Old Home State
Viewed by the
Old Home Folks
What Well-Known Writers
Have to Say About the
States They Claim for
Their Own.
■‘'THESE UNITED STATES.” a lympoi
tum; »«cond series; edited tov Ernest
Omening; Bonl A Llverlght, New York,
publishers.
Here ia a little bit of publisher's
enterprise that goes to the meat ot
a question of considerable national
Importance. Often In these days we
hear of the sovereignty ot the state;,
of their rights; of the various and
conflicting Interests. Also, we listen
to the boastings of their sons and
daughters. Nebraska Is not free en
tirely from the habit, although it Is
In no sense Pharasaical to give
thanks that as yet our fair state
®ias not gone to the extent of some
of ita neighbors. So to set out the
reasons for state pride, to differenti
ate between these sovereign entitle*
that together make up the great
federation that is known as these
t United States, this work has been
.. .3 o really interesting sympos
ium, too. Each of the ‘14 states
represented in the present volume is
told about by one of its favorite
authors. For example, Sinclair Lewis
tells of Minnesota, and the reader
learns from him that the Gopher
state Is not one long Main street,
and that it has other and far more
interesting communities than Gopher
Prairie. Wllla Gather tells about
Nebraska, or, more definitely, she ap
proves the "first cycle” of Nebraska
history. Telling of the settlement, of
the difficulties and hardships the pio
neers overcame, and of the real
achievements of the men and women
who laid the foundations, Miss Gather
treats the subject with sympathy,
vision and in a way that will be
Understood by those who read what
she has written.
Similarly . other states are told
about, so that the one who pursues
the several articles will have a fair
understanding of the differences that
exist. Why Idaho is not like Mon
tana, for example. The book is most
attractively arranged, too. Seeming
ly no order has been observed in Us
makeup, yet even the disorder con
tributes to the general effect, for it
Affords the continual variety that
heightens the general delight^nd has
the effect of stimulating the pursuit
of the general theme. Certainly it
provides sustenance for state pride,
as well as Information that is much
needed by all hands.
Handicaps That Hang
Heavily Over Newspapers
"FREEDOM OF THE PRESS," a study
of ths legal doctrine of "qualified privi
lege," by Samuel Arthur Dawson; the
Columbia University Press, New York,
publishers.
Mr. Dawson, who took a master’s
degree In journalism at Columbia uni
versity, has prepared a most Inter
esting and Informative work. In It
he traces the development of the free
dom of the press, which is not so very
free after all. Although the consti
tution of the United States and those
of practically all the states proclaim
the right to free speech and free pub
lication, newspapers are still hedged
by "qualified privilege.” hawraak
lng bodies and courts^ the most im
portant agencies dealing with the
liberties of the people, are free. But
the newspapers are not entirely free
to print the proceedings. Absolute
privilege in the legislative Ivalls or
courtrooms becomes "qualified privi
lege," when the newspaper reporter
writes his account for publication.
Courts have ruled in favor of the pub
lisher often enough to materially sof
ten the condition, but Hie fact re
mains that the privilege of publica
tion is a matter for the judge to pass
upon. Mr. Dawson's little book
should be carefully studied by the
young men who are entering journal
ism. Even some of the old timers,
well acquainted with liber suits and
contempt proceedings, can get some
thing from reading the book.
Where the Anzacs Made
Gallant Efforts in War
"THE STORY OF ANZAC." by C K. W
Bean; Ansu* A Robertson, Ltd . Sydney.
Australia, publtshers.
Thia Is volume II of "The Story of
and deals wlllt the period
from May 4, 1915, to the evacuation
of the peninsula of Gallipoli. It Is a
part of "The Official History of Aus
tralia In the War.” As such a doou
ment it Is of real value to the his
torian and the student alike. Over
tlte naked skeleton of facts little ef
fort has been made to throw a veil of
description. Yet enough of the narra
tive form is preserved to give a dis
tinct and lmpreaslve view of the ter
rible experience of (lie soldiers from
the Antipodes in their hopeless Job of
trying to dislodge the Turk from pos
session of cnmmsnd of the entrance
to the Dardanelles. One must read If
earefully to know the heroism of the
men who took part In that dlaastrous
endeavor. And when that knowledge
is obtained, the effect will be to pro
duce a feeling of higher respect for
the Australian and New Zealand sol
diers.
Mystery Concealed in
Heathen Idol Ima»e
"THE JADE OOD," a mystery tele bv
Alen Sullivan; the Century cmnpeny.
New York, publfehere.
Mr. bullivun knows how to lell a
story better than many other Eng
llahmen. Most of them overdo the 11
mystification, hut Mr. Sullivan keeps
Just enough of it on tap to auataln
the Interest of hia readers to the end
of a story, which Is also more reason
able than the general run of such
yarns. He clears up a case that baf
•** fled police inquiry, redeems 1he repo
tatlon of a fine old house, and weds
his common sense hero to a girl who
deserves a good husband. The Jade
god that figures In the story holds
for those who love their tincture of
the occult just enough to make them
wish for more. Another point for com
mendntton Is that reference to th«
East and oriental customs sre but In
eldental, and ara not featured.
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Adventures in a Soda Water Parlor!
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By O. O. MT.NTYRK.
I am one of those aby souls easily
rebuffed. If a theater ticket seller
keeps me waiting for 20 minutes while
he adjusts his scarf, slicks up his
nails and telephones Gert about the
fine time they had last night, I watt
patiently.
If I ask him for two good seats
down front and he gives me two be
hind the post I take them with a
pleasant "Thank you sir.” There isn't
a headwaiter in New York who hasn't
made me feel like a crawling worm
and the way hotel clerks have ^pubbed
me is nobody's business. ,'
Consequently they must have a lot
of fun with me in a New York soda
water parlor. And before indignant
soda water parlor proprietors In the
hinterland waste caustic words, I
want to say my observations are con
fined strictly to New York.
On my next visit to one of them I
am going to take along one of those
sidewalk scooters the children use. It
will save heaps of walking. You tell
the clerk you want a chocolate soda,
lie tells you to get a check from the
cashlea. You walk a half block and
the cashier ask* you if you want
vanilla ice cream or chocolate Ice
cream. You tell her either one will do
and she demands to know which be
cause in some parlors there is a dif
ference in price.
By that, time your ears are burning
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Ninety cents for a soda water! I
don't believe there Is a clerk In New
York who could lift 90 cents worth of
soda water.
Still soda water has become a na
tional beverage and we must have
it—even If we have to be snubbed
and booted about.
I have never seen a poet who was
not a bit temperamental. Somehow
they seem to live a little above the
pack. Some years ago I used to play
pool every Saturday afternoon with
a crowd that included Berton Braley.
the Jongleur. We played for an in
consequential sum, but Braley never
had cash. He would give each mail
a check for varying amounts. It grew
rather irksome and we began to abuse
him about it.
“Why don’t you bring money with
you?’* we would demand.
“Because I would spend It before
I got here,” was his bland reply. And
that Is exactly what would happen.
Braley also wears the most outland
ish, goshawful hats. They would dese
crate most city dumps. Otherwise he
is very neat In his appearance. He
says he likes old hats because they
are comfortable and, being a poet, he
gets away with it.
From a letter: "For 10 years I lived
In New York. Several months ago I
was promoted and am now in a large
western city. At first I was unhappy^
P°°wr, rAsPBcmrv.
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On my ne*t visit to a soda water parlor I am going to take along a scooter I
and you decide. Then you walk back
to the clerk. He is ipolishing a glass
and discussing Al Jolson with one of
his eonferes. You stand on one foot
and then the other. They won't seat
you In a New York soda parlor. Fi
nally you clear your throat and say
In one of those frightened adolescent
voices changing from bass to tenor:
“Chocolate soda, please."
"Vanilla or chocolate cream?" with
a click and in deep bass.
You're forgotten, but you say choc
olate ice cream and you’ve bought one
for vanilla and so you have to go
back to the cashier again. The cash
ier of a soda parlor is never in the
same place. He may be in the rear,
up front or right at your hack and
as a rule he is freighted with impor
tance. He seems to question your in
telligence to know just what kind of a
soda water you want.
If you say a lemon phosphate he
looks at you as much aa to say:
"You poor nil-wit, nobody drinks
that." Many times they have fright
ened me that way and I have im
mediately changed the order. I don't
want them to think I am not cap
able of ordering a soda water.
I went Into one place and asked
for a crushed raspberry sundae.
"We haven’t any raspberries.’’ So
to make it easy for him I told him
any crushed fruit would do. Hut he
said lie hadn t any kind of crushed
fruit.
"Well, give me just plain ice
cream.” 1 replied, and he gave me a.
dish of lemon ice and what is more
I ate it and said nothing. When he
asked for the cheek I realized I had
neglected to buy it and when I went
to get it I forgot what 1 had ordered
and was all so confused that when 1
departed 1 tried to walk through a
side wall mirror.
If there hud been a trapeze there
1 would have swung by my tail. T
[certainly made a monkey of myself.
There is an old wlicexe about a
soda water patron but I think he
did not Intend to be funny. He was
merely fabhergaated.
"(live me a chocolate soda!" said.
*V\’e are out of chocolate hut I
can give It to you without vanilla."
"No, I wouldn't care for that, give
it to me without sarsaparilla."
In some of the large soda water
parlors !n New Vork they have floor
walkers. They are supposed to make
it easier tor you tmt most of the n
I 'lave seen are too busy admiring
themselves In the mirror to be of any
help whatever.
The most exiamsive fountain In
town Is on Fifth avenue. Here the
ordinary soda is 40 cents and they
have some fancy fixtures at HO cents.
They ought to include a free hair cut
and a pair of sox for that sum. 1
remember the time when for a dollar
and a half you could go buggy riding
all afternoon and take your gill out
for dinner along with it.
Then I took a few days off and went
back to see my old friends. I thought
the visit would cure me of my nos
talgia. But it didn't. I am still long
ing for the old town more than ever.
Heally, I don't see why. I wasn't so
happy ^ere. Yet I had a feeling that
I was fn the middle of things. There
was eo much to see and so much
to do. I am enjoying greater pros
perity here and I know I am leading
a saner, happier life am« that if I
returned to New York I would regret
it. New York does that to you. It
gives the pulse an extra few beats
and you think that is living. But In
the end you leam it doesn't mean a
thing. Still, you always want to go
back."
I do not think mv correspondent's
Impressions are general. Many
friends of mine have left New York
and been content. If one likes the
whirl and dash I suppose It is the
place to he In America. But we soon
get tired of such ephemeral things.
I have come to the point where I be
lieve a man can be happy anywhere
—If "he will stick it out long enough.
I have never left any village or city
where 1 lived any length of time
without undergoing pangs of loneli
ness for many months. I think that
Is true of most of us.
(Copyright, 1926 1
The colder the morning tne clearer
the milk.
The milkman said -
lAnd shook his head!
"Oh, Sir, I didn't skim It."
That didn't budge
The wise old judge—
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of tlte skin, even fiery,
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noted skin specialist j
Because of Its gernt j
destroying properties. ;
this sulphur prcpara j
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Hon, soothes and heals
the eczema light un
and leaves the skirl
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It seldom fails to relieve the lor
roent without delay. Sufferers from
skin trouble should obtain a small Jsr
of Rowlen Mentho Sulphur from any
good/ druggist and use It like cold
cream. *
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? “Pape’s Cold Compound’’
1 Breaks a Cold Right Up
Don’t may *1 uffed lip! Take “P*tpe‘H
<'old (!oinpouii<1" t*verj two houtn un
til three nre t*k#n The flint
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PHHIIHK^ of hfH'l KlMT^U no » | ll»'
relieve* h^ada'li*. dulln«»Ma, feverlidi
neen, mifxning. Thu kucuikI and third
«Ihh usually break up I he rnlrt rote
pletely ami emi all grippe in I aery.
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(juli'lcest. siii-Met relief known and ront*
only thirty five rente at drug More*
Tastes nne. ('entwln* no yuinlne. in
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ABE MARTIN On the Value of Intestines
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, Jester Pine, Yesterday an’ T’day.
Doubtless many have read about
th’ early hardships n’ John D. Rocke
feller, how he had t’ clerk In a gen
eral store in his bare feet, an’ how
he 'struggled an’ struggled t’ get
where he i* t'day. Nothin's ever
said about anybuddy’s early struggles
till they’ve cornered nearly all th’
money, where there’s very few worth
while people t'day that didn’t have t'
hustle an' dig as hard as Rockefeller
t’ git up In th’ wo^ Rockefeller
didn't have t’ have a^r, an’ own a
dinner suit. like th’ hoodin' youth o’
t'day. Resides. Rockefeller has alius
ihad dyspepsia an’ saved hundreds o'
thousands o’ dollars on that account.
But, all Rockefellers aside, Mrs. Tip
ton Bud has a nephew well along in
years, a Mr. Lester Pine, whose life
story is enough t' make any aspirin’
feller give up. Lester Pine's mother
an’ father fought all ther days, an’ he
wuz turned over t’ an aunt th’ day
he wuz weaned. Th’ usual few years
o’ schoolin’, interspersed with jobs
that ruined th' shape of his hands, an'
rounded his young shoulders, follered.
At 15 he entered a soap factory an’
studied Greek at night. At 17 he'd
lifted two mortgages fer his aunt, an*
had taken up law. At 19 he'd given
up Greek an' law an’ had accepted
th' agency fer a patent mop. At 20
his aunt went t’ Waapakoneta, O.,
an’ brought him home, where he re
mained till times got better. His
optimism, energy an’ alertness wuz
on ever’ tongue. He tried sellin’ life
Insurance, an' came int' his home
whistlin' ever’ evenin’ jest as though
he'd sold some. "Things ’ll turn
some day: you needn’ tell me that a
feller what, don’t drink, smoke or
chew is frCin’ t' fail in this big world,”
he'd Hay. proudly takln' his seat at
thk frugal evenin’ meal. Th’ awful
time he had gittin* th’ contract t’
haul th’ mail from the pustoffice t'
th’ depot has never been told. No
Arctic explorer, no laborer In th’
fever-stricken tropics, no democratic
editor in a republican county, ever
went thro’ th' tortous ordeal that
Lester Pine weathered t' git that con
tract. Hounded, bribed, persecuted,
double-crossed, held up, threatened,
shot at an' wounded. Lester Pine wuz
finally victorious. When th' time
come t’ reiet th' contract he'd sa.ved
$68 with which he bought stock In a
rubber plantation. I^ater he returned
t' his ole soap factory job, where his
cheerful personality wuz th’ envy of
all. Ther wuz some talk o’ runnin'
him fer nssetsor, but his knowledge
o' politics an’ politicians had taught
him a lesson. At th’ age of 31 he
married a drtssmaker an' commenced
t’ slow down. Turnin' from manual
laber he returned t' his first love.
Greek. Except fer helpin' out thro
th' holiday rushes at th' soap factory,
what little extry work he did do wuz
largely clerical an’ widely scattered
On th’ very day his wife wuz given
a divorce, an' after a quarter of a
century of privation, hunger an' un
certainty, he won a prize o' $5,000 In a
slogan contest. Hts wife took him
back an' they opened a beauty par
lor, an' t’riay they're both cruisin' th
South Seas.
(OuDyriitht, U2S.)
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New Head of U. S. National Waives
Seclusion of Private Office
Robert P. Morsman, president of
the United States National bank, does
not believe in a private office, as other
bank presidents do.
Since his election to the presidency
of the bank, Morseman has moved
his desk from its former place to a
point farther in the interior and has
it faced so he can see all that tran
spires in the bank.
The former office of John U. Ken
nedy, former president, is being used
as room for visits between the execu
tives of the bank and customers.
The room has a round oak table
Instead of the flat desk formerly used
by Kennedy.
“I don't care much for the closed
up rooms,” Morsman said. “I'd
rather be out where I can still greet
the customers.”
“A bank president should he acces
sible to the customers at ait times.
Being closeted in a private office
makes one act too much on the
aloof,” Morsman says.
The former president's room Is now
called the round table discussion
room. "We get around It and dis
cus* matters.” declared Gwyer 11.1
Yates, vice president.
At present the United States Trust
comparfy is occupying all extra space.
The trust company is awaiting the
completion of the new wing of the
bank, work on which will not begin
before April 1, when the contractors
having the undermining of the Omaha |
National bank are finished with their
work.
Held for Burglary.
Central City, Neb., Jan. 31.—Charles
Penn and Burdette Knowles, both of
Clarks, charged with burglarizing the
Hords elevator and the Farmers ele
vator at Clarks, were bound over to
the district court under 15,000 bonds.
Penn was recently released from the
county Jail where he had served the
minimum sentence on an assult
charge.
Shortage Is Probed.
York. Neb., Jan. 31.—K. H. CJraf of
the Lincoln firm of Van Boskirk A
Remington is In York, checking the
books of R. C. Allen, retiring dark of
the district court. There is an al
ieged discrepancy in accounts.
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The Daily Cross Word Puzzle -
By RICHARD H. TINCLKY.
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Horizontal.
2. Illuminating fluid.
4. To talk foolishly.
6. A color.
7. A highway.
9. A nut.
11. A brief snooze.
12. A greedy person.
14. A favorite.
16. An ancient Teutonic law.
18. Incendiarism.
20. Belonging to him.
21. To complain.
22. A poker term.
23. A theatrical manner.
25. At a later time.
27. Shaped like an L.
28. To wander from the truth.
29. European farm laborers.
Vertical.
1. 8heep'a talk.
2. Blue and yellow.
3. A long, narrow strip of leather.
4. A young dog.
5. Eternity.
6. One of the ropes of the sailing
vessel.
8. Disreputable resorts.
10. To accuse falsely.
12. An adhesive mixture
13. A titter.
14. To like better.
15. A drunkard.
16. 81ster (slangl.
17. To shed tears.
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