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The Omaha Bee DAILY t.luK.w,sli fcVfc.M.NU jtMjA 111 K HKK PUM.IMIINO COMPANY HtUOH B. tHJlkt. tubli.b.r MEMBER Or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TM atu4 PnM, at nkw Tt IMe M a Maw. luilieir nuii4 la the u) fc wximmimi at tf WaOlM U H H M MHWVIM araOIUd U tall rM, Hi else lk Iml am uut4 M'u All tfsMt W nvuolluua ef HIT Mortal ISTl. SI Sl IllU'lt ' hornet than any other clemtnt o( our locial life. The on it th government under which w live, the ether it tha tourca from which the govern ment flowa. Any newspaper that undertaket to foul the government or lit tource it an enemy of the public, and will certainly fail, became in time it will be found out and wilt inevitably meet the fate that eventually overtake all false prophet!.' The Omsaa Is a ember ef the U4II Buro at Urra liileas, the ncetmt smaunu' ea eliwUuoe ttalii Tha circulation of Tha Omaha Bm SUNDAY, DEC. 4, 1921 72,362 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES S. YOUNG. BuiIhm MiuW ELMER S. ROOD, ClrcuUttaa Mwnf Inn to end eiibatribod belore ma UiU aUi day ml ' (SmI) W. H. QU1VEY, NUry f-tieUs DEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Esehanre. Auk or the Department or Pereon- Wentod. tor Niht Cells Afur 10 f. M.i tdllnn.l Department. AT lantla 1021 or 102. OFFICES Main Off lee 11th and Farnim Co. Bluffi 16 Seott Bt. South Hide IS 8. tttb St New York 2 St Fifth Av. Washington lilt G 8t. Chleao 121 Wrlgley BWr. firii. Franca dtO Hoa BU Honor AT Uatie 1000 The Husking Bee It's Your Day Start ItWithaLau$h The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improvement of tha N braska Highways, including tha pave ment with a Brick Surfaca of Mala Tboroughfaraa lead'nf into Omaha. 9. A abort, low-rate) Waterway from tba Cora Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. Outlook for Wonderful Christmas. In all the history of the world men were never to eager for a way of living that would I permit them to go about their own affairs free .1.. .1 I., ( C. f ,Ul. ; ,in- doubtedly dne to the revulsion engendered by the horrors of war. so lately passed, but a con siderable portion must be ascribed to a sincere desire to find a better way of living. National . pride is a more 'stubborn thing than individual, and in a large 'sense national problems exceed those of the simple citizen, for the weal of all is more important than the well-being of one, al though in a responsible nation "an injury to one is the concern of all." Out of this principle forever flows a possibility of war, but the answer is to so arrange relations that justice may be had without resort to amis. " - The conference at Washington is dealing with principles as well as concrete cases, and in the effort. to adjust these is finding its work greatly facilitated by an apparent spirit of abnegation never before witnessed in a gathering assembled to decide the fate Qf nations. Even the Paris conference lacked that quality now most in evi-' dence at Washington. .Maybe at the outset some f( tJi Helpo-atee rl trl orrkVe af nnr national ranttal " - - - - o - . . .. . hoping to achieve something of advantage for their own country, to be able to return home . and display a material gain. These are now busy on the inspiring task of working out agree ments that will tranquilize the world because they will harmonize international and national aspirations. i ,' None is asked to surrender sovereignty over us own anairs, or tp give over wnat is rigm and just for it to retain; each is asked to con- tribute to the good of all by relaxing a little the plans it has laid for future greatness, and to set about to achieve the same end through ' better methods. If the United States, England. France and Japan can agree as to all the intri cate interests that are bound up in the so-called Pacific problems, at least that part of the world win De removea irom tne arena ot war. isiew questions may arise in days to come, and un doubtedly will, but by that time it is possible that the new way of doing business will be so well established that any vexed problem may be settled at the council table. -' It is not safe to speculate on the future when dealing with the materials that are presented at Washington today. Political adjustments are sometimes easily accomplished, but these change from day to day. An age-old question is not so readily dealt with, but the spirit in which the present conference is proceeding may also be potent to set white and yellow races moving harmoniously to 'the great goal of human hap piness. "On earth peace, good will to men," may be realized in the fullest tense. Newspapers and Education. This hat no reference to "educational week," just closed, when the schools of 'America, their needs, progress, service, management and gen eral efficiency served as topics for numerous edi torials all over the land. It seemed almost as if the subject had been assigned, and the com petition was to determine in how many ways it might be treated, all seriously, however, and with the utmost regard for the importance of the matter in hand. What The Bee now refers to is the general attitude of the press of the United States towards the - public schools and Indestructible China. It it with no tense of inferiority that the Chinete attend the conference in Washington. Though their land hat been shamefully impoted on and it now being exploited, for the gain of othert, looking back over their more than 4,000 ye'art of continuout history, they may perhapt feel a great deal more certain of their own racial permanence than can the white race, which In that period hat had one rise and fall after an other. ... China had a liable government when Babylon wat new; it had its greatest literature when Rome wat a village; it wat tending learned monkt to collect the literary treasuret of India at the time of the Saxon invasion of Britain; it wat experimenting with tocialism while William the Conqueror was battling Harold. This people have, besidea their political history, an honorable record in art, poetry, drama, novels and phi losophy. ' Six centuries before the' Christian era Lao Tsze, founder of the mystic system of life known as Taoism, advocated the return of good for evil. Confucius, always practical, opposed this and urged that evil be met by justice, but still the original idea wat practiced just as much in China as it has anywhere else. In his "Outline History of China," Herbert H. Gowan gives some of the sayings of Lao Tsze, among which are the fol lowing: " ' , He who Is content hat enough. Mighty is he who conquer himself. He who'ia conscious of being strong la content to be weak. The weak overcomes the strong; the soft overcomes the hard To the good I would be good. To the not good also I would be good, in order to make them good. . - These doctrines were taken quite seriously before Socrates or Plato were born. One of these Chinese kings was so devoted to the sound of them, if not to the content, that he would ex pound them by the hour to his court, and if any courtier yawned, his head was forfeited. Confucius, who followed a century after Lao Tszevas intent more on externals, such as rules Of propriety and the duties of "superior" men, and is said to have confessed that after studying Taoism for twenty years he was unable to master ;t. xThe philosophy now has degener ated to a system of magic and charlatanry under the direction of a leader who is called the "great wizard." So, -seemingly have 'many things gone down in China, but for all that, it is unsafe to believe that this magnificent -land, the Cathay admired in medieval Europe, is dying or 'is with out hope or possibilities, of self-devefopment for the future. , generally the cause of education In the December. Century its editor, Glenn fdeal justly with others. frank, closes A Note on Newspapers and Education" wkh these sentences: ; In my folder of clippings for the last six months I find column after column of valuable information respecting educational progress and experiment in the United States, Eng land and the entire British empire, Greece, Italy, France, Austria, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, South Africa and other countries. As I stated earlier, these newspaper clippings for six months, with slight editing, would make a creditable volume on modern educational tendencies. ,My only pur pose in recounting these stories at such length is to emphasize the fact that although we may be only a nation of newspaper readers, we might become a highly informed nation if we really read our newspapers. ' It is. gratifying to be able to quote such au thority on the side of the daily press. Too often the criticism hat been that the newspapers give little or no assistance to tbe tchools; we are told that the effort of the press is to disseminate scan dal, sensations, anything but the high-toned and desirable information sought by the critic. Here is his answer: If he would really read the news papers, he would get the Information he seeks, and in unlimited quantity. The self-respecting newspaper regard itself as an agent of Intel ligence and enlightenment, a factor in the true cause of education. It provides an extension coarse for all its readers, so that they may follow on up the hill, starting anywhere they leave off text books, and with the assurance that they will find a good newspaper a never ailing fount of nseful knowledge. ' Next to politki the public tchools touch more k Scraps of Paper Not Effective. "We do not wish to seem pessimistic, but the thought is inevitably suggested that civilization is having its' last chance," one of the editors of a safe and sane financial publication writes. "Make no' mistake about it; the world is either going forward to brotherhood or back to barbarism," sayt a religious speaker. Efforts to abolish the use of poison gas In war must be thwarted, Brigadier General Fries tells American chemists. At the same time he declared its availability will become a factor for permanent peace. This is in accord with the theory that, fear will prevent war, an idea just as fallacious as is that one which contemplates the abolition of chemical warfare by general agreement among the nations. . Nations can not be terrified into peace, nor when their very ex istence seems.at stake can they be counted on to scruple against any means of defense, fair or foul. Of the American casualties overseas, 31 per cent are said to have been due to poison gas used by the Germans. Now our own govern ment is regarded as having developed the most deadly means of chemical warfare. -vOne drop of a certain compound which can be showered down from airplanes, it is said, will kill on com ing in contact with a human being. General Fries, who it herf of this xhemical warfare serv ice, hat described a mustard gas attack by air planet on a city. In three minutes the whole city would be screaming with pain and terror, some blinded, some burned. No relief can be taken into the gassed area. Fires break out and no one can extinguish them the city is doomed. There is horror in this, but it is moral horror rather than physical. The thought comes, how much more powerful for evil science has made man, and how depraved the human race must be to have brought itself so near annihilation. Poison gas can neither save nor destroy the world, for it is not a free agent, but is under the control of man. It is not these chemicals that menace civilization, but the1 distorted ambitions of man,' the lack of a sense of fellowship and a sincere and uncompromising determination to Questions Seldom Asked. If man, age by age, has progressed as Dar win claimed from a lower stage to a higher, can it be upheld that this process of evolution has ended? It is not altogether a flattering thought that man is to be the ancestor of another creature as different from and superior to him as he is inv comparison with the chimpanzee. Louis Berman, in a remarkable book, called "Glands Regulating Personality," touches incidentally on this ques tion. He suggests the possibility, if man is not entirely supplanted by his successor, he might be segregated and allowed to live his life in cage cities. ....; Such thoughts as these, looking thousands of years into the future, are not such as commonly occur. Somewhat more is heard of the notion that the germs of self-destruction lurk within the brain of man. Talk of the next war, of poison gas, of spreading disease germs in a plague throughout an enemy country, and of marvelously effective instruments of death operated by the mere pressure of a button, suggests that there is some chance of the race of man committing sui cide. "There are other species or latent species to take up the torch that burned poor homo' sapiens and ascend the heights," writes Dr. Ber man. "The ant and bee may yet mutate along certain lines that wouM make them the masters of the universe." Such speculation as this brings up the ques tion of whether man is doing all that he might to realize his fine opportunities, HOME I'd like a little cottage Or a nifty bungaknw, Where I can mow the grast at will, Or thovel oil the snow Where I can kep the furnace Under personal control, And practice aiy economies On my own store of coal. Where I doijt have to beg for heat When nigbtt are growing coot, Nor seek a crusty janitor And quote tfie Golden Rule; I want a home that's all my own Where I can be content, And landlords cannot come to me . And say "I've raised the rent" Where I can be a monarch From the basement to the dome, I do not1 crave for riches great If I can have a home Where I can dwell in comfort With the kiddies and the wife, That isn't much to ask, and I Would be content with life. . ' , . ' PHILO-SOPHY. A cheerful disposition is more than tldn deep. Only two weeks until Christmas. Have you ah, dcie your Christmas brewing? , A cynic is a pessimist who is suffering from ingrowing features, gout, dyspepsia or liver com plaint. ' A genius is a genius as long as he merely muddles with his own affairs. When he begins to bother others he is a crank. "I see you have bought a second-hand car, Has it any up-to-date attachments?" "The only attachment I have found up to date is the one the sheriff holds. UNIMPORTANT ITEM. The city of Ork has upwards of 80,000 in habitants, but quite a percentage of this, we imagine, is a floating population. IN LUCK. ' It used to be a standing joke ' To find three oysters in a stew, But now you are a lucky bloke If you find two! . : Prohibition enforcement officers have been' warned by their chiefs to refrain from wagging their chins in public. Can t these officers understand that all the parched and long-suffering public wants from them is prohibition and darned little of that. Sleeping with gloves on keeps the hands soft, asserts a woman s magazine. We have in mind a couple of guys whom we suspect have been in the habit of sleeping with their hats on, , Trouble with those built-in beds there is no place for a woman to look under before retiring. IF YOU ARE WELL BRED. You will not slam the door in the face of a man who calls to repay a loan. . DONT HIT HIM. Of all the guys that we despise Beneath December's sun, ' Is he who wags his chin and brags, "I've got my shopping done."' Oh, darn.- Now we've cot to wade through that Arbuckle trial all over again. Rather than hang Fatty a woman hung the entire jury. " . Ouch: Can we borrow your car for a minute? Grouch: A minute? You couldn't jret it started in a minute. Ouch : We. don't want to sret it starteed. The wife and I want to have our picture taken in it, to send to her folks for Christmas. .'' 4 We will now use the touch system in eettincr a telephone number. If you raise the wrong number blame it on your index finger. ' .. STARTING THE DAY WITH A LAUGH. Crunch, crunch; munch, munch, I plunge in my teeth and I tell you what, I just forget all the worries I've got, This toast's mierhty good when it's buttered hot. Crunch, crunch; munch, munch. Carol Rickert. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS QuMtlona coacaraing ftytten. Mnlta. tloa tad Bravanliwt ot 4nf. tub. mltloJ ta Dr. Evan by raadora el Tha Boa, will be aiuworod Btroanally, ubcl e proper limitation, whore a tompad, addrooMd tavolope ta on. ckooe!. Dr. Evana will not make dlno,le"br prescribe (or individual diMOM. Addroaa ottr In care et The Boa. Copyright, mi, by Dr. W. A. Event. Crops and Tomato Sauce 1 SUPERIOR CHILDREN. Mrs. M. MoC. write: "My buhy. 21 months old. la SKU inches tall, weighs 17 pounds, and l, it seems to me, built in propor tion. At birth he welched 10 pounds, lie Ih considered ununually smart and can reelle aeveral small Jingles from 'Mother Goose.' He also remembers things tfmurkably well, and would much rather look at a nook than anything t'lse. "I read him short stories and he con tell which goes with each pic ture, i read tno wrong story to a picture and he tells me that lant right, lie can spell a couple of short words like 'rat.' ' 'A great many ceoDle tell me I should not allow him to learn so 1 thire breaklna- brad with law- mong the beat informed In the . who reprSt rt corpor. ut for three year, past th. VI, r,:ZZ?,l. .ZV h7.i management of publlo fin aura in (rnM the Hootaa ( omntorelal Bullotln.) A terrible charge 4. brought against the Judges of the supreme court of the commonwt'slih of Matwarhuseit by a UontQii politi cian, lie accuses them of going to the Union club for their luncheon and yei tlona, and with oilier men who hold the hlgheHt executive poaltlons In the great Industrial and public service corporations of Mnitaafhuaelts. An acciiantlon against the highest Judicial olllecrs of our state should not he nmda frivolously, and as the accunntlnn Is made by a member of the Suffolk bar, It may etm worth while to examine the testimony and see whether our Judges are un worthy to serve us because of the charges brought agalnxt them. It Is not denied that our Judges who are fortunate enough to be members of the Union club fre quently eat their luncheon there, snd find it conveniently near to the court house. Heveral of our recent governors have been members of the L'nlon club and it has nover been claimed that Crane, Guild. Draper, McCall or Coolldge wna less worthy German Financial Innocence (From tlto New York linns.) Itofore the war the Germans had a reputation for tlnanulal knowledge and skill. Their governments han dled questions of taxation and pub llo loans with Intelligence, and their private bankers were regarded as much, ss it 1b apt to give him brain fever or make him simple. Is there of his high offlre by resnon of tak any reason to fear this? I do not Ue luncheon at a club that Includes ADD POLLYANNA STUFF. Though northern winds are blowing, Soon it may be snowing We feel it's on the way; The mere, may hit the bottom And still the chilly autumn Can't fill us with dismay; For we have ample reason To like the autumn season, And changes that it makes, For then it is we're sinking To see the winter bringing Those nice, hot buckwheat cakes 1 CHRISTMAS HINTS. For the benefit of those who feel the uree to do their Christmas shopping eariy, but who are bewildered by the multiplicity of gifts displayed in the shop windows, we are giving from the vastness of our experience, the following 1921 model, self-starting Christmas list in the hope that it will in a measure aid our readers in solv ing the momentous problem of what to give and whom to give it to. No excuse now to side step or pass the buck. force him to learn. He does it him self, so I saw no harm in It and hope there lsn t any. "He eats and sleeps well, plays out of doors a good part of the day, and enjoys it." RETLT. Your educational policy is no wise increases the danger of bruin fever -or any other disease. However, there Is a danger, and here it Is: The education of a child starts immediately after birth. At 2 years of age your child learns more in a day than he will at 6 or 16. Education consists in training- of habits, learning etlquet, deportment, behavior, acquiring speech, learning how to see, to observe, to think, to reason, how to control the emotions, how to play, and, finally, the acqui sition of knowledge and such parts thereto as reading, writing and arithmetic. ' How are you educating yorlr child? Plainly, he is an only child. He is learning- from grown people, and therefore he ia learning grown people's things. Children of his age, but especially of the age periods beyond 2 years, are accustomed to learning from children. They leaa-n something from grown people, ha.it .the most of their education they get from children. A child educated by children has a child's personality, behavior, con duct, play habits quality of mind and stock of information. He fits in well. A child ' educated by . grownups has a grownup's personality, be havior, condact, play habits, qual ity of mind and stock of informa tion. , When he gets with children he does not fit, in very well. , Not httlraa: in may be worse than a disease even worse than brain fever. I hope you are raising a superior boy, a ItoniPl Webster, or something. like that, but do not let him get too sivperior to, or too different from, the ragamuffins who make up the hulk of mankind. It is best to do it that way. even thci?h it is not the best way in the absUract. Tlie objection to the Clark method of character training is that it can be, carried far enough to make those trained by it superior and smug. T,tie temptation is to make them too different. "Personality" helps in the sale of brains and energy. Be sides It makes for mental health. in Its membership a large number of men most prominent in business and professional life of the city of Boston. The proximity of the club to the state house and to the court house combined with the quality of Us membership makes It especially attractive to lawyers. Excepting the principle of loyalty to the gov ernment of the United States, that was the basis on which the club was founded during the civil war, the rlub Is entirely nonpollticnl and to hold membership in it is regarded as an honor, instead of the stigma that discredited politicians attempt to associate with the organization. When analyzed the charge against our Judges Is that they go to a re spectable club for their luncheon niul eat in the same dining rooms with many other gentlcmeri who have attained prominence in their profession or business. Accusing a Judge of the supreme court of wrong doing on the ground that he takes his lunch-- ;, daily at his club, Instead of gniu to a quick lunch restaurant, or buying hot-dog sandwiches at the street corner, will hardly be regarded as a serious mat ter, but the fact that such a charge Is brought, shows the desperate con dition of the man who makes the charge in the attempt to discredit the tribunal that is expected to call him to account for abuse of the power with which he was entrusted. The He-Cassandra She Hog Indigestion. A Mother writes: "My baby is 13 months old. She is bottle fed. I feed her whole milk, cereals, vege tables, soups and toast, but no mat ter how careful I am with her food. she gets spells of loose bowels very often. Would you kindly tell me what might be the cause of that and what I can do to prevent it? Is it necessary for me to boil pas teurized milk?" REPLY. . The spells are due to' indigestion. As a rule children of that age can eat wltn safety a diet that Is more liberal than the one you mention. Suppose you try feeding no mill; except boiled milk, making up the anti-scurvy .principle with orange Juice and Juice of canned tomatoes. Married Woman's Weight. L. M. S. writes: "Will you kindly inform me exact weight for a married woman 4 ft 11 inches tall, age 26?" REPLY. About 116 pounds. The exact weight cannot be given. Some people have large bones, oth ers have small ones. Some are mus cular, others are fat. Some have long trunks, some have long legs. (From the Philadelphia Ledfer.) So certain is H.M. Wells, a Brit ish writer of a type of socialistic tract done into Action, that the world is on the, eve of collapse that he has ceased trying to report or comment upon anything that Is done in the Washington conference. He is convinced that a Second Dark Ages is throwing its shadow across the earth. This "super-reporter" and press-agented seer- of socialism finally admits there is a night of barbarism over his beloved Russia and sees its shadows walking across east and central Europe. He walks to "meet the night that soon will shape and shadowy-overflow" not only in France and Germany, but in England. This he-Cassandra Is , persuaded that this blight of war's aftermath finally will reach us. All his hori zon is dark clouds, and thev reach up to the world's zenith. There is Just one right in this broodlnir night, and that is his hope that the con ference will summon Russia and Germany to the council and that the United States will relent, give Europe a receipt In full for all war debts and then refinance that war battered continent now slipping over the edge of the abyss. In pleading the cause of the de feated central powers and the recreant Russia that betrayed the hard-pressed allies, Wells has done more damage to the' Anglo-French entente than the bitter Lord Curzon and has hindered rather than helped the cause of the conference. He has got himself repudiated by the London Daily Mail, whose corre spondent he was, - that great news papy refusing to help him further in bringing on a Franco-English war. On this side of the Atlantic, certain newspapers that were pub lishing his series on "E'eace or War?" also have flung him out of their columns. Wells has proved the British bull In the china shop. He is a potent parlor bolshevist. Because Russia is communistic and red. Wells, who is a sort of soda-and-sarsaparilla communist and a pinky-red, is the apologist for and defender of Russia. Brland mortally offended him by re ferring to the still-existent red men- Germany ha. been astnnlNlilngty bad. while statement, by leading German financier have been marked by confusion of thought and an oversight of fact truly extraordinary. Consider, for example, the opin ions of the special repreaentntlve of Germany Just now in Washing ton, Huron von Thiirmann. He plaintively observe! that th world muat do something to "help" the German mark. That unhappy mone. tary unit hn. fallen so low that he thinks nothing but a special Intor uatlonal conference can lift It up again. This German oftMnl a pen lis as if the currency disaster in Ger many had been brought about by some catastrophe of nature. He stands apart and views it with a horrified air as if man had had nothing to do with it. Help tha mark? Why did he not ask the world to help the Russian ruble? Everybody except the Germans knows that the continued emission of billions of paper marks is what has driven the nominal value so low. Apparently, the best way In which other nations could help stop the depression of the German mark would be to seize the German print ing presses and throw them into the Spree. As if to round out his financial In nocence. Baron von' Thurmann re marks that "the fundamental reason for the drop in the German mark is that clause of the indemnity which requires the payment to be made in gold francs." This was a terrible hardship for Cermany. If the allies had only been generous enough or short-sighted enough to accept payment in German paper marks, the whole amount of the reparations would have been paid off long ago in wood-pulp money. In the Her ald of yesterday another German, who, in the past, has stood well as a financial authority, is reported to hold views fully as fantastic as those Just cited. Dr. Helfferich was asked what the chances were that Ger many would meet her reparation payments next January and .Febru ary. He replied: "Precisely zero." This Is because he belleves that Ger many is being rapidly forced into bankruptcy.! As ex-President Poincare has late ly pointed out, however, the bank ruptcy into which Germany has been driving herself by reckless inflation iR really not an economic bankrupt cy, but simply a currency bankrupt cy. The country's natural resources and Industrial capacity have not bean seriously affected by the orgy of paper money issues. If the gov ernment were absolutely to set its affairs In order, to make its budget j balance, to I've up ambltlmm in. J ulsof new construction In i and shipping, and were t lvy ntf euual to th. Imposed In I'une- and KnglV"' ""d were r""v u collect those tax It could do nnr to stublllxe the German murk ami the whole system of thrmnn public finuneo thsn could any impruvUed help from outside. Germany I'oci I"l ll1 I'ueurp. Ludondorff says that Germany In her next war will profit by the bs sons of the war that Is past. Ow of them was that he who sets fir. to a iK-rap of paper Is liMf to g.-l his fliieers burnetl. Hoaton Transcript, SITTINGS for photo., graphs made before December 3i will be deliv. erf J in time for Xmas. Mease sit nt earliest moment possible. Kltb St. at lunard These factors count. Marrying does . ace Therefore. Wells turned and For father: Doz. egg coal. For mother: Assorted laundry soap. For sister: Pair , ear-muffs to wear during dish-washing time. For brother : Mustache comb. For young couple to give the first baby: Everything you can think of and a few extra things you can't afford. (Pay no attention to the rest of this list.) For the girl who jilted you to marry else where: Washboard and photo of yourself driv ing your new car. For man, ditto: Hand-engraved suif for breach of promise. For an unwelcome beau who insists on call ing: Non-refillable, T. N. T. cigar. For roomer (male): Stick asbestos shaving soap. (Frail) : Kid curlers. For rich uncle who you suspect is thinking of making you his heir: That last bottle of hootch you have saved from the old daf s. For maiden aunt: Bottle nerve tonic or new store teeth. Hard gum drops. For mailmen: Piece paper money. For street car conductor: Gilt-edged motto, "CROWDUPINFRONT." For janitor: Pair canvas gloves. For beau: Retouched painting showing Cupid carrying diamond ring. For sweetheart: Cook book and ball-mending cotton. For Pomeranian pet: Monogrammed kimono. For relative who sends you an unexpected gift: New Year's card. AS YOU MAKE IT. The home shuts in a world of love and shuts out a world of strife or vice verM. AFTER-THOUGHT: If silence i golden tome people have a lot of brass, PHILO, not Don't you know that to the modern, marriage is merely an incident? Let Mother Eat Oranges. A nursing mother writes: ."Have a nursing baby 7 weeks old, and Jie seems troubled with constipation. 1. Is a spoonful of orange Juice harmful at his age? 2. Is Castoria dangerous as a physic?" REfLY. 1. No. However, orange juice fre quently fails to act as a laxative The mother should eat more fruit and vegetables. 2. Dangerous is the wrong word. It is better not to give a baby Cas toria, but it is not dangerous to do so. May Need Operation. H. C. writes: "1. What is a fistula sinus of the rectum?" "2. Is there any cure?" REPLY. I. An abscess which has opened externally or internally, or in both directions. If it opens in both places a more or less open canal runs from the skin surface through the tissues into the rectum. 2. Yes operation. Some cases are cured by the injection of bis muth paste. Enough Coal; Too Little Money. It is announced that the coal supr ply will be sufficient for some tirute to come, and the only question n,onv is as to whether the family piwse will hold out. Washington Star, Key Question Nowadays. Here is the key question: Wlhat is the nicest thing you can possitfly do for Christmas? Boston Globe EL SHADDAI. Doep down Into tha depths of this. Thy came My God I olnk. and dwell In ra'ftn delight: Thou art enough, howerer lonw tho day; Thou art onouirh. howevcf dark th? Thou are enough, bowerer daiSt the night. Thou art my God tho all 8iafflcleet On-; Thou ranot areata (or mo what e'er I lark; Raving Thy aeir I hare a ware eupply What e'er my need along tha homward track. With mlraclea or TroTe anil tender caro Thou ha,t my pathway ejerewn; my Ood. I dire Once more ta (ling ropoeir upon Th; Brent And th-re adere Thy ii In faith's d t reat, . il- E. B. rent Brland, damned France with utterness and pictured the French as the bayonet-ganed gamecock prancing on the dungheap ot the European barnyard. In brief, this apostle of human brotherhood and haloed perveyor of peace has done far more harm than good in his outgivings. 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