The Morning Bee MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher. 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 or pot otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republieation of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Aslr for the Department iv or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: SAAn Editorial Department. AT iantie 1021 or AT. 1042. LMJ OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—15 Scott SL S. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago— Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg, bt. Louib—Syndi. Trust Bldg. >os Angeles—Higgins Bldg, ban rranclseo—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg AMERICA’S GREATEST ITEM OF WASTE. When David Lloyd George, a few weeks ago, stood on the levee at St. Louis and watched the mighty Father of Waters sweep hy in the full ma jesty of strength and potential service, he expressed amazement at the waste denoted. In his mind that wonderful river should be alive with fleets of com ] merce carriers. He but echoed what has been in the ■ minds of many thinking people for years. No other | ifem of prodigality, reckless extravagance or wan ton^waste that may be charged against the American ; people equals their neglect of the great central wa terways of the country, natural highways for com merce, that run unused to the sea. The Mississippi Valley association, which closed its fifth annual session at Memphis on Saturday, sgain adopted resolutions calling for federal im ■ provement of the Mississippi and its three great tributaries, the Ohio, the Missouri and the Illinois. • This action would be encouraging, were it not that it is but a repetition of similar action that has been taken, time out of mind. Almost half a century ago Jerry Murphy of Davenport proposed the Hennepin canal to connect the Mississippi with the Great Lakes. • He kept at it until “Jerry's ditch” came to be a jest. Forty years ago a waterways convention at St. Paul gave enthusiastic support to resolutions similar in : import to those adopted at Memphis last week, and J little ever came from the effort. Keeping everlastingly at it will bring success, and ' if tile Mississippi Valley association will go to con gress with sufficient force, attention may be secured. Recognition of the need of better methods of trans portation, which includes the use of every natural | facility, is general. One of the proposals recently made to relieve the condition that prevails is to parallel every trunk line railroad with a motor high way, that trucks can carry their share of the load This is one way out of the wilderness in which the problem of distribution has so long wandered in the United States. A less costly and more efficacious plan would be . the improvement of the great rivers. These afford ; a means of hauling heavy freight, and even the light er loads, at a far less cost than rail or truck, and as reliable and serviceable In the end. No grading is to be done, few engineering problems are presented, and none that have not been studied and remedies provided for. All that is needed is to get the work under way; the rest will follow. Cost of transportation falls heavily on all, but • chiefly on the producers of the middle west. lar . mers are hit both going and coming; the price of what they sell is lower because of the excessive cost " of getting it to market, and what they buy costs more because of the great expense of getting it to them. Water transportation will affect this directly, because it will cost less to haul by water, and lower freight rates on the river will necessarily mean that competing railroad lines must cut their tariffs or lose the business. The movement for reviving the use of the great rivers that drain the immense plain between the Al leghanies and the Rockies is taking on more strength than it has ever shown. Railroads, with all their tremendous expenditures, have not been ahle to keep abreast with the growth of commerce. Talk is now heard of spending *700,000,000 a year to complete a 10-year program of railroad expansion. That will merely put the roads in about the same relative po sition 10 years from now that they are in today. The internal commerce of the United States requires every available facility, and this means the use of the rivers as well as highways to supplement the railroads. SANTA CLAUS HAS HIS RIVALS. Boy Scouts of Omaha are again engaged in one if those campaign* that really entitle the organiza ion to genuine favor. It is good for them to light amp fires by the primitive method of rubbing sticks together. Such an accomplishment assures them against suffering from cold, should they ever get caught out without matches. Other elements of woodcraft are worth knowing, and proficiency in modern games and athletic sports has advantages, but these are not all the Boy Scouts do and do well. The present campaign is to make two serviceable toys come out of the scrap heap into which three broken ones had been tossed. It is not a mere stunt (hey are working at, but a very practical philan thropy. Many a fortunate child breaks or tires of r. toy; it is allowed to lay around, collecting rust and duet and dirt, under foot or cumbering a closet, un til it becomes an eyesore. Ail this time another child, not so fortunate, is hungering in its heart for a toy of some kind. What the boys are doing is to restore the broken or neglected toys to something • approaching their pristine splendor, so they may be turned over to the child who has no toys and wants siomr. No better way of employing the natural bent of the average hoy to play with tools. He is given all the joy of making things, and after he has had his, then the Joy is passed along to some little boy or girl whose Christmns might be h blank, were it not for this toy repair work of the Boy Scouts. Here is efficiency plus, for it is turning what has long been ;t H waste of energy into the productive channel out . of which comes unalloyed happiness to the giver and the receiver. Santa Claus will have to hurry to keep ahead of the Boy Scouts of Omaha. A fashion note intimates that it is pleasant to think of a wadded blue silk dressing Rown, now that cold weather is here. It may be so, but there is a lot more pleasure in knowiriR that the coal bin is full and tho potato stock ample. • Maybelle Gilman, ex-Mrs. Corey, says she can not f* abide America. However, she has little trouble in puttinR up With American lonR Rreen her former „ husband so liberally provided for her. It would be just like that Bok peace prize autord committee to Rive the prize to some fellow who al ways has to take orders from his wife. AN OVERSIGHT TO BE RECTIFIED. Mother’s day, and Father's day, and Father and Son week, and divers and sundry weeks and days for this and that, but have we not forgotten one who is entitled to recognition? The feeble minded and those who have no sense of appreciation may laugh at the alleged wit of the hamfat comedians and the coarse vaudevillians who perpetrate jokes about the mother-in-law, but those among you who have been the recipient of her ministrations at the most critical, and at the same time most joyful, pe riod in your whole life, will resent the sneers and the jibes. Next to a real mother there is nothing in the world so good as a real, genuine, average mother-in-law. Those of you who have been for tunate enough to have real grandmothers should not overlook the fact that they were both mothers-in law. You may think it smart, Mr. Young Husband, to lean back in your theater seat and guffaw when the comedian tries for his laugh with the stale and un profitable mother-in-law joke. Comedians who re sort to it long since realized that it was about the only thing they could do or say that would bring a laugh, and also that in every audience there is very apt to be those just feeble minded enough to be able to see something funny in it. But Mr. Young Hus band, if you have not already called frantically up on that same mother-in-law when the great event is drawing near, you will, some of these days, and then we dare you to laugh at her. There won’t be any laughter in your heart then, young man, when the sweat drops tell you of the agony of your mother in-law’s daughter, and you are going to thank God with all your heart that there is one you and your loved one can trust. Should some lowbrowed come dian pull his stale mother-in-law joke in your hearing about that time you’d be less than a man if you did not punch him a few times, just for luck. The mother-in-law, the real, genuine, good-heart ed mother-in-law, is j too noble an institution to be made the subject or ribald jests and cruel jokes. The chances are about a million to one, Mr. Hus band, that she is too good for you, and that she raised a daughter too almighty good for you. Sho suffered more than you will ever know to make it possible for you to be the husband of your wife, and suffered again when she turned that daughter over to you. Why not be man enough to recognize and appreciate that double sacrifice? It is neither the sign of good breeding or possession of a sense of humor to crack alleged jokes about her. Although somewhat tired of special days and special weeks for this and for that, the real men of America would doubtless be more than willing to set aside another day for mother-in-law, and to her pay the tokens of respect that have so long been her due but seldom paid. We realize that this sug gestion, if carried out, would deprive a lot of blue jowled comedians of their chief laugh producer, and render the farce comedians and four-a-day vaude ville stale and unprofitable to a few auditors, but we also realize, or think we do, that the great majority of cleam-minded, happily married men, especially those who are fathers, will lend hearty approval to the suggestion. SIMMONS STANDS FOR AMERICA. More power to Congressman Bob Simmon*, who has just held back a report of the United States tariff commission on cattle rates. New ^ ork and Pennsylvania feeders petitioned for lower rates on cattle coming in from Canada for feeding purposes. Simmons calls attention to the fact that farmers in the western part of the United States have feeders for sale, and are entitled to as much consideration as are the Canadian growers or the eastern feeders. Perhaps, if the situation gets to that point, the farmers of New York and Pennsylvania may be in duced to put in with the farmers out in this section of the world, and make a strong effort to secure lower freight rates, which would accomplish the end they have in view as well as would letting down the bars to Canadian producers. At any rate, western men are to have a hearing on the point, thanks to Bob Simmons. A New York publication is offering $1,000 as a prize for the best article on “What I think about prohibition?’’ But the thoughts of some people would be barred from the mails. Frank Crane is now devoting considerable time to proving that the income tax is all wrong. Frank didn’t think dbout the income tax when he was a preacher in Omaha. Quite a grist of speeders have been seized by the police, but not enough. Until the last bird who steps on it is taken and punished, the streets will be unsafe. A Virginia postmaster has been serving for 45 years. Now just how many miles would the postal cards he has read reach if placed end to end? William Wriglcy it to be Hiram Johnson’s cam paign manager. But is it necessary to provide gum in order to keep Hiram’s jaw a-wagging? Judging by what happened in Philadelphia, we are into European affairs whether we like it or not. Speaking of old songs, wouldn’t it be a great re lief to hear some politicians singing new ones? A regular hen party is now going on—the nnnual poultry show at the Auditorium. Santa Claus is on the way, and we suggest he first call on the weather man. Just now the leading indoor sport is organizing congress. Tiajuana is temporarily pretty dry. Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie BETt’BMNO HOME. At length the road familiar grew. The sumac glorified the way. And down the valley silent lay The village that my boyhood knew. r crossed the brook divinely fair Which rippled with consoling charm. And wound Its way from farm to farm To fade from sight beyond Adair. Before ms spread the rolling loam. The fences and great stacks of lisy. The pastures painted with dismay, ' The house that used to he my home Hut. Oh. the vainness of my quest! K'en though I found the Usedtobe II was deplorable to me To know that 1 was Just a guest. “The People’s Voice” Kd'tonsls front readers of 'I he Morn ing Iter. Readers of The Morning Bee are Invited to use this rolutnn freely for expression on matters of pubilo interest. Harness flip Missouri. Onialia.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The Missouri river has come in for a good deal of attention lately. A visiting city planning engi neer has recommended that our river drives be developed. Of course this should be done. Where will you find more beautiful and inspiring views than from the headlands of the Mis souri? Government engineers are surveying the river. This is a waste of money, for next year this survey will be useless. There Is urgent need for spending money on ,the river where it will accomplish practical re sults. Why throw away the public money? Here Is another example: In the spring a well equipped steamboat leisurely ambles up the river from Kansas City to Sioux City and then turns right around and ambles hack again, being sure to reach camping grounds before cold weather. Oc casionally a piece of driftwood is pulled out of the mud or a sunken tree sawed off under pretense of clear ing the channel: but all to no purpose. Why not spend enough time, money and energy to get permanent and practical results? The Missouri can easily be made an asset Instead of a menace, not only to Omaha and other cities, but also to a large acreage along Its borders. This work is entirely feasible and compara tively eusy. Beware of any visionary schemes for straightening the chan net. If the channel were straightened the swift current would soon cut an Immense gorge much harder to handle than the river at present. The river has found a normal course. Take that as a starting point. The East Omaha Improvements Is a good place to com mence work, and continue from there to 8loux City. But the first consid eration Is to take the river just as it Is found the day work begins ami stop erosion. Tills cutting into the hanks dumps an enormous amount of waste ma terial into the river that divides and deflects the current and causes all kinds of trouble. This is the first thing to stop. Stop this cutting and confine the current to the middle of the channel and you have at once an artery of commerce, a navigable stream. This is a comparatively sim ple matter and not very expensive. A system of retards properly put In and maintained will accomplish this part of the work. Who would think of building a railroad and then leave It without maintenance? Who would buy an auto and not expect to spend any thing for upkeep? Any system of re tards must tie constantly patroled and maintained. The river may swill in behind a retard, or It may start cutting a new place and at a different angle. Provision would have to he made for motor boats to constantly patrol the river, with river hosts am ply equipped to put in retards at easy ; call. When the current Is once con fined to a channel In the center of the stream It will deepen and clear itself, provide a navigable channel, reduce the danger from high water, and then the foundations are laid for other Im proverr.-ents of which power stations are an example. There Is enough power going to waste in the Missouri river to give power, light and heat To every home within 50 mile* of its banks. Barge sums of money have been expended for some time In making the Ohio river navigable and projecting property along its hanks. Freight originating in the upper reaches of the Ohio have a rather short railroad haul to the seaboard, hut It is found that it pays to take this traffic down the river to the Mississippi and thus around by the (iutf. Compare this with traffic originating on the Missouri, where all the water tiaul would he in direct line for market. On parts of this Ohio work, at times, the river In a few hours rises 80 feet above normal stage! Never hut once In the history of the Missouri has tt risen over 20 feet above low water mark, not normal stage, but low water mark. In 18S1 because of an ice gorge the river at Omaha reached 24 feet. At that time the floor of the fntnn Pacific Transfer tit Council Bluffs was welt under water. Can you visualize conditions if the water had or should stand at 38 feet above the station floor? Nearly all of the busi ness part of Council Bluffs and n good part of Omaha would lie under water or washed away. This iliustra trates how comparatively simple and easy is the problem of eontroling the Missouri ns compared with some of the work that the government Is aetunlly undertaking The control tnd harnessing of the Missouri is a very small matter as compared with putting a railroad through the Hooky and other mountain ranges of the coast. One step In this work would he the establishment of large reservoirs on the upper reaches of the river to hold the water and indue* the spring fresh ets, and then from this surplus stor age supply water for a navigable channel during periods of low water. There was recently published an account of a barge tow on the Mis sissippi carrying 400 carload* of freight. This gives some Id's of the possibilities of river traffic. Tt Is pro posed to attend very large approprla iions on the continuance of this Im provement work on the Mu n«"tppl; hut there are several factors that make the control of the Mssourt a compara tively simple matter. The big question I* to get an In telligent and determined public senti ment, absolutely opposed to any form of graft, to hack our m«n In congress from Nebraska, Iowa and Dakota to see that this perfectly fensllrte plan is started and put across. There Is no call for expensive nnd dilatory sur veys. or visionary plans for straight enlng th" channel; hut at once confine the current to the center of Us natural channel, then other steps In tin' Im provement would naturally follow. The Missouri river would then he an artery of commerce, a servant of mankind, an addition to the land scape. s source of power and heat and light, an addition to the h-auty anil prosperity of the community. 8. J. WOOD HUFF It Ha* Cmne to Till*! Prohibition agent* nre to be *ent to the golf rluli*. and for the tlret limn In the hletory of the grand old grim* etymle* will he laid on the 19th green—the atynile eoneletlng of tlio *llp between the eup und the Up.— Now York Tribune. Iiitiulaltive. “Aie you getting out Unions vuttr eonatltuent* to tell them whut. they ought to do?" "Not *n milch flint," anewereil Heim tor Sorghum, "it* to find out wlmt they are going to il" \Vii*hln ton Star. Not Cnii»lrternte. Flapper—Look here, father. I \vt*h that you wouldn't luave nvy nilllinoi > htlla lying nriiund on the table Jiihi when Arthur la on the vvifcu of pto posing!—Judge. The Than ksg iviug Spirit -By II. HOWARD HHJGAR Ho shared his seat with me on a westbound limited train which roiled out of the Union station a few years ago. The khaki uniform, the overseas stripes, and a new artificial limb told me at a glance that he had played full well his part in the world’s great est tragedy. He was one of those clean cut. manly fellows who, when he heard his country’s call, knew at once where his duty lay. Many miles were before us, for ho was going to Texas, and I to Illinois. 80 with the dick of the rails in our ears I slowly drew from him a story. "It happened In the Argonne for est." he said. "Enemy machine gun nests were hidden in the trees and we had orders to destroy them. I was a sergeant with i!4 men in my com mand. Progress through the forest was difficult and the work was ex tren.ely dangerous. We were making an advance one day, and I don't know just how it happened, but something hit ine In the hack of the neck, in the shoulder and in the leg, all at the same time. Things got black just as 1 heard one of iny boys say, 'I guess they've got him.’ They said that I laid unconscious for IS hours before they found me. That was 14 months ago. and I've spent that 14 months in hospitals.” We were riding through Pennsyl vania when he finished the recital of hts part In the great adventure, and when he grew silent again, we both looked out upon the Susquehanna river. Leafless trees bordered the stream, for It was the holiday season. The river Itself was a mass of Icy hummocks. On the other side rose snow-covered hills. There was a dis tant look In my soldier friend's eyes and 1 knew that he was seeing what I coukl not see. With memory's eyes he was looking up Into skies In far off France, skies which at night, were brilliant with the light of bursting star shells. He saw men fighting each other In airplanes at dizzy heights He was living over again those anxious moments just before the zero hour. Again he heard the roar of advancing armies and saw com rades falling. He saw once more the beds of pain In the great hospitals where many and many a time life and death battled for the mastery. I looked into ills face, still showing the suffering of three months in the hospital, and said, ' You've certainly had vour share of trouble.” Quickly he i a me to himself and with * carefree note in his voice lie almost sang back this reply: "Oh, I never stop to think much ahout that. I'm mighty, thank ful to think 1 got off so easy.” Here and there on the train passen gers chafed at the delays in making the train schedules, complained of the porter's service or fretted because of petty inconveniences. But out in the dining car and in the coach, my sol bier friend was always smiling. The time came to bid him goodby at last, and the grip he gave and the con tagious enthusiasm and optimism he displayed convinced me that in the fu ture, in every gruelling bout that, life held'in store, he would turn up smil ing. '•[’v« been away from home 33 months," he said, "it s great to think that I will soon see the folks again. As Thanksgiving dav approaches I am thinking of folks I have met along tii- t-all. folks whose lives exemplify the Thanksgiving spirit, not simply on the one day we set apart, but through out the year. Along with the scores „f faces which pass before me. I see the clear cut features of a face mark ed with lines of suffering, but bright with optimism. It is the smiling face of niy khaki clad Texas friend—a hero of the Argonne. Center Shots You never see a bootlegger having a rummage sale.—Greenville Demo crat-Pun. _ It is easier to grow than to harvest '.he wild oats crop.—Chattanooga Time*. _ A cynic is a man who looks forward hopefully to a disagreement by the Bok peace prize Jury.—Detroit News. A physician says that overeating kills more people than llnuor. But not c iting is more often lal than not flooring.—Arkansas Gazette. (Little Bock.) _ William and Bert Goforth—uh huh. we thought you'd guess it—went forth from the county Jail In Jjongview. Tex the other day without waiting to ask the sheriff's permission — Springfield L'nlon. It also i" a good thing to keep up a steady Interest in polities even when it seems dull, because about once in four venrs the uproar becomes so deafening that only an expert can hope to distinguish coherent argument from mere yowling.—Detroit Free Press. Daily Prayer Ask vut ve will. and It Shall be don* uni* the*—John 15-f O God our Father. Thou hast watched ua during the hour* of sleep, and under the shadow of Thy wings we have rested in snfety. Grant that now. when we awake, we may he still with Thee Mny wo walk with Thee and work with Thee through all the hours of the day, seeing Thee in all the life about Mis. nnd finding It our meat to do the will of Him ho sent ua. nnd to finish Ills work. In the busiest moments, may we never quit* lose sight of Thee, or Slacken the hold of our souls upon the things that are eternal. Defend us from all dangers, hut above all from our own faults and weaknesses. Help us so to pass pass through this day that we shall oast no shade on other lives, but shall bring brightness Into the world about us. And when the day draws to m end, may wo have the quirt Joy of know ing that, by Thy greet', wo have been shin to win and to manifest some thing of that eternal life which Is found In doing Juslly, with loving kindness, and In walking humbly with nod. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. vvii.i.iam PtKttgON Mrmui.iv on, N"W Verlt I'lly, * V NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for October, 1023, of THE OMAHA BEE | Daily .72,205 Sunday.76,905 Poes not Include returns, left over*, samples or papers spoiled lr priming end Include* nr specie sales. B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn (a bel.re me this §lh day of November. 1P2J. W M. QUIVEY, (Srall Noterr Public “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— W ar Strategy to Kill Mark Stem Rust. Prom th# Minneapolis Tribune It is good to heir from the leaders of the movement that the fight against the common barberry hush is to he a. tight to the finish. Continued warfare was reproclaimeil at the convention of the Conference for the Prevention of Grain Kust at the University farm. In sonje respects the obstacles In this tight are more formidable than the obstacles in the fight of the cot ton interests of the south against the boll weevil. There is no divided opin ion about the facts that underlie the campaign against the weevil past. Everybody knows—and therefore does not have to be convinced—that the boll weevil is directly responsible for tremendous losses in cotton produc tion. Kvery person Interested in growing wheat Is aware of the vast damage done by black stem rust to that grain, but not all have been brought to be lieve that common l>arberry produces the spores that disseminate the hlark stem blight In the wheat fields. There are still many who think the weather is responsible. These look upon the anti-barberry fight as wasted effort In so far as It has any appreciable ef fect on wheat production. Thus there is some lack of solidarity in the forces that ought to be pooled In carrying on the war. Great progress is being made, how ever, In ridding the wheat growing regions of this pestilential bush. We are told that in the 1923 campaign, 6,304. bushes a day on an average were destroyed. Since the campaign opened in 1918 considerably over 7,000, 000 bushes have been eliminated Minnesotans have a right to be proud of the part they have played In this movement. Their state was the first to make an appropriation for the purpose of co-operating with the federal government in making war on iho common barberry, For the most part farmers, scientists, grain non, field commanders and business men have worked well together to rid Minnesota of the obnoxious growth. There is still black stem rust, but there also are still living barberry bushes working their mischief, and it is to exterminate these that the strategy of w ar for 1H24 is now being laid out. It Is an ill wind that blows no good. Black stem rust in the, north and the boll weevil In the south have facilita ted the much desired trend toward balanced firming, but this beneficent result should not he permitted to cause any relaxation of the fight against the two evils. We must have wheat and we must have cotton, and it Is playing false to the cause of sound farm economics not to use every enlightened effort to produce the biggest possible harvest on the least possible number of acres 1 ieid per acre is a factor never to he lost sight of in agricultural enterprise that may be called successful. It stands for the difference between profit and loss. Wanted—A Job. From the Boston Trsnerript. Within the next six months, ac cording to an announcement by Briga dier General Hints, national director of the United States veterans' bureau, nearly 2'i.OOO wounded and disabled veterans of the world war w dl have completed their course in vocational training and will he ready for the job that will enable them to take up again a civilian occupation. To secure work for these men and others who wall later be graduated from the vocational training schools. General Hines asks tli« help and co-operation of employ ers, both large and small. These re habilitated soldiers have been taught and have mastered some useful trade or occupation. They are able and willing lo work, and If American cm plovers do not close the door of op portunity In their faces they should not have to go far In their search for civil employment Consider what these men have gone through in order that the liberties of their countrymen might he preserved. The bugle rail of war summoned them from the quiet of the hearthstone to the arduous toil of the training ramp* nnd shell-lorn trenches of France. Then came wounds, disease or shell shock. After one, two or three years of active military duty, these men re turned to the United States not to the occupations to which they de voted themselves before 1DU. but to one of the many hospitals which cared for the American wounded of the world war. Here, year after year, they have been slowly nursed hack to health, and have regained some meas ure of their former bodily efficiency Their unwounded “buddies ' have long ago obtained a place in civilian life, and thev. aa they look for work, face the handicap of five or seven years of vS Less than forty hour* away H on the Kansas City-Florida Special! An all-steel train equipped with every mod ern convenience. Dining car service all the way— Fred Harvey meals on the F risco. , Reduced round trip winter tourist fares. Stop-overs permitted. KreasP ~lortdaSpocfaJ I.eavci Kansas City SiOO pm Arrives Jacksonville •;45 am (*sco«4 Sajr) via Frisco Lines ami Southern Railway For illustrated literature aboot Florida, sleepiiqr car ryserrations or for other information, call at, phone or writ* Frisco Ticket Office 709 Walnut St., k.aiua»Ctty, Mik F. K. Newman DWkw IWecgrr ifdA fnmn Um M. Cornwell Dte IW Art- W *T. *TMU 421 Ry. Bn* TOdf.. luw CRy. IW Fflectirt Dtc. I»l—Through 9 kicrjKt, Ktnui City to Miami •9 The Children Are Corning Home There Is one refrain ringing clear to day While the hearts of parent* yearn, There is one refrain that brightens the day Wherever the home fires burn. It Is ever new, yet, oh, bo old: But to those who are absent or roam It seems a siren enticingly sings. _ "The children are coming home.' Torn, with his bag half packed at best, Your boyish man, with his spirit guy. With his pulsing, bubbling, buoyant zest, la coming to quicken and brighten the day. Mary, with chocolates and a new "fiat" pin. Can hardly wait til! the train pulls in, And she gets an Impulsive, strangle hold On mother and dad, and Tom—If she a bold. Bill, who follows a phantom bright, A phantom that bids him roam. Kinds his heart answering that wistful plea, "The children are coming home. Business is business, yet Brother Cl® ve, Loved the refrain, his parents be lieve; So, he, his wife and the twins full of glee. Will tie part of the merry jubilee. As the train speeds o'er the darkened fields, His worries drbp, as a child he lives In anticipation of the Joyous surprise That will bloom for him In his moth er's eyes. "The children are coming home’’— A spirit of thankfulness—every where Kelt in a thousand loving hearts, Echoed in countless prayerB. —Anne Pedersen. absence from office, shop or factory. It takes no small courage to face and overcome their handicap. These disabled veterans want a job, not charity. They have deserved well of their country, and a chance to work is little enough for them now to ask. _ Outspoken Counsel. From the London P»!!y Eipreer The only course for Great Britain is to leave a league of nations which has just suffered a deathblow In its endeavor to precipitate a new war. and to clear out of a continent whose distresses it cannot cure, and in whose ruin, if ruin comes. It will be lnself Involved in If It does not cut ittelf free. Abe Martin i Death an’ taxis are also gittin’ t’ be purty certain. A bootlegger kin jump in a high-powered car, or dart up an alley, but most any dry of ficer ought t’ be able t’ overtake a brewery. ICopyright, 191?.) THE SPICE OF LUH. He—Is she progressive or conserve/ tive? She—I don't know. She wears a last year's hat, drives a this year's car. and lives on next year's Income — Modern Grocer (Chicago). “What town is this?’' "I don’t see no town.'1 “You're looking on the wrong sMt of the ear.'’—Stanford Chaparral. “Did any of your family ever make a brilliant marriage?” "Only my wife. '—Boston Evening Transcript. _ ^ Porter—This train goes to Buffalo and points ear*. Old Lady—Well, I want a train that gets to Syracuse and I don't care which way it points.—Dry Goods Economist. A Handy Place to Eat Hotel Conant lHh and Harney* Omaha The Center of Convenience two glorious cruises this winter by * Canadian Pacific $ Fares $250 op Moonlight, Tropic Seas, Romance Too busy you say, to enjoy it?_It takes only a month. Too errpensive?~The rates are really very reasonable. 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