Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, January 17, 1917, Page 4, Image 4
THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1917. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD HOSEWATEK VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BUS PUBLISHING COMPANY, WtOWETOB KnUr-d at Omdii aoatofflta ai aan--laaa mattar Br ...$ 4.aa . 4. 1.0 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION By Cerrlar ' , par Booth Daily and Sanaa?.. Dailr wfthaut SundaT JJa Eventns atid Bandar Evantoa: without Saadar..., ? Sunday Baa only v. f "ij.i"llO 00. HaiiT ana eunaay aaa, u"" 7cr ... 7 a. Stni notk of tkansa of ldr.il or Irwlarltr l da livary to Osaka Baa, Circulation Dapartinant. REMITTANCE R.mlt ky draft, azpraia or aoatal ordar. Only t-ttni ttm take, in payment of im.ll eeeaanta. '"Ll neept on Omaha and aaatarn axcaansa. not aacaptad. OFFICES Omaha Tha Baa knfldhur. South Omaha 2810 N. atraat Conndl Blnffa 14 North Mala atraat Unaoln ! Uttla BaUdins. Chieaao 81 Paopla'a Gal Bnlldraf. Naw York Room IS. ! Fifth ataaua. St Loula -M New Bank of Coaimarea. Waahinyton 725 Fourteenth atreat, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE Addraaa eommmleatkna Mlatfny to new! and editorial matter to Omaha Baa. Editorial Department DECEMBER CIRCULATION 53,368 Daily Sunday 50,005 11 Dvicht Wllllama. ainalatian nanaaar of Tha Baa Publiaain eampaay, balnt oaly worn, aajra that tha tenet elrenlatlon for the month of Daaamber, IIH waa Mil dally and J0.0SB Bandar. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Clrealatloa Sahaerihad ia my preienee and awarn to bafora aw thl. 4,h da, "?'g.,J"c'XjlLgoM. Kotar, Pah... Subacribers lea-i-f city UmporarllT houU hava Tha Bm mailoal to than. Ad draaa will ha ehugad aa of In aa raquaatad. Speculative goasip loves shining marks. ' It it a heaty wtlcome for Archbishop Harty, and no dissent on that. - Still, ol course, the president cannot be held responsible for all hi family relations and con nections. - .' In the absence, of news to the contrary, it it presumed Austria and Italy are still shooting up the Alps..; ' , ' '. ' . '. 1 ' v " 1 Denials By thick and fast at Washington. The political menagerie outshines the performance of a three-ring circus.' .'' 'rv" " f-. When It cornea to "pointing the finger of scorn" Tom Lkwson, is there with the finger, if not with the goods. When the congressional investigating com mittee got hold of 'Tom" Lawson it got the bear by the tail, all rightl . The king of Greece has not received an talti- matum for a whole week. ; Royalty, like minor mortals, suffer varioua inconveniences in wartime. r It ia easier to understand now why Chairman Henry eagerly sought to drop the leak inquiry. The Texas statesman appears to be something of a leaker himself. : ; ; - "Fifty Vermont professors," aays the Boston Transcript, "have sent a petition to President Wilson asking him to break with Germany." Pre. sumably the professors -are ready to enter the first line trenches? ' In filing his campaign expense account, that democratic candidate for county commissioner evidently acted on the hunch, "They alt do it," but ttie Question to be decided Is whether that constitutes a legal defense. '.. The court of last resort sharpens every tooth in the Mann act. . Whatever discomfort or incon venience results is not the fault of the law. Thoae who monkey with the buzzsaw of gayety cannot blame the edged instrument for clipping their -wings, .: , .' .: ' Someone wants to go back to the old system of electing members of the school board by wards. What should be done is to reduce the size of the school board. No need for more men to run the schools than to conduct the city gov. ernment : ( Why are fire rates in Omaha kept up so high, notwithstanding the improvement in pur fire fighting forces? Are we, out here, being com pelled to help pay losses on munitions plant con flagrations? Or is it Just because the fire com panies are in. position to exact whatever ratea they see fit? V ' ' Optimism ia the sunshine of life. It cheers, in vigorates, enthuses, provides the pep for lethargy aud banishes gloom. The quality of optimism "made in Omaha," already 100 per cent pure, must be revised upward to meet the high atandard ex pounded by Archbishop Harty. As an exponent of optimism the archbishop heads the class. Boosting Corn Bread New Yark Commercial . Representative Rainey. is trying to persuade, luiigicoa Miming win incai ui tui 1 starch with wheat flour to lower the cost of breac i Such a measure would drive the proverbial coach i , and four through the federal pure food law. Adul I ( terated wheat flour would be sold as straight wheat flour, and few bakers would mark their ! i white bread as containing corn starch. i No reason for such a law exists. Corn bread I ii uihnUtomi hicrhlw n.ilr.'tini.. an. I nnnnt.l I ...) .. ..v.v...., ... .vuo tu Jiaiauic I1U I , should be sold for what it is. It is not necessary to put mixed flour on the market. Any cook or ) ' baker can mix corn meal or corn starch with wheat flour 'in any . desired proportions. In the best hotels and restaurants the demand for corn : muffins, etc, is large and some of the most famous ! eating places in New York specialize in them, r ' It would be detrimental to the interests of corn growers to permit corn meal and starch to be used as an adulterant of wheat flour. They should be sold on their merits, aa they have been in the past. An education camoaisn miorht in duce foreignera who are not used to corn to eat more corn bread. Retail bake shops do not sell corn muffins and bread as freely as they might because they charge cake prices and try to make extravagant profits. In a few cases bakeries go at it the right way by advertising in their Win dows that corn bread or muffins will be on sale at a certain hour every day. Several establish ments have worked up a large trade in this way - and this proves that the people will eat corn food products if they can get them at fair prices. The Department of Agriculture has issned a cook book giving fifty receipts for making corn bread, muffins and other delicacies with corn meal and corn starch.. Every housewife should get one. and can, by' writing to Washington. Thi is the proper way to increase the consumption of corn products. It will add to the variety of the home bill of fare and reduce the cost of living at the same time. The meal and starch are on the market and Americans should use them more freely.- . ': George Dewey. Americans will lay roses on the bier as they heaped laurels on the head of George Dewey, with hearts full of gratitude for his notable serv ices to the republic. While it was his spectacu lar victory in Manila bay over the fleet com manded by Admiral Montejo of the Spanish navy that suddenly made him a popular hero, that affair by no meana comprised his work for the nation, which extended over sixty-two years in the navy. Under Farragut during the rebellion he developed the qualities that burst into light when he carried out the command sent him by cable from Washington to Hong Kong in April, 1898. "Find Montejo and destroy him" was the order given, and Dewey executed it with a thor oughness that left nothing of the Spanish fleet. His daring run past the guns of Corregidor changed the history of the United States and fixed the destiny of the American republic on a new and higher plane. Since that event, his talents and experience have been devoted to the development of the American navy. For sixteen years he has served as the head of a board charged with working out the great problems involved in the astonishing advance made in methods and means of sea war fare. Politicians have sought to capitalize the hold Dewey had on the popular heart, but he re mained to the end a "sea dog," his fealty to his profession unshaken by allurments of promised office. At no time in all his honorable career did he give his country more of real worth in service than since he laid down active duly and took up the work of adviser. That his end came peacefully on shore is re markable, for he had dared death in every form at sea, serving through two wars and following his perilous calling with ardor until retired for age at the very top of the list. His name is now forever the possession of his country and will go into the glorious galaxy of our country along with those of Barry, and Jones, and Perry and Lawrence, Decatur, Porter, Farragut and all the long and honored list of sailors who have served under the flag and made it respected throughout the world. Scope of the Mann Act. Passing on the so-called Mann white slave. act, the United States supreme court has not only affirmed its constitutionality, but has given it the most comprehensive possible construction to em brace all interstate transportation for immoral purposes. There is no question that the lawmakers who enacted this measure had only in view the sup pression of commercialized vice, but the supreme court, by a majority opinion, insists that the wording of the law bears out no such intent, but, on the contrary, is all inclusive. With this con struction placed upon it, the Mann act becomes, more than ever, a handy instrument for black mailing purposes, for which nefarious business it has already been extensively used and for which, if left as it is, it holds vast future possi bilities. Because of its ramifications into the realm of morality, the subject is a delicate and difficult one for public discussion, but frankness compels the declaration that the law should be modified. If not specifically defined to refer to commer cialized rice only, it should at least make a sharp distinction in penalty between the interstate traffic in white alaves and the mere crossing of state lines by licentious couples whose offenses otherwise would be, at most, mere misdemeanors. ' The federal government should not let up one bit in its efforts to stop the trade in women, but it will better succeed in its laudable endeavor by differentiating this odious crime from the casual lapse from the moral code. While there is much beini written of the career of the noted scout and showman, William F. Codv. I have seen nothine as to his immediate ancestors or his early childhood. As my span of ife includes all ot his and almost nine years more, will give as best I can some facts ot interest: In the snrinr nf 1844 mv father, lames Miller, moved from Pennsylvania to Le Claire, Scott county, Iowa, and had as our near neighbor Isaac Cody and family, which consisted of father, mother and three children, two girls and hov. Martha. Louise and Samuel. People were very neighborly in those early days as I re member the families were quite friendly. Mr. Cody was a small man and spry ot move ment. Mrs Cody was a fleshy lady and like most fleshy people was good natured and jolly. Some time early in the year 1846 there was born to them a second son, destined to bring fame to the Codv name. He was noted from his birth, for he tipped the scale at fifteen pounds. Like many other famous men he was born in a log house a house of one room with a loft as a sleeping room. A stone chimney stood on the outside on the east end, and the usual fire place upon which all cooking was done within. There were a few black locust trees near the house. This house has long since disappeared. This place is now included in the farm now be longing to a man by the name of John Wilson and is located west of the town of Le Claire. Isaac Cody, like his distinguished son, believed in doing big things. In 1847 he contracted with Colonel Breckinridge to break up and improve 3,000 acres of land near the north line of Scott county.. For this work he bought at least 100 yoke of oxen, twenty-five plows and hired twenty-five young men to run them, one of whom was my oldest brother. Call for Constitutional Convention. The agreement of the house committee at Lincoln to report for submitting a proposal for a constitutional convention to the electorate so improves the prospects of its passage as to en courage supporters to believe its success assured. Agitation for a constitutional convention has gone on for several years, although it has never gathered especial force before. The need of constitutional revision is admitted, but there is divergence of opinion as to the best method. At least twice have initiated amendments been voted on, one being rejected and the other adopted, while amendments submitted by the leg. islature have been numerous. The people of Nebraska are really progressive and always well abreast of advance movements. While the machinery is perhaps obsolete, the government of the state is fairly responsive to the real needs of the people. No state in the onion has better laws for the care and comfort of its inhabitants in all their rights, nor are citi zens anywhere more jealous of their rights, These facts should always be kept in mind when talking of changing the constitution. We do not want to lose the substance la catching at the form. A constitutional convention will bring out many proposals for reform, and many schemes for social experiment, and will reduce to concrete terms many suggestions now vague and indefinite, giving the public finally an opportunity to sift them to their merits. Revision by convention, too, is an expensive proceeding, and slower than direct amendment, and should be carefully con sidered in all its bearings, v Four-Year Term of Office. A vote taken in the lower house at Lincoln indicates an intention to pass a law extending the present term for county officers from two to four years. This is in response to pressure from incumbents, although it connects with the recom mendation of Governor Neville that a change be made from biennial to quadrennial elections, Objection does not lie so much against the lengthening of the term of office as against con tinuing an incumbent by statute on the payroll for two years longer than he was elected. Offices created by the constitution, of course, are for teems fixed by the constitution, and cannot be changed by atatute. Thus a quadrennial dec tion brought about by the proposed plan will not shorten the ballot by decreasing the number of offices voted for, but only reduce the number of elections. Relief from present conditions is not to be found in the direction the democrats are traveling. Their plans tend to complicate rather than simplify our elections. Democracy s greatest problem during the short session is how to wring more taxes out of the industrial north and spend the substance lib erally in the sbuth. Accuracy and completeness alike require that the output of the legislative mill be given a con spicuous place in Nebraska's industrial statistics Early Life oj "Buffalo Bill' Health Hint for the Day. The bites of rabid animals should be Immediately burned with a hot Iron or cauterized by fuming nitric acid, followed by a strong solution of sal eratus In water and then by alcohol. One Year Ago Today In the War. British drove 50,000 Turks toward Bagdad. British shelled German lines with oonaiderable effect at Oivenchy and Ypres. Montenegro aald to have obtained separate peace on terms of uncondi tional surrender. Austrian obliged to evacuate the trenches In Oslavia region becaune of heavy Italian bombardment. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. President Max Meyer of the exposi tion association has received a letter from Dan O'Leary, the Troy, N. V., pedestrian, who wants to arrange a walking match to take place in the exposition building some time in April or May. h.rtfr rnhnm Is having a new in grain carpet of beautiful design laid upon the floor in nis omce, mt I do not recall the year the family moved to Kansas. Cody was an ardent free-soiler and an anti-slavery man. It was during the time that Kansas was struggling to become a tree state that Mr. Cody was killed. All 1 know of the Codvs since they lett Iowa I got from the colonel in two visits I had with him within the last three years. He told me he believed me to be the only person living who bad known his people in Iowa. He seemed greatly pleased that I had called upon him and would not let me go until we had talked over those early times and insisted that I stop and have dinner with him, which I did and greatly enjoyed in his mess tent. He told me that each time he came to Dav enport, la., in his travels that he hired a team and drove out to Walnut Grove a distance of twenty miles to visit his brother s grave. He said. Did, you know Bob Porter, a livery man, there?" I did, I said. , ' .. . "Well. I asked him for the best team he had to drive to Walnut Grove. Porter said, 'Will you want a driver?' 'No, I want to go alone.' 'We don't let strangers drive our best team, it is hard to manage.' 'Porter if you have a team Bill Cody can t drive, 1 want to see it. Uh! 1 didn't recognize you.' Cody got the team. He told me of his father preparing to go to California in the spring of 1849 and backing out the morning the caravan was to have started. As 1 very well remember, as my oldest brother went with the caravan. He also told me that he enlisted in the Seventh Kansas mounted infantry otherwise known as the Kansas Jayhawkers. 1 doubt it there was another regiment in the western army that was its equal in its art of con fiscating and destroying the property of the enemy. As to his having served in the legislature I have this to say, he told me he had been elected in early times as state senator, but resigned and didn't serve. I have also heard that he ran against D. P. Ashburn of Gibbon and was de clared elected and the latter contested Cody s election and won out Kearney, Neb. J. E. MILLER. Newspaper Men and "Leaks" -Mlanaapalla Tribune. - Uncle Joe Cannon once said, in a. public ad dress, that the operation of the federal govern ment-would be wrecked if the Washington cor respondents were to divulge the : secrets they were constantly keeping. Mr. Cannon did not mean that these secrets were .improper. He meant that the newspaper men at the national capital were entrusted with inside facts, the pre mature publication ot wmcn might seriously in terfere with the plans of public officials, from the president down. He added that in his long serv ice, in congress lip utu kiiuwii ui iiu uisiauic ill which any newspaper man' had violated the con fidence reposed in him. The recent scandal in Washington over the premature publication of the president's peace note, resulting, it is alleged, in the harvest of rich nrofits bv Wall street speculators who secured the advance information, has left the newspaper men unscathed. While Secretary Lansing took scores of Washington correspondents into his confidence, some of them men connected with financial publications deeply interested in every thing attecting tne speculative marxets, an oi me officials, including Secretary Lansing and the congressmen who investigated the "leak," have joined in emphatically declaring that newspaper men had no part in tne premature publication ot the news that upset the stock market It is a matter of record that Mr. Roosevelt, when president consulted freely, almost daily, with members of the correspondents' corps in Washington. These men knew, frequently weeks in advance, of the president s plans and legisla tive policies. Some of them, it is known, helped him frame the railway rate bill, the pure food bill and other measures, the adoption of which sent stocks soaring or tumbling. The president's confidence was never betrayed. Presidents and oublic men. in Washington and elsewhere, have learned, or are learning, that so long as they are devoting their official efforts to serving the Dublic thev have no stronger allies than the rep resentatives of the press. They are learning that by taking newspaper men into their confidence and giving them in advance the details of official plans, the news, when publication is finally au thorized, is presented more accurately and ef fectively than otherwise would be possible. Wise officials have also learned that the surest way to prevent premature publication of plans and news is to take newspaper men into their confidence. It is only when public officials attempt to conceal their plans and suppress news that newspaper men are forced to take what they can get, and the result is almost invariably unsatisfactory to alt concerned, the officials, the newspapers and the public. Newspaper men everywhere must be gratified over the clean bill of health furnished them by the Washington officials in investigation of the recent "leak" scandal. Officials everywhere may find a lesson in the incident. People and Events ii-i f?cn!5 gy-,,f--v,-y-js --, 17 A schedule of the nersonal property of the late Richard C. Kerens, railroad magnate and politician of Missouri, filed in St. Louis last week, shows a tout of $6,500,000. There is considerable real estate besides which was not appraised. The half-brother of the king of Siam, Prince Mahidol, a special student at Harvard, concedes that American chorus girls are good to look upon, but the chorus girls of old Siam have 'em beaten several blocks. Some nerve in that slant-eyed view. The new luxury of violet-scented waters in the co-ed natatorium of Chicago university draws from the Daily Maroon, college organ, these joy ous exclamations: Back in the glorious Roman days of the perfumed bath; Back to all the luxury and gorgeousness and voluptuousness of the pur ple days of Nero I" Wow I On the old midway, tool makes his quarters look like a parlor. His old carpet, it Is whispered, has been dropped into County Clerk Need ham's private office. Deputy Sheriff Grebe, whose regu larity at his office when in town and not otherwise engaged is like that of the sun, is seriously sick at home from an aggravated attack of pneumonia. Hon. J. E. Kelly, one of Omaha's most prominent contractors and real estate dealers, has just returned from New York. Fire Chief Oalligan has Just re turned from Chicago and reports that the new fire truck will be ready to send to Omaha in three weeks. It is ninety feet In height and can be stretched to its fullest limit inside of sixty seconds. Omaha men have formed a com pany to develop certain gold mines near Hally, Idaho. The corporation will be known as the Idaho Gold Belt Mining company, with headquarters in this city. The Incorporators are J. C. Cowin, H. S. Rollins, W. F. Bechel, Court Carrier, John McClure, Alex Mitchell, F. A. Nash, John Keene and T. K. Sudborough. Articles of incorporation of the O. F. Davis company were filed. The company, composed of O. F. Davis, P. L. Ferine and Thomas A. Creigh, proposes to conduct a general real estate and loan business. This Day in History. 1706 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston. Died In Philadelphia April 17, 1790. 1790 Thaddeus Fairbanks, inven tor of the platform scale, born at Brlmfleld, Mass. Died at St Johns bury, Vt, April 12, 1886. 1842 First stone of the new Royal exchange In London laid by the prince consort 1861 Lola Montez, for whom Louis I of Bavaria lost his throne, died in New York City. Born In Ireland in 1818. 1862 John Tyler, tenth president of the United States, died In Rich mond, Va. Born in Charles City coun ty, Virginia, March 29, 1790. ' 1874 Cheng and Eng, the famous Siamese twins, died in North Caro lina, aged 67. . ., 1891 George Bancroft historian, died in Washington, D. -C. Born in Worcester MasB., October 3, 1800. ' 1893 Henry Cabot Lodge was elected United States senator from Massachusetts. 1895 Felix Faure was elected pres ident of the French republic by the national assembly at Versailles. 1901 The kingdom ot Prussia celebrated Its bicentenary. 1903 The German gunboat Panth er bombarded a Venezuelan fort 1910 House of representatives passed the separate statehood bill for Arizona and New Mexico. 1911 Mexican federalists and reb els engaged in slxteen-hour battle at Coromo, Chihuahua The Day We Celebrate. Isaac N. Hammond, the real estate man, is 82 years old today. He was born in Ohio and came here from Atlantic David. Lloyd George, the new prime minister of England, born at Man chester, fifty-four years ago today. Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, commander of the British North Sea fleet born forty-six years ago today. Francis Sayre, grandson of Presi dent Woodrow Wilson, born in the White House two years ago today. Right Hon. Joseph A. Pease, late postmaster general of Great- Britain, born nfty-seven years ago today. Thaddeus A. Thompson, who cently resigned the post of United States minister to Colombia, born in Burleson county, Texas, sixty-four years ago today. Dr. Palmer C. Rlcketts, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, born at Elkton, Md sixty-one years ago today. Jack O'Brien (Joseph F. Hagan) formerly prominent as a middleweight pugilist born In Philadelphia, thirty- nine years ago. Timely Jottings and Reminders. The birthday of anniversary of Ben jamin Franklin will be observed today with meetings and banquets of num erous societies throughout the country. The Ohio state utilities commission is to conduct a public hearing at Co lumbus today on a petition for lower freight rates on coal shipped frdm eastern Ohio. The present migration of colored people from the southern to northern communities will be the chief subject of discussion at the annual Tuskegee negro conference, which opens today at the Tuskegee Institute. Sthryette of the Day. "I didn't want to come here in the first place," confided the first guest at the expensive hotel at a well- known resort on the New Jersey coast "No more did I," replied the sec ond, "but my wife insisted on my coming. "So did mine," said the first "She said we had to come Just because the Munseys were coming, although I told her we simply could not afford the expense. "And that's what I said," explained the second, "but my wife said we had to oome because the Browns were coming. "Why, look here, my name is Brown. "And mine Is Munsey." Then the two men shook one anoth er warmly by tbe hand. Pittsburgh Dispatch., Who Did the "Franking?" Omaha, Jan. 16. To the Editor of The Beet Under the heading. "Ne braska Press Comment I note a clipping from the Friend Telegraph which makes the accusation that an automobile was franked home on the Fourth Nebraska troop train from I Llano. Tex., and also that officers' i wives were franked home in the same way. Not having been a participant in the franking home of either auto mobile or wife, I have no interest in this matter except for the general aspersion it casts on the service, and It looks to me as though the editor making this charge should have fur nished the names of the guilty parties. As a matter of fact, full freignt charges were paid on the automobile in question and those omcers wives (three in number, 1 believe) wno :ue home on the round trip tickets they purchased before leaving for the south to Join their husbands. I cannot believe that the editor of the Friend Telegraph would willingly do an injustice to the officers of the Fourth regiment by permitting this accusation stand unless prepared to substantiate the charge, which I re spectfully ask him to do. Major Fourth Nebraska Infantry. Bohemians and Allies' Answer. Chicago. Jan. 16. To the Editor of The Bee: The Bohemian National al liance, principal organization or Bo hemian speaking people in the United States, has Issued the following- statement: No gronD of people has expected tne allies' reply to Wilson with more im DatJence or received It with greater enthusiasm than the Bohemians. The ( auiea powers wno naa on many mi- vious occasions announced mat tney were fighting for the rights of small nationalities have now stated con cretely their demands on behalf of the oppressed. They have made the liberation of the Czechoslovaks from foreign yoke one of the conditions of peace. Nearly tnree nunarea years nave elapsed since the Czechs have lost finally their independence. German rulers, the Hapsburgs, have ever since exploited the Bohemian lands and the Bohemian people for their own dy nastic interests and for the greater- glory of the German name. It seems almost a miracle that this small na tion with their brothers, the Slovaks, survived three centuries of oppression and forcible Germanizatlon. The out break of the war found them fighting tooth and nail the aggressive and das tardly diplomacy of their Viennese rulers, dominated, by Berlin. The awful crime of causing the war has severed altogether the last ties still binding the Czechs to the Haps burgs. Bohemians would not be will ing partners in iniquity. Czech sol diers rebelled and went over to the "enemy," Czech emigrants enlisted with the allies. Czech leaders escaped from Austria to demand freedom for the nation. And now speak the allies, the ten nations strong In manhood, strong in material wealth, strong in justice of their cause and declare firmly that peace will not be re-established until the Czechs and their nearest kin, the Slovaks, are liberated from foreign oppression. So the uncounted thous ands of Czechs will not have died in vain; all the misery, privation, hunger and sorrow brought by the war upon Bohemia will be richly repaid to the unfortunate country by the boon of freedom. Bohemians are overjoyed by the answer of the allies. They confidently expect that the Inlluence of the liberty-loving America will be thrown on the side of the allies In favor of lib erty for Bohemia and Slovakia and all small nations. Dlt. L. FISHER. President Bohemian Nat l. Alliance. Woman and the II. C. L. Omaha, Jan. 16 To the Editor of The Bee: So many Inquiries are be ing made as to the plan of action to be taken by the Omaha Consumers' league as to what we expect to do about attendance to the meetings, as to the getting of immediate results in the forcing down of prices. In answer to suggestions given us from the fullness of their hearts and past experiences, I want to say this: For my own part I fully believe that while the women of today may en joy the social side of things as keenly as ever, she takes public questions especially questions of an economic nature as intelligently and as business-like as the average man. In her fight for the ballot the average Ameri can woman is proving herself very much alive to the important place she holds in public life. That she Is not fully awake to the place she holds in the business of buying and in the regu lation of prices is because it has not been necessary up to this time to think along this line. But when she does see her position clearly in this vital question of the high cost of living which is a very part of her home, T am sure she will respond and lend her hearty co-operation without any pink tea or amusement to keep her inter ested. We are not discouraged. We are better equipped for action and effec tual work than ever. Rome was not built In a day, neither was the egg trust. MRS. VERNON C. BENNETT. President Omaha Consumers' League. Knocks Obstinate Coughs in a Hurry A Simple Home-Made Heatedy, Thrnia&nds of neome normally healthv in every other respect, are annoyed with a persistent hanging-on bronchial cough year after year, disturbing their Bleep and making life disagreeable. It's bo needless there's an old home-made remedy that will end such a cough easily and quickly. Get from any druggist "2 ounces of Pinex" (50 cents worth), pour it into a pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain granulated sugar syrup. Begin taking it at once. Gradually but surely you will notice the phlegm thin out and then disappear altogether, thus ending a cough that you never thought would end. It also promptly loosens a dry or tignt cough, stops the troublesome throat tickle, soothes the irritated membranes that line the throat and bronchial tubes, and relief comes almost immediately. A day'a use will usually break up an or dinary throat or chest cold, and for bronchitis, croup, whooping cough and bronchial asthma there is nothing better. It tastes pleasant and keeps perfectly. Pinex is a most valuable concentrated compound of genuine Norway pine ex tract, combined with guaiacol and is used by millions of people every year for throat and ehest colds with splendid results. To avoid disappointment, ask your druggist for "2te ounces of Pinex" with full directions and don't accept anything else. A guarantee of absolute satisfac tion or money promptly refunded goes with this preparation. The Pinex Co., Ft, Wi"-" l SAID IN FUN. "Cotjld rou (nicfreat lotno suitable had for our "Don't Worry club?" aaked the typewriter boarder. "How would a Tjine-knot dn?" aikcd the Cheerful Idiot. Indianapolis News. teARUR.kABIBBU, 1 VJOHY MftRR A MAM MttESS Ht HAS A MIUIOH WUAK -AM I WIN; WW? . SNW PHOEBE SME15 1VS" WISER TO MARJN A muR MfTH ItM THOUSAND totiAK AMP BlUFf ABOUT THE OTHER NINE HUNDRED AMbNINETV THOUSAND! "Pa, why do you insist on my singing when Mr. Bimley calls?" "Well, I don't like the fellow, and yet I hate to come right out and tell him to go." New York Times, Hokus That fellow Closeflst doesn't know what it means to be sensitive. You can't hurt his feelings. Pokus Did you ever try plnchlnf him in the pocketbook ? Town Topics. The Baby Grand for Your Home Brambach 4 feet 8 inches. Will fit on your favorite comer of your room. 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