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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,. 1916.
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AUGUST CIRCULATION
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PnUiehlng oomp-.nr. being duly eworn, eaya that the
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: SubdcribwiwMijf ! el Umporarlljr
i should The Bm nulled to them. Ad
; elraaa trill be changed aa often a required.
Note that the foot ball ityle of wearing the
hair .if coming for a return leason.
The war i still young enough to make and
break masterful military reputations.
A This atreet corner talking, at any Tate, saves
the hall rent money for other campaign dispen
: aationt. ''
It's a wonder no one has as yet proposed to
: submit the farm bank locations to a popular ref
i erendum.
What has become of the fellow who predicted
that the great European War would be over in
: October? ' - "
4 The doctors may console themselves with the
"sweetly solemn thought" that there are others
also worrying about dead head bills.
A Chicago speculator is said to have cleaifed
op $1,000,000 on wheat. Evidently the farmers
" did toot harvest all the cereal money.
' A new war credit received the unanimous vote
of the French Chamber of Deputies. When Mars
wields the gavel silence of knockers makes, for
safety. .. '
". Chicago bakers are putting out a 6-cent bread
; loaf instead of a 5-center or a 10-center. We
thought we were once told here in Omaha that
' it couldn't be done?
With the doctos and the hotel men expound
ing the fundamentals of health and happiness, all
Omaha is put in the proper condition to give
Ak-Sar-Ben the hot and Jolly hand, ,
The democratic outlook in Nebraska Justi
; net the hurry call for Tom Marshall to enliven
the campaign. Mr. Marshall is the administra
tion's joker par excellence. Any meant of lighten
' ing the gloom is to be welcomed at a humane
measure.
Description! of the new armored tractor creat
ing havoc on the west front are varied and un
satisfactory. A veil of mystery envelopei the
killer. When the returns are all in, it it barely
, possible the whereabouts of the steam roller of
1912 will be cleared up. . ' . - t
' ' '
' The official reporter of General Trevino's
"victory" at Chihuahua is wasting superior tal
ent on a trifling job. Hit demonstrated ability
fitt him for a lofty perch on the Alps, the Bal
kans or the Carpathians, where the range of vision
offers unlimited exercise for hot stuff.
j Of course,, everybody who "chips in" to the
senator's campaign fund is a self-sacrificing
patriot, while everyone who contributes-to the
fepublican treasury is a, self-seeker or a greed
grabber with an unworthy purpose. , If you don't
believe it, read the senator's own personal news
paper organ,
'A By way of reminding the less fortunate of
their superior grade of happiness, Charley
Schwab jays that riches are a positive burden
which makes the pleasures it will buy a round
of weariness. Still, he Bethlehem captain of
industry shows no desire to cast off the burden
and put his "war babies" on the bargain counter.
A Wage Raise Law
-Kuiea City Star-
':' The Adamson law is furnishing Governor
Hughes and the republican campaign speakers
material foe a. strong attack on the president and
his administration. Undoubtedly it is one of the
vulnerable points in the record of the last four
years.
It was, as Senator Underwood, democrat,
frankly admitted in the senate, not an 8-hoour
law. . It was a law to increase wages. When this
statement was challenged in the senate the sen
ator replied:
If the senator would go and consult with
.' any of the gentlemen who represent the em-
ployes,and who have been contending her In
: " this matter, they would tell him candidly,
' aa they told me, that the question it a quee
' tlon of wage: that they are not contending
''" for an eight-hour day, that a man shall work
only eight noun; they do not want that
,. If it had been an eight-hour law it would have
Provided against working men more than eight
ours except in emergencies, and it would have
penalized these emergencies by providing for
extra pay for. overtime.
The law was enacted under compulsion. Con
gress was given hours to pass it under penalty of
a disruption of the country's business, and con
gress and the president performed, legislation
obtained in that way ia undemocratic and bad,
whether it i enacted for a small group of privi
leged interests as has happened in the past
or for a larger group of workers.
: The law was a surrender to force as against
arbitration. It may be that legislation is neces
sary to create machinery for enforcing arbitra
tion decisions. , But the hope of society in in
dustrial disputes is in arbitration instead of force,
just as the hope for nations is in arbitration in
stead of war. The president's action in forcing
the Adamson law was a heavy blow to the cause
of industrial peace, , ; - ,
"Coercing Congress."
"The charge that congress was coerced is
just as bad. No labor body made any de
mands upon congress. No labor leader ap
peared before a congressional committee and
asked for any legislation whatever. To pre
vent a strike .that would have resulted in mil
lions of loss to every part of the country, per
haps in starvation to thousands in the cities,
the president, without any solicitation from
labor leaders, made certain recommendations
to congress and that body adopted one of them,
which resulted in preventing a strike. No co
ercive or any other sort of influence was
brought to bear upon congress by the labor
unions." World-Herald.
As a distortion of fact, that is certainly rich,
rare and racy! After the labor leaders had either
coerced or frightened the president with their
threat of a general strike that would tie up all
the transportation machinery of the country un
less their demands for wage increase were im
mediately acceded to, the president went to con
gress with this club in his hands and coerced or
frightened the democrats, as well as a few repub
licans in the house, into passing the force wage
increase law as the only alternative to the threat
ened strike if that legislation were not on the
statute books before the clock ticked off the
designated hour. If this was not coercion, what
was it?
Of course what the president really did was
to transmit the trainmen's demands and threats
to congress with his own endorsement coupled
with a personal requisition upon the democratic
majority to deliver the goods as ordered. And
what does such coercion of congress mean? An
answer may be found in this quotation:
"If senators and representatives coming to
Washington allow their hands to be tied by a
caucus or permit the president to instruct them
how to vote, representative government fails
Those who elect senators and representatives
have the right to instruct them how they shall
vote, and no one else. The independence of
congress cannot be maintained if individual
senators and representatives give way under
presidential influence and surrender their leg
islative consciences and individual judgments
into his keeping."
No, gentle reader, the sentiment here expressed
is not original with The Bee. It is taken from
a declaration made by and printed over the sig
nature of Senator Gilbert M, Hitchcock at a time
when the president was trying to coerce him
with the whip of withheld patronage. He and
his paper talked differently then than they do now
when, in order to "hitch on" to the Wilson cart,
he has surrendered hit independence and sub
mitted his judgment to what he then denounced
as "presidential usurpation."
Secretary Baker and the Army.
Secretary of War Baker may have been a good
lawyer and a sucessful mayor, but one of his
present utterances is apt to lead folks to think
he it a democratic politician first of all. He says
he doesn't believe the report that General Bell
made in regard to the latest of Villa's raids on
Chihuahua. It it quite eaty to understand that
Mr. Baker would be chagrined, that after all the
president's futile efforts to check his activities,
this favorite among the outlaws should suddenly
dash into the chief city of the state that is sup
posed to be carefully guarded against him, defeat
the bumptious Trevino seize Carranza military
supplies and retire in safety. But it will not help
the, case for the secretary of war to express hit
doubt at to the accuracy of a report made by a
general of. the army. After he becomes a little
better acquainted with the service he will find
that the officers of our army habitually tell the
truth, and that their official reports are founded
on facts, regardless of how those facts affect the
political aims of the secretary of war.
Wilton't Muddling in Mexico.
A correspondent asks that The Bee shed a
tittle more light on the secret intrigues carried
on by President Wilson in his dealings with Mex
ico. Whatever may be said on the point at this
time will be largely repetition, for until either
the president or one of his personal envoys breaks
silence It it not possible to tell on exactly what
terms he undertook to bargain' with the Mexican
banditti. It is certain, however, that while, he
did not openly discredit the official and recognized
representatives of the United States in Mexico,
he tent thither on secret errands his personal
messengers, and has kept for hit own guidance
the word they brought back to him. What prom
ises he made to the outlaws is not known, nor
what pledges he sought, but it is known that John
Lind wat in constant touch with Carranza .and
Zapata and if Huerta is unspeakable, what will
we tay to Zapata? William Bayard Hale carried
on the negotiations with Villa, and later our own
Richard Lee Metcalfe visited Carranza.
The official dispatches from Washington to
Nelson O'Shaughnessey, our charge d'affaires at
Mexico City, support the allegation that John
Lind was informed that Huerta must be driven
from the country, if not by domestic means,
"other means, adequate for the purpose, wilt be
resorted to." The invasion of Mexico and the
capture of Vera Cruz was the "other means, ade
quate for the purpose." Huerta refused to be
either bluffed or bullied, and to force had to be
used. Alt thit was going on while our president
was publicly protesting that his policy was to
"watchfully wait," allowing t,he Mexicans to settle1
their own affairs in their own way regardless of
how long it took. .
We do nat blame the democrats for their at
tempts to gloss over this chapter of their admin
istration's record. It is the most glaring example
of inefficient and officious meddling in the affairs
of another people presented in all the history of
the country. Mr. Wilson will not be permitted
to escape the responsibility of his muddling in
Mexico.
Good Advice from Kantat Governor.
' In his first address of the present campaign
Governor Capper reviews the local needs of Kan
sas, in his own efforts at administration and out
lines hit future plant with some suggestions as
to what is really needed for Kansas. MuCh, he
sayt, will apply as patty to Nebraska, particu
larly this; "Our need is not more laws, but
greater respect for those we have." He also
says: "We constantly mSke too many laws. We
actually have need of very little new legislation,
and it should be constructive legislation." In
this regard Kansas is typical of the United
States, and' of each of the states. We need but
few laws, and they should be well considered,
carefully worked out and designed for the 'stimu
lation and encouragement of the constructive im
pulse of the people. Our law-making habits need
repression.
"The eager and nipping air" of fall mornings
loses its punch in the presence of a full fuel bin.
Pure and Impure Milk
-Literary Dig tat -
Most of us know little about the milk we buy.
We seldom see the man who delivers it, and we
never see the middleman from whom he gets it.
As for the actual producer the man out on the
farm he is enveloped in an obscurity from which
he never emerges. He may be clean or very
much to the contrary. His stables may be spot
less, his cows carefully washed, and his em
ployes beyond cavil. Or he may regard all these
precautions as simply a waste of time and money.
These considerations are emphasized by Dr. John
H. Kellogg in his paper, Good Health, in an
article entitled, "Who's Your Milkman?"
Somewhere in the small hours of the morn
ing, says Dr. Kellogg, there is a rattle of wagon
wheels on the hard pavement, a tremendous clat
tering of heavy feet up the back porch, a rattle
of bottles as they are deposited on the floor, and
a clattering of steps away,gam. And that is all
most people know about the milk they drink. He
goes on:
"We pay dearly for our indifference concern
ing the source of the milk which we buy. We
pay for it in tuberculosis, we pay for it in typhoid
fever, in colic, and other diseases which attack
our children, especially in the summer. Why, all
of these .diseases can be wiped out of existence,
so far as milk is concerned, the moment people
study the milk which is delivered to them with
all the care with which men scrutinize the cigars
they buy, and women the chocolates1 they con
sume. ,
"Clean milk, obtained from clean cows kept
in clean stablet, collected in clean receptacles,
and distributed in clean vessels, is the choicest
of all the infinite products of the laboratory of
nature.
"Dirty milk, corrupted with gleanings from
sources of pollution, is a veritable poison-cup,
and is doubtless responsible for tHe --t
least nine-tenthi of the 300,000 infant lives that
every year aije sacrificed to ignorance anu neg
lect. -
"for it is a well known fact that the germs as
sociated with putrifying filth are. the most pro
lific source of the intestinal disorders which an
nually carry off so many thousands of infants
during the summer months.
"These same putrefactive germs are likewise
the cause of colon-poisoning. Entering the body
through the medium of milk, thoy take, up their
abode in the colon, where they grow and multi
ply to the extent of hundreds of billions daily,
producing poisons which, when absorbed into
the blood, give rise to an a'most infinite number
of distressing symptoms, and to serious and even
fatal diseases.
"Milk must be ,free from the germs of dis
ease. In addition to the common germs that give
rise to putrefaction, milk may contain germs of
various specific disease?, such as tuberculosis,
typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, sore
throat, etc., diseases originally derived from hu
man beings suffering from the above-named dis
orders and with the germs of which the milk,
by direct or indirect contact, becomes contami
nated. "Milk may also communicate to human be
ings various disorders that originate in cattle,
but which may be communicated to human beings
by making tt)e of the milk of sick animals, such
as foot-and-mouth disease, gastro-enteritis, an
thrax and rabies. Modern research has shown
that bovine tuberculosis is communicable to hu
man beings. According to' Rosenau, it must be
conceded that not less than 5 to 7 pet cent of all
cases of human tuberculosis is due to infection
from the use of infected milk or the flesh of tu
berculosis animals."
A precaution in summer, urged by Dr. Kel
logg, it to make sure that milk is uncooked. He
is not in favor of what is called pasteurization
that is, heating to a temperature of 158 degrees
Fahrenheit which he regards as destroying cer
ain valuable properties. The boiling of milk
modifies in a harmful way nearly all its ingre
dients and considerably reduces its nutritive
value. Further:
"Man has been defined as a 'cooking animal,'
and for ages the Culinary art has been highly
cultivated and made the means, not only of util
ity, but of harmful luxury.
"Through modern scientific research, we are
coming to know that notwithstanding its great
service to the human race, trjc art of cookery
has associated with it many perils, one of the
greatest of which, though the most recently rec
ognized, is the destruction of certain vital ele
ments, which so modify the food as greatly to
impair itt nutritient value.
"Milk, fresh from the bovine font, with its
rich store of vitamines and enzymes, with the
finest' quality of protein for brain and muscle
building, salts to stiffenthe bony framework and
to brighten the vital fires of the body is a nat
ural product. ,
"Not only is it not improved by the art of
cookery, but it is actually damaged by it and
rendered incapable of supplying in the highest
degree those subtle elements which are essential
to good nutrition.
"A word should also be said about how to take
milk. It should be eaten, not swallowed as a
beverage.
"All foods need to be masticated. The calf
and the nursing infant chew milk.. The move
ments of the jaws and the sucking movements
xecuted by an infant in nursing induce an abun
dant flow of saliva, which, mixing with the milk,
properly dilutes it, and to a high degree promotes
is digestion.
"Milk when, swallowed rapidly as a beverage
is likely to form in the stomach large and hard
curds, which are very slowly digested. Many
persons who suffer from taking milk in this way
imagine themselves to be unable to take milk,
and so abandon its use.
"Milk should be sipped slowly and with
sucking movement of the throat, so as to secure
a liberal admixture of saliva. By this means the
formation of hard, indigestible curds may be
prevented.
"Milk also must be taken in right quantities
and in right combinations. It cannot be denied
that milk digests better when taken by itself or
in very simple combinations than when mixed
with a large variety of other foodstuffs.
"In some instances a large quantity of milk
is more easily digestible than a small quantity.
When the stomach produces a large amount of
highly acid gastric juice, the curds formed when
a small amount of milk is taken will be large
and tough wl or-: if a 'nr-er amount of milk is
eh, the curds formed will be smaller and also
softer.
"It is, of course, impossible for the stomach
to make gastric juice that is at once suited far
the digestion of meat and for the digestion of
milk.
"When milk is largely used as a nutrient, the
rest of the diet should consist chiefly of fruits
and vegetables for the reason that milk contains
an excess of lime and is deficient in potash and
soda, which are neces'ary for perfect human nu
trition. The last-nanied elements are abundant
in fruits and vegetables, and particularly so in
the potato."
People and Events
The heliograph, although largely superseded
by wireless telegraphy, is still largely used by the
British military forces on the frontiers of India
and in South Africa, where the air is clear and
signals can be seen , for long distances,
A ceremony unique in religious history In
this country, and perhaps in the world, tifok place
recently at the Nazareth convent, the mother
house of the Sisters of Si. Joseph, at La Grange,
III. Mrs. I'auline Gosselin, a widowed mother
of 74, entered the novitiate and received the holy
habit of the order from her daughter, Mother
M; Alexine. . v ; -
TODAYl
Thought Nugget for the Day.
The best doctors In the world are
Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Doctor Mer
rymant Jonathan wlfL
One Year Ago Today in the War.
Greece mobilized In reply to Bul
garian mobilization.
Russians reoccupled Lutsk, in Vol
hynia, rapturing 128 officers and 6,000
men.
Germany reported that a new allied
army had arrived to attack the Dar
danelles. Italiana pounded Auatrlans in the
Dolomites with heavy artillery. ,
Berlin announced French attack at
Souchez was repelled. '
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Markl & Hwobe have taken out
their old elevator system, which, for
water alone, costs them about $200
per month, and substituted the latest
Hale invention.
The second season of the Parnell
Social club was Inaugurated at Cun
ningham's hall. The officers of the
association are aa follows: Master of
ceremonies, J. J. Lloyd; floor commit
tee, J. K. Fitzmorris, S. E. Collins, W.
Fraoklln, J. K. Price; door commit
tee, B. Maher, J. M. White, J. F. Con
way, Louis Connolly; reception com
mittee, J. Connolly, F. Kane, E. J.
Flynn.
A lame boiler to be used in heating
the Nebraska National Bank build. ng
got away from the men and slipped
with such velocity that two men were
mmc st i rusnea ana the" barber pole of
E. Stein, whose shop is in the base
ment of the bulldlnK, was broken from
Its fastenings and the fancy, cathedral
glass lantern crushed Into a thousand
fraKments.
The West Davenport Furniture
company has purchased ground In
Omaha and will start a branch estab
lishment here employing about 150
men.
W. I. Kahn haa arrived in the city
from Bradford, Pa., and Intends to
locate and go Into business In Omaha.
Dr. E. W. Lee has gone to Ogallala
to attend his brother, who was thrown
from his horse while trying to rope a
ateer.
The Kcv. Wlllard Scott and wife,
having returned from their summer
vacation, were tendered a reception
by the ladies of the St. Marys Ave
nue Congregational church In the
church parlors. ,
This Day tn History.
1803 In his first great battle 'Well
ington defeated the Mahrattaa at
Assaye. '
1806 Lewis and Clarke exploring
expedition returned to St. Louis.
1816 Ellhu B. Washburne, secre
tary of state under Grant and min
ister t France during the Franco
Prussian war, born at Livermore, Me.
Died in Chicago In 1887.
1854 Russians sank seven ships of
their Black Sea fleet to block the har
bor entrance to Sebastopol.
1866 King of Hanover protested to
the European powers against the en
forced annexation of his kingdom to
Prussia.
1869 University of California
opened at Berkeley.
1870 The French began a series of
desperate . ineffective salltea from
Metz.
1881 Train left Washington for
Cleveland bearing the remains of
President Garileld.
1889 Wilkle Collins, distinguished
novelist, died in London. Born there
January 8, 1824.
1891 President Harrison appointed
a commission to tlx the true boundary
between the United States and
Mexico.
1898 Chile and Argentina agreed
to submit their boundary dispute to
arbitration, thus averting war.
The Day We Celebrate.
Meredith Nicholson, novelist and
author, ia Just 50 years old today. By
nativity he is a member of the
Hooser school of flctionists. Omaha
figures as the scene of one of his
novels, "The Main Chance," and his
marriage with the daughter of the
late Herman Kountze has made him
a frequent visitor here.
A. L. Reed, president of the Byron
Reed company, was born September
23, 1865, in Omaha. Ho succeeded
his father in his pioneer real estate
firm and was one of the executive
committee managing the famous
Omaha exposition.
Edward M. Martin, lawyer, Is 45
years old today. He was born in
Delafleld, Wis., and was educated at
Iowa college and the University of
Nebraska.
Dr. C. O. Robinson, physician and
surgeon, is Just 61 years old today. He
graduated in medicine at the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh and Is also a past
graduate of the medical school at Chi
cago. ' .
Edward Updike, vice president of
the Updike Grain company, ia cele
brating his seventy-sixth birthday. He
was born in Dutohneck, N. J., and was
in the banking and grain business
at Harvard from 1882 to 1902, when
he removed to Omaha.
Edgar N. Bowles, clerk of the
Omaha postofflce. was born September
23, 1865, In New Hampshire. He has
been in the postal service since 1891.
Dr. Halmer H. Bryn, Norwegian
minister to the United States, born
In Norway fifty-one years ago today.
William R. Leigh, noted magazine
and book Illustrator and 'painter of
the far west, born In'Berkeley county,
Virginia, fifty years ago today.
Dr. Sidney E. Mezes, president of
the College of the City of New York,
born at Beloment, Cal., fifty-three
years ago today.
Dr. William De Witt Hyde, presi
dent of Bowdoin college, born at
Winchedon,' Mass., fifty-eight yeara
ago today.
Charles (Heinle) Wagner, former
tnfielder. now coach of the Boston
American league base ball team, born
in New York thirty-five years ago
today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Seventy-one years ago today the
first base ball organisation In this
country, afterwards known as the
Knickerbocker Base Ball club, wa
formed in New York.
President Wilson Is to make his
first speech of the campaign at
Shadow Lawn this afternoon to the
business men of New Jersey.
An exhibition of rare coins valued
at many thousands of dollars Is to be
a feature of the annual convention of
the American -Numismatic society,
which ia to begin Its sessions today in
Baltimore.
Delegates from many parts of the
United States and from foreign coun
tries will assemble at Toledo today
In anticipation of the opening of the
convention of the American Board of
Foreign Missions.
When Charles E. Hughes, repub
lican presidential candidate, speaks In
Indianapolis tonight Charles W. Fair
banks, the candidate for vice presi
dent on the same ticket, will preside
at the meeting and act as chairman.
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Yes, It Had "the Once Over."
New York Sept 21. To the Editor
of The Bee: 1 wrote you a letter sev
eral weeks ago signed Staunch Amer
ican, and not having heard from you
aa yet I am writing again. In my let
ter I mentioned shaving with the first
stroke of the razor, an up-stroke on
the right side of the fare, and I said
that the American people should
adopt shaving this way as a national
custom. Shaving this way is nothing
new to you perhaps, but how many
of your readers know about it? It
was them that I wajited to reach and
deliver my message to. In my letter
I gave a description of the effect that
shaving this way has upon a man's
characteristics. I am firmly of the
opinion that shaving this way is the
master-key that will unlock the door
to happiness for the American. I am
orry you did not i-:lnt my letter. I
think I know Just about where that
letter was consigned to after you had
given It the once over, but I assure
you there is no 111 feeling on my part
With best wlRhes for your health, and
the success of your enterprising paper,
I wish to remain. -
J. FRANK FLEMING.
260 West 129th street.
Politics In the Land Bank.
Lincoln, Sept. 22. To the Editor of
The Bee: I have read with much dis
gust two interviews or statements
purporting to come from the advance
agent for the meeting of the farm
land board to be held in Omaha soon.
I take it that you have given this no
personal attention, but am sure that
when you do a stop will be put to the
use of your columns by the demo
cratic administration appointees for
political purposes.
I desire to call your attention to the
two articles relative to the purpose of
the .board. In one article it is stated
that they desire to have ail the farm
ers possible in attendance at this
meeting and from them they would
learn direct whether it was true, as
Intimated, that loan companies had
been charging a commission in addi
tion to' the interest on farm loans.
The manner of putting the proposi
tion was such as to cause the unin
formed reader to think that this
board was going to uncover some
thing of a shady and illegal nature.
Mr. Wilson has taken an undue ad
vantage of one of your reporters, and
has set up a straw man, painted him
a brilliant black and when the board
holds its meeting this man will be
torn to pieces with much gusto amid
rounds of applause. -This is wrong.
Loan companies have always charged
a commission. That is what they are
In the business for,- and that is their
remuneration for the work that they
do in procuring from the eastern In
surance company the loan for the
farmer. The total commission that
the farmer pay to his local banker
is divided between the Omaha broker
and the banker on a basis arranged
between them.' This is legitimate,
honorable business, and there is ab
solutely no secret about It, and this
Mr. Wilson well knows if he knows
anything about the farm loan busi
ness. For a man In the position Mr.
Wilson occupies to cause such mis
leading statements to be published Is
prompted by one of two things he
either knows the present movement
will be a failure unless he can appeal
to the prejudices of the farmers, or
he is doing It for political purposes.
In his statements he also says that
this law will help the tenant farmer,
and gives an illustration of how a
man with 2,000 can borrow $5,000
from the farm loan bank, pay the
$2,000 he has and borrow on a second
mortgage the remainder, $3,000, with
which to complete the payment on a
$10,000 farm, from any loan com
pany. This is absolutely false, and
he knows it If he Is at all posted.
Farm loan companies will not con
sider second mortgages and the only
way a farmer can secure a second
mortgage Is from some private party
who has Intimate knowledge of tho
man and the land, and then at an ad
vanced interest rate.
Mr Wilson also states that farm
loans are costing the farmer .from
6 to 16 per cent. He also knows this
to be false If he is at all posted. W e
are negotiating farm loans for our
Madison county farmers, on the kind
of lands the farm loan bank would
approve If they are managed con
servatively, at an interest rate of 6
per cent payable either annually or
semi-annually, with options to pay
on any Interest paying im i,
five to ten years' time, and a com
mission charge of from H to J Per
cent on the face of the loan. The
scheme of the administration forces
Is to make the Interest rate not more
than 6 per cent and then the "Joker
comes in. They require the farmer to
leave 5 per cent of his loan In the
bank as a stork Investment, which he
does not know that he will ever see
again. This is to be held out of the
proceeds of a loan which, on Mr. Wil
son's illustration, would be $260. This
of course is not a "commission." Com
paring this with the present ten-year
loan we are making for a commission
of $100 It will readily be seen which
form Is the cheaper, even If the gov
ernment plan makes the interest rate
5 per cent
I did net intend to enter into a dis
cussion of the fallacies of this pro
posed farm loan movement, but I do
want to impress upon you the fact
that the columns of your paper are
being used In a manner that is very
distasteful to your Informed repub
lican readers, and thatthls man Wil
son is causing to be printed state
ments that are misleading and repre
hensible, to put it the mildest way
possible. H. B. M.
Dormitories to Cure Fraternity Evils.
Omaha, Sept. 22. To the Editor of
The Bee: I very much regret that in
your editorial the other day on "So
rorities and Scholastic Standing" you
did not call attention to the well
known fact that the scholastic aver
age of fraternity students is In every
Institution lower than the average of
nonfraternlty students, so that those
who go to the university for an edu
cation will know that they stand a
better chance of success outside of
fraternities and sororities, and so that
parents may also know the true facts
In the case. There is not an eduoator
of atand"r 'n the United States who
would recommend the establishment
of sororities and fraternities in edu
cational Institutions where they have
not already been introduced. To live
In a fraternity house costs the parents
from $150 a year upward more than
when students live on the outside.
Fraternity life offers more induce
ment to neglect studies than to excel
in scholarship. The average young
man enters the university a non
smoker. Every fraternity man I know
without exception acquires the habit
of smoking and, Incidentally, this is
among the least objectionable habits
he acquires.
Fraternities and sororities establish
an artificial barrier of caste founded,
on money, and it makes for class dis
tinction. The sr bbish assumption of
superiority on the part of the sorority
and fraternity members causes heart
aches and leads to much discourage
ment among bright and promising
students who cannot afford to belong.
The cure for the fraternity evil is
the establishment of dormitories
where students may be housed to
gether under the rules and regula
tions of the faculty. This leads to
the development of that true college
spirit of equality and fraternity which
is one of the main things to be learned
by the young man or woman whe goes
away to school and materially reduces
the cost of living. If the young peo
ple did not exercise such a tyrannical
control over their parents the good
sense of the latter would long ago
have done away with the fraternity
and Borority evil.
JOSEPHINE RUSTIN..
Commerce
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