D. H. CRONIN, Publisher. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA "Tell the Workers" Is brooming a s!o CHti in England. Under that caption a corr- spondent writes to the London Times; _"Tne belief, is general among all work men, that the less work a man does the more work will there be for the unem ployed. However, the result will be an in crease in the cost of production and even tually an increase of unemployment. To #rct this belief out of the minds of the workers is the duty of the government, and the solution lies in the three words "Tell the Workers." There is more than one way of applying democracy, evidently, for the local coun cil of Wealdstone, England, is complain ing that Dr. Addison, minister of health, with a salary of $25,000 a year, is sending his daughters to a public school at Har '•row where the tuition is only $10 a term. "People with $25,000 o year should not monopolize a school which was intended for the masses." It is said Dr. Addison replies that he has as much right as any other citizen to send his children to a public school. A Choctaw' Indian who was with the artillery force which fired the first Ameri can shots In the world war, and who, after having engaged in the major operations of Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Argonne, was still "present and accounted for" when the last guns of the war were fired, has been selected as a mode*! by the French artist Deverreaux for a por trait of a typical American soldier. An authority on government bonds says: ■•‘Tho- experience and history of social un rest lias shown that a preponderance of labor ‘strikes’ occur at the close of a period of good times rather than at the beginning of a period of business pros perity. Therefore the present harvest of ‘strikes’ may be regarded as the harbinger of manufacturing retrenchment ami in dustrial reaction." Werwicq, one of the Flemish towns which suffered most from the war and German occupation, has the world’s cham pion tow’n pump. It is the sole source of water supply for more than 6,000 refugee residents of the city. Before the war Werwicq had a modern water plant, but Jt is now* a mass of ruins and shells have ploughed into the water mains in scores of places. The old system can never be repaired. In the outskirts of the town were once about 200 wells -They, too, are gone. Dr. Harry A. Garfield, former fuel ad ministrator, used the highest estimate of increased cost of living as the basis for his recommendation of a 14 per cent aver age increase to miners’ w'ages, according to Itobert V. Norris, statistical expert for the fuel administration. Pan German newspapers are excited over the prohibition by the Prussian min istry of the interior, of the exhibition of films presenting the former emperor in a favorable way. The ministry suppressed the film on the ground that it was Inartis tic*, and showed lack of taste. Dr. Naseher, of New York, specialist in the subject of old age, lias gone to Greasy Creek, Ky., to study the diet, habits and mode of living of Jacob Shell, 132 years old. The doctor’s findings will be embodied in a book. Shell recovered re cently from a severe attack of pneumonia, and i« apparently as well as ever. Abraham, Shiek-Ul-Islam. is sorely puz zled n reaching a decision whether Mos lem children may pray to the "American Santa Claus" for Christmas presents. The question was submitted by children who asked the Sliiek, in his capacity as su preme interpreter of Moslem law, if such prayers would be impious. China is the only place in the world where the exchange rate is seriously against the United States. It is planned to adjust the pay of American troops there to meet the depreciation of Ameri can gold, which is accepted at the rate of 61 cents In Chinese silver on the dollar. Siberian peasants * have been given credit to the extent of $5,000,000 by the United States war department for the purchasing of agricultural and dairy ma chinery, and to aid in the general develop ment of that industry. 'Hie value of the railroads of the coun try are figured to be 41 per cent of tho value of the industries of the nation. A large percentage of the property of the life Insurance companies of the country is in vested in these stocks. The first German ship to arrive at a Canadian port since the war, came in on December 1 with torn sails and batterel bulk. Although almost fondering at sea, f!ie could Induce no passing ships to assist her after her flag was known. Alfred Anderson, secretary of tho Kearney. N. J., board of health, has re fused an increase in his salary, which is now $400 a year. "The job isn’t worth any more money,” he said. ‘‘The hoard holds only 12 meetings a year, and it would be an Injustice to the towns people to accept an increase in pay.” "A curious commentary upon 'dry' America,” says the Liverpool Post, “is contained in the following cable which was received from the states by a well known British whisky firm: ‘Could dis ^ pose of 20,000 to 25,000 cases if they arrive by November.’ ” LAbor unrest in America Is said here to have bene fit ted Welsh manufacturers. The factories cannot keep pace with tha orders flooding in. Iron, steel and tinplate works are glutted with orders, and though prices have h o forced upward through competitive hi . ,ing by eager buyers. A shipment of '.00 bolshevists booklets, printed in English have been stopped by the consul at San Antonio, Tex. They were printed in California, for distribu tion in Mexico, and show a clawlike hand reaching from the United States over Mexico. A movement has originated on the Pacific coa.^t for a national symbol to be used b> blind pe* sons when crossing con geMed streets. The symbol proposed is a Hack and white flag, divided diagonaify into halves IT. Muck, who was Interned by the * United State* even though leader of the Boston orchestra, says he has not lost many of his friends in America. He says under no circumstances will he remain in Berlin. Abe rtueff, once boss of San Francisco, and recently released from prison, was known os the most brilliant undergraduate the University of California Imd iu his day. The Austrian republic Is passing through a “states rights’* crisis very similar to that which marked an earlier stage of the American republic, says a Vienna cable. Freight ratei in Great Britain will soon be increased by approximately 50 per cent. Passenger rates were increased by a like percentage during the war and have remained at that level ever since. About MOO Japanese “picture brides” have entered the port of Honolulu every yi ars for the past 10 years, according to the statement made by one of the United fates immigration officials there. Kngland is vigorously punishing prof iteers. A refund of 1* cents was ordered to a man who complained that ho had been charged 65 cents for tea for himself and a f.i Prison sentences are com -W*f r »• .***•> DRIVE FOR LOWDEN FOR PRESIDENT DELEGATES IS NOW ON; ILLINOIS CANDIDATE IS LAWYER, FARMER AND EX-SOLDIER Gov. and Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, anti dairy buildings and grounds or (heir estate at Sinnissippi farms near Oregon, III. The drive for Lowden for presi dent delegates at next June’s Re publican national convention is now on. Governor Lowden's Illi nois campaign committee announc es that it is already assured of the delegates from that state. Frank O. Lowden was born at Sunrise City, Minn., Jan. 20, 1801. He [ served in the Spanish war, and when not engaged in politics di vides his time between farming I and the practice of the law. FAMILY HIT BY LATEST CHILD MURDER MYSTERY James M. Blake, his wife Esther, who is charged with the murder, and James M. Biake, Jr., the drowned boy. Specialists who have examined Mrs. Esther Blake at the Atlantic City hospital say the woman’s case furnishes a psychopathic puzzle. She is a prisoner at the hospital, charged with the murder of her five-year-old son, James M. Blake, Jr. She states that the boy was snatched from her by two negroes the night of Dec. 12. The hoy’s body was found later, washed up on tne beach near the ventnor City pier. The bov was a mute ana police say. Mrs. Blake imagined that her husband’s affection for he : would be increased if the boy were out of the way. The father, an insurance broker of Philadel &hia, is heartbroken over the ragedy. He doubted the kidnap ping theory from the start and be lieved, until the boy’s body was found, that Mrs. Blake had simply hidden the lad while insane. Speaking of the H. C. of L. FYom the Chicago News. He started out to buy a flivver. He ended up by buying a limousine. It hap pened like this: 'Tve a little nest egg," he told the sales man confidentially, "and I figure 1 can buy a little roadster or light touring oar and not go Into debt.” "Just the stuff," said the salesman. “But while you're buying you had better buy right. Put in a little more, you know, and then when It is paid for, you’ll have It Now look at this beautifu car, just what you want, adapted to a man of your station In life. It's only ’steen hundred dollars.” "But that price Is nearly $1,000 more than the light car." "You can’t afford to put up with some thing below your station,” said the sales man, eyeing him critically. The bargain was struck. Out went the purchaser, his nestegg on deposit and the future mortgaged a year for a car that wouldn’t run any farther or any faster than the one within hts means. BEWARE FLAVORED WELLS. Does the well water taste sweet? Be ware. It may be flavored with wood pecker. Dr. A. E. Campbell, superintend ent of health of Springfield, tells of a well at a railroad terminal and serving a largo restaurant. This well was not at Spring field. The customers and neighbors boast ed of the flavor of the water from this well. It was the sweetest water In all that section. They cleaned out the well and got a woodpecker, a snake, a rat and several mice. This story Dr. Campbell followed with another. He once owned a well the water from which was so much the best in town that the neighbors came for it from some distance away. Early one morning a num ber of neighbors were waiting for water for the breakfast table when Dr.. Camp bell pumped up a rat. He supplemented these two stories by tailing of one household where five people were made sick from drinking well water and a second where three were likewise affected Ordinary shallow wells draw seepage from the surrounding soil for perhaps 100 feet. In this seepage there may be pol lution from a yard privy, a stable, a cess pool, or from slops thrown on the ground. In this seepage there may be typhoid bacilli or other disease producing bac teria. The merit of Dr. Campbell’s communi cation lies iu his advice as to what can lie done for some people who must use shallow wells. They have no other water supply. He advises that the well should be located properly and that the top be made rat proof and as nearly water proof as possible. The novel part of his recom mendation relates to the method of pre venting seepage. "You can prevent seepage pollution,” he says, “by adopting the following: Clean out your well and extend a three inch Iron pipe to the bottom of the welf, having the The Old Trick. From the Boston Transcript. Second Mate—The cook has been swept overboard, sir. v'aptaln—Just like a cook, to leave with out giving notice. A Knock. From MeOraw’s Euuipper. You can’t drive a nail with a sponge, i no matter how hard you soak It. Didn't Worry Him. From the Boston Transcript. Mrs. Grogan—Wake oop, ye foghorn! Ol can’t shlape a wink on account av yure shnorln’. Grogan—Ye must thry an’ get used to It. the same as Ol have. Ol niver notice It mesilf, at all, at all. Got Nowhere. From the Boston Transcript. "No, sah. Ah doan't neber ride on item things," said an old colored lady looking In on the merry-go-round. “Why, de other day I seen dat llastus Johnson git on an’ ride as much as a dollali’s worth an’ git off at the very same place he got on at, an' 1 sez to him, ’llastus,’ I sez, "you spent yo’ but what you' been?’ ” lower three feet perforated. This pipe should Oxtend above the surface of the ground about one foot. Assuming that your well is 24 feet deep, of you think water comes in at the bottom you should have two or three feet of fine sand at the bottom, then fill around the perforations with broken brick for seven feet, then crushed rock about five feet, coarse sand four feet, and fine sand up to the surface of the ground. Now put four inches of white ciay over the sand, extending this beyond the edge of the well. Over this put watertight concrete which is four Inches higher at the pump than at the outer edge. Now place your pump In the pipe. You need have no fear of any sur face contamination getting into your well water. All surface water that may reach the perforation will be well filtered and you will have a reasonably safe wator supply.” Webster’B Grave. Neglect of Daniel Webster’s burial place In Marshfield has evoked a protest In the New York Sun rrom a sensitive Jersylte, who is scandalized by Massa chusetts indifference to a man who not only contributed to her fame, but apos throphtsed her In a passage which showed that he appreciated her merits and charms. One had almost made up one's mind to be ashamed of the situation and begin to apologies to the punctilious visitor when along came Morris Gray and cheerfully asserted: "Massachusetts has neglected Webster’s burial place. Let us thank God for that." Wasn’t a Limited. A ^honeymoon pair In a Crain Kissed each other again and again j Anda again and again, Amla again and again. And again, and again, and again. Blightly, Londan. A Mark of Progress. From the Dallas News. The demand that restriction* be Imposed on the use of the strike, instead of sig nifying hostility to organized labor or a desire to circumscribe the freedom of the Individual, in reality is a mark of social progress. J MB WORK JUST FAIRLY STRRTEB Nebraska Has Over $10,000,* 000 to Be Expended During Next Three Seasons—Fed eral Government Aids. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 3.—-I ess than $1,000,000 of the $11,000,000 thaL is to he spent up to and including 1922 has been expended by the Nebraska high way department in improving Nebras ka roads. Jn more than half of the counties, 48, not a dollar lias yet been spent, but these will begin to share next year. Each has had alloted to it a definte share and sum and this cannot be disturbed, even though the road makers may not get around to them until a year or two. Many of these counties are located in norths eastern Nebraska. They include, Da kota, Thurston. Colfax, Cuming, Knox, l’ibrce, Stanton, Merrick, Boyd, Holt, Brown, Rock and Key a Paha, The state now has 31 federal aid projects under construction, which will cost a total of $2,885,000, of which the federal government will pay $1,352,000. Federal aid projects have been sub mitted, totaling $8,075,000, of which the federal government will pay nearly $4,000,000. The state engineer, head of the VJ's tem, has appointed five division engin eers. These function through a high way commissioner in eacli county und such road patrolmen as may be neces sary. The latter keep roads clean, cleared and dragged, and do ordinary repairs, the other work being done by traveling repair gangs. The state has been divided into tivo divisions, with an engineer at the head. The districts are made up of these counties: Division No. 1.—Douglas, Saunders, Sar py, Butlei. Cass. Seward, Otoe, Saline, Johnson, Jeferson, Nemaha, Thayer. Rich ardson, Fiimore, Pawnee, York, Cage, Polk. Lancaster, Hamilton. Division No. 2.—Washington, Platte, Hurt. Madison, Thurston. Pierce, Dakota, Knox, Dixon, Antelope, Cedar, Holt, Wayne, Boyd. Cuming, Keya Paha, Dodge, Rock, Colfax, Brown, Stanton, Cherry. Division No. 3.—Clay, Furnas. Nnckoi.r. Gosper. Red Willow, Adams, Hitchcock, Webster, Hayes. Franklin, Perkins, Kear nev. Chase, Phelps, Dundy, Harlan. Division No. 4.—Boone, Blair, Nonce, Custer, Merrick, Dawson, Hall (north ot Platte river), Lincoln, I.ogan, Buffalo. Mc Pherson, Sherman, Thomas. Valley. Hook er, Garfield. Howard, Loup, Greeley, Wheeler. Division No. 5.—Sioux. Cheyenne, Scotts hluff, Duell, Banner, Garden, Kimball, Sheridan, I lawes, Grant, Box Butte, Ar thur, Morrill, Keith. PERSHING WILL END LINCOLN VISIT SATURDAY Lincoln, Neb.. Jan. 3.—1Gen. John J. Pershing will close his holiday visit with members of his family here Sat urday when he will leave for Chicago to resume his inspection tour of army posts. His program New Year's day included a woman's relief corps recep tion, luncheon with Gov. Samuel R. McKelvie, and dinner at the family residence. At night he was the guest of a re ception at the home of former United States Senator Elmer J. Burkett. —4— TEN STOLEN AUTOS IN ONE LINCOLN GARAGE Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 3.—County au thorities think they have uncovered a nest of auto thieves in Lincoln and University Place, its Methodist suburb. C. H. Roper, one of the executives of the automobile club, inspected a garage at University Place, in which he found 11 cars, 10 of which had been mutilated. Owners and employes of the garage have been receiving the third degree from the authorities, and it is under stood one complete and one partial confession have been secured. FIND BANDIT AUTO IN AN OMAHA STREET Omaha, Neb., Jan. 3.—An automo bile supposed to be the one used by the bandits was found yesterday after noon* standing in Chicago street be tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. NEARLY TWO BILLION CARS MADE IN 1919 New York, Jan. 2.—Total motor ve hicle production in 1919 including pas senger and commercial, reached 1,891, 929, representing a wholesale valuation of $1,807,594,580, establishing a record in the automobile industry, the Na tional Automobile Chamber of Com merce announced last night. Passen ger car production was slightly less than in 1917, totalling 1,586,787 as against 1,740,792. Truck production, howeverfl advanced from the previous high record of 227,500 in 1918 to 305, 142 in 1919. Motor vehicles exported in 1919, aggregated $110,000,000 in value. IOWA MIDSHIPMAN IS DEAD FROM ACCIDENT Annapolis, Md.. Jan. 2.—Midshipman Carroll Joy, of Keokuk, la., a member of the second class at the naval acad emy, died yesterday from the effects of a bullet wound accidently inflicted by M. G. Thompson, a classmate while target shooting in the woods near here last Tuesday. A third midshipman was in the party. Thompson had fired at the target and while attempting to adjust the safety catch of his revolver the weapon was discharged. fc I » I MINERS NOT SATISFIED. Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 1.—Texas coal miners are not satisfied with the 14 per cent settlement, according to Ed Cunningham, former district president, who was in Fort Worth today en route to Columbus, Ohio, to attend the special convention of the national organization. A general strike of Industrial Workers of the World, which it was reported was scheduled to begin in the northwest on January 1, lias been postponed indefi uiteiy. PLUME BUSY Industry That Slumped With Close of War Now Has Bright Prospect In Home Trade. i By Floyd C. Thomas. Alliance, Neb. Jan. 1. — A trip through the potash district near Al liance gladdens the heart of one who has been in touch with the industry during the past two years. A year ago the plants were closing down willi but little prospect of ever opening again. Thousands of tons of potash salts were stored in warehouses in the east and south with but little prospect of a market. Potash stock was selling for little or nothing—when it could be sold at all. But now the outlook is different. The fertilizer manufacturers learned that Germany had only a small sup ply on hand and that it would te im possible to secure any for this country for many months and perhaps years. On September 1 of this year the total stock of refined salts—muriate of pot ash—at all the German mines was ap proximately 35,000 tons, which in comparison with the normal output, as well as the normal demand, must be regarded as quite small. German potash will never be s*nt to the United States as cheap as be fore the war. The old prices of S15 to $30 per ton will never ne approached. It is very doubtful if the price being paid the Nebraska plants of $2 and $2.50 per unit will even be reached. Two fa?ts in connection with' the German potash industry shed much light on its future. One is the enor mous advance in cost of production.. I,abor is from three to five tinn s higher; coal, six to 10 times more expensive; while steel and many other supplies and requirements exceed the pre-war prices 15 to 20 times. On the other hand, the prices at which refined potash is being offered for export to America range from more than double on low grade crude to three times the 1913 price on high grade refined salts, exclusive of freights. The other fact affecting the in dustry is perhaps best expressed in what might be called the democratiza tion of tlie industry. Last April the constitutional German national as sembly passed a bill socializing the business. Miners, office clerks and other employers--n4ts every 24 hours. Quite an industry that. Ed. Note—The Pioneer plant, owned by the Pioneer Potash Company, in which many Sioux City and northwest Iowa people are interested, will be re opened probably within a month, said O. B. Olson, of Sioux City. The Pioneer plant has an output of 15 tor.s a day. "FAINTING BERTHA" AGAIN PULLS ERRATIC STUNT Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 1. — "Fainting Bertha” Liebecke, who enchained the interests of a. good many chiefs of po lice during her meteoric career as a pickpocket and criminal, but who has been confined for several years, is again in the limelight. This time she is charged with having attempted to destroy the sight of Mrs. Ina E. Sprecher, a nurse at the state hospi tal for the insane at Lincoln. The assault happened several months j ago, but under the new rules of the board of control the fact did not be come public until the filing Tuesday of a claim by Mrs. Sprecher with the state labor compensation commission er. She seeks' for compensation at the rate of $12 a week for from 25 to ® 60 weeks. Bertha used formaldehyde on her. The woman was sent to the peniten tiary several years ago, but the ward en was glad to get rid of her when the doctors pronounced her insane, as she was a terror in prison. The nurses sight is said to be permanently injured. STATE TO REGULATE SALE OF WOOD ALCOHOL Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 1. — The state department of public safety is to take steps to regulate the sale of wood al cohol in Nebraska. Although the pres ent law requires that selling poisons shall be restricted only to registered pharmacists and these must keep a record of all sales. It has been dis-,, covered that practically every garage keeper in the state keeps wood alcohol in stock, it being generally purchased to prevent water in uutomubles radi ators from freezing.