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It wis t big dsy for Omaha, til right
Good bye, Mr. President t Sorry you could not
stay longer. Au revoir until the next visit. .
Mnrh discordant music obtain! atone "the
beautiful blue Danube.1 The meaiure lacks the
familiar swing, but the waltzing affords a greater
amount of exercise. , . I
Now, if our democratic friends will be as
gracious to Mr. Hughes; when he comes, as the
republicans have been to Mr. Wilson, they can
; make things square. '
- False teeth are among the latest articles on
the British contraband list As the allies imagine
the hunger blockade is grub tight they refrain
from exciting gustatory hopes. 1
The twenty-second reign of the royal house
of Ak-Sar-Ben opened auspiciously. Never be
fore has so mighty a host of admiring subjects
welcomed the gracious monarch of the corn belt
.... "A
At last account Villa was limping painfully
and hobbling with a crutch. The failurej of T re
vino's warriors to run down a cripple reveals mili
tary manana as cordial exponent of safety
' fir,t ' ' ' . '
. The announcement of a suffrage campaign In
Nebraska in 1918 sharply reminds the male per
suasion that the girls will ntjt be happy until they
get the ballot. Two years of preparedness In
sures R lively come-back.
Still, we do hot want Secretary McAdoo to
labor under, the delusion that' he has satisfied
Omaha's claim for federal land bank by sending
his fatherMn-law out here to make a speech, much
as we appreciate the president's visit.
? ' If the old populist party is defunct, as every
one knows It is in Nebraska, , as everywhere, the
democrats masquerading' on the ticket as popu-
Uist esndidates should have the courage to dis
card the false label and run on their oyn merits
or demerits. ' ' ' I
A pull of $80,000 on the State bank guaranty
fund to make good the Decatur bank losses, sug
gests the need of increased vigilance in banking
inspection. Honest bankers who supply the fund
should organise and Insist on more efficient meas
ures of self-defense. .',
English for the Foreign-Born.
A general movement is under way, fostered
by the United States Bureau of Education, to
"teach the English language to the foreign-born
citizens. The value of this undertaking is plain,
but it is in no sense a novelty. Opportunity for
those who come to us from countries of a dif
ferent tongue have long had ample chance to get
grounded at least in the rudiments of the lan
guage of Americans. Omaha, in common with
other cities where a considerable number of immi
grants have located, has long maintained special
schools, at which instruction is given, and hun
dreds have taken advantage of them. The pres
ent movement is merely to give greater attention
to the work, that its benefits may be extended.
The need of the foreign-born for at least a work
ing knowledge of the language of their adopted
Country is not to be misunderstood. One of the
most serious factors in the assimilation of the
immigrant has been the assembly in groups repre
senting racial or local divisions, and the main
tenance of conditions resembling those left be
hind. It is necessary to break up this segrega
tion as far as possible, in order that the new
comers may be made into real American citizens.
This process may be carried out without disturb
ing the personal relations now established, but
through the certain means of spreading the knowl
edge of American ways, institutions and ideals.
Familiarity with the English language is requi
site for this, and for this reason its teaching
is of highest importance.
1... , 1 SSSS I
Corn as Food for Humanity.
The mounting price of wheaten flour has re
newed the talk of corn as food for humanity.
To most of those who have reached middle age,
the proposition needs no argument They can
easily recall the days when corn was. served
daily in the homes of the American people; corn
dodger was staple, and cornmeal mush was an
old reliable bedtime dish for the little folks,
and even the elders indulged in It from time to
time.' "Johnny cake" and "hasty pudding" were
the luxuries of those days, and a sturdy genera
tion thrived on the diet. With increasing wealth,
Americans turned to the more alluring wheat
bread, and commenced to take their corn in the
form of meat No question of the value of corn
as food is in dispute, but the home folks will
very likely continue to take it in the form of
beef and bacon so long as they can get it that way.
By a simple) sweep of his official pen First
Chief Carranza limits the presidential term to
four years and provides for re-election. What
ever mistakes or massacres, may be nailed on
Carrania's door no fair-minded person will ac
cuse him of neglecting the future of No. 1.
American owners of mining property in Mex
ico object to the taxing methods of the govern
ment Tax gatherers pay frequent visits for the
wherewith, and each visit brings a boost of the
demands. In the circumstance the owners may
be pardoned for registering a protest with all the
force of home-grown experience.
In one way or another the process of trim
ming political' jobs in New Jersey proceeds in a
heartless fashion. Two- seperate attempts of
lawmakers to hold their ancient grip on railroad
passes have been knocked out by the courts.
This is 'the crudest knock of alf, inasmuch as
job holders must put up real money or walk.
Machine Gun Problem
HreeUya. Eagle.
The War department has acted wisely in nam
ing a special board of five officers and two civil
ians to take up all the phases of the machine-gun
problem and determine finally on a type or types
of such guns for use in the United States army.
The situation was brought to a crisis by the
charge of Colonel Isaac N. Lewis that his gun,
which Great Britain is using almost exclusively
in the field, was unjustly rejected by the ord
nance board. .
That a very large element of the American
public, recalling the blunders of the past, has
been willing to sympathize with Colonel Lewis
. can hardly be doubted. His gun was good, bet
ter than the older type guns, or 30,000 of the
weapons would not now be in use in North
France. Why was it turned down in Washington?
Why was an American's invention not acceptable
to America?
. That is only one of the nuestions that the new
board will have to answer. Whether two or more
types may be needed for different service is un
decided. How far the guns we have in use can
be depended on will be debated. The fact seems
to be that even army sentiment is tending toward
regarding lightness as a big element. Many West
Pointers do not hesitate to say that the day of
the water-jacket gun is passed; that a light gun
. unjacketed, but capable of, say 1,200 discharges,
is the ideal for the future. This can be made a
one-man gun, and the Germans have set the pace
in equiping even their cavalry, at least a part of
their cavalry, with machine guns. r, j
It was high time to make it esr to those who
pay the army's bills that the department is open
to all suggestions, ready to give fair play to all
inventions and inventors. Confidence in admin
istration is vita to any preparedness program.
Plugging "Up the Holes,
The court ruling excluding, from claim on the
deposit guaranty fund loans to failed banks
masked as certificates of deposit, if upheld on ap
peal, will go a great way to safeguard raids on
the guaranty fund, although this abuse should
have been detected and stopped by the banking
board with reference to the particular bank in
question and any other banks that may be in
dulging in the same practice as well, Putting an
end to this questionable sort of banking, by which
the guaranty fund is used to induce loans to a
bank not warranted by its own responsibility, may
head off some of the outside money attracted by
high interest, but it will at the same time conduce
to sounder business and greater safety for regular
depositors.
' While this weak spot in the lsw is being
plugged up by judicial construction as to what
constitutes a bona fide deposit, something more
must also be done to .prevent trading in the deposit
fund as illustrated by the recent revival of a com
atose bank charter, with its guaranty fund credit,
to make a fat fee for a democratic lawyer cashing
In a political pull. The only way tq make the
guaranty fund serve its purpose of insuring de
positors against loss is likewise to safeguard the
fund against absorption or diversion either by
bogus deposit claims or by political favor.
Democratic Administrative Inefficiency.
Senator Sherman writes that "the normal con
dition of the national finances with the demo
critic party in power is bankruptcy." This only
partly tells the story. It does not properly con
vey an adequate sense of democratic administra
tive inefficiency. The party in power is boasting
of the wonderful growth of business within the
last eighteen months, of the unexampled activity
in all lines of industrial and commercial endeavor,
and cheerfully takes to itself all credit for the
situation.
The astonishing fact is that while the country
is just now experiencing a tremendous boom, re
sulting from the export trade in munitions and
war materials generally, thej government of the
United States is getting deeper snd deeper into
the hole prepared for it by the democrats. In
spite of war taxes, income taxes, inheritance taxes,
and all sorts of makeshifts and temporary de
vices for producing revenue, a bond issue has been
resorted to, and even that expedient does not
check the rising tide of the treasury deficit More
than $58,000,000 deficit accumulated in the first
three months of the current fiscal year, at the rate
of over $740,000 for each business day of the time.
This means that every time1 the clock ticks on
a business day, the treasury of the United States
falls behind in its cash $8.50; if it is to be placed
on the eight-hour day basis, each time the clock
ticks, the deficit swells by $25.50. Just count the
ticks of the clock for a few moments, snd you
will realize how rapidly the outgo is exceeding
the income of the United States under democratic
government.
To quote Senator Sherman again, we have
"a free' trade tariff act without any permanent
trade, a revenue tariff without any revenue, and
a war tax without any war," and, we might add,
a hole in the treasury without any bottom.
' Better Adjustment Needed Her.
' The situation in which New York finds itself
as relates to its supply of milk provides further
evidence that some better adjustment nf m,r rlie.
tributing service is needed. When the food supply
of a great metropolis is seriously interfered with
because of a controversy between producers and
distributers, who reach a deadlock and proceed
to fight it out between themselves without regard
to the rights of the consumer, some regulative
steps by the government would seem imperative.
Here if anywhere the principle of arbitration
ought to be applied. The New York authorities
should lose no time in taking hold of this
matter, and should make certain that milk is
supplied for the babies that need it, and that
the service will not again be interrupted. Then
the question of price between producer and dis
tributer may be investigated and regulated.
Service first and no foolishness should be insisted
upon. , . . ..
' If any democrat has any lingering doubts as
to whether "Boss" Arthur Mullen it "it" or
not, his skepticism should now be dispelled. ,.
Pay of Railway Trainmen
Collier's Weekly.
Our condemnation of the passage by the ad
ministration of the Adamson so-called "eight-hour
bill" (which, as everybody now understands; is
really a 25 per cent wage-increase bill) has been
based wholly upon the manner in which it was
done and not at all uoon the merits of the in
crease. Now some one asks what we think of the
merit of increasing the wages of railroad conduc
tors and engineers, firemen and brakemen, by 25
per cent. Although we fear that discussion of
the merit of the increase is likely to befog the real
issue, which is the method, nevertheless we are
willing to throw forward some considerations
which would guide us if we had arbitrary power
in the matter.
If we were general manager of the United
States and could do what we wanted by fiat, the
one calling which we should try to make more
remunerative than it is now is farming. We
should try to counteract the drift of men from
the land ,to the city. We should try to do it by
making life on the land more remunerative and
attractive, and life in the city relatively less re
munerative and attractive. Arbitrarily increasing
the wages of railroad employes tends to accen
tuate the present unfortunate drift.
Moreover, we do not think that arbitrary In
creases of fixed wages is the west way to secure
that participation in the increased earnings of any
organization which employes ought to have. We
think the ideal method is a rather small fixed
wage with ft generous participation in the profits.
We think this co-operative sharing in profits will
be the ultimate form in which industrial democ
racy will solve itself rather than in contending
groups fighting for a larger and larger fixed wage.
Finally, if we were making over the rates of
remuneration for the several elements of labor
and service in the community, there are several
to whom we should give attention before rais
ing the present pay of conductors and engineers.
From a compilation furnished by Howard Elliott
to the New York Times we take the following sta
tistics of the present day of the four classes whose
rate has been increased:
The average yearly wage payments to all east
ern train employes (including those who worked
only part of the year), as shown by the 1915 pay
rolls were: l ,
Passenger. Freight. Yard.
Engineers $1,796 $1,546 $1,384
Conductors 1,734 1,404 1,238
Firemen 1,033 903 844
Trainmen 1,018 . 858 990
Three-quarters of these men (including all
those 'who put in a full year's service), earned
these wages:
,, Road. Yard. .
Engineers ....$1,585 to $3,224 $1,303 to $2,178
Conductors .. 1,552 to 3,004 1,145 to 1,991
Firemen , 933 to 1,762 752 to 1,633
Brakemen ... 862 to 1,707 834 to 1,635
For the whole country the average wages of
three-quarters of the employes were:
, Passenger. Freight . Yard.
Engineers $2,067 $1,892 $1,526
Conductors 1,850 1,719 1,310
Firemen 1,203 1,117 924
Brakemen ......... 1,095 1,013 1,076
l Unnecessary Hysterics.
Sa Franclaee dirao.lc.la
Reading the franfic exhortations to "prepare"
which are emanating in such profusion from the
magnates of high finance one is likely to be really
terrified until he stops to think that after all the
business of the world is merely the aggregate of
the efforts of each individual to earn a living.
And each one of us keeps pegging away at that
and somehow contrives to get on, a tittle more
comfortably in each generation than in that im
mediately preceding. And there is no reason to
doubt that this will always be so.
Some of the addresses made at the National
Bankers' association are positively hysterical.
They indicate the fear of the speakers that the
country will go straight to the demnition bow
wows if every youth is not trained for soldier
ing, the industrial army put into vigorous train
ing, and we do not all save more of our money.
Now, we certainly shall not save more money
if all that we can save is diverted to the arts of
war, or to filling the civil service with armies of
young men at oo& salaries to regulate us in all
our daily activities. '
.If governments will let the people alone they
will all manage somehow to eara a rather better
living than their fathers were able to get, just as
has always happened from the beginning of his
tory. 1 ,
The most powerful influence on human action
is the impulse to get the utmost farthing for
whatever we have to sell, and pay as little as we
can for whatever we have to buy.
That is an instinct which operates powerfully,
universally and continuously. It survives when
all other impulses fail. Just now its operation is
checked by intense international hatreds which
pervade a great part of the world. While we
hate intensely we throw prudence to the winds.
But hate, like love, is a -transient passion.
The desire to buy cheap and sell dear persists.
'And it will be the operation of this universal
instinct upon every living individual throughout
the world which will bring to naught the devices
to perpetuate and intensify international hatred
and obstruct international trade which are the
output of the Paris and other economic confer
ences. Obviously, the better we agree among our
selves, and the more we co-operate instead of
quarreling, the better off we shall be, but that
has always been true, and natural economic forces
will, as they always have, operate to enable us to
so pull together that each generation will be more
comfortable than any predecessor.
When we consider our own situation as com
pared with that of most other peoples, it ought
to be plain to all that we have no occasion to
throw fits. ' i
People and Events
A bunch of gravedurgers at Chicago are on
a strike "for better living conditions. A walk
out from a cemetery looks that way.
A New York judge personally made good his
statement that any man could get a job if he
tried. The judge1 found two jobs in half an hour.
One as a coal heaver at $15 a week, and another
as yard foreman at $12. But he didn't connect
with a job that approached his size.
An equestrian statue of General Philip H.
Sheridan will be unveiled tt Albany, N. Y., next
Saturday, October 7. The fact that the capital
city was the birthplace of the general inspired
the undertaking to honor fittingly the achieve
ments of a distinguished' leader of the civil war.
The ancient "Governor's palace" at Vincennes,
I nd., 112 years old, is to be preserved as a state
shrine by the city. The "palace" was built in
1804 by General William Henry Harrison, after
ward president of the United States, and was
esteemed a real palace back in the pioneer days
when Vincennes loomed big on the map of the
"Far West"
... The circuit court of Missouri in a test case
upholds the validity of the accident insurance
policies of Theodore C Pellier, the Kansas City
real estate plunger, who ended his career bv
plunging out of a skyscraper window. Pellzer
carried $83,uuu in accident policies payiDie to nis
wife, and nearly $300,000 in straight life, payable
to his estate.
A hurry call for homely girls, sent out by the
publicity managers of the Printing and Allied
Trades of New.. York, to lead the grand ball,
r t . . - . i . i . i ,
laiiea to Dring single response, nomciy ginsr
Huh I Printers never saw one. When the cub-
licity man recovers from the shock of the bounce
typos plan to ship him to the headquarters of
the Whole Uimm tamiiy. , , ,
Thought Nugget for the Day.
Labor to keep alive In your breast
that little SDark of celestial firecon
science. George Washington. .
One Tear Ago Today In the War.
Auatro-Oerman Invasion or BerDia
begun. .
French and British troops landed
at Salonikt. . .
Germans used gas in determined,
but vain effort to regain ground lost
in Champagne. ,
Premier Venlzelos of Greece forced
out by King Constantine as result of
former's war policy.
In Omaha Thirty Tears Ago.
Secretary Nattlnger of tne umana
.. 1 , Vw.il. waa u n ir uaA In 111-
DWU .'I A.auv " a r. -
troduclng to a number of our leading
citizens Mr. 8. H. Teller, secretary of
tne uoara oz imua "'"iu"i
n.tnta ta TAllor Ih nnvlnna to know
what Omaha proposes to do with re-
rerence to tne uiwiih huu ,.u,,.,".
ern road.
nm.h, rrtnba and two
waiters, all colored, have gone out to
tne Montana rancn ui w. -rC?.e.'
t uiu l.llllon
noynuiuB xv. ' ' ...
gheeley wert married at the residence
or tne Drine a parent uy, uiv .
8. Detweller.
a L.i hoi. fiv tha Hfttinv
Hillside Home Helpers, a Juvenile so
ciety connectea wun mo vunaicg
tlonal church of Omaha View. The
following were on the program:
Mamie McCoy, Llnle Andrews, Edith
Walton, Berchle Leggltt, Myrtle
Smith, Pearl Recce, Etta Smith and
Tlllie Benton.
Mr. Peter Besen was the "victim"
of a pleasant surprise party at his
residence, 2611 Douglas. Among those
present were: Messrs. and Mesdames
Crager, Hayward, Donnelly, Benson,
Gould, Miles; Messrs. Will Crager,
John Gradatone, James Devine, and
Misses Bessie Hammond, Chrlstlanson
and Badger.
Rev. T. C. Hall, having returned
from his eastern trip. Is now engaged
In closing up his business affairs here
and will leave for Chicago. He will
still retain his Interest In the "Chris
tian Hour," of which Rev. J. N. Boyd
Is to remain managing editor.
Chief Galligan has added John
Murphy to No. 2 hose cart, increasing
the number of men to five.
Ed Wlttig and several other promi
nent Germans of this city have gone
to Council Bluffs to attend the sil
ver wedding of William Dachtler and
wife, relatives of Mr. Wittlg.
This Day In History.
1777 Forts Clinton end Montgom
ery, on the Hudson, taken by the
British under Sir Henry Clinton.
1817 First general assembly of
Mississippi met at Washington, Miss.
1818 Shadrach Bond, first gover
nor of Illinois, Inaugurated at Kas
kaskla. 1848 Insurrection In Vienna and
murder of the war minister. Count
Latour.
1866 The Prussian government
took formal possession of the king
dom of Hanover. .
1872 Religious ceremony at Lour-
des In honor of appearance of Virgin,'
attended by 40,uuv pilgrims. .
1878 Trial of Marshal Bazalne,
commander on the Rhine In 1870, for
treachery and misconduct at Metx,
began.
1892--txrd Alfred Tennyson, Eng
lish poet laureate, died. Born August
, 1809.
iilD Charles E. Hughes resigned
the governorship of New York to be
come associate Justice of the supreme
court of the United States.
11B The engagement of President
Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait of
Washington, D, C was announced.
The Day Wo Cdertrate.
John L. McCague, president of the
McCague Investment company, Is Just
60 years old. He was bnrn In Cairo,
Egypt, where he spent his first five
years. He was for seven years in the
auditing department of the Union-Pacific
but since 1880 has been asso
ciated with his brothers in the real
estate business. He served on the
School board for two terms.
Fred F. Paffenrath, local manager
for Nicoll the Tailor, was born Octo
ber 6, 1866, in New York City. He
came west In the summer of 188S, en
tering the employ of Nicoll the Tailor
In Chicago, being transferred the next
year to the Kansas City branch and
two years later to the Omaha branch.
He has been active In business or
ganisations and also In Ak-Bar-Ben.
Brycs Crawford Is celebrating his
forty-seventh birthday. He was born
in Sparta, III., educated In the Univer
sity of Kansas, being admitted In 1893
to the bar in pmaha, where he has
since practiced law.
Robert F. Glider, state news editor
of the World-Herald, was born Octo
ber 6, 1856, at Flushing, N. Y. He
was at one time with The Bee and Is
a brother of Richard Watson Gilder.
Ernest E. Beale, vice president of
the Carbon Coal and Supply company,
was born October 6, 1869, In Van
Buren county, Iowa. He came to
Omaha from Seneca, Kan., and has
been In the coal business here since
1897. '
George H. Payne, real estate man.
Is 52 years old today. He has been
particularly successful In marketing
and colonising large tracts of farm
acreage.
Albert J. Bevertdge, ex-senator
from Indiana and one of the former
progressives who have returned to the
republican party, born In Adams
county, Ohio, fifty-four years ago to
day. Julia -Culp (Mm. Mertens), cele
brated Dutch lleder singer, born In
Gronlngen, Holland, thirty-live years
ago today.
Rt Rev. - Mathlas C. Lenlhan,
Catholic bishop of Great Falls; Mont.,
born at Dubuque, la., sixty-two years
ago today.
Joseph W. Bailey, former. United
States senator from Texas, born in
Copiah county, Mississippi, fifty-three
years ago today.
Rt Rev. Frederick' Burgess, Epis
copal bishop of Long Island, born
at Providence, R. I., sixty-three years
ago today.
Timely Jottings and Rwnindcrs.
Following closely upon the Jewish
New Year's festival comes the fast
Yvm Kippur Is considered the most
ment. which begins this evening and
continues until tomorrow evening.
Yom Kippur Is conesldered the most
Important event In the religious life
of the Jewish people and is more
strictly and generally observed than
any of the other. fast days In the He
braic calendar.
The birthday anniversary of the late
James Whitcomb Riley, the "Hoosler
poet," Is to be observed today with
special exercises In all of the publlo
schools of Indians,
The one hundredth anniversary of
the Incorporation of Pittsburgh is to
be observed in that city today with a
great parade and Historical pageant.
Praises for the Colored Band.
Omaha, Oct 4. To the Editor of
The Bee: It was the general remark
of people who heard the colored band
play on, the streets of Omaha this week
that they put more pep, life and vim
Into their playing than, all of the white
bands put together. They never fail
to make things pretty lively along the
streets of Omaha and It would do well
for the white bandmen to take some
leasons of life and vigor from these
lively colored players. Some of the
bands as they marched along seemed
to be nlaying funeral marches. Such
playing Is Inappropriate for carnival
times. I believe In giving praise where
It Is deserved.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
v Fire Prevention Day.
Chicago, Oct 4. To the Editor of
The Bee: Monday, October 9, the
anniversary of the Chicago fire, will
be observed generally throughout the
United States by the proclamations of
the governors as Fire Prevention day.
In some states Accident Prevention
day is also included. The governors
urge cititens to put their premises
In proper condition as regards fire, and
recommend exercises in the public
schools and special consideration of
the day by commercial organizations.
etc. An editorial calling attention
to the observance would be very
helpful Just at this time.
The fire waste in the United States
and Canada last year was 1184,939,
100. So far this year It is nearly 250,
000,000 ahead of that All the au
thorities agree that at least 76 per
cent of this waste Is easily prevent
able by the exercise of ordinary care
and precaution. This is conservation
work, which aims to save life and
property and to reduce the most dan
gerous and least excusable of all the
forms of public waste.
I hope that you will print and sup
port editorially this movement
T. R. WEDDELL, '
Secretary Fire Prevention Day Com-
mlttee.
Argument for Land Bank.
; Scottsbluff, Neb., Oct 8, 1916. To
the Editor of The Bee: The invest
ment of the federal government to'the
extent of 815,000,000 in irrigation pro
jects tributary, to Omaha and Lincoln
territory, latsiVery good reason for the
location of a farm land bank in Ne
braska. The Pathfinder project, Sho
ehone project Belle Fourche project
and Yellowstone project will all be
benefited bv the Nebraska location and
the vast sum expended on these works
win te in hotter shape ror coming
back Into the federal treasury. - -
I did not notice that this argument
was presented at the hearing, but per
haps it was. Really, It is one of the
best reasons for putting one of the
banks In Nebraska.
O. L. SHUMWAY,
Corn as a Substitute. .
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct J. To the
Editor of The Bee: Bread prices are
rising; likewise flour. But we have
a remedy, if only the people of this
country would grasp it
All Germany is existing on potato
bread, while here we have an abund
ance In the aggregate of rye, bar
ley, oats, corn and wheat
Combinatiens of two or more of
these cereals make palatable, nutri
tious and cheap bread.
We all know ' that there is little
real nutriment In the while bread
made from wheat flour. Modern mill
ing methods deprive the latter of life
sul)stance.v
Now is a good time to introduce
these grain mixtures, or combinations,
for people will listen to any talk con
cerning cheaper bread and other
foods. Their pocket Is now affected
by the abnormal prices prevailing and
which will continue unless Immediate
attention Is given to other cereals
partly neglected at present -
Barley and wheat in combination
make the most nutritious of breads,
while rye and barley are a good
second.
Barley as a breakfast food, and in
soup, broth or meat stews has no su
perior in nutritive value from a cereal
standpoint '
Cornmeal and wheat flonr, half and
half. Is a bread much used In Ireland.
Cornmeal will be found a good substi
tute for potatoes something to know
in this year of potato scarcity. Both
yellow and white corn grind as fine
as wheat ' They give a little more
moisture to bread, but this is an ad
vantage, for it does not get stale
quickly. The corn also Is heatening
a good thing in cool weather. This
maize-wheat bread would be excellent
for the soldiers in trench or outdoor
life on that account If the allies fed
their armies with more corn prod
ucts the wheat situation would be re
lieved rapidly, and greater consump
tion by our own people would help.
One-third cornmeal and balance
wheat flour make a palatable, nour
ishing and cheap bread, as the De
partment of Agriculture learned a lew
years ago in experimenting. At pres
ent grain prices this bread is 15 per
cent cneaper tnan tne au-wneat Kind,
, Or use one-half cornmeal, 45 per
cent wheat and balance oata The
lattef addition is beneficial to the kidneys.
Oatmeal porridge and other oat
produsts and combinations should ba
used more. They are strengthening
and cheap.
There are other coramiuu"'-"
these grains, but the Germans sew
Ai innvioriir0 nf these 'as in
many other scientific matters).
A little newspaper taiK ana nu
wheat bread might become popular,
i itcAif fa known and
appreciated everywhere in our land.
But maue-wneai oreaa nis
proportions of the two grains and
will please most tastes 1
itlrfra fan afford to Sell the SatTK
In full-size 6-cent loaves.
An extensive use of maize-wheat
k i ,n.tlnnB nf whont Willi
rye, barley or oats, will save hup-
ureaa 01 minions ul uuouc.d
It will solve the Bread ana wnea
.nku nr an., no, Inn v,Iba Annnch to
abandon the all-wneat bread diet. .
j. At- hhi m.
NEBRASKA EDITORS.
Tha Filler Praia, Harvey L. Nre pro
prietor, la now printed on a new press.
The Sidney Telegraph, P. A. Gapen, editor,
bet-an the forty-tilth jear of its existence
last week.
Charles B. Kuhle, editor off the Leigh
World, baa added a linotype to the equip
ment of his plant
Mra. Edna Dohaon haa sold the Saturday
Nlrht Review of Ulysses to Irs W. Naylor,
who has been 'acting as foreman of the
plant for aevera years,
Coleman Coleman, editora of the Fair
field Auxiliary, celebrated tha fifth anni
versary of their paper last week by going
on an all-home print basis.
Editor Tom Wright of tha Ansley Herald
has Just completed the Installation of ar
Intertype and his paper now appears in a
brand new dress each week.
Tha Holdrege Progress, whose editor con,
eeals his Identity under the name of the
"Progress Printing company," issued a finely
Illustrated edition last week. ,
E. O. Howard, former owner of the John
son County Journal, of Teeumseh, has pur
chased bait Interest In the paper, which he
sold a few months ago to Charles D. Blatt-velt
' MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"Whafe the matter with the efficiency
expert?"
"Sad blow. He wanted a 4-oent atamp,
but tha man only had two twoa. Of oourse
he had to waste energy licking twice the
space." Baltimore American.
"Strange. Mary doesn't have any offera!
She'd make some man a good wife."
"Yea; but the trouble la everyone knows
she'd make him a good husband, too."
Life.
"1 gave that waitress a slsable tip In
nuuIU avmeining extra,
something the other boarders didn't get."
"Tea. she rushed off and got me an extra
glasa of. water." Loulavllle Courier Journal.
PEAR MR. KAIIBBUF,
HOW "(AM I TBJL IF HER
PWBJTS APPROVE OF ME?
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IF THE UW IS LIT IH THE
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tWWM TVIELWE FUiHTS CP
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QUelTlons," V'mm ""10
Re"'"." replied the confident can
didate. " very simple. I am personally the
answer to all of them."-Wahlngton Star
anVtMnV" 1""lni tnem ld
"That's exactly the point. So many per
sona' ancestors did do things which rot
them Into trouble with the police." Rich
mond Times-Dispatch. " mon-
T!ln,,i IV '! wl,h 1 Isntern?"
.wererDio-gene.' " h"Mt
vn',',W,i!Ihy "ot adopt "id.rn methods?
Tou coula cover more ground with a
searchlight, my bor."-B.rtal. Exprew
g.mngndtarg.nr"amUn'1 th,t y0Ur -Young
Doctor That's true. My patient
J" sained nearly ten pounds in the
few weeks, Boston Transcript.
WAY OUT WEST.
Tn 'poeta, my ,rlena' wh,t n1
In"," ny," h' heen In the mood;
r".n " beln" "very morning.
Then dress up and look like a dude.
5t" wn,r" " for a living
.Wh,er l.t sweet saphyra watt you to rest,
drink" U,-"k and
Of the air that makea men, la the west
'TELE"; "J" """ haa me thinking.
Looks sick, breathing fumea of the beana
Shine on, pretty moon. In the west, please.
Furnish light to the night of sweet
dream;,
W6r?,h hep in the ""yon ar jrrMlnf,
On the mountain and beautiful plain.
Way out In tl.li wonderful country.
Where yo have neither ache nor .a pain.
Every feuon Is (rood in this country.
Mountains tipped with the beautiful snow,
Its the garden of riches we cherish,
To come out and see tt Is to know:
Where nature has bent every effort
And has made everything- of the best.
Go-wan with your moon In the eat. Jack,
We keep all the best for the west.
Cease to think of the east and Just listen
To your loyal bid friend of the muse;
We never get sick, we never do kick,
And we never are troubled with blues;
But we smite When we think of our pleasures.
Of the sweet things In life we are blest,
I agree you're some beans in the east. Jacks
While we're the "whole cheese"
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