The Morning Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN, JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief t Business Mgr. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated £ress, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication 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 organisations. BEE TELEPHONES* Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT 1 AftA the Department or Person Wanted. * IttllllC 1UUU * OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syndi. Trust Bldg. I.os Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Francisco—Hoilrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. WEST COMES BEFORE ISTHMUS. Colonel Bunau Varilla’s proposal that the United States expend a billion dollars to construct a sea level canal through the isthmus of Darien is getting considerable attention. Brought forward by the man who made the only real progress achieved by the French in their attempt to construct the canal, and who sold the rights held there liy France to the United States, the project will get tfite consideration that is its due. American officers have already expressed opin ions as to the need of another canal to take care of future commerce, for which the existing ditch is certain to prove inadequate. Perhaps the “strait” is the solution, although it was abandoned for the lock type of canal on account of the cost of con struction. This, everi with all modern methods, will be higher than it was when Roosevelt started the work that has proved so serviceable, and which is Viow to be supplemented by additional facilities of like nature. Something else is needed betore another passage between the two oceans is cut by man. Internal waterways are yet to be improved, that commerce and industry of the great central empire of the coun try may have cheap and dependable water trans portation. Complaint is being made that certain great industries located on this side of the Alleghan ies are at great disadvantage because of the water routes thafe-eannect the coastal cities. These demand concession in rail rates. Against this other indus trial plants set up that if the petition is granted they will suffer in turn. What should be done? It is plain that the trans portation question is the key problem, and that it will not be solved offhand. President Coolidge, along with a number of men who are well equipped to sit in judgment on the nation’s needs, say that the in ternal waterways should be improved; that there should be a deep.water passage from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico in the one direction, and an other to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the other. These projects are practical and feasible, and will be of vastly more service to the interior of the United States than another canal at the isthmus. The latter will come in time, but it should await its turn. Interests of the region that is developing in dustrially as well*as commercially, that produces the great food crops and the raw material for most fac tories deserve and should receive attention before other great sums are expended to improve^ the situa tion for world commerce. -j BUSINESS METHODS IN THE CHURCH. A layman of a local church is out with a thought that is engaging, to say the least. He proposes that a card index be prepared, not only of the church members, but of good “prospects.” Through this a real check can be kept on the membership, who may be recorded from time to time as to their activities in the work, their zeal or laxity, and other items of con duct or service that may be of weight in determining their devotion to the cause they have espoused. This, of course, might be of assistance to the recording angel, who could, if he wished, accept a clearance 'card in lieu of what his own-books might show. The other feature will appeal to most men as a good business practice. Insurance people have a similar system; automobile men used to keep very accurate records of probable customers; some lodges have card indexes for the same purpose, and very many business men operate a “tickler,” that they may keep up to the minute in their own lines. Even swindlers have adopted the method, and oqe bunch of crooked cotton brokers, recehtly brought to book in New York, tried to enter their “sucker list" as an asset of great value with the receiver. _ Seriously, there is no good reason why a church should not take on ways that are found useful in business, and very many good reasons why it should. .Salvation still is free, but the maintenance of a reli gious institution of any kind requires more than the good will of the people who benefit from it. As long as the custom of tithing has been dropped in general, and voluntary contributions are relied upon, all the more need exists for careful scrutiny and oversight of all the business affairs of a church. The card index idea is good in every way, chiefly because it is the best device for giving easy and speedy access to the information that is needed for the efficient carrying out of any plan. When the churches get this system into effective operation, it will cut .out a lpt of things that give the managing boards trouble now. ANOTHER LESSON FROM TUT’S TOMB. In I Kings we are told that Solomon’s temple was built without the sound of hammer, axe, or any tool of iron being heard about the premises. This shows the progress that had beep made between that date and the time when King Tut was laid to rest. Dis coveries made by those who opened the old Egyptian monarch’s tomb disclose proof that not only were metal tools used, but that considerable confusion, haste and even carelessness marked the work. Hammer marks* tool marks of many kinds, gold inlay bruised and mashed, because of the hurry shown in pounding together the parts of tfic canopy, all signs that the workmen were eager to get it over and get away, are found in plenty. Egypt hail cun ning workmen, artificers skilled in dealing* with the materials used, but they had some traits that have come down with little change to the present. The tomb of the king would be sealed against in spection by human eyes, and th^y were willing to take a chance with the gods. Not one of them could dream that after a lapse of thirty-three centuries men of a race of strangers would examine their work, and firhl in chips, splinters, and defective workmanship evidence of their indifference and will ingness to slight the job. These workmen arc gone, but their record stands. How different from the great caro lavished on the monuments that stood in the broad daylight. Human nature has not undergone a very great change since then. Man insist* on putting his best foot forward, and expends his effort on the things that will be seen of men, just as he did when the valley of the Nile was the home of a great civiliza tion. “Whited sepulchres” may be found every where, but this does not make them any the more pleasant to contemplate. The best workman is he who does the job right because it ought to be done right. PROBATION FOR FEDERAL OFFENDERS. Welfare workers are approaching congress with a plan to reform federal court practice. At present no law permits the placing of*any federal prisoner, juvenile or otherwise, on probation. Records show that an average of 1,000. children under the age of 18 are tried and sentenced each year in United States courts. If these were before the state courts, the majority of them would be released of\ probation, but the federal judge has no such option. Once a culprit is convicted by Uncle Sam, punishment must follow, and most of the penalties are severe. Even those who sympathize with the theory of the federal practice grill agree that in the case of juvenile offenders some softening of the rule could be had without ^seriously interfering with justice. If state courts find it helpful to release a youthful of fender on good behavior to a trustworthy sponsor, and that practice has proved beneficial, the same might work well in United States courts. Senator Copeland of New York and Representative ^Graham of Pennsylvania are engaged to press the needed leg islation in behalf of this reform. - Alongside of it the welfare workers are setting up another idea, that of adult probation. Eleven states in the union are without this provision, and the hope of making it general animates those who have observed and 'been encouraged by what has taken place where the practice is followed. Nebraska has not been altogether happy in this regard, nor has the rule worked 100 per cerjt anywhere, but enough of good has come from it to justify the preservation of the court’s power to suspend a sen tence during good behavior, and to let a culprit ex piate his crime outside prison walls. The world is slowly moving to higher standards in this regard. ANOTHER ALLIANCE WITH AUSTRIA. Another great international crisis is passed, Colonel Henry Huddleston Rogers having agreed to accept his daughter’s choice of husbands as his. Just what else he would have done might be the subject of considerable interesting speculation, but why? Another foreign born man has walked off with an American girl, plus her interes#t in one of the most adipose of American fortunes. Miss Millicent Rogers that was is now Countess Salm von Hoggstraeten, but she still is in line for the H. H. Rogers millions that were accumulated in Standard Oil. Her husband, described by the New York Times as “six feet tall, black, smooth hair, shoulders broad and straight, immaculate in evening clothes, flashing white teeth in a quick and pleasing smile,” admits that he divorced the Baroness von Kumstra in Vienna in 1922; came to this country and played the sheik in a moving picture, and was about to commit matrimony the second time with a fashion able divorcee, when he#met Mi»» Rogers. It was “love at first sight,” he confessea, and she, too, so they romantically kept their secret until they could get to the city hall in New York, where they were wed. The average father will not blame Colonel Rogers for feeling a little cool to the son-in law his daughter picked for him, seeing he had never met the gallant youth until she brought him home. Now that he has forgiven him, the rest of the country may, and we will probably hear little more about it until the future develops if it is to be a repetition of Anna Gould's adventures with French nobility, or Helen Zimmerman’s tryout with the duke of Manchester. The count says he proposes to return at once to his ancestral home in Austria, where he will surely be welcomed for the bride he brings back, not to speak of the wherewithal to aid a future that other wise was not so bright for him. When women begin tossing their hats into the political ring will it bring about a stabilization of fashions, or merely an increase in millinery bills? Isn’t it awful, Mabel? No soner had the gov ernor headed for Washington than the oil octopus jumped the price of gasoline 2 cents a gallon. The Minneapolis Journal editorially discusses “the art of spending tax money.” And we thought all the time that it was merely a fixed habit. King George might thank Ramsay MacDonald or someone else should the -pomp of his procession to the House of Parliament be omitted. About the easiest way to bring about a reduction of taxation is to bear well in mind that tax money is not collected merely to be spent. “Coming Coolidge’s way,” asserts the Washing ton Star. Including, of course, the verbal brickbats and dornicks heaved by Hiram. The announcement that Uncle Sam is 33 billion dollars in debt will arouse in the minds of some folk only a feeling of envy. Having washcyl Miss Philadelphia's fare, General Butler should now give due attention to the ex panse behind her ears. A surplus at the end of the fiscal year may not mohn economy in expenditures. It may mean exces sive taxation. It appears that Mr. Bryan's announced choic* merely plunges democracy deeper into the Ever glades. Collggc girls are not as bad as they are painted, asserts a welfare worker. Some of them couldn’t be. Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie INCONSISTENCY, It doesn’t matter how much you know, nor the num ber of f|eeils you do, A month Is little, a week I* less, but years ara all to you; You turn from one to another task till life Is a wheel of change. You grope along, but do not get your eye on the rifle range. * You're well prepared, your goal Is high, you're wholly a man at heart, You never shirk and you honestly try to ever play your part; Huccess comes near but the wait la long, you’re ana lous—too anxlflua, tt seems; , Your pallenr-e Is never as strong as Is tha rail of ta riffable dreams. ’ You climb up on the ladder, and then (he peak la a trifle too high. Allured by the glare of another desire you alter your Journey, and try For other attainments, niu| thus you lepeat with failure forever your fate. And learn, to yom grief. In Ilia and that you've found the secret of progress too late. . I “The People's Voice" Editorials from readers of Tha Moraine Bee. Readers of The Moraine Bee are inviteo to use this column freely for expression on matters of public interest. Soldier’s Wife Wants Bonus. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: No doubt many like my self read the letter entitled "Soldiers' and Mothers’ Pensions," in The Peo ple's Voice, and wondered how any real true American citizen could ever believe or give utterance to such statements. How foolish it seems to try to compare a little war like the one of 1X46-1848 to the late world war. The one concerned a boundary of one state, the other involved a whole world. Really, there can l>e no com parison. Then include all the wars that came between the war of 1846 .1848 and the late world war. When anyone tries to compare the conditions of these wars, the value of a dollar, etc., he has a task on hand that will lead him nowhere, but to a condition of thinking that Injures not only his own mind but of everyone who reads or hears his theories. I am the wife of an ex-soldier. Many, 1 know, can think back a few vears ago and remember what we did with the bonus of $60. Was it wasted? Ah, yes, if to pay for coal, make a first payment on furniture or home, pay exorbitant rent, or buy new clothing for the one, who. If ho wore his uniform a bit longer than our kind citizens thought he ought, would remark: "Of course, he thinks that khaki uniform will get him anything." That is the same boy who was prom ised, should he come home from war everything would Ire' at his feet. Did he find it so on his return? Wc all know the answer too well. "And, still they want more." How much bet ter it would be to say, "Bet us give them more.* When our "husky able bodied ex-soldiers” are 75 years old, they will not need a pension. Many of them will not be here and those who are will no doubt have grown fatnilies who will gladly care for them, if in the years that go by from now till then, they have not been able to put away a little nest egg. The civil war veteran gets an in come from the government. Besides that, many of them are wealthy, due to the lands of the tniddlewest they were able to claim after the civil war. Has the world war soldier ever had such an opportunity? ~ - «■» “""wdi, iuij/./Bfjiwic- iu eyt'ii dream of comparing mothers with u bonus. Remuneration? Indeed there is remuneration for the mother and father, too, who see their fine stal wart son march off to war. YVe moth ers do not want a bonus for raising children. It Is not a commercial art. but the highest, most holy God given power that has been given the human race. For shame to those who should ever tolerate the thought of compar ing motherhood and all It brings with a paltry dollar. It cannot lie that anyone who thinks our boys were flooded with luxuries at the camps! Those who hud hus bands. brothers and sons there can well remember how necessities were sold at such high prices they seemed almost like luxuries. Then how con’d they save enough to accumulate any wealth while In service? The great est business man in America tofc. * Religious Liberty In Russia. Omaha—To thn Editor of The Onmha Bee: Bishop Homer f. Stunts of the Methodist church, seems to disagree with Bishop Edward T. Blake also of the Methodlsr church. Speak ing hi a meeting of a local Uhamber of (loin met re committee--unite appro priately, by the way. Bishop Stunlz opposes recognition of soviet Russia, declaring, for one teason, I tin t re llglnua freedom is denied In Russia. But Bishop Blake says, Recording to a dispatch nppeaimg last May: "The soviet government al present appears to me to lax tolerant toward religion ami frlendjy to (lie churches, which confine their activities to the spiritual services of the people The Methodist Episcopal church carried on It* work during the revolution.'' A month later. Bishop Blake xvns reported ns saving to the Paris repre sentative of the Chicago Tribune: "Under the czarlst regime, priests wero not allowed to preach except sermons Hint had first been censored ny a government official Under tin soviets, restrictions have been re moved. , "Tils churches of Russia ale not closed. Them ore bO.OOO priest* work LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press Gus Buechler of the Grand Islanc Independent Is suffering from tem porary loss of memory. He Is unabl) to recall what his new year resolutior was. • • • J. P. O'Furey, editor of the Hal ting ton News, wants to be on& of th) delegates from the Third district tc the democratic national convention. * • • The Tekamah Herald calls the atten tion of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt t( the cold fact that Nebraska gave 120, 000 majority against the League ol Nations Idea. The Fremont Tribune opines thal W. J. Bryan has learned a lot by ex perience. Having lost so many of hi! own hats tossed Into tho presidential ring ho is now tossing other men’) hats. t » 1 Adam Breede tells the world that the greatest dam of all is being erect ed In India. And here we were think ing that It was the combined one ut tered by Nebraska democrats when they learned the identity of W. J B.'s preferred candidate. • • • Frank Kimmel of the McCook Tribune asserts that the state-federal road quiz "is leaving Govcmor I^ryan at the rapidly diminishing end of a mdre or less sizeable fiasco.'' • • • Noting that the marriage fees art going out of the state and the courts throwing monkey-wrenches into tht plan of the railroads to give passes to ministers, Editor Carlton of the Oakland Independent wonders If 11 isn’t high tin^e for the clergy to form a bloc for their protection and priv ileges. • • • "In election In the United Statet they count the straight ballots." snye the Beatrice Express, “but in Mexico the count the straight shots." • • • The Hastings Tribune claims thal one-third of the cigars manufactured In Nebraska are rolled In Hastings. This impels the Sutton Register to re mark that with Clay Center making most of the incubators used In the world that immediate section of Ne braska ought to figure some in the statistics. • • • "The old-fashioned Kcnesaw girl who wore enough underwear on a cold day to fill a trunk has a daughter who goes out without enough on to fill a cigar box.” remarks the Kenesaw Citi zen in a ruminative tone of voice. "One trouble with the country." tie dares the Nebraska City Press, "Is that the average girl expects her new husband to be able to keep her ward robe looking like that of a chorus girl." • • • Ole Buck of the Harvard Courier declares that the politicians who were oijce scared at^ft at what tile women's votes “knight do to them are getting over It. • • • Noticing a report that a New .Jersey carpenter got drunk <12 times fast year, I,ew Shelley of the Fair bury News claims that he is inter ested only in learning how the carpen ter financed himself. • • • Editor Carlson of the Aurora Re puhllcan radios the Interesting state ment that the man who spent all his life saving rponey now has a son whc devotes his entire attention to spend ing it. • • • Allan May tells in the Auburn Herald of an Auburn man who had to take his wife's electric Iron down town In have It equipped with a new cord. The explanation is that when she threw it at him she forgot that it was attached to t£e socket. • • • The Beatrice Express informs us that heavenly stars tell the future, differing In this respect from the movie stars. Who tell the past. Ing ns usual. There Is no Interference of any kind. I preached twice at the Methodist church at Petrograd to crowded congregatipns.” Bishop Blake has been on the ground and observed at first hand. Bishop Stuntz has been thousands of miles away, depending on "authori ties.',' It Would be Interesting to have him cite his authorities I am Inclined to think that the questions of Industrial reorganization and larger freedom for labor Involved in Ihe Russian situation have quite n> important bearing on moral and spiritual value's as the permission of formal religious activity, but .his opens up a subjtvt Impossible of dis cussion here on account of limited space. The fact remains, since no contrary facts have been given, that religion remains In Russia, facing a prosperous future ns a regenerating Influence, hut doomed to destruction if used to drug the people -Into sub mission to* a new slavequ EDMFND R BRl MBAUGlf. Cruelly lo Horses Prevented. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Onanha Bee: A small Incident n few days ago caused me to write this I was out In the cold garage and had occasion to pick up a nail and. to free my hand to do something else, un thinkingly put the nail In my mouth. It was a bitter cold day and the nail froze to my mouth, taking the skin Willi it. % I thought of the poor, dumb horse having a frozen hit put In his mouth and the consequent result of trying to cat hard corn with a frightfully sore mouth. The bridle. If not kept in n warm place, should always be dipped In hot water before using dur ing the cold weather. M. A. H. Tin: MAN WHO KNOWS IT UA When he dies 1 shall heal a tom tom, I shall carry a banner and sing, I shall see him laid low In the dust, And the earth worms shall crown him their king! I shall not shed a tear nor feel sad. Though he haunt me the rest of inj ure. Ami the moans and the sighing" and psalms I shall leave to my church going wife. And I've found out as I go along. That it's always the proud ones who fall; But that man wilt b» boasting In hades. For that man when he lived knew It all! Catherine Ellzatieth Hanson. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for December, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .75.107 Sunday .80,795 Don not include returns. loft* over*, iflinpln or papeis opoilrd in, printing and includes no special soles or free rirt olatioiyof any Wind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of January, 18.'4 W if QUIVKY« (Sral) Notary Public “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapms— A Development In American Railroad ing. From th« Christian Selene* Monitor. It Is not^often that a railway can give tangible proof. In the form of a locomotive engine, of a reconstruction of the attitudes of mnnagernent and men toward one another. This, how ever, is the case with the Baltimore & Ohio, for when engine 1003 rolled out of Its Glenwood repair shop last Sep tember It became, as descrilied In Jhe Survey Graphic by Otto 8. Beyer. Jr., "the symbol In the eyes of manage ment and men of a new and auspici ous development in American railroad ing." It represented a concrete ex ample of effective cooperative pro duction based upon collective bargain ing between a railway administration and the standard ehoperaft unions affiliated with the American Federa tion of Labor. In the article In question. Mr. Beyer covers in Romo detail the steps which led to the determination on the part of the railroad administra tion to cooperate with its employes and stabilize their work to as great an extent as possible. With this In view, it was determined to develop a program in which repair work for the railway should be done in the rail way's own shops. Instead of con tracting out repair work, that is to say, it is now organizing its necessary repairs into a steady flow to the work men In its own shops. Some BOO old locomotives are at present in process of modernization, and engine 1003 was simply the first that was restored and rendered completely serviceable under this new regime. Much has been accomplished by this new arrangement, according to Mr. Beyer. And that the advantages gained have been by no means one sided is not surprising, when it is recognized that a right idea is behind the plan. The Baltimore & Ohio not long since resumed payment of Its regular 5 per cent dividend on Us common stock, for instance, besides making large appropriations l -.r fu ture retirement of bond Issues. Then, again, Its locomotive condition, ac cording to the interstate commerce commission, has been unusually good and an efficiency of operation has been effected which is enabling it to accomplish a lot of work at a remark ably low cost. Mr. Beyer sees an even more far-reaching conclusion as warranted by the start so fur made. He says: "Above all else what the co-opera tive developments on the Baltimore * Ohio signify Is that organized labor, under proper conditions, will rapidly acquire a fundamentally constructive attitude toward industry; that labor, once having acquired this attitude, is actually able so to. exert Itself that the conduct of irdustry Is perceptibly Improved. In other words, our trad* union movement, given constructive industrial functions in addition to its present special humanitarian func tions, will measure up to Its enlarged responsibilities." And It la Justifiable to hope that this conclusion will be found to be a true one. More Tax Revision Proposals. From the Washington Star. It is stated that the treasury ac tuary has been set to work to deter mine Oie amount of revenue that would be yielded by the Garner tax reduction bill if enacted Into laThis Is a most important matter. ■ It really is the foundation of any proposition of tax revision, and it should have ac companied. rather than followed, the introduction of the bill. At the same time it is interesting to note that another tax' revision meas ure has been put into the hopper in the house, or rather a sheaf of bills relating to the same subject and forming a system of proposed amend ments to the revenue raising proeeas. This—to regard the collection as a whole—is the proposal of the "pro gressive” republicans, or at least one of them. How far he acts for the entire group of so-called insurgents on tthe republican side is not now known. Terhaps he is moving indi vidually, and possibly there will be other bills, or groups of bills, from other sources. There lies the trouble about taxi re vision from a partisan point of view. There lies the danger of either crip pling action or such confusion that nothing is accomplished. Anybody can write a tax revision measure. Any liody can take the present law and draw lines througn the rates and sub stitute others, lower rotes for the smaller taxpayers, Sind it may be higher rates for the larger ones. Hut will these rates work out in terms of real reduction will they work out to the point of sufficient revenue, will they be equitable? Of course all fiscal wisdom does not reside In the Treasury department. Secretary Mellon does not claim a corner on knowledge of how the in- , come tax system works. The records are open to everybody who cares to Inspect them and who has the hardi hood to study them and attempt .in analysis. But in the Treasury It Is the business of officials to know how matters stand, how the Income taxes are paid, how they bear upon the peo ple. Those officials have now made a showing In which the secretary has given form in a bill submitted to con gress, which, It is scientifically esti mated, will yield enough revehue to maintain the government without sur plus or deficit, and which will relieve the taxpayers in equitable propor tions. To counter this measure with substitutes, drawn plainly for political purposes and not with any assurance whatever that their yield, if any of them were adopted, would suffice to meet the government's needs, or that their working, in such case, would not bring serious suffering upon great numbers of the people, Is to make a partisan game of the serious business of national finance. Horse Extinction. From the Kansas Citr Post. Prof. E. L. Furlong of the Univer sity of California is the latest fore caster of the enfl of the^borse. Not withstanding the statistical proof that the number of horses Is Increas ing, the professor says the horse will lie extinct In 100 years, or survive only as a curiosity maintained for zoological display. The motor car and the tractor have released the horse, or are relieving him In ther ufrtl sec tions, have removed his cause for ex istence, Is the burden of the thesis. However, the man of science over looks a factor, cites the Louisville Times. The horse would lie worth maintaining as a means of giving pleasure to men and women. The survival of the dog In modern times has hardly been based on man's actual need for what the dog. has been able to do in the way of com mercial service. The city man who cherishes his Russian wolfhound is hardly expecting to hunt wolves. The owner of the English bulldog is not keeping the dog to fight bulls. The value of thw average ''lap-dog" as a watch-dog Is probably overrated. Until the hillside farm/ had been abandoned: until racing has ceased to exist; until hunting has lost Its charm; until mankind ceases to enjoy the j motion of the good saddle horse, there will be horses. MeanwHWe, If Professor Furlong be lieves that the horse has ceased to be In demand for commercial purposes he might visit some of the rural sec tions of America. The tractor and the automobile are working In,, but the horse and the mule still have their uses on the farm. This is especially true of districts that offer difficulties for motor transportation and the ex tent of these districts Is immense, not only in America hut over the globe. Some Possibilities. While a man doesn't see much of a girl's family when he is courting, he is apt to see a good deal of it when When in Omaha Hotel Conant Abe Martin We wonder how long it's been since any woman horsewhipped a masher fer makin’ eyes at her? Outspoken people alius seem t’ be fond o’ onions. (Copyrlsbt. 1SJ4) he is housekeeping, and while he doe not marry hi* wife's father, there is nothing in the marriage vows to pre vent the old man from borrowing money from him or h's fife's mother from telling his wife how to run her house and boss her husband.—Eu faula Citizen. Not Only Birmingham. The chief ailment affecting public enterprises in Birmingham is the^ sleeping sickness.—Birmingham Age Herald. Scientific. Willie (who ha* got a microscope for Christmas)—Say. cook, lend me a flea, will you?—Bostcn Transcript. Rich in iron— Nature’s best tonic Healthful Delicious Economical Ixy Finest of all (V 3 fruits for every Sfcai* day use! 1924 $ Hundreds Are Still Joining Our Christmas Savings Club ■ ■■■:■ ,u, M ti ■ ■ E3 BE ■ g >==a=— Start the Year Right Join Now . i t v 1 U. S. 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