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THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1921. TheOmaha'Bee DAILY (MOKMNti) KVENlNGiSUNDAX THE BBC rUBLUHlNO ObHTlHX NCUON a UPD1KS, NMUW MUUU OF THE ASSOCIATED ntUS to Ammmi fimt, at ikU Taa ft K , I WKWI CnUlM I Ik M NtuMlMtM aU 4. HI awns la M af aS MaarvtM W4 lkf al. M4 aat laa tatal MM eaiiiirta tmmn. aU flikU Ma k4um m tm tnui mmra ait aws laama. TM DmU Mm wnM at (M audi Ruiwa at ClIW frUrni. las imbim4 suUturtif m aimtlMiui klu BEE TEUPHONCS Per Wlal After I f. H. MHorUi Ptnaai alkali ltt at Utl OFFtCU OP THE BEE Mil nmt I7ik "4 ftntm Cmmii affs w rmk i w am wsi bwi St Out-af.Tewa OKI m f Mt rvm . i wmiumk mi a t 1M Wrtdw Old I far If.. M hi K Haaors The Bee$ Platform 1. New Ualea Passenger Stall. 2. Ctlud lnrevint f Ik Ne braska Highway, Including the pave maot ef Main Thoroughfares leading into Onutha with a Brisk Surfa. 3. A ikerl, low-rate Waterway from tka Corn Ball l tka Atlantic 0n. 4. Horn Rule Chart for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. L The Bar and Judge Landis. , , When the committee of congress decided that Judge Kcnesaw Mountain Landis had committed no ofTettbe, done no wrong, in accepting employ ment from the base ball interests while retaining hit position on the bench, it was felt that the matter had passed on to the American Bar as so. elation. Nor wi there any uncertainty as to what the pronouncement of that body would be in the premises. The form as expressed by the resolutions adopted at Cincinnati indicates the determination of the bar to preserve its high standard of ethics and morals, and to omit noth ing in defease of its position. Had the bar association omitted this action, it would have stood before the world at con doning what its members feel to be a wrong thing. The personality of Judge Landis does not enter into the argument, nor has any challenge of his motives been made. His act is looked upon as unethical, and by some as immoral. No amount of sophistry or special pleading can mod ify the outstanding features of the case. One of the dearest rights of free people is that justice shall be unimpeded, not bought or sold, nor influenced by any consideration save the right. Courts are human institutions, and judges are men, but in the ease of the federal bench in effort has been Wade to remove the judge from the ordinary temptations, ambitions and even conditions of life. He is conceived to be a man of trained mind, superior to the allurements of place and power, wealth and its accompani ments;. he is secure in his position, assured of an income sufficient to provide not only comforts but some luxuries; surrounded at all times by the things that appeal to the intellect, affording hira opportunity for enjoyment beyond the scope of the layman, and -possessed of the respectful regard of the community. When he does any thing that brings the least whisper of suspicion against himself, he has done something that is an injury to our entire system of administering justice. ' , ; '" In accepting private employment while yet on the bench, Judge Landis has subjected him self to proper criticism. His act has been a reproach to him and to all his associates. He may dismiss' the subject as he did, with, "I have nothing to safr," but the people of America will not cease to marvel at the spectacle of a federal judge drawing one salary from the public and another from private employers, and will not cease to believe that "No man can serve two masters," ' General Wood and Filipinos. With the announcement of his acceptance of the position of governor, general' of the Philip pines, Geri. Leonard A. Wood also gives notice of intention to retire from the military service ufc iliv V ii i ( v. u hjit...a. 1 1 u is viiM.ivu .J j inn v.. account of length of service to honorable retire ment, and will take advantage of this. The house military affairs committee lately refused, to con sider a-bill passed by the senate, which would have allowed the general to retain his rank in the army while acting in the civil capacity. He meets. this emergency by action that shows how highly he 'values the opportunity given him 'by President Harding, and his continued willing ness to serve where he may do good. For the country it is fortunate that a man of this type is available to deal with the affairs of the Philippines, which are not only seriously but critically involved. The work over there is one of the most important undertakings this country ever set out to accomplish, and to its carrying out we are morally obligated. Miserable political management has undone a great deal that was set on foot by the republicans, and our national influence has suffered because of the undermin ing effects of th flirtation set up between the Wilsonites and" the Filipino politicians. This can be set right only by firmness and fair dealing, with the assurance to the natives '.hat justice will be done and they will not be deprived of their birthright because of the pres ence of the United States as tutor and guide. General , Wood's presence there will be the best guaranty we can give the islanders. Message of the County Fairs. The season of county fairs is well under way, soon to be capped by the state fair at Lincoln. No one of these' can be visited without there being aroused a feeling of pride in the achieve ments that thus are evidenced. In Dodge coun ty the exhibits of fine live stock were so num erous that a tent had to be erected to accom modate the pigs of the boys' clubs and the sheep display. A noticeable feature is the determined effort to raise the best qualities of products and not to waste time and effort on mongrel breeds and poor varieties. It is this progressive spirit of the farmers and their wives and chil dren that is largely responsible for the fact that the total value of Nebraska farms ranks above all except two other states, Illinois and Iowa. These agricultural fairs show better than anything else could the solid foundation of the atate'a prosperity. Statistics say that there are in Nebraska 124,000 farms, and that the average value is $29,927, but it is only through viewing the annual exhibition . of their products that city folk can really have the magnitude of the agricul tural industry impressed upon them. Seven thousand people attended the Nemaha county fair fat one day, and not one of these could have left without being atrengthened and in spired at was that mythical hero of old who drew li might from contact with Mother Earth iitd was conquered only when hi antagonist lifted him aloft and broke the subtle spell as his strength drained away. Democracy and Demagogy. One of the most astounding statements lately issuing from a responsible source' is the follow ing paragraph from the editorial columns of the Omaha World-Herald: The law sink from the jnajestlc to the trifling. It becomes not friend and protector but cither a nuisance or an oppressor, some-' thing to be evaded or ignored rather than obeyed. Instead of something plain and aim pie and easily understood it it transformed into a maze, a network of ropes and airing and wires and cobwebs hopelessly tangled and snarled. Made without wisdom, made odea in a blind partisan fury, often with headstrong passion and prejudice, without regard for sym metry or proportion, not a natural growth hut in artificial monstrocity, how can such law be expected to rule successfully a great and free and enterprising people all of whom have a hand in t making, all of whom are Ignorant of most of it, and all of whom are disgusted with much of itf This is a direct invitation to anarchy. It i subject to but one interpretation; the people are advised to select what, if any, laws they wish to obey, and to make such selection from time to time as convenience or interest may direct, and to evade or ignore the others. In this land the laws are made by the people, and if we have too many or if some of them are oppressive, it is within the power of the people to apply the remedy. In Nebraska we have not only the legislature, but the initiative and refer endum system (especially championed by the Omaha World-Herald), and if the statute books are cluttered up with "ropes and strings and wires and cobwebs hopelessly tangled and snarled," 'it is because the people so willed. ' The remedy does not lie in the evasion of law, but in obeying the law in its minutest par ticular, enforcing it exactly on all; then if it be oppressive or hindering, it will soon disappear before public disapproval. To allow one man, or a group of men to set themselves above the law, or any of the laws, is 'to open the door to all to do the same, and then the whole fabric of the law dissolves and the mists of anarchy and chaos enfold the race. Such demagogy as the para graph quoted contains is unworthy any cause. Not Another Ludlow. Marching troops of the United States are going into West Virginia to terminate a private war. It is not to be another Ludlow, but is the earnest effort of the proper authority of the United States to maintain the sway of law and to preserve the peace and order of the country. No matter what the cause, no matter which side is right or wrong, neither the miners nor the mine owners has the righMo defy the law and to set up an army to enforce private views or to right private wrongs. Only the state can do that, but, having failed to assert its sovereign authority the state of West Virginia calls on the federal government for assistance, and three regiments of infantry are on the way to 'disperse the armed groups that now defy the government. Untutored men may think they are permitted to carry out their own plans for settling their own troubles. Unscrupulous or selfish men may feel they are privileged to protect their own property or assert their own policies in much the same way. Both are wrong. Over West Virginia, in over Colorado, Nebraska or any other state in the union floata Old Glory, the symbol of the power of all the people, and to it all must bow, feeling sure that justice will be done under its sway. .Whatever else may take place in West Virginia's coal mining region, the law must be observed.''' . '' '.-'., ""ji.''' -'' " C," Leaving School Too Soon. Not more' than half of the children attend school after the age of 14, according to a survey by the American Institute of Civil Engineers. No one can doubt that there are in Omaha and the state at large many boys and girls who will fail to return to their classes this month although their schooling is unfinished. A heavy respon sibility rests on parents who acquiesce in such arrangement ".'V" ,:" '..;..:" 7'" While it may be true that higher education such aa is provided by the universities is thrown away on eome of those who enjoy its privileges, it is impossible to uphold any such declaration concerning "the high schools. Those who lay down their books at the age of 14 are entering on the opportunities of life and the, responsibil ities of citizenship ill-equipped. They can scarce ly be said to have acquired the foundation on which their future development must rest. For their own sakes and in the interest of unified prog ress toward a higher standard of living those who are halting by the way should be convinced of the advantage that the schools hold out to them. ' The Omaha Live Stock exchange, in en gaging Dr. W. T. Spencer to conduct the fight on tuberculosis among live stock has shown a public spirit that ought to be appreciated in the country and city as well, for diseased animals are a menace to all. ; The railroad official who declares that the farmers are no worse off than many others speaks the truth, but ignores the fact that pros perity generally starts on the farms and then spreads out to all lines. . The theft of a guitar from a Howard avenue flat furnishes the Jastest police mysteryit is impossible to discover whether it was confiscated by a neighbor, a burglar or a music critic Those miners who were ordered to return to their homes perhaps were evicted and had none. Don't Do These Things. Don't blow out the gas, don't take medicine from a bottle in the dark, don't light a match to see if there is gasoline in the tank; don't go around the rear of a street car without looking, don't rock the boat It would be possible to con tinue the catalogue much further, but everyone knows all of the rules in the category to which these belong, though somebody violates one of them and makes a case for the coroner every once in a while. This is the time of year when another ancient "don't" is frequently violated. It was violated m Monroe the other day by four people and the next day one of them was dead. They depended upon general judgment instead of exact knowl edge m the selection of the ingredients for a mess of mushrooms. The appropriate don't for all such cases is don't eat anything supposed to be a mushroom unless yon know exactly what it. i- uetroit Jtree iress. . , Brains and Unemployment Hoover's CU for Conference Holds Out Hopes for Kelicf. (From the New York Times) Barring a single infelicitous phraie, Secre tary Hoover's snnounccment with regard to President Harding's unemployment conference is temperate and of good omen. "It Is Incon ceivable," be ' "that America, with its sur plus in food and clothing, with housing though crowded end with an abundance of fuel, could allow any suffcrng amoug those of our own fieople who desire lo woik." Such a situation i paradoxical, lamentably tragic but unfor tunately all too conceivable. Hard times have recurred with something very like cyclic regularity, and a leading feature his generally been lessened consumption, or, to put it the other way, overproduction. Thanks to the war, the civilised world is drained f ready resources as never belore, and the organized international cooperation that might have forestalled em barrassment has been rendered impossible, large ly by our own blind prejudice. If anything is "inconceivable' it is that we hhould altogether escape the logical result of the crisis through which we re passing. In spite of Mr. Hoover's phrase, he would doubtless be the first to grant the truth of all this. Nowhere does his statement give promise of direct financial aid to the unemployed. That could only result in waste and misdirection of energy a vast increase of the burden of taxa tion and a crippling of the very industries which, under the spur of individual initiative, afford the only sound basis of future prosperity. One great resource remains, however, which hitherto has never been mobilized a nationally repre sentative conference of all the elements in the .situation, which shall be inspired by a spirit of mutual sacrifice and enlightened self-interest The gist of Mr. Hoover's announcement lies in the following phrase: "A broad study of the economic measures desirable to ameliorate the unemployment situation and give impulse to the recovery of business and commerce to normal.' In similar crises hitherto this has never been possible perhaps not even "conceivable." There have been far too many employers of the type revealed by Samuel Untermyer in the Lock wood committee hearings, far too many unionists of the type of Brindcll. But that has never been the chief obstacle. In the lack of any broadly constructive program, the more in tclligent type of employer and employed have remained at loggerheads, each jealously guard ing its own gains and its strategic position for the future. This is the case today. How far employers have of late been animated by a purely factional view of the situation it is not .possible to tell, for they have had the wisdom of. silence; but Mr. Gompers has been loudly and vehement ly outspoken in his proclamation of a narrow, class-limited policy in his demand of privi leges for labor which are today quite impos sible and which at any time could be achieved only by a frank and free co-operation of all the industrial forces that make up the nation. Into this situation, this seemingly eternal deadlock, Mr. Hoover has thrown the catalyst of an idea. There is and always has been a third factor in the industrial problem, the educated technician who is neither capitalist nor hand laborer but the executive brainy of both. Speci fically, there is the Society of American Engi neers. Almost a year ago Mr. Hoover began a nation-wide research into industrial conditions with a view to precisely such crises as the one now confronting us. The individual researches each, one working in the industry in which he is employed are inspired by his high en thusiasm, by his belief that, if any feasible plan is forthcoming, both the American employer and the American workman will have the intel ligence and the public spirit to embrace it . This attack upon our industrial problems is a thing quite new; it is as bold as the situa tion is huge and difficult. That it should at once succeed is not impossible, though unfor tunately not probable. But it has a far greater chance of success than the academic and talka tive industrial conferene of a year and a half ago. Time is long.. That the brain force of in dustry should not eventually succeed in uniting the forces of the .nation for the nation's good is, if you will, inconceivable. The First Test . The republicans of New Mexico have prob ably put their best foot foremost in nominating H. O. Bursum to succeed himself in the senate. He is serving now by appointment. The elec tiona special one takes place next month. This will be the first test of public sentiment of any consequence on political matters since November.1 Has the tide turned? Or is it still with the republicans? Secretary Fall, and through him the adminis tration, will be felt in the campaign. He is a strong man at home, and probably the stronger by reason of the compliment the president has paid him by calling him to a seat at the cabinet table.-'-- - . - v, ;-,L: Interest in the contest is increased by specu lation touching the influence of the result outside the state. If the tide has turned, how much benefit -will Tammany, and democratic organiza tions in other states where campaigns are sched uled for this year, derive from a -disclosure of the fact In this far-away state in the southwest? If the advantage is still with the republicans, how much benefit all around will they derive? The campaign will be short only a month. But all campaigns on the card this year will be short. Money is scarce, and both parties have discovered that campaigning nowadays con sumes the wherewithal in quantities. There are some expensive new wrinkles, and even old wrinkles are costing more than hitherto. Washington Star. American Farm Values. In 1910 the census found the value of all the farms in the United States to be $34,801,125,697. In 1920 the census valuation was $66,334,309,556. The figures had been nearly doubled in ten years. The average value of a farm had risen in a decade from $5,471 to $10,287. But, of course, the dollar was worth less in January, 1920, than it was in 1910 or is in 1921. That group of grain growing states which is known as the west north central and which in clude Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and the Pakotas reported an increased value in farms of $13,000,000,000. Yet there were those who doubted whether $2.26 wheat would be profitable. Iowa alone is credited with a rise of more than $4,000,000,000 m the value of its farms. The figures are amazing until more astound ing amounts are recalled. Take, for example. the total 190 valuations 01 the larms of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the solid south and the mountain and Pacific states. Sell them all, land and buildings, at the census estimates and you would have just about enough money to pay the American war bill I New York Herald. :. - ( - No Place for Politics. The problem of framing a just and equable revenue law at the present time would appear difficult enough to demand the best efforts of leaders in both parties without introducing a political element into an issue so far removed from the field of politics. There is neither a republican nor a democratic way of revising? the income tax or of taxing corporations and articles of consumption. What is sound, is sound irre spective of the support it may have. There may be certain national issues that naturally lend themselves to differences of opinion along party lines, but taxation is not one of them. Cleve land Plain Dealer . v How to Keep Well f OR. W A IVANS QuMtiras BMrvlafl kytlaaa, Maitatiaa aM f Ua at dJaaua, auaailttee' la Dr. Cvaaa iUui fa aW, vUl fca uMr4 twaaltr. la M imiwm wt sum m liHiuliaa. a aUanaa' anS aavalaa U aa ill at Bubt rfiasaaaia at aratariaa lar la4lvWaal dl Malta, I far al Taa Baa. Caarnaal, till, a Dr. W. A. Svees Aaara laltara EXTRACTINO VITAMINES. It has been proved that a food to be adequate niut have a proper amount of carbohydrates, such aa larrh and sugar, fat, such aa but ter and gravy, protaln, such as lean maAt and it, minerals, such aa an It and lima, and aluu of a newly diacoverad aet of u balance known aa vitamlnoa. It la common to niwamire the food requirement by calorie or heat u in t. ana in judging or a roon Mini iiteajture outweigh all others In Im portune. Hut in addition to calor ie or energy unit, it la ncury that the diet ahould contain a cer tain epucllled quantity of protein If the tliwuea are to be kept In flrat- cImwi repair. A a rule It I not necsaaary to pay attention to mineral, uliue the avaruga mun will eat enough miner al to aupply hi needs If he cat the diet which are customary among our people. The vltumlnes atlll are an un known quantity, though we have learned much about them In recant yearn. It 1 the Abundance of this fermentlike group of aubatnnce In very frexh foods which la responsible lor their miperiorlty. Klnh eaten at the Wiiterxldc. but ter just out of the churn, new laid t'CRft, radlnhen, onion, and pen rrexn rrom trie garden, all these not only tame better but are more wholesome than other ldr, more traveled, and more Bophlitlcated food products, In all probability be cause they have more vlinmine. Hut alnce we cannot all live by the river and catch our own fish, or live on the farm and auck a cow in a pasture, It becomes Advisable to put vttamlnes In permanent form If it can be done. A year ago Dubln and Lewi of Amu, I., described a method of drying vltaminee And put ting them up in powdered form. The drug house have permanent prepA rations of vltaminea on the merket More than two years ago Given told of uHlng dried orange juice a an addition to the diet For year Hess ha advocated the use of the juice of canned tomatoes a a preventive of ecurvy. There fore I was not aurprlsed when I read in the Journal of Biologljal Chem istry that McClendon not only ex tracted various vitamines and put them up in a form in which they would keep but he demonstrated by laboratory teat that the vltAmlne extracted had not been -lestroyed or made ineffective in the process. From green leaves and fruit skin he extracted fat soluble A. He pre served this and other vitAmines in mint oy drying it with heat. Other vitamin were extracted from spin ach, yeavt, and the germ . t wheat. The mot frail of the vitamlne U that which prevent wuny. Ha preserved the antl-arorbutio vita, mine of orange and tomatoes. It may ba that w are coming to canned vltaminea 1'erhapa the table of the future will have three or more vliamlne ahaker a!onld the wilt and pep per. When w eat we will sprinkle a little canned vitamin on our canned meat and dried vegetables, cut it, and keep healthy. Every thing rural la being canned. We may soon have canned freshness. Try Eating Ilrnn. U. A. J. writes: "I am (I yean old. 1 have had very few natural evacuation of the bowels for sev eral year. I have ud epsom baU nnd other cathartics. Very often I use enemas. Will the frequent use of the latter Injure my system or health t" REPLY. The use of enems Is preferable to epsom salts and other cathar tics. However, It develops the enemA habit and that is a bud one. How did you get atarted on salts and ca thartics? But why ask? 60 many people of your generatioi did not know the harm of the cathartic habit Instead eat plenty of bran, vegetable and fruit. It this does not suftlc eat sugar. If hat is not enough take mineral oIL Bran Help Most People. I It. C. writes: Vis bran cooked with oatmeal eaten every morning during the year Injurious to the health, or i it beneficial?" REPLY. Beneficial to most people. I'sc Hot Vinegar. R. T. S. write: "Will you kindly tell how to remove nit from .he hAir After lice hAve been killed?" REPLY. Wash the hair with hot vinegar. Comb out the nit with a fine tooth comb. .Try Curing Yourself. J. H. write: 'l have had canker for 40 years, and as yet no doctor has cured me, so I take it there is no cure for canker. What have you to offer on the question? What is the cause of canker?" REPLY. The physicians msy not be Able to cure you, but you ran cure your self. Canker is caused by wrong eating habits. To cure it, change your eating habits. You earn it for yourself, now earn your cure. Sim ple as falling off a log. Get Ready for a Hard Winter From the Christian Century. Famine stalks in the alley of the great cities. The Liberty bonds and small savings accounts have been gradually consumed and many fam ilies are even now, in the middle of the summer, next door to want The commission on immigration and citi zenship of the Chicago Y M. C. A. has decided to inaugurate a cam paign of publicity to prepare the public for the dire things that seem about to happen. This commission Is authority for the statement that on July 1 in some parts of the state there were as many as five men for every opening for employment. The city of Chicago has large numbers of men sleeping out of doors and begging their daily bread: The first touch of real winter will drive these men indoors. The commission urges that the lodging houses of the city, which have fallen Into disuse dur ing recent years be made ready for the demands that are sure to press upon them during the coming win ter. The churches are &lso warned that they, too, must prepare to lend a helping hand. Where it is possible to do so, groceries should be bought up at the summer prices against the neea or the coming winter. In the cky of Chicago it is prophesied that there will be at least 200,000 men out of employment when the snow flies. These must have a min imum wage of $100 each to get through, the winter. Thi means that special plans for employment must be devised which will cost $20,000, 000, a sum of money father stag gering when one begins to grasp its meaning. Meanwhile every Influ ence should be used with congress to seek the cause of the present de pression and adopt adequate reme dies. The goods of the United States are being driven, out of the world markets, by the competition of reviving European countries. Na tions that would buy of us are un able to do so because of unfavorable exehange rates. If these common assertions about the economic situa tion are not correct, then the truth should be found and some kind of remedy devised. Poverty in the richest nation of the world is an ab surdity amounting to a social crime. Motor Drivers From the New Haven Journal Courier.' ' . Drivers of automobiles who make trouble finally with a crash of se rious character usually have a his tory. Just aa the seemingly sound oak tree when it lies prostrate- before the gale lies revealed weak and de fective at the heart, so as a rule there is an explanation when some driver sideswipes the citizen quiet ly going tils way, or terrioiy over turns himself or others, perhaps with fata results. Not always, but often. Quite recently a young man met his death in his car. As the details came out and all the facts, It de. veloped that his fast and heedless driving was remarked. His friends knew it and commented on it. He was not as other automobillsts are. This ran on for some time; at last the law of chance silent, remorse less caught him. Some time ago, another driver wrecked a party and created a sen sation. The victims were severely injured, the driver escaping by that strange law that keeps the theory of vicarious sacrifice to the fore. The accident nearly deprived the world of persons whom it would not willingly lose. When the matter was canvassed and all the evidence was in from the rear towns, it Ap peared that this man was known as a desperate driver. He was not con tent to use his machine as a means of transportation but he had to "step on her" and dash to and fro to make the groundlings stare. 80 definite was this that persons stepped forward to say that long be fore the accident they had driven with him but once only, telllm: him with some heat, "never again." It is probably true that in many, if not most cases, where there it disaster the explanation lies in -he past that "accident is a logical outcome of recklessness. - It may be profitable to Introduce the law of chance as a topic In the scbMla. It U not only curious but impressive. It is definitely known how often one may take a crossing "on the high," or cut in n a car in advance in perfect safety, the next time, however to be eligible for the hospital or related institutions. THE SINGLE TRACK MAN. There la a man In our little town. So careful and thrifty, they iay. H counts every seed in hl carden in spring; And dusta all hi tools when ho puts them away. This man has a Job In a town miles away. But he never misses his trsln. He a on time In the mornlni. he's on time at nliht, In sunshiny weather or rain. He always reads the same news sheet O' mornings and at night He buys one like the night before uu 1 n.u, tuo 1UK VLl quite. Now recently It happened . vnaiice came And knocked right at his big front door, auu b,to caura ms name. But this man In our town couldn't anawof, He hadn't a word to say. He had run so long on a single track no anew no other way. And so he gets the seven-ten. And the ftve-flfteen as well. And he'll soon be wearing blinders. As near as we can tell. Jane Bates, in Forbes Magazine (N. T.). Romance in Origin Of Superstitions Br H. IRVINQ KINK. Tha Child and the Woodpile. Among children's superstitions it one which says that "If you go out to the woodpile and say: 'Johnnie wilh your finger, Willie with your ton, tuthin (something) romrs out of the woodpile and tear off all your close (clothes)."' How many of u in childhood have thui approached a woodpile with bravado and, hav ing uttered the conjuration, fearfully ran for the house before the "nuthin ' could catch u. It it interesting to note that children have a collection of superstitions which are distinc tively their own and which they do not carry over with them into adult life, though they are by no meant more absurd than tlioe which influ ence them at "grownupi." These tupcrstitionn are learned from other children and not from older people. Generation after gen eration of children past them along to their tucceiaor from an origin in tome dim and distant pat. The question is: Why does childhood have its superstitions no more child ish than the superstitions of older people yet distinct from them? They are evidently superstitions once common to people both of child hood and maturity, or are derived from such superstitions. What is there about them that cause them to persist in the child mind long after they have ceased to be operative in the mature mind? The child's woodpile superstition is apparently not an inheritance from tree-worship, but from an idea of the an cients impinging upon it and be tween which are tree-worship it is sometimes hard to draw a definite line. It was that form of animism which regarded trees not as gods but as the residence of spirits, bene ficent or malevolent as the case might be. Examples of this are still found among uncivilized tribes in various parts of the world. The child at the woodpile crying: "John ny wn your finger t, Willi will) your toet i mocking the wood spirit whose former home, the trr which furnished the wood for the) pile, lies in ruin, but about which ha may be tuppocd to itilt linger. Naturally under turh circumstance the wood-spirit would b angry anl "tear off 'all" the child clothes i it caught him, (Owntht. by Tht P.II lyadlrtt Ine FIRST METHODIST CHURCH 20th and Davenport Titu Lowe Will Preach Sunday Evening at 7:43, on "When the Driver Loset Control" Morning Service, 11 o'clock, on "The Only Vital Religion" OMAHA LINCOLN AUTO ROUTE Go South on 13th St. via. Ft. Croolc, Plattsmouth, Union And "O" St. Road to Lincoln.. Good, Roads No Detours, via Ti TL Pollock Bridge Plattsmouth Parents' Problems Should children be allowed to nuke collection of birds' eggs? For purposes of study children, under supervision, might be allowed to make collections of bird.' eggs. Onl yone eff should be takrn from a nest, and that should bt so taken tint 1 ha mhir mat are not harmed. or the parent birds In any way dis . . a 1 1 . 1. turned, a goon oira ooo or good leader in nature study is nec essary to the making of a collection of bird' eggs without doing any harm. Applicants for admission to New York's policewomen's school must possess not only physical and mental qualifications for their jobs, but they must bring to them the spiritual quality which is indispensable Ke.Deautiful tone of? a fine violin is ?er manent'- in r&ct, it" tecomes more beautiful as years come and gaj ClZhere ds But one piano in the worjd mat fas tKi wrwderful tea" ttrre of every fine violin the matchless Its "tension resonator" frdasive hecause pat ented) irtakes its tone supreme, not onhr at nrstj tot slong as e in 9trcxment itself mdures ffiqiesimicech'- 4 J- 'Highest praised For our. from Real Bargains in PIANOS newly finished Pianos $150 up, installments of $1.50 per Week ; will please you. Th 1513 Douglas Street ! Art and Music Store 0 44 Hundreds of home owners have stated: I am going to have this winter" Nokol BUT the best we can do is to install a limited number before cold weather. Because Nokol can be in stalled only by men whom we have specially trained for the job, the number of installations before cold weather will be limited. This number is only one-fifth of the number of home owners who have stated to us "I am going to put in Nokol before cold weather." It is natural to delay, to assume that some way or other a last minute order will be filled promptly. But in fairness to our patrons, orders must be filled in turn. We, therefore, urge home owners, who have definitely decided on Nokol, to place their orders now and be assured of the full benefit of their installation. The recent great reduction in oil prices will mean a saving of 25 to 50 in fuel bills for Nokol users Nokol proved itself a good investment when the price of oil was at the peak. Thousands of Nokol heaters have been installed for home owners who have paid from 25 to 50 more for kerosene and distillate (Nokol fuel) than they will now pay. Their satisfac tion, at the high war price of oil, is the surest proof that today Nokol is a sound investment for you, from the standpoint of dollars and cents as well as comfort and convenience. Praaidemt L V. NICHOLAS OIL COMPANY -' ' "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Should Never Shovel Coaf