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The Omaha Bee
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APRIL CIRCULATION
Daily 65,830 Sunday 63,444
Avenge circulation for the month iubacrlbad and nrarn to bj
E. R. Ragan, Circulation Marnier.
Subacribw laaving th city ahould hav Th Be malUd
to them. Addreae changed aa often rquatd
The short road to good roads is to vote the
bonds.
Austria has also to step up to the counter
and settle.
King Corn is right on the job in Nebraska
these days.
When the mayor proclaims his administra
tion a failure, his word goes.
The $300-a-month uplifter must at least make
a show trying to earn the money.
The Knox resolution will not be pressed to
immediate consideration. Too many knocks.
Villa's villainy will over-reach the limit of
Uncle Sam's patience one of these fine days.
"Back of the army, back of the daring and
dying, is the nation." Not very far back, either.
And the allies will see to it that the new
solemn treaty obligation is not flouted as a
scrap of paper.
Women are interested in good roads as
much as men if not more so. The difficulty is
to make them realize it.
The tornado death list shrinks to 60. Still
it's preferable to have first reports exaggerated
rather than underestimated.
The German peace delegates will be able to
"see themselves signing," as that ceremony is
to take place in the "Hall of Mirrors."
Omaha's fellow feeling goes out to any and
every tornado-stricken community. We know
from our own sad experience what such a visi
tation means.
J Observe that according to the British food
controller,, average food costs in Great Britain
ire down as compared with last November by
"'""'over 4 shillings weekly.
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I Seventeen million yards of silk intended for
war, to be sold for women's wear. Though
transferred from Mars to Venus, it may still do
destruction among men.
Is there any other city of Omaha's size with
a similar summer climate that boasts the same
idiotic municipal ordinance prohibiting Sunday
tale and delivery of ice?
The president of the Irish republic, still in.
paper stage, has come to the United States to
raise funds from sympathizers. He can get
the dough here, if any place.
"When an article is made difficult of pur
chase, there is certain to be a decrease in its
ale," says a certain publicity propaganda
document sent to us. Well, we're not so sure
about that applying in this dry neck o' woods.
Soldiers Keep Your Insurance
. War put the government into life insurance.
It rightly assumed the war risk to which its
soldiers exposed themselves in defense of the
Country. Two million soldiers are returning
from France. More than 90 per cent of them
carry government war life insurance, the aver
age policv being about $9,000, and the aggregate
$18,000,000,000. Unless they take some further
action this insurance will lapse automatically.
The country's obligation to these men does not
laose when they receive their discharges. They
offered all in its defense.' The account it not
Settled when the last pay voucher is signed. This
government life insurance is now in force. The
equipment for continuing it is in working order.
The government ought to continue it, and will.
Any returning soldier can have, for life, govern
ment life insurance at cost.
It is a rare opportunity for them. No sol
dier can any more afford to throw it away than
he could afford to walk over a 10-dollar bill
that he might have by simply picking it up.
,' Nearly all these soldiers are young men in
prime condition mainly unmarried. They are
of the age and condition when life insurance
can be bought cheapest, but when commonly it
is not bought at alt because a man feels no
immediate need of it.. - to. the normal course
of life he will presently feel the need of it. It
will cost him more then, and if he has let this
opportunity to get government insurance on a
strict cost basis go by it will be gone .for good.
So far the soldiers have been buying their
life insurance from the government on a year-to-yei!"
basis, which is impracticable when they
are ot the government pay roll sod scattered in
civil tnrupations. A long-time contract is the
adv::zt.e one now. Such a contract involves
higher payments in the earlier years. Through
the War department and various other agencies
the government is prepared to explain the tech
nical points . and tq offer various kinds of
policies from which an individual may select
' the one best suited to his needs.
! The important point is that soldiers now
have the opportunity of getting life insurance
; backed by the government at actual cost. It
is an opportunity that no soldier can afford to
neglect. Such a policy is a mighty good asset
" to begin any career with. Every soldier ought
to lookup this chance.
. We do not believe in government life insur-
ance as a general proposition. This does not
imply government life insurance as a general
proposition. The country owes a peculiar obli
gation to thtse men. In proper discharge of
, that obligation it insured their lives for the war
period. The insurance is in force; the machin
ery for continuing it is there. Now that the
soldiers have won victory the government
should not simply cancel the special relation
ship that the war set up. Saturday Evening
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SIGNIFICANT UNITY
Whether his candidacy strikes folks with
favor or disfavor, the unity of California repub
licans In presenting Senator Hiram Johnson for
the presidential nomination has a significance
which should not be overlooked. The an
noucement made for him assures us that among
his sponsors are those who have differed with
him in the past and others who have different
views on some issues now, "but all united in
his support as they have never in the memory
of this generation been united on anything
else."'
Coming from California, which has been a
hot-bed of republican feuds for so long, from
the state whose factionalism has been charged
with the loss of the republican standard bearer
the last election, we are inclined to agree that
there is more than a local and accidental sig
nificance in this unity in difference. If Cali
fornia republicans can overlook past quarrels,
sink personal antagonisms, join forces for what
they agree upon and hold in. abeyance what they
disagree upon, nation-wide republican unity for
the coming presidential contest may confidently
be looked for. There is a special force there
for in this declaration as it comes from Cali
fornia republicans:
"It is but an example of what must happen
on a nation-wide scale if the republican party
is to resume a dominant plate in American
affairs. There must be a bringing together of
those who have differed on many things and
still differ on some. For that is the actual
state of American politics and the republican
party can gain nothing by ignoring it or
merely arguing that it ought not to be. It
must face it as it is and the vital asset in
meeting the situation is a personal leadership
around which all elements can unite."
While it will not as yet be conceded Cali
fornia has the only candidate who personfies
this needed leadership, for numerous others will
endeavor to qualify, the truth of the assertion
will not be gainsaid. Following the lead of
Californit, the complete merger of previously
discordant rpublican elements in other faction
torn states should be well achieved by the time
the contest opens next year.
Questions.
Why are the ostensible leaders of organized
labor in Omaha trying at this particular time to
prevail upon the rank and file to precipitate a
general strike in all lines of industry here?
Are they advocating a general walk-out as
a measure of sympathy and help to the striking
team and truck drivers, or is their action
prompted by some other reason?
Omaha was afflicted with a street car men's
strike last year why no move for a sympathy
strike for the street car men then?
The boilermakers have been on a strike for
several months why no sympathy manifesta
tion for the boilermakers?
The painters went on a strike a few weeks
ago why no sympathy for the painters?
The tailors are on a strike right now are
the tailors not entitled to sympathy?
The telegraph operators are likewise on a
strike, but has anyone heard talk of a sympathy
strike for them?
Is any one union, each time is decides to go
on a strike, and in fact to vote all the unions
to strike regardless of their controct obliga
tions. In a big city like Omaha, with its great
variety of specialized labor, a strike in this
craft or that is bound to occur from time to
time. Are we to have sympathy strikes urged
for each craft or only for the team and truck
drivers?
Can the workers belonging to the different
unions answer these questions with satisfaction
to themselves?
Will the Farm Hold Them?
Can any large number of boys who are
being released from service be induced to go
on the farm, and if they do, will the farm hold
them? We note in some of the soldier publica
tions very pertinent discussion of this subject
with the attractions of outdoor life and the ad
vantages of acquiring a farm with Uncle Sam's
help presented in an appealing way.
The old difficulties attached to agriculture, It
is explained, are being eliminated. Millions of
acres of unused land in almost every section
of the country will be placed at the disposal
of the solidier farmer and he will be given every
aid in making the most of the conditions sur
rounding him. Pleasure and amusement will be
brought in reach of the farmer, schools and
other facilities will come his way, so that he"
will not feel in the least inferior to his city
friend. The war forced the average American,
and especially the soldier, to take an honest in
ventory of his ideas and ideals and .the hope is
expressed that he is able to see life's relations
in a clearer light and to realize that the man
behind the plow will have a reward just as his
brother who shines in the professional world.
The case could hardly be better put as a
plea for farm life, as compared with other oc
cupations and fields of activity. But the prob
lem involves the further factor as to whether
the soldier who goes on a farm will bend his
energies to farming and stick it out. The dan
ger always lurks that with the best of inten
tions, the help of the government may be ac
cepted and the farm acquired and then when
some setback comes, disposed of. The only
way this can be obviated, and of course it
cannot be wholly prevented, is by making life
on the farm and the returns from farming coun
terbalance what the city has to offer. The ten-
dency we believe is to equalize these conditions
more and more, but it will be largely up to the
soldier boys who go on the soil, themselves, to
make farming what it ought to be.
One good thing about aerial freight service
is that cost of maintenance of track and right
of way will be nothing.
Well, anyway, the Germans found a navy
that they could sink. But, at that, it was only
the German navy.
One or two senators, governors, mayors and
judges have still neglected to be mentioned for
the presidency.
Several hundred thousand chaps on the west
bank of the Rhine will be disappointed when the
Germans sign.
Judging by the pictures, Dempsey ought to
be allowed to use a hall bat in his fight with
Willard. '
Looks as though old. King Booze will have
to sign on the dotted line July
How Old Is the Earth?
Literary Digest
Is our planet 1,600 millions years old? Or
only ten million? That depends on how you
figure is out. Dr. William Harvey McNairn,
of McMaster University, who writes in The
Scientific American Supplement, tells us that
there are three principal ways of approaching
this problem. The one that gives the smallest
answer is the oldest and depends on an attempt
to find out how fast the sun is cooling.
"Our star, the sun, is not eternal," says Dr.
McXairn's article. "Sooner or later its fierce
heat will all have been dissipated into space, and
fit will become cold and dead. And the life of
our planet is bound up with that of its parent
sun. It necessarily follows that the age of the
sun is a measure of the maximum life of the
earth. Is it, then, possible to measure in years
the length of time during which our sun could
continue to radiate heat at approximately the
same rate as we now experience, neither too hot
nor too cold for the existence of life? Lord
Kelvin's affirmative -answer to this question in
1862 was so incisive and so surprising that the
scientific world was at once roused to vigorous
argument. Now, taking this into consideration,
and putting the present temperature of the sun
at 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit, Kelvin concluded
that it has been only a matter of about 18,300,000
years that the sun has been at its present degree
of heat."
But even these millions do not give the geolo
gists the time which they insist has been' neces
sary to accumulate the vast deposits on which
we live, and to develop the present great variety
of living forms. Since Lord Kelvin's results
were first published, their voices and those of
their successors have been constantly raised in
protest against the inadequacy of the time al
lowed them by the physicists. To quote again:
"In order to attain some measurable represen
tation of the extent of geological time, recourse
was had to two different geological processes:
the formation of stratified rock and the accumu
lation of salt in the oceans, and both of these
have been studied with the greatest care and
with results of steadily increasing accuracy.
"The calculation of age from the thickness of
sedimentary rocks is based upon the fact that
the material of which they are composed was
carried down by the rivers and deposited under
the shallow water which surrounds the conti
nents. If we could measure the total depth of
all such accumulations, and if we could gage
the average load of mud and sand and gravel
that goes down to the sea with each year's quota
of river water, the problem that we are trying
to solve would resolve itself into one of simple
division. The latest and best figures available
put it at 335,000 feet, or about 64 miles.
"We have now to determine the rate at which
these sediments are accumulated. This has been
set by some observers at three inches per cen
tury, which would make the time requisite to
form the tbtal 134,000,000 years; by others it has
been placed at four inches per century, which
would give us 100,000,000, and by others still at
five inches, with a consequent reduction of time
to 80,000,000 of years.
"The other method, a most ingenious one, first
made use of by Professor Joly, of Dublin Uni
versity, is based upon the theory that the salt
ness of the sea is due to the fact that ever since
they began to flow the rivers have been carrying
salt in solution down to the oceans, the bulk of
the salt still remains, and so the sea ever be
comes salter. It is evident that if we knew the
amount of salt now in the ocean, and the rate
at which the rivers have been delivering it, the
length of the time occupied by the process is a
matter of very simple calculation. Unfortunate
ly, however, the initial figures are most difficult
of attainment. The best measurements at pres
ent available set the amount of sodium in the
seas at 14,130 billion tons, and each year the
6,500 cubic miles of water which the rivers con
tribute have dissolved in them 175,000,000 tons.
After all necessary corrections have been made,
the, final result gives a period somewhere be
tween 80,000,000 and 150,000,000 years', with the
weight of evidence tending rather toward the
smaller figure."
Now we come to the newest, and perhaps
most interesting method that based on radio
activity. Says Dr. McNairn:
"Among those elements which are known to
undergo the mysterious change due to disinte
gration of the atom is uranium. By giving off
particles of helium at a constant and definite
rate, uranium is believed to pass over into
radium and lead. If in any given uranium-bearing
mineral we can determine the relative pro
portions of uranium, radium and helium, and
lead if it is present, knowing the rate at which
these changes take place, we should be able to
determine the age of the mineral itself.
"This method, first suggested by Sir Earnest
Rutherford, in 1906, was subsequently made
good by Hon. R. J. Strutt. His results were
somewhat startling in the unexpectedly great
periods of time which they indicated. For in
stance, he allotted the very respectable antiquity
of 141,000,000 years to some rocks which were
found about half-way down to the earliest fos
siliferous deposits. However, these first figures
were not uniform. Of recentVears these have
been tabulated and indicate a certain amount of
consistency, particularly in their unanimity in
extending the reach of geological time to an
extent undreamed of by the geologists. Who,
for example, would have dared to suggest, from
geological evidence alone, that we have to do
with periods of from 800 to 1,600 million years?"
Of our three schools of investigators as to
the extent of geological time, one thus tells us
from 10,000,000 to 30,000,000 years; the second,
about 100,000,000, and the third, anything up to
1,600,000,006. We must admit, says Dr. Mc
Nairn, that we have not advanced very far. The
mean of 10, 100 and 1,000 is a figure of little
value. But there is a sense in which these fig
ures are approximately the same that is, when
they are compared with infinity.
Brussels, The Magnificent.
i Brussels, the Belgian capital, in which Presi
dent Wilson and his party have been given such
an enthusiastic, welcome, was known as one of
the most magnificent cities in Europe as far
back as the 16th century.
ITODAV
The Day We Celebrate.
Stanley M. Rosewater, attorney-at-law, torn
1885.
Charles D. Armstrong, president Armstrong
Walih company, real estate, born 1876.
Col. Merch B. Stewart, U. S. A., who last
winter was assigned to command the American
forces operating south of Archangel, born in
Virginia 44 years ago. '
Brooks Adams, well known author and pub
licist, born at Quincy, Mass., 71 years ago.
De Lancey Nicoll, one of the celebrated
criminal lawyers of the New York bar, born at
Bayside, L. I., 65 years ago.
Oswald Veblen, professor of mathematics in
Princeton university, born at Decorah, la., 39
years ago.
George von L. Meyer, former secretary of
the navy of the United States, born in Boston
61 years ago.
Harry W. Watson, representative in con
gress of the Eigth Pennsylvania district, born in
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 63 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Business men interested jn Merchants' week
formed a permanent organization and elected
Thomas Kilpatrick. president; Robert Eason,
Robert's. Wilcox and William Shaw, vice presi
dents; T. H. Taylor, secretary, and S. W. Craig,
treasurer.
Marriage license was issued to Otto Bayers
dorfer and Annie Carter.
George Anderson, R. S. MarCarty and L. W.
Head were successful applicants for positions
as firemen.
Judge Isham Reavis of Falls City is at the
Millard. . -
Friend of the Soldier
Replies will be given in this .
column to questions relating
to the soldier and his prob
lems, in and out of the army.
Names will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Answer.
Victory Buttons.
A. S. and other Inquirers: In order
to obtain victory buttons, discharged
soldiers in Nebraska and Iowa
should make application to local
Ited Cross organizations or to the
U. S. Army Recruiting Station, Army
building:, Omaha, for blank forms.
There are two form blanks, one for
fhe discharge record, the other being
formal request for the victory but
ton. These forms when filled out
should be mailed to the recruiting
station above mentioned. At pres
ent they have on hand buttons for
wounded men only, but expect the
full supply at an early data. Any
Red Cross organization not having
the necessary blanks should secure
them from the Omaha recruiting
station. Pass this word along.
109th Supply Train.
To the many inquiries regarding
this unit: Our last report thereon
was June 1 when they were located
at St. Nazaire, France, assigned to
early convoy. Like the 109th engi
neers, they were turned back after
making ready to sail. In the case
of the engineers, part of whom have
now returned, the recall was d,ue to
the breaking out of mumps, but we
cannot explain the status of the sup
ply train.
Many Questions Answered.
A i Constant Reader: The 11th
marines are not home yet No an
nouncement of their probable return
has been made.
Airs. P. R. S.: The-318th engi
neers, attached to the 6th division,
arrived in Newport News June 11 on
the transport Orizaba. So far as we
know this means all of the regiment.
A Mother, Schuyler: Butchr com
pany 341 is reported as due June
20th on the Santa Barbara.
An Anxious Mother, Omaha: The
16th and 26th balloon companies
are due at Newport News June 28
on The Virginian.
Anxious Wife: Transportation
corps company 33 isnamed among
the organization assigned to early
return, though the exact date Is not
set.
A Soldier's Sister: Third balloon
company Is due June 28 on the Vir
ginian. Mrs. O. W. D.: Companies B, C
and D, 860th pioneer infantry are
due in New York June 29, on Th
Aeolus.
An Anxious Sister: Various units
of the 81st division have already
reached this country. You do not
say what unit you were interested in.
R L. : The 6th marines, being with
the 2d division in the army of occu
pation, are not likely to sail soon.
Mrs. M. J.: The 5th and 6th regi
ments of marines are with the 2d di
vision in the army of occupation.
Their early return is not expected.
AROUND THE WORLD.
The coldest inhabited land on the
globe Is the northeastern part ol
Siberia. In the town of Verkhoyansk
the mean temperature In January is
50 degrees below centigrade, but
very often there are frosts of much
greater severity.
Buenos Aires, whose activities
have become almost paralyzed as a
result of general strikes, is the
metropolis of Argentine and one of
the most beautiful capitals in the
world. The city is situated on the
tight bank of the estuary of the La
Plata. The river at that point is so
wide that it is impossible with the
naked eyer to distinguish the oppo
site bank, and it is so shallow that
ships drawing 15 or 16 feet of water
must anchor a considerable distance
below the city.
Elaborate celebrations are now be
ing held in Denmark in honor of the
700th anniversary of the adoption
of the Danish flag, the oldest na
tional flag now in existence. It was
in the year 1218 that King Walde
mar, when leading the Danes to bat
tle against the Livonians, saw or
thought he saw a bright light in
the form of a cross in the sky. He
held this appearance to be a promise
of Divine aid and pressed forward
to victory. From this time he had
the cross placed on the flag of his
country and called it the Dannebrog
the "strength of Denmark."
Weimar, where the German na
tional assembly received the peace
treaty, has been called the Athens
of Germany, because of its long and
intimate association with German
arts and letters. At one time or
another it has been the home of
many famous poets, dramatists, ar
tists, composers and musicians.
Goethe, the foremost of German
poets, resided there, as did Schiller,
Herder, Wieland, Liszt and others
whose .names and works are world
famous. It is a typical "old world"
city, which has changed little in
outward appearance Bince the 17th
century.
Reports from the far east indicate
that Korea is once again a smoul
dering bed of revolution. Frequent
eruptions are reported abortive at
tempts to throw off the yoke of
Japan. Hatred of Japan is wide
spread and intense among the Kor
eans; they regard themselves as
having been betrayed into the
hands of Japan by the powers; and
now, their case being hopeless and
conditions intolerable, it is easier,
they say, to die in protest than in
submission. Uprisings and con
spiracies are said to be the order
of the day, and even Japan itself
feels that some radical departure
from present methods must soon be
taken if a successful and prosperous
development of Korea is to be as
sured. '
DAILY CARTOONETTE
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!A WALK IIOujn AtiOJ LOOK AT
THE LAKE.
WD HE DID-
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"CIXDERELLA'S BALL."
'Peggy nl Hilly, Invited to Cinderella'
ball, are drawn there by Optimistic Os
trich. Tney find that th orchestra has
been shut up by Red Beard.)
The Glass Slipper.
OH, CINDERELLA, are you
going to let Red Beard come
to your ball?" drawled Sleeping
Beauty, opening wide her drowsy
eyes.
"Indeed, I'm not. I'll ask King
Cole to lend me his fiddlers three,"
promptly answered Cinderella, and
forthwith she dispatched a courier
to telephone to King Cole.
In a minute the courier came back
and bis long face told that he had
failed in his mission.
"King Cole says his fiddlers three
have the Influenza and Red Beard
has locked 'em up," he reported.
Wham! A cymbal had sailed
through the window and dropped on
the floor. To its handle was tied a
second note, which Cinderella read
aloud:
"Fiddlers three are playing for
me. Bid me to your ball and you can
have them all. Your loving friend,
Red Beard."
"I'll not Invite him. I'm not go
ing to have my party soiled." de
clared Cinderella, stamping her foot.
"Let him come. My husband will
cut off his head on sight and then we
can go on with our dance," yawned
Sleeping Beauty, while her princely
husband drew his glittering sword
and looked very fierce.
"That's not my idea of a good
time," replied Cinderella. "Can't
some of you sing a melody to which
the rest of us can dance? Then we
will not need an orchestra."
But When the guests tried their
voices they quaked and wheezed
and shrilled so discordantly that Cin
derella clapped her hands over her
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ears. It seems as if every one had a
bad cold.
"Perhaps I can find an orches
tra,"" suggested Peggy, to whom a
thought had come. She ran to the
window and cried out loudly: "My
birds! My birds! Come, I need
you!"
Instantly the answer came. From
the edge of the forest flocked
canaries, warblers, reddy woodpeck
er and a host of others; from the
fields came meadow larks, pigeons
and thrushes; from the orchards flew
orioles, bob-o-llnks and robins; from
the river rushed blue heron, sand
hill crane, bittern and kingfisher. In
a minute she was surrounded by
dozens of feathered songsters.
"What do you desire, Princess
Pggy?" they twittered.
"Cinderella is giving a ball and
her musicians are prisoners of Red
neard. We need an orchestra."
"We'll be the orchestra,"
chorused the birds, and forthwith
they began to sing with all their
might.
"Hurrah for Princess Peggy," cried
Cinderella's princely husband, and
all the guests cheered witth a will :
and at once began to danoe, but here
new trouble arose. While the muaio
was very pretty, every bird waa sing
ing to please himself and the result
was that no two of the dancers danc
ed to the same tune. In a minut
they were all mixed up.
"Stop!" cried Peggy to the birds.
"You'l have to sing together.. I'll
beat time for you."
Peggy waved a little stick like a
band leader's baton nnd soon she
had the birds singing in harmony,
and producing the Jolliest imaginable
dance music. It was made a bit
jazzy by Bittern's deep booming
notes. Sand-hill Crane's creaking.
Kingfisher's rattly cowbell voice, and
Reddy Woodpecker's drumming on
a hollow log, but Cinderella's guest
seemed to like Jazz music, and they
danced with vim and zest.
"I'll lead the orchestra," volun
teered Blue Heron, murh to Peggy'l
relief, for her toes were fairly aching
to dance. Beating time with Peg
gy's stick, with his bill, and with hit
tufted crest, he quickly speeded up
the birds to their very best efforts.
Billy came forward to take Peggy
for his partner, but suddenly she
found herself whisked away from
him, and there she was gliding
through a fascinating waltz in the
arms of a handsome prince. It
was Cinderella's husband. He had
chosen her for his partner ahead of
all the other beautiful heroines.
"Yon dance like a nymph," whis
pered the prince. "If I hadn't seen
Cinderella first, I might have chosen
you. I wonder if your foot would
fit my glass slipper." From his
pocket he drew a dainty glass slip
per, all set with diamonds and other
precious gems.
(Tomorrow will be told how Red Beard
comes to the ball.)
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For Home First.
Bruning, Neb., June 20. To the
Editor of The Bee: If your inhabi
tants of Omaha would advocate to
make it convenient to do your buy
ing in New York city and if we here
in our town of Bruning and trade
territory would advocate trading
away from home, would we then bet
entitled to be credited as home boos-,
ers and home builders? I say "no."
Now if we, as citizens, advocate to
trade away from home and advocate
making the trading away from home
easy, are we then entitled to a credit
as being upbuilders of our own
country? While the two named
business theories are of the same na
ture, I say "no." They are both of a
nature to aid the ones away from
home instead of building up your
own home. J. DUIS.
A Democrat Against tlie League.
Maywood, Neb., June 21. To the
Editor of The Bee: As a Jefferson
ian democrat, I am sorry the pseudo
leaders of the democratic party have
sought to make a partisan issue of
the league of nations. This league
monstrosity is certainly not Ameri
can in principle nor democratic in
doctrine. It is astonishing how its
devotees fervently declare that it
will prevent wars forever. A little
reason ought to convince one that
that is exactly what this league will
not do. Observe' the way the work
ers of this pious covenant have been
bickering and dickering for months.
Note how the greed and malice of
age-old Jealousies crop out and
deadlock the proceedings continually.
This same thing will go on with re
doubled vigor when the league gets
in action. If ever there was a de
vice intended to foster war, this
makeshift is one.
Some people have the effrontery
to compare this thing to our own
constitution. As Mark Twain said,
such an argument Is unreasonable.
It took a mighty war to settle some
of the disputed points In our con
stitution. Consider what may be
expected when this Frankenstein
gets to work.
How can we expect any paper pact,
by so many diverse races and na
tions, to protect the rights of the
people, when our own fundamental
law has been so shamefully flouted
by those in authority in recent
years.
Why will the democVatlc senators
bow unquestioningly to the - party
You May Find
It In Stocking
Cincinnati authority says your
troublesome corns just
loosen and fall off
Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns
or corns between the toes just loos
en in their sockets and fall off the
next day if you will apply directly
upon the corn a few drops of a drug
called freezone, says a Cincinnati
authority.
You merely put a drop or two of
this freezone on the tender, touchy
corn today and instantly the corn
stops hurting, then tomorrow some
time you may find the old torturous
Eest somewhere in your stocking,
aving fallen off entirely without a
particle of soreness, pain or irrita
tion. The skin surrounding and be
neath the former corn will be as
healthy, pink and smooth as the
palm of your hand.
A quarter ounce of freezone is
sufficient to rid one's feet of every
corn and callus, and any druggist
will charge but a few cents for it.
It is a compound made from ether.
Adv.
fetish? How much more admirable
is the course of Senator Reed, who
boldly scorns the party lash, than
the servile, kow-towing of Hitch
cock, Williams & Co. The country
should be thankful for such men
as Borah and,. Johnson. Both the
moribund old parties have grievous
ly offended against the principles
and practices of simon pure Ameri
canism, and if they are both too
cowardly to take a stand against the
league, let's have a new party that
will.
If Borah, Johnson, Reed and oth
ers like them, will come out fiat
footed for constitutional American
liberty, they can sweep the old de
funct parties into deserved obivion.
WILLIAM M'DANIEL.
LITTLE LAUGHS.
"Halloa. Mik! Where did you et that
black eye?"
"Why, O'Grady's Just back from his
honeymoon, an' 'twas me advised him t'
get married." Pearson's Weekly.
Doctor Are you still smoking?
Patient Yes.
Doctor How am I going to do any
thing with you If you persist in that?
Patient That' whatj I'm paying you
to find out. Boston Transcript.
"A scientist declares that meat eat
rs are mor active than vegetarians."
"They've got to be, to get the meat to
oat." Boston Transcript.
"I didn't hear you fuming about your
Income tax."
"I don't mind paying a tax on my
Income, but I would kick If I had to pay
one on my expenses." Judge.
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