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THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. JULY 13, 1918.
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THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG.
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Our Italian friends are doing well, thank you!
Thar's rain in them clouds, ' boy," so be
patient . '
Hold on to your Liberty bonds. You can
have no better investment
Balloons also blow up in New York as well
as in Omaha, and no more fuss is made over
them one place than another.
What was the matter that neither "Ned" Smith
nor "Ned" Howard could face the grocers and
butchers, as announced they would?
Fourth of July is over, but riveters are as
busy as ever in the big shipyards, and Labor day
will hear another great splash of launchings.
Just missed Friday the thirteenth by one day.
But never mind, the hoodoo day will be here
.twice before the year is ended in September
and again in December.
; The new sultan of Turkey may be pro-ally,
but he will have to come clean with Uncle Sam
if he want J to escape serious trouble right at the
start of his administration.
; Locating the source of the German "slush" fund
is quite interesting, of course, but it would be
more lo the point if we were told h6w much of
its proceeds came to Nebraska.
Chancellor von Hertling says he is awaiting
the Allies' terms for peace. He has had them
before him for, many months and will yet sub
scribe to them, for they are not subject to change.
The "salute and ride" proposition is fine, but
need not be confined to men in uniform. One of
the worsts wastes constantly committed is the
waste of automobiles running around town with
empty seats.
The job begun in January was well set ahead
in July, but wait till November, when the people
get a chance to say what they think of the des
perate effort of the court house gang to keep
themselves in office. .
The" senator's hyphenated organ offers a testi
monial of the Washington correspondent of
New York paper that also almost earned
red eagle decoration. This at least is better
than the famous testimonial given the senator
by the kaiser through "The Fatherland."
"Would republicans in our place have made
commissioner districts to favor the democrats?"
asks one of the democratic ' members of the
county board. No, but if they had perpetrated
such an outrageous job as this democratic gerry
mander what an outcry would be raised in the
democratic camp.
Why Traffic Rules Are Not Obeyed.
"That's right, judge," admitted an auto owner
in police court, after hearing the testimony of
the arresting officer. "Not right, but true," cor
' rected the judge, and he dismissed the case.
Here is part of the daily record. Last week
a reckless driver was at the police station, con
fronted by his victim, a girl who had been
knocked down and seriously injured. "He has
been punished enough," said the girl, and the
, driver was turned loose. "
Where does the public come in? Traffic laws
and rules are made to protect the people who
must use the streets. They are violated with
impunity by careless, reckless or thoughtless
. drivers. Police officers arevslow to make arrests
. because, even when the culprits admit their guilt,
the police judges dismiss the cases or administer
but nominal fines. . -
V. Omaha streets will not be made safe until
more rigid enforcement of reasonable traffic regu
lations is the practice. The practice of dismissing
offenders will not bring about the reform that is
needed. Some means of impressing this on the
minds of the police judges should be found.
' a
JUSTIFICATION THAT DOES NOT
JUSTIFY.
The rank job of redisricting the county that
disfranchises thousands of voters in Omaha who
ought to have a chance to choose a county com
missioner this fall is .defended by one of the
democrats on the board with the excuse that it
was made necessary by the election commission
er's rearrangement of ward and precinct lines
and the uneven growth of population.
Although the same pretext is set up in the
preamble of the gerrymander resolution, this is
justification that does not justify. It only goes
to confirm the charge that the whole scheme was
concocted as far back as the session of the legis
lature. The democratic lawmakers, instigated by
expert and"Art"-istic democratic wire pullers be
hind the screen, changed the commissioner law
to make us elect the board by districts instead of
by the whole county, to permit the change of the
districts without a full attendance and to lengthen
the time between redistricting' from two years to
four years.
The election commissioner, also a democrat,
it is true, arbitrarily changed the ward and pre
cinct boundaries, but that officer has no au
thority to change county commissioner bounds;
otherwise he might change them every year. The
voting precincts are pretty certain to be changed
again before another four years elapses, but if
the commissioner-law remains as it is the out
rageous injustice done by this redistricting can
not be corrected unless the gerrymander should
be knocked out in the courts.
The excuse of changing population would also
have much more weight if an honest effort had
been made to equalize the population between
the different commissioner districts instead of
merely to pile the republicans all into one or two
districts and carve out three districts with demo
cratic majorities in order to hold democratic
control
Above all, where is the justification for the
four democrats on the board holding back their
action to the eve of the election? Where is the
justification for waiting for a meeting at which
the only republican member should be absent,
sending all the newspaper reporters away and
turning he trick in the dark?' If it were all on
the square and above board it could certainly
have been done in the light of day, leisurely
and without railroading, before the candidates
began to file and after free and fair discussion.
A Dangerous Mixture.
"Adjourned politics" continues to exhibit the
beauties of the plan. One phase that might
ordinarily escape attention has to do with the
coincidence of the next Liberty loan drive and
the fall elections. None will presume to say that
any direct connection exists between the two, but
it must strike folks as peculiar that the secretary
of treasury hit on the month of October as the
time for asking the people to subscribe to the
big loan. It so happens that just at that time
the democrats will be on the stump asking to be
returned to congress, and it might turn out that
somehow the two affairs will get mixed. At any
rate, the president, vice president, cabinet of
ficers and all the heavy political artillery of the
administration will then be in action pleading
the cause of the Liberty bonds, but incidentally
telling whrt the party has accomplished. Voters
will possibly be able to discriminate between the
two drives, but the opportunity for confusing
them is quite apparent, Politics, however, has
been set aside in Washington.
Ferry First and Then the Bridge.
Auto truck transportation has had the effect
of reviving the project for a ferry across the Mis
souri river south of the city. This has been
mooted many times within the last score of years,
and several times has been on point of consum
mation. At one time a ferry did exist in the
vicinity of Bellevue, and its business was con
siderable, it finally succumbing before a govern
ment snag boat Several times the erection of a
bridge somewhere south of the city has been
seriously talked of, the Rock Island having been
reported to be backing the plan. All this has
come to naught, while the farmers on the Iowa
side have found it necessary to make a long de
tour to reach the market of Omaha with their
stuff. A safe and reliable crossing of the river,
either by bridge or ferry, that will shorten the
distance and save time as well, should be of great
service at this time. The establishment of the
ferry will demonstrate the possibility of future
traffic great enough to warrant the building of
the bridge, that will surely come if the business
warrants its existence.
Internal revenue collection for the last year
amounted to the trifle of $3,600,000,000, which is
not much in these war times, but compares very
favorably with the preceding year, when the col
lector gathered together $800,000,000 and thought
lie was doing something.
If the kaiser is going to make his big drive
before the Americans reach the battle front
he will have to hurry. More than a million are
there now and others are arriving daily. V
Revolting Austrian soldiers find themselves
allowed a choice between hunger and machine
guns, showing how popular the war is with. them.
Mustard Gas Warfare
Uncle Sam Plans to Give Hun a Dose of His Own Medicine
Mustard gas, the deadliest instrument of
warfare yet devised, is not a gas, but an am
ber fluid of a faint sweetish, not unpleasant
odor. It is no more volatile than turpen
tine. It kills by inhalation and maims or
blinds by contact. In or.e recent attack,
lasting 48 hours, it was estimated that the
Germans used 7,000 tons of it.
Now that it has become common knowl
tdge that gas was largely responsible for as
tonishing enemy successes in the last four
offensives, it is possible to give these random
facts from the story of "mustard," and to dis
cuss in some, detail its properties, manufac
ture and history It is not a story of Ger
man chemists more adroit than the allies in
this branch of the lethal arts; for American
chemists reported its deadliness and its avail
ability, both to this government and to .the
British, before the enemy began throwing it
across "No Man's Land." And, although
the United States is admittedly behind in its
gas program, it may be said, for whatever
aid and comfort it affords Berlin, that the
kind of mustard gas being manufactured here
is one-fourth more toxic than the kind being
used by the Germans.
When an official British communique last
April contained a line that Armentieres was
"full of gas" and that neither side could enter
there, few realized the tragic import of the
news. What it meant was that Armentieres
was full of mustard gas. The gutters ran
with the reddish-brown liquid. Phosgene
and other poisons evaporate so readily that
hey do not make any spot untenable for
more than a few hours, bt "mustard" lingers
trom two to four days, depending on weather
conditions. Several months earlier, at Cam
brai, the importance of the weapon had. be
come manifest. 'British infantry held Bour
lon wood. Again a.id again German troops
were hurled against that redoubtable force.
Ten times they attacked, and each time were
driven back. Then came the official an
nouncement of the British retirement. But
enemy infantry had won ro decision. Mus
tard gas was t'le victor.
It was about this time that the "Tommies"
named the stuff. No mustard enters into its
composition, but a drop ot it on a soldier's
sleeve penetrates, and, after the lapse of
hours, blisters like mustard. It is a deep
burn and causes great swelling. But mus
tard eras is so innocent in annearance and so
inoffensive to the nostrils that the soldiers!
were not on their guard against it. The
chief sufferers were the artillerymen, who
threw aside their masks after working for a
time amid it. The masks were of little avail,
anyhow, for the kind then in use did not last
10 minutes in an atmosphere" drenched with
the drug.
Such was the new weapon forged by kais
ercraft Questions have become general as to the
nature of mustard gas, and as to the ability
of the United States to produce it in quanti
ties. In an effort to answer them an inter
view was sought with Dr. Benjamin T.
Brooks, chief chemist of the Cc.imercial Re
search company at Flushing, which has taken
an active part in this phase of war prepara
tion. It was he who, IS months ago, urged
the use of mustard gas against the Germans.
"It is a peculiar quality of mustard gas
that no chemist would suspect from its struc
ture that it is toxic," said Dr. Brooks. "The
formula looks harmless enough. We made
some of it last October. As has already
been told in a newspaper dispatch, the bur
eau of mines formally reported to the ord
nance department tl.at tl i methods of man
ufacture were satisfactory. Afterward the
bureau made two more reports urging that
it be used.
"Then the ordnance department had to
decide about putting it into shells and figure
Crowder and the Draft
Boards
The letter of General Crowder to the con
ference committee on the war appropriation
bill reflects very great honor upon him. But
his declination of the promotion offered him
to be a lieutenant general will be a useless
sacrifice unless congress acts on his sugges
tion and provides some substantial recogni
tion for the draft boards throughout the
country.
The proposal to promote General Crowder
was based upon the very great success of the
administration of the selective draft, a suc
cess which is now recognized the world over.
General Crowder declines the tendered pro
motion, "which I value beyond anything in
my military career," because, as he says,
"6,000 local and district boards, with an ag
gregate membership of 18,000 citizens, have
co-operated with the national headquarters
efficiently and honorably, many without com
pensation, in the superb team work which
has produced the gratifying result attained
under the selective service law."
That tribute is timely and well paid. We
exult in the team work which has sent a
million men across the sea, and in th inter
national team work which has put all the
allied armies under General Foch, because
this co-operation is so obviously and grate
fully hastening the day when we shall win
the war. But until General Crowder spoke
up for them we have ove-lcoked the patriotic
team work of 18,000 quiet citizens without
whose devoted and skillful co-operation we
should not have had our million men ready
to send across the sea, or must have secured
them, if at all, at the cost of grave dissatis
faction and dissension here at home. As
General Crowder ooints out. many of these
loyal citizens have served without pay, but
the pay even for those who have accepted it
has been entirely inadquate to the value or
the rigor of the work done. In almost no
draft board has the supply 'of paid clerical
labor been adequate, and the board members
have imoressed volunteers among tneir tarn
ilies and friends to work for nothing for a
government which is paying every other
form of war work with extreme liberality.
Brooklyn Eagle.
New York Times.
its cost. The question arose as to whether
it could be made more cheaply or rapidly.
So the experiments continued.
"Everyone should have patience. We can
beat the Germans at this game just as we
can beat them at any other, but the manufac
turing chemists of America have only re
cently been unleashed. We can go the limit
now, but we had to get Uncle Sam's word
first. The chemists couldn't wage a private
war on Germany, much as they might have
liked to do it.
','The Germans are using two types of gas
shells, those which explode by percussion
and those which carry time fuses. Occa
sionally they drench a territory with shells,
some of which have long-time fuses and
some short-time fuses, so as to effect the
greatest possible concentration of gas in a
given sector.
"A question arises as to how the Germans
can advance through territory they have sub
jected to this gas. If the territory is un
tenable for the allies it is untenable for the
Germans, too. That is why some persons
wonder that they can make such great gains
with it. We are likely to think of the battle
front as being a solid line, like the maps we
see dajly, with another line of trenches back
of that. If the western front were a level
plain, like an Illinois prairie, that would be
fairly true of it, and gas would not be so
useful for the Germans; but the situation
actually is that there are certain strongly held
posts, such as Kemmel hill of Messines ridge,
around which the fighting centers. It is
against such positions that the Germans have
been using gas. They do not use it indis
criminately. And, once the allies are forced
by gas out of a strong position, they must
fall back to others prepared in the rear. Maps
are supplied to the German troops snowing
gassed areas, and in the advance they may
avoid them until they ar; safe for occupancy.
"One reason the mustard gas is so danger
ous is that it seams so innocent. The smell
is faint, and it is no( especially disagreeable.
The vapors from the liquid can be inhaled
without any immedate dircomfort. The ef
fect has been called 'chemical pneumonia.'
The symptoms are similar high fever, ster
torous breathing and sometimes stupor. Au
topsies have shown that the effect of the gas
on the lung tissues has been such that they
L break down like wet paper."
American War Medals
In many quarters there is misapprehen
sion regarding the designs and manufacture
of the awards for distinguished service to be
bestowed by the United States government.
It has been said that the work has been
commercialized because the designing and
manufacturing of medals have been turned
over to a business house. The fact is that
of the several awards this criticism applies
but to one, and even then it is a question if
the criticism is justified.
The distinguished service cross was de
signed and modelled by members of the
United States engineers for camouflage in
other words, by artists. The design was
made by Captains Aymar Embury and Andre
Smith. Both of these officers are well known
in art circles, Captain Smith especially as an
etcher whose work often has been in impor
tant exhibitions and is found in private and
public collections. Private Gaetano Cecere
made the model from the design.
Private Cecere is a young sculptor who
was graduated from the Beaux-Arts Free
Studio in this city. The studio, directed by
Lloyd Warren, is conducted by the National
Sculpture society and the Society of Beaux
Arts Architects. Instruction is given there
by leading sculptors. Just before he enlisted
Mr. Cecere won a competition for a medal
instituted by the Art in Trades club. Copies
of this medal are to be awarded annually by
the School of Art league to the pupils who
stand first in art in the city's high schools.
Since he went to war work by Mr. Cecere
has been in exhibitions in this cty.
The distinguished service medal was de
signed and modelled by the same men. It
and the cross represent the work of individ
ual artists who are thoroughly competent,
and is there not something peculiarly appro
priate in the fact that they are in uniform,
in the military service of their countrj and
in France? The dies. were cut at the Phila
delpha mint. New York Herald.
People and Events
In an age of steel the building of wooden
ships looks like a step backward. Even so
the launching of timber craft noted on-July
4 makes a caulking good record.
The summer school ciass in geography
will rise and define the boundaries of the
state of Missouri. "A vast lake of dark
brown water, surrounded on three sides by a
deset." Correct. Class dismissed.
The "work or fight" order brings a rift
of joy to theater patrons in New York. Dis
trict Attorney Swan says ticket speculating
is a nonessential industry and must go. In
other words, working the public will not win
the war.
Much more favorable support of the em
ployment of married women as teachers was
heard at the Pittsburgh convention of the
National Educational association. Views
were different in peace time. A marked
scarcity in the nation's teaching force neces
sitates a call to the married reserves and
calms the fears of the singles. Besides, the
married ones have shown surprising fighting
form wherever freedom has been assailed.
Political pots are boiling in Montana after
the manner of the Clark-Daly days. The
United States senatorship is the first prize
and two women hanker for the job Miss
Jeannette Rankin, member of congress, and
Miss Anne Martin, both republicans. Sen
ator Thomas J. Walsh, the lone democrat in
the race, thinks he has a walk-away with the
opposition split, but the copper kingdom,
with two charmers in the political ring, is a
doubtful proposition.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
War. department ordered the drafting-
Into military service ot 673,000
men, to be selected from those regis
tered on June 8 '
President Wilson Issued a proclama
tion forbidding German insurance
companies from doing further marine
or war risk Insurance business in the
I'nited States.
Thn Day We Celebrate.
Hugh B. Gray, salesman for the
Cudahy Packing company, born 1881.
W. C. Langdon, Veterinarian, born
1852.
Dr. H. W. All wine, dentist born
1885.
Dr. Mary E. Woolley, president of
Mt Holyok college, born at South
Norwalk, Conn., E years ago.
Dr. George) Leslie Omwake, presi
dent of Ursinus college, born at
Greencaetle, Pa., 47 years ago.
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This Day In History. .
1808 Marshal MacMahon, famous
soldier and president of the French
republic, born near Autun, France.
Died in Paris. October 17. 18 8 J.
1842 Marriage of the poet Henry
- Wadsworth Longfellow, and France
Elizabeth Appleton. .
18 84 John Jacob Astor, fourth of
the name, born in New Tork City.
Perished In ths Titanic disaster April
' 15, 1912. '
1868 Frank P. Blair of Misourl
1 formally acepted tho democratic nom
illation for vie president, .
Just 80 Years Ago Today
Judge Shields issued one marriage
license today. The parties were
Louis Johnson and Miss Ida Anderson,
both of Omaha.
The city clerk has received a com
munication from tha clerk of the
council chambers of Borough ot
Thames, New Zealand, asking for In
formation about operating electric
light machinery by water power.
W. R. English, deputy recorder of
deeds, is visiting In Kenosha, Wis.
Miss Italia De Rudlo, daughter of
Captain Da Rudlo, is in the city en
route to Join her father at Fort Itiley,
Kansas.
W. R. Toxer, a carpenter residing in
rooms over 1406 Hamilton street is
the fortunate- person to Inherit from
his father. Jointly with three sisters, a
plat of twenty acres of ground near
the city of London, in Bglui
State Press Comments
Aurora Republican: If ths govern
ment can get away with a horizontal
increase on railroad rates, the occupa
tion of many a tariff expert will go
s-llmmerlnz. But it is our guess that
a good many years will be required
to straighten out tne tangle in the
country's transportation system now
being woven by Director General Mc
Adoo. Kearney Hub: Charles W. Bryan
("Brother Charley") announces that
he is a candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor and submits
a platform that is real "hot stuff."
Especially is he out for the booze ring
and the profiteers. But above all he
is out for Bryan. There's always a
Bryan who is for Bryan first last and
ail the time.
Scottsbluft Republican: The move
ment which originated in Omaha to
secure an amendment to the constitu
tion permitting a single tax of 810 to
be levied on all motor vehicles, the
funds thus created to be used exclu
sively in the building and maintaining
of the highways of the state, is a good
one and if it were adopted would set
tle our highways question for all time,
and would be of greater value to the
state than any measure yet proposed
for the purpose of taking care of the
roads ot the state. There is no doubt
that the movement will find many fol
lowers from all parts of the state who
believe that just that kind ot a law
would be a good bus
Editorial Shrapnel
Kansas City Star: The sultan of
Turkey is dead, which is about . all
anybody knows about him.
Brooklyn Eagle: Multimillionaire
who pays 814,000,000 in Income tax
will leave a record for his descend
ants to boast of when thy congratu
late themselves on what "our family
did in the war."
New York World: Germany al
ways has two explanations of the de
struction of " Red Cross hospital ships.
One is that they struck a mine and
the other is that they were carrying
fighting men. In neither case is there
any denial of Infamous guilt
Baltimore American: Von Hlnden
burg said that to raise and equip an
army of 2,000,000 men in America
and keep on supplying the allies, was
Impossible. He has now found out
that American enterprise has a way
of trampling on impossibilities.
Minneapolis Tribune: Maybe Ger
many is starving and Austria is on
the verge of collapse, and Bulgaria
is ready to quit and the Turk Is only
looking for a good chance to sneak
out of a bad Job, but the only way to
win the war is to fight it out In the
Pershing way, if it takes several sum
mers. Louisville Courier-Journal: Ameri
can newspapers are recalling Just now
that the war of our revolution was
against a German dunderhead who
sat on the British throne. And they
might also recall that the war was so
unpopular among the British people
that their German kina: fought it
largely with German hired gunmen.
Twice Told Tales
One Glimpse Enough.
Dr. Llewellyn Ralney, director of
the overseas war library, was enter
Siined at dinner by a group of Johns
Hopkins students on theeve of his
Jeparture for the front.
A very rich young sportsman,
afflicted with the malady known as
swelled head said to Dr. Ralney dur
ing the fish course:
"I'm going to volunteer, Doc, but
I can't decide whether to take up
the cavalry or the aviation wing.
Which do you advise?"
"The aviation, most decidedly," Dr.
Ralney replied.
The young sportsman smiled.
"Ah, you've seen me fly, have you?"
he said.
"No, said Dr. Ralney; "I've seen
you r'de." Washington Star.
Easy Money.
A builder and contractor in Phila
delphia, who had just now a consid
erable amount of work in hand for
the government visited the plant one
day and discovered a number of things
he didn't like. CI one in particular he
spoke to his foreman:
"1 have Just caught a fellow hang
ing 'around smoking during working
hours. So I ordered them to give
him a week's wages and told him to
clear out"
"Yes," said the foreman, with t
grin, "I know all about it. for I have
just seen the man leaving. Why,
sir, he wasn't employed here he was
merely looking for a job!" Harper's
Magazine
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The Party with an Appetite.
Omaha, July 11. To the Editor of
The Bee: I told you so! Another
example of the predominance ot the
democratic appetite for a place on the
public pay roll is seen in the shop
worn scheme of our county commis
sioners to jerpetuate themselves in
office. And to think that our much
lauded and exemplary citizen, Sophus
Neble, would make himself a party to
such a coarse piece of work. Little
did the public suspect that a man who
was quoted in the papers as saying
he would turn over his salary as com
missioner to the Red Cross would
cafe to hang on to an office if the
public showed any inclination toward
making a change!
Ninety-nine per cent of the demo
crats act the same way after they get
into oillce once. It's the appetite that
sways their acts, and not the welfare
of the public. ' SOUTH SIDE.
County Employes and Wages.
Omaha, July 11. To the Editor of
The Bee: I notice that our present
county commissioners voted for an in
crease in salaries for certain depart
ments in the court house. If 1 am
not mistaken, a few days ago I read
in your paper that the reason for the
increase is that some of the employes
of the court house have to work over
time, hence the reason for the increase.
It is a well known fact that Just
before we got into this war, and be
fore our young men began to leave
for the army an navy, our county
commissioners had the pick, and as it
has always been the custom when
they got elected, they wanted no one
else but their triends, regardless ot ex
perience in office Work. Just because
work got a little heavier the court
house employes had to get busy and
put in a few extra hours each day in
stead of loafing around the court
house and downtown on the taxpayers'
time a raise is demanded.
The whole trouble is this: We
have in this city and county elected
men to office who barely can run
their own business, but the reason
they get in is because they make good
tools for the "big men." If our com
missioners, both in the city hall as
well as in the court house, employ
less help, but competent help, even if
the salaries are fairly good, or just
the same as they are going to pay
now, we would get some acommoda
tion, but the way it has been going
they make the taxpayer pay all ex
penses for their own good.
Aly only wish is that next time we
elect county officials elect men who
understand their business, and not
those who attend their other interests
outside of the court house duties
seven hours a day and just come into
the court house to meet and bid their
employes good-day, that being the
whole reason that they don't know
what is going on in their own depart
ment TAXPAYER.
TART TRIFLES.
Citizen Unless 1 am mistaken, you are
ths party I gave 10 cents to yesterday.
Beggar I am, sir. Did you think a dime
would make a new man of me? New
Haven Register.
"Ma, the paper says that ons person can
have only on piece ot pie now."
"Well, what about it?"
"When company comes, there will be
enough (or me." Chicago Journal.
"Who was ths first financier ?'
"Noah." I
"Huh."
"He floated quite a lot of stock success
fully." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Da you think If w save on this per
formance by cutting out the calcium, the
-WHY-:
NOT
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Di jaw
m . -fc.v:-;-' r
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public will look on It as a breach of faith?
"I think It will tend to pot the sho
in a Terjr bad light." Baltimore Amitt
can.
Son (a golf enthusiast) Tou must admit
father, that It requires great skill to drlv
a ball a hundred yards
Old Farmer Shucks ! It don't require hall
as much skill as It does to drive a pig Ilftj
feet. Boston Transcript.
"Mr. Hoover's teachings have bornl
fruit."
"Of course they have."
"It Is no longer necessary to put up signl
In the 'zoo' reading: 'Don't feed the ani
mals.' "Birmingham Age-Herald.
CONCERNING MARY.
There waa a time alas, that time has
flown
When Mary had a heart, or symptoms of It
She called him "Bob" and well she seemed
to love It
His name he seemed to be her "only own;
His every smile she greedily did covet;
She smiled on him then she waa not
above It
Oh. could he be content with such favor te
have known!
But now, since she has chosen a career,
He's simply dropped beneath her range
of vision;
It's all up with him, I sadly fear;
Her lips close tight with splnster-Hke pre.
clslon;
Her soul sails In a frosty atmosphere,
While his heart writhes In pain 'neath the
Incision. BATOLL NE TRELB.
Omaha.
UK?
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to tie sweet strains of
a Chopin ualtz, or trip
soma modern. tep, if
you prefer.
Ou r tig library of
music rolls offers many
beautiful arid insplrmtf
dance tnemes (orjvtr)
player-piano. Ky
let us flay
pme ot them.ror oj.
No oblicjdtion-come In.
heme tome new Jance rolls
today -and enliven your evtr.iny
1513-15 Douglas St.
'Business is Good TJoaai: You
Mr
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jDistittctitm
The unmistakable marks of distinction
to be found in a funeral conducted by us
is a guarantee of the high character of
our moderately priced burials. We have
a thorough knowledge of the undertaker's
art and can assure you of fair, courteous
treatment.
N. P. SW ANSON
Funeral Parlor. (Established 1888)
17th and Cuming Sts. Tel. Douglas 1080,
Some Startling Specials
That Will Save You Money
For Saturday at Beaton's
Your choice of any bathing
cap in stock worth from 50c
to $1.00 for 39c
Pinkalene for coloring waists
pink, green and burnt or
ange 25c
50c Stationery, per box. ,19c
15c Wash Cloths 7c
10c Wash Cloths 5c
65c Nail Scissors 39c
75c Household Shears. .59c
S1.25 Pocket Knives 89c
We have just received a
large assortment of solid
back hair brushes in all
styles and sizes from 75c
to $3.00
35c Tooth Brush Holders 19c
40c Tooth Brushes ....24c
35c Tooth Brushes 19c
$1.25 Goetorbe Face Pow
der .89c
$1.50 La Trefle Face Pow
der $1.29
$1.10 Azurea Face Pow
der $1.29
50c Udor, for oppressive
perspiration 29c
Perfumes.
$2.25 Ideal Extract, per
oz. .. $1-69
$1.25 La Trefle, per oz. .89c
Also a large line of imported
and domestic perfume, worth
up to $2.00 per oz., Saturday
per oz 39c
15c Lux 12c
12c Palm Olive Soap. . . .9c
15c Remmer's Soap .... 9c
60c Syrup, Figs. 47c
25c Mentholatum 17c
$1.00 Listerine 79c
50c Listerine 39c
25c Listerine 19c
25c Nature's Remedy. . .17c
50c Orazin Tooth Paste. 34c
Aspirin Tablets.
Box containing 8 tablets . . 7c
Box containing 16 tablets 14c
Bottle of 100 tablets 69c
$3.75 Hospital Malted
Milk $2.90
25c Milk of Magnesia. . .17c
Free.
For the children with every
25c sale or over, Satur
day, we will give you the
choice of a set of Jacks and
Ball, the Talking Monkey
or Toy Automobile.
Photo Department .
We devolp your prints
pree when prints are ordered.
214x312 each .3c
. 2Vx4i4 each 4c
Post Card size, each.. 6c
Mail Orders Receive Our Prompt Attention
Beaton Drug Co.
15th and Farnam.