THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAf, MAI 24, 1917.
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to theaa. Addreee cheated a altm aa requealea
Buy a Liberty bond ind head off the indem
nity bond.
Well, if food will win this war, Uncle Sam
hai the food. -
The weather man it gradually waiting up to
hit opportunities.
, Down In Texas the antl-conjcription agitators
ire not being dealt with quite so gently.
With prohibition sidetracked, Milwaukee
should emphasize its joy by OYersubicribing the
Liberty loan.
Nebraska's share of the Liberty loan is $22,
000,000. A mere bagatelle compared to the total
wealth of this state.
So far only one congressional fighter has sub
stituted the gun for hot air. Opportunity for real
glory beckons in vain, - i
It is hardly fair to stage a scene in the Omaha
police drama so far away that the folks at home
cannot attend as spectators.
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I Welcome, Mr. Secretary of the Treasury.
Omaha will give Secretary McAdoo a smiling
welcome today and will try to make his short stay
in the city very pleasant. He will be a busy man
while here, for the program laid out for him con
templates a full day's work. Yet it is hoped
that he will have a chance to look around a little
and get some first-hand evidence of a good many
things that have been urged on 'the representa
tives of the government at Washington in sup
port of Omaha's claims. This suggestion is not
offered for the reason that Omaha is seeking any
especial recognition just now; we are modestly
trying to do our bit and merely offer the su
perior advantages of the city for government
uses as a patriotic duty. In peace times Omaha
was looked upon as an Important place in the
plans of the war office; its strategic advantages
have always been recognized and depended upon
by army heads. It is the one large city in the
west where two army posts and a great division
headquarters have been maintained. This would
not be true did not conditions actually warrant
it. And now that the equipment is here, why
shouldn't the government make use of it and lo
cate one of those great army training camps at
this point? Mr. McAdoo may learn something to
the advantage of the government if he will look
about a little today.
More 8oldiers from Nebraska.
The National Guard of Nebraska is not yet
enlisted up to its full war quota by more than a
thousand men. These are wanted at once, for
the two regiments are to be taken into the fed
eral service immediately. The Fourth and Fifth
Nebraska regiments are well organized and finely
officered and .have a splendid record for efficiency.
By far the larger part of the personnel of the
companies are men who spent months in Texas
last year, undergoing intensive training. These
are soldiers in the real sense of the word and re
cruits serving with them will be In the best possi
ble school for gaining the preliminary knowledge
of the soldier's trade. Weeks of tedious duty,
guarding bridges, elevators and other ware
houses, and such monotonous routine is to be
followed immediately by more active service.
Young men who are looking for action will get
It in the Guard now and the regiments should
quickly be brought up to their required strength.
It is also the best known way to escape the op
eration of the selective draft.
, An excess of moisture' since March 1, though
meagre in quantity, swells the volume of hoarse
hoots echoing in the bone-dry belt.
Those who believe in retribution will note that
fire-swept Atlanta is the place where the Leo
Frank travesty of justice was perpetrated.
Still it is ft little bit more patriotic to buy a
liberty bond' with one's own money than to
invest funds that belong to other people.
Lincoln is also doing nobly in its Red Cross
membership campaign. There is no "slacking"
hereabouts on the appeal to help in the work for
humanity,
. Egg dealers have renewed their crusade against
roosters. Will one of them please come forward
and tell us how he expects to raise hens to lay
eggs without intervention of the rooster?
1 ' "A new device to put the U-boats out of busi
ness is announced every day. When our ships
are equipped with a successful invention to pro
tect them against submarines, however, we will
all know it. :
Russian and Italian commissioners are doing
the glad hand act with Uncle Sam at Washington.
Never before has so many eminent officials jour
neyed from afar to whisper greetings of admira
tion and love.
Everyone In France in possession of over one
ton of coal will have to make report of it. Every
one over here who has more than a ton of coal
ought also to report so it may be listed by the
assessor along with other precious belongings.
War risk insurance is to be extended to the
trews of ocean going ships, Hitherto the govern
ment restricted insurance to ship and cargo, leav
ing the crew to look out for itself. Placing both
cm an insurance parity marks progress jn the
right direction.
The thirteenth amendment to the federal con
stitution does not stand in the way of the se
lective draft or of draft without selection, so the
courts hold. Fighting for the nation is not slav
ery, but failure to fight invites enslavement of the
whole nation.
Yes, and that blood-dripping "Hohemollern
dream pictured in the senator's hyphenated news
paper would have been a grim reality by this
time had the senator been able to make good his
promise to stop the export of war supplies to
our present allies.
That Chicago medical student who has shown
such an antipathy to the presence of the flag in the
class room ought to be permitted to spend a few
days where the only stripes she will see are the
shadows cast by the bars. There is a difference
between liberty and damphoolishness.
Shafts Aimed at Omaha
Wood River Interests: In her application
for divorce, an Omaha woman alleges that her
husband was often sulky. Just as like as not
her conduct was such as to make him sulky.
Scribner Rustler: The Bee yesterday says:
"Omaha police surgeons found themselves with
out alcohol to use for medicinal purposes and
no way to secure it.". Might suggest that they
resort to an X-ray examination of some of the
cellars. ; . .
Beatrice Express: Omaha claims the dis
tinction of having made the first arrest under the
new bone-dry law, a barrel of beer having been
found in the possession of one man after mid
night April JO. Of course, the real crime com
mitted was that the fellow failed to consume
the barrel of suds before the clock struck 12
on Monday night.
Geneva Signal: The police found a barrel of
alcohol in an Omaha drug store and the proprie
tor was fined $100 and costs in police court. The
district court has affirmed the fine and the drug
gist says he wilt take the case to the supreme
court. It is said a number of Omaha druggists
are backing him. It will be a good thing to
have a final decision in the highest court soon.
In the meantime druggists will do well to re
member that railroad motto about safety first.
The new prohibitory law has a fine assortment
of long, sharp teeth. About the time the Omaha
druggist was fighting his case in Douglas, county
a Rul druggist was pleading guilty in the dis
trict court in Richardson county to a charge of
having sold a drink of liquor. He paid his $100
and costs as the easiest way out of trouble. .
Under the Thirteenth Amendment.
The' supreme court of California has denied
an application for an order to prevent the mayor
of Oakland from proceeding with registration of
men under the selective draft law, the petition
ers Betting up the thirteenth amendment to the
federal constitution as bar. This amendment for
bids involuntary servitude and the pretext was
urged when the new law. was under consideration
by congress. It is so flimsy and transparent a
substerfuge that only the most desperate of dodg
ers would resort to it.
The right of the government to requisition
the service of any or all of its citizens is unques
tionable. "Involuntary servitude" does not mean
service to the state, which is the citizen's highest
duty and should be esteemed his dearest privi
lege. '
Pretexts of various kinds will be advanced by
slackers, conscientious objectors and others who
hope to escape their share of the work the whole
nation is engaged in. These aspire no higher than
to enjoy the fruit while someone else pre
pares the harvest. If the volunteer system has
been supplsnted by the selective draft it is be
cause of these men, who look upon our govern
ment as an agency solely through which to se
cure their own comfort. They will find that they
must give something in return for all that has
been so lavishly wasted on them. Patriots wilt
be proud to go where the government sends them
others will have to go, and that's the end of the
argument.
Calling the Farmer to Service.
Secretary Vrooman's appeal to the farmers of
the country is not for harder work, but for more
efficient effort and therefore greater service. He
asks only for the elimination of waste and bet
ter application -of the energy expended,; to the
end that the farmer may produce more on the
same land and in the same time. Unfortunately,
some farmers profess to see in the movement only
an effort to further exploit the agricultural in
dustry. If this opinion were to generally prevail
and action be taken accordingly the calamity
would be world-wide and its results disastrous be
yond any faculty of foresight. Proposed price
fixing is not contemplated for the purpose of pre
venting the farmer from obtaining a legitimate
reward for his work. The tillers of the soil will
share with other producers in the general pros
perity of the whole people and will not be forced
or permitted to suffer in any way in their ma
terial interests.
- American farmers have the welfare of the
world in their keeping just now. Demand for
food was never so urgent and it must come from
the ground. Therefore no effort to produce it
should be remitted. The farmer who works solely
for money has an equal chance with the one who
is inspired by a higher motive and the reward for
both is assured in advance. Not only will the
crop of the current season sell for high prices, but
for years to come the demand will be urgent for
all that can be produced. The farmer who hopes
to be permitted to extort from the consumer
continued famine prices for food, however, is to
be disappointed. He should ever keep in mind
the power he has in times past invoked to save
himself from the rapacity of transportation com
panies, loan agencies and others who took advan
tage of his necessity to impoverish him. Perma
nent prosperity cannot be builded on injustice, no
matter by whom practiced.
Fortunately, for the world, the American farm
ers as a whole realize the responsibility resting
on them and their response thus far is such as
might be expected from truly patriotic men. The
farmer has heard the call to service.
The conservation council has developed that
"many men have many minds" and it is to be
hoped the delegates will get it all out of their
systems before they go home, so that the rest of
the summer may be given over to work along
definite lines.
With all the allies buying material through a
single purchasing board, the question of price
fixing will be' fairly well determined in advance.
One of the reasons for our high prices has been
competition between foreign governments for
materials.
- The California State Bar association has some
work before it looking into the status of the law
yer who brought the petition for the slackers into
court, His loyalty as well as his acumen is open
to question.
Our Military Situation
By Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, May 21. The professional sol
dier now is concerned with but two questions.
First, how can the United States best raise an
effective militarv force for participation in the
war? Second, How can that force be most ef
fectively used to insure the safety of Ameri
can interests? The military reasoning upon these
questions is of special interest now, . when so
many different opinions may be heard as to the
perils and possibilities of our situation in relation
to the European war and when there is so much
agitation for the prompt dispatch of a force to
Europe.
The military men emphasize the fact that they
face a tremendous and difficult task in preparing
the United States for participation in modern
warfare, whether offensive or defensive. The
weapon to be used has to be forged after war is
declared. The United States has no reserves of
either men or material and no fund to be used in
providing either. Laws providing for both of
these things had to be drafted and passed by con
gress before the work could begin.
The nucleus for the formation of a fighting
force which the United States possessed when
war was declared consisted of a professional
army, well trained, of about 120,000 men and a
National Guard, fairly well trained, which could
be mustered into federal service and contained
about 150,000 men. The first steps to be taken
were to recruit both of these organizations to
war strength, which would make the standing
armyabout 300,000 and the National Guard about
500,000 men. The recruiting and equipping of
these men now is well under way.
The next thing to be done is to raise a first
Increment of 500,000 men under the conscription
law, train and equip them. This work has not yet
begun. Provided trained men are not prema
turely sent to Europe, the military authorities
estimate that this first increment can be made an
effective fighting force in a year. The United
States will then have between 1,250,000 and 1,500,
000 of trained men. Then and not before then
it will be able to exert what the officers call "an
appreciable military effort." An army large
enough to make itself felt could then be sent to
Europe and a fairly adequate force for defense
still be retained at home.
In regard to the ultimate sending of troops
to Europe the strongest expression obtained from
an active army officer was that it would be sound
military method to follow a purely defensive pol
icy. Every trained man that leaves the United
States before our first conscript contingent is
trained reduces our potential military strength
by just so much. The number of soldiers that
can be produced in a given length of time de
pends upon the number that are on hand to train
them. Each soldier can drill a certain number of
recruits and the rate of increase is mathemati
cally exact. If we sent all of our trained soldiers
to Europe tomorrow we would have none to
send later and if we sent half of them our first
increment would be either half as large or take
twice as long to train.
When the preparedness propaganda was
started the press was filled with imaginary con
quests of America, all of which were based upon
our military and naval weakness. Since then
much has been done to strengthen army, navy
and coast defenses, but even so our position is
by no means impregnable and will not be nearly
so for a long time to come.
It is well known that the navy would have to
be defeated before any landing could be attempted
on American shores. The American navy is now,
however, about third or fourth in strength and
weak in some branches which modern warfare
has made most necessary. Furthermore, it has
two very long coast lines to guard and viewing
the matter from a military standpoint it is quite
conceivable that both of them might be menaced
at once.
If the navy were defeated the coast defenses
and the army, which we are now increasing as
rapidly as possible, would remain between us and
danger. The coast defenses protect only a few
points and they require the support of large bodies
of troops in order efficiently to protect those.
This leaves great stretches of coastline which are
dependent wholly upon mobile forces for defense.
Treasonable Conspiracy
-Naw Yark Tlma
It ought not to be left to Samuel Gompers to
fight single-handed against the organized and
treasonable effort now being made to undermine
the American commission to Russia. To nullify
its efforts and frustrate its aims is the inten
tion and if it could succeed it would "be as seri
ous a blow to the American cause as the defeat
of an army in the field. Therefore it is as dan
gerous as it is treasonable and it is not to be
passed by as merely censurable, like some other
pacifistic activities.
The first move was to poison the Russian
mind against Mr, Root, the chairman of the com
mission. The next was an attack on Charles Ed
ward Russell, another member and a socialist
who puts America first. A telegram urging him
to decline the appointment was sent to him by
leading socialists in the name of the socialist
party, an innocent-appearing move which was not
at all innocent. It was not to be ex
pected that Mr. Russell would decline, but
it was to be expected that the fact of the
telegram could be used in Russia to show that he
did not represent his party and that therefore
he could be disregarded by Russian socialists.
Now a similar attack is being made upon James
Duncan, vice president of the American Federa
tion of Labor, also a member of the commission,
and dispatches from Petrograd indicate that the
conspirators have already succeeded in conveying
into some Russian minds the idea that he is to
be disregarded as unrepresentative of American
labor. This despite the fact that Mr. Duncan
has been officially authorized to act as a member
of the commission by the executive council of
the federation and by the union of which he is
president.
"The kaiser's agents in New York as well as
m Russia," says Mr. Gompers in his cable message
to the executive committee of the council of work
men's and soldiers' delegates, "carry on a cam
paign of misrepresentation and villification." It
is for an unmistakably treasonable purpose, for the
purpose of thwarting the efforts of the American
government to reach an understanding with and
aid its Russian ally. The men who are carry
ing it on pose as socialists and pacifists, but the
beneficiary of their efforts will be the empire
with which we are at war. Mr. Gompers has
done splendid service in combating this conspir
acy, but the United States government can and
should do something to aid him. A socialist or
a pacifist may not be committing technical trea
son when he argues against conscription, but
when he combines with others to frustrate a war
measure by giving false information to a prospec
tive ally he is giving aid and comfort to the
enemy.
People and Events
New York's legislature scored a total of 1,036
bills in 130 business days, an average of nearly
eight bills a day. The output insures a fine run
of new business for the courts.
"Ma" Sunday contracted the fashionable dis
ease down in New York and was rushed to a hos-
Eital and operated on last Saturday. "Ma" lost
er appendix. Otherwise she is all right.
The work of rebuilding the clock tower of the
New York city hall, recently burned, is about to
begin. Fireproof material will be used. A com
plete sprinkler system for the entire building is
also urged as a further safeguard.
Plain clothes men of Chicago swooped down
on the storage quarters of professional shoplifters
and captured $10,000 worth of loot. The birds
had taken alarm and fled, but the cops got the
goods. It is said the band operated all around the
country and cleaned up over $100,000.
r eaemeaa- mbm A V J
Frorerb for the Day. '
Blessings brighten as they take their
flight.
One Yrar Ago Today In the War.
Italians retreated In Sugana valley
before fierce Austrian attacks.
German! at Verdun occupied village
of Cumleres and recaptured Fort
Xloaumont
King of Montenegro disavowed the
actions of hla ion. Prince Mirko. In
negotiating for surrender to the Aus
trlans. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
The Nebraska, State society was
called to order by Dr. O. 8. Wood and
Dr. W. H. Hanchett and Dr. C. G.
Bprague were chosen censors for the
society.
Ed Rothery and Colonel Forbes
stayed up all night with Mr. Rothery' a
bulldog, Pete, who was poisoned. Df.
G. R. Young also stayed with the pa-
tlent from 11 p. m. until 4 a. m., whan
the animal seemed to be recovering.
Mr. Kothery says he would not take
$500 for Pete, even now, with the
chances of living against him.
Mlea Rachel Franko, recently of
New York, gave a musical at Lyon
& Healey's music hall. Nahan Franko
as violinist and Martin Cahn. pianist,
assisted with the program.
Senator Manderson baa notified the
occupants of houses on his property,
corner Thirteenth and Davenport, to
the effect that he contemplates the
erection of a brick block on that cor
ner and that they will have to seek
other abiding places.
N. Abbott, window dresser for S. P.
Morse ft Co., has just returned from
Kansas City, where he gave a prac
tical test of a grlpper for cable line
ears which he haa Invented.
The retaining wall around the
county court house grounde has been
finished and presents a neat appear
ance. This Day tn History.
1775 John Hancock was elected
president of the continental congress.
1777 Colonel Meigs, with 200 Con
necticut militia, surprised and cap
tured tha British post at Sag Harbor,
U I.
1778 .Sir Henry Clinton succeeded
Lord Howe In command of the Brit
ish forces In America.
1815 The British flag was lowered
at Fort McKay, thus ending foreign
domination on Wisconsin soil.
1818 General Andrew Jackson
took Pensacola from the Spaniards.
1819 Henry Dlsston, who first made
American saws that could be export
ed to England, born at Tewksbury,
England. Died In Philadelphia March
16, 1878. .
1825 The American Unitarian asso
ciation was formed In Boston.
18S1 First advance of the federals
Into Virginia.
1891 Baron Hirsch proposed to buy
6. 000,000 acres of land In the Argen
tine Republic for a Jewish colony.
The Day We Celebrate.
Gould Diets, head of a lumber com
pany and a lot of other concerns, In
cluding the Red Cross work in Oma
ha, Is celebrating his birthday today
In his happy family of monkeys, par
rots, dogs and cats which he has col
lected in hla various globe-girdling
Journeys. v
William a. Shrlver, real estate deal
er, Is SO today. He was born in Jol
leytown, Pa., and haa been engaged
exclusively In the real estate, loan and
Insurance business In Omaha since
1881.
J. L. McCague, jr., arrived on earth
May 24, 1888, right here in Omaha,
and he Is right here still holding down
the position of secretary and treasurer
of the Wilson Steam Boiler company.
George Grey Barnard, the sculptor,
who has offered to give Russia a
statue of Abraham Lincoln, born at
Bellefonte, Pa., fifty-four years ago
today.
Sir Arthur Wing Plnero, one of the
most prolifle and successful of Eng
lish playwrights, born In London sixty
two years ago today.
Maurice F. , Egan, United States
minister to Denmark since 1907, born
In Philadelphia sixty-live years ago
today.
Vice Admiral Prince Louis of Bat
tenberg, who was flrst sea lord of the
British admiralty at the commence
ment of the war, born in Austria
sixty-three years ago today.
Dr. William McKibbin, president of
Lane Theological seminary, born In
Pittsburgh sixty-seven years ago to
day. Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The general assembly of the United
Presbyterian Church of North Amer
ica, representing 200,000 communi
cants, will meet In annual session to
day in Boston.
The national convention of the
Technical Association of the Paper and
Pulp Industry Is to begin Its sessions
today at Neenah, Wis.
"Good Roads Day" In Pennsylvania,
proclaimed by Governor Brumbaugh
for today in proclamation issued last
February, has been changed to "Farm
and Garden Day."
The Long Island railroad is running
a special Instruction train over its
lines this week to interest the women
in organising clubs for canning, pre
serving and storing surplus fruit and
other food supplies.
Storyette of the Day.
At a church adjacent to a big mili
tary camp a service was recently held
for soldiers only.
"Let all you brave fellows who have
troubles stand up," shouted . the
preacher.
Instantly every man rose except one.
"Ah!" exclaimed the preacher, peer
ing at this lone individual. "You are
one In a thousand."
"It ain't that," piped back the only
man who had remained seated, as the
rest of his comrades gazed suspiciously
at him. "Somebody's put some cob
bler's wax on the seat and I'm stuck."
St. Louis Republic.
ONE WHITE HAIR.
Walter Savage Landor.
The wisest of the wis
Listen to pretty lla
And love to hear 'em told.
IXouht not that Solomon
Lt itemed to many a one
Some tn hla youth, and mora when he trew
Old.
I wan never among
The choir of Wisdom' song,
But prettyHs loved I
Aa much as any king.
When youth was on the wlnf.
And (must It then be told?) when youth
had aulte gone by.
Alast and I have not
The pleasant hour forgot
When one pert lady said:
"O, Walterl I am quite
Bewildered with affright!
I see (sit quiet now) a white hair on your
head!"
Another more benlicn
Snipped It away from mine.
And In her own dark hair
Pretended It was found.
fair aa ah waa, she never waa o fair!
Rush on Irish Politics,
Omaha, May 22 To the Editor of
The Bee: A letter from w. v. Ben
nett appeared In a recent issue of
your naner. nrotestlnir against a dec
laratlon of mine that the detaching of
some counties In the northeast of Ire
land from the oneratlon of Mr. Llovd
George's recent plan of home rule Is
DreDosterous.
As the gentleman has submitted no
argument, it would be useless to an
Bwer his communication, if it were
not for the fact that his insidious a.
sertlons are an attempt to throw chaff
In our eyes. The state of New York
does not want the county of New
York to be separated from the state
government. Such a separation would
be a parallel case with that suggested
by England's prime minister. But
here comes In tne irresistiDie " argu
argument" of my friend: "Consider the
seditious uprising which the south of
Ireland permitted the German nation
to aid them In and the fact that Ul
ster has furnished most of the vol
unteers in the war, etc," There you
have it. Presumably the 200,000
Orangemen who a short time before
had threatened a rebellion against the
Imperial government If home rule were
granted to Ireland are the "volun
teers" whom Mr. Bennett refers to.
They became loyal when thy found
that home rule was a sham "a Bcrap
of- paper." But in the present session
of Parliament Redmond declared there
were 170,000 Irishmen, not Including
any of Mr. Carson's rebels of a few
years before, lighting In tne trencnes.
no one In the house denied his as
sertion; therefore I presume It must
be true. The uprising or Easter time
last year occurred In Dublin, not in the
south of Ireland. The people were
goaded to desperation by the promises
made and broken by the British Par
liament. The conduct of the Ulster
men when they found that home rule
was a possibility, Is not to be wondered
at when we recall the incidents which
led up to the disestablishment of the
Irish Protestant church. J. B. Yeats,
a distinguished Irish Protestant (and
thank God we have many of them),
writing recently to the New York
Tribune, said: "I remember that when
Gladstone introduced his bill for the
disestablishment of the Irish Protest
ant church the men of Ulster said that
'If it was passed they would kick the
queen's crown Into the Boyne.' "
The titled aristocracy which gov
erns the British empire is afraid of the
Ulsterman, because if he ever joins
hands with the Leinster, Munster and
Connaught men then surely there will
be home rule and Irishmen can again
establish, the numerous factories for
which they had been noted before the
infamous "union" so infamous that
the perjured Castlereagh, who accom.
pushed it, like Uudaa of old, commit
ted suicide. The charge that the Eas
ter uprising was aided and abetted by
the German government is erroneous.
Poor Casement himself, who was the
soul of truth, denied under oath that
Germany had anything to do with it.
But here again are shown the tact
and diplomacy of Mr. Bennett.
The United States, for the first time
in its history, has become an ally of
England and therefore during the ex
istence of this unique and surprising
affiliation loyalty demands and pru
dence suggests that nothing shall be
said or done to affect the partnership.
'Tls true that Britain on three suc
cessive occasions tried to destroy this
republic. This Is pretty hard on Mr.
Bennett, but he must not blame me.
He must blame his ancestors, whose
organ, the London Times, shouted
after the first battle of Bull Run, "The
American bubble is burst."
JOHN RUSH.
Another thing will wldowars so to- war.
or will It be considered that they have
eerved their term? Dallaa News.
The Bell System
-What It It
Tears ago, before telephone
communication was practica
ble beyond local service, this
company and other telephone
companies started; each la a
certain territory.
When telephone communi
cation beyond stste bounda
ries and for considerable dls- x
tances became possible, we
connected our lines with those
of the companies operating
In neighboring states.
These connected compa
nies, with the American Tel-,
ephone and Telegraph Com-
pany, now form a nation
wide telephone organization
known as the Bell System.
There are now nearly 10,
000,000 telephones, or more
than half of all the telephones
In the world, connected with
the companies comprising the
Bell System In the United
States.
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Canadian Pacific Rockies
KALEIDOSCOPE of sunny alclet and rivers of ice, plo
turesque Indian and up-to-date American, Totem sols
1 and gold mines, dog teams and luxurious trains
reached by delightful Canadian Pacific steamers passingthrough
island-dqtted inside passage and ''lettered fjords of the British
Columbia Coast to the Land of the Midnight Sun. On your
way to and from the Coast take in the panoramic route of the
Canadian Pacific Railway
Th WorU'uMna-t Highway" I
and do the Canadian Pacific Rockies. N J sldo-trlps necessary.
Enjoy the comforts of the great hotels i.t Banff, Lake Louise,
Field and Glacier. For full information phone, call or write
for Tour No. S-4
THOS. . WALL, Sen. Ait. PauV Dept.
214 So. Clark Street, Chlcaia, 111.
or eoneuit your local ageot
Banff Springs
Great mountains tower
around thesuperb hotel
at Banff. Sportsof every
description golf, suU
phur swimming pool,
not springs, pony rid
ing.mounuin climbing.
Service Canadian
Pacific Standard.
Nona Bitter.
lake louts.
Chtteiu.ontheihoreof
an exquisite lake with
a backgt ound of snow
dad mountain glacier.
See the Lues in tha
Clouds end the Valley
of the Tea Peaks.
ovefist Spof in
North America,
With it marnlficent
harbor and line new
Canadian Pacific Hotel.
A city of motor drives
onrarputed. Prodi fteoa
tree, ooeao tripe among
the iRifcnda of noanteua
girt wtterweji. Goii.
Port for
Alatka Tran$
Pacific Trml.
Stop Corn Pain In Two Minutes
By the Clock-Easy and Simple
THE MAGIC TOUCH OF ICE-MINT DOES IT. JUST A TOUCH STOPS THE SORE
NESS, THEN THE CORN OR CALLOUS SHRIVELS AND LIFTS
" OFF. TRY IT. YOUR FEET WILL FEEL COOL AND FINE
Thank hr- new discovery made from
a Japanese product, your foot trouble!
can be quickly ended.
Ice-Mint, aa this new preparation ta
called, la aald to ehrlvel up hard corns,
aoft coma or coma between the toes r-t
that they can be lifted out easily with
the fingers.
Rub a little on any tender corn or
callous. Instantly the eoreneas disap
pears and shortly the corn or callous wtll
loosen so that It can be lifted right out
with the fingers root and all. No foolishness.
Ice-Mint Is a clean, creamy, snow
white, non-poisonous auhstanca and doea
not Inflame or even Irritate the moat
tender skin. There la no pain, smart
ing or even a bit of soreness while ap
plying Ice-mint or afterwards. It acta
so gently, io magically that you will
never want to run the risk of blood
poison by cutting a corn again.
Ask your druggist for a small jar of
Ice-mink whlgh coat little, yet ta suf
ficient to rid one's feet of every corn
or callous. Tou'll kt lt immensely.
THE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU I
Washington, D. C -
Enclosed find a two-cent stamp, for which you will please send me,
entirely free, a copy of the pamphlet, "Preparing Vegetable!"
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