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„ “IN HIS NAME.”
Scribner, Nebraska, is a big town only as you
measure the heart of its citizens, and then it as
sumes more than metropolitan size. A typical Ne
braska town, enterprising and progressive. Let
us hope that it is also typical of all Nebraska towns
in charity, brotherly kindness and human sympathy.
Pete McLean is a Scribner character. Honest
and industrious, Pete has had the bitter things of
life to contend with. Little of joy and happiness
has been his, compared with his sorrows and dis
appointments. For years on end he has been the
little city’s drayman. With increasing years came
failing eyesight and limbs crippled by rheumatism.
Like himself, his faithful horses, his dray and his
harness, grew old. The other day Pete limped
painfully to his barn to hitch up his team for the
day’s work. One of the faithful old nags had died
during the night. Pete borrowed a horse from a
kindly neighbor and went on about his work as
best he could.
Too often such an opportunity as confronted the
good people of Scribner that day is allowed to
slip by unheeded. Not so in Scribner. Pete’s
friends, numbered by those who knew him, appre
ciated his long years of faithful service, his un
willingness to be a burden on society and his
industry. So they put their heads together and
then proceeded to carry out their scheme. When
all was fixed a friend sought out Pete and carried
him off to attend to a little job that did not require
* the decrepit team or the rattling dray. Pete left
his equipment at the usual stand and performed
the task given him. When he came back to the
old stand he was frightened. There stood the old
dray in its accustomed place, but gone was the old
blind horse he had used for years. Gone was the
string-tied and wire-bound harness. • In their place
was a fine team of big horses, gaily caparisoned in
new harness. And not a man or woman in sight.
Old Pete could not understand. As his failing
eyes gazed upon the old dray and the new team
his brain began to function.
And then he saw smiling faces of neighbors as
they peered at him from nearby corners and neigh
boring windows. With a rush those neighbors and
friends surrounded the wondering old man, slap
ping him on the back, good naturedly railing him
for being so frightened and trying to make him
understand that the new team and the stout har
ness were only a partial expression of their love
and esteem and appreciation.
Then it was that old Pete sat down and cried.
He couldn’t frame his lips to utter a single happy
thought that swelled until his heart was nigh to
bursting. Nor were Pete’s eyes the only ones that
were moist then. Bankers and merchants and
business men whose eyes had not, perhaps, felt tears
in many a year, turned away and tried to make
their neighbors believe that it was merely dust or
a floating cinder that required the sudden use of
the handkerchief.
Scribner has held many a glorious celebration of
the Fourth of July. Many a big picnic has been
held in the outskirts of the little city. But we
venture to assert that no celebration ever held there
brought in its wake the community joy and the
individual happiness that followed in the wake of
the gift the community had made to good old
Pete McLean.
His declining years have been made happy be
cause he is assured of an opportunity to work and
earn, instead of being a community charge. And
the good people of Scribner—theirs has been the
great joy of giving, than which no greater joy is
offered to men.
Possibly there is a Pete McLean in a number of
Nebraska towns. If so, then to each of those towns
is offered an opportunity to hold a celebriftion that
will make a Fourth of July affair seem like a blue
Monday after a Sunday of rain and storm.
IOWA TO CALIFORNIA BY WATER.
New England has made a discovery, and it might
be well to share it with the middlewest. A cargo
of merchandise recently traveled from an Iowa town
to California by all-water transportation. The
steam barge was loaded at Muscatine, and pro
ceeded to New Orleans. On boftrd was a shipment
of pulleys from an Iowa factory, destined to be
rsed in the factories on the Pacific coast. Another
^arge left St. Paul, carrying a carload of medicine
from St. Paul to Memphis, furniture from Minne
apolis, linseed meal, cereals, and other commodities
to make up 100 tons of freight.
On the way back these barges carried full ton
nage, mostly of “way” shipments, but enough to
keep the cargo up to capacity. To be sure, 100 tons
sounds small compared to the 5,000-ton freight train,
but enough of those barges-on the water would make
i material difference in the freight-carrying problem.
If ^wa pulleys can reach San Francisco by an all
■vater route, then Pacific coast lumber and other
Jhings that will bear the test of time in haulage
can come back the same way.
That is the point. Pacific coast people have an
advantage over the middlewest, because freight rates
between the coasts rests on the rail and water basis.
If the time comes when the great central empire
can share in this, the money spent for building the
Panama canal will begin to shed its benefits on the
farmers who furnished a considerable portion of
the total sum.
Those Mississippi barges arc an object lesson, sup
porting wliat has been contended by the advocates
of river improvement for many years. We watch
the Missouri river sweep past Omaha day after
day, concerning ourselves chiefly with getting the
mud out of some millions of gallons each day for
domestic use, neglecting its potential service as n
freight carrier. The old river is capable of giving
good return tor a little care. Not a great, deal of
money is nec led to put it to work, and some day
that money will ho forthcoming, for the people who
might have the use of the river as a highway for
reaching market with their products will not alwnys
ha content with things as they are.
TRULY, HE WAS A WIZARD.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electrical wizard, is
dead, cut off in the full flight of his wonderful
power, apparently. We say apparently, because it
always seems that a great man is taken just at
a time when his services arc most needed by the
world, but who can say if he has not already done
his work and the time is really ripe for his with
drawal.
Steinmetz was well named Proteus, for his life
was protean, although he devoted many of his most
productive years to the study of electricity, its phe
nomena and application. How much he did to de
velop the use of that mysterious force, to give to
man the benefit of its energy, and to science an
understanding of its qualities and properties, he
himself could not have told. He did not earn the
name of “Wizard” through mere experimentation
alone, for his researches were largely, although not
exclusively, along practical lines. He showed how
better lights could be made, how transmission could
be improved and extended, and in many ways gave
man a fuller service from the great energizing
force that permeates all nature.
Steinmetz was in no sense a mystic, but he was
among the large and important group of true scien
tists whose study and research deepened their sense
of some higher power, something beyond the finite.
One of his greatest writings was a series of articles,
published recently in a great magazine in the
course of which he humbly acknowledged and with
devoutness argued the existence of a Supreme Be
ing. He found little difficulty in his own mind in
reconciling the discoveries of science with the
thought of God.
The immediate cause of his death is set as strain
endured on a recent journey to the west, tfhich
was too great for his feeble constitution. He was
r.ot a strong man, physically, but his weak frame
did not dim the light of his wonderful mind, and
he accomplished work of such magnitude as might
exhaust the strongest. The world gained much
from him.
SALUTE MISS SHOWALTER.
Miss Pearl Showalter, who lives out on Spaul
ding street, comes into the spotlight for very favor
able consideration. “Stick'’em up!” commanded a
footpad. Miss Showalter stuck ’em up, as did her
companion. Did she become hysterical, or faint,
or whimper, or anything like that? She did not.
When the footpad set about to search her, what
did he get?
A good, swift kick from a foot impelled by the
full strength of an indignant young Woman. That
was all. While he threatened to slap her, the rob
ber let her alone.
Not all women have the courage and presence of
mind Miss Showalter exhibited on this occasion, but
it would be a good thing if they had. A well planted
kick from a woman will take a lot of self-conceit
out of a footpad. Even if he has a gun or other
weapon in his hand, he knows he is engaged in dirty
business when he sets about to rob a woman, and
if she can help his self-respect to assert itself by
kicking him some place where it counts, she may
not only escape the indignity of being pawed over
by a strange man, but may help to win him back to
ways of honesty through making him ashamed of
himself.
Dropping the speculative features of the case,
Miss Showalter did what very few women would do
under the circumstances, and deserves due credit
for her act. It shows her to be self-possessed,
prompt and decisive, and of a pluck that will aid
her to defend herself. These are all admirable
qualities, and we salute her accordingly.
Bankers in session in Omaha were told that the
American farmer is not “red,” nor in any danger
of becoming so. Well for the world that this is true.
Now the bankers can perform a greater service for
the farmer than merely to proclaim his sanity and
loyalty. The latter was well and often proved dur
ing every crisis that has confronted the country. No
men have stood more firmly for America from Con
cord down to Argonne than the American farmer.
The office boy, after reading divters and sundry
pleas from Europe that we extend help, suggests
that the folks over there visit their public libraries
and borrow copies of Samuel Smiles’ more or less
famous book.
The most recent addition to the collection of use
less information is that eight brothers, the eldest 70
and the youngest 59, held a reunion in Atlantic City,
and claimod that none of them had ever tasted liquor
of any kind. #
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And the chances are that a majority of the people
think the new ambassador to the court of St.
James is the man who makes the breakfast food.
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Incidentally it will require more than the wear
ing of a nightshirt and a pillowslip to convince most
of us that the wearer is a genuine American.
Another proof that Lloyd George has a long head
on his shoulders. He took good care to visit Wash
ington while congress was not in session.
The digging up of a couple of gorilla-shaped men
in California Is calculated to make W. J. B. revo
lute some more.
“Whither are we drifting?” excitedly queries the
Aberdeen News. Huh; isn’t everybody speeding
these days? (
But why call it the rent octopus? An octopus
has only eight l.gs, or arms, or whatever you call
them.
We are not hearing so much about state coni
these days. Is the governor growing slack?
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davit
DREAMING THEIR DREAMS.
Down the quiet lane they walk:
Under the golden moon they talk.
Weaving love's themes—
Building tomorrow with fervor true,
Keeling the thrill that lovers do—
Dreaming their dreams.
I'nder the brilliant heavens they
Sit roll to the magic Knraway,
Breathing with mirth:
l.lfe Is a Fairyland sublime.
I lope Is the Patriarch of Time,
Heaven Is earth.
Backward I trend to n flown delight
Under the radiance of night.
Memory seems
True ns the Joys I used to know
When tinder the moon we tvnlkcdjiu alow,
Droatnlng our dreams.
“The People’s
Voice”
Editorials tram raidin si Tks Martins Sts.
Ktlpan of Ths Morning Bos trg Invited to
me this column frestar tor expression on
msttero ot public Interest,
Motorists' Eyes.
Norfolk, Neb.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: I have been a subscriber
to The Omaha Bee for several years,
and would not. think to be without It.
You have a mighty fine paper. I wish
to commend you upon the stnnd you
are taking regarding auto accidents,
their causes, and way to reduce them
to a minimum, as a great per centum
of them are avoidable. I have been
carefully reading your'editorials on
this subject, and advocating the pass
age of a city ordinance licensing in
dividual auto drivers. While not a
citizen or resident of Omaha, may I
bring to your attention another phase
of the matter that perhaps you have
overlooked in connection with auto
•accidents?
You will find thnt over BO per cent
of all auto accidents are a result of
subnormal vision and eye strain.
California has recognized this and
has acted accordingly for the safety of
Its citizens. Other states are consid
ering passage of laws to require a
certain standard of vision before li
censing auto drivers.
It would be a mighty fine thing for
the city of Omaha to pass an ordinance
to license the auto drivers to help
eliminate accidents, and thus protect
the lives of the people, but It would
be far better to Include the proper
standard of vision, which would elim
inate one-half of all the accidents.
IIARLAN P. BLAINE.
For Motor Safety.
Omaha.—To the Editor of Tho
Omaha Bee: In my opinion a state law
requiring every person operating a
motor car to be licensed, would elim
inate many of the careless drivers.
Also a law requiring every motorist or
driver to come to a full stop before
crossing nny Bteam car tracks.
Ten miles an hour within the city
limits and 20 outside should govern alt
traffic.
It should be born In mind that the
driver of the motor car is not al
ways at fault. Many pedestrians go to
sleep at Intersections and Invite trou
ble. Any motorist will say the same.
Arrest a few of them: It might help.
r. E. CAMPBELL.
3007 Nicholas Street.
Stop Street Accidents.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: 1 am In favor of license
regulation of motor vehicle drivers.
The large number of motor vehicles
now being driven on our streets and
highways makes such regulation an
imperative necessity. The present un
licensed, unregulated system based on
tho pleasure and convenience of the
drivers, originated and developed In
the days of few motor vehicles. The
welfare of the public was not seriously
considered by this system. The ap
palling number of accidents, causing
death, Injury and damage, Is a logi
cal result of this practice applied to
the heavy motor vehicle traffic of to
day. It Is high time that the Indi
vidual pleasure and convenience sys
tem he abandoned and another adopt
ed that will give primary considera
tion to the safety and welfare of the
public.
New regulations should fix severe
penalties for speeding and reckless
driving. No person having a record
of two such convictions should be giv
en a license. First offenses by li
censees should result In suspension for
30 or 60 days and second offenses, re
vocation. Minors should be ineligible
for licenses.
DAN HORRIGAN.
Center Shots
The only reason that the neighbor
14 sorry that you have that mortgage
on your home Is that he can't borrow
It-—Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat.
You would naturally expect a food
show girl to look good enough to eat.
—Columbus Dispatch.
One of the very latest books Is
named ‘'litm^." We had thought our
fiction writers frank, but this takes
the prize.—Boston Traveler.
It certainly Isn't the fault of the
automobile that there Is an over pro
duction of gasoline.—Springfield
News.
Well. If golf Is dangerous for men
past 50, wo know a lot of middle
aged golfers who are going to have
more forty-eighth birthdays than any
woman ever had thirty seconds.—
New York World.
Tho chief objection to war Is that
It always produces a new crop of
lip warriors who were invisible In war
and are Invisible |n peace.—Ashe
ville Times.
When Newt Baker went to Europe
he Intended to be entirely satisfied
with the progress being made by the
league of nntinns. And now he's bark
and Is.—New Castle (Ind.) Courier.
Justice is as Impartial as the god
from whose bosom It flows; but she
has a great many Imitators that of
ten usurp its throne,—Altoona Mir
ror.
It Is grntifylng to lesm that tho
league of nntlons assembly Is qulto
pleased with Itself on adjourning And
others, perhaps, for Its adjourning.—
Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
Lightning doesn't strike twice tn
the same spot. After one strike there
"ain't no spot."—Lafayette Journal
and Courier.
Ons of the compensations of this
existence Is that a girl can be darned
good looking without winning a
beauty contest.—Milwaukee Journal.
Daily Prayer
Th«f h«tlev»i1 tho Scripture —John 2:22.
Our Father Who art In Heaven, we
praise Then for tho grace which per
mits us to look upon another day.
Wondrous Is Thy love. We frail
children of earth how for a moment
to receive the lienedictlon of Thy In
finite Motherhood and omnipotent
Fatherhood. Forth wo go to battle
and to toll. W» dare not go alone.
Temptation will crouch beside our
pathway. Some of us may rome up
on dangers suddenly. Do Thou lie
friend us When the duties of the
dnv ufo done, may It please Thee to
gather us nt eventide an unbroken,
happy family, with no etaln of eln
upon our garments The church we
love, do Thou bless It. Mny the Holy
Hplrlt abide with the pastor and all
tho people. Wo love our native land.
Do Thou save It. For the whole
world we offer our humble prayer.
Thy Kingdom come. Great Hon of
God, dear prince of peace, why dost
Thou tarry? Humanity dies. Give us
hearts to bleed and bauds to bless,
Pltv Ihe men who have no home, and
protect Ihe women Who toll nlid are
weak, Send us from (tils tryatlng
place to laugh and love hiuI labor In
the strength of him who said, "Inns
much as yo did It unto one of the least
of these, yo did II unto me." Lord,
\v« thunk Thao for Thy promised
atrongth Amen.
HSV. DAVID OTIS CQW'LBK
Jsrity City. It. J.,
What have you seen? Are you
ever attracted by the voice of (lie
world of nature which surrounds
you? The Omaha Uce welcomes
letters from readers on observa
tions of nature.
THE FRUITFUL EARTH.
To one who knows the woods, trees
present an astonishing vigor of life.
Everywhere are these living things,
eager to drink in the rainfall and the
sunshine, aspiring—it would seem—•
to touch the sky. With immense liar
vests of heed they fructify the earth;
with immense broods of young they
keep up the eternal cycle of life and
death. The old trees die; the young
begin a grim and crowding race for
the light that is life. Year after year
the struggle goes on. In the fight
for sunlight the stronger at last over
top the weak and so have a chance
to come to maturity. And so In na
ture the endless cycle Is ever renewed.
Man*would be a fool not to make
use of this urgent vigor of life, this
mighty driving force to live. He would
be a fool to destroy it utterly In its
magnificent vitality. It is a thing so
easy to perpetuate, so responsive to
man's will, that we might as well set
torch to our grain fields as destroy
our forests. To the living, life!—
American Forestry.
LISTENING IN
On the Nebraska Tress
Sidney now has a girls' saxophone
band and Guy Doran enthusiastically
asserts In his Telegraph that the mem
bership consists of ten of the most
talented and prettiest girls in the
town. Having some knowledge of
Sidney femininity we ll say they must
be mighty pretty If what Guy says Is
true.
• • •
Writing of the third annual golf
tournament at Gothenburg Editor
Botkin lays especial stress on the
chicken dinner that followed.
* • •
A Wausa store turned a lot of
chicken loose the other day. the same
being an advertising stunt and highly
successful. The Gazette's account of
it falls to reveal that any preachers
were crushed in the general mix-up.
• • •
Noting a shortage of the cotton crop
the 8ilver Creek Sand advises Its
readers not to tear their shirts over
any of the burning issues of the hour.
• • •
The Phelps county delinquent tax
list occupies less than three columns
In the Holdrege Citizen, and Editor
Kimberling don't know whether to
rejoice with Phelps county prosperity
holders or commiserate with himself.
• • •
In addition to being always poetic,
Allan May of the Auburn Herald Is oc
casionally sarcastic. He says, after
recalling Will Carleton's famous poem,
that if some heartless children of to
day should start their mother over the
hill to the poor house, some kind
neighbor would come along and give
her a lift In his auto.
• • •
“There Is a lot of practical energy
In and around Clarks going to waste,"
mourns the Enterprise, “for lack of
practical application in the upbuild
ing of our home community. The En
terprise suggests the organization of
clubs for the boys and girls. Invest
ment In a few buck-saws and dish
rags might help some If use thereof
were made Imperative.
* * *
The Hay Springs News complain*
about their being too many conven
tions and Intimates that about ail the
attendants bring back is a headache.
Klltor Benachoter must he doubtful
about prohibition enforcement.
• • •
The Gordon Journal !s promoting a
corn show In Sheridan county, thus
destroying an Illusion that all the
corn In Sheridan county was on No.
9 feet In No. 7 shoes.
• • •
Thn Falrbury Journal mourn* the
destruction of a lot of Idol* and Ideal*
In this Iconoclastic age. Editor Cramh
must have recently made up hi* mind
that the prize in the package Isn't
worth the expenditure.
• • •
Thn Atkinson Graphic urge* chick
en raisers to ventilate their chicken
houses. Wonder If Editor Kellov fol- i
Ions til* own advice? Or is he afraid
the chicken* would go home?
• • •
The Wisner Chronicle boast* that
the Cuming county delinquent tax list
was the shortest of any county In the
state, population and resource* con
sidered. The tax list was printed by
another paper.
• • •
"Isn’t It strange." grumble* Ed
Curran of the Greeley Citizen, "that
Hunk Leggett of the Ord Quiz tz a!
ways advocating law enforcement and
reform for all hi* neighbor counties?"
• • •
Fearful that his Nebraska City Press
reader* haven't enough to worry about,
Editor Sweet asks them for a reply
to thl* one: "What economic victory
did America get from the war?" Well,
what?
• • •
The Orchard News complains bit
terly about the lack of Initiative on
the part of Orchard bachelors who
showed a winsome widow of that city
to visit a neighboring county and
bring back a husband.
• • •
A number of Nebraska newspaper*
are running missing word contests
The word* most notably missing dur
ing the ln*t five or six years are:
"Have another one on me."
NET AVERAGE !
CIRCULATION
for September, 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily.72,518
Sunday.75,942
Do«« not Include returns. left
OV*fl, MmplM or p»per« •polled lr
printing and Includes no apacla1
• •lea.
B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr.
V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr.
Suhacrihad mid •worn to before me
thia 8th day of October, 1023.
W H QUIVEY,
(Sad) Notary Public
A Handy Place to Eat
Hotel Gonant
Itth gad Harney—-Omaha
The Center of Convenience
“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
Ways With the KecklMR.
From the Aurora Republican.
Ho much has been written and said
about speeding, careless driving and
tho tendency of some motorists to dis
regard all the natural and state laws
Intended to protect the life and lib
erty of Individuals that we feel some
what timid in commenting upon the
situation. It's our turn, however, and
we feel the urge to express ourselves,
even though we have a suspicion that
it is space wasted. Various remedies
for the speeder and careless driver
have been brought forth from time to
time, hut none have seemed to meet
the needs of the situation. It is pret
ty well established that It is impos
sible to legislate sanity Into the crani
al 'spaces of a natural horn fool, nor
Is it possible to endow with brains
and the willingness to use them those
who are Inadequately supplied from
the outset.
There are, how'ever, some remedies
which, though they may prove futile,
are at least worth trying. It Is pos
sible, for Instance, to incarcerate of
fenders against the safety of the pub
lic. Even the lowest forms of ani
mal life will learn to avoid certain
things when experience has proven
that a repetition of the act brings
forth certain and unpleasant punish
ment.
There is. In addition, the method
which parents use with an unruly
child—the plaything can be taken
away until the child has learned not
to abuse his privileges when using It.
A mental examination for prospect
ive drivers is another means of dimln
ishlng the danger. So far, none of
these have been tried In this slate.
A large sized halo awaits the man
who successfully meets the menace
of speed.
Lame Ducks Flying Over.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
We are not to have a great ambas
sador to Britain to redeem the pitiful
failure of Harvey. Frank B. Kel
logg probably will not make a joke of
himself, but there Is nothing to sug
gest a successor of the line of John Hay
or Choate or Walter Page. It Is too
bad. For the ambassadorship to Great
Britain is a very important mission:
with a big man it would be a big job.
That Mr. Coolldge would favor con
servatives is to be expected, and there
would have been applause If it had
been possible to name Elihu Root.
Probably It is true as reported that
Mr. Root did not fee! he could under
take this. But a dozen names will
occur readily of men whose ability
would have promised a new and
brighter chapter for American diplo
macy.
Probably the east will rush in to
say that Sir. Kellogg of Minnesota is
appointed as a compliment to the mid
dlewest. To his own part of the coun
try, however, particularly to his own
state which repudiated him, this will
seem just another lame duck appoint
ment. Mr, Kellogg is an able lawyer;
he was for a while on the ‘'trust
bursting" staff; for a longer while he
has been more closely Identified with
corporations. Minnesota tried him.
found him safely and sanely reaction
ary and gave him up. In all of this
there is nothing to suggest a mind
trained in international problems, ca
pable of furthering greatly the good
work that nations can do together and
adding to the prestige of the United
States.
History Tells Different Tale.
From the Spotlight.
It Is a remarkable fact that the
two greatest American achievepients
were regarded by their authors as
worse than failures. The speech of I
Gettysburg will remain long after the
battle of Gettysburg is forgotten. For
generations no human utterance had
approached Its God guided thought.
Yet, after Its delivery, Abrahaant Lin
coln sat crushed with the conscious
ness of humiliating failure.
Likewise the men who made the con
stitution felt the deepest disappoint
ment and dejection at what they had
wrought.
Alexander Hamilton is quoted as
saying that It was "a shillyshally
thing, of mere milk and water, which
could not last and was good only as
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a step to something better." Almost
at his death, Hamilton wrote of the
constitution: "Contrary to all my ex
pectations of Its fate, as you know,
1 am still trying to_ prop the frail
and worthless fabric."
George Mason said that such a con
stitution “must end either in mon
archy or tyrannical aristocracy.”
A Bit of Bychology.
From the Baltimore Sun.
A little patch of cotton was tended
by an ancient colored men who owned
a spavined mule. The ancient man
paid a third of his crop as rent., and
a white man sold him fertilizer to
grow his crop. When the cotton was
opened the ancient man paid $2.50 to
have a bale ginned. Then he sold It
to a street buyer, who paid him 28
cents a pound, added a profit, and sold
the bale to a broker.
The cotton was shipped by truck.
The broker added a profit and sold to
a cotton mill. The bale was shipped
by rail. The mill made the cotton
Into cloth, added a profit, and Bold the
cloth to a manufacturer of garments.
The cloth was shipped by rail. The
manufacturer hired a cutter to fash
ion a frock and a girl to stitch the
seams and affix the buttons. Then he
added a profit and sold the frock to
a wholesaler. It was carried across
town In a truck. The wholesaler
placed the garment on a rack, added
a profit, and sold it to an out of town
merchant. It was shipped by express.
The merchant placed the frock in
his window and priced it $9.98, which
represented a comfortable profit. The
garment in the window represented
98 cents' worth of raw material, $1 38
worth of labor, $2.08 worth of trans
portation and $5.55 worth of sales
manship.
It was a nice little frock, hut no
body bought it^-not because the price
was too high, but because everybody
had an Idea that it couldn’t be worth
much at that price.
Then the merchant removed It from
the window and placed it in on a form
in a great room that boasted a Per
sian rug, soft rose lights and three
dozen palms. There was a yellow
haired princess to tell patrons about
the frock, and the new price tag read
$186. Seventeen sweet ladles sigh»d
and wished they could afford It, and
the 18th bought it after a futile effort
to find something more expensive.
The ancient colored man made a
small crop and will begin the next
season owing the landlord $38.12 for
fat pork and molasses.
The Customer Had One.
"Yes, sir," said the barber, "my
poor brother. Jim, has been sent to
an asylum. He got to broodin' over j
the hard times, and It finally drove'
Abe Martin
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TooTri
PUKlrfl
Ike Lark’s boy, in college, has
written t’ his paw askin’ if it’ll
make any difference t’ him if he
drops math an! takes trombone.
What’s become o ’ th ole unwritten
law against payin’ over one week’s
wages fer a month’s rent?
(Copyright. 152! >
him crazy. He and I worked side by
side, and we both brooded a great
deal. Xo money in this business now,
you know. Prices too low. Unless a
customer has a shampoo, it doesn't
pay to shave or hair-cut. I caught Jim
trying to cut a chap's throat because
he declined a shampoo, so I had to
have the poor fellow locked up. Makes
me sad. Sometimes I feel sorry I
didn't let him slash. It would have
been our revenge. Shampoo, sir?"—
Sydney (Australia) Sun.
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Old winter rides on the tail feath
ers of the wild geese in their flight
to warmer climes.
Their flight is a sign in the sky
for you to plan for California,
that winterless, sunny, out-door
playground.
Stop at Salt Lake City on the way.
Daily through service from Omaha the
year 'round on the de luxe
l$sflngeksfimifed
and4other trains direct for Californio
Two daily trains to Denver with connec
tions for California.
Big fashionable hotels, family hotels, bungalow*,
apartments and boarding houses at prices to tuiV
But make your reservations now.
For California booklett, tireping car rtteroqm
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