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THE referendum on peace. 1 he second phase of that solemn referendum on the league of nations is before the country in the Bok peace plan. The first referendum was on the league as Woodrow Wilson devised it. file second is on the league with reservations_ pai alleiing in many respects the Lodge reservations, ft is conceivable that Senator Lodge himself might be the author of the Bok peace plan. It must be with much gratification that the sena toi thus sees his judgment vindicated and endorsed. Strange are the ways of fate. Woodrow Wilson might have had the league with the Lodge reserva tions. liut he would not, and now, “The stone which the builders refused has become the head stone of the corner.” To Mr. AA’ilson, article X, was the heart of the league. Senator Lodge would have wiped it out as to the l nited States, though leaving it intact as to the other member nations, if they would have it so. The Bok peace plan proposes that article X be eliminated from the covenant, that there be no ref erence to force or coercion, no plans for armies or navies that might crush recalcitrant nations. The jury of award has adopted the new peace plan, “unanimously.” Elihu Root is chairman of the jury. '1 he plan is therefore Mr. Root’s plan, which means much more than that it is Mr. Bok’s plan FREIGHT NOT SECTIONAL PROBLEM. The proceedings at Chicago, inspired by the in terests of certain manufacturers tvho feel they are being discriminated against, may serve to bring the entire railroad rate structure to the examination the president has recommended. Briefly, the proponents ask that the Interstate Commerce commission set t'.side the long and short haul rule, and put in a special rail rate on shipments to the western coast, in order that interior concerns may compete on even terms w-ith those situated on the eastern coast, who now have a distinct advantage in the shipping serv ice through the canal. Conceding the justice that supports the request, the greater question of justice to the entire nation should- come first. The federal government has a monopoly of control over transportation. Rail rates are under the charge of the Interstate Commerce commission, thoroughly bulwarked by law and by courUdecisions. Water rates are supported by the law that forbids any but American built and owned vessels taking part in 'coastwise shipping, and this includes movements through the Fanama canal. In view of this situation, the whole matter de serves to go back to the government, for full ex amination. Mr. Coolidge says, “Competent authori ties agree that an entire reorganization of the rate structure for freight is necessary. This should be ordered at once by the congress.” Such a reorgani zation to be serviceable should give full weight to the factors involved. *The first aspect is that of the continental phase of the question, the second is that the coasts arc now united by water as well as by rail. If rail rates are cut to meet the water com petition, the probable loss in revenue will need to be met by additions to the short haul rate. Here is the crux of the problem. Whatever readjustment is made, and something will have to be done if the interior shippers are to have a fair chance with those of the coast, must be done with regard to what is just for all, for those in the great central valley as well as for those on the sea coasts. No one of the great questions in viting congressional attention is more vital than this, for it holds the secret of distribution, which is the key to continued prosperity in this country. KING TUTS SERVICE TO US. King George of England has done a very gracious act in behalf of another king who was dead and buried 3,200 years before he was born. He has requested that King Tut-ankh-amen’s body be not removed from the sarcophagus in which it is con tained, longer than is necessary to make an x-ray photograph through the mummy casings, then the lemains to he restored to the tomb in which they so long have reposed. This wish, it is reported, will be respected. * Tut-ankh-amen is fortunate beyond many of his kind, in that his fate is in the hands of civilized people. They may invade his tomb, hut not through idle curiosity. Reverently they will despoil the place of its extraneous ornaments, preserving them for the consideration of the studious and curious as well, but the actual tomb will not be desecrated. Science makes that unnecessary, and dust or what ever may be contained in the mummy case will be allowed to wait as it has through the long lapse of time for the end of all things. However, the king did not live or die in vain, nor was the exploration of his vault without gain beyond the intrinsic value of the articles discovered. Inscriptions of untold historical value, of cul tural worth, have been deciphered, and others will be, so that in the end the vainglory and pomp of the yputhful monarch will add materially to the knowledge we have already of the Egypt of his time and before. Such contributions are worth any effort to secure them, chiefly because we now know that the valley of the Nile was the seat of a highly de veloped and influential civilization for centuries be fore Assyria, Greece or Rome emerged from the darkness of barbarism. Religion, science, arts, let ters all flourished in the Egypt of ages ago, and ideas there born still persist. Critics and historians no longer proceed with their work without a careful scrutiny of what is known of Egyptian life, and every treasure house such as the tomb of King Tut adds to the nreumu LUed mass carefully collected and sifted information „f that ancient land. This is why it is no sacrilege t< examine the contents of that monarch’s last rest ing place, hut an act of deep respect, duly justified bv a warranted desire to know what is recorded of the once mighty ruler and preserved in the mortuary prepared for him and miraculously preserved to the discovery of a time that knows what to do with its contents. Tut-ankh amen really is serving a race of men accomplished beyond even the imagination of his dreams. LOOKING FOR PEARLS. “Yes,” said one whitewing to the other, “Tim was a good straight sweeper, but he was a little care less on corners, I noticed.” That is the natural pride one has in his vocation, to be good on corners as well as on straight sweeping. Just now the Brooklyn Eagle comes forward with an oyster shucker, who not only has some pride in his life time occupation, but is something of a phil osopher as well. For 60 years John Anderson has been opening oysters at the rate of 5,500 a day, or 66,000,000 oysters, and he has not yet found a pearl. He has, though, found something else, that is worth many pearls, and that is contentment. He still uses the straight knife, for that is the correct implement for shucking an oyster. The “sculler” hits the shell with a hammer, and leaves hits of shell in the oyster. “I have no words for the sculler,” says John, swelling with honest pride, as he explains the finesse of his operation, which simply consists of thrusting the strong blade between the valves and prying them open. His life’s achievement is thus summarized : He holds a record that no man could be ashamed of. He shucked 9,250 oysters in nine hours once, making 17 7.54 oysters a minute. Nobody else in the history of the world has done that well. Few have ever wanted to. He has averaged 5,500 oysters a day for 60 years. Laid end to end, these oysters would stretch 3,126 miles, or 3,126 times between Horo Hall and the Long Island station by way of Fulton street. Hut if you did that you would get them dirty. Although he has not yet found a pearl, he still looks for one in each oyster he opens. Some day he may be lucky, for pearls grow in oysters. So long as hope upholds him, John Anderson is alive. "AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM” Their tastes and their desires differed. The glamor of the honeymoon soon wore off. They could not think alike. They could not agree. So at last they agreed to disagree and separated. But there came a time when the wife went down into the Valley of the Shadow and brought back with her a little one, and the tiny hands of that babe wrought a miracle in the souls of a man and a woman. Disagreeing upon many things, the father and mother of that tiny babe agreed that nothing else mattered, that all other subjects of discussion faded into nothingness com pared to a discussion of ways and menni to care for the flesh of their flesh and blood of their blood. All former disagreements faded into the illimit able distance, and these two, separated by decree of divorce and brought together again by the touch of tiny hands, walked together to the courthouse and told the judge who issued the decree of divorce that they had been mistaken. They were too late to have the decree annulled. But the smiles of the baby nestling in its crib many blocks away, the remembrance of the touch of its tiny hands, nerved the father and mother to go ahead, so they hastened to County Judge Crawford, who is empowered to issue marriage licenses. Law hedges the marriage ceremony about in this good state, but there are merciful exceptions. And Judge Crawford, made acquainted with the peculiar cir cumstances, hastened to take advantage of those ex ceptions and the divorced father and mother w-ere speedily married. Now they stand, one on each side of the cradle of that tiny babe, renewing their vows and confi dent that in the loving duty of caring for the tiny life entrusted to theif care they can forget the in consequential thing3 that halted the course of their first matrimonial voyage. It is the age-old story of empty hearts filled by the caress of tiny fingers, of gloom dispelled hy the sunlight of a baby's smile. And, after all, the age of miracles has not passed, for no greater miracles have been w-rought than those wrought throughout the ages by the soft caresses of a baby’s fingers, the cooing of a baby’s voice, the sunlight of a baby’s smile. True when spoken, and just as true through all the ages since then, "a little child shall lead them." Between the modernists, the fundamentalists, the higher critics and the new translators, the Bible is getting quite a good deal of attention these days. Common folks will continue to read it for the wis dom, comfort and counsel it contains. All railroad claims growing out of the war have at last been settled. Now, if Uncle Sam can only collect part of what is due him from foreign debtors —but that seems too much to expect. The exact geographical center of democratic platform manufacture is not definitely known, but it is a safe guess that it is either near Miami, Fla., or Lincoln, Neb. Well, Mabel was just about to quit the movies, j anyhow, and so was Edna. The shooting just mad- j their exit a little more picturesque. Governor Bryan now has an opportunity to go over the work of the tax board, and he can not blame it on a previous administration, worse luck. The prisoner who preferred being in jail to shivering in the cold outside showed some regard for his personal comfort, if nothing else. Noting that the republican slogan is expected to be “Keep Coolidge," the South Bend Tribune ex pects somebody to shout, “Hire Hiram. A motor expert predicts the near arrival of the six-wheel automobile. Gracious, are we not having enough trouble with one steering wheel? Speaking of wholesome precedents, there is the one recently set by an Omaha landlord when he very materially reduced rents. France is backing out of the Kuhr, a complete reversal, having gone in the same way. Homespun Verse —Hy Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie THE OLD MAN DREAMS The old mnn sits In hts chair »t night. The cold wind blows and tlie Are Is bright His home Is a shrine that Implies and gives The dreams that are w rought os the
rt gaged so as to finance the state could lie once more clear and the banks could tie paid and stop the interest on money borrowed to build these roads. For six months constant attention has been brought before our officers of the state as to this situation and we have been put off on one thing or another and no action. We see in the papers that the gov ernor may call a special session but hasn't called It yet. This does not relieve us. who have done the work and are holding the sack and "whistling for < ur money." | nor does it create a good feeling to ward the administration. It seeins to me that when Governor Brj n a epted the governorship he < pt< : all th( bllg ' c' that 'bn* i,fflee falls heir to and if there was a deficit In the rnad fund and the peo ple who built the roads could not be paid out of any other fund then It Is the duty of the governor to see that these men get their money even though a special session has to he called I know that Governor Brian does not have to call this session and I do not believe that he can be forced to do so, but I think that he would b« serving the best interest of the people of the state If he did. anil when ho makes this call leave off all the handles of a political nature so s to get down to business and pay an honest deht. There no other debt in the state but what some legal action could lie taken on and f believe Hie big men f poll I want to see this cleared up. Let's not pass the buck to the next administration. 11V. F NIGHTENGALE Futility of Congress. Oxford. Neb —To the Kdltnr of The Omaha Her The expressions, "the people should rule, ' or "the govern mcnt should be given track to the p,, ;.lr- that are so often used by those wishing to appeal for votes Should not deceive any lover of onr Amen in government. 'ftie people have rule i and inkers. They tell Us the nation has Utgrown irs baby clothes and should have a new constitution or amend It to conform to their so called progres slve Ideas. Those who express ad miration for our constitution and true representative gov. rnnient are bawled out by these self style 1 progressives as "the old school," "old guard, ' standpatters" and "reactionaries." Our government through all Its wonderful achievements In the past has l>ecn administered by one or the other of the dominant political par ties, and the people have dictated Which party candidates and platfofnis Should prevail. Tire humbug primary has well nigh wrecked true repre sentative government and the politi cal parties have little to say who shall ho their standard hearers or what platform they shall stand on. ><-t they are unjustly held responsible for the actions of every demagogue that attaches himself to the |mity h\ the primary route The primary, like the English aparrow, was Imported and while the Increasing flocks of sparrows live on the fruits of the farmers' toll and In the destruction of the nesting place of worth while hints, so the primary has hatched and assembled In congress the greatest flock of political demagogues ever gathered under one roof. These gain support by appealing to the passions and prejudices "f the voters and, like the sparrows, they are pirates trying to destroy the character and block Ihe work Of worth while statesmen They have a holj* horror of men who are loyal to the political pniij' that elected them, styling them p»r tisans, hut they have no minima at being so partisan that if their hand fid of "xl bloc members can't dictate Hie i lialrman of a committee, tliev are willing to block all legislation and millet the taxpayris for the cost They don't believe In a party caucus hut tin f hold a bloc caucus that lias for Us only purpose the defeat of tin will of the ii,«i lorlly of tlii’ir political parly In congress. htyling themselves the farm labor |,Inc, they contend that farmers' trim hies nil came through re.u-tlotiarj leg islation and tiler demanded last Mini mer that congress ho called, even ■-ending s wire to Harding on hi death hrd. a,, they could make the farmers prosperous, and yet a whole month of the sonslnn Inis gone, fur which the farmers will pay. and the. culillnilo In block, legislation because a small minority. the\ cannot ilillllinate, regardless of tile Will of the majority the. how-1 about iho wickedness of the spoils system, hut LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press Editor Witherow of the Palmyra Items confesses that he lias had to give up trying to explain to a young son why a shipment goes by car and cargoes by ship. • • • .Jack Kroh of the Ogallala News wants everybody in his town to put In the new year speaking good words for the town. Its business and profes sional men, Etad its surrounding tern tory. Jack has been doing it for years, but it seems that he has been too lonesome. * • * "An American citizen," asserts Mentor Brown in the Kearney Hub, "who will line up with Russia In tHe dispute between Hughes and Tchltch erin is not ho good ut> American that he will not bear watching.” Quite true, and we are doubtful of the Americanism of the man who will line up behind a name like Tchitrherin, anyhow. • • • The Fremont Tribune opines that the ultimate consumer Is mighty lucky these days to have anything to consume. * The Lexington Clipper devotes a column to explaining the difference between a cyclone and p tornado. But it is easier to read about the dif ference than it is to see it after one of 'em passes. • • • Noting that a scientist claims to have discovered a substitute for coffee, Editor Templin of the Shelton Clipper chortles that this particular scientist is a has-been. A Shelton restaurant keeper mode that discovery several years ago. » • • A wolf having recently escaped fmm a Nebraska zoo. the Grand Island Independent hastens to assure the zoo keepers that It isn't the one a lot of Grand Island people are shooing away from their doors. • • • Congressman Howard hag filed for re-election, whereupon the Schuyler Sun opines that Edgar must have filed as a derfiocrat. the progressive party which Edgar sponsored having gone flooey. • • • The York Democrat is sanguine that the "Bryan wing" of the democratic party in Nebraska will nut oppose Arthur Mullen's ambition to he na tional committeeman again • • • Noting that astronomers are look Ing for an overdue comet, the Pierce Call predicts that it will strike the earth about the lime Governor Bryan 1 lunches his boom for president. • • • Dwight Griswold of the Gordon •Journal is both an optinvist and a forward looker. He says, despite the cold weather, that it won't tie long until the boys will he gifting their baseball mits nut. lie might have site) with equal truth that a lot of candidates already have their mitts out. • • • Editor Mammon of the Holdre^e Citizen is greatly annoyed by the fact that a large numlver of counterfeit flOO bills are in circulation Probably because a lot of delinquents are Lath to pay up lest they pass a counterfeit on ye editor. • • • There always is some one on hand to witness the arrival of the train muses Ed Curran of the Greeley Citizen. • • • "A bargain that takes money out f Crofton is a backfire '" shouts the Cri.fton Journal. • • • Creorge Bensrhoter of the 11 > Sprinps News, know* a hawk ft "in a handsaw. Noting that W. J. B has in mind for the democratic n mini* tion a southern man who is dry and progressive. Bon blurbs that bv moving to Florida W. J. I?, quail del all three ways. no man, regardless of qua lift iti n ran get their vote f»»r confirmation unless he will eat out of their hand They tell the soldiers they have tr vented a scheme whereby they can pay them a l*>nus and lower th* farm era* taxes by the same le\er. and the strange thing Is that same people N lieve it. While the democrats cannot but enjoy seeing the republican party put fin a hole by this little handful of self-styled progressives. It is to be hoped that they will rise above polit: cal vantage and help in legislation that will bring relief to the jntrv In lower taxes by killing the bureau eratlc craze and squelch the . unstitu t Iona 1 rev iso rs. A C RANKIN. "Good Fellows in Politics." North Platte, Neb.—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee: In Tuesday’s paper there appeared a touching edi torlal entitled "Good Fellows in Pollti- m. ’ purporting to enlist tin* sympathy of the people of the state f>>r the Honest John” or "Honest Ham” who lias yielded to temp*atlon. and fallen. But the editorial does not entirely cover the ground. There are others There are "Honest Bills.” and "Honest Arts” and Honest Peters.” too. "Honest John” and "Honest Sam” were talked of. for offife. It \< true. Moreover, they were elected to office, and never did the*, fail to perform the dities of their office faith, fully an.I honestly, and with due re gards to the needs <>f the community as well as the Individual man. But how about the others'* How about the "Honest Peters,” who couldn't handle their jobs after they got them? Or the "Honest Arts." who ran again and got turned down’ Or about the "Honest Bills,’* who also had ambitions. In fact, more ambitions than friends, so that they couldn t ever get the nomination for a position on th^ city council or the school board, to say nothing of winning the election to the office of mayor, or to a scat in tlie state legislature While the "Honest Johns and Sam* leg the fat offices In the gift of the peo pie, which everyone knows were created simply to give these same Johns and Sams gome nice plums and not at all because the taxpayer wanted real service from the men the-, voted far. And when things, happen that look bad f«>r the Johns and Sams, do the Bills and Berts and Arts and Peters stand by the friend who granted them theHc favors in private life? Well, not » you could police it For unfortu nately it often happens that the fell* w who isn't In and can't get in. finds his only satisfaction in knocking the f. How w ho is in. But tills knocking may sometimes become a boomerang When i brick under a 1 at Is kicked Yptil Fool’s day, the man who hurt worst is the on* who k ked the brick, though sometimes a broken fragment of brick may hit the other fe’.low But the circumstantial ex l dence properly directed ought to Identify the man with the ion> to. ns the one who kicked the brick rather than the one with the L utsed face, but with two perfectly good feet Let’s make a few other fellows take off their shoes and show u«. and i* my of them try to run. Just stait tin* C rifT aftei the and tin ill'll'' n* hax e a chance to learn something in tcresting And while they are taking off their shoes, it might bo ns well to find out w ho it was who put the brick there to be kicked, and to make it look as if It was Sain or John who kicked it And it would surelx require a crin.* inal lawyer of long experience and wonderful talent in his line to con vince a .ini' that a bruise on a man's face was Incnntmv«t tIble evident *■ that he xx is the one that kicked the brick WILLIAM Kl I HUMAN Lincoln, Neb “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Paying a Hold of Honor. Krom th# Pittsburgh Chronicle.Tub-graph Announcement by the War depart ment that cx-setv:i women as web is men are eligible for free medical treatment is in line with justice and common sense. The assurance has been received by the American Wo men's Overseas longue. This means that any army or navy nurse or yeo manette possessing a certificate of honorable discharge and of disability may #nt< r a govet nrn< nt hospital ot home for expert care. The duration of the disability or the manner in which it was receive.! will make no difference Kntry into a government institution entails no obligation to re main. Patients are free to di part whenever they please. Their cost of transportation to and front then homes will he paid from the treasury. Few women thus far have cl-ili/ud such attention and it has been found necessarv, therefore, to set apart only one institutin'- for their benefit, at the soldiers' home, Danville, 111-, which is centrally located and well equipped for the purpose. Two brick buildings have been designated for the women's exclusive use and there Is also ,1 hospital available with 200 bedn. The estimate that approximate 52,000 women are elig.hle for this benefit gives some Idea of tin extent of the service rendered by the theoret ically weaker sex to their country in the time of Its emergency. According to a previous ruling, ex-service wo men were eligible only to the relief derived from the veterans' bureau, whirh required 10 per cent disability attributed directly to service for the army or navy, t'nder the new system the women will be given the same status ns the men and it is difficult to see why there ever should have been any discrimination against tid-m wi lie the patients will he received at Danville, applications are to be ir/tde to Gen. Get rge 11 Wood at the Na tional Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Dayton. O. If is time our government made this signal recogni tion of the equal value of the wo men's contribution to the winning of i be war Is Xnntlirr Ki-i*iissan< f Due? From the Cheyenne Tribune. “It may he that the period through which we have been passing is hut a little understood preliminary to a new and tremendous outburst of in telk-ctual, esthetic and moral achieve ment.'’ “The modern world began with a renaissance that represents in many Helds the high water marks of human ■ inquest. May it not be possible that i y • rid renais--':r , v. h l:y different in form and content, but equally ber.ef icent in its results, is in the mak-< ing.” The foregoing th<> ightful savings are from the annual report of Piesi dent Nichi -la/i Murray Butler to the trustees of Coiumbi t university. They express ideas which are In the minds . •f most observing and contemplative men and women. The world is nv ving. as Mr. Butler says The great unrest which per vaded the whole world for several years, before the war. as well as since, must be the initial outcropping of a new movement f r better re sults While it Is true that the human family, nr part of it. V s retrograde at times, or that part • f it is always stavistic, and while it is true that progress and re eseion move in huge cycles, nevertheless mankind contin ues tv ernor has simply failed to draw on the federal tieiaury ± r state ap propriation When Bryan's political I soap bubbles have been burst the | public will note that his admlni«tra ition has been a grandstand play from the start to finish. \ IVfb ate Balance. From th* Suit I,nkr Tribun#*. I>r. Benedict ef the Nutrit • n !t1 - r 1 atnry at W ashington has nv do some j interesting discoveries concerning the loss of water from the human body. | Being a balance co sensitive that a j pin’s weight would tip the beam, he (found that a football player lost 14 (pounds of weight in a game lasting n hour and lrt minutes. v mar.* th at runner lost eight and » half pounds In a three hour race A var sity oarsivjnn lost five and a half pounds in \ four mile race lasting -- minutes Most of this loss is pei spired wafer largely from the lungs hut a small fnirt m of it conn s from body tissues burn • 1 up in the flies of [life. Kven when in bed and asleep. | the loss of water and carbon dioxide goes on continuous1 \ In K»S expert inentu on f*different men there was in average !• ss «.f ne and one third <*un. •>* per hour while lying quietly In bed So the average adult wakes up In the morning after eight hours sleep some 10 ounces lighter than when he retired. We restore the loss when we eat and drink Wom thrs* experiments It Is evl NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for November, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Dor* net include returns, left over*. • ample* or paper* spoiled ifl printing *nd Include* no *pe# *1 • Air* or fire (ittulAlinn of any kind V. A BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. SutiMtihrd and o*orn to before me thi* ttth day of December, 192 L W M QUIVt Y, (Sr*l) Notary Public dent that scales accurate enough to ascertain the weight of the breath may serve as a measure of metabol ism, an Index of the aetlvlty of the bodily processes, in place of them- re bothersome methods notV In use, the determination of the heat production f>y the calorimeter or of the analysis of the expired air by the chemical methods. The new method has al ready been used in hospitals where it is important to know the metabolism of the patient. Six women patients were found to lose from six to 13 ounces each during 31 hours in lied. Each breath of air that we inhale adds some oxygen to our bodily sub stance. But with each breath Of air that we exhale the oxygen escapes again, carrying off with it some of the carbon and hydrogen that has served ub as fuel. The food we eat keeps up our energe, and the water w< evaporate relieves ns largely of oui surplus heat. So the Income- and outgo of both matter and energy are kept perpetually and automatically In balance. Or, if they are not, we become speedily bankrupt ami fina'K defunct. Stopping our outgo of evaporated water would kill u* quicker than stopping our income of food and drink. A fireat Invention. From the Sioux Falla Pre^s. Those who have worried about the big margin of error in government crop reports may prepare to cheer up. A device has been perfected, says th* Department *f Agriculture, which j will greatly aid th<* crop forecast'- j in one of his chief diffb lit ep. that of j accurately estimating acreage planted ■ in certain crops. This magic devi e. | attached t«* an auto, will check off I the linear measurement* of all fields in various crops bordering on high ways. Jus? how rr.-ucb more efficient than in ordinary auto speedometer, which gives distance to tenths of a mile this machine is has not been stated, it i* declared by the department that hv covering sufficient territory a very accurate ratio between the area* jr different crops ran be determined By covering the same highways year! after year, the change in acreage in ■ various crops can l*e worked out. Th« j /nsfrument l* to be us*-d in practical- j ly all states hereafter. It well be costly, of course to suj j ply the autos necessarv for these sur \e.v*. and ke*p them runr g B :• j think of the nun her of new jobs opened up f* r g* ve. mr.emal an: drivers and checkers—it. w 11 take two f the aided clerical help to tabulate th<* findings. N' t provision seems to have boon made for estimating the other d:rr- a ‘ • hi t • measured t he fan j nts a held of r jn or wheat without brine ing one side of it up to a public high way will lose out on getting it count ed. Perhaps a la v will he prssed thit fa roadway must be left entirely ■.r * ind ea* h fle d r an air fer.ee will 1 ere ’a- i to spy out hidden tr cts In either rase the agriculturist will I find himself f i!ed by trying to con 1 • ’ anything from the eagle-eyed vr \ I erurnent estimator. Some d- y. w hen the taxpayer* gc-» j tired of paying for all this sort of] • • f frank* car ds sent to ear h postoffke and di*- j trlbut*d t* e.:f new y- * for th^i f ithful \ DASH Oh I \ BAS CO. "Do von always read in the orir-! inal Fr* n '* “Yes; translations are! so Indecent. —Lif^ "Havf y u seen your hubbv “Why yes I ran a hire at breakfast only the othei "ok — L ndon M « : Mr* Slim (meditating—I wond* r why fai men are always s«* good-ns t ur» d Mr. S’in.—Bt -ause nobc i. loves them —Life. "I wish now ' said the lecturer. fax your memory " A wall in the au dience: “Has U come to that?'—Edin burgh Scotsman. I hear your wife had twins yes terday " "Well, who would venture to enter the world alone in these time*?" —Christiania Tyrihans A Handy Place to Eat Hotel Conant 16th and Hi*. ne> • Ora ah* The (Centei of Convenience Abe Martin lher's nothin’ ugly a5 an ugly disposition. Some women seem t' jump in a rlressin’ jacket an' »tay there. Copyright, 1224. I.ITI l, MIZ M YORKER. (Letter from Fredie to BUM Bill, yuh've hln s’long awe.gh 'at eye meen t' right An’ fine out wen ver kuroin' ha’ homb again t' fight Wit me. Th da ip Is lonesum. Mah Hturr.ii hit feels sit Eye ha In t kno aptite—O. how eye miz yuh—Blame ole brie! Miz Vf i kef > chut eye'm right n t tell yuh all erbcut — .Kill II lay fer yuh wen yuh git beer— sew jest watch out! LItu! Miz Xu Yorker's kum t’ our town t play. An' ' at . idie tipis provinshul,’* Maw sez, an' right fer pay; She visj.'h stores an' shurches ar. sr-h elvibb* an' tl mgs Xen prints off t' >r studdie az f.i»t iz pi Run wings Whilst .r.spur-1 shun in er. Maw sez, an' ah've know doubt She i put yuh in er poum—ef '■ ;h doan watch out! Wor, i. Maw an' Grannie, both -n 'em gnMipt hard 'Bout ft upper guri* in nickers. K ". hared ar.' rooahed an' tarred Maw ted: At ere Miz Yorker laffet at ,;n' cailded she A s . Hn' dowajur fer ree-pro-R •. way s 'at be 'X'they erd me neafh th' Sophie— whur I wuz playin' scout— An' - I Miz York eats Eve's drops up— niess they watch out! " Dads kr,r it run inter Joneses o.e btind-lde mule. An' prit nigh inter us kids, ! ez wee kum (rum scbule. 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