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WE HAVE KEPT THE FAITH.
One hundred and forty-nix years ago certain gen
tlemen, inspired by lofty patriotism and high ideals
for the cause of humanity, set their handa to a docu
ment that declares all men to be born free and equal,
to be possessed of certain inalienable rights, and to
be capable of self-government.
Looking back over the years, as history preserves
their record, and as progress denotes their passage,
we may literally and truthfully say we have as a
people kept faith with those signers. Not all they
had in mind has been achieved, not all they hoped
for has come to pass; we as a nation still are strug
gling along the road they pointed out, but we have
not lost the inspiration nor abandoned the effort.
Even at the present moment, when disturbances
are general, and many seemingly fixed and de
termined matters are being upheaved for further ex
amination, the destiny of the American people is as
plain as It was on July 4, 1776. Entire harmony did
not exist among the colonists, then ; political or other
interest divided them, just as politics, religion, or
something else divide the population today, but they
could center on one thought, that of political inde
pendence for the colonies and liberty for all citizens.
That was the aim of the struggle, which then had
been going on for more than a year, and which was
to continue for almost seven years longer. The
heritage of today was won in battle, andthas been
defended on many a field since then. Americans
may be relied upon to always maintain the principles
set forth in concrete form at Philadelphia nearly a
century and a half ago, for they are the eternal sup
port of human rights as we know them and enjoy
them, and with one of them abridged in the slightest
the others fall.
Our national life is unruly, fulj of turmoil and
disorder, but it is so for the reason that it is the
life of a virile, energetic, restless people. Injustices
exist, inequalities are noted, crimes of violence are
committed, one group cries out against another, but
even these things are the expression and the evidence
of social growth rather than of decay. Ma.n still has
his rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi
ness," and the nation still seeks these under a gov
ernment that "derives its just powers from the con
sent of the governed."
It is within the power of the people to alter all
at any time; because we have kept faith with the
signers of the Declaration of Independence the gov
ernment they dreamed of is doing the work they
planned for its purpose, and as we keep the faith
that government will go on, becoming greater and
grander and better with each passing year, and July
4 will take its proper place alongside Christmas as
a world holiday.
take up some method of settling their disputes other
than by stopping work. The figures show that strike
or lockouts seldom pay dividends.
FREIGHT RATES ALSO CUT.
When the average man thinks of railroad and
looks at his calendar, he ranks July 1 as the day of
th railroad shop men's strike. He think of pros
pective interrupted transportation, of possible dif
ficulties in th distribution of foodstuff and other
essential con modifies, and similar disturbing things.
But July 1 has a greater significance for th
American public than that. It is a dat that, vn
under th burden of a nation-wide strike, deserves
to be remembered as a day of bop and optimism
rather than on of depression. On July 1, freight
rates wer cut a quarter of a billion dollars a year,
by order of the Interstate Commerce commission
announced several weeks ago. Coupled with earlier
reductions, this made a total of (440,000,000 lopped
off the nation's freight bill since the peak of August,
1920.
This Is a stupendous sum. It equals the interest
charge on half of the government's $21,000,000,000
bonded debt. It averages $22 for every family in
the country. It means a saving all up and down the
line, in the cost of building, in the cost of living.
The shop men' strike attracted the greater at
tention. It was new. It was the more dramatic. But
it 'is well to remember that the freight house clerk
who makes out the bill for the goods you ship today
will use a different schedule than he did a week ago
ind a lower one.
OPINION-
What Editors Elsewhere Are Saying
THE BEE'S LETTER BOX
ftuue ami Federal Suheadle.
From ik Pril4 M ) Telegram.
"No more sinlv phraMS have
peon invented in recent years." re
rently declare former Governor
Lowde of Jlllnnl. "than 'it aid'
and 'federal Id',' Th point I
well taken. Effort la frequently
made to create th Imprraaton that
wnen a state department or Inatltu-
(Ion Is flvrn federal aid or town Is
tlven it nit aid for a road or a
school, they are getting aomethln
for nothing. They are not. The
taxpayers are contributing lust as
directly to theie different aids as If
the coat wer Itemlted and placed
upon their tax bills. It la much dif
ferent now than It was when duties
on Imports paid the bulk of th coat
of running th fedaral government.
I'nder those condition federal aid
waa to a certain extent a bounty, al
though not wholly ao. But now fed
eral revenuea ore rained almoat en
tirely by direct taxation to which
everyone contribute. All th money
that Maine receives for federal roads
and In aid of state Inatlttitlona the
people of Main pay for. Every rent
that a town receives from the state
treasury, has been paid Into the
treasury by the chiton of th towns.
There I no such thing aa getting
something for nothing, and peopl
are beginning to understand It.
public mind, a dipoleion to be
against, rather than fur thinse.
habit f voicing prejudice and hale
rather than pirachmg Juatire and
lov. The man in th White Hou
cannot rat-ape rriili-Uiii, lie cannot
stop it even with bliirr wurd. Kvrry
other man In omviul station h.i hi
portion of similar experience. Time
will bring a happier atata of public
mind aa war prejudicea w:ui and
hatred toet their airength. Hut
critics are not all "pnUOcal black
guard." nor were tln-y in lite past.
STOP THE FOOLISHNESS.
From time to time Americans are shocked by ac
counts of how a reckless aviator has lost his life, try-
ng to do some foolish stunt for the edification of a
multitude. Announcement that a man ia about to
risk his life in a public attempt to accomplish some
feat, where the slightest slip or failure means death,
will always draw a crowd. A cynic has said that in
such instances the curiosity seeker is impelled not
so much by a desire to see the deed successfully ac-
omplished as by the unexpressed hope that the ad
venturer will miss and be killed. Contemplation of
such a horror possesses a peculiar fascination for
some, but that is no reason why it should be fos
tered by permitting such exhibitions. One of the
latest tales of the kind gives details of how a ven
turesome performer trying to change from one flying
airplane to another, was cut into bits by the pro
peller of the plane he sought to mount, and fell a
mangled corpse before the spectators. Such exhibi
tions should be forbidden in the name of public de
cency. Plenty of entertainment may be had from
trials of skill and agility, tests of strength and en
durance, without recourse to those whose principal
interest lies in the element of danger incurred by the
performer. Americans forbid the baiting or tortur
ing of dumb animals, and certainly can afford to ex
tend similar protection to men and women.
, A SMART ALECK GIVES UP.
Smart alecks manage now and then to come to
the top through the sufferance of a tolerant or
amused public. They abound in the literary world.
Frenzied finance and blue sky promotion know them.
Sometimes they enter public life through the door
of appointment, but seldom through popular election.
An exception was made by the people of Youngs
town, O., who elected George L. Oles as mayor after
an eccentric campaign in which he promised them all
but the moon.. . Taxes were to be lowered or done
away with Mr. Oles' campaign promises rather gave
the impression that they would disappear entirely.
Street car fares were to be cut. The crime wave
was to be calmed. Right was to be enthroned in the
city hall and wrong was to be pushed into Lake Erie.
One of the first acts of the new mayor was to
order the police to salute him whenever he hove into
sight, a ruling that was rescinded amid the jeers of
his constituents. For a time it appeared as if short
skirts might be made the subject of municipal de
liberations. Public affairs began to resemble a cir
cus, later turning almost to riot. Now, after six
months of stormy official life in which he ac
complished nothing for the public good, the smart
aleck mayor has resigned. He had no training for
public life, had never run anything larger than a
grocery truck, was without any fundamental knowl
edge of the problems of government. Nevertheless,
he made quite a. record for himself as a critic, a
reputation that would have been good today if he
had not been so brash as to undertake some responsibility.
REBUILDING NORTHERN FRANCE.
The mental scars of war are slow to heal in
France, but the physical reconstruction proceeds
apace. In the zone of occupation attention was first
given to the resuscitation of industry and agricul
ture. With economic life now faijly re-established,
efforts are now being centered on rehabilitating the
social life.
Ninety thousand dwellings were repaired in the
last year, and 10,000 new houses were built. Shel
ters and barracks put up for the repatriated citizens
of northern France numbered 32,000. Schools,
churches, public buildings and charitable institutions
are now being restored.
The additional population brought back to the
devastated area in 1921 numbered 697,000. There
are as yet 326 fewer schools than in 1914, and 190,
000 fewer pupils.
American interest in this great work of recon
struction was proven by the Good Will contest that
recently was held by The Omaha Bee. Those young
women who are soon to sail for France as a result
of this contest will find much done, but much yet
to be done.
STRIKES AND THEIR RESULTS.
A compilation made at the Department of Labor,
under direction of the secretary, gives a little light
of value on the efficacy of strikes in general Ac
cording to the tabulation, less than one-third of the
strikes started are won by the men, less than one
third are won by the employers, and more than one
third are compromised. Exact figures are: Strikes
won, 3,112; strikes lost, 3,515; strikes compromised,
3,627. Of lockouts, not included in the foregoing,
97 were won and 83 were lost by employers. The
period examined is from 1916 to 1921, inclusive.
From the standpoint of the public the economic
loss of strikes and lockouts is emphasized, govern
ment officials point out, by the fact that in 1916 there
wer 46,305 working days lost because of strikes.
In that year the average duration of a strike was
twenty-two days and the average duration of lock
outs sixty-four days. . r
Losses of other pears due to strikes were re
ported as follows: Nineteen hundred seventeen,
25,077 days; 1918, 28,779 days; 1919, 60,715 days;
1920, 47,508 days, and 1921, 66,101 days.
So little of advantage to either side is disclosed
by the figures that neither can claim anything like
a substantial gain unless it be the preservation of
the right to strike or to lock out employes. If the
figures have any value at all, it is found in the sup
port they afford the plan of settling industrial dif
ficulties and disputes by conciliatory processes, with
resort to arbitration where necessary.
Secretary Davis reports himself as in favor of
WHAT ABOUT THE JOBS?
A cartoon printed by "Simplicissimus," a Ger
man weekly published at Munich, carries a sermon
for America. It depicts an English retailer, return
ing loaded with goods purchased in Germany. "Good
work," he says, "I got all these German goods for
next to nothing." "Just so," dolefully reply the
English workers standing by, "and you buy them so
cheap you have put us out of jobs." This is exactly
what the free trade program of the democratic
party will accomplish for the United States. We
can get goods in Europe cheaper than we can make
them at home. If we buy from Europe, we close
American factories. The question to be answered
is whether we want to provide employment for
European workers in Europe, or for American'
workers in America. A protective tariff is needed
if the home market is to be preserved for homemade
goods.
The Brown report on the consolidation of govern
ment departments, which advised consolidation of
the Army and Navy departments, the creation of a
department of public welfare, the transfer of prohibi
tion enforcement to the Department of Justice and
of the forest service to the Interior, has been pigeon
holed. Desirable as some of these changes might
have been, the opposition in congress and the cabinet
was too strong. A gradual readjustment at least,
may be looked for.
The Whipping; Poet.
From th Houatnn Poit,
William J. Pinkerton, the famous
veteran detective, i auoted as rte
clarlng "The whipping post is the
ocat remedy ror crime.
Perhaps! But the real argument
againat th whipping post aa a legal
process of pnlhmnt I not baeed
on lta effect upon criminals. Its
influence was brutalislng upon the
community in general. Its revival
now would be a long step backward
toward that state of society which
sanctioned torture and the mutlla
tion of living human bodies for the
supposed deterrent influence upon
potential criminals.
Crime never was so common as In
the days when punishment was most
cruel. Th greater aufferer in case
of the revival of the whipping post
would not be the offender who was
lashed, but the community In gen
eral. Legalized brutality always has
multiplied brutes.
Race Suicide Why?
Prom th Cleveland New.
Americans arriving from other
places are all that keeps New York
from becoming a "metropolis of for
eigners in 10 years," according to
the health commissioner there. He
says the annual birth rate among
fashionable New Yorkers is only
seven in a thousand, while In the
lower East Side 57 babies arrive
each year to every thousand of pop
ulation. He mentions the fact that
42. languages are commonly spoken
in New York and Implies that most
of the 134,000 babies born there
each year learn to talk In tongues
other than English.
The race suicide of the American
stock has not diminished in the 20
viewed it with alarm. On the con
trary, such change as has been
noted in the birth rate or the aver
age size of American families has
been of a sort to emphasize the
peril he pointed out. The war and
its economic consequences did not
help. The census of 1920 contained
no comfort. The New York physi
cian is by no means the only ob
server to express uneasy conviction
that the old American race is dying
but, failing to maintain itself, surely
and rapidly being replaced by a new
American population, largely native
born, but retaining the languages,
customs and racial characteristics
of southern and eastern Europe.
The advancing cost of living may
explain those developments. It is
not only that the necessities come
high food, clothing, housing and
the like but also that living stand
ards impose increased expense on
young people trying to live up to
American traditions.
Living costs have not greatly re
stricted marriage, it is true. But
young wives can often retain their
paid employment or think they
can. It is having babies that puts
the resources of the new family to
the breaking strain. This would be
true if the incidental expense of
childbirth were no greater than for
merly. We believe it is a fact that
nowhere has the cost of living been
increased more enormously than in
the item of medical attention in con
finement cases. Formerly a home
event running to perhaps $25, the
arrival of a baby now means hos
pital bills aggregating hundreds.
Even If most economically managed,
it may cost $250. Young couples
trying to earn their way and found
a home of some sort naturally fear
any such burden. Once subjected
to it, they are likely to resolve
"never again." .
If the old, native, middle-class,
Anglo-Saxon, American stock is
dying out for lack of reproduction,
is not the reason given in the state
ment of a Cleveland physician, re
rently printed in the News, that only
two classes enjoy adequate medical
care nowadays the very rich, who
can afford anything, and tne very
poor or spiritless, who do not try to
pay their way?
DIgiuiiK America' III.
From ih Hi, Jm-iih N.w.v.
That the country la ailing perhaps
win u summed, but hardly any tw
ooarnera qiuxnoaa it trouble In
exactly the same way. William AHf
While of Krnpoila. Kan., thlnka It la
"Hiipring irom a can of "iiuuiin.
lie Una an article. "What' the Mat
ter ith America," In the current
iiumiirr in . oilier a in whi h ii .1..
ciare mat moron are lm,.
...mi .1 .
acini mat are ii-arinr nnun in
uasuea or our Inatltiitlona." and
must nit admitted that he mak
out a plausible case. A moron he
nennea a one who linn Buffered ar
rested intellertual growth, and he
rues me enlistment flgurea of our
late draft to prove that there are
45.000.000 such persons in the United
States peraons whoae minds made
no further development after the age
w it years.
A Chicago Judge recently tried to
a aenniiion or the word "moron."
I'nable to find it in the dictionary.
he called In experts, psychopath
mostly, and learned from them that
B moron mav hova an adult lntlla
xor tne ordinary commerce of life,
but a moral Intellect of 8 or 7 year.
una witness aaia: --ha i n.rinn
whose act are irregular, particularly
with regard to ex." Mr. Whit gives
u ix oroaaer meaning.
Since "moron" iwmi tn h an v.
body's word, we have our own defini
tion on who haa an adult Intellect
ror ordinary affairs, but the mind of
a child when it comes to an under
standing of his clvlo dutv. his rain.
tlons to organized society. Accord
ing to this definition, then, the Juror
wno acquits a murderer becaus the
lawyer for the defense saw fit to
try the dead man Is a moron. The
official who appoints a relative to
orrice when another would serve the
state better Is a moron. The election
Judge who winks at illegal voting is
a moron. The business man who
evades Jury service Is a moron. The
voter who supports a notoriously
weak and vicious candidate because
both are members of the same party
is a moron. Tnere are many ways
In which a person may show that he
Deiongs within this classification
remaps most or us have our
mental blind spots. But the trouble
may not be congenital; It may yield
to education of th right sort, and
we believe it will. To hold other
wiseto hold with. William Allen
White-r-ls to hold that the human
race has passed Its zenith intellectu
ally, and has already made some
considerable progress in the descent.
We do not subscribe to the White
doctrine.
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Without a Middle.
Victor Murdook In th Wichita Eagle.
In the last analysis, the science
of politics probably consists in ad
justing the middle to both ends. A
man, recently returned from Russia,
tells me that the reason Russia is so
hard to understand is because the
nation has no middle. It has a top
and a bottom. The Russian poli
tician is trying to shift the bottom
to the top without creating a middle.
hum aWaial Kiiggratlona,
Omaha, July I To th Kditor of
The I'ee: Th fight on the flapper la
still on. "Our young people do not
know theiimelvr. nor hav they
burned th (acred pur pom of their
bain." la on solemn utterance by
the president of a western unlver
any, hut that la only the beginning;
nothing to mild could keep th flap
per In th public rye. Now and then
a defender appear, but uaually
among th young and frlvolou. and,
If the defender happena tn be a man,
he ia apt to be auaperted of undue,
even affectionate, partiality for one
of the apeclea.
The writer la not planning a cru
sade to reacue the flapper from the
handa of her defamer. That aelf
reliant young feminine peraon la per
fectly cnpuble, on the whole, of
taking car of herself. Even when
she goe to extremea and talka too
loud, pnlnta too much and weiira too
little, ah I not n?eartly on the
way to destruction. A few yeura
from now she will hav children of
her own and wilt be teaching them
how to behave. She may talk glibly
of "forbidden subjects" like Kreufl
and aex and birth control, but she
will ba In a better position to act
safely and sensibly, when the year
bring maturity and responsiDiiuy,
for having thought about the mean
of her existence. Ignorance never
was an aid to innocenoe, ana tne
truth, however bold It may aeem, ia
perfectly consistent with that tilsh
minded' conception of things that
watches the workings of nature with
wonder and reverence and look on
a normal human body as a beautiful
end marvelous machine, a veritable
temDle enshrining the source of
life.
t The old who have forgotten their
youth, those who have been soured
by some great disappointment,
churchmen who cling to the dogma
that th race I "conceived In ln."
"mv bovs" who hav known only
one kind of women and who judge
all women by that kind these are
the people who furnish most of the
noise for the hue and cry after the
flanDer.
By its sponsor let tne movement
be Judged.
Teach individually. Insist on the
rronrietles and sanctities that always
dignify and beautify. Make no mis
take; a thousand little imperfections
of character may exist ana piay
havoc with happiness, even though
the social structure be wisely ouut
throughout Even so, the flapper
question remains In a , very tiny
place, and other questions rise to
tremendous significance. Even so, it
is incumbent on us all that feeling
and reasoning shall not oe sepa-
rnted-
Conduct amusements for their
own sake and under proper safe
guards. Instead of for profit, with
possibly everything wide open. Abol
ish the useless hazards of life today
that can make marriage a reckless
venture an a baby a calamity. Save
childhood from the factory and girl
hood from the hall bedroom; save
manhood from the blight of thwarted
Instincts and extreme, exhausting
toll.
Then see how much of the lasting
and lovely is in human nature, ready
to be revealed at the first oppor
tunity.
EDMUND R. BRUMBAUGH.
President Enforcing Economy.
President Harding is determined
to enforce economy In government
expenditures. His achievements in
that direction are the greatest that
have been accomplished. Bonus leg
islation, therefore, should harmonize
with the program for economy. The
republican party cannot afford to
make a mistake In this matter
Washington Post.
Endorses Doran's Views.
Omaha, June 28. To the Editor
( The Bee: It is many a day since
have read anything that pleased
me as much as the letter in this
morning's Bee from John Doran of
York, Neb. It is an open secret that
the federal reserve board did not
give the agricultural states a square
deal, ' beginning in the summer of
1920, in the most distressing time
ever known to them since they en
tered the union. Banks were break
ing aa regular as sunrise. Farmers
and ihreah Kio.-km.-n iotil.1 not
hold titeir t-Mttltf and hog until ma
turity, etc, and In uh a critical
lima the feiUral bank were railing
In thrlr wetrn loan, and were
loaning three banks In New York
city mora money than they had to
upply "1 great western atatea.
It la lika locking the barn denr
after the lior waa aiolen now, Hut
th time I long pant dua for the
power at V!iinnion to awake to
th fin'l that proaiirrtty la like the
elusive end of the rainbow. If not
based on th main link of the chain
of commerce, the farmer.
OKOROK HU'B.
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Marrittt TVm-lier.
Prnm lh Minimal Hlr.
The silly seaaon of the summer I
open, It win Initlnted In Minne
apolis when Huperlniendent V'eMer
proposed the following rule to th
ax'hnol board'
Marriage In the school year, be
ginning in September of one year
and cloaln In the Jun of the
iicreellng year, shall bo deemed
by the board of education suffi
cient cauae for cancellation of con
tract and fullur of reappoint
ment. If Superintendent Webster Is going
In for the regulation of teacher'
private live by executive decree, we
auagest the following additional
rules as In lino with his marriage
regulations;
1 Teacher must b In bed by
9 o'clock. IjxU hour reduce effi
ciency.
2 Teacher must remain at
home all day Sunday, to rest for
the coming school week.
8 Teacher most submit list of
books and periodicals read every
week to he superintendent's of
fice. What a teacher reads affects
his classroom work.
4 Dletarv list for fat and thin
teacher will be isaued. Physical
condition 1 Important In teaching.
6 Women teacher must boh
their hair. Time wasted In arrang
ing elaborate coiffurea can be
used for the preparation of les
son. Make the minutes count.
Nebraska Notions
Common Sense
Are You a Lazy Dreamr?
You are always losing your things
your hat, your eyeglasses, tne
package you were carrying.
What is the reason?
Isn't it because you never have
any very definite aim when you get
up in the morning, or when you start
for store or the home of another?
You cast about for something to
do, if you are at home during the
dav. and one day is about as good
as another so far as accomplishment
is concerned.
You are too dreamy and hasty in
your impressions to ever know any
thing which is told you well enough
so you could repeat it.
You imagine it is your artistic or
idealistic nature which shows itself
in this disagreeable way.
That is where you are wrong.
You would be shocked if vou were
told that laziness is at the bottom
of your fumbling habits and vour
faraway aloofness, which is always
waking up in startled fashion with a
realization that you have lost some
thing or something has gotten -by,
you don t know what. Krace up.
(Copyright. 1922.)
Parents' Problems,
Should a little boy of 5, who likes
dolls, be allowed to play with them?
By all means. He is being little
father," just as his sister, when play
ing with dolls, is being little
mother."
Omaha's baseball team has been upholding the
reputation of the town in fine style for the last few
days. We hope the boys keep up the pace.
The German mark is quoted at one-one-hundredth
of its normal par value, which fact may interest the
enthusiastic advocates of a fiat currency.
A candidate for "congress in the First Nebraska
is jrunning flatly on a "wet" ticket, which may indi
cate something.
Coal miners and operators have another week to
think it over, and then Uncle Sam may step in.
. Chief Dempsey may be missing at Hollywood,
but the chances are he is not missing much.
Two weeks until primary day; now watch th
candidates coming down the home stretch,
However you spend the Fourth, remember The
Bee's Free Ice and Milk Fund.
Keep it sane and you'll not be sorry.
On Second Thought
STAsTStm.
By H. M
The only time some people follow the flag Is when
it Is on the front of their automobile.
Administration Critics.
From ' th Ohio State Journal.
Doubtless the man of kindly soul
in the White House appreciates and
regrets the severity or the langage
he employed recently In terming
"political blackguards" members of
congress who have been severely
critical of men identified with the
administration. It cannot be true
that a senator or representative be
comes a "political blackguard" by
criticising a policy of the admlnls
tration, the action or nonaction of a
cabinet minister. Even if the criti
cism was without foundation, or
malia-nant. that fact alone could
scarcely operate to land the speaker
in a. class so highly undesirable.
A stay in the White House brings
Us Joys and lta sorrows. No man
ha occupied it and escaped bitter
experiences. The heartaches are
there and cannot be avoided. Even
In days of peace the clouds hang
low, at times, above that place of
residence. They wrap it In their
somber fold in day of war and re
construction. Presidents have been
there to meet far more Borrow and
pain than of pleasure. War brings
human bitterness to the surface. It
finds expression in high places, in
vades all quarters where men hold
authority and have power. Every
war president has paid the price and
so ha every president who suc
ceeded a war president. Lincoln
suffered agonies. AH the Iron will
of Grant was required to fight on
through the bitterness it was his
fate to meet and endure.
Woodrow Wilson had his bitter
portion, an abundance, oft repeated.
More than once it waa a chorus of
attack, valid and Invalid, partisan
and peronl, sincere and malignant.
But the men who lashed him In fury
were not all "political blackguards"
for doing it Some are leaders to
day. Three years of bitter attack on
the president by congress estab
lished an unhappy custom and made
certain hi successor would suffer.
Human habit and custom do not
chang with administration. Bad
habits persist. War Influence have
not lost their potency. War contro
versies brought a. negative state of
FROM INFANCY TO LIFE'S
SUNSET TANLAC BRINGS
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
Nature's Blessings Are Open to All, and
It Seems Inexcusable for Anyone to Re
main a Miserable Weakling When
This Great Medicine Is Restoring
Vim, Vigor and Abundant Vital
Energy to Hundreds All
Around Them Every Day.
Oering Mulweat: A frland trie to
eonvinca me that (lotrrnnr McKvl
tie la a "newspaper man." I re
fuaa lo be eonvimed llovernor Mc
Klvla la a "Journalist " A Journal
ist can wear two khlrta week:
newspaper man wrar a shirt two
week.
flrand Island Independent: Many
a man who began oiiMlnee on a mere
ahorairlng ha worked bla way up
Info a auccravful boolleggery.
Ilfnlrlie Rxpre: Ford ' h
would not apend any money to he
prriilint, and many other ltv
been saying hi chance were not
worth u nickel. ,
Iteairir Kxpresi: Money talks,
but It would lake a pnwrrful In
strument lo broadcast th ruble,
Ktorkville Kaber: Frank A. Har
rison, who Im hfen waxing fut on
i-ay Jolm, doli'd out lo him by I'ncl
Kntn fur many years, seem to hav
at In at met hi Waterloo In the lat
est high snlurled Job on the lira
sillan exposition commission. H
sei-ma to be In un till around row,
with the majority aaaliiat him, and
making ai'vvral kinds of complaint
detrimental to his business transac
tion. The Job la evldntly about
two sires too Inrge for th man,
Kearney Hub: The re-election of
Pamuel Gompera aa president of th
Federation of Labor without oppo
sltlon Is a remarkable testimonial to
the aged Inbor chief, whom the
trouble makers have been ousting
(In their Imaginations) for a good
many years. The fact Is that while
(ompers may skirt around all of th
extremes of th Inbor question he ia
not a single-minded extremist, but
rather a very clever opportunist.
t'KXTKIt SHOTS.
Onlv people with good Imagine
tlons should listen tn on the radio.
Greenville Piedmont.
A bachelor Is a man who had no
auto when he was young. Pitts
burgh Fress.
W would hte to be a rich man'
son and have to stay in trouble near
ly all the time. Nashville Tennea
sean. Unfortunately, the things that af
ford us the most ploasure are th
pleasures that wa can't afford.
Hartford Times.
Belle Isle Resort
Isle Royal
Lake Superior's busiest re
sort. Fishinglake and brook
trout, and nature's most won
derful spot. Full of thrills
and things different
For full information in
quire at the Foster Travel
Service in Burgess-Nash Co.
store.
For reservations, write
FRED SCHOFIELD
Belle Harbor, Michigan
"The Land of the Sky Blue
Waters"
Vf OTOR, fish, golf, camp in the
woods or along the motor
a til or atop In a big city hotel; you're
close to nature or civilization a you pleate.
Cornel By motor, railor boat ask your
local ticket agent about reduced summer
rates. Writefor information and litrratnn.
Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Assn.
m om airm, ar. ram, Mian.
Wkm you write, indicate kind of information
tawaVGenaralVacatloiia. Canoe Trip
Permanent Summer Home Sitae
w HOTEL. cm
-A One mooara hold
HOTEL, every room with bath
(MeBotel Red Book la every Pullman car)
nbllh rour Minnesota tourtiii keadquar
ten here lor mall, telegrams, laaadar, eta.
Writ for booklet: sddreai
Th Saint Paul Hotel. Slat raid, Mkta.
TANLAC
Vegetable
Pills are an e
sential and vitally
niDortant Dart of
the Teniae treatment.
fers to all. When one looks
upon a weak, worn out, faded,
devitalized man or woman and
reflects that all this may
be readily and satisfactorily
changed merely by the use of
Tanlac, if only that poor mor
tal knew it, one feels like
spreading the message of hope
and joy that Tanlac brings in
the sharpest and clearest hand
writing that none may over
look! Are YOU as strong and
healthy as you should be? Have
you that abundant vital energy
that enables you to laugh at dis
ease and to overcome the ever
present obstacles in the path of
your happiness? Does your
food srive uo to vou it rirh
ter equipped win mat person De stores ot vitality, or does it pass
to cope with the vicissitudes of. through your digestive system
this existence. By preparing the without supplying you with
digestive system of the young- much beyond the poisons
ster Tanlac smooths the path formed through its decomposi-
and insures health and strength tion?
through all the years ahead. Take this under your serious
We cannot forget that the consideration, and answer these
foundation for good health in questions for yourself,
our advanced years is laid dur- Then, if the answers are un
ing the early years of life. satisfactory, go. to any druggist
How sad it is to see men and and purchase a bottle of Tan
women by the thousands going lac, and you, too, may become
through life with less than half strong and healthy with fhe
of the vigorous health, strength energy and vitality to accomp
and capacity for the enjoyment Ush your desires, just as so
that is their birthright. And many thousands of others have
how much sadder it is to know publicly testified were the re
that all their sufferings and lack suits they obtained from tak
of happiness are due to their ing Tanlac.
own failure to take advantage Tanlac is sold by all good
of the blessing that Nature ci- druggists.
CUNARD
ANCHOR
ANCHOR-DONALDSON
Excellent accommodation I stiU
available at low rate for July.
From the tiny toddler with
foot hesitantly placed upon the
bottom-most step, to the ven
erable grandfather A the top of
Life's stairway, Tanlac is
praised by all for the vim,
vigor and abundant vital ener
gy with with it blesses each
step.
The earlier in life that one be
gins the use of Tanlac, the bet-
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