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Go to it, Dean, while the going is good.
A few more mayors like Ole Hansen will
help I lot in America.
. Bolshevists who chant "to hell with Amer
ica" may feci certain that they will not be
imssed here.
Meanwhile the Omaha detectives have lost
another "gun fight" with a badly wanted
burglar.
The president is scheduled to start for home
today, with a lot of baggage he did not have
when going over.
They're talking about The Bee on the leg
islative floor at Lincoln. They're talking about
The Bee everywhere in Omaha.
Von Bethmann-Hollweg says he is ready to
stand trial, but gives an intimation that he
would like to pick the jury.
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"Nat" Goodwin is credited with leaving an
estate of only $6,000, a proof that his career
was costly as well as variegated.
If "Charley" Sloan gets the daylight "sav
ing" law repealed, he will close his term in
congress with a genuine service to the farmers
Nebraska's republican legislature put the
federal dry amendment across and Nebraska's
democratic senator put the kibosh on the fed
eral suffrage amendment. Nuf sedl
"Getting" one accused detective is not going
to cure the Omaha police force of what ails it.
The operation is serious, but ought to be per
formed before the patient gets much worse.
If "Jim" Mann held up the navy bill, it was
with a view to finding out just what is con
tained in the administration program. More
than he are asking, Where do we go from here?
If there is more booze in Nebraska today
than when it went dry a year and a half ago.
those who have been drinking it as if it were
their last chance will have to vote themselves
a failure.
Suffrage loses again in the United States
senate by one vote, and the "wierd women" of
Washington may resume their practice of burn.
ing the president in effigy. One additional vote
from Nebraska would have carried the bill, but
it was not forthcoming.
It may be necessary to hold the boys in
service a few months longer, but let us not do
it because of a threat of a crime wave in New
York. Our soldiers are not criminals, and to
insinuate their unemployed presence is a danger
to any community is to gratuitously insult brave
men.
Secretary Glass is not so transparent as his
namesuggests, and his modest request for un
limited billions may justify a little inspection.
It may be but a part of the program to get
everything possible from the present congress
in anticipation of a different policy when the
next comes on.
The death of "Dick" O'Keeffe will recall
many interesting bits of local political history
of thirty years ago or so, when he was a tow
ering figure in the councils of the Douglas
county unterrified, and when he won the sobri
quet of "Honest Dick" by standing four-square
against a lot of his party associates who were
not so particular about some things as he was.
Germany's Fatal Shortage
History may decide that, all things consid
ered. Germany's fatal shortage was neither in
white flour nor in copper nor in rubber. It was
in humor.
The allies could never escape the feeling that,
in addition to being terrible, Germany was also
rather ridiculous. It was a certain disconcert
ing Englishman who pointed out to Germany at
the start that, even in her invasion of little Bel
gium, the spectacle she presented of a huge,
whip-cracking bully striding into a room and
stumbling over the doormat had in it a 'dis
astrous element of the comic. But then, Ger
many celebrating the fall of Verdun. Germany
pounding nails into her wooden Hindenburg,
Germany glowing with pride over her glorious
combatant fleet was always a little absurd.
And the kaiser! The kaiser all dressed up
like a Christmas tree ready for the triumphant
entry into the Nancy that never fell, the shining
war lord scuttling out of his realm as soon as
his troops were in trouble. Wilhelm. in any
country with a sense of humor, would never
have been able to play his role out to its ghastly
conclusion. He would have been laughed off the
stage in the prologue.
And this same lack in these laughless people
led them to misread as a symptom of weakness
v.-hat was really a sign and a source of strength
the puzzling laughter thatfloated to them
across the waste of No Man's Land. They were
bewildered by the British. They could never
understand the humor of a people who would
:atch at the kaiser's sneer and make a fond and
jubilant war cry out of "The Old Contempti
b!es," who could ruin the "Hymn of Hate" for
the Germans by learning it themselves and sing
ing it in the trenches with particular relish for
the refrain: "We hate England." And the
French, whose gaiety had misled the Germans
into thinking them negligible and frivolous,
proved to be quite a serious people on the hills
before Verdun. Then it began to appear that
the American regarded himself duly equipped
so long as he could go into battle armed with
a toothbrush and a grin; and it is probably true
that his army laughed more per kilometer than
any other army in the field. If the first distant
sound of endless Americans on the march
seemed at all ominous to Berlin, the threat must
have grown when, at last, it was reported from
the front that the Yank was the most baffling
and most deadly of all offensive weapons the
-oldier who fights with a smile. Stars and
i ir'pes, Official A. E, F,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY.
Speculation is idle as to what Abraham Lin
coln would or would not do, were he alive at
this time. It is enough for us to know what he
did do when he walked among men. Americans
can always turn to him for comfort or inspira
tion, for he above all others seemed to touch
upon all the chords of our national life, such as
it was in his day, and as he visioned it for the
future. Aspirations for American ideals of free
dom, of liberty, social equality and justice for
ali inspired him in his great work for humanity.
What he accomplished is history, a page that
shines the brighter as its time recedes along
the vista of years. From its perusal all may
draw courage to continue the fight against what
ever odds. His great, gaunt figure, with bowed
head and brooding eyes, seeing far ahead to a
time when less of sorrow and toil and hardship
woi'ld be the lot of man, still fills a great place
in the popular mind of America. It will do us
all good if we pause for a moment today and
think of Abraham Lincoln as a man, the "first
American," and how "he lived and toiled and
suffered that the tribes of men might prosper."
We will be the better for having pondered over
the example he gave us, for it may lead us, as
he phrased it, "highly to resolve" to "go for
ward in the right as God gives us to see the
right," and be thereby better Americans and
more worthy of the memory of Lincoln.
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In the Way of Making Peace.
Coats are coming off in Paris, where
delegates assembled to make peace for
world are finally getting down to business,
the same time some of the bumpy places in the
way are developing. One of these has to do
with the economic phase 6f rehabilitating
France and Belgium.
In these countries the opinion prevails that
German industry should be checked until the
destroyed French and Belgian factories are
again in operation. This would enable the
victims to start on even terms with the culprit.
Against' this the United States and England pro
pose that a cash indemnity be paid by Ger
many, a process that will have the effect of in
part at least realizing the German purpose of
getting hold of the market while its rivals are
unable to compete.
Just how the difference of opinion on this
point will be adjusted is not yet indicated. It
may be accepted that considerable persuasion
will be required to content the French and Bel
gian people working to restore factories de
liberately wrecked while they watch the wreck
ers sending out goods to satisfy the world de
mands. Japan has declared positively that islands
seized from Germany will be held. Australia
has entered objections to the mandatory con
trol of certain South Pacific islands necessary
to defense of the continent. In these incidents
may be descried a cloud somewhat larger than
a man's hand coming up against the clear sky
of the president's plan for dealing with the
colonies. Read in connection with Balfour's
statement as to the continuance of existing
treaties, they show the drift to a modification
of the general scheme, in detail if not in whole.
Admiral Mayo's statement that the peace
council is a sewing circle will probably be con
siderably revised. It may have been one, but
it is coming closer to the status of a genuine
tug of war.
Drive of Desperate Democracy.
Closing days of the Sixty-fifth congress are
to be marked by the most strenuous efforts of
the democrats to push through every part of
the administration program possible to enact.
With March 4th the hold of the bourbons on
congress will be broken, control passing to
the republicans. But the dominant party then
will not have a sufficient majority to overcome
a presidential veto. Thus, anything that is now
done may be considered riveted as far as the
next congress is concerned, for any attempt to
undo a democratic blunder must have approval
from the White House or it can not succeed.
Thus it is that the three-year naval program
and various other continuing schemes are being
forced through, while billions of dollars are
being appropriated. It is the desperate drive
of a defeated and discredited group of politi
cians, bent on gaining all possible partisan ad
vantage and leaving as great a load for their
successors as possible. Instead of fleeing from
the wrath to come, the democrats are joyously
sowing the wind and will as surely reap the
whirlwind.
On a Financial Drunk
Kansas City Star.
News comes from Washington that the gov
ernment plans to spend $18,000,000,000 this ft-
cal year and siu.lXMJ.UUU.UUO next year. J. fie
figures are staggering. Twenty-eight thou
sand million dollars.
That means enormous taxes this year and
next and the year after, with bond issues be
sides. Normally this money would be available
tor the reconstruction and expansion of busi
ness. Only a fraction of the country's big in
come goes for personal expenses. The bulk is
reinvested in productive industry. But all the
way from 50 to 80 per cent of these incomes
must now be diverted to the government in
taxes, and a good deal of the rest must be in
vested in Liberty bonds for government pur
poses not merely this year, but next year as
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Of course this is a tremendous handicap on
the nation s prosperity. But nobody would com
plain if the expenditures were necessary and le
gitimate. What hurts is the feeling that money
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is ncing loousniy spent ana wastea.
Here are the railroads. Their latest state
ment show''them to be in worse financial condi
tion than they were when the government took
them over, and this in spite of great increases
in freight rates and passenger fares. Nobody
would be surprised to see a deficit of $500,000
000 to be made up out of taxes this next year.
Yet the administration is asking for five years
more of the same thing!
The Navy department has suddenly burst
our. wim a snip nuiioing program wttn tne
avowed purpose of beating England. Germany
has surrendered her navy and the United States
hasn't fought England for a hundred years and
doesn't expect to for several hundred more.
There seems no particular reason for haste in
expanding our program beyond anything our
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navy men uctu ever uiuugu. necessary.
Yet congress is proposing a naval appropriation
bill carrvine $750,000,000.
Somebody has had the brilliant notion of
spending $400,000,000 at once on waterways. No
body would be surprised to see an application
for $1,000,000,000 for public buildings. So far
as the country knows the Creel bureau is still
operating a hotel or two in Paris, and there are
all sorts of expensive bureaus that were devised
during the war by persons with theories they
desired to exploit, which are absorbing the
country's money.
Just to mention a specific instance of the lav
ish way in which money has been handed out,
the head of one department, before the armis
tice, obtained $350,000 to investigate plans for
industrial reconstruction. A month later the
president told congress no plans were neces
sary. But he had not told the gentleman with
the $350,000, who had been busy spending it.
This country has been on a financial drunk
the last two years. It has been necessarv to
spend money in undreamed of sums on war
equipment. People have become accustomed to
talking of billions where once they talked of
millions. The result has been to breed a gen
eral disposition far extravagance in every de
partment of the government.
Coneress used to check un an item nf $1 nnn .
000 proposed for some department and ' ask
whether it was absolutely necessary. But where
tnousanas or millions are being spent, who cares
for such a flv soeck as a million or a hundred
m'llions?
The whole atmosohere of Washinctnn ha
been permeated with extravaeance. There is
objection from old-fashioned congressmen to
embarking on a naval program of Sl.000.000.nn0
a year to ngnt shadows with. J. he president ca
bles a dark and mysterious message on the ne
cessity of it. Only a few favored souls even see
tne cablegram. Vet the house committee
unanimously recommends this terrific expenditure.
Now the suggestion cornea from Paris tW
America must be prepared to assume the ex
pense of garrisoning and administerine- the ter
ritories of backward peoples in every part of
the world. What the cost may be nobody in
authority seems to know or care.
Where IS this sort of thine o-nincr tn rniif
The money must be found. It doesn't grow on
bushes. It must come out of the pockets of the
people.
Money that ought to be soent in buildinc far-
tones and paying wages and improving farms is
being diverted to all sorts of governmental ex
travagancies proposed or conducted by persons
with theories who do not have to foot the bills.
The American neonle haven't vet- reaii?...!
Avhat is being done with their money. When
they do the government is going to hear from
them. No public men and no political party or
ganization can afford to be responsible or a
continuation of this monev snendintr nrcrv that
has been in progress for the last two years in
. asinngioii.
Our Free Legal Aid
State your case clearly but
briefly and a reliable lawyer
will furnish the answer or
advice in this column. Your
name will not be printed.
Let The Bee Advie You
Partnerships and Corporations.
R. S. Kindly let me know
whether you would advise a partner
ship being incorporated, and, if so,
what are the advantages of one over
the other? Also tell me the differ
ence between common and preferred
stock.
Answer There are very material
advantages for having your business
Incorporated, which may be sum
marized as follows:
(a) rts limitation of stockholders'
liabilities to a definite amount.
(b) Its distinct legal entity for all
business purposes.
(c) The stability and permanence
of Its organization
(d) The representation of the
different Interests In the corporation
and lta property by transferable
shares of stock.
(e) The management of the busi
ness by an elected board of direc
tors, acting through oftlcers and
agents.
(f) The greater ease of securing
capital because of the safeguards
and advantages of the corporation.
Common and Preferred Stock
Preferred stock is that to which
some preference has been given over
other stock of the same corporation
as to participation In profits, and
often in assets in case of liquidation.
If there is no distinction In regard
to these two features the stock of
a corporation is all common stock.
Different preferred stocks may be
Issued by the same corporation In
any desired variety of preference
as to dividends and redemption or
liquidation rights. These would be
distinguished from each other as
first, second and third preferred
stock, or by other designations de
scriptive of the peculiar status of
each stock. The lowest, or non
preferred, stock would be common
stock.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
(Pairs and Billy Belgium, rallad to
Mexico to aava Ited Spot, doomed to dla
In a bull-flBht. find that Red Snot ha a
bean noadpd Into auch a. rata that he
docan't want to be reamed.)
CHAPTER III.
They Meet Senor Matador.
XJa SEXOIt RULI. is In a fine
fury," spoke a voice from
the other side of the bull pen. "He
will give you a royal battle, Senor
Matador."
"The greater the fury the more
glorious my triumph," snarled an
other voire. Looking through the
window, Peggy and Hilly saw two
dark-fared men peering in at the
bull from the safety of a burred
door. Ona of them wnr a enmlv'
costume, such as Peggy had soen in
pictures of bull-fighters. Around
his waist he wore a bright crimson
scarf. At once she knew that he was
Senor Matador.
"Woof!" roared Red Spot when he
Business of a Witness.
B. C. Why is there no one in a
court rqom wftose business It is to
instruct witnesses in the rules of
evidence? It was my natural ig
norance of a few of its fundamental
laws that laid me open to that
cross-examination which so put me
in the wrong that I could not speak
the truth that was in me. Please
state some of the rules of evidence.
Answer It is not necessary for
witnesses to understand the rules of
evidence. The lawyers and the
judges see that only proper ques
tions are asked. All a witness has
to do is to tell the truth.
Too Much Idle Talking.
Since the work of disassembling our hastily
slapped together war machinery was begun
in November, the country has been disturbed
by a lot of idle talk. Much of it comes from
people who should know better, and not a
little from officials. All of it it harmful.
It was not possible to turn from war to peace
with the same facility that we got onto a war
basis. The country was going at a high rate
when the order came to stop and back up.
Stopping came easily enough, but getting
started in the other direction takes more time
than some people want to allow. Therefore,
because business is not immediately set moving
on a peace basis, we get vociferous warnings of
danger from unemployment of millions of sol
diers. '
Suspicion has sprung up that this cry is but
a carefully-devised propaganda movement :n
favor of immense appropriations to continue
or extend government work. To this has now-
been added a rather sillv stateme nt from a
New York police commissioner, that he fears
a crime wave because of the presence of dis
charged soldiers in great numbers. Secretary
baker declared last week that a job would he
provided for each man dismissed from the army.
lhat is proper, and will easily be accomplished,
if the representatives of the government will
cease to agitate for a continuation of govern
ment employment, and will give private business
an opportunity to get under headway.
We must not only cure ourselves of the habit
of careless talking, and of the equally dangerous
habit of running to Washington for help on oc
casions when we should help ourselves. As
sertion of a little of our formerly boasted in
dependence and less of reliance on federal over
sight may bring resumption of normal business
faster than it is coming. At any rate, the fool
ish talk will not help.
January was a busy month for mail men,
running out of Omaha. This has nothing to do
with the soldiers' mail held up in France.
Farmerettes to Stay
The Woman's Land Army of America the
war emergency organization that claims the dis
tinction of having invented the farmerette
sends out the gladsome information that to a
large extent the farmerettes will stay in the
farm game. Very likely a good many of them
have married into the business, and, likely as
not, some of them with good business heads
have observed that there is good business oo-
portunity in everything from eggs to pigs from
cabbages to poultry.
We were hearing so much in the antehellum
times about the terrible isolation of farm life for
women that the report that women who went
into farming as a war service will stay in be
cause they love the freedom, the open-air life
and the joyous simplicity and wholesomeness
of life on the farm, comes something in the way
of surprise. As to what makes life joyous is,
after all, in the way of thinking about it. The
city-bred girl sometimes makes the steadiest
and most satisfied kind of a farmer's wife, sim
ply because she knows about the humbuggery of
me great wnue ways.
And by the same token it is generally the
country-bred girl that goes the rapid pace in the
city life. As to farming as an occupation for
women why not? Modern farming is much
more an affair of intelligently directed plans
than of toilsome effort. Machinery is used for
pretty much everything on the modern farm
even chickens are hatched by machinery. And,
speaking of chickens, what's wrong about hen
farming for women when one industrious hen
can be scheduled for $10 worth of eggs per an
num? Baltimore American.
Residence for Divorce.
C. K. I was married in Iowa and
have two children. My husband
deserted me six months ago, and I
then came to Omaha to live. Will
you tell me how long I will have to
live in this state before I can apply
for divorce?
Answer You have to reside in
this state two years.
Children Share Alike.
Jj. M. My father was married
twice. He got a divorce from his
first wife and my mother, who was
his' second wife, died six years ago.
There were children by both mar
riages. My father recently died, but
did not leave a will. The three chil
dren by the first marriage claim an
interest in the property he left. I
am the only child of the second mar
riage. I would feel obliged if you
would let me know whether these
children have any legal claim to his
property.
Answer They have. All the chil
dren share equally and alike.
Wage Contracts.
II. N. I am a working girl and
was hired for $30 a month. I was
fired without warning because I
would not stay home evenings with
the children. The woman only
wants to pay me for the week I
worked. I was told I could make
her pay me a month's wages. Ad
vise me what to do.
Answer It depends on whether
your contract of employment in
cluded your staying in evenings. If
nothing was said, but the custom
Included such services, you cannot
recover. Would advise you to drop
the matter and take your week's
pay.
Boston Bull lciiHil forward and
fastened his teeth in Senor
Matador's leg.
saw the two men. "Come in here and
fight." And with that ho crashed
against the barred door, shaking the
whole building and sending the two!
men scurrying out of sight. In a
minute the two came hurrying past
tho window where the children and
animals were looking in.
"Get out of here." yelled Senor
Matador, aiming a kick at Billy Hel
giimi. Hut the kirk never reached
Hilly, for like a shot Boston Hull
leaped forward and fastened his
teeth in Senor Matador's uplifted
leg. Down went Senor Matador In
a heap. The other Mexican Jumped
to strike Boston Hull with a cane he
carried. Put the blow never landed,
Nanny Goat launched herself for
ward like a living thunderbolt and
butted him on top of Senor Matador.
Kor a minute there was a wild
nilx-up, with lioHton Pull growling
and chewing and Nanny Goat bleat
ing and butting. It ended with
Senor Matador and the other Mexi
enn scrambling to their feet and
finning for dear life. They ran so
fast they soon got away from Nanny
Goat and Boston Bull, who were
just beginning to enjoy themselves.
"I want to be a hull-fighter,"
brayed Circus . Mike. "I can whip
those fellows."
"You can if you get a fair chance,
but they don't tight fair. That's
why we've got to save lied Spot,
whether he wants to be saved or
not." chirped King Bird.
Hed Spot was raging around In a
perfect fury. It was no use trying
to argue with him. He wouldn't
listen to reason. Then an idea
popped into Peggy's head. She re
membered the peaceful meadows
along the river, the free air, the low
ing herd, with the cows and calves
calling for Father Red Spot. Softly
Peggy began to sing a little song she
made up as she went along:
Tender growa tha craai along tha Rio
Orande;
Softly einir the blrda. flylnn In the free air.
Gently low the rattle, aoothlng their ralvee,
Fear not, Red Spot le in guard; no harm
can come!
Red Spot ceased threshing around
the bull pen. His bellowing died
away. He listened eagerly. King
Bird and other birds took up the
song and sang the words over again.
Daily Dot Puzzle
UfuJl
S WrfS
The Day We Celebrate.
William Curtis Lambert, corporation coun
sel of Omaha, born 1865.
Sir Herbert Holt, president of the Royal
Bank of Canada and one of the financial leaders
in the Dominion, born in County Kildare, Ire
land, 63 years ago.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Ohio
congressman and daughter of the late Theodore
Roosevelt, born 35 years ago.
William Faversham, a celebrated actor of
the American stage, born in London 51 years
ago.
Clarence H. Rowland, former manager of
the Chicago American league base ball club,
born at Plattsville, Wis., 40 years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
An ordinance was introduced in the city
council to reduce the price of gas from $2 a
thousand cubic feet, as at present, to $1.25.
"Oh, happy are they who their Savior
obey," was the initial psalm ung by Evangel
ists Miller and Porter at their revival meeting
at the armory.
O. N. Davenport, steward of the Millard
hotel, has accepted a similar position at the
Booge hotel in Sioux City.
Miss Lizzie Belle Dickey, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Dickey, was married to Mr. Wil
liam Pike of Portland, Ore., by Father Wil
liams of St. Barnabas. Miss Shears of this city
and Miss Jordan of St. Louis acted as brides
maids, .
THIS QUESTION AND
ANSWER COLUMN
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Monday
Questions About People.
Tuesday
Friend of the Soldier.
Wednesday
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Friend of the Soldier.
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Real Aid for Public Schools.
Neligh. Neb., Feb. 9. To the Ed
itor of The Bee: While the atten
tion of the whole state is being
drawn to tho subject of schools, may
I offer a few suggestions about
proper persons for school officers?
'. No person should be elected to
serve on a school board whose loy
alty to our form of government is
not clearly above suspicion. This
ought to be mado a hard and fast
rule by every voter, no matter how
scarce official timber may be in the
district.
An old man should not be a school
officer. He is very apt to feel that
the methods of 40 years ago are
good enough for the nresent time
His honesty may be without Ques
tion, but he is probably out of tune
witn tne progress of the times.
A man who has no children at
tending the public school in his own
district should not be nut on the
school board. If forced to choose
oeiween one wnose cniidren are
past school age and one whose chil
dren are too young to enter, take the
latter. He is more likely to be
come interested.
If a man sends some of his chil
dren to public school and others to
a parochial school, he will probably
make an Ineflicient officer for his
district. His interests are divided,
and he Is clearly not in full sympa
thy with the former institution.
A woman sometimes makes an
efficient director, but she must have
unusual business experience and suf
ficient time for her duties to the
school. Many excellent women fail
in this capacity for a lack of initia
tive, or because of timidity.
If a man owns half or more of
the property in the district he should
not be on a school board, unless the
voters are willing to make it a one
man affair. Such a man's influence
subdues the other members until
they are mere fipure-heads, and as
a rule he is so afraid the levy may
be raised a mill or two that he im
pedes all progress in improvements
and equipment.
After years of experience as a
teacher, in the county superintend
ent's office and in direct business
contact with boards of education in
other capacities, I beg the people
who create such boards to consider
these suggestions most seriously for
the good of their children. While
Nebraska stands high in point of lit
eracy, she does so in spite of some
deplorable conditions that are no
sta-P" . r m i j i m
OX
longer necessary. In this state I
have talked with a number of direc
tors who believe the earth is flat and
that the sun moves around it daily.
One Bchool officer told me he
thought the schools would ruin the
country on account of the school
tax. He had large property and no
children. Several of them could not
write their own names legibly; and
one, being unable to converse In
English, had to call an interpreter.
A considerable number of these
men, entrusted with the educational
well-being of the youth of their re
spective districts, said the children
are Retting too much education, and
thought schooling fits them only for
sharpers and frauds.
In many districts it is difficult to
secure efficient persons to serve on
school boards, but let us not wait
until the annual meeting and then
elect any one who happens , to be
present regardless of his qualifica
tions. Let us think it all out be
forehand, and see that only the most
intelligent and sympathetic person
available is chosen for this respon
sible position. But first of all let us
make sure we elect a person who is
out and out progressive In spirit.
JACK B. NIMBLE.
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An Ortolan not seen before
Will come when you've traced
fifty-four.
Draw from one to two and a on to tha
end.
chirping very softly when they
came to the words:
Gently inw the cattle, soothing theti
calves.
Fear not, Red Spot la on guard; no harm
can come!
Great tears rolled down from Red
Spot's eyes.
"My poor herd!" he moaned
"What will become of them with
me gone?"
"You see, Red Spot, you must for
get your anger and try to be saved
because of your herd," urged Peg
gy, and Red Spot bowed his head.
"But it's too late now," he
moaned. "The people must have
their show and I must die to furnish
It for them."
Looking down the street Peggy
could see great crowds beginning to
stream toward the bull ring. From
within came the shouts of the gath
ering audience. An idea came to
I'eggy.
"We'll give them a show," she
cried, "a show that will surprise
them so thpy will forget Red Spot.
We'll make 'em laugh and while
they laugh we'll hurry Red Spot
back, safe and Bound, to his wait
ing herd."
(Tomorrow will be told how Pegrpry and
Billy Ret their first glimpse of the lnalda
ot a bull ring.)
OMAHA'S POLICE SCANDAL
Hastings Tribune: When Omaha
detectives tie up with automobile
bandits for the purpose of duping
the public it's time to make a real
cleaning of Omaha's gum shoe ex
perts. Burt County Herald: Omaha is in
a turmoil over the number of auto
thefts committed there. The fault
lies in the leniency dealt out to all
classes of criminals by the law en
forcing departments.
Kearney Hub: The shake-up In
the police force of Omaha Is be
coming quite sensational and is at
tracting attention far and wide. In
one sense of course the matter is
entirely Omaha's private business,
but on the other hand many thou
sands of Nebraska and Iowa people
who have to visit the Nebraska me
tropolis are very much interested in
the matter of police service and the
security of their lives and personal
property. Hence long range sugges
tions are in order, and the first one
is to clean out the whole outfit, top
to bottom, root and branch, and be
gin over again with novices, if need
be, who are untainted with criminal
associations and connections.
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EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.
St. Louis Globe Democrat: Salary
checks for the dollar-a-year men are
to be autographed by President Wil
son. Ages from now they will be
souvenirs among descendants recall
ing that their ancestors were mill
ionaires. Kansas City Star: While It is not
openly expressed, there is said to be
some dissatisfaction among the 113
conscientious objectors Mr. Baker
recently rewarded because none of
them have fallen into Jobs paying
salaries of $150,000 a year.
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