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    THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1SS1.
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The Dee's Platform
1. ' New Uolea PMBfr Station.
2. Cenllauesl Improvamaal of tha Ne
braska Hifhwaye, including Ik peve
neat of Mala Tberouebferee leading
lata Oamaba with Brick Surface.
3. A sort, lowrat Waterway from tka
Car Ball to Ika Atlantic Ocean.
4. Heme Rata Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Street Rcilway Fares in Omaha.
An order just emitted by the Nebraska State
Railway commission in connection with the street
railway fare in Omaha sharply brings forward
the real crux of the case. The company had
applied for temporary relief, to be had through
adding another cent to the basic fare, putting
the charge at 8 instead of 7 cents. Presumably
this Mould have permitted setting the actual
fare at four tickets for 30 cents instead of four
for a quarter as at present. That would have
raised the charge to regular customers by '
cents a ride. This increase was asked that the
company might make a larger return to Hs
stockholders, both preferred and common.
The commission suggests that instead of in
creasing the fare, the company reduce its ex
penses by cutting wages, beginning at the top
and going through to the bottom of the list.
Here, of course, is to be found the obvious way
out of the dilemma, but whether it is the line of
least resistance may be open to debate.
When the original advance from 5 to 7 cents
waa made in the fare, the public accepted the
situation with very little demur, because it was
clearly understood that most of the added col
lection was to go to the wage fund. Under the
Taft award the pay of the men engaged in op
erating the cars was increased by from 80 to 100
per cent, which rate is now being paid.
It will be easily understood that the men on
the company' pay roll, at least those who come
below the eight who draw a total of $58,700 a
year, will be disinclined if not positively re
luctant to part with any portion of their wages
or salary in order that a larger dividend may be
riad for the stockholders. Consideration of this
question may be laid aside for the time.
What la true, and appreciated by all, is that
Omaha does not want its tramway service to
fall into the disaster that overwhelmed Des
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noincs our people nam uic puonc service
maintained always at a high standard of effi
ciency, with good wages paid to satisfied, ca
pable and competent employes and with reason
able returns to the investors, and for this are
ready to pay. But they are unready to accept
1919 valuations as a basis for fixing charges,
and, without unduly interfering in the affairs of
the management, are quite likely to incline to
the belief that the request for temporary relief
was inopportunely made, I
The next move, in the affair will be waited
for with' considerable interest by the public,
which is, after all, the party most deeply con
cerned in the matter. ,
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X Keeping the League Busy.
Unless all reports are at variance with the
facts, the conclusion is warranted 'that the
docket of the League of Nations is not likely to'
run short Latest of interesting developments
is the announcement by Chile of intent to with
draw if any mention is made of the Tacna-
Arica matter in the agenda for the assembly's
action. All the parties to this dispute are mem
bers of the League of Nations, bound by" Ar
ticle XIII, which provides for the submission
to arbitration of alt questions arising between
the members which are .justiciable, and by Ar
ticle XV, which provides a way for settling dis
putes that are not submitted to arbitration.
Chile, however, does not care to venture its
claim to the disputed provinces to the decision
of its associates in the assembly or council.
Bolivia arid Peru accuse Chile of bad faith
in carrying out a treaty affecting the provinces
of Tacna and Arica, having thwarted the origi
nal plan for a referendum to decide the nation
ality of the area. To Bolivia the question in
volved is that of access to the ocean. That coun
try is left in much the same situation as was
Serbia prior to the war, when the "window on
the Adriatic" assumed such proportions. Po
land on being restored was especially favored
by the treaty makers, who set up Dantzig as a
free port, and neutralized a strip of Prussian
territory that the Poles might have an outlet
on tidewater. Fiume was to have served Jugo
slavia in the same fashion. Bolivia feels, quite
naturally, that its interests deserve attention
along similar lines.
, However, Chile is inclined to be contuma
cious, navmg overawed us weaxer neignDors
vith a show of force in the field and at sea, and
bow is trying the Same game with the League
of Nations. Perhaps the incident will afford an
illustration of how far the super-government is
prepared to go in dealing with a recalcitrant
member.
, Red Army and the Relief Work.
In the future, when you are discussing the
"red" arm of soviet Russia, do not rashly as
sert that that organization is devoid of all at
tributes of human nature, including a strong
sense of self-preservation. When a train bear
ing supplies for the American relief work in
the famine-stricken regions reached a point
, where a considerable detachment of the soldiers
had been stationed, it was held up and the sup
plies taken for "military" uses.
According to the narrative sent to this coun
try, the soldiers were without rations, and doubt
less they concluded they were or might be as
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hevists have brought to such an ecstatic state
. of felicity, and so they cjjramandeered the food
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in light. Likewise, if tit story sent from Narva
may be depended upon, these red warriors
showed good judgment in allowing a train
loaded with Eithonian contributions to pass un
molested, preferring the American lo the home
grown provender. In this the army exhibits the
lofty spirit that animates the entire Bolshevist
movement. Pretending the most exalted of
altruistic purpoies, it really is "suave qui peut,"
and the devil take the hindmost.
Trotsky's million or more of soldier have
been recruited and held together by the persua
sion of regular and enhanced rations, and that
16,000 newly assembled at Yamburg evidently
hold to the opinion that it is foolish to go
hungry when food is to be had for the snatch
ing, even if it be taken from the starving women
and children. Lessons of brotherhood are thus
being taught with impressive eloquence.
For the Sake of Farm Wives.
Spain is just coming to the use of American
farm machinery, encouraged in this investment
by a bumper crop. Most of the work of the
harvest, however, is done by means of the flail
and the tramping of oxen. After the grain has
oecn trampled on the hard ground, it then is
separated from the chaff by throwing the mix
ture high in the air and trusting to the wind to
blow the chaff away.
This seems primitive, yet it is scarcely more
s'o than is the lack of labor-saving appliances
that exists in many farm homes in the United
States. Increased conveniences in the kitchens
have not kept pace with the improvement of im
plements in the fields. Nevertheless those who re
member rural households as they were conducted
10 or 20 years ago cannot but be struck by the
advance that has been made. On the farms of
Nebraska, for instance, it is claimed, 17 per cent
of the homes have gas or, electric light, this
doing away with the dangers and drudgery con
nected with kerosene lamps. In the nation as a
whole these conveniences are found, according
to the census bureau, on 452,809 farms, or 7 per
cent of the total. Of the seven states having
more than 20,000 farms thus equipped, Iowa
comes second, after Ohio.
Most desirable of all helps to the farm wife
may be placed a plentiful and convenient supply
of water. Farms reporting water piped into
kitchens number 644,088, or about one farm out
of every 10. Greatly to the credit of Nebraska
farmers, it is found that the percentage here is
much larger, three out of 10. More than- half
the farms in Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and
Kansas have telephones.
That was an interesting story in the Sunday
Bee on the progress that is being made in light
ening the work of farm women and affording
them opportunity for leisure such as exists
among their sisters in the cities. Kerosene
stoves, fireless cookers, indoor drainage, screened
porches, bread mixers, wheel trays, washing ma
chines and the various Other comforts of modern
housekeeping are shown to be making great
headway in rural Nebraska. The cost of this is.
not light, but from the standpoint of family wel
fare, health and content, it pays good dividends.
Dangerous Grade Crossings.
It is disappointing that, in spite of the atten
tion given to road building, so little progress has
been made in eliminating the dangerous "grade
crossings. Inasmuch as in many cities, Omaha
being among the number, these death traps have
not been removed, criticism of county and state
authorities for this negligence can not fall very
heavy. Yet there will come a day when railroad
tracks and vehicular roads will not meet on the
same level, but one will go under the other.
Two men and two women, touring from Iowa
by motor car, died the other day when their au
tomobile was struck by a train in Illinois. Per
haps they were careless, but it also is possible
that they observed all the ordinary precautions.
There are crossings in Nebraska where the only
way motorists can be sure that they will not be
wrecked is to' stop the car and send a passenger
ahead on' foot to look down the tracks. One of
these, at least, is on a hill which makes a halt
difficult.
The peril of the grade crossing ought to be
better recognized; when this' comes about there
may be fewer casualties, but there ought also to
be a determination to do away with this needless
point of danger. There are now many national
highways, but the first one that can advertise the
fact Jhat it has done away with such intersec
tions will, no matter where it leads, be assured
of greatly increased travel.
Omaha Day at the Fair.
Thursday is Omaha day at the. state fair. Each
year this is the occasion of a pilgrimage to Lin
coln. From time immemorial the harvest sea
son has been a period of rejoicing, and the Cus
tom is one that should not be lost. The bounti
ful crops, the improvement in the grade of live
stock produced in Nebraska and the unfailing
industry of the farmer indeed provide matter fit
for the attention and admiration of the whole
population, most of all, perhaps, of this in the
cities.
The. highways between Omaha and the state
fair grounds are in excellent shape, and they
should be the Scene today of a long and numer
ous procession of those who go on this autumnal
pilgrimage.
The account of the launching of the new
superdreadnaught Washington failed to tell how
much it cost, how many tons of coal it will burn
to the mile or what its payroll for 130 officers and
1,281 men will amount to, facts which at the
present time are almost as interesting as the
number and size of its guns.
The American Bar, association . may have
strayed a little out of its field in attempting to
design laws to govern aviation. The business
of attorneys begins customarily after the people
enact the statutes and regulations. This nation
is still a government of laws and not of lawyers.
Even if President Harding does induce John
Wanamaker to increase the wages of the father
of 19 children, he need have no fear of the in
come tax, what with his whooping exemption.
The plow factory which has been unable to
meet its notes furnishes an example of the im
portance of prosperity on the farm to at least
one industry. -
News that Nebraska, which ranks second as
a hay producer, is led by New York state is a
reminder that not all farmers live west of the
Mississippi -
That automobile race up Pike's peak seems
like a waste of gas, but so do most of the speeches
in congress.
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How Conversation Began
Its Prehistoric Origin Makss
Present Day Application Plain,
(P. M. Colby in Harper's Mssajine for Sep
tember.) Alarm at the ignorance of oung men jut
out of collrpc, and iniddle-sised men around col
lege, and other men at any distance, (rum college
ha not only always been ey to me; it ha al
ways been very agreeable; and I believe thi is
true of all my acquaintances. I doubt if I have
ever met a man of mature years who did not take
a genuine pleasure in the ignorance of other peo
ple, whether in or out of college. 1 do not know
what the sociologist have said about it, but I
suppose they have shown that upon this instinct
all human conversation is founded, modified, of
course, as civilization advances.
Before going farther, I will say that the point
I am coming to has to do with the discussion
following the appearance of Mr. Edison's lift of
questions for young men just out of college and
with the samples offered by educational writers
before and since of the sort of things all other
Seoplc, young or old, under the sun should know.
ul in accordance with contemporary literary
usage, I shall not advance abruptly to that point,
if 1 advance to it at all. I shall first go back to
dawns and origins, not forgetting for one in
stant that both the reader and myself are mem
bers of human society, I shall go back only to
primitive man, though I might go back much
farther. Like other admirers of Mr. II. G. Wells,
I might go back to the amoeba, and if I do not
choose to do so any reader of this article may
simply thank his stars.
Now, in primitive life, as I gather from Mr.
Havelock Ellis, or Mr. tiraham Wallas, or Doc
tor Dreimacher, or M. Bergson, or the late Jo
seph Deniker or, at any rate, as 1 gather in
primitive life human conversation was exceed
ingly cruel, began, indeed, as cruelty in a modi
fied form. When the torture and killing of cap
tives gave way to the milder satisfactions of en
slavement men missed the rude gayety of the
earlier sport. Talk in a measure supplied it. The
stronger talked and the weaker listened; the an
swer in the modern sense, did not exist Con
versation was not, as the word implies, a turning
about; there was no turn about, it was one-sided;
ii two tried to do the talking one was killed.
Among the Zingputs conversation was always
opened by a blow from the bashdab (literally,
husher), a short, blunt instrument of burnt wood,
and proceeded entirely de haut en bas, the re
cipient remaining on the ground. Men listen where
they fall, says the Ziugput proverb. Among
the Magrubs, the chief always carried the tecka
teeka (literally, talk spear), made of the tusk of
the swamp hog, which was driven through the
fleshy portion of the left thigh of listeners into
a painted post provided for the purpose. In the
Goli language the verb to listen meant literally
"to have both legs broken" and the noun "listen
er meant etymologically the man unable to
move." It is curious to observe that the word
"poet" in many primitive tongues meant merely
the "man who holds you down."
According to spuickert, it was the Chinese,
foremost in so many of these early particulars,
who first observed that talk might proceed with
out maiming and who bound their listeners to
trees; and ropes were used by the Gauls before
Caesar's time, and leather thongs in the conver
sation of Germans, if scholars are right in their
latest conjecture as to Tacitus's somewhat ob
scure remark about the manners of 'the Imbro
catti. It never dawned on anyone, until long
after civilization had done so, that any man
could desire to know what anyone else desired
to tell him. Signs of this in our present speech
will occur to everyone. ,
Lier conversation avec, holding a conversa
tion, engaging one in conversation, fixing the at
tention, carrying the hearers away, and such
terms as. cogent, penetrating, enthralling, com
pelling speaker, gripping drama, rapt, ravishing,
vi, carried along, swept off the feet, and a hun
dred others, now associated with mild or pleasur
able mental states, all point to those centuries
of physical violence and pain in talk to the
seizure, throttling, stretching, binding, and per
forating of the talked-to by the talker, the grapple
of interlocutors, the clutch of the stronger
speaker on the other's throat, the stunning, drag
ging oft, and spiking down of listeners. The
modern vocabulary of conversational conditions
is the blood-stained record ot the ettorts of the
human mind to defend its inattention. '
How to Keep Well
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STATE FAIR BABY SHOW.
At tha Illinois atnt fair I Me peop'.s
of tha ila show their babiea mi
well aa thWr lull, tAVir pumpkin,
and thir knitting-,
Whenever me aporty umt bruit
annul hl entry In aunte liu raea a
fund mother counter by tiravslnir
about her entry In tha human r ',
Fur there' u baby ahow on with
tilua ribbona, sweapntaka puraea, and
II uthvr paraphernalia, ot rontaat.
It's a roj thlnif ihnt pcoi ar
betflnnltiaT to take a pride In thi-lr
children aa they have ao Puis don
In thi-ir ho- and their billy oa,t.
Of courae, a buby hw I no new
thins. K lung neo a SO yarn K. K.
Dunne, then a Judge, arbitrated an
old-fahlnnd baby ahow and ha per.
formed with u-h iVltlu urbanity
that he elrrted hlmaelf to the r"v
frrnor'e chair, the theory bring; Ihnt
nny man who could Judire a baby
how and keep everybody happy
could handle a race riot without
turning- a hair.
Thla la nut ii n old-faahluned baby
huw, but h-n not even a new-fashioned
buby ahow I a novelty any
more. Thia in a Kenulne eua-enlf
bnby nhow. The children (limited
to thoae between S months and (
year of aa In mont flaaae) ar
examined carefully to neo thut no
one brlnjt In any cont&itlon. No
child can be entered unleaa the pur
cnt can ahow Ita birth crtiflcata.
The authorities do not propone to
hnvo any rlnuem or mavcicka. It
la gradually bt-comlne; ao that a
birth rcKlatratlon will be required
fur marriage llcon, Inhorlun'.ea,
pamiporta, John, and lota of other
thliiKi,
The child found free of contaelon
and nceompHiiled by the birth cer
tiorate la entered either In a com
petitive or a noncompotltlvi clans a
the parent wishes. The Judge pay
no attention to pink ribb.ma, lace,
curl and dimples. lie In weighed
and measured, his eyre, teeth, ton
sils and ears are examined, his men
tal rapacity is tested, he Is rated on
personality, deportment and behavior.
When he rets through the record
on him is ns complete as though
they had looked through him with
an X-ray, Mudlrd him under a mi
croscope, or boiled him In a test
tube. Then the Judges take the rec
ords and make their awards in the
same scientific, Impersonal, and un
emotional way that an artillery cap
tain calculates angles and tangents
and orders the firing of hla pieces. '
These baby shows are great edu
cational Institutions. They set stand
ards. They tearh parents how to
Judge a baby Just as nn agricultural
Hehool teaches how to Judge a cow.
More Important still, thy tench
mothers how to care for their
babies. They are great universities
of niothereraft. In pnrt due to such
schools babies and children generally
are healthier than they were 20
years ago.
The Cliiggcrs' Progress.
H. J. D. writes: "You, a doctor,
Fhould be able to write an article
which may benefit the poor hunter
of squirrels In summer and who is
nearly driven frantlo with 'chlg
gers.' "
REPLY.
As a rule chlggers begin their
human pilgrimage in the vicinity of
the shanks. Since they do not carry
a lunch basket, they generally stop
The Agricultural Department
The selection of Charles W. Pugsley to be
assistant secretary of agriculture is in line with
expectation and promise. He may be described
as a farmer, not an agriculturalist. The differ
ence is pointed out in a popular witticism,
Mr. Pugsley was born and reared on a farm,
knows what cropping is and requires', and since
then has in his occupations kept in touch with
farming interests. He is up-to-date in matters
relating to the cultivation of the soil.
Last year Governor Cox used a phrase in his
campaign that "caught on." This was that if
elected he would appoint "a dirt fanner" secre
tary of agriculture.
The Department, of Agriculture has grown in
importance greatly in the past quarter century.
During 16 years of that time it was under the
direction of James Wilson of Iowa, a thoroughly
competent man, who gave his whole time to his
duties, and made reputation in his place.
Today, agriculture bulks larger than ever in
the country's equation. For several years we
have been feeding not only ourselves, but a large
part of Europe. The farmer has played well an
indispensable role in the most exciting drama the
world has ever witnessed. And as he must con
tinue in that role if the world is not to suffer, he
is entitled to have governmental affairs which
touch him the most intimately administered in
an understanding and successful way.
Mr. Harding has guaranteed this, first by the
appointment of Mr. Wallace, and now by the se
lection of Mr. Pugsley at Mr. Wallace's instance,
and the farmers will have nothing to complain
of on that score. Washington Star.
First Award for Harding.
There is every reason to believe that, should
the entertaining of Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt get
the $1,000,000 he is seeking as a "Woodrow Wil
son Foundation," its first award for "peace
through justice" achievements will go to Warren
Gamaliel Harding.
Mr. Harding is doing more for the cause of
peace through justice and common sense than
any President since William Howard Taft. It
is not the likelihood of getting any award such as
young Mr. Roosevelt visions which animates
President Harding, to be sure. That $1,000,000
foundation consists thus far of talk only, and
Franklin D. Roosevelt talk at that which is the
cheapest in the market. Still, when medals for
truly fine deeds in peace-assuring labors begin
to be passed around, they are not likely to miss
tongued oratory. Washington Star.
Every Inch Helps the Mills.
American mill owners can be expected to give
sympathetic ear to the Paris dictum for longer
skirts. Why not; remember the old theory about
an extra inch on the Chinaman's shirt tails that
was going to make the fortunes of all New Eng
land cotton manufacturers. Hartford Times.
, Why Not 205 "Rudder Granges?"
The government has accepted an offer of
$2,100 for each of 205 wooden vessels built dur
ing the war. The timber wasted in those ships
would have gone a long way toward relieving the
housing shortage. Buffalo Express.
Friend in Need.
The householder finds that he his a friend
at court The Interstate Commerce commission
has forbidden the railroads to boost the rates on
anthracite. Boston Transcript.
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Child Labor in the
Courts
(From th Boston Transcript.)
go far aa the general sentiment
that animates them goes, the people
of the United States will for the most
part sympathize with the protest
which the exeoutive council of the
American Federation of Labor has
launched against the decision of
Judge Boyd in the United States dis
trict court for the western division
of North Carolina, declaring uncon
stitutional the act of congress impos
ing a 10 per cent excise tax on the
products of child labor. It is quite
true, as the executive council says,
that this decision apparently creates
a strange anomaly in our laws, when
the authority of congress to employ
its taxing power to proscribe poi
sonous matches Is approved, while
its power to prosecute in the same
manner articled produced under life
and soul-destroying conditions Js
denied. No doubt the jurists con
cerned may answer that they ere
not, in considering the constitution
ality of a law, pronouncing upon a
question of right and wronir, but on
the question whether or not a certain
power has been committed by the
states to congress. The path of the
federal Judge In rendering his de
cisions on constitutional matters is
strictly defined for him, and he can
not go outside of his judicial con
science in following it.
. For that matter, the constitutional
question involved is by no means
definitely settled by the decision of
the district court in North Carolina.
No important constitutional question
ever stops with the -finding of the
lower federal courts, and very many
decisions of the district and circuit
courts have been overruled by the
supreme court. The power of the
states to prohibit the employment
of children under 16 years of age
has already been affirmed by the su
preme court. The power of congress
to prevent the use of the labor of
children in manufacturing processes
by imposing prohibitions and penal
ties on railway companies has indeed
been denied on the ground that it is
not competent for congress to put the
penalty in this case directly upon tne
railroad companies, who employ no
children and are engaged In no
manufacturing. But in rendering a
decision to this effect, the supreme
court pointed the way clearly toward
the barring from the usd or tne
facilities of interstate transportation
the products of those employers of
children who commit nets or en
courage conditions that are inimical
to public health, morals and welfare.
The imposition of a 10 per cent ex
cise tax may not bo the constitutional
way to accomplish this purpose, but
that there is yet a constitutional
means of shutting the products of
child labor out of interstate com
merce is certainly to be inferred
from the treatment already accord
ed to phosphorus matches and oleo
margarine. The lives and souls of
children are surely as sacred as cow
butter. The employment or child
labor, in a manner detrimental to
the public health and the general
welfare, is Intrinsically as bad a
tiling as the lottery, whose business
Is effectually proscribed by national
legislation which has stood every
test.
It would probably better serve the
purposes of the American Federa
tion of Labor purposes which, in
this particular matter, certainly co
incide with the general interest to
urge and forward the reference of
this question to the highest court, or
to favor legislation which will meet
the constitutional requirement, than
to put forth the idea that the courts
of the United States are animated by
inhumane and antisocial considera
tions in their judgments.
for refreshment befor they travel
lar. Kind m the ratine good, they
aenerally turn In their paaaporia uud
reiiimn at tne nrt lunvn counter.
Whlcli la the tulvntlno way of any.
Ing they are generally round on in
Ifk-a. After Mu-h poure waah with
auu and water. l'ay arwclal attrn
Hon to tha lea. After tha bath go
over th body looking fur cliiirr
Hut may have du In. Minear tnm
with area. Moat pooi.le u salted
butter. Karoaeuo la cood. , Till
aultUaa to cure. Home popla dig
them out with the point ot a ntedle
and then apply norlo acid In aicoiioi
oilier apply turpentine.
Won't Cure lenfma.
('. n, V. writ: "I sin 70 year
old and quit deaf. Would having
my ear ayrlnaed with soda and
warm water help mT"
REPLY.
I do not thnnk o.
( bumx! by NoK in Air.
n. r. wrttea: "Please tell me
what c a line a black spot In the
Nplium I am 20 and apparently In
good health. I have noticed theae
bluck apois for aome tlmo."
REPLY.
Breathing smoky, dusty air.
About Itcmovlng llrrnxta.
Mrs. O. Ot T. write: "I. I an
oprrntlon for the removal of the
breiiaitt very dungerousT
"2. On tha average, about how
long does It take onu to recuperate
rrom aurh an operation 7"
REPLY.
1. Danger of losing, one'a life dur
Ing the operation or as a result of
It Is almost absent.
2, You might get out of the hos
pital in two wocks.
On Oct ting Typhoid.
It. L. K. writes: "1. Dora a per
son get typhoid rover from milk or
water? Whut is the nr--t nource
of infection?
2. Is unpasteurized milk dangur
ous in the summer?
"8. How long aro the nrmy In
oculation for typhoid supposed to
protect against it? '
REPLY.
1. Either. As a rule water ranks
first and milk: second. Files, car
riers, contacts with eases, vegetables.
oyoters. Ice cream are among the
causes.
2. Yes.
S. About three years.
What Did McAdoo
Do?
(From the ritlnburfh Caaette-Time )
Through operation ot the McAdoo
policies the railroads were pushed
into a corner and stripped of their
power of self-support. Now William
O. McAdoo writes to a democratic
senator that President Harding erred
in saying the government was
"morally and legally bound" to fund
the carriers' debt to the government
and to pay the transportation com
panies the millions due them on ac
count of neglect of their physical
welfare in carrying "out the McAdoo
policies. Nothing more immoral is
conceivable than this pronouncement
by the former secretary of the treas
ury and director general of the rail
roads. It leaves no room to doubt
that the purpose ot the Wilson ad
ministration always was to carry out
the socialistic policy of government
ownership and that McAdoo would
not scruple about how possession
was secured.
But whether the government
makes honest payment to the rail
roads or forces them into bankruptcy
and seizes them under pretense that
only so cai they be made to serve the
public, the people will have to foot
the bill. What is due the railroads
will have to be paid. If government
ownership is preferred the public
probably will have to pay directly
double or quadruple the price that
otherwise it would pay. If private
management is given a fair chance
through fair dealing by tho govern
ment it wili work out of its diffi
culties. That is what should be done
and what President Harding intends
shall be done. And yet there will be
many people deploring the refusal
to follow the immoral leadership of
McAdoo. They believe that the rail
roads can be run on wind. " If they
could be Mr. McAdoo would in fair,
ness be hailed by all his countrymen,
the railroad managers included, as
the greatest manager of transporta
tion that ever lived. But Mr. Wil-
son's son-in-law couldn't run them
on anything so unsubstantial. He
simply ran the government into debt
This debt is that which the Harding
administration lnnented and which
it Is planning to discharge in manner-
least burdensome to the Diiblic. Mr.
McAdoo does not help the business
by volunteering advice. He does nok
neip morality, by anything he says.
Jack and Jill
rOTHER'S
M Jtll. handing
smiling swe
CENTER SHOTS.
A congressman would prohibit
beauty contests. The jealous thine!
--ArKansaa uazette.
That famous saying, "Passed by
the censor," will soon be changed to
read, "Dressed by the ' censor."
Syracuse Herald.
The Sinn Fein seems to have re
turned a flat "No!" to Lloyd George,
with reservations. New York Trib
une. But who cares for physicians' pre
scriptions when every man can turn
his own home into a life-saving sta
tion? Anaconda Standard.
Any progressive country knows
that where there is a will there is a
highway. Ashevllle Times.
Anyway, we are suffering much
more from bobbed statesmanship
tn the United States than from
bobbed hair. Houston Post.
"The monster airship " Ro they
called It yesterday. And today it Is
more monstrous than ever. Boston
Transcript.
Another obstacle in the way of
peace is the fact that the milk of
human kindness won't satisfy a thirst
for the cream of foreign trade.
Muncie Star.
"ENTER AUTOLYCUS, SING
ING." The Winter Ta!: Act. IV.)
Whn Summer' c'ott Is drawing near.
With heigh! the crisp wind over tha
wold.
Why, then comes th crown o' tha year.
Crimson fruitass and leave o' gold.
Sprlnir la fickle as any Jade,
With heigh! the blowtna o' cold and
hot;
Autumn smiles like a Bsnslre maid
Listens, and leans, and flouts ua not.
Autumn Cometh. Tdr o Mine.
With helsh! the Hunter'a ajoon I' the
West :
I will hrlnr yon th fruit o' the vine;
you will lv to your lover rest.
Florence Van Cltve In New York Times. I
OTHER'S cumlnf.
K Jack h'S chop,
cctly acron the
i.i.i-
jack grunted impolitely ami at
tsilii'd liia chop with fierce zcil.
"Well, I must lay you're not very
I' Ire about it," pouted Jill.
"What 1u you want me to do?
Stand up and king the national an
lliriii?''
"Now, It It were your mother that
w coining Jack, you'd be"
"Vrp, Jill, 1 know, but then you
see it would be my mother. And he
wouldn't pull a deep sigh every time
I lighted a cigarrt lcraue I've got
my mother trained. Sec?"
"No," walled Jill, "but your mother
would putt a deep ign and look
BiLfu1lv wArrimi evirv tim I'd nut
jut a teeny-weeny bit of rouge on."
"Hut my mother would not want
lo know how much our grorey bill
i every week, and get sore because
1 belong to a club, would cn
"Of rmirse. vmir mother wouldn't."
aitl Jill. "But she would want to
KUWvT WW MIUVII ist niMita
and if I told her $80, she'd start in
to tell how. when she was a bride,
the best eli had was a black ilk
that lasted lor six years. Or wa
it 16?"
Tack ihriikt his einntv nlatc awav
with a hasty impatient gesture.
"Vnn knnw nrrfeetlv well that mv
mother thinks you are the finest little
wife in the world," he said reprovingly.
'Oh. that's ojily because I'm your
..;f " dill fill with a little trown.
' Of course he think I'm a terribly
lucky girl to have you."
"Nonsense. As a matter of fact
the polite way your mother treats
ma ..nn'il thinf- 1 wit a brad waiter
or the superintendent of the Sunday
school. 1 he last time sue wa ucrc
she, eyed that pongee silk shirt of
mine and heaved a sigh; and she
made some crack about some girl
friend of vours marrying so well.
and, dear me, to think that you
haven't a gold toilet set like Myrtilh
or Majeatica, or whatevery your
lucky little friend's name is. My,
how shabby of you to have only a
silver set. Uf course, sue oiun 11
ktinvu 1 was fi ni tier that light Out ill
the hall that niht and heard her."
"Oh, Jack, did you reauy near
U.rV Till r.ntlt"ll wUtfllllv. "I'm
awfully sorry, hon,' because I know
mother didn't mean to be so mean
about it. She just said that without
thinking how terribly it sounuea.
"That's all riffht. honey, I heard
it all, you darlirig. I heard you fly
at her like a tiercss and tear her limb
from limb."
Jill giggled. ,
"If Anna. maL-a ma m mniD'iiant fnr
mother to come here and pretend to
pity ine."
r ihiirlflaiT nfi ba ttGrhte.1 a ClCr-
arnt and inhaled the grateful smoke
deeply.
"I eucss mothers are all alike,
sweetheart," he said. "Now my
mother is a dear old girl, but when
ever she 'comes over here to see us
I have to read her a lecture every
time she tells me about some old
name of mine.
1zh)t trothrrrA his Till ill his arms
and kissed her dainty eyebrow. She
closed her eyes ana gave mm an ex
quisitely tender hug.
Then she suddenly released hiln
and stared into his eyes.
"Old flames?" she said, "What do
you mean by old flames? Why I
never neara 01 sucn conceit in an my
life. Why, Jack, I am amazed at
I never knew you had any old
flames and I am certainly B'ng to
teH my mother tomorrow that"
Hut Jack had M..
Parents' Problems
How can riitimnt'ity between
boys and girl uf high-schocl age
brt be prevented?
When the days are full of health
ful work and plav in which boyi and
girls iin in wholriiic comrade
ship, there will be little danger of
srutimriiUlity, if all have bcr-i given
high ideal and have formed the
habit of talking thing over with
their mother. One girl who de.
veloped symptoms wa cured by a
talk with her mother, in which love
was spokm of a a rose: It can
never he qttilc perfect if one tampers
with then ud and tries to pry it open
before the time come for it to
bloom, and when the tun she lovra
enough to marry comei she certain
ly will not want to offer him a
flower with which boy have idly
plaved. .
Do You Know the Bible?
trover up the answer, rssd tha nues.
tluns and ir ou en atisar Ihein.
Then Iwik al th snewurs to s If yutl
ar rltut.l
Follow These Questions and Ana
were As Arranged by
1. WILSON ROY.
1. What were the names of
Saul's two daughter?
2. Who did 1'aul declare was a
backslider?
3. Who was Rcbckah's nunc?
4. Where is the only reference in
the Bible to sneezing?
5. Who was great-grandmother
to David?
6. Of what city was Mclchizcdelc
king?
ANSWERS.
1. 1 Samuel xiv. 49.
2. 2 Timothy iv. 10.
3. Genesis xxxv. 8.
4. 2 Kings iv. .15.
5. Ruth iv. U-17.
ft. Octiesi xiv. 18.
ICopyrlicht, lJl, Wheeler Kyndli-ate lno
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Douglas Fairbanks, Booth Tarking
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are in possession of the Visiting
Nurse association awaiting sale lo
the highest bidders tomorrow, the
annual visiting nurse tag day in
Omaha. Mrs. Frank Jtilson will
receive offers. For the Chsplin and
Fairbanks autographs $?5 each has
already been offered.
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