• 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. 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. —f 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. -4— 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 s- _ 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. l- _. -__ 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. * 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 _ ! 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. —*— 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 •W»» . r, ■ ■—---ijirwrn. ' [ 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., ........ Scientific Loafing Excellent, -j- ^ ..... 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.