THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY. MAY 25. 1922.
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Farm Bureau Federation Program.
Some element of the tentative legislative
program of the Nebraka Farm Bureau Feder
ation are auch at demand careful examination,
while of other proposal the test that can be aaid
ii that they icem to be put forward as trading
point. They are to obviously unfair that it
i not eay to believe that they are sincerely
supported. Most of the many proposal have
to do with taxes, the manner of levying, collect
ing and disbursing. Various amendments are
suggested to existing revenue laws, all of such
nature as will call for the closest scrutiny, and
several that on the face bear evidence of tack of
thorough examination of the underlying prin
ciples of tax laying.
To set up township or precinct boards of
equalization in plare of the existing county
board is but to further subdivide authority and
responsibility and more thoroughly complicate
and confuse the tax-levying machinery. The
move is a continuation of the change made in
1909, when the democrats enacted a law requir
ing a return from county to precinct assessors,
no particular benefit but considerable additional
expense following. The proposal to tax publicly
owned services is so one-sided as to answer it
self. The classification of tangible property for
taxation purposes may or may not be in line
with good public policy. Until it is elaborated
sufficiently by its supporters to disclose just
what it contains, it may be regarded with sus
picion. The repeal of the Smith mortgage law is de
manded, probably on the ground that it has the
effect of exempting mortgages from taxation.
This exemption rests on the theory that the prop
erty mortgaged is already taxed, and if a levy
is made against the mortgage it amounts to
double taxation. Repeat of the Smith law would
restore a condition that existed prior to its en
actment, when any possible tax that might be
laid on a mortgage was included in the interest
rate exacted from the borrower, and then the
mortgage went into hiding.
A state income tax law has some qualities
that recommend it. Such a law would be effec
tive in getting revenue from a great many who
enjoy all the benefits and bear little or none of
the cost of state government. The difficulty of
it is the creation of effective machinery for its
equitable enforcement Some of the other pro
posal look to radical changes in existing laws
or practice and may be considered later. As a
whole the program may be accepted as contain
ing the extreme desire of one group of the
state' population. If special interest be the basis
of legislation other groups may be expected to
put forward their own demands, with the result
ing compromise or victory for the strongest.
Good Road Paving Material.
County Commissioner Stroud has reconsid
ered hi decision to vote for further, use of
bitulithic paving on Douglas county highways,
this decision creating a majority on the county
board opposed to additional contracts for
patented paving upon which, a royalty must be
paid. In this Mr. Stroud waives his personal
view in deference to allied civic , organizations
which have carried on the fight for good paving
for four year and which were largely responsi
ble for Mr. Stroud's election on that platform in
1920.
Taxpayers and users of the highways are to
be congratulated upon the result. The county
need paved roads, but they must be well paved.
At every submission of the issue, public opinion
has been registered heavily in favor of pavements
of tried worth, pavement which can be laid with
the certainty that they will stand the heavy
traffic of future years. The strength of this
feeling was proved when, in order to win public
approval of the $3,000,000 bond issue in 1918,
the county board has made written promise that
' no main thoroughfare should be paved with any
thing but brick.
In some respects this program has not been
maintained, high prices having forced the con
cession of a cheaper pavement on certain roads.
The soundness of the principle, however, can not
be questioned. Further pavement of the Lincoln
Highway must be of brick and cheaper materials
should be used on other roads only when safe
guarded by the most rigid specifications, care
fully enforced.
Peter Pan at the University.
Galli-Curci warbled jazz songs to the intense
delight of the boys and girls from the university
at Lincoln, and to the sorrow of the dean of the
music school. Furthermore, the annual "shirt
tail" parade went just a little further, and became
a really, truly affair in keeping with its name,
and this, too, caused grief to certain staid mem
bers of the faculty. Now, The Bee has no desire
to interfere with the discipline of the great school,
nor to encourage lawlessness among the student
body. We would pont out, hoewever, to the
protesting professors that maybe they are ad
vancing; in both years and learning, and so are
in a large sense getting further away from the
enthusiasms of youth. Spirits that have been
held in leash ' through the long months since
last September, conforming to the somewhat
rigid regime essential to carrying on the hours
of work necessary to a passing grade may be
expected to boil over when the pressure is re
leased, by the relaxation that comes at commence-r
meat lime. Teier Pan declared hroiell to bi
"youth, eternal youth," and hit cry hat been
echoed in many heart not so dried up the
flesh that enclose it. Jan and "teddy-bear"
roitume art not dignified, but a lot of ether
thing art not, and it is not well to chain
whole people in dignity and excessively proper
deportment. We hate to think what might go on
when the censor wasn't looking,
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Blame RetU on Public.
In the course of hit sermon, delivered at the
funeral of the boy victim of an unidentified ban
dit, Rev. Harry B. Foster censured the author
itiri for what he term laxity in taw enforcement,
and then with both emphasis and propriety put
the blame squarely where it belongs, on the
public. Crime that seem to rampant today ex
ist because of the apathy of the people, their
disregard for law, and their unreasoning re
sentment of its interference with their desire
or whim.
Popular indignation runs high in presence of
i brutal murder, or other terrible outrage, over
looking entirely that such a crime is but the
culmination of a host of minor infractions, none
of them singly of great importance, but com
bined of such cumulative force a to weaken the
entire fabric of the taw and make the greater
crime possible.
One of our most cherished and continually
exercised priviliges it that of criticising and
abusing our public officers, especially the peace
officers. Yet they exist solely by popular suf
ferance, and condition are such that the man
who conscientiously obey the law and admin
isters his office in accordance with his oath
realizes that he does so at the risk of making
enemies who will do their best to uproot him at
the next election, and that the people in their
indifference will listen to slander more avidly
than to praise.
We have good laws, and we have men in office
capable of enforcing them. What is lacking is
popular support. Murder is not the only crime
that is prevalent in Omaha. Everybody cannot
catch a murderer, or a high wayman, but every
body can do Something to rid the community of
the little foxes that are destroying the vines.
Quit passing the buck to the police, the prose
cutors and the courts, and do a little something
to correct the things you can personally control,
and the change will be noted very soon.
For the Girls Who Work.
, A drive is on in Omaha again, this time for
an object that should impressively appeal to all.
Its object is to secure funds for the completion
of repairs and furnishing of Willard Hall, which
is to be a home for girls who work for a living,
and who have no home in the city. The need
tor such a place is too apparent to require much
argument. A girl coming into any city to ac
cept employment is at a disadvantage when she
starts looking for a place to live. Social
workers realize this, and they also know how
important it is that such girls do get decent ac
commodations under respectable conditions.
In Omaha at the beginning of the war, when
many girls were brought to the city to be em
ployed in war work, the situation was acute.
At that time the Scottish Rite Masons made
provisions to take care of some in the home
they established on Cass street at Twenty-first,
operated under the direction of the Y. W. C. A.
The John A. Creighton Working Girls Home also
provides for some, but these institutions are not
enough. Promoters of the Willard Hall plan
have purchased the old Brownell Halt building,
and are now having it remodeled. About $100,
000 is required to pay for the changes to be
made and the cost of furnishing the building for
its future use. That is , what the citizen are
csked to contribute. The home will be self
supporting, once it is opened.
"To help good girls stay good" is the motto
of the promoters. Such a platform ought to
appeal irresistibly to all. Gauged by what Omaha
has done at other times, it is safe to predict that
the drive will be a success, and that Willard
Hall will shine as a splendid example of gen
uine community spirit.
War Fraud Prosecutions
Nebraska Opinion at to Policy
Pursued by President Harding.
Hebron Journal.
Strength to tha proaecutore of war frauds!
A betrsjet of putilio irui under war eie.
lea Is treason, ufflcial corruption weaken
fundamental of republic. U there ha no fa
voritism, no concealment, no partisan spirit of
persecution, but tha nam determined proae.
cutlon and equitable Juetice that I mated out
to penntlee offender.
Hasting De ntorrat,
r. A. Watklns: In view of tha Daugherty dia.
closure, doaa admlnlatratlon hop to politically
fool people? Why attempt further convictions,
if they are offset by pardons, aided and abetted
by proseoutorsT Would It not b wail la weigh
what I bcinc dona by Intareata on a larier male
'i per cent guarantee to railroads, proposed
steel merger, Ohio subsidy, to., and ealre tax
not given up? Are people being fooled? to
recent primary elections mean anything?
Mawuod Kaglo Ilritorter,
Justice bu been delayed. W hop war
fraud prosecution will be thorough. Every
person who took advantage of war time con
dition to enrich himself at the expense of tax
payer, while Americana died ever.cn a, should
surfer full penalty at the earliest pnaaibla time.
We consider the work of proeecutlon fully aa
Important a serving In congree.
Newman Grove Ilrportcr.
y. 11. Trice: I believe that Congressmen
rteavl enjoya the confidence of the eopie of
Nebraska, and no better man could hava barn
elected to Join Attorney Ueneral I'auaherty
In thl Investigation. If Daugherty la not an
tne square, Keavta will reaign from hi job. The
war grafter should be prosecuted.
Mcrna Mcaeriutcr.
The appointment of Representative lteavia
by Attorney Ueneral Daugherty to pro he war
fraud will meet the approval of tlia great muKa
of the American people who look with favor on
the prosct-utlon of extortionists. Kenvia, with
unsurpaHMing ability aa lawyer and svit fcarleea
tactic, without doubt will bring to lieht start
ling facts, and the aaaaults upon Dougherty will
act aa a boomerang to the oppoblng political
cohorts.
Lluhflcld Monitor.
D. L. Willis: Attorney General Daugherty'a
apparent heatltancy In prosecuting the war
frauds ha been caused to a great extent by
Inadequate and missing records left by a demo
cratic admlnlatratlon. Reavla with his wldo
knowledge of these cases, hi uhillty and In
domitable courage, will greatly strengthen the
department, and war grafters apprehended will
be speedily brought to justice.
Heroism and the Humble.
Once in the not far gone days of the west,
the social scale began with the gambler and
passed along down through various occupations,
until it ended at the sheep herder. He was the
pariah. Some revision of that list has come with
the advancing fortunes of the range country, and
the gentle shepherd occupies a much higher place
in the estimation of his fellow man than he did
when his woolly charges first began to worry
the cattle barons. A story just in from the Wyo
ming sheep country will help the public to1 put
a value on the quality of manhood engaged in
the tending of flocks nowadays. Jack Westcott
of Urbana, la.., and Marion D. Young of Pasa
dena, Cat., sheep herders, did not turn up when
a big blizzard swept the range of the Two-Bar
outfit. After the storm their bodies were found,
a few hundred yards from the camp they searched
for. Young's body was covered by Westcott's
overcoat. No need to enlarge on the story,
"Greater love than this hath no man," and as
written of Jim Bludso, so it may be said of Jack
Westcott:
He knowed his duty, a dead sure thing,
And he went for it thar and then.
Frank Reavis is under, no illusion as to what
he is going into, for he says no cfook on the
outside ever robbed the government without aid
from the crook on the inside. . We hope he gets
both crooks into the open.
A Los Angeles judge required a movie actress
to promise she would not go to Mexico to be re
wed before he granted her a divorce. It is as
well to be safe as to be sorry.
Editor Harding is playing golf with his news
paper associates. Still some folks wonder why
the president is popular.
Democratic "Economy"
Under various Liberty loan acts. President
Wilson was authorized to purchase bonds from
the countries engaged in war with our enemies,
bearing the same interest, of the same matur
ities and same conditions, as the bonds we issued
and sold to our people. Under this authority.
President Wilson dispensed to our allies and to
a flock of little nations whom he was seeking to
incubate, immense sums, which, with the interest
accrued and unpaid, now amounts to more than
$11,000,000,000. The acts authorized loans to
our allies. Probably $300,000,000 of it was loaned
to countries not in the war at all; $1,500,000,000
of it was loaned by the secretary of the treasury
after the armistice, and when every reasonable
man will concede he had no right to do so under
the law.
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Nrwcmitlo Times.
H. A. McCormick: People of rural Nebraska
are not aerlouttly concerned whether the war
frauds were committed by democrat or repub
licans. They wunt the guilty parties prosecuted
to the limit and this should be done at once and
without a whitewash brush. Attorney General
Daugherty Is charged as being In sympathy with
criminal war profiteers. Now Is his bis oppor
tunity to prove that he is on the square.
St. Edward Advance.
C. C. Wake: The appointment of Congress-'
man Reavis as chief assistant prosecutor of
war frauds gives Attorney General Daugherty
one of the most capable usolatants in the country.
In addition to ability Reavis has the Inclination
to land the grafters, and the experience ha has
had on previous committees has given him a
great amout of information to aid him in this
work.
Valentine Republican.
Luke M. Bates: Daugherty'a selection of
Frank Reavis as one of his assistants in the
prosecution of war frauds is a guaranty that the
prosecution will be in good faith, and will be
pushed to the limit and will go far toward rem
edying his apparent lack of interest In these
cases in the past.
Wayne Herald.
E. W. Huse: I believe the appointment of
Representative C. Frank Reavis as chief assist
ant prosecutor of alleged war frauds is a de
served recognition of aggressive ability and I
share the general wish that any graft In connec
tion with war contracts may be brought to light
and the guilty to speedy justice.
( Schuyler Sun.
F. L. Carroll: With tjie name of Congress
man C. F. Reavis connected with the war frauds
prosecutions, the people of the nation may feel
assured that the effort will not be a whitewash.
Mr. Reavis should be able to expose the enemies
of the government in and out of congress. The
statement of Attorney General Daugherty that
out of sixty lawyers whom he had Invited to
assist him in the prosecution of persons assumed
to be involved in fraudulent war contracts he
was unable to secure the services of one may be
the cause of so much criticism concerning the
attorney general. We are still enveloped in a
maze of propaganda, and It Is encouraging to
find people who are willing to tell and work to
develope the truth.
From State and Nation
Sorrows of Housecleaning.
From the Cozad (Neb) Local. ' .
The average man ' looks at housecleaning
with impatient disapproval. He considers that
the job was thoroughly done last fall, so why
must it be done over again? 1
So, after the women folks have scrubbed and
swept all day with remorseless yigor, with no
complaint of the dusty and toilsome labor, he
comes home and finding his customary nests
and possessions disarranged, begins to offer
sulky complaints.
The housecleaning spirit, however, Is the
heritage of good old time housewifery. The
modern flapper, whose mind is more upon the
arts of flirtation than upon those of domesticity,
may not, in future years, vex her husband with
these periodical turmoils. But her mother was
trained in a severe school. She early acquired a
hatred of dirt. She brandishes the duster and
the sweeper with something of the joy mani
fested by the knight of old when he set out
swinging his good sword to do glorious battle
against the infidel.
The complaining man does not know what
he owes to this good housewifery. It creates
the sanitary conditions that protect life and
health against the attack of disease.
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A Wife and 930 a Month.
From tb New OrlMni TimM-Plcirune.
It is said that the War department probably
will make an investigation to ascertain in what
manner the government might relieve the finan
cial distress of many soldiers who returned from
the Rhineland with foreign wives. According to
reports, a large number of these young men and
women find themselves in most trying circum
stances, with a child or children, in many in
stances, to be taken into consideration. It is
estimated that in Portland, Me., alone from sixty
to seventy German wives of enlisted men are liv
ing on charity.
The soldier's pay is $30 a month not a drop
in the bucket on this side of the ocean, although
it was ample In Germany. At one time the mark
was rated at 300 to the dollar and the American
doughboy and his wife could live high on such
an Income "over there." but they got a, Jolt
when they came to America. In most cases the
wives must hunt for work that is hard to find
and if there are children the problem of main
tenance is even more difficult. It is wrong to
permit such conditions to exist If the govern
ment can be of any assistance. It Is suggested
that the practical thing to do is to discharge all
such soldiers and aid them In finding more re
munerative employment. Whatever is done for
them should be done without delay.
For the Lunacy Commission.
Fran On Wlaukia BtnUnd.
The "he flapper," distinguished by sandals, a
bright colored scarf in place of the conventional
belt, a long clgaret holder and a bright blue or
purple hat, is said to have made his appearance
in unhappy London, and off hand we hardly
know whether it Is a matter of the Genoa con
ference or the humane society.
Immigrants We Want
From tt Jmll (Mo.) Btrnblktn.
The kind of Immigrants that go to the farms
or the tlmebr to work become good citizens. It
Is the kind that stop In the city and finally
dominate the city, that become a peril.
THE WHIRLIGIG WOMAN.
"Her I problem that la baf.
fling." writes M. W. J. -1 wun.lrr
if yoq ron I J solve it
A i MM la born la nat-cina hn
have prrvioukly civ en blilh to two
daughters of per frilly normal char-
ili.rutaa.
'This youngest daughter was al.
') of a diwtaraaabla disposition.
Kite had apaaui when baby, tirta)
waa pampered and eoullrJ aa a child.
but her mother alwava hoitrd aha
would outgrow her emanneaa.
"eh had a severe eirk spell at
IS. They called It 'miruura hemor.
rllMSlra. 1 wondarrd If that eaulA
huva a bearing on tier mentality. Kha
a iru'ay ann calculating, eWieming,
terribly elnh. extravagant. Iay.
hard to get along with. Khe la
pretty and vain, not aiunld. although
aha refuaed to go to a hnol after the
nrt grade In Mali at-hool on account
of bring behind her rluwniatea
"fh hue been married threa
times. Can play Jaas on tha olano.
Khe ran uurart people, but she can
not nom inem ahe la ao imnoaaib
to live with. Ihe Is airlotly moral.
Tha marring, relation la Inathanma
to her. Khe la absolutely devoid of
any ronaideratlon for anyone hut
neraeir and la very mercenary, Phe
uaed to have some pride, but now
she aeeiiis to be so anxious for
money ahe doesn't enre how ahe Ilea
to get it. lias no affection for her
parents or slaters and drove her good
mother to an early grave.
"She has the mentality of a child
except in scheming."
IlKl'LY.
There Is tin evidence that the at
tack of purpura hemorrhagica was
the cause of the lady's diseased dis
position.
Purpura la a condition In which
some nf the blood cells dissolve and
soma blond of Its coloring matter
pnnsi-a out of the vessels into the
tisxues.
It generally results from an In
fection. Rheumatic Infection Is a
frequent cause.
I know of no Institution or school
for this girl.
Maybe a mental test would show
her to he a moron, but I doubt it.
There Is some possibility Jhnt a
psychiatric examination would show
that she had dementia praecox. It
Is not probable that any Jury would
find her Insane. I
Were she younger, she would be a
fit subject for the state Institute of
Juvenile research or the research de
partment of the Juvenile court or
some university or school research
department.
Were she going into trade, some
up-to-date firm, with an up-to-date
employment bureau having a men
tal hygienist studying labor turnover
and discontent among employes,
might get a chance at her.
As It Is. her family will have to
put up with her disordered disposi
tion ns well as it can.
If her cupidity overcomes her In
hibitions she might steal and get
cauKht. Then she would come up to
the criminal court, where she could
be studied.
Making; Deafness Harder.
Mrs. L. writes: "This is to men
tion why deaf people are sensitive
about using hearing devices, espe
cially the conversation or hearing
tube. Being very deaf able, how
ever, to hear thunder and a brass
band I use the conversation tube.
and. though not as sensitive as most
deaf people, do feel hurt when peo
ple avoid using the tube and, alasl
avoid me.
"Some think It Insanitary, al
though on the same principle as the
telephone.
"Let me tell you some of my ex
periences. If I use the tube In a
restaurant, everyone stops eating,
looks and listens.
"In Charleston. S. C when I used
,lt in shopping, silly girl clerks
smiled at each other and were very
unladylike. When at a station buy
insr a ticket the agent smiled, winked
at another gentleman (?) In such a
disagreeable way I was tempted to
tell him I wished he might become
deaf, and so on.
"I have used other appliances and
all have attracted attention, so one
Is almost willing to resort to wrltinp.
"I am not complaining, but think
'It might ha' bin waur.
Ts She? Just Try It!
Mrs. G. L. Jj. writes: "My daugh
ter is lust now 14 months old. She
Is a perfectly healthy and happy
baby, but is developing a very great
amount of self-will and temper.
"She screams if anything she must
not have Is taken from her, persists
In opening bookcases, dresser draw
ers, etc.. and scattering the contents
broadcast.
"I would like your advice relative
to the proper discipline in such
cases. Is she old enough to under
stand the purpose of a spanking?'
REPLY.
Tha training of children should be
begun in infancy.
There are diseases of disposition
as well as diseases of body and mind.
A normal child, 14 months old, Is
capable of understanding the mean
ing of rewards and punishments.
The Mystery of Life.
D. L. writes: "I am a motherless
girl, not Quite 16 years of age.
"The girls I go with are about
my age and they talk of many
things I know nothing about one
Orand Island Independent; There
la an "(fnniuliuB of Aniaruan
tlukinrw" When we And It iliainb.
uting tract on the "fallarir tf the
l. Inference Waterway SH-ltema" we
Know about where. In New Vorb, to
addreaa U. I'or Nrbratka fermeia
Ih Mine amount of money put Into
auch aurfece4 road a aa would make
t rut kin cheap, might, it la be.
Ilaved, reeult In mora dependable
transportation competition and mora
crrtsmty of lower eoata of market
in: but an 'institute of American
Ilualneaa, In New York contending
egainet big national appropuaiione
against any transportation scheme
la something refreshingly new!
Kearney Hub: A neighbor news,
paper speaka lightly of the propoaed
plpa line from tha Wyoming oil
nld to Kansas Cny aa being ben,
filial largely to private intareata
Thl ugeet tha (juration, first.
"What la a private ntereat?M A
newapaper or a grocery store I a
private Interest. I'rlvat Interest
lis personal capital In private bul
ne and in developing puhlio proj
ects of vat extent, and If this were
not true there would ba an great a
dearth of large development that tha
country would not b worth living
In. Tha government, whether federal
or at me. should uaa private Interest
for tha public good, protecting the
common Interest through such regit,
laiion. provUlon and penalties
may be needful.
Ilowells Journal: The rnad-hulld-Ing
plan Inaugurated In Colfax
county a few years back lias re
sulted In a wonderful Improvement
In our highways. There may be
cauae for complaint aa to extrava
gance In expenditures In some parts
of Nebraska, but ther are no
grounds for any ineofnr old Col
fax la concerned. The present board
of eommlMlonere, as well aa the one
that preceded them, used great care
In the expenditure of funds entrusted
to them, and the result Is becoming
more snd more apparent aa the days
go by.
Hurt County Herald (Teksmah):
Government ownership received a
black eye the other day when a New
Jersey town, built by the govern
ment during the war at a coat of
over twelve millions, waa sold for
1200.600. Still, there are a few peo
ple who think that the government
can aucceaefully carry on all kinds
of private business. The loss of
$1,000,000 a day on government op
eration of railroads Is a fair example
of efficiency under political. Instead
of practical, business methods.
Norfolk News: When Henry
Ford's flivver was stolen the other
day he spent considerable time look
ing for it in spite or tne xart mat
he could build another In six sec
onds. And yet Henry ts supposed
to be the king bee of efficiency.
Genoa Leader: Kdgar Howard Is
mourning for a fallen political Idol,
Arthur Wray of York, whom Edgar
worshipped as Moses to lead the
voters of Nebraska to the promised
land flowing with milk and money.
Edsrar. after organising the progres
sive party, picked Arthur for United
States senator and then pulled out
for the southland. But now. alas,
alack! He returns only to find that
his idol has pulled out of the race
In favor of Edgar'a arch enemy, Gil
bert M. Hitchcock, and the end is
not yet.
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Hallway Men's Wage.
Omaha. Way li To tha Editor
of Tha Pee; I notice by the papeia
quit lot of talk about reducing
lh wagea nf I ha railroad woikeia
That would ba all right if they would
atari with some of tha high-salaried
orttcara, who receive from 110,000 to
Ise.eoe pr year and do not do aa
muh aa Ilia clerk, who receive
lilt rer month.
If i he railroad would only take
Into consideration tha high rente snd
high laves and sleo that moat of the
railroad workers are Irving to buy
little homes, they would not rue
them discontent and dlacouragemetit
by reducing their wages. I know of
a railroad worker who recelvea Ills
per month la clerk! snd has a wife
and three children, lie Is trying to
buy a little home and. by the strict
est economy, he waa able to pav hi
taxes this year, which everybody
knows were very hlsh. There were
no luxuries In that family, only tha
barest nereeaitiee. Alao coal was
very high last winter and the rail
road workers had to go In debt for
their coal, and It was considered sn
open winter, too.
I am certainly opposed to reduc
ing tha railroad clerks' wages Ilet
ter begin wuh the hlgh-aslarled of.
fleers they won't hava to Id their
children go without butter and milk
and egg to pay for their homes snd
coal. J. A. JOHNHoN.
Itailroad Cleik.
Using on Section Hand's Wage. '
Kmersnn, Neb.. May St. To the
Kditor of Tha Hee: Am a subscriber
of The Hee and, a I know It to be a
paper most everyone read. 1 would
like to say a little In answer to
Judge lea G. Adams' statement that
a couple csn live on 1100 a month
and love.
It Is all easy to say when one has
a comfortable living. Hut take all
the surplus over fioo away and let
them pay rent, fuel and eata and
see how far 1100 will go year In and
year out. I'll wager there won't be
anything left for clothea or recrea
tion of any sort. Juat now our
president Is talking of cutting the
wagea on the railroad and. aa my
husband Is a railroad laborer (sec
tion hand), It seems to me that It
is only fair thst that class of labor
ers should have Just a little more
consideration shown them, as every
one knows the eertlon msn Is one
of the hardest workers and poorest
paid men on the job.
I wish someone who is good at
figuring would see If they could fig
ure this out:
How ran a man with a wife and
two children live on $82 a month,
when Judge Adams finds It impos
sible for a couple to live on $100?
Now that Is the wage the section
men receive. There Is nothing left
for clothes, and what about doctor
bills? Everyone has them at times.
I'll wager no woman can feed a
family of four on 11 a day and say
they are living. They are merely
existing.
How many of those men that are
forever harping about cutting the
wages ever had to raise their chil
dren without even a glass of milk a
day, to say nothing of the other ne
cessities they need? Oh, I can hear
someone say milk isn't expensive.
But just try paying 12 cents a
quart, or even 10 cents (some are
selling at that), and see, at the end
of the year, how much it will
amount to. Am going to send a
budget of the way we have to live,
and we are only one of the many
f4iie thai get along that way
My hueoand'e wagra are fH. if
he works II months out tf a year.
Hut he and '" al of litem sr
laid iif during tha winter niunlhe.
and we pay 11 a month rent for a
khecW thai len t as good ss soma
Mka' gmegrs- And then I hear
aoineoiie mi, why don't they get a
betler-paiing Job? Everyone Un I
SiirJ for thoes liigh-Mtaried poet
IM-na.
I'm a poor man' wife and 1 wih
a o.e of ha ihera would join in and
espirka ihctr views on Ihia wags
quraiion. r'or Instance, look at tha
re men. r rar tappere. ss Ihey ra
railed They lecelv Just twice as
inu. h aa the aetiion laborers and do
not li tve to work anwher pear ae
bard And up goes somebody's
ItMiid .mil a), but theirs I a
greater rrepnnaibllliy. and when tha
wage ate cut they usually are cut
from J prr cent un to I ur ! per
rem, and the section man gets the
PiSKfWl i ut from III already smallest
wage.
Now. I don't believe In Strike,
but It aeeiiia we ahouldn't Stand Idly
by and Just take an) thing that they
hand us,
a I'.viiix man"w wire.
Why Hie Name?
M.i'eaehuaelta names are stlt!
pussle. Thers never were nny bus
sarda on Huatarda l"v: rod always
have ben cr.-e in Cape "od Hv.
and Ann waa never on her well
known cape rtoston Trsnscrlpt.
DECORATION DAY.
ly SAM u MOItR!,
Memarle ! anil mmrie d,
Cm. la our mind laaey;
llmnrira of tha ntlr 14.
Who In eeme war r easy.
OH nt yeun are lhr4 railed
Th irate lh nirkl I'Bkaaws."
A "l'avr ' and "Tp" eta l enly seusg
ir hint ahoiu Oe4 telle bam.
To a kMunrul drill In ! h tha trS
of vtina i-f wraie mS ana a.
Who In Our I nunltv a aid.
An4 fnusht f"r m an4 u-
A4 Ihrln ! a sin4 rlirlr.
Aa lh- mn-h et net "Old Uln ' unfurled
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QUESTION: Was the A. B. C. organized for the benefit of
local or foreign advertisers?
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benefit of foreign advertisers; only foreign adver
tisers, publishers and agencies can, under the By
Laws, obtain a voting membership; Local Adver
tisers can join a non-voting group which entitles
them to reports and data on newspapers and other
periodicals circulated in their city. '
Local advertisers are recognizing more and
more each year the immense importance of
such records as the A. B. C. Publishers' State
ments, followed by the audit. These are
recognized everywhere as the best proof of the
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