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THE CERTAINTY OF TAXES.
An ecan 'mist who has gone thoroughly into ihe
figures announces that state taxes about the coun
try generally have tripled since before the
war, and that the increase in Nebraska is no
greater than the average. He makes the further
statement that the farmers Have not been harder
hit than anyone else. The greatest increase, he
reports, is found in federal taxes, and these are
now hitting business five times as hard as before
the war while they touch other classes much more
lightly than that. Although sympathizing with the
demand for more economy in the conduct of publio
affairs, he observes that much of the outcry against
taxes is founded on a desire to stop the wheels of
progress and return to primitive conditions as re
gards education, good roads and many modern
functions of government.
That a scientific investigator should make Such
claims is enough to cause the ordinary citizen to
pause and take thought. The movement to reduce
the waste and expense of government is capable of
bringing great benefit to the people. If carried too
far, however, instead of benefits, there will be ac
tual losse-. Some things governments can carry
on more cheaply than can private enterprise. If a
useful and necessary public function ceases to ho
performed by the government, it may have to oe
undertaken privately, and at greater expense, or
ihe fnct of its abandonment will cause an actual
loss, perhaps to the health of the community or to
the general welfare.
“Nothing- is sure but death and taxes, runs tne
old adage. There is no possibility of avoiding the
ixpense of mainta ning organized government. Not,
even the new governor of Nebraska, by abandoning
many «>f the state services, is able to make the cuts
that he led voters to expect. There is a limit
beyond which taxes may not be reduced without
Middling the people with greater expenses of an
indirect nature.
NO POLITICS WANTED.
Judge Willis G. Sears is about to resign from
the district bench in Omaha to assume the office,
of congressman. This will leave a vacancy in a
branch of the government that is customarily free
from political influence. Elections to the district
court are on a nonpartisan ballot, and when the
appointment to fill this vacancy is made, it should
be on the same impartial basis.
The duty of naming Judge Rears’ successor falls
to Governor Bryan. It is important that he should
be impressed with the fact that this is a strictly
nonpartisan position and -not one to be awarded to
some deserving democrat who lias little qualification
beyond that of loyal political service.
Arthur Mullen, the democratic political boss, 1s
reported to be willing to muke this appointment for
the governor. This means only one thing, the effoic
to link up the administration of justice with a polit
ical machine. The people have made the district
court nonpartisan; let the governor take care that
he does npt allow politics to creep in when the ap
pointment is made.
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STIFFER PENALTIES FOR MOTOR THIEVES, i
A hill introduced in the Nebraska legislature by i
Malcolm Baldrige, providing heavier penalties for
motor car thieves, is a good one. The temptation
to travel fast at some one’s else expense is too great
for many weak wills to withstand, and the possibil
ity of sterner punishment may be counted on to
supply the lack of moral sctuplcs.
Instances frequently come to light wrhieh prove
that automobile stealing is carried on by organ
ized gangs. These count on destroying the evi
edge of theft. This would make it extremely diffi
mginc numbers of stolen cars. The proposed bill
would make possession of a car with n defaced en
gine number prima facie evidence of theft or knowl
edge o ftheft. This would make it extremely diffi
cult for thieves to escape conviction, for it would
be incumbent upon them to produce the man from
whom they claimed to have bought the car.
Under the present law' the sentence for auto
mobile theft is from one to ten years in the peni
tentiary. It is possible for a convicted criminal to
obtain release after serving eight months. Under
the Baldrige proposal the minimum sentence would
be three years and the maximum ten, and no parole
could be obtained until after two years in prison.
This would at least discourage repeaters and keep
the offenders in a place where they could not make
off with other people's property for a longer time.
THE PEOPLE S PLAYGROUND. ]
Since scores of American cities have opened up
free municipal courses in the parks, golf is no longer
a rich man s game. Five thousand Omahans obtained
permits to play last year. The rise of this amateut
sport has been so steady as almost to rival baseball.
A national tournament open only to patrons of public
courses was held last year, and it is to be repeated
this summer in Washington, D. C., apparently hav
ing become an annual sporting event of considerable
magnitude.
No encouragement for this form of wholesome
recreation is to be found in the proposal mnde by
City Commissioner Hummel that the city collect a
fee of $10 a year from golf players. His theory is
that the men and women who use the links should
bear the cost of their upkeep and thus enable the
park funds to be expended for other purposes. He
overlooks the fact that they are taxpayers them
selves and ns much entitled to use of the public parks
• ; arc those who prefer baseball, skating, picnicking
, r visiting the zoo, for which no charge is made.
The idea that a city should not provide any con
veniences for its people without collecting a toll in
addition to taxes is a dangerous one. Golf players as
a class are not unreasonable. It is possible that they
• ould be willing to pay a small charge, say of 10
t ints a game, if the fund so raised were to be de
v ted to improving the courses, but to set the bill
ecu's a ramc or $10 a year, as the park com
... ... n:r desires, is excessive.
IN A WORLD WITHOUT TREES.
At the present time the L?nited States of1 Amer
ica is using up its timber resources four times
faster than they are being renewed. Not very
many years from now we will have no timber re
sources, if the present policy prevails. A world
without trees is quite within the rangft of prob
abilities, if all peoples carry on as do the Ameri
cans. Impossible? Not a bit of it. Entirely within
reason. China did afford a splendid example of the
effects of forest devastation and denudation. Pal
estine, Syria, Persia, many other regions might be
cited as examples. The ever-increasing demand of
a growing population makes the onslaught on the
timber resources of the world more intense, and
the end may come much sooner than it did in the
countries of the old world.
However, the world will be spared the spectacle.
China, backward nation, under tutelage of the en
lightened, torn by civil war and beset by all man
ner of difficulties within and without, has planted
100,000,000 forest trees within the last three years,
more than the United States has planted altogether
since it took up the business of forestry. Pal
estine’s wind-swept hills are being reforested under
the most arduous of conditions. Soil must be car
ried from the valley in many places, to recover the
nude rocks, that tree roots may gain a foothold,
hut sometime the hills of Judea will be once more
crowned with verdant foliagp.
Switzerland has a state-owned forest more than
nine centuries old, in which more trees are stand
ing than were there at the beginning, and yet the
wood is continually being drawn on for industrial
and commercial uses. Before the war at least one
German town of note derived all it3 municipal rev
enue from the city-owned forest. France has spent
millions of francs planting and caring for forests,
und gets « profit from its state woods. A world
without trees would never come, for man is learn
ing something, and is applying one of his lessons to 1
growing forests. Nebraska has an opportunity along
this line that ought not to be neglected longer.
WAGES AND MORALITY.
A single phase of the movement to enact a
minimum wage law for the working giris of Ne
braska deserves attention above all others. It i3
the assertion that low wages drive girls to shame.
This has been 30 often repeated that it has taken
on the fixed aspect of a formula. Yet investigators
of such standing as Dr. Katherine Bement Davis,
Dr. Abralnm Flexner, Mrs. Raymond Robbins, anti
others who have devoted much time ana careful re
search to the problem, declare that there is so little
of truth in the statement that it should not be con
sidered in connection with wage discussions.
Moral as well as economic reasons must be con*
sidercd in the fixing of wages, but such reasons do
not include the element of unchastity on part of
the workers. To insinuate that it does is to gratuit
ously insult the millions of girls and women who
daily toil 'o earn their bread. The quality of self
reliance and self-respect bred from contact with
the affairs of the world a3 encountered in office,
factory or store, breeds in woman something far ,
finer than a tendency to degradation. Girls do j
wrong, and it is not necessary here to cite reasons;
what is aimed at is to point out that the working
girl is honest and upright and clean.
Men who work with these girls choose wives !
from among them; others of them wed outside the
ranks of the workers, but all of them make good
wives and mothers. Lessons they have learned
while earning their living serve thrm well as heads
of homes and protectors of families. Foolish girls j
arc found among them, just as foolish girls and j
boys are found in every grade of society, but these !
would be foolish wherever placed. The American I
working girl i6 a credit to her sex and to America,
because she is honest, proud, sincere, and respecta
ble.
The proposed law to license motorists and to
withdraw drivers’ permits for thirty days upon
•conviction of violation of the traffic regulations
shows what steps may have to be taken if reckless
driving is not curbed by the voluntary action of
automobile owners.
Eight million dollars worth of repairs ought to
make the Leviathan a fairly presentable boaL But
the boys who went over and back on this giant ship |
in '17 and 18 w ere not so particular about luxurious !
accommodations as they were over reaching land. j
French reports say they are under no illusions
as to the serious situation they face, but they seem |
to have been under considerable of a delusion when j
they started into the Ruhr.
“Doug” Fairbanks is going to defy Czar Ha^s
and all his cabinet. Very good; now ?ook out for
Doug and Mary in another “epoch marking” fillum.
Seven fewer postofiices for Nebraska at the be
ginning of 1923, but quite as many people.to keep
the remaining ones at work.
One thing the flyers will enjoy at St. Louis is
an atmosphere dense enough to give their pro
pellers fair hold for power.
Congress is facing such a stack of work it begins
to wonder where the last two years have gone.
One way to keep folks from watching you is to
direct their attention to the other fellow’.
The January thaw is about over now.
An Ancient Blunder
■"From the New York Herald. ————
The French government thus far has not mined
much coal In the Ruhr, but It has succeeded in con
solldating Germany. At least for the time being, M.
Poincare has done what no German chancellor has
been able to do. He has united the socialists and reno
tionaries, the workeiH and the employers, the agrarians
and the industrialists, and ho has made a German
hero out of a German coal baron. He has supplied all
Germans with an object which they can hate more
fervently thun they hate each other.
M. Poincares apologists like to say that in using
force he is at last speaking a language which the Ger- j
mans understand. That is what the allied powers
thought in 1703 when the*- went to war with the I
French revolution. That is what another set of allied J
powers thought in 1018 when they went to war with l
the Russian revolution. That is what Germany thought !
when she pacticed schrecklichkelt in Belgium and
northern France. That is what the British tories !
thought when they sent the black and tans into Irs- j
land. That is what General Dyer thought when h# !
ordered the massacre at Amritsar. That is what the j
sllles thought when they seat the Greek army into j
Asia Minor. j
It is one of the oldest blunders of. governments, the
most ancient illusion of statesmen. It arises out of an !
inability to see that nothing' is so calculated to unite
a people as oppression by alien force. For in the
presence of the invader the ordinary divisions of j^las*.
sect and party are submerged and the resistance which
the invader went to crush is intensified many times.
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“From State and Nation ’
—Editorials from Other ISeivspapers—
Not s Failure.
i From th» Philadelphia Ledger.
]t would not be exact to sav that
i the debt parley between the British
j and the American debt commission
! has failed. In these jjoint sessions at
Washington important and necessary
. work has been done.
As a result, each nation knows
| where the other stands. We know
\ that the British cannot pay off the
1 loan In 25 years as congress directed
Said that the period of payments may
' need to be extended to 40. or even 50
' years. There need be no serious ditti
culty over that.
The British know now tliat con
gress is the body to be reckoned with
in making a settlement and that con
gress is not likely to agree to an in
terest rate as low as 3 per cent while
wo are paying 4Vi per cent on our
e vn Liberty loans that were in turn
leaned to the allies. The difference
betwen 3 per cent and 4‘i per cent
on a half billion dollars Is the great
est difficulty in the way.
Both commissions were working
with their hands tied. British free
dom in bargaining was limited by
England's financial, taxing and iudus
trial situation. An act of congress re
stricted the American commission.
Both commissions, after 10 days of
clarifying talk, have broken off to
get fresh instructions. They had
gone as far as they could go.
On this side of the Atlantic the
problem goes back to congress. Since
it adjourns March 4 and a special ses
sion is wanted neither by the presi
dent. by congress nor by the nation,
any action that will mean agreement
on the debt is unlikely before the end
of 1923 or the first of 1924. If con
gress can and will act sooner, so much
the better.
In London there will be a re-ex
amination of the whole question. The
British commission will go over with
the Bonnr Law government such new
proposals as Great Britain may be
able to offer the Harding administra
tion and congress. They now know
how far England must go to meet.
American views, and certainly they
will take home with th%m the knowl
edge that it is idle to talk about "can
cellation" in Washington.
The debt negotiations have been
suspended, but not broken off. There
has been no "rupture.” The British
embassy will continue negotiations
while we wait on congress and Down
ing Street. There is no good reason
why there should not be an agreement
within a pear, for there is good will
and a desire for a just settlement on j
both sides.
These joint sessions were no more
than preliminaries, but they were
necessary preliminaries. Now the
two countries can get down to the
real business of settlement.
Rack to Moral Suasion.
From th» Detroit Free Drees.
William .T. Bryan thinks he has
found a plan to impro>-e the enforce
m« nt of the Volstead act. To start
w i he would secure pledges from
On. eholders that they will abstain
entirely from the purchase and con
sumption of alcoholic liquors. This
movement he would extend to leading
people everywhere and finally to the
whole population.
This idea carries the mind back to
the days when there was a great dif
ference of opinion among temperance
people as to how they should proceed
against the evils of alcoholic excess.
On otif side were the prohibitionists
and on the other the moral suasion
party. They were not altogether
friendly, but they worked at the same
time in their several ways, the pro
hibitionists for law and the other
party for exactly what Mr. Bryan
now suggests—pledges.
At one time this movement to con
ceit the people to a life of total ab
stinence assumed proportions that en
tirely overshadowed the activities of
the prohibitionists. Temperance ex
horters attracted audiences and
treated furors comparable with the
most spectacular accomplishments of
the Rev. Billy Sunday in the religious ,
field, but the excitement died and the
prohibltlonlstE. who viewed the move
ment with a skepticism that bordered
on hostility, finally occupied the field
alone and won to their cause some of
the most effective orators in the
moral suasion camp.
Xow the complete political victory
of the prohibition cause brings a re
vival of the old idea that the way to
stop the consumption of alcoholic li
quor is to persuade the people that it
is wrong to use it.
Doubtless there is merit in the sug
gestion. for all experience shows that
law enforcement will never get much
beyond public sentiment and there is
%to question that sentiment on the
subject of liquor law enforcement
stands in need of a strong moral
tonic.
Another Bad One.
From the Wichita Eagle.
One of the absurd proposals that j
the Kansas legislature is said to be
about to be subjected to Is a bill for !
placing the regulation of motor buses
In the hands of a state commission, I
presumably the public utilities, or
rale hiking commission.
■lust another little scheme of the
We public utilities to crowd out the
newer improvements which tend to
force themselves upon a community
in spite of its well established old
customs. The traction interests *an
not bear to see the husps prosper.
Keen use the buses render a service
quickly, in an ordery manner, and
in a more modern way than the trac
tion interests that are tied to tracks
in the center of the street can render
It, the buses prosper, anyway. In
fluences have been brought to bear.
Daily Prayer
O my Got]! confessing my guilt and
nith a contrite heart I kneel before
Thee and Implore Thee to look upon
me according to the multitude of Thv
mercies. I detest and nnt henrtily
sorry for all my sins, nnt only be
cause I dread the loss of heaven and
tile path of hell, but also and princi
pally because by them 1 have offend
ed Thee, Who art infinitely good and
deserving of all my love. I firmly re
solve, with the help of Thy grace, to
confess my sins and to amend mv
life. I acknowledge Thee, O God. to
be the Supreme Good, anil I love Thee
with all my heart. Re merciful to
me, a poor sinner. I beseech Thee,
by the passion and death of Jesus
Christ, Thy Son. to forgive me my
sins. Amen.
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CIRCULATION
for DECEMBER, 1922, of
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B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr.
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this 4th day of January. 1923.
W. H. QUIVEY.
1 (Seal) Notary Public I
land in many cities tliy governing
I hoard has been manipulated so that
| the buses have been legislated against
: in a hundred ways. But still the. bus
! persists in picking up passengers.
I usually at a nickel a ride, and deposit
ing them at the curb, out of harm's
I way.
So now they want tr> put regulation
of the buses into the hptnlp of a com
mission at Topeka.
It is absurd.* Kansas -cities ha’ve
lost most of their home rule powers.
What they want is the return of : line
home hule authority, Instead of the
stealing away of more of it.
Changing Names.
From the Kearney Hub.
Hootch makers and bootleggers
who voted for Governor Bryan t"
cause he promised to abolish the of
fice of state sheriff are now well
aware that this was only one of
Brother Charley's campaign tricks.
The chief executive had to abolish
something in order to partly make
good his promise, and so lie abolish
ed the name of "state sheriff and
made it the "chief deputy enforce
ment officer.”
Toni Carroll, the new appointee,
will receive the same salary ns fiua
Hyers. $3,000 a year, ami like Hyers
will use as many gumshoe deputies
whenever and wherever they are
needed. He will also use the same
high-powered Cadillac automobile that
was used by the state sheriff. .\ml
just think, the trick was turned by
simply changing the name of the state
law enforcement officer. Governor
Bryan's next political miracle will he
to change the name of the code law.
and keep it in force, and then he will
hai e fulfilled his pledges to the voters.
Now then, everybody ought to be
happy.
The state is Saved.
T'rem tlie Nebraska City Press,
No matter what sort of taxation
legislation is passed at this well known
session of the legislature, there is rfo
need to worry about the future. Mr.
Somebody, a member of the house,
lias Introduced a bill to prevent the
sale of second-hand mattresses, and
Mr. Broome, of the same division, has
suggested that red lamps he tied to
the tails of the horses when they are
taken out on the highway at night. ,
tVhy worry, about finance, refund
ing, bank guarantees, road making,
salaries or whether it would be prop
er for Governor Bryan to buy a wig?
The state will be saved if auc tioneers
are prevented from "knocking down"
old mattresses to an unsuspecting
people, and the glory of the common- 1
wealth will not be undinuned when 1
Old Dobbin goes clumping over the 1
’ard ’Ighway with an electric flash- I
lamp securely fastened pri his caudal (
appendage.
Common Sense
Think In Terms of Truth.
There is always a day of reckoning,
so cut your sails with that idea firmly
fixed in your mind
The more you can get this idea into '
your mind and your soul that things '
balance somewhere and somehow, the i
sooner you will be careful not to
stretch things too far in the wrong
direction on account of the reilex ac
tion.
The balance is hound to be struck.
Are you going to like the result
when the pendulum rebounds?
Then think seriously and honestly
in terms of truth tlnd you have noth
ing to fear.
The minute you take a step in the
direction of anything less than truth
and justice you may be sure that you
are brewing trouble for yourself.
Do not delude yourself with the no
tion that you have an excuse which
possibly justifies your digression.
No end is ever justified when an un
lawful act is the policy upon which J
It rests.
The evasion, the criticism, the los3
of faith, follow in just that order.
If you want the respect of men be
operf and above board.
tCepyrlghh 1903.>
(jjy-IKE :ijt
"Ike'll never sot the world n fire," he
said—
"But he's an honest sprt o’ hid,
And he's stiddy—lookin’ out for what's .
ahead.
An’ the worst he Is don't make him
had.
"Don’t suppose he'll ever reach the Hall
o' Fame,
Never acquire a fortune—I can't tell,
But he’ll alius have a mighty honest
name.
An’ that's a doin’ pretty well.
•Tve seen a lot of poorer Jakes. I'll !
swear.
Who strutted up and down the pike, •;
An’ tt gives mo satisfaction to compare (
Thom with goodl-fer-nothin’ scalawags
like Jke.
*‘I reckon lied bo awful good to you.
An’ buy a cottage that you’d like—
You could do worse. The safest thing to
do—
As 1 can ree—is marry Ike.’’
— Robert Worthington Davie.
“The People’s
Voice’r
Editorials from readers of The Morning 8m.
Rtndsrs of Tfct Mornlog Eos «rt lr.v!t«d to
us* this eclu n frwlj for o*prs»sioo oo
matters ct eubHo •■ter**t.
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Hoys and Boys.
i Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma
i ha Bee: At a recent meeting of one
I of our large business orgunUatlons,
; there was considerable discussion j
concerning the. Boy Scout work, and |
. its worthiness ot support. Some of
1 the arguments that were raised
' against It were of a nature to arouse
i the Indignation of thoughtful people. |
That anyone can be so narrow ns to i
I object to a thoroughly democratic or
i sanitation of that sort, just because
the sous of some of the wealthy men |
• if the cltv receive benefits therefrom
. is deplorable, to say the least
I Boys are boys the world over, and
as such, they hold within themselves
all the potentialities of coming cili-i
zens and business men. regardless of
whether or not their fathers had plen- |
t.v of money. That a man of today
should refuse to contribute to an en
terprise which has for its object a
proper guidance of the energies of
youth, and wholesome instruction in
ideals of truth, honor, purity and
courtesy, simply because, mayhap,
some one or another of the group has j
a rich father, seems to he a deliberate
and reprehensible shutting of eyes to i
tlie responsibilities of one generation1
for the proper nurture and prepara- !
Hon of the next. Should not parent
hood bo more universal titan that? j
Should not the children of this day
have the right to expect a wide and
more neighborly care and Interest,
insuring them their best develop
ment, in order that tomorrow s men
and women shall be altogether worthy
ones? Truly did Christ say, “No man
liveth unto himself alone. ” The sons
of the poorer citizens, those from the
middle walks of life, and those from
the more fortunate circles (as the
world counts fortune), meet and min
gle. in play, at school and, later, in
business. Is uiv care for mv son to
be so short sighted that I shall fail
to take into account tin fact that his
associate* determine, in large meas
ure. what he is to be? And is my duty
to him dune whom I provide for him
alone, give him. only, opportunities
for «duration, for w holesome vigor of
body mind and spirit?
Nay! For shame! Let us see farther
Into the mthuilngK of life and op
funity than that! Let us understand
better the spirit of parenthood and
of 'big brother’’-hood. Let us recog
nize that the son of the wealthy par
ent needs exactly what-the Hoy Scout !
organization, with its ignoring of so*
in 1 and monetary standings, its per
fect democracy and high Ideals, < .in
give him. In many cases, indeed, his 1
need is more desperate than that of j
the son from the humbler home. Too
much idleness, too many indulgences, j
too much luxury and spending money j
are all more dangerous to the proper j
development of our young people than !
the necessity for labor, for running
errands or throwing newspapers! The <
lad with too mtuh spare time, how
ever. is just as well worth saving as
the one with too little, and his chances
for that salvation may not lie nearly
as great.
Let us come out of our old, on- !
ousted selfishness, and bask awhile |
in the sunlight of a more nearly uni
versal love. a. love that "ill go frrly
out to rill who may need, whether the
need |s for money, comforts, counsel,
encouragement, or the rigid, lmt just, ;
discipline of a Hoy Scout camp. Let
us regard every boy in the city as a j
valuable unit which, in the tinmen- '
dons forces of the future, will even
tually rule, shape and direct the ac
tivities of this metropolis of the west.
W ill that viewpoint. lot us net with
hold our wholehearted support to
every worthy enterprise whose efforts
i tv.1 directed towards helping to shape ,
the lives of our hoys and develop
them into noble, healthy useful and
intelligent citizens. MOTHER.
(•mi Toting.
Omaha.—To the Editor \ of The
Omaha Het: It seems there are a ;
number of people who are trying to
make the world safe for the holdup |
man by making it little less than a
capital offense for a man to carry a !
six-gun. or even own one.
Mr. J. tv. Hobson says to make it
u "penitentiary offense" for a man j
to carry a gun. It is now a peniten
tiary offense to roll a man at the (
pdtnt of ,i gun or to burglarize all
ot ior mans house. Is that. law. or
■ ill tiie law--, lessening the number of
holdups and robberies to any ap- •
preciable extent?
We have a law against carrying |
concealed weapons, framed to as fur i
as possible prevent the carrying of I
guns by youths and other irresponsi- )
ble persons and to serve as a handle I
by which to hold suspicious charac- 1
ters, for which purpose It Is plenty
good enough as It stands. It was not
intended to be. used, and seldom is,
against the responsible person who. on
occasion, “toted" a gun for self-de
fense, which is ns it should be. "A
Reader," Bassett, Neb., is on the l
right track, but goes a mite too far, 1
l believe, when lie says let anyone
carrv a gun wlio wishes to. Some
r gula!ion is needed.
I say the police department of each j
Men's Hose
A Final Clearance
75c to $1.50 Values
At 55c The Pair
While They Last
(2 pairs for $1)
So great was the response to our last 55-cent sale—
many late customers failed to find their size require
ments. But for Saturday, an entire new lot goes on
sale in sizes for every man.
Winter weights, dressy silks, wool mixtures and
the finest cotton lisle hose are included. Many
grades represent value—better than two pairs
Among the Folks in History
WC oWOCFRV MVs/
VVW XT UE THE
Ct6ar Ate we mixed
CAN D y ' MWEN W£ *'£lK>
WA* TAIP.
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V\l4-UAPt>
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city and town should examine every
adult male citizen as to his fitness to
carry a gun. nnd nil those found to
I'e lit persons should be required to
| have a gun nnd to become proficient
| in the use of it, those being unlearned
; in the use of firearms to be taught
t,y settle competent person in the po
. lice department. lo t this lie dom
end see how long banditry will remain
tlie popular pastime it now is.
• A VICTIM.
Marriage and Divorce.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Hee: I note Senator Capper
of Kansas has introduced a. hill in
congress to the effect that no one can
get married who is feebleminded or,
afflicted with epilepsy, insanity or ,
communicable diseases, and forbid
ding all interracial marriage. J for
one second the motion. Hut I believe
none of its provisions should bo acted
upon, or any "batting averages
taken” until after the marriage has
taken place. It's not before marriage j
takes place where the mischief enters :
in. It's afterwards, when your moth
er-in-law arrives and the pettifogger I
has a talk with your wife, especially |
if the husband has a few hundred
laid away.
1 hope Capper's bill will have a
clause in it to give them the “air" *
behind the bars for n few months. 1
: also suggest each state pass a law in
citi s of large population in favor of
the court of domestic relations, not
a one-man power, but a board of Lav ^
men to pass upon all marital trouble* “
in private, this board to have the say
when either litigant ran consult at
attorney for his or hot itofense. The
bnurtl should have full power to pa -
on the divorce maintenance before di
verve is granted and tlie amount u
alimony to be given, tie.
C I. NETHAWAY.
He Knows.
Mayor Curley of Boston says noth
ing yvill ev t r persuade him to si'
down at the same table with Admira
Kims. There's one good thing aboil
th» Boston mayor; he Knows his place
—Philadelphia North American.
You Never (an 1 ell
England will never go dry de
elares a British criminologist. I
ha nut been long since a .similar de
lusion was being nurse 1 by severe
million Americans.—Memphis Com
niereial Appeal. •
(That's What in a Name.
They call prices prohibitive because
they never take a drop.—Philadelphia
North American.
sion that a grand piano
must be large in size in
order to give the largest
amount of volume and
a perfect tone, you have
but to hear the “Vose”
Small Grand to be con
vinced that everything
you expect of a grand
piano is incorporated in
the Vose. though it is
small in size.
Price $885
Convenient
Terms
1515-15 Douglas Street
Furniture
Draperies *
“the val8e giving store
Closing Out
Plain
Figures
CASH
OR
TERMS
Rugs
I
Stoves |
FREE—Wednesday, January 31st, we will five a handsome ^
three-piece Walnut Bedroom Suite away free, add 45 other use- g
ful household articles. Como in and register, as you wi n |
be required to make a purchese by so doing. ■
WRITE'S WALLPAPER STORE
Paper Being Sold for L«.. Than Wl.oU.de Price.
WONDF.RFUL PATTERNS for every room at the unheard^
price, per roll. * *
Don’t lose thi. chance to get your .pring wall paper.
307 5.6th St. -
Thi. adverti.etntnt i. worth 2 roll* of paper on y?t.r order 0^*4
Cut it cut and bring it in Satuid.y b.for. r.ooB and 0<^cc^»'°
receive credit. \
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