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OUR WEEKLY COMMENTS Congressman Kinkald of Nebraska, | has a bill pending before the Commit j tee on Agriculture providing for the j free distribution on the residents of j the territory, covered by his home- j stead a t, of young pine trees front j the nurseries maintained on the Nebraska Forest Reserve. * * * Tomorrow’s dinner need not cost the j fastidious quite so much as did last j Sunday’s. The prices ou a number of things that enter into high priced i menus Have dropped during the week, j But how about the common man's j dinner tomorrow. it lias been i up-in-tlu-air for a long while and shows no signs of a McGinty des cent. * * • Representative Hinshaw has sub mitted for the Committee on In dian affairs, an adverse report upon a measure appropriating a large sum of money to members of the Delaware Shawnee, Absentee-Shawnee, Texas Cherokee and Chootaw Indians for s_.deprq<la^onf committed against them by tile 'whites between 1850 and 1863. Th* whole matter is dismissed as. be longing to a class of claims in the “exigencies of war” classification. t* • , » * , • • * • •‘sa« i oa ,AH4. -,, Dr. Tanner has found a cure for the -evil known as “high cost of liv ing.” His remedy is simple enough and would without a doubt be effect ive. The shrewd doctor proposes that when meat is high we quit eat ing it. Naturally to the person not buying, the price at that time will be im-material. Likewise with other food products. When the price is too high quit eating. Play the Chinese game--Starve. It may not be the most agreeable method but it’s bound to be a Success. And success is something.. Try it and report re sults. • * • New Orleans concedes the Panama exposition to San Francisco. The southerners have decided to accept the action of the house as final, and will interpose no opposition to a vote in the Senate when the House bill is taken up for consideration. Numerous conferences between citi zens of Louisiana and the senators and members of the state congression al delegation resulted in this decis ion. The headquarters of the New Orleans boomers have been dismant eled. It is said that New Orleans people spent $100,000. * * * As we wander again through the land of mud, we are prone to won der about the streets that are not paved. For nearly a year there has been comparatively little rainfall and correspondingly little mud to contend with. The citizens of Falls City are in this respect much like the man whose house had no roof on it. When asked why he no roof he replied; “when it is nice weather 1 don't need any roof, and when it rains I can't roof. Now, that it is raining and the mud is everywhere in evidence, our thoughts revert to the advantages of paved streets. Another radical step to prevent the concentration of power in a few hands in the House of Representa tives has been taken by the newly designated democratic members of the way and means committee of the next congress. It was determin ed that in the make-up of the comit tees of the new house the chairman •f all committees that have the pow er to prepare appropriation bills and the chairman of the judiciary, inter state, and foreign commerce, and Thstrict of Columbia committees, will not be members of any other commit tees than those over which they preside. m m m That there is strong opposition to the Canadian reciprocity measure is borne out by expresisons from repre sentatives and Senators. Senator Nor ris Brown of Nebraska, is one who does not favor action by the pres ent congress, and while he has ex pressed no views as to the merits o the treaty yet his attitude in refer ence thereto is quite clearly defined. He said, “of course it would he a serious matter to register a hasty vote on President Taf’s reciprocity plan even against it. I think the details of the scheme would make good summer discussion for the peo ple, and I sincerely hope they will be given the opportunity to talk it ever.” « • • The house famine is beginning to be felt by Falls City people too. Heretofore, the unpleasant experien ce of house hunting, was largely one for strangers. But, now that the R. R. people have begun to buy property for themselves some,of our own fam ilies are finding themselves in a quandary. They must move out of their present quarters, but where to j go they do not know. It will be no | matter to joke about if citizens of Falls City find themselves compelled | to leave town, and their work in ordo ^ to keep a roof over their families. As things are now, such ois likely to be the case before spring. Surely everything possible should be done to rush, forward as many new houses as possible, at once. • * * City Building. One of the draw backs to the grow th of many towns is the high prices asked by real estate men and prop erty owners for, building lots. Many a town with a promising outlook has bet n held up in this way, and her future effectually blocked. One man, as the rase so frequently is, with a" disposition to gab, can doom a good town to eternal littleness by asking exhorbitant prices for build ing lots. The average American will pay a fair price for what he wants, but. he will stop quick, when asked to pay throe prices, just because the seller thinks he lias him in a tight place. There is a limit to what peo ple will pay and in trying to get rich quick, men are apt to not only harm the community but to lose out them selves. * * * * I Yesterday Rice Bros. Contractors It gau on the foundations of a new modern dwelling in the south end of town. The building is already rent ed for a year, to be occupied as soon as in condition to mote ifi. The rent al is $25.00. When houses rent for $25 a month before the foundations have been laid, there must tye real need. There are people of culture and refinement, accustomed to the use of modern convenieifPes in their homes, compelled to sto'vfr' themselves away in “any old place.” And what is the most unpleasant experience of all, is that they ought to feel ex ceeding grateful for the hospitality shown. Falls City needs to open her doors still wider. The situation is strenuous. The people must have sc comodations. a « a The air is filled with talk of an extra session of congress, and Presi dent Taft lias let it be undersood that unless the Administration bill for a tariff board and the Canadian treaty are passed, that lie will not hesitate to call an extra session. The difficulty all seems to lie witli the senate, as the House is counted on to pass the legislation. On the senate side there is a great deal of work to be done, and some big meas ures to lie disposed of in the re maining days of the session. The fates of both measures in that body seem very much in question, and while it is hardly expected that either of the proportions will be killed out right, yet it is expected in many quarters that neither measure will be allowed to come to. a vote. In this event (ho president will have an opportunity to make good his threat. * * # Tlie law makers of Kansas took a step that will go far to justify to them the names of progressive, when they made provision for so amend ing the State Constitution as to per mit women to vote. There is absol utely no reasonable ground for de nying this privilege to woman, ex cept prejudice and personal advan tage. Men are naturally jealous of their prerogatives and hesitate to yield them without protest. Whether women make use of the privilege or not is no argument. They should have the right because it belongs to them as freely as to men. The more liberal and loyal Western states are one after another taking down the bars—Nebraska next. Friends of County option were greatly disappointed at the action of the Nebraska Senate in turning down the County option bill Wednesday. It was, however, a bad piece of business from any view point. County option is the peoples option, and when the Lawmakers deny the people the pri mary rights of American citizenship, the simple rights that belong to ev ery free-holder, the right of the ma jority to rule, they are preparing for a day of retribution. The initiative and referendum is also meeting witli every kind of obstacle. These are measures that give to the people thei inalienable rights. The will of the people may be forestalled for a time, but the world moves, and a day is coming when both sexes will vote their wills in public affairs. • * * Away back in Ohio, in the long, long, ago, our old school director, when interrogated concerning the schools, replied, “must be going well, doa’t hear much.” So in Falls City, ttie work in our schools must be going along witli little friction and general acceptability for people are very quiet about the affairs of the schools. It might however, not be out of place to note that there is danger in this attitude. Would it not be better if we all heard more, talked more and more generally interested ourselves in the welfare of our schoo’J The Supt. and teachers plod on their way. Does it ever occur to us to give them a word of encouragement. We may not complain but it can scarcely be said that we have done our whole duty by our schools, when we can say that we have said noth ing. * * * The governor of Kansas lias signed the resolution passed by the legis lature of Kansas las week, which provides for the submission of a con stitutional amendment to the voters of Kansas granting Equal Suffrage rights to women. The amendment will be voted on at the fall election. It remains to bo seen whether Kau nas will prove true to tier traditional name for gallantly and the “square deal.” There is a deep seated prejudice in the average man against 'granting this gunt privilege and righ to his wife. He may not be able to ' give a 1 cason, why, but it is true all the same. He is afraid, tbat given the power women will usurp some of the prerogatives now securely enjoy ed by men exclusively. That it is mean and selfish on the part of men, no one can dispute. * * * There is a sincere desire on the part of the majority of the citizens of Falls City, at this time to do the advantageous thing. Unfortunately for the town and the interests of the town there is too little agreement up on the policy to be pursued. What is needed is the weeding out of miner details and personal issues. Fails City has suffered too long be cause of being manipulated for indi vidual ends. At this time every edi/eu should sink his own advan tages in the larger interests of tbcf community. The situation challen ges the potriotism and loyalty of every citizen. The man who blocks the larger growth of our city at this time because It is to his advan tage to do so, should be disowned by the citizens. We are at the part ing of the ways. Old things are pass ing rapidly, and the new Falls City is emerging. May it be so directed and administered as to become strong and permanent. * * # A New York theatrical manager of note says that no more plays with gentlemen and ladies—real gentlemen and real ladies—can be staged in this country because no actor can be found who can play the parts with anything like success. The younger generation of actors, as in the case with other folks here and yonder, are utterly incapable of understanding the emotions of the well-bred and are as a consequence unable to portray gen iility in action. A rather stinging commentary on the times, but in a measure true. The decay of good breeding is marked even to those among us whom observation ' has been confined to the last twenty years. There is much affectation and piles of unsustainable pretence in the matter, but when the test be comes acute the real quality is al ways found lacking. Take the < al lowest sort of stripling nowadays and you will find him playing at the “i rimal male.” If ho isn’t as tig as a splinter and hasn’t fuzit1 enough on Ills face to hold a lather, he is thoroughly imbued with the ethics- of the dog jilt and the prize ring. That he should sacrifice liis own selfish convenience in the performance of any social emenity, that he should do anything in fact he doesn’t want to do, never occurs to him. In the ball room, where of old good breeding was the rule, pot-house manners now' prevail. As for the girls and young women, the graciousness and cordiality, and the refinement of manner that distin guished the elder generation seem to be wholly lacking. One hesitates to give greetings in passing for fear he may be snubbed. Now and then one encounters an older person of the same kind, and when it comes to children no jeremaid is equal to the task of lamenting and departure from old standards.—Ex. TELEPHONE ETIQUET The world has reason to note with delight that about half the advertis ing of the telephone companies now adays consists of instruction in tele phone etiquette. The managers of telephone systems fully realize that the popularity of the telephone, and thus its greatest use, depends partly on the maintenance of “friendly re lations" among its millions of users. It has always been a rule that patrons must not swear at each oth er over the phone, a rule that must by this time have added vastly to our national self control. Telephone “central” is proverbially patient and courteous, another result of rigid discipline. Many a rude man has had his head burned into gentleness by the hot cdals of her soft answer to his wrath. Incidentally the nati onal voice must surely have by this time lost some of its stridency by the example of mellowness set, under instructions, by the telephone girl. But the rules of telephone etiquette are to go farther. Thus one “ad“: “One who is courteous face to face should also be courteous when he bridges distance by means of the telephone wire. “He will not knock at the tele phone door and run away, but will hold himself in readiness to speak as soon as the door is opened.” Self-evident truths and valuable sug Rest ions. Doubtless there are more to follow. In time, perhaps, people will understand that a person who would not think of meeting a stran ger on the strict with the demand, "what is your name,” will also not ring you tip by telephone and de mand, "who is this." And possibly the person who would not justify you in the street without an apology will not, ere long, call you to the phone by jjiistake apologizing before he rings off. The telephone lias be come a tremenduous and sometimes even burdensome factor in our lives. Nowhere is genuine courtesy more tested and needed than in its use.— State Journal. * * ♦ Preside nt Taft is greatly elated over his flying trip to Ohio and Illi nois last week. He has his heart set upon tile Reciprocity Treaty. In it lie sees a very promising future for himself and the republican party. To him the rejection of the treaty spells woe to the republican party. He seems fully determined, provided the present republican congress does aot pass the bill, to tall an extra session after March 4th, which will be democratic and ask this con gress to pass on it. Whether the president Is wholly In the right or Hot is one of the big problems both ering many Americans,both legislator and common people. It is also a question in many minds us to why Mr. Taft should develop such an un bounded enthusiasm for this one men ure, in view of the fact that he has usually been rather cold towards im part and measures. To the good people who have de voted much time to efforts to stamp out the cigarette the reports of the tobacco trade journals are bound to be disappointing. According to one of these the number of cigarettes smoked in 1910 exceeded the number smoked in the previous year by near ly two billions. In all, according to this report, the number of cigarettes smoked, or at least sold, last year, amounted to 100 for every inhabitant of the country. Several states prohibit the sale of cigarettes. At leas tthey have laws to that effect. Nebraska is of that number, though cigarettes are not an unknown sight on these plains. We have been taught that cigarees stunt mind and body, and the evidence of tills seems conclusive, at least as to the young. Yet. tile cigarette trade thrives. One hundred nails in Hi coffin of every man. woman and child in the country each year Is race suicide with a vengeance.- State Journal. ♦ * * POSTAL SAVING EXPERIMENT In the t'irdt month of experiment with postal savings the forty-eight of fices In which tho system is in op eration received an average of $1,200 on deposit. it may ho fairly as sumed that conditions at these forty eight depositors are typical of all the rest and, therefore, when the system is extended to the sixty thousand post offices of the country, at least 70 million dollars will quick ly' he placed in charge of the* postal department for safe keeping nud the amount will steadily Increase. The figures appear to furnish ample justification for the adoption of the system, though it involves many large and difficult problems in gel ting in generally Into use. For example, the 1’ostofflce De partment has asked Congress for an appropriation of a million dollars for the extension of tho system to all p stoffices. That amount seems large, yet it involves an average ex penditure of only about $1G for nec essary equipments in ehch office. The government’s gross revenues from the system would he only Vfe million dollars for the first year of full operation. If ns much ns 100 mil lion dollars were deposited. The government would pay 2 per cent per annum to depositors and re ceive 2V4 per cent from banks in which the funds would be placed, the difference representing the gov ernment's gross profit. It is evident, therefore, that the system will he a losing venture, for the national treasury in ith prelimin ary stages. But after it. is widely exended and thoroughly established, the probabilities are that it will become self-supporting and that it will furnish a channel through which the government can disseminate a large* amount of its bonds of small denomination among the financial op erations of l lie Nation in times when emergency bond issues are nee es sary. The system is destined to be a success and a benefit to the coun try ultimately, but in its early stag.es it is certain lo lie a source of considerable expense to the gov ernment and of some disappointment lo its friends. * * * On live slock Canada seems to she lower prices than the United Stales. When choice beef steers were selling nt $5.25 to $5.50 per hundredweight at Toronto, the same class of cattle was quoted nt $6 to $8,50 at Ease ItttlfRle, N. Y., and $6.50 to $6.75 In Chit ago. Other grades of cattl, run in about the sanu porportton. On nutter Winnipeg quottd 35 ecu's nn creamery prints when Chicago quoted 25 to I's cents on the same grade. Unit' butt i nt Wint, mg was selling at i cents when ip r tee nt 20 to 21 ■ents m * In i i.t • r of ga" ■ ,1 grades was telling at from 25 to 30 c. iils n ally in < lipwq, east Cutf-vls. when tho highest «nnvatlon In Now York i itv was 27 to I'M cents. These (line at a. ,, ,!o not seem |u : show tliilt there i a great deal of difference between i i iees in Canada and the United S atis One thin",* must be true, and that is that when the surplus of both countries must lie sold abroad theie isn't going to be any price difference at home. Only wlimi the United States ran short in any line and Canada had some of that particular commodity to sell, would prices in this country be lowered by Canadian competition.— Nebraska Farmer. * * * i We learn to do by doing. When we were boys, father gave each of us a hoe anil told us to hoe. Our first efforts were hh a matter of course, very Indifferently done, but practice develops skill and in due time we could hoe skillfully. When we ask some friend to write nn Item for the Tribune we are usually turned down with the remark that, "I can not write.” Hut that is the very reason why you should write. We learn to write by writing. If you can’t write now, you will never learn to, young er. Wise people never get too old to learn. The ability to put your Ide as, (if you are so fortunate as to have any) into writing, Is an accom plishment of which one might be proud. It may be hard for an old dog to learn new tricks but if the dog is worth Ills keep he learns them, whether difficult or net. We nied more people who can contribute' original Items to the paper. Write, write again, and then white some more, » • * Mrs. Thomas Taylor is quite sli k at this time. Mrs. Elizabeth Prior and daughter, Mrs. li. Meyer- left today for (Ira nil bland for a \islt with relatives. BIG PIANO SALE LISTEN!! For the next THIRTY DAYS commencing MONDAY, FEB. 19th, the Zimmerman Mu sic House, will, in connection with the facto ries they represent, carry on One of The Biggest Factory Advertising Sales ever held in this part of the State. Over TWEN TY new, fine, upright Pianos and at Never Heard of Before Prices, quality considered. LOOK AT THIS! Fine :: New :: Up-Right :: Pianos :: At $168.00 $180.00 $210.00 $230.00 $245.00 $260.00 and up The same as you ordinarily pay from $250 to $400. These Pianos are MAKES of factories of over 40 years standing and highly guaranteed. Therefore, you run no risk, as we stand back ot every piano sold. Don’t overlook this opportunity but investigate it thoroughly by examining the fine quality of these instruments. Zimmerman Music House Stone Street Falls City, Nebraska
