T1IK BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. KEPTEMBEIt 14. 1921
The Omaha Bee
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The Bee' $ Platform
1. Naw Uaioa Peeseafer Stetiea.
2. Cat(ait4 impreramanl f the) Ne
braska Highways, lacMlng Ik paa
ansa! af Mala Thereughferes leading
lata Omaha wlta a Brick Surface.
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4. Mama Rule Ckarlar for Omaha, with
City Manager form af Coreraaseat.
Concerning Primary Elections.
Baltimore hat just held a primary election,
with an experience in tome way paralleling that
of Omaha on timilar occasions. This moves the
Baltimore American to remark:
No matter who were the winners, it made
little difference to the ordinary householder.
. , . The more we use them the primary)
the more indifferent to them we become. If
we are to use them at all, then why not ar
range mattert to that we won't have to use
them except when the need it clearly mani
fest, and,' meanwhile, cut down the waste and
inefficiency of the present system?
Thit fits the Nebraska system very snugly,
but a further comment by the American exactly
hits the nail on the head to far at this state is
concerned:
The sooner we cut down the number of
candidates and the sooner we make the party
managements legally responsible for the men
they offer for office, the better and more busi
nesslike it will be for alt concerned. .
- A great pretense it made that any effort to
reform the primary system in Nebraska is a
blow aimed at the people, when, as a matter of
fact, it is but an effort to head off the politicians.
Under existing conditions it is possible for a
combination wearing all sorts of political labels
to do whatever it feels like doing when nomina
tions are being made. Non-partisan leaguers,
. masquerading as democrats or republicans, may
name the candidates on either ticket they select,
or on both, and on election day may vote for
the man who has received the silent endorsement
of the organization. Other combinations may do
the same. A great todo was made last year
over the fact that the Bryanites appealed to the
women to vote for. the peerless leader, regardless
of their party affiliations, and -the fact that he
was sent as a delegate to the San Francisco con
vention is unquestionably due to republican
votes. Such law makes farce of the primary
by destroying its spirit. ,
The Bee believes the people should select
their candidates; it does not believe in the demo
crats naming the . republican nominees, Or the.
other way round, nor in a system that makes it
possible for a secret combination to choose can
didates and then put them on either ticket. Nomi-.
nations should be open; political parties should
work in the open.
A law now sent to the referendum, passed by
the last legislature, aims at reforming the mani
fest abuse -of the primary system in Nebraska.
It is opposed to crafty schemers who pretend
they are not politicians, but who practice the
most nefarious sort of politics, that which is car
ried on behind closed doors and in secret con
claves, and whose followers always vote. Such
movements are subversive of free government,
and more dangerous than any scheme ever set
up by the so-called ""bosses" from whom the
primary law was designed to rid the people. Ne
braskans have a chance to save responsible party
government, or they can turn the state's elec
tions over to a secret group whose headquarters
are outside the state, and whose leaders have
only their own interests to serve. The choice
ought to be easilyniade.
Wizards Are Working Again.
' All the entertaining reading is not found in
the popular magazines these days. One who fol
lows the news columns of any daily paper with
even casual application is certain of divertise
ment, and may even obtain something that will
cause him to wonder. For example, there is the
tale of the two pseudo-scientists who are going
to make snap shots of Mars. They will secure a
deep mining shaft in Chile or Peru, place at the
bottom of it a dish fifty feet in diameter, con
taining mercury. By rotating the dish the mer
cury will be caused to assume sufficient concav
ity to afford the largest reflecting lens ever
created. Thit will magnify. 25,000,000 times,
and bring Mars within half a mile of the earth,
permitting snap shots instead of time exposures,
and forever settle the question of whether the
planet it inhabited. We tremble as we think of
the disappointment of this pair of enthusiasts in
event they are unable to discover a mining shaft
of sufficient depth which is aimed directly at
Mars.
Then, in another column one reads that on
the 6,000,000 square miles of the Sahara desert
the tun daily expends futilely energy equal to
6,000,000,000 tons of coaL As this amounts to
1,000 tons of coal per day per square Wile, one
wonders if the ciphers did not get mixed as
they came over the wire. However, 1,000 tons of
coal will generate considerable energy; and if
the chemists find a way to transmute the sun
light that now makes life in the Sahara more or
less unbearable during the heat of the day into
useful power, we may yet hear of something
other than Arab dates and Moorish uprisings
coming from that region of mystery.
However, the work-a-day world has been en
tertained with these tales for lo these many years.
Several other problems confront the commercial
chemist, the solution of which is more important
to the world than the turning of Sahara'if sun
light into electric energy, while the general run
of people will continue to get more of pleasure
out of teeing any one of a number of favorites
flit across the screen than would flow from view
ing a series of snap shots of Mars, even if they
be taken at a distance equivalent only to Ml
mile. This will not deter the wiisrds, nor lessen
the supply of ."bralndutting" reading matter,
Nebraska and the Ocean.
As far front tidewater s it it possible to ft
on continental America, N'ebraka Is in the
somewhat anomalous position of being directly
and vitally affected by ocean freight rates. Thit
is because the telling price of food products, on
which the prosperity of the state depends, is
fixed by the cost of getting to the market. At the
world market controls on all Nebraska hat to
tell, it Is of the utmost concern to the producers
that they have the readiest and cheapest possible
scccu to the great telling centert. Ocean freight
ratet are a determining factor in fixing the price
per bushel for grain or pound for meat animals
on the Nebraska farm.
These elementary proportions have been
ttated frequently in The Bee, and require no
support in argument. Governor McKelvie has
called a conference to take up the question of
the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence 'waterway, at
which reports will be made and discussion ensue
that in all reason should result in the enthusiastic
endorsement of the proposition. While the cost
of the enterprise hat not been fully determined
at yet, it will be less than that of the Panama
canal, to which Nebraska made its proportional
contribution, and from which it has had and
will get no benefit directly and only a small gain
if at all indirectly. The benefit that will come
from the St. Lawrence canalization project will
be direct. The first vessel through will pay a
dividend to Nebraska and each one that sails will
add to the return.
Figures that are not at all fanciful show not
only the feasibility of the plan, but that it will
pay a handsome return merely as a power proj
ect. Enough of hydro-electric energy will be
developed aud sold to compensate for the con
struction cost, leaving the service at a freight
carrier excess profit, if considered simply on a
commercial basit. When its value as an element
of social development is given proper weight in
the problem, the completed work stands as al
most if not quite the mightiest of man's achieve
ments for service.
Governor McKelvie has acted wisely in call
ing for a conference, and delegates who attend
will do so with the knowledge they are making
real history. When the farms of Nebraska are
relieved from the domination of a thousand or
more miles of rail-haul to reach tidewater, a
genuine emancipation day may be celebrated.
Crime and Crowds.
Some people make it impossible to protect
them, and the warning issued by Chief of Police
Dempsey which sets forth certain precautions
against crime and accident during the fall fes
tivities should be carefully considered and acted
upon. Houses left unoccupied most certainly
should.be locked, and no one ought to carry
large sums or a great deal of jewelry in mixing
with crowds which quite possibly may contain
pickpockets. Children should not be allowed
to come downtown unchaperoned, and streets
should be -crossed only at intersections. Driv
ing automobiles -through the congested districts
ought to be avoided whenever possible, and cars
should not be parked along the routes of the
parades..
These and the reasons; for them are simple
enough. There are some other words ot advice
that also might be given at this time. Among.
them are injunctions against striking up intimajte
acquaintanceship with strangers, allowing, one's
self to be guided by. a chance companion into
side streets in search of liquor, and falling in
with glittering opportunities for making a lot of
money through getting in on the inside of this
or that. A great many people who find them-
selves in trouble have only themselves to blame,
and when they find themselves involved in a,;
eonfiedence game it is most usually because they
have allowed their greed for easy money to over-?
reach discretion until they find the tables turned.
Omaha is as clean and orderly a city as any
in the land. No one need hesitate to come here
for fear .of the petty criminals who always infest
crowded places, even in the smallest towns. One
who observes the rules of discretion can attend
any gathering without meeting any more peril
than if he stayed at home.
' When Bryan Was "Premier." - '
One of the really poignant regrets "that at
tends the thought of his impending taking off
for many a loyal American is that he will not
live to read what the Maeauley or Fiske of the
future will have to say of the State department
under Mr. Bryan's tenure. "Now it can be told,"
and some of it is coming out.
A few years ago Edith O'Shaughnessey
wrote of how the charge at Mexico City received
a shipment ostentatiously labeled "Books," but
in boxes plainly marked "From the Springfield
Arsenal, U. S,. A." That was thought to te
worthy of a place alongside the invitation ex
tended the Swiss navy to be represented at the
opening of the Panama canal. How truly "shirt
sleeve" were the practices of the State depart
ment while the Great Commoner wis secretary
is revealed in this letter from Walter Hines Page,
written February 13, 1914, to Col. E. M. House:
'' It was announced in one of the London
papers the othef day that Mr. 'Bryan wxuld de
liver a lecture here' and probablyr in each of
the European capitals on peace. : Now, God
restrain . me from saying, ' much more from
doing, anything rash. But, if I have got to
go home at all, I'd rather go before he comes.
It'll take years for American ambassadors to
recover what they'll lose if he carries out this
plan. They now laugh at him here. Only the
president' great personality saves the situa
tion in foreign relations. . . . Mr. Stewart
of the 100-year peace committee came, here a
week ago with a letter from Bryan to the
prime minister. Stewart told roe that this 100
year business ?ave a chance to bind the nations
together that ought not to be missed. Hence
Bryan asked him to take up the relations of
the countries with the prime minister. .
. About a year later this same secretary of state
told the Austrian minister that an ultimatum sent
Berlin from Washington didn't mean what it
said. The one thing that will make the first
term of Wilson bearable to the future will be
Bryn's performance as "premier."
The Husking Bee
It's Your Datj
Siari It Witha Laugh
Annapolis Royal, which as Port Royal was
settled in 1604, has been almost destroyed by a
fire starting from a cigaret, which probably gave
the Nova Scotian town its first excitement since
the English captured the colony and exiled the
Acadians. ,
The discovery of a man in Germany with
ht's heart on the -right side could not possibly
have passed the censorship during the war.
GRANDEUR MODERNIZED.
Oh. the grandeur that wst Greece,
And the glory that wis Komei
I're that luter did decrease
It iunpired many a pome
Poets vied to sing their praue,
Tuneful lays without a flaw.
How 'twould nuke their lyres blac
' Could they gate on Omaha.
Strings of light upon the streets,
Lights of varigated hue,
Mags aud bunting that complete
Scheme of red and white and blue;
Conies the famous festival
Of King Ak and they relate
'Twill bring added fame this fall
Tp the city and the state. .
PHILOSOPHY.
The early bird catches the choice teat In the
grandstand.
Rip Van Winkle was, it lias been ttated, s
lucky man. He slept for JO years during a period
of time when there wan t really much of any
thing cue to do.
Of courte Rip iuied the revolutionary war,
and maybe a few minor engagements, but tin
sgine musing 20 Ak-sar-Ben festivals.
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. Tho.c long-headed men who insured their
picnic asaiust rain have at leant discovered a way
to keep a picnic day favorable, even if the $'X)
paid as a premium duet teem to be, in a manner
of speaking, a total loss.
Like paying out good money for medicine.
We never know but what we might have rccov
cred without it.
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RAH I RAH I
School's begun,
Nebraska's ton
Will realize his dream;
Off to college
Seeking knowledge
On the foot ball team.
Father will now resume his time-honored job
of working his sons way through school.
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"Will not show nor brush off," claims a face
powder ad. Wouldn't mind having charge of
the proving grounds at that powder factory.
Speaking of Ruth Law well, she's "ace
high."
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ADD LONGFELLOW.
It was autumn and incessant
' Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,
And, like living coals the apples
Burned among the withering leaves.
Soon those apples will be dropping
On the ground, in heaps to lie,
We might have 'em in the cellar,
' But the freight rates are too high.
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Wanted: A few snappy contribs for this col
umn. Either prose or verse. If you can't write,
typewrite. Adv.
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The street car company has been denied a
raise in rates. And just now when there is so
much wear and tear on the straps, too. ;
JUDICIOUS PERSPICACITY.
There is a man in our town
And he is wondrous wise,
He knows that in his business life
It pays to advertise;
Discrimination, too, he shows,
And trade sagacity
, He writes attractive ads and then
. - He runs them in The Bee.
Chief Dempsey warns that pickpockets will
follow the crowds to Ak-Sar-Ben. We must
look out, not only for ' the professional pick
pocket, but for the novice who is just getting his
hand in.
, Ouch: What makes you walk so funny?- "
: Grouch: Corn,
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uuen: root or moonsnmcr
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' , - HE DOESN'T SHINE 'EM.
A man will tell a girl he isn't fit to shine her
shoes and after marriage he makes good.
ISN'T IT THE TRUTH?
A dollar earned looks big today,
And bigger if we lend it
But how its value shrinks away
When we go out to spend it.
AFTER-THOUGHT: Speaking of dull times
at least the penmanship teacher's business is
flourishing., - , rHILO.
'Less Tax, More Families
"As a result of the proposed reduction on in
come taxes for married people the nation may
expect a . greater number of weddings in the
year ahead than was witnessed in the year
passed," 9aid Joseph T. Stanchfield of Pittsfield,
Mass. An exemption of S500, as the original
proposal, with $200 additional exemption for each
dependent, applied to persons whose income is
within $5,000, is far greater than many people be
lieve.' It will be an incentive to many men and
women who have held ott merely because they
could not see their way clear to contract matri
mony. In the industrial centers of New Eng
land we hope for an increase in marriages. The
reason is obvious. Marriage makes for stability.
People who are married are not prone, to shift
from place to place. They are settled in their
ways, in. their habits. Further, they become
home owners as a rule, and home owners always
are desirable people in any community. In fact,
the great industries of America owe their present-day
supremacy to the men and women who
have married and settled down near the places
that offer permanent employment. Were it not
for these the turnover in the labor market would
have been such that many cities vvould never
have built up.
Incidentally one of the reasons for the great
strength attained by the old German empire was
that its people married early and began to build
their fortunes and their families in some chosen
spot,; remaining there to work out their exist
ence and at the same time add to the prosperity
of the domain. Even in defeat the German
people are doing that same thing over and over
again.' They have settled down, married, and
they are working with the determination to put
Germany back upon her feet The government
is helping them. This is a lesson that can be
learned in America, and I believe it will be taken
to heart, since our own government has shown
a disposition to help the young people who are
already married and those who desire to be mar
ried by reducing the amount of income tax they
must pay." Washington Post.
Wiry They Want Us. :
They appear bound to get us into the League
of Nations. The league is to use the American
dollar as its medium of payment All Europe
would like to use American dollars. That's why
they want us in the league. Leavenworth Times.
. '. Quicker Than a Sneeze. ,
This year the golden rod seems to have
slipped up on the hay' lever fans and got in sev
eral weeki of blooming before they began to
sneeze at it Chicago News.
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DIABETICS AND NORMAL
DIET.
lir. J. ft. YYMlania. praklnf
for a riiuburifh medieO toclMy.
antwerad aunte (juration whlfh
iiiatwttt'a frequently ak in". fr
Williams rm ten treaimf din
lieltea for abut tiva vr accord
ina li the Allen method.
Th fimt question wan: lion the
nuiliod ever rt-Mure the dtatwtiu to
romplvta health and auabla him to
tat what ha iilea In whatever
qunntfy h plMaear"
To mat ur. v imams rtyina;
Is very Improbable."
Dr. Williams hue had one man so
thoroughly cured thnt he ran eat
about what he pleuM-s, Including
uma rano sugar: but even that man
does not eat a much as ha please.
The doctor haa had other-pntlents
so Improved that they could eat
itny other food they pleaiwd, hut
they iiuiftt avoid cane suuar. lit
has had many patlenta restored to
capacity to eut reason-U'ly witn
Mtety. He think there I no chance
that anybody with true dlaiietrs aver
will be ao completely cured that he
will be fool-proof.
The second question u; -ran nin-
hc-tlcs be kept from failini;?" That
nuentlon ha answers in the affirma
tive. He haa onu extreme csnca
that can eat only 700 calorie a day
with safety, but they nava learneu
to live satisfactorily on that. -
The'third was: Is the salu from
carrying out the treatment conld
erable enough to make the sacrifice
and expeime worth whllci? Tne
annwer la "Yes."
Tho fourth was: "Does carrying
out the treatment add materially to
the length of life?' The answer Is
yes."
In the rasa ot children it can be
expected that living the prencrlbed
life will double the life expectancy.
The Improvement in life expectancy
of diabetic youmc adults la some
what better than in the case of
children.
Older adults may live out the life
expectancy for persons of that ago.
In fact, a person who carries out
the treatment faithfully and intel
ligently generally can expect to live
longer than the expectancy of per
sons of his age.
Of course, among diabetics there
aro all sorts of people the cour
teous and the cowardly, the en
terprising and the slothful, the at
tentive and interested, and the indifferent.
There are those who are wisely
advised, who are willing to learn,
who have developed self-control and
who are courageous, who can be
cured. The weak willed, foolish.
slothful indifferent and cowardly
will die. The treatment means
nothing for them. When the peo
ple of this deficient group have any
disease they must have a epectfle, a
short cut, a magic, overnight cure,
or they are "goners." Anything
which requires day by day living the
law la out of their reach. -
Williams says that not all persons
ho are supposed to have Uialetis
are diabetics. In a sroun of 430
uppoaed to have diabetes the urines
of 830 gave no reaction tor usar,
101 wera diabetics, and 10U had a
reducing substsnce similar to sugar
In the urine, but may 'r not ma
belles. Kome of the last (roup had
low grade Infections of a naturs
hUli isuae the urlna to give
sugar reaction. The inrinbars of
this group are cured rather vastly.
There I Homo Danger.
Mrs. F. f. writes: - "W hs
little dos. about 3 months old. and
ha bites my little boy when playing
with him and brings blood.
there any danger? The dog's teeth
sre very sharp. '
IIKTLV.
There la considerable danger of
ordinary infection and very remote
danger or inrection witn ranies.
tiwlmmlnc Peril to S ou.
N. V. t. writes: "My vhysicisn
has told me that I have a heart
murmur.
"1. What could have produced It?
I was examined thrso years ago and
was told my heart was in perfect
condition. I always have had the
Idea that heart trouble was some
thing that rime on very slowly.
had the grip over two years ago and
a few months before I was gassed
while at the front
"2. My heart younds continuously,
even before I get up in tho morning
and when I do not exercise. During
the last few weeks it seems to skip
beats. Docs a leaky valve cause
this?
"J. Would -bathing at the beach
bo harmful provided I did not
overdo?"
REPLY.
1. As a rule the cause of heart
murmur is some kind of Infection
Among the more imports t infec
tions are rheumatism, p: cumonla,
scarict rcver, dipntnciu. and gonor
rhoea.
2. When the heart muscle is no
longer equal to the extra work
caused by the leak the condition
known as broken compcnnntlon de
velops. Uroken compensation could
cause an your symptoms.
3. I would not advise you to go
In swimming, except upon your
physician's permission based on a
study of your case. Many instances
of drowning due to so-called cramps
are aue 10 neart disease, a person
with a heart leak with good com
pensation and a steady pulse can
swim with advantage, but swim
ming Is risky for a person with a
leak and a nervous pounding or ir
regular puise.
Reasonably Safe.
M. L. H. writes: "I am a maiden,
43 years of age, and am to be mar
ried. Will it be safe for me to
have children? I am in good health.
strong and of healthy parentage."
REPLY.
Reasonably so.
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reader who car to dlacua any publto
aueation. It requeat that letter be
reasonably brief, not over 800 word. It
Iso Inalut that the name of the writer.
accompany each letter, not necewarlly
for publication, nut tna tne editor may
Know with whom he i deallnc The Bee
doe not pretend to Indone or accept
view or opinion exprenaed by corre
spondent in the Letter Box.)
Writing ot History.
Blair. Neb., Sept. 12. To the
Editor of The Bee: This question
comes to my mind: Why. or by what
authority, did the Knights of Colum
bus at their convention in California
take it upon themselves to set aside
a large sum of money ana tntnK
it incumbent upon them to rewrite
history for our public schools? Next,
we know the Methodists, who are at
all times a very strenuous body, may
take upon themselves tne seir-ap-polnted
task to rewrite a- history
from their viewpoint, or the great
Masonic body may take it into their
heads their viewpoint or nistory, is
the Simon-pure facta. Shall any one
creed or organized .body think or be
allowed to foist their partlculnr
product on our schools? If our
school histories need revising,
would it not be more satisfactory to
all 'concerned to take the brainy
men or women from our American
colleges and assign this .all impor
tant work to them? History might
be less shaded in their hands. I wish
we might hear from the 100 per cent
Americans on this subject Let all
creeds keep hands off our public
schools. If this is the Christian na
tion of which we boast God's word
should be read without comment in
all schools. !
EX-SCHOOL TEACHER.
Editor's -Note Anybody may
write a history; getting 't accepted
as authority and adopted as a text
book is quite another -natter. It
may be well to suspend judgment
on the work proposed: ny me
Knlehts of Columbus until it has
been presented in printed form, so
that its merits may De propeny
weighed and determined.
Profiteers fn Building.
Omaha. Sept. 12. To the Editor
of The Bee: If the comparative val
ues of forma of government are to
be judged by the protection . tney
afford-their citizens, then our gov
ernment stands at the very bottom
of existing governments, for in no
government of Europe is the private
citizen permitted to be exploited and
robbed so openly as with us. t
With the demand lor ncmes ana
buildins- operations never equaled.
with more people unemployed than
ever known before, we have not n.
form of government .that can reach
the crimina DroHteer . in material.
nor the equally criminal labor leader
who refuses to allow his men to go
to work for fear that in accepting a
reduction in wages he may lose his
job as walking delegate. In the
meantime the unnousea ciuzen is
robbed by rental agencies. A gov
ernment that cannot reach the build
ing material combine or The labor
union walking delegate is a mighty
poor kind of government -
I am not one wno peueve in ine
government doing special things for
different classes, but we nave a ngnt
to demand that the government shall
protect us against these illegal com-,
binatlons of labor and capital. We
have the Dolice administration to
keep the stick-up man from taking
money out of our pockets by force
in a retail way, but we do not seem
to be able to do anything to the
wholesale holdup on the part of the
material combines or the lrbor com
bine. We had better do a little less
hollerinK about the Stars and Stripes
and get a little more real, practical
protection from our government. ;
Editor's Note It may interest the
writer of the foregoing to know that
the federal grand Jury in New York
last week Indicted 4 members of
the tile and mantel makers because
of their violation of the Sherman
toil-trust law. A larca number of
cement workers are also under in
dictment in New York; similar ac
tion, is looked for in the case of
plumbers and others, and in Chicago
the inquiry is being pushed with all
vigor. . The government is doing all
it can to break Up the illegal com
bination in the building trades.
Ode to Clurkson Nurses.
Irvlngton,-Neb., Sept. 6. To the
Editor, of The Bee: Allow me,
please, to address a few verses to
the Clarkson hospital nurses;
Oh, care for theae lck folk the best that
you can,
Ard do what your hands find to do;
Tour deed are not wasted, within a brief
span,
." Tb good wilt all flow back to you.
Oh give them' the pity that elr.k 'people
crave, , . ,
"Twill help tbtm to Bear eeerv pain;'
When love rounds the circle thru sorrows'
dark cave, . '
, I' returns to Its sourc once sgaln
When hand clutches hand, perhaps it wl!l
fall, ',,
To relieve the breast choking w!th grief;
And eye meeting eye will not always
avail.
To bring to a patient, relief.
But when heart speak to heart, there's
a feeling divine.
That has pbwer every pain to det!irown;
And soul touching soul cheers the heart
like the wine
Distilled on the banks of GsrFone. '
: i - E. O. Mcintosh.
-A-- - 'Masonry..-.,.;;
Craig. Neb., Sept. 11. To- the
Editor of The Bee: Will you please
inform me through the columns of
your paper whether or not . a half
blood negro can become a member
of the white Masonic lodtre in the
state of Nebraska? R. L. N.
Answer: American Masonic
lodges do not admit persons known
to have negro blood; English and
Scottish lodges do;, in some English
colonies mixed lodges exist. In the
United States the negroes have their
own lodges. ; . -
' Ak-Sar-Bcn.
Our city Is brightly lighted and flags are
flying high.
The business houses all'are at their best.
For king Ak-Sar-Ben and hi men will
oon be passing by
With the most elaborate escort in the
west.
To this grand attraction folks come from
near and far
V.W.ln!" the ,1ht" of Ak-Sar-Ben,
Tls the greatest thing for history of
,: . good old Omaha. . '
? th. splendid work of Ous. Rense
and hi men. .
S Omaha will welcome y. tolks from
out or town;
Much progress has been made sine you
. were .here,
rhin,l?fe n,ake '' -r-Beo a
So feel at home and cast away all fear.
Hurrah for King Ak-Sar-Ben, , -Oh my
aint we got fun,"
The Carnival is here with all tho shows
Something doing every minute, , have
only just begun.
But, who is King Ak-Sar-Ben? No on
knows.
' SAM L. MORRIS.
CENTER SHOTS.
. Thunder, no rain headline. It
aoesn't do any good to swear about
Arkansas Gazette. - , - ,
Chuches have set 'Ootober 9 as
Fire prevention Sunday." We
thought every Sunday was. Flint
(Mich.) Journal. . .
With a house on every lot the
profiteering landlords couldn't make
a lot on every house. St. Louis Post
Dispatch. .
Now the girls are having their
knees decorated with pictures Of but
terflies Seems to us it would be
more practicable to paint pictures of
mosquito netting on 'em. Syraucse
Herald.
At Any I'rlce! .
The Massachusetts commission on
the necessaries of life reports that
SH cents worth of beans are sold
for IS cents in Boston, but no true
Boston man would think of com
'plalning about any price paid for
beans. New York Herald.
rreas tka Y" Mall.
i-ocua e'er fell the lial'er
draw with good opinion of the law
In the same sense all bootleggers
and many who unwitting.- .uf-
hi.a with their nrai'tiiea era united
Just now In a rhorua ot denuncia
tion of the antl-llqiior-selling law
because of the opportunity It offers
for violation of the rouitn amenii'
ment to the federal. conMltutlon
which guarantees the right to every
cillsen to bo secure In his home and
person against unreasonable searches
and aelsurv. .
The bootli'ager'H titndor solicitude
for the srtiictiiy ot the hum and Its
preservation from the o-cnnen ucp
rtdstlnna by officers ot the law Is
truly antonlihlng to those who recall
before the law was passed the bale
ful influence of these name bootleg
gersthen open aaloonlsta over
every family circle In t.ie land.
There W'as not u home thnt wholly
escaped Its debasing and Jtrnylng
force; It crossed every threshold
even mora cruelly than the deep
shadow of death; every prison wn
crowded with Ita victims; every sal
lows was the altar of It s-icriAros;
every ruined household the scene of
Its tragedies. On every street corner
It could pre-empt by rentals thst do
rent business could not aflord: this
degrading Influence waylaid men and
women with its "Family Kntrsnce"
lure, robbing them of their senses
and their self-respect as well as of
their money. It nistle every street
corner the breeding place and refuge
of thieves; far and away the foulest
blot on civilisation, for it tainted
everything It touched.
It Is this influence thst Is now fill
ing the columns of newspapers and
debates in congress with absurdities
about tho violation of tho fourth
amendment In the enforcement of a
law that stifles its nefarious calling.
Citizens, they brazenly declare, are
no longer secure in their homes!
Officers oftho Isw may ransack
homes at will, stop and search inno
cent automobile parties, accost citi
zens on the public highways and in
sist upon searching them for liquor!
Who knows of any home that has
been so Invaded? Who knows of any
citizen who has been so held up?
And if here and there some person
knows of one or two or three in
stances in which ovcntealoue officers
have trespassed, let your mind run
back to the not distant time when
nil about you were scores of homes
and families whom you knew were
brought to ruin by the saloon; recall
the Mondays when the police courts
were crowded with Sunday drunk
ards, when every resort to which
you brought your family for an out
ing was made impossible by the
presence of drunken men and
women.
Recall that picture of the recent
past, recall all that you personally
know of the tragedies of the llquor-
s?lllng days; take the lightest phase
of that horrible past and contrast it
with tho worst that can be charged
against law-enforcing officers; then.
In the quiet of your own conscience.
ask yourself where you stand as be
tween the two.
There never was such hypocrisy
as this cry from the saloonists to
protect the rights of citizens in their
homes from unwarranted search and
seizure. These new-found advocates
of the constitution never knew law
or morals in the days when they were
in control of legislatures and con
gress;, when they arrogantly dic
tated to governors, senators and
mayors whether they would or would
not be kept In office; when decent
citizens kept far from 'the saloon-
ist's corner because he fearid a knife
in the back or a pistol aliot from
the dark. .. ' i
. The men who until the anti-llquor7
selling law was enacted brought
more tragedies into human life than
all other Influences are the man who
l ow Berk o delude untninsina
lle into fear that their constitutional
rights are being violated that Jheir
homes are In peril of the law. Here
und there aenator and enr.eressman
are used as stage-dreeelni In this
last desperate effort to drive a wedgo
In the antl-lliiior-elllng liw; but
hack of thoaa dummy rtgui-ra stand
the real sponsors ot the movement m
the saloonists,
Jn Kxt'ltifdvo Kuiimis.
A new ruling In Kansas Is thst
no man shall be admitted to the
state penltentlury who has not a
tertlllcate f good health. 1'erhaps
a few recommendations of honesty
and morality should be required, too.
ltocently In Hlng Hlng. which ties
r.o such entrance requirements, sev
eral Inmates were found to have
stolen blank checks out of the office
and have obtained money on them
by forgery. Kansas City Time.
Ford's Synthetic lieu.
"Ford Truck Hatches Eugs" l a
newspaper headline for a ntory that
rRR kept under the hood became
t hickens. We regard this as a pure
nature fake. The ega might hava
been frlt'd, or scrambled, but high
heat und continuous vlhratl.m do not
produce incubation. Mrooklyn
EbjIc.
Ntw Ilii it lo or Itrnnd vtvliie.
Another flying squadron of "dry"
agents Is said lo be taking tho field
under the VolHteadlan banner. As
they are moving on Philadelphia
they may be expected to stage an
other Battle of tne Hraiulywlne
New Orleans Times-Picayune.
The Reserved KtijrlMi.
When one hears of the "reserved
Englishman" nowadays, It Is almost
impossible not to think of Margol
Asquith, K. F. Bonson and "the gen
tleman with a duster" and titter
gently behind one's hand. St. Taul
Pioneer Press.
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