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to them. Address chanted at often a requested.
Talk may he cheap, bu,t not over the phone.
The world is agreed on one point: The
other fellow is wrong.
An army of 509,909 ought to be enough, but
it shows pretty close figuring.
English dukes propose to form a union.
American millionaires may follow suit.
Missouri's attorney general has been placed
under arrest. Suppose that were in Iowa!
Columbus is now claimed by the "reds' as a
lodge brother. He is dead and can not object.
Maybe Kate O'Hare thinks five years in the
"stir" is not long enough time in which to cool
out.
New York boat owners surely love a fight,
but competition will have its effect on them in
time.
Creel ought to write the story of the late con
gress, for his style of fiction just about suits the
record.
One can own $110,000 of Liberty bonds and
escape taxation on them. That makes it easy
for most of us.
Chicago lays claim to 3,000,000 population,
and will very likely cast about that many votes
in the coming city election.
The impatience of the Canucks to get back
home shows that we have not the only problem
arising from the shortage of ships.
The president's new grandson looks like any
other baby right now, but think of what the
poor little chap has to live up to.
llerr President Ebert declines to. accept the
resignation of llerr Chancellor Scheideman.
Quite different from the old days.
German socialists have waived their demand
for the life of the late kaiser, but their action
does not entirely dispose of his case.
Compare the tale told by Ambassador Fran
cis with that unreeled by Raymond Robins, and
form your own conclusion as to which is telling
the truth.
"Dave" Francis says the bolsheviki moves
. were directed by the Huns, and he ought to
know, for he was on the inside at Tetrograd
most of the time.
Food will be furnished the starving millions
of central Europe, to the extent of their needs,
but planting will have to succeed politics over
there next summer.
Germans are willing to reopen negotiations
for use of their merchant marine. We thought
they would. The day has passed when the'
world gets frightened at a German bluff.
If Mr. Wilson can assist by radio from a
steamship in writing the peace treaty at Paris. J
wny couia ne not nave done tne same tning
from Washington, and saved a lot of travel?
Boston brewers are going to turn their es
tablishments into candy factories. That will
serve till somebody discovers that candy is a
detriment to the race, and secures its prohibition.
German socialists are having all sorts of fun
with the new government, but they will not be
permitted to get away from the main business
that of settling for the junkers' spree, in
which the reds shared.
Secretaries Daniels and Baker having de
termined to go abroad, it is reasonable to ex
pect that in time other members of the cabinet
will be able to find urgent reasons for visiting
Europe. Why not? But the best "Tom" Mar
shall can do is to go to Phoenix.
Problems in Map-Making
Before the peace conference sat, this paper
pointed out a few of the complications involved
in the making of the map of Europe in the spirit
which actuated the allies in this war, particular
ly by its latter part Reports from Paris are that
there is "still lack of agreement among the
parties most directly interested, but progress
is being made. Boundaries are not being set
;led by might, as at the end of most wars. On
:he other hand, no country is showing a spirit
:f complete altruism. Each wants what it
thinks belongs to it and each wishes such physi
:al protection from future aggression as can be
irranged. without imposing on the inhabitants
nf a small bit of territory or leaving a source of
rontinuing irritation to a neighbor. This is the
difficulty about the Saar Valley and the strip of
German territory on the west bank of the Rhine.
A difficulty of another kind has arisen be
tween Italy and Jugo-Slavia, where general
rules for boundaries conflict or cannot be ap
plied because of great admixture of races. The
difficulties in the Balkans are almost without
number, but the problem of free access to the
sea is of prime importance. It will be neces
sary, no doubt; to internationalize several rivers
and to neutralize the Dardanelles and Constan
tinople. There are neutral countries of Europe
whose vital interests are affected by the map
making and their rights cannot be ignored by
'.he belligerents. i
France, in view of its experience in 1870 and
1914. has strongly insisted on physical safe
guards against German aggression. The fear of
war will be uppermost in the fixing of other
boundaries, unless the league of nations is
made a certainty. This is a fact that critics who
insist that "peace be made first" apparently
overlook. If each nation must be prepared to
iefend its life, alone and unaided, it will make
demands as to boundaries which it could safely
waive with the civilized world united in a
fledge against aggressive -wars. St Louis
Gloge-Democrat.
BEGGING FOR THE BOLSHEVIKI.
Raymond Robins cuts a wide swath in his
capacity as special pleader for the bolsheviki.
It is edifying to be told by this late representa
tive of the Red Cross in Russia how greatly we
have misunderstood the men and their motives.
Trotzky is animated by the loftiest impulses,
and Lenine a blessing in disguise, if we are to
take Robins' word for it. What does the record
show?
Two years ago, the autocracy of Russia fell
to pieces; Lvoff, Miliukoff and other men of
capacity sought to frame a government that
might preserve order until a substantial and en
during regime might be installed. With the aid
of the duma they were proceeding carefully
and successfully. Bear in mind that the duma
represented the people, having been chosen by
popular vote. Kerensky and his crew of so
cialists won control of the assembly and ousted
Lvoff and Miliukoff as being reactionaries.
Kerensky destroyed the army by his remark
able order giving soldiers power to override
their officers. Lenine and Trotzky were then
preaching anarchy, and soon had Kerensky in
the discard, and the bolsheviki in control.
By what means these irresponsibles seized
and held power we have beenxtold, many times
by credible witnesses, by representatives of our
own and other governments. The steps that led
up to the farce of Brest-Litovsk have been well
explained. All the horrors, that have followed
are not known, nor ever will be, for it is im
possible to recount the record. We do know
that nowhere in history can be found a parallel
for the achievements of the bolshevists, under
the head of Lenine and Trotzky.
Now conies Colonel Robins to plead that we
and all other civilized and responsible peoples
"recognize" the bolsheviki as the legitimate gov
ernment of Russia. Recognize? We know
them, their repudiation of honor, obligations,
debt, social order, religion, God; their profana
tion of everything civilization stands for, their
indulgence in every crime that has blackened
mankind's course, bestial, besotted, degraded,
unspeakably brutal, we know them from reliable
and trustworthy witnesses.
Robins will have a hearing, for Americans
will listen to anyone, but his utmost endeavor
will not be able to wipe out the unthinkable
things the bolsheviki have done. They have
brought Russia almost to extermination; they
threaten the World with their horrid doctrine
and more horrid deeds. Security does not come
through temporizing with such. The world
tried to overlook the Hohenzollern menace, and
what happened? Bolshevism is only another
threat of destruction; why should it be winked
at or glossed over in a pretense at establishing
brotherhood?
An Important Job Ahead.
Though not possible to take it immedi
ately in hand, by far the most important item
in the program proposed for the Chember of
Commerce, because more vital to the business
development of Omaha, is the prying loose of
the Burlington from the grip of the Great
Northern octopus. If it was against public
policy to let the Union Pacific and Southern
Pacific merger stand, it is certainly as much if
not more against public policy to let the great
Burlington system, built to serve the needs of
this section, be converted into a mere feeder
for the Hill roads, and its operation constantly
.manipulated to the detriment of Burlington ter
ritory and for the benefit of the Great Northern.
As long as the Burlington remains in this tu
telage, we may be sure that its improvement and
extension will be secondary to the claims of
the Great Northern. If the government is to
return the railroads to private ownership, then
the annulment of this merger sbould be brought
about, and if the railroads are to be operated
under a regional plan, the Ifcirli'tngton should be
attached to the group to which it belongs, and
not to the group dominated by interests cen
tered in the prosperity of another section. The
merger of the Burlington with the Great North
ern has never boded good to Omaha, or to
Burlington shippers or patrons, and the sooner
it is undone the better.
Private Claims Against Germany.
Americans have filed claims for private dam
ages against Germany totaling $750,000,000.
This suggests something of what an enormous
total will be reached when all persons who suf
fered loss as a result of the acts of belligerency
and in disregard of private rights have put in
their bill. Nothing could more effectively illus
trate the desperation of the drive made b;" the
Central Powers for domination. To be sure,
these claims will have to undergo careful
scrutiny to determine their justice and accuracy,
but in the end the aggregate will be of such size
as to engage attention, even in these days when
less than a billion scarcely counts. It will be
difficult for the Germans to evade responsibility
or accountability. The $15,500,000 England paid
in settlement of the Alabama claims dwindles
into insignificance alongside this matter, but the
principles laid down at Geneva will apply just
the same. Private property afloat or ashore is
entitled to consideration, and its seizure, use or
destruction by a belligerent must be within cer
tain prescribed rules, and carries along liability
for damages. The militaristic debauch from
which the Germans are emerging will have a
terrific katzenjammer in form of indemnity to
be paid.
Gas Masks for City Firemen.
Out of the war experience may come some
good for the "smoke eaters" of the city fire
departments. The Omaha chief is experiment
ing with the masks used by the soldiers to over
come the gas attacks, and it is likely that some
thing of the sort will be adopted for the fire
men's use. For many years respirators of one
form or another have been giving more or less
of service to men who are compelled to work
under very trying conditions. When the place
is ablaze somewhere, and stifling fumes are set
from the smoldering materials of divers sorts
and smells, the fireman is expected to march
boldly in. It does not matter if he is blinded
or suffocated. Somebody pulls him out by the
heels and another man takes up the line of hose
dropped by his fainting predecessor. Now,
this is all very heroic, but is is quite unpleasant,
too, and the fireman is not so insensible as
might seem. Therefore, if the handy little con
traption made familiar during the late dis
turbance on the other side is to outlive the war
at all, it may well be preserved in the service
of those whose business it is to face gas quite
as voluminous if not so deadly as phosgene "or
mustard.
Would you say that Maurice Maeterlinck,
divorced and remarried, has found the blue bird
of happiness, or is he still in pursuit of it?
Views and Reviews
How Important Things Hinge
on Little Turns of Chance
Upon what little twists of chance big things
depend is disclosed every day. In the second
installment of Henry Watterson's memoirs he
refers to his hairbreadth escape from being lo
cated out in the Puget Sound country instead
of in Kentucky, in which event things would
certainly have been different. It had happened
when he was a boy that President Pierce of
fered to name the elder Watterson governor of
Oregon, which temptation he put behind him
by declining. "I have often thought," writes Col
onel Watterson now, "just where I would have
come in and what might have happened to me
if he had accepted the appointment and I had
grown to manhood on the Pacific coast."
The same question has more than once pro
pounded itself to me through knowledge of
something few, if any others, know about. In
the diary which my father kept through the
war and the years immediately following his
location in Omaha is a record of a controversy
growing out of an effort to jump some one over
him in his position in the telegraph office. Un
able .to secure a satisfactory decision, he re
signed and prepared to turn his back on Omaha
and seek his fortune farther west. Under date
of April 3, 1864, is this memorandum: "Wrote
letter home setting forth plan to go to Cali
fornia." Not till a month later is it noted that
the matters he had objected to were adjusted
and his future definitely linked for all his re
maining days with the growth and prosperity
of Omaha. But had he picked up and gone to
California, what?
As a member of the advisory committee on
labor of the National Council of Defense I am
in receipt of a letter of appreciation and thanks
from Samuel Gompers, who headed that com
mittee, in which he points to the wartime
achievements of this body and its various sub
committees "not only with pride, but with a
great degree of satisfaction that comes from the
knowledge that they have been a real contribu
tion in the successful prosecution of the war."
The three hig items in the committee's endeav
ors, in addition to the maintenance of the econ
omic standards of the American working men
and women are the war risk insurance to provide
for soldiers' dependents against death or dis
ability, the war housing plans adopted for ship
ping, and munitions plants, and the develop
ment of industrial training for the war emer
gency. It was mighty little the individual mem
bers of this advisory committee were called on
to do at this remote distance from the seat of
activity, but there is something in having the
chairman remember and make acknowledg
ments of whatever service may have been rendered.
News from abroad chronicling the recovery
of the once song queen, Adelina Patti, is prob
ably to many the first intimation that she had
been ill. Adelina Patti, now more properly ad
dressed as the Baroness Cederstrom, is well
into the seventies. Having, with my father,
visited her in her Craig-y-nos castle in Wales,
and as an outgrowth of the long-continued per
sonal friendship, I have interchanged occasional
letters with the baroness since my father's
death. To the last one the reply came from her
secretary only a few weeks ago, reciprocating
the season's greetings with excuses for not
writing in person because not feeling well
enough to do so. "For some time past," it is
explained, "the baroness has been "in the
doctor's care. Since the outbreak of the terrible
war she has been unable to take her usual
change abroad, which has affected her health,
but now we have peace we hope she will soon
be able to do so, when no doubt she will recover
her health and strength." I am sure this in
formation will have an interest for the numer
ous admirers hereabouts, captivated- by her
voice when shb sang here as the world's fore
most soprano.
Walking down town with a' prominent den
tist discussing people and events in a desultory
manner, the name of a well-known Omaha law
yer was mentioned.
"I do his dentistry for him," remarked my
companion. "Once I put in some removable
work and just as I had about completed it, I
was called for a moment into the adjoining of
fice. Ont my return I found him out of the
chair and' in the middle of the floor waving
clenched hands and apparently wildly vociferat
ing to some imaginary person.
" 'What's the matter? Anything wrong?' I
exclaimed.
" 'No, nothing at all,' was the reply. 'I was
only trying to see if I could talk vehemently
without these things falling out.'"
Whereupon I matched this story with a simi
lar incident, related by our police reporter a
few years ago when a hurry call jcame to the
station one evening for the patrol wagon to go
at once to a certain house where a crazy man
was running amuck. The address given over
the phone was the residence of a distinguished
clergyman, at that time pastor of a fashionable
church. When the officers arrived a small group
of excited people had congregated in the street
watching the antics of a man inside, plainly visi
ble through the window, wildly gesticulating
and prancing up and down. In response to the
ring of the bell, a man opened the door.
)What can I do for you?" he said, politely.
"Why, we came to get a crazy man, sup
posed to be in this house."
"But there must be a mistake. There is no
crazy man here. Everybody else has gone out
and I am alone in the house. I staid home to
practice my Sunday sermon."
Speaker Clark's Demand
Speaker Champ Clark demands the quick re
turn of all American soldiers now in Europe.
He sees no reason why any considerable num
ber of them should be held abroad to occupy
German territory, pending the conclusion of
peace negotiations and Germany's compliance
with the terms arrived at. He would throw the
burdens of such occupation entirely upon the
nations with whom we have been allied, who
were fighting nearly three years before we be
came a belligerent and who are at least as
weary as we are of the duties that a state of
war still imposes. Hostilities having ceased,
Mr. Clark cannot understand why our military
obligations to the common cause do not also
cease, a want of comprehension not surprising,
perhaps, on the part of a man who opposed the
draft law which alone made it possible to wage
war successfully.
It is fortunate that Mr. Clark does not today
occupy the great office to which he aspired in
the Baltimore convention of 1912. It is for
tunate that he is not commander-in-chief of the
armies of the United States. As speaker of a
house of representatives doomed to extinction
on the 4th of next March his importnee as a
public figure is diminishing day by day. The
only damage he does by his silly talk is done
to his own reputation. No matter how general
may be the desire for the return of all Ameri
can troops now on the other side, intelligent
public opinion understands why this cannot be
accomplished with fairness and justice to J'ose
with whom we have leagued ourselves. Most
people are willing that the return of our troops
be left without restriction to the judgment of
the president and his military advisers.
Brooklyn Eagle (dem.)
Making Tips a State Matter.
A Missouri state job holder asks the su
preme court to validate the festive tip as a law
ful claim against the state. As tipsters rarely
get receipts for tips, a favorable decision in
sures vast possibilities for traveling incidentals.
Home Health Hints
Reliable advice Riven Jn this
column on prevention and
cure of disease. I'ut your ques
tion in plain language. Your
name will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Help You.
Help Keep the City Clean
Omaha. Neb., March !. To the
Health Kditor. Do you believe
the cleanliness or uneleanlinesa of
the city has anything to do with
the sickness so largely(irevailing'.'
Wouldn't a thorough 'cleanup be
the best thing for all rf us?
M. L. A.
It ought not to be necessary to
urge the direct relation between
cleanliness and health. It is neces
sary to health to keep your body and
the home surroundings with which
you come in contact clean and it is
also necessary to the health of the
individual as a member of the com
munity to keep the city in which he
lives clean.
In the rush of the war, with vast
building operations going on in many
cities, and with greatly increased
population, there followed a pain
fully evident lack of good municipal
housekeeping in respect to the or
derly condition of public thorough
fares. Cities that had been scrupu
lously particular 'in keeping streets
clean, free from paper and other
waste, found It impossible to keep up
with an ever Increasing accumula
tion of debris, and for the time being
otherwise "spotless towns," became
dirty and ill-kept.
Now that the war is over and
hurly-burly cities and towns are set
tling down to normal conditions, the
time is ripe to preach the gospel of
the clean city. It can be done, ef
fectively, by men, women and chil
dren bein ,' convinced that the
streets are deserving of better
care. A clean city really re
flects the habits of its inhabitants,
and in the final analysis the people
themselves are the ones who can get
the right results by simply giving
thought and refraining from con
tributing to municipal disorder so
far as streets are concerned. The
cleanliness must be a daily habit.
Annual clean-ups are good but will
not save the day. "Year-round"
cleanliness as a substitute for prodig
ious effort once a year or twice a
year, at what has been called a mu
nicipal "clean-up" season will be
much better.
Open Air Classes.
February 1, 1917 the New York
City Department of Health officially
took charge of the fresh air classes
in the public schools. At that time
there were 84 classes. According to
School Health News, November,
1918, there are now 102, and failure
to increase the number still further
is due to the lack of available
rooms, though the demand for addi
tional classes is great. Types of
children admitted to the classes com
prise children exposed to tuberculo
sis at home, or in whose famines
there have been recent deaths from
the disease; arrested; or cured chil
dren; those suffering from malnu
trition; those who become tired eas
ily or show languor or fatigue before
the end of the day; those suffering
from nervous diseases, except
chorea; hose frequently absent on
account of cold, bronchitis, etc.;
those suffering from cardiac disease,
who are recommended by their
physicians as being proper for these
classes. The class rooms are situated
outdoors in parks, on ferry boats, on
the roofs of schoolbnildings, or in
rooms in schoolbuildings having
specially arranged windows. These
children are all fed at least once a
day, and some have an extra lunch
eon morning and afternoon. The re
sults show that most of them gain in
weight, some improve in their schol
arship, most of them are able to ad
vance in their regular grades, and
the general health improves.
CENTER SHOTS
Washington Tost: Now the sen
ate is busy sowing mines under
'Sephus Daniels' fleet.
St. Louis Globe Democrat: The
peace conference seems to be cov
ering everything from Greenland's
icy mountains to India's coral
strand.
Baltimore American: Germany,
in mourning, as an indignant protest
against cruel treatment by the allies
is funnier than anything in current
vaudeville.
ID PAY
The Day We Celebrate.
Ellis IT. Graff, former superin
tendent of Omaha schools, born
1875.
John M. Gilchrist, certified ac
countant, born 1S62.
John JErickson. jr., captain city
fire department, born 1870.
i'elix II. Kobertson, one of the
last surviving officers of the Con
federate states army, born at Wash
ington, Texas, 80 years ago.
I'M ward G. Acheson, the inventor
or discoverer of carborundum, born
at Washington. ., S3 years ago.
.1. Waldo .Smith, one of the great
constructive engineers and builders
of the I'nited States, born at Lincoln.
Mass., 5S years ago.
Eddie Eoy, long popular comedian
of the American stage, born in New
York City, 65 years aro.
In Omaha 30 Vears Ago.
Cartwright won the six-day foot
race at the Coliseum, Bennett sec
ond. The Burns social club gave on
entertainment and ball at which
Alexander Gray and Miss Maggie
Meldrum sang and Mr. William Iloss
danced the Highland fling In cos
tume. . ,
Mrs. Udo Brachvogel Is back from
a visit to New York.
Dr. Stewart Watson Webb of New
York is the guest of Bishop Worth
ington. Miss Mamie Wilkinson Has been
visiting her brother, Dr. George r.
Wilkinson. i
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"It take women to handle the men."
"What makes you say that?"
'Those lady conductors have been on the
pars for weeks and I've yet to hear a
man threaten to knock the block oft one
ot them." Detroit Free Press.
"I see by the paper that your wife Is
going to rreslde at the Woman' club
meeting tomorrow nifrht."
"Indeed! It doesn't eay what she's
doing tonight, does It?" Life.
She And would you he content to live
a life of complete Idleness?
)Ie oh, no. I'd like to have enough
monev so that 1 would be kept busy
spending It. lioston Transcript.
"The girl Isn't as pretty or attractive
as scores of others, hut she certainly
does have a lot of visitors."
"Perhaps It is because her father la
noted for keeping an excellent table."
"Oh. then Bhe Is what you might call a
dinner belle." Baltimore American.
"I wish soma tobacco for my husband."
"Smoking?"
"Eating." faltered the. bride. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Mack said my face was a poem."
'It is my dear like one of Brown
ing's."
How do you mean 7"
Some of the lines are so deep." Stray
Stories.
LENT.
re world, full of turmoil and squabbles
and Hln.
Prepare to bt, rid of ycuir burden of sin
For heavy It is with the warfare Just
done.
And torn with the wild beasts lei loose
by the'Hun;
All hlackened with crime and all angered
wflh woe.
All nations now looking on each as a
foe.
Ta world, drop this hate and this envy
and strife,
In penitence seek for the dawn of new
life.
Te've gone through the furnace of furious
war.
Where hearts have been broken and souls
have been sore.
Where agony came as the team mate of
death,
And horror attended each deeply drawn
breath.
Where children met torture and women
met shame.
Their homes once of happiness crumbled
in flame.
And with lierce ambitions of purposes
fell.
Te've wrestled, and In flight went down
Into hell.
Tour soul has been blackened with crime's
blackest stain:
Say, would ye not have It cleansed pure
again
Tea, cleansed by the fire of those terrible
davs.
Tour thoughts from their slaughter and
horror to raise?
Repent of those sins that such punishment
wrought.
Repent of the pride that such ruin has
brought.
And bow down this season In humble de-
sirs
To be purified ay, by this penance of
fire.
Baltimore American.
People and Events
A minister at Akron, O., has Just
received tne reo ror a wedding cere
mony performed 40 years ago. A
charge- of crowding the speed limit
would nanny hold against that re
lieved conscience.
Tons of Hun helmets unloaded at
the Hush terminal docks( New York,
are intended to boost the Victory
bond campaign. The pile is said to
contain N;two war cadies, but not
one eajTies as much real style as a
tin bonnet.
A New York liotelkeeper an
nounces that ho intends reducing his
restaurant prices 20 per cent, other
members of the fraternity wonder
what's wrong with his head and talk
of invoking the searching powers of
the insanity board.
Treasury reports show that furni
ture polish, hair oil. bay rum, J.i
rnicn ginger, dandruff killer, lemon
extract and patent medicine are
common mediums of supplying the
"kick" in the dry belt. "Ill blows
the wind that profits nobody."
"Ho was a good old scout in his
day and generous to the end,"
choroused a group of heirs of Tncle
Jimmy Flaherty, a 1'hiladelphia ex
emplar, who left them a fortune of
$1,000,000. Flaherty was a, retired
policeman who lived up to his op
portunities. For the first time In 250 years the
famous six nations, what Is left of
them, will stage a peace pow-wow In
New York state. Gov. Al. Smith,
camouflaged as a Tam..Tiany brave,
will preside on the occasion and look
as much like Fete Stuyvesant, the
last big chief, as modern conditions
permit.
A Chicago Jury, after personally
sampling the evidence, returned a
verdict against a saloonkeeper for
pushing bogus booze over his bar.
The Jury doubtless hoped for the
best and got colored water, causing
enough righteous indignation to give
the liquid crook one to ten years in
the pen.
Cotton planters imagine they have
a cinch on prices as strong as the
government price pledge to wheat
farmers. Growers are holding off
from the market. Not a balo has
been sold in Georgia towns for
weeks The duration of the holdout
depends on cotton purses withstand
ing the strain.
Some doubt lingers In Chicago as
to whether Stanley Ficslak, steel
worker and bachelor, sought to put
over a continuous peace celebration
or attempted to drink the town dry
before July 1. Stanley cannot ex
plain. In a thoughtless moment he
switched from whisky to milk and
the coroner got him.
A self-commissioned doughboy,
with more nerve than discretion,
played the hero act in Washington
society, was dined and wined quite
lavishly, and wound up the Jamboree
by losing his liberty, his uniform
and his wife, l'lain clothes men
bagged the bogus lieutenant and the
wife rushed to the divorce court.
Not long ago New York banished
a horse car which operated on a
side street to hold down a franchise.
Now the big town is giving a tryout
to a one-man trolley as a money
saver. The motorman makes change,
opens and closes the side doors, and
drives the bus a variety of duties
which the management believes will
keep him awake during working
hours.
Around the Cities
Automobiles caused S3 prematurs
funerals In New York City In Febru
ary. Trolley cars killed only two
persons, which puts them in the
peaceful class.
Sioux City is promised a new 18
story hotel, estimated to cost tl.000,
000. The head of the enterprise il
L. n. Eongni'cker, who Is credited
with ample moans to put it through.
Sioux City's unmarried host lei
out quite a scream as the federal in
come tax touches n tender spot. Only
one out of every Ml of tho singles
escape the touch ot 6 per cent and
over.
In (he week preceding the bone
dry edict Washingtoniuns are said to
have placed $2,000,000 worth of
conversation water in their cellars
or closets. So far ns the conversation
goes, congress will not be missed
for a few weeks.
Down in old St. Louis, as of yore,
one swallow does not make a douce,
but each swallow of hard liker costs
two bits straight. That's the price
at all tho swell bars of Gotham,
while 20 cents an elbow uplift satis
fies the booze profiteers of Chicago.
The completed tax roll of Greater
New York shows a large boost in
personalty assessments and a mod
erate advance in realty and Improve
ments. Fersonalty totals $363,41 2,
780 and real estate $8,428,322,763.
The city budget for the current year
calls for $248,025,434.
The smoothest auto kidnaper In
Philadelphia is a woman. Stylishly
dressed, quite Innocent In manner
and an adept In soothing speech, she
did a wholesale business In her
chosen line, being; credited with 20
known Jobs in two months. The cop
got her at last and some of her
male pals.
Investigation of records In Chi
cago shows the high cost of dying
leagues in advance of the cost of
sticking around among the live ones.
Three out of every five widows who
have applied for county aid spent
from $300 to $500 for putting hubby
under the sod In proper style. "And
the next day they were broke."
I'hiladelphians are getting their
semi-annual reminders of short
weighing and short measures with
which consumers aro "soaked"
coming and going. Max Mayer,
chief of the city bureau of weights
and measures, says crooked retailers
trim consumers for $35,000,000 year
ly. The main trouble lies with
courts which will not impose Ja'.l
sentences. The cheats regard fines
as provocation for bigger hauls on
the victims.
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