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dross will bo changed u oftea aa required.
Now for that early Christmas ihoppingl
I It looks at if Von Mackensen's men may loon
I rest in Bucharest.
The reconvening of congress is next on the
menu of current events. 1
j Thanksgiving foot ball fans certainly have no
f complaint against the weather man.
' Mr, Turkey Gobbler may lay low for s while,
but he will make another flight before Christ-
Should the aggravated public act as it reso
lutes, the kings of the hen fruit belt will wake up
to find their goods too strong for a weak market.
With only ien republicans out, of thirty-three
in the upper branch of the coming Nebraska leg
islature, the democratic majority can run riot if
it wants to. .".
, Those after-election campaign expense ac
counts no longer excite, curiosity,, It is wonderful
how, after a fight is over, public .interest cools
off almost instantaneously, , 'i ,
, v ?;.. r--' LpKffS' -
' So far as car! be observeH fhrough.Vtli4; politi-'
! cal periscope, the rumor that Kansas may be re
warded with a seat in the new cabinet has not
' ruffled the feathers' of the Wichita Eagle. ,
'( London hotel keepers received orders from
, the government to cut down their menus. Ameri
' can paternalism ,is not pressed to that point. Pro
vision dealers do the job by overworking the
' price lists. -j- . ,
' Hardly had the tired feeling of Thanksgiving
festivities eased off before the joykiller swings
the hammer on Santa Claus. Annual attacks on
, the sacred person bf Reindeer Nick arouse among
his admirers a patriotic desire to swing a bat.
., 1 Lincoln voters had some forty places to mark
on their ballot last month. Up here in Omaha
we had seventy-six. If the voters in the back
districts were beset with this sort of a ballot pui-
' zle, the short ballot movement would be growing
still faster., ," ;'' : :
j Inasmuch as the federal loan board is still
holding hearings on claims of different cities,
either the question of location is still open or
these hearings are a mere form. It is hard to see,
however, how the board can get away from plac
ing one of the land banks in Omaha.
The German ambassador at Vienna, Count
Tschirsky and Bagendorff, "the man who caused
J the war," died a natural death. In the world war
as In all others, very few responsible for draw
' ing the sword perish by the sword. Fate deals
i kindlier with them than with their innocent vic
tims, . . ' . .
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Spain lias lost 50.000 tons of shipping by sub
marines since the war began. Diplomacy having
: failed as a deterrent a new system is in operation.
' For every Spanish ship sunk an interned German
hip is taken over by the government. This
method brings immediate results with restricting
the subsequent conversation.
, The esteemed William A. Sunday is lambast
ing Boston fore and aft and saving it in regular
Sunday style. Some of the beaneaters reluctantly
admit that a change in theological diet may
improve the system, but the permanency of the
improvement .remains to be determined by the
"heft" of the last day's collection.
Commodity Pirates at Work
Philadelphia Ledger
In many cases the war is not the reason for
. rising food prices; It is only an excuse. Rapa
cious food speculators are to a large degree re
sponsible for the outrageous charges, and they
simply mention the war to conceal their own
motives. New Jersey farmers put much of the
blame for high prices upon the middleman, and
they are organizing to eliminate that individual
as. far as possible. In New York they have in
dicted food speculators for gouging the public.
-In Philadelphia there are many authentic in
stances of where an increase of only 5 per cent
? in the wholesale price of a food product was in
stantly followed by a 25 per cent increase in the
retail price. It seems to be a game of everybody
charge all he can get, with the result that con-
' snmers are being bled at every vein.
. -The American public is a docile population.
It tolerates from 10100 little and big dealers ex
tra taxes on commodities that no foreign coun
try in time of peace would endure. Unfortu
nately for our people, the incomes of a very large
portion have not increased since the war began,
so that they are being actually impoverished by
the rapacity of speculators in all fields of indus-
try. It is about time that the buyers themselves
band together and refuse to submit further to
wholly unnecessary advances in commodity
prices.
Constructive Program for Omaha.
Wonders have been accomplished during the
last few years toward the making of the new and
Greater Omaha. In the development of a metro
politan city each successive era presents its own
problems which must be taken up and solved as
they arise, but every live city should have a con
structive program. Omaha right now should
seek to attain several goals, not all of them, per
haps, of the same urgency, or within the same
reach, but nevertheless of sufficient importance to
be persisted in until secured:
1. Omaha is ripe for a new Union passenger
depot. Present accommodations, suitable as they
may have once been, are entirely outgrown and
the railroads converging here owe it to us to pro
vide a modern passenger terminal.
2.. A pipe-line from the Wyoming oil fields is
our most promising industrial acquisition. Direct
piped crude oil with refineries here would add im
mensely to our commercial power, relieve the fuel
pressure and start many new enterprises.
3. Omaha's grain business of storage and ele
vation should be supplemented with cereal, flour
and feed mills, starch works and allied branches,
to convert the raw material into manufactured
product.
4. Along the same line, the byproducts of our
meat-packing establishments should be utilized
for manufacturing purposes. We should have tan
neries, more boot and shoe factories, trunk fac
tories, leather goods and harness works, and fac
tories making use of the horns and bones of the
slaughtered animals.
5. The good roads question must be taken
up and solved in a practical manner and the road
ways in and out of Omaha permanently improved
to meet new requirements of automobile traffic
and transportation. s
6. Omaha's claims for recognition in federal
activities must be more aggressively asserted. We
are in a .fair way to land one of the new land
banks and should keep pulling for the federal
reserve bank that Kansas City got away from us.
Divisional activities of the army, postofKce, com
merce and labor departments 'of the federal gov
ernment belong here, too, and can be had with
the proper effort., ,
While other steps in growth and expansion
are doubtless, also timely, here is a constructive
program for Omaha that can well' absorb our
energies for the immediate future,
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I Germany's War Preparations.
It had been thought Germany's preparation
for war was so complete that nothing could be
added. News from Berlin indicates the kaiser's
counsellors have discovered how to improve the
condition of the empire as a fighting machine, and
are taking steps to carry out the plans. Chancel
lor von Bethman-Hollweg has just introduced
into the Reichstag a measure that in effect puts
the entire civil and industrial organization of the
empire on a military basis. All civilians are to
come under compulsory service orders, snd thus
the defense of the nation will be strengthened
by the addition of many who have so far beerl
engaged in purely private pursuits. More strin
gent regulations for the daily life of the citizens
are announced, looking to the closer conservation
of supplies. "Hands that are idle assist the
enemy," says the chancellor, summing up the pur
pose of his new bill. The willingness of Ger
many to accept peace is once mortj given promi
nence in the speech to the Reichstag, "a peace
guaranteeing our existence and our future." These
preparations and the confidence of the chancellor
afford certain proof that the war is hardly likely
to be brought to an immediate end.
Shifting Balancs in For Trade,
, A report from the Department of Commerce
on the fur trade of the United States affords some
interesting light on a trade, the current of which
has been strangely affected by the war. Importa
tion of undressed furs had reached the highest
mark previous to the war in 1912, when skins to
the value of more than seventeen millions of dol
lars, and finished garments valued at eight and
one-half millions were purchased abroad. In 1915
these figures had fallen to $7,768,348 and $2,758,
140, less than two-fifths of the total three years J
earlier. The present year, however, has seen the
total mount to $16,891,(99 for undressed and
$3,208,183 for the made-up furs, or double the
total of the year previous. This return to nor
mal proportions in the total of importations is
accompanied by a remarkable shifting in sources
of supplies.
In 1912 Belgium sent in more than a million
dollars worth of undressed furs; in 1916 this had
fallen to less than $3,000, Germany had dropped
from nearly seven millions to less than half a
million. France's contribution had risen from less
than a million to almost a million and a half, and
Greece had jumped its exportations of undressed
furs to the' United States almost one thousand
times, from $41 to $39,784. The share of the
United Kingdom had nearly doubled, from
$3,606,347 to $6,197,517, while Canada had risen
from $2,267,807 to $4,183,962. Similar shifts are
noted from South American countries and else
where. The condition shows how one of the
trade currents has been affected by the war.
It is of importance that this traffic be safe
guarded against, whatever conditions may come
with the establishment of peace abroad. The
European countries may be looked to to regain
if possible their dominance over the fur trade,
and American manufacturers must be protected,
or see'the business go abroad again.
Two and One-Half Cent Piece.
The director of the mint comes forward with
a belated suggestion that our present simple sys
tem of coinage be enriched by the addition of a
two and one-half cent piece. Such a coin will
undoubtedly facilitate making change in some in
stances, but it slso very likely will result in a re
vision of the scale of charges now made. At any
rate, it comes tardily for the relief of the great
west, where long ago the people solved the prob
lem by the adoption of the "long" and "short bit"
system. An institution of the people, founded on
the principle of give and take, this method of
making change served well until the influx from
the effete east, accompanied by a custom which
brought the "short" bit into disrepute ' by the
seller always insisting on having the "long," and
thus discouraging the buyer. The "picayune,"
too, disappeared under a wave of progress, and
the "bit" will go the same way. At any rate, the
American people are not yet open to the charge
made by the witty lawyer, who answered Andrew
Carnegie's query as to why Great Britain persists
in the absorb practice of coining the farthing by
.saying that jts purpose was to facilitate contribu
tions to charity. j
Money Makes the Mare Go!
Also Some Other Things
-Wall Street Journal.-
There are three religious organizations in the
world whose business bases are today the envy
of all their rivals, for their financial organizations
are nearly perlect. I hese are the Koman Catho
lic church, Christian Science and "Billy" Sun
day's organization. Law and medicine will be
greater successes when financially organized
greater successes for the profession and for client
and patient.
It is, therefore, with gratification we note
what will surprise most medical practitioners, that
the famous Mayo brothers of Rochester, Minn.,
have now reached an income basis of $100,000 a
month.
The work, of course, is not accomplished alone
by two surgeons, however great their skill. They
have twelve assistants of the highest medical and
surgical ability. But they permit no patient to
set a price upon the services of their institution.
E. H. Harriman had not enough money to
induce them to leave their hospital and attend
him in New York; and James J. Hill was not
permitted to say as to how much he was to be
charged.
Some years ago Hill arrived at Rochester in
his private can and sent for the Mayo brothers
and received reply that his case would be attended
to at the, hospital. He stormed as he left his
private car and wended his way thither and
stormed again when he found himself taken in
hand by assistants who diagnosed his case and
made engagement for his return at a .specified
hour several days later. When he had been fully
attended to, this masterful man thought himself
still master of the situation and, writing a polite
note of appreciation, he enclosed his check for
$10,000 to the Mayo brothers. The note, how
ever, was no politer than that which came back
returning the check and noting that in due season
a bill would be sent him.
What was his surprise to receive a bill some
time later for $50,000, which, of course, he paid
and then endeavored to find out on what basis
the Mayo brothers made charges.
If hi inquiry went far enough he could have
learned that their system was neither hit nor miss
in surgery or in finance; that in the case of a
major operation a man's pocketbook was more
carefully scanned by "organized system" than
it would be under the investigations of the town
tax assessors.
Mr. Hill would have discovered that after
making reasonable deductions the charge for a
successful major operation was 10 per cent of
the patient's income for one year. Indeed his
life was valued according to his own work and
the life saver system called itself entitled to a
tithe of his income for one year. , ' 1
While Mr. Hill was fussing over his bill and
his inability to dictate the situation, a poor woman
visited the hospital with the meager savings of
her life represented in the bank book she carried.
This she volunteered as all she had. The Mayo
brothers gave her every personal attention, ex
plained the dangers of her case, and was she
willing to accept the result of the hazard of the
surgeon's knife? She assented; the operation was
successful, and at the ens) of several weeks she
was sent home cured,- She had desired to know
the sum of her indebtedness for her board, which
she would attempt some day to pay..
The response was just as polite as to Mr. Hill:
"Madam, here is your bank book and a check for
$500. You owe us nothing. By your consent we
experimented upon you. It was successful and
we consider ourselves and even medical .science
indebted to you," ! . ' ;
Uncle Sam's Farmers
-St. Levis Globe Democrat-
According to the last census about pne-third
of our citizens, in gainful pursuits are engaged
in agriculture. "On what they are to accomplish
in the coming year depends, in a large degree,
the comfort and prosperity of their fellow' Ameri
cans. Before the winter is over the high prices
of food will bear hard upon many families whose
incomes are not elastic, and who must face the
food problem as a matter of present concern.
Opinions differ as to how large a proportion of
high prices goes to farmers. It is doubtless true
that it is not equitably what it should be. - But it
is also true that in many cases the prices are
too high, regardless of the distribution of the
money paid for the necessaries of life. Investi
gations of the subject by congress are timely.
Prices of articles consumed by farmers have
also been marked up. Farmers have an equal in
terest in fair prices and will intelligently take this
view of it The increases are often more than a
due percentage. Public vigilance is demanded at
such a time, along with an observance of all the
rules of a wholesome general economy.
The farming domain of Uncle' Sam is amply
big and varied. Tillers of the soil in" the Gulf
states will soon begin to-plant crops for 1917.
A few months will see all the millions of our
farmers actively at work. They decide on what
to grow and how much land to use productively.
As far as possible they should put every acre to
work and follow it up with the best cultivation.
Their reward is likely to be greater than usual.
They would like to see groceries, clothing and
many other requisites marked down instead of
up in frequent installments. We are all moving
along together, and plenty of food at fair prices
will help us to do it successfully for all concerned.
Let speed the plow, or the tractor, be a leading
motto of the hour.
The farmer feedeth all, and his fellow-countrymen
hope that his thinking cap is on wisely for
the coming season.
People and Events
The free lunch perished with the saloon at
Waukeganv III., last May. Now a Chicago
preacher proposes a revival of the free lunch as
a cheerful climax to his sermons. A lunch service
will follow each sermon, thus insuring gastro
nomic support for his arguments.
One of the Thanksgiving customs that lin
gered in New England households until the mid
dle of the last century was to lay five grains of
corn upon the plate of every person at table in
memory of a day in early colonial history when
five ships came sailing into the harbor just in
time to chase away the specter of famine.
The New York state commissioner of excise
serves notice on all concerned that Sunday regu
lations cannot be suspended simply, because New
Year's eve falls on Sunday. The cruet blow
threatens to dim the glims of the lobster palaces.
But there is Saturday night and its wide open op
portunity for a souse that will hold till Monday.
Andrew Carnegie observed his eighty-first
birthday last week with befitting cheerfulness, in
spite of the rising cost of living. Tom Edison
'phoned a note of encouragement, promising to
make a personal call in 1920. "I'll meet you at
the door, Tommy," whispered the laird of Skibo,
as he turned to his check book for another library'
donation.
Something over $2,000,000 of rear money was
disbursed one day last week at one betting head
quarters in upper New York. William C. Hogg,
a Texas sport, got away with a package of $100,
000 of extra fine republican dough, but Bill was
not the prize hog. That distinction belongs to
Robert Wolf of Columbus, O., who cleaned up
$250,000 and cleaned out a score of patriots who
banked on a swell Thanksgiving.
They all do it the shrewd and the toxy as well
as the guileless rube. A former lieutenant of the
noted mounted police of Canada blew into Chi
cago with a nice, fat roll and a moderate thirst.
While satisfying the latter a trio of women on
short acquaintance were permitted to fondle the
roll. They are still holding it and the ex-copper
appealed to the courts for help to find it. An
ex-cop' appealing to policeman for help is some
spectacle.
1 TODAY!
Thought Nugget for the Day.
Life lies behind us as the quarry
from whence we get tiles and cope
stonea for the masonry of today.
Kalpn Waldo Emerson.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Russians defeated Austiians at
Bukowlna.
Austrians and Germans began an
Invasion of Montenegro.
Italian artillery began attack on
new Austrian positions.
Berlin claimed Bulgarians captured
15,000 Serbians at Frisrend.
Ambassador Penfleld renewed de
mand that Austria explain torpedoing
or Italian steamer Ancona.
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In Omaha Thirty Yean Ago.
For the forty-second musioale of
the Ladles' Musical society tne roiiow
ing were on the program: Misses
Tostevln, Palmer, Georgia Boulter;
Mesdames F. Hill and F. E. Wood
bridge and Edward Dvorak.
The annual election of St. Andrew's
Brotherhood took place in the base
ment of Trinity cathedral. An excel
lent oyster supper was spread and
Dean Gardner presided. Several
toasts were responded to by Revs.
Paterson, Doherty and Williams.
These officers were elected: Henry
R. Oould, vice president; E. J. Shake
shaft, secretary, and George Orr,
treasurer.
The committee appointed to form
a new charter for the city of Omaha
held Its first meeting, at which the
following were present: Max Meyer,
James Creighton, C. 8. Chase, Guy
Barton, W. F. Bechell, John Evans,
Frank Murphy and G. B. Bailey. City
Attorney Connell and City Engineer
Rosewater, though not members of
the committee, were present by invi
tation. Rev. House, pastor of the First
Methodist Episcopal church, on Dav
enport, is holding a series of revival
meetings as a continuation of the
Sam Jones meetings.
, M. Straasberger of the Nebraska
Clothing company, who has been in
New York for the last ten days on
business for the firm, has returned.
Instruments for the new signal
service of the Union Pacfle have been
ordered and will be here shortly.
They will cost 12,000. Mr. Powell,
the man who is to take charge of the
service, will arrive in Omaha within
the next week.
This Day In History.
1814 American privateer schooner
Kemp, of Baltimore, attacked a fleet
of nine British merchantmen and
captured several of them.
1816 Seth Thomas, the founder of
the clock manufacturing Industry In
America, born at Thomaston, Conn.
Died there, April 28, 1888. .
1817 Henry Clay was again elected
speaker of the house of representa
tives by an almost unanimous vote. '
1818 Joshua Barney, who was a
commodore in the United States navy
at the age of 23, died in Pittsburgh.
Born in Baltimore, July 6, 1759.
1859 Abraham Lincoln delivered
a speech at Elwood, Kan.
1860 King Victor Emmarruel msude
his public entry into Sicily.
186. The Croatian Diet demanded
abolition of the military frontier, and
the incorporation of Dalmatia with
the Croatian kingdom.
1869 The Hudson Bay company
yielded ist monopoly of government
in the northwest to Dominion of
Canada.
1879 Attempted assassination of
the czar of Russia By undermining his
railway train near Moscow.
1900 Canadian troops from South
Africa, welcomed in London by the
lord mayor.
1910 Porflrio Diaz was Inaugu
rated president of Mexico for the
eighth term.
The Day We Celebrate.
Herbert M. Rogers, president of
Milton. Rogers & Sons, is today turn
ing his forty-seventh birthday. He is
a native son of Omaha and a graduate
of Princeton, as well as a music-lover
and musician, himself. ;
Demaln H. Ledwlch is today forty
seven years old. He has been for
years In the lumber business and is
now a member of the firm of Gulou &
Ledwlch.
Queen Alexandra, mother of King
George of England, born in Copen
hagen, seventy-two years ago today.
William H. Truesdale, president of
the Lackawanna railroad, born near
Youngstown, O., sixty-five years ago
today.
Robert W. Speer, the present mayor
of Denver, born in Huntington county,
Pennsylvania, sixty-one years ago
today.
Samuel H. Ralston, governor of In
diana, born in Tuscarawas county,
Ohio, fifty-nine years ago today.
Elmer J. Burkett, - former United
States senator from Nebraska, born
in Mills county, Iowa, forty-nine years
ago today.
Edward M. Reulbach, pitcher of the
Boston National league base ball club,
born in Detroit, thirty-four years ago
today. ,
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is the centennial anniversary
of the birth of Seth Thomas, founder
of the great clock manufacturing in
dustry in Connecticut
The United States grain standard
act, providing for federal supervision
of all grain in Interstate and foreign
commerce, comes into operation today.
A court to be devoted exclusively to
the trial of women offenders and to
have a woman prosecutor, Is to be
added to the San Francisco judiciary
system today.
A "Health Week" celebration is to
be Inaugurated in Minneapolis today
under the auspices of the civic, social
and medical organizations of that
city.
Today will mark the close of the
eight months' campaign of the Ameri
can Ked Cross to add a million new
members to Its rolls.
In an effort to relieve the car short
age situation, a number of the leading
railroads of the country are to in
crease their demurrage charges begin
ning today.
The annual convention of the Na
tional Association of Academic Teach
ers of Public Speaking, is to meet
in New York City today for a two
day session.
A central states conference has
been called to meet today at Evans
vllle, Ind., to discuss all phases of the
transportation problem, river Improve
ment and the high cost of living.
Storyetie of the Day.
A minister was questioning his Sun
day school concerning the story of
Eutychus, the young man who, listen
ing to the preaching of the Apostle
Paul, fell asleep, and, falling out of
a window, was taken up dead.
"What," he asked, "do we learn
from this solemn event?"
The reply from a little girl came:
"Please, sir, ministers should learn
hot to preach too long sermons."
Baltimore American.
To Correct a Misunderstanding.
Kearney, Neb., Nov. 29. To the
Editor of The Bee: Will you please
give a little space to correct serious
misunderstanding which has caused
injustice to this Institution through
recent' stories in the papers? These
stories implied that the parents'
wishes were ignored In the disposition
of the body of a patient who died here
October 29, by the name of Katie
Reider.
By repeated telegrams and with
much difficulty the parents of this
patient were summoned to her bed
side. After her death the body was
delivered to a reputable, licensed un
dertaker just as if she had died at
home, and he was guided by the in
structions which the parents gave him.
They said that they could not afford
a funeral, so were told that there was
a law whereby the state would take
care of the body If they would deliver
it to the state, and they would not
have to pay anything. They were told
that this was for them to choose and
tell the undertaker.
Twice they visited the undertaking
parlors and there were told exactly
the situation and after careful expla
nation they said to the undertaker:
"We are poor; we cannot help Katie
now by paying money: we will go
home and take care of our living
children. You send Katie to Omaha."
They were told that if they wished to
change their minds within sixty days
they could have the body for burial.
They evidently changed their minds,
but in allowing the spread of false
ideas there has been great injustice
done this institution, which belongs to
the people of Nebraska and is run for
the people with an earnest zeal to
alleviate and to prevent the terrible
toll of suffering; and death due to this
catching and preventable disease, con
sumption: L. S. B. ROBINSON.
SupL State Tuberculosis Hospital.
Wooster Has Views on Economy.
Silver Creek, Neb., Nov. 28. To the
Editor of The Bee: Your Lincoln
correspondent speaks very disparag
ingly of the last legislature because it
was too "economical" to vote funds
properly to equip the National Guard,
and Is much distressed because they
were "compelled to sleep in tents on
the hard ground" and did not have
any money to buy lumber for floors
in their tents.
"No floors," Indeed! What did they
enlist for? To be ninnies mere dress
parade soldiers? No money whatever
should be spent for such purposes;
and I trust the incoming legislature
will be just as economical as the house
tried to be two years ago. If a man
wants to be a soldier, let him be a
soldier. I once served four years in
actual war; never once had a tent with
a board floor, and most of the time
had only a "dog tent" that I carried
under my saddle.
A complaint Is made of inadequate
armories for the National Guard. But
no armories at all are needed, and
the legislature should make no ap
propriation whatever to provide them.
Each enlisted man should take his
gun and accoutrements home with
him, and when drill day comes get
Into his soldier's clothes, go to the
place of rendezvous and fall at it.
Good, stiff drilling would keep him
warm even in the coldest winter
weather, and if in summer he got
soaked once in a while, it would not
hurt him any; better that than that
the legislature should soak all the tax
payers of the state to provide some
bandbox soldiers to be admired by the
ladles.
In speaking of the support of the
guard, your correspondent says that
"if the requirements of the War de
partment are met the monev aDDro-
priated under the reserve act will be
given to tne state, but if not the state
will get nothing." But to my mind
mat is a good and sufficient reason
why those requirements, whatever
they may be, should not be met Thai
sort of federal legislation, as further
exemplified in the federal good roads
law, is vicious in the extreme, and
the states should put a stop to tt by
flatly refusing to meet the 'require
ments" of any such acts. The situa
tion is about this: The president and
congress want the states to do cer
tain things: but having no power ta
compel them, undertake to bring
about such conditions that they will
comply to avoid doing worse.
Our boys have no proper business
on the Mexican border anyway, and
the president ought to be made to
meet the whole expense of their being
there out of his own pocket.
CHARLES WOOSTER.
Merits of Dirt and Paved Roads.
Florence, Neb., Nov. 29. To the
Editor of The Bee: An article in
The Bee commended the virtues of
the permanent roads and criticized
the present system of dirt roads. Both
propositions have points In their favor
although I think that the well-graded
dirt road would be the choice of the
greater per cent of the farmers, who
have to pay a large portion toward
road building and upkeep.
We realize that roads such as the
recently defeated paving bond issue
called for would have been very nice
for folks living in town and owning
automobiles, who could drive along
these paved highways, and I suspect
part of their conversation would be
about how fortunate the people living
along said road were, when in fact,
the poor farmer would be working all
day and worrying all night for fear
that he wouldn't meet the taxes which
come as the direct result of said pave--ment
We have a splendid example of
what expensive pavement roads do to
the agricultural districts In the New
England states, where in many parts
land is selling for from $30 to $40 per
acre. Why? Because the taxes are
so high that it doesn't pay to farm the
land. I do not mean to say that the
roads of this county and state conld
not be improved, but that well-leveled
and well-kept dirt roads which would
benefit all, would meet with the ap
proval of more people out on the
farms, than the expensive permanent
roads reaching only a favored few.
WILL J. BOETTGER.
GRINS AND GROANS.
We wonder If It's trno
That If yon apply your tongue to a froien
pump handle it will atlck?
That to ent fried nrim nihil m 1. -
dangerous?
That a hornet'e neat win care etlrt neck?
Louisville Courier-Journal
"You gotta use Judgment In advertlelne."
remarked the druggist.
"How now?"
"I trusted a green clerk to get un my
ad this week. He notifies the public that a
big atock of fresh poison hae arrived. "
Loulavllle Courier-Journal.
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msiNtrr.
TUWS NO RPJENse J
"Oh, hubby, inich an Instructive lectttro.
The gentleman told ua that what you eat.
yon become."
"Huh?"
"What you eat, you become."
"Take that all-day sucker away from W
Tommy." Louisville Courier Journal.
Willis What 9ort of man la he?
Olllis Well, if be had a country estate,
he'd have the katydids saying "Katy done
it" before a week was up. Judge. ,
The Mtrtresa Mary, what Is that old paint
pot doing on the comer shelf ?
The Cook It belongs to the man who
worked here last spring.
The Mistress You may throw It away.
The Cook I'll do nothing of the sort,
mum. It's all I have to remember him by.
Puck.
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