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THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1912. fif 0 The fiee- fe SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT-'t No QvflEFiiied Hii Hnwr Drawn for The Bee by Tad -At toln.T A0 NOUt-0 UK on nG" L2M RIGHTO - PgQS&UTOft. -I I KnO I Ke I I x V. , f TUrtc'S ' III . I -t- .,..,..( i ,i - ..I i.iim . ,. T. .- .... " 1 t ' 1 1 II II Organizations for the Distribution of Money to Aid the Needy Poor By ELM WHEELEB WILCOX. A A reader of this column Is displeased with aonvi tavorabl comments made un April J" of the methods of th AasgciatuU Charities. . "What reason it ther,' h Mks, "for such an organisa' tlon to exist in our great land, over flowing with opu lence?" ' There is no reason for any form of ' charity to exist in America if the peo ple of America pos pegsed the focused will power to de mand the rights of every soul bofn Into . earth, of the use of earth, sun and air. But until the people dp unite and de man4 such privi leges thera mut be an organization for the distribution of money to aid th poor. And- there is not one particle of com mon sen in abuinjf this icclet'y; which is doing the best It. can, under great dif ficulties, or of blaming it for the laxk of co-operative methods among the people. ' The dlFcxmtertted reader says no one Is doing anything to bring abput a better condition. , That shpw how little, he .knowa what i being done. The Single Tan organizations, (which hold the one great solution of the prob lem) are doing wonderful work and pro ducing wonderful results. Joseph Kels, the mliiibpaire philanthropist, who Is de voting his life and his money to efforts to help bring about Justice for human beings.' has 'settled down to I thV ctfntfl u ion that it can be done only in one' way, and tht way by putting into execution to such extent as Is possible the prin ciples and "precepts of Henry George's philosophy, of taxing land values, and nothing else. He has obtained use of idle lands in America and England and has prac- The Manicure Lady "George," said the Manicure Lady, "did you ever shave a guerilla?" "I wouldn't shave one of them," said the head barber. "They have too much hafr: I een a picture of one of them once In one of the Sunday papers, and, believe, me klddo, I wouldn't want to waste any time lathering them. They are as hairy as a hair mattress. I'm willing to shave off the whlBkers of a teamster that works so much In the open that his face gets full of barbed wire, but I can't see any reason in the world why I should shave a' guerilla.1' "I don't mean one of them big apes that' roams in them African Jungles," said (he Manicure Lady. "I mean one of them tough fellows that goes put In auto mobiles looking for a chance to take a pot shot at a gent which has told the truth- Wel, . whe.ther you ever shaved one of them or not, I had a chance to get one of them the other day to have his nails did. He did look kind of for midable when he first blew into the place, with his blue flannel shirt and his all around all of recklessness, but the minute he seen the calm, steady glance that was emerging from my eyes of gray, he kind of toned down until you would think he waa a kid at 'a church sociable saying kind words to a little girl that was bring ing him in a plate of ice cream. Do you know what I think, George? I don't think that them guerillas is a very dan gerous at ' any time. It always seemed to me that a gent which would take five other gents out with him and shoot a seventh gent In the back was a Httle to the ochre., as Brother Wilfred would say. "Brother Wilfred ain't afraid of them, George. . He iut sent a poem to the big gest magazine In New York City the otberday, and H Is going to be in the paper, too, because the editor of that magazine sent letter of acceptance to Wilfred, and a five-dollar note. "Wilfred was that elated that he sent six more poems to the same magazine the next night. I am afraid the poor boy wl never know how sad them poems were, although he admitted, himself that all the six poems were meant to be sad. Thla la the poem he wrote about the guerillas: "We know a lot of. eowardljr eowarda Who go in crowds to play tricks. They're fond of raising sixty, "With the accent on the six." "Tour brother ian't playing & very sate system ljnself,", said the head barber. "I guess Wilfred is that gloomy h wants to die." said the Manicure Lady. "The poor boy in't had a Job of any kind since Wilson was nominated. Good ness knows, he has tramped the streets enough! No use talking, George, times aia!t getting no better very fast" tlcslly demonstrated the efficacy of his Ideals. . .. .... Five hundred gardens, composed of one eighth of an acre each are supporting BOO families right in the precincts of London through the Influence of Joseph Fls and he is hard at work convincing the own ers of thousands on thousands of acres of idle land all over England and else where 'that by giving the use of these lands to ptiople who are wanting to make them fertile they will reduce the pau pericpi of the country. When the experiment has become uni versal the force of puhlle opinion will compel a change in our laws and render it Illegal for any man or corporation to hy)ld Idle land, while masses of people are h.erded Into slums for want of oppor tunity to till the land. .' It will be more than Illegal; it will be unprofitable to hold land in this way, once the single tax value is placed on If. Not so many years since there was a loud cry of Impracticability f the single tax idea. Buj. UP in British Columbia and Van couver it is being found practicable. The British Columbia; royal tax com mission reported last winter recommend ing the abolition of the poll tax, the tax on personal property of all kinds, the increase of the amount of income exempt from taxation and the substitution for these-taxes of a tax on land values. The commission started out prejudiced against the land value tax and in favor of the poll tax. After two years' careful study the commission reported unanimously in favor of the above changes, which, when made, will place all British Columbia on what the Portland vregonian is pleased to ca.ll a single tax basis. Now comes the Colonist' of Victoria, one of the dallies of the state, and says, under date of April 9: "Although the next session of the British Columbia legislature Is as yet nine months In the future, preliminary preparation'of legislation to be presented to the House upon its assembling on tne 16th of January, la already commanding attention. It is expected one of the first AN&H CAM! 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Mon and rearrangements In thp asiew ment system, based wholly or In large measure upon the recommendations con. tained in. the exhaystlv report of tti Boyal Commission on Taxation, which went into these matters last year." In reply to an Inquiry, Hon. Charlei H, Lugrln says: "I may say that the Royal . Tux Com mission of British Columbia, of which I was a mamber, went to work with open minds end without preconceived Ideas as to what tney were going to do. The con clusions we reached were forced upon us by our knowledge of the conditions of the .country and. Qf. the evils of some of the taxes now levied. I confess that at the outset I was even In favor of the po! tax, against which our commission Is now unanimous. ' The same thing applies to the tax on Improvements s,nd personal property. We felt from our Investigation of the province that they were unjust; that they could not be girl levied., and that it was only right that they should be abolished, and w belive that this will- be donr by the legislature. ''The city of Vlctorlg, after carefully observing the results In Vancouver, has now also abolished the tax o Improve ments, and J. am satisfied that within two years neither personal property nor improvements on land will be taxed any. where In British Columbia. That this will encourage enterprise and Investment In the province goes without saying. "In the communities that have adopted the sysem of single tax there is no influ ence that can be brought to bear that could lead them to depart from It" Meanwhile, until the people (who are the power In every land) awake and understand and use concerted methods to bring the single tax Into use In Amer ica, universally. Instead of In a few lo calities, w must hve charitable organi zations. And having them, let us find out the truth about their methods before we accuse them of one or all the vlnesv which the unreasoning and uninatructad one! lay at their door. ," , Much Intimate knowleogo of the organ lied charities has made me regard them with reispact and gratitude, while It has made me more and more deplore the condition which necessitates their exis tence. But neither the founders, organisers nor officers of these societies are In fault for theBe conditions. , The fault lies wholly and entirely with the submissive and indolent people, who will not swaken and unite and demand a trial of the principles of single tax in every state In America. She has talked the school people Into her ' way of of thinking and a very logical, sen sible, practical, matter-of-fact way It seems to ' he when she tells (boul It, and the pew course la tq begin this fall, maybe. A pror tent against tha new course Is go ing up already. "I don't want my little girl to ' learn that sort of a thing In a class,", said an Indignant smd protesting mother to the president of the Board of Kduca tlon the other day. "When It Is time for her to know I'll tell her myself, thank you. And, besides, I don't believe In all this study of the body, what the body needs, and what the body is and Isn't. Why not get the mind to work awhile and sea what that will do." And altogether there's quite an Inter esting fight going on over this question of what a rhlld should know and who should tell him about It. It's a queer thing about this body busi ness. " The first time I hear some one a.y:that a certain man was too strong to work I thought it was rather a foolish Joke. I'd never known a "food condition" faddist then. I know several of them now. and every one thst I know is "too Strong to work." They'll run on the track, play basket hall, wrestle, i "chm" themelves a doxen times a day; but run on an errand for anybody, mow the lawn, put up a shelf In the pantry when the perfidious carpMer has broken his plighted word not they. When I want any real work done 1 don't Bet a big husky six footer with a famous set of muscleB to do It. I pick out some little delicate man who has to His Innings, or Bachelor Life at a Summer Hotel By NELL BRIMLEY Copyright, ll National News Ass'n. make his tired body work when It doesn't,. " want to, and he'll do . the job and do It right. ' ,. .. . .'..t.3 The strong man means well enoughi' but he can't really work;' his body won't, let him and hta body Is the ruler of Jha-L, firm every day In the. week. x ivs Why not? He has much valuable time leaching hi body that It' is the mostn Important, thing, on earth. AVhy houli.T It be bossed around by nothing but will v and mlnrf all at once? ' 1 The great, big, bossy, dominatln bedA-, has' been the ruler too long to give uj,,7,2 without a struggle, and the poor welf i meaning little soul has to sit in the vorjj-f. nr and whine, for a chance to expres"'" Kself at all, I wonder if ai. this Idea of concentrat?'.' ing so much attention on the body Uf'f going to turn out sa well after all?. Karly In life I found out that the way -i! to beep from climbing the cherry tr:;' when the cherries were too green to ba'i'Y wholesome was to keep Just as far away' from the tree as. I could and to thlnit.. about something else as hard as I couldy.-i My new frock, the heroin In my latest ' bpok. tho way my mother looked whenr tfhe was pleased with something I hadVf,'-". done, how the Chinaman down at ha't bottomi of the well and a little beyon ."'1 wore their long halr-anythlng, any'. where, but the tree. Once when I was a little girl startef to carry some particularly nice cherrlea ' to a neighbor who had been very 111. They were oxhearts, the only one o? the kind In those parts. I carried tham.iii In a pretty little green basket made of mV some kind of rushes or sweet smelling"1" grasses, I can see every cherry In that ' 5 basket to this day, v.' I started with a light heart. In tha pasture I thought: ."I .wonder how many " cherries there are in this basket; It I pretty heavy, It seems to me. And I looked and I tasted one Just one ohj how sweet it was. It was hot in the pasture, the cherries- were so Juicy, Just one more. a' to In the woods I looked again. Yes, thera' ' they were, redder than ever-Just Qna , more, who would miss It? On the bridge. C ' I taled the cherries again, and under the weeping willow sat down calmly' nd ate every single last one of thos'jV-V cherries, and I hid the basket and went'ii, and asked the neighbor how she was, ' r-! and then I went home end told my' mother that she was dellghte with the cherries, but that she thought some o( ' them were a trifle sour. , ' Something In my mother's look arrestee the lie on my lips and I burst out cry. Ing and told her the miserable, disgrace. ful truth. And my mother kissed me-:;' and cried a little, too, and then she tont"' me out to the tree and we gathered:.";' another basket almost as full of cherries " at the first one and my mother sald: .;?.0 "Now go, and I'll tell you a secret.. You won't sat a single cherry If yon usa ;" my secret recipe. Think about somef,,: thing else ail the way and you'll forget ,,j all about the cherries." ' ; And I took the litti green basket ot.i V. sweet-smelling grass and I carriea it ta ' the neighbor who had been 111, and sh said she . hadn't tasted anything so good in a year, and I sang all the way home,,, Just because I "thought about something;'. rise" all the way. ' I wonder If It wouldn't be a good Idea '". to try this kind of plan when a littlj.'s' girl reaches the wondering age. Glvexi her something very 'interesting to thjnk"'. about, all the way. I wonder. 'c: A Little Song He doesn't have to be a handsome wreich to find that the io6q peed never Jxswe to ahiaa oa him alow on eeavsjde "piae" ho'U find himtKtf better fed Add better fanned and bet ; tr flatterwj than ever hef been la bl Uf before. He'll find himself fUttue in roe arbor, a bee caught i honey. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Oh, a great 'wprlji, a fair world, a triiijt world I find It; " 'r A sun that never forgets to rise, -On the darkest', nlg.ht.( a rtar .in skies, ' - 1 And a God of love behind it. th"f. .. i, i i a good life, a sweet life, a tarsi r life I take It, ;.' Is what ,He offers to you and me; A chance to do, and a .chance to be, lf Whatever we choose to make it. ajJ .IMl4,' a far way, a high way, a sura wa; . H leads us;, , .y Sllll.l WII5-. JWUl HHJ W.I71IJB lUUg, ' 'l.f.fi-. W must trudge ahead, with a trustful song. :"" And' " know at the end He needj'ns."1 "J"' Copyright, 1B13, Amerlcan-Journal-KxHV apUner. - . . glncalarly Alike. , " 1; The two Clevelanders on the back sa(;- were talking literature, r 3i . "I'nv reading Ruskin all over again, said one. ''It's meaty Stuff after so mucl modern frjvol." '- -TrW "Ruskin,'' said "the other man. "al-ayf- reminds me of Artemus Ward." ' ' 'r ' "What's that! Artemus Ward?, Impoai'5'' libit." ' ; "Not at all. -Tht titles of Ruskin'l--books and WartJ' lectures never, haH? Anything to do with tha contenta."-'t Cleveland Plain Dealer. . ;, .