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6 THE BEE: OMAHA, FKlDAY, JUNE 27, 1919. 1 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWAED ROSZWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tli, Associated Press of which Th Km ! a number, la ss ehislrelr aUllwt to the use for pubilrstlon of oil news dispatches endued lo U or Dot otherwise credited la this paper, and alao the local news publiihad bantu. AJI rlthta of publication of our apo dal dltpatcboa ave alio rctaned. BEE TELEPHONES i Private Branch Kichania. Art for tho Tvla. 1 (ff Department or Particular Tenoa Wanted, 1 JrlCr i VVfV For Night or Sunday Service Call: frfltortal Departiuwit ..... Tyler I0OOL. Circulation Utpartmant ..... Trior 1008L. sdttrtietns Department ..... Trior 100&L. V OFFICES OF THE BEE: Home Office. Boo Bulldlnf. Nth and Farnam. nrancn unices: Ames 4110 North 24 Park Bensua 61U Mlllurr Are. South Bide rouncil Bluffi 14 fi. Main Vlntnn Lake Kit North 24th Walnut Out-of-Town Officesi New Tort Cltr 580 Fifth Are. ' Washlntton Chlcaiio Seeser Bid-. I Lincoln 2613 Loaren worth. 3318 N Street. 2467 South 16th am North 40th. 1311 O Street. 1330 H Street. APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65, 830 Sunday 63,444 aubscrlbed and iwora to by Arerao circulation f..r tho month X. K. Raiau, CliruLiiiDu Manner. Subscribers leaving the city should have Tha Bee mailed to them. Address changed as often aa requested. Kelly remains unfinished business. Whitewash seldom sticks and frequent re newal becomes annoying. One little thunder shower can make quite a difference, if it comes at the right time. The Omaha base ball team would do better if it were to spread out its runs over more games. Kansas is on guard against the I. W. W. Other food producing states may well emulate this vigilance. If . Herr Hohenzollern is shocked to think the Germans should "surrender," but why did he ;? ' abdicate and run away? Herr Hindenburg now talks about going down with an "honorable fall." What does he call what happened to him? With the crown prince wandering around loose, the plot ought to get as thick as the average German politician's head. Lincoln voters apparently care as little as those of Omaha when it comes to the matter of issuing bonds for public improvements. Wrightsville, Ga., wherever that is, will be a popular place if the liberty accorded the ladies in choice of bathing suits is appreciated. Mayor Smith's antipathy for the red flag is quite generally shared by the labor unions, and he ought not to make the mistake of confusing the two. t i t 1 Still the question is unanswered as to why the War department wants to sell 30,000,000 pounds of bacon to the packers instead of to the public. King Constantine, out of a job and broke, finds himself just about where a plain citizen would be in ljke circumstances. , And there is hut" little 'doing in his line right now. More than a thousand pounds of . food for each person in the country is now held in stor age in the United States. This may account for the steadily mounting cost of living. Secretary Baker's purchases of enormous tracts of land in Georgia and other southern states since the war ended is now under fire. It may yet be shown that he knoSvs where (he votes come from. "Resolutions do not hurt me," says the mayor, and he might have added that they get little or no attention from him, unless they are of the sort that approve- some one or an other of his shifting views. 3 "For the last time I raise in free Germany a protest against this treaty of violence and de struction," said Premier Bauer in the Weimar assembly, and the voices that applauded him were the same that shouted "Hochl" when the news came from Liege, Louvain and the Lusitania. Fire chiefs in convention at Kansas City formally approve the two-platoon organization of fire departments, as improving morale, in creasing efficiency, and generally advancing the service. This conclusion is based on the ex perience of 180 cities, -among which Omaha is one of the earliest to adopt the plan. Public Health Bureau If the members of the American Medical association will but get together and agree on a uniform policy with regard to the pressing need of a federal department of health, there is little doubt that congress will come to their relief and establish such a department. It is not only the experience of the country with the influenza and infantile paralysis epi demics that brings home to every layman as well as professional men the need of absolute co-ordination and standardization of public medicine and of all preventive and quarantine methods that must be set up from time to time, but the experience of the medical profession in the war hat confirmed everything that civil, life has revealed as to the gross stupidity that has for years prevented a federal department of health from being set up. At the same time, this situation cannot be blamed wholly on the ignorance of the laity in congress, since, as all medical men know, the failure to secure a federal department of health has been due in part to what is known as "med ical politics." But surely when, as Dr. Charles H. Mayo pointed out to the convention in At lantic City in advocating that a department of health be established, with a member of the cabinet, it is a fact that as many as 18 bureaus and departments at Washington take a hand in some phase of the public health problem, it is time that the profession got together and acted as a unit in demanding that an end be put to this fatuous procedure. As it is, congress had better be memorialized to establish such a department, in connection with the request that it appropriate $1,500,000, for an investigation of influenza. For, under existing conditions, to ask large sums with jnt securing absolute co-ordination in their ex penditure for experimentation looking to the .improvement of the public health is not the a-jsest procedure. Everything that has hap pened within the last two years cries out for a properly centralized federal department of health, and the public, as well as the medical men, should insist that, this very necessary de- fartment be established at once. Philadelphia .edger. DRAFT CONVENTION DELEGATES. It is time for the people of Omaha and Douglas county to wake up to the importance of the coming constitutional convention for which delegates will have to be filed next month. Under the apportionment we will send twelve from Douglas county and these twelve ought to be the most representative men in the community. If they are to be chosen under the nonpartisan plan as provided for, they must be of both political parties and regardless of their party affiliation they should be men of standing and men who stand for something men whom we want to send rather than mere self-seekers who want to go. The kind of men we ought to have represent ing this county containing the great metropolis of the state with its varied and important inter ests, are just those who will not push them selves forward as candidates, but must be made to go as a matter of public duty. Not by way of excluding anyone or institut ing invidious comparisons, we ought in our judgment to have lawyers like Norris Brown, John L. Kennedy, John J. Sullivan, Howard H. Baldrige, George W. Magney, Benjamin S. Baker; business men like Robert Cowell, Thomas C. Byrne, C. M. Wilhelm, John W. Gamble, John W. Towl; some one for the live stock interests like James G. Martin or Gene Melady; ex-soldiers back from overseas duty like Capt. Allan Tukey, Capt. C. F. McLaugh lin, or doctors like Major Stokes and Major Henry; some one from outside the city like J. C. Robinson, of Waterloo; some of our natural ized citizens like Harry Wolf or Vaclav Buresh, and possibly a preacher like Rev. Titus Lowe, Dr. E. H. Jenks or Dr. Frank Smith. Of course there should be one or more delegates repre senting the wage working classes, men who are identified with the labor movement, who have the confidence of the conservative, sober-minded laboring man. These suggestions are not intended to com mit The Bee or any one else to these particular men, but to direct attention to the character of the men who should be summoned to help draft our new constitution. The Bee would like to have its readers propose other names for con sideration, for in this way only will we be able finally to secure a really representtive delega tion which is so greatly to be desired. . j What Ails Omaha? Fewer than one in seven of the voters of Omaha took the trouble to express their ap proval or dissent to a $3,000,000 road bond issue. The city commissioners by a vote of 5 to 2 condoned, and whitewashed detectives accused of the most outrageous conduct ever charged against public officials in this community. The representatives of a certain phase of public activity, when asked why they did, not abandon an obsolete and misleading practice, answered that, although The Bee had shown them the blunder, they thought they would go on as they were doing. Here are three instances symptomatic of the situation. Civic indifference, lethargy of the public conscience, whatever term may be ap plied to it, apparently controls. Only the people themselves are to blame. It is no pleasure to expose wrong-doing or to criticize public servants, nor is it of great avail, when warning and admonition alike en counter only inattention. Blowing bubbles and chasing rainbows will not better the local situation. If Omaha Is td- improve and go ahead as it ought, a more lively concern in public affairs than is now manifest must be awakened. Getting Back on the Job. The decision of the Central Labor union not to call a general walkout in Omaha was well taken. Loud talk and vehement assertions on either side will not help in adjusting any of the difference's between workers and employers. These only can be settled in conference wh,ere calm counsel prevails and wisdom directs the outcome. In the present strike, limited as it was, fair employers were made to suffer be cause some were deemed unfair. The injustice of this does not require argument. A general tie-up would have increased this imposition and would have punished the fair employers more than it would have affected those who decline to deal with the unions. It is encouraging to note that the leaders of labor in Omaha are at last cognizant of this fact. Reasonably satis factory conditions of labor seldom if ever flow from violence. Settlements that come through direct bargaining are the only basis for the co operation that must be had if industry is to thrive. The sooner the union men who have been out on sympathy strike get back to work for the employers who are willing to treat them fairly, and by their faithful attention to business show the sincerity of their purpose, the easier it will be to make a bargain for the others. Work of the War Labor Board. The War Labor board is winding up busi ness, preparatory to its dissolution. No agency of the government performed a more needed work in a more efficient way than this. Called into existence as an emergency organization, it was charged with the delicate and perplexing task of stabilizing as far as possible industrial conditions. This required that complex nego tiations be carried on, searching, though hasty, inquiries be made, and a full and sympathetic as well as patriotic understanding of the difficult problems be reached, in order that adjustments might be made and the wheels kept turning at high speed while the war was on. Its activity gave vitality to the practice of settling labor disputes by conciliation or arbitration, fixed the principle of collective bargaining, and brought relations between the employers and employed to a better standing than ever prevailed. That the board did not finally solve all the difficulties in the way of industrial peace is not its fault. Here and there a group on one side or the other declined to accept the ruling made, and under took to enforce its own views, but in the main labor and capital found room to stand on the ground prepared by the War Labor board. Its existence has been fully justified by the results it obtained. It is Dr. Pershing now, by virtue of Oxford university's having made him doctor of civil law. He earned this degree by services in France, but his bachelor degree in law he won by hard study at the University of Nebraska, and that is the one that counts. If the torrid weather could only be induced to operate on a six-day schedule, then the mayor's plan to do away with Sunday delivery of ice would be perfectly feasible. . When New York Takes a Bath From the New York Post. There were enough baths to go around Sat urday, for a wonder. Saturday was the hottest day this summer each Saturday always is, you know. The Pate.llo baby in Jones Street almost didn't get any, through the conductor on the trains falling foul of the salt bath that Patsy Patello was bringing home to her from Coney in a milk bottle. For a few minutes it was quite a question as to whom was going to get the bath and where. Patsy won out, however, and was able to deliver the bath to the baby in person on the fire escape later in the evening. Yes, baths were certainly in order and in evidence. The town was determined on baths. They pushed and shoved and used fists and had words and about ten thousand went through the municipal bathhouses at Coney Island, which is a verysmall proportion compared with those who were of a size that could conveniently make shift behind mother's umbrella. And the trails to all the beach resorts were clogged with the various forms of that mysteri ous bundle known to contain the bathihg suit, but still mysterious by reason of its powers of compression and the diversity of its manifesta tions. Sometimes it is a knitting bag, sometimes a corset box, often merely a fat shopping bag, just once it was a lawyer's brief case. Some men think they can conceal it in a collar box; and how.it swells and forces it uncouth identity on the pretty girl sitting next on the trip home. No one need bother again this summer about getting the right trains for the beach. Just fol low the bags. In town the line formed early for tub baths at the public bath houses,' which were worked to capacity. Up to noon they poured in by the family, and great was the noise and splash in those neighborhoods. Children, an average of four to a mother, disappeared, without the usual protest, into the cubicles, while mothers and at tendants enjoyed all the results of a Turkish bath. After noon the grownups had things to themselves, and at 11 o'clock Saturday night one attendant, mopping up the floor for the hun dredth time, declared it to have been the most useful day of her life. But those are all the more or less conven tional baths. Ladies of a Victorian delicacy, finding themselves off the beaten track, must have thought they were being punished for this indiscretion ty a Kiplingesque "sending," this time of small, naked boys. Every East Side street, from Brooklyn Bridge up, emptied a t.-rt of its population into the river, while policemen, headachy from counting and recounting each group, and weighed down by responsibilities and clothes, whistled vainly from the bank. In the park lakes there were nooks that only half concealed the almost nude bathers and the policemen that slept peacefully while they waited for someone to drown himself. At the little "Round Pond," where model little girls and boys sail model little boats, one bold, bad, red headed adventurer was seen up to the neck among the goldfish, while a group of more conservative sympathizers took care of his clothes and watched for the cop. The street sprinklers helped some, too, but the real treat of the day was when the white wings" came along, about 10 at night and turned on the water plugs, whether to clean the streets and cool them or to do the same for the left over bathless ones is immaterial, for both prof ited. East Side and West Side were, in the main, ready and dressed for it. By that time most of the babies were in something resembling the scorned one-piece bathing suit and, uncensored, they raced to the corners where the older chil dren were already casting off anything that mat tered in the way of shirts and conventions. Those who were in bed fose and went, some "as is, others showing a fine regard for the proprie ties in mother's old sweater or an old coat of father's. Shades of those deep, cool swimming holes that must be a necessity of the small boy's na ture, for where they do not exist he invents them. People You Ask About Information About Folks in the Public Eye Will Be Given in This Column in Answer to Readers' Questions. Your Name Will Not Be Printed. Let The Bee Tell You. Council Bluffs: It Is reported that the prince of Wales may visit here In August. Joining Hands Some day the hatred and bitterness of this war will have 1 passed away and humanity will be reconciled. How soon that day will come is a matter on which there are different opinions; Grand Admiral von Tirpitz and Enver Pasha, with a vision of the gallows blocking off the future, would like to see it dawn tomorrow; the mothers of Belgian children, the fathers of deported French girls, the surviving Armenians, may feel that this would be somewhat prema ture. A group of French writers, the best known of whom is the variously eminent Bar busse, think that the time is already at hand; they have issued an appeal to intellectuals of all lands to "scorn hatred of all kinds and join hands for the task of tomorrow." For some unexplained reason no German re sponse has yet been made public; but intellectu als of Austria hastened to clasp the outstretched hand, and another answer has now come from a group of American authors describing them selves as We, your brothers in the dear home land of Emerson, Whitman, Lincoln; lovers of our country, taught by our country the love of mankind, ourselves feeling the blood of all the races of your ancient Europe in our veins. These lyrical ladies and gentlemen tell "the intellectual fighters of Paris and Vienna" that "we in America have heard and understand;" that "for all nations there can be but one hu manity, one in its piteous sins, one in its true worth and works." Among the lovers of the dear home land of Emerson, Whitman and Lincoln who have signed this fraternal greeting are Dr. Edmund von Mach, Dr. William Bayard Hale, Professor Thomas C. HalU Frederick Franklin Schrader, Frank Harris, and Padraic Colum. Along with these representatives of intellectual entities, run ning all the way from the Irish Republic to the Fort Oglethorpe internment camp, there are a dozen or so authentic Americans. One may wonder how the signatures of some of them, who knew what tae war was about not more than a year ago, have been obtained to this remarkable document; conceivably they didn't know what other names would appear beside theirs when the appeal for the forgiveness of the criminal before he has begun to serve his sentence was issued to the public. New York Times. The Day We Celebrate. Frank Dewey, county clerk, born in Cedar Rapids, la., 1862. Daniel T. Quigley, physician, born 1876. Miss Helen A. Keller, the celebrated deaf and blind scholar, born at Tuscumbia, Ala., 39 years ago. Heber D. Curtis, astronomer of Lick Observa tory, born at Muskegon, Mich., 47 years ago. Sir Herbert Ames, chairman of the Canadian National War Savings committee, born in Mon treal, 56 years ago. Viscount Inajiro Tajiri, a Yale graduate who is now mayor of the city of Tokyo, born at Kyoto, Japan, 69 years ago. May Irwin, for many years a leading come dienne of the American stage, born at Whitby, Ont., 57 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Omaha now occupies first place in the West ern Base Ball association. Plymouth club of Plymouth Congregational church, assisted by Mrs. F. W. Hills, A. E. Mercer, Frank Brown, Herbert Rogers and John Brown, gave a concert. W. A. Paxton and wife have gone south. Appraisers for the new government building, appointed by Judge Dundy, are: P. W. Birk hauser, Richard S. Berlin, William F. Bechel, Andrew Rosewater, Robert C. Jorden and Henry D. Estabrook. I would like to know where Caruso can be heard next winter, if it Is possible to tell me? M. O. Caruso has been .re-engaged with the Metropolitan Opera company. New York, for a four-year period. Miss Farrar has accepted a three years' extension of contract. Mr. Amato, completely restored to health, will resume his place with the com pany. So if you are fortunate enough to hear Caruso next season, you will have opportunity to enjoy other famed artists. I read with interest the recent reference in "People You Ask About'" column to the engagement of Princess Mary. Can you tell me more about the "man in the case?" G. D. We made it clear, did we not, that there has been denial of the en gagement of Princess Mary, only daughter of England's king and queen, to the earl of Dalkeith, in spite of which rumor persists. The earl is a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, the Prince of Wales' regi ment. Serving on the personal staff of the sovereign as he did, he came in close touch with the royal circle. He is a scion of one of the oldest and most famous of noble Scotch families. The family! mot is "Amo" "I love." Twenty-five years old, tall, clean-shaven and good looking, he is the eldest of three brothers. He is of the house of the "bold Buccleuchs." The first head of the family was Sir Walter Scott (not the novelist). The Scotts fought with the Douglases against the king of Scotland, and in the process founded the vast estate, which today amounts to some 460,000 acres. Many are the honors and high the titles which will descend up on the earl of Dalkeith. How did Booth Tarkington reach his present success as a writer? L. H. M. By ability and hard work the route over which success of almost any kind comes. It is said of Tar kington that he worked for eight years writing almost incessantly and acquiring as varied an assortment of rejection Blips as was ever accumu lated by a struggling author, until S. S. McClure finally accepted "Mon sieur Beaucaire," and then "The Gentleman from Indiana." In "Pen- rod" and "Seventeen" he has equaled if not excelled Mark Twain in de lineation of the psychology of boy hood and youth. Newton Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Ind.. on .Tr'" 29, 1869. His family was one of means. He attended t'uruue u....t. sity at Lafayette, Ind., where Mc Cutcheon and George Ade had pre ceded him, and later graduated from Princeton. He was married to Lau rel Louisa Fletcher In 1902, by whom he had one daughter, and in 1912 to Susannah Robinson. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "CINDERELLA'S BALL." (Peggy and Billy go to Cinderella's ball, which la broken up when Rod Beard ap pears among the dancers disguised aa an elephant. Billy saves Peggy from the Turk, but is himself placed in danger.) Ostrich Loses His Head. RED BEARD'S dancing apparent ly hadn't; made him tired, while Billy was out of breath from blowing the magic whistle. So the Turk would have captured Billy in a minute if the latter hadn't made quick use of his wits. Billy pre tended to flee, but when Red Beard came at him with outstretched arms he suddenly turned and made a foot ball tackle, grabbing the Turk by the legs. Wham! Red Beard hit the floor so hard that the palace shook. Billy staggered to his feet and dashed for the door. "Climb on my back," whistled Op timistic Ostrich, meeting him half way. In another instant Billy wa3 beside Peggy and the ostrich was skidding across the slippery waxea floor. Red Bear lurched to his feet and foaaowed. Peggy saw to her alarm that the tumble had split the eiepnant skin ana the Turk was drawing his gleaming scimitar. Red Beard in his rage forgot the slip Can you tell me the name of the Iowa girl with the best school record for attendance? Omaha School Girl. Miss Alyce R. Miller, daughter of Calvin J. Miller, a druggist of Wa terloo, who has not been absent from school or tardy in 13 years. She thus excels the record of Miss Eva Peters of Renwick, who has a similar rec ord for 12 years. J. H. If you are interested in the new Pacific fleet of the United States navy you may be glad to know that Admiral Hugh Rodman has been as signed to its command. He is a brilliant and versatile officer, and one who has seen more sea duty than any other man on the active list, He is a native of Kentucky and was appointed to the naval academy from that state. When he left An napolis in 1879 he was assigned to the Yantic and went to sea. Later he devoted many years to coast sur vey work. It was his good fortune to be with Admiral Dewey in the Philippines and to be the agent through whom Spain surrendered its forts on Corregidor island. In the latter part of 1917 he was appointed to duty with the British grand fleet, and when the United States entered the war in the following April he was given command of the United States battleships operating in the war zone. Last September Admiral Rodman was knighted by King George with the Order of the Bath "MISS LIBERTY." There's a Rlrl that I will look for When I sail into home port, And I know that she'll be waiting there for me; She was the last one I did view When I sailed the ocean blue. That good old girl they call "Miss Lib erty." Her welcome will be bright Just as soon as she can sight, And a gleam she'll send far out Into the bay. There'll be almost mutiny. So glad I'll be to see "Miss Liberty," the girl of U. S. A. How I long ofttime to see her With her flaming torch held high For freedom she proclaims triumphantly. She's a girl that is true blue And will never prove untrue, And firm she stands for truth and liberty. To receive all she Is waiting And help in- celebrating A victory by men of tho TJ. S. A. And she'll be always ready. Her hand is firm and steady. For Miss Liberty will never be passee. Omaha. BELLVIEW. DAILY CARTOONETTE tf0HN-Y0U0UfHT TO SHOW YOUR PATRIOTISM, BY MaRCHmijmTHfiRfiflT VICTORY PARflTiF I rV ANDHEJIID- " Wham! Red Beard Hit at Floor so Hard that the Palace Shook. periness of the floor and all of a sudden both feet went out from un der him and down he sat with a walloping bump. That gave Optimistic Ostrich time to get out of the dor before Red Beard came In pursuit. Now there came a terrific race across the plain toward the distant river. Optimistic Ostrich, loaded as he was, stepped out faster than the fastest race horse, but Red Beard, in spite of being handicapped by the cumbersome elephant hide, cov ered the ground with astonishing speed. Nearer and nearer drew Red Beard until Peggy and Billy could see his piggy eyes squinting through the slits in the elephant skin. And looking ahead they saw that the river at the point for which Op timistic Ostrich was heading was swift and turbulent. Inch by inch Red Beard gained until, with the river five yards away, he was only a pard behind. He was sure to grab them as they plunged 'nto- the water. ' But Optimistic Ostrich also had a trick play. At the very bank of the stream he dodged aside, and as Red Beard tried to stop, Optimistic "JfieB west wo Constitutional Convention. Omaha, June 20. To the Editor of the The Bee: When will the pro posed constitutional convention sit? How many delegates elected in en tire state? How many nominated and elected in Douglas" county? When will the primary and election be held? AN INQUIRY. Answer The constitutional con vention is called to assemble on Wednesday, December 10. It will consist of 100 delegates, chosen in the same manner and from the same districts as the house of representa tives in the legislature. Doug las qpunty is entitled to 12 members. The primary for nominations will be held on September 9, and the elec tion on November 3. Limited Suffrage for Women. Omaha, June 24. To the Editor of The Bee: Would you kindly in form me, through your question and answer column, on what offices wo men may now vote in the state of Nebraska, and on what offices they may not vote? A. R. D. Answer Uner the limited suf frage statute of Nebraska women can vote for all but constitutional offices and on all but constitutional questions. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. Bella Aren't you worried because you don't know where your husband goes, when he is out late at night? Donna Not nearly so much as I would be if I knew. Cartoons Magazine. "A thoroughbred gentleman puts on hla clothes and then forgets them." "That's what I tried to do, but my tailor won't let me." Boston Jranscrlpt, "It's nice to be connected with a fine family, isn't it?" "All depends. Not when the butler tells you to ring off." Loulsvills Courier-Journal. Hazel Was papa very angry when you asked him for me, George, dear? Lieutenant Not at all; he asked me If I couldn't bring around a couple of more officers so that he could marry off your two sisters. Ontario Post. "BAYER CROSS" ON GENUINE ASPIRIN govern "tiavrar Tahlots nf .Asnirin" to be genuine must be marked with the nfpfv "Raver Cross.". Alwavs buy an unbroken Bayer package which contains proper directions to saieiy relieve Headache, Toothache, Ear ache, Neuralgia, Colds and pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but a few cents at drug stores lavrvA nalrnfl0s nlftn. Asnirin ift the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicyl icacid. Adv. Ostrich kicked out with one of his powerful lega and sent the fat Turk plunging over the bank into the swirling water. x Red Beard rose to the surface, his elephant skin all wet, bedraggled and shrinking. He was madder than a wet hen when he waded out of the river and started again after Optimistic Ostrich. At first Optimistic Ostrich ran along the bank looking for a shal low crossing place, but he, could find none, and Red Beard was drawing so close that he plunged Into the raging torrent and started to wade across. The wate.- was deep and the cur rent was swift Soon Optimistic Os trich was struggling for his life. By gigantic struggling he succeeded In gaining a large rock near the center of the stream, but the river ahead looked so danerous that he hesitated before going farther. "I'll get you yet," yelled Red Beard. With that he flung his scimi tar straight at him. Peggy and Bil ly dodged, ' but Optimistio Ostrich couldn't get his long neck out of the way. Whish! The scimitar struck it, going through it like a knife through soft butter. To Peggy's hor ror Optimistic Ostrich's head dropped into the water and was, swept -vay. But, surprising to say, Optimistic' Ostrich didn't fall down dead. "Ho, ho, came a Jolly voice from inside his body. "I've lost my head, but I'll still get the better of Red Beard. He isn't the only one j who can wear a disguise. Peggy and Billy, much astonished, looked down into the neck to see the grinning face of the Giant of tha Wot ds. "This river is too deep to wade, and I can't swim with you young sters on my back, but there's still a way to get you home." So saying, the Giant of the Woods gave Billy a mighty heeave thatsent him flying across the river and out of sight. Then he gave Peg gy a mighty heave. She sailed far over the water, far over tha woods, and through a misty white cloud, and right into her seat at the movie theater. Her wish gown was gone, and so was the glass slipper. She was dressed in her own neat frock. , "My gracious, I wonder if the Giant got away from Red Beard," Peggy wondered. But she didn't need to worry about that, for the Giant was a powerful swimmer, and DAILY DOT PUZZLE . 23 - t lb a M a" 35 J k 11 3fc 19 e V . Sit For what' is Willie hunting? , Draw from one to two and so on to th end. Red Beard didn't like a bath, not even to capture a foe who had out witted him. (In the next story Peggy and Billy hava an adventure of another sort.) slvec Ike' inAisked musicia.iv it necessary to cliscoutvfc rrvtcrY pia.Tvom.aker s' claims to superiority. But ettcr investiga-tiorv, lye i realizes tkafc tKe urv qualified statemervf tftat tKe is tke worlds irvestr piano' tar rtorvg is susceptible ol indubitable, incontro vertible.pKysical yrooP. ?Jc ccs v sAau Following is a list of pianos which may be seen on our floors some of them we have handled for 45 years: Kranich & Bach, Cable Nelson, Bush t Lane, Kimball, Brambach, Vose & Sons and Hospe pianos. Grands and uprights at prices from $285 and better. Cash prices or terms if desired. 1513 Douglas Street Have ever experienced the satisfaction that comes from having a Savings Account? A Savings Account in the Savings Depart ment of the First Na tional pays three per cent interest. The location at the southwest, corner of Sixteenth and Farnam, ground floor entrance is most convenient. ' A Savings Account may be opened any banking day with a s dollar or more. You want a Savings Ac count, of course. Why not open it now? . ' J1' First NaflonalJ lcankdumana Be Young In Body, Mind and Looks Despite Your Years How often you have wished that you could indulge in the strenu ous exercise of out door sports with the vigor and enthusiasm of youth! But the end of the week finds you all in you are tired, listless and lack the energy to go out for a vigorous walk or a round of the links or any other exercise that re quires much physical exer tion. Many a man, even in his middle forties, 'has a vague feeling that he is "getting old" and right at a time when he should be at his very best physically. Andheisgrowingold.not in the sense that the years are pressing heavily upon him-but in the sense that his vital forces are wasting away faster than Nature re places the worn out tissues. Thousands yes millions of people 'find themselves in this condition early in life. And there is no excuse for it You can check that tendency to grow old. You can carry your ?outh with its joys and enthusiasm into your O's and 80's. 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