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Main Of flea 17th and Farourn
Co. Bluff, U Scott bu South Bide 49.5 8. 14th St,
Na York 28 Fifth Ava.
Washington 1111 0 St. Chicago- 121S Wrlftty Bid.
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The Bee's Platform
1. Naw Union Patiengar Station.
2. Continued improvement of the Ne
braska Highway,, including tha pa.
ment with Brick Surface of Main
Thoroughfares leading into Omaha,
3. A ahort, low-rate Waterway from the
Cora Belt to the Atlantie Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
The New Party's Platform.
With all its preliminary movements attended
tc in detail, the new-born Progressive party
makes its appeal to the voters of Nebraska on a
platform that deserves to be closely studied. Not
merely because it is all inclusive, but because
some of the things it sets forth in alluring form
as generalities must be carefully examined in
order that the voter may know exactly what is
meant. Political platforms too frequently fail of
expressing exact meanings, and, perhaps, it may
be asking too much to pin the parties down to
. particularities, l et, wncn a piann nas to qo witn
specific grievances, it ought to propose a remedy
that is understandable by any, and which does
x not mean one thing to one man and another to
another, and is finally capable of being inter
preted in such fashion as to cheat the hopes of
both. That sort of politics is unfair, no matter
by whom it is practiced.
In the platform adopted at Grand Island
promises of reform in the administration of, Ne
braska's business affairs are freely made, together
With the reduction of taxes. This is easy to
pledge, but may not be so readily achieved. What
is more interesting right now is contained in
these paragraphs, which may be overlooked by
the casual reader of the preamble:
Prices for farm products must not be per
mitted to go below the cost of production, plus
Wages must not be'perniitted to go below
the cost of living at American standards with
a margin for old age. '
a Those sentences mean something, or they
mean nothing. What is the cost of production
of a bushel of wheat, for example? Experts of
the Department of Agriculture reported to Sec
retary Houston about three years ago that they
could not determine the unit cost of producing a
bushel of wheat, because the elements of the
prooiem vanea too grcatiy. u mis is true, ine
promoters of the new party have set themselves
to a hopeless task, if they are honest, or place
reliance on their ability to befuddle voters by
loose and inaccurate statements, along with
snecious nromiscs thev do not exoect to fulfill.
What is the American standard of living?
Who fixes it? And, after all else is said, who is
there to determine for any man or woman what
his or her standard of living is to be? In Omaha
a workman drives his own car; another, em
ployed by the same concern, with the same hours
and wages, has trouble to meet his living cx-
. penscs. What is to be the determination be
tweeen inese iwoi i
Political prophets who profess to settle such
questions offhand are open to the suspicion that
thev are not especially profound in the science
they pretend to practice, or they are not entirely
' sincere in their professions. The Progressive
party may make headway, but it will do a better
job if it take on one thing at a time, and not
undertake to put over an omnibus job of re
forming at a single sitting.
Dying Memories of the' War.
When a week has been crowded with interest
and excitement, one often remarks on how
swiftly it has passed. A week is long only when
nothing much has happened. It is that way with
years, too. History has been made with great
swiftness since 1914, and it is hard to realize that
seven years are past since the opening of the
world war.
The freshman class of a great university,
tsked to give the date and result of the first
iattle of the Marne, has been stumped. Not one
of those boys and girls knew the story of the
laving of Paris. Naturally a great many unkind
things are being said about this. A more
:houghtful and charitable observer, however,
makes the point that when this battle was fought
ihe college freshmen were between the ages of
10 and 12 years. In the last seven years so great
has been the rush of events that it is not sur
prising to find they have forgotten or missed
some. t,
There is not the vividness about the victorious
advance ot the allied armies that there once was.
The stories of the starving people of the in
vaded regions seem today a little unreal. Those
who did not actually bear arms are a good deal
like the college freshmen, and the names and
scenes of the great war are passing from the
minds of men to take their place in books.
Testing the Zoning Ordinance.
Holding up the erection of an apartment
bouse through means of a restraining order will
apply another test to the zoning ordinance. Last
summer a court order set aside the objections
of residents in one district to the erection of a
church in their neighborhood. This point has
not been definitely decided, for an appeal has
been taken, and the subject is, therefore, in abey
ance. The apartment house comes next, and it
in turn will be followed by the merchandising
establishment, and then the factory, for each of
these will be objected to in turn as they under
take tcnvade the region sought to be maintained
for purely residential purposes, To be lure, there
it little, if any, comparison between church
and an apartment house, or between either of
thee and a store or factory, but all seem to have
in some degree a quality that it objected to by
the home owner. A reasonable regard for
proprieties supports the desire to keep exclusive
residential districts safe from invasion. When
the city cem mission adopted the zoning ordi
nance prepared by the planning board, it was
after considerable debate and solely with the
thought of making conditions that would be un
derstood by all and not onerous or burdensome
on any. Whether its restrictions are reasonable
and wholly within the power of the city to es
tablish must be left to the courts for decision.
Changes Due in Rail Policies.
The spotlight will be on the Interstate Com
merce commission December 14, when hearings
on the general rate situation will begin. President
Harding set the stage for this significant meet
ing in his recent address to congress, where
he said: "The existing scheme of adjusting
freight rates has been favoring the baaing- points,
until industries are attracted to some centers and
repelled from others. A great volume of un
economic and wasteful transportation has at
tended, and the cost increased accordingly," "'
Here is a matter in which the middle west,
ought to take a vital interest. Scarcely a town
of any considerable size in this region ihat-ftgs
not some once prosperous manufacturing plant
now closed or merely dragging on account of un
favorable freight rates that give the advantage
to competitors clear across the continent. The
president speaks what is in many minds when
he urges a check on the concentration of manu
facturing in the overcrowded centers and the
encouragement of local enterprise. More of
the raw. products of the farms should be re
fined out here instead of being shipped back
and forth across the nation. Thus could costs
be cut and employment the year 'round be as
sured for labor in the. rural districts.
Congressman Jefferis, speaking before the
bankers of the state, touched on this proposal
on the same day Mr. Harding did. New basic
points for figuring freight tariffs should be es
tablished in the interior instead of on either
coast, he declared. The determination of the
railroads to compete with traffic by ship through
the Panama canal was condemned. There is
no public policy which calls for hauling goods
by rail that can be more cheaply carried by
sea. It is, however, imperative that the rail
roads should serve the great landlocked interior
as cheaply as possible. New basic points for
rail tariffs must be selected; on this the' mid
dle west should take a firm stand.
Mr. Jefferis urged that support be given some
middle western man for appointment to the
vacancy on the Interstate Commerce commis
sion. This, too, is a good idea. President Harding
has outlined a revolution in transportation
methods. It is now up to Nebraskans, Iowans
and those of the neighboring states to carry the
movement on to completion.
Watson's Remarkable Performance.
Some folks may be moved to ask whether the
inquiry into the charges made against the of
ficers and nurses of the A. E. F. by Senator
Thomas Watson of Georgia should not be ad
journed until competent alienists have had an
opportunity to examine the complainant. The
performance he staged in the senate when he
was making his scandalous charges caused won
der as to whether he was entirely in his right
mind, an impression that will be heightened by
his threat to assault an army officer who was
one of a group listening to the proceedings be
fore the committee that is conducting the in
quiry. Well-balanced men seldom behave as
Senator Watson is doing.
It is interesting to note, in this connection,
that one of the letters Senator Wason read into
the record was signed Thomas F. Gowran of
Albany, N. Y., formerly regimental sergeant
major, inspector general's department, Forty
second division, who writes of himself:
I admit frankly that I did not honestly do
my duty while in this office. I was the ste
nographer. I knew the court-martial manual.
Trial judge advocates were appointed who be
fore they went into service were . grocery
clerks, oil salesmen, etc., and the court-martial
manual was simply a bunch of words, and
the form used in the conduct of a trial usually
started at the wrong end and wound up in the
middle. I am glad to say that my knowledge
of procedure, which I learned in the judge ad
vocate's office, was of material help to mc in
mixing up the reports of trials,, which, of
course, in many instances, threw the case out
or forced the commanding general through
recommendation of the division judge advocate
to cut the sentences imposed by the court to a
mere matter of detail with the accused's company-
Regrettable as it is, tlire is no way to reach
this soldier who constituted himself the "deus
cx machina," and substituted his own judgment,
dishonest as he knew it to be, for that of the
court of which he was a servant. He will be a
splendid witness for Watson, but his presence is
only further proof of the weakness of the sena
tor's case. It is a good thing for the world that
all the soldiers were not of this stripe. '
Germany, too, is in favor of an international
currency, which will help it to make good on the
billions of paper marks it has put out. We may
expect that Russia will also endorse the plan.
The United States, however, remains the only
(Country capable of paying its debts.
The ex-kaiser is reported to have written a
book. It will be interesting if he will only tell
who and what induced him to think he could put
it over when he started in 1914.
The governor's price probe at Lincoln has
developed that some prices came down and
others stayed up. This may surprise a few folks,
but not many.
In Russia 35,000,000 people are reported to be
in imminent danger of death from starvation, a
notable commentary on the efficiency ot bol-shevism.
Fewer deaths reported lor the year just clos
ing encourages the life insurance man. Perhaps
life is more worth living, or death too costly.
Eamonn de Valera may console himself with
the thought that he is not the first leader who
had to be "content with less than he hoped for.
The I. C C "hopes" for lower freight rates.
We thought its chief business was to make rates.
Harding's tariff plan is liked by the senators,
which means it is to have democratic disapproval.
The
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Husking Bee
's Your Day
It With a Laufth
RUFF STUFF.
Oh. gentle muse, with your soft, soothing ways,
Off have 1 wooed yon wnue singing my lays,
Your touch on tny heart strings, soft, gentle and
kind,
Has brought glad expressions of love to my mind.
Oh, muse now lay off of the soft, gentle stuff,
Lay on the muscle and treat me right rough,
Can the soft pedal and turn on the juice,
Hand me ju-jits till I yell like the deuce.
Crab my typewriter, that trusty machine,
Swat me a wallop on top of the bean,
Follow that up with clout with brick,
Land on my slats with a heart-rending kick.
Break the monotony of love-poem class,
Connect up my think tank and turn on the gas,
Jazz me and razz me with noises accursed,
Beat on my car drums tilt they almost burst.
Haze me till I see the sun, moon and stars,
Take a few hints from your old daddy Mars,
When you've done all this then I'll have in
spiration To say what I think of enforced vaccination!
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PHILO-SOPHY.
When a man succeeds it's brain when he
fails it's luck.
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If life seems a shadow the chances are you
are standing in your own light.
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The packers' strike brings to mind the thought
that there is a shade of difference between get
ting work out and getting out of work.
Modern problem of medical science vac
cinating a flapper where the scar won't show.
An idle breeze Babe Ruth threatening to
knock Landis for a home run.
The Babe will have to swing lively to bust
his record next year. His season doesn't open
until a month after the regular schedule,
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HAPPY BILL.
Willie isn't very well.
Guess he's got a bilious spell,
Doctor says he needs some beer
Just to keep his system clear.
C. R.
SPORTS.
Now on! Great International Contest Re
ducing the Navyl Taxpayers of winning coun
try cop cash prize as nucleus for savings ac
count. All entries laying down "arms win money
award and benefit of peace prices on luxuries
formerly prohibited under the guise of neces
sities. , "
Bonds of brotherly love will extend 'round
the world like policeman hugging hired girl.
After disarmament conference only war left will
be between Prohibition and the United States.
And there's no tax on home-brew I
Annual six-day bike race pulled off this week
in east. For 31 consecutive seasons six-day
pedaling contest has kept riders busy while New
York sleeps. Only darb feature we could ever
see in six-day grind is that it gives husbands an
excuse for staying out nights.
Participants in a wrestling match sometimes
lock 'emselves in a fond embrace, lie down on
the mat and doze off for a couple of hours, while
spectators cheer 'em on with hearty yawns, but
six-day bike racer goes into trancefrom which
nothing can arouse him until he finishes a little,
week. And even the wheels are tired.
YOU SAID IT, PAUL. i
Dear Philo: If Saint Xavier is a college, it
goes to prove that Saint Vitus must be a danc
ing academy.
Ill fares the team, to hastening ills a prey,
Where bribes accumulate and men won't play.
How to Keep Well
Br DR. W, A. EVANS,
Quattlaaa cencaralnf hrflane, tanlla.
tlaa aad prevsatiaa el diaeata, tub.
milted la Dr. Evana br readers af
The Baa, will bt liiMrW artanaUV.
aubiacl la proper Umllaitaa, wkere a
stamped, addressed aaveloa la at)
closed. Dr. Evana w II Bat maba
diagnosis er arttcriba far Individual
diseases. Addrtta letters In care af
Tba Baa.
Copyright. 1931. br Dr. W. A. Evana.
As a man is known by the company he keeps,
a newspaper is known by the company it ad
vertises. ours,' P. R. B.
WE DON'T KNOW 'EM, EITHER.
Dear Philo: In looking over a pamphlet per
taining to the building trades I note that "the
words 'carpenter' and 'joiner' are anonymous."
Cope.
HAPPY.
A novel says
"They feU in love,
And they were happy very,"
From which we judge
This man and dove
Decided not to marry,
IF YOU ARE WELL BRED.
You will not ask a girl to. be your wife while
you are married to. another.
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EVERY LITTLE MOVEMENT.
See where Walter Camp has doped out a new
system of exercising the muscles, set to phono
graph records. If the records. are jazz we have
an idea of what the exercises consist.
Ex-kaiser is to marry again, it is rumored.
We have always contended that old Bill was
cracked,
THE CLUBWOMAN,. '
It's wash the dishes, Polly,
Also the kitchen floor,
And then before you've rested
Go back and wash some more.
I wish I'd been an Indian,
Their way was best, it's proved,
When the wigwam got too mussy
They just got up and moved.
Plague take the bric-a-brac,
And all the things we tat,
The only things not dusty
Are the books and my new hat.
-C. M.
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HE'S THERE.
We like the cheerful
Smiling guy,
Who always says "You
Bet, IU try."
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- It is. we opine, going to be a disappointment
to old Santa if he doesn't find a little something
on the sideboard to warm and cheer the inner
man.
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One can get plenty of ready-to-wear clothing
it one has plenty of ready-to-pay money,
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Some people believe in having music in the
home, while others just buy a phonograph and a
bunch of jazz records and let it go at that.
ISNT IT THE TRUTH?
Christmas if a time of joy,
Everything's in trim,
Happy is each girl and boy
Full of trimming vim;
Watchful waiting is the worst
Thing they all agree.
So they trim old father first
Then they trim the tree,
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AFTERTHOUGHT: Getting colder we
fear a frosty dew. . liULU,
THE 100 YEAR RACE.
When the American Publlo
Health nssoclatlon met In November
to celebrate the riftifth annual meeting-
it featured a banquut In honor
of Dr. (Stephen Smith, the man who
when health commiHniur of New
York 1'ltV roll. .it Inulh.. m
of "Jinltnrliind to pln a flht aitulmit
cholera ami in that way started their
anaoiiatlon.
Vr. Stephen Smith will be 0
veare of a no en February Si next.
However, Dr. William J I. Welch,
prenlding as toast matter at a ban
quet to the patriarch, unld that In
countlnsr aire we should flsrure from
the date of coneeptlon rather than
the date of birth, and on that hanie
Dr. Kmlth was within a few months
of belmr 100 yearn old.
It will be recalled that the Xtev.
W. E. Jtarton employed the snnie
method In proving untrue certain
Jtoriea to the cffei t that Abraham
Lincoln was lint thn inn nf Thnm
Lincoln.
lr. Smith, responding, told his
audience how to live to an active,
vigorouH old ase.
lie iravA tha ninnr Tirnmlnnni tilnnn
In his list to pood parentuge. One
of Dr. Smith's slHters lived more
than hundred years. He agreed
with Dr. Welch that careful mleo
tion of ancestors, parents, grand-
DHrentft. nnH rPMt.frranrlna.antu
was the first duty of the person who
LMuiineu 10 worn union noura at an
years.
Hfl Pftrifarlnllv atpACfuarl , Via
slty for right living, Cailingr it per-
IV1;it,V th mi .afl 11 rl tiarbnla ViaA
..UH.,.,.U (rvVl'IU HUtl VTf IllCH
mm asking for his formula for a
lOmr Jinri ItRnflll Mfei mricr sir
Interpolating facts about themselves.
To those who wrote they could
not eat esgs he replied, "Then cut
'"em uui. isur. 10 inose wno wrote
they could not drink milk he
anHwered, "Drink more milk."
X11S OWn riipf hflfl hOAn varv , mrtl.
mostly milk, cereals, vegetables,
n .1 . . : . ; . i. . , .....
mm mm, wuii meai oniy at ratner
long Intervals.
To thORP whn tirnta ai a r1riy am
remedy or "brand," as some of them
called it. he replied that "he had
none, unless wnrlr urlflinnf wn.n,
could be called such."
xiA thnilrrhr thora tuna rtrdnfU.1l..
no harm in even excessive work If
It was not mixed with worry.
He had not harmed himself by
the use of alcoholic hpcrnr or
tobacco.
Nor WHS III riealtrl a V,o r in lnnn.
evity. During the first 60 years of
his lifp. hp was nnt vlfrnrA,,. T-TI
..vi. T.f,VS.UUO.
poor digestion made it necessary for
mm io nve on a very simple diet.
Some Medical Testimony.
M. C. O. B., an ex-magistrate.
sends an account of a woman In
New York who. having been eharsred
with burglary, pleaded that she had
nypotnyroidlsm'A physician testi
fied that hypothyroidism was due to
a lack of thyroid secretion and this
caused the sufferer to take things.
The magistrate said he could not
see the point, but he was willing to
accept the doctor's word for It and
let her go this time. As an ex-magistrate
M., C. O. B. thinks this is a
bad precedent and if followed
might open the door to let many
criminals escape.
REPLY.
Fortunately with regard to thy
roid secretion it is possible to per
fect the evidence. By means of a
metabolism test, which the magis
trate might have, ordered, it is pos
sible to tell whether a patient has
10 per cent thyroid secretion or 100
per cent, or 150 per cent. Not so
with the secretion of the other
ductless glands. Had the evidence
related to over-amount or Insuf
ficiency of some other ductless
glands the court might have had to
draw straws to decide whether to
accept or reject the medical testi
mony. However, it looks to me as
f tlie physician was mixed at that.
The thyroid has only a moderate
effect on sanity or insanity. A
person with too little thyroid is not
apt to taka what belongs' to her, to
say nothing of what belongs to the
other fellow. A sentence to confine
ment during which she would take
thyroid with a provision for release
after she had become normal would
have been about right.
Offers Many Perils.
J. ftt. P. writes: "About two
months ago , a gland in my neck,
between the chin and right ear,
swelled. I saw a local doctor and he
advised me to have it removed. I
went to a hospital and the doctors
there said I had tonsilitis and that
the Infection o tho gland was from
that, so they operated and re
moved the tonsils, saying the gland
probably would go down to normal.
My throat is thoroughly healed and
the gland is swollen about the size
of a plum and seems to be very
hard. Lately it has begun to give me.
slight pains in it, as well as in the
neck close to the gland, woulrt you
advise me to have it removed? Is
there any possibility of this gland
going back to normal and what
treatment could I use? "What Is
liable to develop if I let It go too
long without having it removed?"
REPLY.
This gland is infected. The gate
of Infection may have been the
tonsil, the gland having been over
loaded with infection before tne
tonsil was removed.
The infection may be with pus
germs. Infection with tubercle bacil
li from drinking . raw milk from
tuberculous cows Is another possi
bility. Most glands of the kind de
scribed can be cured by treating
them with sum rajs. Some need
operation.
There is more than a possimiuy
that the gland will go back to
normal. Tf left alone it may sup
purate, discharge, and cause scrof
ula. Tuberculosis of the lungs is a
possibility.
' Dividends Already.
Slnne thp marines were nlaoed on
mail trains, the net result of at-
t.mnla tn m M nn Tinrle Sam IS
three dead bandits. Perhaps the out
laws will learn fometmng aiier a
while. Detroit Free Press.
WINGLESS VICTORY.
Clou-la r durt alonr the trail,
S-ep Into hl mouth and eyea,
Llka relent!?, leaden rain.
Pelting him from aullen eklae.
Las-alng- feet In ailken dut.
Lift with labored, rhythmle beat;
Tet ha rlrKi hinwlf ahead.
v ny aoea doi me wan icuw i
Why will not tha fool retreat T
Safety calls to him. "Turn back!"
Eaa points out a wayside Inn
Snugly off the dusty track.
Worst ef -all. like wraitha of fear.
Tale processions pars in flight;
Ghosts of men whose liaht of day
Suddenly turned blackest night.
"Doom and dole." they rail, "await;
Dole and doom are ambushed here!"
CboKe4 with dust ha forgea oa
Fast tha last redoubts of fear.
Racked with pain, he wlna his goal.
But the rout that ran amuck
OiHhers. "Ssy, that's pretty oft!
If we only had h'a lU'-k!"
KUaa Llebermaa la the New Tors. Times.
(The Ilea afters Ha columns freely to Its
rraeVre ttlin rare t UI-ciim any auhlie
Ural kin. It riUrta (hat Inters toe
eMauftHtily brief, nut ater 8MI words. II
eUei Insists that I lie name of Hie writer
aeruaiiMtiy reeh latter, not iteerssarUv
fur publication, but that Hie editor may
know a lilt whom he la dealing. 'I ha lira
lines Hoi pretend to rndoraa or accept
tlewa ur oplnlone rvpreaaed by corre-
apomlrnla In I he l-llrr Uui.)
Winching tho Convention. '
Beward, Neb,, Deo. 4. To the
Editor of The Hee: This Is tho week
of the mans convention of the new
third political party to be held at
Urand JnIiiiuI. Of coiiiho, Taylor of
('inter county, in conjunction with
KilKnr Howard of Columbus, will
stand Xo it It as brilliant and force
ful exponents of a new era in which
all tho blt-HMlngs of paradim- will be
pronged with nothing but hiulea to
en Joy In the end. It is pleasing to
nolo thut the new cnterpriNo Is un
der such brilliant londcrvhlp. The
public Will witti'li tho wheels go
ii round and take especial note of
the grlnt that comes from tho mill.
The lack of personal ambition and
tho unalloyed devotion of their souls
to the cauuo of the people are so
well known thut nobody should be
deceived. But there Is some truth
in the saying that some people like
to be humbugged.
AHTHUK V. SHAFFER.
On the Farm Hand's Side.
Denlson, la., Nov. 2S. To the
Editor of The Bee: It surely sur
prises follows, who think they have
a Jobless winter ahead, to read the
Itdter- from "Emma D. K.," Craw
ford, Neb. Fellows that worked all
summer on the farm for $35 a
month and then lose their places.
after coriihusklng, because the
farmers think they can't afford to
feed a man all winter. I, for In
stance, would be very glad and
thankful if the lady could give me
Bny information regarding tho
farmers and ranchers who need
men tills winter.
If you want help, just holler. I,
for one, am ready.
D. DEPPELER.
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Answer to Kiimiu P. K.
Red Onk., la., Dec. 1. To the
Editor of The Bee: Some time ago
another farmer frqm Greeley was
heard from, but I thought surely
there were not many like that, since
they tell us of late years the farm
ers take so many daily papers they
know as well as the town people
about questions of the day. It is
perhaps a little out of the ordinary
to tax the farmers to help with any
charity work in the cities. Yes, be
cause never to my knowledge Jias a
farmer or bunch of them contrib
uted In any way to help a poor fam
ily In town. I was practically
raised in a small inland town. When
I was a baby my father lost his
farm. We moved to town, but he
always worked for the farmers un
til the past 10 years, as that was all
he knew, and is considered one or
the very best stock men and can
handle horses and all kinds of ma
chinery like very few know how to.
He has worked in most parts ot
Iowa and Kansas and some in Ne
braska and South Dakota, and now
he will say "The Hired Man" and
the "Hired Girl" in town or coun
try are about equal. There has been
The Black and
White Votes
(A. I.. Jackson in the Chicago Defender,
lotoreu.;
We agree with the president that
a solidly democratic south and a sol
idly republican black vote anywhere
is a hindrance to the best interests
of the country. They both exist be
cause of the short-sightedness and
prejudice of white political leaders
in the south. We are republicans
because we cannot help ourselves.
The south is democratic because It
won't help itself. If the south would
forget Us foolishness long enough to
help us become the best kind of
Americans we are capable of becom
ing with any kind of an even break
in the economic and industrial con
test, many of us would be only too
glad to back a deserving democrat
at the polls with our vote if he was
tho man for the office, as we have
done repeatedly in elections in New
York City and other places. The
south has persisted in overlooking
the fact that we as a people are
grateful to those who befriend us
and have gone long distances to
prove that gratitude and will go fur
ther.
The president will accomplish lit
tle unless ho backs up his talk with
deeds. The so-called race problem
is a'national onfi; so is the task of
leading a political party. So far wo
have failed to see a single appoint
ment of an able member of our race
to any political ofUce of service or
responsibility in tho north, much
less in the south. We would point
out to the president that some of his
Btrdngest supporters in the senate
and In congress come from those dis
tricts in which we not only live and
work, but in which we vote and
where our votes count. We wait,
Mr. President, with patience and
anxiety for the ttction which shall
fulfill the spoken word. Good old
Teddy Roosevelt acted and talked
about it afterward. We are willing
to try both methods, but we want
action.
Age-Old Human J'olly.
The great European war was not
a new experience in human history,
it was merely a repetition of an age
old human folly, an attempt to set
tle a quarrel and remedy a grievance
by wholesale murder and destruc
tion; and. though It was a struggle
on a wider stage, on a larger scale,
with more deadly instrumentalities.
It was In its essence the old folly
repeated and multiplied. Everit B.
Terhune in the Boot and Shoe Recorder.
Battleship Poor.
Enough figures and facts on arm
ament economics already have been
revealed to indicate that one of the
things which chiefly sils tho I'nited
States today is that it is battleship
roor. So are other naval powers.
St. Louis Post.
CENTER SHOTS.
Memory test: With what well
known bird is the cranberry asso
ciated? Chicago News.
Beer may be good for an illness,
but illness is good for a beer. Flint
Journal.
Babe Ruth will sing in vaudeville,
and the audience may break some
home-run re c o r d s. Muskegon
Chronicle.
Women are said to be rapidly ln
rrpasintr in lipit-lit. Do you sup
pose it comes from standing up for j
their rights? Toledo Llade. !
Correspondent suggests a tag day ;
to raise money for the soldiers' j
bonus. Why not? There is still one
Friday left in each year that is not !
a tag day. Richmond Times Dis- ;
patch.
Russia Is said to be rrfidy to !
recognize" the oM imrial debts, j
Why not? yttite a number cf Euro- !
t-ean nations "recocnize" their debt'
to this r-ountry. Greenville (.S. C.
Piedmont i
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so much said about the treatment
of the kIi'Ih, but it Is also true of
the farm lunula. If thev ai paid
anything; like wages the farmer
thinks lie owns him, not to any he
I always lilvcn tho worst bed in the
holme, nearly always an attlo room,
cold in winter ninl unbearably hot
In summer. Meals (if all sorts, dirt
nnd tlUh In some places, which
girl could help nnd remdy, but a
man must put up with it.
Now, my' husband Is a railroad
man. lie worked at tho hardest
kind of work for seven years to
learn his trade, only to be laid off a
year ago now. We have had to
leave our home, which we were buy
ing, and move to another town In
a different part of the state In order
to get Ills kind of work again. In
our homo town 1 positively know of
one farmer who thought all of us
mado so much In town and wanted
Homef It for himself. A little more
than two yeurs ago ho moved to
town and got what ho considered
Mg pay at one of tho large poultry
plants. He stayed ono year and was
glad to go buck to the farm. "Why,
be says, "we pay so high for every
thing we had to eat and it is Just
money out nil the time." And ono
farmer's wife said to me ono time
that she would not mind living in
town if she knew she could always
Viova thn iniinpv in meet all the little
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Yes, that Is what keeps us all
guessing, as well as working and
iilannlns in every way to meet them.
- , M RS. H. H.
P. ft. Yes, I know what "A Rail-
road Man's Wife" is talking about,
too. "Three cheers' for her. There
lire only three in our family and in
this town $30 a month would Just
pay for our grocery, meat and milk.
America and Ireland.
Milford, Neb., Dec. 3. To the
Editor of The liee: I notice in The
Bee today a letter from Alfred
Adams, who, in part, asks tho
American people to lend their aid
and sympathy to tho cause of Ire
land and stating there will be no
peace in Europe till Ireland is free.
I would say, we are Americans and
have enough to attend to with our
own affairs, and if anyone wants to
spend his own money on. Ireland
or any other country let them do
so, but let our country keep out of
other people's affairs. I would like
to know if the British Isles, Eng
land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales,
are not all governed by the same
constitution and general laws ex
cept in local affairs. England, Scot
land and Wales are happy and con
tented, why not Ireland? It must
be some disturbing element in Ire
land that is not for the best for the
whole people. If we have a few in
America who want to mix in, I
would say go over there and do so.
They are not Americans. I am an
American, first, last and all the
time. G. W. WOODRUFF.
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Saturday Art Sale ,
A HOSPE WINDOW SALE
Five Dollar Bill Talks 9 A. M. Saturday
Hoape Window Sales need no introduction.
For years they have been our clearing house
for closing out broken lines of Art Novelties,
Framed Pictures and Lamp3 without regard
to original cost.
We benefit by clearing our shelves of odds
and ends that we may be in readiness to stock
the new lines at the new prices. '
You benefit through the opportunity of buy
ing Art Gifts of quality at prices that make .
Hospe Window Sales fond memories.
HERE THEY GO
Art Mirrors, panel and pedestal, regular $6.00 to $10.00
values, at --$5.00
Candle Sticks, assorted pairs, regular $6.00 to $10.00
values, at V..-J55-00
Lamp Shades, parchment, regular $6.00 to $8.00
values, at 155.00
Lamp Shades, silk, regular $6.00 to $15.00 values,
at S5.00
Artificial Flowers, assorted bouquets, regular $8.00 to
$12.00 values, at 5.00
Hand-Carved Art Placques (in colors), regular $6.00 to
$10.00 values, at S5.00
(Landncapea and Portraits in the Antique Carving Art)
Framed Mottoes on parchment, regular $6.00 to $8.00
values, at S5.00
Swinging Frames for photos, regular $6.00 to $12.00
values, at r- S5.00
Pictures in real Artcraft Frames, regular $6.00 to $15.00
values, at 5.00
Serving Trays, Book Ends, Smoking Stands, regular
$6.00 to $12.00 values, at $5.00
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SALE STARTS AT 8 A. M. SATURDAY
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