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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 1, 1919,
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Oibti you June days in Nebraski!
Harry'.Hawker says lie, was misunderstood.
Let if -go at that.
W'e, hope 'the ex-crowp,'frifice has more re-'
'gard for hi; mother than his .father .' showed
Ifor his. - TJ--. " ' ;Vi
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Old Sol is reported- to he in astate of erup
tion. Probably irritatedibythi near approach
'of July 1. -t;' ':
If Commander Read'Tieeps bititvlte will haver,
fthe American people wondering".-i(.Uie NC-4 is a
seaplane or a duck.
j .Omahi will sympathize with Dr. .fnna Shaw
In her illness, especially as it compelled her to
miss the big doings here.
i- The Denver jnan who laid in five barrels of
(whisky was fainy well fortified up to the time
the boozehounds stepped in.
i Herr von Brockdorff-Rantzau says he" will
"not sign the treaty in Us present1 condition. We
'should worry. Somebody will.
.' At last the Omaha Hyphenated has discov
ered that Mr. Taft is a statesman. How dif
ferent it was when he was president.
Resumption of auto racing at Indianapolis,
may be said to have been fairly successful, if
the casualty list is to be taken as a guid. :
..-, An inspired compositor took an awful rap at
Lady Godiva. He left the first "t" out . of im
mortality in setting up an item about her.
v ".The "bomb", made of soap and, sent to a con
gressman might have been a real source of ap
prehension, had it been returned to sender.
' The wheat fields of the west will be calling
tor help pretty soon. It is going" to be a bad
season for the ablebodied man who is too strong
to "work.
Omaha's building record shows considerable
signs of recovery, but if some of the pres9ura
were taken off we would see a real revival of
the boom the war interrupted.
Removal of the "luxury" tax will not ma
ttrisflly affect the revenue, and will greatly re
"lieve the public Let us be rid of any attempt
to levy tribute a-ffeffliia fashion.
Finally the W-jtinipeggtrs are going to try
to reach a settlement of the differences that
caused theN strike. Up to row it has merely
been an exhibition of stubbornness ton. both
sides. : " 'T ".'
INTO THE NEW WORLD LIFE. -Mr.
V'ilsW.'-'Memorial Day address has an
unmistakeablfe Conclusion its 'personal- applica
tion. If the wQ.rld.ia to move .forward into the
new life he Bas vtsionpd, it will be'.because the
people who make the world are now ready for
the step. No magic formula exists for bringing
about realization of the ideals of spiritual as
well as physical health and happiness. They will
be achieved just as each individual devotes
himself to their application. "You are aware,
as I am aware," said the president, "that the
'airs fcf an older day are beginning to stir again,
(that the standards of an old order are trying to
, assert themselves again." Many signs have
'been; noteid of this. Human nature was jolted,
: but" not entirely remodeled by the war, and the
selfishness of some is likely to interfere with
' the5progress ofall. Whatever progress is made
HiuUy willj.rest bn the attitude of the indi
vidual. If men singly as weJl as in groups will
undertake' the', duty of service, asking only the
:three questions-? put by the president, "Is it
.rSgJlt? -.Is it just,?- Is it in the interest of hu
inanity?": and acting as these are answered in
the, one way or the other, the solution will be
found (much easier than is anticipated. Selfish
ness of men as of nations must give way, or the
greater part' of the fruits of victory will be
'swallowed up in the greed sought to be de
stroyed. The new and better life for the world
will'te' brought to pass only by men and women
striving to attain it, not by treaties resolutions
or expressions of interest and sympathy," but
through sincerity of conduct alone. It is a
personal problem first of all.
Art for Memorial Purposes.
Omaha has-yet to determine the form, its
memorial to its soldier dead is to take. Several
proposals have been made, none of them more
than tentatively put forward, unless it be that
which looks to the erection of a museum and
art gallery, The American Federation of Arts,
while , not aggressively active, is quietly carry
ing on through its national and associated head
quarters a movement having for its object the;
expression of love and respect for the soldier!
in the memorial impulse through some ajtistic
medium. For thU memorial buildings generally
are being approved. Elihu Root has fairly
stated the case, saying: "Let American art ex
press the spirit of the American people. Art
only can express the spirit for which plain men
and women are unable to find words. Unless
American art finds a way to express this spirit
and the inspiration of the men in the war,
memorials will be failures." This is a challenge
to the intelligence and the taste alike, and as it
is met, so will the sentiment and the longings
of America be embodied in monuments to
breathe the very genius of the people, and ex
emplify their devotion to the ideals that have
made them majestic in their simplicity. Less
than this, as Mr. Root says, will be failure.
American socialists denominate thei peace
treaty, a "hideota farce." It -surely. is, Trorn
the viewpoint of their, beloved Germany, which
did so much to aid the general advancement of
' society.
Commercial telegraphers now threaten to
upset all the country's busine'ss because of a
blunder by Burleson. What is wrong with
them? Does not the nation suffer enough in
having to endure Burleson?
Mexican federal troops have won another
Vv.ictory" over Villa. You may recall this is
the chap" we were going to put out of business'
three years ago. A little journey into Mexico J
still impends for our soldiers.'
The warden of the Kansas penitentiary is
calling for more help in the state twine factory.
It would be mean for anyone to say that if all
Jayhawkers who ought to be were locked up.
there: would, be no shortage of help. ,
Mr. Wilson insists that secret counsels are
doie away with, and his spokesman in the sen
ate insists it would be indecent to publish the
treaty until after it has been signed. Take your
choice. Neither mean's what he says.
America's Merchant Marine.
Hog Island's contribution to the Memorial
Day observance was the launching of five big
cargo-carriers. This led Secretary Daniels to
make a statement that "we could not - if we
would a? a nation longer live between the two
oceans dependent upon foreign bottoms for our
overseas commerce. , We will not quit the ship
building industry. :. We will put the industry,
on a firm and sound basis."
That is to be one of the big jqbsfor the
republican congress. It is obvious thaCjAmer
icans must have ships to carry their products
to foreign markets, and to bring back whatever
of cargoes are required for domestic consump
tion. It is equally plain that the government
can not carry on the building of ships on a war
basis. Production costs must be materially
lowered, for successful operation will involve
ability to compete with ships built abroad at
figures that put ours out of the running.,,
Also, it will be necessary to give protection
in some form to the vessels under the American
flag. A large coastwise commerce was thus pre
served when the flag had been driven from the
high seas by competition we could not meet.
American sailors can not meet the conditions
under which Lascars and Chinese coolies thrive.
Putting the most liberal interpretation on the
remarks of the secretary of. the navy, we still
;wiir be "required -to depart " from democratic
.dogma, of free trade in order to preserve the
-government -shipbuilding enterprise. If the
w'ork-is turned over to private enterprise, the
.need of protective shipping lawsis all the more
apparent. :. herefore,. "the first step to bring Mr.
Daniels' prophecy to fulfillment will be to enact
laws that will give our flag an equal chance in
'the great business America is to furnish for a
merchant marine. i
Pay German Labor in Food
One day a man might support his family on
10 marks (in Germany two months ago), but
the next day he would find that nothing worth
eating was to be had for 10 marks and, naturally,
' lie came back at his employer. for more money.
In some districts the value of money was such
an illusive equation that the farmers refused to
sell for it and in other places the workers them
selves asked to be paid in food and not in cur
rency. At a mine I visited in Upper Silesia tli4,
company had a large farm; the. management
found that allowances of produce were more
satisfactory to the men than advances in wages.
The workman in Germany has passed beyond
the. stage of regarding money as something of
, itself and he looks at it now solely as a medium
of exchange. This is a most important reallza-
1 . tioi, because it means that wages may be re
duced as the purchasing power of money in
creases; I found workers everywhere agreed
that they wanted wages which would buy and
not merely sums of money. - And so great have
been the hardships of war and the majority of
workers are willing to Return to any seal; that
; . will buy for them their pre-war standard of
lining. '-- m - . ,
Roughly speaking, a dollar today will buy 10
' and sometimes 11 marks, as against about 4 be
fore the wa- Rart of this exchange situation
if.'tlufe to spequlation; it is the hope of. the finan
ciers that export trade, combined withthe dras
ticiniemal measures, will restore the mark to :
soiiitthing nearfti.old yalue. . ."Since each in
crease in the purchasing power of the mark will
. ,ito doubt be followed by a reduction in. wages.
Germany is on its way to having a much lower
labor cost than either Great Britain or America;'
Jven at. the inflated value of the mark, German
labor costs are not as high as in other coun
tries a xge bt ?0 marks a day is w.holly ex
lrrj;:aiiM among skilled men. Samuel Crother
' Sa jijsteu' t : , . (
Flight of the NC-4. .
When the NC-4 reached Plymouth a great
undertaking was successfully ended. The At
lantic ocean already had been safely crossed by
men in a heavier-than-air flying machine, and,
the last "hop" of the scheduled trip from
Gravesend to Plymouth was not especially;
spectacular. It does open a wonderfffl vista for
speculation, however. Men who have made a
study of aerial navigation, particularly of the
use of machines that, depend on their power
rather than their buoyancy for sustained flight,
are conservative in comment. Theories arc
to be established, and conjectures to be verified
or disproven, and these things are not yet made
certain. Observations taken on board the NC-4
will be of great service as affording something
to guide future endeavors, although they may
not.yet.be conclusive as to the actual condi
tions that must govern the air above the ocean.
These are jn detail as well as in general dif
ferent from those that exist above continental
land, -and so offer problems to the flying men
that .are riot yet wholly understood. , But the
American naval aviators have blazed the way.
and from the:flight of the NC-4 will come such'
knowledge as may make the transoceanic flight
much less of an adventure than it was just a
-little while ago.
... "Billy" Mason of Illinois wants an inquiry
into the amount and condition of Russian bonds,
held in the United States. Such an investiga
tion' may clear up the mystery as to who has
been paying the interest on these securities
since the imperial government collapsed.
Sixteen hundred airplanes are to be sent
from Ftance to America. These machines were
contracted ior over there, and represent real de
livery, in contrast to the experience lit borne.
Jan Smuts is now talked of as a possible am
bassador from London at Washington. That
will be some turri of fortune's wheel
Views and Reviews
Returning Soldiers Now and
'.Twenty Years Ago
The rousing reception for the home-coming
Nebraska boys returned from service in France
will be an event to be proudly remembered just
as was the send-off given them when they left
for their traiiling camps. The ovation accorded
on their progress up the street should certainly
convince them that we are all heartily glad to
have them back and fully appreciative of their
glorious achievements, to say nothing of being
sorry we could not have been with them. Peo
ple have a right ' to go wild whenever they
see the conquering heroes come, and it is
brought especially close home when the men in
uniform happen to be our husbands, brotners,
fathers or next-door neighbors.
The scene nearest resembling Farnam street
when the bovs marched by that I recall was the
similar home-coming reception given the Fight
ing First Nebraska back trom the Philippines.
That was within three months just 20 years ago
to be exact, August 30. 1899, and the news
paper description of it coold easily be read as of
today. Let me quote from the account which
I have been looking up:
"With clanging bells and screaming whis
tles, with fluttering flags and ringing cheers,
with tears of joy and rapturous embraces,
Omaha welcomed back to home and loved
ones the boysrwho 16 months ago shouldered
their muskets 'and marched away under the
silken banner of the First Nebraska, to bring
it back stained and bullet-torn, but wreathed
of the brightest laurels of the long campaign.
It was a greeting worthy of Omaha, worthy
of Nebraska and worthy of the gallant regi
ment that is the proudest possession of the
prairie state."
When the soldiers came back 20 years ago
they were breakfasted at the station instead
of lunched on the high school campus. They
came up the street in full panoply of war and
were regaled, with addresses of praise and wel
come at. the speakers' stand in front of the city
hall.. Governor Poynter and his' staff led the
procession and Mayor Moores- held out the glad
hand for the city. , i- .- .: . .. s
Home Health Hints
Reliable advice given In thla
-column on prevntfon and
cure o( disease.' Put your flues
tion in plain language. Your
name will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Help You.
The photograph taken at the time made such
a wonderful picture that I 'use.d.'.jt to illustrate
an article, on Omaha which Iwas" writing as a
chapter for a volume entitled "Historic Towns
of the Middle West.". Looking at it again the
only striking difference is The foreground .of
horses, wagons and carriages where we are
now accustomed to seeing only" auto trucks and
motor cars. The sign over the entrance arch
of the municipal building reads: "Welcome
Our Heroes" whenever we have heroes that
sign will go up and we may be sure the wel
come will be repeated.
Gen. Leonard Wood is not always as serious
as he looks. When here last week he told about
a returning soldier sending this message to
soothe the anxiety of his waiting mother:
"Debarked, deloused, delayed."
An instructive description and explanation of
"war borrowing" through treasury certificates
of indebtedness conies in a book by Dr. Jacob
H. Hollander, with whom my acquaintance
dates back to Johns Hopkins. The study is
based on his day-to-day discussion with the stu
dents of his economic seminary at that institu
tion of the fiscal policy of the government as it
developed during the war, led up to by a re
capitulation of previous occasions when the
treasury made use of negotiable short-term debt
obligations. He weighs the advantages and the
disadvantages of this method of war financing
with scientific dispassionateness, embodying his
conclusion in this statement:'
"The use of certificates of indebtedness has
made it possible for the treasury to supply its
fiscal requirements with great 'ease and with
reasonable although not maximum- economy
and without any traceable evidence of laxity
or extravagance. In .the money market, the.
accompaniment of certificate borrowing has
been a remarkable absence of strain or dis
location; but this is imputable to the asso
ciated credit mechanism rather than to any
specific quality of the certificates. Finally, a
direct and unmistakable effect -of certificate
borrowing has been the creation of a large
volume of banking credit in the form of gov
ernment deposits subsequently dispersed in
the course of government expenditure with
out succeeding contraction by certificate
liquidation.
"Both in estimating our experience and in
anticipating our requirement, the question
kthus presents itself: Is it possible to fashion,
a borrowing device which will secure the gain
and avoid the loss identified with the use of
certificates of indebtedness? Specifically, this
means a procedure which will offer a like, ad
vantage to the treasury, will leave the money
market as free from strain and will save the
price of mechanism from credit inflation."
The solution Dr. Hollander has to offer is
what he calls an installment loan "an initial
issue of anticipatory short-term certificates of
indebtedness to put the treasury in immediate
funds, followed by a succession of long-term
bond issues designed in technique for popular
absorption, payable in evenly distributed serial
installments and sufficient in aggregate amount
both to extinguish short-term indebtedness and
to obviate further interim borrowing. The
loans might be continued in continuing 'over
the counter' sale or be floated in periodic 'drive'
campaigns. In the case of continuing
sale a less number of installments would be re
quired, inasmuch as offerings might .' be sus
pended whenever the influx of funds became ex
cessive." Perhaps we will learn by experience and
standardize our war loans, for clearly, the mul
tiplicity of different kinds of bonds with varied
terms and conditions has hindered rather than
helped our war financing. Eventually all these
Influence of Family on Infection.
As trie' family, partakes of the
characteristics of the race, family
predisposition is subject to the
same general rules as described for
races with the exception, that mar
riage between different races by
blending the vital forces may either
increase or decrease the power to
combat disease. A similar result
follows the union of persons of the
same family, and the great danger
of a summation of highly suscepti
ble strains has led" in many states
to the enactment of a law against
consanguineous marriages. An ex
tension of this law to include in
ebriates and consumptives has many
arguments in its favor.
Individual From the viewpoint of
the body, individual predisposition is
the prncipal factor, in the spread of
infectious diseases.' With few ex
ceptions it is operative in every
case, so that the study of the va
rious conditions which lead to tt
involves considerations of the high
est importance., Individual predis
position may be either inherited or
acquired. ' If Inherited it la seldom
to any particular infection, but to
all. We no longer lay the same
stress upon an inherited predisposi
tion to a special disease, as was for
merly the cae with tuberculosis, but
rather to the Inheritance of an es
pecially susceptible state of the body
tissues which predisposes to all
manner of infection.. The children
of the consumptive are not only
markedly prone to tubercular infec
tions, but to other infections as well,
a thing which is true of the offspring
of parents who at the time of con
ception were either in an impover
ished state of health from disease,
or whose vital functions were de
pressed by alcohol, or drugs, or by
deprivations of one kind or another.
The reason that the children of the
consumptive has fewer chances of
escaping tuberculosis than those of
tne nontuberculous is because the
atmosphere in the home is vitiated
by the germs" of the parent's malady.
Resides a general predisposition
such as we have been discussing, a
local predisposition is created by
other diseases. This relates to cer
tain organs' or tissues. Thus rheu
matim predisposes to infections of
the heart;. diabetes to pus formation
and gangrene following trivial
wounds.
Reform and Not
Punishment
- Antitoxin in Diphtheria.
Depending on the wav .it is treat
ed, diphtheria is one of' the least
dangerous or one of the most dan
gerous diseases. It is one of the
least dangerous when promptly
treated with antitoxin; it is 'one i of
the most dangerous when the anti
toxin treatment is not given or is
delayed or is insufficient. Keep
Well Series No. 4, United States Pub
lic Health Service.
Infant Mortality.
Statistics have often become the
subject of ridicule, and rightly so,
when they have been applied to the
problems of human betterment. In
deed, it may be stated with presum
able fairness that 1 few medically
trained persons are really competent
to use statistics in a scientific man
ner. When, however, the profes
sional statistician "juggles the fig
ures," they gain a sort of recogni
tion which is otherwise rarely ac
corded to theni. These comments
are the prelude to a consideration of
the high rate of infant morbidity and
mortality which still exists in va
rious parts of this country. It has
long been evident that any effective
program for remedying the existing
conditions must be based on a care
ful analysis of available statistical
data. A recently published study by
Eastman of the division of vital stat
istics of the Xew York States De
partment of Health has furnished
food for thought as to the direction
to be taken by future Measures for
the conservation or betterment or
child life. It shows, as might be
expected, that where an unfavorable
sanitary environment is likely to be
found, deaths from communicable,
inspiratory and gastro-intestinal dis
ease are abundant. This is the case
among the foreign-born population,
the majority of whom, Eastman
points out, are poor, illiterate, with
out knowledge of English, and al
most wholly ignorant of the ele
ments of modern sanitation, and in
habit, as a rule, the most congested
districts of the large manufacturing
centers. On the other hand, East-
man avers, the superior environment
and intelligence of the average na
tive woman is reflected in the com
paratively low mortality of her ba
bies from these diseases.
The great majority of deaths of
children above 1 month of age are
caused by the diseases already men
tioned. Despite this contrast be
tween -the untutored foreigner and
the native stock, it is a statistical
fact that in New York state the
mortality of Babies under 1 month
of age is higher among those born
to native mothers than among chil
dren born of women of foreign na
tivity. Although the mortality of
children in 1916 under 1 year of
ae born of native women was only
May an outsider be permitted to
say a few words in regard to the
moral conditions as they exist In
Omaha at the present time? It
seems to one who looks on from the
outside that not only in Omaha, but
all cities of any size, me real culprits
are shielded, while the poor deluded
wrecks, who are in many cases
blameless, are the ones to receive
the punishment. It has been found
that a great majority of the young
at least, who are classed among the
criminals, are irresponsible, weak
willed, feeble-minded, or physically
Incompetent. You can not blame the
narcotic or alcoholic habituate for
resorting to any means in their
power to get the drug that is a
necessary ingredient to their physi
cal being. To remove these drugs
from them at once -makes living a
perfect hell to them. Don't blame
them if they commit some overt act
while in this condition, but put the
blame where it rightly belongs on
the, state or nation. Such laws
should not be passed unless some
means are provided to take care of
these unfortunates. They are' sick
and need medical treatment. Some
of them can be cured and made self
supporting," while others need insti
tutional care all their lives. The state
or Institution who takesthese cases
under control cannot hope to effect
a curtain. a' day, month, or even year.
The patient must, be treated as sick
and kept under care in a hospital
for; this purpose until cured, and, if
incurable, handled in the same way
as are the insane.
As long as our government will
permit undesirable physical and
mental incompetents to marry and
bring defectives into the world just
so long will our police courts be
crowded with criminal and non
criminal defendants. Let us have
more common sense and less law
and we will go far towards reclaim
ing practically every "bad boy." As
an instance of this you are referred
to the acts of the Pittsburgh moral
court. The magistrate, Tancard de
Wolf, Is not a lawyer, and some of
his acts, while based on common
sense, would be exactly contrary to
the legal view. Much of the legal
red tape has been discarded and old
ideas of punishment have been set
aside, with apparently ideal effect.
Punishment, as we all know,
many of us from experience, cm
bitters, but does not amend the boy,
man, woman or girl. The aim of
this Pittsburgh morals court is to
make it physically impossible for the
boy to commit an offense a second
time. This end is attained by chang
ing the entire environment of the
boy or girl and placing them in an
environment that is wholesome, so
that their viewpoint of life may be
broadened and clarified, rather than
the environment incident to the jail
or reform school. The judge makes
it plain to the boy or girl what the
consequences of continued wrong
doing will be, and points out how
much more pleasure and self-benefit
will come to him if he acts upon
the square. For instance, when
lawlessness breaks out in any sec
tion, he takes it as indicative that
a recreation center is badly needed
there and his recommendation to
the city for such a place is promptly
approved. A normal outlet for the
surplus energies of youth must be
afforded if lawlessness is to cease,
lie Is assisted by a volunteer or
ganization of "regular fellows," rep
resented in the court room by two
men, one representing the Catholic
church, the other the Protestant.
When a boy is brought into the
court the judge and his two as
sistants question him, without for
mality, without legal phraseology, in
fact, it is simply a home council, the
boy taking an active part in the
council. He is' made to think that
he is among friends who will pro
tect and not punish him. He is
then turned over to these two men
and inside of 24 hours a responsible
busine$s man (one who is not afraid
to take him into his home for fear
of contamination), calls on the boy
and assumes responsibility for
straightening out the youngster's
life. He finds a job for the the boy,
keeps in close touch with his family-,
and works to correct any con
ditions in his home or elsewhere
that may be unwholesome.
Girls are handled the same way,
only it seems harder to get those
women who are so loud in their pro
testations against the social evils, to
act oiit their preachment. They are I
afraid that their person might be
contaminated, if they act only
afar off through a monocle. The re
sults in Pittsburgh have exceeded
the expectations of tta founder and
sponsor. Only subnormal lads ap
pear a second time in the court, as
a general rule, and these should be
placed under institutional care, ac-
Tlie Pay We Cflebrate.
Frank C Durr, chief clerk to the
auditor of passenger accounts of the
I'nion l'acini. born 1867.
Charles W. Martin of Martin
Brothi-is insurance company, born
1S63.
K. 11. Sprague, president E. If.
SpraKuo Manufacturing -company,
born 1 srl l.
Princess Yolando, eldest child of
the Uiiik- and queen of Italy, boili in
Rome, is years ago.
Margarete Matzcnpuer, popular
operatic mezzo-soprano, born in
Hungary, 38 years ago. (
Blanche Sweet, one of. the most
popular of motion picture actresses,
born in Chicago, 25 years ago.
Rt. Rev. Patrick B. Heffron, Cath
olic bishop of Winona, born in New
York City, 59 years 'ago.
Rev. Joseph C. Hartzell, famous
Methodist missionary bishop, born at
Moline. 111., 77 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago In Omnha.
A magnificent audience witnessed
Mile. Ithea and her company in
"Much Ado About Nothing," at
Boyd's Opera house, in a benefit per
formance for Thomas F. Boyd.
The llee stated editorially: "There
aro today, 82 churche, chapels and
missions In Omaha, and the number
is rapidly increasing."
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Thompson
have gone east on their wedding trip.
1'pon their return they will reside at
"205 Howard street.
Phil Sheridan Woman s Relief
corps has been organized with Mrs.
Miriam E. West, president, and Miss
Nellie Askwith, secretary.
IN THE BEST OF HUMOR.
"Why do you call Wombut Nupolron
f flnam-?"
"Hei-u.t he hurt his (alary rati1 !
ninntlm ago art ht wlf hasn't found tt
out t." Town Toplca. t
"It denn't tki long lo break' lu
hand." "It certainly doesn't the averaee ' hus
band you see Is broke about half the time
thtse days." Florida Times-Union.
"What are you gotnge-tn the dot tor
abmit?"
"l.o.9 of appetite"
"Groat Hrol! c'an't you piny up a I'll
of luck when H come lo yuu ?V Kmua
t'ity Journal.
Mrs Youna'e ?'Henry, If you don't eat
th nuke I'll never bake another."
Mr. Younsre "If I do vat. It you won't
have to bake another lor 'ftv'." rear
son's Weekly. .. . 'T
Church They say"Thl easu f iiatk-n
Is Rolng tu make feonctel'tut ,-.hntti:cs
tiotham Well, I do stf hop tni't! al
low us to retain Old Glory a our stand
ard. Tonkers Statesman. ' .'
"What's the. Idea- of Ptarllhf' t'hM new
sensational Investigation?" -s
"Well,' replied Senator !o-g-hum,; "It
seems necessary to do euinethlnk la-titHi-people's
mlmls off a,,l"t &f other. Invril
tations that t,here doesn't aeem to b"sny
ay to finish." Washington Star, -v
"Can't you add up a column "f .tiguica
correctly?" "
"Certainly. I have ad!l this "column
up repeatedly, each, ttme wltlv: a different
result. 1 am sure on of the si- answerx
must be right." WashtiiKtnn Ktar.
"Henslcr i isreatly peiturhsil or lh"
prohibition nieusuroa." 1
"I did not know that 4he- Wa 'addlctcn
io the uso of Intoxicant!).""
"Oh, he isn't! HeN -president of a coi k
4rw factory." Iife.
i-ording to the degree of their ab
normality. Normal youngsters make
good. By changing the boy's or
Birl's attitude toward life before they
become incorrigible, they are
started on the road to good citizens-hip.
This is a system that we be
lieve will work to a great extent at
ail ages, if the person is normal; if
they are not normal they need in
stitutional care and treatment.
Omaha. H. T. h.
dniglitof fife
In the midnight of our Uvea, when the
great, crushing sorrow of saying goodbye
to a loved one haa all but robbed us of
our energy and strength, th aervioea of a
competent undertaker who - will act. with
diprnity and tact is needed. We under
stand our business thoroughly and welL
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor (Ettab. 1888)
17th and Cuming Sts. Doug. 1060
S7 per thousand births, compared
bonds will have to be funded and converted into i with 108.4 for children of foreign-
a single- type of issue that will command a ttni- horn mothers, the rate under 1
form market value measuring the credit of the ' month for the former was 47.4, as
government with the time to run before re
demption practically the only variant. But then,
if we are never to have any more wars, we may
he merely wasting time trying to work out
better methods of raising the money to meet
the demands of the next war emergency.
The Loss of Savereignty
It is urged with a good deal of force that the
proposed covenant of the league of nations,
which is to be made a part of the German peace
treaty, does not create super-sovereign, that the
"duties of the council which is to be created are
to be purely advisory; that every nation will be
at liberty to accept or reject the recommenda
tions of the council, as seems best to them, and
that, therefore, there is no surrender of the sov
ereignty of any nation to the league. Those
who make this argument seem to forget that
section of Article XVI, which provides that "the
members of the league agree further that they
will mutually support one another in the finan
cial and economic measures which are taken
under this article, in order to minimize the loss
and inconvenience resulting from the above
measures, and that they will mutually support
one- another in resisting any special measures
aimed at one of their number by the covenant
breaking state." While it is true that the
covenant says that the council shall advise and
recommend, it will be found in practice that
something will happen to any country which
may decide at any time that its best interests do
not require it to "fall in with the advice and rec
ommendations of the council. So that the sug
gestion of the possible loss of sovereignty, of the
United States becomes a -part of the league, is
not so grotesque as some would make it ao
uear. Portland Express
against 45.2 for the latter. About
three-quarters of the deaths of in
fants under 1 month of age are due
to prenatal causes. Of the total
number of deaths occurring in 1916
within the first day after birth, more
than 60 per cent were due to pre
mature birth, 13 per cent to con
genital debility and malformations,
and nearly 15 per cent to injuries at
birth, amounting in all to about 88
per cent. .
All workers for social betterment
realize the beneficent possibilities of
efforts to reduce infant mortality
where unhygienic factors like over
crowding, improper feeding, imper
fect sanitation and other compar
able and remedial conditions pre
vail. The new study just reported
indicates that amid our concern for
the dangers arising from ignorance
and indifference we must not be
oblivious to the fact that insanitary
environment is not the only matter
deserving of serious consideration In
any campaign for child welfare.
Deaths from premature birth and
congenital causes have different ex
planations, among which venereal
disease and alcoholism are to be
f.und. Hence Eastman wisely ad
vises that if the population of any
section is discovered to be pre
ponderantly native, the proper
course to be adopted should be main
ly one of education in regard to pre
natal conditions. If it is found to
be largely of foreign-born stock, it
will be necessary to plan principally
for a course of Instruction in the
proper feeding and care of the in
fant and for the improvement of
sanitation. This procedure, East
man adds, would seem to be bpth
rational and practicable, and should
be the basis for all future campaigns
for infant welfare that aim at effi
ciency and success. 'rmi Amer-
' lean Medical Associf
1
In vain rvave piatvo
f -makers striven to
prodtxee a piano equal
to tne matcniess
in its superlative tone
beauty and truly in
comparable resonance.
-Ike famous "tension
resonator'oT the Mason
& Hamlin (exclusive dc
cause patented) make?
it proof against sac
cessful imitation-also
procr against tkafc
deterioration which is
the Ate of every other
piano in the world"
without ejcceptiorv
jlsJcus k stoaryou u?Ay.
We also sell the Kranich A Bach
Vose A Sons Brambach Buah Lane
Kimball and Cable-Nelson.
Cash or terms. Liberty Bonds for
down payment.
1513 Douglas Street.
The Art and Music Store.
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