THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, " 191.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!'
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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.)
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