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Stick to your substitutes; they are good to
eat.
Dr. Garfield is due for another session with
the coal men. ' " ': ; '
Mr. Ultimate Consumer will be glad to wel
come all foods on their way down.
Checking up the war worker is one way to
find out who really is doing something for the
cause. ' . . ' ' - y
Quite characteristic of the busy bolshevik!
that they should call on the. women to defend
them from the oncoming Hunnish hordes.
With the Baltic sea transformed to be a Ger
man lake, the Swedes will have a chance to ap
preciate the results of their animosity for Russia.
Germans and Austrians may squabble over
which has done the most in the war, but it will
not take the world long to announce which has
done the worst
"Advertise and watch Omaha rise," is selected
as the slogan by the Chamber of Commerce's
publicity bureau. It is good, but Omaha can
well dispense with some of the advertising it has
had In recent years. . '. '
- Food hoarders are running to cover, and prices
are coming down in dread of what may happen.
A little more vigor on part of the food adminis
tration may have the effect of ending a lot of un
wholesome but insistent profiteering.
If the kaiser has been careful to keep his
torn out of danger, it must be charged to his
Imperial solicitude for the kingdoms he was to
ctinqvler. Decidedly advantageous, you know, to
start off with a real heaven-anointed Hohen
zollern on the throne. e ,
" Nebraska republicans stand pledged to sup
port any measure, that is designed to win the
war and make the world safe for democracy. It
hardly was required that a formal resolution to
that effect be adopted, for the republican party
always his stood first in the line of defense of
the flag and the constitution.
Misapplied Notions of Comity,
Idealists customarily fix their view on the dis
tant sunlit peak, with little or no regard of diffi
culties that lie between them and the goal of
their vision. For an excellent example of this
visionary planning, take one plank of the plat
form just adopted by the newly-born national
party. It provides that all foreign investments
shall assume their own risks. If this means any
thing, it is that any dealer venturing beyond the
confines of his own country does so entirely
without protection from his home government
Assuming' that all nations are equally honest,
capable and devoid of guile, this is perhaps
proper. ' Experience has shown, though, that
some peoples fail at times in the matter of re
sponsibility;, various small nations have sought
to evade debts contracted In their name; just
now the bolshevik! has formally repudiated the
entire, Russian national debt, which means enor
mous losses to investors. If it be acknowledged
as a principle that repudiation can be resorted to
as a method of settlement of national or individ
ual obligation, what will happen? Confusion such
as the world never knew is inevitable. Such a
course renders nugatory the preceding plank in
the new party's platform, calling" for the abolition
of all prohibitive or protective duties, that com
merce may be utterly without restraint Comity
between nations subsists on national responsi
bility, and this in turn rests on the people of each
nation.. Our zealous brethren, so earnest for. the
establishment of better ways of living amongst
aU men and the foundation of a world republic,
have set a high mark, but made a poor (tart
towards reaching it
Along the Western Front
Signs multiply in support of the conclusion
that the German activity along the western front
is more of defensive than offensive in its nature.
It still is within the range of possibilities that
the kaiser will strike again, either for Paris or
Calais, but careful observers are leaning more to
the belief that the offensive must come from the
Entente Allies. Physical reasons account for the
present quiet The rains of winter have left the
ground in such condition that operations on
either side are for the present but of the question.
This state of affairs will not endure, and soon we
must have disclosed to us some of the strategy
decided upon at the council of Versailles. This,
it has been stated, was outlined by General Bliss,
then chief of staff of the United States army, and
that it was accepted without demur by the
French and British high command indicates that
it is looked upon as sound in all regards. What it
involves has in no way been divulged, but it is
certain that if it be an offensive move American
soldiers will have their full share in the attack.
Germany naturally has made all possible prepa
rations for the great battle that must be fought,
and there the matter rests. All else is specula
tive and must await the issue of events.
Profiteering Not Yet Stopped.
As testimony that profiteering on the soldiers
is not yet stopped we quote the following from
our acrcyss-the-river contemporary, the Nonpareil:
A statement in Major Don Macrae's letter
to Mrs. Macrae is of interest because it dem
onstrates the truth of the claim that profiteer
ing is running rampant in this country. Puttees,'
which were quoted at $15 in New York, the
major writes, could be bought for $6 in Eng
land. A Sam Brown belt, which cost $7 in
England, was quoted at $19 in New Ydrk.
Will Keeline of this city brings similar in
formation from Texas, where he went last week
to visit his son, who is in the service. In the
city near which the camp is located the sol
diers were being charged about double the
prices for all articles purchased that civilians
were required ,to pay.
It it fair for the government, while calling for
the supreme sacrifice of a large part of its sons
and for self-deprivation of the stay-at-homes, to
shut its eyes to flagrant abuses of this sort?
Should not the boya in the .training camps be
protected against profiteering in the articles
which they must buy at whatever price is asked
because by regulations they must have them?
Nature's Beautiful Fireworks.
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and
the firmament showethhis handiwork." When
the mind of man first began to receive and record
distinct and intelligible impressions, the earliest
of them had to do with natural phenomena, and
none of these were more clearly outlined or less
understood than the spectacles of heavens. In
awe and wonderment he gazed and marveled, and,
failing to comprehend, gave to each some at
tribute of divinity or ascribed its appearance to
a mood of one or another of his gods. Through
all the sgea the panorama of the night has chal
lenged man, and never has he relaxed his efforts
to fathom the secrets or probe the depths of
space. Just as his increasing knowledge has
stripped away the fancies and fantasies that hid
the truth, so has each new discovery added
beauty and majesty to the thoughts of universe.
No display of nature excites wonderment be
yond that engendered by the aurora borealis, and
yet it is explained most readily and on easily un
derstood physical grounds. First of all, it is a
discharge of electricity; instead of showing as
does the lightning, which Is a spark discharged
through a dense medium, the aufora is caused by
the passage of the fluid through a light gas. Just
as the lightning results from the condensation of
the watery vapor into rain drops, so the auroral
display depends upon the presence of watery
vapor, in a most attenuated form. This much of
its physics is well understood; some of its other
manifestations are not so plain, as for example its
fidelity to the magnetic pole.
Knowing these things does not detract from
the magnificence of the "northern lights," nor
does it lessen man's amazement at nature's won
ders.. "Day unto day uttereth speech, and night
unto night showeth knowledge," now as in the
days of David.
British Suffrage Greatly Enlarged
Kaiser Profiteering In America.
Kaiser Wilhelm, former Chancellor von Beth-man-Hollweg,
German junkers generally, and the
German government itself are sharing in war
profits in the United States. This, astounding
state of affairs has been disclosed by A. Mitchell
Palmer custodian of alien property, who asks
that he be permitted to check the practice
through sale of the property and impounding of
the proceeds. It is a part of the great German
scheme of conquest. Before the senate committee
Mr. Palmer said: ,
"The German empire, through its financial
operations, has put an industrial and commer
cial chain all the' way across the country and
through our insular possessions. We have be
come thoroughly convinced that it would be
wise and highly desirable at this time if the
ownership of some of those properties could
be permanently taken away."
, Americana have no desire to deprive an enemy
of property or goods beyond the necessity of
war. In this case, however, it is imperative for
present public safety that the ownership of these
factories and facilities be changed, so that the
kaiser and his party can not take profit from
Americans engaged in war against them. ,
London Letter in
This week (February 8), there has been
passed into law the most sweeping measure
of Parliamentary reform the country has
ever seen, and nobody seems to care two
pence about it. Popular indifference was faith
fully reflected in the newspapers the morning
after the Representation of the People bill
passed through its last stages and received
the royal assent. As . to the man on the
street or the woman in the queue one
might suppose .that neither of them is at all
uplifted by the acquisition of a vote. He or
she would rather get half a pound of marga
rine. The enactment of this measure is sig
nificant in many ways. It is the one firstclass
piece of permanent legislation that has gone
on the statute book since the outbreak of
the war. Parliament has passed a number
of bills vitally affecting the every day life
of the citizen the Defence of the Realm act,
the Military Service act, and so on but these
are understood to be "for the duration" only,
and will be repealed when peace returns. A
further point of interest is that this bill owes
its existence to an entirely new method, ap
proximating in some degree to the American
system of the constitutional convention.
Its result will be an enormous enlarge
ment of the voting population. The reform
act of 1832, which was not carried without
bringing the country to the verge of revolu
tion, added 500,000 persons to the electoral
roll, and brought the proportion of voters up
to one in 24 of the entire population. The
changes made in 1867' and 1884 created 1,
000.000 and 2,000,000 new voters, respectively,
and raised the proportion to 1 in 12 and 1 in
7. The reform act of 1918 gives the vote to
r.o less than 8,000,000 persons hitherto unen
franchised, and brings the total on the reg
ister up to one in three of the population. -
The most sensational feature of the re
form is, of course, the admission of women
to the Parliamentary franchise. The con
ferment of the vote upon women is subject,
however, to curious limitations. They have
not yet acquired the full political status of
men. The new system is not one of general
womanhood suffrage corresponding to the
practically general manhood suffrage intro
duced by the act. In order to be qualified
for a vote, a woman must be 30 years of age,
and either a local government elector or the
wife of one. (The qualification for the local
government franchise is six months' owner
ship or tenancy of land or premises.) The
age restriction is especially anomalous, when
we remember that it is the service rendered
by women to the prosecution of the war that
has converted those anti-suffragists who have
now withdrawn their opposition, and that it
is more particularly to the younger women
that the country owes this assistance. Natur
ally, so inconrojete an enfranchisement is
far from satisfying the suffragists, and a re
newal of their agitation mav certainly be ex
pected before long, not only to equalize the
basis of the vote as between men and wom
en, but also to allow the election of women
to Parliament. Meanwhile, activities are al
ready being set on foot for the organization
and political education of the 6,000,000 wom
en whose names will be placed on the reg
ister during the next few months.
As regards men, the chief alteration is
the sweeping away of the complicated sched
ule of qualifications that has hitherto been
in force, and the substitution for it of a much
simpler system by which every adult male
will receive the vote who is 21 years of age
and has been for six months a resident, or
the occupant of business premises, in the dis-
New York Post
trict in which he claims to be registered. It
is estimated that this extension will add
about ' 2,000,000 names to the register. In
addition, men who have served in the war
will be entitled to the vote at the age of
19. In future elections the number of per
sons actually recording their choice will be
further increased by a provision that ballot
papers may be filled up by voters who at the
time are absent from home. In the case
of soldiers and sailors serving in distant
areas, and merchant seamen, pilots and fish
ermen at sea, votes may be given by proxy.
This is regarded by many as a vicious prin
ciple, which will stimulate the mischievous
intrigues of the worst type of party agent
On the other hand there are two pro
visions that will reduce to some extent the
number of votes that would otherwise be
polled. In the first place, conscientious ob
jectors to military service are disqualified.
This is the one really bad blot on the act,
The second limitation on the total poll will
cut off a much larger number of the ballots
that would have been cast under the old
regime. The plural voter, who at former
contests used to fly over the country during
the election period and cast his vote in sev
eral districts in virtue of his ownership of
property in each of them, will find his wings
cliped by the new act Henceforth he may
not vote in more than two in one as a resi
dent and in another as an occupant of busi
ness premises. t
A corollary of the "one man, one vote"
principle is that of "one vote, one value."
In the present House of Commons, if you
select any two members at haphazard, you
may find that they represent a very different
number of voters. For example, the Rom
ford division of Essex, with an electoral roll
of over 52,000, his only one member, while
the borough of Winchester, with. 3,200
voters, enjoys the same representation in
Parliament To rectify such anomalies the
act includes a scheme of redistribution on
the basis of one member for every 70,000 of
the population in Great Britain and one for
every 43,000 in Ireland. This will give due
weight to the big centers of population, and
will extinguish the separate representation
of 44 old boroughs most of them venerable
and picturesque cathedral cities by merging
them in the county areas to which they be
long. Redistribution on the basis mentioned
will have the incidental result of enlarging
the membership of the House from 670 to
707. It will give England 31 more repre
sentatives, Wales two more, Scotland two
more, and Ireland two more.
Not the least important of the changes
concerns the cost of elections, for the re
forms introduced in this respect will open
the door of Parliament much wider to
candidates of narrow means. Until now,
what are known as the "returning officers'
expenses" including the hire of polling sta
tions, the printing of ballot papers, the pro
vision of ballot boxes, and the payment of
election officials has been divided in each
district between the candidates. Anyone who
has had the ambition of entering Parliament
has therefore had to be prepared for an ini
tial outlay running into hundreds of pounds,
in addition to the cost of his own ejection
campaign. Henceforth he will be required to
do no more than make a deposit of 150,
which will be returned to him after the elec
tion unless he has failed to, secure one-eighth
of the total number of votes polled a re
quirement inteded to prevent frivolous can
didatures. All the expenses of the election
itself will henceforth be met by the state.
Drive for More Wheat
Secretary of Agriculture Houston asks
that farmers sow at least 3,000,000 acres
more of wheat and at the same time wants
the number of swine increased from 71,874,
000 to 82,080,000. He would have the so
called "xorn belt" take on more wheat He
favors more food crops in the south, yet
"emphasizes the need of an adequate cotton
supply." We cannot avoid the suggestion
that you can't have your cake and eat it
too; that cattle and swine need corn, and
that if an "adequate" cotton supply for the
needs of the United States and the world is
raised very little cotton land will produce
foods.
Frankly, however, the need of more wheat
is not within the realm of argument. Food
for men is the first requisite of a wearied
and distracted world. No other food takes
the place of wheat.
The real question it will seem to many
students, is whether increase of acreage or
more intensive farming is the solution of the
problem. If you merely increase acreage,
which seems to be Secretary Houston's no
tion, you take land better suited to produc
tion of corn or leguminous crops or cotton.
You cut production of what is essential to
giving meats and table vegetables and
clothes. But if you urge and succeed in get
ting more intensive farming of lands suited
for wheat, no other crop is affected.
What are the facts? The old Romans
used to get from 20 to 27 bushels of wheat
from an acre. Germany gets, or got before
the war, 28 bushels. The British islands got
32. France got 20. Our own production
was and is at the rate of 13.7 bushels an
acre.
The explanation lies in the cheapness of
land and the disposition of farmers to use
many acres with cultivation as little arduous
as possible and with as slight an expense for
fertilizers as possible. The Nebraska farmer
does little fertilizing and has too often neg
lected the alternation of crops. This alter
nation is especially needful with wheat be
cause wheat does not lend itself to the
"nitrifying" bacteria directly. Leguminous
crops do. Yet if the latter, inoculated with
the nitrogen-fixing bacteria, are raised one
year, the wheat yield the next year will be
greatly increased. If every wheat raiser,
however, would put from 250 to 500 pounds
per acre of a , nitrogen-phosphate-potash
AAMm..riflt t-rt'XtTfr nn hia land, aiterna-
WU1II4VIVI.I w w. va. .... ,
tion for a short term of years would npt be
' j 7m. :Vi 1 at in rate
more than half as much per acre as Germany
can raise. That would be efficiency in agri
cultureBrooklyn Eagle.
First andLastFall of Jericho
day General Sir E. H. H. Allenby's Aus-
r1i3n trnnr rnrlft aa mnnuftrera into a
little village of huts, noted geographically
. . . ,. r i . i a! l.
as Detng tne city or lowest eicvauun vu caim.
and in Biblical story as being the scene of
the first victory in Israel's conquest of the
Promised Land. .
In the Canaanite days Jericho was a forti
fied city, commanding both 'the lower ford
nf thf Wrfan anrf the route leadin&r uo to
the highlands of Judea. The story of its
siege and capture and the destruction of its
MMit.t!AN a rnm at tri cnrrarit1ar atnrir1.
of the Old Testament, which contrasts
strongly with its gentle seizure or a cnris
tian army in a year of our Lord, 35 centuries
later.
According to the Old Testament story
the city was left desolate with a curse from
Joshua, upon the man who should attempt
to rebuild it. And it is related that Hiel,
the Bethelite, who did rebuild it, lost his two
sons in the construction ot tne wan as pun
ishment for his temerity.
Tf mil at lVrirhn that Toahua instituted
his campaign of frightfulness upon his en
emies; anu ii was uu mc juium iua ivau
inn i,n tn tho Tnripaft Viiorhtanrla that TeSUS
laid the scene of the story of the Good
Samaritan wno gave nrst am to a wounaeu
enemy. The advance from Joshua to Jesus
n tha tinman SHcal nf rlntv toward one's en
emies is the very measure of the spread be
tween the ideals ot winaenDurg ana Aiienoy
on the same question.
This war is fundamentally a conflict be
tween the ideals of modern brotherhood and
ancient overlordship; and nowhere is the
contrast more noteworthy than in this little
village of Jericho, where the people today
are safer in the hands of their enemies than
they were under the rule of their own peo
ple. The world, with the exception of Ger
many and Turkey, has traveled a long way
between the two falls of Jericho. Minne
apolis Journal
People and Events
Another sign of spring marbles.
The country is safe I Word comes from
the sawdust ring that the "circus will be big
ger and better than ever" the coming season.
Cheer up, dadst
Miss Beulah Prescott 26, of Winterton,
N. Y is on the way to Mukden, China, to
become a May day bride of Willard F. Lloyd.
A 10,000 mile jaunt for the only man
glimpses a notable joyride. "
I iODAV
One Year Ago Today in the War.
Minor outbreaks in Petrograd and
the street put under guard of
mounted police.
President Wilson called the atxty
fifth congress to meet in extra session
to consider the relations with Ger
many. .
The Cay We Celebrate.
John Erlckson, jr., captain of the
city fire department born 1870.
Ellis tj. Graff, former superinten
dent of Omaha schools, born 1875.
John M. Gilchrist certified account-
Ant of Omaha, born 1862.
. Edward G. Acheson, the discoverer
of carborundum, born at washing'
ton.' Pa.. 82 Ve&rs SEO.
Eddie Foy. one of thl veteran
comedians of the American stage,
born in New York City 64 years ago,
' Daniel 3. Sully, at one time known
as "the cotton klnr' in the specula'
. ttve market born at Providence, R.
L, tl years ago.
This Da In History.
1 80S Edwin Forrest one of the
rreatest American tragedians, born in
Philadelphia, , Pied there, December
iz.itn.
J8lz President Madison disclosed
alleged plot of the federalists ot
New England to dismember the union.
- 1815 David Davis, the Illinois
jurist and statesman who served as
executive of the Abraham Lincoln
estate, born in -Maryland. Died at
Eloomlnffton, 111., in 1888. .
Just SO Years Ago Today
The 8outh Omaha Ice company is
getting down to business and the first
of their new wagons is on the street
Charlie Hoyt's "Bunch of Keys" at-
tracted a very large crowd at Boyd's
opera house.
A meeting of the real estate dealers
was held at the office of C. E. Mayne
for the purpose of advertising the city
and aiding in its development by the
introduction of mercantile and man
ufacturing institutions. Among those
present were, C. E. Mayne, E. T.
Oadd, 3. B. Carmlchael, 3. L. Rice,
George N. Hicks, J. F. Flack, I v.
Morse, C. F. Harrison, George A.
Joptin and G. S. Ambler.
Today was featureless in the great
Burlington strike, and the threatened
walkout of engineers and firemen of
other roads centering In Omaha failed
to occur.
Right to the Point
St Louis Globe-Democrat: We
shall always believe there is plenty
to eat in this country so long as we
can go on buying a pound of candy
twice a week.
Baltimore American: With the
German language being dropped from
some schools, the pupils who have
struggled with it are convinced Sher
man's statement should be somewhat
qualified.
Washington Post: It may be that
stern necessity calls for the shooting
of American soldiers who go to sleep
on duty in France, but it would be an
awful calamity if the regulations were
applied to the home folks.
Brooklyn Eagle: One of the- old
palaces of Venice, the one in which
Robert Browning died, has been dam
aged by a Teuton alrbomb. The con
flict between the Beast as the Beast
and Beauty as Beauty : . Irrepressible
and everlistlng.
New York World: Another army
chaplain praises the morals of Amer
ican soldiers In France aa "better than
at home." Perhaps the increasing
volume of such testimony, based on
personal observation, will outweigh
in time the fanciful theories of alarm
ist moral regulators.
Louisville Courier-Journal: The
kaiser has a man running for the
United States senate in Georgia, as
well as in Wisconsin. It ought to ne
easier to beat Hardwick than it is to
beat the La Follette candidate, for
there is no such army of German re
servists In Georgia as fiere is in Wis-
-in.
Twice Told Tales
Refined Cruelty.
James Reginald was engaged to be
married to the beautiful Edythe
Maria whpn throuch soma trivial
cause the usual lovers' quarrel en
sued. Drawing nerseu xo aa impe
rious height the angry charmer re
moved her flashing solitaire.
"Take back your ring!" she ex
claimed, throwing the bauble at J.
Reginald, "and in return I shall ex
vnii . in man A rrift everything in
your possession that belongs to me.
"All tnai l nave, r-uyiuo juaiis,
returned J. Reginald in a stricken
voice, "is a photograph and a lock of
your hair. I don't suppose you will
want the photograph, but you might
care for the hair as a souvenir."
"As a souvenirl" exclaimed the
haughty beauty. "As a souvenir ot
what, pray tell meT"
"Of other days, Edythe Marie,"
answered J. Reginald, "of the time
when you were a brunette." Phila
delphia Telegraph.
Such an Insult
Two women who had not seen each
other for many years met unex
pectedly in the street
"How do you dot" exclaimed one,
effusively.
JNow, this is delightful!" said the
other, who was the elder. "You
haven't seen ma for 11 years, and yet
you knew me at oncel I cannot have
changed so dreadfully in all that time.
"Oh, I recognised your bonnet,
said the first Pittsburgh Chronicle-$ejgraph.
"Over There"
R.ntinnrl ia wild to have sent one-
fifth of its population to the war.
General Pershing is buying mules In
Spain. And the general was born in
Missouri.
King Constantino that was in by
gone Grecian days is said to be a per
sistent spieler for Germany abroad in
Switzerland. Thte ought to make se
cure his connection with the slush
fund of Sophia's brother.
At a recent election In Coblent for
a seat in the German Reichstag, the
candidate of the peace party was
elected by a vote of 6,287 aginst 4,608
for his opponent
Washington hears that butter is
selling in Berlin at 82.25 a pound,
sugar at 66 cents a pound, ham and
bacon at $2.11 a pound and common
soap at SO cents a cake. The pocket
as well as the inward touch long ago
convinced the Berliners that they
started something they couldn't let
go.
An nnnamerl American ffeneral
whose letters to relatives are quoted
by tne Boston Transcript, uenuuuuoo
Unnnt.mMihla btiH mitraeaniia" tha
lies circulated in New England re
garding the habits and conduct of
soldiers from tnat section, - uur men,
ia writes, "ara about as clean and
fine a lot as I ever knew, and their
morals are tne oesx x ever nearu ui.
Therefore you can imagine how I feel
hunt trto rAtament that there are
1,048 New England boys being ar
rested every night for drunkenness,
when in fact there is not one. There
have been 1S5 arrests in this division
for all infractions."
7 VJJ,
Pensions for Civil War Widows.
Omaha, March 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: All civil war widows who
are not pension beneficiaries in the
city of Omaha and state of Nebraska
should write to Hon. William Ash
brook, house of representatives,
Washington, D. C, pleading for, an
amendment to the Aahbrook pension
law. This class of civil war widows
has been deprived of pensions for a
very trivial cause. A few girls went
to old Soldiers' homes and married
veteran soldiers for their pensions
after the death of the soldier-husband.
Not all soldier's wives of this class
married at soldiers' homes, but they
are refused their pensions with the
rest who did. How different from
those girls are the girls of today?
Hundreds of them are marrying United
States soldier boys for their insurance,
and they receive it and will receive it
Our husbands responded to the call of
their country and offered their lives on
their country's altar the same as all
soldiers have done. I know civil war
widows who have good farms had
their pensions increased October 6,
1918, ' also Spanish-American war
widows receive pensions, but we, as a
class, receive not a penny. Wherein
is there any justice?
A NEEDY CIVIL WAR WIDOW.
r Perpetual Civic Forum.
Omaha, March 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: It is quite the unanimous
opinion that the present conditions
in Omaha are going to be changed at
the next election. Yet it is not enough
that a certain group of men shall be
turned out and another group placed
in public office. It is not enough to
elect even good men in the place of
those who have betrayed public trust
Democracy must be always on the
Job.
s It is not the business of the city
commission to determine the policies
for the city of Omaha. That is the
right and the duty of the people. The
commission has but one duty to per
form carry out such policies as the
people may determine. The commis
sioners are only department man
agers. The policy of the corporation
is for the entire corporation to deter
mine. The old. New England town meeting
idea is still the highest expression of
democracy. We can adopt it in
Omaha.
Let the Board of Education turn
over every school house in the city one
certain night of every week in the
year. Let it be known that there shall
be a citizen's meeting on that night
throughout the city. These meetings
would express the will of the people
in each neighborhood of the city.
Then the city commission could
establish a central meeting to be held
in the Auditorium regularly every
month. To this meeting would come
delegates from every section of the
city. In this mass meeting oi repre
sentatives from all parts of the
city a general discussion of plans and
r thJ
swa os
policies for the good o Omaha would
be formulated. It would then be but
a simple thing for the commission td
carry out that expressed will of the;
people. "
LINES TO A LAUGH.
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-.Fit vtewa alone our Una of railroad
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Una ona day laat weak and hava Tlewa
my own on It Boaton Transcnpi. . j
Mrs. Bacon Do you lova me. dear?
Jlr. Bacon Ot courae, I lova you. .
"Well, a year ago you aald yon lovea
me, but you refused me a new bonnet."
"Well, I love you Just the same way now,
dear." Tonkera Statesman.
"The Judge waa very nice."
"Yea?" ; . .
"Gave me a divorce, permission to marry
again, and Intimated that If I didn't do
better than I did the first time he'd grant
me another divorce." Laulsvllla Courier
Journal. "What Is that you are serving, wlfey?"
"Lucifer food."
"I thought you said you were going to
make an angel cake?"
"I was; but It fell." Judge.
"What caused the split In your Shakes
peare club?" . .
"The president was too literal. She
wanted to give us copies of Shakespeare aa
bridge prises. The rest of us preferred
bric-a-brac." Baltimore American.
A small boy who had been In the habit
ot leaving food on hie plats was warned
that Mr. Hoover would not approve of it
He Immediately replied: "I've always
had to mind daddy and mother and Aunt
Mary and Ood, and now here comes along
Mr. Hoover." Life.
Pat Well, no wan can pravint what's
pasht an' gone.
Mike Ta could if ye acted quick enough.
Pat O'wan now! How could ye?
Mike Sthop It before It happens. Boston
Transcript
HIS MAJESTY THE LETTER
CARRIER.
Emanuel CarnevaU in Poatry.
Half past seven In the morning
And the sun winks at me.
Halt hidden by tha last house of tha street
Hts long fingers
Scare away those trot tlng little men
Who rush westward from tha aaat to their
jobs.
Laughing, the sun pursues tham
Ah, there he is!
Who? e The letter-carrier, ot eourseli
(What do you think I got up so early for?)1
Tou never see him run
He. Is so proud
Because he's got my happiness la that dirty
bag:
He's got a kiss from my sweetheart,
Some money for me to buy soma food,
And a white, nice collar.
That'a why ne'e so conceited.
That's why he wants to show
That ha doesn't know tha aun la behind him,
That tha laughing sun Is behind him
Pushing him along to make him bring ma
my happiness:
A kiss from my sweetheart, - .
Soma money to buy me some food and a
clean collar, ;
And a letter from an editor that says: i
"You're a great poet, young man!'1
a j
Damn HI I guess he heard ma raving about
him: I
He passed by my door and didn't even1
turn around. ,
What shall I do? What shall I do?
Oh, never mind tomorrow, tomorrow.
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