Nebraska Newspapers

    • 0, M, CRONIN, Publisher.
O'NEILL. NEBRASKA
Strong effort? lo piece America fleet
among the nations of the world In the
manufacture of toys are being made by
American leaders In the industry. <Jer
manv nas already sent at lead one ship
load of toys to America since the resump
tion of commerce, and a Swiss delegation
now is surveying the retail toy shops o*
this country. French and British manu
facturers, in cooperation with their gov
ernments imve regularly organized trav
eling toy exhibits, while Japan Is making
a tremendous bid for American toy trade
with a grade of toy poor in construction
and lacking in artistic value.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says:
Aliens who rushed back to their native
countries at the end of the war are re
turning to America, after brief visits to
their European homes. Shocked by the
poverty and desolation which they found
In the war zones and surprised to learn
the cost of living is even higher in Europe
they are coming back to the United Stales
In great numbers.
The national industrial conference hoard
Issued a report in Boston Wednesday «t>
the effect that wages in eight leadin''
trades, including metal, cotton, wool, rilk,
boot and shoe, paper, rubber ai d clictni
t«l manufacturing, have Inereasid flora
74 to 112 per cent during the period from
September 14, 1914, to March, 19H, and
that this was a greater proportionate in
crease than that in the cost of living,
which was placed at 613 per cent for
the corresponding period.
Describing the recent penorm«rt«? ui
the German opera In New York, the New
York Sun says: " ‘The Starp Spangled
Banner,* played by the orchestra, received
perfunctory applause, but the audicrue
rose to its feet and wildly cheered the
•*Wach Auf’’ chorus. . . • German was
the prevailing language heard in the
lobby."
A habeas corpus petition for the release
of her 16-year-old son Castle Jack Rickey,
from the navy has been filed before fed
eral Judge Landis by Mrs. S. 1C. Rickey,
of Milwaukee. The petition stated that
the boy had joined the navy without his
parents* consent and was being detained
unlawfully. It is said to lie the first of
Its kind in a United States court.
A London commercial magnate takes
particular pride in a 12-year old iycrn
ing coat which he hopes to “keep going*'
for many years more. Another man makes
much of a pair of boots winch have trod
dgn under foot £hc stof.n\ «ml stress o£
*16 year*' and a Manor Park resident says
he has a straw hat 27 years old and still
In good condition except the color.
Homesickness brings more men back
Into the military service than anv other
reason, according to officers who have
questioned thousands of veteran who
have been discharged and reeubsted since
the signing of the armistice. Hc-ci wiling
tables show that nearly 70 pe; cent of
the present day enlistments are of men
who have seen previous service.
A Berlin correspondent state- that
among the repatriated German prisoners
the element that was the last drawn into
the army, that went to the front unwill
ingly and de termined to deseit at the first
moment Is proving to be the malcontents
'and trouble makers in po.-yc times as
well.
u Tht* Misses Thelma and Gloria Morgan,
daughters of the American consul gen
eral at Brussels,who arriving from Eq’f-pc
last week found they could not f»a.. 'lour
baggage moved from the ship because ine
longshoremen were all sitting or t lie
benches in the park, solved the difficulty
by “hustling" their trunks themsjives.
Pessimism of many financial writers
about the industrial future of Germany
Is in sharp contrast to the general opti
mism of the peoule, who stubbornly cling
to the hope that America will sooner or
later grant huge credits, says a Berlin
correspondent.
Numerous strikes among students and
In at least one case, a serious riot have
resulted from the recent notification by
llerr Haenlsch, Prussian minister of edu
cation, that portraits of the former em
peror and the crown prince must he re
moved from the schools.
Boston Is progressing well with tin
establishment of her new police force
About 1,000 person* have applied for po
sitlons, and 405 have been certified fo
appointment thus far. Boston is makinj
no efforts to obtain recruits in othe
cities.
Eighty million acres c.r wet and over
flowed lands, located In various part
of the country, could bo quickly an.
economically reclaimed by drainage o
by JeYe*? protection, according to John A
Fox. of Chicago, ot the national dr&inag
congress.
What Is believed to be the first eas
of robbery by hynotism Is reported b
a postoffice inspector from Lyman, Mas:
A Cherokee Indian’walked into the offict
asked for mail, and then with n stead
gaze on the postmistress, robbed the draw
er of $19.
The Cudahy Parking Company has be
gun suit in Milwaukee against -dr.kin
employes of the Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters and Butcher Workmen Union, Xc
€1, Charging that the company was th
victim of a conspiracy intended to injur
its business.
All London newspapers comment on th
probable candidacy for the house of com
jnons of Countess Astor, the belief bein
general that she will accept the nomine
tion and that she will be a popular earn!:
date.
Questioned about the air service 1
France, General Mitchell, in charge r
the air service said: “1 had exactly 1!
American built planes on the front read
to fly on the morning the armistice wa
signed."
New' York Typographical Union XTo.
will assess its members now at work
per cent of their pay to aid other men
bers out of employment as a result t
the strike and lockout existing in tli
printing industry there.
sinners in new mu ait*
themselves with placards bearing tt
words: “On strike." One newspaper eon
ments: “It would be simpler if thos
legitimately at large in the streets wei
to w#ar a tag reading “Not on Strike.”
A complete schedule of freight rates '
Germany covering virtually every con
inodity of exports from chewing gum u
has been Isued by the United States slit]
ping board.
The accident death rate seems to l
somewhat on the increase of recent year
Statistics show that from 93.2 in the yeai
3867. it has risen to 120.8 In the yea:
from 1907-1.' o.
The peasant party in Bulgaria Is d
manding the arrest and trial of King Fe
dinand. According to tlio dispatch, coi
fiscatlon of all royal possessions is d
mantled.
The commissioner general of immigr;
tion. Anthony Caminetti. has cold figur
to show that only 12,513 foreigners ha1
departed from this country since tl
Armistice.
The Los Angeles Times calls Preside
Wilson “The world’s ideal husband," b
cause he remembered to provide a birt
day gift for his wife, even several da;
&jZa-iz the ^
ion iishice ~
COMPiny IS LAX
Examiners of Six States Find
Concern’s Stock Account and
Financial Condition Not
Properly Kept.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 4.—Following the
joint examination of the insurance de
partment of six states including Ne
bra«;a, the stock promotion plans of
the Hankers' Automobile Insurance
company, of Lincoln, carried on under
the former state administration has
come in for censure. W. B, Young,
chief of the present state insurance
bureau, participated in the examina
tion.
The report states that the affairs of
the rompany, particularly the prompt
and equitable settlements of claims on
policies of insurance issued are com
mended highly, but the method of dis
posing of the stock and the keeping
°- the stock records is denounced by
•he joint examining committee, com
prising representatives of the insurance
departments of the state of Nebraska,
North Carolina, Iowa Colorado, Kansas
and South Dakota.
The examiners state that the ac
counting of the stock transactions of
t lie company as evidenced by the books
of the company, have been loose, im
proper and incorrect. The report of
the examiners has been filed with the
Nebraska insurance department.
The report further says that the
president of the company, Charles
Maixner, and the treasurer, H. W. Ken
yon, permitted the preparation of a
financial statement purporting to show
tlie financial condition of the company
on December 31, 1917, and that they
laid knowledge of and knew that the
financial statement did not correctly
chow the financial condition of the
company on that day. It was recom
mended that the responsible officials of
the company be placed under bond.
IDENTIFY BODY OF
YOUNG WOMAN SUICIDE
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 3.—The mystery
of the identity of the young woman
v.hose dead body was found in a room
in the Lincoln hotel Friday afternoon
has been cleared. She was Miss Hazel
Nelson, a 22-year-old school teacher,
and a daughter of Mr. iffid Mrs. N. S.
Nelson, of College View.
The parents say that they have no
Idea what caused their daughter to
take her life. She had been teaching
at Talmadge and left that place Tues
day, coming to Lincoln and taking a
room at the hotel. She registered as
Vivian Adams, of Norfolk, but she stat
ed in u note that she left that that was
not her real name. All marks on her
clothing and other means of identifica
tion had been removed and the note
stated that it would be useless to find
her friends as she had none.
The girl attended the Nebraska State
TTniverslty last year.
The clue to the identity of the girl
was given by a woman who viewed the
remains at the morgue. She said she
believed the body to be that of Miss
Nelson. Marshal Tom Johnson, of Col
lege View, who with his wife came to
Lincoln, positively identified the body.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, the parents, later
verified the identification.
OMAHA COURT HOUSE IS
LIKE AN ARSENAL
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 4.—Five hundred
rifles and thousands of rounds of am
munition have been delivered to tire
court house and are stored in one of
the unused cell rooms of the county
jail.
The guns and ammunition will be
kept there permanently to be used
whenever an emergency may arise.
They were secured from the govern
ment.
1 AGED WOMAN'S SAVINGS
OF LIFETIME ARE STOLEN
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 4.—The savings
of a lifetime, amounting to $1,000, were
,• stolen from Mrs. Mary Donahey, 77
years old. The aged woman discovered
• tier loss shortly after noon and went
’’ into hysterics. The money was taken
from a cash box which she had hidden
under the mattress of her bed.
; Mrs. Donahey is ill and unable to
work, she told police. She and her
daughter live together. She was un
:> able to give detectives any clue to the
e robbery.
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e SLIGHT INJURY FINALLY
RESULTS IN DEATH
Fremont, Neb., Nov. 4.—Louts G.
Smith, a mechanic at the Northwestern
roundhouse, ran a steel sliver in his
. thumb nearly a year ago. Blood poison
^ resulting from the seemingly inconse
y quen r>* wound and yesterday caused
s Smith's death.
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6 ALLEGED CATTLE RUSTLER
0 TO RETURN TO NEBRASKA
* Los Angeles. Cal., Nov. 4—Superior
1 rourt has ordered L. L. Guy. extradited
to Scotts Blufff. where he is wanted on
B a charge of stealing cattle. His peti
® tlon for a writ of habeas corpus was
' denied,
e
LONG IMNE—The summer resort park
0 here has been purchased by local capital,
{_ the price being $50,000. The new manage
ment proposes to make many improve
^ ments in the park. It has outgrown its
present accommodations and requires
many more cottages and a hotel building
e which will be erected. The new coinpan>
s. Is organized with W. B. Dickson as presi
*s dent, L. E. Smith as vice-president, Beri
a Skillman as treasurer, and N. F. Bird a:
secretary.
>- FRANCE D0ESH0N0R TO
DEAD ON BATTLEFIELDS
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Paris, Nov. 3.—Notwithstanding thi
L" snow and cold weather, reports reach
3 ing Paris from the provinces say largi
® crowds attended the ceremonies heh
16 Saturday to honor those who died oi
the battle field.
>t Wreaths W’ere placed on the grave,
*" of American soldiers at Montfaucon.
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v pairs t<> the Gnthedral of C,>! u; ne hav
: TO KEEPJTE5 BP
Petitions Rail Commission For
Continuance of War Time
Schedule—Wausa Concern
to Issue More Stock.
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Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 3.—The Ne
braska Telephone company, which
operates 80 exchanges, located largely
north of the Platte river, filed appli
cation today with the state railway
commission for permission to continue
to charge during the year 1920, tlie
present exchange toll schedules. The
company secured a 25 per cent in
crease in toll rates early in the year
and a revision upward of practically
all of the exchange rates, but thfe or
der therefore limited the time itj De
cember 31st, when the old rates auto
matically beyomo effective.
The company says that the same
conditions with respect to high cost of
labor, material and supplies that were
the basis for the original order of
increase still obtain, and that the
revenues under the new or existing
rates are not in excess of a proper
return on the money invested.
The Union Telephone company of
Wausa, Knox county has applied for
permission to increase its stock issue
from $25,000 to $75,000. Of the new
stock $32,500 is to go to stockholders
as a dividend to recompense them for
the dividends they ought to have had
on their investment in the past and
$17,500 is to be sold to pay off exist
ing debts, make improvements and
build extensions.
MUST BE FULL FLEDGED
CITIZENS TO VOTE
Norfolk, Neb., Nov. 3.—Only full
fledged citizens will be permitted to
vote at the election Tuesday when
delegates to the constitutional conven
tion will be selected all over the state.
The new law provides that residents
who have failed to secure their nat
uralization papers will be barred from
participating in the selection of the
delegates.
At previous elections citizens with
their first papers were eligible to vote
for candidates for state and county of
fices. The new law, adopted at the
election last fall, provides that on con
stitutional questions only naturalized
citizens are eligible to suffrage. This
will result in a material reduction In
the number of voters who will have
the right of suffrage at the election
next Tuesday.
Women will not be permitted to vote,
the attorney general having held that
on constitutional matters of fair sex
are not entitled to a ballot.
The polls open at 8 a. m. and close
at 8 p. m. Only the receiving board
will serve, the counting board having
been dispensed with at this election.
HIGH SCHOOL STRIKE
BROKE, STUDENTS BACK
Dodge, Neb., Nov. 3.—The strike of
High school seniors, growing out of
the dismissal of the former superin
tendent and objections to certain dis
ciplinary methods of the principal, has
been “broken.” All but four metrw
bers of the striking upper classmen
returned to their desks. Four are per
manently out, as a result of the con
troversy. Two have enrolled* in a
school at Clarkson and oae has decided
to call his schooling to an end by ink
ing advantage of the many chances to
work at good wages.
TO RATION COAL TO
PEOPLE OF LINCOLN
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 3.—Mayor Miller
has issued a request to coal dealers
and consumers to end fuel hoarding
and asked dealers to deliver no more
than one ton of coal at a time to cus
tomers until such a time as the fuel
supply is more certain.
OMAHA PROPOSES TO
PAY POLICEMEN BETTER
Omah... Neb.. Nov. 3.—A new police
salary ordinance which gives the chief
of police the authority to promote and
demote officers at will, was introduced
into the city council by Police Com
missioner Ringer.
The ordinance boosts the salaries of
regular patrolmen from $125, the ex
isting wage, to $110 a month. It also
increases the salary of men serving
the six month' probationary period
from $100 to $125 a month.
The ordinance gives the patrolman
full salary rights after IS months of
service instead of 21 months as at
present.
The position of inspector of police
is created at a salary of $175.
The provision of the proposed ordi
nance which is expected to precipitate
a clash in the city council, however,
is that which gives the chief of police
the power and authority to "at any
time promote, demote or reclassify any
officer on the force."’
ALLEGED FORGER MUST
FACE CHANGE OF OLD CRIME
Fremont, Neh., Nov. 3.—Sheriff Con
dit is back from lies Moines with J.
W. Emerson, wanted here on a charge
of forgery 10 years ago. Emerson is
65 years of age and is said to be one
of the smoothest operators in the coun
try. He forged a cheek for $492 here
10 j'cars ago and was caught at Ar
lington the same day with $5,200 in
bills sewed inside the lining of his
clothes. He furnished cash bond for
appearance for trial and never showed
up. He is under indictment on r. simi
lar charge in Boone, la.
PRIVATE STOCKS^OF OLD
LIQUORS ARE STOLEN
, Omaha, Neb., Nov. 3.—Private
stocks of choice wines and brandies,
valued at $8,000. were stolen from the
' homes of Louis C. Nash, 3807 Burt
street, and Charles M. Garvey, 443
I North Thirty-eighth avenue, according
to reports to police.
Entrance to the basements of the
homes was made by prying cellar win
dows. In each instance the families
wore asleep in the home, hut neither
, theft was discovered until the folluw
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! Arks For $250,000 as Damages
For Alleged Assault -y Mem
bers of Mob Near
Clarks, Neb.
Lincoln, Xeb., Nov. 1.—Suit was be
gun in federal court today by Beryl A.
J'Vivor. a former organizer in the t-m
I> 1 o? of the Nonpartisan league, who
\.;:.s the centra! figure in what lie de
clares was an effort on the part of a
mob to hang him near Clarks. Neb., on
May 28, 1918, in which he asks judg
ment in the sum of $250,000 for the in
juries sustained of a physical, mental
and financial character.
The defendants in the case are sev
eral wealthy and prominent men in the
state, Gurdon W. Wattles street car
millionaire of Omaha; Leroy Corliss,
head of the Waterloo Creamery Comet
pany; Herbert E. Gooch, publisher of
the Lincoln Star and big Nebraska
miller: Joseph Barker, wealthy real es
tate man of Omaha: L. E. Hurtz, head
of the Lincoln Telephone Company; O.
G, Smith, head of the Nebraska Farm
ers' congress; Horace M. Davis, a well
known editor of Ord and active head of
the New Nebraska Federation; Jesse
P. Palmer, Omaha lawyer and organ
izer of a business men’s league that
fought the Nonpartisan league during
the war; and a dozen farmers who are
claimed to have been members of the
crowd that assaulted him. J. P. Mc
Grath, Nebraska head of a detective
agency, employed by the business men’s
organization to spy on the -league, is
also a defendant.
A part of the defendants, those who
are alleged to have organized the Busi
ness Men’s Association, are brought in
on the ground that it was the cam
paign and propaganda carried on
through their agents in opposition to
the league, which they pictured as a
disloyal organization with organizers
like Felver engaged in treasonable
work and spreading treasonable utter
ances that actually incited the mob to'
take him and assault him with intent
to do "murder. He says_ that he was
saved only after he had become un
consclsous, by other persons cofning up
and persuading the men to desist.
The law suit brings into issue tho
justification of the fight against the
league during the war, when the state
council of defense warred against it
and stopped its further growth in the
state through the arrest of a number
of organizers on charge of seditious
utterances, asserting that they were
socialists and opposed to the war. The
detective employed by the business
men’s asssociation to do the spying re
cently made a statement to league of
ficials of his activities, and the greater
number of the defendants are brought
Into the case through the information
he gave.
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WOULD AVOID PAYMENT
OF INSURANCE TO SOLDIERS
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 1.—The Lan
caster district court is called upon in
a suit just filed to say whether or
not a soldier who obeyed the draft
call and who was killed thereby lost
to his heirs or beneficiaries the right
to recover on an insurance policy that
prohibited him from entering the mili
tary service.
Paul A. Hagelin, a state university
student, had a poiey in the Common
wealth Life of Omaha, for $2,000, taken
out before the war. He was killed a
few days befort the armistice was
signed. The company refused to pay
the policy. It is contended by the At
torneys for his mother, the beneficiary,
that as Hagelin had no choice or vo
lition but that he would have been
punished if he hud not obeyed the
draft call; that therefore, he could not
have, in law, violated the provision
making the policy void if he went 1 r
war without getting the company's
consent. This holding, it is claimed,
would make private contracts sacred
above all powers of the government,
and that as a principle of law. there
was no real violation when to have
done other than what he did would
have subjected him to arrest and pun
ishment.
VIOLATED PAROLE, MUST
NOW SERVE FULL TERM
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 1.—Raymond
Perry, a Minnesota youth who broke
his parole from the Nebraska peniten
tiary, is to be brought back from Still
water, where he has been found to be
serving a sentence for burglary. Perry
was one of the first victims of the au
tomobile men s determined and organ
ized effort to catch men who were
stealing cars. He was sent up for from
one to seven years. He served the
minimum term, and was paroled. Ho
went to Omaha, and from there wrote
that he hated to break his word but he
was going back to his old home where
his career as a thief was unknown, as
there only could he hope to tread the
straight and narrow. His apparent
contrition moved the prison officers to
let him go. although under the terms
of his parole, he could have been fol
lowed and brought back. Now that it
has been shown that he went back to
his old life, he will have to come back
and serve the remainder of the sen
tence.
WILL GIRLS SIAINU IMIS!
New York.—The Packer Collegiate
Institute, in barring powder and rouge
for girl pupils, also decreed that their
dresses should "begin at their heels
and go to within a reasonable dis
tance of their necks.”
It is estimated that the short period of
the dictatorship of the proletariat cost
Hungary 12,845,000.000.
ANOTHER OMAHA WOMAN
IS ATTACKED BY NEGRO
Omaha, Neb., Nov 1,—An attempted
criminal assault was made upon Mrs.
K. T. Pillard, at her home by an un
identified negro. She was found
shortly after the attack was made on
%er with her clothing almost torn from
ner body, lying prostrate near the tele
phone, where she had attempted to call
for assistance. Investigation showed
the telephone wires had been eht by
the criminal before he attempted his
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[ Training Little• Children~j
l.et Us Not Cripple Our Children’s Self-dependence and Initiative.
For City Boys, Four Months of Camping Out in the Summer *
Provide Much Wholesome Development.
Cuggesfions by mothers. Issued by the United States Bureau of Education. Wash
ington. D. C., and the National Kindergarten Association. 8 West Fortieth St.,
New York.
-BY MRS. ALICE BARTON HARRIS.
I SOMETIMES wonder what the city
child is able to show in the way
of self-dependence and initiative
when the inevitable day arrives that
he must stand on his own feet. It
teems to me that he is never left
alone. In well-to-do families he
usually passes from the teacher's
hands directly into the hands of his
governess or tutor, who instantly as
sumes the responsibility for his safety
and well-being. He works and plays
under supervision, and has no oppor
tunity to develop initiative or a sense
of responsibility. In the name of edu
cation we are crippling what we
should cultivate. The best way to de
velop initiative is to let the child alone
for at least a part of each day. I
think it shows an almost insulting
lack of faith in his intelligence, this
constant attendance on him. Even if
he does make a few blunders, he will
be developing himself that way.
My husband and I were brought up
in all the freedom of large spaces,
and after a few years of New Tork
apartment life, with summers in
boarding houses, we realized that our
boys were going to lose out on most
of the Joys of childhood unless some
thing was done about it. So we
bought for almost nothing a 100 acre
valley, 2,000 feet up in the Catskills,
and 600 feet above the nearest vil
lage—a real wilderness into which no
self-respecting servant would dream
of setting foot. There was a rough
little cabin in it, which was quite ade
quate for a summer home. Our ob
ject was to have a place where the
children could stretch their bodies
and souls, and incidentally where the
parents could also—where light and
heat and water did not come by
means of taps and buttons.
We had to do all the work our
selves and the boys, then 5 and C,
were expected from the beg'jning to
do their share. They fetched the
milk from the nearest farm, a
mile distant, realizing fully that
they did not get it there wouh. ’
be any milk, a crisis which coiifthe
exist in town. We have most
dinners outside over a cam,
which, of course, the boys “if
learned to make. They often se: Kg
doubtful meals, over which they .
joyfully for hours beforehand, ite
have absolute freedom to wander
the mountains with only their d
for protection. There are hours a.
hours when I have no idea where th
are, and they come home with t.
most wonderful adventures to r
count. For four months out of every
year they live the life of the pioneer
boy.
I think every city child should have
some such summer experience if pos
sible, where responsibilities can be given
him which he may assume or not, but
where he must take the consequences.
The child brought up under artificial
conditions necessarily prevailing In
city life, or In the, summer hotel, has
no point of contact with the old, sim-;
pie, universal forms of human living,!
from which all wholesome develop
ments took their root.
Please pass- this article on to a,
friend, and thus help Uncle Sam,
reach all the mothers of the country.,
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Scientific Loafing Excellent, -j- ^
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From Jay Hawk.
Loafing has been defined as resting when you ought to be working.
Only one thing is worse than loafing, and that is working when you ought
to be resting. v
A doctor charged a friend of mine $50 for a personal lecture on this idea.
The friend was approaching a state of nervous exhaustion, and the doctor told
him he had to work less and rest more.
"This doesn’t mean you’ll accomplish less,” said the doctor. “You’ll really do
more. It's this way. A skilled man can take a pair of high strung carriage
horses and drive them over the country for a day, and bring them back in the
evening in almost the same c6nditiaj£»as they started out. He doesn’t let them
get away at full tilt. He makes them walk up steep hills, and at the top he
makes them rest until they get their wind. Even on level ground he keeps a
firm hand on the reins. His object is to conserve energy every mile of the
way.
“A man with a high strung nervous system is just like a spirited horse.
He gives himself free rein one day, and weakens himself for the next’s day’s
work. A few years of running wild will put him out of commisssion alto
gether.”
The doctor then proceeded to explain that a man is a fool who won't take
as good care of himself as a driver does of a horse.
Too many men, he said, take their relaxation after they have reached the
point of fatigue instead of before.
Lean back and take it easy two or three times a day, even though work
is piled upon your desk a mile high. You’ll do more in the course of a day if .
you work in "heats” than if you try to run a straight race. \
Overwork is a vice just as surely as loafing is a vice. The horse’s rest 1
at the top of the hill doesn't get him home later in the evening; he gets there
sooner.
If you think you're built like a fast horse, put a bit in your mouth and hold
yourself in. You’ll probably turn out more work and earn more money.
And you’ll certainly enjoy a longer and happier life.
Why Life Is Worth Living.
From the Columbus Dispatch.
The old Arab who refused to have an operation to restore his
eyesight, on the ground that he had seen so much of the world he was
tired of it, ought to have lived in this day and age. For, verily, there is
something new to be seen. Who among us does not want to live a few
years longer, just to see what comes out of the tangled conditions that
exist today?
pick up any copy of any newspaper, and glance at the headlines.
A dozen wars going on, a thousand complications in the affairs of men
and nations, a million strange situations into which the race has
fallen. So much money in the world it is a burden to carry it around,
it seems; a market basket full of money for a market basket full of S
vegetables—that is the current price of foodstuffs—with everybody r
complainin''. And yet the ships bringing in millions of dollars’ worth
of diamonds, the shops filled to the ceiling with luxuries, the streets
and roads jammed with pleasure cars—and folks refusing to work for
less than $1 an hour. Verily it is a strange conditions, and it is going
to be worth all the suffering it costs to live on, just to see the finish.
We used to imagine that if we were old and disabled and had
never a penny in the world, and suffered from all manner of physical
infirmities, we could pray to be taken away, to obtain eternal relief
from it all. But we havev changed our mind in regard to it; we want
to live, however burdensome life may become; indeed, it occurs to us
that we would be willing to undergo all manner of physical torments
a few years longr out of sheer curiosity. We are that much interested
in how the world is finally going to straighten itself out—for we are
optimist enough to believe that it will straighten itself out.
Churches and Advertising.
From tlie Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
In officially recommending that the "00
presbyteries throughout the country make
special financial appropriations for sys
tematic advertising in newspapers the ex
ecutive commission of tlie Presbyterian
church, is proposing merely an extension
of an enterprise in which a large number
of individual churches of all denomina
tions have already engaged with decided
benefit. Only a few years ago the church
es alone clung to the notion that adver
tising was "undignified" for their particu
lar activities. They admitted its value, its
indispensability indeed, to tlie perehant.
They knew I brought “results” to those
who had something to sell, hut there was
a hazy thought that advertising was
neither needed by the churches nor en
tirely compatible with their sacred mis
sion And yet, inconsistently with this
theory these same churches maintained
bulletins in front of their buildings with
announcements of services and even direct
invitations to strangers to attend. It was
soon seen that the only difference between
newspaper advertising and tlie sign board
method was the wideness of the appeal.
Whereas the latter device would meet
tlie eyes of a few hundred persons only
in tlie course of a day, an advertisement in
newspapers would be read by many thous
ands. The experiment was made by a few
churches. It proved successful. And now
it is becoming a general custom.
Tlie churches' indorsement of tills meth
od of reaching the public is significant.
They know they have a message to deliver
and in order to fulfill their mission com
pletely they must deliver it to tlie largest
possible number of persons. Advertising
is tlie means they have widely elm. on and
it should belli to solve the problem of
ti e empty pew
Oil in Eastern Locomotives.
From the New York Evening Sun.
The reported plan of the Seaboard Air
Line to burn oil in 250 of its locomotives
will bring oil fuel into its first extensive
use on lines east of the Mississippi. If the
innovation works well a revolution in ^
eastern railroad methods may result.
Goal mining in the present unreliable
slate of that labor ridden industry forms
a poor reliance for the fuel supply of the
i railroads. The coal is of excessive cost
and they cannot rely upon the supply to
continue in view of strikes and like prob
able interruptions. Oil mainly digs itself
and can be moved with less difficulty than
coal by sea or land. Not one but many
countries compete to supply it. Its use
greatly diminishes the use for that other
commodity which its possessors make so
scarce, labor.
The prospect of oil driven trains thus
offers us one of the chief hopes for a
resumption of progressive, paying, service
able railroading after the removal of gov
ernment control.
Good Roads Helped Win the War.
From the Kansas City Times.
France gives its highways due credit
for a large part in winning the war. In
the first battle of the Marne, in 2914.
! when it was impossible to get hall enough
troops to the front by railroad, the re
serves which enabled Joffre to hurl back
the Germans at Meaux went to him over
the highways.
German trade expert- are b*‘ hni.Gio
over the prospects of selling * lei t’.an d>t*s
in foreign markets. Fart oi tin.-, is due
to the p*acc te. ms a.: , part t-» : Nation
| ,,f the fact that the entente ashes b a rued
h >\v to produ dye ' t*XplO
-i'.vs for the v.ar.