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Waving flags and singing songs will not win
tlie war.
An increase in spring wheat acreage is Ne
braska's answer to the call from a hungry world.
:i It begins to look like "The Finished Mystery"
really is finished, so far as. Uncle Sam is concerned.
Mr. Baker squinted through the sights of a
big gun while in France, but let us hope he did
not forget himself aid pull the sna'pper.
i Nebraska leads the country Tn per capita pur
chase of the war savings stamps, which fact our
people will note without slacketrng their efforts.
t Colonel George Harvey no longer has direct
connection with Washington, but that does not
lessen the earnestness of his appeal to the presi
dent. , ; , - . ' f
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Colonel "Matt"' Tifiley of Council Bluffs has
won the French cross of war, but that will not
pevcnt his sticking close o the job, just as he
has in the past.
Whether the haul be great or small, Brother
Heney may be depended on to put Omaha in the
headlines of the newspapers all over the country
for a day or two.
jf Governor Neville has certainly built a tight
fence around that special legislative session. It
looks as if the lawmakers might . have to pay
their own board bills. .
,? Reports coming in from the winter wheat belt
are materially different in tone from those re
ceived a year ago. Nebraska will re In line with
a 'regular wheat crop this season. ;
I All the clocks in the country are to be set
ahead one hour a week from Sunday, but the
earth will only turn over at the rate it has been
going ever since we knew anything about it
' City commissioners are just beginning to dis
cover that they picked a poor time to start build
ing a city jail. They have, however, the deep
satisfaction of knowing they got the bond issue
through." i ' ' - '
'' Von Hertling holds up his hands fn holy
horror at the course the allies are pursuing with
Holland, finding therein complete justification
for everything Germany has done, including Bel
gium, Serbia and Armenia. It does not require
much to stimulate the German conscience to self
righteous activity those days.
Omaha as a Military Headquarters.
Whatever considerations may have entered
into the denial of Omaha's application for one of
the great military cantonments, it is becoming
evident that officers In high command have finally
noted what has been known to the army for
many years that this city is strategically well
located. It has distinct advantages as a military
headquarters, and as such has been established
for over half a century. Location, railroad facilities
and every factor entering into the military prob
lem have weight in favor of Omaha. All of these
things combine in favor of the extension of the
, quartermaster's depot here, plans for which are
said to be under consideration in Washington.
No point in the central west can match Omaha
in this regard. A center of production, where
supplies can be purchased in such quantities as
the army requires, with shipping facilities that
provide immediate service for any post or can
tonment, it thus fully meets the requirements
for prompt and economical administration of the
supply department. Extension of the quarter
master's depot here instead of its abandonment
seems to be the proper course for the army to
pursue.
PARADE FOR THE LIBERTY LOAN.
Flans are now being rounded out for a great
parade on April 6, to commemorate the anniver
sary of our entrance into the war and to open the
drive for the third Liberty loan. In this way
everybody will be given a chance to evince the
loyalty that should pervade all hearts, and by a
simple act to exhibit the devotion all must ex
perience, if we are to win the war. America will
not come out of the conflict victorious unless all
Americans unite, without reserve, to the purpose
of winning. Marching in itself is not a test of
loyalty," nor is fidelity to the country to be meas
ured by the buying of bonds, nor will a com
bination of the two prove the extent of patriotic
impulse. One may march and cheer for the flag,
buy bonds and otherwise perform lip-service, and
yet remain treacherously unfaithful to the home
land. It is impossible to detect these secret foes
by their outward demeanor, but they may be
known in other ways. The loyal, true citizens,
whose hopes and aspirations are all contained
in Old Glory, can follow the flag that day, as on
all days, with clear eyes and high-beating hearts,
secure in the knowledge that we will win, and
also that in time the traitors will be known. The
parade on April 6 ought to be a notice to kaiser
itcs everywhere that Omaha is loyal, despite ef
forts to undermine and weaken the spirit of our
people.
The Union Depot Question.
The suggestion of The Bee that Omaha be
given a union passenger station by a war economy
order that would take down the fence between
our two stations, shut one of them and handle
the train traffic from the other, has drawn forth
from railroad men a variety of opinions. Even
those who think it premature admit the tendency
of the times is in this direction, and there is no
question in anyone's mind that one passenger
station can serve Omaha's needs and accommo
date the graveling public better and more effi
ciently than two and with a worth-while saving
in expense.
One railroad man offers another solution that
would retain both stations, ,but take the trains
going in one direction to one and those going in
the opposite direction to the other a wholly
impracticable scheme that would pake confusion
worse confounded and increase instead of lessen
the operating cost. Other railroad men advocate
a subway under the tracks, which might be good
enough as a temporary expedient for safety pre
cautions, especially jf a few more tracks be
added to the present complement, but it is no
necessary part of The Bee's suggestion. Still
others mistake the proposal as one calling for
immediate construction of a new union passenger
station, which, although doubtless the ultimate
goal after the war and the restoration of normal
conditions, yet is not to be contemplated as part
of the present railway etonomy program.
Give Omaha, however, a union station with
the passenger trains of all roads converging here
running into it, thus doing away with the incon
venience, duplication and needless expense of the
duplex depots now maintained, and we may be
sure thjs process of consolidation will never be
undone, but that the new depot, no matter how
long deferred or where located, when it comes,
will be the grand union passenger station that
Omaha wants. .
Our Heroes Abroad.
The French government is decorating with
crosses and other evidences of appreciation
young Americans who have distinguished them
selves in battle. American people will fully ap
preciate the spirit of chivalric courtesy that is
behind the act, but it is quite probable that none
bf these boys, nor any of their comrades, ever
thought of a decoration for gallant conduct under
fire. If they have done anything to merit such
distinction, it is because the opportunity came in
course of duty. Our boys are over there, in
spired by a sense of the greatest duty ever laid
on them, and with a realization of what depends
upon them. That their conduct occasions surprise
and wondering but complimentary comment only
shows that Europeans, for all their study, do not
yet understand the American. i
. When our troops marched through London
two things were most remarked upon. Our men
marched silently, eyes front and faces firm,
through all the crowded ways of the great capital,
never by a sign showing any recognition of what
was going on around them. Then the British
found it difficult to distinguish officers from men
by their uniform or bearing. Since fhat day the
English people have come to understand that the
grim, determined bearing of the American sol
dier is characteristic of the men who Only take up
arms in defense of human liberty, and who only
sheathe the sword when victory forthe right lias
been won. Our French friends will come to know
this, too. '''',
, War crosses and decorations are fine things
and will be properly prized by all who receive
them, but it stitl is true of the Yankee soldier as
Jean Hooper Page wrote of him so long ago:
Not glory they sought, nor life's shallow fame,
Nor honor, nor hope of renown: "
They battled for God, and their country's fair
name,
And the flair that never came down.
Foreign-language editors of the United States
advise the bolsheviki to take heart, when what
really is needed in Russia is backbone.
The Law of the Air
The following article is based upon Mr.
Palmer's studies commenced in 1911, when
he was an editor of the Harvard Law Re
view. To be published in three parts.j
Part II.
When we watch an aviator in his broad
winged aeroplane making a daring flight and
soaring, dipping and looping in the air space
over our land we do not think of him as a
violator of the law or of our rights not to
have our air space trespassed upon, yet
technically he is a trespasser, according to
the common law, for throughout his journey,
unless he be over the ocean, he flies over the
land of others and this is a trespass upon
the private domain of those above whose
land the air-craft flies. Of course, the dam
age done to the private individual is in
finitesimal and no one thinks of suing an
aviator for such a trespass, but it is from this
starting point that the law of aeroplanes and
of the air will be developed, so far as the
rights and duties of private individuals are
concerned above the land of t the United
States. What is true of America will also
be true of countries having the common law
of England. '
The ancient maxim of the common law
is that he who owns the soil owns every
thing above and below, from heaven to hell,
and this is the thought of the student of
common law when he contemplates property
rights in the air space above the land.
Although, as has been seen, there are
numerous difficulties which may present
themselves In the application of the olfl rules
of law to the activities and transactions of
mankind in air navigation, yet the practical
mind of the American judiciary has never
felt that these difficulties were real.
The cases which have arisen to date have
been dealt with on the theory that the owner
of the surface of the soil owned the sky or
air space above to heaven and the earth be
low to hell. Since the discovery of America
by Columbus and especially since the cir
cumnavigation of the globe by Magellan we7
have believed and thought of the earth as
a globe, therefore, applying the common law
theory, a man's property in the air space
above his real estate would be defined and
bounded by ever diverging .lines and his
property in the earth below the surface
would, be defined and bounded by lines con
verging to the earth's center.
The cases which have arisen and which
call for a decision upon the point just dis
cussed are cases of trespass and cases of
nuisance. It is difficult to know just how
far the older cases intended to go in de
ciding the question of property in air space
and 'the right to legislate with reference to
air space above the given territory, because
of the technicalities which hampered all
forms of action in the early English law.
For this reason the earlier cases are not
satisfactory.
There are, however, recent cases and re
cent dealings- with property which indicate
the attitude of the lawyers ana courts of
today.
In January, 1913, the supreme ' court of
Indiana in a case entitled Board of Com
missioners of Green county against Lattas
Creek Coal company, had before it the ques
tion of the right to convey coal or other
minerals in place below the surface separate
and apart from that which applies or under
lies it, and the court said that the owner of
land may by conveyance create as many
titles beneath the surface as he can properly
designate. The court said that for purposes
of separate ownership land tould be divided
horizontally as well as vertically. '
In this case Judge Morris cited cases
which held that different parties might own
in severalty different stones of a building.
An Omaha daily of Sunday, December 6,
1914, contained a dispatch from St. Paul,
Minn., which stated that the Northern Pa-
By Harry O. Palmer of the Omaha Bar.
cific Railroad company on December 5, 1914,
sold to the First National bank a certain
piece of property and the air space for
96.25 feet above the street level, but that the
railroad company retained the property
rights above that height. This indicates that
the attorneys for the Northern Pacific Rail
road company are of the opinion that a man
who owns the surface owns the air space
above his property.
There are three theories which have been
put forth as to the question of ownership in
the air. One, that the owner of the land
owns upward to the sky and downward to
the earth's center. Another theory is that
the owner of the land has no property in the
air space above him, but rather a mere right
of user. A third view is that the owner of
the surface has a limited ownership in the
air space above his land; that is, that he
owns the air space to a reasonable height.
A great deal has been said against the
common law view that he who owns the sur
face of the land owns to the sky, because
such a theory would conflict and interfere
with the development of air navigation.
There is much good sense in this objection,
but, as Judge Blackburn of the English
bench said in the case of Kenyon against
Hart in 1865, "I understand the good sense
of this theory, but not the legal reason of it."
On the matter of the righj to navigate in
the air Simeon E. Baldwin of Connecticut
said, "The navigation of the air is not a nat
ural right. The question is whether a right
to navigate the air cannot be secured from
the state. The state owns the soil. It can
tax it, it can reclaim it for the public use
from private owners by the payment of a
reasonable sum. Successful navigation of
the air will no doubt be useful to the public.
The question then is whether the state can
give to the airship a chattel right to navigate
under certain conditions. This might be
done under a franchise or license, he thinks.
A report from Hammondport, New York,
November 1, 1913, in an Omaha daily tells us
that E. B. Jaquith, Chicago aviator, whose
aeroplane flew so much faster than a flock
of wild ducks that he had to shoot some to
avoid running over them, was fined for vio
lating the law providing that fowl can only
be taken from the land or from a blind or
float devised to conceal the hunter.
The point was perhaps not raised in the
police court of Hammondport that no act of
the aviator had been committed within the
geographical or territorial limits of the state
of New York, unless the court believed tlvat
the law of the state of New York extended
upwards to the sky, as stated in the old com
mon law maxim. The police judge of Ham
mondport considered the air space above the
city an extension of terra-firma for all legal
purposes.
Analogous cases are those where the
owner of land is permitted to cut branches
of trees which hang over into the air space
above his land or where the owner of land
may by legal action remove telegraph wires
which are stretched through the air over his
land. As early as 1815 in the famous case
of Pickering against Rudd, a case wherein
the, defendant on his own land fixed a board
which projected into the air space over the
land of another. He was sued for trespass.
Lord Ellenborough said it was not trespass
to-interfere with the superincumbent air
space. He suggested that some other kind
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case is not important. However, Judgf
Blackburn could see no legal reason for
Lord Ellenborough's hesitation.
In the case of Clifton against Burg there
was a suit for an injunction to restrain par
ties from shooting over the land of the com
plainant. Here the court said there was a
cause of action at law, although no bullets
fell on the land but passed through, the air
space at a height of 75 feet or more. This is
in harmony with the view that land extends
to the sky.
Bitter Dose for the Junkers
The selling out to Americans of German
dock interests in Hobokea, under the bill
adopted by the senate by a 1 virtually
unanimous vote, will be a bitter draught in
the medicine that this war is administering
to German industrial and trading interests.
The sequestration and sale of those interests
is a summary proceeding naturally an act
of war. But it is warranted in international
law. Suppose it to be accomplished, and the
war over, and the German steamship inter
ests back on our shores. They will find their
vantage ground, their working foundation,
their American fulcrum of operations,
knocked out from under them. They will
have to acquire dockage space somewhere
else, and that will be a matter of great diffi
culty. The Germans will ' discover that in
torpedoing the Lusitania they blew up their
own landing place in America, and sunk their
prospects of future fortune.
Against such a fate as this for their
transatlantic steamship interests the Ger
mans are of course fighting, in this war. They
are still proposing to subject the United
States to heavy punitive damages. No doubt
the German government still stands pat on
what Bethmann-Hollweg said in the Reich
stag a year ago, while he was still chan
cellor: '
"After Germany has won the United
States will find itself confronted - with an
indemnity claim which will about equal the
entire amount expended by Germany in the
whole war. For every loan to the allies, for
every bullet, every shell, every gun, every
conceivable item of war material shipped by
America to the allies there will be an ac
counting in gold."
And since this was said there has been
our whole war, with the seizure and use of
the ships, and now the sequestration of the
German dock property. What an indemnity
we shall have to pay if we are ever weak
enough to pay iU No doubt whatever about
the disposition of the German government
to subject us to the penalty. But there would
be only two ways in which a cent of in
rtcmrntw rnnld ever be exacted by Germany
from the United States. One way would be
through an award by some -future court of
international arbitration, and the other as
the result of such a German victory over us
in the field and on the sea that not a defense
would be left to us against German ravage
and robbery. As to the international court,
it is only to be said that we have, in the
lives lost on the Lusitania and other ships,
in the wanton destruction of our own ships,
in the inroads upor our commerce and in
the cost of a war forced upon us by ruthless
German aggression, a full offset for every
claim that Germany could press. And as to
the penalty following a military conquest, all
we can say is that Germany's armies and
navies would have to be multiplied many
times, and the sea abolished, and all our mil
lions of sturdy men rounded up and put to
the sword, before a. cent of indemnity could
ever be exacted from us. The Germans will
no doubt have a hard time to put their en
terprises in this country upon their feet
again, if they ever succeed in doing that; but
whatever the cost of it may be, their own
?eople will have to bear every pfennig of it.
t is the harvest of the seed they ljave
sowed. Boston Transcript.
People and Events
Bre'r Edgar Howard will now have to
accept a little more of the unpleasant effulg
ence of the spotlight, but he probably will
sustain the ordeal as well as he has in the
past. y
Canada's soldier vote continues swelling
the majority of the Borden government. The
latest returns from the fighting fronts in
creases the Borden majority in Parliament
by 15 seats, making the present majority 60.
And the returns are not all in.
Over in Minnesota1 land owners are ex
pected to till the land, or have the job done
by tenants. The state Public Safety commis
sion regards idle landas an enemy of the
state and nation, and proposes to 'condemn
it unless the owners do their bit.
FTP DAY I
One Year Ago Today In the" War.
iJkmerlcan steamer Healdton tor
jiedoed In North Sea.
i Allies moved forward at allpoints
"from Arras to Solssons.
j Germany announced that general
retreat on west front would give
Hlndenburg a chance to fight de
cisive battle In open field.
J ust 30 Years Ago Today I Round About the State
A rnnrvrt. crlvm Vv tt Onit
school classes of Miss Shepard and
mins narvey m me nrst Metnoaist
Episcopal church, was attended by a
urge ttuuience.
Marianne Ttranrlr tha
COntraltO. Who la nnv m n 1H n or n tstiii
of this country, will sing at the Boyd's
The Day Wo Celebrate.
Charles I Dundey, lawyer, born
1172. '
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, who 'enters
upon his 85th year, was born in Bon
ton. March 20. 1834. was graduated
from Harvard college at the age of
19, and for 5 years he has been al
most continuously connected with the
CambridKa institution.
Major General Charles T. Mencher.
rommander of the. Rainbow division
In France, born in Pennsylvania. 58
years ago. '
.lit Rev. David H. Greer,' Episcopal
litrhop of New York, born at Wheel
iuj, W. Va.f 74 years ago.
Thla Day In History. ' j
- 1S04 General Neal Dow, who
Pnt a life of 8J years In active worlc
fur prohibition, bcrn at Portland, Me.
D ei there, October 2. 1897.
1813 Great Britain proclaimed a
1'ior kade ot the whole Atlantic coast, .
with the exception of the New Eng
land states. -
1815 Napoleon arrived in Paris,
after hi escape from Elba, and re
sumed the government of France. I
opera house in connection with the
Apouu ctuu, our own nome organiza
tion. The Star Lumber company flled ar
ticles of incorporation with the county
clerk. John it. Davis, Ellen Davis,
B. W. Davis, Renfrew Stevenson and
A. J. Whidden are the incorporators.
Douglas county assessors took full
possession of the rooms of the county
commissioners and laid out their work
for this year's assessment
The washout on the main line of the
Union Pacific has been repaired and
trains are running regularly.
A special meeting ot the Nebraska
State Humme society was held at the
residence of Champion S. Chase,
Ctttomlne rinllttAfil nnttt afffnfll tha
approach of spring municipal elec
tions. Owing to the burial of the wet
and dry hatchets campaigns show
comparatively little "pep" or mud.
A hot fight rages in Buffalo' coun
tv over the .Question ot employing a
county agent Opponents of the plan
regard It aa a waste of taxpayers'
money and vigorously assert they do
not need to be shown how to farm.
"Whatever doubt of the uplift of
spring lingered around Harvard has
been effectively dispelled. The Cour
ier notes the arrival In town bf a glad
some paper salesman from Omaha
who "cheered" the editor with news
of a 10 to 20 per cent advance in
S rices. The salesman didn't pass the
uck, merely piped notes of an early
spring robin.
Soitework mixed with pure cussed-
ness pulled off a few more yellow
smears In the darkness of night In sev
eral localities recently. The Yprk
Democrat brands the authors aa
"white-livered curs." "They belong to
the cowardly class who will slap a
little child because they are afraid to
meet the child'a father face to face."
Much more Indignation of the same
brand drips from the typewriter of
Editor Mauplrw which glimpses the
torrent of Invective sure t J flow in that
quarter, when the editorial bye spota
the astounding yellow scandal fea
tured by the Blue Valley Blade: "Ye
gosh even the telephone poles are be
ing accused of ' disloyalty. A lot of
them along the O. L. O. highway have
received a coat of rich, yellow paint.
Here and There
Those who have inspected the New
Jerusalem report great need of
plumbing and plumbers. The plumb
ers who went to the Holy Land are
now coming back for their tools.
A couple of sheep having been re
ported missing from a farm In Eng
land the Stafford police searched the
German prisoners' camp where they
found 'the two skins buried with the
heads attached.
When American soldiers entered
the French town of Alx-Les-Bains for
tha first time a band ot negro mu
sicians leading parade struck up the
soul-Btlrrlng air of "Hail, Hall, the
Gang's All Here."
The city of New York has spent
about $160,000,000 on its water front
The water front of Manhattan is
37.S5-miles In length; the Bronx,
64.7 miles; Brooklyn, 200.67 miles;
Queens, 196.72 miles; Richmond,
55.78 miles, or a total for Greater Ts'ew
York of 555.1 miles.
In parts of the Tyrol the brides
mother gives her daughter what is
known as the "tearkerchief." woven
in fine linen, with which she Is sup
posed to dry her eyes at the ceremony.
Afterwards she puts this away, and
it la not used again until It is laid
over her face when she is dead.
In the rapid advancement of the
pulp and paper Industry In Canada
since lsiu, wnen toiai vaiura w.w
port of putp and news print have
Increased from $7,800,000 to over
$43,000,000 and may reach $60,000,-1
000 In 1918, Canadian financiers rec-I
ognlse one ot the most promising- la I
I tiustries In tha country, .
Editorial, Snapshots
Louisville' Courier-Journal: Blas
phemer Bill ot Potsdam, loudly gives
God credit, at least once a day, for
licking the bolsheviki. But how much
credit goes for licking the bolsheviki?
Baltimore American: Another hos
pital ship has been torpedoed. The
rejoicing over this glorious victory
will propably be considerably damp
ened by the fact that there were no
patients on board to be drowned or
shot at in the boats.
Minneapolis Tribune: The United
States senate Is debating a proposition
to revoke the charter of fhe National
German-American alliance of the
United States. Why any debate, in
view of the showing that the alliance
has been the breeding center of anti
American propaganda in this coun
try? Brooklyn Eagle. The German so
cialists have ideas of brotherhood
which agree with those of the kaiser.
You first seize your brother's country,
kill off his women and children, ap
propriate his raw material, call upon
God to witness your loving kindness,
set up one of your sons as king and
the trick is done.
New York World: The German
American alliance collected from
members $886,670 for war relief pur
poses. Less than $200,000 can be
traced to organizations In Germany
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conclusion is natural that much may
have Been usea in mis country tor nu
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Price of Coal In Omaha.
Omaha, March 16. To the Editor
of The Bee: No reasonable man will
question the good faith or good inten
tions of Dr. GarHeld, national fuel
administrator. He has made mistakes
and the coal trust put it over on him
and made the rest of us pay the bill.
He has learned much, however, dur
ing the last few months, and It is rea
sonable to expect that he will do bet
ter in the future. There is no need
and no excuse for a fuel famine in this
country. We have millions of tons of
good coal right at the grass roots in
Colorado. Wyoming and other western
states. This supply is practically un
touched. The east and south are
equally well supplied with rich mines;
the central west Illinois. Missouri.
Iowa and Kansas Jiave plenty. It
only needs organization to mine and
ship and a regulation of profits.
Too many are taking a profit along
the way from the mine to the con
sumer. The mine operator wants too
large a profit, the miner is underpaid,
if anything; the railroad rate is too
hlph in some sections, the jobber takes
a heavy toll and the retailer is worst
of all. The writer will stand on this
assertion. Last summer, after Dr.
Garfield had fixed the price of coal
at the mines, several residents of
Omaha ordered a 50-ton car of Illi
nois lump coal direct from the mine.
This is generally conceded to be the
best grade of soft coal mined in the
central west. The car arrived in due
time; we had it hauled and put In our
coal bins at a total net cost of $6.06
per ton. The dealers in Omaha got
$8.50 a ton that coal at that time,
and they are getting $8.25 now. The
Nebraska fuel administrator ordered
a reduction of only 25 cents a ton for
this coal.
We submit that such regulation
does not regulate; that such price
fixing is a failure; that such profits
are excessive and unjust and should
not be tplerated. A profit of $2.50
per ton on soft coal is too much In
war time or in peace time. . It is a
holdup which cannot be justified or
excused.
Another condition which aggravates
the present situation is the fact that a
large amount of coal is sent out from
the mines without screening or grad
ing. It is full of slack and slate. Some
grades contain at least 25 per cent of
slate. It is a useless waste for the
consumer and a further waste of
transportation. It adds to the cost of
freight, requires more cars, Imposes
upon and robs the consumer and bene
fits no one except the mine owner. It
is an abuse which shoulde be cor
rected. J. T. DUNLAP.
Taxation in Omaha.
Omaha, March 14. To the Editor
of The Bee: There is no question In
municipal government so Important
as that of taxation. Taxation affects
more seriously the growth of a city
than any action a municipal govern
rilent may take.
It is not a matter that concerns
only the business interests of a com
munity. It affects every citizen.
When a vessel goes upon the rocks,
not a passenger can be indifferent to
its fate.
Omaha business cannot compete
with surrounding cities If It Is ham
pered with excessive taxation. If
Omaha enterprise cannot prosper, It
cannot employ labor. The few jobs
available become the object of com
petition among those who toil. This
has a bad effect upon wages earned.
All taxation upon the products of
Industry is added to the cost of those
products, and the consumer pays It
When the council taxes, Its first con
sideration should be to tax as lightly
as possible those thmgs that are made
by human toil, and seek more revenue
from those favors which , the city
grants to special interests. Such a
poncy wouia advance tne interests or
Omaha better than any other thing.
When we stop to think that a sin
gle cent additional cost upon any ar
ticle of commerce may affect the total
bid made by an Omaha firm in com
peting with firms of other cities, we
see how even a trifle may injure the
industrial growth of a city. If that
cent is directly caused by unjust tax
ation imposed by the city council, then
the council is directly injuring the
city. L. J. QUINBY.
SMILING LINES.
Ton surprise me, Mrs. Jaggs, when you
tell mi your husband gets drunk and beats
you. He certainly told me and you never
contradicted him, that be la on the water
wagon."
"Sure, and he Is, sir. He's on one of
them street sprinklers." Baltimore American.
"William the Conqueror," read the small
boy from 'his history, "landed in England In
1066 A. D."
"What does Al D. stand for?" Inquired the
teacher.
The small boy pondered.
"I don't exactly know," he said. "Maybe
it's after dark." New York Times.
"Did you see the widow of our late
friend?"
"Yes, but when I told her I had called
Try Making Your Own
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Get from sny druggist 24 ounces of
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is about ti5 cents and gives you a full
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Tastes pleasant and never spoils.
This l'incx and sugar syrup prepara
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Pinex is a most valuable concentrated
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To avoid disappointment, be sure to
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to extend my condolences, she asked WT
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ceived his lnaurance money." Baltimoia'
American.
Pullman Porter Next atop is yo" station,
sah. Shall I brush yo' off now?
Morton Morose No; It is not necessary.
When the train stops I'll step off. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
I'm en-
Jack Tom, I'm in a terrible fix.
gaged to three girls.
Tom Well, that's not exactly a crime.
Jack No, that's the worst of it. If it
were I could go to prison and have some
peace. Brooklyn Cltlxen.
Mrs. Gabby The woman across tha way
has a mean, suspicious nature.
Mrs. Hearall Why. do you know her?
Mrs. Gabby No, but she always pulls
down the blinds at her windows when she
lights the gas in her rooms. Baltimore
American.
THE SONG OF HOPE
New York Times.
Young Hope rose high on wings of proi i ct y
And, poisOfl upon a cloud, thus wh'spered
me:
"I look beyond today toward all that is
to be.
"Where once the sun on Teuton madness
gleamed,
Where once a speeding death his message
screamed,
A world through faith and love shall be re
v deemed.
"That world shall spurn the pomp and pride
of kings,
The rule of autocrats and all that brirps
Humanity to shame, and all that springs
"From tyrant will through tyrant m'ght
expressed.
Fight on! Democracy must hever rest
Until its lifted sword has met the test.
'"Fight on! The soul of man has n-ver
failed
To rear on ashes where red ruth pre
vailed A better structure! Ever dawn has hailed.
"The passing night; and now the shadowed
hour,
Fields plowed by shells, trees rent, each f
blighted flower.
Bespeaks one thing; a tyrant's waning
power.
"Fight on! There is no freemen'i com
promise '
With force that knows no law that lies
In sceptred wrong! Democracy, arlsel
"For you are young, but those you fight
are old.
Despite their braggart vaunts they feel the
cold
Of coming death. Democracy, be boldl
Be resolute, uncompromising, true
To all the vlaioned goals you ever knew.
The God of all the ages fights with you!"
a
Thus Hope sang high. Nor did she ung
in vain.
That evening's headline seemed Ilk Hope's
refrain:
"Our lads repulse the foe along the Alane!"
felH Your
2a SW?
Own
Home
is a matter of commendable
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Jutt so, the style and excell
ence of your piano or player
should be in keeping with the
interior furnishings.
We know of no' other place
where such a wide variety in
makes and styles may be had
in pianos and players.
And there's a special sale
now which offers a money-saying
in pianos and players slight
ly used. 1
We sell the Mason & Hamlin
and other pianos, $250 up.
A. H0SPE CO.
1513 Douglas St.
Tba Third Liberty Loan Drive Satur
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Regulate these organs and keep
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A
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tonsiiitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, ne!
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the chest (it often prevents pneumonil
Nothing like Musterole for croupy ca
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30c and 60c jars; hospital size $2.50.
THE SCHOOL FOR OMAHA GIRLS
The National School of Domestic Art ' and Science
Washington, D. C.'
Departments of Domestic Art, Science and Home Economics.
Preparatory Department a substitute for High School. ,
Sen-ice Courses, including: work in Telegraphy, Wireless, First Aid,
Red Cross and Secretarial studies.
Strong Musical Faculty. Outdoor Athletics, on 11-acre campua.
Brownell Hall Credits Accepted. "
Total expenses, One Thousand Dollars any department.
Eight model fireproof buildings, a few vacancies for 1918-19.
Interesting Year Book Upon Request. ' 0
Address REGISTRAR, 2650 Wisconsin Ave. N. W Wash, O. C.