of mili tary establishments, wrote in his re tiremerit: "J fear we are to expect reverses until we can can find out who are qualified for command, and' until these can learn their profes ] sion." Unfortunately, however, w.u* docs) not wait for military officers to learn their profession or for raw militia to become trained and disciplined. The weakness of our system of national defense is traceable, in this respect, a General i'pton says, to the defective theory which the constitution took over front the old colonial confedera lion. The militia was left to be of ficered by the states. Under those conditions it never was. and cannot lie, a national force. Vet nothing has 1-een more clearly demonstrated in the history of our wars than that only h national army, uniformly trained, equipped and officered can tie a reliable national defense. Such an army can lie trained In time of peace, it ,-an tie infused with the na tional spirit. The militia is regarded only tie a state force it was so re garded by Governor Chittenden when In a critical period of the war he or dered the Vermont militia home to de fend the soil of their own state. In the second war with Britain the United States vailed 527.654 men into service, of which 458,463 were militia, to oppose an enemy who at no time, had to exceed 67.000 troops in the j field. On the military organization I and training of the American force : comment, in the face of these figures j is superfluous. Our dual military system ha* been one of the great obstacles to American rationality. That obstacle can only lie ov ercome when every citizen shall vrgurd himself up a unit of the na j tinna! defense; when he shall he train-] fd bv Mie nation, armed by the nation and commanded bv the nation, as a part of the natirnr military arm. and uf that arm only. (* 'orrriaht. Knn-ae Pity Star.) I I Sunny Side Up 7uhc Comfort,nor forget Mat'Sunrise ne\‘cr failed u\ yet " i Sf!2 _ __ ■> W \ITIM«. They may t e ihe cun to Daugherty, put skids beneath Sin clair, Send Dolieny to limbo wlu n they pleas*. The senators may orate, yaw'the etrcumamblen t a.r. Pulling any sort of antic or of wheeze; But no Interest I take m this investigation stuff For I'm waiting for the biggest tiling of all— What to me is all the yammer and the senator al guff When I hear his umplets yelling out PI,AY BALL"' The candidates may hustle from the dawn till late at night, Arid promise to make new the blooming slate; Reformers can keep howling thal there's not a thing that's right And we ought to let 'em put our matters straight; Rut I pay them no attention, for I feel the springtime uige Stealing o'er me, and I’m waiting for the rail When the home tram prances gaily all prepared to cut a spltu gr. And I hear his u triplets yelling out ■ PLAY ball:'1 A Sunshine Cake For Sunny Side I p. Our Intellectual phiz no longer ornaments the caption of tills department, hut .1 "sunshine cake" ornaments the interior of the promoter of the aforesaid department. It came, light as a feather, a rich golden hue, and as delicious to the taste as It its looks were pleasing to the eye, and with the compli ments of its maker. Mrs. J. t'. Mines of North Bend, Neb. Had the maker witnessed its rapid consumption she would have needed no further compliments upon her culinary skill. In cidentally, we arc prepared in pass expert judgment upon other varieties of cake prepared by the skilled housewives of Ne braska. Now that the reformers and the modernists have succeed ed in getting their mental apparatus-to working in high we re getting to vote upon proposed amendment.-: 'o the Ten Commandments, tutu- vote will be in the negative. This reform thing must he stopped aoniewhere. ■ Roys’ Week." which will soon Is- upon us. will afford those who have no hoys a fine opportunity to lay out a line line of work f'f its who have. Just to shiv hoe much we appreciate ihe work that is being done by thr‘e leaders who have no boys of then own. we hereby offer them a < ouple to experiment with during the week. W, will undertake to look after •!” other two. ——_ ‘v Nebraska Limerick. There was a man in Valentine Who loved to sit around and whine. But citizens grew quite irate And told the cuss to pull his freight Or dangle front the tallest pine. When we have nothing to do we just dote on grabbing up one of those beautifully printed and illustrated household magazines and reading al! about how to build a modest little bungalow for $17,8*15. or how to prepare a week's menus at the modest cost of $9.t0 per meal for a family of MveM, or how to dress one’s wife neatly at a cost of only Si p- . cent of the yearly salary, or something similar. It is after reading one of those lovely menus that we fully appreciate Mr. Jiggs' appetite foi corn beef and cabbage. A "progressive, ' my dear Gwendoline, is very often a n-.i who is so far behind the procession that t e can look over his shoulder and imagine that hr is leading :t. After mature deliberation, following a long investigation we have arrived at the conclusion that the reason men no longer give to the women their seat* in the street cars is tha* they are unable to tell by the looks whether they are being courteous to a matron or a mere flapper. We know one woman who believes that the greatest bene factor of womankind .s the man who invented th* electric washer. WILL M. MAUPIN. \\ hj Not Be a Treat her? Mother," said Bobby, "ran I be a preacher when I grow up'."' "Of course you may, dear, if you want to.” "Yes, I do. I s'pose I've pot to p to church all my life, anyhow; an' it's a good deal harder to sit still than it is to walk around and hol ler."—Boston Transcript. 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