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The morning Bee MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Fublixher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tba Associated Press. of which The Bee 11 • member, i> excluslvalr mtitled to the wee for rcpubl (ration of all new* dispatches credited to It or tot utharwtie credited In this paper, and alao the local new# published herein. All rights of republtcatloDs of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department AT lantic or Person Wanted. For Night Caile After 10 P. M.: 1000 Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17tn and Eamam Co. Bluffs 16 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Steger Bldg, UNTIL THIS LAST. "Ho! Stand to your glasses steady— ’Tis all we have left to prize. A cup to the dead already— Hurrah for the next who dies!’’ Thirty-four chairs ranged around a long table, all set for a banquet, and three men sat down. The fourth man wrote from afar off that illness and dis ability incident to old age prevented his attendance. So the three dined together, and who will say that each of the seemingly empty chairs was not oc cupied? The sacred -bottle of wine, from which the last survivor will drink a toast to those who have gone, was there, and the feast went on. It was the annual meeting of the Last Man club, formed among survivors of a company that march ed from Minnesota to the south when the war be tween the states shook the earth with its terrible uproar. Year after year they have met, and year after year have noted gaps in the roster. No chair of the original thirty-four is omitted, and some day a lone, grizzled and decrepit old man will raise his trembling hand and pour a toast to the memory of his comrades. Would it be too much to suggest that he might imitate the example of David, who took the cup of water, brought him from the well by the Mighty Three, and poured it on the ground, a liba tion to the Most High? At any rate, it is good to note that in a world of sordid disregard for such things, the sentiment that holds this group of men together still prevails. They wore the same uniform, slept in the same mud, shared the same dangers and hardships, drank from the same canteen, and carried back into the dull routine of civil life some of the comradeship that was born of blood and fire. When the last man will open that bottle of wine, to drink the toast, we can not say, but we feel sure that when he does, 33 glorified spirits will be at the board, unseen, perhaps, but exultant that they kept the faith, in life, in death, and that the Last Man club will become a memory hallowed by its record. FILIPINO SELF-DETERMINATION. Everyone who truly loves America and respects its pledges desires eventual freedom for the Filipinos. It may be that they would make hash of their op portunities, but “they’ll never be happy till they get it.’’ Every race and people has an unconquerable desire to manage its own affairs. It ia not to be doubted that the present contro versy in Manila is designed to discredit Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood as a move toward Filipino indepen dence. The political leaders of the islands regard General Wood as the main obstacle in the way of any immediate chance of separation from the United States. So they seize the opportunity to denounce him as an autocrat and accuse him of usurping power. Yet it is to be doubted if the Filipino leaders have chosen the proper way to bring their case be fore the American people. As a result of the resigna tion of four cabinet officehs, the president of the senate and the house speaker, the Philippines were left virtually without native participation in the higher departments of the government. The secre tary of the interior and the mayor of Manila had previously resigned. General Wood and his Ameri can aids were thereby forced to assume the whole burden of government until successors can be found for the vacant positions. It is said that the natives regard the coming con gress as more favorable to Filipino independence, and it seems assured that the subject will be brought up in Washington at the next session. However, something more will have to be brought forward as an argument than that the native officeholders are unable or unwilling to co-operate with the governor general. PRIZE FOR A PEACEMAKER. Pencils are being sharpened, fountain pens filled, and typewriters oiled all over the country, in antici pation of a contest for the Bok prize for a peace plan. Peace is highly desirable, and we all wish for it, but when $100,000 is hung up as a reward to the one who will lure the dove to light somewhere, and then put enough salt on his tail to hold him, the stimulus to action is such hs even the dullest may feel. That sum of money might not have sounded big when William Gibbs McAdoo was secretary of treasury, but it is respectable nowadays, and almost any of us could use it. It may not be out of place, while waiting for the board that has the matter in charge to announce the conditions of the competition, to give a look at what has been done in the past, and what is expected in this case. The National Council for the Prevention of War, which will hold commemorative meetings on Friday and Saturday of this week, is authority for the statement that in the last 600 years no less than 60 plans have been brought forward to end war. The Revolutionary War was scarcely over, and the Constitution of the United States had not been adopted, when an effort was made to bring about the cessation of war everywhere. Historically, the United States has ever been opposed to war. This week in eighteen countries 300 great or ganizations will hold demonstrations of various sorts to further the abolishment of war. In the United States alone 74 national bodies, representing 30, 000,000 persons, are working together to prevent an other war ever wasting manhood and treasure again. Henry W. Taft of New York writes to the policy committee that is framing the conditions of the con test for the Bok prize that 'the winner will need to possess the qualifications of “a statesman and eco nomist, with a touch of the philanthropist and idcal • Until the committee reports, it is not at all possible to determine just what conditions will have to be met, but the interest in the prize is world wide, find the wise men of all nations are waiting to hear the outcome. Mr. Taft’» conception of what is needed should discourage no one. Some unknown and perhaps ob scure person may possess the key to the labyrinth, and suggest the way to lead the nations out of the morass of political doubt and dismay in which they now flounder. Mr, Bok’s prize is offered to anyone in the world who can win it, and the individual with an idea will do well to have a try in the competition. HELPING MOTHER. This is for the boys, exclusively. Of course the girls can read it if they want to, and the fathers and mothers, too, but we mean it for the boys alone. A fine little Omaha lad, full of pep and spirit, ran away from home, because his mother made him wash dishes one day. That is girl’s work, and he didn’t want to be a girl. Well, nobody will blame him for wanting to be a boy, and for looking for ward to the time when he will be a man, and engage in the things that men do. What he needs to know now is that when he is helping mother, he is really doing a man’s work. It is manly to do anything that will save mother a step, that will help in the least little bit. Mother is busy from sunup until sundown, and before and after, frequently, looking after the things that make life pleasant for the small boys. She does lots of things they never think about, just so they will have what they want and the way they want it, and when a boy gets a chance to do something in return for this, he ought to be not only willing but eager to help mother. Washing dishes may not seem pleasant, but it is not such a bad job, after all. As t<* its being girl’s work, forget that. “Big chief” stuff has no place in our lfie any more. It used to be that man hunted the game and the woman cleaned and cooked it; but this division of labor has vanished. Girls take part in boys’ games, and do boys’ work, and the other way around, and neither has any right to prevent the other from butting in on anything. The best and bravest of men have been the tenderest to their womenkind, and the manliest of boys is the one who helps mother most, even to washing dishes and making beds. TRAGIC CHILDHOOD. Half a century ago the people of the United States were shocked by two great tragedies, both dealing with children. One was the kidnaping of Charley Ross from his home at Philadelphia; the other was the shocking disclosures of the crimes of Jesse Pomeroy, the boy monster of Massachu setts. Charley Ross never was found, but Jesse Pomeroy was shut up for life in prison, and grad ually these affairs passed out of the public mind. The one is now sharply recalled by a story of how a little girl of 13 pushed a little boy of 4 through a hole in the rotted planking of an old dock in Bos ton, and the little chap drowned. He might not have been hurt had he gone all the way through, for the water was shallow; as he hung head down ward, he was drowned. On behalf of the little girl her mother pleads that she is not right in her mind; with tears gush ing down her cheeks and a voice broken with sobs, this mother tells of how the authorities were go ing to take her little girl away, and she begged to keep her, “and now I will lose her.” Here is a terrible tragedy, the pull on a mother’s heart strings, stronger because the object of her love is deficient and needs her care the more. What about the mother of the little boy who was drowned? Is it not far better that mentally deficient children be under such kindly restraint as will render them incapable of harming others, than that children with whom they play are exposed to the danger that finally overtook the little boy? Love and sympathy go out to children that are afflicted in any way, and that is why we try to protect them and preserve safety for others. SAVING AMERICAN HOME SHRINES. A few days ago we referred to the proposal made by Dr. John H. Finley that Americans raise a fund to erect a shrine on the Marathon mound. At the time we suggested that such efforts might well be directed to the preservation of some American shrines. Last week the Thomas Jefferson Memorial association made public the terms of a contract it had just completed with Jefferson M. Levy of New York for the purchase of Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia. The association plans to raise $1,000,000, of which $500,000 is to be paid to Mr. Levy for the property and the remainder to be used for the perpetuation of the shrine. Almost at the same time another group of pa triotic minded persons announced its plan for the purchase of the New York home of James Monroe, it also to be maintained as a shrine. The Monroe home has fallen into far worse state than that of Jefferson. While .Monticello has been carefully pre served and is being exhibited by Mr. Levy, the home of the author of the Monroe doctrine is a rag pick ers’ headquarters. Projectors plan to raise $250,000, of which $200,000 will be paid for the property and $50,000 used to restore it,to the condition its fa mous owner knew. Efforts in this direction are much better directed than those which look to the keeping alive of events in Grecian history. However much, or little, the world may owe to the outcome of the battle of Mara thon, Americans have enough in their own land to give them plenty of occupation in setting up shrines and memorials. Our own statesmen and heroes de serve study and care before those of Greece. “Gambler*" may have lowered wheat; somebody did. Just now a householder is chiefly interested in enough water to keep the grass growing. Some linemen *et a pole and attached the wires in 17 minute*, but it was a priie at a picnir. Why should the governor worry about the milk supply in Omaha? He has plenty other troubles. The voice of the husker can be heard far above that of the turtle in the early hour* of the day. “Say it with flour” ought to become poular. Homespun Verse —By Omaha** Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie NEBRASKA. Nebraska flower*. Nebrasku bower*. And verdant plain* so wide; Kxuulslte glertm* of golden beam* f Of sunshine purified; Pacific home*, sky-touching dome*, Quiescent park* and streams, And region* fine—Nebraska mine, Delightful land of dresnt*: .N'ebraeka wealth, content and health Nebraska wheal and hay— Colossal yield* of boundle** field* That go the western w*y; ller peerless good*, her haven wood*, Her hill* and hidden vale* Where lurid gleam* paint vivid dn-ani* Along the winding trull*. Nebraska, *o fair and so gay— Nebraska, so dear *nd an true I sing of the Joy that you give to me, I sing my endearment for you. “The People’s Voice” Cillorlklt fro* ruin * Tkk Mtralu lu. InAn it Thk klor>!•» Bss ir« Ikvltki Is UN tlili eolkui triili Ikf tnpriuloi *• ■itttn *1 sublli litirMt. Governor Bryu an Offleeseeker, Too. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The governor has de cided to take a brief vacation through the western part of the stale to com bine business with pleasure, lie says that there will be no charge to the state to cover the business part of the expense. It would take too much fun out of the trip, he says, to "ligure the expense charges." He has had a good deal of work during the last six months figuring out the extravagance and waste of public money during the last adminis tration. This has deprived him of a good deal of pleasure and therefore he needed a bit of air. He has de cided to get it out among tho west ern prairies where the air is fresh, but sometimes laden with bacteria. Worse still he cannot hope to escape the contagion of the persistent office seeker, of which he complains so much. This has troubled him so much, together with the brain-wreck ing subject of tax reform, that we wish him even a brief escape from that uncongenial subject. Fresh air is good, but it will not restore normal health on a brief pleasure vacation. The vacation should be prolonged to escape the plague of office seekers. There is an old saying, “What is good for the goose, should be good for the gan der.” A man, who year after year conies before the public as a candidate for public office, sometimes winning, and sometimes losing, but biding his time to come back after each defeat, it does not lie in the mouth of such a mun to speak disparagingly of office seekers. The wails of the old state house, if they could speak, would tell us of the perennial office seekers well known to them, who oscillate between election and defeat, always running on their party ticket, whether in the eclipse of defeat or in the sunshine of victory. To have such men decry the office seeker is like the pot calling the kettle black. We wish the governor good health and pleasant thoughts during his brief vacation. Fresh air will expand and purify the lung tissue. Pleasant thoughts, not disturbed by visions of the “code system,” will promote the reasoning faculties, especially it sen soned with a proper amount of com mon sense. DEMOCRAT. A Modem Mother Answer*. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The fashion of finding fault with young girls is very old. In fact. It was Adam himself that started It. Any reader of the Bible will understand what I mean. If you haven't read the Bible, I advise you to do bo right away, and it will not be long before you have the answer to "what's the matter with the world today?’’ What I started out to say Is, that every generation has hail in Its time a number of "respectable’’ people who considered It their duty to point out the faults of young girls. Why they pick on the girls is beyond me, because everybody knows that boys occasionally raid the Jam closet, and the number of prodigal sons Is great er than the number of prodigal daughters. True, the prodigal son does sometimes bring home the bacon, but the one they killed the fatted calf for brought home nothing but an empty stomach. But. then, he had a contrite heart, which Is more than many prodigals can say. Some people's minds are so Inclined to evil that the sight of a happy girl, enjoying her youthful right to good times, laughter, and freedom from care. Instantly conjures up visions of shame and Immorality In them. Peo ple with such minds seldom read any thing but the lightest modern fiction, which Is a poor way to prepare them selves for their self appointed task of Judging the young girls of the day. I'm sure that ‘ Mother," whose e* pressions of holy terror filled nearlv half a column of the "People's Voice’’ recently, must know that every style of woman's dress thst ever was In vented has had Its critics. The broad minded tieorge Elliot deplored the de generacy of dress and manners in her time, and thought the full, long skirts of her time Immislest. Fifty years or so ago an aunt of mine had her hair cut. because short hair was the fash ion. All her relations grimly pre dicted her ruin. Hits is now a highly respected grandmother, and thn chil dren of her critical relations are now very proud to call her "aunt." I do not know where this “Mother" lives, but I have lived in many places. Everywhere I found girls dressed In the prevailing fashion and many with their hair bobbed. Home used too much paint, others used little or none at all. But everywhere the ma jority were wholesome, sweet, respect ful towards their elders, and so cotnplished In many domestic arts. The self possession and poise of the modern girl la more attractive to me than the silly prudery of bygone days, when girls pretended Ignorance of things they knew quite ss well as the modern girls do. As for the majority of good girls l>elng found In rural communities, I am inclined to doubt that. I live right here In Omaha at present. If "Mother" wants proof that there are still some sweet, good nnd useful girls In the city, let her com* to the sewing class whlrh will meet here at my house some time in the near fu ture. Tills class was organised three years ago by two girls under 12 years old. it Is still under their manage ment. My two little daughters be long to It. as do all the llttlo girls in our neighborhood. Pome and see the pretty and useful things these lltlle innlda make, and partake of delicious refreshments they serve, all without the help or aupervlslon of any older person. Listen to Iheir innocent, happy tnlk and forget your gloomy foreboding* About moral ruin. "Train up the chili! In the way he should go. ami when he Is old he will not depart from It.” MOOERN MOTHER. No Friend of Magnus. Omaha—To the l-MItor of The Omaha Ree: An editorial In the Dally New* ealla attention to tho leaaon conveyed In the election III Minnesota luat Monday. This editorial says that the farmer* of the "Northern prairie* In Minnesota are Individualists." They believe Im plicitly In the rights of private prop erty. They do not lielleio In a so clallstlc division of goods or com munlty ownership of property. They do not believe In government by groups which means sovnllsm and bolshevism." We would lie glad In know that the editor of the News oorreotlv defined the attitude of the voters who sun ported Johnson for United Wales senator. Rut Johnson's platform on which lie stood white soliciting the support of the Minnesota voters, absolutely confutes the statement. W« have carefully rend this plat form, and we challenge the News to point out a single statement In II ihnt la based on "Individualism.'' Johnson's officially declared plat form favors, "Government control of m 8 File of 1*7* discloses some Items and comments that might start a reminiscent feeling In the Black Hills, and maybe lr» this neck o' the wood*, for some folk here remember what was going on wnen the big rush started for the new gold fields that ve«r. On February 14. 1*76, Mr. Rosewater published this valentine for the new Goiconda: "THE BLACK HILLS." “The Bee takes pleasure In furnish ing its readers another Installment of reliable news from the Black Hills. This time our advices come through a citizen of Omaha, who, having made personal Inspection of the mining region of the Black Hills, has just returned among us from the new El Dorado. While some of the fads narrated by our informant hive been anticipated by the last letter of our special Black Hills correspondent, there is much that has never been pqblished here or elsewhere. “Mr. William H. Hill, the gentle man who has furnished us this in formation, tells a very plain, un varnished story. lie does not at tempt to arouse a feverish excitement by an exaggerated and fabulous description of the auriferous wealth of the Black Hills; nor does he try to Incite a rush into thq hills by rep resenting an Immediate demand for unskilled labor. While he confirms the previous reports of rich gold de posits In that region, he also states that for at least two months no ac tive mining can be undertaken, and even then It may take several months more to develop the diggings in the vicinity of Custer and Hills City so they can bo worked to any ad\antage. “The new discoveries, 70 to SO miles beyond Custer, are said to be more advantageous for immediate develop ment: but It will doubtless require further experimental labor to ascer tain definitely the extent of the gold deposit In that section of the hills. While this statement of facts may discourage adventurers, who expect to pick up great lumps of gold on the hanks of every creek in the hills, without much effort, those who under stand the laborious and precarious nature of placer mining will find much encouragement In the facte presented. "The genuine miner will expert hard work and more or less disap pointment in any mining region, and the more he knows about the obsta cles before starting the less likely will be his disappointment when he reaches Ills destination. One thing Is certain. If mining will not enrich everybody who goes into the Black Hills, those who fall to enrich them selves In mining may readily secure a competence by farming, stock rais ing or lumber making.'* all railroads, governmnt control of the Federal Reserve hanking system, government control of mine*, water power and etc., restriction of court* in the use of Injunction* and in nulli fying acts of congress (this Is aim ed at the supreme court); stabiliza tion of prices of farm product!) through federal regulation; this plank would be clearly unconstitu tional. There are a few general meaning less planks all In line with govern ment control. They would sound all right in the land of l^nine and Trotsky, but are out ■ f harmony with the institutions of the t'nlted Slates of America. They are not in dlvidualistio but on the contrary bolshevistic as declared by on# of the leader* of th« Johnson theory of gov ernment at Chicago, who aald “You cannot have anything too red for me '• In the language of the senator elect from Minnesota: “By yimtny there must tie something radically queer In the mental attitude of these Minnesota farmers, when Magnus could pile up so large a majority against Take, on such a bolshevistic platform." D. F. DOLAN. Vo Thank* From Europe. Randolph, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Iter: I saw an article In the papers yesterday in regard to the money that the foreign countries owe the t'nlted State*. I see France *ay* Germany must pay her so many billions before England can have her money and that the t'nlted States In never to have tier money. Now. what 1 would like to know in: Didn't the t'nlted States Bend her young manhood and womanhood over on for eign noli to help make the world safe and to bo in peace? France vvsa whipped until the t'nlted States went Into the war. Didn’t many a mother's son find a grave over there? Do you think any of our boys will volunteer again to try to save th* world If we cannot even have common courtesy? Per haps t am putting this too stror g, but as a right thinking nation wo should know and understand these questions, especially the women A WOMAN VOTER. I.ikea “Volunteer Verse.” Omaha.—To the Editor of Th« Omaha Dee: 1 surely appreciate your encouragement of the young poets by setting aside a special column In their honor on the moot prominent spot In the paper, it thing which none of the other local papers has as yet proven capable of doing. which only proves The Omaha Dec's greater advancement. HARRY E PFEFFKR. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for June, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily . 72.799 Sunday. 77,783 !>©♦• not (ntludo return*, loft* ovtr*. oamplra or paper* apoiled in printing and Includro no npocial taU», B. BREWER. Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. .Subitribfii and •worn to balora me thin 7th day of July. 102.1. \ W. H QUIVEY. j (Stall Notarjr Public Never Too Hot to Talk of Coal A Digest of Editorial Opinion on the Federal Coal Commission Report. _I___ — There is not much opposition among the press of the country to the view of the federal coal commission that coal is a public utility. Though sentiment generally seems to incline toward sirict government control of the fuel industry, yet few editors ex press any hope that this will reduce prices to consumers. The New York World, however, believes that public ity for costs and profits will exert a restraining influence on the opera tors. "When consumers know what profits are realized and what combina tions of railroads and mining com panies are reaping excess rewards,” says the World, "they will soon in sist on regulatory measures where they are most needed." The Wash ington Star also believes "Profiteering dries not flourish well in the light of publicity.” "The next congress,” the Brooklyn Eagle assures us, " is sure to hear from extremists like lai Follette, who without regard to the facts, will de mand government ownership and op eration. The public will not back this demand, but the public will demand that something be done. The most intelligent proposals so far made are those put forward by the coal com mission. These proposals should be translated into law. If congress balks at doing this it will be a con fesslon of its utter Incapacity to deal with an urgent problem that can be solved by a modicum of sense and determination.” The Daily Oklahoman looks at the question from the standpoint of the avoidance of labor troubles, and on that ground endorses the plan for government regulation. On the other hand, the Oklahoma Deader says the commission has wasted public funds unless it decides for nationalization rather than regulation. There seems little new "with re gard to costs,” the Syracuse Herald is convinced, and the remedy—taking over the mines in case of a general strike—has "its drawbacks. Neverthe less. in spite of all the manifest dis advantages. the majority will believe that it is the paramount duty of the government to protect its citizens from suffering, and that its power should be equal to the gravity of that responsibility.” As the Pittsburgh Gazette Times, published In the anthracite region, sees it. this "report Is preliminary." but the public will exfiect that "it prove the beginning of a satisfactory settlement of the coal problems.” The crux of the situation, the Provi dence Journal insists, is that "the success or failure of government op eration of mines would depend in great measure on whether or not they were used for political purposes." Naturally, argues the Buffalo News, "absolute government control Is op posed, but public opinion will stand back of any proposals designed to keep the home fires burning." The Christian Science Monitor argues that the “official scrutiny and open publicity" regarding costs "will be the chief result of the Inquiry” and provide*for a "permanent con trolling board for the industry." That view- meets the approval of the Al bany Knickerbocker Press, inasmuch as it feels "government interference with private business already has gone too far in many lines. But the cotjl industry is one that must be conducted so that the people will not freeze In the winter time, so that in dustries will not he forced to shut down for lack of fuel, so that profi teering shall cease. The government Is the only agency that can bring or der out of chaoa In this particular Industry." Whatever action is taken should be "compelling," as the Cleveland Plain Dealer sees existing conditions, be cause ‘ nothing is to 1>e gained by the creation of a powerless, fact-finding, account-keeping, coal romtnisalon. The anthracite industry should either lx- subjected to the kind of regulation that affects the public Interest In prices, or it should be left alone.' The element in the mine worker*' organization which favors "govern ment ownership, will be disappointed by the report,” the Scranton Times insists, "but the public at large will look with more than passing favor on the suggestion of regulation which will leave ownership of the mines in the hands of private individuals.” “Too many mines, and too many miners are two very good arguments for some sort of control of the coal Industry,” asserts the 8t. Louis Post Dispatch, "and the commission's state ment that there are 200,000 more rninets than are needed to produce coal certainly means uncertain and spasmodic employment.” The Boston Transcript has the last word, with an injunction to buy coal early. Daily Prayer Thou want a God that forf&vett them.—! pH xclx. 8. Father. Thou forgivest us, so far as we are truly penitent. May we likewise forgive all who sin against us; all who sin against society; all who sin against Thee; even as Thou forgivest us and them. May we count no sin too heinous to pardon; no man too hardened to reclaim; no woman too fallen to uplift. When we forgive the penitent, help us to stand by him against a hard and unforgiv ing world. Thus may we make our forgiveness a reality in the world, and open the door of all genuine social restoration to those who have gone astray. Help us to find our chief delight in work, wherein we join our hands, our brains, our hearts, to Thy power. Thy laws. Thy love. May we choose that task which most taxes our highest powers, and best serves the world's deepest need. May we do It with such skill, such thoroughness, such joy. that it shall have about It the strength of the mountains, the free dom of the streams, the gladness of the sunshine, the fertility of the fields, the beauty of the stars and flowers. Thus may we become not mere creatures, but creators; not one of Tby works, but Thy coworkers. Amen. WILLIAM DEWITT* TITDE, D.D, LL-D-, Brunswick. M* . A Hopeful Possibility. If the president changes his mind much more about‘that world court he may get hack to his original position eventually.—Dayton News. A Contradiction In Terms. It sounds funny to speak of the late" war You never call a man the "late Mr. Brown" until he Is finished. —Vancouver Sun. Abe Martin Miss Ruby Mopps wu* 15 year* ole yisterday^ still missin’. One good thinR about workin’ people ownin’ cars is that they’ll have t’ keep on workin’. Copyright, 1923. A Book of Today Prof. F. L. Pattee'a "The Develop ment of the American Short Htory ‘ (Harpers!, is a complete historical sketch of that form of writing in which Americans, as a rule, have ei ceiled. It covers almost everything from Washington Irving to O. Henry and the journalization of the short story. Often one may find fault with judgments pronounced, but this iv.-< is a valuable survey. It Is unusual to find a piece of min literary history rendered at once v such erudition and such good *e * as Prof. Pattee's. Towards all the writers whom he criticises he is s r gularly and admirably without revcr ence; the journalistic nuance in Po< - tales he brings out without embar rassment, and Jack London and < > Henry he appraises with an unutter*, conviction that, remarkable as the are, they can not be taken quite *<■■ riously. Money to Loan on Omaha Real Estate ^Conservative Savings (SLoan association / ff <a r* n & y ^ Financing the Farmer Over 16,500 fanner borrowers— nearly $90,000,000 loaned on mortgages—this is today’s record of The Federal Land Bank of Omaha. This co-operative institution—under government supervision—is an im portant agency in financing agri-*' cultural production in four states —Nebraska, Iowa. South Dakota and Wyoming. Its capital, sur plus and undivided profits are over $5,000,000. In the six and one-half years of its existence this bank has never been forced to complete a foreclosure. The extensive financial operations of The Fed aral Land Bank of Omaha are handled through The Omaha National Bank. Capital and Surplus TwotiiUion Dollars The Omaha National Bank 'TJamam at 17 th St.