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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”
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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.
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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
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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.
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