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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 15, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING ) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWA1ER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THS BEB PUBLISHING COM PANT. PBOPBIETOB MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TIM Associated Pans, of which The ta li I member. It -, hitlMlr RtiUM to the iu t. imblictUan of til nn dlwucbM trained ta It or sat otherwise emitted In thl paper, and also tit , local ran published herein. All rights of publication of our ape eUl dlipetchtt ere al mcned. BEE TELEPHONES t , PrlnU Breach faohaar. Ark for' lb T.l,. 1 AAA Department or Particular Person Wanted. 1 JlGT IUUU For Night or Sunday Service Calli v ' V Wltorlal Department " ' . Tjler lftWL CueuleUoa Departaent ' - " Tyler lOOaL AdverUslag Depertouns . . . . . . 'Tyler ltWSL OFFICES OF THE BEEt Roan Offloe, Be Building, ITth tad funa, Brush OOomi aim 4111 Worth th I Park Beneoa ' (lit MMtr Ate. I South Bid Council Bluff! 11 N. Mala 1 Vintoa lata "MM North MUt I Walnut .J Out-of-Tow Oaaceai Ktw Tor OW ' Stt ttfth in. wag. unooia -.1 3615 Lsto worth 3Sia N Street Mar South 1SU 81 North toth O Street 8 mi 1334 APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65,830 Sunday 63,444 ATwro el irmlatloK tor tbo month rubeorlbad tad nrom It to B. B Bagan, Clroulatloa Mutter. Sttbecribera leaving tha city should kava The Baa mailed tathora. Addreee changed aa of tan aa requested. Business at usual is the goal everyone would like to reach. , If the kaiser leads the simple life he may be unmolested. Simply no choice left him. t "Read Fliei Over Paris," says a headline. Well, we'll soon be able to "See Flies Over Omaha." A smart-aleck contributor reminds us that we are still at war. Yes, still in the war we elected Wilson to keep us out of. Nebraska , farm lands are commanding ateadily higher and higher prices. No reason . for the Nebraska farmer to' turn bolshevist. The "world's greatest show" in Europe being almost over, the Villa side-show is again play ing for attention from the crowd. What about our new auto parking rules and v regulations? Are they to be merely another ' acrap-of-paper or something to be observed? - ., Paradoxically, te Liberty bonds bearing the z lowest rate of interest still hold the highest quo ' tation on the market. It's all m the tax exemption stipulation. The Giants are at the head of the National league and the Athletics at the tail of the Ameri can league, so the big league season may be considered fairly started. ' , - , ; The Kolchak government promises to, "take over" alf the national debts'of the former Rus aian empire. I But will the new government pay them? That is the question. This explorer who has returned with the news that monkeys have a languagedoes hot bring any great thrill to us. We have known. a number of "monkeys" that fan talk.' v '' , Jess.Willard is reported to be gathering in about $1,000 a day from spectators" who want to . see Mm" "working out," A good school teacher carl makelalmost' thafrnuclr in a year. y "One of the chief qualifications of a police man," remarks the Indianapolis News, "is a keen sense of smell." Too often, it might be added, it, goes hand in hand with a well de veloped sense of touch. i SIZEUP OF. THE STRIKE SITUATION. To a strictly impartial observer, it looks as if the teamsters' and truck drivers' strike in Omaha were going the way of former strikes by the same unions. Whenever labor's demands reach the point that success is sought by resort to violence, public sympathy is antagonized and forfeited, and without the support of a sym pathetic public, a strike can not make much headway. ' ' In the present instance the labor leaders 'have put their cause in aTbad light by assuming to control the streets of the city,, saying in ef fect that they are not to be used for hauling ex cept under permission evidenced by a "fefr' card issued from union headquarters. Of course no community can concede the right to license street traffic to any but the duly constituted authorities, and if the strike hangs upon the en forcement of this "card" system it is on pre carious ground. - As , usual, too, grossly exaggerated claims and conflicting statements are being made from the two opposing sides, and the side claiming the most is apparently exaggerating the most. The fact remains that business generally, though lightly hampered here and there, is running along reasonably well and no one who has business to transact here should hesitate to at tend tO it, ' Seizure of large shipments ot, ammunition consigned to Mexico would indicate that, peace league prospects have not stopped preparedness projects of the fighting factions in our sister republic to the south of us. Prof. Edward A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin says "women should pluck up cour age now and' run the world since they have the ballot." As the professor is a married man he ought to know, that women ran the world long before they secured the ballot - -t Chicago is asking the Illinois legislature for a law that will permit the city to say what part shall be reserved for residence purposes only. Omaha is supposed to hive secured such law from the Nebraska legislature, but the law is not self-operative. Somebody must do some thing if it is to be done. V. I In that promise to "clean up Omaha," the information was withheld that not- less than two years would be required for the job and no assurance that a. time extension would be demanded then. Had they only known,' the voters might have exacted some kind of security. Defoe 8 Robinson Crusoe In this year of centenary celebrations we should not forget 1 that Defoe's most celebrated story has attained the dignified age of 200 years. So much of a classic has this famous story be come that its authorship is of secondary im portance, for the tale is so unique in literary history that it is difficult to associate it with the personality of any writer. , - - .j ' Defoe was nearly 60 years of age when "Robinson Crusoe" was published, in 1719. The central idea of the book, that of a sailor ma rooned on an island, was not novel, as Mari vaux made use of it six years earlier in his novel, "Les Effeta Surprenants;" but Defoe's treatment of his subject was so new in its freshness and sprightliness that no one has ever suggested any similarity between the two. In fact there is nothing which preceded.-"Robinson Crusoe" which can be cited as a model, and Defoe was entitled to all the credit which came to him for what Europe held as "an invention, a great unexpected stroke of British genius." Everywhere on the continent the- story was widely imitated, its popularity gave an im mediate impetus to the new romantico-realistic conception of fiction. Among Defoe's disciples should be 'mentioned Prevost, Rousseau, and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Defoe's life was well calculated to supply him with ample material for his writings,, but probably the most fortunate thing for him in the gathering of material was the period he passed in Newgate prison, serving a sentence for seditious libel against the government Here, making the most of his opportunities, he studied thieves, pirates, highwaymen and coiners, to his heart's content, which easily explains the lifelike realism of the characters which appear in the stories. Defoe once wrote of himself:- "I have some time ago summed up the scenes, of my life in this distich: , v-: "No man has tasted different fortunes more, And thirteen times have I been rich and poor. ! t Where Medical Ethici Come In. The point is now made, and made from the very highest source of medical ethics, that it is quite possible to overdo the new demand for registration of all alleged transmittable or con tagious diseases. In the annual oration to the Medical Society of London, Sir John Tweedy, past president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, talking on the subject of "The Med ical, Tradition," declared that while the air is thick with projects of reconstruction, and which lessen the ,. responsibility of the physician or. hamper his intellectual activities, would be det rimental to the authority and usefulness of medicine. He referred to the brilliant triumph of curative and preventive medicine in the war, largely the result of scientific research, but gave warning that the future (of medicine "must still be determined by ; the ability, the personal character and the moral endowments of indi vidual practitioners rather than by schemes of professional reorganization." Continuing, he declared: - Y-. . . . While we have other names 1 and other forms of disease than the ancients, and other, means of healing,, medicine is - always the same., Modern medicine is on a surer and more positive foundation than in the days of gave of the causation of disease and of the nature and significance of symptoms still hold good. There is not, and can not be, absolute , ... . . ., . nni . : 1 ' 1 1 f I 1 cerutuae in meaicine. me most shuuuji yny sician can never be sure of curing his patient, but he can be sure of employing all;;, his knowledge and skill according to the estab lished rules of his art. There are two kind of secrets referred to in the Hippocratic writ- ings one which might be called "trade se crets" and the otner "secrets of trust,", ac- quired in the professional ' intercourse with patients. "Trade secrets" have practically ceased to exist in medicine. There is nothing in the mode of conducting modern . practice that anv layman might not : know. Professional secrets, ."secrets of trust," ' are :, and should be-inviolable except -under the compulsion of a court of law,, and even the courts of law have recognized a distinction - between the ethical and legal aspects of these secrets. ' . . -v - ' On this foundation the conclusion i rested that the tendency on the part of the legislative and administrative authorities to encroach on the principle of professional secrecy may have to be combatted. In the case of many diseases, as Sir John suggests, no harm may, be done by "notification," butgreat personal and do mestic misery may be caused if extended to diseases of a strictly personal and private character, especially if any stigma or immoral imputation were, rightly, or wrongly implied. The ethics of the medical profession, turn ing on the confidential relation between phy sician and patient, cannot be lightly upset with out needless grief. Before legislation goes much farther, the Jine will have to be carefully drawn else we will bu merely loading our statute books with more dead letter legislation. Competition for the Big Convention!. Signs are already pointing to a lively com petition for the presidential nominating con ventions of both the big political parties. To spy out the land and see which look, like the most attractive field, Kansas City has already put a special commissioner on the job following close upoit an announcement from St Paul and Minneapolis that the Twin -Cities would offer bids. It is expected that Denver and St. Louis, as well as Chicago, will be presenting invita tions when the time comes, all of them going on the theory that the conventions will be held in the middle west, not only for convenience of central location, but also to strengthen the lines in this section of the country, which will be the contested territory in the canvass for votes. , y Chicago has been so often the favored con vention city that the others seem to think it necessary to start a-propaganda for "any place but Chicago." They concede that Chicago is the ideal meeting spot from every standpoint of accommodation! To cjffset this it is charged that Mayor William Hale Thompson has made Chicago politically unpopular, so that neither party can afford to have its presidential candi date nominated in the city' that re-elected "Big BilL" Of course it is hardly safe to takeJ this as conclusive, since the mayor of the city has little to say and much less to do in the matter and" it is quite possible to conceive of one or both of the conventions going .to Chicago uny way, .not because, but in spite of Big Bill's occupancy of the mayor's chair. ; r-:. The significant thing about the early start to capture the conventions is the. widespread conviction it reflects that presidential politics will hold the center of the stage and rivet pub lic interest during the coming months to greater exclusion of other subjects than for many a year.' gating" to find something to warrant the fed eral administration interfering further in the Mooney case. ; The bomb throwing out at San Francisco was merely the prelude to the" bomb ing" of the attorney" general's house at Wash ington. ' While every one accused of crime is en titled to a fair and impartial trial, sympathy for the bomb business is a discord in the times. Now Sweden is trying. to float a $25,000,000 bond issue in the United States. Small stuff. And besides, we thought Sweden made so much money during the war that it would be ready to loan instead of borrow , t ,.'-:.,.., Views and Reviews XWhat..ti..eniolUiw of the .Bod Thea . , V The definite announcement - that Boyd's theater is to make way this year for a fine (mod ern store building foreshadows not only a strik ing change in the configuration of the business district of Omaha, but also the demolition - of what, when it was -opened, was probably the finest amusement house in the west When Governor Boyd put up this building, being the second show-house he had erected here, it was far in, advance of all others, and it is a tribute to his foresight and enterprise that it should, have held its own for nearly 30 years and would still be serviceable were it not crowded out by the march of business. " . ' I happened to be away at the time the New Boyd theater was opened and so was not present at the initial performance which, as has. been stated, was, "Alabama," a war comedy, written by Augustus Thomas, and put on by A. M. Palmer's New York company. It was a very brilliant occasion, with all Omaha turning out to make acknowledgements to the man who had made it possible. From that time on, all the noted players and operatic performers en tertained the audiences at The Boyd, and. if its stage, could write a history it would be a real contribution to the story of the drama in America. ' - It is worth, recalling that when the Boyd was built it was on the very edge of the down town district The site had to be graded IS or 20 feet and the theater stood for years sur rounded by high clay embankments, the streets approaching it . were unpaved and it was like crossing a sea of mud to get to it in wet weather. More than once I have seen "hacks" carrying gaily dressed parties, "stuck" trying to get up to the entrance. . The interior of the theater was several times redecorated a"nd was always artistic and attractive until, to every one's disgust, the drop curtain was disfigured into a checker-board of hideous advertisements. The regretable part of the destruction of the building will be that it extinguishes the name of Boyd, which has been blazoned day and night to the inhabitants of Omaha and to the stranger within our gates so long that the city will not seem the same without it. The stories of Fred Thompson appearing in eastern papers make reference to his Omaha connections in such a confused way as to mis lead. In partnership with the late "Skip" Dundy in the venture of Luna Park at Coney Island and the Hippodrome in the city, Thomp son became a top-notcher among showmen, but the chief part Omaha played in his rise and career was that his relations with Dundy began here. It may be reliably stated that Thompson drifted into Omaha just about the time of the opening of our 1898 exposition as a stranded architect He had an intrpduction to Howard H. Baldrige who, with some friends, had been interested by a man named Roltaire in a mid way .concession known as "The Sinking of the Maine," ji beautiful scenic motion panorama which those who witnessed it will never forget. To help Thompson out,' he was engaged to draw, the plans and superintend the construc tion of this miniature theater and, while dis cussing it, met Dundy ; in Baldrige's ' office. Dundy employed him also for one or two other concessions he had at the exposition, but Thompson had no' interest in any production here. ." -' Hofae Health Hints Reliable advice given In this column on prevention and : cure of disease. Put your ques tion in plain language. -Your ' name will not be printed. Ask The Bee to Help You. When Dundy caught the exposition fever along with the money he made at the Trans mississippi and went to Buffalo to do it over again, he took Thompson, in with him for a giant Ferris wheel stunt and a spectacle known as "A Trip to the Moon.". Buffalo proved ill fated in more wavs than one. involving in a financial disaster nearly everyone who invested there. The Omaha bunch considered them selyea lucky, as "Skip" himself told me, to pull out, with the money they had put in. The Ferris wheel -was transplanted to, Coney . Island, (or was it first to Atlantic City?), and, then the two partners - developed the idea of moderniz ing the summer amusements of the metropolis. The result was Luna Park, named after one of the Dundy girls, built on a capital of $25,000, supplemented with borrowings of $600,000, a stupendous success from the jump-off. People who yisited the place when it was at its height could easily imagine themselves back here on the Omaha midway, to say nothing of the familiar faces they saw in the office and around the grounds. When Thompson went into other ventures, and particularly after he lost the financial backing and business judgment of Dundy, things did ,not prosper so well, and tne .cnances are ne leave but a small, if any, estate. ; . 1 Cold Storage and Pisease. For a" longtime it has been the custom, when a few cases of typhoid fever oceur In a community, to im mediately impugn the character of the water supply. This attitude of mind is a legacy of the time when polluted water was1 believed to be the only source 'of this infection. Where large number of cases occur, and especially' if they are not limited to one neighborhood, It la a wise precaution to suspect "the drinking water, But where cases are re ported sporadically,' especially in communities which have a munici pal, water system, it la more logical to seek the source elsewhere. The modern method of food distribution is a, marvelous development' that' is comparable to other inventions of the 19th century. Through it per ishable articles axe not only dis tributed from one point where the supply exceeds the demand to others where they are needed; but they are also held, In the case of certain foods, a year or more, If the supply is too abundant Nor ia the dis tribution of such things limited to the .farthermost' boundaries of one country, but they are also shipped from one country to another across the widest seas. - All this has-come, about through the expansion of the cold storage business, and the Use of refrigerater cars, and cold storage plants .'on steamships. There is a large and ever increasing demand for various perishable articles of food out of sea son, so there is a constant move ...t of supplies from one region to an nthar. Vurthai'mflro thlM riamanrf has stimulated the speculative seal of those engaged In the cold storage business, with the result that "In season" enormous storing of perish able foods Is conducted. So great at times is the demand for these commodities for storage, and for shipment to other parts of the coun try, that in many ' localities where they are grown it is impossible to purchase in the local market either fresh fowl, eggs, butter, fruits, and game. Hence It is probably true that more of the above mentioned articles of food are eaten out of sea son than in. r My reason for dwelling upon this phase of modern economic life is to draw attention to the' possibility of communicable diseases being , carried with . foods from points widely separated, and the difficulty of trac ing those so carried to their source. Refrigeration does not necessarily kill Infectious agents and animal parasites; indeed,'' there are dangers in the free use of ice In drinking water.. So that through this system of food storage and distribution some contaminated article, such aa cream, may be shipped 500 miles to a creamery, churned into butter there, held in storage a few months, and finally, shipped another thousand miles, or across the ocean to Europe or Asia. The same possibility pre sents itself in the cases of all fruits and vegetables that are' eaten raw. COST OF STOPPING A TRAIN. In the death of former Senator Tohn C. Spooner, one of the great constitutional lawyers or his day. has passed out with but scant notice. The first time I looked in on the senate fat Wash ington, now more than 30 years ago, Wisconsin was represented by Philetus Sawyer and John C Spooner, two men of as opposite types as could be imagined. Sawyer, an aged, tottering lumber millionaire, who had made his money despite his lack of education amounting almost to illiteracy, and Spooner, a keen, sharp, dancer young attorney, smartly dressed, a ready and pousnea talker, in his autobiography Senator George F. Hoar pays tribute to Spooner's high legal talents.. Years afterwards, I happened quite by accident to be in the senate chamber when Spooner escorted LaFollette, long his implacable political enemy, to the vice presi dent's desk to be sworn in, and again was struck by the appearance of the -Wisconsin senators as two widely divergent types. Spooner was than the grave and serious senator LaFol lette, brusque and bristling, in fact, one of the clever cartoons the next morning depicted these two walking arm-in-arm, caricaturing LaFol lette with his pompadour as a bantam rooster. Spooner soon after resigned his place in the senate on the plea that as a Door man he owed it to his family to take up his profession in which his earning power would be ,.- much greater. ( He removed to New York and was in many big lawsuits, - among ; them appearing for the Union Pacific jn the merger case, and gradually dropped out of public life. His death comes as a reminder of the. political prominence he J enjoyed before his' retirement from the senate. Now the Trackless Trolley The trackless trolley car has found a welcome in a number of .small New England towns, ac cording to the Popular Mechanics masrazine for June. The impression of the technical publica tion is that this car without tracks to run on has come to stay and perhaps force its way into cit ies where the track-following trolley cars are going up into the air after higher fares to keep out of the bankruptcy column. The trackless car looks like a long autobus on wide solid rub ber tires, and is heated, lighted and propelled by electricity supplied through two trolleys to an' ordinary street car motor.- It is claimed that the trackless outfit is much cheaper than the old style, because expensive rails, switches and sig nals aic out rcquircu. more sausiaciory nr pert formance is another claim for it because theJ swinging iroiieys permir ine cars to go any where in a 25-foot roadway to oass slower vehi cles,- avoid uneven road surface and allow pas sengers to get out close to a sidewalk. It should hardly be possible that the small towns, have more sense as to a street transportation system than the cities, but at least one writer on scien tific mechanics seems to incline to that idea. The trackless way may be the next road to pay ing street car service at fair prices.. -Worcester What does It cost to stop a rail road train? It depends on the size of the train and its speed. Esti mates run from about 30 cents for a light train up to as high as $1.75 for a heavy freight, . and they" -do not of course,' "always agree. , The subject interests railroad men at the present time,. we are told, Ay C.C. Authony, former assistant signal en gineer, of the Pennsylvania, because the necessity of stopping at certain points is obviated by the use of sig nals, and 4t is desirable to know the exact saving. Writing in The Railway Age (New York, ,May 2), Mr. Anthony tells us that at rail way crossings, in the absence of in terlocking signals, the stoppage of trains is now generally required by law. The same requirement may be made by usage, or by the regula tions of state railway commissions, at other points, such as drawbridges and Junctions. It may be seen -that when we count, the cost of stopping many trains dally at a considerable number of points, the annual bill may foot up to an amount that is quite worth taking into considera tion. Says the writer: "It ia likely that many railroad officers view with gentle 'suspicion that estimates that have been pre pared to show the operating econo mies effected by the installation of signals or interlocking, because of the favorable showing made, and, besides, there may be little hope that .the predicted benefits can be detected after the work' Is done. Nevertheless, in many cases the benefits are real, however difficult It may be to show beyond question their money value. "Impossible as it may be to de termine the cost of stops with cer tainty, and difficult as it may be to see in the operating results the sav ing effected by eliminating certain stops, nevertheless this saying is real -money. In addition -to such direct flnanolal saving there is the elimination of damage in starting heavy freight trains, and the general Improvement in train movement due to cutting out the stopping of all trains at a certain point - The cost of the damage to trains may be In cluded In the cost of the stops, but even if It Is, the indirect and some times quite, far-reaching effects In the way of accumulating delays, both to the damaged and to other trains, may mean a considerable loss In 'the course of a year. So, too, with the general improvement In train movement ' Itis not merely a matter of saving so many min utes per train, lost In-the stops. The few minutes lost by a freight train In stopping at a crossing may mean a bad combination In meets and passes on all the rest of the run, re sulting in many times the Original delay before the terminal is reached; and other trains may suffer at the same time. If it is not always, or often, possible to show the money loss from such derangements of the movement, the elimination of - one cause of them means, as every ona knows, real benefit thrown in for good measure above more definite money savings. . - "Although there Is no quick and easy way of showing beyond dispute Just what saving will result from eliminating stops of trains by In stalling interlocking in a given case, the result, can, with proper conser vatism, be estimated convincingly. As Interlocking costs and the cost ot stopping trains have both -risen, though probably not in Just the same proportion, it is safe to say that the relation, as estimated years ago, is not now very far wrong, or at any rate is not too favorable to inter locking for general purposes Liter ary Digest.' . . ; ' Royalty in Outdoor Sports. '' Of all the feminine members of the British royal family Queen Maud of Norway, a daughter of the late King Edward VII., is the most ar dent devotee of outdoor sports and pastimes, ... Fresh Air Fiends. Omaha, June 12. To the Editor of The See: I have had occasion late ly to ride on the skip-stop street cars a good deal and I have found out how uncomfortable the riding is on the cars. It makes no difference how cold the air may be, how hard the wind is blowing, nor how hard It may be raining, there are a lot of fresh air fiends that as soon as they get on the street cars,, their first act is to lower the windows until on some very blustery days there Is not y. window on either side of the cars that has not been lowered. .' , . I have noticed that the ones who ire most -anxious to -lower the car windows are young women with heavy furs on. If they are so hot when they get on the street cars they should leave their heavy furs horn the summer time., t. ,. Talk about men wearing straw hats before some brainless fellow says you can wear them. It is not half so foolish as for women to wear heavy furs in the summer time. I am a strong believer in lots ot t.resh air,, but some sense should be used in getting it as in anything else. . Half the colds people have come from riding on the street cars with all the windows open in cold and blustery weather, i FRANK A. AG NEW. How To Live Ixmg. Fremont, Neb., June 12 To the Editor of The Bee: Feeling that "the proper study of mankind is man" and that there is too much worry over politics and too much haste to get rich, I desire to write a few words that may help to awaken your readers to the fact that , we do not spend enough time studying the needs of our bodies, how to tise them and how to develop our vital lty so thoroughly and use so econ omically that we approach closer to the long lives that our forefathers used to live. ) Every Nebraskan should send to the extension service of the college of agriculture of the University of Nebraska for Extension Bulletin No 48 entitled "Well-Planned Meals' and for Die tics Circulars Nos. 10 and 11 and the circular entitled "Plan Your Meals," to which as a vege tarlan of a good many years' stand ing I desire to direct attention. Vegetarians are thinkers. That is the reason they are vegetarians. Samson, Socrates, Cicero, Milton, Pythagoras, Buddha, St. Peter, St, James, St. Matthew, Aristotle, Sen eca, Ovid, Plutarch, Voltaire, John Wesley, Tolstoi, Oscar II.,' Benjamin Franklin, Chauncey Depew, and Nic ola Tesia were vegetarians. Five hun dred million Buddhists are vegetar ians today. Calm, sensible reasoning and - not a fanatical belief is what causes these large, numbers of think era to abstain from meat. Abstinence from meat alone wjll not insure per fect health and long life. A well-bal anced ration is of equal importance, See that your body Is furnished with every ingredient that It requires or you will suffer for it sooner or later. Breathe plenty of fresh, ' pure air. Work- in your garden bare-headed and bare-footed and with no more clothes on than modesty or the weather requires In order that your pores may breathe freely of fresh oxygen and In order that the sun's rays may impart life and vigor to your body and assist in the creation of red blood corpuscles. The chil dren of India wear scarcely) any clothes until about the eighth year and , in consequence thereof- the death rate among them . is very small. t .? Whole- wheat- Is one of nature's most Derf eet foodi The silicia for the teeth,; gluten, for-., the , muscles. Iron for the blood, lime for the hones and organic Idodine, necessary for Banking Service ' Modern banking service today means banking facilities to meet the individual needs of every custo mer. The service of the First provides com plete banking facilities to meet all require ments. ' The modern bank ing room, an exclusive women's department, a roomy and convenient savings department, a safety deposit depart- ment equipped . with the latest and best type of boxes, and an affili ated Trust Company are all at your disposal. Come in and avail yourself of the service of the department 'that ; best meets your needs and remember, there ia always a welcome f"? you here. LFlrstNattonalJ lEankefUiaaiia the proper functioning of the thy. roid gland which controls bodily growth and blood purity, all come with the bran. The bran itself is Indigestible, thus it gives bulk to the food adding digestion and pre venting constipation. The phos phorus that the brain and nerves require is found mostly In the germ. That part of the wheat berry that is discarded in the making of white flour contains about 40 per cent of the nutrition. An animal fed upon whole wheat will live indefinitely, while one fed upon white flour will die in less than two monhs. It may experience no special pain, but will gradually waste away- for want of material for certain parts of the body. If you don't believe this try it with a mouse.- A general study of the lives of people who have lived to great ages -indicates that they not only lived very simple, outdoor lives, but that they were hard workers aa well. As body, and mind are co-exlatent and depend upon each other, I con tend that the person who cares for his body will have much clearer mental faculties and thus be a bet ter and more capable cltisen than he would be If he did not care for his body.. - CLARENCE RECKMEYER. Protest From Jefferson Precinct. Jefferson Precinct, June 12 To the Editor of The Bee: I am against the bond issue and would like to tell the taxpayers of Douglas county why 1 am. We have at this time a one man board of county commissioners. Compton seems to 'be the whole board for the last two years. Should the bond issue carry you can bet that Center street would be paved out through no man's land and on through the brush, where the dogs vark at strangers, to the Platte Mver. To prove that we have a one 'nan board I wish to give a few facts s I understand them. Since Comp ton has been commissioner he has gone to John Hofeldt, the largest grader in Douglas county, at , $7 a a ay more money than a Jefferson precinct man's bid: For the last two years Compton has run the Water loo graders with his own teams, hir ing, Tom, Dick and Harry to run them. They commence when they please, quit when . the please, and work , when they please, and Compton passes on his own bills and draws his money and have you heard any protest? On last election day Compton sent out the county auto in the interest of John Hofeldt tor sheriff. The county paid for the driver, the gas and oil and stood the wear and tear of the car and it was kept busy all day hauling voters to the polls for Hofeldt Did you hear a protest? I want good roads, but I want the taxpayers' money spent where it will do the most good to the greatest number. PETE NELSON, - ' - A Taxpayer. Paris has a landlord who welcomes babies, to such an extent indeed, that he allows every one of "his ten ants to live rent free for three months following the birth of the baby. . '- - The Day We Celebrate. . Edwin T. Swobe, investment se. curltles, born 1874. v , Mme. Johanna Gadxkl. celebrated. rknerAflft and rnnnftrr Mincer, horn at ., Lieut Gen. Sir Charles Carmlchael Monroe, one of the prominent Brit ish commanders in the late war, born 69 years ago.. Right Rev. Henry R. Granjon, Catholic bishop of Tucson, Arls., born in France, 66 years ago. - Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus. United States navy, retired, born at Belleville, 111., 68 years ago. , Thirty Tears Ago In Omaha. Members of Hillside Congrega tional church celebrated the third anniversary of Rev. H. C. Crane's pastorate. W. H. Bridge was mas ter of ceremonies. The status of the plu.nbers' strike remains practically unchanged. Fred Pickens, W. H. Latey, C. M. Champlin and William Brown are fishing at Iowa lake. The4Bard of fire and police com missioners met. J. C. Sisson was ap pointed special policeman on the Omaha and Council Bluffs bridge. i ,, i , . , SUNDAY SMILES. "What are th luxurlea of llf?" ' "Thing that vera naccasltle two years aco." Life. , Bachelor I kneel to a woman? Never! She Too much pride T Bachelor No; too much . rheumatlnmt Judge. "Smith la mighty . careleaa with tne truth, Isn't he?" aaked Brown, "Yea," replied Jones. "Why. he'd dhy it right after ha had. eaten a raw onion. Knoxvllle Journal and Tribune. "OUR FLAG IS STILL THERE." What loyalty, what warmth, what aoul Had Peary, when upon North Pole, Amldnt distress, and cold, and fag, Hia ft rot thought was, the "American Flag"! And there It stands as balm to tears. -For many a home that thro' the years Has sacrificed Its best, for science, To failure breathing its defiance! And shall we hers In warmth and eaaw ' Forget to fling ours to the breese. And match the mariner's matchless grit? No! No! What thought! A truce to it! Hence from today In every fitting manner We pledge anew our duty to our bannerl JOSEPH MEINHATH. lien loVeJ ones) When loved ones leave us and wa must , arrange tha last rites tha experience; of a fair minded undertaker is useful. We ! thoroughly understand ; tha , undertaking ' business and we place our establishment j at your disposal. We will treat you fairly . in tha matter of price. . ? N. P. SWANSON -i Funeral Parlor (Etabli.hed 1888) ; 17th and Cuming Sts. Douglas 1060 1 Jula.pting tne iorve principles ot tke violin, to the pianoforte Ka$ been successfully vo-" coirvplifthed only in tKe s-sr A, J Jason OvZazriliri tone and resonance improve ; with aqe -just is Dtradivantts mellows with, theears. ijffiocrf efcevSion. mi's can As said afrio other via.no Jn he World, jtfskccs ifc shorn youvghz We are proud of our line. Kranieh A Bach, Voae V Eons, Brambach, Bosh A Lane, Cable-Nelson, Kimball and Hospa Piano. No batter Players are made than the Apollo and Gulbraneon Players. Elec tric or foot pedalling. You tat cash prices on' time payments. Your Liberty bond is good here. . iSIS Douglas Street. Tha Art and Music Store. 11 ALMOST A MILLION During tha past few months the growth of the Woodmen of the World Has been tha greatest of our entire history, Ii a few months we will . have more than One Million Member v Men everywhere have come to tha realisation that tha Woodmen of the World alwaya has and tlways will carry out every contract in good faith. - . j This confidence In our Society explains our wonderful increase in membership. If you are in good health TODAY. Insure your life. TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE. Full particulars will be furnished you if you will call on or write to k W. A. PHASER, ' Sovereign Commander. 'rllMMIIItllllllllllillMIIIWW'WWTl'WWWrl M1 t li i If, 5 tJ jinilliiiillillliiiniClIliiiiuiiiiiiiiigBta' UUuiEiliUlUll amosc eouoiAS sj If WeWiBeaaiaVbirOfaoaVtavg JtSn . 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