Nebraska Newspapers

    ^OIL SCANDAL REVERTS TO ROOSEVELT-TAFT SPLIT
By MARK SULLIVAN.
Washington, Feb. I.—To under
stand this oil scandal, it is essential
to know the background; and that
background Is included in the word
conservation.
Up to somewhere between 1900 and
'910, this country had a national pol
cy about public lands and the min
*rnl, oil and other resources in the
public lands. That‘policy was to get
he public lands as rapidly as possible
out of the hands of the government
and Into the hands of private owners
who would develop them.
It was a policy that arose when
our public lands seemed inexhaustible.
About the only concern of the gov
ernment was to preserve order and
equity among the individual pioneers.
That the government should have
any interest in holding on to the
lands for itself was never thought of.
Immense quantities of the land
were given to the western railroads
as subsidies, and everybody thought
of that as a wise policy. The great
motive was to get the lands settled
' up and the country developed.
Free Lands Absorbed.
But somewhere about 1900, we be
gan to reach the end of free or prac
tically free public lands. Most of
the really good farm lands had been
taken up. It came to us as a dis
quieting realization. Almost over
night, the public attitude ceased to
be one of encouraging individuals and
corporations to take up the land, and
became one of stern resistance even
against claimants of the land under
the old policy.
In this swift reversal of policy
there were many tragedies. Men and
corporations who had been proceed
ing In good faith under the spirit of
the former policy, were suddenly
compelled to fight for the rights they
thought they had.
The first change came in the mat
ter of forests. The man who at that
time had charge of the national for
ests was Gifford Pinchot, now gover
nor of Pennsylvania. Pinchot knew
forestry and forests as probably no
other American.
To his expert attention came the
observation that rich as we seemed
to be in forests, the actual fact was
that we were using up our forests
faster than they were reproducing
themselves.
Roosevelt Joins Move.
Pinchot took his mood of alarm to
Roosevelt. Roosevelt was infected
»y it, seized it, and shared it. With
his gift for slogans he made ••con
servation” a political battle cry. Into
every department of his administra
tion that had to do with public lands
and resources he injected the spirit of
a swift about-face policy.
The Interior department and the
Department of Agriculture became
vigilant, not to pass out the govern
ments land to claimants, but to safe
guard It. Great areas of public land
were withdrawn from inquiry. Claim
ants who were In process of perfect
ing title found those claims sternly
scrutinized and resisted.
The Department of Justice began
to prosecute cases of what formerlv
would have been regarded as harm
!f--s defects of formalitly, but under
gm > he new regime were looked upon
Is crimes and prosecuted as such.
Hv the time the Roosevelt admin
lstratlon was ended, the reversal of
policy had been made co'mplete. Cer
tainly It had become complete as re
gards the great bulk of the voters
in the more settled east. In the
west, where the remaining lands
were, there still continued to be a
good deal of the old spirit which re
garded rapid development the more
desirable policy.
Koosevelt-Ta(t Break.
When Roosevelt's administration
ended, and Taft came Into power, he
appointed as his secretary of the In
terior a man from the west, Richard
Ballinger of Seattle. Ballinger had
quite naturally the western point of
view about public lands. He depart
ed from the Roosevelt policy. He
administered the land and resources
under his control less In the spirit of
1908 and more in the spirit of 1898.
Quickly, sensation and scandal
arose. Plnchot, who had continued
In charge of the foreats under Taft,
complained to Taft about what Bal
linger was doing. Taft did not react
to Plnchot's alarm as Roosevelt hnd.
Plnchot pointed out the clear diver
Igence of policy between himself and
Ballinger and took a position that
either himself or Ballinger must get
out of the Taft administration.
Taft stood by his secretary of the In
terior. Plnchot resigned, and In a
manner that caused public uproar.
Roosevelt, meantime, had gone on his
trip to Africa. When he returned,
Plnchot took to him his complaint.
Roosevelt sympathized with Plnchot,
and out of that situation arose one of
the principal causes that made tha
breach between Taft and Roosevelt,
and led to the split in the republican
party in 1912.
Charges Against Ballinger.
Meantime formal accusation was
made against Ballinger that he had
improperly alienated public land In
Alaska to certain mining corporations.
Congress appointed an investigating
committee and Ballinger's acts were
reviewed.
Louis D. Brandels, then a Boston
lawyer, became the attorney for some
of Ballinger’s accusers, and in that
role made the national reputation
which, five years later, resulted in
his elevation to the supreme court by
President Wilson.
Taft took the position that the
charges against Ballinger had not
been sufficiently proved, and kept the
latter in his cabinet. A little later on,
however, Ballinger resigned, and Taft
appointed as hla successor a man
whose position on conservation was
substantially satisfactory to Roose
velt, Plnchot, and the more ardent
conservatidnists.
Some effort was made to show that
Ballinger was guilty of serious per
sonal Impropriety. Looked at from the
distance of 13 years later, and from
the point of view of one who was
rather clo'se to the circumstances at
the time, it la doubtful if Ballinger's
culpability was much greater than a
mere failure to see the new light.
Oil Leases Became Ticklish.
The Ballinger caee, with ell the
sensation that attended It. perma
nently crystalised the Roosevelt policy
of conservation. From then on, the
fixed policy of the government was to
hold on rigidly to all the resource* It
■till had.
Every situation Involving Indlvldu
als who had old rights or wanted to
acquire new rights to land, oil, min
erals or forests within the national
domain became one of minute deli
cacy. Whoever represented the gov
ernment in the transaction was held
to strict accountability. Any laxity
held the menace of scandal.
The Wilson administration contin
ued the Roosevelt policy, Franklin K.
Lane, who was secretary of the inter
ior under Wilson, was a Californian;
I but be had spent many years in
Washington and was sn admirer of
| Roosevelt. His practice about the
public lands under his control was
perhaps a little less rigid than Roose
velt's had been: but on tha whole It
was satisfactory to Roosevelt and
the conserfatlonists generally.
Wilson’s cabinet as a whole was
probably as heartily In favor of con
servatlon ns Roosevelt had lven.
It was another member of Wilson's
cabinet, Secretary Josephus Daniels
of tbe Navy, who initiated an addi
tional aspect of the conservation pol
icy, anil It was a recent departure
from Daniels’ policy that led to the
present scandal.
Daniels foresaw that oil was going
to succeed coal as fuel for ships. He
Initiated the policy that new vessels
built for the navy should be equipped
for oil burning. At tbe same time,
It occurred to him, as a national ne
cessity, that the government should
have in its ownership abundant
stores of oil to meet the future needs
of the Navy.
He initiated a policy to the effect
that all oil-bearing lands in the public
domain should be strictly safeguarded
from private exploitation, and that
they should be turned over to the cus
tody of the Navy department.
Then came Harding, and Harding
appointed Kail as secretary of the in
t*nor. At best. It was a baa appoint
ment. The chief reason for It was
that Fall as a senator had been the
friend and companion of Harding.
Fall Detested Conservation.
Fall came from the big land hold
ing business element of New Mexico.
All Fall's background and environ
ment contributed to make him a man
who detested conservation, lie made
no secret of it. He far out-Ballingcred
Ballinger. He believed in turning the
Whisky? Indian Wives? Well, Both Were Plentiful in Frontier Days,
but Jim Bridger Never Fell—Not Very Hard—Says Veteran Nebraska Scout
By YV. M. MUTIN'.
Was Jim Bridger, famous scout
and guide, a. drunken squawinan, as
pictured in "The Covered Wagon,” or
. was he just the average sort of man
of his day.and age?
Virginia Bridger Hahn, grand
daughter of the old scout and plains
man, asserts that the memory of her
grandfather has been traduced by the
Famous Players-Lasky corporation,
makers of the famous plcturization of
Emerson Hough’s famous novel. She
Insists that not less than a million
dollars will be required to salve her
injured feelings.
Jim Bridger is in no particular
danger of losing his place in the his
tory of American polneerlng. But
his granddaughter's suit may serve
to spread more information about the
famous old scout and guide, whose
history Is now made up largely of
tradition. He was a peculiar prod
uct of a peculiar and picturesque
period in the nation's history.
Through Comrade's Eyes.
Fortunately there are those yet
alive who knew Bridger In his palmy
days, and allowing for the lapse of
time, their recollections of him should
be illuminating. One of the surviv
ors of Jim Bridger’s time and the
scene of his activities lives at Cen
tral City, Neb. Henry F. Wallis was
associated with Bridger as scout and
guide; indeed. Bridger gave Wallis,
then a soldier, lessons in scouting
and reading Indian signs.
"I reckon Jim drank his proper
share of whisky in those days." said
Wallis a few days ago. "I don't
know of anybody around there in
the old days who passed up the
drinks when they went around. But
if Jim ever got too drunk to attend
to business it was when I wasn't
around. I was with him every day
for almost a year, and I never te n
heard It Intimated that he was a
squawman. Jim Bridger taught
about 200 of us soldiers how to read
"Injun sign," and trained us as
scouts and guides for that country
up around Fort Bridger and ^ Fort
Phil Kearney. Part of the time he
run a trading post but most of his
time was taken up with scouting for
Unrla Sam and guiding troops or
hunting parties.
(■uided by Bridger.
"I first knew Jim Bridger when he
met the Eighteenth United States In
fantry at Dobytown, Neb., and acted
as guide from there to Fort Phil
Kearney. I served in the navy dur
ing the entire war, enlisting from
Vermont. I was on Farragut's flag
Henry K. Wall!*.
ship, the Hartford, and a young fel
low named George Dewey waa aboard
as captain. You may not know it,
bu\ George had the lobe of one ear
shot oft during a little acrsp w* had
while trying to open up the Missis
sippi. It happened a short distance
below Baton Rouge.
"At the close of the war I enlisted
in the Eighteenth infantry and went
to Fort Leavenworth. In 1S6* the
regiment under command of Colonel
Carrington went to Omaha by boat,
end from there We marched the en
tire distance to old Fort Phil Kearney
in Wyoming. Bridger met us at Fort
Kearney in Nebraska, and acted as
our guide the rest of the march.
Whisky was about as cheap then as
milk is now, and the supply unlimited.
About the only thing we enlisted men
had to look out Tor waa not to oe
found lit up while on duty. The of
ficer a weren't alwaya so particular,
fcrldger took on hia chare, but be
wasn't a drunkard aa we looked at
it in those days.
Killing Off Indian*.
'•We had a few little bru»h»a with
the Injuna on that long trip, but
nothing worth telling about. They
were building the Union Pacific in
those day*, and our duty waa to
spread out to the north of the road
nnd keep the Injun* beck. You know
the Sioux had a habit of wintering
down in Kanaaa, where they ate up
the buffalo meat they gathered most
ly during their summering away
north in Wyoming, Dakota and Mon
tana. Some wise fellow down In
Washington figured out that If the
buffalo were driven out or killed off
the Injuns would get peaceable. So
one company of us waa told off to
kill buffalo and starve the Injun*
Into being quiet. We got a dollar a
bead for killing them, ammunition
furnished.
“The Chugwater in. Wyoming got
Its name from the fact that wo drove
sc many buffalo over its high banks
Into the river canyon, and the way
they chugged into the water gave that
creek its preeent name. Brldger was
not a buffalo hunter, although he
went with us occasionally. He was
a trapper nnd trader when he wae
scouting and guiding."
Red Cloud's "Coffee Cooler.”
Wallis was In the celebrated wagon
box fight, fought about six miles from
old Fort Phil Kearney on August 2,
1867. Capt. James Powell, command
ing an escort of 32 men, were accom
panying a wagon train to Fort Phil
Kearney. Nearly 8,000 Sioux und*r
Red Cloud attacked the wagon train.
Captain Powell hurriedly formed the
wagon train Into the smallest possi
ble circle piling the wagon boxes one
upon another lo make a barricade.
The 82 Infantrymen and the wagon
drivers not only stood off Red Cloud
and his warrior* for about 86 hours,
bat finally forced him to retire. Many
years afterwards Red Cloud admitted
that more than 1.000 of his braves
were killed and wounded in that
fight. Among those killed was Red
Cloud's son.
“History writer* of this lale day
picture Red Cloud as a great war
rior,” said Wallis. "Maybe he was,
hut we fellow* on the frontier knew
him as a ‘coffee cooler,* and all the
veterans of the civil war know the
kind of fellows that bore that name.
Old Red Cloud was always there with
the big talk, but he didn't show up
In front when there was any fight
ing going on.
“One thing that put a crimp in Red
Cloud and his braves at the wagon
box fight was the fact that Just a
short time before we had been
equipped with the newfangled breech
loader rifles. Old Red Cloud hadn't
heard about them, and he thought
that after the flrst volley from that
little handful of men he’d have easy
pickin'*. So right after our flrst vol
ley he sent his brave* charging In
and they got It proper. Red Cloud
had more respect for Uncle Bern's
soldiers aftsr that."
Evening of Adventurous IJfe.
Henry K. Wallis was born In Ver
mont In IMS. He enlisted In the
navy at the outbreak or the civil war
and nerved during Its duration In that
branch of the service. At the close
of the war he was discharged from
the navy and Immediately enlisted In
the regular army, assigned to the
Eighteenth Infantry and sent to Fort
Leavenworth. He served three years
In the regulars, and upon his dis
charge returned to Vermont, where
he married Miss Emarle Miller. He
came to Nebraska In J ST1 and took a
homestead near Palmer, Merrick
county He lived upon that home
stead for more than 40 years, moving
from there to Central City, where he
now resides. He has two daughters.
Mr. and Mrs Wallis occupy a cosy
home In Central City, surrounded by
many evidences of their pioneering
days. Although 80 years old, Mr.
Wallis has all the energy of a man
of 60, reads without glasses and says
he Is still able to do as good a day's
work as any man two thirds his age
He is a giant in physique.
Were Squaws About.
"I reckon they had to sort o’ fix
Bridger up to fit the picture," was
his parting remark. "He didn't drink
any more whisky than the rest of
us did when we could get it, and we
didn't have much trouble on that
score. Most of the post traders In
those days had Injun squaws working
around their posts. White women
were almighty scarce, and men never
did like cookin’ and scrubbin’ and
washin'. Maybe Bridger did have a
squaw or two around his place, but
nobody ever thought of them as his
wives. That's all put In, I reckon, to
make the picture more exciting. He
was a mighty fine man, and ha was
good to us young fellows. We thought
a lot of Jim Bridger, and whatever
he said went with us and with every
body else in those parts. This coun
try owes a lot to men like him.
“Now. If they had told those
stories about Buffalo Bill—well, Cody
is dead, too."
The only picture Mr. Wallis had
of himself was an old print taken
just before he enlisted in the navy.
The suggestion was mad# that a
photographer would be sent out to hts
house if he would consent to sit for
a photograph.
"No use sending a photographer
out here; I’ll go to the gallery with
you," he aaid.
And he did. He donned hla over
shoes and overcoat and plowed hla
way through the snow and slush for
ID or II blocks, talking all the way
and forcing hie younger companion
to hit up a lively pace to keep along
side.
public lands over to private inter?*'*
for rapid exploitation.
NPt only did he believe in that a*
■ aspects the lands under his depart,
ment. He wanted to get control of th*
public lands In the control of Secre
tary Wallace of the Department of
Agriculture.
Wallace was a strict conservationist
of the true Roosevelt school. Also,
Wallace was a good fighter. He struck
back at Fall, and insisted on retain,
ing control of the forests. Gradually,
Harding turned away from Fall.
One of the w-ays In which the anti
conservationists tried to influence
Harding to alienate the public re
sources into private hands was by cit
ing to him constantly tht case of
Alaska. They told him the proper
development of that territory was be
ing held back by the fact that so
much of the land is still in the hand*
of the government.
Harding's Alaskan Trip.
But when Harding visited Alaska
he turned strongly against those who
had been urging him to open up
Alaska to private ownership. Hs
came back a good conservationist.
During Harding's visit to Alaska, he
gave expression to marked Irritation
against Fall.
There was no serious alienation c<
important national resources during
the Harding administration. Even the
leases about which the present scan
dais have arisen were not a complete
alienation of the land.
The theory was that the oil In the
government land was being drained
off underground by wells sunk on the
adjoining land of private owners, and
that it would be a wise policy for the
government to have Sinclair, Doheny
and others drill well* on the govern
ment land on a basis of sharing the
oil between the government and the
companies. Expert geologists denied
that the government oil was being
drained by th# well# on th# adjoining
property.
Fall Made Secret Hesae.
That technical question Is now over,
shadowed by th* fact that Fall made
one of the leases in secrecy without
opportunity for public bidding, and
as to both of tha leases was the bene
ficiary of money and other material
consideration from the lessees.
The Fall case now makes It set-tain
that the principle of conaervadon will
never again be Invaded.
No future president will ever ap
point a secretary of the interior who
falls to subscribe loyally to the F.oose
velt theory about conservation. There
will be difficult questions in th# prac
tical carrying out of this policy.
A conservation which means merely
complete withdrawal from use will
not be serviceable. The oil and miner
als on the public lands will be ex
tracted somehow. There are some
who claim that th# government must
do Its own oil drilling and refining
and mining. Thors are difficulties
about that. But when any other
method of development is considered
there will be danger of rituatlons like
the Fall case arising. The truth In
that nothing wrong need have corns
up If Fall had let th# eontmcta
through public bidding, and not
secretly to bidders frcen whom he re
ceived personal favors. f
WELLS
SAYS EUROPE’S GREED MAY KINDLE COMMUNISM
By H. G. WELLS.
Author of the Outline of History.
London. Feb. 9.—So Lenin is dead
He died on the eve of recognition of
the soviet, government by the west
•M'n powers. For most practical pur
poses the work of Lenin was over be
fore 1920. His death now or a little
Inter would make only the smallest
difference In the deetinlea of Russia.
For the communist party which still
controls Russia has this in common
with the Catholic church, that it la
sustained by a system of dogmas, dls
elplines, experiences and traditions so
much stronger than any single in
dividual that Individuals, though they
may serve it more or less effectively,
cannot control or deflect It.
Russia, under communist rule Is at
the opposite pole tot such a phase of
affairs as would evoke Caesarlsm. it
is over the western Latin democracies
subjected to the adventures and rav
age! of uncontrolled rich men, that
dictators arise. Leotn was never in
reality such a dictator as Mussolini.
He Impressed one as being In the grip
of forces quits bsyond his control,
albeit they were forces hs hsd him
self helped to develop and organize.
Communlam and Fascism.
Communism Is deflnlts, directive,
compelling: fascism Is a dramatic,
empty, vague, violent thing, a young
ass to be ridden anywhere by q bold
competent rider. A ecore of Lenina
might die and communism would go
on as though nothing had changed.
Without Mussolini. the fasclstl
might do anything, fall into th# tor
rent, get lost, destroy society, vanish.
I saw Lenin In 1920 In the krem
lin. He was an eitraordlnary fragile
little thin* with email hands clasped
together upon a corner of his desk,
little feet that dangled from his chair
far off the ground. He wse very
bald. I learn now with astonishment
that I was the older man. He put his
amusing Mongoloid face a little on
one side as we talked, with something
of the wary expression of a fencer.
When be found out I didn't want
to score points for or against com
munism. but to learn what they pro
posed to do next, he dropped any
appearance of controversy and laid
hia views and plans before me very
frankly.
Hie schemes for the reorganization
of Russia seemed to me to tie right
minded, honestly conceived: but art
less. He had a scheme for the elec
trification of Russia that atruck my
usually quite imaginative ndnd as
hopelessly Impractical. It ignored
distances: Russia is a country con
slating mostly of distances.
I suppose no gambler who stakes
his all upon a single throw and wins
«as ever as astonished as the bol
sheviks when they came into power
in 1917. They went Into Russia like
good revolutionists to make trouble
and die. They found themselve*
presently In scarcely disputed posses
sion of a completely exhausted coun
try. Kven In 1920 they seemed a lit
tie Incredulous to find themselves
still there.
So far from seizing Russia there
was nothing to oppose them but
brigands hopelessly Incapable of mili
tary adventures: so far from ruining,
the ruin was already complete. In
this chaos the bolsheviks grasped
power according to all accepted revo
lutionary examples. There was not
so much an organized resistance to
their seizure as a lawless disregard.
Revolutionists Must Shoot.
They had to shoot. All revolutions
have to shoot. But It Is usually con
reded that the bolsheviks shot too
much. It la not that they wees blood
thirsty men, but Inexperienced. And
they were equally Inexperienced and
unprepared In the task of govern
ment. They served Russia well In
defending her from without; but they
rebuilt within slowly, experimentally,
wastefully.
Still, they are on their feet now. It
is from the red rsot of the com
munist theory that the new Russian
order will grow. It is destined to be a
great system of t'nlted States in the
old world, stretching from the Baltic
To the Pacific. _
It la Important to grasp tne net
that the former Russian political and
social order was bankrupt, collapsed
of Its own accord, because It Is the
lesson that private adventurers of the
west are most loath to learn. Com
munism not often devours healthy
states; It la rather the scavenger of
the rotten.
Ton cannot say communism la
either strong or spieading rapidly aa
an aggressive doctrine In Europe.
And yet It may atlll coma to prevail
over great part* of Europe. Europe 1$
sick and set against Its own curs.
The decay of the monetary system,
without which private capitalism 1*
a totally unworkable ayatsm, spreads
in a European community saturated
with Ideas of and eager for private
gain.
Tha European system is not being
CHAMPIONS
OF A FEW LOST CAUSES
By 0. 0. McIntyre
Thers are so many things to re
form and so little time when one has
an urge to become an amateur re
former. In New York, for instance.
I scarcely know where to begin.
Something I feel should be done
^ about the passing of collapsible drink
ing cups across ths row In theaters.
It does mors to unstarch the re
splendent whit* vest than to quench
thirsts. , „
If you are In the middle of the
row the cup begins to show signs
of weakness three seats away and
just when It reaches you, and In true
Ohesterfleldian style you attempt to
hand It to the lady next. It happens.
The cup caves in. And there you
ire perhaps without rubbers.
Either you get It In the vest or
she gets It In the lap. It seems to
tne they ought to put mors starch
in the cups or usa and old fashioned
dipper. I would rather have the dip
per. germs snd all. than a cold show
-r in public.
My campaign for the old-fashioned
lpp*r went awry. I talked It over
ith a theatrical manager. I know
was artistic because he had In
«n*e burning In his office. He
hmight the dipper would he abso
itHy a cru^l einawh at art*
niftc loftps Hecreta.
There is another nuisance In the
heater over which my feeble mental
y refuses to click. I refer to the
heater-talker. You know, the bright
oung man or woman who has seen
he play before speaks right out—
tipping off all the things that utter
Iv spoil the evening.
When you are wondering Just how
ths hero, who Is such a laggard In
love but a dastnrd In battle. Is going
to save the Jewels the theuter-talker
behind you spills ths Information
that old Jpsvsb. ths faithful body
servant with watery eyes. Is really
4? Ihe thief and has them bid in the
pleats of Ms English trousers or
somsthlng. At the time you thought
Jsaves was such a rare old thing.
Priceless old bean, as it were.
Men who are constantly talking
about golf at lunch glva nfi a fast
ing somewhat akin to a peevish wild
rat with an Ingrown nail, toil near
all about the carryings-on at the 17th
hole. How Bill holed out a enappy
six and how good old Felix McFerry,
the pro, pHtted him on the bank. You
would think Bill had scaled a high
mountain peak or met the Dolly
nistere. As a matter of fact whet
he did wae slap a defenseless little
white pill. Golf la only a hlf pill
following a little pill, after all.
Then there la the fellow who talks
about “stance," “niblick," aloehes.'’
"putts” and “four par-hole." If you
are a golf athalst, at I happen to
be, you see red. I am fond of par*
cheat, but I don’t go talking about
It and bragging around. Of course,
you can’t gag a golfer. But there
ought to be some league or other for
the euppreealon of golf talk at lunrh.
They Don’t Want Tour Money.
Another Irritating thing In our har
ried life le the don’t-carleh store clerk.
You enter and perhaps want to buy
a platon rod for your wrist watch
or something. Just a* he nears you
he happens to remember something
to say to Fred, who la putting boxes
on a shelf.
You stand waiting. He tells Frsrf
he thinks the Bambino la through.
Fred stops hia putting up of boxes
to ssy rather churlishly: “Whadda
y mean through? If he’s through I'm
a blue-eared fox”—or something
snappy
Finally the conversation dies down
and the clerk movee over to you:
"Can I do something for you?” he
Inquires.
“Show me platon roda for wrist
watches," you demand.
"Hecond floor, third alala, right,
next to gum shoes," he Informs you
and so you follow the directions.
When you arrive there Is another
olerk who la ahowlng a fellow clerk
a trick with a piece of string. You
Idle for awhile and Anally goaded
beyond desperation cry: ”1 want to
see piston roda for wrist wetcheel
The string trick le abandoned and
one clerk etarta toward you, but he
remembers ha hasn’t told Agnes, (he
cashier, the one about the cowboy
and the goidftab to he telle that ona.
Finally you hunt up tha floor mans
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Finally llir t'nnvrraatlon fllra flown. “Sliow Mr Pinion Moil* for Wrlil
Wmtclira,” You llriiiaiid.
ger to offer a vigorous complaint. He
la surprised and accompanies yon
bark to the clerk and you feci like h
soiled deuce.
Tour whole day la spoiled. They
haven't any piston rods fur wrist
watches anyway and you feci angry
eyea boring through your back as
you descend the elevator.
Insults at M.M Per ropy.
Still my leagua for dop t carleh
clerk* li making no headway. And.
of ronrar, there ia no ■ liatn e for ref
nrnmtlon among the cenra of the
theatrical box olflee. Their enlppl
nraa will ronllntte ne long ae eervlle
peraona refute to reach through Ihe
grating* and twlal their heexert.
II arema to me too many turn three
days are over fond of patting thtam
telvta on the bar|( fin- being good
huaband*. It haa been my o\»*r\a
tion that no husband la good enough
for a first clas* wife.
Tou will hear Mike eay at J o'clock
In the morning at the club that h*
hat tha "heat little woman that ever
drew the breath of life.” He calls
her up a half hoar lster to say.
"Pearls, those people from Pitts
burgh are keeping me up. I want
to get away but a hlg deal hinges
on me sticking ground. Jlope the
cenary bird la keeping you company.
I'll not be late to breakfaat."
Then h* turns hack to hit com
panions with, "Bett little woman that
aver lived. Understand* ni# perfect
ly.”
Then something ought to be done
about New Tork flappers and cake
cater* calling parent* by their flrat
name*.
In my time w* called our patents
papa nml mama. Then cam* the era
of calling pater "The Uovernor” and
the mother "Prince**.” Very awank,
Indeed.
Rot now papa I* "flem-ge" and
mother la "Alice” It may lie alt
right hut I never felt I knew my
parent* well enough to he *o familiar.
The Dope on Dentist*.
I've nfton wondered why dentlata
are an popular with their customer*.
I never met a man or woman who
didn't declare lie or ahe had the beat
(fentlat In the world.
“A lltle high priced.” they moat
usually any, "but worth It." I like
dentists myself hut not enough to
brag about them upon every occaalon.
And there are a few of their gougea
with nutplcka 1 ran never forgive.
Finally I believe something drastic
should he done with people who refer
to their automobile a* “the old boa."
It la a contemptuous wav of referring
to an ever faithful vehicle. People
should try to live up to the pristine
splendor of their auto without at
tempting hard-heartedly to drag It
down to their level.
No doubt 1 will never gel very far
In till amateur reforming. Just re
cently I attempted a mild protest
when a man hanging to the strap
next to ma in the tuhway continued
to step on my feet Just when I w as
getting ready to aay aomethlng very
l
drastic I looked up and saw it was a
famous prise fighter.
That took the wind out of my sails.
In fart. I got off two stations before
I expected.
Ooeyrtght. 1 sit.
Ohio Town Inaugurates
Hobo Drinking Fountain
Defiance. O., Feb. 9 —A drlnkln*
fountain for hoboes:
The unique distinction of inaugu
rating this Innovation fall* to De
fiance. From time Immemorial al
most the water work* plant hera has
been an oasle for tramps on the rail
roads which conveniently arranged a
Junction point not far away.
It was lots of trouble to fill a
tumbler for each caller. 80 Superin
tendent H. T. Campion hag had con
structed a drinking fountain near the
road, where a walk enters the
frrounds. It's really an ornamental
affair, and, of course, any wayfarer
Is welcome lo quench hie thirst at
Its bubblers.
America anti Ford Lauded
hv Distinguished \ isitor
Stockholm. Feh. 9. \meric* is the
irost remarkable country In the
world, and Henry Ford I* the moat
retnntkable man In America, accord
Ing to Dr. Sven ltedln, noted Swediah
explored, who ha* Just returned from
a visit to America, the far east snd
Russia.
"I was enormously Impressed with
th* resources of American science,"
eald Dr. Hven liedln In an Interview;
"It is a wonderful country "
Dr. Hetlin plan* to wrlle s hook of
his travels, In which he will deal
with the political situation In America
and American responsibility and He
attitude toward Kuropean problem*.
Veils Again in England.
I.ondon. Fob. 9.—llngllsh women
have decided to return to the veil.
Th* latest veil is a small piece of
hlack lace named the "mask ' veil, ll
cover* the forehead and eve* and
passes in s straight line across the
bridge of the nose giving the wearer
th* sppearancs of a high"*)man.
seriously attacked from without, leaat
of *11 by communism. Ths whole
communist propaganda In western
Europe does not amount to much.
But the European system Is being
attacked from within. It has taught
its children to be competitive, self
seeking; it crumbles and collapses
now for lack of creative effort.
I am not one of those who mini
mize the great achievements of ths
ISth century. Deep in my naturs is
a craving for irresponalble liberty.
Temperamentally. I dislike commun
ism. 1 am a collectivist, but not u
communist. I have always clung to
ths belief that the sprawling social
and economic life in which I have
grown up might be progressively or
ganized into a secure, generous, sci
entific system without any abrupt,
violent. destructive revolutionary
change. But I must confess to in
creasing doubt whether the present
European system can right Itself.
The little natione sit within their
boundaries, scheming for small ad
vantages. none heeding the general
good Germany roll owe bowu. ib
enemies without, th» Mg business 4
old within, have prepared another
great area in which tha communist
may make his experiments. And tha
collapse shows no tendency to and at
the Rhine It may be that tinker,
ing cannot save the European aye.
tem now: that it la destined ta pra*
founder, more drtatie ehengee than
we are willing te admit ae aecea.
aary.
Perhaps the root la tea rotten with
self-seeking. Perhaps the ennaunld
with all hla faults, hla wastetalneee
and ugliness of method, has eetns
thing vital to teach the world, K it
is no more than discipline, devoted
subordination to large tdeea.
Perhaps the whole European aya«
tem, like Russia, may after all need
to be re grafted upon thta new,
strange root of communism before
it enters upon a fresh creative phase.
I do not know. But It Is plain to me
that the years pass and the recovery
of Europe does not begin. fi
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’DR. CALDWELL’S
SYRUP PEPSIN
Is just what you,nud
This Will Make Digestion Easy
WHAT tha dy*pentic need* i*
not aoda and charcoal and
breath perfume* but a medicine
that will help hia bowel* to move
regularly, for dyapepaia and con
ttipation are allied. If you will
take Dr. Caldwell’* Syrup TVpein
*y atematically a* the direction* on
the package call for you will aoon
digeet yotir food properly and paaa
it out normally, and heartburn,
belching, dutinen*. nervou*nea*
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you can diapenae with all medi
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exemted the inteatmal and *lotn
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aelvea. Mr. lewiv K. Schulti of
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36IS Bank St., Leuiavill*. ky„ and
hoata of other* will verify thi*.
World Acclaims Success
Dr. Caldwell'S Svmp Pcpun i*
the preemption of a wrll-known
phvvician of that name who |>r*o
ii»ed »ucce«»fully for 47 >ear*.
It ha* been on the market thirty
Year* and is today the
largest selling liquid
laaative in the world.
Thouaands of families
have it in their mod
icine cheat ready when
anymomhershowaaigna
of dyapepaia. constipa
tion torpid li'er, sour
stomach. biliousness
■
coated tongue, offensive breath,
headache* and such ailments
that indicate deranged stomach
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Formula Plainly Stated
Have do hesitancy giving Dr.
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one young or old. It is a mild,
gentle laxative free from nar
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The formula is on the package, a
compound of Egyptian senna
with pepsin and simple aromatics.
K bottle can be had at anv drug
store and aicrage* |cs* than a
cent a dose. Economical for fam
ilies end fully guaranteed. You
will find it a great improvement
in taste and action O'w castor
oil. or “candy cathartic*" made
from coal tar that cause akin
disease*, calomel that loosens the
teeth, salts in water or powder
that concentrate the Mood and
dry the sk.m.
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