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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1917. 1 1 t 4) .1 t, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR PROPRIETOR THB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY Enlwd at Oihi pottoffict laaaaeowd-claaB matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Bt Carrier B Mall per month w aar fall and Bandar S ; Dallr without Sund.r 45e Rvnfn nH Giinrf,. . ...40 a-flfl Evantna without SiindaT 2fic -flft Smda Bm onlr too filr and Sandaa Bm, tkm Mara In advanw. ' Sand notiea of ehafta. of addraa or Irreft-uUritr IB Ga ntry u umaha Bm, Circulation ppanmn. REMITTANCE Kamlt by draft, nprrai or notUI ordrr. Only 2-nt atampa taken in payment or amali aeeounu. raraona, t""". except an Omaha and eaatern exchanse, not accepted. OFFICES Omaha Hie Bee hnfldhur. South Omaha till N. atnet. Council Bluff. 14 North Main iMd. Lincoln S2 Little BnUdtM. Chicaro 18 Peoplc'a Gaa Balldlnl. New York Room 80S, 286 Fifth avenue, ft, Lonii SOS New Bank of Commerce. Waahmfton Ttt Fourteenth atraat, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE Addreaa eommnnleationa relatinic to newa and editorial aaattcr to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. DECEMBER CIRCULATION 53,368 Daily Sunday 50,005 fwiht Williama, eimlatlon manaier of The Bee PaMiahiny company, beinr duly awom. aaya that the average eirenlatlon for the month of December, 1916, w it, I daily and B0.00S Sunder. DWIGRT wn.l.IAMH. Cirenlatlan Manacer. Snhaerihed In my preaence and aworn to before ma ran am amy or January, ii7. C. W. CARLSON, Notary Public SutMcribwn Laying Ik city temporarily a boo Id have The) Bm mailed to tbam. Ad draaa will bm chanyed aa of ton at requaatad. What the country needi is an effective hunch to keep suckers away from Walt street. Buffalo Bill was a world figure, but he be. longed to Kebraska if he belonged anywhere. Like the refrain in the song abont John Brown's body, the "dry" column "goes marching on. It is painfully evident that Tom Lawson will not be happy until he blows up the stock exchange with gas bombs. The appointment of Gene Miyfield to a mem bership in the Board of Control will please the newspaper boys no matter how the politicians take it. Just wait until congress goes out of business M.rch 4, Mr. Nebraska Lawmaker, and perhaps yon can command more spotlight on the part of the stage you occupy. Several frontiersmen of bison hunting days bore the nickname of "Buffalo .Bill." Colonel Cody alone long survived the conditions which wrought the title and gave it distinctive place in rvestern history. - 1 An official report shows a record product of coal in this country laat year, The increase over 1915 amounts to 66,000,000 tons in soft coal alone. The showing disposes of reiterated claims of production shortage. The Yucatan binder twint monopoly is shown up in its true colors by the report of the United Mates senate investigating committee. The next question is the same old Tweed retort: "What are you going to do boot ItT Congressman Kent would have the govern ment pay all losses of speculators occasioned by government ' teaks. Why not? Tempering the wind for thorn lambs it not lest paternalistic than coaching "political winds through the "pork bar'l." . The time it growing short for damage suits against licensed liquor dealers and their bonds men, and, judging by the new filings on the docket, the lawyers who thrive off this tort of business are not letting any grata grow tinder l their feet. ' Some of the royal parkt of England are to be plowed up and cultivated. Vast treat of idle estates are going through a like process of dis integration and cultivation. In this and other ways may be glimpsed the revolution war is working in the customs and social structure of Great Britain, Some Iowa legal mjnds fait to find in the Wcbb-Kenyon law deliverance the power to smash packages for personal use. Kansas, on the other hand, regards the decision as an automatic sledge hammer, and plans new laws to switch on the power. The' subject and the outlook as usual blends into a question of taste. Speaker Clark cuts a sorry figure in a contro versy with the New York Times. The speaker characteriaed a certain "pork bar!" statement as "a malicious invention" of the editor. The Times cited the Congressional Record as authority for the statements, leaving the speaker only the alternative of apologizing or discrediting the official medium of veracity. Shrinkage in Ocean Shipping -New York Werld- ,. Jf 'he total losses in merchant vessels since the beginning of the war, according to a compila tion, made by the Journal of Commerce, the ton nage of the Entente Allies was 2,959,326 or 74 j per cent; of the Teutonic allies, 230.070, or 58 per cent, and of neutral 738,155, or 19.9 per cent. Obviously Germany and Austria-Hungary have suffered least, since for twenty-nine months their ships have been barred from the seas, while the hntent Allies, whose vessels have passed through he war zones and entered every port open to them, have had to bear the brunt of the subma rine! attacks. Approximately 2,146 merchant vessels of all classes and types, from fishing smacka to ocean liners, have been destroyed since August 1, 1914, a shrinkage of almost 4,000000 tons in the world's shipping, due solely to war and the acts of the belligerents. In tonnage this represents more than the entire shipping owned by any nation except Great Britain, Germany and the United States. Great Britain to date has lost about 12 per C,n1i ?i amount of her registered tonnage for 191S-16, trance somewhat more proportionately and Italy most of all in relation to its total ship ping Upon neutrals the consequences of the war have fallen heavily Norway has lost 308 l J6?.M6 tons, ln a total tonnage of 2, 529.188 Sweden has had eighty-eight vessels de stroyed; Spam, twenty-one; Holland, fifty-five and Denmark, eighty. The United States has come off most easily of all the neutrals, with ten irerchant vessels of 24,558 tons, destroyed In the present phase of the submarine war it is the neutral nations of northern Kurope that arc suf fering most in proportion from the German at- Reply From the Allies. It the forecasts arc correct, nothing in the reply from Kngland, France, Russia, Italy and Belgium to the note from President Wilson sug gests change in the attitude of these countries as to the continuation of the war. Until the exact language of the reply is accessible, discussion must turn on unofficial reports, but these may be accepted as reflecting with reasonable accuracy the contents of the note. On this basis, conclu sions must be that the demands of the Allies in clude all they could possibly hope to obtain from prostrate suppliants for peace. That such term will be rejected in both Berlin and Vienna may be well expected. With the case thus made up and the two sides so far apart, the task of bring: them together still looks almost insuperable. B the diplomats are agreed that the door to peace negotiations is open and that a way may yet be found to assemble representatives of the opposin belligerents at a council. Expressions in Paris that the importance the simple ceremonial attending the delivery the message from the great old world republ to the people of the great democracy of the new world will appeal to "the high conscience of th United States of America" will not fall on deaf ears in this country. Europe has mistaken to large extent the attitude of Americans. Sympathy and assistance go out from this country to al oppressed peoples. The "high conscience1 this nation has already been touched by the events and issues of the war, while perplexed by the complicated politics of Europe, American are united in hoping that from the cauldron of conflict will come eventually a newer and a better life and fuller opportunities for all the peoples of Europe. One really important concession has been made by both sides, and that is aa to the direct interest of neutrals in the war and in whatever of settlement finally obtains. It is quite plain just now that the possibility of early peace de pends on the moral influence of the neutrals upon the belligerents. Patriotism and Pork -Mlnneepolia Journal.- Faith In Omaha's Future. Folks who have doubts at to what the fu ture hat in ttore for Omaha, the hesitating ones who lack confidence in prospects of the city1 growth, may gain courage from the announce' ment of the plant of the Chicago & Northwestern company, looking to the building of an outer belt line of railroad around Omaha. It is not for to day, sayt the general manager of the company here, but for the future. He, with other transpor tation captaint, it looking ahead to the require menta of the time' when Omaha's induttriet and commerce will have reached tomething of the stage present growth portends. The steady ad vance of the roster of Induttriet with headquar ten here, both in numbers tnd importance, hat from time to time been chronicled, and hat reached a really impressive total. Omaha it be coming more than a jobbing point, or distribut ing center; it it now well ettablithed at t market town and Itt growth at a manufacturing center it such tt warrants the confidence expressed by those whose faith it pinned on factoriet here. Faith in Omaha it well placed, for events have to far redeemed every promise, and the future holds more of greatness and growth than ever, Emportt ofPoodttoffi. One of the reasons alleged for the high price of food in the United Statu, especially of wheat tnd flour, hat been the unusual volume of ex portation of these articles. Those who are curi out enough to want to pry into the facta will find tome interesting information on this point in the November report on exports, just made public by the Department of Commerce. In No vember, 1916, the total exports of wheat from the United Statea wat 14,258,038 bushels, 'com pared with 13,499,048 for the month in 1915; but the small increase 0 758,990 bushels for the month is represented by an increase in price of $11,663,913, the 1916 value being $27,297,222 against $15,633,309 for 1915. For the eleven months of the calendar year 1916 the exports of of wheat amounted to 140,048,709 bushels, less by 52,665,161 bushels than in 1915, when the total reached 192,713,870 bushels. The total paid in eleven months of 1916 for wheat exported is al most sixty-seven millions less than in 1915. This also applies to flour. November exports of flour were 219,000 barrels less than in 1915, and the total for the eleven months is more than 600,000 bar rels lesa in 1916 than in 1915. Beef, fresh, canned and pickled, shows a reduction amounting to mil- ions of pounds in the exportation totals for .1916, while bacon, hams and shoulders show an in crease. Cattle, hogs and sheep show a decrease from 2,633,401 head in 1915 to 864,264 head in 1916. If figures furnished by the United States gov ernment are to be depended upon, the source of high prices for food in the United States will have to be sought elsewhere than in the demand from Europe's armies. Not a Flash in the Pan. The inquiry by the democrats into the sensa tional charges of collusion between government officials and Wall street brokers lacks even the quality of a flash in the pan. That at least would make a light, while the proceedings of the com mittee have merely amounted to the smudge of wet powder that will not even crackle, let alone blaze. The remarkable coincidence of a "bear" raid on Wall street exactly timed with the issu ance of "peace" note from the White House, the existence of which was to be kept a profound secret, doesn't seem to strike the democratic in quisitors as in any degree extraordinary or pe culiar. They have listened to denials of several eminent gentlemen, and much of a tirade from a stock manipulator, and are willing to quit without going deep enough to determine if the charges made had any foundation. This may salve the ten der conscience of administration democrats, but it will not convince the public, most of whom would ke to feel that no direct connection exists be tween the inner councils of the government at Washington and the brokers' offices in New York. Deeper inquiry might also dispel a suspicion that the democrats were getting too close for comfort to somebody. "A government of farmers, by farmers and for farmers," is the slogan of the powers that be in North Dakota. Farmers control the legislature, the governor is racy of the soil and the supreme court is composed qf legal plowmen. The com bination promises to scrap former political ties and cultivate several varieties of New Zealand notions for home consumption. 1 Now we have it! That peace note leak, like Topsy, "just happened" and had neither father. mother, nor responsible kin of any kind. The ways and means committee of the house at Washington is searching with ingenuity for new forms of taxation. Experts working for the committee have submitted a long list of burdens that may be laid on the people, in order to pro vide for the three-hundred-million-dtillar defict expected to accrue by the end of the next fiscal year. And while the ways and means committee is thus engaged, other committees of this same congress arc busy pushing through bills that dis tribute pork among the congressional districts. More taxes, more pork. Already the people of the United States are paying heavy direct taxes heavier thai, ever be fore in the history of the country. The income tax has been doubled, and it is now proposed to restore the stamp taxes and to tax all "excess profits above eight per cent. But it must be remembered that there is a limit to the taxable resources of the United States, as well as to its credit. If congress finds itself forced to consider such forms of taxation in times of peace, to what would it be able to resort in times of war? Consideration of this point brings the pork question home to congressmen who vote away the public moneys for senseless and extravagant purposes. It is plain that the congressman who trade his vote for a fat piece of pork out of the Sublic buildings barrel or the rivers and harbors arret, is in effect an enemy of his country. For he is striking a blow at the defenses of his coun try. He is spending money to ornament hamlets with marble pilei and to dredge half-dry creeks, which might be used to safeguard the republic against sudden attack. Patriotism must be made superior to pork. The congressman who helps roll out the pork barrel, it thereby giving aid and comfort to those rvho may become the enemies of his country. llralth Hint for the Day. Eat as regularly as you ran, and flo not eat between meals If you can avoid it; but rather than -o to bed hunirry, eat aomethlng easily digested before retiring. One Year Ago Today In tiie War. rtuaalans aald to have begun the evacuation of Kukowlna. Ht-rlln reported French attack on German positions north of Le Mesnil, in Champagne, had failed. fttissians repulsed a German attach ment that tried to force a passage of the Iiiver Misae, French troops reported to have landed on Greek Island of Corfu for provisional occupation. Southern Representation Chlcafo, Tribune. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Commissioner O'Keefe has gone out Into the country to measure the amount of grading done during the last year for the county and near the southern border of the city. Surveyors are now at work on a route for a horuecar line out the Mili- It is so obviously unfair that the vote of a citi zen in one section of the country should be worth more than that ot another citizen in another sec tion, that if the existence of such an injustice be brought clearly before the American oeoole thev will correct it ' It takes time to brine: even the most ineontest able fact to the interested attention of a public Intensely preoccupied with vital personal concerns ana activities, and it will take time to re-establish proportionate representation. But all the more reason the task should be begun without further procrastination. mere are partisan oolitica reasons whv a cor rection of this iniustice will be oooosed even ir the north, as Senator Sherman ooints out. While the vote of the southern states is cast automatic ally for the democratic national ticket, there will be northern democrats who will oppose giving up or rather diminishing the representative weight of me section upon wnicn they can always rely. At present the south it in an especially strong posi tion, having offices and perquisites in their pos session which mean oower. Nevertheless it is the duty of every American, regardless of party, to attack a condition which not only runs counter to the principle! of representative government, but also is demoralizing to oar political morality and the right development of our national policies. Doctrinaires and sentimentalists in the north Hemand the enforcement of the right of franchise of the negro in the south. There is no such demand in the north generally, for it is recognized that political domination by the negro is not de sirable. It is realized that the premature enfran chisement of the slave was a misfortune to all concerned, however justifiable as a war measure. Intelligent opinion in the north is in harmonv with intelligent opinion in the south in desiring for colored people defense from exploitation and condition 01 orderly progress. Ibinkme men and women in both sections realize that these desiderata are retarded, not advanced, by pressure for full political privileges and the fear it keeps alive among southern white men. But if we do not adhere to dogmas, which, bv the way, it one of the weaknesses of the Jefferson- an democracy the south helps to perpetuate, if we sympathize and support the south's determina tion to deal with itt problems as conditions, we Hn not waive our right to protest and if possible pre vent the south from making its necessity a cover iur uniair political pront. it tne negro does not vote his vote nimhr not to be counted. Especially it ought not to be counted for the side he would vote against if he were allowed to vote. Negroes are traditionally republican. In the south not only are they not allowed to vote but their uncast votes are rotmteH for the democratic candidates. We know and can conceive of no defense fnr tuch a situation. It exists on a smaller scale in every state which has grown rapidly without reapportionment of districts. But the evil there It temporary and is not long in being corrected. In the south it continues on a huec scale, with consequences affecting the whole country. tary road, which will be completed early In the spring. The beautiful grove situated imme diately south of the natural park of the Omaha land syndicate has been included in the tatter's addition to South Omaha and is platted the name as that already recorded. The Union Pacific road is now build ing seven excursion sleepers which are the first of the kind ever constructed. In design and finish of the woodwork they are not Inferior to the Pullman. though they are not upholstered. They are to be used exclusively for excu sion purposes. One of the stores in the Millard hotel has been rented by the Pacifi Telegraph company, the deal being closed by W. S. Dlmmlek, the new manager of the office at this place. Articles of incorporation were filed of the Bee Hive Real Estate associa tion, which corporation is to continue for twenty years, and its capital to be 120,000. The Incorporators are John Tidemann, William Neue, Srhonboe, Morris Morrison, C. Thrane, O. R. Nelson, A. Dorn, Wil liam Neison and Hans Thielgard. George Ayers of West Chicago street, who was so badly frozen on night of the last cold spell, is reportei by Dr. Hanchett to be Improving sat. isfactorily and entirely beyond the necessity of having his arm ampntut ed as was tmrt feared. Creed of Anti-Suffrage Women. Omaha, Jan. 11. To the Editor of The Bee: Recently representatives of anti-suffrage organisations from twen ty-flve states met in convention in Washington. Three of tiie speakers of national reputation and strongly opposed to woman suffrage, were Miss Mabel Boardman. member of execu tive committee of the American Red Cross; Mrs. B. I Robinson, president of the Public Interests league of Mas sachusetts, and Mrs. Louis F. Hulde koper, vice president of the National Security league. Miss Ida Tarbell and Miss Emily Bissell are two of the well known anti-suffrage women who were unable to be present During the con ventlon a letter was read from Cardi nal Gibbons again stating his reasons for opposing woman suffrage. Papers were read by presidents of the asso ciations of North Dakota, Maryland Ohio, Texas and Minnesota. All of these women are actively interested in work along broad, progressive and humanitarian lines and in the accom pllshment of this work have felt the necessity of keeping out of politics and working out as nonpartisans. It may be of interest to those who have so often heard the suffrage creed again to hear the creed of the many women who are opposed to suffrage: "We stand for the preservation of the home, for the retention of the best iilealH of the preceding generations adapted to the advantages and oppor tunities given women under modern conditions. We believe that women. according to their leisure, opportunity and experience, should take part in creasingly in civic and municipal af fairs, as they have always done In charitable, philanthropic and educa tional opportunities: and we believe that this can best be done by women without the ballot, as a nonpartisan body of disinterested workers." I NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OP POSED TO WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Where the Doctors Agree -Waahington Poit- With a practically unanimous voice the doc tors in recent meeting at the New York Academy of Medicine agree that the Chinese svstem n'f treating folks while they are well and leaving them alone when they are sick is not to be adopted in mis country. I he general view was that the well man should ot be disturbed. Thumbing his chest and test ing his arteries merely stir uo his aoorehensinns. The more he talks or thinks about divers dis eases the more liable he is to contract them. Referring to a prophecy that the day was coming when it would be fashionable to be examined physically and mentally every now and then, Dr. S. J. Meltzer of the Rockefeller institute, said: "That will only make oeonle sicker in n. amine them. Do you know why a dog doesn't die? I'll tell yon a dog never knows why he is living and that he is going to die; after he's dead he doesn't know it; therefore a dog never dies. People go on for years living orderly lives until somebody, maybe an insurance doctor, tells them they have something the matter with them, and, thenceforth, until they reach the grave, they are sick. Let the physician treat the sick and lei th. well alone. It is time more was done for the sick man. The doctor's job is with the sick man." This suggestion that the well need no nhvsi- cian is in excellent harmpny with a statement coming from the highest of authorities many centuries ago. The insistence on keeping well is an insistence on the normal, so much desired in every branch of satisfies, even that of the insur ance company. Uoctorf themselves know the danger of being too much occupied with diseases. Jerome K. Jerome did not exaggerate the expe riences of the average medical student when he told how his own first studies of human ailments brought him down with every known affliction except the housemaid's knee. Of course, the doctors may have had possible disastrous misadjustments of the fee system in mind when arriving at happy unanimity on the subject. But the doctors must live, as well as other people, and good sound sense seems to be at the bottom of their conclusions in this particu lar instance. This Day In History. 1829 Boundary between Maine am Canada referred to the king of the Netherlands for settlement. 1842 Francois Coppee, famous French poet and dramatist, born Paris. Died there May 23, 1908. 1846 Fifty lives were lost in th burning of a theater at Quebec. 1858 Sir Charles Outram success fully held Alumbagh, near Lucknow, against 30,000 rebels. 1866 Aeronautical Society of Great Britain rounded. 187S ftotnhardment of Eupatorla and Theodosla or a Turkish fleet. 1893 The thermometer registered 40 degrees below aero near Ottawa, Ont. 1905 Triumphal entry of the Japa nese into Port Arthur. 1909 Turkey accepted Austrian of. fer of 110.800.000 as compensation for Bosnia and Herzegovina. 1910 The Germ a government an nounced its approval of Secretary Knoxs Manchuiian proposals. 1911 -President Taft, In a special message, asked congress for an ap propriation toward the fortification 0 the Panama canal. 1912 A great strike of textile mill workers at Lawrence, Mass., began and was followed tor weeks by rioting. People and Events The Burlington and the Illinois Ontral inin the railroad white list on the first of the year. Both companies reported that no passengers were killed during the year 1916 through fault of the company. four years ago Mike fclwood of Chicago inking he was about to "cash in," concluded beat the lawyers and the courts bv deedincr hi property to his son. Now he wants the property back and lawyers and courts cannot be denied their innings. Sure, Mike! The Day We Celebrate. Jean P. DufTleld, the well known pianist and music teacher, is just 38 years old today. His birthplace has tne rnyuimtcai name 01 Keosanqua, which is somewhere in Iowa. General Joseph Joffre, recently re lieved of the chief command of the French armie, born in the south of France sixty-five years ago today. Marquis of Crewe, who was dropped from the British cabinet on its reor ganization a few weeks ago, born in London nfty-nine years ago today. Charles W. Gates, who has just re tired from the governorship of Ver mont, born at Franklin, Vt., sixty, one years ago today. Thomas Moran, one of the greatest of American landscape painters, born in England eighty years ago today. James Mark Baldwin, former Johns Hopkins university pirofessor and survivor of the steamship Sussex dis aster, born at Columbia, S. C, flfty- stx years ago today. Dr. Wilbur, who, as head of the in ternatlonal reform bureau has been seeking federal censorship of the mov ies, born at Fryeburg, Me., sixty- seven years ago today. Georgps Carpentier, the French champion pugilist, whom American promoters are endeavoring to get out of the trenches for a world's title bout with Jess Willard, born at Lena, France, twenty-three years ago today Timely Jottings and Reminders. John D. Rockefeller, jr.. Is to be the orator today at the annual found ers' day exercises at Cornell univer sity. His subject wil be "The Per sonal Relation in Industry." The print paper situation will he the chief subject of discussion at the annual midwinter meeting of the Okla homa Press association, which begins today at Oklahoma City. All sections of the country are ex pected to he represented at the nnnmtl convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, which meets today In Pittsburgh. The Greater New York Civic ball, to be given at the Hotel Biltmoro to nlftht is expected to be one of the largest and most notable charitable entertainments to be held in the me tropolis this wlner. At examinations to be held in vari ous cities throughout the country to day and tomorrow enlisted men if the National Guard In all the states are to be given their first opportunity to qualify for entrance as cadets at the United States Military academy. Storyette of the Day. Representative Campbell of Kansas said In a recent address in Leaven worth: "The corrupt man Is always a stu pid, ignorant man. "A corrupt voter was arrested once In Wama. " 'Wat am I arrested fur?' . he asked. " 'You are charged,' said the offi cer, 'with having voted eight times.' " 'Charged, hey? mattered the pris oner. That's queer. I erpected to be paid for it' " SL Louts Globe-Democrat. Rural School Law Revision. Central City, Neb., Jan. 10. To the Editor of The Pee: There is not ko much wrong with the school laws as there is a misunderstanding and mis interpretation of these laws. This legislature can clear things up If it will listen to the rural people rather than to the special Interests who profit through the manipulation of our school system. Organized farmers will now demand that some attention be given to the things we want, rather than to the things that some self-imposed faddist desires to give us. The farmer Is o people of long-enduring patience and fortitude, but there Is a limit. We have reached that limit. We believe this legislature will give attention to what the people of the open country are asking for. Even as the money changers of the temple long made merchandise of things religious, so have certain special interests made merchandise of our educational sys tem and filled their pockets at our expense. They have done this by dominating and directing school legislation, com mercializing the most vital Institution In a free government and turning !t Into a victim of exploitation. If they want to take this up I am ready with the proof. We have reason to expect this legislature to give us some relief. ! and will stand behind them till the finish. We say to. the book concerns and supply houses, "Keep your hands off of our school legislation or a word to the wise Is sufficient" Also experts and faddists have tried our patience to the limit We expect you to keep away from interfering with rural school legislation. This is strong language, but we'll attend to our business and you attend to yours. Are we children and heathen that we must set back in helplessness while some self -appointed theorist directs school legislation? We are willing to take the unbiased judgment of our legislature, or one which we may elect in this matter of school laws. Our state Is so widely different In settlement and topography that we need a varied arrangement. In the greater part of the state consolidation Is not practicable; in other parts the rural high school will work fine, and in the thickly settled east districts can be joined together with splendid re sults. To cover all conditions we recommend: First That the course of study be so adjusted that the child of the one room rural school may attend longer than the present eight years. second We ask for a state levy for the purpose of: (a) Guaranteeing every child a school within reach of their home, (b) To encourage the establishing of rural high schools. c) To co-operate In the surveying and formation of consolidated schools, (d) I h-ncourage the extension of the short course into a two or three months' ' winter term. The above are some of the common- sense things we need. We think a people who have been paying 70 ner cent of support of the university and normals are entitled to some consid eration. All who have read the story of the farmer and the lark's nest may get a lesson therefrom. W. H. CAMPBELL. Chairman Educational Committee, Farmers' Union. mjr competent teachers and putting in the contract what they want The course of study for elementary schools prescribed by the state super intendent is merely advisory. There is no law whatever requiring It to be followed in any school. No course of study should be fixed by law, for the reason that the largest liberty should be allowed school boards, parents and teachers in determining what studies it is best that a child should pursue. There is no law requiring eighth grade graduations, or any other graduations, and school boards may prohibit them if they see fit. Any child in the state able to pass the required examination may enter any school, from the high school up to the state university, no matter if it were true that he had never before seen the Inside of a school room. If districts wish to consolidate, all they have to do is to consolidate. It is up to them plenty of law for it and no law to prevent it. But it is a monstrously false idea that the coun try monopolizes all the virtues and that all of vice and wickedness Is to be found in the city. A long life of experience and observation teaches me that a country child is Just precisely as likely to go wrong as is a city child. Our school laws make ample pro vision for the free education of every child in the state; and according to decisions of our supreme court the power of a parent as to what his child shall study, or not study, is greater than that of any teacher or school board. Nebraska has an excellent system of schools and school laws, and it is surely true that legislatures, superin tendents and teachers have been, and now are. trying to do all in their power in the best interests of the children of the state. CHARLES WOOSTER. SAID IN FUN. HuftbaTid But we can't .afford to htrvw an automobile. Wire I know w can't but I want to nhow that atuck-up Mrs. Brown that wo ran have things we can't afford just aa well en she can. Boston Transcript. Husband So my friends made themaelren agreeable to you and I daresay paid you nome nice compliments, didn't they? Wire Oh, yes, and they all arreed with the one who said I certainty would make a fascinating widow. Baltimore American. "Henry Clay was a gr-ate man fiililj " "He war thot. Mulligan." "So grate thot he had a cigar named after htm, Gattsidy." "An' a polpe. too. Mulligan," Chicago Post. "Look at the great cities of antieroity " exclaimed the lecturer. "Whwra are they now ? Why, some of them have perished so utterly that It U doubtful of they ever vete tie vieac . He 5 Ga? fteenTrle-wTrt A H0U3E NEXT Yetf SUI jo x. iS HE fWsfitfVflU- cm e&c kta Powers of Rural School Boards. Omaha, Jan. 11. To the Editor of The Bee: Tt may perhaps seem very unkind of me to say It, but In educa tional matters my friend, W. H. Camp bell ot Central City, has long been doing a large amount of business on a very limited capital. Mere mirages of the air seem real to him, and he is an expert in discovering ferocious beasts who rush out from dark places and devour our children on the pub lic highway. With cold facts let me dispel some of these mental hallu cinations and with the torch of truth show that his terrible monsters in hid den lairs are but creatures of a vivid imagination. In each of the 6.620 ungraded, or I rural, schools in the state, the district board has "power to determine what j hall be the course of study and Is not limited to studies usually included in ; the first eight grades of graded ; schools. These district boards may ' have in their schools any or all of the j high school work, If they wish, by hir-1 Crawford Tour wife seems to be all tag led up in her housekeeping. Crabshaw Tott see, she trie to follow all the so-called useful hints in the women n magaxines.- Life. "That beauty doctor aaya be la not wor ried over the suit on of hi customers in bringing against him." "But then, you know, it ta hia business to put a good face on the matter." Louisville Courier-Journal. Motorist (recovering from smaahup) Isn't that a pretty stiff bill, doctor? Surgeon Tou don't suppose I'm going to let the other repair men do ail the getting rich In this business, do you? Boston Tran script. War I,ord Lord general commander, what's become of those amason corps that were to be so well equipped for joining our forces? Trembling Commander Please your majesty, when they were ordered Into action we found they had usd up all their powder on their noses. Baltimore American. General Why dad you lose the battle? Captain The enemy attacked ua in our re&nf General I Was informed that they at tacked you In front. Captain T-es; but that was our rear when they got there. Judge. PREPAREDNESS. Leslie's Week It. Prtmltire Habagag-Ag. HQU&lly primitive Ub. Occupied cares In primordial slag; Neither was counted a dub. Agawuk liTod in the slime. tiajry and hard and ar m: Ub said, "I'm peaceful and wealthy, so I'm. ronecuy aaie irom nun. ' (Ag whittled cinba with a vim.) Agawuk gathered his gang. wont on the trail one d&v Empty of belly and shark tah of fang. Looking for loot aod prey. Deftly, hit Ub on the head, t ut an nu weaitn in a batr. Fought with his family, left them for dcatt. rru luwienw waj Willi me SWaff. (Nobody bothered Ag.) Times haven't changed since then; True, we have learned new tricks; Dresses for women ard trousers for men. Rifles instead of bricks; But when at last you see Issues come to the rub. Tell me, which would you rather be, With, or without, a clnb? Habagag-Ag, or Ub? NATURAL MINERAL WATER Relieves 11 y f4f at I 1 Pmg to the Lu C I 'arge amount ST VT I of ehlorina Khnmh, J&u(ksS BOfl'um. mag- i "lit, if. .u5kBSMzj3aw ' ' "f DeR',' 'ilica. "bki . a mxauve and diuretic; this water can be used as a laxative or cathartic with astonishing results, doing away with constipated The fimoiw Sti I pho-Chlorine Mlaeral Water is deljTcrod In Omiha In nt- (illoii jura, tl.M; 50c refunded when jug Is murned. Brown Park Mineral Springs :Mh an t 0 St a. . Houth Side, Pinne South 87 DR. JOHN A. NIEMANN, Osteopathic Physician In Chary. Persistence is the cardinal vir tue in advertising; no matter how good advertising maybe in other respects, it must be run frequently and constant ly to be really successful.