THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8,
1918.
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bite the butcher? "
How. about your garden tools; are they ready
for the big drive?
Interest that did center in the' first robin will
now be transferred to the first Sshworm.
',- Old Ben Franklin gave a lot of good ad-
i vice and none better than "Own your home."
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t Watch Redmond's foes, at home and abroad,
' flock now to do him honor! It is Ways 10
; when a great man dies.
The reminder seems duet' again that war is a
f serious business and not primarily one of enter-
. tainment and recreation. ' '
' Whale meat is now seriously proposed as a
i ration for the" Sarnmyrwhose capacity to with-
stand punishment is thus to be finally tested.
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1 , With a paltry $10 entry fee and a petition of
only 100 signatures required, no willful ambition
1 to make the trial heat on the municipal primary
1 race track can possibly be stifled. i
' Secretary Daniels' mind must run alqng ho
! j, meopathic lines.a'He insists that men in training
'i to plow the ocean must first accustom them-
selves to ride on the water wagon.
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It is a safe guess that the Russians will not
l pay over the $4,000,000,000 in, gold demanded by
-Cermany as promptly as France laid down the
' billion forced by Bismarclc in 1871. .
School children are again to be enlisted ki
t great gardening movement. This is one place
where the surplus energy of the, youngsters can
11 be turned to good and yet afford something in
the way of fun for the boys and girls at the
i same time. ' . . . '
Drys should keep in mind that wfiatever.of
success has been gained for prohibition has been
in spite and not because of the presence of a cold
water party in 'the field. In -Nebraska, for ex
ample, the prohibition amendment received a ma
jority of 29,400, while the highest vote cast for
a prohibition party candidate at the same election
was bot 2,400. - ' :
Ready for the Neit Draft.
Announcement by General Crowder of some
of the plans for the next draft should quiet a lot
of uneasiness that has been expressed in various
ways. Most assuring, so far as Nebraska and
other great agricultural states ar concerned, is
the statement that no steps will be taken that
will seriously interfere with the next harvest.
This ought to Have been taken for granted. It
does, not credit the president with real ability to
say he has no regard for the" situation on the
farfas. At a' time when every farmer is urged
to exert his utmost energy to' produce crops to
help win the' war it would be absurd for the
authorities to carry away the men needed to op
erate the farms. Many farmers fall within the
first class of the draft, just as do many men who
are needed in other important industries, but
these will only be taken as they are needed for
the greater; work in the army itself. We still
must maintain the men Sack of the man who
carries the rifle and this is appreciated at Wash
ington quite as well as elsewhere. Finally, the
one division, of thtf War department whose func
tions were well carried out and against which
no allegation of incompetency has been made
is that under command of the provost marshal
general. Farmers can go on, with their spring
work safe iri the thought that they are not going,
to be hampered by any of General Crowder's
plans, f 1 . '".;' ': ; '
Foundations of Good City Government.
At its impending municipal election Sioux
City is to vote on' the question of retaining or
discontinuing the commission plan of city gov
ernment. The explanation is that Sioux City
has had decidedly unfortunate experience in the
character of some of the men who have succeeded
in landing commissionership places and the de
fire for improvement has taken the form of a
demand for return' to the old form of govern
ment by mayor and council. This plainly ex
poses one of the inherent weaknesses of self
government in this country. We look a great
deal more to form than to substance and harbor
the notion that -changing the system, or even
changing only the name, will get us away from
deficiencies in the men we put into the office.
We forget, or overlook, the fact that the per
sonal equation is as important, if not more im
portant, in the management of a municipal cor
poration as in the management of any business
corporation and that success in both must be
built on competency, efficiency, industry and re-'
liability. "
Prosperity in Sweden.
Public attention has been so closely fpcussed
on the food situation of the Scandinavian coun
tries and their relations with the-United States
on this score that some other more important
features have for the time escaped notice. , Con
sular reports' now at hand give another glimpse
of economic conditions in Sweden, for example,
that show how that country has thrived through
out the war and especially during the period when
greatest stress has been laid on the alleged un
friendliness of the United States. Industry of
every kind has prospered in Sweden, particularly
those having to do with production or manufac
ture of paper and metals. One big concern mak
ing paper reports a profit of 100 per cent of its
capital stock for the year 1917V Iron ore output
has risen in both quantity and value and a new
enterprise for the production of copper 'is pro
ceeding with energy to the reduction of an esti
mated amount of 500,000 tons of ore per annum,
Other trades make similar reports, showing that
the Swedes are busy on the great job of har
vesting whatever of profit they may from the
needs of the nations at war and with whom they
trade.. Knowledge of this f state of affairs has
been back of the action of the United States gov
ernment in closely regulating traffic with the
Swedes. It must be clear to all that, under the
circumstances, our bargain - with Sweden was
not so hardly driven after all. ,
w'RaUroad Control Is Fixed,
One of the points in the bill for the control
of railroads under government administration,
just agreed to by the conference committee, takes
andthcr big corner out of the State's rights edi
fice. It sets a limit to the amount of taxes that
may be levied against railroads by, state boards
and includes short lines, so that the provision
appljes to intra as well as interstate roads. . This,
goes along, with the provision that permits the
president 'to initiate transportation rates, subject
to review by the Interstate Commerce commis
sion, taking away from the state boards all con
trol in the matter. No more complete justifi
cation of the republican platform of 1916 could
be had than this action by the democratic presi
dent and his advisers, Until 21 months after,
the war is at an end the railroads will be run
under national control and perhaps by that time
the benefit of the unified plan will be so apparent
none will want to return tolhe old system of
forty-eight state boards and a federal commis
sion muddling rates and regulations nntil the
wisest magnate couldtnot tell when he was com
plying with the law.
; Proper Feeding of Children. -.
One of the by-products of our brief experience
in. the war has to do with, the proper feeding of
children. Study ofx data gathered .in connection
with the selective draft has convinced experts
that much of physical deficiency bn which exemp
tion' is foased is due to malnutrition in childhood,
Improper food, poorly prepared, eaten under con
ditions that derange assimilation, and finally not
enough of nourishment have consequences that
develop in adult life. While the conclusions are
not yet definitely fixed, it is recommended from
Washington that more 'care be given the matter
of lunches furnished school children. In Ihis
connection it is recommended that health authori
ties take steps to provide hot, nutritious meals at
the noon hour for all school children, abolishing
as far as possible the cold lunch Where the hot
meal is not practicable, supervision is suggested
to the end that better balanced food values be
provided in the cold lunch. This must be done
at public expense, if at all, the food to be sold to
the children at or a little below cost. These sug
gestions may not be acted on immediately, but
iti themselves; form a rather'' interesting stutjy.
For IS yeaVs at least social reformers have been
making similar recommendations, and in a few
cities have made headway. Now that the pro
posal comes with the foce of the government's
war time interest back of it, some attention not
otherwise obtainable may be had.
No impropriety in the president of the United
States addressing his fellow citizens wherever he
finds them assembled, but what a card it will be
for the lucky theatrical manager who can an
nounce such an event in advance.
Music Helps in Shell-Shock Cases
Men From Trenches Under Treatment in New York
- Hospital
Public announcement has been made for
the first ttate that New York City already is
the asylum for several hundred sick soldiers
sent back from France, some of them men
who actually have been under fire in the
trenches and have succumbed to the various
nervous disabilities comprised under the
term "shell shock." The refuge prepared for
these nen in New York United States Gen
eral hospital No. 1, better known as the
"Columbia University" Base hospital," on the
old Columbia oval in the Bronx already
has harbored so many as 650 patients.
Although when the project for the hos
pital first was conceived by Dr. J. Bentley
Squier, many persons thought it was being
rushed needlessly, the accommodations for
3,000 men now give promise of speedily be
ing too limited and plans are under way tq
increase the facilities so that 5.000 men may
be under treatment at one time.
The institution as it stands, with its 60
buildings, is the largest army hospital in the
country actually rendering full service, and,
although it was rushed to completion in a
few months, it stands as one of the larger
hospitals of any kind throughout the land.
It was in connection with the announce
ment of an interesting experiment in the
non-medical treatment of shell-shock cases
that news that the hospital was sheltering
sick men from abroad was made public.
This experiment is in the nature of a con
cert to be given the men at which some of
the best professional talent m the city has
promised to appear! Although the entertain
ment incidentally is for the diversion of all
the patients in the institution, it was de
scribed authoritatively as designed particu
lar as an experiment under scientific
auspices of the effect of musjc upon men
whose nerves have . been shattered by the
strain of trench life and who are described
as victims of "shell sliock," although the ex
plosion of shells is not always the contribut
ing factor to their breakdown.
Henry -Butterworth, assistant director
of the New York War Camp Community
service, under whose auspices the concert is
to be given, said that the project had the full
approval of the medical staff at Base hospital
No. 1, and that its effects were to be watched
carefully and studied scientifically. He said
such entertainment as part of the plan of
regeneration of wrecked men had been tried
sporadically , abroad, but that he understood
it had not been undertaken with very definite
plan and purpose and with medical sanction
in
and supervision, as were to be the case
New York.
"The work is being done for us by Mrs.
McClellan, in charge of our women's ad
visory committee," he explained, "and al
ready has been tried out on a small scale."
Medical men were not greatly interested at
first, but they have been won to full approval
and co-operation. The idea is to get the
men at just the right point and lead them
along. You see, these men come back in a
very high state of susceptibility, their nerves
shattered and their minds badly affected in
one way or another, and they are unequal
even to the ordinary troubles of the lives
they must live, even while in hospital. It
wsis found up there in the Bronx, for in
stance, that some of these men, when the man
in the next cot to them passed away were
dreadfully upset, seriously affected, in fact.
' "So a few days ago we tried the experM
ment of music and similar diversions on a
few of these war-worn men. The effect in
some cases was most encouraging. You can
go up there today and find that some of the
worst-alfected men, some of the most hope
less cases, were brightened and cheered and
even yet are humming snatches of the songs
or- whistling bits of tunes they heard that
day. The effect of the entertainment was so
gratifying that the medical staff of the hos
pital asked for repetition on a larger scale,
and that led to the arrangement for the con
cert, the beginning of a series of regenera
tive entertainments carefully planned and
conducted, and with a definite purpose in
view." -
A New York physician of prominence
who has had free access to the wards of the
hospital which 19 situated at Bainbridge aye
nue and Gun Hill road, the Bronx, told some
thing of the work that is being done there.
He said that as many as 650 patients had
been thtre'since Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler
formally turned the institution, over to the
government in October. Many "of these have
come from Ameridm camps, but a large
number had been sent from France. The
latter mostly are men who have been weeded
out because of heart trouble, signs of tuber
culosis,! or mental affliction, among which
the shellx shock cases contribute a consider
able number. , -
Wounded men had not yet begun to come
form the other side, he said, -v This was
because such cases would 'receive attention
in the hospitals behind the lines and would
be returned here only when they reached the
stage when they needed to undergo some J
sort ot reconstruction. JTew York Times.-
Need Commission to Japan
v Western Educator Points the Way to Closer Relations
Prof. E. D. Thomas, University of Utah, in New York Sun.
The next great international move which
the allies should make is one that should
result in the placing of Japan definitely, ac-,
tively, and wholeheartedly in the war. This
could be done very effectively by die presi
Uent of the United States. His leadership ia
the matter would be acknowledged and fol
lowed. The plan which I suggest' is to send
a commission at once. to Japan; a commis
sion composed of men whom the Japanese
know and whom they have honored for
years. Such a commission could easily be
found in the United States, and the good ac
complished would be inestimable and last
ing. . 1
It must not be thought that the Japanese
have not been doing their full share in this
war, for they have. The leaders of the al
lies understand and appreciate this. The peo
ple of the allied countries do not; neither do
the people of Japan, for all publicity, of
course, cannot be given to those activities.
The first duty, then, of the commission
would be to give the people of Japan the in
formation they should have in order to get
their whole-hearted support Second, the
information gained in Japan by our commis
sioners coming in. contact with the people
would result in overcoming the suspicion in
this country about the Japanese, for there
arc Americans who,' in spite of Count Ishii's
trip here and his wonderful speeches, betieve
that Japan would rush over to the Germanffsplendidly to its people. In-the great war
the-moment it was seen that it would pay
her to do so. Distrust between allies is a
terrible thing; and ' distrust between allies
may soon arise if distrust between the people
of allied countries is allowed to grow.
fc Besides, we owe Japan a visit Several
years ago Adimral Togo was a guest of the
American people. That call has never been
returned. The Ishii commission surely de
serves the recognition and courtesy of a re
turn visit. Just being polite means much to
the Japanese. Their formality is, of course,
proverbial. Count Ishii's visit to this coun
try did an immense amount of good, and,
therefore, it should be followed up. - .
We hear much more on the other side of
the Pacific about America's and Japan's last
ing friendship, iand this friendship has been
nurtured, grown and developed by interna
tional visits. The eternal gratitude of Japan
to America is voiced , in every schoolboy's
valedictory for the first visit, the Perry ex
pedition. The visit of President U. S. Grant
in the 70s is still remembered by the older
Japanese and talked and sung about by the
younger. President Grant's acts were so im
pressive to the Japanese that he has been an
idol to them ever since, and the Americans
which he typified an ideal to them. In the
great Ueno park of Tokio two trees which
President and Mrs. Grant planted have be
come almost a national shrine. The isacred
red bridge at Nikko stands now as a monu
ment to Grant, due to the following incident:
The bridge is never used by the people; it
was' built for the use of the gods, and the
emperor, who is a representative and
descendant of the gods, is the only one al
lowed to cross.. As a, great honor to Presi
dent Grant, he was invited to use the bridge,
but knowing its purpose, with truly Ameri
can spirit, he declined the invitation. . For
this act Grant will never be forgotten by the
Japanese people. . .
The visit to Yokohama of the great fleet
in 1908 did wonders in he way of cementing
friendship and clearing up misunderstand
ings. The American sailprs will never forget
their welcome. The writer was, in Japan at
the time. From correspondence which was
received ,from America, and from American
newspapers,! judged that the American peo
ple felt that this visit was not to be a visit
of friendship; so great had been the anti
Japanese feeling inAmerica that it had been
reported, and this was believed by many in
Japan, that the American fleet came through
tho Strait of Magellan cleared for action and
prepared for attack. The. jingo newspapers
on both sides of the Pacific were working
overtime. I don't know the effect in Amer
ica, but in Japan the fleet's visit and the
splendid spirit of both the Amerkan and the
Japanese sailors cured for a great time this
spirit of suspicion.-
- Since Commodore Perry's time the Japan
ese people have beefFadmirers of America.
America has b?n. considered Japan's big
bt other for so long, and America s actions
during' the time of international difficulties
have put her in that position as far as Japan
is concerned and that feeling, should be con
tinued. . The Japanese government resrjonds
that government leaders have responded
splendidly to the call of the allies. Japan
as a nation has done her part, but the people
of Japan have not yet fully sensed their re
sponsibility in the war. They should be put
wholeheartedly and forever on the side of the
allies. This should be the commissioners'
greatest .work and aim.
People and Events
New York's district attorney observes
hat poker js not an offense, but only a recre
ation, wheTi played in a gentleman's club.
Western sports should contract the club
hahitif they would enjoy New York life like
a gentleman. . .
You can't always measure with she eye
the steam in the punch of a walking bean
pole. Nor, for that matter, the limit of safety
in joshing slims. One of the class in Los
Angeles, hailed as "Tuesday," fell upon the
hailer and mopped the pavement with his
hide. '
Owing to the paucity of coin in the pub
lic till the governor of Utah will dispense free
honors and commissions, first come first
served, on citizens who will represent the
state at big conventions. The chief quali
fication is ability and readiness to foot all
the bills. With wool scouring the clouds
that's easy. .
AA beer famine threatens the wet belt of
Missouri and the adjoining dry belts. The
food administrations order against the use of
grain for malting purposes knocks the brew
ing interests to the floor and schooner flags
are half masted. Holy smoke, and then
some. And the bock season almost at the
door. Hoover has the fabled goat by the
whiskers.
It
IS
!
I TODAY
Pne Year Ago Today in the War. .
Strikes declared at many munition
factories in Russia.
Special, British commission which
Investigated the , disastrous Darda
nelles campaign made Its report.
The Day We Celebrate. ' '
Harrison C. Brome, attorney at law.
born 1856.
j Justice Otiver 'Holmes; who cele
brate his 77 th birthday anniversary
today, ia tha oldest member of the
supreme ourt or the United States
n ag-e and one of the oldest In point
.if ArvlrM-' " '
General Bramwell Booth, head of
the Salvation army, born, at Halifax,
England, 62 years ago.
Ira Nelson .Morris; minister to
Sweden, horn in Chicago, 41 years
ago. tjr . . ;: '. '., ' .
Ruggiero Leoncavallo, t composer,
born at Naples, Italy,- 60 years ago.
' Bear Admiral Walter- FWorthing-
ton. United States, navy, born at Baltl
Imore, 63 years ago. u. -,',
;Tlils Day in History. ' . ' '
(1843 Arthur Brown; . one of the
Irst United States senators from
i Utah, born at Prairie Ronde, Mich.
Assassinated , in Washington, D. C,
December 12, 1909. .
' 1862 Merriraac sunk the Cumber
land at Hampton Roads.
1874 Millard Fillmore. 13th pres
ident of the United States, died at
t. Buffalo, N. Y. Bora: in Cayuga
fwuiB&ir. Kair, Xork.. February 7. 1800.
Just 80 Years Aqo Today
uv. . k. spaiaing, c. A. Wester
field, H. H. Marhoff, W. C. McClaln
and A. H. Sargeant were elected trus
tees of the Second Presbyterian church
of Omaha.
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too ,
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Over 600 tags for licensed dogs
have been taken out.
Mike Maul of Drexel and Maul left
on a visit to ban uiego, Cat., where
he intends to remain lor sometime
JH. Bosler of Carlisle, Penn., one
of the stock holders in the South
Omaha land syndicate, is visiting in
the city.
A meeting of the trustees of the
Brick Manufacturer's association was
held at the Paxton block, and the fol
lowing were present vM. Ittner, D. J,
Collins and F. D. Cooper.
A Powerful Force.
Willis Do you think love Is the
most Dowerful force mere is?
Glllls You bet! It makes the
world go 'round, brings heaven down
to earth and raises 6ades.J-e,
Quaint Bits of Life
."Grandmother dead." was the ex
cuse wired in by 184 recruits at the
Great Lake training station who had
overstayed holiday leave.
A Btrina- of eenulne wampum beads
was found recently in a, gravel pit. on
the McCarthy farm, near Fox Lake,
Wis. The beads are a reddish gray
and about one inch in thickness.
Rubber is the only great essential
commodity which has greatly de
clined in Drice In face of the advance
In all other commodities., This is due
to its rapidly increasing production in
the far east.
ffhe-only place in the United States
which has tropical vegetation is Palm
Springs, located in a desert in the
southern part of California. This
place is 260 feet below sea level, and
so hot that there is a riot of vegeta
tion the year round. '
Cornelius Byrne. 53 years old. of
Philadelphia, and Michael Byrne 62
years old, of Montana, brothers, met
recently for the first time in their
lives. Michael, who is a miner, came
to this country three years before his
brother waa born. The men met in
Philadelphia, where Cornelius lives.
When the French bombed Stutt
gart they raided the very cradle of
aircraft engines. It was there that
Daimler developed the Otto gas en
gine, evolved the true internal com
bustion engine, which an ingenious
Frenchman harnessed to the first of
practical 1 motor cars. And out of
ideas italned ' at the Great Daimler
motor works which arose at Stutt-,
Whittled to a Point
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: On
wheatless day: You may break, you
may shatter the. pumpkin pie if you
will, but devoid of its crust, it is
pumpkin pie still.
Wall Street Journal: Disloyal cap
tain gets 25 years, and spy in New
Orleans with Btolen secrets in his pos
session gets two years "internment.
Why not shoot. both? V
Baltimore American: - The spring
days are coming and the average
citixen will soon be preparing to do
his or herblt in the way of a thrift
garden in the back yard.
New York World: "The American
soldier 'over there," says General
Cronkhite, returning from France, 'is
doing fine, looking fine and feeling
fine." A report might be much longer
and say less. I
Minneapolis Tribune: An English
food administrator has decided that
a doughnut is not a bun. It is fear
less rulings of this kind that convince
the public the food administrators j
mean business. . I
. 'Twice Told Tales
Call of the Wild.
Two men were sitting at a lunch
table in a city cafe. Outside the air
was soft and balmy and everything
In nature was a sweet allurement to
buy a railroad ticket and hasten to
tha woods.
"It is in my system,' remarked one
of the pair, glanclns through the
open window. "There is nothing so
appealing as the call of the wild."
"It may strike you that way, old
fellow," smiled the second, "but right
here I beg to cast a dissenting vote."
"You don't know what you are
talking about, Jake!" enthusiastical
ly returned the first "Did you ever
hear the call of the wild? Did you
ever " -
."Yes,"- answered Jake, with some
thing akin to a sigh. "From the head
of the stairs the other night when I
didn't get home until 2 o'clock in the
morning." Philadelphia Telegraph.
Enjoyment Under Difficulties.
A southern man tells of a colored
mother, living in a country district of
Georgia, who was induced by her IB
New York World: Texas wuncnes ld rhd to taka hIm to tha cir.
a 4,700-ton wooaen tmp uc cus in a town near their home.
from the keel-laying. Showing what
one big state can do in big times.
And we have 48 states big with pur
pose! ... .4
Louisvile Courier-Journal: When
tha commander of the Russian loyal
atnasons reports that the Germans
have harassed our left Hank it adds
gart. Count Zeppelin evolved his to the Pj-.tIl2ettjt Ger
wi.vn... . I man soldiers arent gentlemen.
I man soldiers aren't gentlemen.
She borrowed a wagon and a mule
and set out with her offspring for the
circus. The roads were bad it had
rained and the youngster was frigh
fin fMootv. Finntlv tha tired mother
exclaimed: i --. u
"See heah.j you Erasmusl Yo' set
still! I've druy yo 10 miles to enjoy
dls circus an' you shall enj'y it ef I
has to pull ebery hair out er yo' haid!"
Just So.
Gothenburg, Neb., March 6.- To the
Editor of The Bee: I notice in your
Letter Box of this date a screed from
one having an abnorniarbee in h's
cranium. As far as the writer can
make out of the article, it appears
to b? a very concise essay of 23 lines
of the subject "Ego" and he has
succeeded admirably, as he. managed
to get Into his eloquent stunt just
an even - number if egos (Is) or
Meums (mys): viz., 23 to coincide
with each line he made. Quite a
modest scribe! Oh, you are "Frank!"
"Oh, would some power the srlftie gie
us," etc. AMUSED.
Xear-Slde Stop.
. Omaha, March 6. To the Editor of
The Bee: Those who worked for and
secured the passage of the rule to
compel street cars .to stop on th4
near side ought to be presented with
leather medals. Tho proper place for
people to get on and off the street
cars should be and ought to be at
the end of blocks, as it has always
been in the past. It looks rather silly
to compel street car conductors to
stop their cars so that passengers
have to get on and off the cars at a
point near the middle of the block., as
tis the case in many places in Omaha.
I will wager that, the men who
forced the adoption of the new
scheme do not ride on the street cars
once a year. Some of the men who
worked for the new rule talk very
freely of democracy, yet when they
have a chance to let the people ex
press themselves they go ahead and
arbitrarily adopt the new rule. If a
vote was taken today of the patrons
of the street cars it would result in
an overwhelming majority for the
far-side stops. The street car patrons
of Omaha should arise in their might
and demand a restoration of the far
side stops. A few oligarchs on a
small scale should not be able to say
to the multitude thaWthey shall do
what they are opposed to.
The vote of the street car patrons
was strongly against the near-side
stop before and it would be the same
today. Those who seldom ride on
the street cars should not say to t'.iose
who ride the cars two and three times
a day throughout the year that they
shall get on and oft the cars where
they do not want to. I do not care
what they do in other cities. We are
only interested in our own city in lo
cal matters.,
I would be glad to see a strong
movement for the abrogation of the
rule that compels conductors to stop
their cars near the middle of blocks.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
Thosa are tha nlglita we have food con(
servatlon dinners at home, Judge. (. .
"What Is your opinion about thia proposal
for the government to take over tha pack
Ins Industry?" - - ,
"Oh, I suppose It would be a meet ar
rangement." Baltimore American.
Of course, Banquo's ghost caused aoma
perturbation at the banquet.
"It may be the food administration," whis
pered some. Life. . .
Ready to Help the Boys.
Omaha, March 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: ' The Omaha and Council
Bluffs Implement and Vehicle club
wants-to thank you for suggestion
made in an editorial recently, that the
high school boys who intend to ofrer
their 'services for farm work during
the summer vacation could secure
some technical education on farm ma
chinery and implements through he
local implement houses.
As a result of your suggestion the
club has offered its services to the
school boys.
OMAHA AND .COUNCIL BLUFFS
IMPLEMENT AND VEHICLE
CLUB. F. V. P.OY, President v
This club is made up in Omaha of
Acme Harvesting Machine comprfny,
Appleton Manufacturing company, As
sociated ' Manufacturers' company,
Avery company, Baker Manufacturing
company, J: I. Case plow works, Chal
lenge company, Crane company, John
Day Rubber and Supply -company,
John Deere Plow company, Dempster
Mill Manufacturing company, Emer-son-Brantingham.
Implement 'com
pany, Fairbanks-Morse & Co., R.
Herschell . Manufacturing company,
Hooven & " Allison company, Hudson
Manufacturing company, Implement
Trade Journal company, International
Harvester company, Janesville Ma
chine company, Lininger Implement
company, Nebraska & Iowa Steel
Tank company, Nebraska Mollne Plow
company, New Idea Spreader com-
kpany, T. G. Nortnwaii company, Oli
ver Chilled plow works, Omaha Baum
iron store, Parlin & Orendorff Plow
company, aierung
GROWING UP.
J. W. Lewis. In Houston Post.
They have grown up so straight and tall;
They make mud plea no more;
No moia they scamper through tha hall
And tumble through tho door.
When I come home from work at night.
To get a -kiss and aqueeze;
No more, In the day's fading light,
They climb upon my knees.
The days of yore will not come back;
Now. when the daylight falls, .
I do not tote them plck-a-pack.
Nor tell them fairy tales:
They do not hide behind the door .
To Jurop at me and "Boo!" :
Nor tumble with me on the floor, .
The way they used to do.
Those were the happy tmes; when night
Brought them along the hall
Intent upon a pillow fight.
And I would call and call
Their mother to comeitielp me hold
The enemy In check, v
And Eyes-o'-Blue and Locks-o'-Gold
Would clasp me round the neck.
Those few short years made life worth
while,
Made it what it should be;
And I could go my way and iroile
If life 'held naught for me
But memory. But they are here,
Their 16ve is Just as strong.
And life Is many times as dear,
And la brimmed full of song. -v
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The beat remedy la one yon can
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. Thousands of people normally healthy:
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Get from any druggist "2 ounces of
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A day's use will usually break up an or
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Pinex is a most valuable concentrate!
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BE FORJEMATISM!
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YouU know why thousands use Mus
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Get a jar at once from the nearest,
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Machinery corporation. Its member
ship in Council Bluffs Is International
Harvester company, Sandwich Manu
facturing company and Standard
Manufacturing company.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"Didn't I tell you never to darken my of
fice again?"
"I didn't coma to darken anything," de
clared the book agent "Came to brighten N
thing! up; in fact. Got a funny atory I
wantcha to hear." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Lady Here, my poor fellow. Is a quarter
for you. It must be awful to be lame; but
I think It's worse to ba blind.
Expert Tou bet It. ia, mum. TVhen I
wa blind they was always hand In' me
counterfeit money. People's Home Journal.
"Tha gay young lieutenant having a good
time with all those pretty girls la taking
big chances."
"In what way?"
"Isn't It always dangerous when a spark
gets near too much powder?" Baltimore
American.
Brown (meeting Robinson at the club)
How does It happen that you are dining at
tha club three nights a week right along
now?
Robinson Merely a coincidence, that's all.
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