THK OMAHA HKK: WKONKSDAY. AUGUST SO. 19rJ.
Three Women Win
Amaleur Prizes in
1 The Bee Contest
Bfrt Editorial Vt'ritfn to Re.
rate Awunl. at Dinner
lo We (liven
Fridut.
((Mllnofil t ram l'f flaw
traph; A. T. I -tl tl. district engi
neer, Ute department of public
ssorkt, York, Nib, "Aid in Koad and
liridite Woik," rntrred by the York
Republican.
Judgei Fivor Definite Onti.
Judges appointed l.y the Nebraska
Sute l'res anciation were:
W, K, Orchard, editor Nonpa
reil. Council TilutTf, la,
. V. J.. Locke, rhirf editorial
writer, Nebraska State Journal,
Lincoln, Neb,
J, II. licvi ridire, superintendent
fnhlic schools, Omaha, Neb,
In judging: the editorials the judge I
tcmarked upon the (act that many
contestants (ell by the wayside be
cause of a tendency to devote them
wive too much to Kfticralities. When
choice? narrowrd down to a telertion
brtwrrn tonally ood sprcimcnt of
writing, the juditcs favored those
who were more definite in their
choice of stibicctr and who teemed
tct have directed their effort more
wpecifically to matters of interest and
benefit to the Mate,
"J here were many women in the
amateur content and very largely
thcoe devoted their attention to mat
ter connected with children and the
home.
Th-re was almost a complete ab
sence of humor; contestants were
erioi:s to the last period.
Well Known Newspapermen,
Of the three professional prize
winners two are well known Ne
braska newspapermen whose daily
contributions to their own editorial
column are frequently reprinted by
nt re r editors. The third who is the
first prize winner, Mr. Ilifcxar of the
Journal-Stockman is widely known
ntnnntr farmers and county fair at
tendants, hut has not heretofore fig
ured prominently in editorial asso
ciation affairs.
;Mr. Edgecombe, as permitted by
the rule, contributed three editorials,
as did Mr. Maupin, There was little
question among the judges in count
ing lhcie two editors near the top
of the list, the more difficult question
being the selection of the best of
their contributions, In the case of
Mr. KdKccombe, this finally became
almost a matter of lot, his editorial
on "Editorial Responsibility" ranking
a virtual tie with that on "Preferen
tial Voting."
Few Rules Laid Down.
" The contest began July IS and
closed August 10 in the case of the
amateur contest, and August 15 in
the case of the professional. After
August 10 each co-operating news
paper picked winners of its own con
tent and entered these in the contest
for the grand prizes offered by The
Omaha lice. The only rules laid
down by The Omaha Bee were that
the editorials be judged upon (a) the
interest which the subject has for
Nebraska people; (b) the clearness,
fcrcefulness and brevity with which
the subject was discussed; (c) the
merit of the purpose to which the
editorial was directed. Many which
qualified favorably as to the second
item were cast aside on the first and
third tests.
' The prizes are to be awarded at
the dinner to be given by The
Omaha , Bee Friday evening as a
tribute to the Nebraska editors.
Following are the editorials which
won second and third places in the
respective contests:
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A MESSAGE TO SHADY REST
Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Sidney Smith
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candidates for the purpose of divid
nig a voting majority that desired to
support a sound public policy and by
that means procure the nomination
of a candidate representing i com
paratively mall minority of public
opinion, Human nature it such that
nen who would acorn money bribes
are sometimes lured into candidacies
for office by artful flattery when the
public interest would be better served
by their refusal to listen to the flat
terer. .
Two remedies are possible to cor
rect the present weakness that per
mits the presence of a multitude of
candidates' names on the primary
ballot to divide the majority ana
give nominations to repreentatives
of minorities. First, a second primary
to determine the isur between the
two candidates receiving the liircest
number of votes at the first primary;
second, a change in the primary elec
tion law to reform the ballot and
make it a preferential ballot ro that
each elector will have an opportu
nity to vote his first second and
third choices for each ofl'ice and these
choices to be counted and taken into
consideration to thf extent that one
of the candidates for each office, if
there are more than two candidates,
shall hive a majority of the preter-j
cnce out of the total number of -j
votes cast. j
jcxa ana possiniy a icw omrr
states ue the second primary if it is
required to develop a majority nom
it.ation, but the method U cumber
some and unnecessarily expensive.
The same result can be achieved by
the second method siwcftcd, that
the primary ballot be made a prefer
ential ballot. Practically no expense
would be involved in either printing
the ballot or counting them because
of such a change and the evident ad
vantages to be gained by the elec
torate should induce the legislature
at its session next winter to reform
the form of the primary election bal
lot as indicated.
Daughter it at the club dance or
lutoing with tome other son. Father
it renting up after tiring afternoon
on the golf course, and mother is
settling questions of art or literature
at the club or trying to remember
the trump. If little brother or sister
want the answer to tome neriilrxing
problem, there it the maid or the-
gardener to rely upon, l he Ameri
can home that (iarficld eulogized is
rapidly vanishing and America is
reaping the harvest of its careless
uess a carelessness that unthinking
people may term progress.
It is high time that thoughtful
Americans pause in their mad eifort.
to reform the world by legislative
tiiactmcnt and give some thought to
a revival of the old-time American
home spirit; to give lest thought to
laws and more to love. At a nation
wt should give less thought to the
oruatenens ot the national superstruc
ture and more thought to its real
foundation, the American home.
For what shall it profit us in the
end if we gain supremacy in world
markets only to lose in the end by
the utter disappearance of the old-
time American family life that made
national unity possible:
gin with the child; formation Is
ahead of reformation every time.
When the family altar is estab-
hhrd in every home and the word i
ol (md Is lived in the home and
passed on'to the child he will con
stantly have the image of the only
perfect One before him, Jt it only
by the spirit of t'hrit working
through the soul of man tbat we
may secure divine government.
Third Prize
Amateur
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. IVANS '
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prsaar llmllatlaa, what a alaaia4 a44raaal anvalaaa la aficlaa4. Dr.
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Second Prize
Amateur
Second Prize
Professional
By Frank O. Edgecombe,
Nebrtuika blgnal, tieneva, b.
' PREFERENTIAL VOTING.
, In a republic the virtue and effi
ciency of government must depend
upon the intelligence, integrity and
perseverance of the electorate and
the efficiency of the mean" employed
to regulate their judgment of men
and measures. In Nebraska the gen
eral election, in which final judgment
it given upon men and measures, is
supplemented by the primary elec
tion, in which men are sifted and, in
directly, public attention is focused
upon measures.
Under the Nebraska primary an
unlimited number of candidates may
seek nomination for anv office. In
very well known citizens -sought the '.lay, ,0 fiml hat settlement place?
reoubliean nomination lor 1 'oiled ' lle home is deserted. Son has the
States senator. In the recent Ohio i
primary nine men sought the repub-I
lican nomination for governor. It is '
clear that such a condition is likely ;
Vo lead to confusion in the minds of
the voters and might open the door 1
to what would amount in practice to 1
a fraud upon the electorate. j
, If a very important isue were
at stake it might be sometimes pes-
sidle to perpetrate such a fraud by j
inducing several persons to become '
Third Prize
Professional
Bv William M. Msuoin,
Mld-WfsS, (irrlns, Nrb.
THE VANISHING FAMILY
CIRCLE.
Onlv a few years aeo a glance
through the window of the American
home after the shades of night had
fallen would have revealed a iamily
fialhered around a center table;
mother sewing or knitting', father
and children reading, or all engaged
in some domestic pursuit of equal
interest and unlift. It is not so now.
The old-fashioned and wholesome
family life of America is nearing the
vanishing point, and what have we
to take' its place? The club, the
"movies," the golf courses, the auto
mobile. Good things in their place,
but not worthy what they cost if
that cost' is to lie the distruction of
that wholesome family life that made
this nation great and strong through
the lessons therein received.
With the vanishing of the family
circle we are losing much that was
good and wholesome in the training
for future citizenship, and we are
gaining nothing of worth to take its
place. Lessons of industry and
thrift, love of home, high ideals,
spiritual uplift and knowledge of
worth-while affairs all thesrf are
being lost sight of since the family
life of America has given wav to the
sordid pursuit of wealth or the mor
bid pursuit of pleasure. When
James A. Garfield made that famous
speech in which he extolled the
American home as the place where
all great questions were discussed
and settled, we had a family life in
America. Where would Garfield iro
family automobile out somewhere.
By Mrs. Frank Gillett,
Allili.n. rb.
(Kiilerr-J by Ilia Allili.n Nrw.)
CHILD WELFARE.
The period since the beginning of
the world war has been called the
children's age. A report from the
United States ensus bureau showt
that 1,149,039 babies died in the
United States in 10 years 14 for
every American soldier killed in the
war. This death rate falls where
visiting nurses and baby health
centers are available.
Analytic study by the Iowa child
welfare research station proves the
basis of both physical and character
defects, which j-csult in school fail
ure and life failure, is already fixed
when the child enters school. Is the
$1 a year put into the Red Cross fund
a loss or an investment?
Regarding education: By invest
ing money in public schools taxpay
ers will put less in penal institu
tions. Education should consist of
work, study and play. All three ele
ments are necessary if the child fs to
develop initiative, intelligence and
ability to "think for himself." Even
though domestic science and manual
training arc taught -in the school,
similar training should be given in
the home. Since the child welfare
bureau was established in the de
partment of public instruction, Ne
braska children have Iven well nro
tccted by child labor laws, yet we
are still failing for child laoor re
forms. If e continue, "the pendu
lum will swing too far" and parents
will be forced to secure a permit in
order to train a child into a self
supporting citizen. We, should fa
miliarize ourselves with what laws
we now,hrvo and induce the child to
'meet law by observing those
which we are unconsciously violating
every day especially now when our
attention is so forcibly drawn to law
enforcement.
It has been said a criminal career
starts in childhood; therefore, all re
forms should begin with the child.
While we are trying to reclaim one
whose habits are fixed, a great many
children could be started on the
right road away from temptation.
Education for a moral safeguard
should begin in babyhood; at 16 and
17 is too late. Purity must be in
stilled in the soul of youth. Dan
gerous talks on sex hygiene would
then be unnecessary. Standards of
society are not going to save society
from itself; truth must be taught
through Jesus Christ. If we would
have a Christian nation, we must be-
By Milhcent Jenn Ayton, Harvard,
Neb.
(Palre'd I. Ill" llurTaril Courier.)
AN APPRECIATION.
One of the hardest lessons most of
us have to learn it to appreciate the
things of the everyday. We build
mir "houe of dreams" and too often
we put it so far in the future tbat we
lose the eniovment of it, and in the
meantime fail to tee the beautiful
things that lie at our doors".
One must need be dull of heart to
feel no response within themselves
to the beauties of this particular tea
son. The pastures and fields, all
green and gold, ttrrtch away and
melt into a blue haze at the far
horizon: the birds, flying low over
the fields or singing their tweet
notes from every tree, and the mag
nificent colors of the sunset are be
yond the power of words to express
or brush to portray.
But it isn't the material beauty of
our familiar scenes that makes us
bow our head and say a little prayer
of thanksgiving, nor is it the prom
ise of the harvest to come, It it that
message of peace and security that
comet to us when we become in tune
with our surroundings. Other
nlaces, perhaps more - beautiful and
just as full of promise, are the
scenes of bitterness and strife, and
the natural beauties are lost sight of
because "man's inhumanity to man
makes countless thousands mourn."
Hut we are sate to pursue our
daily tasks as our inclination dic
tates; not driven to them by a task
master's whip, nor prevented by the
personal grievance of a stranger. We
may take our pleasures after the
day's task is done and go to our rest
secure in the knowledge that our
homes and loved ones are safe, for in
the fare of every neighbor we be
hold the face of a friend.
"Then let us pray that come it may
As come it will for a' that:.
That man to man the warld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that."
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Auto Club Moves Offices
to Fontenelle Building
Omaha Automobile club headquar-'
ters will be established in the Hotel
Fontenelle September 1.
The club rooms, which are near
the Eighteenth street entrance to
the hotel, are heing redecorated and
fitted comfortably. The club will
move its office equipment this week
from the Hotel Rome location.
The board of directors of the
Omaha Automobile club decided up
on the change because of the prox
imity of the Masonic temple, the
proposed Elks club and Kinghts of
Columbus club and the nearness to
churches and garages, it was stated.
Plans are tinder way for an in
creased membership of 1 .000 motor
ists, Wr. B. Check, president of the
auto club, 'announced.
COTTON ON THE TEETH
Went by a vacant lot yesterday
and saw a lot of cottonwood tcrub
growing on it. Some of the treelet
were ix feet high. '
Up to two years ago I would oc
rationally help to clean up that lot
that the kids might play on it. No
cottonwood treelett there then. No
cottonwood treet nearby, How
The wind blew fertilised cottonwood
pollen over there; some of it tiuck
aw! grew.
When one looks around the necks
of the teeth he will find a little
collar of gray slime. Probably be
tan scrape it oft easily. Maybe the
slime it a hard substance, greenish
brown iii1 color. If to it it probably
stuck pretty tight, to tight that it
scemt a part of the tooth. If the
creamy, pulpy material, or the wreen
ish brown material be examined un
der the microscope, it it teen to be
composed of trees. Not cottonwood
trees, it is true, but trees of a kind
nevertheless.
Some of these tooth plants, if you
please to call them such, root into
the crevices and cause decay, rami
ers have tren tree roots split open
the walls of wells; undertakers have
seen them open up vaults; builders
have seen them crack building walls,
The tooth plants do not cause de
cay m exactly the way the tree roott
crack building walls, but the highest
grade scientist will tell you that the
procedure is not as different as you
had thought.
Others of them cause pyorrhea and
still others absorb and cause rheuma
tism. neuritis, and other disturbances.
That being the case, keeping the
teeth clean becomes a matter of no
small importance. The teeth are es
sentially exposed bones. In no other
part of the body are bones exposed.
They are irregular in surface and
thev "rut through" the gums. Thi
bc'wx the case, keeping them clean is
not an easy mattcir.
If cottonwood pollen can manage
to catch on in a weed lot, the trees
on the teeth, called tartar, can like
wise net a foothold. I wish somehow
we could lose the term "brushing the
teeth" and substitute "cleaning the
teeth." A better injunction would be
to clean each tooth.
The orthodox brushing, plus eat
ing and chewing, will clean parts of
the feeth. but not the necks, nor cer
tain surfaces located near places
where saliva pours out. To clean
those places should be the task.
Down to the l.'th century people j
seem to have been destitute of j
chimneyr.
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I ih ta iwii,i(,r to rny friend and patient thl, due ti
th (treat demand fur my tystem vf chi(or.tic, 1 am ffontpSbd
'r t .' it is til urns fruit the iisih lit the thirJ
floor .f ht Fusion butlvlmj t litih r,,t lariunn. I tttll su'eups
tna on tin t vth n.i of tr third fluur in thi buil.ltn. bi. K l
littW ltd u;. i.-I l y tho tliiialu I t tt Ilurd
km. liinun St)i, Th i will give me r ..ht a(ru il)
tnvat .Ijuilintf nii.. fm m'i..B rovoptiun
rww and , njr latorury f-r Ih fro X ray
mlnsti.nt, lh kiM f !, U t navt oiy
nd imHrUh thai fcv t u.pf. my Wratrv
with a h rd . ly ha i,i,, iht t, rytt
y UhM by it,
I iH g;t twy paro-intl al vrM ntui
In i tir.t oiid rnr in inn i y a well
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i fjr -tj!iiiiR:s ot tfi.i.! of tt Wilts
.. liroii th.y Hty l-.i ; . ttrtii n lio fil
t J wi f jf k h v ... I (. 4 I ullwil' I,
' 4 K (:s tuy o n tri l ttniin
One friend of mine cleans all tuch
treat with one brush; then polishes
other surfaces with oidinary paste
and an ordinary hrimh and ondt up
by wiping each tooth with a toft
cloth. Another cleant each tooth with
paper pulp and goes around the necks
with an orange stick.
For Ingrowing Toenail.
E. G. K. writes: "J. Kindly let
me know what it good for ingrowing
toenails.
"2. Will you alo explain what to
do for hard toenails, to I can cut
them?"
REPLY.
1. Ingrowing toenails result from
wearing narrow shoes. The 'nail it
pushed until it growt catercornered.
Wear broad shoes.
Each day wash the feet thoroughly
in soap and warm water. Soften the
nail in that way. Then lift the in
growing corner, and pack a little cot
ton under it. i
When the corner it raised above
the inflamed flesh, the inflammation
will subside.
2. If soaking in hot water and
(trap will not todrii them, apply tome
I soda or ammonia water,
! He careful not to overdo the use
of these strong alkalis.
Now, Don't Worry, W. K.
W. R, writes: "What is a func
tional murmur?
"Does if ever go ,iy if One takes
good care of oneself?
"I am very nervous from thinking
I have heart failure."
REI'LV.
A functional murmur it a heart
murmur not due to crippled valve.
Among the causes of functional heart
murmurs are anemia and nervous
heart.
As a rule it is less dangerous than
the subject thinks, especially if lie
is worrier,
Iodine Won't Curt Bunion.
J. V. wrilet: "I have tmall
lump on . the tide of my big toe
caused from too narrow shoet. Would
iodine reduce it?"
KEl'LV.
My guest it that you have a bun
ion. If to, painting with iodine wilt not
cure it,
Cntll From Electric Fan.
A. R. writet: "It there any danger
to sleep for several hours facing an
electric fan which it in motion?"
RE FLY.
The only danger it that you may
get too chilled.
That danger should be guarded
against.
.ommon
Sense
Art You Looking to Your Children
to Support You in Old Att
Are you depending upon yur
children ta tupport ou la your old
Sge?
!on'l da it.
Yuit may hat lb kindest, rol
loving and thotightlul childim in the
urid, but by Hie tun that yosj get
old they may he to full of tntwlirt
ind to burdened wnh young c hildre a
and a tick wife or husband to tup
port, tht it would be t physical mi
pattibility to help you.
True, children thould not lt tbeir
ptrmtt tuffer fr i,iillflg withm
ihrir poster to provide, but. hile
there may he a deoir on the put of
the fluid ta provide fr the parent.
It nity not be possible under certain
Circiiin.Unrr.
It is pour policy fr you to get
into the mental altitude whiih ferlt
and tats, "I took r.fe of my children
hrn they wer hrlplrtt and emiM
not provide a living for thcnitrlv,
ind now they mint provide for me,
when I cannot earn my own living
auv longer"
Anmher thing, do not turn over
all your properly and all your mon
lo your cb'l.lrrn should von itn if.
live with themthey slinubl not
titk it. ,
If you can tfford to do to. pay
your own board and lodging and let
it be known tint your money will gl
to tllure whi dr.erer it.
f'dtf -rlht, iit
Prinr.- j.n Vt'ay Eatt
I'rincies 1 amat'itki will occupy
compartment l. car 18, on Union
Pacific train No. 2 from San Fran
cisco, due t' past through Omaha
it 7:10 tonight.
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Jtutiay
Blucjay
to ywr druggto
The timplest way to end a
corn it I3lue-jay. A touch
ttopt the pain instantly. Then
the corn lootent and comet
out. Made in a cotorlett
clear, liquid (one drop doet
it!) and in extra thin plat
ters. The action it the tame.
Pain Stops Instantly
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