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Keep, your temper; "cussing" will not help
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The new .High bchool ot commerce uegins
jjjto look like a reality.
'! rrom MCACIOO to urter uiass: wii, wiiai
i fall, niy countrymen!"
Here's where the early Christmas shopper
!has the laugh on the fellow who put it off.
The weatherman is doing his prettiest, and
will be blessed as long as the walking holds
good, r
1 1. The War Labor board has passed the buck
on the firemen's case back to the city and the
men, and there it ought to rest.
If the six soldier votes really saved "Doc"
Tanner, he ought to 'be grateful to the army all
the rest of his life.
: Public sentiment is the deciding fact in nine
strikes out of ten. Just let that soak into both
sides of this street railway controversy.
"Your shield, your honor as soldiers, are
unspotted," says the crown prince to his army.
One is. dyed blood red, the other blacker than
pitch.
Auto drivers ought to realize the need for
caution just now, but some are making, life mis
erable for all the others. The reckless should
he brought to time.
Paris hotel men know a good thing when it
comes their way, and propose to extract from
tne peace council crowds about all they have
lost in four years of war.
Calling a walk-ovt at 3 o'clock in the morn-
ling without notice to the public depending on
street car service is not calculated to win sym
pathy for the strikers' demands.
Jfr ; Compulsory military training in connection
with college courses is recommended as a policy
V;i by leading educators. Uncle Sam is not to be
left as in' oyster without a shell.
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, Neither Lloyd George nor Jlerbert Asquith
is accorded the-compliment of an unopposed
election to Parliament; the wonder would have
been if they had been so honored.
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; The Nebraska woman whose husband fought
in the civil war, and who now has fifteen grand
sons wearing the uniform of Uncle Sam's army,
is indeed a grandmother in Israel.
Herr Liebknecht proposes to imitate Lenine
nd, Trotzky as far as possible, and bathe the
streets of Berlin in "bourgeoise" blood. Such
Is liberty as represented by the red flag.
How can awards of the War Labor Board
be treated as "scraps of paper" by the men while
employers are held to strict observance? It's
a poor rule that doesn't work both ways.
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' Governor-elect McKelvie promised the vot
ers a business administration of the state's af
fairs if he should be elected and proposes to
make good on the pledge. There's plenty of
room for improvement. .
No Objection to merging the wire lines, Mr.
Burleson, if you give us better service at lower
rates. But if the telegraph is to be allowed
to deteriorate like the postoffice the protests
will come thick and fast.
Josephus Daniels is going to dismiss 100,000
men from service in the navy, but he will prob
ably not let them all get very far away, for
some will be needed for the new warships we
are to build.
Service Insurance
For the benefit of those who may not have
read the recent statement from Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo dealing with the conversion
of war risk insurance, the Bulletin takes this
occasion to urge all men at Great Lakes and
the navy to keep up this insurance, whether
they remain in the service or go to their homes
within the next few months.
In brief, the salient feature of Mr. McAdoo's
plan is this:
- Men mustered out from the army, navy or
marine corps may maintain their war risk in
surance for five years at the rate which they
have been paying while in service. At the end
of that time they may convert it into policies
of thet)rdinary kind.
The United States government is in a posi
tion to offer the best insurance ever available
at the lowest figure possible. No man with an
eye o his future comfort and convenience will
fail to take advantage of the opportunity which
will be offered to men of the United States navy
"within the next few years, and possibly to many
men of the naval reserve force within a few
months.
j . Never before were sailors and soldiers given
such an. opportunity to provide for the future
welfare of themselves and their families while
actually in the service. Men who take advantage
of this situation will find eventually that their
material sacrifice in taking up arms was not a
great one.
' Uncle Sam means to play square with those
" who have shown their patriotism and given their
. best efforts for the defense of their country and
the defeat of Huns who constituted a menace to
its freedom and prosperity. The man who keeps
up his war risk insurance, converting it as soon
as feasible into a regular insurance policy, will
. be all the happier some day for haf ing done so.
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GIVE US STREET CAR SERVICE.
War board or no war board, the citizens of
Omaha are entitled to first consideration from
both directly interested parties.
The public is entitled to uninterrupted serv
ice on the car lines.
For two days the tracks have been idle, while
the hundreds of thousands who customarily
ride on the cars are walking, or taking whatever
chance conveyance they may obtain. Business
of all kinds suffers and community life is dis
arranged, while the disputants remain apart and
decline to even attempt a composition of their
differences.
Such conditions cannot be tolerated in
definitely. If the strikers refuse to work, or
the company makes no effort to start cars, then
the duty devolves on the mayor to see that
service on the lines is resumed.
While we believe better results will follow
a sincere effort to get together" by submitting
to the war board's requirements, failing in this
another method may have to be resorted to.
Omaha certainly should not be left longer with
out street car service while we have responsible
official authorities.
Give the public service and settle differences
without making patrons and the community in
general suffer.
Still True to the South.
The president has elevated Carter Glass of
Virginia, chairman of the house committee on
banking and currency, to the place of secretary
of the treasury, about to be vacated by Mr.
McAdoo. This continues his policy of recog
nizing only southern democrats. Mr. Glass
came into prominence during Mr. Wilson's first
term, when he was charged with the presenta
tion of the worked-over Aldrich-Vreeland bill
to establish the federal reserve bank. This has
been his most notable contribution to the his
tory of his country. But he has been elected
eighteen times from his district to the house of
representatives, fairly establishing him as a
mandarin in his party. Regardless of all other
considerations, the outstanding fact is that his
selection amounts to further notice to democrats
of the north, of whom there are quite a few, that
none of them measure up to the requirements
of a cabinet position.
When the President's Away.
Who's who when the president is out of the
country?
This question is still bein debated, although
for all practical intents and purposes the dis
cussion is purely academic and theoretical.
The president is out of the country, the vice
president has not taken over the reins of power,
the wheels of government continue to revolve,
everything is going on just the same, or at least
with no more disturbance, than before.
By going back over the records, it is dis
closed that this question in modified form has
been up before; that is to say, the question who
decides when the vice president is to act as
president seems to have been answered. On
the death of William Henry Harrison the cabi
net sought to declare that the vice president
could be nothing more than an acting president,
but Mr. Tyler settled it for himself and the
cabinet had to acquiesce. Congress took no
exception. That was a case, however, where
the elected president had died and no one else
could assert a claim. Here the two houses of
congress might possibly try to recognize the
vice president as acting president, but how far
could they get when the vice president refuses
to act?
So while learned constitutional lawyers argue
pro and con and conjecture what dire things
might happen if certain other things should
happen, we have smashed all precedents and
accepted the proposition that the physical pres
ence of the chief executive within the bounda
ries of the country is not required by the con
stitution any more than is his constant presence
at the seat of government.
A Confession in Avoidance.
Admissions by the crown prince of Germany
that he is not to be blamed either for the war
or the defeat of Germany amount to a confes
sion in avoidance. In the early weeks of the
war Americans were greatly amused and some
what amazed by an authorized interview with
Frederick William of Prussia, who then re
ferred to the war as the most stupid and useless
ever waged. This may be taken up now and
used to corroborate some of his present-day
statements in asserting his innocence.
However, the stubborn fact remains that the
house of Hohenzollern was at the very fore
front of the movement, if it did discretely stay
well out of range while the firing was in
progress. It is highly improbable that any in
trigue leading up to the great world war could
be carried on without knowledge of the em
peror and the heir-apparent, nor will the world
believe that either of these was so lacking in
authority and influence that he could not have
checked the "conspiracy" had he cared to exert
himself.
Against the statement of the crown prince
will be set the disclosures made by Prince Lich
nowski, who uncovered the entire plot, involv
ing not alone the Berlin, but the Vienna, gang
as well. These in turn are borne out by the
proceedings at Constantinople and other capi
tals in which the intrigue f was carried on. In
face of all the mountain of evidence to the con
trary, the Hohenzollern tribe is not going to
find it easy to make the world think its head
knew nothing of the war until forced into it by
a court cabal.
As to- the crown prince's quarrel with the
general staff, that will be between him and them.
What really interests the world is that all his
efforts were brought to disaster. He is right
in his statement that the war was lost in Octo
ber, 1914, when Germany was defeated at the
Marne, but for four years the Hun persisted in
inflicting all the outrage and infamy within his
ability on the world he knew he could not con
quer. It is for this the German nation is now
indicted.
Senator Thomas of Colorado is pressing for
economy in public administration. He should
look up the records and see what happened
when a republican president suggested to a
democratic congress the possibility of saving
money now wasted at Washington.
A correction is due of a typographical error
in this column, which made an item demanding
restoration of postal efficiency say that "it can
be done without increasing the number of em
ployes." It was written,- "it can't be done."
Right in the Spotlight.
Dr. Henry John Cody, who cele
brates his SOth birthday today, has
been intrusted with the solution of
important after-the-war educational
problems in his new position as
minister of education in the province
of Ontario. Dr. Cody is a leading
Toronto clergyman of the Angli
can church, and has long been
prominently identified with re
ligious and educational work. He
is a native of Ontario, and was ed
ucated at the University of To
ronto, of which institution he later
became a senate member. On all
the important boards of his church
in the Dominion he has served with
distinction, as well as with many
civic organizations. Several years
ago he was a member of the On
tario government's commission on
unemployment. In his new position
he has advocated higher wages for
teachers, and increased attention to
technical and vocational training.
One Year Ago Today in'tbje War.
Russo-German armistice was an
nounced. Six German aeroplanes captured
in a raid on London.
Berlin reported capture of 11,000
prisoners in the new offensive in
Northern Italy.
German U-boat sank United
States destroyer Jacob Jones, and
69 officers and men were reported
missing.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today.
Funeral services were held for the
late G. W. Dyball at his residence,
Twenty-sixth and Poppleton ave
nue. ' The World Against Her," put on
at the Boyd, is described as a lurid
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melodrama, "not an altogether pleas
ant production."
Joseph Standeven, city boiler in
spector, is back from New York.
While away he attended the nation
al convention of boiler inspectors
of the United States and Canada
held at Pittsburgh.
Rev. Robert L. Wheeler has gone
to Ponca, Neb., to ship his house
hold goods preparatory to bringing
his family for permanent residence
in South Omaha.
The southeast corner of Sixteenth
and Jones has been sold to a Minne
apolis man, who plans to put a
four-story brick block on it.
The Day We Celebrate.
Charles E. Foster, attorney-at-law,
born 1860.
Francis A. Brogan, attorney-at-law,
born I860.
James A. Campbell, member of
the Pollard-Campbell Dredging com
pany of Omaha, born 1862.
Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, re
cently installed as Catholic bishop
of Trenton, N. J., born in Butler
county, Pennsylvania, 45 years ago.
Howard Elliott, who recently re
turned to the presidency of the Nor
thern Pacific railway, born in New
York City 58 years ago.
Prof. Olin Templin of the uni
versity of Kansas, who has been di
recting the affairs of the war league
of American colleges, born at Cam
den, Ind., 57 years ago.
This Day in History.
1889 Jefferson Davis, ex-president
of the confederate states of
America, died in New Orleans. Born
in Christian county, Kentucky, June
3, 1808.
1890 Mr. Gladstone refused to
treat with the Irish party under
Parnell's leadership.
1893 A statue of General James
Shields was unveiled in Statuary
hall of the national capitol at Wash
ington. 1914 French pursued a vigorous
offensive north of Arras.
1915 President Wilson sent note
to Austria demanding disavowal of
Ancona sinkin;-.
1916 Austro-Germans captured
Bucharest, capital of Roumania.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is the Feast of St. Nich
olas, which in Holland corresponds
to the Christmas in other lands.
Memorial exercises will be held
in Halifax today in memory of those
who perished in the powder-ship ex
plosion of one year ago.
Prof. William Howard Taft,
Charles M. Schwab and Secretary
of Labor Wilson will be the chiet
speakers at the Thirty-eighth an
nual meeting of the Academy of
Political Science, to be held in New
York City today and tomorrow,
when the subject for discussion will
be "Our industrial victory and its
effect on the future relations of
labor and capital."
Storyette of the Day.
A sportsman of great imaginative
gift was telling how at one shot he
had bagged two partridges and a
rabbit. His explanation was that
thought he had hit only one part
ridge the bird in falling had clutch
ed at another partridge and brought
that to earth entangled in its claws.
"But how about the rabbit?" he
was asked.
"Oh," was the calm reply, "my
gun kicked and knocked me back
ward and I fell on the rabbit as it
ran past." Boston Transcript.
EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.
Minneapolis Tribune: If there is
anything in names, White and House
ought to be able to hew very closely
to the line of what is wanted at the
White House.
Detroit Free Press: . It appears
that the Spanish minister in Belgium
warned , the German government
against arousing the United States.
The Spanish minister was in a posi
tion to give expert evidence.
Philadefphia Ledger: Don't the
Poles, Ruthenians, Czechs, Slovenes.
Croats, Magyars and Bulgars know
that If they grab off territory that
belongs to their neighbors they are
grabbing off trouble for themselves?
Why don't they study the life his
tory of one Bill HoBenzollern?
Kansas City Star: However, it Is
hoped former Attorney General
Wtckersham will not press that con
stitutional point about the vice presi
dent's obligation to act in the ab
sence of the president Besides, It
Is later announced that the presi
dent won't be entirely absent Mr.
Tumulty will still be here.
Justice and Progress
Chicago Tribune.
In his opening address at the Illinois Fed
President John H. Walker, one of the ablest
eration of Labor convention at Bloomington
leaders of the labor movement in the country,
said a number of things which Americans gen
erally would do well to ponder.
Respecting the concrete problems of recon
struction or transition back to peace conditions,
Mr. Walker repeated the warning, voiced some
days ago by Mr. Gompcrs. against any attempt
at radical and widespread wage reductions or
any attempt at lengthening of hours. We think
the folly of such a course is too apparent to
employers as a class to permit any mistake. In
some special cases where the wage rate has
been forced by the urgencies of war conditions
to an exorbitant standard, a standard which an
industry cannot under peace conditions main
tain, it will be readjusted under the pressure of
economic force. But, as for any general reduc
tion, we think it generally realized that it would
be not only unjust but destructively impractical.
Nevertheless this preterits a problem yvhich
both employers and emp'oyes should, unite to
solve for their common benefit. Now that war
is over American industry must expect to meet
not only in the markets of the world but at
home unless and until protective action is
taken by our government a competition made
formidable by the lower wage scale and stand
ards of the European workman and work
woman. Our own belief is that a protective tariff will
have to be erected to protect American industry
and American standards of living, and we are
not hopeful that the peace negotiated at Paris
will so radically readjust and equalize the great
differences existing between our conditions and
those abroad that we can afford to forego our
own system of economic defense.
However that may be, the situation unques
tionably calls for common counsel and mutual
support between labor and capital. We think
the creation of a committee by the Illinois fed
eration to consider reconstruction problems, a
wise and foresighted step, should be imitated
by employers, and the two committees should
get together and work out a program which
will foster our industry, protect investment, and
place labor on a higher and securer plane than
it has ever occupied before. The time, in our
opinion, for this advance is ripe. Wage earner
and employer have just passed through a great
trial. They have made common sacrifices and
they were heavy ones. The gold star shines in
many a home which the bolshevik scorns as cap
italistic. It shines in the worker's cottage, too.
There is a tie that is not going to be forgotten.
It has made more real the ties that bind us all
of common needs and hopes, of a common
striving forward to a better world for us all.
Men of all classes and conditions of fortune
see today more clearly than before the truth Mr.
Walker put with simple force when he said:
"We must establish conditions requiring every
man and woman to deal justly in all economic
transactions with other men and women." That,
as he said, is the reguisite, the only possible
foundation of peace, the peace without which
none of us will prosper or progress.
We have been forced to join hands to achieve
victory against ruthless militarism, to save our
common heritage, to protect our democratic fu
ture. Let us not unclasp them now.
This is not sentimentality. It is common
sense. The American democracy is real and it
is unconquerable. It can and will work out its
own problems in its own way under the guid
ance of its own genius without the invasion of
old world nostrums and panaceas. In this con
fidence men like Walker and Gompers, loyal
Americans who have grasped the meaning of
American history and its certain promise for us
all, sound their warning against the folly, de
struction, and reaction of bolshevism.
The cure for all such ills, which menace the
worker fully as much as tSe millionaire, lies
along the lines which Mr. Walker has pointed
out. Just dealing man to man is the key to
continued progress and prosperity. The man
who wants to prosper at the expense of others,
who wants to drag others down instead of
building all up, is no American. He does well
to scorn the American flag, for it does not
symbolize his conceptions.
The greatest step for common good would
be to bring labor and capital together in intelli
gent counsel for the common benefit. This, if
ever, js the moment for it. We are about to
enter a period more difficult and critical, per
haps, than that of war. Inevitably there will be
disagreements, misunderstandings, contests. Let
us not go into them with our eyes foolishly
shut. Let us put our faith in American good
faith, good sense, and essential democracy, but
not take them for granted. Labor and capital,
through its responsible organizations, should
take measures of common counsel and co-operation.
Industry needs the wisdom of labor
leadership. This is recognized in Englahd and
put into practice. It is overdue in America.
Leaders of organized labor like Gompers and
Walker, Duncan, Olander and Perkins are men
of thought and experience who ought to have a
share in the broad policies of our industrial ac
tivity and the regulation of industrial relations.
They will have and the sooner the better.
American progress does not mean the mere
amassment of wealth. It means the equitable
distribution of the results of our common ef
forts. It means the steady improvement of the
conditions of our lives, their stabilization on a
plane of opportunity for all, their enrichment
in experience and possibilities. The railsplitter
rises to be president, the wage earner to be
director of great enterprises. That is the proud
boast of our American creed, and it is for all of
us to see that it is made good in our day as in
the past. We can only preserve our birthright
of individual liberty by the just dealing of which
Mr. Walker speaks, by common counsel and
loyal co-operation. There is injustice and de
privation in our country. It is our task to fight
them and wipe them Out, and we can do it by
standing together, seeking honestly that ideal
which this leader of organized labor and sound
American set before his followers at Bloomington.
People and Events
The latest count shows that 14 states have
approved the prohibition amendment to the
federal constitution. Twenty-two more state
votes on the dry side will clinch the dry belt on
Uncle Sam.
It takes little old New York to stage a nov
elty in court. An ice dealer is undergoing trial
for selling ice for less money than the scale
fixed by the state ice controller. Isn't that the
limit of official vanity?
Hats off to Mrs. Jeannette Wenk, the Brook
lyn landlady who scorned profiteering. Mrs.
Wenk shoveled in her own coal rather than
raise rent to meet a charge of $1 a ton for put
ting the coal in the bin.
Isaiah was not the only prophet of the old
days whose forward look gripped the events of
1918. The party who christened Devil's island
evidently squinted in the same direction, fore
seeing the attractiveness of the spot as an abode
for descredited warmakers.
Henry J. Allen, governor-elect of Kansas,
home from Red Cross work in France, says
the least of his worries is about stocking up the
pie counter. "Taking care of his friends" is
beside the paramount task of serving the state.
Absence from the state during the campaign
freed him from pledges, so the boys who
manned the political trenches may whistle to
keep up courage during the long wait.
Washington admits without batting a lid that
it has an abundance of smooth workers, not a
few of them on the congressional payroll. The
slickest job in sight at the capitol just now is
the omission of grape juice from the list of war
taxed soft drinks in the pending revenue bill.
Some patriots consider the omission a delicate
compliment to W. J. Bryan. Others less kindly
disposed are scouring southern vineyards for
the Senegambian.
Burleson and the Railway Mail.
Omaha, Dee. 3 To the Editor of
The Bee: Referring in an editorial
note in your paper this morning:
Kfflciency in the railway mail serv
ice may be achieved by the rein
statement of about half of the ef
ficient and experienced employes
who have been removed for political
reasons within the Inst four years.
I know I put in 40 years with
Uncle Sam, closinK my career in
March last, when I was politically
"located." I have seen action during
that time in practically all of the
branches, of the postal service, and
never during all of my time have I
seen the dirty and contemptible un
dermining work as it has been under
the present system. The wur being
on has afforded every desired oppor
tunity for carrying it effectually. I
give you here a paragraph from a
letter I have just had from a post
office inspector:
"I think conditions in general in
this line of work are the worst I
have ever known them to be; the
new accounting system has prac
tically all the postmasters up in the
air, and I think since you left our
service I have recommended the re
moval of more postmasters than
ever before, on account of incom
petency in keeping their accounts
shortages, etc."
Hoping we may sooner or later
return to the form of government we
are trying to establish in foreign
rations, and that a certain form of
southern aristocracy, becoming en
tirely too prevalent, may be knocked
out, I am, EX-R. P. O. MAN.
Duties of the President.
Omaha, Dec. 4. To the Editor of
The Bee: The departure of the
president to Kurope while the con
gress is in session gives rise to a
very serious constitutional question.
There is no emergency requiring his
departure.
The constitution provides in
Clause 17, Section 8. Article 1, for
a "seat of the government of the
United States," and congress long
ago established the District of Co
lumbia as such seat, and has ex
pended large sums of money In
buildings for the transaction of the
government business, among them a
resident for the president and ex
ecutive offices for the transaction of
the business requiring his attention.
While it is not expressly stated in
the constitution that the president
shall remain at the seat of the gov
ernment, yet, the implication is very
clear that he must do so when the
congress is in session.
Clause 2, Section 7, Article 1 of
the constitution provides that
"every bill which has been passed
by the house of representatives and
the senate, shall, before it becomes
a law, be presented to the president
of the United States: if he approve,
he shall sign it." Does this mean
that it shall be presented to him in
England, France, or in Italy, in case
he is in either place? No. It means
that he shall be at the seat of the
government which the congress has
established and where it is in ses
sion. It is further provided that if
the bill is not returned by the' presi
dent within 10 days after it shall
have been presented to him, the
same shall be a law. Now a bill
cannot be presented to the presi
dent for his signature, and returned
by him to the-congress within 10
days, if he is on the ocean, in Eng
land, in France, or any other Euro
pean country.
The president, by his voluntary
act, has created an inability to dis
charge the powers and duties of his
office; and, under Clause 5, Section
1, Article 2, these powers and duties
devolve on the vice president. The
president cannot create the inability
and at the same time insist upon
acting as president. The president
cannot delegate his powers to an
other person, he cannot deputize
anyone to sign a bill for him. The
constitution means a personal signa
ture and not one by proxy.
It seems clear that the departure
of the president has created an in
ability on his part to discharge the
duties of his office and that the vice
president has the power and is
charged with the duty of perform
ing them. Whether this power in
the vice president ceases upon the
termination of the inability of the
president the constitution is silent.
The disability named in the clause
cited refers only to those officers
provided for by congress In the case
of the inability of both the president
and vice president. N. M. PUSEY.
Prices, Profits and People.
IJncoln, Neb., Dec. 3. To the
Editor of The Bee: Mr. Wil
son, a traveling salesman, complains
State Press Comment
Wayne Herald: Republican of
flceseekers are pursuing Governor
elect McKelvie with untiring energy
and yearning hope, and democratic
officeholders are viewing the pros
pect with uneasy apprehension.
"Beatrice Express: Speaking about
profiteering, time was when the ship
per was more than pleased to receive
30 cents a quart for oysters. Today
oysters are quoted in Beatrice at 50
cents a pint or SS-vents a quart. The
war is over, but the price continues
to increase. Just why?
Fairbury News: William J.
Bryan is rejoicing over the defeat of
the democratic ticket in Nebraska,
which he pleases to call a "machine"
ticket. Every old skate of a poli
tician who has had his political ma
chine smashed to smithereens in a
collision with the people is, of
course, opposed to "machine rule."
Mr. Bryan's latest plaint sounds very
much to us like the "devil rebuking
sin."
Scottsbluff Republican: It Is to
be hoped that the incoming legisla
ture will have the nerve to amend or
repeal the present primary law.
With each election its defects are
becoming more and mora apparent,
and it should be amended so that the
public will be protected against in
competent officeholders. As the law
is now the people are called upon to
vote for men of whom they know
nothing, and it appears the less
known of a man the better he runs.
Harvard Courier: Now that the
war is over there will be lots of
pleasure in bumping the profiteers,
but it will also be necessary to be
careful to not do harm to innocent
parties. The stores are filled with
high priced goods and prices will
through an article in The Bee that
he was charged 65 cents in a rail
road eating house when at the same
time an engineer paid 35 cents for
the same meal.
Here is an example where a little
cog in the vast machinery of busl-ness-for-proflt
gets some of his own
medicine. Business of today, almost
without exception, passes all extra
expense off onto the consumer, In in
creased prices of commodities. All
the expense a firm Is at to put its
salesmen into the field is safely cov
ered by an extra price on their mer
chandise and the consumer pays the
bill. The railroad gives its employe
meals at cost and lool.s for its
profits to the patronage of the pub
lic, which In this case is a traveling
salesman. If Mr. Wilson is a shoe
salesman he can get his shoes at
wholesale vrice, but the engineer can
buy only at retail prices. Now. if a
salesman gets the goods he sells at
wholesale prices and calls it good
business, then he should not com
plain when an engineer gets his
meals at wholesale prices from the
corporation that employs him.
JESSE KINDER.
necessarily b high oft many ar-
tiM. fni null m whlla unless the
storekeeper take ruinous losses. All j
high prices are not pronteer price",
but whenever it la known that a
profiteer has been getting in his work
he should be handled without
mercy.
Potato growers of northwest Ne
braska assemble at Scottsbluff this
ulf fnr a. threa-dav meeting. An
exhibit of high-grade spuds will be a
reature oi tne garnering. wu
who think the sandhill spuds are
uot top-notchers, unsurpassed in
minlttv and halt mpasnrA need but
jlip into the meeting to be convinced.
Blair Enterprise thinks there are
too many sinecures clinging to the
state payroll like barnacle to a ship,
end urges Ooverernor-elect McKel
vie to whet his axe for sictlve work
In January. Great Scott, that sounds
like an application for the Job of
assltant headsman.
It is a pleasure,"
writes Julia Claurrerv.,
corvrraltoi,to tell Kow
muck I appreciate ike
Its unusual delicacy
of tone, coupled witfv
immente power,
makes it an unecjualcd
instrument of expres
siorv for a muslciarx'
. wvto Apoa'f Ait TnacAJexr
pianoforte.
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Within six months' time we should bring in at least three more wells
from the 1,700-foot sand on our proven Humble lease.
Figuring that they come in only as large as No. 1, which came in
November 20, producing 150 barrels daily, we should be able to pay at
least 100 yearly to our tract holders.
Having room for about 25 wells to the 1,700-foot depth, with room
for as many more wells to the 2,700-foot sand, irom which neighboring
companies have brought in as high as 10,000-barrel gushers, a slight idea
of the enormous profits involved, can be readily appreciated.
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