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1? .. .HIE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1921. TheOmahaBee DAILY (MUKNlMi) EVENING SUNDAY TUB BEE PUDUSIIINd COMPANY KELSON B. UrOIKE, faallaaaa MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED TRESS Tk aanautaS Pwta. 1 Midi Tba m H M. M ,. aauilaa l4 aai aw mMkulw of U am Simwaal araaiud I H w art aiMn.ua aradiua ta UK ("P". aa alai Ua Imi aam auMitfM Imi it natla a wwMImim at tm magta! Iiiwiim k au manl Tha OaaU a iWM at tlx aatll Puma at Ctnv hilaaa, lb reua aiauctlj M (iRUUUoa audit, BEE TELEPHONES SS"ira t-r. itJS ATUntic ice ft Nlckl Call Altar 10 P. M rUvUl DnutMBt ATUatW It. I vi Mil orricES op the bee M.la MIMi Iftk Slid VuUBI Blaffl IS W I on'' " tovta 3 Out-f.Tara Ollka ax in am i wuhiiiah O till WnU lUAa i far . IM But m. Uawt Km Talk CaMaa The Be? 8 Platform 1, Nw Uaio Pngr Station. X. Continue J lreprovnt of tbV Ne braska Highways, including tb pave maat of Main Thoroughfare leading into Omaha with a Brick Surfae. 3. A short, low-rat Watarway from th Corn Bait to th Atlantic Ocaan, 4. Horn Rut Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. Work of the Unemployment Conference. The way to cure unemployment is to fur nish employment, and the way te provide that is to get the industries of the United States going at something like normal capacity. This conclusion is easily reached by a committee that is to present a program for the unemploy ment conference at Washington. Working out of the details may present some difficulty, but not any that is insurmountable. What will chiefly be required is a spirit of co-operation on part of those most concerned. In a general way, the plan contemplated will require short-time employment of work ers to keep business going full time. Manu facturers will be asked to arrange their pay rolls so as to divide the work that is available among as great a number as possible. This will call for acquiescence in a limited wage by workers who are now getting in full time, they being asked to divide with their fellows who are idle. Then the manufacturers and jobbers are requested to aid in passing along as rapidly as possible any con cessions in prices, that consumption may be stimulated and demand thereby increased. Simple enough in its outline, and perhaps capable of application, this program at leas', has the merit of being practical. It is not a final solution, however, for it does not involve .the readjustments in industry that must be., made before the definite end is attained. As an expedient the shortening . of .hours and conse quent employment, of .more, workers, to secure the same output is permissible, if the unit cost e not increased by 'a consequent addition to he wage item: '- In other Words, ill the work ers will be put on part time, instead of having tome on full and others on no time at all. Some doleful predictions of breadlines and souphouses are already heard, bat these should not be fulfilled. We have, plenty to teed ana clothe everybody in this country, and, as the president stated in his opening address to the conference, there should be work for all who arc willing to work. A rearrangement is needed, and this may be worked out by the conferees and presented in such fashion as will appe?i''to the general public and so be adopted. Anything that will bring a change is certain to be welcome, for the outcome can scarcely make matters worse. v '., t : never knew what boon he wis, but some still honor hint because of bis contribution to a life that was drib1 enough without him. ... . V WrongKindof Voting Club. , . Violence is to be deprecated at all times, and clearly the naturalised cilitnwho attempted to mike his wife vote by crashing a stool against her head was in the wrong. As he admitted afterwards to the judge, he had not ascertained whether she would have marked her ballot in accordance with his if she had gone to the polls. Those who have any claim to being judges of human nature will say thlt after her beating the not probably would seek revenge by killing her husband's vote, if she voted at all. Thus are to be seen the difficulties which surround a man who wishes his wife to take her rightful place in politics. It may be that this immigrant was acting on the theory that in order to be thoroughly Ameri canized his wife should take an interest in the mayoralty campaign In New, York City.' After leaders in the struggle for woman suffrage en dured jeers and insults, picketed the White House and went to jail for .their faith, he may have rea soned it would be ingratitude indeed not to ac ccpt the privilege and duty they had won. But as a new emzen nc may nave on uiguti mv on his right of the ballot than do many men v. ho have been born here. The same' hard fight, marked by a sreat deal more violence, was nec essary before the right of manhood suffrage was won and yet there are many American-born men who never have voted, and many more who participate in fewer elections than they ignore, All in alt, the women have met the duties of citizenship as well as could be expected, and much better than many predicted. Isot voting is a practice not peculiar to their sex, and the woman who does not mark a ballot is no more to be clubbed by her mate than is the man who likewise abstains. Motor Drivers Still Unreliable. A resume of motor accidents reported to the police for the month of September shows a total of 64, or more than two a day. This makes no account whatever of .the . minor mishaps and collisions which are never called to the atten tion of the authorities. The record is not one in which the motorists should' take pride, espe cially as the police assert that in almost every case the accident was due to a violation' of the traffic rules. Careless or indifferent drivers jeopardize the safety of all others. No amount of expostulation or exhortation seems sufficient to touch these. Police courts hold no terror for them. A traffic officer is quoted as saying, that hundreds of arrests have been made within a month' of violators of, traffic regulations who have been released from custody on payment of a light fine, or with a reprimand. Unless the law is brought to bear more heavily on .these offenders, , the record of September for motor accidents will be extended through October and so on indefinitely.-. Visitors to Omaha marvel at the disregard, for, rules of safety shown by drivers, and they might, if they remained long enough, learn as have the residents to marvel at the . leniency, shown those same drivers when they are called to account. A change of policy is needed. '" - . The Cowardice of Cain. A Hanging, in the opinion of an old English historian, was the worst use a man could be ;put to. Yet it iVs hard to say what else Carl .Wanderer was fit for. A greater crime than that of which he was convicted the murder of his wife and her unborn babe and the slaying of a tramp on whom he hoped to place responsi bility for the deed can not be imagined. I Human life appears: to have meant nothing to him, although he tried hard enough, by every iubtcrfuge known to the law, to save his own akin. That he went to his death On the scaffold singing does pot disprove his essential coward ice. Nor does the fact that he had serve1 in Ihe army and was eager to cut his domesi ties and return to it necessarily indicate an., real bravery. ' t- Here was a -man afraid to face life and abide by its rules. Having assumed the responsi bilities of a husband and father, like a craven he attempted to find a backdoor of escape. In stead he discovered that the way he had chosen led only through tlie trap doer of the gallows. Too late, if ever,.-he learned that taking life is cowardice and that the heroic thing is to abide by the dictates of conscience and civilization however hard they may seem to bear. . The Cld-Tijj Fiddler. In these days when anybody who cares. to. can turn on the machine and hear Kreislcr or . Kubelik, or anyone of a number, of really re markable violinists play immortal compositions, the "old-time fiddler" loses a great deal of his importance. Yet there was a time when he was really an adjunct, even a necessity. A" genera tion or so ago the fiddler was almost , indis pensable to society. v He was a part of the' new communities, of the-rural life that had not as yet coalesced, beyond the formative stage.' In those days the. "barn dance" was a reality, and not an imitation prepared with much, scenery and equipment that seldom found place in a regular barn." Maybe the dance was held in the school., house, or the kitchen and "settin room" were combiped for the, time, and the dance was held therein. .Wherever it was, the fiddler was the prime factor, as without him there would be no dancing. Tangoes and fox trots, glides and . dips, bunny hugs and toddle .walks were not .known, but the honest-to-good-ness dancing of the plain quadrille, the Virginia reel, and now and then the lancers, with an occasional waltz, schottische or polka for those who were advanced-in the art, called for vigor and zest that now is lacking. Jazz was un known, but the simple melodies that were adapted to the movements stirred the young folks and the old as well to rhythmic response, and 'the evenings so spent linger yet in the tninds of any whoeve took part in the proceed ings. The old time fiddler may now afford occasional entertainment to the people who Pity Poor . Old Science. v.-. Wilbur ' Glenn Vbliva having' joined" forces' with William Jennings Bryan, Einstein, the Rev. John Jasper and a few other notables, the law of gravitation may be considered repealed. There ain't no such thing; it's all bunk, says the successor of Elijah John-Alexander Dowie. Nor is the world round, all the astronomers and , scientists, geographers and explorers for ever and ever to -.the .contrary notwithstanding. What is more to the point is the discouraging fact that there are, those who will accept .Mt, Bryan or; Mr. Voliva ,at their face valte, and repudiate the teaching and. experience "of" men : who have devoted' their Jives to elucidating, the simplest of nature's problems. These unreason-, ing followers of equally unreasoning leaders do not try t grasp the fact that gravitation is not a man-made' device, but a law of the Eternal Absolute. Science does ;not invent laws,'; but merely discovers and applies them, and in doing so brings -man into, a better and closer relation with his. Creator,, .because of added understand ing of the divhte plan and consequently a .more reverential' acceptance of the divine willy Not b "Back to God," but-"Forward to God!" should. be the motto. Happily, the eternal laws are not subject to-mutation-or human tinkering. IThe Husking Bee ft . r r no lour xvaij - Siart.UWithaLauSh Of course, "if all " fires were prevented, the insurance' companies would' have to go out of business. Inasmuch as this is impossible, there is no objection heard to the observation of fire prevention day, and indeed any lessening of the waste of conflagrations . is a good thing all "around.' . ? . -J' The Iowa farmer who compelled,. nine boys whom he caught in his melon patch to gorge themselves on watermelons only succeeded in making them do what they would have done if left alone. ; One never gets too much melon at a certain age. V - k' .-V ' Lord Cecil, in demanding that the League, of Nations take some definite step to encourage disarmament, either is striving to embarrass the powers or clings to an illusion m a most ;un-;. statesmanlike fashion. ' ; "The pen is mightier than the sword," 'con cedes the Sidney Enterprise, "but just the same there come times , when the pen jvielder wishes for a gat" Presumably the editor -has some thing on his mind. . Obregon's edict stopping gambling will hit the pleasures of a number of Americans who go across the border, to let out a notch, but still it is not likely to lead to international complica tions. -. . .--.:-':;'- , - . ' . . The Iowa judge who holds that a dog may bark when he pleases might have gone on and said that Fido would do it, too, in spite of all the laws of man. One advantage of the congressional recess has been that it allowed members to come home and make the discovery that railroad rates are too high. It remains to be seen if all the wild horses and all the wild men can pull the promoters into, freedom again. i - - - , At all events , those boys ' Who - sought "to 4 extort $200 have led the way in cut prices for blackmail. '- ' SUCH IS LIFE. We welcome the frost on the pumpkin For the pleasure it brings us, on boy, And even the city-bred bumpkin ' .Greets frost on the pavement with joy; For summer, that giy-hued deceiver But vamps us with its brilliant sun While the autumn tells us our hay fever Is done. Yet e'en while we chortle with pleasure And feverish teirs cease to flow, We find that the (all brings its measure Of trials, tribulations and woe; Our smile gives away to dejection, We long for a quart on our hip, Over night we hive made a connection With Grippe. , . PHILO-SOPHY. A system full of symptoms accompanied by alight affectation of the rye-lid ought to be good tor tne right kind ot a prescription. - ' One can usually tell a professional man. Only yesterday we saw a chimney-sweep going up JJougias street, carrying a icatner portiouo. Producers and promoters arc beginning to realize that the American people want clean entertainment put on by persons with clean Tecordi They rang down the curtain on one Jack Johnson up in Massachusetts the other day. w m Tack Lee says 100,000 Nebraska' farmers milk 435.000 cows, but we ve had information to the effect that their wives do the most of this job of milking. V New York has flopped back to normal after five months of daylight saving. Uut what good is it after you have saved ,it? One- can't use it at night and in the day time one doesn't need it www UPWARD AND ONWARD. Full many wonders now .we find. Men ride in planes towards' the atari Reporter! soon may be assigned To gather in the news from Mars. - ..'. Four Days' Treatment Restores Gray Hair. Promise in a St. Paul ad. Yeah, but Mary e'en -though gray hair may be a badge of mature judgment and ripe intelli gence, and command respect who, may we rise to awsk, wants, his gray hair restored? Unless, indeed,' it be to a bald head. Light occupation: Spinning a put and take top without betting on the result. www LACTEAL LAMENT. Cafeterias must be laboring under the mis apprehension that milk is a bootleg beverage, and has in some mysterious manner become mixed up in the Volstead fiasco. - ' Waiter slips us a glass with the halt ot one per cent cream carefully concealed on. the bot, torn and nicks us at the rate ot 4U cents per qt. Per Q. T- we never issue a chirp. Congratu late ourselves that we can still get it without a doctor's prescription putting1 Us on a milk dieC Which also reminds us that we wouldnt so much mind paying 20 cents for two fingers of corn-flakes (Nebraska's other bumper crop), if the restaurateurs didn't insist on serving a paper napkin with it. www. Oh. I don't know. Times' aren't so rotten When a voune woman can shoot $80 in a beauty parlor., Business is good, tnanK you. OLD HOME AVEEK. ,; Each treads his daliy round. Of tasks that must be done, -...For children, home and native land .. The struggle must be won.. But blood is thicker than water. And we who are children here ' "" Will always hold ' each other ;: Of all the world, most dear. ; 'v. : . The heart turns toward the nest, Yearns like the homing dove, After years. in other. lands Home-land holds its love. -C . . r NOT UP-TO-DATE. The boys who wrote threatening letters to prominent Omaha business men didn't sign them K. K. K. . ; - f . i Cleopatra was, we take it, the original vamp. We are not informed" as to' whether or not she bobbed her hair but we believ? she i "rolled em." Onlv thine lackme in the ancient civili zation' Cleo didnt hafve the movies to go into. t ffes, it is a cold world," argued the pessi mistic gent. , ' But that fact doesn fworry the coal men, commented the man with the philosophical turn of mind. , I' ' - ... . ' ; , STILL SPEEDING; ; C " ' Automobiles are moving slowly, says a trade report- On the market, bo, on the marketl Not on the boulevards. , . ' . . :' :T SLEUTHING. Said Andy Trapp to Robert Munch, . - "I think it'a time to have a lunch, We've worn the soles half off our shoes " Tit running down a bunch of clews." "Quite right And while we feed our face ' Well look for yeggs about the place; Be sure you've got your gun and sap," Said .Robert Munch to Andy Trapp. . . AFTER-THOUGHT: The only eye-opener left the nation is the alarm clock. ' ,v' PHILO. How to Keep Wei! IrDiW A KVAN9 QwMtfaNM faff lag ariMaa, aaalta um aaa aaaiHa- ai atl4 ! gaa by naaira at Taa Staa, !) a aaavaraa arnaiB aualatf aa 'im liauulM, vkata aiiai rina ta aa tl4. Or. gvaaa vllt aa auat axtaaaia a Maacriba la Ia4li4aal limiHi A aan Mlara la tart at laa Kaa. . Cavrrtaat. JSII, kt Dr. W. A. great. M. A Genius in Royalty t 1 Among those who believe that 1921 -will reward fighters is King Constaritine of Greece. Much royalty has fallen uron .many evil days, but the Greek royal family by constantly adding a little bit to what it has has preserved its sol vency and Us serenity. Its checks are good at Uie bank, the proletariat does not bother it, war merely annoyed and peace did not destroy it, and now it is opening up many attractive Turk ish subdivisions and is contracting competent American marriages. - It acquired the -dowager interests in the Leeds tin plate millions, and in Paris Grand Duchess Xenia is shopping preparatory -to tak ing over the main account by marrying William Leeds. The cost of the lingerie for the wedding, Paris reports, will run into hundreds of thou sands of francs, which, even at the prevailing rate of exchange, is a few dollars in American money. ... 4Ve can imagine the king saying ding the expense.; The boy is a nice boy and the finest lingerie in Paris is none too good for him. The family can afford it Things are going pretty easy -and it looks like a soft winter. .-.Tino is the only genius developed in royalty in the last fifty years. Europe' docs not know how to keep him from chasing the. Turks out of their territory and America docs not know how to- keep, him from walking off wifh American gold. Chicago Tribune. TOBACCO AND WORK. I do not auPDoaa the averase man or woman caja two whoops, but thoce who do irare 'can sat soma aeientifle Information aa to the d gita of hrmfulnaa ot smoking ana tliwlna- tobueco. The American Meoicai awn-wiion et-lla a booklet ' tn ' which-! Jackson Bivaa hla opinion aa to th amount ot tobacco an ordinary-. man ran atand a dor ha lias bacome accus tomed to tha drua. TIm ..Journal of I nd um rial Ityalano, during- th last yar. na carried two armies on the effect of the use f tobacco on rapacity for work. 'These studies wera made In California by Uuum- beraer, I'erry and Martin. bxamlnlna- a lot or-talearopn on era lorn, they round that tha heavy smoker were able to do more work than-ihe Ilk lit ainokera in the early work hour, but they fell off In their output so rapidly trmt at th end Ot tho day they were doing much lea work an hour Oian the Hunt amok- era. 8o low waa their output In th lata hour tlmt .their total output waa lea, .than that of ho lltht smoker. ' . When the1 group wax called upon to speed up to take care of a piece of work, the light amoker could r en pond more quickly than the heavy smoker. Thin waa taken aa an Illustration of smoking on mental workeraA. i A group of glass blowers waa taken a typical of condition nmong men , doing heavy manual labor. The concIuMlon drawn from this study waa that amoklng had little enact on the output -of men doing heavy manual labor. Lleht amoker had a allghtly lower output man neavy nmoKers. t Chewing tobacco, on tha other nana, seemed' materially. to.j lower output- The lnveatgatora concluded that tobacco waa a poison' which lowered physical capacity, but that tho smoker did not absorb much of lU . Chewers. on the other hand. absorbed large doses of It. The so. lution of tobacco waa readily ab sorbed by the membrane of the mouth and, in addition, some saliva containing nicotine- was swallowed and the stomach absorbs more rapidly than the mouth. The articles in the .Tonm.il nf Tn. dustrial Hygiene refer to aeverat Btudies made by other careful in vestigators. An editorial in th Journal of Tropical Hygiene refers iv aiuuies wnicn showed that the Use Of tobacco had been fnnnrt tn lessen the endurance and vigor of foot ball players and to other studies which showed that in certain colr lege groups the proportion of to bacco Users amonfr Iha man nl.K Iqw scholarship records Was higher than anions those with hieh mo-1 prds.. However, that may have been coincidence rather than cause. Try Giving Skimmed Milk. A' mother writes: "My S-months- cld 'baby girl has a breaking out on both cheeks. She has had it for about three ' weeks. ; It seems to be getting worse. At first It was like tiny white - blisters', but now they have turned red- ''I thought it prob ably i .was eczema, so stopped all butter and am-, giving her whole mln. 'Cereal' frnit cooked: stm'ned vegetables, and' hard breads. What should I do. to? clear this up and prevent spreading?" w , . , ' REPJjY. .;: Eruptions of that character on the faces of babies generally are due to some food. The offenflini? food may . be something which agrees with most children It Is rieht to suspect fats. - Try' giving skim milk instead of ..wholeVmilk.-, ' , Tumors and Cancer. ih' Mrs. R. H. S. writes: "Will you.' tell me if a tumor of the womb turns into a cancer or can it cause; Heath if. not operated on? Do tu-, mors stay in one place or move around?" . . ,., REPLY. There are several kinds of uterine tumors. Cancer is one. Occasion ally a, tumor which started out something else will-become a can cer. Malignant- tumors spread to different parts of the , body. Benign tumors grow locally, but they do not Jump'' to new areas.. - - ' ' ? , . "Work More Than Yon Eat. - i Mrs. A."M- writes: v"I. Will hot Epsom salt taths or sea wit! reduce flesh? I am 21 and weigh; 180. . . ; i. '--. ; "2. I would like to reduce. How may I?" 1 - REPLY. ' ' : ;.! i 1. No.- ,.- ' 2. Eat less than the work you do calls for.. You can. eat abundantly of bulky, watery vegetables, but be very stingy with bread, and all foods made from wheat, oats, rye, rice, and other grains, with sugar and all foods, beverages, and confections in which sutrar enters, and with potatoes and beans. ' (Tka Km aft Ha aaJwaiM frxly aa Ha u aaaiia IHtm a aal A' Drummer's Proverb. ' ' " ' A salesman is known by the contpaiiies he ..kcess Fitchburz ScntlneL Better Bt Examined. , i Mrs. C. A. writes: "I had a hem? orrhage of the lungs six years ago and this week I had the same thing. Will you tell me 'of some preven-r tive that will arrest tna . trouble again? Do you think a vaccine should be inlected into my lungs by a specialist?" . '' .' ., REPLY. There is no vaccine that will help.1 Horse serum injections are helpful for a very short period, but that is not what you are after. Have you consumption? Above all, be certain on that score. ... . ' . Don't Go to Kstremcs. ' M. F. writes: "Kindly state what effect cucumbers ( and onions sliced with vinegar will have on the stom ach when eaten .solely as a meal with no otWer ingredient Are they hard or easy-5 to digest? Do they contain much nutriment?" REPLY,. ' Such . a mbjturo- eaten without bread or other food would-be very hard on -the stomachal. It Is almost without " food1 value. . When cucum-r Vers and onions are eaten aa a small part of ,a meal they furnish salts and vltamines .and help to fill all useful functions;.' - . Twill Serve. . That ' "slave auction" . on Boston Common ' may have been, a press agent stunt, but it will be used by sensational reformers , for years to come, as an argument against the present form of , government Buf falo Express. - ! ' ; If Women Wonl.l Be Safe. Young women attending parties at which bad liquor ta diluted tn movie, actors should at least be armed with virtue or firearms. Virginia Rappe didn't even'" have- a custard pie. Kansas City 'Star. Extensive and Impressive. Lord NorthclilT says "the United States begins . long before- ytwi get to it" " And by George, It Continues long after rou hive left St Shoe I ana Leather Reporter. aa I laa. Iia can la ata IimUU Ibai lha aaw uf lta rrtiaa ai-aaaiwaay aa MHIr, aa a Cow aakllralWa, bat I aal laa adlla mmf aaar Bilk wkaaa km la dmUma, Tba IW m frtrm f ,laaara av ! tlaa a aalnlaaa aW"" t aarfa- ayaaJaaia M laa iiwi wavi Omaha, gpt.. To th Editor of The He: lit answer to the ltur atgned "Hwaet Charity." and wrltian to th Omaha, iniiy. ?wa ny air. Janiilu Hmllh. wo feel thut w ahou Id not Dil tin ry wunout word of explanation. We feel that the article 1 miluadlng to th pub- lie. Mrs. Fmlth refer to a family of tan elilJdran. tn omeai eisiuven. Th mother recently dUd, th fathar Was auppoaed to pay an alimony of 110 per week to the wife oriom nr death, lie i an aBie-oo" man hut haa fnied to nay. m nee in wtfa'a, death lha father haa promlaed to pay a weekly allotment of $10 to car for th .rainity. io " rhlhtren in eartlinir J their living and halplna support the rest of the family, . Thla family I in every way worthy. Th members are devoted to one another, unusually thrifty and will not. except In dire need accent charity. We have knowr thla family and have extended help to them whenever It wa asked. Wo are planning now to help them a best wo can. Aa to supplying their winter coul, If thl Is. necessary, of course we arev orurajred to do It. That I ourbuainusaj tofurnleh ma terial aid..;. V.v :'?."' Now. aeUO'Mr. Smith's ugges tlon that w t'ako some, of the money earned from ;lie dinner-dance and pay off the1, mortgage on., th little home whloh .this, family. 'occupies. let ua sayllnf"all falrnw 'that this would lie -an utter iniDossiniiit, Should we'atteniPt to.pty off the mortgagei'J standlnfir ttimjnut the home off th.'. worthy' families of Omaha, It' wpuld take hundreds of lkA......l.. A ,1 . .1 1 U . L , The dinner and lunchedns recently given for the benefit of tno Assocl ated Charities wns a '-great, success but evidently Mrs. Smith dcea not know that we have hundreds ot families during- the winter, who through sickness and other good reasons, must be provided with food, fuel, clothing and shoes. How far would $7,000 go if we attempted to pay off mortgages? If Mrs. Smith, or others, who are criticising our work, wish to know how we. meet our multitudinous problems we would he more than willing to have them visit our office, 522 Federal Reserve Bank building, and see for themselves, bow we, at the best of our ability, try to lighten the bund ens of the unfortunate ones. :. ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. Mrs. G. W. Doane, Secretary. " Public and Trolley Pay. ; Omaha, Sept. 27. To the Editor of The Bee: Just a few things that ,th'e ' public should consider. The street car company was granted in creased fare at a time when- prices of all things were high. Employes were granted a raise at a time when thousand ot men war In th I'nltad (Utiles aervlce, and trained men war hard to t. Waft of atrctt car men today are not what thy should ba fr skilled and trained men. The public depend upon them for safety and. should Insist that jrood waiia b paid ana only the 'beet men am ployad. Th public pays th freight If street car men accept a redue tlon of wage, then the publio should demand a reduction In rau-s, 1'ub llo and employes should not be ex plotted for th benefit of th ear company. I,et's hoar from you. dear public. - If th men strike and service Is auipended-we wlll b at the mercy of Inefficient men to operate cam or walk, in either event wo nay. Let u hack up tha man to thla extent if their pay la reduced, In sit on a reduction of fare, , If their pay ta maintained, . maintain the fare. Tha far was raleed. to help ma mrn in me nrsi pure. FAIR PLAY. Coat of tarnb Chops. Omaha. ept t.To the Editor " n, nero iaM regu lating rates ot ln.lare.t; wo have a law regulating th length of sheets on or on, . ana sanitation In hotel. Now If thla Mate has the power to rrxuuuu raiea or interem. nn.l length of sheets, It certainly haa the power to regulate sslilmr 'prire, or ruiea on proms. j-rovlUing a license Is required to do bmlnean.. i.hav. this Information from u vcrv u,mt attorney. So if the governor is serl- uuh, anoui nenung tnose wno can not help themselves, here Is his opportunity. 1'at lambs sold on tha markni September as for from f to . per 1C0 pounds. Listen. on the s.ime ume, i nau rour little Iamb chop for supper, that I paid 40 conta for. I got three smnll mouthfuls, of yineat from each chop. , , Thm costs three and a third cents a chew. Boat it if you can. There is room ' hn a lot of fun, at my expense, and I iiko iun as well as Iamb chops, f rt does not cost moro than thn rhnn. But bellevo me, there is a serious sldo to this question, and a deep rumbling can be heard that bode no good to this nation. If these con ditions are allowed to run much longer. A. Al. TKMPLIN. Platte County to' Vote on Additional Bond Issue Columbus. Neb.. Sent. 30 Shr- cial.) A special election will be held here October 18 to vote on a hnnrl issue of $100,000 for completion, fur nishing and equfppine the new court house building. The completed struc ture will cost in the neighborhood of ?300,000. I '" Cherry Trees Bloom Wymore, Neb., Sept. 30. (Spe cial.) A number of people in this vicinity have reported that their fruit trees, mostly cherries, are in bloom again. ' Crash Victim Sues Priest for $30,400 Rev. T.trick .V Flanagan of the Holy Angels church, was sue4 for f 30.400 in district court yetterdiy by Jay VcaUl, who alleges that while he was driving a car June 18 he was run down by Rev. Father Flan Kan's car and badly injured. He lost one eye, two of his ribs were broken, his noe Is permanently crooked and he suffered other in juries, he alleues. 1 lv ipiranot" a LfplraHorV1 forlreeetr - w .--ae aw m ty , sympathetic xnusicaJ yre ion. proniptj (he -purchase bfk ann not a dt?n fn "conventional" zdf (he cost of supreme lOghsst priced Our Special Sale on Renewed Pianos and. Players embraces standard makes at prices from $150 up. Payments as' Easy . as Rentals The Art and Music Store 1513 Douglas Street Illinois Central System Holds Railroading Isas Attractive Now as Ever - in all branches of industry is needed more than ever before, we regret to note an unorganized but none the less effective effort to maW railway work appear unattractive to our young men. Non-railway men have expressed discouraging views, and, even some railway officers .have lent their opinions to this unprogressive -effort .For the most part, .opinions without a statistic in support. , A fortunately, these views are merely ,opini MZk. - ..... ..... fW'-'' WeV'tte ilftooVCentral System, do not subscribe to these pessimistic opinions fn any . single particular. We'helieve indeed, we know that the present-day complexity of railway organissation demands' men better trained and more resourceful thaB;-ver before, and that op portunities for advancement, to the right men, are as good as they ever were, r . i' There is angeiv however, thatr although unfavorable opinions , of. railway work are false," constant reiteration mayvresult in their acceptance' as fact, and some promising young railway men may be Tside-tracked into other missions of less! benefit "to themselves and to the public. Any business is largeV;what you make it. Railway men should point out how attractive their business really is. ;.;-:-c" ;" " r""' ':''', ' '-' .' j " .... . ' What ther pwaenWay businesses have greater romance, better conipensatic,H and swifter fances 'fof'advaMeiitent than railroading? These three factor opportunity, compensation, adventure are the lodestones that draw young men today aa truly f. they did their fathers twetity, thirty or forty yfars ago... What", has railroading lost in; thesejrespects that other busi nesses have gained? . ' . :" "';- i '. ., . - v ' -:.:"W.. , As construction of; new lines, with consequent opening of . new "territory, has almost - "ceased, perhaps some, of the romance has faded out of railroading. (The. day of the empire ; H builder is past But hay other businesses fared better, What competing industry has more ad- , Venture, even today? Only on the frontiers of civilization, which have rept far outside our im .... .mediate problem, will you find the great adventures again-and out there, the (Ances;are, you ',.will find the railroader, next to the soldier perhaps; the envied man. ; " " ir. T '.; ' '-" ' v - .'V'' In 'place of the old frontiers we have something far more productive of opportunities for " service a large population busy in the further development , of our country. In this develop ment the railroads play a part of tremendous importance, jfor business of every kind is depend- - en't upon adequate transportation. ': In providing that transportation at minimum cost and at the same time improving and enlarging the transportation plant, to keep it abreast "with the coun try's growth, the present-day railway man has a problem .bigger than his' grandfather and his father faced in the days of pioneer railroading,, and' he is better paid. : V But how about advancement? Has a young man in railway work a chance as good as those in other lines? Will merit find its own place at the top? We believe no other business , offers better opportunity for advancement to the young man who insists upon advancement. . Inertia won't push him to the top any more today than it would forty years ago, but his boss' job is always just in front of him, and the pursuit is still the same old game. The young men who. are now coming along in railway service don't know much about tha .' conditions that prevailed a generation ago, and we doubt that many of them care. All that a ;' young man who has the right kind of stuff in him is concerned about is the problem of tackling -the task confronting him today, and he doesn't care a rap about how somebody did the job be fore. He has his own future to, carve and many young railway ; men are carving theirs -rapidly today. -" ' ' ,. . ' " ' - : : For example,, of the official positions on the Illinois Central System, 85 are held by men less than 30 years of. age,' 122 are held by men between 30 and 35 years of age, and 213 are - held by men between 35 and 40 years of age. . Three of the executive position are-held by inen. less than 40 years of age. This proves that opportunity still exists in the railway business. The best man will seize it, as he always did and always will The same effort wins in railway work as in other lines, and the final rewards compare favorably with those in most competing . iindustries. ;'.. '. .' . . " ( ; '. ; The editor of an important newspaper wrote the other day: "There is no more interest V .ping calling than thatjOf railroading. It is a man's game, and next to our own. we esteem it aa 'a vocation of less monotony and more adventure than any other." This is a competent outsid- " tfn opinion of the railway business. While we do not agree with the exception he made, we flWlieve it is otherwise a correct opinion. - I It -A . , ': ' - .. .. ' Moreover, we believe it would be conducive to the good of the railroads if similar opm- . .-- ions were adopted and expressed more frequently. ,We believe the contrary viewpoint is erro- . neous, and. its adoption by many of- our citizens would be detrimental to the railroads aa well w to the public welfare. ' s ' ' Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. C. H. MARKHAM, -Prcaidcnt, Illinois Central Syttaom. 11 S3T