r 6 TIIK HKK: OMAHA. TTKSPAY. .1 A NIT AH V L V.H1 The Omaha Daiia' Hkk f 'HM KI HT k" W A hT" H S K A TKli VITOU Hi'S K AT I ."i f !. 1 1 in I 'tK HI lTTil.V i Ta I : AA t A N 1 1 1 i i II F.ntered at Onmha imui I ice as second rises mstter TKKMS Of Sl'HSi RII'Tlu.N. Fundar Hee. one yrsr $1 M FafurrJay Hee. ore year .11 S ally Bee (without Sunday), one year 4 0) i'any Hee inn Minriav. one if ir .l I ELI V I'.H KD HV CARRIER. Fvening lire (with Sunday, per mi...;V l.Jljr ee l inrlndimt Sum'.ay). .t r inoAc lllv Bee (without S-ni.mvi, lirr mo . . 4 c Address ail i "Mii'l aiM' it In 'gularltles In deltvety to I'.tv ' ,r il.ilinn Dept. rtKMTTTANClS Remit by drill. ex;. res or poslal order,' ryi'lt to Tlic IV" Piihll'hing company. Only 2-cent M.imi s received tn psvment of srrad H'thuiii? Cir'nial rtierks, ex cept on Omaha and rnMorn exchange, not srrepled i iFFHTS. Omnha- Tho lire I'.'i ". II-?. Smith Omaha Mil N. St Council muffs S.-r,'! St. Uncolii 2 Little liLi'ldintr Chicago l.'-f. Marinette Hulldini?. Kansas Itv Rol;,ti -e Building. F?ew York M West TMrtv-thlrd. Washington- TJ. Fourteenth St.. N. W. 4)KKI-:tlriMKNCK. Crrmmunlr atlnns relating to new" n1 Mltorlal mutter should ho addressed Omnh Be. KiHtrtrl.il I 'ennrtment. NOVKM HER Cir.rtMtATION. 50,573 FlUe of Nebraska. County or Douglas, as: Dwlght Williams, ctrriilntlnn manaxer of the Pro Publishing company, being duly sworn, s.lys thrtt tho average dally circulation. lee spoiled, unused and r turned copies, for the month of Novem ber. :U. was M.fiTJ. HWIOIIT WIliMAV Circulation Manager. Subscribed In mv presence and aworn to tfore me this Gth (lay of December. 1911. (Seal) ROBERT HUNTER. Notary I'nM't llanscrlbrra leaving tle Hty trmpomrll v should btre The Ree mailed to (hem. Address will br chanced ftea reqsestrri. Did jrou eet a running start? And in a month the ball players win be gathering. Which would you rather do, shovel enow or dig dandelions? You Just ran't lose Yelser while printer's Ink Is so cheap. What would old King Cyrus say about hl dear Persia now? Who would have guessed last July lhatfit ever could get thla cold? All things considered, Omaha's rec ord for 1911 showa up tolerably well. Attorney Veeder as a feeder of packing trust information Is not so bad. Falling off the water wagon might be funny If It were not so often tragic. No wonder the meat trust was caught, It had thirteen companies in its tentacles. Mr. Underwood is slightly Indis posed, but not at all so toward the presidency. Eight murders in Omaha recorded on the police blotter for 1911. More than our share. One can hardly blame Persia for not giving Mr. Shuster's Job to an other American. Colonels Jloosevelt and Wutterson go at this peace talk In much the same tone of voire. The colonel's refusal to attend the peace banquet does not meau refusal to argue the question. A physician says that Journalists ldom lose their minds. Now, how vbout newspapermen? Happy should be the man who gets by Thanksgiving, Christmas and New .Year's without the gout. That 8 o'clock closing law Inter feres sadly with established usage in welcoming the advent of the new year. A prisoner escaped from (iov ernor's Island because he had to eat beans for Christ mas. What a slam on Boston. . Those three so-called labor leaders Indicted at Los Angeles talk a good deal, as did tbe McNumaras some months bko. Send your friends copies of Tbe Bee containing the btatlstlcul review of the year's bufclnesx. That is one good way to boost for Omaha. Tbe question hu-i been raised, and not without provocation,- "What makes a man a colonel.'" At the very outset, here's our surrender. Still we would udvlse most of those tberubs iu the ph lures portraying the ushering in of tbe new year to put on a few more clothes to avoid catching cold. The process of elimination might prove best iu solving this candidate problem, therefore the next time one says he Is not a candidate, take him Ht bis word. The former wife of the man hoin Ulllan Kussell Is to marry obtained her divorce on tbe grounds of lncom ratability, but she wishes Lillian all kinds of good luck. The Camorra trial over tn Italy Las ben going on for nearly nine months, and Is not yet concluded. Presumably, tbe law's delays are not encountered exclusively on this side lf the Atlantic Suburban Wastes and Cost of Livin? Residents of nearly every city In i the land know that Secretary Wilson was talking about a live subject when he called attention to the great amount of waste land lying around the larger population center?, and urged their cultivation ns a partial solution of the problem of the high living cost. Some of the effete might ohjerl to cornfields and potato patches nt the very door of the town, but they would be Just as attractive and ornamental and a thousand times more useful than Idle land covered only with weeds and renl estate signs. ' Lots for sale" Is about all that grows on many of these sub urban tracts. Some boomer has "platted" them and advertised them as highly desirable residence sites and In many cases they are and even Ihat would not keep them from being also highly desirable for garden patches and grain fields. But much of thla waste territory Is not properly situated for Immediate occupancy ns dwelling places and could be turned Into more profitable service If culti vated by the plow and drill and con verted Into productive soil. Standing Idle It eats up taxes, while cultivated, It would be Just as salable and at the same lime contribute to the out put of agricultural wealth. Utilizing waste la economy and If this sugges tion of the secretary of agriculture were acted upon generally, It would have a very vital effect upon some one's Income and com of living. To Autograph Collectors. , Under our Nebraska primary elec tion law by which a name may be placed upon the official ballot as a candidate for office on petition signed by twenty-five electors, or as a candi date for convention delegate by peti tion carrying from 500 to 3,000 signatures, a tremendous boom Is given to the autograph collecting business. The purpose of the lawmakers in requiring these qualifying petitions doubtless was to prevent overloading the ballot with indiscriminately pro posed names. Hut, as everyone knows, It Is merely a question of an Industrious person taking the time and going to the trouble to get the autographs for a nominating petition In almost any number, so that the requirement of a petition may not be expected to keep anyone out of the running who wants to get In. The dlfflculty seems to be precisely the reverse how to keep over zealous autograph collectors from putting names of men on the ballot as candidates for nominations with out their roquest or consent. For example, "Drother Charley" Hryan Is said to be much exercised over the circulation of a petition to submit tbe name of William J. Bryan to a presidential preference vote, and is quoted In an Interview as saying that he hopes by persuasion to prevent tho filing of the petition. Inasmuch us there la doubt whether, once filed, any legal authority exists for with drawal, prevention seems to be the only way. That waa what was done by the Uryans two yeara ago, when a petition, after belug signed up, pro posing Mr. Uryan for the United States senate, waa sidetracked and suppressed. Hut the fact must not be over looked that the law makes It tncum oent upon everyone who procures a nominating! petition to see to It that it is properly filed, and prescribes a penalty for failure to do so. The autograph collector, aa the law views hlra, is a trustee for the signers with the self-assumed duty of perfecting the nomination, and fullure Is rec reancy to the trust, no matter whether pursuant to the wishes of tho nominee or not. It Is hard to belie) e that either Mr.. Uryan or "Brother Charley" would knowingly usk the eutodlan of n nomluatinE petition to invite the penalty of fine or imprisonment In any such briaoue fashion. Tbe wise autograph collector will not run unnecessary risks. Value or" Tresk Air to Children. The Survey Is authority for the statement that results of the open air schools in Chicago show that their pupils accomplish In two-thirds of the regular time its much as nor mal children ordinarily accomplish when they put In full time under the usual unsatisfactory ventilation con ditions of school rooms and when their habits outside of tbe school room are without supervision. Tbe idea of the open-air school originally was to benefit children of tubercular tendencies and It has vindicated itself, evidently. If It has done ns much as the Survey's teport indicates, then It has done enough to emphasize again the necessity of better veutllation in the average public school. It a aub Jet that has been much discussed and not wholly without results. In Omaha and other titles especial at teutioiris being paid to the principle of ventilation in tbe construction of tchool buildings. There Is uo need to have school rooms poorly ven tilated. The open-air school Is not feasible or desirable entirely as a aubstltute for the enclosed achool properly heated and ventilated. And with increasing skill In the building of a hoo's the demand for tbe open air class room will diminish. This is one of the things which the present age of intensive effort will take car of. It baa already most beneficially modified the sys tem of Juvenile education and train ing, though, to be sure, much more remains to be done. Fresh air Is an invaluable asset to the child, as well as the adult, and at home and at school car should be taken to see that children get all that la good for them. It Is not quite right to say, however, that all school children are left without supervision out of school hours. Many of them get supervision who do notcome under the tutelage of the open-air school teacher. When Wall Street Favored Us. Once In a while It would be a good Idea for those In the habit of finding; fault with everything Wall street does to stop and take account of the other side of the argument. People Impressed with tho evidence adduced nt the trial of the meat packers, must have been interested to note the re pressive Influence Wall street wielded on the packers' plans at monopoly. The request for $19.1,000,000 to form their trust, Wall street declined. The sum was cut to $"0, 000,000 and still Wall street pulled out of It. The financiers scented a panic a little way off and under the conditions did not care to put up the money. Tbe promoters, evidently, had planned to Inflate their stock to unheard-of proportions by Wall, street assistance and then pay dividends on the fictitious capitalization out of the returns reaped from their monopoly of tho meat packing business. Noth ing prevented this, It now appears, but Wall streets refusal to do the financing. Here Is one instance in the com mercial history of a decade where Wall street, usually regarded as the perpetrator of our financial wrongs, saved us from greater burdens. Senator Hitchcock's newspaper Is way off when It charges The Bee with contending that the filing of Mr. Bryan's name for president will keep him off the primary ballot for delegate at large to tbe democratic national convention. We don't be lieve anything of the kind. Submis sion to presidential preference vote is not running for office, and we doubt even whether the honor of serving as a convention delegate cornea properly within that category. There is nothing In the law aa we read It to prevent Mr. Bryan going as a delegate and instructing him self for Bryan for president or for rice president, too, for that matter. Our amiable democratic contempo rary quotes with approval from a democratic weekly, thla remark with reference to the competition for the democratic Dominations: "Dog-in-the-manger tactics are never ap plauded by anyone except by thoae of the opposition who benefit by them," Which also appllea Just aa well to other political parties. The advent of the noiseless type writer is chronicled. We don't be lieve It will rill the bill. The click of the typewriter Is the best sign of bustling business that we know of. Worklna; the II a in me r. (.hleuRo Tribune. When tli Impartial hlatortan comes to write the biography of the Hon. C. Fran da Adams he will have to admit that even that errat man had hla dutractora. Ilia; I'rwoka Are Lucky. WaHhlnston Poat. The New York aet-rlrh-aulck who cot awav with Sfi.noo.oM hiv. K..n Hlven a year In Jail. They ahoultl con. gratulate thrniHclvea they didn't ateul a lour or bread. I utilndlna; Jaallce. Raltluuira American. Kor the third time a pardon has been denied to Charles V. Morse. If Juatice wire as efficient and aa firm in all caaea of Influential criminals, there would be more wholesome fear of the law and leaa frenxled finance In the land. Nertetl fur t rials. ft. Paul Dlapatch. Ruitaia In an Id to be preparing to get eyen for U abtOKatlng of the treaty of isii.' by putting up trade barrier, of course, If worst cornea to worst. We could manage to wlgKle along without pony coats and cav iar. An insertion Well I'ouuded. New York Tribune. The wara In IVrsia and Tripoli were denounced In a bishop's Clirlstmaa ser mon as the moat unjustifiable In bletory. That a strong and sweeping denunct ut'on, but It would not be an easy holiday tasU to controvert It. or. at any rate, to point ci:t more unjuatlflable wars. Nelithhurly Tradtaa. r Pittsburg Ilspatch. Canada rejected reciprocity, but It doesn't reject American goods. IHirlng the last fiscal year It purchased from the t'nlted States to the amount of close to t u,Ci) oa. an Increase of nearly UOO.OuO over the previous year. At the aame time It pun-bused to the amount of only S110,jiA,t)u from the "mother country." threat la I'abllf Uplalua. Chicago Inter Ocean. Iu a little mora than a year's time the common drinking cup lias been abollahed by law In twenty-four states. For years physicians and sanitarians denounced the dangers of common drinking utensils. Their warnings fell upon deaf ears. All of a Hidden the people decided that they wanted Individual drinking cups. Great la public opinion. tireat Krkrur, Tkla. New York -World. rAll.ion'a suggestion tbat price-cutting and commercial warfare could be mopped by the enactment of a law that no one "be permitted to sell the products of bis factory at Iras than cost plus the legal rate of Interest on the Investment" la moat excellent, provided hs can find a means of compelling the public to buy at that price- 1 lib Day in Omaha ; COMPILED f ROM Pf-E FILF-8 "j er ,. ' 4S.'2. L-tJ Thirty Years Ago Here are still more announcements for New Years receptions to be held today In stead of yesterday which was Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. rtrownson, southeast cor ner ChlcnRo and Twenty-second streets, assisted by Mrs. Htowe, Mrs. Smythe, Mrs. Touzalln. Mrs. Moyer, Mrs. Pitts. Mrs. Unico. Mrs. Dr. fJraddy, the Misses lierlln, Touz.Hlin, Reed, Ambrose, Sharp. Paddock and Miss Katie Pace of Chl- CSKO. Mrs. and Miss I.lnlnkTer at their resi lience at the northwest miner Daven port and Kighteonth streets Sirs. S. K. Ivocke snd daughter, Mrs. W. C. Ives, at their residence on Twenty-fourth street near Dodge, assisted by Mrs. C. K. Coutant, Mrs. A. M. Klrby. Mrs. j. r. Covrin, Mrs. Northrop. Mrs. .Jnrvis. Mrs. YV. J. Connell and the Misses r.Un anil Orace Wilbur. 'Ihe Misses Withnell will receive nt If.P Howard street, assisted bv Mrs. C. P. Meyerson. Mrs. Kills, Miss Msr.lu Ilrass. Miss llelle WenKler of Pt. Ixiuls, Ml Minnie Hauler. At Mrs. Wilbur's. 1012 California street. t!ip Misses Minnie Wood, Ur.zln C'nlder- wond. Cora dimming. Fannie Wood Lizzie Hrady, Kleanor McKelt and Susie Van riorls. Mrs. Windsor of Prownell Hall will 1 assisted by the Misses Franklin, Tarbell, snd Lyman. Mrs. n. K. Taft. at her residence, twenty-first nnd Webster streets, with Mrs. Augustus Pratt, assisted by Misses Morran nnd Taft. The regular meeting of the A. I of 11. la called for tonight over the names of S. K. t'nhr, commander, and Prooks K. fingers, secretary. The official first day of the yer rroved to be one. with a crisp, clear atmosphere and a bright smiling sun. Mayor Boyd did the handsome nt his spacious residence on Nineteenth and Chicago supported by his two charm ing daughters. Misses Margaret and Nora Itoyd, Mrs. D. O. Clark. Mlsa Thomp klna and Mrs. C. T. Taylor. Mrs. Chase, wife of ex-mayor Chase, underwent a serlrmg surgical operation, with all these, physicians In attendance: Doctors Coffman, Mercer, Denlce and Lelsenrlng. Salisbury's Troubadours, the originals, with Nate Salisbury and Nellie McIIenry, themselves, held forth at Boyd's to packed houses. The pieces were "Patch work," "Hamlet on a String," and "The nrook," Twenty Years Ago - Owen Keating of the Cudahv Packlnir company left for Chicago to engage In business for himself. Frank J. Iewis arrived from an ex tended visit along the Pacific coast. Mrs. James A. Sunderland was laid at rest, the obsequies being held at the home. 1330 South Twrentv-nlnth .ir.i These acted aa pallbearers: Clinton N. Powell, John Howard. Kmerv A. rohh. C. S. Carrier, rr. W. F. Mllroy and P. W. V andervoort. C. K. Bnulres and P. W. Blrkhauser met In tho northwest basement of the court house and treated the city council to another spirited debate of the old time subject of street sweeping and who had the right to do It. Both waxed wroth If not eloquent, but blows were averted. The Ilev. R. N. Atkisson, pastor of the Southwest I'resbyterlan church, dwri.tn to leave the city and tendered his resig nation. Just as President Tom I,owry rapped adjournment of the laat meeting of the city council of some gallery god chirped out: "I'm the terror from the Papplo and had rattlesnake for supper; I'm Fighting John . but who on res n d dT Jim Itoyd's governor of Nebraska." The marriage licenses for the day were issued to these couples: John M. Shaw and Clara M. Johnson, South Omaha; Thure Artegren and Ida Isaacson of Hamilton county: Gust Schaunner and Tina Ridge, Omaha; George Wilson and Annie I'eterson. Omaha: Smith lirnvn and Lulu Lockhait, Waterloo; Herbert A. Nichols. Omaha and Bessie M. Allen Cornellvllle, Pa.; Henry A. Dowa and Cecilia K. Martin, Huberllt P. Rynor and Nellie. M. Bayllaa, 'Omaha; John Barnum and Etta lYague, South Omaha. Ten Years An Thomas J. HUkey came from St. Joseph with the announcement that Frank Handle hud taken charge of the franchise of tbe American association for a base ball team In Omaha. Miss Florence Moore, deputy clerk In the office of the "lilted States district court, returned from Fremont, where ahe spent her Christmas vacation. Worl waa received In Omaha of the death of John H. Coleman of consump tion at Colorado springs. He had been a llnotyi operator on Tbe Bee. Commenting on Savage's pardon of Joe Bartley, sent 'o t lie penitentiary for twenty yens for embezxting $:.56,000 of state money, T. J. Mahoney said: "The action of the governor waa eminently proper. lie had served the average time for such offenses." Kd. P. Smith, an other lawyer, not posing as a reformer, said: "The pardon Is Indefensible." The stockholders of the Pacific Kxpresa company met and re-elected as directors Horace O. Burt, Krastus Young of Omaha; C. U. Warner, J. Ramsay, Jr., E. H. Pryor, S. K. Schuyler, James Kgglea lon of St. Irfitiia. The directors re elected Kgglestou president, and Butt vice president and W, S. Caller, secretary-treasurer. The funeral of Leopold Doll was held at hla home near Klmwjod park and be was burled at Kvergreen cemetery. Mr. Doll had resided In Iouglaa County for thirty-five years. He was U. Rev. It. M. Dillon was Installed as pastor of Clifton illll Presbyterian church. Dr. J. J. Unipe presided. Dr. Wheeler of South Omaha preached the sermon. Rev. Mr. Stevenson gave the charge to the pastor and Rev. K. II. Jenks to tho congregation. Etresth Coat of l.ltUatlua, New York Tribune. Tbe I'nlted Statea supreme court Is go ing to do what It can to make litigation within Its jurisdiction less costly. The state courts ought to follow that excel lent example. The excessive cost of the administration of Justice Is one more bur den on the back of the overloaded cltl sen. Chicago Record-Herald: A Topeka, Kan., preacher has taken the troulrfe to advise the girls of that town to refrain from becoming the wives of young raen merely because they happen to own avto mobiies. What are the girls ot Topeka to do If all the young men there take It Into their heads to own automobiles? Army Gossip Matters of Interest ea and Back of rtrtag Line Otoaaad from Armj and Vary aVeflater Appointment of Hrlaradlera. Senator Penrose has Riven notice of bis Intention to propose an amendment of the army appropriation bill, now under con sideration In the house military commit tee, with a view to an additional condi tion attaching to the appointment of brigadier and major generals. At present the law restricts tho appointment of of fleers In those grades to those who shall have at least one year to serve In such rank, excepting In the case of an officer who within that period may be retired for disability or on account of having roiched the age of C4 years. Mr. Penrose would nclude in the class of those who may be appointed officers who would be. retired within the year on account of having at tained forty years' service In the regular or volunteer army. Attacks on the Army, The War department Is In receipt of reports from officers on the Taclfic coast describing whot appears to be a sys tematlc attack on the military service. It hasj been known for some time that enemies of the army were conducting a campaign by means of street harangues and defamatory posters with a view to prejudicing public sentiment against the army nnd discouraging enlistment. The latest reports have to do with dis turbances In loa Angeles and Oakland, Cal. At tho latter place two prominent labor agitators were specially active. The War department Is In possession of photographs showing these speakers standing on tho American flag and ad dressing their audience. The photographs are sent officially and are duly authenti cated. At Ixis Angeles such a feeling prevailed on the part of people who had been prejudiced by the attacks on the army that the officers on recruiting duty there felt obliged to exercise extraor dinary precautions against molestation. As a matter of fact, the recruiting office had to be placed under guard. Officers and men attached to the office were treated with contempt. Ilenrlna; Down an Fort Russell. There are Indications of a concerted movement on the part of some members of congress to Interfere with further sp proprlatlons In behalf of Fort D. A. Rua sell, Wyo. At leust a part of this antagon ism Is Identified as proceeding from peo ple who are Interested In the welfare of Fort Leavenworth, Kan. In the sessions which are being held before the house military committee In consideration of the army estimates It has been uulte ap parent that several of the members are accumulating Information to use at some time, probably when the army bill comes up for consideration In the house, against Fort D. A. Russell. Calls have been made on the War department for statistics which shall show what led the War de partment to continue Fort D. A. Russell as a garrison post and the amount of money which has been expended at that place. There will be a hearing before the house committee on War department ex penditures, when questions along that line In regard to Fort D. A. Russell' will be asked of the quartermaster general. If there Is any serious attempt made to In terfere with the allotment of public funds for the Wyoming post. It will probably precipitate an interesting fight, since it is likely to arouse the Ire of Senator War ren, who takes a special Interest In Fort D. A. Russell. Critical Arnir Kltnatloa. There Is considerable Indignation ex pressed by members of the house com mittee over what Is alleged to be an at tempt to Interfere with the expression of opinion qf army officers who are sum moned before that body for Its enlighten ment. During the lust few weeks It was disclosed, according to the official report of the hearings, that at least two officers asked to be excused from answering ques tions pertaining to subjects under con sideration. One of these officers gave as a reason that he had been "Instructed" as to the policy of the War department, which notice was evidently construed as Imposing ellence. There are other phases of the situation which have a tendency to arouse the Ire of congress, not only the politically unfriendly house of representatives, but the senate, which should be regarded as supporting the ad ministration. A manifestation of this criti cal attitude has already occurred In the form of several resolutions which have been Introduced In both house and sen ate, some of which resolutions have been adopted. These call on the War depart ment for Information aW other similar requests are In course of preparation. The accumulated material will be published, of course, as house and senate documents, and much of It is bound to be used In the speeches which will be delivered when the army appropriation bill comes up for debate In the house. This state of affairs Is quite unprecedented and has n.t aided the purpose of those who de sire an amendment of the pending army legislation. The sentiment of the house, under the political conditions prevailing, was bound to be sufficiently antagonistic to the military-naval establishment, as one means of demonstrating the virtue of democratic economy. The Impartial ob server of the situation now prevailing has no dlfflculty In realizing that the un friendliness la visibly not to say unneces sarily Increased. People Talked About The specter of political famine threatens to darken the coming Jackson day fes tivities. President Taft recommends that 59.51S government Jobs be put under civil service roles. If that deal goea through life on the democratic firing line won't be worth living. Glancing over the whirligig of political events In the Kmplre State In the last twenty years, the Brooklyn Kagle Is o perplexed by the chaos resulting that It offers to equip a reporter with asbestos or linen garments If tbe late Thomas Collier Tlatt will grant an Interview and snd his address to the Eagle office. As an evidence of good faith the Eagle promises. If the address Is forthcoming, not to reveal the senator's whereabouts to envious contemporaries. John Blgrlow. "America's grand old man," who died the other day at tho aga of H. never had occasion to swear off on New Year's. Tobacco and booze were strangers to him. But ha had a (Teat weakness for pie, plum pudding and simi lar culinary confections, doted on baked beans and buckwheat cakes smothered In tho usual way. Two years ago last Thanksgiving air. BigeLuw recalled and eulogised a wonderful "forget-me-not" pie he had oaten eighty-six years before. Tlic BceS Lciicr Bo ox u Disease a Factor In l.lTlna; foat. NEW, HAVEN. Conn., Dec. IT.'. To the Editor of The Bee: An Associated Tress dispatch from St. Louis, where 1 recently spoke on the rise In the cost of living, has been going the rounds, making the absurd statement that I Attributed the rise In the cost of living to "ma laria, hookworm disease and alcohol." Whether or not this statement appeared In your paper I do not know. I did not make any such statement, but on the contrary, said that the cost of disease had always been with us and was not in the least responsible for the recent rise In the cost of living or any hardships connected with It. I stated that the causes of the world wide rise of prices were a matter of dispute, and. that, therefore, there srumld he appointed an international commission to make an authoritative Investigation o that subject. I am sending you n memorandum de scribing the purpose of such an Interna tional commission, together with a list of names of prominent bankers, railway authorities, edjtors, economists, govern ment offcials and others from the t'nlted States and other countries who have en dorsed the plan for such a commission. Will you not bring to the attention of your readers, either through editorial comment or otherwise, the subject of this proposed International commission for the study of the rise In the cost of living? Hoping that you will find it possible to comment on this subject In your paper, I am. Yours very sincerely! IRVING FISHER. l-'ulr Trice for the Troth. New York Sun. We presume there will be no objection in the house to the appropriation in the annual deficiency bill of fci.'AOOO to com plete the raising of the Maine, remove the wreck and dispose of parts of it to naval associations, municipalities, societies and other reputable custodians. Before the end of the undertaking the cost will prob ably reach l,Oo0,0O0. including KioO.000 al ready expended, but It will be none too much to pay for the truth and the relief of the American people. Troubles of the Democrnt. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. As for democratic politics, the really disturbing element continues to be Mr. Bryan. He plans to write the democratic platform, cr to dictate what Is to be In It. Remembering that In democratic conven tions the platform Is adopted before nomi nations are made, Mr. Bryan's tactics be come intelligible. He proposes to have a platform adopted that none of the candi dates he opposes could stand upon. Let no one assume that tribulation will bs confined to the republican side. Pretexts of the Wolf. New York Sun. So the Persian lamb has Insulted the Russian wolf. It has the innocence to believe that an international agreement for the settlement of Persian finances was Intendeu to benefit the Persian peo pie. and the temerity to resist the force with which Russia sought to correct that mistaken notion. Opposition to the In vader on I'ersian soli becomes an Insult to the Russian flag one pretext Is as good as another to the victim that is about to be gobbled up. Political Tendencies In Iowa. Sioux City Journal. Senator Kenyon is very much In hopes that the Iowa delegation to the repub lican national convention will be for Taft. The friends of the president throughout the state should place no interrogation point against that statement. It is true that the Junior senator Is rated among the progressives, but that Is not the same as ranking him among the Insur gents. The republicans of Iowa are pro gressive and so is President Taft. Can You Deat It r Sioux City Journal. In the opinion of administration critics the mere wiping out of the postal deficit cannot be commended in itself. The Im portant mitter to be considered Is whether mora money could have been spent to better advantage. The critics are Inclined to think, on the whole, that in smashing the deficit Postmaster Gen eral Hitchcock has cheated us In some way. Can you beat that kind of com ment? Yes, you can not. One on the Doctors. Chicago Record-Herald. The Irony of fate appears to have been demonstrated In the case of the famous surgeon who was operated on for appendi citis when his trouble was caused by gall stones. o rriBT xzxz. Here's a place where energy and ambition are rewarded by achievement. The "Star Brand" shoe city of IS great factories gives employment to over 6,000 skilled shoe makers every work day In the year. The one law of this city is to make every "Star Brand" shoe hon estly and of good leather. No sub stitutes for leather are ever used. These people love their work be cause they have the best of every thing machinery and materials for EVERY PART of their work. Their ambition to excel In shoe making is constantly being realized. "Star Prand" slices are sold by good merchants nearly every where. If your regular dealer does not sell them it will pay you to change dealers. Ask for and It sist t.pcn having "Star Brand" shoes. The Star on tbe beel guarantee! they are honestly made ot pure leather. "STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER" Mads only by tfooEitTs, Johnson AAnd ShobCo. IS Factories POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS. Cblcagt) Tribune: Mr. 1a Follette's in cessant activities almost load us to sus pect that he would like to be the ne.xl president. St. Ixiuis Globe-Democrat: Again it our old friend, Thomas Taggart of In dianapolis, under susHclon of playing a double game in the democratic presi dential politics of Indiana. It Is strange that Colonel Taggart should be thus mis trusted after years of deceiving nobody in politics. Sioux City Journal: Tin not In politics, and no one expects me to be." So it was spoken and so It stands In the record. "I'm not lit politics, and will not be" would have covered the ground more completely. "I'm not In politics, and do not expect to be" would have been much stronger than what was actually said. Is this hypercrltlclsm? Well, when a sphinx FpeaJts, one can't be blamed for analyzing Its utterances rsther carefully. Philadelphia Bulletin: What with Champ Clark, Woodrow Wl!on, Oscar I'nderwood. Alton 11. I'arker, Simeon K. Baldwin, Joseph W. Folk, Francis U. New-lands. Thomas It. Marshall. William it. Hearst and Norman 13. Mack, the great Jackson day gahfest of the demo crats In Washington will lack no speak ing material. Hut will the speakers ob serve the twelve-minute limitation and will they wear swallow-tails? And wni they talk for democracy or only for ..- selves? SprlngfielAl Republican: It will gen erally be conceded that the person who sent President Taft a specially bound copy of the "Life, of Job" as a Chrlstmai present made an appropriate gift, and that the note wMch was written on the fly leaf, "I send you this Hfe of a gen tleman who passetl through many trials and tribulations before he came Into his own," added to Its fitness. There can be no one who will question that Mr. Taft has had "trials and tribulations" In pecu liar abundance, and that he has borne them manfully. WHITTLED TO A POINT. "A guy told me I had a case of exag gerated ego. What did ho mean?" " vu irirrTii t ol arrn la n TtitffnH mi. T mn speak. What did you do?" uavo mm avnoiner. 120 ST on .tran script. "Brother, you must battle hard with your love for spirits." "Oh, I battled with spirits hard enough." "What happened?" "Well, I er succeeded in putting 'em down." Baltimore American. "You don't meet any more bunco steer ers or gold brick men." "No," replied Farmer Corntossel; "when a man Is after your money now lio doesn't take the trouble to be sociable an' show you a good lime. He Jes' addresses a few circulars an' expects you to send him the money by mall." Washington Star. Silas How ye happen ter elect III Hig glns ez fire chief? Hank Natural qualifications. Why, he kin break-more windows in less time than any volunteer in this county. Chicago News. She So it's all up with your engagement to Kitty. He-Yen. She What's become of the engagement ring? He That's up, too. Buffalo Express. "I know a man who can get up an at tachment for anybody, If he's asked to." "What sort of a man is he? A lunatic?" "No; he's a sheriff." Baltimore Ameri can. Maud Jack Is so forgetful. Ethel Yes; It keeps me busy reminding htm that It's you he's engaged to and not me. Boston Transcript. MOTHER'S SPHERE. National Magazine. There's never a place on the whole wide ee.rth. There's never an hour or minute, But something happens for grief or for mirth There's always a mother In it. Oh, maybe a Little Boy Blue has died, Or maybe fledging linnet. Somebody's darling and somebody's pride There's always a mother In It. There's always a crown or coveted seat Some one stands to lose or win It; VVhate'ro the issue be, or sour or sweet. There's always a mother In It. Whether a wedding dress or whether shroud. There's always a band to spin It. Sighing and sad or radiant and proud, There's always a mother In it. Oh. maybe it's just a bonnet or cap That's needing a bin to Din it: Oh, maybe a cry for cookie or snap. mere s always a mother in It. Oh. maybe a lesson no hard to learn. Curly-locks fears to begin It. Wherever you go, wherever you turn, There's always a mother in it. For everywhere In the round of this life V And In every day and minute. Come joy or pain, or come peace or come strire. There's always n. mother In It Oh, maybe, a little Christ Child Is born. or maybe nestling linnet Some one is happy at night and at morn, There's always a mother in it A City of 5000 Expert Shoe Makers Each season "Star Brand" shoes have been made uniformly better than other shoes sold at tho same price. The growth of our business proves it. In only IS years we have become the largest shoe makers In exist ence. Our shipments for tho past year amount to OVER 13V MIL LION DOLLARS. Tho larger tho production, the lower tho cost. The wearer gets the saving. Wo carry a TWO MIL LION DOLLAR stock 641 styles fur prompt shipment at all times. ST. LOUS