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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, " 191. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD RQ8EWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOE THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOB MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS flit associated Vrrm, of which Th Bm Ii number, U ieluiiwl, entUUd to th um tot publlcatloa of fell Dm dispatohaf eredlted I it or not othrwlM credited In Ibis paper, ud alto tht local newt trabliihed. herein. Ali rlfbt of publication of out aptoiai dlipateees on alio nmd. OFFICES! Cbleaio People's ni Buildlnc, Omaha Tht Bat Bid. k Niw lark SM fifth are. Mouth Omaha mi N It. He Loult New B'nk of Commerra. Council Bluffs 14 N. aula St. Waahlnflon 1311 O 8U Lincoln Unit Bulldlni. MARCH CIRCULATION Daily 65,293 Sunday 63,450 Attract tlreuiatloa for tht month subscribed and mom to by . B. Bafan. Circulation M timer. Subscriber leaving tht city should htvt Tht Bm mailed them. Address changed ta ofttn at requested. This is powerful good building weather. Unfinished business: The Municipal Audi torium. , "Sparkling Burgundy" is no name for a horse in Nebraska these days. Mr. Baker's well known army is interfering with some perfectly good base ball plans just now. "Muny Beach" ought to be an even more popular place when the big bathing pier is completed. 'i Skip stop or no skip stop, a few more cars during rush hours would be appreciated in Omaha. At last accounts, Mr. Compton .was still using the county car to journey between his home and his office. ' Stock in the Ak-Sar-Ben Exposition com- mnv ia fiU Kiivinor .rtr'L- in flmghfl Tfr im !-. an investment, it is a cinch. A new Russian leader is described as a cross between a Mexican bandit and a Moscow con vict. He ought to be a success. A petition is being prepared, asking Mr. Wil son to pardon Debs. This will perhaps take the place of the general strike. It is far the wiser course. ' Pessimism is said to be ruling in the peace conference at Paris. No wonder, when all the promises made and performances recorded are compared. King Albert of Belgium called on Colonel House before calling on President Wilson, if you are interested in keeping track of prece dence at Paris.' Southern air fields have been Closed, with a death list almost equal to that of actual war fare. The course of instruction never did run smooth in Texas. ' A Kentucky judge, has ruled that the war came to a legal end when the armistice was signed on November 11, but he had better not try to convince Albert Burleson of that. A hint from Lincoln that might be taken by the city commissioners has to do with Omaha's adopting a home rule charter. Why not let the voters pass on the report , of the late charter committee? . The house did its better judgment proud when it retraced its steps on the fund to wel come soldiers at New York. Nebraska boys coming home ought to be met right at the water's edge. Conferees are said to have almost reached an agreement on the amount of indemnity to be required from Germany. This little bill is going to stop all other arguments in Berlin, when they get the bad news. Holding up the constitutional convention be cause of failure to make provision for collecting the vote of soldiers overseas seems just a little farfetched at this time, when it is not at all likely that any soldiers entitled to vote will be across the water when the next election is held in Ne ' "Big Bill" Haywood and his mouthy gang are to have another chance at freedom while the law they flouted and the courts they denounced consider if they are entitled to a new trial. One of the ironies of the law is that it protects to the uttermost limit those who most flagrantly disobey it. ' According to the federal court, the tele phone companies of the state, acting nnder the direction of the postmaster general, have a right to soak patrons for changing phones ac cording to schedule. This government owner ship certainly solves a lot of problems the cor porations did not dare to tackle. Director General Hines of the railroad ad ministration has rejected the schedule of steel prices fixed by the war adjustment board under the Department of Commerce. Having already declined to buy coal at the old Garfield prices, Dictator Hines might almost be said to be a "bear" on the present market. If he can start the basic industries to a lower price level, he is going to help out more than the railroads. The League of Nations Why is it that the matchless cathedrals of France, built hundreds of years ago, still stand to receive the hushed and wondering Yankee pilgrims, shaming by their strength and stately beauty the weake and mors tawdrjr structures of our own day and generation? Is it because the care and toil and love, not of a few years but of centuries, went into their building? The men who laid the first stones of the shell-torn marvel at Reims, the hilltop cathedral at Bourges, the imperishable Notre Dame at Paris did not live to see those temples com pleted, knew that it would never be their lot to see them . completed. Preposterously idealistic and impractical, they worked with their eyes on the future. Their work was good because it was not done for themselves. They builded for the Lord- , , , , Now, before the peoples of the world, are laid the architects plans for a great mansion, and soon work will begin on the foundations. If, indifferent to the needs of future generations, the builders plan it only for the convenience and snort-sighted comfort of their own im mediate occupancy, that mansion, will not be good to look upon, nor will it withstand the tempests of the waiting centuries. But it will still be standing beautiful, strong, spacious, a thousand years from now, if those who lay its foundations today build it for the Lord for posterity. Stars and Stripes, France GRAIN EXCHANGE'S REBATE RULE. The legislature is itriking at the fundamental rule of the grain exchange, unwittingly, perhaps, but as directly and destructively as if it were dellbaate. No complaint is made as to the charges for the handling of grain on the Omaha market, nor is any allegation of dis crimination set up, other than that brought by certain co-operative marketing groups among the farmers. ' These are not objected to per.se by the members of the Grain Exchange, who are will ing that they or any similar groups come into membership under the anti-rebate rule. But the practice of these farmers' organizations is subversive of the rule against rebates. This rule not only prevails in Omaha, but in all grain markets in the country, where the busi ness is organized and carried on under the law. It 1 has been sustained by courts on many occasions, and is recognized as vitally essential to the orderly conduct of the commission busi ness. To destroy it affects the integrity of the market. ' Under the bill that is going through at Lin coln, this rule will be in effect destroyed, for it will permit the distribution of savings in cost of service, which means commissions paid, to be distributed proportionately to the amount of grain shipped, a practice that amounts to rebating costs. This gives the big shipper ad-' vantage over the small; it enables one group of farmers to carry on business at expense of another, and "brings disorder to the market. The proposed law is unsound in principle, will be dangerous in practice, and ought not to be passed, even were it necessary, as Senator Peterson states, to make a concession to certain elements of the farming industry in order to avoid the condition that has overwhelmed North Dakota. The Omaha grain market has been of immense value to the farmers of this region, and it should not be hampered because one group of producers declines to be governed by a rule that forbids discrimination between patrons. Some Truth-Telling Germans Hours for Work on the Farm. Considerable discussion is going on as to the effect of the "daylight" time schedule on farm operations. Just how there canHe any is not easy to understand. Turning the clock ahead has not altered the progress of the sun in any degree; Old Sol comes in the morning and goes down in the evening, just as he has "since first the flight of years began." Nothing in the law fixes the hours for farm work. Whether the clock marks the hour 6"or 7, 11 or 12, the day has just so many minutes of daylight, and from now until fall most of these will be utilized by the farmer, just as has been his practice through countless generations. He will rise with the sun, and go to his rest when the day is done, and spend the intervening hours in productive toil. Therefore, clock or no clock, the routine round of morning chores, forenoon in the field, dinner time and noon rest, afternoon again in the field, and evening chores, followed by supper and off 'to bed will go on, to the end that the crop is planted, cultivated, harvested and mar keted. That is all. Japan' and the Mexican Land Grant. Talk of either Mexico or Japan seeking to force the United Spates into war through land deals is idle. The situation is not without a tinge of humor, however. In the present con stitution of Mexico is a provision that specifijc ally prohibits any such holding or concession as is contemplated under the story from California. Foreigners can not own land within sixty miles of the Mexican sea coast, or within thirty miles of the border. Carranza has declared forfeited all h6ldings that fall within this inhibition. Under Diaz a California syndicate obtained possession of a large tract of land lying just south of the Arizona-California international boundary, prepared for its irrigation by waters of the Colorado river, and set about selling plots ' to settlers. When the revolution upturned authority in Mexico, the Yaqui Indians drove the settlers away from this section. Now that title to the tract is threatened by Carranza, its transfer to a Japanese syndicate is proposed, with the alternative that the United States gov ernment take it over. Nothing could be simpler. The California speculators are not especially concerned as to whom they sell, so long as they get their price. It has been stated they bought 800,000 acres for about 50 cents an acre; the price quoted for the Japanese is $50 an acre. It is not at all likely that the Mexican government will countenance the deal, one way or another, nor does it appear that it is within) our province to prevent that country from allowing a Japanese colony to become domiciled on its waste lands, any more than we could with propriety object to the settlement of large tracts in Brazil and Chili by Germans or in Argentina by Italians. That land will be taken up and used some day, but it is not an imminent source of war just now. We have far more pressing business than this to settle with Carranza. In the Right Direction. After experience through several sessions working under the new limitation shortening the period for introduction of bills, we certainly have a vindication of the demand for more time for consideration of proposed laws and less time for filling the bill hopper. The universal complaint against American legislatures goes to the uncalled-for multiplicity of half-baked and indigestible legislation which keeps the people guessing as to what laws they are expected to obey and the courts busy i their interpreta tion. While we will always have good bills and bad bills, and some of the good ones wijl fail and some of the bad ones succeed, the average of the work of the legislature seems to be no ticeably improving. It is a sign for progress in the right direction which should be kept up and encouraged. Just why the United States should buy a large tract of Mexican land to prevent Japan from getting titles to it does not appear on the surface, but Senator Ashurst of Arizona is for it, as perhaps the Los Angeles owners also will be. The deal only involves $40,000,000, which is hardly worth noticing in these days of demo cratic finance. Getting somebody to be head of the Geneva Home for Girls is not such an easy task as might be thought. The experience of the last two superintendents there was not such as to make the place eagerly sought for. A real bunch of heroes slipped into Omaha almost as quietly as they left it to go to France. What the balloon service needs is a real live press agent , New York Evening Post. Not a few German officials and newspapers are just now indulging in fine flourishes of de fiance. "Not an inch of territory will Germany surrender," affirms the finance minister. And in various quarters in Germany there seems to be a stiffening up of effort to present an un yielding front to the allies. If the- Germans think the peace terms outrageous, they will not sign. They will either go bolshevik or challenge the enemy to go ahead and do his worst. This may be nine-tenths bluff, but it is an increasing ly frequent attitude in Germany. Particularly vocal are those Germans who protest that they will never, never agree to a peace which is not founded in "justice." Most of us know well enough, what to think of all this, and how to deal with it. It may be of interest, however, to listen to the indignant voices of Germans telling their complaining and blustering countrymen the truth. There is, for example, the legend of an "unbeaten" Germany. But when Erzberger was defending before the Weimar assembly his conduct of the armistice negotiations, he addressed himself to this point. One Relegate reproached him for too easily accepting too severe terms. The German armies were still intact, etc. To this Erzberger made the sufficient and crushing answer: "Dr. Vogler has forgotten to judge by his speech, the not unimportant fact that we have lost the war." Later on he said: "I bear witness before all the world that Germany neither will no can con tinue the war." Such cold douches of fact might well be applied to some of the fervid German orators and editors from whom we are hearing nowadays. The most powerful exposure of the Germans who are today whining about an unjust peace, is made by the veteran liberal, Theodor Wolff, in the Berliner Tageblatt of February 20. He roundly asserts that no peace imposed by the allies upon Germany could be half so onerous and savage as the peace which German big business, in alliance with German militarists, was openly proposing to dictate to their ene mies. Even if the entente is aiming at an im perialist peace, it would be "quite according to the pattern set by the Pan-German industrial ists," Herr Wolff's arraignment of the govern ment is terrific. His setting forth of the argu ments which Germany has furnished to her foes is so clear and searching, that some of his re marks fairly beg to be printed in the Torm of question and answer: Q. What does the French press, say when it attempts to justify its robber claims to the Saar district and the left bank of the Rhine? A. It always reproduces the annexation program of German big business as favored by militarists. Q. What reply do we get when we demand that America, after all her promises, really sup ports a milder and juster treatment of Ger many? A. We are reminded of the cannibalistic outbursts of rejoicing with which big business feted the sinking of the Lusitania. Q. What do they say to us when we pro test against being robbed of our merchant fleet? A. We are reminded that in the unrestricted U-boat war we sank other people's merchant fleets. L Q. What is the answer when we ask to have our prisoners of war back? t A. We are told that we separated the wo men and children of North French towns from their families to do forced labor, that we de ported Belgian workers by thousands to labor in the German munition factories. Q. What do they tell us when they demand the surrender of tools and machinery on our part? A. They tell us that German war industry, with the approval of its military friends, re moved every machine that could be used from the factories of Belgium and Northern France, and that machinery which could not be taken away was scientifically destroyed. Q. And, lastly, what are we told when we protest against the league of nations being made an instrument of oppression? A. The answer is: "Brest-Litovsk." Such condemnation of whimpering Germans out of the mouths of Germans is as refreshing as it is rare. We all hope that the peace terms laid upon Germany will not be insupportable. But she ought to be made to know that in strict justice she deserves no mercy except that shown to repentant criminals. People You Ask About Information About Folks in ' the Publio Eye Will Be Given in This Column In Answer to Headers' Questions. Your Name Will Not Be Printed. Xet The Bee Tell You. 1 Things Worth While Subjects of increasing interest are telephon ing without wires and flight by airship across the ocean. Both ideas are in such a hopeful way that they may be said to be practically as sured and likely to be soon put in operation. These matters are better worth thinking about and spending money on than is poison gas or cannon with a range of 80 miles, though guns of that caliber promote anti-militarism by render ing useless a girdle of fortifications around a city. In the recent war Paris was saved twice by battles on the Marne, which was quite as near as hostile batteries could be allowed to ap proach. In proportion as the spirit of militarism is banished from the world the constructive forces of peace get to work. Their possibilities were never more interesting. It is hard to say how rapid the march of important inventions will be when nations agree to go forward ami cably instead of with deadly cross purposes. Carrying on a conversation audibly between distant points anywhere on the globe is an al most startling conception. But it seems near at hand, and so does air flight over indefinite spaces at a speed of 300 miles or over an hour. How about telephotography, or the visualiz ing of distant objects with the aid of the electric current? It has been waiting for development since 1881,-when it was first brought to notice. Experimental results were favorable, but the in vention has not been pushed as have the tele phone, airplane and wireless telegraphy, all of which are in practical Use and have been ad vanced by the expenditure of billions. Telepathy, or the supersensory transfer of thought and feeling, is more recondite and neb ulous. But, with peace, new wonders will doubtless unfold. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ' Party affiliation cuts little figure In the tenure of office of the speaker of the British House of Commons, provided the occupant of the posi tion preserves the impartial pre cedents and traditions of the "Mother of Parliaments." Rt. Hon. .lames William Lowther. the present speaker, has occupied the chair since 1905, throughout the Liberal Parlia ments preceding the war nnd the present coalition party control. Mr. Lowther is a Tory in politics and has been in Parliament since 1883. He was educated at Eton, Kings college, London, and Trinity collge, Cam bridge, graduating from the latter institution with high honors. He is 65 years of age. As speaker he receives a salary of $25,000 a year, and upon retirement will be given a life pension of 20,000 a year. Dr. Alexander 'Wekerle. 'reported imprisoned by the new' communistic government of Hungary, is a former premier and finance minister and has been identitied with the old regime before and during the war. He is nearly 75 pears of age. All through his career he has been identified with political and ecclesiastical re forms and has shown great ability in rescuing the government from financial morasses. On becoming prime minister in 1906, Dr. Wekerle began a vast work of administrative reform and became widely popular in Hungary for his settlement of the baptismal phases of mixed marri ages, and broadening the scope of rligious liberty. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY Daily Dot Puzzle "the rorn good deeds" y (Balky Sam, Billy Ooat, Judge Owl mid Johnny Bull are sentenced by Peggy to perform a good deed aplecu as punlih ment for kidnaping the Boy Who Howled.) , v CHAPTER V. The Sad Orphans. "LT ERE comes Balky Sam! --J. Here's our herof Hail! Hall!" shouted Billy Belgium . "Hee-haw! Don't you make fun of me, 'cause I'm mad enough to go back to Europe and start the war all over again," brayed Balky Sam, giv ing "the garbage can a kick to ex press his feelings. "I'm not making fun of you. What are you so touchy about?" demand ed Billy. "You'd be touchy, too, if you started out to rescue folks from a burning building and had to report yourself a failure." Balky Sam sat AY The Day We Celebrate. Paul L. Martin, dean of Creighton College of Law, born 1881. Fred A- Castle, proprietor of Hotel Castle, born 1869. Louis R. Metz, capitalist, born 1873. Robert F. Maddox. president of the Ameri can Bankers' association, born in Atlanta, 49 years ago. j 1 Rt. Hon. Sir James H. M. Campbell, lord chancellor of Ireland, born 68 years ago. . Earl of Derby, former British war minister, now ambassador in Paris, born in London, 54 years ago. Tris Speaker, one of the most widely known of professional base ball players, born at Hub bard City, Tex., 31 years ago. In Omaha 30 Years Ago. "Shadows of a Great City" opened at the Grand. A smoker is to be given F. N. Conner, E. B. Smith, Frank N. Clarke, Perry Badolet and Ed Lytle, outgoing officers of the Omaha Whist club. Council Bluffs motor cars for the first time ran "around the loop" in Omaha. General Test has figured out a population for Omaha of 121,458, based on the school cen sus returns. Max Meyer is suffering from a painful at tack of erysipelas, which has confined him to his home. Edward Rosewater, editor of The Bee, is back from the east General Mangin, selected to lead the prospective allied advance Into Hungary, is a French officer whose brilliant fighting in the late war made him world-famous. In August 1914, he commanded a brigade; three weeks later, so swift was his promotion, he was in command oi' a division. And from that day until the cessation of hostilities his work was as brilliant as it was successful. Mangin has been called "Foch's counterpart." And, indeed, there is a striking similarity between the two men. Both give the same im pression of great mental force com bined with physical strength. Each has the same cool, clever, calculating brain and inflexible will; the same eifr of swift decision and indifference to what anybody may think about him; and each has made the science of war a life-study. General Mangin is known as a strict descipllnarian, but he is just and patient, and his troops adore him. The distinction of being the oldest American woman writer of promi nence, belongs to Harriet Prescott fcpofford, who enters upon her 86th year this week. When she was in her teens, she began to write, and she says she hopes to write for a long time yet. One of the reasons that Mrs. Spofford has kept her eagerness for work is that she is in terested in everything in the Euro pean situation, in politics and in suffrage. She has been an advocate of suffrage for nearly 70 years, since the first day she heard Lucy Stone speak for it. Mrs. Spofford was born at Calais, Me., but while yet a child her parents removed to Newbury port, Mass., where, or at Boston, she has since resided. Her literary work includes some excellent poetry as well as many refreshing short stories. AIMED AT OMAHA York News-Times: An Omaha judge granted nine divorces in one day and it wasn t an extra good day for divorces. Fremont Tribune: If Omaha is going after the Wesleyan university now located at Lincoln there may be a new reason for the creation of a league of nations. There may be a new outbreak of war between Oma ha and Lincoln. Harvard Courier: The board of governors of Ak-Sar-Ben is drawing up plans for a million dollar com pany to establish a permanent agri cultural exposition in Omaha. Since Omaha is the leading agricultural city of the country it is fitting that it should be the home of one of the big agricultural expositions. Central City Nonpareil: Victor Rosewater's Omaha Bee tells the dear public that Omaha tops all neighbors except Des Moines when it comes to lumber prices. That's no news. Omaha always manages to top the market price on all commod ities and always has. The Omaha profiteer is a very live and omni present animal at all times. O'Neill Fronties: "I do not want to be required to go around by a crosswalk In going from the Hen shaw to the Merchants' hotel," says Mayor Smith of Omaha in opposing a jay-walking ordinance pending be fore the city commission. Why should any one care to go from the Henshaw to the Merchants, or from the Merchants to the Henshaw, since the state went dry? MARCH MIRTH. "The ancient Greeks would allow a man to divorce his wife." "Well?" "But he could not marry a younger womnr.." "Not sound law," declared the attorney. "Wouldn't hold today." "Perhaps It wasn't sound law, but It stopped a lot of divorces, I bet you." Louisville Courier-Journal. Mrs. A. My husband wanted to select a hat for me. Mrs. B. Perhaps he wanted to get even with you for selecting his ties. Boston Transcript. "The world owes every man a living." "I know; but, on the other hand " "What?" "Every I man also owes it to the world to prove that he's entitled to a living." Detroit Free Press. DAILY CARTOONETTE TwONTSTf 1 CRN MNXl IMh fcLfcCIKIC LIGjHT SWITCH LOITMOOT IT" AMnucnm. t3 "Come and See the Funny Mule!" down and wagged his ears dejected ly. "Princess Peggy, I'll have to try again tomorrow." "Why didn't you do your good deed today?" asked Peggy, with all the sternness of a judge. "Well, I looked and looked for a burning building, but not one could I find that was still blazing. The fire department always got there ahead of me," explained Balky Sam. "Finally I took up my post outside of a fire engine station waiting for an alarm to be turned in. I made up my mind those firemen would have to go like the wind to beat me if a blaze broke out. "While I waited I heard a sad lit- f3 14. 3 8 (1 IB 16 16 Zl ,v 17 4 a 25 4 I 48 b rr o J . 26 47 2 si 9a J 3o ,34. 36 32. 55 36 3b r mo 41 4z al 44 ' . 5. .45 43 t , 57 . 53 .51 MoT .. what has Willie drawn? Draw from one to two and to on to end tie song, sung by sad little voices on the other side of a high brick wall. Sad are we and sad our stations, We who come from war-torn nations, To thee, America, we ainp; To thee, our hearts and hopes we bring. "Looking through a gate I saw a crowd of children within a large yard. They were orphans, sorrowing over their troubles. IN touched my heart to see little ones in grief they should have been playing in the care-free joy of childhood! " 'Hee-haw! Don't feel bad! Bet ter days are coming!" I cried to them. "My message instantly stopped their sorrowing. 'A mule. A mule!' ox Unity With Diversity. Omaha, April 1. To the Editor of The Bee: Will some Methodist among your readers be able to give me the name of the sermon by John Wesley in which are found the fol ing sentences: "May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? I dare not presume to impose my mode of worship on any other. I believe it is truly primitive and apostolical. But my belief is no rule for another. I ask not therefore of him with whom I would unite in love. Are you of my church? Of my congregation? Do you receive the same form of church-government, and allow the same church officers with me? Do you join in the same form of prayer wherein I worship God? I inquire not, Do you receive the supper of the Lord in the same pouture and manner as 1 do? Nor, whether in the administration of baptism, you agree with me in ad mitting sureties for the baptized, in the manner of administering it, or the age of those to whom it should be administered. Nay, I ask not of you (as clear as I am in my own mind) whether you allow baptism and the Lord's Supper at all. Let all these things stand by; we will talk of them, if need bo, at a more conven ient season. My only question at presnt is, is thine heart right as my heart is with thy heart? If it be, give me thine hand." These sentences are found on one of ttie pages of "A Pook of Devo tional Readings" published in Lon don. I shall be obliged if anyone can tell rr.e the name of the sermon by Wesley of which iney are a part. The passage has a very pointed significance with reference to the recent action of Evangelicals exclud ing Liberals from membership in the Church Federation. ROBERT F. LEAVENS. Tax on Oleomargarine. Omaha, March 31. To the Edi tor of The Bee: In looking over an article entitled, "Effect of Food Con trol on the Food Supply, by Dr. Harry E. Barnard, the following ex tract has set me to thinking. Isn't this a form of "class legisla tion" and, if so, why is it permitted? The United States and other gov ernments buy oleomargarine, which I think is a pretty good recommen dation for the product: "As I look back over nearly 20 years of active control work I find but few flaws that have checked the development of food industries, or tended to increase food prices. Among these few, one law in par ticular etands out as a striking ex ample of vicious legislation, deliber ately enacted and enforced against one legitimate industry for the pur pose of stimulating another. That law is the oleomargarine law on the federal statute books and its coun terpart as it is enforced in many of the states. Oleomargarine legisla tion, demanded by the dairy inter ests to protect them against the as sault of illegally sold oleomargarine. has taken the form of revenue leg islation and by the imposition of taxes has sought to cripple competi-y tion. And for many years a per fectly wholesome food, made of the finest of raw materials, in sanitary and Inspected factories, has gone to market bearing an indefensible tax or has sought the user under the name of butter through illegitimate channels which would have little reason to exist if the evasion of the tax did not offer handsome profits. And today the housewife who wants yellow oleomargarine either pays 10 cents a pound as a tax for the privil ege of pleasing her eye, or goes to the trouble herself of incorporating the color in the spread before plac ing it on her table. But the butter manufacturer is legally authorized THE SOLDIER'S CHANCE. He stopped one day at the office A fellow haggard and tall. And asked if a place were vacant For clerical work that's all. Of course I was awfully sorry That at present things were slow; But he only smiled and thanked me, And then as he turned to go I noticed an arm was missing. And said with a different glance "How did It happen?" ha answered "Out In the Fields of France." My hand went up to his shoulder, Yet he didn't show surprise At mv sudden rhanpe of feeling. Or the tears that filled my eyes. I Tou bet I could find him something, And give him a Soldier's Chance For a boy of mine w&a lying Out in the Fields of France. NAN TEHRILL REED. In Leslie's to use the same color in the same way and for the same purpose with out declaring the presence of added color or paying any tax for the privilege. Of course, there is no justice in either case. Added butter undeclared adulterates the butter just as it does oleomargarine, and the tax is an indefensible burden laid on the workingman's table. And the burden is as unnecessary as it is indefensible. Every food law, federal, state or municipal, controls fraud, and it is just as easy to stop the sale of oleomargarine for butter under that law as it is the sale of watered milk, or imitation vinegar, or adulterated spices. "The argument advanced by the dairy interests that their product needs protection, is, of course, as silly as it is unfounded, any product that is constantly advancing in price needs no protection from competi tion. The demand for butter from every consumer who can afford to pay the price for flavor, food value and universal adaptability in the kitchen will take care of competi tion. Butter well made from food raw material needs no protection. Oleomargarine, an equally good food, should have free aciess to the table of every one who wants it." "SQUARE DEAL." Horse and Horse. Detroit Free Press: The ex-czar's horse is still alive and unharmed. However, that's nothing. The kaiser's nightmare is still running around the bedroom, too. they cried. 'Come, see the funny mule!' "I was a bit offended at being called a funny mule, but when I saw the sad faces brighten I remembered that I had a thick skin and just hee hawed back at them. Then I did circus tricks, and you should have seen the change In those children. Their sadness turned into curiosity, their curiosity turned into wonder, their wonder turned Into fun and their fun brought out gurgles, chuckles and laughs until that yard of sorrow became a garden of mirth. " 'Oh, I'd like to ride that mule like I rode the horses at home,' piped up one voice, and that gave me an idea. Kicking open the gate I offered my back to the children. At first they were a bit afraid to ride, but after one of the older boya took a chance and was given a trip around the yard others followed, un til I was riding three or four at a time. "My, but it was jolly fun, making those poor orphans into happy chil dren; such fun that I never heard the fire alarm ring, and such fun that I never thought of my good deed until the supper call sounded and they had to leave me. That ia why I have come back here with my good deed unperformed. That la why I no,w fear your anger, Judge Peggy." "Wo all fear your anger, Judgf Peggy. Be merciful!" wailed Billy Goat, Johnny Bull and Judge Owl. Peggy, in whose eyes tears had come as she heard Balky Sam's story, rose and faced the four mem bers of the Black Hoof Clan. "Gosh," growled Johnny Bull, "I jvonder if she is going to eat us alive!" (Tomorrow will ba told how Balky Fm Billy Goat, Johnny Bull and Judge Owl get a surprise.) MB. Every RHEUMATIC Try My Free Treatment for the Relief of Those Terrible Exter nal Rheumatic Pains, Sore ness and Lameness. Send me your name and address and I will mail to you at once a $1.00 pair of Dyer. Foot Drafts. I want you to know, too, what my Rheum Ano dyne will do for you. Thousands have al ready tested these modern wonders and I have the most re markable testimonials you ever read. One tells of sufferinK 20 years with Inflamma tory Rheumatism. An other, 78 years of age, couldn't lift right arm. one knee swollen so she had to use a cane to walk. Thousands like this. Now, remember, I send you a $1.00 pair of Foot Drafts absolutely free, no money for them now or at any other time. If you wish to get more of them, you can, but the first pair is positively free to you and all you need to do is send your name and ad dress to Frederick Dyer, 934 Dyer Bldg., Jackson, Mich. I believe this one free pair will do you more good than anything you have ever tried. Sent prepaid by return mail. Adv. Oyer Foot I I Draft I A Woman Banker X Women more and more find it an advantage to have a bank account. The war has especially emphasized this. Women who have not pre viously carried a bank account, as well as those who have, ap preciate the co-operation of a woman banker, and the service of a real banking department for women. THE SERVICE OF THE FIRST makes this ideal arrangement possible. Our women's de partment is especially equipped for the comforCand convenience of women. Nothing was over looked that will tend to make banking pleasant. The women's department of the First is in charge of a wo man banker. Our Miss Stem considers it a pleasure to consult with you, to advise with you, and to furnish to women the same service the bank renders its men customers. We cordially invite you to visit our women's department, become acquainted with our Miss Stem, and avail yourselves J of the banking service we are pleased to render, and remember, there is always a Welcome for you here. L First National IBank of Omaha Our Storage Warehouse is equipped with every modern facility for the properj handling and care of your household goods dry, clean and fireproof, affording proper protec tion for the goods entrust ed to us. OMAHA VAN & STORAGE CO. Phone Douglas 4163. 806 South 16th Street. The gain in this association was $310, 344.80 for the first 3 months of the year. Total Resources, $7,478,151.60. 32 Years in Omaha. We Pay 6 Quarterly Dividends. No Safer Place for Savings. WT UILDING 8rtbAN ASSOCIATION CORNER I8-&HARNLY.