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Tilt: UKK: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, KK1IKUAKY 15. 1922. TheOmaha Bee DAILY MORN'INC)-EVENlT:C-SUNDAY .Ipso VrDUf. ftkllsSaf , ft, MiWIUi. G.asrai ki.in HCMttR or iMt AAiocurto rus alu4 fS, f eSJce tM IiMiM, S IWMI aU4 HlUWlta MSnUa i WIlM k M -uurvtas M4'iul M M ptw saa 'M haal l rasaava Mima. Ail ti at yMtIMe l W M il IM I lit n Oewsa M msmt af u 444 feuwe af e MMw tta i seikoftit e wnlVM .4h Ta. circulation ef T. Omaha Be. . v SUNDAY, FEB. 5, 1922 78.G1G , THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY a.Hfttwta. c.mi Mwifir ILMEM S. ROOD, ClnuWoae Meaafsr Saste la karris to far ase tkle Till 4sy at Mkruarr, U. ISsal) W. H. QUIVEY, Netary fuslle AT Untie 1000 BEE TEirrilONES Private Preach Ktrhahf. Aid far the Dtsrtmnr or !' Wnlr4. tut Nilhl Clli A'l.r r. M l r.ailnrtal litp.Mw.et, AT Unlit 1011 er 1012. orricu Mat Of ft. 11th ael Krnii C. Bluff U ficoit 0c South o-4li 8, J4tB fit. lis York ti filth At. tVsihiestan lilt a m. hiio lilt Wrlflrf Bid. Parts, frssraiM Ru It. Honor TAe Z?iV Platform " ' - 1. Nt w Unioa Passenger Station. 2. Continued improveiaant of the N. braska Highways, including tha pave ment with Brick Surfaea of Main Thoroughfare leading into Omaha. 3. A abort, low-rat Waterway from tho Corn Bell to tba Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule darter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. i Chicago's Ponzis. Another net cf swindling adventurer fia been unearthed in Chicago, and another multi tude of poor people find they have been cheated out of their saving by unscrupulous men. It is an oft-repeated story, yet one that never become so familliir telling but that it can he recounted. All that i needed is a glib tongue, a good ad dress, and a total disregard for truth or 'the rights of other people, Endowed with these "at tributes, the promoter goes forth to prey, .and finds his victims awaiting among the ignorant men and women who arc eager to stretch their meager accumulations into a competency by the magic of' speculation. -. One of the most remarkable characters ever introduced to American fiction was that of a man who went about from community to com munity, setting in motion schemes by' which he defrauded out of their means those who listened to his well told yarns. It, is a peculiar com mentary on the moral fiber of Americans that this (Character swas so -popular that his suppo sitious adventures were carried through several series of "stories" in a magazine,, and finally he was transferred to the stage and then to the screen, where millions apparently enjoyed seeing bim succeed with his open dishonesty. Inverted morality gets approbation from thoughtless per" sons, and prospers at the expense of the unwary. Xebraskans contributed an enormous sum of real money to inflate the purses of adventurers during the cozy days of the boom. Victims of the stock salesmen will know better than anyone how the "back-of-the-yards" people in Chicago feel now, as they realize their millions of petty savings, accumulated by hard work and harder economy, are gone to make a holiday for a set ot swindlers. No punishment devised by law will give back to these losers the hours of toil represented in those small silms of money which cajch contributed, nor will 'any , amount of preaching be enough to restore the confidence nqw destroyed. Habits of industry and thrift are discouraged, when such things are possible. j The only sure remedy is to spread informa tion among the lowly. Some effort has. been' made in this direction, but not enough. When they can be made to understand that they are risking all on another's man game, and1 with better'than an even chance of losing all, they will hesitate. " Teach them that legitimate business does not return the fabulous profits, promised; that a safe investment at a low rate of interest is. sounder than the "wildcat" and that slow ac- cumulation is more certain to bring happiness, while sudden acquisition of wealth is for the few and not for the millions, and the door may be shut against the Ponzis. Yet the most general of all human failings is that of credulity. " ', Neither Turkey Nor Poland, A -young girl in New York, daughter of a Polish immigrant famijy, publicly offers herself in marriage to the man who will pay $1,000 immediately to relieve the distress of her family. Her mother regrets the necessity, but says it is the only way. . Both are' wrong.' Marriages- are not so arranged or contracted in America. There may be buying and selling in matrimony, but it is carried on in a different fashion. In Poland, as in other European countries, the size of. a girl's "dot" is considered by hcr'-surtors, and the portionless maiden frequently is doomed to ever lasting spinsterhood. Such a custom has never gained headway over, here. Aspiring swarins un doubtedly do give thought to the fact that the girl may bring with her something in the way of, worldly wealth, but that .is seoldom a controlling factor.- In America wedlock is founded' on something more substantial and enduring than lucre.? Nor do5 Americans buy tjieir wives, as savages or less civilized peoples are accustomed to doing. When this Polish family has been a little longer over helrejitVUt have learned how futile such an appeal, aa-is now 'mack, unless publicity alone is sought. Qur hSbirs, provide other ways for giv ing" succor to' .the rie4:and no girl need sell hersdPtcTt' food' 'of dlotlang in ibis land. '!-f'&e aVteEnof Bdki ' Tell the American piblic.that;5,438 new books were issued last year, and it .will hold up its hands ir'mock horror while secretly pluming it self on he notioft that this indicates it is doing a vast amount of reading,; Yet the corresponding figure for Great Britain is- 8,757, and America's record is exceeded also by France, Germany, Sweden and Italy. In 1920 there were 10,078 new books issued in Germany. The total for all publications, including pamphlets and new edi tions of old authors in that country amounted to 32,345, as compared to a grand total of 8.329 m. America. Sweden, which, however, counts all tracts and leaflets, in 1919 was credited with 32,613 publications, more than three times as many as America. '.-, Perhaps we are not as omniverous readers as torn have imagine J though theft in no dogbt book aplenty right new to interest and inform ui all, ll may be that not as much trih tee print here n eUewhtrf, or that not ai many rivt literary ability or imtinct ptrhtpi all tbe (orffa art at work. ' ' Our children appear to b reading more; at U.it there hit been an increase in Juvenile books. There has teen a drop in the number of works rif fiction, aoclology, hUiory and agriculture, but gains in science, geography and travel and fine arts. There are tome tinn here of a change in taite, and perhaps of improvement, but it dot icm that America Is culturally not 10 far ahrad of other nation at tome have fondly held, Fair Play in Politics. Reported differences of opinion among mem bert of Xrbratka'i new progressive party are to welcome to Senator Hitchcock't newspaper that it buriti into joyoui long to the extent of a full' column of apace upon its editorial page. It conclude! it resume in this wine: Here it the clarion voice of open rebellion. Here i a flaming resentment against a boit ' ridden new party, I'ossibly it presages a new movement, a new defection, and the organizs f lion of a new party to fight not the two old parties, but the three old parties, ' It it thit hope which leads the tenator't news paper into inch extended satiric outpouring. And no wonder! There it no possible chance that the progressive party will endorse Senator Hitchcock; nut even a jester will be to light of mind at to tuggest that action by a party bear ing the name "progressive" or enrolling among its members men and women who know the record votes at. Washington, That being to, the stirring up of dissension is the part of wisdom for a newspaper whose success it measured by the yeart it keeps its owner in public office. The Bee happily hat no such ax to grind. It hat faith in the ability of the republican party to carry on the government and solve pending political problems. It does not agree with those who think it necessary to form a new pirty, but it concedes to every man the right to answer that question for himself and to every woman, too. It doet not propose to make sport of those who disagree with it, although it may argue prayerfully with them over the error of their ways. Fair play has a place, even in politics. "Man Overboard 1" A storm at sea swept a lifeboat from the deck of a steamer, and with it John Birkner, a sailor who had been ordered to lash it down. There was an age in the American mercantile marine when the master of a ship might have gone bru tally along his course with not more than a passing thought for the man tossing amid the waves. But 1 for. sixteen hours this . captain cruised about an unfrequented part of ..the At lantic hoping to pick up John Birkner, Swirling snow made the search impossible, but yhilft put ting into port the ship wirelessed an appeal to other vessels to k?ep. watch , for this' -. solitary sailor. ' " . " ' ' A stare of ships, it is said, left their routes to cruise about the spot where John Birkner was washed away. It-has been a week 'since the lifeboat, stocked with . food and water, slipped away with him clinging to it. If he is alive, or the boat is afloat, they will be found. ' What a good- world this is, where the life of a single humble man is considered of so great importance. There are plenty of sailors to take John Birkner's place, but the society of the sea feels hat it owes him the obligation of protec tion, inasmuch as he was lost while discharging orders that took him into danger. Yet life is not all. Afloat or ashore other human rights are not so strictly regarded. Con ditions deadly to the spirit, to morals, to the spark we call the soul, to sound healthjor happi ness and to everything that the individual prizes beset us all. From time to time one is swept into the raging waters. The masters of some ships may stop the engines and search carefully, but for the most part the machinery never pauses, nor do many passing vessels take care to look about them as they pass the spot. The rule of the seas is a good rule. Life is hard there, and men must stick, while on land life for so many is easy that the sense of comradeship is lost. . . . One Resignation Well Timed. A judge fit to fill his high office must be, possessed of several peculiar qualifications. He must be impartial, dispassionate, upright, just, and courageous. Npt every man is so fitted. The judge' who has just resigned by telegraph down in Oklahoma seems not to have had the equipment essential to effective service on the bench. We have no detailed information as to the circumstances connected with the trouble, other than as they are provided by the news dispatches. However," if the judge felt he was warranted in taking the action he did, dismissing a grand jury that was about to report certain indictments in connection with a bank investigation, he should have stood by his guns. As it is, he is before the world as one who abandoned the high re sponsibilities of his powerful' office in face of threats-from a mob. Not only did he flee, but he puts a cloud on his own record by resigning his office, notifying the leader of the "citizens' committee" of his act by telegraph. Oklahoma or any other state is well rid of such a weakling. If he was right 'in his action as a judge, he should have upheld his own decision in the face of any show of force. Oklahomans may , be impetuous at times, given to unseemly 'demonstrations of impatience, just as other folks are, but they are in another respect like other people. They admire a man who has the courage of his convictions, and would respect a judge who held- to a decision he felt. to be based on right conclusions. When a judge, surrenders to a mob, as this one did, civ ilization has received a setback. Sidney C. Legg, who has come from Chicago to line Nebraska up against prohibition, is equipped wtyh a name like a skirt inspector, and contemplation of that middle initial leads to the thought of how fortunate he is that it is not "B" instead of "C." We would like to believe that a soldier was killed by an eagle, bur find it rather difficult to accept as truth the statement that the bird used the man's rifle to accomplish the murder. President Harding 'says the worst phase of the, agricultural crisis has passed. The next will come when spring planting starts. ... The latest dry movement is that for drastic reduction in navy personnel The Husking Bee , lis Your Daij Stari ItWilhaLauah " ' Jl'DGE WILLIS G. SEAR 5. With philosophy old fathioned, Tinctured with uncommon tense, And, at times, a tuiigue iniaiond 'tiaiiut the ones who give otfrnse; Strong for right, and ti, for junicc Hut with mercy in hit tway If we're penitent he'll trut u, , Even hrlp us on our way. , On the bench he'i an adviaor To the wayward girlt and boy, When they leave him they are wier For the witduiit he employs: Married folks, too, when debating To unwed, (to coin a phrase). JudeSeart Icavet them meditating On the error of their wayi. We newspaper men he treat u l ine We're for him,- we all ay, For we like the way he Rrectt ut In his dry, yet cheerful way; Then he ak tt for the papers ' Brush? t care from otf hit brow, And he tayt. "I.et't tee what caper Andy Gump it cutting now." Though the parting sorely grieves us, ' Yet if CoitKrei be hit Koal thall vote to have him leave u A committee of the whole; Our best wishes with him speeding, For to thinkers it appear That our Congress now is needing Just such fellows as Judge Scars. PHILO-SOPHY. It it all riftht to have something the matter with your head if it's gray matter. a a Before marriage a man calls a girt the light of his life; after marriage he kicks on the light bill. a a Ouch says he broke their last chair vester day, but he still has the old lounge to fall back on. SIGNS OF SPRING. Our overcoat, which has been in service for several seasons, and is, therefore, to be relied upon, has begun to shed its buttons. A COMING CHAMP. I'nwary friend: How's the baby these days? ' Fond father: Say, yott know that boy's just able to walk and he's an athlete right nowl V. P.: Yeah? F. F.: I'll say so. Every time he goes near the phonograph he breaks another record. -P.D.Q. a a There's something wrong with those who do not enjoy embracing a pretty girl more than embracing an opportunity. Hastings (Neb.) Tribune. Yeah, but a pretty girl doesn't come knock ing at the door. . The woman who makes her own dresses will make a good housekeeper. Hastings (Neb.) Tribune. His address, girls, is Adam Breede, bachelor and bon vivant, Hastings, Neb. Warren (O.) Tribune. ' Being comparatively a newcomer to Ne braska, we have never had the pleasure of meet ing Mr. Breede personally, but from reading his column we had formed that he was a bachelor. He is so cheerful and displays so much knowl edge of affairs marital. - QUICK WORK. She deftly pinned upon his clothes A rosebud fair, He kissed her three times on the nose And mussed her hair. A FRANCO-GERMAN RAPPROCHEMENT, Dear Sir: A recent advertisement in our local papers reads: "Lost A German police dog who answers to the name of 'Cherie.' " Your co-operatively, T. B. Tim says: (In looking over the week's sup ply of contribs we find that Tim hasn't said anything recently. 'Smatter, Tim, muse gone on a toot? We all miss your philosophy.) BOY, PAGE MR. JOHN J. NORMALCY. Thousands of hopeful and optimistic citizens artisans, fanners, stockmen, professional and business men, proprietors of moving picture shows, office boys, stenographers,, strap-hangers, bootleggers and poets have beeii looking for ward eagerly to the time when these United States of America would settle, back into the cushions, take a fresh grasp on the wheel, and steer a safe, sane and conservative course into the realms of normalcy when frenzied finance would give way to better business and peace and tranquility should prevail over all. And just as we get ready to slip on the beau tific countenance to welcome the aforementioned blissful state of affairs, a new furore grabs the country by the handle and starts a shimmy that agitates the great land of the home and the free of the brave, as it were, from Maine to Holly wood from Rum-Runner's Paradise to the Gulf. Navies' are cast into the scrap heap, ratification is forgotten, politics are side-tracked. soldier bonuses, short skirts, movie scandals, Will Hays, aye, even prohibition, are sunk into temporary oblivion, while the great nation is fairly hent asunder, brother .arrayed against brother and husband aligned against mother-in-law, over the momentous and terrific question, i. e. and towit: Shall Uncle Bim marry the Widow Zander? . TODAY'S IDLE THOUGHT. When a young man steals a kiss the girl can't help herself but the young man can, and does. , ISN'T IT THE TRUTH? The women do the buying For the household, without fuss, They show without half trying That they're efficient, plus; They smoothly do the trading, But still it makes us cuss. As through the bills we're wading That monthly come to us. . AFTER-THOUGHT: It is the head of the family that foots the bills. PHILO. Has Mr. Bryan Forgotten? In a brief interview in Washington, William Jennings Bryan remarked that the prospects for the election of a. democratic congress next fall are good. He thinks the revenue bill will hurt the republicans, but the first reason he gave for his hope of success was this: Farmers are in a worse condition than they have been for thirty years. Laborers are dis satisfied because wages have been reduced quite generally, while the cost of living has not been reduced to the same extent. Business is not good generally. The country is .not so prosperous as it was two years ago. Mr. Bryan is not quite accurate when he mentions a period of thirty years, but he was speaking off-handed and doubtless referred 10 the time following the panic of 93 when farmers were in a sad state. That happens also to be the time when one William Jennings Bryan ran for president of the United States on a calamity platform. William counted on the platform' for a victory then, and he Hoes not seem to have i learned aoythiiiK since. Detroit Free Press. How to Keep Well r D. W. A. EVANS QwMli imiii kvflM, MaiUiiee) aae oravaatlM af a'iiaaaa, eabatitiae1 la tf. I . r (MiHi at Tke tt, mM e aaw4 irimllr. la umiuim. a tui Mfciiiil ! ia il lr. ul eat awae a tuiMu a emrlea lar laaivtaaal Aelie hilar as ae el )Ve Caornakt. 1111. y fr. W. A. !. ' ON HEART REMEDIES. T'liVnii'Uwta da lift live brvai Lille In ihia tay ami pnrtiim. The it,li no imifrr wrar l indei-e. and frank riMiintioii of irr4 pilta woum ruu in me patient "rnun another lHilr,, aa uur old. friend Turn u'Mallry wuultl nay. Kill ttio priiuipla ir lra1 idlttf ta II rluht, aa every dai-tor knowe, and Hi fiuu-rtiuy hue no int'iittun to quit iiainir It. What they employ in this ace of iniviinl ineniiij nU'rtiif ta the inediiine wtiuh, If-llMlorii.you-lio. gomUwUMu'Sou-nn-hariit" Mm tha patent mrdicinra nr like cuatmil made floilii-e In that hey try to rit everybody, ami, theie fre, nt nobody ui-rurut.-ly, ittry tuimt be of the "If-lt-dora-you-no-u"d-lt-wll.do-yui.iiii.iunii" type. Of con ran, nut tire U a powerful tine doctor, and many a cure which nature inukea l credited In the wrnnic column. It come nimlity nmr being true that a medli-lno whirti can di you no harm will do you no rood. One reaaon for our Inability to um iih'otm, atropln. curare, aconite and otfii-r of a iim of druica which act. In tha main, on tho aympathetio nrrvee and the vaanmotur eyalema, i that they are aa powerful thnt they do harm when they do not do Hooa, and we do not yet know enough uhout them to Know when they cun ba uwd with benefit. IMicltall I an Illustration' of a drug which I very lluble to do harm when it doe no aond. Of courwe, people have aort of hud tho digitalis tukinit huhlt for a generation. If the above atatement 1 correct, why It in that many people have nut harmed thcniavlvea? Maybe lota of them have unqucnttonatily many of them linvo been aaved because they took Homo Impotent preparation of details, or they took u doae that wan too small to have nny particular effect. Xot until something leM than 10 years ago did physicians know much about the way to usa dlc'-talls, and they mill have much to learn. These are Rome of the things they have learned In recent years: Digitalis, a found on the market. Is a very uneven drug. To be Just right. It must bo properly made from tho right plant, grown on the right soli and gathered at the right timo in the right season. It muHt bo used for henrt disease only in those varieties for which it Is suited. Up to a few years ngo we divided heart troubles Into organic and func tional, but functional heart troubles we were, disposed to call nervous heart, and let It go at that In recent years they are disposed to divide nervous heart into some six to 12 varieties. Borne of these are helped by digitalis; some are harmed by it. - - Therefore, the second thing now insisted on Is that digitalis be em ployed in the right kind of cases and in no others. Dr. J. G. Carr says that digitalis is especially indicated in auricular fibrillation with broken compensa tion. It In indicated in most cases of arrhythmia, but it has no place in the treatment of arrhythmia as such. In other words, digitalis must not be given merely because the heart beat is irregular or too fast. It htlp lit soma caaea of aitna pei-t.Hi. it do pot mail Man blood nrraaura hiehar and. therefore, If othenria Indicated, It ran be aiven In caaa of high blood pr-aura, The flmt two point being a right preparation and a nht d , tb iinro ia a. rum meinoa or uae, Thi constats In findlnc out ho ttiuih tha patient can tnd ami how 4t be throw the drug off. and. having found out thee two facta, to iv a dally dee that la aufflcknt to at up in oia-iun naianco. The Drat evident that th do liven la too larca la headache. nu tua and diarrhoea. Th evldrnce that the do la arrloualy too tare la a peculiar dUt urbane of the lule. The dotaa should be kept under tne level wtier tnta warning ahow tnamaeivea. l aed In the proper war, dlfltalla la fur and away Hi beat heart rem edy, feed In tha wrong way, It doe neither harm nor aood if th doao la small, or it doe harm If th doae la large. A lUd Mental llablf. t. k. wrltea: "When a person I nervous and Irritable over his condi tion what would you advise? "Kindly let m know through your column tha nam of thla disease or symptom and what should ba don to remedy It," REPLY. 'Taint no dleeaae. It' a bad men tal habit The remedy ta training Into good mental habit. liberal Doacs of Kunehlnu. Mr. 6. 8. wrltea: "Will a -month- old baby that has rickets, if fed on the right diet, be cured by th time ne nas to wikt "I am taking hlin to th hospital to have his leg massaged also. At the present Urns I am giving him Dextrlmaltose No. 3 and the top mug,' REPLY. The outlook is not bad unless the diseas is extreme. Be certain to see that th baby gets enough sunshine and out ot doors air. President and Teamwork .intfnrir,r,tf. Pi-H- aO .im (Tile Bee oflrr Ita column freely to Its reader who rare to dlacufta any public question. . It requenta that Irtteri be -easonably brtrf, not over 300 Bonis. It also InxiHta that the name of the writer ucpomiMny pacb letter, not' nrcrotarilT for publication, hot that the editor may know rrllb whom he la dealing-. Tbe Bee does not pretend to endorne, or accept views or opinion expressed by corre spondent In the Letter Box. Mabel Off tho Screen. Omaha, Feb. 13. To the Editor of The Bee: If Mr. Coffin's wife or daughter (has he either?) would be have, in public places of Omaha, as the writer has seen Miss Mabel Nor mand and her associates in Los An geles, she would immediately be un der arrest. , People of Omaha would not tol erate the bpsmirohing of her name for twice the millions spent in Los Angeles. ' . We soon will .blush to mention Los Angeles, much less go there, and very evidently Mr. Coffin has not been there recentlv. A LOVER OF CLEAN MOVIES. Hitchcock's Banking Renicd(e& Omaha, , Feb. 11. To the Editor of The Bee: We, notice the World Herald has a great deal to say about Senator Hitchcock's proposed "bank of nations" as a cure for our finan cial troubles. This is the same Sena tor Hitchcock who assured us we could have no more financial troubles under the Federal Reserve system. But despite Senator - Hitchcock's promise and assurance we have our most violent financial troubles and Senator Hitchcock deserts us in the midst of our trouble and asks a vote of confidence in his banking scheme at a time when his- favorite -prescription, so earnestly recommended, ab solutely falls and leaves the coun try in deflated, deplorable condition. Senator Hitchcock, as a financial doctor will not impress deflated democrats who relied on his past banking schemes, that inflated the currency, thus prices, debts, taxes and fixed charges, then this inflated currency issued in payment for loans bought by banks of issue, automati cally retired by forced liquidation of the discounted loans, so wa ex perience currency going out of cir culation as loans are paid to the dis counting reserve banks. We thus re alize the more rediscounted loans are paid off, the less currency re mains in circulation. ' So it now dawns on us that the payment of debt to reserve banks actually retires currency from cir culation, thus deflates values of as sets. Wise old democrats are now realizing Senator Hitchcock's prom ise of permanent, sound financing is in reality the tightest control of money and credit placed In the hands of an appointed EJederal Re serve board at Washington. Sena tor Hitchcock has arisen in the esti mation of international bankers and big business men; he is sometimes praised too loudly by these special interests, as one who Can satisfy his simple constituents by hot air edi torials issued by his mouthpiece, the World-Herald. But experience in action of Sena for Hitchcock's former promises and recommendation of his financial ac complishments has shaken the con fidence of all men who contracted debts based on Inflated prices and are no liquidating by sal of deflated assets, although In full knowledge of the gigantic gold reserve and the asset credit currency law. that fails to rescue the once faithful absorb ers of pure hot air issued by the senator's mouthpiece recommending the senator's achievements that pro duced our tales of woe that his qual ification for re-election. T. S. f'ENLOX. . State Highways Norfolk New: It la not custom ary to put complaining wltneeee in the Jury's box or on the- Judge' bench. 8uch a practice would not ordinarily be conducive to the ends of Justice, but It certainly would in sure against fixed verdict for the defense. It 1 Just auch a Jury, one made up in part of the accusers, that is going to hear the evidence In the in vestigation of the state and federal aid work that ha been done In Ne braska during the last two or three years. The investigation committee as made up will include om of the severest critic of the highway de partment The evidence will be laid before them and they will listen to It with no prejudice in favor of the state authorities. The personnel of the committee is the best answer to those who, be fore it was named, Charged that It would be a "whitewash" committee. The complainants have every ad vantage in the Inauiry and unless they make good they must admit that their charges were without foundation. On the other hand if they do make good, they will open up the way for greater improvement in the future. Whatever the findings, the hearings will tend to an improvement in pub lic feeling toward the road program which has been laid under suspicion by recent agitation. Vehrnalta Citv Press: The Ne braska highway system must not be crippled. Our spasm of retrench ment, following upon our career of luxurious living is likely to prove fatal if we overlook certain necessi ties which people demand as a siigni reward for their tax paying. f these necessities is the federal aid highway system of this commonwealth. Men. wno are cry ing for retrenchment would be the first to complain if main-traveled roads were to be neglected. Automo billsts who are being heavily taxed, largely without complaint, for the privilege of owning and displaying a motor car would have a right to complain if neglect is shown these highways. Farmers, for whose transportational benefit these high ways were built and in whose inter est they are being maintained, IH hnve n. nerfect right to object if we returned to the old system of road building which we outgrew in 1916. We can do -without a $10,000, 600 capitol, but Nebraska cannot do without highways. ; ' Wayne Herald: If matching dol lars with the federal government in road building were stopped every where, no state would lose, and all money for the purpose could as well be -furnished by .state and counties as by a combination with the United States treasury. If other states are going to keep up the practice, re ceiving half of its road funds from the general government, and If Ne braska, for instance, does not do it, it looks as though we would, through the ' federal process, contribute to Improvements made elsewhere. If we refuse and others accept, we help others while paddling our own canoe. rrae Ike MiUe W, Chairman Adama of tha republic an national commute waa on of llue Invited ta tha conference at tha While )ouae last mint wltlill had been railed lit consider lb ou ration of a pingram for t'anltol Hill. 11 had bran Invited Id a trevlou conferenra of Ilia aamv Ind. Thla uait that tho president ha In mind full teamwork for l he eorolng rampalan and la arranging (or it. cipawrv. Ktrat. ronarra to make the record upon which the appeal to Hi people will ba baaed. Th prealdrnt want tha record a strong a tonble, and with that object In view consult alth leading eenator and repreeeiil atlvea of hla party Blcte4 to tnaura him Information alniut eentl mnt In th different eectlona of th country. When th record i compieio, Chairman Adam will tk It and be guldad by It In arranging hla cam paign plana bo that th belter he undrreUmlB It lit mora ha know about ovary phase and feature of It from 11 rat to litst th better pre pared he will be to put lilt force into tha field ta advantage. Th ptealdent ee th necaslty of Uamwork. There ar natural re act Inn from auch highly keyed con dltlon a prevailed In 120. Th combination that carried the repub licans Into orru-e then haa disinte grated, and th republican problem for thla year U to round up tho reg ular party forces, with aa mmy In dependent a may atllt be looking to th republli-un party lor aound comtruutlv pullolea. CENTER SHOTS. aaaBBBBBBaaaB) Chicago will save lea daylight and more temper this year Chi cago News. Thoao galoshes look Ilk a girl can't buckle down to anything 1 Moines Register. Th first Instance of ft dlsouletln overhead waa probably tbe sword of Damoclea. Host on Herald. When a woman speak of her new suit these day you don't know If she ha bought one or brought one. Flint Herald. There uemi to be eome disposi tion to remind our debtor nation that this country wa established that they might come here and aet tie, Providence Tribune. The navy 1 objecting to the phrase "Drunk as a allor." Rer- hap it is In no shape to take care of the recruiting rusn. Indianapo lis Star. Instead of wasting their energies trying to define the "flapper," the column writer might do better if they tried to refine her. Columbia (S. c.j Kecora. The suggestion that Japan will es tablish' a stable government in Si beria sounds rather like building a stable' after the horse has been stol en. St- Paul rioncer Press. Winter is Just one ton of coal after another. Detroit Journal. ADVERTISEMENT. AD V EBTISEM EST. COMB SAGE TEA INTO GRAY HAIR Darkens Beautifully and Re stores Its Natural Color and Lustre at Once. : Common garden sage, brewed into a heavy tea, with sulphur and alcohol added, will turn gray, streaked and faded hair beautifully dark and luxuriant. Mixing the Sage Tea and Sulphur recipe at home, though, is troublesome.,. An easier way is to get the ready-to-use preparation, im proved by the addition of other in gredients, a large bottle, at little cost, at drug stores, known as "Wytth's Sage and Sulphur. Compound," thus avoiding a iet of muss. 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