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TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 8, 1011. A. Thej Omaha Sunday Bee. FOUNDED BI EDWARD ROBEWATEK. VICTOR ROSEWATF.R, KD1TOR. Entered at Omaha poatof flee aa second class matter. TERMS OP" SUBSCRIPTION. Sunday B, one year J W Saturday Bee. one year H-M Ially Bee (without Bunday), one yar..M."0 Dally Bee and Bunday, one year M.W DBUVEBED DT CARRIER. Evening Bee (without Sunday, per wk c Evening Bee wlth Sunday). per week...Hc tally Bee (Including Hunday), per "li.."c Daily He (wltliout Pundayl, per week. .loo Address all complalnU of Irrerularitlee In delivery to City circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha 828 N. Twenty-fourth BL Council Uluffa 18 Scott Street Lincoln 'A Little Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. Kanaaa City Reliance Building. New Tork 24 Wert Thirty-third atreet. Washington 725 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to newa and editorial matter ahould be addreased Omaha Bee, EIftor1al Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expresa or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent atampa received in payment of mall accoiwta. Personal check except on ; Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. ! r . STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, tfttate nr N'ehrmik a.. Dnuclu County, aa, Dwight Wllllama, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being auiy worn, aaya that the actual number of full nd complete coplea of The Dally. Morning, Kvenlng and Sunday Beea printed during the mouth of December, 1910, waa as fol- Iowa: 1. 43,870 17 42,610 II 44,820 J 44,000 ....a. ...43,320 4 4S,5or 8.. ........ 43,470 .43,430 7-1... 4,3C0 t.., 43,330 .......... .49,650 10 42,400 11.,... 44,980 11 .....43.&80 II... ....... 42,400 14......... 44,230 II 43,70 II 42,860 1 v 43,520 10 43,620 21 43,640 22 44,900 JS 44,830 24 44,690 25 44,250 21 44,400 27 44,250 28 45,250 29 ..43,090 SO 43,580 tl .....43,640 Total 1,385,750 Returned Copies 11,463 Net Total 1,344,287 Dally Average 43,364 DWIQIIT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my preaence and sworn to before me this list day of uecemDer, isiv. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public nbeerlhers leaving; the city tem porarily aboald have The Bee mailed to them. Address Trill be tkaaged aa often aa reqnested. How's the old wagon going, boys? Struck any ruts yet? Beware of the fellow who asks you to have a glass of ginger ale. , Nebraska now has Just an half dozen living ex-governors. even How smoothly the world glides along in spite of Salome's passing. But only a week ago we were shlV' ering in the mldBt of a biting below- zero blizzard. aaeBBBBmsammJBBBSBMissamJBmBBammmS' It seems like class legislation to pension one man because he was bit ten by mosquitoes. London proceeds on the safe and sane theory that a dead anarchist is the best anarchist. The Anaconda Standard asks if Woodrow Wilson has scored. He seems at least to have made a hit. It would require no great strain on the imagination for the Congressional Record to issue a comic supplement BMBMVMmSBBmSBVBJsaSI Colonel Watterson has gone ta pend the winter in the Riviera where they do not have scary men on horseback. Are you watching The Bee's junior birthday book? It will tell you day by day when all your little friends are celebrating. "Boy Aviator Breaks Record," says a headline. But do not cheer too loudly for fear the next dispatch may say he has broken his neck "To make aviation safer has been our problem," says Wilbur Wright, Or did Mr. Wright mean to say, "To jnake it somewhere near safe?" Luther Burbank appears to be more than an expert on vegetables. He finds California women and eastern women the most nearly perfect types A Kansas City man who hugged his wife so bard that he broke two of her ribs was fined $200. Does that mean It is cheaper, if not safer, to hug the the pther fellow's wife? all at .: lus . Houston, so the Pott of that city ' Says, is going to become a great rice market. That will enable it to lead in another great reform, the elimlna tlon of the chop sticks, Whit duck uniforms are worn by Indianapolis street cleaners. They would be appropriate, also, for Omah street cleaners in the spring, when the tide is high after the big thaw The periodical publishers' banquet In New York brought together such men as Theodore Roosevelt, Richard A. Balllnger, Commander Peary and 'Andrew Carnegie. Surely it must liava made Mr. Carnegie think well of bis peace bounty. The Erie railroad manifested its ap preciation of the services of its oldest engineer by giving him the locomotive he runs, as long as he runs it. Possi bly the engineer would appreciate the token just as much to have a bigger share of the money the locomotive earns instead vf the thing, Itself. Postal Saving; Beginning. Some of the good weather friends of postal savings, along with its oppo nents, are busily engaged In a system- tic effort to belittle and discredit the Inauguration of the postal sav ings system In the United States. These Influences which are responsible for restricting the initial appropria tion for the express purpose of tying the hands of the postomce authorities now point to the fact that the start had to be made with only one deposi tory office in each state as inviting failure and proof of inadequacy. But "great oaks from little acorns grow," and if the experience or otner and older countries is any safe guide, the establishment of these few postal savings banks throughout the United States is but the beginning of what In a few years will parallel the amazing exhibit of rural free delivery, which started with but two or three routes in a single county. PoBtal savings systems which have been most successful have not sprung, like Jove, full-fledged from Minerva's head. Available statistics, officially compiled, show that in Canada postal savings was instituted In 1868 with eighty-one offices, since Increased to nearly 1,200. Russia started in 1889 with 184 offices and now has approxi mately 5,000. Sweden began in 1884 with 1,575 offices, which have since doubled in number. Austria at the end of its first year in 1883 had 3,219 offices and now approximately, 7,000. Holland opened its postal savings banks in 1881 with 909 offices and now has 1,500. Italy counted 1,989 offices at the end of its first year in 1876, since multiplied to nearly 9,000. New Zealand started in 1867 with forty-six offices and now has twelve times that number. Great Britain began in 1862 with 2,535, now grown to over 15,000. The one country of importance in which the number of depository offices has stood nearly stationary is France, which started out in 1882 with 6,02 4 offices and has now approximately 8,000 depositories. As we have al ready noted, in only two countries where postal savings banks have been established have they been discon tinued, namely, in Victoria . and Hawaii. In Victoria the system grew from thirty-one offices in 1866 to 380 offices in 1897, when merged into the trustee savings banks, and postal sav- lngs in Hawaii, after running ten years, were discontinued with annexa- tlon to this country in 1896. Those who have been fighting off postal savings banks so persistently were, therefore, properly advised that if once established and given a foot hold in the United States they would surely be a permanent institution and grow steadily into popular favor and enlarged 'usefulness, no matter how small the beginnings. When pre tended friends of postal savings In dulge in sneers and gibes at the com' paratlvely small number of initial de positories they may be put down as enemies of the system in disguise. The Publio and the Press. In his address to the periodical publishers in New York Theodore Roosevelt affirmed the belief that "the man who writes for the public press is just as much a public servant as the public offlcerholder." Champ Clark, on the same occasion, ' expressed the opinion that "the editors and publish ers are the greatest educators of our time." Of course, some folks will dis sent from these views, yet most people will concede the educative and public service character or the press weekly, daily or periodical. The press can and will exercise a better and wider Influence by securing more cordial relations with the people, The people have been considering the press as one of their chief problems. The press certainly has found the peo pie to be its chief problem. No more difficult task confronts it than that of addressing and adjusting Itself to the public demands. iSelflsh ambition of people tends vastly to complicate this task. Journalism is a business about the inner workings of which people have known comparatively little and apparently cared less, yet still claim ing a large right of censorship. But it is a wholesome sign that this ignor ance and indifference is beginning to disappear, for it makes for a better and higher standard of journalism. The scholar has rather grudgingly given credit to the press as a force in education. That is because, we be lieve, he has overlooked the salient point that the clientele of the press is heterogeneous and not homogeneous The same fault may be found with the logic of the man who pleads for what he chooses to call tho Ideal newspaper Certainly there can be no excuse for departing from high moral ground but neither can the press overshoot the average Of intelligence in a coun try like ours, where equal rights and representative government are cardi nal principles. The press has been aptly called the mirror of current events and the or gan of public opinion. If that be true, then the people are left entirely as Its monitors and cannot shirk their Bhare of responsibility. It is this theory which suggests that the aver age journal strikes a moral and Intel lectual tone as high, if not higher, than the community by which it is maintained. And if this is not true the community must be largely at fault. A New York minister recently denounced the newspapers' on the score than only 39 per cent of the! contents was ".worth while." The World quickly retorted thst this made out a very fair case for the newspa pers, putting them on a par with the average achievement In most human activities. If 39 per cent of the ser mons preached were "worth while," then we would have an effective min istry. Model School Buildings. , Chicago Is about to begin the erec tion of a series of public school build ings which It proposes to make model structures, at the same time saving 300,000 on the first six buildings. They are to have all the latest features and facilities, some of which the old and more costly buildings did not possess. They will be fireproof throughout and built so as to admit of the best possible sanitary regula tion. The style of architecture is to be very simple. In this last feature, no doubt, much of the financial saving is to be found. Gingerbread decorations add nothing in comfort or safety. It seems the Chicago Board of Education, with the aid of a competent architect, has en deavored to reduce the construction of these schools to uniformity, and therefore the result of its efforts will be watched with general Interest. If there is one kind of building above all others to which the best thought should be given it is tho school. The formative years of life are spent in schools, and where they are defective in ventilation, or in any means of san itation, they are unwholesome and un fit for growing children. Another commendable feature about the Chicago model school build ing is its provision for gymnasium, household art departments and man ual training. These are elements in popular education whose emphasis is expected to bring tangible results. They point the way to more practical learning and larger usefulness in the common activities of everyday life, too often subordinated to less helpful agencies. Business and Religion. The world is wary of the man who uses the power or influence of his church or religion to promote money- making schemes. It Is well enough for men to carry their religion into their business; indeed, they can scarcely do otherwise and appear as effective churchmen. But that never warrants them in exploiting sacred offices for secular ends. Combining church affiliation with financial enter prises for the purpose of increasing the profits of the latter Is bad and will sooner or later reflect -evil results upon the individual churchman and his church. Regrettable as it may seem, the practice is common enough to Invite criticism. Nor need the church be come impatient of the strictures. It cannot fairly deny the right of out siders to criticise so long as it is the outside world with which the bargain is to be struck. It is a "melancholy monument to the sin of deception" which thus has been reared In the name of religion by all too many men, who should be upholding different moral standards. It is a sad commen tary upon the righteous influence they pretend to wield. The church has a duty toward such men, pointed out by its Founder when He drove the money-changers from the temple. Let a group or company of men hi the church, particularly members of the same body, float a business ven ture of a speculative character on the strength of their religious connections and at once they have raised the worst sort of doubts of their own and their church's sincerity. When the ven ture falls, as many a one ultimately does, it becomes known as a church failure and the name of the church must go down into all the questiona ble mire of consequences that ensue. It is just such examples as this that make the term "sanctimonious moun tebank" possible. Fraternities and Scholarship. With so many of the leading college presidents and professors arrayed against the fraternity, one might ra tionally inquire if these societies will not soon cease to exist in their present form. In bis recent criticism of the fraternity system President Schurman of Cornell declared that "fraternity men do not study enough." He as serted that the percentage of students forced to leave college each year is larger in fraternities than outside. Dr. Cyrus Northrup, president emeritus of the University of Minne sota, agrees with Dr. Schurman, and Russell H. Chittenden, director of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, with six societies owning their own homes, property of very high values, and that are now building their own dormitories, says: "The interests of fraternities and scholarship are an tagonistic." These men certainly cannot be charged with' prejudice against the fraternities, or students who patron ize them. They must be credited with the best of motives and no one would question their right of judg ment. In the light of these facts, why is it not time for colleges and universities to reform the "frat." Is there any reason why any other ex traneous Influence should flourish at the expense of scholarship, the primal purpose of the college? No one with the least conception of what the fra ternity is and what it dous to college life will question that it tends to di vert the minds of students from their books aud center them upon outside matters; that it fosters the typical college spirit of rivalry in unhealthful ways, such as competition for main taining the most comfortable frater nity house and keeping up the most attractive personal appearance. These, of course, are evils which no college or university wants to stimulate. Another objection goes to the segre gating into groups, forming class dis tinctions. This Is bad for the institu tion and It Is very unjust to the stu dents, financially unable or Intellectu ally disinclined, to Indulge in fratlsm. When educators like those men tioned come to throw the power of their combined Influence against this abuse that they declare is under mining the stability of education In this country it will have either to give way or undergo a reform that will eliminate its objectionable features. Dr. Schurman seems to concede the possibility of wholesome fraternities, for he adds, "If fraternities are to prosper you must find some way of getting more work done." Gun Habit Among Boys. Several boys In a western town are playing "hold-up" when one shoots another accidentally, but also fatally. In a northern city the same day, or night, two other boys, giving the touch of realism to the game of "hold-up," rob and shoot at a hotel clerk and kill a policeman. The two deeds have no direct connection, yet it is impossible to determine that they have no moral relation. One is the sequel of the other, in principle. Both are warn ings against the gun habit and the game of "hold-up" among boys, warn ings which parents should heed. Very few boys practice promiscuous shoot ing that they may train themselves to rob and kill, but tragedy often comes to the unskilled hand and the well meaning youth. Criminal carelessness is just as bad for the victim and his family, if not Indeed for the one responsible, as premeditated crime. At least its tolls have been heavy enough to arouse parents to their duty in such matters. Boys seldom practice the gun habit ex cept where parental control has been lax or indifferent. It is a shame to mar an innocent life, just as it is a crime to destroy one and both in evitably, follow fatalities like this where accident, not crime, was the cause. Entirely too much of the lurid hero vaunting is set before children, any way. It is dangerous to arouse youth ful imagination too much by such ex amples. A boy's reading and sight seeing and companionship may be so guided and directed as to reduce the danger from these tendencies and It 1b the duty of the home to see that this is done. Besponsibility for Government. Governor Aldrlch in Mb Inaugural lays down a peculiar proposition when admonishing the legislature against playing politics; he declares that this was the purpose the people proclaimed by their votes at the last election, be cause "they did not permit a repub lican governor to have a republican majority in the legislature, neither did they give a democratic majority a democratic governor." Governor Aldrlch insists that the plain lesson of the recent election is, "Frame and pass a few laws beneficial to all the people and then adjourn and nv the DeoDle's money." and ex presses the hope that this distribution of power between the two parties will work out for the general good. If it is the governor's desire to make the best of a situation which cannot be altered he is to be com mended. But if he means to enunci ate the doctrine that the best thing that can happen to our people Is to have a governor and legislature of op posite political faiths, he wrill encoun ter vigorous dissent. If such a doc trine were applicable to governor and legislature the same logic would make it applicable to mayor and council and to president and congress. If it is good thing for the people of Nebraska to refuse to give a governor the sup porting arm of a legislature commit ted -to the same political principles, then it would be a good thing for the people of every city to refuse to let their mayor have a council that will co-operate with him and for the peo ple of the whole country to refuse to give the president a congress that will help him carry out his policies. As a matter of fact, a president, a governor or a mayor should be elected to do some definite constructive work, and to do this successfully requires a large measure of harmony between executive and legislative branches of government. The hampering of an executive with a legislature controlled by the political enemy and out of touch with his purposes means that the administration, instead of being stead ily progressive, must for the most part merely mark time. If a republican governor and a democratic legislature conduces to the general good, will Governor Aldrlch, when he comes up for re-election two years hence, advo cate a continuance of this condition? Would he not, if he had his way, pre fer to have a republican legislature to work with him? And, if so, would he not recent the intimation that the gen eral good would thereby suffer? The whole question resolves itself into one of responsibility for govern ment. No one who believes In party government will subscribe to the doc trine that responsibility should be divided. On the contrary, our Amer ican experience has proved that better results are secured by venting control of the government In the representa tives of one political party, subject to strict accountability to the people and the penalty of being turned out of power for corruption, inefficiency or abuse of popular confidence. Divorce has scored a gain In the last year. It now follows every twelve marriages, whereas the last record was one for every thirteen marriages. Which leads someone to suggest that the "trial marriage," as practiced In one or two foreign coun tries, where the ratio of divorces Is not so bad, would be less demoraliz ing. At least It is time for the Amer ican people, who care about the home and the family as the unit of society and the foundation of the society, to begin to think about some reasonably adequate remedy. Mr. Bryan assures the Wall street organs that they need not be afraid of his trying to dictate to the demo cratic party, but that they can' count on it as a certainty that he will use bis knowledge of men and political his tory to prevent the playing of a bunco game on the voters. In 1904 Mr. Bryan talked this way, too, and then took the stump for Judge Parker, whom he had previously denounced as an untrustworthy tool of Wall street. Is history going to repeat itself? Nebraska has had no bank failure whatever during the last two years, while the time deposit guaranty law was in a state of suspended anima tion. This is a decidedly fortunate circumstance, for if there were some contingent claims awaiting the guar anty fund the impending enforcement of the. law might take on a different hue. The supreme court gave Associate Justice Vandevanter a cordial wel come by reversing his bank guaranty decision on the same day It formally inducted him into office. But it also affirmed another of his decisions, so honors are easy. Report has it that ex-Attorney Gen eral Mullen will locate in Omaha, bringing with him all the effulgent glory achieved in his two months' in cumbency of the office. Welcome to our city. That "mlker" who pleaded guilty that he might hasten to the peniten tiary to see Mabray "do time" for get ting the gang in all the trouble has a rather peculiar sense of humor, after alL Worse Thlnas Than Cold Feet. Emporia Gazette. One of the celebrated aviators has con cluded to abandon the business while his neck is unbroken. There are worse things than cold feet In this world. What Would Happen Then. St Louis Republic. The wholesale vote-buying In Ohio is said to show the need for woman suf frage. But what difference In principle would there have been If votes brought only $4.90 InBtead of to or $9.98 Instead of 110? Smoke 1 pi Houston Post. Champ Clark has distributed a barrel of cob pipes among the members of congress, but we are expecting the appropriation to reveal no diminution of the mere-sham tendencies of congressmen when It comes to voting away tho people's money. Did 'Kebraskana Get the Money f Kanaaa City Times. A profit of $100,000 for Kansas bank robbers within the last three months In spires the fear on the part of the state officials that certain Nebraska citizens have concluded that blowing safes Is al most as profitable as raining wheat and less risky. Getting; Heady for Uualneaa. 8t Louis Globe-Democrat. While this will be an off year In pol itics there la sure to be more or less skir mishing In preparation for the big battle of 1912. Colonel Bryan la already at work organizing his forces, and Governor Wood row Wilson la Industriously practicing a new college yell. What Are They Thinking- About? Wall Street Journal. Vice President Krutschnltt of Southern Pacific reports the late E. tl. Ilarriman as saying that he liked to see a vice president "leaning back In his chair with his feet on his desk, thinking thinking." There's a lot of them doing that now, but the Lord alone knows what they are thinking about. FOOLISH WAll SCAIIEM. A California View of Cnrrent Hot Air Alarms. San Francisco Chronicle. No observant American Is unacquualnted with the causes which preserved the United States from assault during the va rious periods In Its history when the navy was almoat a negligible quantity, and Ita army only a police force. Every man of common sense In this country understands why Great Britain did not send over ita fleets and blow New York City out of water when Cleveland aent out hla bellicose Venezuelan message. The same cause would operate as ef fectually with Japan. Only a nation of madmen could be capable of resisting Its Influence. The I'nlted Statea la a country of conti nental area. It has wtlhln Its borders all the resources necessary to fully avenge any wanton aggression, or, for that matter, to repair any blunder It might make under the Influence of pasnlon. No enemy, no matter how formidable, could effect more than a temporary lodgment on our shores, and no enemy would dare think of doing anything of the kind. The story told of the Implicable charac ter of the elder Cato who. In the Roman senate, day after duy, repeated "Carthago must utterly perish," foreshadowa what would happen If Japan or any other coun try ahould wantonly attack the I'nlted Statea. In that event every American would be S Cato. The world understands this, and that la the reuson why we are reasonably assured that we shall not be bullied even If we fall to create the biggest navy afloat, or refuse to raise a conscript army. People and Events, The Mexican revolution I revolutlng arotiml tohacn. Hut the Ingredients are nut up to the standard of hut stuff. That New Year blast front the north was an Impressive reminder of what Medicine Hot ran do when It kicks oft Us lid. During the last year Maine fishermen landed 2O.0n0.CH0 lobsters without trca passlng on the preservea around Cape Cod and Coney Island. The recent discovery of a hiTd of dino saurs In I'tah need not be viewed with alarm. They cannot break Into the legis lature or congress. Every seat In the downtown cafes In Kan Francisco was sold for New Year's eve a wc k before it o a head. That Is the kind of a shake-down Han Franciscans enjoy. Since tho stork deposited twins at the home of Flnli-y P. Dooley, the philosopher of Archcy road heartily supports the movement for the suppression of Inaugural bawls. "For downright deadly danger from foul and germ-laden air." says a health de partment bulletin In Chicago, "the street ears, both surface and elevated, have the strain-heated, unventllated flat 'backed off tint map.' " Over 200 fortune tellers, palmists, clalr voyants, etc., have been put out of busi ness In New York City. These fakirs have bei n dealing extensively In futures, leaving Wall street with barely enough change to rattle In the tills. A wholesome and happy thought Is the suggestion of a New Jersey woman to compel married men to wear rings In their thumbs as a label of the married state. Doubting maidens could then enter an ashembly of men and by simply murmiim ring "thumbs up," avoid wasting her charms on the hopelessly hitched. As a nu ana of conserving natural resources the thumb ring Is "Just a dear." Ill-Alts Til 10 Hit YAM I.AIIKI.. llnekalldlnaj Brethren Hemlnded the Denver Platform. Washington Star. of Mr. Bryan Is quoting the Denver plat form to his political brethren, lie remem bers Its terms, and calls upon them to do so. He seems to think that aome have for gotten the Instrument, or are trying to for get It. He considers It as -good and bind' lng now as when adopted, and recommends It aa a- guide In this time of victory. There la In this the pride of paternity. Mr Bryan shaped that deliverance to the very letter. He held the Denver convention In the hollow of his hand. His lieutenants were on the ground In force, and the tele' phone connection with Lincoln was per fect and In use. What Mr. Bryan at Fair view said "went." He waa sounded on all points, and responded on all. The plat form was made by the man who waa to stand on It, and he knew his own size and dimensions. Later, he approved of his own work enthusiastically. But the platform tailed. The country would not accept It. Mr. Taft, standing on a very different structure, got the votes and the prize. And then It appeared that the Denver platform had been accepted by some delegates not altogether in favor of it. Realizing that Mr. Bryan would be the leader, they simply acquiesced In what he proposed. If he was willing to take full responsibility they were willing that he should. They wished him success, but doubted his ability to achieve It These are the men Mr. Bryan now has In mind. He knows their attitude and their strength, and that their purpose Is to shelve If possible both himself and his views. As the Denver-, platform did not prove the kind to "get In on," they would fashion the next differently. They are al ready at work collecting material. We should not have to wait until the meeting of the next democratic national convention for a clash between Mr. Bryan and his opponents on this score. It will come before then. It may not come at the Baltimore jubilee, or at the approach ing conference In this town, though on both those occasions each faction may cau tiously examine the strength of the other's position. But next winter It Is bound to come. The tariff alone will bring It; and once the shindy begins other things will enter and add to the energy of the con test. Mr. Bryan Is not a declared candidate for another national nomination, but Is a candidate to help prepare another na tional platform. He is not likely to ask for a reaffirmation of the" Denver per formance, but Is certain to try to retain as much of that aa time and change will allow. SAFE GUARDING DEPOSITS. Need of a. Check on Wildcat Basking Operations. Kansas City Times. The United Statea supreme court has de clared that the bank deposit guaranty laws of Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska are constitutional, thereby furnishing a sub stantial legal basis for. working out the problems Involved In this new departure In banking. The direct and immediate benefits of the guaranty system can be plainly understood, but the flood of ultimate bad results that may flow from an Improperly safeguarded system la not so clearly perceived, and therefore it la all the more important to give It careful consideration. The losses to depositors from occasional bank failures are so Insignificant in com parison with the aggregate deposits in all the banks that there would be no objec tion to a ByBtem of mutual guaranty or Insurance, whereby all the banks should pay the losses of the occasional failure. If It were not for the fact that such a sys tem. In its simplest form, makes the poorly managed bank, as safe aa (he most con servatively managed bank In the eyes of the depositors, and actually puts a premium on bad management. It taxes honest and con servative bankers to pay for the mistakes and shortcomings of the dishonest and in competent banker. Moreover, its general effect Is to re lax the watchfulness and conservatism of bankers In general, and tends to encourage such an Inflation of credits as would In crease the disasters of periods of financial crUes. To prevent 'these very bad features of the deiHjsit guaranty system must be the purpose of lawmakers and of officials who are called on to apply and enforce the law. The guaranty deposit system Is in ita experimental atage. Probably it has come to tay and may be generally adopted ulti mately by the states, and also by the gov ernment to apply to the national banks. But It must be so carefully safeguarded that It will offer no encouragement for reckless .and dishonest banking. The penalties of bank wrecking, whether through dishonesty or through Incom petency must be Increased. The assured solvency and the conserv ative management of the great majority of the banks must not be jeopardized. That Is of vastly more importance than Insuring depositors against loss from tha occasional bank failure. Kcoaouy Climbs. Washington Star. It must please J. J. Hill to note the number of people who are willing to economize by taking upper bertha. SERMONS BOILED DOWN. The best way to lift men Is to meet them on a level. Heresy hunting Is simply an obsession of omniscience. We find the worst In all by trying to get the best of any one. The worst foe you have Is the man who would kill all your enemies. Heavy words In meeting will not make up for short weight In market. With all our doing things for people they need most our being men to them. Magnify your personal rights and you are sure to create some social wrongs. Modern life pushes a man Into the mud nil then chides him for materialism. Some turn their backs on ordinary prin ciples to gaze at heavenly prosperta. Progress In the human race depends less on getting ahead than on helping along. A man may go up when you kick him. but you cannot claim credit for kindness. Boasting of saying what you think la often an excuse for not thinking what you say. True charity will seek to purify the well and not rest content with painting the pump. Chicago Tribune. SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. New Tork World: Five preachers so far are mixed up In the Adams county vote buying scandal In Ohio. There Is evidently lots of room In Ohio for five more ex preachers. Cleveland Plain Dealer: A Philadelphia pastor requests his congregation not to cough In church. They will probably re member that when the contribution pints comes around. Boston Transcript: The Pennsylvania priest's heroism In crossing thin Ice to give absolution to a drowning girl owes Ita thrill less to Ita novelty than to its lack of novelty. A similar deed of bravery aboard the Republic Is not forgotten. Boston Herald:" A clergyman speaking three languages desires to enter the con sular service, and like as not he will prove quite as efficient a commercial represen tative of the United States as any of. the political lame ducks who customarily waddle about In our consular service. Philadelphia Record: On New Tear's day Archbishop Glennon of St. Louis made some remarks on war that reflect a grow ing public sentiment and must stimulate the condemnatlou of war and aid In dis pelling the blindness created by military glamour. "The professional soldier," he said, "deserves no admiration, and Is not one who should be held up as an Ideal man." He denounced the absurdity of the idea that every nation should keep Itself armed to the teeth, on land and sea, as a means of preserving peace. "It is a strange way to preserve peace," he said, "by going to the foundry and have guns cast to kill people." The more that people think upon these sentences the more they will recognize the truth of them. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "I'm going to be your hub," remarked the young carriage builder at the altar. B,,lrl thfi blushing partner, "and I 11 supply the spokes." "And I," added the clergyman, "ant the tle-r. Wheel now proceed with the Cere mony." Boston Transcript "Have long?" you been engaged to George "Well, he called last night Oh, yes! ever since last year." Baltimore American, Nan This Is my latest photograph. What do you think of It? Fan It's beautiful, dear, but It doesn't look the least bit like you. Chicago Record-Herald. "Do you believe there really is any such thing .as platonlc affection, Henpeck?" queried Dobson. "Well." said Henpeck," scratching his head reflectively, "I believe that after five or six strenunua year a of married life one can acquire it" Harper's Weekly. "John says he knows Ms wife like a book." "Probably he does. Like a scrap book." Judge. "I see that a New Jersey woman wants a law that will compel husbands to wear thumb rings." "Dear me! I'm afraid that would com pel a good many New Jersey men to keep their thumbs In their vest jKiokets." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "But," he complained when she had re fused him, "you have given me every reev aon to believe you cared for me." "I do care for you, George." "Then why don't you be mine?" "I want to-let your stuck-up mother and sisters understand that 1 don't consider you good enough for me." Chicago Record Herald. "Why do you live so far out of townT" "Well, 1 have three pretty daughters." "Ves." "And the cars stop running at 11 p. m." Toledo Blade. AUNT HANNAH'S VISIT. Washington Star. Take me back to Turkey Level; dat's da place where I belong. I hardly struck de city till I said "Dar's sumpin' wrong!" I stepped up on a omnibus and as de fare to pay. De driver simply turn a crank and wa was on our way, I's feelln' mighty nervous an I's gettln' kind er cross. Take me back to Turkey Level; lemnie ride behind a boss! I went to dat big house to see de white folks dat I know; A young policeman peeked out through de bars an" says "hello!" I stepped right In beside him, 'case he dtdn' have no proof. He Jerk a handle an' we started sallln' foh de roof. I couldn't hardly ketch my href. I was a sight to see. Take me back to Turkey Level. Steps Is ood enough for me! De way dem white folks does Is sho ly curious to me. I says, "Please light a fire, 'cause I's as cold as I kin be." Dey turn a little spigot In an Iron fence so neat And dey fill de little settln' room chock full of tireless heat. I never seen de like o' dat In all my blessed days. Take mo back to Turkey I.evel, 'cause I wants to watch de blaze. Dey never makea no speclnl dlf Trend 'twlxt de day an" night. Dey twists a little button when dey wants to strike a light. An" when dey wants some music, dey takes paper from de shelf An' feeds It to de organ den It goes an' plays Itself. De candle light Is plenty an' mo" com- fortln' by far. Take me back to Turkey Level. Lemma hear dat old guitar! Cut This Out Beclpe that Breaks a Cold in a Day and Cures Any Curable Cough. wwww.w..... ........ .M.nj-in --.- "Mix half ounce of Concentrated Pine compound and two ounces of glycerine with half a pint of good whisky; shake wall and use In dose of one to two tea spuunfuis after each ineul and at bed time." Sniallei duaea to children accord ing to age. Anyone can m.x this. But be aure to get only genuine (Globe) Concen trated Pine. Knell half ounce bottle cornea In a aealed tin screw-top case. If the druggist does not have It he will quickly get it Many mixtures are of large quan tity and cheaper, but it la risky to experi ment This formula comes from a reli able doctor and Is certain. One of our principal uptown druggists elates that he sells these Ingredients ci stantly during the winter and that he has seen this mixture work wonders In curing the severest kind of a cough and oold In short order. He advises that It be kept on hand at all time in svery family Adv.