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The Omaha bee MO R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, Prasii§«*nt BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLE*. Editor in Chief Buttin'*** Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The A«*oriated Prsss, of wbirh The Ree i« a member. )s exclusively entitled to the u«e for reptiblication of nil new* dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local newt published herein. Ail rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee la 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 2*8, 1908. at Omaha postofficc, under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for a T 1 *• 1 non the Department or Person Wanted. A I lAfltlC I Ul/U OFFICES Main Office—I7th and Farnam , Chicago—Steiger Bldg. Boston—Glohe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Rharoj* Bldg. New York City--270 Fadison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nietz, 5 l l Leary Rldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES ’ DAILY AND SUNDAY l year $1.00, 6 months $3.no. 3 month® $1.78, 1 month 76c , DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 8 months $2.75. 3 months $1.50, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.00, 8 months $1.75, 3 months II.00, 1 months 80c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 800 mllea from Omaha: Daily and Supday, $1.00 per month; daily inly, 75c per month; Sunday only 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday .I month 85c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday .1 month 85c, 1 week 15c Sunday only .1 month 20c, 1 week 5e V-I-—-/ Omaha"lDhere the West is at its Best “HEARTS AND DOLLARS.” An advertisement captioned as above lately ap peared in the daily newspapers. We hope it got the attention its context merited. When the Metro politan Life Insurance company announce* that it* asset* are $1,628,174,348.20, and that the growth in this for 1924 was almost $200,000,000, folks are impressed. In two more years the company will have over $2,000,000,000 in liquid a**ets. An enormous reservoir of liquid wealth. Tremendous power, fraught with limitless possibilities. What are those who control the use of that stu pendous sum of money doing to make it serve? The advertisement referred to tells. In 13 years, ac cording to the record, the Metropolitan, through its various health and welfare services, has saved 200,000 lives. In 1924, as shown by the death rate com pared with that of 1911, a total of 61,958 lives were saved. In the 13 years reviewed, the saving in death claims was $40,000,000. Consider those items. If the earning capacity of the people saved in 1924 was equal to $2,000 a year each, not an exaggerated sum, the total saving in potential earnings amounts to $123,916,000. Not to take any account of the suffering, the misery, the heart-ache, and the actual money cost of sickness and death. The decline in the mortality rate among policy holders of this company between 1911 and 1924 was 32.1 per cent; deaths from tuberculosis have de clined 53.4 per cent; from typhoid, 80.3 per cent; from diphtheria, 63.1 per cent. Trained nurses, looking after policy holders, made 2,665,29® visits during the year. In man^of these cases lives were saved, because prompt and proper attention was given to ailments that might have resulted seriously. Over 40,000,000 pieces of health literature were dis tributed, and 60,000,000 readers were reached through advertisements. The total cost of the service is insignificant, set alongside the results. The work was carried on at an expense of just over $3,000,000. The Metropolitan In Its larger field Is doing on a magnificent scale what other organisations are doing along the same line. The International Typo graphical Union was a pioneer in the warfare against disease among its members, especially against tu berculosis. In 25 years the average working life of the union printer has been prolonged from 41 to 64 years of age, a gain of 13 years. Distributed over the 70,000 members of the organization, this means a gain of 970,000 working years, worth at $2,000 a year (less than the Omaha scale), $1,940,000,000. The Modern Woodmen and the Woodmen of the World are among the big insurance organizations tiiat have combatted disease amongst their mem bers. The International Printing Pressmen and As sistants Union has also established means for carry ing on the warfare against the great white plague and similar diseases to conserve the lives and health of its members. ‘‘Hearts and dollars” indeed are united nowadays, and the wonderful service the world receives is due to the fact that great reservoirs of wealth can be Upped after the fashion referred to. The concep tion of the dollar as a narrow, selfish creature, is very wrong at times. When coupled with the heart by a little common sense and sound sentiment, the dollar is very useful. DIVORCE AND CIVILIZATION. Very little if anything recently has met the en tire approval of Gilbert K. Chesterton. Like our own Mr. Mencker., being a critic, the great English man finds it necessary to proceed on the theory that * whatever is is wrong. Therefore, his outburst on the decadence of civilization as evidenced by divorce scandals is properly subject to considerable doubt. Human experience does not justify nor even warrant his gloomy conclusions. Where thp institution of marriage commenced is only speculatively fixed in the record of man’s up ward climb. However, it is certain that very soon after the rite was adopted as a part of society’s or derly movement, the converse was accepted. Men and women both found out that the bonds of matri mony are dissoluble, and under gome conditions it is better for both to dissolve the compact that holds them. So all along the way we find provisions for divorce. Scandals such as those that recently have shocked America and England, and, presumably, all the rest of the world, are not unique. Just nasty. One of the anomalous attributes of smug civilization is that it really likes to hear about such things. Just as lesser men follow heroes through their great ad ventures, so it is titivating to pursue an intrigue by watching the other fellow. Mr. Chesterton’s declaration in favor of free love as preferable to divorce shows to what extent a crusader may go. He dons not mean that. It la far more comforting to turn from his acidulous out pouring to the milder view taken by Mr. W. L. George, also a student of relations between men and Women, and ceertalnly not a feminist. Mr. George, While admitting that aeandals are deplorable, cites borne corresponding Incidents in British history as proving that things are not so bad as they might, be. Hi* conclusion !■ that, morally and apirltually •he world Is better now than ever, and 1* improving gteadlly. Civilization has survived tome very herd knock*. If it is to he shaken from its foundation and toppled into ruin because some titled personages air their misbehavior in public court proceedings, little loss will follow. Such civilisation is not worth the trouble of preserving. When we turn from the divorce courts, and seek our inspiration in the healthier, saner regions, where men and women lead “decent. Godly and well-ordered lives,*' the antidote for the Chestertonian mood is easily obtained. AMERICA’S AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE. When John J. Pershing was retired from active service as lieutenant general of the army, because of his age, considerable objection was raised. At 65 General Pershing was not worn out, and it was wasteful to deprive the army of the service of one so distinguished and able in his profession. Also, the public was entitled to the further usefulness of this fine man. The thought of toasing him into the dis card was one that shocked many. It seems that President Coolidge had in mind some employment for General Pershing. It would have been remarkable if the economic sense of the presi dent had allowed such ability to go for naught. In stead of wasting General Pershing’s talent, the president is employing him in a most desirable fash ion. He has made of the general a sort of ambas sador-at-large, such as William Howard Taft used to be. Not only does the general go about as a mes senger of good will for America, but he does a lot of useful little chores along the way. For example, in December last he assisted the Peruvians and Bolivians in celebrating the centennial of the battle of Ayachuco, where their independence was won. On his way home he Stopped at Havana, to pay a social call on the Cuban government, and while convalescing from a sick spell is notified that his next journey will be back to Peru. He is to act as umpire in the Tacna-Arica plebiscite, soon to be held in accordance with President Coolidge’s de cision of the dispute between Chile and Peru. When this is accomplished, other missions await the general. He will soon be a much-traveled man, while the interests of American entrusted to his care will prosper. It is a comfort to think that Gen eral Pershing is not being left to rust out in private life nor to vegetate as an inmate of an Old Soldiers Home. GERMANY’S TRIAL ELECTION. ' Noting in Germany on Sunday was conclusive only as to one point. No party has a clear majority among the electorate. In this sense the election was something like a primary, to be followed by the run off. Had either of the candidates received a clear majority, he would have been declared elected. Fail ing in this, the second election will be held, at which a plurality is sufficient for a choice. About 70 per cent of the electors voted, which is encouraging. Particularly so when it is recalled that in the United States last November only about 50 per cent of the voters went to the polls. The commanding plurality given to Dr. Jarres, who rep resents the conservative groups, may be taken as in dicating his election at the polls in April. No coali tion of the minority candidates sufficiently strong to defeat Jarres seems likely. One fact that will meet approval in America is the ridiculously small vote polled by Ludendorff, who was the candidate of the facist party. Germans do not intend to re turn to the control of a dictator. Equally interesting is the protest by M. Poincare against the "peace by security” policy, made while the Germans were going to the polls. Poincare voices a sentiment that is expiring in France as cer tainly as the monarchial Idea ia dying in Germany. Jarres represents the sentiments of Germans who have had enough of war. He would like to see'his country and its people restored to social and eco nomic health. For this reason the prospect of his election to succeed Ebert is gratifying to those who sincerely want peace. I_ PROPAGANDA BY IRRITATION. Communists at Washington have indulged them selves in the way of picketing the home of the Polish minister. The courta of Poland have sentenced to death a communist member of parliament, convicted of murder. On this pretext the peace of our national capital ia disturbed by the reds. Very recently riots have occurred In New York and Chicago, where com munists have thrown themselvea into meetings for the purpose of breaking them up. In Omaha the ilk takes great credit to itself for “permitting,” if you please, a speaker to address those who cared to hear him in criticism of the Russian government. All of these incidents point to the single purpose of the reds. It is to disturb and irritate to the greatest extent possible those who do not agree with them. Allowed, as they are, to voice their own views and opinions with freedom, they with sweet con sistency, deny this privilege to those who are op posed to them. “Holy Russia" finds defenders more zealous in Omaha, for example, than in Mosiow. Happily, in this very manifestation, these misguided zealots display the inherent weakness of their cause. Fop the good of the world communism Is on the decline. The great experiment in Russia Is coming to its logical, inevitable end. Lenin and Trotxky are gone as leaders. While the Third Internationale still nominally holds the power, Its hold is weakening. Common sense is coming to the front again, and while Russia may well be regarded as likely to con tinue under soviet government, its affairs will not for long be directed by th# minority who seized rower in the fall of 1917, and so recklessly abused it. In this country, as in others, we will have to deal with propaganda by irritation, but the result will be the same. (- ■ - n Homespun Verse By Omaha's Own Post— Rohort. Worthington Dario. v_ _ I N MEMORIAM. it. n. m.> Out. of the sky on a cloudless night She came—a hahe In a cradls whits; Over the hill in the waning rtav They laid the mortal of her away. T can not think of the years so swift From dawn to the placid sun set drift,— That youth, yst fresh In mem ry netv, Reclines In tha wakelass Rendezvous. For tt has he#n but a fleeting space Mine# you were young In a village place,— Since we were gazing down th# trail Where magto dreamt of th# future sail. Rut they havs (old me. and I know She sleeps where the fragrant flowers grow— Over the hill In Ih* waning day They tenderly laid her laet away. , Over (he hill to (he wakeless Itleep Where dew kissed (Insert at daybreak weep, Where vesper hymns of (he night wind rise— Seaurs In tha realm at her dreams the Has. f—' , Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Com munications of 200 words and lass will be given preference. '-' Norris and Voters. Amelia. Neb,—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee. VVe read in The Bee the criticism of Senator Norris by ex Governor McKelvie on his stand in the senate in confirming Warren for attorney general. We think to the ma jority of the voters of Nebraska Mr Kelvie's criticism is like the story of the little dog who barked at the moon, and the moon went, behind a cloud and he thought he had scared the moon away. We had a test last fall what the voters thought of Nor ris. READER. About llie Symphony Orchestra. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Will those in charge of the affairs of the Omaha Symphony orchestra kindly explain why it is necessary to obtain "distinguished" conductors from out of town? If Mr. Nordin is capable of acting as “home conductor." why Is he not capable of conducting the orchestra In public? Also, why is It apparently neressar.v to have out-of-town soloists when we have splendid material right here at home to draw from? Is it deemed necessary to bait the public with out of-town talent in order to rouse their patriotism sufficiently to support a home-talent organization? Isn't the hobby of importing foreign talent be coming rather shelfworn? We have heard a lot lately about patronizing home talent: why not practice what we preach? Let us have an orchestra by ail means, but let us keep the money derived through Its efforts at home, and let those con sider this fact: The public is the goose that lays the golden egg, and not a few of them are capable of being judges of what the people want or at least should have a return for their money. The Omaha Symphony or chestra is not a plaything for the ex press benefit of a few "fans" who would like to direct lta movements and programs of their own "artistic” appetite, but the common property of the public. Maybe there are "angels" enough In Omaha to support the orchestra without patronage from the public, but we doubt it. The or chestra was self-supporting last sea son. Perhaps if the money spent for "outside talent” had beep kept at home there would he a little left in the nrehestra'a treasury. Let's take a new start and give our own people the chance they deserve, if we haven’t any home talent, why brag about it, and then in ordett.10 make good have to—or so it appears —send for outside help, which in most cases isn't as good as the home ar ticle? Let's put the orchestra on a business as well ss an artistic basis and let the public know that they are helping home folks in reality. CRITIC. e— • Standing Dp for Nebraska. Elmwood, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Tour editorial of your issue March 20, "The Concealed Ethiopian." certainly meets my ap proval. Sometime ago two of my friends had rhymes printed in the I.eader-EcHo. One bragging up Cali fornia, the other the Rio Grande val ley In Texas, whereupon I sent in the following lines to the same paper: Meditation. Guar In brass of California; For tha Rio Grande's Fltchl For Nebraeka they have no pralaa In which they both got rien. The rllmate of California I eur poea le very nice But all do come berk here afale To get another slice. Oh. can you not aea the heauty Of tha wheat and taaaellng coraf Than why not ulna of the stories Of tha state In which you were born? Whet to me la the Rio Grande? Or lha sunny "Golden Gate?'* Af'er all II ta tha money Pug up In our dear state. Falconllke la California With lta grand Golden Gala! Where you spent your hard-earned pash Earned in another state. My little home In Caea county. On lta fertile prairte lend. I would not aive by any means For all our Rio Grande. T e»me from pretty Illinois, Itetermlnatlon on my brow, To make a meager living I scarcely knew- theo now I followed tha old prairie plow And built a little ahanty: Rat out win* vines and orchard And they were surely dandv. For HI cents we sold our earn; For two and a half our hoga; We had not even brush to burn Rei suae there were no logs, romewhat Ilka an years ago The days of the prairie plow, There were no fence, anywhere. On ft rope we kept our row. Chinch bugs.hoppere. drouth end bllir.arde. Sometimes ■ helling storm. We faced It without dierna.v, No metter In what form Now we are ralelng everything To fill the lerder la no puaale. Of things that are good lo eel. If we will only huitla. To Nebraska I am grateful! It to ma a living gave: And whan once my life la ended In tbla world's fierce turmoil. Then my hody shell be buried In our dear Nebraska aott. Nsbraaka la a mighty afata. And It fills me with great prtda To make It what now It la We all have dona our nvtte. To masters I am nonantity Others aav I am a grouch. But standing up for Nsbraaka l will not prove a slouch r. W N1CKFL Tha Dear Departed. The district vialtor was sympathlz Ins with a shopkeeper who had Just lost her husband. "I'm sure, Mrs. Griggs." aha said, "you miss him vary much." "Well, m'm," said the bereaved. "It certainly d" seem strsnge to go Inin tha ehnp and find something In the till."—Liverpool Evening Express. \ Abe Martin v-i-- - “If a feller could jest git Hint Kentucky cave explorer an' that serum dog team in Alssky, nn' then atart, an Uncle Tom's cabin, he could clean up," said Manager C.nhe Craw o’ Malodaon Hill t'day. Th' consumer pay* th' travelin’ man’* tip*, too, among other thing i o it'oorr.abt. im.j !r-«-- T, “From State and Nation —Editorials from Other Newspapers— l__1 Dramatized Distress. Frnm tb* Minneapolis Journal. The fund raised in the Twin cities for the relief of sufferers from the tor nado which sxvept Illinois and broke into fixe other states, has now reach ed the sum of $14,JKI0. Similar funds are growing in other cities and towns the country over. , It is safe to say that these stricken people will not suffer permanent pov erty or evert serious handicap from the disaster. New and better homes, towns and cities xvill spring up in plabe of those destroyed, thanks to the spirit of spontaneous generosity that has been awakened Why is it that calamities of this kind evoke such a splendid response, whereas organized campaigns are necessary to succor the poor and dis tressed known to social workers in every city? The reason is that in tor nado and other sudden calamities, dis tress becomes dramatic and so ap peals to the imagination. Ordinary distress does not have the same ap peal. It is commonplace and prosaic, it would seem, then, that if poverty and distress are to be quickly alle viated, they must become dramatic. There are in this country about a million people, or 1 per cent of the population, in dire poverty at any one time. The causes of most of this poverty are known to he sickness, un employment, accident and old age Not all of these causes can be re moved. There will alwaya be some sickness and some accidents. Old age is hound to overtake all mortals. But sickness, unemployment, accidents and old age do not cause poverty, ex cept where inadequate provision has been made against them. They can in great degree be alleviated by va rious forms of Insurance and by in dividual and aoclal care and foresight. Yet the fact remaina that the stand ing hazards of life are not met as fully and adequately as ths sudden calamities are. Distress from calami ties can he alleviated quickly, thanks to emotional promptings and re sponses. The more widespread and searching evils of poverty require a sustained attack directed by a reason and motivated by self-control and foresight. Governor Is Right. From the Kearney Hub. Governor McMullen takes a com mendable attitude regarding a 10 year levy for state univeralty building ex tenalon, which waa defeated In the senate, In his suggestion that It is within the power of the house to rem edy the matter by getting It before a conference committee on the general appropriation bill. Referring to the line drawn by the senate at $4,000,000 for a 10 year period Governor Mc Mullen aays: “That Is less than the city of Omaha spent for one school building. The university should know In advance what funds It Is to have so that planning can be done ahead. As it Is they never know what one legislature Is going to do until an other legislature la In power. The 10 year plan Is easier for the taxpayers than the two year plan of making ap propriations.’’ Ignore the Voting Privilege. Walter I-Ippmann tn Harper* Mamina. If the last presidential vote Is ana lyzed hy states It soon becomes evi dent that there are whole sections of the country where the voters have, at least In national politics, come to the conclusion that their vote does not matter. I use the figures complied hy PImon Michelet for the election of 1920. That year there were more eligible voters who did not vote than did votp In the following states: Maine and Vermont In New Flngland: Pennsylvania tn the middle Atlantic, group; California on the Pacific; Arizona In the mountain state?; Arkansas. Louisians. Texas, Tennessee. Alabama, Mississippi. Vir glnla. Pouth Carolina. Georgia and Florida In the south. That makes 15 states. If you add the states In w hich there were eight eligible# who did not vote to every 10 who did,, you must ndd 10 more. That includes states like Massachusetts. Michigan. Wis consin, Washington. Oregon, Wyom ing and Colorado. If you start at the other end and list the states which In the electoral sense are moat alive, having two vot ers or more to on# nonvoter, there are only eight states. They are New Hampshire. Indiana. Missouri. North Oakota, Utah, Kentucky, Oelaware and West Virginia. The lists tell their story to anv practical politician. The dead states are the sure states. The live states are the fighting states. Where every vote counts, a high percentage of votes Is cast. Where the vote doe' not change the result, a low per centag* Is csst. In Mississippi, to every hundred who voted, 786 sover elgn voters did not go to the poll*. You Tell 'Km. (iti*. From the Grand Island Indspendsnt. The country has repeatedly read the wise counsels of President t'oolidce with reference to the desirability of bringing down the cost of government and thereby reducing taxes. It was a shibboleth in the presidential cam paign of last year. It was one of the high spots in President Coolidge's spientjld message. Heartily the pub lic press and public speakers genets ally applauded the president and indl cated an earnest support. But a comparison of the appropriations tells another story. It shows an increase in total regular annual appropriations of $161,248,000. And where are they? It Is true that there is one large Item of Increase in the appropriations for agriculture. But there was a generally admitted emergency. For more purely governmental ad ministration. however, there was. In stead of a decrease as urged by Pres ident Coolldge, an Increase of $63,000, 000 for the executive and Independent offices; an increase over She first ses sion's (Sixty eighth congress) ap propriation for the navy; an Increase of $3,467,000 for the State, Justice, Commerce and Labor1 departments, an increase of $28,800,000 in the Postoffico and Treasury dei>artments, and an in crease of $4,000,000 in the War de partment. The Increase in the con gressional salaries has recently been emphasized In the press: but the en tire legislative department is given an increase of only little over half a million. 1'he question arises: Why, when President (Joolldge's recom mendations are wholly and flagrantly disregarded in this to the public im portant matter of spending public money, do we not hear the charge of ''traitor," "disloyalist," "bolshevik," radical and red from the radically partisan press? What, in this re spect. lias the professional politician to say? What, from the taxpayers' and consumers' standpoint, has be come of "party regularity?" Vibrio Thernindeaulfurican*. From tha CIsvelsnd Plsln Dealer. Take Amsterdam, for Instance. Nearly half the streets are canals. It Is a Dutch Venice. Most of the other Dutch cities have canals here and there If not everywhere. Only in the country the canals are by no means as numerous as most people who have never visited the Netherland Imagine. East of the Zuy der Zee Is a large area of dry pine forest, where there are no canals at all and very little water. In Holland proper, in Zeeland, Friesland, in some of the other provinces the canals are indeed almost ubiqultlous, and they are a characteristic and picturesque feature of the Dutch landscape. The canals are good to look at. But they have not an equally pleasing ap peal to the other senses Especially the city canals are offensive to the nose, and this despite the fact that the Dutch are a very cleanly people, and do not defile the canals with sew age or refuse. Recently a Dutch biologist has con ducted extensive investigations of the canal odor and has at last traced It to its source. It is. Indeed, the had breath of Vibrio thermodesulfurlcana. Vibrio thermodesulfurtcans Is a micro organism Ahlch Inhales oxygen and exhales sulphureted h'drogen. Sulphureted hydrogen ts the gas which gives bad egt^i their vehement odor. With millions of vibrios breath ing In a city's canals It Is no wonder that the air is not just what it should be. The next move will he to find a way to slaughter vibrio, and this will not be easy, because It has already been proved that vihrlo thrivea In s temperature lower than freezing and is not seriously disturbed by a tern perature of 260 degrees. Rut the Dutch are ingenious, and now that the enemy Is known It will soon he compthled to surrender. The canals will cease to offend, and the last Dutch reproach will be removed. Nature Is Wonderful. Frcm th# t.rsnd Ulead Independent. Our piofessors ofsclence are roam Ing at will through the unlverae. eag irg theories so astounding as to make the common run of freaka look like a plugged nickel. What's a bearded lady beside Martians IS^feet tall who must burrow into the soil of that planet to escape the nocturnal tem perature of 10A below zero? Think of! pitting a five-legged calf or a plaster of parts mermaid against apes that have Ideas and act on them! And what could Mr Rlngllng produce to match the possibility of seeing mil lions of ststs now beyond reach of even the wildest ered telescope? These ponderous digger* into the un known are sly dogs. They lock them selves In laboratories until the world half forgets their existence, then sud denly come forth in annual conven tlon to startle us with statements that strain even the most flexible imagina tion. "Take that, and that, and that!" they say, unwrlnkllng their bulging brows and loosing satisfied sr#iles. And so saying they modestly proclaim iheir ability to tell the age of any rook, or to quote the Inhabitants of any neighboring sphere on the Iscome tax or prohibition. How trifling, com pared to such exhibits, are the ladies in pink tights riding horseback, and the bespangled gent who turns three somersault* between trapeses! Let us hope they won't switch to summer Conventions. Even Chautauquas might have to park up like the Arabs Crippling the I nlversity. From lh« York R#publtc«n The legislature has taken another fall out of the elate university by re fusing to approve it* building pro gram. The wolf of economy has bit ten another piece out of the ox of progress. The Republican believes that the pruning knife cannot be ap plied to school expenditures without a resultant Injury and an ultimate reaction The Nebraska atate uni versity Is a big Institution that can not function properly because it lacks room and equipment. Every fall hundreds of freshmen are sent home, not because they are poor stu dents. but because they cannot be accommodated and »o educational re quirements are raised to flunk the average freshman. This Is a wrong practice that cannot be corrected so long as legislatures sit as judges and hold economy to be paramount to educational advancement. It is most unfortunate that legislators have been made to understand that econ omy must take precedence over everything else. It should not in school expenditures and this false and niggardly policy will have to be corrected or Nebraska s prised posi tion in the field of education will he forfeited. Unless you see (he “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for Colds Headache Pain Neuralgia Toothache Lumbago Neuritis Rheumatism Accept only '‘Paver" package which contains proven directions. H«ndr ‘'B»y*r” nf If Alan not tits of 24 and 106—Druggiata. Avplfla la «4a tradt aarh of lam Uaa^faetura of y<aftactUtacib«#t»r of ^SUNNY SIDE UP ! Hake Comfort.nor forget , eihat Sunrise n*/erfailed us^jyefr^ | J ___ —-—-' ---—-- b Galveston, Tex.—We'll never again ho able to look a shrimp in the fare. We've eaten shrimp, used shrimp for bait, watrhe.l the shrimp fishermen netting them by the ton. and watched the market men cleaning them for the ultimate consumer. e smell shrimp everywhere. The shrimp in Its native lair looks like a crawdad shorn of Its claws and pale because of its ulti mate fate. Boats trailing nets behind them sail up and down the harbor, hauling in the Inoffensive hut succulent shrimp b> the ton. It Is a business all by Itself and gives employment, if employment it may be railed, to several hundred men. It Is a I sloppy sort of life but seemingly profitable. We have caught fresh water "'h in al! sections of America, but this week we have been catching salt water fish. Not many, of course, being truthful like that other eminent fisherman, Peter. It will be remembered that Peter wa* the first truthful fisherman. He admitted that he had fished all night without getting a bite. But If we haven t caught many we have caught a variety. Baby shark, salt water cat, a Rtlngaret, a nheephtad. a redfish, Rand trout, a jewflfch ^elRhin? attout .10 pounds, and some whitefleh. ttur ambition is to catch a redsnapper. but one has to go dow-n the coast a few hundred miles to catch them, and we haven't the time. One hea-’s wonderful stories of dolphins out In the gulf. They grow to immense size and are as playful as monkeys, incredibly swift, they play along in front of the passenger and freight boats, and it is claimed that dolphins pick out their particular favorites and accompany them to and fro on their regular trips. We have seen several of them and were ready to believe all stories about their speed. Porpoises are numerous In the harbor and it is interesting to watch them arching up above the surface and diving below. It is a criminal offense in Texas to shoot buzzards and sea gulls. They are scavengers. The gulls infest the coast by the millions and they keep the harbors free of refuse. The fishing boats coming in from the banks clean their fish coming in and throw- the refuse overboard. The gulls follow them in great flocks and fight like wildcats over the refuse. Without them the disposal of the garbage would be a huge problem. Galveston's water supply is piped from the mainland from a point about 30 miles away and it Is of a very superior quality. The water underground for 15 or 20 miles bac k ftom the coast is bitterly salt. Ijst night the city council appropriated flO.COO for the en tertainment of the visiting advertising men. who will be here on day during the Houston convention. This amount will be doubled by individual subscriptions. It is going to be a big day for the old town. The great seawall with its magnificent causeway and bathing beach, would mean millions a year anywhere else. The great causeway, 150 feet wide, well paved and soon to be 12 or 14 miles long, will be a wonderful attraction to automobillets. 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