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The Omaha Bee M O R N 1 N G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLAKD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLES. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee Is a member, exclusively entitled to the ties for republication <ft all news dUpatcl es credited to it or not otherwise credited *»> this n«»Der, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republicatirm of our special dispatches ars also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority ob circulation audits, and Ths Omaha Bet's circulation is regularly ai’ditcd by their organizations. Entered as second-eiass matter May 2S, 1008. at Omaha postoffica under act of March 8, 1870. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for a i _»• 1 a/\a the Department or Person Wanted. A * sR«tlC IwUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—16 Scott St. So. Side.N. W. Cor. 24th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. I - J Oraaha-Vhefe {he^st is at its Best OLD GLORY AND THE CHURCH. Will the flag be torn from the church, or the church from the flag, if in a great religious confer ence a resolution be adopted deploring war? Even if that resolution goes so far as to declare that the church is unwilling to engage in war? This question is before the Methodists at their quadrennial conference. We feel very certain the ihurch will adopt a resolution denouncing war in terms as round set as the Methodists are capable of. We feel equally certain that at no point will the great organization falter, should the unwelcome presence of war ever again be visited upon the United States. In harmony with the genius of the nation, the spirit of Methodism is for peace and concord, for unity among brethren and agreement dwelling throughout the world. Such is the attitude of all religions with refer ence to war. Only Islam glorified war, and then only for the propagation of the faith and not for meire eonqnest. * * • Charles Wesley, nor John, held any admiration for war as such. Each was a man of peace, but each was resolute in his combat against what he held to be evil. That militant spirit is the characteristic of the Methodist church. It is engaged continually in a warfare, contesting for its faith, for its doctrines, its principles. Peace and good will are among the things it hopes to attain on earth, and for the ac complishment of these it earnestly strives. Yet only a righteous peace will satisfy the church. On this it stands as squarely as did Theodore Roosevelt. Leaders of the church know full well that the day is not yet when nation will no longer rise up against nation, and there will be no more studying of war. They know that the seeds of war lie deep in human activities, sprouting in all human relation ships. Envy and malice are among mankind’s sins, covetousness, jealousy, deceit and guile have not yet been banished from man’s nature. Selfishness afflicts a nation, just as righteousness exalts one. And knowing this, the leaders sternly set their faces against was, with its horrors, hoping by expressing their convictions of abhorrence they may persuade some others to turn the same way. • • • The sorrowful fact is that peace is not to be es tablished as a universal condition by the adoption of resolutions. Seventy-five years ago, Thomas Buckle, discussing the progress of peace, said that wars were not prevented by moral force, but by the developing intellectual strength of nations. He cited England and France, which for forty years had been at peace, not because of either church or state, but lor the reason that education had opened the minds, and communication between the two countries had been greatly improved by inventions dealing with transportation. We are not willing to concede the point to Buckle, although he does argue it well and at length. The moral force of nations develops in direct proportion to their intellectual growth, and consequently must have some influence in determining their course. And just now the moral forces of the world are united against war, and the intellectual strength of all na tions is giving its support to the moral. So, if war is to be stricken from the list of afflictions men have to be eternally vigilant to avoid, now would seem to be a propitious time for accomplishing the great act. • * • Nothing is lost when a great central body, rep resenting millions of adherents, declares in favor of a reform. The sought for change may not be brought about, but this does not diminish in any sense the worthiness of the effort. Let the Method ists pass their resolution, and then sincerely and earnestly seek to make it effective, and they will have the approbation of all. As to the flag and the church, we can not think of a division. Old Glory is as sacred to one as to another of the denominations, and any or all of them are ready to defend that flag, because it typi fies and symbolizes the best and holiest of their as pirations. If ever the nation is again threatened, there will be no lack of ministers who will imitate John Peter Muhlenberg, who told his congregation “there is a time to preach, and a time to fight.” He was none the less a good Lutheran minister because he bIso was a good soldier in the cause of liberty. .Muhlenberg's spirit is not extinct in the church, no matter what the creed. STUMBLING BLOCKS IN MAN'S PATH. “There is the perpetual difficulty of the small minority who will not play the game,” said Herbert Hoover, addressing the United States Chamber of Commerce. He was specifically discussing the prob lem of government in business, emphasizing the need of some method for enforcing any code that busi ness may adopt. His remark, though, has a wider application. Most of the laws for the regulation of business l ave their origin in the refusal of a minority to play 1he game. Pure food laws had to be passed, because aome dealers persisting in adulterating their prod ucts. Laws to govern other details of business come from this same source. If all dealers were scru pulously honest at all times, there would be no need for these laws. In congress today the whole muddle is the result of a minority refusing to play the game. A little group has discovered that it holds the balance of power, and votes measures up or down as its mem bers are moved by their own personal views, regard less of what others may think. Public service suf fers, but this means nothing to the men wfco are .. - - - *- l i mi - -***fc^‘ playing th* game in their own way, just as did those dealers who brought on regulations of which business now complains. Wars spring from the same root. Great nations have refused to play the game, and have deluged the world in blood. Churches have split for the same rea son, organizations of afl sorts have come to disaster, and all the interests and movements of life are con trolled by the small minority who selfishly refuse to play the game. It is any man’s right to decline to go along with others, to take advantage of what is personally prof itable to himself. When one moves on that principle solely, however, he is retarding the progress of all, and he has no right to complain if the big majority protects itself by passing a law. AN OLD-TIME INSURGENT. Insurgents, that is those who do not care to go along with the regular order of things, have a com paratively easy time today. All they have to do is to declare themselves, and very soon they will have a following and frequently much more of prosperity than would have been their lot had they remained “regular." It was not so In the time of George Fox, the 300th anniversary" of whose birth falls on May 28, or Wednesday of next week. Religion was a very serious matter in those days. So, too, was politics, and the two were fairly well mixed. Fox as a boy witnessed the persecution of the Presbyterians by Laud, and he knew what he might expect were he to undertake any form of preaching that did not have the approval of the authorities. He felt, he says, the urge as early as 11, and de termined to keep himself pure and free from wanton ways. At 19 he became a solitary wanderer, and at 24 he began his missionary preaching which occu pied his time until his death in 1691. Fox knew the jail life of England from the in side, for he was many times locked up because he persisted in preaching his doctrine. Cromwell of fered him a captaincy in the army that overthrew King Charles, but did not make religion free in Eng land. Fox was already opposed to war, and spent some time in jail because he would take no part on either side in this struggle. His imprisonment gave him the opportunity to write, so his many tracts and volumes are the fruit of his enemies seeking to sup press him by locking him up. His friendship with William Penn is a classic in America, and out of it grew a visit from Fox to the new land. He preached in Barbados, Jamaica, at Oyster Bay and other places in what is now the United States. Quakers carried his teachings throughout the world, and the sect found many ad herents. One of the unpleasant chapters of Ameri can history tells of how the Quakers were persecuted in this country. Two men and a woman were hanged in Massachusetts as late as 1658 for being Quakers. When Fox preached in'this country in 1671 the seed of his faith had taken such deep root that no further efforts were made to disturb the sect. Friends, which is the Fox name for his followers, now number in this land 106,548, and practice in its pur ity the gentle religion taught by their founder. IT SIMPLY CAN’T BE DONE. Prosperity can not be restored by standing around and whining about inequality of opportunity. Law enactment can never take the place of indus try and thrift as potential factors in permanent pros perity. Waste may not be indulged in without the dan ger of facing want. Theories are not fit foundation stones for govern ment until they have been made demonstrable facts. Law enactment is the simplest step towards cur ing of evil conditions, but law enforcement is im possible without the backing of public opinion. This country can not waste and have; It can no? stand still and go on to perfection; it can not de stroy and keep; it can not build from the top down ward. There are some things that simply can’t be done. HE TOOK THE COVER OFF RUSSIA. George Kennan, who died last week at the age of 79, did more than any other one man to really open the eyes of the world to the weakness of Russia. His was a peculiar experience. A telegraph operator, in 1864 he entered the service of the Russian gov ernment, and for several years was engaged in ex ploration of Siberia and Kamschatka, extending lines of communication, and paving the way for what was to be a great international circuit, crossing Behring strait and coming down through Alaska to the United States. This gave him an intimate contact with the official life of the empire. His earlier writings on the Rus sian system of government, its constitution and ad ministration, gained him much favor at Petrograd. Animated by what he thought to be a misunderstand ing on the part of Americans, he conceived the idea of investigating the exile system. It was his thought, so he admitted, that the Nihilist movement was entirely wrong, and that the government was condemned by those who did not know the condi tions. Going to Petrograd. where he was well known, he was given a card that opened evejy door in Rus sia or Siberia. Armed with this, he traveled over the empire, visited prisons, sat in courts, watched the police at work. Then he traveled with convict trains into Siberia. Here he visited every camp, even to the coal mines at Kara. Long before he got home he had changed his mind. When his articles began to appear in the Century magasine in 1891, they ex cited tremendous discussion. But Mr. Kennan was fortified with proof that could not be denied. He literally tore the cover off official Russia, ex posed the corruption that existed in high official cir cles and permeated even to the lowest. The brutal horrors of the secret police system were disclosed, and the unspeakable conditions forced on those who had been exiled by secret administrative process was made plain. No more terrible arraignment of a civ ilised government ever was published than Kennan's “Siberia and the Exile System.” It was soon for gotten in other matters, but those who read it were prepared for the story that came out from Russia in March, 1917, and in some way to understand the horrors of the early months of boleshevism. Kennan did much other work that, was really worth while, but his expose of the Russian police system was the crowm of his productive effort. It deserves to be read, even today. Nicholas Murray Butler started something which may grow if enough men spunk up courage sufficient to voice their deep-seated view's. Nebraska music teachers are welcome, hut they should have been here last week, to have noted how Omaha is going in for music. And it is also possible for a man to keep his ear to the ground so long that it takes root and holds him down in the mud. Looks like the weather man had Joined the radi [sunny side bp-1' cJake Comfort, nor forget tJhai sunrise rw\#rfailedusget^ j — . . .1 I , ! I —-\ FAITH. I know that just beyond life’s grief and parting. Beyond its days of toil and bitter pain; Beyond the heartaches and the teardrops starting, My loved ones I shall meet and greet again. , I know that life would be a vain endeavor If at the end it meant eternal gloom. But faith brings knowledge that I shall live forever Beyond the dark around the sullen tomb. I know that time so brief for love and living Upon the earth, is but a fleeting aign Of greater love and life He will be giving When from the dark He leads with hand divine I know the hope within man's heart Implanted Will not be vain, but reap reward well won; j That wish to see love’s lost ones will be granted If at the last life’s duties have been done. Dearly beloved, turning this morning to Matt. 6 30 we read as follows: "Wherefore, if Hod so clothe the grass of the field, which today Is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith. Are you of the too great number moaning and groaning about the decadence of public morals, and plumly prophesying the downfall of the republic? Are you of the great army whose membership is cocksure everything is going to pot? It so, grasp the above scripture to your hearts and take new hope. It won't do you a bit of good to sit around and pray for better things. After you get up from your knee*, having said your amen, you’ll have to get out and hustle. Have faith in yourself and faith in the Almighty's promise—but don't forget the work part of it. And. dearly beloved, do not overlook the fact that there is a great difference between religion and Christianity. A lot of people who think they have religion are only victims of mental dyspepsia. If you are a real Christian your neighbor will know it without your telling hint. It will be reflected in your daily walk and talk. If you go around with your face long enough to eat oats out of a churn, and throw shuddering fits because you Just know everything Is going to the demnition bow wows, the thing you’ve got Isn’t religion at all. Ever hear the story of the old negro preacher who ev plained his faith by saying that if God told him to go out and butt his head through a stone wall, he'd simply start to butting ''Buttln’s my business; gettin' through de wall am God’s business," he explained. Renew and strengthen your faith daily by communion with God. It Is not enough that you go to church once a week and listen to the preacher and choir. "Pure religion and undeffled before God and the Father Is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world." That's not a Sunday business, but an every day in the week business. TVe will now stand ahd sing that good old song of Zion: "How firm a foundation ye saints of the Lord Have laid for your faith in His excellent word" And may each and everyone of us sing with the spirit and the understanding. WILL M. MACPIN. - - - —A, f- -v Society and Celia Cooney -_-* From the New York Sundsy Time*. The case of Celia Cooney against modern civilization is not quite so simple as it has been presented in some quarters. W hen people speak of society's responsibility for the in fraction of society's own laws, the de gree of responsibility shou’d be stated. In some measure society is obviously responsible for everything that oc curs within lis coniines Th*1 existing social system is responsible for its Blnsteins. Us Jane Addamscs and its Wilbur Wrights, and also for its Lu dendorffs. Its Harry Thaws and its girl bandits. But the very same peo ple who would resent American civ ilization under Coolldge throwing out | its chest and saying, "I made Jane Addams.” do not hesitate to accuse this same American civilization of having "made Celia Cooney. It would be a help toward sounder thinking— and perhaps toward truer feeling— If people said, more dettnitely, that society Is 10 per cent, or 20 per cent responsible 111 any particular case, for good or ill. With some such arithmetical criter ion we could then attempt an assess ment of the Cooney case. It Is the story of a childhood of poverty and neglect. For the poverty let us con cede that society was. In part, respon ' slble. For the neglect it seems pretty plain that responsibility rests with a worthless parentage. Abandoned by her mother at the age of 4, Celia was taken In charge by an aunt and spent the next 10 years at school. Since it is reasonable to assume that this aunt was approximately of the same eco nomic status as the worthless brother or sister whom she replaced, it ts ap parent that poverty does not auto matically Induce mistreatment of the young. Twice betwen the ages of 14 and Iti Celia Cooney returned to her mother and to evil influences. If so ciety's responsibility Is to he establish ed. the case really becomes not that of Celia Cooney, but of her father and mother. And here the problem grows com plex. Before Celia was born, tbs youngest of eight children. Iter father had been brought into court on charges of drunkenness and neglect. Therefore society did try to do some thing for Celia by anticipation. And the effort went beyond the mere hal ing of a drunken father Into court. Long before Celia was born, society In this country was actively engaged on a constructive program for dealing with drunken fathers It set out fb eliminate drunkenness Social work ers know that next after sickness the chief cause of poverty is alcohol. Many million Americans who were not social workers have also known •t- The great driving force behind this movement that outrages Presl dent Butler has been precisely the knowledge of what a vast amount of demestic misery, of neglected child hood, and of consequent crime, came out of the whisky bottle. Here was a sincere effort on the part of civiliza tion to do Its duty by the Celia Coon eys. But college presidents now tell us Hint prohibition Is » crime in Itself and the fruitful mother of ernio Perhaps that Is so. But In this case the question of social responsibility is obviously a very mixed one And finally there are the mllUons of poor mothers who do not abandon their children, and the millions of girls who grow- up In poor homes without taking to banditry. The son timentallty which describes the Celia Cooneys as the "product'' of a twisted social order Is something much worse than sentimentality. It Is a super odious denial of humanity to the masses By making waywardness and crime the automatic result of poverty. It denies the effort, the self everifier, and five heroism of the millions who keep an unfavorable environment at bay or defeat It Sometimes It would seem thst there Is nobody like the confirmed "humanitarian ' to deprive ing the vast majority of mankind of its human attributes. - ... — r - . -M " n Establish Your Credit by joining this Association. Many a “live wire" would be a dead one if it were not for connections. Every busi ness man knows (he value and importance of his connections because next to ready money the moat valuable thing he ran have is credit. f'redit is founded as much on a man’s personal character and habits as on his posses sions or assets. Your membership in this Association brings you in con tact with other people who are forging ahead. It gives you a higher standing in the community. Assets ... $13,250,000 Reserve Fund 450,000 35 Years in Omaha 18th And H*rn#y Pa** 6% Per Annum Quarterly Reckless Debtors From 'ho Milwaukee Ssntlnel The Jugoslav debt funding delega tion was Informed at Washington that the United Stales Insists on re taining priority of its claims wlier ever such priority exists. In other words "no second liens" will hs ac cepted from nations which incur fresh debts In addition to what they owe thla country. This warning calls attention to the tendency of the smaller European nations to plunge deepen into finan cial chaos instead of making efforts to extricate themselves from the load of foreign obligations. European* continue to borrow money wherever they can get it chiefly for the purpose of Increasing armaments. The world war debts of the smaller nations are rapidly being burled and forgotten under new obli gallons The United fbates and Great Rrltaln, as the chief war time creditor nations, are In danger of seeing their claims superseded by the more re cent armament credits extended by France. Jugo slav is. Poland and Rumania last year obtained heavy armament loans from France. The extent of their new Indebtedness alarmed Great Rrltaln. and the British gov ernment made formal Inquiry as to how the security for old loans la af fected by later additions. Tills In qulry was made a few months ago, nnd at Inst account* the British gov ernment was still waiting for nn an swer. There is no evidence of any effort to halt the process of piling up debts. Roumanla, believing herself threatened with war by Russia, last week made nn effort to place another loan on the occasion of the visit of the king and queen of Roumanla in Paris. How the smaller nations tier ex peel to get back on their te»t la be ond comprehension For the time being they are merrily gliding along the down road to ruin. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for April, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,265 Sunday .77,999 Doaa not Includt raturna, laft* •vara, samplaa or papara apoilad In printing and tncludaa no aparlal ■alaa or fraa circulation of any hind. I V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Suhacrlbad and aworn to hafota vna thla 10th day of May. 1924 W H. QUIVEY, <Stall Notary Tuhllc J'WIIS BCggjBH r—---: ~ “Overproduction” and the McNary-Haugen Bill r Hy GEORGE C. JEWETT. General Manager American Wheat Grow er! Associated, Minneapolis, Minn,, and Portland, Ora. Every attempt to help the farmer se cure higher prices for his products is sure to raise the cry "overproduction.” An improper and unjust argument. The farmer is entitled to operate his business as other business Is operated and that is at a reasonable capacity. He is entitled to the privilege of pro ducing the requirements of our do mestic market and securing therefor a price in keeping with the American standards of living. He is further en titled to the privilege of using his facilities to produce for the export market if, in his opinion, he is able to compete in the markets of the world. This policy is not new In American life. It has been followed for ages by Industry. Many important Amer ican manufactured articles are sold cheaper in foreign countries than in our own country. This is considered good business on the part of Industry, and there should be no complaint if the farmer engages in like activities. • • • Increased prices encourage produc tion. This is true in any producing activity, but better farm prices must be secured. A wise policy is to con sider the ways that better prices may be secured, and select the one that will operate to the best advantage/ taking everything into consideration, including overproduction. The fol lowing methods are suggested by many as ways to Improve prices: 1. Reduce production to the re quirements of domestic consumption, thereby through economic action forc ing tlie price to higher levels. 2. Develop co-operative marketing associations on the pooling plan, there by securing command of the product sufficient to force the price to higher levels. 3. Enact legislation segregating the surplus from the domestic, providing for the sale of the surplus at the world's price and the domestic at a fair price on an equal basis with all other commodities. The first method means untold dis tress and great injustice, as It can only be brought about through the play of economic forces driving farm ers from the farm and compelling oth ers, on account of financial distress, te permit a part of their landa to lie idle. If the price were improved by thla method the improved price would then have a distinct tendency to encourage further production, with the result that we would have cycles of good years and cycles of bad, which is con trary to the principles of good busi ness and economic operation. Fur thermore. any attempt to limit pro duction to domestic requirement is likely to prove serious through clima tic or other conditions destroying the limited acreage and leaving the coun try with an extremely short food sup ply. There are so many factors that must he taken Into consideration in the production of food that a regulation of production cannot be brought about In the same manner and to the same degree as can a regulation of the pro duction of manufactured products. The second, co-operative marketing, can only Improve handling methods. Where a surplus is produced which must sell In the competitive markets of the world It Is Impossible to im prove the price more than improved handling methods provide. Co-opera tive marketing has been under way for half a century, ahd we still find agriculture in distress. If co-opera tive marketing could bring about a highly Improved price as now needed. It likewise would meet with the prob iem of overproduction, and difficulties in this respect would arise. The thir method enumerated con tains the principles employed lri the McNary-Haugen - bill, and beyond question the Bound thinking man will say that it minimizes to the highest degree the problem of overproduction. This method does not encourage the production of large surpluses because it only gives to the surplus portion the price available in the competitive markets of the world, which on the basis of cost of production in Amer ica, is not a profitable price. • • • Under the operations of the Mc Nary-Haugen bill the unsatisfactory results of the production of a surplus are clearly pointed out to each pro ducer and brought home to him In a forcible manner through the collection of the equalization fee. causing him to understand the situation as he has never been able to understand It here tofore. Furthermore, the McNary Haugen bill proposes to improve the price of major farm products, placing them on an equal basis and encourag ing their equal production alike. This would have a tendency to keep the production of each commodity within proper bounds. It must be remembered that rea sonable capacity production means cheaper production. If production is reduced to domestic requirements it means higher cost of production per unit. The adltlonal operations in volved in reasonable capacity produc tion do not as a rule involve addi tional lands or equipment: therefore It may be properly argued that the surplus portion is cheaply produced and can he profitably sold In the com petitive markets of the world. • • * Another point of serious national concern would be the loss of business now carried on in the handling of the surplus produced. 1- There would be a tonnage loss to the railroads of approximately 25 per cent, a matter of serious concern to them. 2. It would mean a loss to flour mills and the packers of their entire export business. 3. It would drive every exporter out of business, as there would be nothing to export. 4. It would complicate the question of foreign exchange, as we would Lave nothing in food products to sell abroad, which now operate as a medium of trade end barter. 5. It would seriously affect our while economic structure through the elimi nation of an Important national ac tivity. The conclusion seems clear—that we ought to keep our farmers on the farms and actively engaged in a prof itable enterprise, but to do so we must enact legislation that will give them a profitable market for their do mestic production and at the same time permit them to sell their surplus in the markets of the world at the best price available. Profitable. ■'Yes,’’ said the mean man, "thrift is a wonderful thing." "It is,” said nis companion. "Why, I gave my wife a 5-pound note to manage the holidays on. and she saved nearly w pound of It for a new hat.” "Oh, that's nothing," said the mean man. "My wife gives the children: pennies for going to bed early, and! when they re aslepp she takes the' money from them, and then they have to go without breakfast for losing their pennies."—Cassell's Journal. I* Depends. "A man is never older than he feels," declared the ancient beau bravely. "Now I feel as a 2 year old." "Horse or egg’" asked the sweet young thing brightly.—Tit Bits. Beloved by Laddie was his day. On golden wheat field's balmy bay. Whose vibrant tossing—morn re vealed— Was fragrant with the dewy yield Of field on field! Observe he was—with Nature’s thrill. With home and barn and wind turned mill— Like fleets detached at anchor lain. In harbor held with might and main—* Earth's brawn and brain! As Laddie laved in wooden trough Where working horses came to quaff. There blew from humble dining hall, With fragrancles exceeding all, The breakfast call. Enrapt and whistling afterward Through bloom-starred dell he drove his herd Of mild-belled cows to clover-mash And babbling brook where they might splash While fish did flash. That pasture brook's excessive reel - Down further—drove an old mill wheel; Above Its drowsy whirl a glee Mixed choir of Insect, bird and bee Mado melody. God’s Acre gleamed from gracious grove— What awe on Sabbath day to rove And garland brier roses' sweet O’er what was left to love beneath The grave's green sheath! In ancient state of moss-grown rot A church befriended the sad spot; It wafted solace on the air, Pervasive, with the peace of prayer Assuaging there. And southward—high above the slough— Wild plum and grape and berry grew; For Laddie each fruit had Its own Delicious flavor sereph sown And heaven blown. When first he laid hold of the plow. How proudly laddie sweat his brow— The furrow found his ardor true— Yet, mother's mid-day noodle stew— He yearned for you! Kind evening brought a bath, a beat To cool, clean, welcome bed's re treat; The katy did’s shrill, deafening shout Through net-screened casement failed to rout Lad's snoring stout. In dreams he saw sky-scrapers tall And lights that lure and heck and call— They beckoned him. too, and he broke Joy ties of home—when he awoke— To* seek the world. O, such Its sweet, now long denied. That Laddie—rich and cityfled— Would hear bankruptcy could he play As mate again on Wheat Field Bay!— But wife says "Nay!" —Alfa Wrenwlck Brown. Should Have Heard Him. Lady (calling the electric light plant)—The lights In my house have all gone out. Superintendent—Yes Madam. A rar rot got caught in the dynamo. Lad—Oh. how shocking' Superintendent — You'd have thought so if you'd heard what he said.—Life. A Proud Record. "You here again after only eight months?" snorted the Judge. 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