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The Bee's Platform
1. Ntw Unto Peetenger Station.
2. Continued lnproeinet of Ik Ne
braska Highwaye, iaclualag tb pave
man! ef Mala Thoroughfare leading
late Omaha wltb Brick Surface.
3. A ikort, low-rate Waterway from Ik
Cera Ball to tba Atlantis Ocaan.
4. Horn Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Senator Smoot'i Revenue Bill.
Only the dementi of the revenue bill pro
posed by Senator Smoot are contained in the
press dispatches so far, but enough to warrant
its discission in an academic way. The meas
ure has the merit of simplicity, in that it seeks
revenue from but six sources, eliminating twenty-nine
that exist at present, and most of which
are of the variety grouped as "nuisance taxes."
His principal source will be tl.at of a manufac
turer's sales tax, from which he looks to derive
$1,250,000,01)0. On thin point the discussion will
turn chiefly.
When (he sales tax was brought forward last
spring it was debated from about every possible
angle, and finally abandoned, because of the
obvious objection that it laid the tax against
those who were lcait able to pay. As Dr. Sclig
man expressed it, this is but an inverted income
tax. Senator Smoot's plan amounts to the same
thing, perhaps, with the exception that a tax on
manufacturer's sales will be levied on the produc-
lion cost price, collected "at the source," and or
dinarily will be levied but once. Naturally, it
will be carried into the selling price, but it should
not be pyramided, as the retail sale tax would
", have been and multiplied through several transac
tions, each time becoming more onerous. If hon
estly applied and carried forward, the ultimate
consumer who will settle in the end, will feel the
manufacturer's sales tax much less than the
other.
Another attractive phase of the Smoot bill
is the manifest purpose of its framcr to jeduce
income tax levies. While this would be but the
shifting of the impost from one point to another,
that is about all any of the revenue bills will ac
complish. , So much money is required to carry
on the business of the government, and it must
,be taken from the income of the people as a
whole. Any tax laid against business is natur
ally included in the costs of operation of that
business, and so is passed on to the consumer.
This is inevitable. ;1
1 What is desirable is a measure that will dis
tribute the burden as -equitably as possible, pre
serving the fundamental principle that the bulk
of the tax is to be collected from those best
able to pay. , Senator Smoot added much inter
est to the discussion of the revenue law as it
now exists, as well as to its predecessor, the law
of 1917, offering in the senate a well digested bill
u a substitute for the Kitchin-Simmons meas
ure. That "went to a committee room grave, but
hit present endeavor will, undoubtedly get more
worthy consideration. '
Democrats and the Dye Industry.
Why, one is justified in inquiring, are Our
democratic friends o eager to turn the dye in
dustry of the United States over to the Ger
mans? One of Germany's boasts prior to 1914
was its control of the chemical industry. This
was maintained by the simple method of selling
below cost where competition was likely, and
charging the difference where a free hand per
mitted. American ; textile mills were at the
mercy of the German chemists, and so wcro the
druggists and healers of the country. When the
war came on business on this side suffered until
American chemists could establish themselves to
the point of producing what the country needed.
Our dye makers are now putting out products
that compete with the Germans in open market.
Last year $43,000,000 worth of American-made
dyes and dye stuffs were exported. Coal-tar
products are manufactured here which formerly
: were imported from Germany. Certain secret
processes have been independently developed by
our chemists, who have shown themselves as
profound in research, as comprehensive in imagi
nation,, and as fecund in result as those who for
merly controlled the world. Having thus set
industrial chemistry on a high plane in the
United States, why is it now urged that all our
effort be abandoned, and the business sent back
oversea? "'
The "infamous dye embargo bill," against
which the World-Herald so strongly in
veighs, is simply an effort to protect the dye in
dustry of the United States. Senator Hitchcock
weeps over the plight of the man who wants to
purchase German dyes, but if the republican
members of congress are true to the traditions of
their party, those tears will have been shed in
vain. It is not a war on Germany, but self-protection
that demands the embargo until the duty
is finally fixed bji law.
Reporting on Accidents.
A step taken by Commissioner Dunn hat
reason back of it He will, if his ordinance is
passed, require all healers, surgeons, physicians
or hospitals, to report to' the police on any acci
dents they may know of or victims of accidenti
coming under their care, or injured persons
whose condition might be due to accident In
this way the police will be apprised of affairs in
which may possibly lurk information they re
quire in the pursuit of their duties. One of the
difficulties of police practice, not only in Omaka,
but in any large city, is the possibility that a
serious crime may be hidden because a wounded
person can get treatment without the fact ever be
ing made known. Commissioner Dunn does not
include any undue publicity in his request; he
merely asks that proper notification be given the
authorities, in order that an offense, if any may
be discovered, or in'offender detected, No hard
ship will be worked on any of the parties (
fected; doctors and other will merely have one
more of their civle dutiet outlined, and be re
quired to live up to it No infringement of the
unctity of relation between doctor sad patient
is contemplated, nor is it likely that any will be
involved. Just the fact that an tccident has
occurred, or' that an injured person has been
given treatment, and the police will do the rest
The rule ought to be helpfuL
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Little Comfort for Debt.
While the president hat adjourned considers,
tion of the Debt caie until final action has been
taken by the senate on the treaty with Ger
many, tome word spoken by Harry Daugherty
at Cincinnati may bear on the case. Mr,
Daugherty, whore theme was "Respect for the
Law," taid:
In this country there is now being dis
seminated in extensive propaganda to dignify
the crimes committed by many persons who
are now in prison (or disloyal conduct or for
obstructing and hindering the government in
prosecuting the war with Germany, and, by
meant of such propaganda, to create a public
sentiment not only to have tuch criminals
freed, but to have this general doctrine of
political offenset recognized ai part of our do
mestic law, the purpose being, when the
doctrine it once recognized, to enable criminals
and those in sympathy with them to continue
tuch opposition to law and order with im
punity. . . . Our constitutional tyttem is
so organized that at the ballot box the sov
ereign elector expresses his will. Changes are
to be wrought through the constitutional or
gans of government and by the orderly
procesiet of law. The constitution by the
rights, privitegei and immunities granted
therein amply protects any citizen in his
religious or political liberty.
Mr. Daugherty follows this by quoting from
IVesidcnt Harding's Omaha speech, delivered at
the Auditorium on October 7, last year, in which
Mr. Harding specifically declared:
I can tee no essential difference between
ordinary crimes on the one hand and political
crimes and political prisoners on the other
hand. If there Is a distinction, turely it it not
a distinction that favon political crimes or
political prisoners. The thief, or any ordinary
criminal, is surely lest a menace to those things
which we all hold dear than the man or woman
who conspires to destroy our American in
stitutions. Perhaps it is unfair to anticipate the report
of the attorney general, now in the hands of the
president, dealing with the status of Eugene V.
Debs, but these utterances do not encourage the
belief that leniency is to be shown the prisoner
whose crime was that of treason.
"Tosh" About Nebraska.
The English have an expression, "tosh,"
which may yet have to be imported into Ne
braska. It particularly fits the efforts now
being made by opponents of the state admin
istration to make it appear that public funds
have been expended so lavishly that the state
treasury is empty. The good name of the state
is nothing to these ruthless partisans, nor is any
regard paid to the possible injury to Nebraska's
credit by their misrepresentations.
With more than $1,000,000 in, the state
treasury it most emphatically is not broke, and
with new receipts from taxation coming in this
winter all legislative appropriations wilt be cared
for in the usual manner.; Road construction will
not be halted, since the contractors work under
an agreement to await the collection of taxes
before seeking payment '
Such shortage of ready money as appears is
not peculiar, but is chronic at this season every
year. - This can only be remedied by changing
the time for collection of taxes so . that there
will not be a gap of six months between the
date appropriations become due and the date on
which the state's income begins to flow in.
The state administration has not. been waste
ful, and in fact the legislature' reduced the
amount apportioned to some public activities
more than may have been exactly justified. Until
the highly descriptive word, "tosh" is brought
overseas, Nebraskans will have to rely on a
home grown expression to characterize the mis
representations of those who seek not the public
good, but partisan advantage and quietly mur
mur, "It's the bunk."
Irish Stew Not Boiling Over.
Resumption of military control in Belfast, in
cident to a Venewal of rioting there, may indicate
the delicacy of the situation, just as the speech
of the MacNeill, who denounced Lloyd George
to Dail Eireann, is a sign of the implacability of
certain Sinn Fein leaders. On the other hand,
it is possible that these ebullitions are but the
bursting of bubbles that come to the top as the
stew simmers down in the cooling off process.
Starting a riot in Belfast never has and perhaps
never will be a difficult matter. Some eloquent
orator is ever ready to denounce the government
at London, and neither by itself is symptomatic
of any deep lying malady. The Sinn Fein pro
gram may yet disclose a way by which a
peace arrangement will be reached, the aspira
tions of the people met and without any resump
tion of the disorder all to much regret Surface
does hot always tell what is going on underneath.
De Valera has shown himself possessed of imagi
nation; he may exhibit another quality of leader
ship, that of understanding, and with a capacity
for driving a bargain connect the faculty of ap
preciating the moment when best terms are to
be had and so drive home an agreement that will
be of advantage to his country, even if it does
not meet the entire demand of the MacNeill.
Italian manufacturers are accusing Germans
of trying to drive out Italian industries m order
to tell more of their own goods. There are
limits, however, to ' this process, since if the
Italian people do not have productive employ
ment they will not be able to buy even cheap
imported goods.
Those Iowa boyt and girls who exhibited 460
pure-bred hogs at the state fair have not only
learned something about farming, but also have
learned to take an honest pride in their labor,
And if the proceeds of their venture are depot'
ited to their credit, they will have a nice nest
egg. ' ' ' . i
' Art has not nationality, but if the successor
to Caruso should be an American there would
be room 1 for considerable legitimate pride.
It sometimes appears that those who come
here from abroad receive more recognition than
native talent -
Maxim Makes It Clear
Great Inventor Explains His
Questionnaire's Misty Points,
It it scarcely to be believed that the New
York landlord who raised rents because he lost
$100,000 m Wall Street would have reduced them
instead if he had won as much.
Maxim Tark, .V, J , Aug. 24-To the Editor
of The Dee: 1 have received through my cutting
ssency many cuttings in which the accuracy of
my supposed answer to one of the question!
propounded by me in my questionnaire at puu
lisneq in your peprr, nss ucrn tevcrny anu ngm
fully challenged.
For the benefit of your reader, please let me
explam. iou did not publish inv entire ques
tionnaire u printed in the New York Evening
Telegram. There were twenty-seven questions
altogether and you printed only eleven, one of
which was ai follows:
When an express train pari a bystander,
whittling the while, the pitch of the whistle it
abnormally high at the train approaches, nor
mal when oppotite the bystander, and ab
normally low after the train hat pasted. Why
it this?
My answer to thit question at printed in the
Evening Telegram wai at follows:
The motion of the train adds to the pitch
while approaching, and tubttractt from the
pitch after the train has passed the bystander.
It will be seen that my answer is in exact
agreement with the answers given by my critics,
but the answer which you printed at applying to
thit question was that which I gave in reply to
the following question:
Two persons standing on opposite tidet of
a pile of burning brush, find it necessary, in
speaking to each other, to raise the voice un
usually high, even though the noise of the
burning brush be insignificant. Why is this?
To which my answer was:
Because of the rarefied state of the inter
vening; heated air and sates.
and k was this answer that you gave as the
answer to the question about the train.
Of course, naturally the answers to my ques
tions could hardly be expected to be inter
changeable so that any answer would fit any
question. For example, suppose that, instead of
printing the answer which you did print, you had
printed my answer to the following question
which I propounded tn the telegram :
What is the difference between temptation
and eternity?
One is a wile of the devil and the other
it the devil of a while.
Thit answer would hardly have served to ex
plain the difference in the pitch of the whistle of
an advancing and retreating locomotive.
In regard to the stone wall question, I am
glad to see how many have answered it so well.
A very simple way of visualizing and proving
the truth of my answer to this question is to
take a compass and stick one point of it in a
horizontal base line drawn across a piece of
paper, then strike a half-circle to represent a
hill; resting on the base line, then strike another
half-circle a little bit larger, to represent a stone
wall over the hill. If this line represents a stone
wall four feet high on the top of the hill, it will
be found that its vertical height will be much
greater on the sides of the hill. This may be
demonstrated by drawing a series of vertical
lines at right angles to the base line to represent
pickets, extending from the bottom of the hill
to four feet above the top of the hill, and it will
be seen that the pickets on the slopes of the
hill, between the two half-circlet, will be much
longer than on top of the hill, and consequently of
a stone wall of the same cross-section be built
up the sides of the hill as upon the top of the hill,
the wall upon the sides of the hill will be much
more than four feet in height. The same method
will also demonstrate the Truth of my answer
that it takes no more pickets to build a picket
fence over a hill than it does in a tunnel through
a hill.
Regarding the criticism of my answer to the
arithmetical problem, let me say that it is a law
of ' mathematics that quantities connected by
signs of division and ' multiplication must be
treated just as though enclosed by marks of
parenthesis or covered by a vinculum and, con
sequently, the operations represented by them
must be performed before performing the opera
tions indicated by the plus and minus signs.
Therefore i2x2--8x8-:- equals 36.
Referring to the following question':
' Where on the surface of the earth would a
hunter be standing who, seeing a deer to the
east of him, would point his gun north to shoot
the deer?
Answer A short distance from the north
pole, and he would fire over the pole."
I have been taken to task for stating that the
deer would be standing east of the hunter, be
cause the deer would be as much west as east
Let me say that the fact that the deer might be
standing both in an easterly and westerly direc
tion does not in any way negative my state
ment that a hunter standing near the north pole
and seeing a deer to the east of him might point
hit gun north to shoot the deer. It is true that
the deer might be both east and west of him,
but that fact would not negative. the fact that
the deer would be east of him or that he saw the
deer to the east of him. Both west and east
would coincide on a mathematical line on the
other side of the pole, exactl yopposite the
hunter, and the deer would presumably be stand
ing so that part of him would be one side
the line and part of him the other side of the
line: and at the ego of man or animal is in the
head, if the deer were standing with his head-end
over the line to the hunter's right, and the other.
end of the deer over the line to the hunter s left,
it would be perfectly true that he would see the
deer to the east of him and that he would point
his gun north to shoot the deer.
Respectfully, HUDSON MAXIM.
How to Keep Well
r DR. W A KVANS
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NATURE. CHEMICAL
ENGINEER.
A flute senator nnre told me the
dart crop of llllnow aoM for more
money per acre of flab waters than
the ptr acre return or me corn crop
of flint atatn.
Nolnon telle us that the value of
the annual oynter crop or tr.e coun
try is Itft.OUO.OliO the equivalent of
more than 400,000 dreaavd ateera.
There la an enormous lots of good
nilneruli Into the wuteri every year.
Home of this la toll fertility which
haa waahed away. Home Is sewage
and other organic matter drained
Into the water. In the water nat
ure hus provided a bloloslo machine
to recover thl wuate.
Miuroecopla form of r.nlmal and
vegetable life grow on this earth,
changing It from lower Into higher
chemical compounds. The proceas
of aelvase I begun.
Higher planta and animals feed on
the lower forma, converting lower
chemicals Into higher. Finn, eat pollution poured into (he water
cauaee the oyater to tmxe in more
typhoid and other dlaeaae producing
bacilli than they can deatroy.
Green oysters containing more
than five time the normal amount
of copper have been founo 10 mile
rrom a copper rennery. Acid and
alkali waates poured Into waters kill
the biological machine of thoae wa
ters for miles around. Many Inland
stream are to badly polluted that
no life can exist in them. Nelaon
tells ua that unlet our present pol
icy 1 changed the greater part of
the eaHtern United States will be
"cradled In a septic tank."
What wilt we do when deprived
of thl great source of food? How
will we overcome the yearly lots of
tood value from the land to the
watera when the first salvage stop?
amount of sewage in watera up to a
certain point Inrreaae the nuinbere
of animal and vegetable which
live in them. On the other hand. If
the pollution beoumes exreaatv the
decaying orgunlo matter uaua up all
the oxygen and the life In the water
1 auffiicated. It will be remem
bered that the Bolomnu ho decided
the Chicago drainage ranul caae
naked about the II ah life In the I 111
not river. When he was told that
there were plenty of nan, he dlare-
named the volume of expert opin
ion before him and decided the rase
on the baei of what the nan ald.
Nelaon warn ua that w are put-
tlnir too much waate Into .n Vetera
Oil waate, float on the rurfac and
kill off the oyater larva. For five
year the oyater beds of the Atlantic
north of New York have not been
replenlahed by young oytera. If
preaent condition contlnoi fop an
other five year there will be no oya
ter produced tn that region, in
some other section the wnount of
lower form and In turn ire cauht
and eaten by man and other higher
anlmula. Thus the element watted
Into the waters are salvaged for the
land.
The atory of the oyater tell the
tale. Oyater propagate by mean
of egg. Within six hour after fer
tilization the young oyater hatches.
This young animal move about part
ly by swimming and partly b nett
ing, generally tn a tone juatf below
the eurfure of the water. 1'reaum
ahly at that point it geti Juat the
food It want, the evater 'ontalnlng
Juat the right amount of air and
ealt and the light la right, when
two day old it develop two amall
ohella, but a little paddling flap pro
ject from the shell.
About the loth day .he young
oyater sinks below the surface, pick
out a favorable place, anchor
ttaelf, and settle down to eat to
produce a shell, grow and propagate
its epeclee.
Whenever the water is sufficiently
warm the shell Is open and water
flows through the open way. Qroas
dirt la strained out by a strainer.
The organs of the oyster absorb bac
teria, organic matter 'rom leached
soil, sewage, young plants, and ani
mal lire feeding on organic matter,
salt and other chemicals contained
In the water. When the water la
cold the oyster closes hi shell and
since little or no water pasaes
through it does little or l.o fee 'li.
The quality of the waters as feed
ing grounds for that water life
which man uses as food la subject
to change. Tests made it Monona
lake, Wisconsin, and In Illinois wa
ters, a well aa teats made In Ger
many show that increaatng the
No Diet Will Help.
C. t. writes: "I am affected with
shaking and am losing control of my
lege, the shaking is not very bad, but
my legs are at I ft and elow. It start
ed on my left Bide Ave year ago
and up to nine month ugo I could
still do almost any kind of work,
but now It is very hard for me to do
clerical work, which Is the kind of
work I have followed for the last 20
years. I am 60, and I have other
wise good health and have a srood
apetlte. I there anything you
j would advise In the way of a diet,
or wnat wouia you advise me to do
In the way of improving my health?"
Reply.
I presume you havo paralysis
agltans or some other sha'dng palsy.
There Is no diet for this diSHaee. Eat
whatever you like that is suited to a
man of your age and taking the
exercise you take.
Halt the Race for Size
(From th Waahlngtoo Star.)
Evidence of the exact cause of the
dirigible disaster in England Is diffi
cult to obtain owing to the com
pleteness of the destruction and the
submergence of the wreck in the
Humber river. In fact, tt may never
be known to a certainty just what
happened. But from '.ha statements
of eye-wltneaaes on the ground,
from those of the few eurvlvors, and
from knowledge of the condition of
the ZR-2 just before the test trip,
tt Is deduced as fairly well demon
strated that one of the girders
buckled, and this punctured one of
the balloonets or gas containers, or
perhaps one of the fuel tanks, and
the explosion resulted. In short, all
that is known points to a structural
defect. And it is reasonable to be
lieve that this was no mere accident
of bad material or bad worknman
ship, but was the consequence of
overextension. Tn short, that ZR-2
was too big for safety. -
It may be that a dirigible 700 feet
in length; and proportionate in other
dimensions, can be built strong
Happy Mrs. Crocker.
We are sure that Mrs. William C. Crocker
must be a happy woman, for the has just re
turned from seeing a whole French village in the
enjoyment of happiness which she has been able
to bring to them. There is no other happiness
equal to that which comes from helping others.
It wat certainly fortunate for the people of one
French village that there was an American wo
man able to get for herself that noblest form of
human comfort and wise enough to seize the
opportunity.
In December, 1916, Mrs. Crocker "adopted"
the little French village ofVitrimont, which had
just been obliterated by the Germans. And she
has completely rebuilt the town, including all its
public buildings, precisely at it was when it was
destroyed, except for the addition of modern
plumbing and sanitation, which does not show.
The same buildings, in the same places, the same
quaintness, but with more comfort The owners
of the dwellings are now living in them and their
children and children's children will rise up and
call Mrs. Crocker blessed.
Nothing more charming has been done in this
world,, nor can greater happiness come to any
woman than to know that the benedictions of a
whole village of distant and simple people will
follow her always in this world and others to
which she may attain. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Why Canada Is Loyal
Canadians are loyal to the empire, and they
ought to be, for as constituent states of the em
pire the dominions have not only all the benefits
of national independence, but they have also
what is denied to national independence in the
case of the majority of countries enjoying it, they
have an influential voice m the determination of
the great questions of world politics. Belonging
to the British League of Nations, they are ad
mitted to the international councils of the great
powers. Toronto Mail and Empire.
Values and Taxes.
Every time taxable values drop the tax rate
thows its resiliency by bouncing up a little.
Indianapolis Newa.
nd the Internal strains. Possibly
the girders were too frail for the
load they had to carry, and the fault
was, after all, one of engineering
and not merely of size. But is It
well to try the experiment beyond
tne point at which it is known that
a dirigible can be built and safely
used?- This big gas bag which fell
the other- day cost approximately
$2,000,000. She is a total loss. There
is no salvage. The questions, who
is to blame, who is to pay, are of
lee Importance now than what la
the future of the dirigible. Is therr!
ny advantage In putting out a big
ger bag with a longer radius? Has
the dirigible a commercial, prac
tlcal utility aeainst the airplane that
justifies these experiments in mavnl
tude and power so Costly In terms of
ootn money and lives?
On the llth of November dele
gates of the major nations will meet
in tnis city to discuss the Question
of disarmament. It would be well
for the United States, on the eye of
that meeting, quietly to halt further
worn in giant dirlslble construction.
Whatever the outcome of the session
may be, whatever the purpose of an
immense self-propelled, self-floating
airship of vast size may be, there is
now ample reason for checking the
race for dimensions that has cost
to sorely.
oes,
Defends Governor Allen.
Omaha, Aug. 31. To the Editor
of The Bee: Your Council Bluff
correspondent, who is evidently dis
turbed by something Governor Allen
of Kansas is reported to have said
in his address at the Chamber of
Commerce luncheon on last Friday,
is in the position of a lot of good
people of Omaha; he did not hear
the address and therefore he does
not know what he is enraged at, al
though the- address was unusually
well reported by The Bee.
Governor Allen does not have the
undivided affections of union labor,
we will suppose, since he insists on
putting some labor leaders in his
state in jail for violating the law.
And it is still true that,
"No rogue ere' felt the halter draw
With good opinion of - the law."
Governor Allen does not mince
matters in speech. He gives plain
enough to 'withstand the air strain j ,n 8 l'LXt
"Splendid Isolation"
(From th Montreal Star.)
No nation, however powerful, can
stand alone. Wo British can say
this with chastened unction; -.tor
we have only recently been learning
this lesson anew. Most of us will
remember that we made a boast at
the time of the Boer war of our
"splendid isolation." We seemed
not to have a friend in the world.
Kruger was hailed in Marseilles and
Paris, and found an asylum in Hol
land. Munich demonstrated madly
on behalf of his Germanic Boera.
There was much outcry against us
in the United States, though the at
titude of the American government
which still remembered Manila
bay was, very correct. But we were
unafraid. We had our supreme
navy ana we giorined in our "splen
did isolation."
Then came the German challenge.
W soon found that we needed
friends, Understandings, "entente."
But we still had an almost Washing
tonian dislike of the word "alliance":
yet it is quite possible if we had
frankly faced the situation and en
tered into an open alliance with
France and Russia, thu making it
certain that we would tight auto
matically if either of theae nation
were attacked, that even the Ger
man kaiser would have had a glim
mering of reason and hold his hand.
W did fight: we did fight as mem
bers of an alliance; our decision was
a deep disappointment and a tar-
mendous "damper" to Germany. If
we had taken that decision oubllclv
and in advance, would Germany
have ventured tnto death grips w;tii
the old Sea Lion?
might- well have heard what he
said about labor conditions "in his
Omaha address, although his utter
ance on -the labor situation Was
merely Incidental. . The address was
on agricultural problems It was in
tended for Omaha business men to
hear. And it presented vital facts
that all should know.- More is the
pity that so few showed an interest
in the great problems which so ma
terially concern their business and
political welfare. The -splendid au
dience which greeted Governor Allen
and appreciated his address were the
strangers within our gates.
But what your Council Bluffs
reader understands Governor Allen
to have said, viz, "The cause of high
freight rates is the inefficiency of
railroad labor, and that live men are
employed to do the same work that
was performed by one man in 1817"
is not an accurate restatement of
Governor Allen's words, and wholly
misrepresents the idea the speaker
put over. Governor Allen conveyed
the idea that some rules of union
labor retard the efficiency of labor
and increase the cost of production.
Who doubts it?
In putting over this criticism of
organised labor Governor Allen is
not an apologist and does not expect
anyone to defend him. The apology
ana defense are due from organized
labor. H. F. M'INTOSH.
Manager Agricultural Bureau of the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce,
The Happy Valley :
A Prediction.
Five years from now all automo
biles will be equipped with kitchen
ettes and bed roomettes, and homes (plains and the steaming jungles is
will be abolished. Atchison Globe, theirs. Here is a Nirvana of the
(From the Philadelphia Ledger.)
When the explorers who are push
ing; around the mighty shoulders of
Mount Everest came to a place that
wu called Rongbuk they found it a
"strangely holy valley." say col
onel Bury:
Here in this valley live be
tween 30 and 400 hermits and
nuns la solitary celts, or in
caves dotted about under the
great cliffs that bound the val
leys. Here no news from the
outer world ever penetrates.
The hermits and the nun live
a life of the greatest sesluslon
under the shadows of the giant
. precipices of Mount Everest
and can contemplate the mar
velous beauties of nature in
peace and solitude.
It is further recorded thaf "all the
animals and birds in this valley are
extraordinarily tame. Rock pigeons
would come and take food out of
our hands." Man and bird and
beast dwelling together in the
shadow of the holy places.
ah races know that slow urge that
leads man or woman far from the
crowds and the streets and the slow
ascending smoke of human habita
tions Barbarism and semi-savagery
know it Civilization dos not
escape it. Monasteries nf all creed
and faith have been peopled by it
from time immemorial.
Here in the Himalayas these tired
souls have come to rest, like tired
swallow, nesting in the very eaves
or "The Roof of the World." The
pageantry of sunset and sunrise, of
glacier and river and the foothills
that fall away and away to th far
Big Crowd at Opening
Of Dodge County Fair
Fremont, Neb., AusT. 31 (Spc
c'al.l The loth annual Podge coun
y fair opened at Hooper with one
of the bet opening dty rrowdt ever
recorded. When the gatrt opened
practically every available tpace in
I the cattle, heg and horte depart
inent was occupied. The committee
In charge found it necctary to put
up a huge tent to house the sheep
exhibition and the lloyt rig club.
The poultry department made a
much better display than usual with
the improvement of the poultry
buildings.
There are five or tlx township
exhibits that would draw much at
tention at the Mute fair. W'omrn
have a special department with fan
cy work creationt and an appetitlng
display of nrriiervet and jellies.
Dancing and lirewotkt were held in
the evening.
"DrV'Worker Plana to Aid
Prohibition Enforcement
St Taul. Aug. 31 J. D. Kngle.
former chairman of the prohibition
party in thit ttate, declared that he,
with associates, plan to form an en
forcement organization "with teeth
in it." i
"The organization it not to be po
litical," Mr, Engle declared, "but it
to be dedicated purely to the project
of law enforcement in this ttate. We
will get evidence, turn it over to the
federal officials and press prosecu
tion. In addition we will make a
survey of the personnel of the pres
ent enforcement officers and seek
dismissal of those we think unfit."
Officers Lure Bootlegger
To Fremont by Fake Call
Fremont. Neb.. Aucr. 31. (Spe
cial.) Lured to Fremont by a fake
telephone call irom.otlicers wno torn
him they wanted a quantity of booic,
C. C. Calkins of Omaha wat arrest
ed in Fremont by Sheriff Condit
for alleged liquor operations at Ueh
ling, Neb., last July.
At a hearing here Monday auer-
noon, Calkins, represented by At
torney Emcst Anhcuscr, Omaha,
was found guilty on three counts. He
was fined $200 and sentenced to 30
days in jail. Witnesses testified that
Calkins sold hootch in uenung.
Member of Artillery
Corps Killed by Shark
Manila. P. I, Aug. 31. Attacled
by a shark while bathing in Ma
nila bay lodty, Private Marcillut T.
Abernathy was o severely bitten
that he died shortly afterwards. Hit
companion, who witnessed the at-
!. pciii m mn ii'i am anu a ara-
plane wat despatched to hit ttkUt
aucr. Abernathy wat Picked up by
the plane an dtaken to the Corregidor
hospital, w here an operation at per
formed without success.
Abernathy wit a member of the
Ninth Coast artillery corns stationed
on the ialand of Corregidor, in Ma
nila bay. Hit nearest kin it Mii
Mildred Abernathy, a sister, of For
sythe, Ga.
Goo J Profit in Live Stock,
El wood Breeder Sayi
John Ward, live stock brcrder of
Elwood, was a visitor at the stock
yard yesterday bringing in 39 head
of Hereford yearlings for which he
recoived the top price of $9.50 a
hundred. Mr. Ward said tlvre wat
good money in the live stock rais
ing business if the Hsrr doe not go
heavily in debt for feeders and raises
his own Hock. He said he had 60
cowt on his farm and 59 calves, the
latter being raised fur market.
High Places, a Happy Vnlley on the
roof of a planet.
Human nature la a cnangeiese
thing. There will alway be a few
souls who will sicken of ihe world,
of Ha ways and of the shapes that
stalk its path. These will find sol
itude, whether It be in monastery in
the heart of a metropolis or in a
cave hollowed in the thoulder of a
mountain that overlooks a continent
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The following statement was re
cently made by Governor Miller of
the Federal Reserve Bank:
"A well-worn savings bank
book, showing systematic and
frequent deposits, is the best
recommendation a young man
can present when applying for
a position of trust. It is not only
an evidence of thrift, but shows
a determination to live on less
than he makes, which, in the last
analysis, is the road to a compe
tence. "Recommendations and Influ
ence of friends of the applicant
fade into insignificance with the
employer when compared to
the above mentioned! character
istics.".
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