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Sunday Bee" MO>. N I N G—E V E N I N G—3 UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., PublUhar N. B. UPDIKE, PrealdfTit BALLAED DUNN. JOY M. HACKLKR. Editor In Chief Buniness Manager MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, exclusively entitled to the une 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 republieatinn of our special dispatches are nlso 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 organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Braneh Exchange. Ask for a qp i «**• i nnn the Department or Person Wanted. A 1 I antic IUUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Ce. Bluffs—lft Scott St. So. Side.N. W. Cor. 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.—H oil rook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg, j PEOPLE CAN BE TRUSTED. William Jennings Bryan, winding up his birthday celebration in Chicago, uttered one sentence that should find a place In the mind of every citizen of the United States: “When the people nr* more careful In their •election of public officials, w* will have no more oil scandals.” One of the stock phrases used In this as in all other matters of abuse, real or fancied, is that it is the work of politicians. Who are the politicians? Mr. Bryan himself is a fine type. He has busied himself for years in matters of politics. He has formulated policies, decided on paramount issues, written party platforms, and led a great host of fol lowers on many an occasion since 1890, when he first rose above the national horizon. No question is made of his sincerity, his motives have never been doubted, and the intrinsic value of many of his sug gestions has been admitted. Mr. Bryan as a politician has been a serviceable asset. The country has many like him. It would be a sorry thing if it were true that all men who enter politics do so from unworthy motives. Not all at tain the eminence of Mr. Bryan. This, however, is because of the lack of native ability, or, maybe, op portunity. The purpose that animates them is the same. Some are unfit, knavish, crafty, incompetent. They seek and frequently obtain power by unworthy means. Against these the people must always be on guard. All power In this country rests with the people. None can gainsay that. No man can hold any office unless he is commissioned by the people. No law can be enacted or enforced without consent of the peo ple. Primarily the voters accept responsibility for every man or woman charged with the execution of the laws, the administration of the government in all its ramifications. If any of these prove recreant, it is the right of the people to remove the offender from office, and select another. Yet there is another consideration. All are agreed on one thing. We strive for the greatest of human blessings, life, liberty and the pursuit of hap piness. In the enjoyment of these blessed rights we find the confusion of thought that makes of our politics such a delightfully uncertain game. Thoughts vary with the individual, and policies are measured by the requirements of men who do think alike. Mr. Bryan knows this, for he has met the most stubborn of opposition in his efforts to put cer tain of his views into effect. Elections, therefore, usually result in the expres sion of opinion as to the qualifications of candidates who have been selected in an orderly manner through the process prescribed by law. Nowhere on earth are candidates for high office more unsparingly scrutinized than in the United States of America. Often it has been charged that good men will not seek office because they shrink from encountering the examination they will be compelled to undergo be fore they are voted on. Mr. Bryan knows this, too. No man has faced the fierce light that beats upon the throne oftener than he. • • * It is not, then, lack of care on part of the voters, for they do take care. Entire electorates are not easily corrupted, and men are no longer driven to the polls in flocks under the party lash. Men have been known to betray private as well as public trust. Indeed, the number who crack under the temptations in private life, in business, in church, in other walks, far out numbers those who prove recreant in public office. We may look ahead to a day when all men will be rigidly honest and scrupulous in all matters, pub lic and private, but that time seems far off. For the present we will have to deal with the imperfections of man, taking him as we find him. The weak and the strong, the good and the bad, as Sam Kiser puts it, "as good and as bad as I.” Our government has stood and will stand, because It Is in the hands of the people, and the people can be trusted as well as blamed. JUST LIKE A STORY BOOK. A pretty little tale comes from Danville, 111., where Uncle Joe Cannon is peacefully spending the closing years of his long and useful life. Uncle Joe has been doing unusual things so long that this seems to be a part of his regular program. A hungry man pushed the doorbell at the Cannon home the other day, and the famous statesman from Illinois answered the summons. He invited the way farer into the house, sat him down in the librnry, pro vided him with a meal, a good cigar, an intimate conversation and a short radio concert. Rounds more lika Haroun al Raschld than the hard boiled old re actionary W# have heard so much about, doesn’t it? Yet those who know Uncle Joe Cannon will recognize the act immediately. In spite of the dread ful reputation he was given by his political oppo nents, this man is one of the really genial, compan ionable, aociabl# creatures men are supposed to be. In this case he did what few others would have done. Most men would have shut the door in the hobo’s faca, or have dismissed him with a curt sentence. Not Unci# Joe. He was confronted by a hungry nan, and he knows only one way to cure hunger, by feeding the victim. He made no inquiry as to how or why his visitor was in that fix. Just took him in and fed him, and gave him a cigar and a chance to rest a little while in congenial surround ings. This may not be a practical way of treating the hobo. Tet it smacks something of that law laid down by Moses long agoj "And If thy brothsr be waxen poor and fallen toto decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him; though he be a stranger or a sojourner.” I In a land of plenty none should be hungry or I naked, and Uncle Joe Cannon ia evidently of that mind. “Unless a man work, neither shall he eat,” ia also good doctrine, but it usually pays to feed him first and try him out on the job afterward. NECK OF THE BOTTLE. Many reasons in detail why Omaha should have a bigger and better Union passenger station are be ing presented. These all center on one point. Pres ent accommodations are inadequate. Twenty-five years ago, when the Union station and the Burling ton station were new, they were good to look upon, and fairly designed to handle all the business that came to them in those days. But the years that have passed so swiftly have been years of growth. Omaha has more than doubled in population since those monuments to transportation were erect ed. Several times as many people come in and go out through them every day. The city’s business in every direction has multiplied many fold. The post office, which was occupied just before the passenger stations, was long since outgrown. A single sub station cares for more mail matter each day than the main office did then. But the big railroads have not increased their capacity for taking care of the traffic that flows through the stations. More trains and bigger trains are run. Locomo tives are much larger; passenger coaches are longer and hold more people. Kverything has increased, except the neck of the bottle, through which this stream of life and commerce is poured. What looked like a gush 25 years ago is but a dribble now. That is the main reason why the Chamber of Commerce has named a committee to urge upon the railroads the need for a union station that will be sufficient to tat* care of the city’s needs. Not one that will suffice for the immediate present, but one that will look ahead to years that are coming. Omaha is growing in every way, and especially in importance as a traffic center, and its needs must be met. The committee named by John L. Kennedy, chair man of the executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce, is one splendidly representative of the new spirit of Omaha. With George Brandeis at its head, and a membership which includes 39 others chosen from the leading industries and professions of the community, the committee typifies the energy and embodies the capacity that is making the city great. It will be content with nothing short of com plete success. HARDING’S LAST "STICKFUL.” One of the prized mementos in the archives of the Associated Press will be the last "stick” of type set up by Warren G. Harding, president of the United States. It will be hallowed by the memory’ of that kindly man, whose sincere interest in the welfare of those about him was the keynote of his existence. Appropriately, it will be in the keeping of the great organization that typifies the power of the free press of the United States, the agency that is the very bulwark and never-sleeping guard over the liberties of the people. Warren G. Harding was the only practical printer ever to become the chief magistrate of the republic. He began, as has many another who rose to emin ence, at apprentice boy, or "devil,” in a country newspaper office. Step by step he advanced, until he reached the very topmost point in a career that was marked by service all along the line. Never did he let success come between him and the craft he so signally honored. To the end of his life he retained not only his knowledge but his deftness of craft manship as a printer. Ben Franklin came up by the same route to world eminence as a philosopher and savant. Hor ace Greeley was a country printer and a city type- ' setter before he became the editor whose pen swayed thought as that of few others. William Dean How ells, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Amos Cum mings, Preston B. Plumb, Harrison Grey Otis, just to mention a few of the country’s great men, were printers. Scarcely a newspaper staff in the United States but has on it one man who came up through the composing room to the editorial department. Printers have become editors, poets, critics, pub licists, leaders of thought in every line of human en deavor. And Warren G. Harding was one of these. “Pick and click go the type in the stick,” runs the old rune of the composing room. Those type express thought; they hold a magic power; they can inflame a nation to highest pitch of enthusiasm. They can soothe and comfort a weary heart. Through them will blaze into clear convincing light the mightiest thought of the greatest men, or they will shine with the tender glow of the sweetest consolation poet ever imagined. Harding felt the inspiration that comes from the type. In his soul awakened the zeal to serve that led him onward until he was president of the United States. He set his last stickful in the office of a paper at Fairbanks, Alaska, far in the north, a place vjsited by only one president of the United States. That little bunch of type will stand until the metal breaks down. It will be a symbol of thought and a memory of a great man, whose simplicity was his strongest characteristic. Other printers will feel the same inspiration, and the mission of the type will go on. BABBITTS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND. A visiting brother from England, Dr. Horace Bridges of London, tells us the world is running over full of Babbitts. A “Babbitt,” understand, is a sort of chap that is peculiar to Main street. He thinks the sun comes up just below the bend In the creek, and sets west of the water tower. If It were not for lighting and warming the village, the sun probably would not rise at all. Babbitt believes his town, wherever It may be located, is the best on earth. He is full of Its possi bilities, proud of its past, boastful of its present, and confident of its future. He is a booster, from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. Ad mitting there are other towns, some of them pos sessed of attractions and even advantages, Babbitt still holds out that his is the best under any circum stances. And Babbitt Is not liked by those sophisticated persons, who find their pleasure In distant fields, who look over the bars and note how green the grass is in the field from which they are shut out. Things around them are to be belittled, or damned with faint praise. Modesty, however, is usually a pose with these, and if they be but scratched deep enough. Babbitt will appear. For the Babbitts are what keep things moving in this world. No town could survive the first year without its boosters. Boosters are as certain in communal life as measles are in raising children. It is a good thing for all of us that we have the Babbitts in such number. They may get in the wny of the highbrows now nnd then, but, ns Lincoln Is said to hnvo said once, “God must have loved the common people lie made so many of them.” Governor Bryan’s name will appear on two primary tickets, showing how versatile a man he is. I Ry EDWIN G. PINKIIAM. The Effects of Continental Expansion on Nationalism There are no Alleghenies in my politics.—Daniol Webster, XLIII. mHE rapid expansion In terri tory and population that proceeded during tlio first jjswjal half of the last century, while it struck 1 lie imaglnn tlon and gratified the pride of Amer icans, was to prove yet another chal lenge to their nationalism. Would a system devised for 3,000,000 colonists, virtually of one race and inhabiting a coast line, prove workable when applied to a continent peopled by a mixture of races of diverse serial and political traditions, separated by great distances and with conflicting eco nomic interests? We have seen the fears of the New England states that westward ex pansion would deprive the east of population, wealth and political weight in the government. Nor were these fears groundless. The settle ment of the western lands had both a political and economic effect in the east. Politically it ended the Virginia and Massachusetts dynasties, and its economic effect was to send wages up in the east by drawing away its labor supply, a result that turned the east to the theory of the protective tariff. Webster's reply to Hayne, which was a high and sounding note of nation alism. was indirectly a protective tar iff speech, since it was called forth by South Carolina’s protest against that policy. Yet, Webster had been, all his life, a free trader. The ehange in his attitude on this question Is merely a reflection of the great eennomie revo lution that had taken plare with the development of the west. This political and economic revolu tion, whose processes, as we have seen, Involved the expansion of the slave power, was to supply the great and final test which American nation alism had to meet. The aged Jeffer son wrote, when the Missouri question suddenly presented Itself to a startled nation, that never in the darkest hour of the revolution had he so feared for the country's future. The new and tremendous forces generated by ex pansion had engulfed the old parties of the early period. The federalists disappeared, and in their place rose the whigs. The republican party, grown umvieldly, broke into pieces and re-emerged as the democratic party, a southern party now. holding to states' rights and presently to the Institution of slavery. More and more this political division became a sec tional one and under ths political spect of sectionalism was Its eco nomic import. Thus doubly armed '•I tionalism's challenge to nationality view steadily more menacing. What held continental America to gether during the growth of these separatist processes? Two great co hesive forces. One, the genius of America's western pioneers for free government; the other, the develop ment of the means of communication and transportation. The pioneers who settled the west merely repeated the processes that had attended the settlement of the east by their ancestors. In the Mis sissippl sslley the institutions that were planted were cuttings from the same roots that had been planted In New: England and Virginia. If "west ward the course of empire,” westward, also, the course of Americans’ pollti ral education. They carved wilder ness commonwealths in the west on the model of those in the east, and brought to their government the same political Ideas that had made the colonial system work. Americans, however far they pressed on their westward march, would have, first of all, local government. Americans will have local government today, even if it be had government, as witness the government of their cities. Here, then, in this homogeneity of Ameri can political Institutions and in the common political education of the Americana who had learned to make them work, was the first cohesive force that operated against the ef fects of sectionalism. The second force was no less pow erful. Indeed, it may he doubted If the first would have sufficed, In the end, without the other. Even in the old 13 states we noted the detach ment. the suspicion and fear that were the results of lack of means of com munication among them. How much more potent for disunion must these causes have been when America be came continental, had those means still been lacking? But Just at the time when expansion attained its greatest impetus, the railroad came. Not only did It supply quicker and cheaper transportation, but, what la more Important, communication and exchange of thought. The first re quisite for nationality Is a national mind. Americans must think na tionally if they are to act nationally. A nationally minded America must he an America In which there are no ob structions to the full and free inter change of thought. That will hold people together and keep them neigh bors, no matter how far apart they may dwell, more effectively than any other known agency. The coming of the railroad gave America this agency. It seems a far cry from railroads to literature, but If we will stop to think wa will see that it was this agency of transportation and communication that gave America a national litera ture. It disseminated thought and In formation through books, and news papers. It enabled the inhabitants of tho scattered settlements in the new territories to know what the people of the older states were thinking about and doing. It ended isolation and provincialism. Thereafter, on this continent, there could be no migration of Americans anywhere that would sever them from the national thought and the national life. With the coming of the railroad the mountain ranges, the ocean bays and the vast rivers that Dean Tucker had talked about as forming the boundar ies that would split America up into petty, independent and clashing sov ereignties, were barriers charmed away. (Copyright, Kansas City Star.) The Cost of Distribution v---/ From ths Christian Selene* Monitor. Inquiry at a number of fruit shops In a groat American city showed that a variety of grapes, imported from Spain, were sold at 25, 30, 35 and 40 cents a pound, the difference in price varying with the location of the shops in the poorer or more fashionable dis tricts. This retail price is equivalent to $500, $600, $700 or $S00 a ton for the product that requires little or no skilled labor, either In growing, pack ing or transportation, and if the rea sons for this cost c'ould be ascertain ed they would doubtless throw some light on the problem of high living cost g. Here Is an artlele sold 1n the ssme condition as when It leaves the vine yard, brought across the Atlantic by ocean steamship, the cheapest form of transportation, and distributed largely by motor truck to the retail dealer. It is stated uppn what seems to he good authority that the Spanish grape grower gels only about 16 per < ent of the price paid for his product hy the consumer. The other 85 per •ent Is swallowed up by the exporter, meal and steamship freight charges, tariff duties, distribution costs at port of arrival, and profits -of im porter, Jobber and retailer. There is, of course, some loss through careless packing and other causes, but this is a relatively small Item. The high cost of marketing this ar ticle Is all the more of a myetery when contrasted with another foreign product, sugar. The planting, culti vation and harvesting of the sugar cane requires considerably more labor than Is needed for grape growing. Then the cane must he hauled to the centrales, where it Is crushed and the Juice Is converted Into the raw sugar which Is exported to the Amerl ran market. This soft sugar goes to the refinery, where It Is purified, •trystallized, packed In cartons and Mold, at present retail prices of !> ■ ents per pound, at the rate of $180 per ton. Organization of the sugar industry In all Its details, improved methods of production snd highly ef liclent refining processes, have made It possible to market a finished prod uct at a much lower price than that of a simple article brought directly from the vine on which It grows. Why should not merchandising meth ods he made equally effective with grapes as with sugar? Highest and Lowest, The maximum difference in the ele vatlon of land in the United States is 14,777 feet, according to the United States Department of the Interior. Mount Whitney, Die highest point, 14,501 feet above s.mi level, and a Point In Death Valley is 276 feet lie low sea level. These two points are both In California and less than 90 miles apart. I Ills difference Is small, however, as compared with that in Asia. .M ,'*uit Kverost rises 29.00' feet shove sea level, whereas the shores of tile Dead Ken nre 1,290 feet below sea level a totnl difference of 30 .92 feet. In Kurope the difference between the highest snd lowest land points Is About 15.S68 feet .—Compressed Air Magnzlne. Where the Horse Thrives. A Meredith (.V. If ) blacksmith dors not yet. believe that the motor car Is supplanting the horse. lie has a fairly good reason for his 'belief hav ing shod 1,960 horses In 1933. Dial tleboro (N. II.) Reformer, t-\ Literature and Good Habits V_> From th. St. Tout Diipstch. Ths Boy Scout*. lately In conclave, learned something concerning the conduct of life which It would be well for others slso to know. It was dur ing a discussion of the necessity of good health and good habits that the dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota spoke of the contrasting cases of Tennyson and Gladstone, distinguished among the Victorians for their respective con tribution* to literature and political economy. Gladstone was pictured as a most estimable gentleman whoso habits were blameless. Tennyson, on the other hand, was addicted to all manner of indulgence. He sat up very late at night and not Infrequent ly was seen to smoke a pipe. The re pellant portrait reminds one inevita bly of that profligate person In Max Beerbohm'a story, “The Happy Hy pocrite"—Lord George Hall, who boast ed that he had not seen a buttercup In years and who at the age of Hi was “a great grief to his parents." The dean's conclusion was that Glad stone's name would "undoubtedly sur vive much longer than that of Tenny son.’* The solemn warning against late hours and ag Inst tolmcco contained In this parable of the naughty poet nnd the upright atatesman Is clear. But It leaves one saddened at the thought that so much of our litera ture Is thereby proved to be doomed to he soon forgotten. Among our lit terateurs there are few who do not smoke. Some, like Barrie, have even gone so far ns to use their talents to celebrate the pleasures of smoking. Practically, every Important novelist has allowed his shame to be adver tised by representations of himself with a pipe between his lips. For Bernard Shaw alone, we may antici pate immortality. This Is a man even more righteous than Gladstone, for not only does he keep good hours and abstain from the use of tobacco, be has also put the satisfying pleasures of meat eating from his life nnd be came a vegetarian. Undoubtedly, as the dean would say. his name would Survive o\en longer than Gladstone's. He should become the Boy Scouts' patron saint. Instructing Crippled Children. Forty-five cripple,! children of school nge In Grand Rapids, Mich., who have never attended school bo fore, are now enrolled In an ortho I edln department which has been or ganized recently In one of the elemon t.irv ni'hoolfi.. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for February, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Dally .75,185 Sunday .80,282 !>«•• not Include returns, left* over*, samples or papors spoiled in printing and Includes no special | sales or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Clr. Mfr. Subscribed and sworn to before me | this 4th day of Match. 1024. W. H. QUIVEY. (Seal) Notary Public I -.. .. ' ■ \ Ye Olde Towne, )! V-By EZRA 4. POII.SEN,-/ on the moon dial of memory lies ye olds towne, Mud grsy, roof drib, Slid white; Like a phantom that the vagrant mind cherishes. Trailing through fhe far spent night. There are faces from the past in ye olde towne. Tear-stained, merry-eyed, and grim: There are forma that move in silent phalanges, Purposeful and strong, of brain and limb. All the mist from long ago vanishes. But the harmonies and great hopes remain, And come trooping along down the highway, Spreading o'er the wide brown main. The gayest rendezvous of youth was ye olde towne. Sheltered by its purple tinted hills With its tawny streets, and staid trees, and green lanes. And Its peace, where the homing heart thrills. Oh, long the shadows linger 'round ye olde towne, Mud gray, roof drab, and white; Oh, strong were the bullderi that builded it. On the path of the westward sun's flight. WAYS PAST FINDING Ol'T. My shackled car skids daringly Along on ley road, And from my soul, as usual. Lifts off the care worn load Of worldly trivialities That, though so small, loom stout As mountains till such roving mood, Or errand, takes me out! Snow's blanket softly shrouds the earth With dazzling, drifted white Of purity personified— T'nequaled is the sight! Kllxer permeates the air: Inhaling it, each lung Of me in silent joy resounds With song by seraph sung. A stray cornstalk with empty husk, Transfigured, poses well For glistening marble pillar decked With white gold dinner bell. Where far horizon’s paring knife Cleaves heaven's azure frills. Fence posts as snowmen masquerade For sentries of the hills. Pert, pendant pine trees scatter gems Of icicles that glow Like rainbows, iridescently. Where sunkist breezes blow. As day declines, the welkin's west— Which blazons frieze aflame— Shell pink, mauve, orange, violet. Puts thought of self to shame. Fair, fleecy clouds—like huddled sheep— Stamp south sky’s flag whose staff Is reverent, refulgent grace Of sunset's aftermath. My shackled car skids daringly Bark home—with crunch ashout—• And I, remade for ministry— Bless ways past finding out. —Alta Wrenwick Brown. A SISTER. So you won't marry me today, But you'll be a sister, you say. My sister—she just went and wed— And I sure need one in her stead. She always washed all my clothes, Did the mending—darned my hose; Cooked my meals—swept my room, Kissed me when I'd fret and fume. So you see—not an easy life. To be a sister—let alone a wife. So, don't you think it would lie better To he my wife—bound with love's fetters? What you say—you've changed your mind again? You will be my wife—gone is the pain. I did not want to be a brother to you. But that would be better than noth ing—sweetheart true. —H. F. Gilbert. Sunny side ilT | 7ake Comfort,nor forget Wiatfunrue V r LET’S GET BAC K. I am tired of reformers and all these performers Who'd make ue all moral by Jaw I am dreadfully weary of drivel so dreary And overtime working of jaw. I am soulfuily yearning to see a returning Of teaching mankind to be strong. Ami striving by teaching and earnestly preaching To show it unwise to do wrong. One reformer proposes the laws writ by Moses Be strengthened by some human kind. And some would beguile us to think Paul and Silas Were slowpokes for lagging behind. Still others imploring that we be ignoring Advice to rely on the Word: And constantly saying that working and prajlng Is rtally and truly absurd. All of this agitation to work reformation By putting more laws on the book. Inclines me to swearing and loudly declaring It's time to be using the hook. _ All this ranting and raving not » soul wi.l be sating. For laws never made a man strong. And to trust legislation to bring u» salvation Will prove in the end to be wrong. Dearlv beloved, we have been diligently searching the scriptures, from Matthew to Revelations, and to date we have not discovered a single "thou thalt not pl'‘"ty shslt,” plenty of warning and advice against evil •*'**• 11 evil, but nowhere a hint that men are to be saved e*-ept by coming up through great tribulation. Nowhere in the Good Book are we taught that the way to save men is to Pass Some Laws and then scare the life out of them with sheriffs’ writs. _ "Work out your own salvation in fear and trembling" is Just as true now as it was when first uttered. Men are made strong by diversity, not by coddling. We will not sing this morning, brethren. Let us all go from hence into the great outdoors and look upon the perfect work of the Creator. Let us commune with nature, and take thought whether It would not be best for U» to make up our minds to rely more upon the words of the Master than upon laws and ordinances. The least of our worries should be what, where and wh»n of Hell The man who transgresses no laws of God or men simply because he is afraid of Hell or the penitentiary, isn't worth much. He may not land in the penitentiary, for he may be able to deceive men. But be isn’t deceiving God. If so be the W'eather this afternoon is too stormy to walk outdoors. It would afford a fine opportunity to get the fishing tackle out for an overhauling. We put more trust in a man who likes to fish than we do in a man who delights in making prayers to be heard of men. Thus endeth th* lesson for the day. We can remember the time when parents of bovg of school age did not ask the police to prevent their sons from getting tanked up at neighborhood parties. The law against that sort of thing grew on every hickory tree in the country, and en forcement officers served without salary. The senate can punish for contempt, but fortunately for most of us the contempt must be committed within sight or hearing. "Is it your intention to refer to the oil scandal In your campaign for re-election?" It is not," replied Senator Guessem, emphatically. "My political success to date has been founded upon the policy of letting sleeping dogs lie." We presume that, of course, Editor McLean Insists that his reporters refrain from writing for his newspaper what he ad mits he told to save his friend, Fall. WILL M. MAUPIN. // >> - ■ ■ ■ . Conservation Difficult. Fair Chatterbox (at the concert)— I do hope she sings something quieter for an encore. That last thing made me 'itiite hoarse.—Punch. In Darkest America. So fir it doesn't seem to have been made clear whether mah jong is a game, a habit or a Chinese atrocity. —Worcester Telegram. When in Omaha Hotel Conant Those Who Risk Their Lives For the Good of the Public > FIE modern Funeral Director must be prepared to risk his life at any minute, for the public health. The telephone tinkles. Over the wire comes a call to care for the body of a victim of smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any of the many highly conta gious diseases. Neither he nor his assistants hesitate one moment. The midnight hour may be chiming when the emergency car starts on its errand of aid—and comfort. 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