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The Bee8 Platform
1. Nw Ualoa Passenger Station.
2. Continued Improvement of the Ne
braska Highways, including lb pava.
meat ef Main Tborougbfer leading
into Omaha with Brick Surfac.
3. A abort, low-rat Waterway from tl
Cera Ball to the Atlantic Ocan.
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4. Horn Rul Chartor for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
A Conference of Leaders.
Opening the conference on unemployment.
President Harding made very plain the scope
and purpose of the meeting. It is to .consider
the most accessible method of speedily restoring
industrial activity to the United States. All real
ue the truth of the president's statement that the
process will "involve liquidation, reorganization,
readjustment, re-establishment, taking account of
things done and sober contemplation of things
to be done." Equally impressive is his state
ment that "he would have little enthusiasm for
any proposed relief which seeks either paliation
or tonic from the public treasury."
It is not an easy task to which these dele
gates have been set; nor is there any room for
the mere doctrinaire on the program. "Long
controverted problems of our social system" are
specifically excluded, and to the concrete ques
tioL of what is the quickest way to get people
back to work attention will be given. We may
expect debate and even dispute as to essentir
elements of the factoragreement in advance be
ing as to the desirability of action. How these
debates will terminate can not at this time be
foretold. The character of the men and women
who are gathered together is a guaranty that the
proceedings will be sincere.
Two points have been fairly established. One
a that th 1trt nf nrln. ar,A io n
back to the 1913 standard.. The other is that
practices adopted by both capital and labor are
wasteful and destructive, and can not endure.
"Cost plus" brought in its train a long line of
business iniquities, and these must be dispensed
with by both sides. It is an economic paradox
that "laying down on the job" for the purpose of
increasing the chance of employment actually
decreases such chance, because limiting produc
tion limits the output, and thus by the very
process uirougn wmcn ne nopea to mcrease nis
wage and compel the employment or others, the
worker has cut off his reward by reducing the
product in which he was to share. Similar para
dox applies to the wasteful "cost-plus" practice.
With the fallacy of limited output and the profit-on-profit
understood, approach to recovery will
be easier.
. An honest day s work for an honest day s pay
is the winning, rule. However the delegates at
Washington finally may answer the question now
submitted to them, it is clear that both employer
and employe have been taught a sharp lesson by
recent experience, and in a willingness to give
value for value may be read the reply of those
who are most concerned. To quote the presi
dent again: '.'Fundamentally sound, financially
strong, industrially unimpaired, commercially
consistent and politically unafraid, there .ought to
be worfc for everybody in the United States who
chooses to work."
Bothering a Busy Congress.
Whether or not any action by congress will
be potent to restore a semblance of tranquility
to a sadly disturbed nation, it is evident the pro
hibitionists and the feminists are not in a mood
to permit thoughtful consideration of the eco
nomic problems- that must have attention.
Mr. Bryan denounces the filibuster . on the
pending beer measure in the senate, presumably
from the viewpoint of a dry, for the filibuster is
chargeable to both sides. Senator Sterling lacks
assurance that he can get votes in the senate for
the measure as agreed upon by the conference,
to which the chief attorney of the dry forces was
admitted. However, Mr. Bryan has a controlling
notion that if the senators will only accept the
Sterling report, then the body may proceed to
other business, included in which is the revenue
law, the tariff measure, and the ratification of
the treaty with Germany. Beer comes first,
though, for what shall it profit the country if
taxes be lowered, industry be revived and pro
tected, and a peace be restored between the
United States and the rest of the world, if the
question as to whether beer is a medicine be not
finally and authoritatively settled by a senatorial
dictum that it is not? . :
And, when the matter of beer is out of the
way, we descry in the 6ffing, all ready to dock
at the principal pier the good ship Feminism,
loaded till the Plimsoll line is under with things
that must be attended to before woman is finally
freed from intolerable bondage and recognized
as man's equal Industry and business of all
kinds may fret and complain because congress is
dilatory in attending to a program that materially
isirnportant, but the "drys" and the "suffs" are
not going to relinquish their aspirations just to.
help out a possible move, to normalcy,
Soviets Set an Example, -i
-i Amid the uncertainties and perplexities that
surround the generally muddled condition of the
world, one lambent ray of purest light shines
out, and, strangely enough, it comes from Rus
sia. Having tried out to the ultimate reaction
the experiment of paternalism, and even having
tested the residuum until almost nothing is. left,
'the soviet control has resolved to decentralize
industry. Workers are urged to form corpora
tions, set up business for themselves, arid go to it.
Private capital again is recognized, and beginning
'at the bottom the v bolsheviks hope to Restore
something of the system it so furiously uprooted.
Americans may watch with profit the prog re u of
the KuhUa people along in pew line, and r.iay
from it derive courage to set about on something
of the m nature. Wbeo Ruttlant cease flock
ing to Moscow In hope of miracle. American i
may well give over journeying to Washington,
and take up again the once popular habit of
helping themselves out of any hole into which
their free and easy blundering has plunged them,
What (this country needs more than anything
eUe is a little old-fashioned self-reliance and not
to much remedial legislation. All the laws ever
put on the book will be of little avail if self-help
is not applied.
One of Omahai Young Builders.
A deplorable accident hat taken from Omaha
vigorous young man whose active life held
much of promise for the city s future, J, E
George may have reached the lenith of his power,
and so become grain ripe for the sickle, yet it is
reasonable to conclude that he yet held great
and undeveloped capacity for service to a com
munity in w hich he already had done great deaf
of good. He was a planner with vision, and in
his public as well as bis private activities he
looked beyond the immediate future and under
took to project his thought into years when
Omaha will have become a much larger and more
important center of life. Many evidences of this
foresight abound, and some of them will bear
fruit for the city's good for generations here
after. Mr. George was a fine type of the real
builder in this regard, his enthusiasm for the
project he had in hand being at all times well
tempered by an experience that had taught him
lessons of prudence as well as of zeal and energy
in action, and thus his work was done the better
for it had a solid foundation. Omaha has not so
many men like "Ed" George that it can well af
ford to spare any!
A City of Real Homes.
One of the ways in which the west differs
from the east is in home ownership. Iconoclasts
have succeeded in breaking down many old-
fashioned ideas, but none has yet come forward
to question the advantage to the individual, the
city or the nation in home ownership. The pos
session of a little plot of ground and security
under one's own roof are guarantees of thrift
and indications of a sturdy character, seeming
to call out like a watchman of old, "All's well"
The census shows that of the 44,499 homes
in Omaha, 21,028, or 57.3 per cent are owned by
their occupants. Returns from Kansas City and
Minneapolis show a similar proportion of tenants
and home owners. In order for westerners to
realize how well off they are, it is only neces
sary to turn to the reports from New England.
While in Omaba almost one out of every two
homes are owned and not rented, in Hartford,
Conn., about one out of five houses is owned by
the occupant. In New Haven, which is also a
manufacturing community, in addition to being
the seat ot Yale university, the proportion is
one out of four. In Omaha slightly more than
half the homes are mortgaged, white in Hart
ford the figure is 80 per cent and in New Haven,
71 per cent. Rates of interest there are lower
than here, it is interesting to note, by fouc one-
hundredths of one per cent.
Those towns are almost two centuries older
than Omaha. The question arises whether in
time tenantry will become as common with us
as with those others. Among factor that would
make home ownership less possible are increases
in the cost of construction, greatly enhanced
prices lor land and restrictions on credit.
Omaha, comparatively speaking, is a city of.
home: owners, but it should strive to become
more truly so. Questions of taxation also are
bound up in this problem, and it may not be
many; years until a movement is seen to. lighten
the burden on small home owners. The build-"
ing loan companies, for which Omaha is a
notable center, are doing much to increase home
ownership. The instinct is not yet lost, as it
may be in many industrial towns among the
floating population. ' , V
A Red-Hot Advocate of waterways.
The fighting blood of the former governor of
Iowa, W. L. Harding, has been aroused in the
movement for the adoption of the plan for the
St. Lawrence waterway. His speech at Cheyenne,
in which he lashed out at New York City, Buf
falo and Erie canal interests for their desire to
keep the products of the middle west bottled up
so that they could only pour through the old
channels, the neck of the bottle being the port
of New York, is interesting and convincing as
well. ' : . . . , -
Wyoming, Nebraska and their sister states of
this region must have cheap transportation' for
their surplus products. They can get it by de
veloping waterways". The congestion at great
terminals is bound to increase rather than de
crease in future years. Increased handling" and
transportation costs may be expected to follow,
unless water routes are opened to take some of
the burden off the rail lines. The feeling that
unless a channel for ocean freighters is opened
up -to Chicago and Duluth the west may be
choked off from its markets explains the heat
with which Mr. Harding speaks.
Lower freight costs; and more speedy trans
portation by water than by rail are the induce
ments of this waterway project, which is to be
discussed Wednesday in Lincoln at a state-wide
conference. That the saving in freight charges
will result in an added price for grain sold on
the world market is a big inducement to farmers,
and business men, whose own prosperity depends
on that of agriculture, are likewise becoming
aroused to the importance of the Great Lakes
project 5
Sunday's toll of automobile accidents in
Omaha and vicinity was too heavy. More, care
ful driving is the only answer.
With lobster down to 60 cents at Chicago
cabarets, much of the" terror of a threatened hard
winter disappears. , v
Persons who have traveled recently will be
astounded to learn of a deficit in the Pullman
balance sheet. ; v ,.
The president's talk to the "jobless" confer
ence does not mean the delegates are out of work.
- A "moonshiners' union" is the latest; prob
ably an offshot of the bootlegger's bund. ' v
Now for a regular Nebraska autumn.
No Rival Maneuvers.
The autumn maneuvers of the fleet will be
away over in the Pacific ocean where there will
be no chance of their distracting attention from
deliberations relating to arms limitation. Wash
ington Star. i-
Economy Is Now Popular
Nations Cutting Down Their
Budgets After Approved Style.
(From the New York Times.)
General Dawes, the director of the budget,
has as-ain been utiiisr his knife on novrrnment
expenditures, and announces a further rutting of
Jjo5.oo0.000 lor the next fiscal year. '1 hat um
has been lopped otf the previous estimates nude
on August 10. The large.t item is $100.000,OU,
bring a reduction of that extent in the demands
of the shipping board. Whether such a saving
can ultimately he made is, unfortunately, at pres
ent matter oi gucttworK. i ue case is clearer
with the army expenses, pared to the amount of
(00,000,000, and with the various department
economies, totaling Sj.suu.ooo,
The main point is lets the exact figures of
curtailed outlay than the new spirit ol severe
retrenchment. Government economy is fur the
moment popular. It always has been as a gen
eral theory, but the rigid application in practice
has been resisted. Congressmen have been loud
in praise of thrift, but have resorted to every po
litical artifice to get through their own appropria
tions. Demand economy in the abstract, and you
get a cheer: propose to cut out a particular ex
pense, and the rule has been that you are greeted
with groans. But in the changed times the coun
try follows the work of General Dawes with ad
miration and applause. Every time he rolls up
his sleeves to take a fresh crack at the federal
estimates, the response of the country is instan
taneous. When the land is filled with citizens
compelled to save and pinch, it is good tactics for
ine government 10 go into inc economizing Busi
ness.
The process is not peculiar to the United
States. Italy and France and England are cut
ting down their budgets resolutely. The most
taking political cry in Great Britain today is
"anti-waste." All candidates of all parties have
to pin that label on their hack. There was re
cently, for example, a parliamentary by-election
for Westminster. Three men sought the seat
One of them described himself as the " constitu
te certain horsa flv
which abound in that ration a hn
tional independent conservative anti-waste" can-! the conveyor to human being. In
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"JACK RABBIT FEVER."
Jt may be contended that nobody
la Interested In dear fly fevor except
tna people In a rather small aeeUou
of I'tah.
Nevertheless there are point of
Interest which may appeal to a Urg
er group
A few year ago Pr, Heottle of the
1'uh health department reported
drneaaa which occasionally affected
men In a certain section of Ma state.
Thin dlwaae waa supposed to be du
io ina one or a deer ny, and had
thererore been given tna name deer
fly fever.
Since then It hna been studied by
urgeone or tn united Htatea pub
lie health service, and particularly
vy nr. rraneia. Most or the raaen
tiul facts have been worked dul
It la a dlniana that la oulta nreva,
lent among Jurlc rabbits in a rertlun
district In I'tah, bulnc spread from
rabbit to rabbit by the bites oC the
rabbit louse. DlrTorln- from ma
laria and yellow fever, thin diacaaa
aiso can ne spread by the nose hoc re
tlona of alclc animals and bv flea
and home flies. However, o far an
tne evidence roes, the chief method
or apreadinr the disease amonar anl
man is oy the bite of the infected
loune.
Hut In order to act It over to man
another agency la reaulred. Jurlc
rabbits are not sociable, and their
uce nave no special love for man
rrancis Unas
didate. Another merely represented the Anti.
Waste league. The third was independent lib
era! anti-waste. In place of saying, "We are all
socialists now," today aspiring English politicians
say, We are all anti-wasters now. It is not a
bad thing to get the idea abroad that economy
is a winning issue, hven it a certain amount ot
insincerity and humbug is mixed up with it, the
reaction against public extravagance will have
wholesome effects. We may not hear of many
congressmen who go back to their constituents
to boast that they did not get an extra dollar out
of the treasury for the "deestrict," but we may
at least expect that some will recount with pride
their vigilance and courage in preventing appro
priations wanted elsewhere.
The McAdoo Boom
Among the cognoscenti if that world will go
in politics Mr. McAdoo is regarded as an en
trant in the race for the next democratic presi
dential nomination.
Several straws show the direction of the wind.
1. The organizing at this early day of a Mc
Adoo club in Missouri 2. Introducing him as
a critic of the Harding administration in the sen
ate discussion of the railroad problem. 3. And a
manifestation of . interest by him in the coy
Scouts. He recently played in a scout base ball
game before the camera, and played so awkward
ly that his. compliment to the boys in playing at
all was emphasized.
Air. McAdoo made a remarkable snowing at
San Francisco. He was the only man who gave
Governor Cox a real run for his money. The
others were merely "also rans." But the New.
Yorker, from the fall of the flag, was close up,
and finished a stirring second. He and Gov
ernor Cox made a horse race of it
We have to consider, however, that in that
contest Mr. McAdoo had the support of all but
a fraction of the national administration. The
Department of Justice naturally gave its support
to Attorney General Palmer. All the other de
oartments. with the Treasury at their head, gave
their voices for Mr. Wilson's son-in-law.
This, of course, cannot be repeated. In 1924
the national administration will be of republican
complexion, Mr. McAdoo will have to look
elsewhere for "pull" and votes.
He is still strong in the money centers, Jriis
manaa-ement of the Treasury department met
with approval in those quarters; and favor there
is not, as a rule, fickle, cut he is not, as gov
ernor Cox, strong in wet circles. He is rated
there as a dry and his appeal, to be successful,
will have to be adroit. Washington Star,
A Southern Negro's View
The Neerro Advocate, a ' vigorous."" thouuht?
fully edited and well printed newspaper, pub
lished twice a month at New Orleans, La., dis
plays in its issue of August 13 a studious care
for the advancement of the negro race along
practical lines.
The object ot this paper, says Milton a.
Hampton, managing editor, in a letter to the
Manufacturers' Record, "is to cement friendship
between white and black citizens of the south,
pointing out that the way of co-operation is a
better way than that of antagonism or denuncia
tion, which characterizes many northern negro
papers.
"We are strongly against the migration of
our people to the north or to any other section,
feeling that the south presents greater oppor
tunities and greater possibilities where in a great
measure the white people of this section under
stand the negro, more so than any other people,
hence our future must be worked out right here.
"We feel that the solution of the age-old race
problem is that of lifting up the masses of our
people, having them to become trained workers
and to fit into the industrial and economic life
of the nation, rather than to look forward to or
ganizations of long-range societies and selfish
leaders who would stir up hatred between whites
and blacks." Manufacturers' Advocate, .
The Ku Klux in Business
"The reason the Jews' are fighting, us," says
Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, "empress" of the Ku Klux
Klan. "is because it is a well known fact that
wherever a city is well organized Klansmen al
ways spend their money with other -Klansmen.
The Klan teaches the wisdom of spending Ameri
can money with American men."
After a glance at the questionnaire and the list
of requirements sent out by the Klan to appli
cants for membership there appear to be other
reasons why Jews should "fight" the organiza
tion, but Mrs. Tyler has at least the honesty to
cite openly the economic basis of Ku Klux preju
dices. Radicalism is abhorrent to these strictest
of all 100 per cent Americans and all aliens, all
Catholics, all strangers are abhorrent because
the 100 per centers want to keep business in their
own hands. ,.
The activities of the organizers are rewarded,
if not explained, by the profits in membership
fees, in copyrights, in the sale of equipment The
activities of the members are quite as explicable
in any community where terrorization or propa
ganda can be used to drive upstart rivals out of
business. First and last the new Ku Klux is a
business proposition. New York World.
Return of Hand-Carried Skirt
Those winter skirts ten inches from the
ground will give their wearers the discomfort of
being at least two inches wet several times if
we happen to have a normal "good old- fashioned"
winter. Lowell Courier-Citiz
the neveral cases of humnn holncm
nuuering rrom tularemia, the scien
tific name of the disease, he wa able
to And the point where the horse fly
Tularemia is a fever which lasts
ior several montns, which causea
death occasionally, but which is of
especial interest because It occasions
a painful disabling illness, occurring
Just at the time when farming com
munities can least afford to ' lose
help.
The glands in the neighborhood of
ine one swea up aa much as they
u m rac Due rever. They remain
as hard, painful, tender, inflamed
knots, with no tendency to break
down. Careful search tnrn1lv h in
closes the necrotic spot where the fly
bit when it caused infection. If this
duo i.i located in a hairy region it
may be overlooked unless carefully
a rew or the case die". In most
Instances recovery is complete, but
luw iimess is long ana disabling. The
explanation or the comparatively
'" iiuiuuers ot numan cases is
that horo fllea do not ordinarily bite
either rabbits or humnn hpinc-a Tn
this section of Utah at the time of
mo investigation there waa a com
bination of an established epidemic
of some sort, causing the death of
Jack, rabbits in numbers, a great
prevalence or nores nies, and a num
ber of cases of human tularemia.
suspicion navmg been aroused, in
vestigation disclosed tha taf tm
Here we have an illnotrntinti e
human disease which has a reservoir
among ammais in a small section of
the country. It has been miirniiii.1
that such may be the explanation of
certain panaemic diseases, which pe
riodically sweep over the land, then
ebb back, to be lost sight of. for
awhile. ' 1 v
Xecd' More Exercise.
J. J. W. writes: "I am a heavy
coffee drinker. I have discovered
that unless I drink at least One- cup
of coffee at noon I become fatigued
and feel drowsy at various times
during the afternoon. la;
drinking really a harmful habit? If
so, how may it be overcome grad
ually? I do not use tobacco' in any
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"I have spells of fatigue anS drow.
siness in the afternoon even when
i ao arinic coiree at noon, and won
der whether the fatigue and drowsl
nesa are attributable to some other
cause. Mjr naoits in general are
gooa, ana with few exceptions
average seven hours of sound sleep a
USUI. ,
x quite orien nave lor dinner a
bowl of soup, rye bread, and a baked
apple and cream. Would you rec
ommend mat r " y
REPLY. ' I',
It has -been found that most per.
sons stand two cups of coffee a day
very well. One of those can come
at noon, you need more sleep and
mere exercise. If you are an office
worker your lunch is about right,
unless you eat a lot of rye bread
and put a lot of sugar and cream on
your appie, ... ..
' Write to New York.'
s. n. M. writes: "I am a girl 1
years or age, parentless and friend
less since cmianooa. waving no
doctor or nurse to turn to, yet earn
estly desiring the wonderful story
of life, I come to you in the hope
that you can recommend to me a
pamphlet, mailed in plain wrapper,
containing iniormation x seek."
' " REPLY. n ;
Send 10 cents to the American
Social Hygiene society. 105 West
Fortieth street, New York City, for
tneir pampniet, "sex in .Lire."
Cooties Very Precocious.
X Y. Z. writes: "It seems to me
that I am troubled with body lice,
very limited, perhaps in very early
stages. What can I do?
REPLY.
Sterilize the underclothing with
heat That is of the first importance,
since the lice go on the body only
when they are hungry. Kerosene
will kill the lice on the body. Some
shave the infested area, then bathe
it with kerosene and wash with soap
and water. It takes about a quar
ter of a minute for the early stage to
become the late stage. The bug
springs from the head of Mara full
panoplied for war. In plain United
States the bug is ready to eat. and
beget young from the drop of the
hat.
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Omaha, Uept. !4 To the Editor
of tha )! I'o you remembor the
mob that burned the Court lu?
Taxpayers will have rvwn to r
member It for several years to come.
Do you recll that there were at
fort Omaha and Kort Crook at the
time several hundred ldlera who
mlitttt have prevented that trouble
and destruction of properly, but It
waa not pollle to get any m l Ion
on account of tho superabundance
of red tape?
I have at hand a copy of the San
Antonio Light of Hi-ptember 1.
Thers was a creat flood In Han An
tonio on the th and 10th, lauxlns;
loss of nrononv and life a lerriM
catastrophe. In the ml dm of that
flood, when It waa evident help was
needed, the police commbmloner
rode over to Fort Sam ljni"(on and
ankpd the ad utant for help.
In a few hours a thousand sol
diers were pntrolllmt ihe strict of
the devastated iiistriei, lenning am
In reneulng citizens from drowning,
protecting property exposed to
thieves. After the flood soldier
patrolled the streets for several
dnya. Yes. they did that In Omaha
after It was too lute. '
Every now and aaaln tnare 1 (aiK
of removing all soldiers from Kort
Omaha. Cltlxons protest and the
Chamber of Commerce gets Into ac
tlon. Why should there be any
protest? What good are the soldiers
or tho forts in time or sirens r
I 1unt wont to contract what hap
nencd when San Antonio needed
help and what did not Happen in
Omaha under similar conditions.
Jt. U. WALLACE,
litttcr to MIm Alloc.
Miss AIIc Robertson, M. C, House
Of fire Buldlng, Washington, P. C,
Miss Robertson; Your public
warning to young women advising
them not to follow your example
and remain slnglo for the sake of a
career has attracted much attention
and has been favorably passed upon
by many newspapers. The Omaha
Bee in particular, under the caption,
Dream Babies," refers to your
statement, "a husband Is the end of
a perfect girlhood and home, and
babies, the destiny of womanhood,'
with highly complimentary com
merits.
The real woman and men of the
country agree with you fully, re
gardless of the socalled "advanced
thinkers" who profess that woman's
place is everywhere except in the
home. No woman filled with the
true Instinct of motherhood and
wifely devotion believes it.
Some young women prate about
being efficient in professions and of
fice work, placing that above their
real mission in life. 'Efficiency in
that sense is a disgusting word. It
only means these office ladles are
never late and that they can smile
even when it hurts. It means they
can write perfectly typed ' letters,
keep the files, wear fine clothes,
never have a hair out of place, paint
their faces, look nice and be a good
pal to the boss.
Miss Robertson, the dear ladies
are encouraged to forsake their du
ties as homemakers by the sterner
sex, as you will see if you take a
look about the various departments
In . Washington, and especially the
office butldlngs occupied by your
colleagues, who seem to have a pre
ference ior young lady clerks and
secretaries to the exclusion of young
men and heads of families. At least
an even break should be given, but
instead many 'employ only female
help where Jt could be evenly divid
ed. These ladies apparently spend
all their, earnings on clothes and
drift away from the idea of making a
home, thus depriving real bread win
ners for families of an opportunity
to mane a livelihood.
Visitors to the capital are given
the- impression that the'., business
buildings of the government are
style and beauty shows instead of a
part of our government. If govern
ment officials would discourage in
stead of encourage the trend of our
womanhood away from the home life
your warning would not be neces
sary, and God help the present
members or congress, in a political
way, ir present conditions in gener
al throughout the country are not
relieved.
A LOVER OF HOME AND BABIES.
"Passing of the Golfing Season."
Omaha, Sept.. 23. To the Editor
or The Bee: It Is indeed a very sad
time when the golf enthusiast lays
aside his dearly beloved clubs, the
companions of many an afternoons
'ideal pleasure on the links. The
familiar "fore" will not be heard to
any great extent until the robins
chirp their springtime melodies in
the clear air of early day. Not un
til the meadows will have taken on
that marvelous deep green which
signifies to the lover of the great
outdoors tne coming of the myster
ious springtime, when all nature is
blossoming into life.
Now that the shades of winter are
lengthening on the links, the heart
is niied with memories of happy
days spent in the open, 'mid the
environment of goodfellowship and
sporting competition. Soon will
come dreams of "birdies" and the
Inevitable "hazard" which spoiled a
perfect score. Soon the poker par
ties will have the preference, and
the buffet at each popular club will
be the scene of many a convivial
party and feast. The fall hunting
season will soon be at its height,
and the royal canvas-back and mal
lard will deck the festive board amid
the atmosphere of happy friendship.
The wily Jack-snipa and prairie
chicken will not be strangers In our
midst, and will also appease the ap
petites of sport lovers at special
functions and festivals. -
Let us not lament the passing of
the golfing season, but rather look
forward to the coming of the grand.
est time of all, the fall hunting sea'
son in the great middle west.
RALPH E. JOHNSON.
Cold Comofrt. '
Ted So you think I'm wasting
my time making love to that rich
girl?
Ned You have . about as much
chance of winning as a landlord run
ning for office on a dry ticket
New York Sun. )
THE NEW MOON. ;
Berausa the stars were watching
8ha veiled herself, tn cloud. i .
Jjrnt they should read her secrets
She was so shyly proud.
Her thoughts were all unknown; . .
Her dream-world was her own.
Among the starry watchers
She passed with steady feet, .
Wrapped In her gentle silence, ;
So coldly, strangely sweet. ; -
With shy, reluctant grace ; :
She kept her even pace. ' ' -,
We drive our dreams to market; :
Our thoughts are all to sell; :
In virginal aloofness :
She guards her secrets well
Before ne eyes are laid
The dream-thoughts of a maid.
Agnes Mary Lawrence In Hospital Satur
Gay jtum journal. jobaou
November the Eleventh
THE SPICE OF LIFE.
"Pa. what Is meant by sclrit control?"
"Formerly the butler, now the physician."
Boston Globe.
The disarmament conference will meet
Washington on Armistice day. It is
now proposed, and remain In session for
months. This will enable the Washing
ton hotels to get back the money that
Europe .borrowed. Los Angeles Times.
Pretty Niece (blushing) Auntie, what
would you do If you learned that a young
man was secretely Inquiring about your
biiity as a cook?
wise Aunt I should immediately make
secret Inquiries as to his ability to pro
vide tnings to cook, my a ear. 5oaton
Transcript.
A New Tork silk merchant went to the
bank to get his note renewed.
1 am sorry," said tne banker, "but
will be absolutely impossible for me to
renew your note."
The silk merchant's face paled. After
moment of thought he looked un at the
banker and asked:
"Were you ever in the silk business V
Why. of course not." answered the
banker.
"Well, you re In It now" said the silk
merchant as he picked up his hat and
went out. Cincinnati Xaaulrsr,
I reat M Hsitesj Trfil.
National kenlrsa and notional
abstention from eordlil employments
on November It Will serve he
double purpoe of enirrln the at
tention of psirMio Americans upon
tha Immortal performance of the
wuth and valor of our country tn
dsfensa of Amerli-an rights and lib
erties and of signalislnc the opening
of the Washington conference for
ihe limitation of armaments. In Ihe
brans and the reasoning of Amer
ican, It Is Impossible, as It would be
Daily undesirable, that the honor to
Hi unknown hero should not come
first. This I the great work that
v.aa consummated on that memor
able day that America was made
safe and kept free, that foreign
ngrrssn and Insolence were
thwarted and rebuked, that the
frulm of the work of the fathers ami
founders of the republic wr
assured and perpetuated.
Bunding by the side of the grove
of the young soldier who typines
in ungrudging and seir-nnnegMtlna
arnica of alt, the people could nut
do otherwise than put above nil
other things the noble sentiment
which animated him. The unknown
soldier sought no honors when he
died. To him, on the field of battle,
fell the meed of the unlauretrd
grave; his waa tha untrumpeted sac
rifice, Jt was tha cordon of dark
nesa, It might be of oblivion, that
decorated him. In his unrecognised
person the American people will rec
ognise on November II. on the green
hillside at Arlington, the transcend
ent service; their homage will he the
supreme decoration of tho repre
sentative hero. At such a moment
the sentiment of the defense of the
fatherland cannot be forgotten, or
for a moment overlooked.
A worthy object Indeed, the for
warding of the cause of real and
true world amity, will. It Is under
stood, on this day be Interwoven
with the homage of the nation to
the unknown hero. Surely there can
be no harm in that. Who la there
who does not desire that the nations
shall dwell together In pcace7 It
was by means of such unselfish
heroism as that of the unknown dead
sul.tier that (It foundation ef the
i'il4's iea' ere surely Uld. Tb
ruiisumitmilon of that ir. If It
ever came, must arrivo py the ro4
f hla saerini and to aariAea ft
al th brave boy who nisrehed wlih
him. whether fat 1114 that they
should fall unknown and unidenti
fied a h did. whether their rnie
nd their death or wound wer duly
enitiltuMineti on th record snd recog
nised on their honored tomb, or
whether they returned sf and
sound to th welcoming arms of
their Itlndrsd. It I sweet and prop
er to di for one's country; and a,'t
th eter. Imted, must it b if the
acrlrtc bring nearer the day whan
no mor of urh glorious self-immolations
for hum and Ciod and coun
try art required
I Milord. ksto Crapy.
"Why do you object to children tn
your aparlmaot husT"
."At a mater of kindness. ropl
who are raising famine rant o
expected to pay th rental I re
quire." Washington Star.
Robbing It In.
When lie served ertary ef
slate. Colonel firyan waa evidently
loo busy with other mttr to fully
appreciate John Usseeit Moor as
a using young diplomat. Washing
ton War.
W hy Women Talk Mor.
Women talk mor than men be
cause there ar mor women. liar
rlaburg fatrlot.
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