THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1916.
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dress will b. chan(.d as often aa nquirad.
England is running true to form. It il "mud'
dling through."
Hitting the bullseye in Roumani makes the
bell ring in London.
It max be observed that Berlin has no reason
lor worry right now.'
Has the early Christmas shopping habit gotten
you? lt not, why not?
As an object lesson for the short ballot, our
special referendum election is illuminating.
Still, those who prefer darkness to light are
welcome to navigate the glimless byways.
If you were a British statesman, you wouldn't
want the job of premier wished onto you right
now, either.
Hi evident at this stage of the game that
wild horses lack the drawing power of fake race
in the land of mikes. ,
At any fate the Third ward didn't do it all by
itself nor any two wards, nor any three wards,
nor any four wards I .
: In the campaign to reduce the nigh cost of
living, a public market (ystem might not do it
all, but it would certainly help. .
' What has become of our senator's munitions
embargo bill, which he was going to push with
out let-up till enacted into law?
s In the roster of glad-handeri greeting Colonel
Bryan in congress the name of Nebraska' senior
senator is conspicuous by its absence. Be good
fellow, GiL . . .. -i .
If Champ Clark's scheme to eliminate the gal
leiy were adopted, no room would be left for
speculation aa to whether tyilson or Bryan got
the most applause.
A Montana jury actua!lyeonvicted a woman
for shooting a man. The verdict smashes prece
dent and common usage, and indicates that the
Copper state sob squads woefully neglected their
job. -j - ,.:. ; . ,
Manufacturers, jobbers tad ' retailers of
tobacco promise a new year boost in prices.
This fairly .rounds out the price-booitlng epi
demic Mere man may be counted lucky If he
pulls through the winter with overcoat and
pajamas.' ' ::' - '. ; ;. , , '
Diligent work in the tight direction holds
high' promise of fatness for the suffrage waste
paper campaign fund. Moderate efficiency in
gathering up Congressional Records will do the
business and some over, besides putting the gas
morgue to good use. ' ' . ' '
The chief of the department of local improve
ments of Chicago protests against the chsrge of
waste and points out that in $12,000,000 worth
of work barely $400,000 was lost or-waited. "It
isn't a bad record," he says. Three per cent is
a measly split as splits go in Chicago. Instead
of kicking, Chicago taxpayer ought to be thank-
fill fa-lt Ogattiri gv At? a ggsn ra
iw. IVI aj,a,iiaia via mv VlafaLa.
America' 8 Stock oj Money
St Lawk) Globe-Da moorat.
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It has been twenty years since the "per capita"
was the chief topic of political discussion, but
there is still interest in it. The large and respec
table school of economic thought which contends
that prices are determined by the quantity of
money, may find a partial explanation of our
snaring prices in the facts revealed by the annual
report of the United States treasurer. The per
capita circulation on June 30,. 1916, was $39.28,
nearly $7 more than ten. years ago. The per
centage of gold coin and certificates to th total
circulation is vertr high, being 50.97, as against
43.3 in 1906. The percentage of gold to the
total stock of money is 54.64, as against 48.07 in
1906. " '
The money in circulation increased $458,878,188
daring twelve months, the growth in gold and
gold certificate!, being $388,091,123. This is con
siderably more . than the entire circulation of
trrrrnharka XUriHQIMA Th.. u. ...
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changed since May 31, 1878, though there has been
kuiu, icucmpuuu 10 me amount Ot $1,1X1,925,542
in that nerinrl Thj.ro ara atlll i: a
r : - - -" " wuiaitiimiiK treasury
notes to the amount of $2,098,262, issued for the
uurcnaac 01 silver. 1 nil ta ni mum. ...!..
estimate. Much of it and of all other kinrfa
of
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wvsi iun ur ucBiroycu.
tor example, there are supposed to be 28,541 734
5 I 2-cent pieces and 21,879.846 3-cent pieces still
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Sa . , t y imtK tiiinK to are
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cum tiaa veen ubcu in inc iraaes, out, owing
the reserve requirements, the stock on, hand
larffe fTjn Itino .111 thara u... IM tu . .
tlv feaeral minta anlrl mih la thm !.. e hm
836,878 and gold bullion to the value of $803-
uj.ujj, wniie in inc icaerai reserve banks there
W9B vnM rrkin In tUm vmliu af tBAfclnnn .11
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amount known to be held by other banks makes
11 pruuaoic mat me esitmaiea stock of gold
f J com and gold bullion, $2,449,706,205, is as reli-
(, f auic aa Uy in me pan or any matte by foreign
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The Light Contract Referendum.
The first resort to the referendum in Omaha
has resulted in a decisive popular confirmation
of the street lighting contract entered into by
the city commissioners.
By approval of the commissioners' action, the
result will be to give Omaha an additional 1,000
street lamp and an up-to-date ornamental light
ing system for the business district, with assur
ance that the 6-cent rate reduction for house
holders will become effective without contest.
If the contention of the opponents of the con
tract be accepted that the issue of the special elec
tion was "municipal ownership," the vote would
have to be read as a distinct rebuff to the idea of
acquiring a municipal plant We do not, however,
believe this vote furnished any such test, but it
does indicate that the people of Omaha reserve
their decision in each case for some practical
proposition standing on its own merits. They
know the present electric lighting plant can be
taken over at any time, but whether it should be
purchased' or not must depend on the price, and
the same is true of other public utilities. The
vote further indicates that the people do not
want to bring everything in the way of electric
lighting development to a standstill indefinitely
for a mere debate on municipal ownership.
One thing Omaha may take pride in is the
number of referendum ballots cast being at least
half again as many as could reasonably be ex
pected in a special election evidencing the wide
spread civic interest of the people.
With this part of the controversy out of the
way it is up to the electric lighting company to
get busy in fulfillment of its obligations and
prove that the vote of confidence is rightfully
given.
Come Through with a Plan.
For years Omaha has listened In ritv nUnn.-.
talk and been reoeatedtv advised from
time that the moment is at hand to adopt a
comprehensive plan for the development of the
city. But, beyond the appointment of a city
planning board and the voting of a liberal budget
item to aetray its expenses and pay for an ex
pert, nothing has been done. One mem her rr
the board renews the suggestion that a general
plan -be prepared and adopted. What the citi
zens would like is that the city planning board
present something definite and comprehensive
for consideration. Vavue nrnminea and ffpafnl
comment will not accomplish anything. Let the
board come throusrh with a nln and a'm th
people some idea of what is proposed. Then,
mayoc, we can and out what is needed and what
the public is willing to pay for. , '
Promise of th Impending Budget
Estimates of appropriations submitted tn mn.
gres at it opening contemplate the expenditure
of $1,268,715,834. This is exclusive of the re
ceipts of the Postoffice department, which must
be counted into the total of appropriations, thus
presaging the entrance of the four-billion-dollar
congress. What doe this mean for the coun
try? Added taxes to take care of increased ex
penditures, with the alternative of a bond is
sue. When President Wilson addressed the con
gress last December he suggested some new
form of taxation and a surtax on incomes to
meet the growing disbursements of the govern
ment These recommendations were adopted and
an issue of bond was authorized to defray ex
penses and yet the report from the treasury
show a continually mounting deficit. In hi ad
dress to congress at the present session the presi
dent offer no suggestion a to how to increase the
income of the general government Another im
portant factor in the problem is that the present
income of the government lis dependent upon
source that are but temporary. Taxes on muni
tion profit will disappear with1 the cessation of
the traffic, while surtaxes on incomes must dwin
dle at whatever time the immediate inflation is
brought to an end. Inheritance taxes are but
casual and the revenue derived from alcohol and
tobacco it bound to, drop with the closing of the
war. How the democrats will move to meet the
situation cannot even be conjectured, but their
record does not promise wisdom in revenue legis
lation, i
' Prlra yFif htinf for Charity.
The proposal that champion pugilists of
America and France be matched to fight in order
to raise funds for war relief will give our well
ordered society something of a shock. Under
ordinary conditions such a proposition would not
be thought of, but the war has blunted man's sen
sibilities to some degree, and the fighting man
now hat the spotlight. Therefore the plan will
very likely go through, and a considerable sum
pf money will be gathered at the door. It will
be interesting to watch the competition between
the charity fund promoters and the professional
managers over the gat receipt. One of the
proposed contestants has the merit of being in
the trenches, from which service it is proposed to
ask the French government to temporarily re
lease him, 1
Plans for Better Marketing Practice.
' A conference of experts Is now in progress in
Chicago, at which .are being considered methods
of handling farm and, dairy products between
producer and consumer. Many suggestions have
been made for improvement in the service, the
most practical for the farmers being that of
closer co-operation., This involves associations
of farmers, under which the business of selling
to commission men or others who buy in whole
sale quantities can be carried on. Under this plan
prices can be better maintained through control
of market conditions, and the producer relieved
of a certain disadvantage that now attaches to
his position by reason of isolation.
jSo far the discussion has been one-sided, deal
ing .only with the problems of.the seller. The
consumer is entitled to be heard, although none
of the many speakers on the program has a word
for him. Arrangements that will bring the
farmer better and more stable prices for his
products and make more reliable the profits of
the industry are well enough and to be com
mended, but the matter ought not t6 end there.
It is not the price paid to the farmer that makes
the cost of living so burdensome, but the profit
taken by the man who manipulates food prices
after the farmer has sold. The present confer
ence will fail in its mission if it does not at least
suggest a meana to make the route of transit for
food to its ultimate destination more direct and
less costly. t
. Practical Christmas giving, the kind that really
lends a helping hand to those that need it, does
not haveto be done with a brass band. The
opportunity is all around us and the reward is
th self -satisfaction.
Building a House in Steps
Literary Dlgaat.-
A firm of architects in Paris has completed a
somewhat fantastic seven-story apartment house
which is claimed to embody all the advantages of
hillside dwelling light, air and a good view
even on a 'comparatively narrow street. This
maison a gradins or "house of steps" stands on
the Rue Vavin. Each floor is set back several feet
from the one below, thereby giving the front of the
apartment a decided slope. This plan has been
suggested for office-buildings in crowded cities,
where light and air are at a premium; here it is
seen as a successful reality. Says Charles J.
Storev. writing in the American Citv:
"Paris, in spite of its many wide streets and
its splendid system of boulevards and frequent
squares and parks, has a large number of ancient,
narrow streets, and it is in these that the archi
tects expect their scheme of building to be of
great use. Each floor above the third is set back
some eight feet and the space thus left open is
converted into a balcony or terrace. By means
ot an ineenious arrangement ot the overhang.
the privacy of the occupant below is secured, for,
although an unobstructed view of the street is
given, the terrace below cannot be seen. In the
finished house the terrace has a row of plants
along the edge, and the green, viewed from the
street, has a most pleasing effect An ornamental
iron railing protects the edge of the terrace and
provides an open-air playground.
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"This style of building, if constructed on both
sides of a street, will give almost as much light
to the lower stories as to the top ones. Actually,
the apartment on the Rue Vavin gains an hour
more of sunlight a day than do houses of ordinary
construction situated on the same side of the
same street. i
"Although the building covers more ground
than an ordinary one, the increased cost of land
is made up by the increased height to which the
building can ''be raised without interfering with
the light of the lower floors or of those across the
street. This is especially advantageous in Paris,
where the building code does not permit a build
ing on a street, say twenty-seven feet wide, to
be more than fifty feet high on the building line.
Above this height it must recede. By the plan
of Sauvage and Sarazin, the architects of this
innovation, ten- stories may be built conforming
to the spirit and the letter of the law where only
six main and two inferior floors could be con
structed under the usual design.
"All rooms in the model apartment have direct
light either from the street or from the court at
the rear. Central heat does away With the in
numerable chimneys common to Paris one for
each fireplace in each room and the architects
claim a substantial saving from this one item.
"The facade of the building is finished in white
glazed brick with a' simple and pleasing decora
tive motive in bright blue bricks, which well set
off the green flower; gardens on the terraces. The
rooms are painted in quiet Colors, and unlike
many French houses, are devoid of plaster deco
ration, having only a picture molding. This, of
course, has reduced the cost of the building, as
has also the simple exterior treatment
"Another point of interest i the ownership
of the building. The house has been constructed
by a company formed of persons who were willing
to live together and each sharehold owns his
own apartment This co-operative plan insures
each .member of the corporation the full or par
tial ownership of his home, according to the
amount invested. For example, if a man has
subscribed $10,000 he will have a reduction in his
rent of, say, $500 a year. He will in reality have
his apartment rent free and also receive a divi
dend on his investment if the venture proves as
profitable as is anticipated. By having an owner
tenant for every apartment, the yearly income
is greatly increased, as the architects calculate
that the loss through empty apartments in ordi
nary houses reaches 20 per cent" '
Women in Men's Jobs
- Boa too Transcript -
There is much point in the statement that it
is going (o be hare to induce the women workers
who are now doing men's labor in Europe to "go
back to dishwashing after the war." A good
many of them will never return to the old em
ployments. The tendency to bring women into
competition with men in their employments ts
no new thing, but it has been enormously accen
tuated by the war in Germany,' for example,
where the kaiser would otherwise have kept all
women, if he could have done so, to their
"Kinder, Kirche and Kuche." In this experience
the women of Germany may be said to have tasted
blood. The earlier movement! n the same direc
tion was not the result of the war. According to
the views of Ellen Key, expressed in her book,
"the Woman Movement," the earlier intrnsion of
women into men's employment was the result of
their exclusion, through the celibacy of the late
marriage of thousands of men, from the career
of marriage.fHusbandless, women sought the oc
cupations of men. Ellen Key'a opinion is that
this process is in the social sense disorderly and
hurtful, but she believes that man, having thus
by bis own act called women into competition
with him, should accept the situation in good
faith, and admit her to an equal position. Eco
nomically at least that is what has happened to
a very large extent in America. We have not yet
set our women at work in the boiler factories, as
they have in England, nor made street car con
ductors of them, as has been done in Germany
and France. But they have a prominent place in
our business establishments and in most of the
professions, and we have not hesitated to accept
th logic of this situation. In this country women
are secure in the employments which they have
newly occupied. Will that also be the case in the
warring countries of Europe after the war is over?
Probably it will not be, to any such extent as
in this country. Vet what will become of the
European women who have taken to men's em-
filoyments? The sacrifice of millions of men's
ives in the war will greatly diminish the chances
of marriage of' the unmarried women, while those
who have been widowed, or deprived of a father's
or a brother's support will seek to retain their
present employment and will do so unless they
are forcibly excluded from it. In Germany, at
least, with the revival of peaceful industries, the
work of thousands of these women will be
needed, even in addition to that of the soldiers
who will be restored to civil employments. They
will stay where they are. and wiil constitute a
new influence in industrial and social life. Habit
uated to.the presence of Women in such occupa
tions, men will admit still others. The tendency
of German women to seek marriage as the only
career in life open to them will be broken, and
this in turn will have an effect to reduce the in
crease in population. Germany will be profoundly
modified by the tendency which the war ha put
in operation.
A similar effect . will be observable id the
other warring countries. The drift of women to
men's employments may become a settled phe
nomenon there, as it has in the United States.
Were the statesmen of Europe aware of the social
tendencies which they were unchaining when they
entered the great conflict? -
People and Events
The Philadelphia and Reading corporation
recently attempted to gouge a local court out of
a 10-ccnt fee and failed miserably. The unfeeling
court not only refused a standoff but insisted on
spot cash. A Pennsylvania corporation without
a friend at court is a startling picture.
One of the speakers at the annual silk con
vention at Paterson, N. J., asserted that this
country is now "producing such a wide variety
of dye stuffs that women are able to get prac
tically all of the color effects for their clothes
that they got before the war." Necessity and
opportunity are unequalled in team work.
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Thought Nugget for the Day.
The glad-to-see-you treatment
Is great for human ills
It's better than prescriptions
And multitudes of pills.
So if through life you carry
This cheerful phrase with you;
It's ten to one the angels
Will be glad to see you too!
H. Stanley Hasklns.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Anglo-French army In Balkans re
tired toward base at Saloniki.
Thirty Allied aeroplanes bombarded
Adrianople - Constantinople railway
Standard Oil steamer Communlpaw
attacked by submarine In th Meal
terranean.
Kaiser reported to have concen
trated great reinforcements in Flan
ders and Artoia.
In Omaha Thirty Yean Ago.
In on of the windows of Orchard's
carpet store la displayed an interesting
rene of the Irish rebellion of '98. It
is a green silk flag beautifully em
broidered and represents an Irish
Kern killing a ferocious lion. It was
borne by Father Murphy in the cele-
o rated engagement at vinegar Hill,
The flag la the property of W. H. Pow
ers, manager of the beautiful clay,
"The Ivy Leaf," which is to be pro
duced here next Thursday, Friday and
Saturday.
The president's message containing
over 15,000 words waa received at the
Western Union office here. The mes
sage came over the wire "very slick,'
as the boys say. The operators who
took the message were O. W. Ken
nedy, G. H. Boyle, G. W. Lloyd and
J. A. O'Keefe.
Max Meyer has received a telegram
from Adelina- Patti's agent stating
that she will sing In Omaha on Feb
ruary 10th or 11th on guaranty of
16,000. !
The Ogallala Land and Cattle com
pany elected the following officers:
W. A. Paxton, president; J. E. Nagl,
vice president; Joseph Frank, secretary-treasurer;
James Way, assistant
secretary.
Judge McCulloch issued a marriage
permit to Michael Gorman and Ger
trude Dorsey, both of Omaha.
A force of bricklayers 'was set to
work laying the foundation of the new
warehouses of Kenneth & Powers on
Sixteenth near Douglas.
This Day In History,
1796 Washington delivered his last
address to congress.
1808 Hugh McCulloch, secretary
of the treasury under three presidents,
born at Kennebunk, Me. Died at
Washington, D. C, May 24, 1895.
1887 Lord Beaconsfleld (then Ben
jamin Disraeli) delivered his first
speech In the house of commons.'
187 President Buchanan, in a
message to congress, urged the admis
sion of Kansas under the Lecompton
constitution.
1866 Brasil Issued a decree open
ing the river Amazon and its tribu
taries to navigation and commerce.
1880 Buenos Aires was selected as
the permanent capital of the Argen
tine Republic.
1889 Dom Pedro II, the dethroned
emperor of Brazil, arrived yith his
family at Lisbon. '
1891 Charles F. Crisp of Georgia
was nominated for speaker of the
house on the thirtieth ballot in caucus.
1894 Ferdinand de Lesseps, crea
tor of the Suez canal, died at La Ches
naye, France. Born November 19,
1805.
1896 Antonio Maceo, famous Cu
ban general, was killed in battle.
1902 Thomas B. Reed, former
speaker of the house, died In Wash
ington, D. c Born In Portland, Me.,
October 18, 1839.
The Day We Celebrate.
Albert W. Jefferis is today celebrat
ing his forty-eighth birthday. He ac
quired the nickname of "Big Jeff" on
the rush-line of the Michigan univer
sity foot ball team. He was born In
Romansvllle,-Ia., but has been prac
ticing law here in Omaha jever since
he got his diploma. t
O. 8. Goodrich, secretary of the
Goodrich Drug company, is just 35
years old. He came here from Cairo,
Neb.
Dr. L. A. Merrlam is celebrating his
seventy-third birthday. He was born
in Malone, N. Y., and graduate In
medicine, taking post graduate work
In Bellevue hospital. He has been
practicing in Omaha since 1881.
Jorgen Michaeison, supreme secre
tary of the Danish Brotherhood of
America, is 46 today. He is a native
of Denmark, coming to this country
in 1882. He was in the postal service
as letter carrier for ten years, retiring
tn 1902 to take nis present position.
Rear Admiral Roger Wells, com
mander of the new superd read naught
Oklahoma, born in Connecticut fifty
four years ago today.
General Sir Bruce M. Hamilton, one
of the prominent British army com
manders on the continent, born flfty
nlne years ago today.
Kev. Edwin Holt Hughes, the new
Methodist Episcopal bishop for Bos
ton, born at Moundsvllle, W. Va., fifty
years ago today. ,
Cale Young Rice, noted aa poet and
dramatist, born at Dixon, Ky forty
four years ago today.
Hannes Kolehmainen. the world's
long-distance running champion, born
in Finland, twenty-seven years ago
today.
Timely Jottings anil Remintlcrs.
A thousand or more representative
women from all parts of the country
are expected In Washington today for
the opening of the first general con
vention of the National Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
Motorboat ownerB from verlous sec
tions of the country are to confer with
the assistant secretary of the navy In
Washington today on the plans of the
government to organize a patrol
squadron under the new act of con
gress creating a naval coast defense
reserve.
Theodore P. 8hnnts of New York is
to be the principal speaker at the an
nual dinner to he given In Chicago
tonight by the Illinois Manufacturers'
association.
Important problems in connection
with the live stock Industry are to be
considered at a special meeting of the
marketing coqimlttee of the National
Live Stock association to be held In
Chicago today.
Storyette of the Day.
The city-bred boy's parents had lust
moved into the country and arrange
ments were being made for him to
attend the public school. One day he
saw electricians at work there.
"What are those fellows doing-?"
he asked his father.
'Putting in an electric switch." was
the reply.
'Well, I am going back to town at
once," was the boy's astonishing com
ment I won't stand a school where
they do their ticking- bv electricitv "
Mew York Times. .
American and British Grammar.
Kearney, Neb., Dec. S. To the Edi
tnr rf Tho in Saturday's Bee,
in an editorial captioned, "What is the
American Language," the opening sen
tence bothers me, viz.: "A group of
teachers proposes to discuss the
American language a distinguished
from the British-English." Is the
compound noun singular? "Group
may be and Is treated in the singu
lar number, but its correlative ad
Junct is plural. What is the recon
ciliation. I am not posing as a critic.
I only desire Information.
H. S. BELL, M. D.
Note: If by "compound noun" our
correspondent refers to the term
"British-English," he may be informed
that it is a noun used as an adjective
and therefore relates to and qualifies
the noun "language" and is not sun
iect to the verb. His Question, how
ever, touches on one of the principle
points . of divergence between the
American and British forms as to the
number of the collective noun. In
America the common usage la to use
singular verb, adverb or pronoun with
the collective noUn; British usage is
the opposite. This occasions a little
confusion, but it is not an irrecon
cilable difference.
Pushing the Boycott to a Finish,
Omaha, Dec. 6. To the Editor of
The Bee: If a remedy la logical an
inch, it ,1s logical a mile, and on this
basis I wish to suggest that along witn
egg we should declare a boycott on
all kinds of things we feel we are
paying too high a price for. When
the proposed boycott on eggs goes Into
effect the demand for otner looas
will be Increased and prices corre
spondingly raised. For this reason the
boycott on food must he general ana
a boycott of this kind is bound to be
effective.
Then to reduce the cost of coal let
us boycott that commodity. A dose
of that treatment should bring the
coal trust to time in short order and
the same weapon used with the cloth
ing trust and the shoe trust would re
duce the price of clothing and shoes.
Perhaps, too, the landlords would re
duce the high rents if w. all boycott
.houses.
Seriously, however, just what do
you think would happen to old H. c
of L. if the people, Instead of boycott
ing food, fuel, clothing and shelter.
should boycott those dealers who
charge the most exorbitant prices
for these commodities, patronizing
only those who give the best goods
and service at the lowest cost? Would
not the boycotted merchants then be
put into competition with the others
ana see tnat they got some I of tne
trade, even if they had to sacrifice
profits? And would not this plan, per
sistently carried out cut the cost of
living squarely in two in a few months.
By all means let us have a boycott,
but let us do It right.
I should be glad to hear from those
wno are Interested in this plan.
. E. C. PIERCE.
604 South Twenty-eighth Street
More About What Ails ts.
Omaha, Dec. 6. To the Editor of
The Bee: I noted the letter from
Dr. Merrlam labeled "The Retort
Medical," but why "medical" Is not
apparent; aa a careful perusal failed
to reveal anything that could be dig-
ninea oy tnat name.
The doctor evidently labors under
the impression that I am a calf, al
though I have voted more than
twenty years, but we will pass that
There are possibilities In a calf at
that I have seen one develop, in
three or tour years, into a 2,000-pound
bull. .valuable in coin of the realm.
For the further enlightment of the
doctor and any others that may wish
to take a poke at hie I will say that
with the pachyderms, or thick-skinned
beasts, and my hid is practically
puncture-proof.
I agree with the doctor that most
people of sedentary habits eat too
much and load the blood with ma
terial for which it has no use and
that most digestive trouble as well
as liver troubles are traceable to this.
On the other hand, Insufficient nour
ishment is fully as bad, if not worse,
or, what amounts to the same thing,
unsuitable food. Personally I am in
clined to attribute the majority of
hereditary weaknesses with which the
Caucasian race is afflicted to the al
most constant wars, with their long
sieges and consequent famines,
through which Europe passed for cen
turies, but I do not see what either
gorging or famine have to do with
contagious diseases.
I also agree with the doctor that
there Is a sinful waste of perfectly
good drugs going on all the time and
that in the case of contagious or in
fectious diseases treating the symp
toms is no way to cure them.
Prevention of disease is what should
be aimed at and this is the aim of
twentieth century science. We have
eontiuered smallpox once the most-
dread of all of diseases and we now
have a sure preventive of tvohoid
and it will not be long until immunity
win oe rouna tor otners.
The Spanish war marks the dis
covery of the manifrr in which yel
low lever and malaria were spread
and the brilliant work of Colonel Gor
gas in the Canal Zone shows what
can be done when we know the method
of propogation. Panama was the
plague spot of the earth up to then
and the death rate there Is now less
than In any American city and all this
ny destroying the inosqultos that car
ried their germs.
Still fresher in our memories Is the
work of the American doctors In Ser
bia and their eradication of the ty
phus epidemic there by the destruc
tion of vermin.
Bubonic plague is another disease
spread by insects, the rat fleas in this
instance.
Now there Is another point 'to be
considered In this connection and that
is the immunity that one attack of
most contagious disease confers. It
is very rare to find a second attack of
a disease in the same patient.
It Is only In the last few years that
the reason for this has been known
and we find the answer in the blood
itself; that an Invasion of disease
germ causes the formation of an an
titoxin that enables the white cells
of the blood to digest the germs In
question and that on a Bubsequentln
vasion of the same germs these cells
destroy them before they become nu
merous enough to do harm.
We should also remember that the
blood of different animals varies great
ly In this respect and that the dis
eases of one animal seldom attacks
one of another species unless they are
related by blood.
We have very few of the fatal dis
eases of the lower animals and they
have few of ours.
We sometimes have glanders and
from cattle we have on rare occa
sions taken anthrax and "lumpy-jaw,"
but we do not have black leg, which
is a godsend to us, as It sometimes
kills In less than two hours, nor do
we have swine plague.
Now if the doctor will remove his
halo long enough to give us his can
did views on some of these subjects,
I, for one, will be much obliged.
. DEACON SMITH.
NEBRASKA EDITORS.
FragJ
Save him
to be a Bsefal American
If ha wen your boy, there is no
extreme to which you would
not go to snatch him from the
dutches of the White Plague.
Uoforronarelr ho hat no able piuloiit,,.
Hit lit a depends upon what you an J
other patriotic Americana (ire at this
r"! , ... A M klK '
him kght for hia exit.
teneoTBEO CROSS
XMAS SALS) eh
Make the moat of a.
bag gasarauaij.
STATE DISTRIBUTOR 7
RED CROSS SEALS
MRS. K. R. J. EDHOLM,
483 Brandeia Theater
Omaha - j Tel. Dong. 8230.
ORDER EARLY
Editor Elmer L. Howell of the Wood
Lake Stockman is laid up with an attack of
blood poiaoning.
F. J. Dunn, editor of the Dixon Journal,
has leaaed the Allen Neva and will try tho
experiment of running two paper.
C. C. John, formerly secretary of the
Nebraaka Press aasoeiation, Is now a mem
ber of the staff of th. Scotta bluff Star
Herald. F. B. Hartmen hat purchased th. interest
of his partner. V. L. Chipmaa, in th. Loup
City Northwestern and will operate th. paper
in th. futura, Mr. Chipman ha. accepted
employment in Lincoln.
Editor James K. Hewitt of th. Broken
Bow Republican was married November 20
to Miss Anna M. Veith of Lincoln. Mr. and
Mrs. Hewitt are graduates of the University
of Nebraska, alats of ISIS. They are now
at home at Broken Bow.
Editors Crew and Ryan of th. Creighton
News published a uniuue market report last
week, ft showed In tabular form the prices .
of corn oats, wheat hogs, butter, eggs,
cream, chickens and potatoes in Creighton
and sixteen of its eompetltig. towns. The
figures were taken from Ita exchangee. The
greatest variation was ta the price of po
tatoes. The Franklin County News and the Frank
lin County Progress have been consolidated,
with Karl L. Spence as editor and publisher.
John A- Barker, who founded the Progress
four years ago, will remain with the new
organisation until the first of the year.
Th. paper will be known as the Franklin
County News. It will be published twice
a week and wiil be enlarged as soon as a
linotype can be Installed.
Rushvllle Recorder: Cooper, of the Ke.
corder and Mayes of th. Standard have been
sorely afflicted th. last week. Cooper with
lumbago In the back and Mayes with mus
cular rheumatism in the neck. Cooper got
it in the back .and Mayes in th. neck. We
are unable to state which of th. two spots
is in. mar. serious. W. would rather b.
dead than to he without a halr r-
couldn't five without a neck.' So then you
are.
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