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And we have only just begun to fight!
' Irreducible defense" meant the Yankees are
on the job.
The Hun will probably npw resume his safer
Course of dropping bombs on hospitals.
I Yes, that is the same William Bayard Hale
who went to Mexico as a special envoy.
'The Prussian eagle has heard the American
bird of liberty scream, and does not like the
sound.
That political pool reflects the shadows of
several who are hesitating on the brink. Satur
day the bars go up. . f
One way to "keep the home fires burning" is
to; keep in touch' with the boys over there, and
at the cantonments.
' if the State Railway commission has nothing
to do with the ralroads under federal control and
operation, why try to butt in?
Apparently Edward Aloysius Rumely did not
appreciate the advantages of being a citizen of
Indiana. The title of.Hoosier ought to be es
teemed above any on the kaiser's list.
Jeremiah O'Lary has been on trial in New
York answering charges of sedition for writing
anil distributing stuff that reads just like those we
usd to see printed in Senator Hitchcock's
hyphenated paper. '
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Sugar cards have no terrors for Omaha house
wives, 'who have played the game square from
tha start, and will continue so doing till the war
is won. 'If the battle on the front goes as well
as that in the kitchen, the Hun is already licked.
Once more we rise to remark that there is no
good reason why the school board should have a
salaried attorney when the city law department
is, or should be, able to furnish all the legal ad
vice required without extra cost to the taxpayers.
WHY WASTE ALL THIS MONEY?
Since the federal government took over the
operation of the railroads, and by that action took
them out from under jurisdiction of the railway
commissions of the different states, all excuse has
been removed for these commissions maintaining
expensive staffs or continuing activities for phys
ical valuation or hearing complaints which can
have no practical value. Taking our Nebraska
State Railway commission as an example, inves
tigation shows that for the six months' period of
this year the average payroll of employes with
duties, supposedly in connection with railroad
regulation, is as follows:
Rate Clerk $250
Assistant rate clerk. 150
Assistant accountant l-'O
Clerk : 90
Filing clerk 90
Assistant reporter 90
Recording clerk 90
Chief engineer 250
Assistant engineer 130
Stenographer 75
Total $1,345
During the same period the Nebraska State
Railway commission drew out of the state treas
ury $11,375 for "extra help" in investigations, and
$1,938 for "checking valuations of railways and
hearings," being at the rate of a little more than
$2,000 a month. This makes the total monthly
draft on the taxpayers of Nebraska for railway
rate regulation (excluding the salaries of the com
missioners themselves) of $3,345 or nearly $40,000
a year.
We have no doubt it is advisable to maintain
certain official records and compile the reports
that are required by law, but two or three clerks
at moderate salaries could surely take care of
this work. Why then keep rate clerks and assist
ants on the state payroll when rates are fixed by
the federal government? Why keep paying money
to engineers when no valuation fixed now can be
of the slightest use? Why spend money to hold
hearings and make investigations in matters of
which orders of the commission will be unen
forcing? Why should not our state railway com
missions set a war time example of saving pub
lic money?
for the millions of dollars spent on Douglas
county' roads there are only two or three short
Stretches of really satisfactory roads to be shown.
Most of the money might have as well been
dumped into the Missouri for all the lasting good
produced by it. ,
Our Boys Are Making Good.
No taint of vainglory will be found in the
elation that fills every American breast on read
ing accounts of how our boys received their full
share of the great German lunge in the battle of
Rheims. The Yankees did just what had been
expected of them, what had been promised for
them, and upheld the traditions of their race in
glorious form. "Irreducible defense" is the mili
tary euphemism employed to describe what the
Hun hordes encountered in one American sec
tor. Explained for the uses of the man in the
street, this means a massing of machine guns,
backed up by determined infantry, alert for the
charge, and the whole supported by artillerymen
who know their business and are keen about
doing it. Against this the German wave dashed
f and broke, and fell back in spray, defeated and
routed. Here the boys in khaki were not con
tent with merely turning an advance into a re
treat, but struck such a counter blow as fairly
shattered the nerve of the foe. Prisoners, in
cluding a brigade staff of officers, testify to the
prowess -of the American youngsters and admit
their efficiency. From elsewhere along the sixty
five miles of battle front come reports of the
steadfastness with which the Americans met the
onslaught. No need to worry about these young
men of ours in France they are making good.
; Another thing Governor Neville must be held
to answer for is the rotten gerrymander perpe
trated by tht democratic county board upon
Douglas county voters., Ttjis outrageous job
could never have been pulled off without the gov
ernor's approval of the law insidiously smuggled
through the last legislature to elect our county
commissioners by districts instead of at large,
and thus offer a premium to carve, out districts
with a preponderance of one-party voters.
American Railroad Men in Italy.
Disclosure of the presence of Americans en
gaged in building railroads in Italy suggests an
other of the anomalies of war. In days not so
very far goVie, we have been accustomed to
watch "Tony the Wop" tamp the ties and maul
the spikes on American railroads. He has con
structed the roadbed and laid the rails, and after
. wards has manned the handcar and attended to
the manifold duties of the humble section hand.
Now, he is a soldier, fighting the kaiser for the
preservation of his home land, and the young
American is doing for Italy the service that Tony
and his kind did for America. Incidentally, this
reconstruction work behind the lines is one of the
leading factors in Uncle Sam's overseas war
problem. For the time it is overshadowed by the
work of the fighting men, but in good season the
world will pay its tribute to the builders, who
have done so much to make recent events in
France and Italy possible. Victory finally will
rest with us because communications have been
kept up, and that is the job for the railroad men,
Austria's Attitude Towards Peace.
Baron Burian, Austrian foreign minister, con
tributes a belated and not especially important
chapter to the annals of the peace agitation. He
has the distinction, however, oi being the first of
the responsible ministers of the Central powers
to give assent to the four points laid down by
President Wilson in his Fourth of July message
tothe world. It is noteworthy, too, that Baron
Burian graciously assents to the approach of any
nation seeking peace; they need not be reduced
to the state into which Russia or Roumania are
plunged in order to receive consideration at
Vienna. Simply come with cpen hands, and a
hearing will be given. Just as Chancellor von
Hertling has attached a strong string to Ger
many's offer with regard to Belgium, so Baron
Burian puts up a hurdle none of the Allies will
care to take. This is his expression:
If our enemies continuously demand atone
ment for wrong done and restitution, there is a
claim we could urge with more justification
against them, because we have been at
tacked, and the wrong done to us must be re
dressed. Undoubtedly he refers to events following the
Sarajevo incident of June, 1914, conveniently
overlooking the immediately preceding history,
as well as the ultimatum to Serbia. If the chan
cellcreries of Berlin and Vienna can find comfort
in fiction of their own invention, who will for the
time deprive of them of that source of content?
However, the bill now contains many items that
did not appear in 1914, and for which full settle
ment will be exacted. Austrian statesmen may
affect surprise at the accounting they will be
asked to make, but it will be for them to accept
rather than to dictate.
With Schwab on the Job
Glimpse of the Personal Methods of the Magician
William A. McGarry in Boston Transcript.
A few weeks of the leadership of Charles
M. Schwab has demonstrated conclusively
that the glowing plans and schedules of pro
duction turned out last year in Washington
while the press and people of the country
pleaded for action needed but one quality to
spring into life, so far as ships. are con
cernedthat was "pep," the great American
KCt-it-done. Mr. Schwab has injected this
into the shipbuilding program in such copi
ous quantities that estimates once looked
upon as foolishly optimistic have already
been surpassed, in some vital instances, by
actual production, while the new estimates
are far larger than the old ones. In consid
eration of which it becomes interesting to
inquire into "pep" of the Schwab brand to
analyze it as far as possible and to see how
it works. It isn't in the dictionary, but every
American knows what it means, and, better
than any other word, it describes what
Schwab has done.
The basis of it may be personal magnet
ism, or born leadership, or drive. It is the
quality that leaders of men and those who
sought to be have courted since the world
began. Lord Reading, the British ambassa
dor, has his own name for it. After spend
ing some hours in a tour of inspection of
Hog Island with Mr. Schwab and other offi
cials of.the shipping board, he took newspa
per men into his confidence recently and
called it vision. "Thousands of men may be
on a par mentally," said he, "and no test that
man could devise would show one to be a bit
smarter than all the others. But the emer
gency arises, and the man in the thousands
with vision will rise with it head and should
ers above the others. And that is Charles
M. Schwab."
On the surface Schwab's method is sim
plicity itself. He is the arch patter of backs,
and he admits it. In a speech at a patriotic
rally he told 15,000 workmen and their fam
ilies, "I am one of those who think that bet
ter work and plenty of it can only be done
when there is approval, back-patting and all
the rest of the stuff that goes to make men
stir and perV up and do things." Schwab,
to use a slang phrase understandable to all
Americans, has "laid it on thick." He says
almost as much to the workmen when he
talks to them, but he sends them back to their
riveting and caulking and bolting to
stand up and work as they never worked be
fore. And whatever he gives them stays
there, though the sun be so hot on the steel
plates that it is impossible to hold the un
gloved hand against them.
Yet there is nothing of the exhorter about
the master shipbuilder, nothing of the elab
orate and sustained Billy Sunday appeal to
the emotions and none of the effort to shock.
Schwab never orates, at least -when he is
talking to workmen. Merely to be standing
upon a platform away from the crowd inter
feres with his work. At his first talk with
shipworkcrs in the Philadelphia district it
was at the yards of the New York Shipbuild
ing corporation in Camden he walked up
and down the platform for a few minutes and
then jumped down with the men. He didn't
make a speech; he talked to them.
The line that went home in that talk was
"Damn the Kaiser." Schwab told the work
ers to say it every time they drive a rivet or
swing a hammer, and no doubt most of them
are obeying literally.
So also at Hog Island. Every week a
new sign with letters a foot high springs up
somewhere, advertising to the world that
another record has been kicked into the dis
card by the new energy of American work
men. They have had a dozen world's rec
ords for placing steel at this yard. The lat
est, now standing about two weeks, is 148
tons bolted to the ship frame in three and a
half hours. The world's record for a day is
200 tons. These may be broken again any
The Salesman's Thrift
KEEP BUSY1
That's the power behind every success.
Let's make more calls a day. Let's write
more sales a day. Let's put more honest ef
fort into every call and every sale.
Then we'll sell in one day what we used
to sell in two.
That is thrift.
Thrift of time the salesman's thrift.
Time is all valuable, the most precious
thing we have. We have abundant time,
but only if we conserve it. Spend it carefully.
Make each hour, each minute count. Make
it count for ourselves, for our employers and
for our country.
If we conserve time, we shall be helping
ourselves and our families; we shall be help
ing business; we shall be helping win the
war. and preserve humanity.
So workl And keep on working. Work
moves mountains. Work makes the impos
sible possible.
Work with vour customers. This is team
work. Helo them breathe your spirit of
work into their organizations. Help them
make their workers time-thrifty. Show them
by example the benefits of constructive, not
destructive work.
Therefore, don't knock anybody. And
don't let others knock. Don't criticize until
you have a tried-out remedy. A knocker is
a time spendthrift. He squanders the time
of himself and his listener.
Knocking has no part in a salesman's
creed.
Boost I
Scatter ODtimism broadcast. You can't
squander it.
Be time-thrifty for your employer, for
business and your country, and you can't help
being thrifty for yourself.
Then you will lift yourself by your own
bootstraps; you will "lengthen your height
and vision to reach whatever you work to
get.
To be thrifty you must be creative. To
be creative you must work to do in one
hour the work we formerly did in two.
William H. Rankin. American Association of
Advertising Agents.
minute. The workmen of way number five
in group number one might have broken this,
but there was no more steel at hand. Mr.
Schwab has been devoting quite a lot of his
time to the speeding up of production in
fabricated steel plates and their delivery to
yards all over the country, but so far he
hasn't been able to keep pace with the de
mand of the workmen.
The first thing Schwab did after his ap
pointment was to order the removal of the
emergency fleet offices to Philadelphia. He
came here with Charles Piez, Edward N.
Hurley and a few others and commandeered
a new 10-story building as headquarters.
When he had the workmen using up the steel
faster than the railroads could bring it in, he
got after Washington hammer and tongs un
til the railroads were dumping steel in the
shipyards faster than the fabricating plants
could produce it. Then he looked over the
plants and cami'to the conclusion they were
too small. In one'day he arranged to triple
the capacity of the McClintock-Marshall
plant by putting up two new buildings, one
at Pottstown, where the present plant is lo
cated, and the other at Pittsburgh.
In the meantime, actual ship construction
at Hog Island has been proceeding so rap
idly that Admiral Francis T. Bowles, govern
ment director of the yard, learned that the
hulls would be ready before the power plants
and went after Secretary of the Navy Dan
iels for turbines now building m the West
mghouse plant down the Delaware for de
stroyers. A lively little row developed when
Daniels refused to give up the turbines. In
cidentally this served to throw considerable
light on the canniness of the southern editor
who runs the navy. It was strongly inti
mated by Bowles that Daniels got on the job
with orders for everything the navy wants
long before the shipping board was awake
and before the aircraft people and the army
and ,the ordnance department knew what
they wanted. As a result Daniels and the
navy have first call on nearly everything.
Just when this rumpus was beginning to
reach the stage where it might have delayed
production, like the regrettable fight in the
shipping board, last year Schwab got into it.
He has never told anybody what he did, but
presumably he patted the secretary of the
navy on the back. And he has been seen to
apply that treatment liberally to Bowles,
with the result that an amicable agreement
has been reached and everybody's happy.
The first ships launched will get the turbines.
And to prevent another scramble for power
plants in the future, Schwab arranged for a
little matter of a 40 per cent increase in pro
duction at the Westinghouse plant.
His system is to make things interesting.
There are prizes for workmen and execu
tives. He couldn't offer Bowles a bonus, so
he laughed at the admiral's estimates of what
Hog Island will do and then offered to bet
him the finest cow in the country that he was
all wrong. Now the admiral is a fancier of
cows. He snapped up the bet and announced
that he had his eye on a blue ribbon winner
that would cost the master shipbuilder about
$75,000. It is reported also that Schwab has
already lost some kind of a bet with Hurley
a bet he made to lose. The details have
not been made public, but by way of pay
ment, presumably, Schwab commissioned
Joseph E. Widener a few days ago to buy
the best saddle horse he could find for the
head of the shipping board.
Accomplishments in the east under
Schwab's direction have been phenomenal.
But his associates are expecting even greater
things from the west. The argument is
made that there is less of the foreign ele
ment on the west coast and that the spirit of
"undiluted Americanism" will respond with
surprising results.
Serving and Saving
Honor to all to whom honor is due. We
cannot think too much, in times of war, in
terms of gun and bayonet, but we unques
tionably do think too little of the work done
by men whose work is no less dangerous and
arduous than that of men on the firing line,
and which demands for its proper perform
ance an even greater degree of composure
and resolution. Veteran soldiers are of one
opinion, to the effect that the most trying
experience in a battle is that of remaining in
active under enemy fire. Whether it come
from a battery posted in plain view or from
an enemy concealed behind a commanding
ridge, it is, for so long as troops may not
respond, more nearly destructive of that
thing described in the now overworked word
"morale" than anything else could possibly
be. That is a consensus of opinion among
men who have been under fire. The fighting
impulse to "get back" at an enemy is the
controlling one at such moments. The best
troops are those who can do their duty,
which is that of keeping cool, standing still,
seeing their comrades falling around them
and waiting.
The ambulance carrier cannot stand still.
Neither is he merged into a mass into which
die enemy fires collectively and not at indi
vidual targets. He takes all the chances of
she fusillades and, in addition, he is made the
aim of sharpshooters and snipers of all de
crees. Moving wounded men from the lines
where they have fallen to points of compara
tive safety, and moving, of necessity slowly,
Mie men of the ambulance corps, become
: hining marks for more of an enemy's attack
than is made in broadsides. We have failed
in giving them the right degree of credt for
courageous and meritorious performance.
But they are. we hope, in a fair way of com
ing into their own. Arnaldo Fraccalori, war
correspondent in the Austro-Italian cam
paign for the Correre della Sera of Milan,
'vrites of the work being done by the ambu
lance corps: "One of the most admirable
episodes I witnessed was the courage of
these young Americans doing their duty amid
the intense shell fire. This is, indeed, au
thentic living poetry." St. Lous Globe Democrat.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Auetro-Germans started counter of
fensive against the Russians In Ga
llela. British cabinet was organized, Win
ston Churchill becoming minister of
munitions and Sir Eric Geddes first
lord of the admiralty.
The Day We Celebrate. ,
Edward F. Leary, ittorney-at-law,
born 1883.
Orion Darnell, coal operator, born
1865. ;
James Thornwetl Newton, United
, States commissioner of patents, born
in Morgan county, Georgia, 67 years
ago.
Kt. Rev. John McKlm. Episcopal
mi3fonary bishop of Tokio, born at
I'ltteneld, Mass., (8 years ago.
T:.U Day In History.
Hi: The United States frigate
Constitution mads ber famous escape
from the British blockading squadron.
1854 Massachusetts Emigrant Aid
smciety sent out first party of settlers
to Kansas territory.
1884 General Sherman began his
march from the Chattahoochee to
Atlanta.
18 TO The French declaration of
yrtr against Prussia was signed.
1880 Stephen Trigg Logan. Abra
ham Lincoln's law partner, died at
i ringSeld, III. Born, at Franklin,
February Ji, 10
Just 30 Years Ago Today
The cornerstone of the new county
hospital was laid.
The corner on Sixteenth and Far-
9 2,000 gg
nam was sold to the Commercial Na
tional bank for $92,000.
The Union Pacific system is perfect
ing a scheme to allow all Chicago
roads to use their bridge.
The local board of civil service ex
aminers, which consists of J. E. Wa
ters and F. M. Pickens, is in seslson at
the government building examining
applications for positions In the post
office. The Lombard Investment company
has located in the First National Bank
building and will make headquarters
here la the future.
The American Mortgage and Trust
company of Council Bluffs has leased
quarters on the ground floor of the
Ramge building and will make Its
headquarters here in Omaha In the
future
Aimed at Omaha
Tork News-Times: Omaha Is hav
ing a tight over the gas plant. Wait
until after the war.
Minneapolis Journal: Omaha Is in
clined to complain because Charley
Schwab does not lay down a few
keels in Its swimming hole in the Mis
souri. Franklin News: Omaha is now
talking of closing up all the pool halls
In the metropolis until the close of
the war, thus releasing to useful work
a large number of men who are now
Idlers. Two years ago Omaha could
not think of giving up Its saloons, but
now that it has done so with good re
sults, they are ready to make a fur
ther house-cleaning. Let the good
work go on.
W6od River Interests: The quarter
centennial edition of the Omaha Bee
in recognition of the public service of
that paper and Its editor, Victor Rose
water, for the past 25 years, was" a
splendid showing and a fitting tribute
of the high place in journalism the
Bee and Editor Rosewater have, at
tained. While Victor Rosewater has
not the personality of his illustrious
father, yet he has proven a brilliant
writer and fully equal to the heavy
responsibility taken up by him (tome
12 years ago following the death of
his father.
Compensation.
He It would bo a mighty dull
world for you girls If all the men
nhou'd suddenly leave It.
She Oh. we should etill have you
college boys left. Chicago irald.
Peppery Points
Minneapolis Journal: No, the Avi
ators' Gazette is not printed on fly
paper. .
Louisville Courier-Journal: At the
rate at which Admiral von Capelle
says the German U-boats are operat
ing, the waters of the world will be
swept of hospital ships in about two
weeks more.
Baltimore American: An Amerl-
nn nrK'Bt, III PTARrA Vl .T llP M nn'Siril.
ed the Distinguished Service Cross for
capturing a German gun and its crew
single-handed. The kaiser is raprdly
finding out wnetner Americans win
fight.
New Tork World: That screen in
nf . rnvftl afanH mitrlit hvA
prevented the king of England from
throwing the oau into me neia, out
thoroughbred fans will refuse to see
an excuse In it for not roasting the
umpire.
Baltimore American: A new Ger
man book of hate has been issued,
laying the blame for the war on the
late King Edward. The German high
nmmanH In cnfnir fnr hnrV In ita in
volved efforts to find an alibi for the
world war.
New York Herald: Well deserved
Is Major General CrowiWs tribute to
the men who have done and are doing
such faithful service in connection
with the draft boards. His refusal
to sanction a promotion for himself
until some way is found to properly
recognize those other "makers of the
National army" does creUU to the Pto
vost marshal genci
Twice Told Tales
fZnnf Ipmnn 411
tr flrlpr. n. lnrirf'. nnwprful wom
an, entered an overcrowded train.
and. as she was too tired to stand, she
u.nl Intn th smnklnir car and took p
scat near the door. She attracted no
particular attention, as eacn man
seemed to be absorbed in his tobacto
and newspaper, ine man seatea
next to her was perhaps unconscious
of the vast quantities of smoke he
was emitting, so intent was he in read
ing.
"H'm! ' she said, glowering at him,
"I was foolish enough to suppose that
some of the men in here at least were
gentlemen."
The offender sira.gntenea irom his
lounging pv.;ture.
"Pardon r?e. madam," he answered,
politely offerirvg her a cigar Har
per's Magazine.
Overlooked the Hint.
Harriet has been to Sunday school
many times, but recently she made
her first visit to church during reg
ular services.
,The opening prayer, it happened,
was offered by a man who jmt his
whole soul into his plea.
The prayer was so earnest. In fact,
that again and again from the con
gregation came fervent expressions
of "Amen."
Harriet nudged her mother.
"What is it, dear?" the mother
Asked.
"Everybody is saying 'Amen, re
plied Harriet, "and 1 just wonder
why the man doesn't quit." Youngs
town Telegram,
Hardest Hand's Working Hours.
Curtis, Neb., July 16. To the Ed
itor of The Bee: For the interests
of the farmers and the harvest hands,
I would like to have these questions
answered in The Bee:
" 1. When does the harvest hand
start in the morning: to draw pay?
2. By what time, fast or old time?
3. ' In ease of breakdown, should
the harvest hand be docked?
4. If so, to what extent? ,
5. And what wage should be paid
for overtime? HARVEST HAND.
Answer Some weeks ago an an
nouncement was made by the State
Council of Defense that an arrange
ment had been made whereby a basic
10-hour day had been adopted for
harvest hands in Nebraska, with a
wage rate of 45 cents per hour. Noth
ing was said as to when the day
should begin, or what rate of pay
should be given for overtime. The
presumption under such an arrange
ment would be that the day could
begin at any time, and when 10 work
ing hours I.ad elapsed overtime would
begin to accumulate. In absence of
a specific agreement, overtime should
be paid for at the rate of straight
time. This is the practice adopted
under the eight-hour day principle
laid down by the president, with the
difference that after one or two hours
of overtime have been worked, then
pay starts at the rate of time and a
half. Where the wage is fixed by
the hour, payment is usually for the
number of hours worked. This ought
to ejover breakdowns. The 45-cent-an-hour
rate includes board and lodging.
Give Us Maple Sugar.
Omaha, July 15. To the Editor of
The Bee: Dietists tell us that the
curtailment of sugar, its rationing,
will be felt more by the people than
that of meat or wheat. It isn't so
essential to health or strength
though it cuts quite an important
figure there, too but will be missed
more and people will go to greater
lengths to get it, for in most of us it
constitutes a veritable craving.
So much sugar ia needed for neces
sary export that, presumably, corn
syrups and such sweetening substi
tutes will be largely used for domestic
consumption. But why let so much
excellent sweetening matter go to
waste every year as we do? In Ne
braska in every state of the union
we have endless numbers of sugar
maple trees. In Vermont and a few
of those states some little commerce Is
done in making sugar. The product
is wonderfully tasty, It's a splendid
sweetening medium, better than
"straight" sugar, a veritable delicacy.
It's available to men who could make
a business of it and just as available
to thousands of us who can tap the
trees in our yards In the springtime
Just as we raise a few potatoes and
garden stuff to help out.
But it needs someone to start It.
Why doesn't The Bee take a hand?
F. W. FITZPATRICK.
Rankin on Price of Wheat.
Oxford, Neb., July 15. To the Ed
itor of The Bee: Mr. Cox in hi let
ter to The Bee throws the hooks into
"Norris, Gore and others" because
they favored a raise in wheat prices.
I agree with Mr. Cox that farmers do
not want to appear as slackers or
profiteers, and believe they will do
their best to supply armies with food
regardless of wheat prices. When
Mr. Cox says we are getting nearly
three times as much for our wheat as
prior to the war, he comes far from
stating all the facts, for with 88 to 88
for harvest labor and the heavy In
crease for twine, machinery, taxes,
etc., coupled with the light yields, the
wheat farmers are not coining money,
and some of them are going behind.
We are not eating our wheat, but sav
ing it for our soldier boys, and while
we are selling It for a trifle over 8
cents per pound, we have to pay 6
cents per pound for cornmeal, 12
cents per pound for oatmeal, and
some other substitutes 18 and 18
cents. Considering these prices,
wheat would be dirt cheap at $3 per
bushel. Farmers have been charged
by high-ups with being unwilling to
pay taxes, buy bonds, work or fight,
and one writer in Ladles' Home Jour
nal pictured how Mr. Hoover had per
formed the miracle of getting thou
sands of commercial and industrial
enterprises to sacrifice their own In
terests and give their time, money
and talent to help the government,
while on the other hand the disloyal
grasping farmers were holding the
country up for exhorbitant prices for
meat and bread. Now we have a
report of the federal commission,
after a painstaking investigation, to
the effect that the packers, and not
the farmers, have been profiteering
in the people's meat, and that the
millers, not the farmers, were rob
blng them blind for their daily bread.
The president has vetoed increas
ing the price of wheat and the farm
ers will accept It just as quietly as
they did the reduction of $1 per bushel
one year ago, but in all fairness, coal,
which does not depend on the ele
ments to make a crop, should be re
duced in price; also cotton and corn
meal and other necessities, should be
brought into the bounds of reason.
Men who have held the farmers up
for $6 and $8 per day, with board and
lodging, should bo prosecuted as
profiteers, and when found guilty
should face the firirig squad or be in
terned at hard labor and not allowed
to breed any more of their kind. They
are just as bad as the wealthy corpor
ations that would take unjust advan
tage of the war situation, and Just so
long as we have one law for the capi
talist and another for the laborer,
just so long those evils will exist.
A. C. RANKIN.
LAUGHING GAS.
"I'll give you my opinion for what It la
worth." said the young lawyer to his first
client.
.Don't talk that way, boy." counselled hli
wise father. "He 11 .think your opinion ain't
worth much." Washington Star.
Ted She divorced him because he waa
so sarcastic.
Nedr-He's still Inclined to be so. When
he sends her alimony he makes the pay
ments in Liberty Bonds. Life.
Creditor Yoj couldn't ride around In your
fine automobile If y.ou paid your honest
debts.
Debtor That's so. I'm glad you look at
It in the same light that I do. Boston
Transcript.
"I ask you, sir, would ynu take your
daughter to see a play like that?"
"And I answer you, madam, no. Th
chances are ten to one she has already
seen It." Harper's Jlarazine.
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