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The Morning Bee ___\ MORNIN G—E V E N 1 N G—S UNDAY THE DEE Pl’BMSHINO CO.. PuhlUbrr. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it ot» not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rinhta of repubiication of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department at Inntle ot/Person Wanted. For Nleht Calls After in r. M.: enjin Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or AT. 1042. lvuu OFFICES Main Office—17th and Famam Council Bluffs—15 Scott St. S. Side. N. W. Cor. 24th and N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kan-as City—Bryant Bldg. St. I.ouis—Syndi. Trust Bldg. ,os Angeles—Higgins Bldg. ■San Francisco—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. NEVER A TIRESOME TASK. Often as we may be called upon to record in stances of Nebraska’s superiority in all lines of hu man endeavor, we never weary of the task. There is tomething inspiring about it; something that keeps one on the jump, wondering where the evidences of superiority will show up next, though all the time confident that it is bound to show up somewhere. Now comes the gladsome tidings that a Madison county man has been awarded the prize offered for the grand champion Duroc-Jersey hog. The Nebras ka animal was shown recently at Peoria and was awarded first honors over all comers. Will all the numerous prize winners of Nebraska please move over, thus making room upon the bench for Col. D. J- Hogg of Madison county, Nebraska? For long years we have yearned for the prize for having the lowest percentage of illiteracy, but some how or other our sister state just to the east has al ways managed to nose us out by an infinitestimal fraction of a per cent. For a year we boasted of hav ing the greatest milk-producing cow in the world, but doggone it, while we were boasting about it Wisconsin slipped in and subdued our pride. But we bid Wisconsin beware. For several years we chased the corn-producing championship, but Iowa managed to keep a point or two ahead of us because our farmers persisted in producing bumper crops of sugar beets and wheat and alfalfa, things that Iowa may never hope to produce alongside of us. We award the wheat championship to our sister state to the south, thus kindly expressing our sympathetic knowledge that the most of her area is unsuited to any other crop, while we can raise anything on ours. Right now we are intent upon making Nebraska the champion sugar-producing state, and due warning is given competitors that the prize is only a year or two from our grasp. Of course our superiority in the matter of hand some women and pretty babies is admitted by every body of everywhere. We endure no competition in these respects. Our rejoicing over all these things, however, is somewhat tempered by the fact that we are in a neck-and-neck race for the championship in some lines not to be boasted about. Among them a lack of interest in development of some natural resources and a disregard of the importance of preserving things historic. But we note with some pride that there are evidences of our lagging behind in these respects. THE PASSING OF THE HEREFORD SUIT. A growing regard for convenience, a desire to save time and laundry bills, and a feeling of rebel lion against being bound by conventionalities of dress, spell the doom of the “Hereford suit.” Be it known that the term of derision is not a small factor in its passing. At one time in the height of its glory it was known as the dress suit. Then the descent began. It became known as the clawhammer, the swallowtail, the goup-and-fish, and now it is derisively dubbed the Hereford because it shows ruch a wide expanse of white. And effort was made to save it by replacing the stiffly starched shirt bosom that was wont to billow upwards and outwards like the front of a pouter pigeon until the head of the wearer was tilted back ward until he could view only the ceiling and his neck acquired a “crick” that often threatened to become permanent, by a soft and numerously plaited bosom. But the laundrymen put the kibosh on that life caving device by charging so much per pleat that laundry bills threatened to consume the balance of the $1.54 left in the weekly pay envelope of the average devotee of the Hereford suit. Still another effort was made to save it by amputating the flowing tails of the coat that were forever getting all mussed up and in the road, and leaving the rest of the coat looking like a school boy’s unbuttoned roundabout. But the removal of the flowing tails made fewer the secret receptacles of the mothballs, thereby causing a greater ex pense of upkeep in times of financial stress. Many and ferocious were the attacks made upon the Hereford suit in days gone by, chiefly by those who asserted that its wearers were dudes and sissies and apers of royalty. This attack was for a time combated by the rejoinder that the Hereford suit was the most democratic garment men could wear, on the theory that at any big social function the guest of honor could not be distinguished from the head waiter through the identity of apparel. This brought out the unkind retort that it would bo com paratively easy to distinguish between them by mak ing due note of the superior intelligence exhibited by the head waiter. And still another factor entered into the growing disfavor of the Hereford suit. In order to be cn re gale, and au fait and per ae, the wearer had to like wise don a two-story hat, and any man who has ever tried to wear one of those chimneypot headgears knows what it is to suffer agonies whenever it had to he removed and taken care of temporarily. Taken by and all, many things have combined to spell the doom of the Hereford suit. Even the one outstanding fact that the missing portions of the once long-tailed coat, and the coat that had been amputated at the waist line, permitted easy access of the hands into the trouser pockets, did not long delay the opposition. And so it has come to pass that only now and then is the Hereford suit to be seen except when draped about the form of the head waiter and his satellites, the minstrel man or the long-haired virtuoso of the male persuasion who trantically hammers the piano at so much per ap jtearance. The Hereford suit seems doomed to join the periwig, the silken knickerbockers, the laco cuffs, the beribboned queue, and the jewel buckle slippers with the upward pointed toes that the dandicR of days long dead were wont to sport. A generation that, wots not of the gods of fashion that reigned in other days has come upon the scene of action. AN EXAMPLE WORTHY OF EMULATION. The officials at the temporal head of the great Methodist organization have just issued a bit of news of vast importance and worthy of tumultuous cheers from an oppressed public. It is given out that during the coming year the Methodist church will not lend its name to “drives” of any kind. For this much relief let us be duly thankful? And may the example of the Methodist church be imitated by other churches, and by organizations divers and sundry. It is greatly to be desired that the word “drive” he eliminated from our vocabulary, along with other much abused words, like “booster,” “live wire,” and “sold on”—words that have come to mean little or nothing. The various drives, following fast and faster since their initiation in the early days of the war, were rapidly ending in one colossal <^rive, that of driving a harassed public crazy. Did some anxious seeker after notoriety feel that his time was at hand? Immedately a drive to raise funds to provide knit underwear for the hapless Hottentots of the African hinterlands. Did too much time elapse between the publication of por raits of the pampered princess of some potentate’s palace? Immediately a drive to provide patent leather shoes for the barefooted boys of Borneo. We have had drives for about everything under the shining sun, and the inauguration of a drive to protect us from drives is as welcome as “enclosed please find check,” or the news light and water rates are to be reduced. Methodist officials have conferred a great favor upon a suffering public, in behalf of whom we tender our thanks and renewed assurances of our consideration. BUT THIS MAN SUCCUMBED. Ofttimes have we, and presumably every other average man, been sadly tempted to indulge in cer tain freakish enterprises. Have you ever felt the impulse to determine by direct action what would be the result of throwing a fresh egg into a rapidly re volving electric fan? You have. Often as we have been tempted we have managed to refrain, being somewhat timid by nature and willing to let George do it. And have you ever felt tW impulse, as you stood in front of one of those electric fans and watched in fascination the blades in their mad whirl, to poke your finger into the interior mechanism and ascer tain by actual experience just what would happen? You have, and we have. We are now satisfied on this subject, and for all time. It was not our finger that disappeared, but the finger of a Falls City man who mustered up more nerve than ever we were able to muster, and unless tetanus sets in he will be all right. But his finger has gone to join the limbo of departed things. But we will never be wholly satisfied until we are privileged to witness the results of throwing an egg into one of thos'e busy faQ_s. And when so privileged we want to be standing on the side lines. In fact, considerably to one side. “William J. Bryan is the only democrat in sight who has any chance of being elected president,’ declared Senator Brookhart at Omaha. The which makes is awfully tenuous for McAdoo, Ralston, Smith, et al. A Denver man who tried to commit suicide drank carbolic acid by mistake. One accustomed to Denver’s brand of bootleg needs prussic acid in wholesale lots if contemplating a shuffling off. An Iowa man sued another man for $10,000 for alienation of his wife’s affections, but accepted $750 in settlement. Wifely affection rated at sucfl a price could not have been very difficult to alienate. The statement that Ambassador Harvey resigns to enter politics may be classed under the head of “useless information.” Mr. Harvey couldn’t keep out, no matter what the situation. Senator Brookhart says it requires more brains to be a real farmer than for any other job on earth. Are we to accept this as one explanation of why he quit farming for politics? Let it be distinctly understood for all time that red is only one of the national colors and ran never predominate; and that yellow is not now, nor never will be, one of the colors. The discovery of a new anesthetic has not created the stir that would follow the discovery of a new exhilirant that would meet the requirements of the Volstead act. It appears that while the steel workers will have shorter hours the steel consumers will have to work longer to pay for the product. That maintains the old average. The Council Bluffs Nonpareil refers to Governor Walton as a dead durk. In the interest of exact terminology we insist upon substituting gone goose. Among other news to be classed as unimportant is the paragraph stating that one-half die penniless. Being penniless at death is not, what worries us. Countless thousands, one of whom we are which, will never live long to realize upon their ambition to see their pictures on the society page. Louise says she docs not know why she fell for him. A little more foreight would prevent many girls from stumbling. The interest manifest in "Black Oxen,” testifies to the pulling power of the story. Rum running will be difficult to stop as long as men insist on chasing after it. That Stokes divorce case is in sad need of a disin fectant. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie MEDITATION. jt sort of reminds one of winter somehow; The corn is as yellow a* gold. The stubble Is faded; In places the plow Jits turned tip the black of the wold. The trees are a trifle despondent and drear. Like one who la weary and gray; The leaves lie in clusters, and much thnl was h< re Jn summer has fnded away. Gaunt stalks of the flowers decrepit iscllns Where blossoms of mirimiertlrnn grew. And grass—wearing color* divine, O, divine, In summer—Is lusterless. too. 11 sort of reminds one of winter and bring’ A grateful conception, and thus tVc ace in our dreams of disconsolate things The bliss that Is dearest to us “The People's Voice" Erillorlali Irani nilm •! Tbn Honing Bog. HeAreri ol The Morning Bag art Invttttf to um IMs column Irnglg for gxgrgtgioB on on lien of Dublin lotoregt. Suggests Norris for President. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Looking over the dif ferent editorials and clippings of newspapers that I value very much, especially Tho Omaha Bee editorials, I found an article In The Sunday Bee of September 23 by our honorable senator, George W. Norris of Ne braska. The subject was "On Helping Farm ers’ Prosperity." Mr. Norris states in his article that the great war has left the consumer and 'he producer much further apart than they Were before. lie also states that all this machinery between them, much of it unnecessary, and most of it extrava gant, must be lubricated and kept in order by the sweat ,nad toil of the great common people. I hope that The Omaha Bee will republish that article or comment-on it in its editorial page. Thosa who have not had the privilege to read that logical and truthful article by Senator O. W. Norris can no doubt get it at The Omaha Bee office, so I advise the readers of other Omaha papers to get it and read it slowly and digest its contents. Nebraska ought to be proud of Its great statesman, for he is serving the people of his state with honor and performs his duties with a clear con science and looks after the welfare of the people of his state as well as the people of the entire nation. He is beyond the reach of the corpora tions and of the unscrupulous and crooked politicians. He is not an ex treme radical nor an extreme con servative, hut he moves with evolu tion; ho is a real progressive and does not appeal to human passion or prejudice. My choice for nominee as presiden tial candidate would he Senator George \V. Norris of Nebraska. I hopo to gee Norris clubs started in Omaha and Nebraska. Let the slogan hereafter Lie: "Norri3 for President." Farmers anil labor cannot follow a will of the wisp candidate, so let us boom Senator Norris, regardless of partisanship. Let the women join he slogan: “Norrisl for President.” JESSE MARTEL, Bit North Sixteenth Street. Omaha's Sewer System. Omaha—To the Editor of Tho Oma ha Bee: In behalf of the helpless-peo ple who are victims of Council Bluffs hood. I want to thank you for the very much needed criticism given the city officials in today's paper. The poor devils who haven’t been able to get a hearing on this matter duly ap preciate it. Now kindly give our own officials an equal jacking up. On Thirty-third street is a mon strous canyon on property controlled by the city. The water rushes In torrents through this 12 feet wtde and 9 feet deep—gutter—and now threat ens the foundations of a house (25x12.) It Is within five feet of it. Appeal after appeal has been made to the authorities and no attention has been given them whatever. What docs It matter if a poor man’s home goes in ts« ditch? With this flood even the sluewalk Is being undermined. Board* and all kinds of braces have been used to protect the homes of peo. Pie on this street, but without avail. Kindly giv^ this matter as much publicity as you have Council Bluffs and your helpless home people will appreciate It. The Omaha Bee is worth more than a city council for building up the town. It's about the only authority that officials respect. Long may It live and prosper. H. I) STEWART. From a Council Bluffs Realtor. Council Bluffs—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: It is with Irrepressi ble feeling that 'I write you concerning an editorial that appeared in your paper of this week In connection with the mat'er of damage done by the ex cessive storm which struck our com inunlty last Friday and Saturday. A very recent storm rendered your water plant In such a condition that It was Impossible to get pure water to your community. You found ready assistance from our city and parti cularly from our city administration. Tho calamity of this recent storm was-not within the control of human hands and while we agree with you that Indian creek has been a menace to our city for a considerable period of time and that It should have bad more serious attention yet It has this year taken care of all ordinary storms and we have spent money on It to keep It In condition. It seems to me that your editorial was nothing more or less than a sarcastic reply and retort and does not show an attitude of appreciation for the relief that we attemnted to give your city when calamity befell you. It seems to me that this should be taken seriously and at least an apologv entered on the part of your paper and instead of criticism at least a spirit of sympathy and help should be extended. A. F. SMITH. Ailmlrnthm Within Limits. Omaha- To the Ivlltnr of The Oma ha Bee: Once In a while something really good appears In your editorial columns. The editorial on "A Resolu tion for All of I’,." which appeared In yesterday morning's paper, is one of theso instances. The thing that many of your read era cannot understand is that you do not seem to he able to apply to your own conduct the high Ideals which you recommend to others. It ts true that the heading of the editorial in yesterday's paper referred to would seem to suggest that you have taken the subject matter to heart. I sincere ly hope this is true. A ijulto general rending of the papers of the country during the last few years has convinced me that none has offended more In the matter of | Daily Prayer I Pl*»**d ar* th* tjnd*fl1#d in the way. who walk In th* !%'• of th- Lord TU*** •><! nr* they that keep 111* teatlmonlta, nnd that po« k Him with thr whole heart. Th»*y r'»o do no Iniquity; th*y wntk in III* wny*. Thou h*wt commanded m to k«*p Thy pr*« *M»t* dlll#*ntly O that mv ".aii w«*r* direct Ml to «t*ep Thy atatut**! Pi ih>- 1-1. Our Father, Who dost love uh with everlasting love, may wo rejoice In that love, and endeavor day by day to “how our love for Thee by glad obedi ence to Thy will. Keep us pure, strong, and full of ti n t in Thee, that wo rmiy bo victorious over temptations to Wrong-doing, and may ever know the Joy and help of Thy presence In our liven. ltanlsh all selfishness. and Inaplre us with desire for justice to all men. \nd stir up our wills to establish the rule of Christian brotherhood on earth. May we look upon Thy whole family and respond to every call for sym pathy and compassion, and to every, challenge to heroic anti self sacrificing service far our fellow men. In all thin* « give tin the guidance nmisdirection of Tbv Holy Spirit, that we may serve and pleaao Thee. In the name of our Kurd and Master, Who loved u* and gave Himself for us. Amen mv, romim .V y in m ph in ran. Haltlmor*, Wd. The Omaha Bee welcomes let ters from readers recording In timate observations of animals or plants. A bird perhaps on< lias seen while waiting for a street ear, or a voluntary flower or some creature one lias come upon in the woods away from the noise of the city—these are—and always have been—of interest to ethers. Rout The Rodeo! Broncho-busting, bulldogging. rod ens and other like forms of amuse ment, in the west, are, and very right ly ought to he, receiving the condem nation of most decent people. Those noisomo combats between scatter bra ned cowboys and terrorized ani mals that have made such places as Pendleton and Cheyenne infamous must yield to the reign tlf law and humanity. The cruel spurs, the lariat, the wild shouts of harebrained participants and excited spectators—these serve to unnerve the dumb beasts and make them more vicious. They arc survivals of those early days when law and order had not asserted themselves. Bulls and cows are harassed and ridden. They are trained to buck. Sometimes the best of the buckers, both cattle and horses, are exhibited in rodeos or wild west shows. These animals live a life of continual tor ture and terror. It would be a good idea if attendants at circuses and moving picture thea ters would leave when these acts are staged, and complain to the manage ment of the show about encouraging such inhuman presentations. It is true that ranch life and such cruelties as referred to are not as extensive today as they once were. Still, there is plenty of field for hu mane work in this direction. The strange part about it is that these cruelties have-so long passed for amusement. A wild west show or film has not been complete without l beaten, overawed, vicious animals. If this he the best way of represent ing life in the beautiful west, it does not give a fair or flattering Impres sion of that section of our country. "Rout the rodeo:" If anyone believes such exhibition conductive to the modern American spirit of fair play, he is in error. MRS. C. E. B. Broken Bow. Neb. unwarranted criticism of public olil c'als generally, and the chief executive In particular, than has The Omaha Bee. For at least three years before his retirement from office, and often since, your columns were full of vicious and unjust abuse of Mr. Wil son. You slandered him in a way calculated to bring disgrace upon the office of the president of the United States. At the time of Mr. Harding's death, your paper contained an editorial criticizing another local paper in severest terms, because it had pub lished something which, while not critical of Mr. Harding, was not en tirely complimentary. You apparent ly regard it as a terrible offense to say anything uncomplimentary of a republican president, but feel Justified In using any sort of language against a democratic Incumbent. I trust that this editorial in yester day’s paper Indicates a change of at titude on your part in this respect. I commend it to all the writers on your staff. It would be well to [taste it up before them. H. J. BAILEY. From a Klan Advocate. Missouri^Valley, la.—To the Editor of the Omaha Bee: I am glad to know yon. Mr. Whistler. Thank you very kindly for giving ua the "once over." How would you put out a prairie fire? Stand and shout at It. or start a "hack fire?" Generally fight fire with fire—Don't we? Hall one. Certainly you don't know much about a thing unless you are In It. Sure would he a funny fellow to criti cize the Elks. Odd Fellows, K. P.s or any other bunch unless you were a member. Wouldn't you? You can't tell how cold the water Is until you're in It. That's common sense. Ball two. See (ho papers today? Well the whole state, women and all, sure ain't In on it. They certainly haven't got the whole state bluffed. Why did the Lawton affair hush up so soon? Enough cops down there to jail the whole state. Never hear any more about it. Didn't seem to be many thistles after all on "the tree," and there sure was a bunch picking It over. Ball three. Have been around where ceremonies have been held. Never saw anything so terribly secret about It. The hood business Is apparently only a part of the foldcral that most any other secret order goes through. Happen to know quite a number of four square, honest, and Influential men that make no bones of the fact that they are mem bers. Can't see what their object would be In hanging amund with a bunch of cut throats Ball four. Can I have the base? I'll confess I can't toss the rhetorical "Ins" and "outs" you can pilch, but I’ll do my l>est to get the l>all of argument over the plate of common sense where you can swing at it. Anyway, it would be a funny world Indeed If we all thought the same about everything. I. T. DUZZENMATTER. Pcrliaiis a "Flivver” Platform. The petition duly nominating Henry Ford ns candidate at the primaries for president has been filed with the secretary of state of Nebraska, hut not us the representative of any polit ical parly. Tim same being quite proper, for he has no partiality for parties or any preferences for any set of political principles.— Kearney llnh. “From State and Nation” —Edit mints from Other ISeus[>apers— Beginning at Home. From tho Portland Oregonian. Representative churchmen who within a few days have pointed with alarm to the Increase of !he spirit of lawlessness and even of immorality have the warrant of statistics for their declaration thnt this has been attended by growth in the divorce rate of tlie nation, but they are likely to be wrong who have assumed that the whole evil of which they complain cun be abolished by the mere enact ment of laws regulating marriage and divorce. The error is in supposing that fundamental relaxation of stand ards Is tho product of Insufficient law on those subjects. The fact more probably Is that we now have laws enough If we were disposed to enforce them. Growth pf divorce is lops like ly to bo the cause of present condi tions than one of the manifestations of a general trend. Between 1870 and 1517 there was an increase of 400 per cent in the national rate of divorce, which was 28 per 100,000 of the population in the former year and 112 per 100,000 in the latter. The rate of increase in that period was about three times the rate of increase in the whole pop ulation. The present total output of the divorce mills of the country is about 160,000 a year, which some statistician has figured is equivalent to about one every one and a half minutes. This is but an impressive way of calling attention to an obvious fact, but It does not mean that by re pealing all divorce laws or even by achieving federal uniformity we should make ail homes happy that are now miserable or that we should have removed more than an incidental cause of unrest. Undoubtedly the divided home is not conducive to the Inculcation of the highest ideals In the young and parents who cannot agree as to other matters are unlikely to set examples' of contentment and ethical progress for their offspring. But the mere coincidence of crime figures and those for marital anarchy does not in itself tndicaie the depth of the problem. Acceptance of the r 'pnnsibllities of parenthood is part and parcel of the disposition to regard other duties se riously, including those of citizenship. Divorce law will not he a complete solvent, since what is needed Is em phasis on morals in general. This is i problem in education, in the solu tion of which the churches have an opportunity to play an increasingly important part. Nut V,'orl ing As Expected. From the Nebraska City Pres*. The failure of the Nebraska law to operate In accordance with the pre conceived notions of its authors em phasizes once more the need for a uniform marriage and divorce law in the United States. It is as useless to attempt a reform through tho sporadic efforts of one state as it was, a few years ago, to attempt prohibi tion of the liquor traffic through coun ty and local option. If reform Is need ed In the marriage and divorce—and no doubt it is—it must come through the concerted and co-ordinated activity of all the states. Swift Justice Deters Crime. From the Philadelphia Bullacn The severe indictment of criminal law administration In the United States in a report submitted by a spe cial committee to the American Bar association should startle the public out of that apathy to which these ex perienced investigators attribute the laxity in law enforcement. Drastic re forms are necessary to remedy a con dition which Chief Justice Taft has characterized as "a disgrace to civili zation." In a nu'shell, the finding of the commission is that the crime tendency in the United States is to he checked, nut by more law. but by the more cer tain enforcement of the laws now on the statute books. Severe sentences are less effective in curbing criminal purposs than shorter sentences. If the latter have the advantage of being more sure and swift. Respect for the law Is to be secured by rapidity in its processes and cer tainlty in its enforcement. This is demonstrated by the "well nigh in credible" facta regarding law enforce j ment instrumentalities In England and France as compared with the United States, Punishments in those couri iries are ordinarily lighter than here, hut thsj arc swifter a ,.u more certain. Dilatory procedure at a tr.al is un known and a verdict is generally final, owing to the refusal to allow mere technicalities to interfere with the course of justice. law fall* as a deterrent because per petrators of crime are not tried, con victed and punished while the details are fresh in the public mind, and other potential criminal* warned by the example. Courts could do much toward reform If judges were to act with firmness in expediting tr'als. and If procedure were so simplified Ih t tm material technicalities would not be available ns stepping stone* for ap peal, delay and often consequent es cape. Outdoor I.lfe In Winter. Frem Ih 'I nri* ,- oil* Trlhun*. The children's lommlttee of the Woman's Community council is in’er esied in making outdoor Minneapolis an ill-year playground for !*'th adults and children, more particularly for the latter. There are social as well as hygienic reasons why the summer play spirit should be carried over actively through tlie winter months. For Children who are comfortably dressed, a* all little folks have a right to be, the crisp, cold air of a Minncsoln winter Is a physical stimulant of the first order, and anything thnt is a wholesome builder of the body is a good builder of mind and character. It is very easy to get into a mood of Inertia, into a habit of thinking it In tlie thing in a winter climate like ours to remain as much as possible Detroit Two splendid Wabash trains leave Chi capro — Dearborn Station — daily for Detroit at 10:30 A. M. and 11:25 P. M. All-steel equipment, a smooth track, courteous employes and prood meals in dining cars make these two fine trains models of comfort, safety and convenience. For detailed information about the Wabash rorvice from Chicago phono or call— TICKET OFFICE, I4lfi DODGE STREET H. C. Shields, Division Pm.rng.r Agent, 1909 llarnttjr St., Omaha i Wabash f fn warm Indoor quarters. A cozy, comfortable living place is both desir able and necessary, but it can be over worked as a living place. A steady diet of indoor wintertime life is a misfortune and not a blessing for those who are physically able to get Into the open. It weakens the resistive powers of Important membranes. It tends to breed lassitude and indolence. It takes ''kick" out of the vital ener gies. To use a phrase from the lingo of the garage, It chokes up valves and cylinders with carbon and reduces the “pep" of the engine. Skating, supervised coasting and outdoor games ought to be encouraged in all reasonable ways. They arc worth while as contributors to vigor ous youth, and they are commendable because they afford in winter time the contacts and the group zest that go with the summer playtimes. Outdoor life in winter has Its danger to health if it Is not properly directed, but these dangers are not serious in comparison with what it means to he cooped up In over heated and under-ventilated houses. The Woman's Community council committee Is right in applying its in . terest to indoor as well as outdoor winter recreation. Its program em braces contests, community sings and other forms of entertainment which will bring young and old together in stimulating Intercourse and competi tion. Winter life in Minneapolis has been too much a hothouse existence. It ought to open up and broaden out. We ought to get over the habit of saying goodbye to the next door neighbor in December and wondering how late or early in the spring it will be before we see him again across the back fence. Trot Out the I'llimattuns. From the Fargo IN' D.) Daily Tribune: The calm that has come over na tional politics since Mr. Coolidge en tered the White H use is a strange contrast to the usual order of things. The calm almost hurts. Where are all those manifestations t v which we inject our fighting in stinct into politics and sport? So “war cries." no “slogans," no “bat tles," no “skirmishes,'' no “enemies," no “chieftains," no "alignment of j forces and legions'" How come? Politics usually Serve the purpose of allowing us to let our fancies and imaginations satisfy our instinct for a fight by giving us a chance to talk of battles and victories as If we are taking part In some of the tribal feuds of long ago. A few years ago observers told us that with the ad vent of women in politics these man Ifestations of male pugnacity would melt like snow in the face of a Chinook wind. But the experience of •he last few years has not berne out l he prophecy. We still crave to show our boyishness and our yearning to play pirate or warrior by using our 1 imaginations in politics. Political" camps" are quiet and watchful. No "defiances" are being “flung In the face" of one party or another. No sabers are rattling, and lieutenants of party chiefs must bo spoiling for a rumpus. If some na t onal party does not “turn its ar tillery on the "entrenched positions" of its adversaries soon, the “rank and file ’ of the rival camps will take up the culture of geraniums or hops. The calm before the opening of the battle is becoming irksome. Stifled Imaginations and repressed desires are domesticating the political regi ments. Will some one please trot out the heavy artillery? Buncnmb. When a candidate says that he fa vors a vigorous policy h» means he doesn't know what in the Sam Hill to do —Shreveport Journal. Abe Martin If you want t’ dissrui" your hand jsst use a pust office pen. It hadn’t no time since Mrs. Ika Lark give her husband a silver flask, an’ now' he’s dead. (Copyright. 1922 ) Nebraska Polities (barley Leads With Saxophone. Just think of the fun Nebraska will have at the next democratic national convention. It Is already as good aL settled that Governor Bryan will be one of the nominees. New York is saying that Governor Bryan must take second place; that he must be nominated for vice president. That sounds like a joke to me. If those eastern newspaper fellows were real ly acquainted with Charley Bryan they should know that he is not in the habit of playing second fi-'dle at any political dance.—Columbus Telegram. Jam°s Dahlman has tossed Gov ernor Bryan's sombrero into the pres idential ring. Jim has an eye on the governorship.—Hastings Tribune. Another Ford Booster. Believing Mr Ford to be the n .So. . at th- hour, the one beet qualifle I t< fit the needs of the day we favor h. nomination and election. 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