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T o day VTe Have Poor Eyesight. ■v Defective Teeth and Hands. California and Chicago. And H. Ford Take Notice. By ARTHUR BRISBANE. V_ The British worry because the national eyesight grows weaker— 150 in every 1,000 lack good sight at the age of 20, and 10 at the age of 4. The human eye, like the teth that nature gave us, is defective, a poor ly made instrument. Our teeth cause suffering and death, teeth better planned would not do that, even our five-fingered hands, inher ited from the salamander, of the carboniferous era, according to the treat Haeckel, would have been much improved by adding one fin ger. With that extra finger we should use in arithmetic the su perior duodecimal system, instead of the inferior decimal system, and we could play stringed instruments of a higher, more complicated kind. But things might be worse. Brit ish statesmen have eyesight keen enough to make up for the defec tive sight of British children. The British statesman’s eye can see and read the mind of a “poor fish’’ American statesman, thousands of miles away. And a little while ago the bodies of British children were shrinking in size to an extent that made it ^ difficult to recruit fair-sized men for the army. This was due to stunting work in mines and mills. Some British children used as chimney sweeps were deliberately starved that they might remain small enough to go up and down narrow chimney flues. The British stopped that and they protected their children against child labor, something that this richest nation on earth refuses to do. All nations that read and spcial i/.e in industry injure their eye sight. Eye glasses were made for that. And science has given us the telescope that carries our sight bil lions of miles into space, shows us Jupiter’s moon, Saturn’s rings, the gigantic Nebulae and other cosmic wonders more interesting and im portant than anything nearby on this earth. Specialized eyesight is still to tome. Your highly-trained de scendant with a head weighing four times as much as his body, perhaps, will use his two eyes, together, for the usual daily visions of things about him. One eye he will train to the use of the microscope, for Uudy of things infinitely small. The ather will be trained to use the telescope in studying things in finitely big. In that day you will hear the high-brow young lady saying: “I have trouble with my microscope eye, and am compelled for the time being to give up study of the in fu-oria.” We shall not always use * our eyes as the cows, monkeys and sayages use them, merely to find something to put in Mir stomachs. Chicago and all lake cities, New Orleans, and all the cities on the Gulf, California and the distin guished Henry Ford of Detroit, will be interested in a statement made to this writer by Governor John W. Martin of Florida. He intends to work for a ship canal, across the Florida peninsula. Governor Martin, thoroughly modern business executive, plans his canal primarily for the benefit of Florida, but the canal would benefit many other parts of the United States enormously. A canal across the upper part of Florida, say from Tampa through Lake Har ris, Lake George, thence up the natural inland waterway to Jack sonville, an’d'out into the Atlantic, would mean a saving of nearly 2,000 miles sailing for every ship from the mouth of the Mississippi or any Gulf port. Instead of sailing far south around Key West, and then up north again to eastern United States, or over to Europe, shipping from all the Gulf ports would cut across Florida, as ships bound for the Pacific now cut across Panama. The enterprise would be Inexpen sive, with no great hills in the way, a natural waterway including a great part of the distance. Chi cago and all lake cities are inter ested. Some day this nation will decide to spend a little money at home, and dig n ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Gulf via the •^Alississippi valley. Then a canal across Florida, would provide a short cut of uncstimable value. And the tolls would soon pay for the canal. Governor Martin declines to sug gest any route for the canal, say ing: “It is for the people of Flor ida to decide just where they want 1hc canal. I shall work to put it wherever they want it.” California, Oregon and Washing ton have an interest In Governor Martin’s suggested enterprise, a canal through Florida would sup ply a short cut by water for lumber, fruit and other Pacific coast prod ucts bound for Atlantic coast ports. Henry Ford also is interested, he, “a doer of the word” and not a hearer only, obeying the Bible command, is already sending his ships from the lakes out into the Atlantic to Jacksonville, and then around the far south end of Flor ida, to the Gulf ports. A short cut across Florida would interest him. He is a Hhort-cut man. This country lost many cash cus tomers in the big war. For a gen eration to come we must rely chiefly on trade among our 4H states. Many canals are needed to facilitate that trade. First should come the canal across Florida, n ship canal , from Chicago to the Gulf through the Mississippi valley, and an ocean ship canal on all United States ter ritory connecting all the OfTnt Lakes with tho ocean, going from Buffalo down through New York Male. France and Germany, both very poor, rfre digging canals. We, »ery rich, dig nothing. l1 ■ to ri*iit. 111:07 Wilson Typed Historic Notes to Germany Himself; Secretary Slept With Them and Gun Under Pillow Ry <HAKEEM E NWEM, ('iinfUli-ntliil Secretary and Hlrnngraptier to tVcHHlrccn tt Haim lluring Hie bight Years In the W hite House. (Copyright 1 !>:S. Reproduction In any form prohibited.) CHAPTER I -V. In command of extemporaneous English It Is doubtful if Mr. Wilson was ever excelled. Whether in public speech or In wilting a letter, he was never at a loss for a word or a syn onym; he never had to recast a sen tence for lack of a word; and his sen tences, as they came from his (lips, seldom needed revising or edltiug. All Ills speeches, with the exception of his messages to congress or an oc casional slate document, were extem poraneous. lie prepared for them simply by making a brief outline in shorthand which he placed before him on the speaker's rostrum—and some times forgot. Once, on his first cam paign, on his way to Madison Square garden to make one of the greatest efforts of his campaign, lie prepared his speech in outline, laid It before him, and made and entirely different speech. In almost nine years of travel with him, reporting all his utterances, I npver heard him make the same speech 'twice. In a campaign, he might cover the same ground in two or more speeches, but In so utterly different phraseology that It was to all Intents and purposes a new speech —so much so that the press writers following his campaign always had newt copy. Work for Correspondents. Most campaigners starting out on a long trip present their whole argu ment in their first two or three speeches, all subsequent expositions becoming mere repetitions. News paper correspondents, after securing reports of these first speeches, have the whole campaign their hands and except for the color of sidelights and minor incidents can prepare their copy in advance. Mr. Wilson In this respect was probably unique; covering one of his campaigns was a busy job for both the newspaper correspondent and the shorthand reporter. In dictating a letter or a stale doc ument, words and sentences In full literary polish tripped from his lips as fluently as If he were uttering a com monplace remark. His sentences were not as a rule Involved, hut when they were, he so accurately kept all the component clauses In mind that when finished he had a well-coordinated structure of grammar and thought. His style was always simple and com pact. He wasted no words, and his letters were Invariably short. He spoke on the platform usually less than 40 minutes. His longest speech as I recall was for the duration of one hour, delivered In a huge hall In Buffalo where for the first half hour there was considerable noise and con fusion. By the time quiet was se cured, he had made one half-hour speech, and then started on another to make sure that he would leave the impression he desired. Cross Word Huzzies Easy. In contfiosing a letter or a state doc ument, I saw him refer to a diction ary but once, and a book of syno nyms never. Tn tlie Inst days of his second administration a friend sent him a hook of "Synonyms and Anto nyms." t'nttl that moment, he had never heard of the word “antonym.” He glanced at tlie title and said. “I haven't tlie least idea what an anto nym Is—but 1 dare say It Is the oppo site of synonym." Thp single time I saw him consult a dictionary was tlie beginning of the vogue of tlie word “okeh" now widely used Instead of "< >. K." as a result of his example, lie was writing his in itlals "W. \V.—O. K." upon a docu ment and he said to mo. “I suppose you know that. ‘O. K.' is derived from the way Andrew .lack son is said to have spelled 'AH Cor rect.’ lie spelled It ‘01 Knrreet.’” I told him 1 understood that it had Its origin lit thp old Choctaw version —okeh. He looked up in surprise and said "Let's see.” Opening the dic tionary lie found that derivation giv en. The novelty of the tiling appealed to him and on the next document lie wrote, “okeh—W. \V."—a form that he followed invariably afterward. Mr. Wilson was a writer of short hand. Hi studied it by himself, un aided. when he was 16 years old for the aid it fouid be to him In hf* studies. When he had a note or a state document to write he would re tire tn hts study and write the first draft in shorthand symbols. Then he would either dictate the document to me or himself type it out on his own little typewriter. He declared that he conld revise much hotter by typing it himself. He would then hand to me his revised copy, which, during the war, I would take home, where upon a machine T kept for the purpose 1 would mako the final draft for the printer. I grew accustomed during those days to sleeping with a note to Germany and a pistol under my pil low. His Father’s Influence. I once asked about his training to give him his facility of speech and pen. Tie replied that such as he had he traced to the Influence and the tutoring of his father, lie had no spe cial training for public speaking or writing, he said. His one Influence that he could trace was that of ills father always insisting that he ex press himself simply and clearly. Ttut lie began to write early. In college he was managalng editor of the Prineetonian, and although in the average of his subjects lie was far be low the leaders, by commencement he had acquired a promising reputa tion as a writer on historical and political subjects, two or three articles having appeared from his pen In prominent periodicals. From then on he spent a great deal of tim^ in writing. He wrote usually in well rounded periods. His sentences appeared to !■ delicately balanced and measured; hp was not a purist in language. Ills style was highly flexible ^tnd Individ ual. While in office {ie took occasion to flout two or three commonly ac cepted rules of rhetoric such as tlie aversion to ending a sentence with a preposition. He pointed to Shakes peare nnd others ns authority, and himself frequently left a tiny proposl tinn dangling at the end of a polish ed sentence. ■ luted Split Infinitives. 1 tut he would not tolerate a split infinitive, placing his adverb in variably before It. In his book on "Gout go Washington" he invariably employed the contraction “’twas” for "it was.” W hen I asked him why he did it, he declared It Was In vogue at that fime, that he liked It, and that he had no prejudice against anything because it was unusual, if it were obviously In good taste. Home of the perorations of Ids ex temporaneous speeeties are remark able pieces of oratory. Ills type of de livery was conversational, or argu mentative, and not oratorical, but in variably be ended In a short oratori cal effort. Listening to ids ]ierfeot diction at times, and marveling at the balanced and polished sentences, I had sometimes the feeling that he was "taking over tho heads” of Ids audience, unce on his last trip, the trip on which he bruke down, it was evident that Ids audience could not follow as fast as he constructed. He was staling a negative proposition and in reaching the end of his thought he stated it in a clause that was not only rhetorical but also In spiring. Several ’Ll tho audience clapped. Mr. Wilson stopped short. Another would probably have passed It by, but lie was primarily interested in convincing Ids audience and not in making a speech. "If you want to applaud that, wait until you understand the meaning of it." lie said and proceeded to explain his point. To lie continued tomorrow. - Financiers Making Preparations for Big Foreign Issue Negotiations '"Concluded for $35,000,000 Polish Loan; Trading for Week (,)uiet. H* A,,im’ 1 nt ril I*rpM« New York, Keb. 15.—Despite a temporary lull in new financing, preparations tor the sale of additional foreign loans and corporation bond issues occupied the center of Interest In investment circles last week. Bond trading was quiet, although a strong undorlyinaedemand for higher grade issues held prices Arm. Negotiations were concluded late In (lie week for flotation of a $.15,000,000 Polish loan. The offering which will lie made tomorrow will take the form cif S per cent bonds to lie sold at a substantial discount. Another prdspoc live foreign borrower is the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Simultaneous of ferings securities were said to be planned for New York, Dondon and Ardkterdam, but with negotiations still open estimates of the amount ranged from $15,000,000 to $35,000,000. Contraction Welcomed. Tha uncertainty regarding the financing plans of the Argentine gov ernment was deflnlteiy cleared up during the week through sale of 325,000,000 of short term notes. The offering disposed of rumors that a world wide syndicate would 1*» formed to float a $75,000,000 long term loan, although steps to consolidate the gov ernment’s many note issues may ix: taken later this year. The Argentine financing comprised the largest sin gle item In the week’s volume of new business, which totaled $81,000.000. ns compared with $200,000,000 in the preceding week. The contraction in offerings wh weleomed by hankers as an oppor tunity for the investing public to ab sorb the abnormally heavy flotations of the last few weeks. With apphoxi mately $800,000,000 in bonds placed on the market so far this year, it is expected the $1,000,000,000 mark will have been passed by March 1. KvI deuce of the market's strong under lying position has been provided by tlie prompt subscription of nil issues and the sustained strength of listed obligations. Price changes during the week were neither striking nor significant. Fur ther improvement in oil company is sues continued to reflect the better position of the industry as shown in a steady decrease in erud# oil pro Auction and additional prlce^dvances for raw and refined products. Kail Liens Lag. Other bonds failed to move uni formly, although the general trend was upward. Buying of rail liens was discouraged somewhat bv a slight drop in freight traffic and by tin* proposed senate investigation of the entire railroad consolidation question. St. Paul bonds were depressed by un certainty regarding the outcome of the road’s 1925 refunding program. One of the most encouraging devel opments «*Y tlie week was the an nouneement of the success of tlie New Haven roads refunding program. Subscriptions for a new' bond issue which has had the support oT New England bankers, manufacturers and business men will enable the com pany to retire in full a $23,000,000 European loan maturing in April. FACTORY EXPERTS ON IQNITION WORK Auto owners who have carburetor or Ignition trouble will welcome the servin' offered by I*. Melchiors Son, 413 17 South Thirteenth street. The firm specializes in this line of work employing factory experts who understand all makes of corburetors and Ignition system**. The automobile department has met with due popularity. The lat est machinery is employed in the overhauling and rebuilding of motors. The firm has tin* agency (nr the Uudd disc wheel. The repairing of disc wheels is also featured. INDIVIDUAL HAND TOWEL FEATURED J>ue to greater sanitation the Fron tier Towel and Idnen Supply com pany, 1819 California, is featuring the individual hand fowel over the old type roller towel. The cost of this system is no greater than the other. According to Mr. J. M. Jensen, proprietor, this newer system is be coming very popular with the busi ness firms of t lie city. The individual towel cabin«*ls arc furnished by the Supply company at no additional cost to the user. Man Falls; Cuts Throat on Pipe *perial IMupalrh lo The Omaha !V*e. Newi-astie, Neb., Feb. 16,—"Grand* pa" O'Connor, about 65, slipped on t lie icy sidewalks here and fell In such a manner as to run the stein of Ills pipe into bis throat, receiving a painful Injury. WELCH WILL OFFER TWO SPECIALS NOW The "Weekly Specials” being feat ured by the Welch Itestaurants huve met with such popularity that Mr. Welch lias unnauncril the running of two "Specials," one on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; the second on ThursAiy, Friday and Saturday. The "Specials” will be entirely dif ferent each week, said Mr. Welch. 12 Hhurclie** on Honor Roll. special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Columbus, Neb., Feb. 15.—Accord ing to information given out by the state office of Congregational churches, 22 Congregational churches in the state were placed on the honor roll, having paid their full apportion, ment for, benevolences. They are: Columbus Avoca, Bingham, Blair, Brunswick, Campbell, Center, Crete, 1tunning, Garland, Genoa. Hates Center, Leigh, Loomis, Omaha Pil grim, Monroe, Palisade, Scribner, Springview, Uehling, tehango and Wahoo. AS YOU COUNT I the separate articles returned from our wet wash laundry, kindly note the spotlessness of them, too. All dirt arid stains have been entirely eliminated, and they look and smell clean, sweet and fresh again. Our wet wash laundry is second to none for giving to patrons most satisfying results. AMERICAN WET WASH 2808 Cuming St. HA. 0881 > ' / " " V ! 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