The Morning Bee mornin g—e v e n I n g—s unday THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President It ALLA KD DUNN, Editor in Chief JOY M. HACKLKR, Business Mgr. # MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Pee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republicatlon of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulations audits, and The Omaha Bee’s circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT 1 _ * 1 HAA the Department or Person Wanted. ** » loilLlC lUlAJ OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—15 Scott St. Now York—World Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. St. Louis—Syndi. Trust Bldg. San Franoisco—Hollrook Bldg. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. Lob Angeles—Higgins Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. MONOPOLY AND MUSCLE SHOALS. Cynical and carping observers have professed to see in Henry Ford’s support of President Coolidge a bargain concerrting the Muscle Schoals project. What will these say when they read the assertions of Edward B. Almon of Tuscumbia. Ala., who repre sents that district in congress? He charges that the counter-proposition submitted for the purchase of Muscle Shoals is intended to consolidate the monopo listic control of the water power in the hands of a concern that is now operating there. Almon is from the section most concerned locally. Tuscumbia is very near where the work is carried on, and its congressman should be well informed as to the hopes as well as the needs of the people in that vicinity. He knows, among other things, that the great power company which is principally owned in Canada, will bring little of additional service to the public if it obtains possession of the big plant that will be ready to operate when the Wilson dam s completed. Henry Ford's proposition naturally contains cer :ain speculative elements, tending to favor the pro ooser. He is not suspected of being altogether a philanthropist, for he really is a shrewd investor. That he has accumulated a very large personal for tune is entirely due to his especial gift for organiz ing the production of an article that finds much favor with the public. Other things engage his at tention,* and he sees in Muscle Shoals an opportunity to set up an industry, from which great benefit will flow to the farmers and some profit to Henry Ford. Likewise the power concern, which has quietly obtained control of most of the “white coal’’ in the south. Whoever handles Muscle Shoals must have enormous capital resources to begin with, but it will be of great advantage to the public if there be com petition, as well as for the great project in which so much of the people’s money has been invested. Almon has given the critics something to think about. ILLITERATES IN OMAHA. 'One of the disclosure* following the inquiry of the Woman's clufc into conditions of illiteracy in Omaha challenges the mind. From a survey con ducted by the club with the assistance of the public school authorities it is developed by the club that :!!iteracy prevails to an alarming extent in Omaha. In the report it is stated that 2,700 men and women who can not read and write have been located, and estimates are made that 4,000 such actually live in the city. Assuming that this survey shows the actual facts, the situation is grave. In a county so wealthy and progressive as Douglas, with such lavish provision made for public education, there should be no illiter acy. Of course, the answer to this will be that these unfortunate men and women have been imported. That is true, but they should be encouraged to take advantage of the schools that are open to them, and 9s quickly as possible relieve themselves of their •remendous handicap. No disgrace attaches to the condition of illiteracy rhere the victim has not had an opportunity to at tend school. To continue fn that state when op portunity is offered to escape is to voluntarily accept til the inconvenience and handicap that attends such Ignorance. No law can compel these illiterates to amend their situation, but moral suasion should be exerted to the end that as many as possible be induced to attend night school. Any percentage of illiteracy in ■ )maha is too much. MORE DRYNESS IN THE NAVY When Josephus Daniels, as secretary of the navy, issued the famous order that banished the punch bowl from the officers’ mess and substituted innocuous grape juice for the effervescing juice of the grape, there was great rejoicing in certain quarters and much weeping and vailing and gnashing of teeth •n other quarters. Now comes Secretary Mellon with a proposal looking to a genuinely dry navy. He suggests an appropriation of $23,000,000 to build and equip speedy cruisers whose only purpose will Se to chase down and capture the rum-running ships that keep more than 20 miles inland about as wet as the ocean for 12 miles out. It ia only natural that congressmen who are always anxious to grab off a few millions for politi cal improvements in their bailiwicks should stand ighast at the proposal to spend all that money where they could never hope to profit. Equally natural is it that congressmen who personally oppose prohibi tion and lack the nerve to say so to their constitu ents, should deprecate the idea of spending so many millions, or any millions, in curtailing the supply. But Secretary Mellon’s solution of the problem of damming out the illicit liquor is the best yet offered. The only thing it lacks is the positive assurance that the men who are to be in charge of the dry navy shall be men who will tackle the job honestly. To date the public has had reason to doubt the sincerity of official efforts to stop the illegal traffic. DONKEY S TROUBLES IN NEBRASKA As a strategic as well as a tactical advantage, the lemocrats of Nebraska always endeavor not only to choose the battleground, but to name the leaders for the republicans. We do not blame our brethren for this; only we would regard the republicans as ■mprudent, to say the least, did they permit the chief opposition to have its own way in everything. Just now the sachems are tentatively thumping the tomtoms and preparing the medicine that will be exhibited when the moment arrives. On this ground we may account for the excessive apprehension ex hibited lest the republicans fall out among them selves. Having determined that both Coolidge and Johnson will enter the primaries in Nebraska, the democratic big chiefs express themselves as unr certain as to which will be favored by the voters, and ao are gradually'working up a sweat that might be more easily acquired by a visit to the medicine | lodge direct. What really is going on behind the scenes is the discussion of ways and means to prevent the Ne braska delegation going to the convention, where ever it is held, in the leash of a former resident who now gets his mail in Florida. If W. J. B, could be eliminated in some way, the rest of the problem j would be simple enough, but how to get vid of him t without a fight is not easily solved. So, while the brethren of the other side really are perturbed over their own affairs, they profess enormous solicitude for the welfare of the repub licans. Maybe it will be as well for them to wait and see which of the champions the voters of Ne braska favor, whether it be Coolidge or Johnson. In the meantime the talk of Morehead as a leader is not giving any comfort to the Bryanites. SPEED FARM RELIEF. When President Coolidge took the stand that the first thing to be done to help the wheat growers was increase the tariff on wheat, he showpd that he understood the situation. He has done all that he could under the law, in ordering the federal tariff commission to investigate the costs of production here and in Canada. It is fairly to be expected that their finding wiU agree with the opinion expressed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, and with that of the president. In the event that the tariff commission reports favorably, Mr. Coolidge has announced the inten tion of putting into effect as high a duty on wheat imports as he can under the law, leaving other remedies of a practical but less emergent nature to follow'. • Much quicker action, however, could be ob tained through congress. If the people’s representa tives in Washington are really in favor of assisting the farmer, they could enact a law without delay, increasing the protective tariff and clearing the way for other remedies such as feeding that part of Europe that is starving, even though we had to give them the food. Official endorsement of this program is found in the report of Secretary Wallace to the president, in which he concludes: “The sale or gift of i substantial part of cur surplus wheat to countries which are not able to buy, and which would, therefore, take out of the ordinary channels of trade and competition the t wheat sold or given, would unquestionably have a helpful effect upon domestic prices of wheat, pro vided larger tariff protection were given. What the wheat farmers want is an end of wind jamming in congress and some real financial relief. Xo plan could at once be more practical and benefi cial both to the people of America and of Europe than this proposal. AROUND THE WORLD BY AIRSHIP. What looks like the most spectacular of all man’s undertakings is the flight around the world, planned by the air service of the United States army. On April 2, next, a group of fliers will hop off at Seattle on a journey that is intended to encircle the globe, the route for which covers 39,000 miles, or nearly three-fifths greater distance than the equatorial circumference of the globe. The first leg of the flight will be from Seattle to one of the Aleutian islands, near the tip of the chain. This will be almost due west from Seattle, strange as that fact may seem. Next jump is across Behring sea to Kamchatka, and southward to Nagasaki. On to Calcutta from there, and thence to Constantinople. London is the next division point, and then comes Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, and back over Canada to Seattle. Quite a lesson in geography. Take down your atlas and study the route, and see what a wonderful part of the world is covered by this 39,000-mile route. Foreign governments already are interested in the projected trip, and arc giving all needed as sistance in arranging the preliminaries. What docs it mean? Well, folks wondered when Stefansson claimed for Canada certain islands in the Arctic, asking what he was about. Then it develop ed that these islands would make splendid landing places along an air route to circle the- globe. It was found the distance from London to Tokio would be cut more than in half, for example, and that other advantages might follow. Circumnavigation of the globe by airship is considered practical, and American fliers are preparing to demonstrate the fact. Whit it may lead to is another matter en tirely. Senator Magnus Johnson will soon address a gathering of banker^ and says he is going to tell them how to run their business. Wouldn’t it he a joke if some banker should interrupt by shouting, “Go learn to milk a cow, Magnus?" The word blizzard may have been coined in Iowa, but it hns been counterfeited by New York news papers every time there was a light fall of snow west of the Mississippi river. Blisters on the hand are not a conipensatahle accident in Nebraska. If it we# so, then the casualty list could be greatly extended. A hard-boiled judge is now going to annoy Nina Wilcox Putnam, just because she fibbed a little in her effort to get a divorce. Darn it! And perhaps those California mountains are dipping around trying to locate some of that boast ed climate. No matter what the stork is racing against, it ir, always safe to bet on the stork for first or place. The Bok plan was intended to bring sweet peare, and just look what a row it has cooked up already. It is very generally agreed that, somebody has plugged up one end of the open winter. Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie LOOKING AHEAD. Win- looking ahead when morning dawns we re tool, ing ahead at night. As weeks and months and year* go by we follow the fleeting light Of happy thought* of days lo be, and ardently, hope fully tread Beyond the I’resoiit and I 'm d To lie. dreaming and look ■ Ing ahead. We re looking ahead In buoyant youth und fushlonlng future dear; We're looking abend iia manhood cornea and gleams of zest a plies e. When duly rails and sirength replle*.—when ehlld hood's bliss hue fled— A vision is foremost In our eyes, we re Joyfully looking ahead. Ami when the zenith of life Is past and dusk ion.es ralmly on. tnd dreams of old. wrought true at lust, have followed their course ami gone; When faith alone remains In mourn life's gstlands willed and deoil— We gludly await the liodcifiptlun Morn, dreaming and looking ahead.'1 “THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” editorial from readers ol The «lorBlnt Baa Raacan ot th* Marain* Baa ara Invited to uaa thie column fretl> for expression on mattera ot tubllo interest. _ Fanner Against Tax-Exempt Bonds. Pendef, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I know The Bee is a very strong republican paper. I, being a farmer, am one of the many who are bearing ttie burden of taxa tion and feeding the rest of you, and am sick hearing so very much ad vice. The republicans, by adding one law to our constitution, and that is to tax all bonds and all securities, can help lift our national burdens. Every farmer wants this done. This would get all fanner votes and one half of the democrats’ as well. AVe farmers see President Harding and also President Coolldge have, by their statements, left the farmers to shift for themselves. without aid. How do they expert the farmers’ votes? Tax ail capital: he fair, and get all the votes. This Is the only fair and Just way to help the farmer and all the rest of smaller huslness. LEWIS EATON. A Plea for tlie Bonus. Kearney, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: An article in the People's A’oice, written by Elliott Loomis of Gibbon, Neb., may carry some truths, hut 1 will deny eome of his statements and 1 think other ex service men will hear me out in this. First, lie states we received a *60 bonus and one month’s pay besides. We received *600 bonus if the wants to call it that, but no extra month’s pay. I do not call that *60 a bonus, as I wore out civilian clothes amount ing to *45 before I was Issued army clothes. "And still they want more." We don't ask for charity; just make up the difference between the man that stayed at home and the man who went Into the service. Mr. Elliott Is very considerate in stating that the disabled veterans should be properly f ared for. We all -heartily agree to that. But better make it snappy, so they won't he dead before it gets to them. He also says that the average mother does far more for her country, raising a family, than a soldier does AA'e all know this as well as Mr. El liott. A large |>er cent of men cn dured untold hardships and all kinds of suffering while in the service.'The graveyards scattered over Europe hear mute evidence to that fact. He states we spent two or three years In the service rm good pay. Question? What did the man get that was at home the same length of time? Not that one of us would trade places with the stay-at-homes. P.ut we would like to he compensated fa'rly. How far eould^ a ,sen Ice man get if lie had saved every dollar while In the service and started farming, say in the spring of 1220? T might tpiote the price of grain, stock and ma chinery in the snrir.r and fall of that yenr for Mr. Elliott’s benefit. "Those who spent their money for luxuries should not expect to have It returned to them." Well, listen, hrc'her. nf'er vou pav the harher. tailor and insurance. Just, the neres sities so you can look like a human 'hen if yon have very much left of the *30 per for luxuries you sre a wonder. As to waiting till old age 1 efore von heln the veterans, ns Mr. Elliott suggests. T will add. in nssslng. a ipt'e heln when out of the service e*.ii sti’l aide to work would fix a lot of service men so t-hey would he in dependent In oM n~e MIT.TON TT. FRANK. Business Conditions I.aat Tear. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I attach an item of news appearing in the Blair Tribune concerning "Douglas County Pros perity of 1923." which contradicts your paper's contention. 1 am Inclined to place more failh in your conclusion with respect to the prosperity of 1923 than that which the Blair Tribune attempts to show as "Inflated Propaganda." The fact that Dougins county records show that 64.609 mortgagee, leases and artisans' liens w • re filed in Douglas county during 1923, and that is.CIS were released. and further go to show that 119 197.773 Is was added and I11.669.3S1.PJ released by 19,619 mortgages, it appears to me to represent a condition of pros perity. If the difference between the mortgages filed and released is rco resented by increased building, par ticularly the building of new homes. Now with respect to the Washing ton countv figures T do not believe that an analvs's. based on the fig ures that th“ Blair Tribune furnishes can be mnde to determine whether •bat eountv 's or !« not In a period of retrogression. Primarily thev do rot show the number of mortgages filed and released and T doubt from par personal knowledge of Conditions there, that much, if any. of the emonnt renresented In increased amount of mortgages Is due to fi nancing of new building projects. On the who’e tt dr.es not apnear ‘bat your naner furnished very eon nelng evidence of prosr.erltv In Douglas counts* during 1993 and 1* might not be am'ss to correct r>nv erroneous Impression that your f!c ores jn-v bare left In the mlnda of vour Washington county customers DAP Object to BoU Plan. Omaha To the Tv 11 tot1 of The Omn ha Peer Edward TTok must have n lot of "money to burn** to rive von.e one (name not mentioned) S.'o.ooo to run the old "league of nation*" at raw through the hopper again. This thinly veiled attempt to Ket a popular endorsement of the misguided «*fT spring of the Versailles treaty may prove n two edged sword. The Judges (with one exception) air old league advocate* so It’s no wonder that the prize award should go the wav It did. The question 1* will * enough of us win* r in agree on this one queatlnn to n.oke another renub Mean victory sure or gr*at!\ .c^ist a third partV move Me A don Imagine* that this di iw vote endorsement coming nt thin ♦tine will greatly help Him get the nomination and *!*•» Iieln Mm keep us out of nil war*’ just like IP n t In law diil in 1014 ft is to he uiceretr hoped that • rue day these cent | ■ ternatlonal law students ill find time enough to icvlew our federal const It nt ‘on, atut And out where under that Immortal horiiment such i ernnt »• f power lies, that would per nJt of the creation of a super sta e such as the league of nations cove nant proposes. If Mr. Bok anil his colleagues could only realize when they were outreasnned and outvoted, much em barrassment would he avoided at I home and abroad. The average American wishes to' preserve intact the Monroe doctrine and the magnificent isolation of our forefathers. Thus our national security and liberty of action is made possible. This isolation has been our bulwark and has created a condition of respect abroad. Note what the London Economist of recent dale says, "That the American mind will cer tainly remain true to Washington” and quoting from his farewell address, "It Is very unlikely to enbroli itself in the ordinary combinations and colli sions of European friendships and en mities,” and then adds, "But there are other ways in which the 1'nited States can lend a hand.” This British view we can not afford to overlook In a nutshell the question resolves itself into whether we are to follow the ambition and mistakes of Wilson or adhere to the wisdom of Washing Ion. S. AKION LEWIS. Would I'pllft tile Movies. Boelus, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Another movie scandal! Another of the fair heroines of ours whose duty it is to amuse, entertain and Instruct, to enact soul-enthralling kisses upon the stage or screen, to feel the public scorn leveled at her bead. "I am Innocent.” shrieks this fair model of ours. 1 kit the public withhold judgment. Oh. yes. 'tis true that the public has been fed up too many times on the scandalous stories of the characters of the movies that It is quite prone to pass hasty judgment. But to say the public is often wrong In its quick conclusions would require the pen of a humorist. It Is hard to find a more fitting thought along this line than that ex pressed recently by a noted writer: "To see a truly moral and inspiring theme enacted upon the screen by the creatures of Hollywood must in deed cause the majority of American thinking people to smile,” Let's see, not long ago Will Tf. Hays, the czar of the movies, was to reform conditions. It would lie il luminating indeed to know what he has accomplished. When the facts are known, the actual results would be "bunk.” Not long ago the suggestion wag made by the editor of one of our Nebraska dailies that much might be accomplished if sonic free advertis ing were taken away from some of these stars. A great film, featuring etc. If people demand a cleanup of the! movies, more can be accomplished than by latl czars of the movies 11 honor to T>r. Jennie Callfas for her stand as to the pictures of Mabel Normand. "First let Miss Normand entirely clear herself from everv stigma of blame.” Is the substance of he- s*and. Hard indeed Is It to understand tbe position of those who opposed her view- of this case There Is no gain s-iving the fart, the mnvle Is here to stav, hut let's all stand together jp uplifting and Improving It. C. W. KEL80. Heroism of the Pioneer*. Kansas City, Mo.—To the Kilitor of The Omaha Bee: Recently 1 at tended a picture show in which I saw that film entitled "The Covered Wagon," and I fell to thinking of my father. R. W. Steele's, pioneering days. He left his name state (Ohio) in the year 1X47 and came west to Fair field, la. The next year he returned to Ohio and married. My mother's maiden name was Susanna Nevln. They then returned to Iowa and father, a surveyor, surveyed the sec ond tier of counties from the south. Then, In 1X51, he returned to Cin cinnati and graduated from the law school at tlmt place. The women of that day were certainly heroines. My mother, with an Infant son. stayed In Fairfield, where she whs alone so far as relatives are concerned. If »l> kness came, she could not let father know under two or three weeks, and It would have taken him as long to reach her'. Father \\as of a restless disposi tion and he moved in IS51 to Indian "la. In the same state. The other three i hlldren were born there. One day while surveying thiw counties. It was a very cold day. and they had been laying off a town, after which they were eating lunch and discuss ine what thev would name the town, when onp of the men sue—ested Snmerset.biit another said he though it would lietter he Winterset, end so it >s today. During the year USB he moved to what sms known as Flnreni'e. Neb. At that tline It aanired to l>e the capital of the territory, ni d the leg. Is’nture did meet there at op» time. I have heard mV parents tell about I rather ho)«fpre"* session thal was held ore night. Those were the dais when Imoxe w«« present on all no enslons. anil when a memtser would become obstreperous, fhp presiding of. fleer (mv father! would lend Mtn out to the head of the eellar stairs end shove him down below. In tim» the a in tori' I" were down he*ow. Thev spe»»t the Tdehf there, and T presume tp the morning were wiser If not bet I tpr T"ei* lh*rd the ii’n'Tier of rm •' «m*H f*r* ' t-wfltofl r*orf1>\vrcf or r’tnr*|ir«t pnd T *m' f> i«wi**»**tnod tv.-»• *i ere |« n c--ifo f"*tiMit!on lorafe** i' * ni*" ♦ Hfl ctrw'.l X vonif»r»|!ipr r*'* ,t-jv T«o|h*r *«<* •«•»» oMMfpp •i nfo-1 fn we’k tn 'oliojif nt*n nnil •»*»nVf half n*«v r*?r»P to a ernwd >** Ppn-i'/n Infll *»,» ♦!•«!•» *4 VAt’V '<> •>. tul, «.♦ |,-\* t» . r. 0 ♦ ♦Wn» *' '1 l«i ** f • »l. * a iin* . •»• . ’ »t ^ ■ • A l*« 1 4«T“A I* »*AA*A 1 C* tt't A • ~Ot«. 1 ,, *A * 1 r»„» *'ir>v ftnf#***»d mother to* t#»W»»g »hnt ®Vtf» hpd "b**n nre#««* mivwi'r " T «MnV 1» nr* the Omaha* flint liad i<',Anfrwl *bem, 'Tv f •'if'*' ****ii<»«^ again ir tQ*n n*«,1 *•• '»■>{ lo PAlrridrt t <1 , pnInf »' •» l.tHp>* ov#p M n*v«, no»t ‘hmi p tr ,,r «h« hern*«rp f Mi.vi. y -<«•'-*'• *'i faring lin*err* » ... A „ A. » A«P>»AA«nl t* ITT.* vjmmm’i «j r \nsoNs A‘*V t.’ • " -A \ * #V«Ue, Center Shota l' MrntilN of the person who put "lllop ' Into Hnltimoi e t* revealed She Hppf MM to hr a woman In that • Ity who ha* ju*t presented In’ hit* band with four ftr^tolu** babies. Toronto Star. * IVhrn a in hi I* eretnnted tie in*Uen two pound* of ashen. lint when tie build* a furn.nr fire for hi* wife he make* about nix bu*hel* American I ^ urn her man. \ Inin I •'I»« • ■ I to have hrld npu ■* election bits than any other in.in in I hr United State* died penniless ttie • ifher day. Hr evidently didn't bold them ions: enough.—Jacksonville Journal. “From State and Nation” — Editorials from Other Newspapers— The Cosiness of Winter. From the Minneapolis Journal. Snow the scientist* dcline an water particles in the air congealed when the temperature goes down to 30 de green or less above zero. Tills defini tion may serve the physicist, but how poorly does it describe the chtfnge of mood, the sense of cosiness that come when the great snow blanket covers the earth! Now the wind comes out of the north. The poplars reach out with longer fingers toward the chilly sky. Wheels creak in the snow. Icicles hang where lilacs bloomed but a few' months ago. In the starlit nights the moon shines upon the earth with a frosty steel-cut smile. Despite the wind in the north and leagues of billowy snow stretching far and wide, winter is a cosy season. Bulbs rest quietly under their snow blanket and dream of summer. Hibernating animals sleep warmly un der their frost-bound covers. The earth is robed like a glorified saint and stands as if in silent prayer. Familiar sight* take marvelous shapes, and the white drifts know no division lines of fence or walk. ncu me - iwt uppcura guuid Itray, the home life takes on added zest. As the snowflakes come troop ing down in phalanxes, there is a new vigor in our IsKlies. and our minds bend themselves to the serious work of the year with new zest. When a gray sky is above and a hush is upon the earth, the hand of hospitality is more amply outstretched, and hearts are drawn closer to hearts. Books are taken down from the shelves and story telling begins. The children's hour lengthens and the radio becomes a (lose companion of the evening hou rs. Few poets have caught better titan Whittier did in itis "Snow Bound" the cosiness of winter. He tells of the zigzag dance of the blinding storm and how the white drifts piled the window frames, until there was no sky above and no earth below, hut a universe of snow Then he contrasts with this chill and somber world the, kindling of the domestic spirit in his New England home. Perhaps it was because the night wind shrieked, and the trep houghs moaned, and the sleet beat upon the windows like ghostly fin gers. that the domestic life about the open hearth became a liquid music. The ragged brush crackled and white washed walls and sagging beams of the rudely furnished rooms hurst into rosy bloom. The red logs heat the frost line hack and the great throat of the chimney roared with the roar ing draught. The. mug of cider sim mered slow and the apples sputtered in a row. t A basket of nuts and fruit brought fjetober bounty into winter's chill. Even the dog felt the cosiness of winter, as he laid his drowsy head toward the nrv-rry tire. Conditions may change, but not the human spirit in reference to the pass ing seasons. There may be- fewer fire places and more thermostats, fewer sagging beams and better supported ceilings, but the cosiness of winter docs not cease. It invites to easy chairs, good books, quiet hours with the mind and happy ones with the family through which one can n/ike the pomp of kings ridiculous Peace Work of the Army. From the Nevr York World. "Military preparations." says Hecre lary Weeks in his annual report, "cost us. roughly, one eighteenth of what vve spend for luxuries, amuse ntenfs and mild vices." The army does many things in time of peace to jus tIfy its maintenance—and the arn.-y docs not advertise its activities. Vet front the beginning It has been a prof it-sharing enterprise. The whole northwest was opened by army assistance. Anny engineers conducted nearlv all the preliminary explorations, constructed the roads and trails leading west, built canals snd bridges, conducted surveys and made the maps. They even built and operated the earlier railroads. Beginning with the construction of the old Chesapeake & Ohio canal and the Erie canal, army engineers con tinued their activities upon every navigable waterway, and their work has been of such ex IRence that there is a general agreement that our gov ernmental engine- ring projects are un excelled anywhere. The corps of on gineors have expended more than a billion dollars with a consistent rec ord of integrity an-1 economy. The army tlrst organized the weath er bureau, using the discoveries of the naval scientist Maury. Today It is rivaling the navy in perfecting the art of flying, with too narrow appro priations and a heroism anevrtg the younger -.fibers not different from that which war demands French Prnsperh.v. From th# Salt Luke Tribun*\ The French franc has Won follow ing the course of the German mark here of late. At the same time the people »f the republic are generally prosperous in the midst of a great economic revolution which has plat’ed general industrial activity above agri culture in furnishing employment. A great part of the enlarged industrial activity ia applied to the transforma tion of imported raw materials into manufactured goods, largely destined to the export trade. Before the war. Import* into Franc* regularly ex ceeded exports, but the Ivilance re mained favorable on account of the large amount of French holdings Al>\ KIiri'EMENT A THREE DAYS' COUGH IS YOUR DANGER SIGNAL Chronic coughs and persistent cold* lead to serious lung trouble. You can stop them now with Creomulsion, nn emulsified creosote that is pleasant to take. Creoimilsion is a new mcdl cal discovery with twofold action; 11 sooth* s and heal* the inflamed mem brane and Kills the germ. Of all known drugs, creosote is recognized hv the medical fraternity a« the greatest healing agency for the treatment of chronic coughs and cold* and other forms of throat an*! lung trouble* C * > mulsion h I 0 _ i