The Omaha Bee DAILY (HORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. Entered at Ommha po-toffice aa second-clasa matter. By Mill Par raw, H.M TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION By Carrta. rtella a 4 M.tmAmw tMf VMi. l.fl Daily without SurnUj " 10 ST,int end Sunday Wo " XBili smliout Bundsy J . 112 Seudar Bm only , ' , . . " Md kftllm of thinm or ad drew or InvgultrlU' tn dellTerr to Omaha lit CiiruUtiun Department. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The AnocUIed Prra, of which Ths Btt la a awmher. It eicluntffl? entitled to Um uae t wuMiratlnn of all news dlipatfrioe crwllrwl to it or not stlxnriaa credited in thin Piper tnd also the local newa yubUtoed twrrtn. All Mats of publication of our apecLl diapsuues ara alao reaenod. REMITTANCE Bnalt of draft, express or pontil order. Only I-cent itampa taken In rannt of amall accounts. I'enoiial check, except on Omaha and eaatem exchaote, not accepted. OFFICES Omaha The Bee Bulldlwr. Chicago People's Oaa Balldlnf. South Omaha S17 8. SUa St. New York 2S Fifth at., Council Bluffa-H N. Main 8L St. Louis New B'k of Commerce. Linooln Little Bulldinj. Waalilngum 1311 O BU , CORRESPONDENCE address rommnnlcallona relatlnc to aewa and editorial natter te Omaha Bee, Editorial Deiartmeat. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 59,022 Daily Sunday, 52,158 A -Praia circulation for the month subscribed and sworn to by Dwlfht Willisou. Circulation Menaser Subscribers leaving the city should have The Bee nailed t them. Address chanced aa often aa requested. Every boost for liberty today rrlakes safer the liberty of tomorrow. Linking the job with the man takes the pen nant as the boss perplexity. . ( Westward the star of empire takes its course and likewise the world series championship. . If the combined pull of publicity and oratory can put the new Liberty Joan across it is sura to be done. 1 Former Governor Morehead no doubt visions the fearsome sit of the senatorial dust cloud whirling in Platte 'county. County Attorney Magney saya he rill not again run for re-election reserving, of course, the right to change his mind. Paradoxically speaking, the only side on which Nebraska is bordered by water in on the east, which will continue to be dry. Nebraska's quota of the Liberty loan barely equals 35 per cent of the year's hay crop. Cash in a few forksful and get a bond. Lieutenant Governor Howard's spiel on the senatorship as a sure thing reveals in that quar ter rare skill in the noble art of camouflage. " Vorwaerts of Berlin looms up as the editorial Jefemiah of the empire. Fortunately it reserves its teara to awell the shower at the coming finish, With a bond market gorged" to capacity and high class securities on the toboggan the bond deal of the school board suggests business wis dom on the blink. ' But if the Muny coal yard is to do business only intermittently it should have a gentlemen's agreement with the weatherman to malts the tm perature fit the case. . I mmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmm Congress reassembles on December i and the woman's suffrage convention nine days later both in Washington. Still some people imagine con gress has little to worry about. School Bond Issue Up to People. The Boa '1 of Education has put its proposed issue of bonds for construction purposes squarely up to the people. November 20 has been set as the date of the special election, and between now and then our voters should be given full and defi nite information as to just what is involved, wit' both sides of the case covered. The Bee sug gests that to-the-point discussion of this matter will be pf service, and invites its 'readers to pre sent their views. The present building program is the most am bitious and extensive on which the school district has ever set out Reasons given by the board for requesting the authority are the increasing needs of the public schools, if they are to be maintained on the present or a corresponding basis of ef ficiency. Principal items in the building list call for two new high schools and a structure to house the existing High School of Commerce. The new high school in the north part of town has long been under consideration, and several times seri ously projected. With the expansion of the city and the addition of Florence the need for such a school has grown if anything. Whether the so called "junior" or intermediate high school, also proposed for the North Side, is a pressing need may be open to debate. Other projects include replacement of several schools that have outlived their usefulness. A full month of time is allowed for considera tion of any objections on part of the citizens. The public is deeply concerned in the school system, and the taxpayers are. vividly reminded of its in creasing cost. It is up to them to say if the bonds asked for to the amount of $2,250,000 shall be au thorized, i The Coal Mystery B i Fr&.ene J. Haskvni Michaelis and the Reichstag. For tlie moment at least politics in Germany are quite on a parity with military affairs as hold ing 'public interest. Clamor from the opposition in the Reichstag is, rising to a pitch that must make Chancellor Michaelis aware of the fact that he accepted .no sinecure when he relieved Von Bethmann-Hollweg of the task of standing be tween the emperor and the people of Germany. Socialist speakers and 1 editors are bolder than ever in their criticism of the government, while Matthias Eribcrger, who leads the center and speaks for the Catholics in the Reichstag, has said that body will be stronger than ever when it comes together again. All this means but one thing for Michaelis, and that may be summed up as a short shrift in office. Circumstantial reports are published to the effect that Count Czernin sought a frank declaration of Germany's peace aims, but received from the chancellor such vague and evasive replies correspondence on the sub ject was broken off. With Austria dissatisfied, and a atrong element at noma persistently de manding that the emperor tell the world just what he hopes for as a basis of peace, the German chancellor is listed for some unpleasant hours in the near future. If any other propositions are to be submitted cj or popular Vote ratification hurry them along so n they may be hitched to the school board Election and save, otherwise duplicated election expenses. ,' Speeders along country roads imagine they can ' turn on the gas and escape the goggles of rural i ! sleuths. There is where misplaced confidence i wins a golden rule tag. Dwst elouds give them ti away. . , . 1 Ones more Holland agrees to play no favor w ites in the division of its surplus food stocks. - If li Holland has food surplus, as the fifty-fiftyl split tl implies, tha recent appeals for a share of Ameri- hi can sleeks glimpsed the profiteers working tut dodge of neutral necessity. Puzzle In the Excess Tax Law. The war revenue bill Womises to afford occu pation for the expert accountants until a definite ruling is made as to the exact meaning ot Its pro visions. One of the already most widely and thoroughly discussed sections is that having to do with the impost to b laid against excess war profits, yet wide variation of opinion still exists as to what basis shall be adopted for calculating the tax. The wording of the Jaw is not clear at to just the point at which exemption ceases and taxation begins. 1 ' , It is the combination of pre-war and present capitalization that presents the puz14 to which an answer' Is sought. Whether exemption terml nates with the first step In the calculation, or whether it carries on through to the highest rate levied, applying along the entire eourse of the graduated scale, is debatable, according to the views Of experts. Application of one or the pther method of calculating the tax will fnake a great difference in the amount to be collected, and it il therefore of great moment to bith the govern ment and the taxpayers that this be quickly set tled. Until the intent of congress has been made Washington, Oct 13. price regulation is a good deal of a mystery to the innocent bystander who pays the prices, regulated and unregulated. Various committees, for example, have been regu lating the price of coal for the past six months, and yet to the ultimate consumer it still seems a bit unregulated. This coal conundrum is good example of how price regulation works and how it doesn't work. ' In this coal drama for it is a drama are in volved the two big forces that are trying to get American industry organized for the prosecution of the war. The first of these in the field was the Council of National Defense, which represents an effort of American industry to regulate ana re organize itself with a certain amount of co-operation from the government The second is the executive branch of the government, acting under the tremendous powers conferred upon it by con gress as a war measure, in an effort to reorganize and control the production of the necessities of life with a certain amount of co-operation from industry. These two forces have been coming into col lision at several points. It is not to be concluded, however, that one of them ought to be eliminated. Friction develops heat and heat is energy. Also, the Council of National Defense has furnished the government with expert help and information which it could not have obtained elsewhere. Right now the fuel administration of the government is using nearly all of the office force of the commit tee on coal production of the Council of National Defense, which it has practically superseded. , The attempt to" regulate coal production began with the appointment by the Council of National Defense of this committee on coal production. The committee was composed pi 'men who own coal mines, headed by F. S. Feabody. It met with Secretary of the Interior Lane who told the coal I operators that prices must be regulated. This was agreed to by all In Pennsylvania at that j time the price of coal was jumping up-to y) ton. New England manufacturers were panic stricken. In one hotel there were over a hundred coal con turners bidding against each other for the product of a certain mine. Confusion,;, competition and waste were the order of the day in the coal busi ness. The operators were making big money, and so were some of the retailers and middle men, but it was clear that the condition was one that could not last And besides government regulation was already looming up portentiously through the haze of congressional debate. So the operators agreed that It was time to apply some regulation to the industry. At the re quest of Secretary Lane they drew up a scale of prices the so-called $3 price which they agreed to regard temporarily as a maximum, until the government could make an investigation of costs of production and name its own price, 1y which iney agreed to aDiae. oince ine operators mauc this price themselves It was not to be expected that it would be unfair to them. It lett them plenty of room to make money. But it also re duced prices all over the country and stopped their frenzied rise. They claimed that it "would save the soft coal consumers east of the Missis sippi $15,000,000 a month. In addition to fixing this prjee they did a far more valuable work in reorganizing the industry. They eliminated wasteful and competitive haul- ing, l ney lormea a pool ior snipmenis via inc Great Lakes by which the waiting of empty boats for loads was reduced. They formed a commit tee to handle labor troubles. Transportation' and labor are the two great factofs in coal produc tion there is always pienty of coal. Secretary of ine interior janc, wno gouu uuduimj mu, and who perceived that the first essential was to insure a sufficient supphr of coal, heartily con gratulated the operators committee on what it had accomplished. About this time Secretary of War Baker, in a widely published letter, expressed the opinion that the $3 price was altogether too nign, it re sulted in an examination by the Federal Trade Commission into the cost of mining coal, with a view to fixing the price. The Federal Trade Com mission completed its examination of the entire coal industry of America in a few .weeks, ana is-. sued a scale Of prices just about one-tnira lower than that agreed on by the operators. Soon thereafter the act of August 10 was in force and our present "coal dictator," Mr. Garfield, was ap- Jiointtd and handed this new scale of prices to en orcc, , But Secretary Baker's letter marked not only the climax of the contest, but alsb the climax of coal production. Whether-because the $2 price was really unfair, or whether because the coat op- a . . t . . l . . "LJ erators ten mat tneir patriotic actions uau uui been annreeiated. the coal production immedi ately besan to decline. This is shown unmis- I yav gL a, ,y J Right in the Spotlight. ' Robert Lansing, secretary of state In President Wilson's cabinet and the official entrusted by the government with the direction of Its foreign policy In one of the most critical periods in the nation's history, is 53 years old to day. Mr. l.ansing- owes his high posi tion to hie masrful knowledge of in ternational law aqd diplomacy. Prior to taking up the state portfolio laid down by Mr. Bryan be had filled the position of counselor of the State de partment and earlier in his career he had represented the United States In several important international arbi trations. Mr. Lansing is a native of Watertown, N. Y., and a graduate of Amherst college. In Washington he is known m an indefatigable worker. Outside of Office hours he Is a painter, a writer of exquisite verse, a drafts man of great ability, an ardent fisher man, a good goif player' and an en thusiastic base ball fan. One fear Ago Today In the iWar. Russia launched new offenaie In effort to relieve Roumanian f President Wilson announced failure of efforts to Induce European powers to agree upon terms of relief of Po land In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today. Maggie Mltchel appeared in "Larle" at Boyd's opera house. A large number of friends of Mr. And Mrs. Gottlieb Zimmerman were present at their residence on. Pierce, clear, confusion and delay In collection is certain, takeably by the Mfielly accurate chart pre .j 1. ,i hv th. treasury authorities will Parl4 b geological survey and esrly action by the treasury authorities will be of help to Dustnejsy relieving uncertainty this mooted question. Part of An Imperial Farce. When the czar of Russia addressed his "be- Thess are the events which led up to the pres ent anomalous situation. The government has, gotten its machinery of regulation well in hand, ii enfnreinir nrices at the mine, and has issued regulations as to the profit retailers may tfiikt. The fly in the government soup is the fact that loved Jews and begged them to rally to his sup Mnt ef the COBUnjttee m production is now port, the nations of the world turned aside from wont to remark that maybe it would have been ' aa a.. c . ..a - 1 t I - a. " Tentative footings of New York's municipal tl budget for 1918 foreshadow. an increase pf only at 12 per cent 6ver this year's total. Still the critics ' wax indignant and pessimistic. They know not how lucky they ire. Omaha's taj? uplift for 1918 totals 22 per cent, a leap which levs New York st in the. pikef tlats pf percentages. ' " The prospect of a regiment of American In- ii dians going across to fight for liberty is viewed p( with pleasure in many quarters. A fighting sc force the stalwart redskins are not essential. But the coming finish needs a picturesque setting, "I such as th Indian cpujd supply by tripping th gi, light fantast ghost dance at Pottdam. af -- a- " ff ' ;t th ? "In the nam of Liberty,' save foodl" exclaims w Raymond J. Whitney, an American back from 1? the front in France. The appeal does not fall on heedless ears. American have been slow to real' td ize the -necessity for sharp, economy, but manna S( orosrress has been made in that direction tines the J3 United States entered the war and greater eaerU ni fice is certain as the country buckles down to the crucial battlej for liberty, better for the people to have plenty of coal at $3 than coal scarce at $2. Under the act of August 1U tne government has the oower to take over and operate coal mines of the country, if necessary, to insure production. Perhaps that is the next move. After Effects of Gardening i in li i iMlaaeepeUa Journal ' ' the war long enough to smile. The smile wid ened a little later when czar and kaiser entered into competitipn as to which could make to Po land most seductive promises. "Nikky" has dis appeared from the cast, but the kaiser contlnue the farce, and has just now staged us tet act bv aonointing a regency for the kingdom of Po- land to continue through the war. wny ne snouiq have substituted a regency for the rule of his son. Toachim. first named by him to be king of rq- How much De ti,e increase of the American --.'ai a a I . a a .1 r e 1 SJ 1 land, is not made plain, unless n popes to later j00d crop ot W over mat ot tvio snouio pe ac on allow the people of Poland to "freely chop" credited to the patriotic speeding up of Millers U oung man to be their ruler, It be just JjS oTeyonutfis coimMental, but t i nevertheless touched with that the productjon 0j f00d by the consumer as a irony, that the kaiser should name his regents on aide line, through the application of idle hours to the snnivexsary of the death of Kosciutzko, No idle land, it a large factor in the year's product. one longer doubts that Poland will b restored at it was before the second, u hot before the nrst, partition, yet few outside of Germany hold any ihoiiffht that its dcodIc will be burdened with te 1 Short lesson on Bonds -laeeetmeat ewe- Q. When I loan my money to the United States government, what do I te in return? A. You get a promissory nots given by the TTnircrT State trovernment and bearing interest 1 This note is called "be-tid . S Q. What, then, Is a United States government t A. It Is the direct and tincpnditipnal promise ii Of the United States Ol America to jiay upon . ccrtam.ow eycvMcu Germh princeling as king. The hyphenated World-Herald tries to per suade Grand Army veterans that they should be offended by The Bee's quettioning the propriety of soending $20,000 of public money on a junket to Vicksburg at a time when every spare dollar Is needed for 'pressing war work, j J ft? woriq Herald it the same paper that once bewailed the long life of the old soldiers because of the grow ing pension btt, Th Grand Army ot tne tie- Certain results of this earden campaign prom Ise to remain permanent One is that a few mil lion men who had hitherto thought gardening profitless play will hereafter go seriously to work to make the garden lot productive. Another fact js that the diet of America will show an increased vegetable element and a corresponamg, decrease in meat It is not good for any man wholly to withhold his hand from the soil. The very act of growing things is recreation of a high type; and most men have dailv hours for recreation. It is possible for nearly every eight-hour worker to make and main tain a garden a plot large enough to yield per haps pne-thim Pf his food, , A garden overflowing with prime vegetables naturallv dominates the dinner table. One cannot treat sliehtindv the Rood things from one's own garden. And one's consuming capacity for com- i e : 1 l -,4 nr.. nn k.e public veteran! re aliS who their true friends are I rnerciai foods is necessarily reduced after one has and we know that many of them share The Bee's opinion as to the trip to Vicksburg. A sentence of seventeen years, imposed on a treason conspirator in Oklahoma, exceeds by seven yeart the penalty won by San Francisco knocker, JJJ gether with interest at a specific rate, payable j Th enteBC constitute the September record, ? SS T 4 Si Nearly indicate th, growing peril of doing n Ta what fnrm is this nromisef X - ft if engraved upon a sheet of distinctive for redemption, in an tie paper used only for the money and securities of the United States, and is executed y the secre-x- tar f the treasury and by the registrar of ths va, treasury and sealed with the Treasury department " ' aeal SI 6 Wbsn n bondi of the second Liberty loan belted? f : ' a KAvemher IS. 1917. is the date they will fcr tWanse that is the date on which they will tu , be issued by the government and the date on art which interest begins. ... ... , J O. When will has bonds be paid by the gov- -rament: that Is. when will they become duer a VT. 1 1 1019, but the e-nvernment 1 has the right to pay them any time after ten years j trap 4t oi tne bona SOI we tbt kaiser's work in this country. , T.1,1 ,',' 'AS I t ' In passing around bouquets for festival effici ency the strtet railway managers ihould pot be overlooked. On Wednesday night ana inursaay afternoon the huge crowds were handled safely and promptly, and with comparative comfort as big crowds go. War's sudden demands on certain mineral products in this country necessarily made huge inroads hi supplies. Threatened shortages occa sion little alarm. With raw material available j opportunity and enterprise will quickly rise ta the occasion ' . ' ' well dined on the cream of home-grown produce, Moreover, this season's garden surplus, now being put away on the cellar shelves, will extent! the in fluence of the garden throughout the witrter's To become acquainted with vegetables at first hand corn and peas, for example, only an hour fmm the sarden to the table is to look with favor upon them ever after. In spits of popuM belief, they may be profitably mads to tske ne place of a portion of the customary meat diet. And this very fact will make it possible to feed well a larger population in America; because meat as food demands mucn land in itt growing, ana because it wilt henceforth be comparatively scarce nnr! hich. " An old and well demonstrated truth has been freshly and widely demonstrated the past sum mer, namely, that the nearer the food is raised to the mouth of the consumer, the better the con sumer is fed; and that he feeds best whoyfeeds himself. ' Thf most expensive fur is that of the black fox of Kamsehatka, the skin of which, when dressedj becomes a very attractive blue. .A coat woft by the ex-Czar of Russia, lined with this , Mat- sinnm street, between Tenth and Eleventh, on the occaelon Of the sixteenth birth day of their daughter, Louise. At the regular meeting of the Board of Education it was decided to lease a. lot on West Davenport stjreet from H. Q. Clark for $15 per annum and erect tneraon a school nuiming for si, 344. The travel from the went is so heavy that the overland train from the west arrived In four sections, the last sec tion being four hours late. The work of enlarging the stocc yards has been commenced, when e addition is completed the yards' limit will reach' to the railroad tracks. The new Ambler and y Bancroft school houses are completed and school was opened, in iime with full attendance. ' . The democratic judicial convention was opened in the council chamber. Charles H. Brown was elected perma nent chairman- and Samuel Farns worth was elected secretary. ' Augustus Kountze of New York Is the guest of Herman Kountze. The Omaha Board or Trade held its first session and considerable business was done, ' " : . This Day In History. ' 1775 Burning of Falmouth (now Portland) Maine, by the British. 1777 Burgoyne surrendered the British army to the Americans at Saratoga. ' 1806 The French stormed Halle, Saxony, defeating the' Prussian reserve under the prince of Wurtemberg. 1854 First bombardment of Sevas topol by the British, French and Turkish allies. ' 1863 President Lincoln called for 300,000 men. 1867 The pope complained of the conduct of the Russian government to ward the Roman Catholic church. . 1882 James Sloan Gibbons, origi nator of the mavHmant for the nreser- vation of American forests, died in' New York cuy. Born at Wilmington, Pe in 110. v 1J1J Twenty-eight persons, all on board, loet their lives near Johannis tha), Germany, In ths explosion and fail tt a Zeppelin. 1814 .Gar in nn troops appeared be fore Warsaw, ' : 19lt-RuaslA declared war against Bulgaria, , f he. Day wsj Cc1ebrt. Jphn McCook Pf the Western Corn mission company of South Omaha was born in Pennsylvania October 1ft 1863. . w Robert lapsing, secretary of state In President Wlleon'S cabinet, born at Watertown, N. Y., fifty-three -years ago today. James R. Garfield, who was secre tary pf the Interior, under president Roosevelt, born at Hiram, P.. fifty two years ago--today, Edwin M. Borchard, international law expert, professor at Yale Law school, born in New York City, thirty three years ago today. Childe Hassam, eminent American artist borta in Boston fifty-eight years ago today. Thomas Fortune ByM, one of America's eminent financiers, born in Nelson county, Virginia, sixtyesix years ago today. William A. Cummings, first base ball pitcher to use the "curve," ball, born at Ware, Mass., sixty-nine years ago today. '. ' . .v Timely Jottings and Reminders. The governor of Louisiana has set apart today as a day for the women ot that state to register for national service. Several Important questions affect ing the, policy of the ' Universalis! Church Ire to be brought before the general convention of that denomina tion, meeting today at Worcester, Mass. a Medical directors of all the promi nent insurance companies of the United etates are to assemble today at Worcester, Mass,, fpr the annual con vention of their national association. National health problems arising out of war dondltions are to be dis cussed at tbt annual meeting of the American Public Health, association, Which meets (n Washington today for a four-day sesstpn- . The diiectors of the Missouri Pa cific railroad meet today to discuss the proposed reetabl!6hment of the old Gould system by the piercer of the Penvgr 4 Rio Grande with the Mis souri Pacific and Western Pacific roads, ' - -'V A nation-wide movement is to be launched by - the National Security league at a mass meeting tonight in New York City for organising the services of the mothers, wives, sisters and girl friends of the men who are going to the front. , The guarding of American army camps, both at home and abroad, against the ravages of the "white plague" will be discussed at meet ing to be held in Baltimore today and tomorrow by the North Atlantic con ference of the National Association for the study and Prevention of Tubercu losis, Storyette of the Day. 1 j John PhlllP Seusa, who la c-rpaniz- ing military Danas ior ine army, whs talking to a correspondent about the submarine danger. . "A friend of mine. cornet vlrtu oso," he said, '.''was submarined in the Mediterranean. -The English paper that reported the affair wprded it thus: - - " The famous cornetist, Mr. Horn, blower, though submarined by the Germans In the Mediterranean, was able tq appear at Marseilles the fol. lowing - evening In fpur plSQes.' Washington Star, '. Farmer on Farm Wages. : Peru, Neb., Oct H. To the Editor of The Bee: I see In your issue of Oc tober 11 that the State Council of Defense has acted" on The Bee's sug gestion and fixed a minimum price of 6 cents per bushel for husking corn in Nebraska this fall. Now what I would like to know is why the farmer is expected to pay double the wages to such men as he is asked to or being forced to employ as such men can (obtain In any other line of employment ' , You must remember that the men we must employ are not the orn husk era that have been taken' from the farm and cannot husk the average number of bushels per iay that our farm boys could husk and this means added expense, as the .farmer must board bis men more days. It also means money to the man employed, as he gets his board free for a longer length of time. Here are some facts that posaiBly thfo State Council of De fense did not have in mind when they wer"e fixing the price per bushel for corn husking. 1 First f ail, more than 60 per cent of the farmers in the best part of Ne braska, where land sells (when it does sell) for 9200 or more per acre, are renters and are raying from two- flfths to one-naif of the grain delivered at the elevator, free of cost to the land owner, and that means that when the farmer pays cents' per bushel for corn husking that his corn has cost him 13 cents per bushel, with another m cents ner bushel added for boarding his man,' which means that if U has cost the renter 15 cents per bushel to get his corn in the crib and that Is not all- unless the hunker makes aa average of seventy or eighty bushels a day, which is about the av erage day s work of .our farm boys, and to get his corn to the elwator the renter must add another 10 cents per bushel of cost to his com as he must shell and deliver the . land .owner's share.. Therefore It has cost the ren ter 25 cents pr bushel to husk and majrket his corn to say nothing of his expense of growing the crop, such as f ill to MS per month, and board for a man and expense of feeding his teams and interest on his investment in im plements which Is several hundred dollars. - The farmer has been paying better wages for corn husking all along than could be obtained 4n any other line of smoloyment and row they are de manding double pay 6 cents to 10 cents ur bushel, also dernanumg that ths farmer furnish an elevator for unloading or they will not work for mm, ana tnis aemana is neing met to day at an expense of from 1150 to s250. Of the pine farm elevators in my Immediate neighborhood, seven of them ars owned by renters. Now the farmers' expenses 'have In- creased just .the -same as any oh else's. Our government and g,.r city friends ask that ths farmer do his nest to increase tne crop 01 jooasmrta, which they did, as evidenced by one of the largest crop of corn, oats, rye, potatoes, beans and other vegetables our country 'ever produced. Then to ask the larmer to sell his wheat for 1 cents perbushel less than, market priees, take away his help and compel him to pay double .wages for a poor auDsututs tor nis farm boys, and still further threaten him Wth a reduction in. the price- 01 nis corn ana nis nogs, wunpui ft re duction In the prioe of sgme of the things be has to buy, to ms does not look-like a square deal, and is not nroductive of that sort of feeling; that the farmer should have at this time, The farmer's best ftort is needed, and is necessary to win the war, but sucn treatment as he U rsceivtng does not Inspire patriotism. , Now we are going to help feed our antes, we ars going to -win. me war, put we ask that the farmers be given A square deal. ' O. TUCKER,' A Farmer.,, BynsWiia fr Si'.casr?at'MWss LOFTIS BROS. & CO. DIAMOND RINGS AND I VALLtERES ARE LEADING FEATURES IN OUR OCTOBER SALES. All the naw Mild to!d mountinfa, many ot them mada e- r'i?!v'y ior ui. Loftis Seven-Diamond Cluster Rings um. The Dismonda are afca mouniea ao " a?r UN (7KB atone. Handiomaat and moat ahowjr rini for the Least Mone. - Marvels of Beauty at 150. 176, f 10Q end 1125. Credit Ttrma, $1.23, $1.85, $2.80 and $3 par 71. 1 ff Very Popular JJ r -a--Baaa------i mm 360 Diamond Ring, 14k aolid cold. "Lof tis Perfec- mc tion".4........V'aJ $3.80 Month H75--Li Valliere -fine aolid gold, one brilliant Dia mond, one real Pearl, 16-ln. aolid sold neck chain, $16.75 S1.6S a Month 533 Men's Diamond Bing, S prone Tooth mounting, 14k spiid gold. K e m,a g - or polished tec finish $1.80 a Week ftOFTIS Open Daily till S p. m.. Saturday till 9.30, Call or write for Catalog No. 803, Phone i jfl4 ma salesman will call. . 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