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    THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1917.
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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
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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?
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Osteopathic Physician In Chary.
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