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- ta than. Addreat chanced aa often at requetted.
You should know that
Omaha is a strategic milling point,
with grain available for several
additional large flouring mills.
"King Ak" is still active.
License for live decoyi does not affect stool
pigeons.
; Nebraska is prepared to pasture all the stock
T 'Wyoming sends.
You may smoke a cigar but not a cigaret
; in Omaha restaurants now.
"Vic" Wilson talks of resigning. The state
might be able to sustain the shock.
John Skelton Williams is also realizing that
. the way of a "reformer" is not always strewn
r ' with roses.
. Armenia insists that Uncle Sam take up his
business of being guardian without delay.
Might aa well start at once
New York lobster palaces are going to the
; discard. This will rob Broadway of some of
its terrors for the tenderfoot.
A Louisiana hodcarrier who has just fallen
heir to $7,000,000 will now be able to hold his
head up along with the others of his guild.
French see in prohibition a cause for the
shortage of sugar. American candymakers saw
this long ago, and raised prices accordingly.
Berlin is to try another general strike,
starting today. What they really need over
there is a general movement towards the job.
Another indignant protest has been sent
from Washington to Mexico. They must have
enough of these to make a library down there
now.
John D. insists on having full measure when
,he buys "gas" for his car. A lot of folks ,who
-contribute to his dividends would like to have
the same boon.
The president may have convinced himself
. that "daylight saving" is all he claims for it,
but he will have to show a lot of Omaha women
who know of the law's disadvantages.
The dryest of the drys will have little to
complain about wheyi the house gets through
'with the prohibition bill. About the only thing
that hat not been done is to knock the "booze"
words out of the dictionary.
It pleases the senior democratic member of
the foreign relations committee to remind us
Jthaf Japan only succeeds to what Germany
held in Shantung. And as Germany's title
rested on robbery, this makes it all right
Reavis of Nebraska is proving himself an
investigator as welas an orator, and may give
.the War department a few very unpleasant
vraoments yet over the food question. Agree
ments to hold up prices are not especially pop
ular with people who are weary of paying
tribute to profiteers.
British Peace Preparedness
Several times within the last three or four
yeara the Globe-Democrat commented on the
necessity for governmental prevision in pre-,
paring for peace conditions. This agitation was
begun before this country entered the war, for
our industries had been so largely devoted to
the manufacture of war supplies and the pro
duction of things needed by the huge armies
iu France and Flanders that the future need
of a system of readjustment was obvious. After
England established its minister of recon
atruction in 1917, this paper kept track of its
occasional reports and urged that America
make preparations. But little was done, ex
cept to talk of reclaiming swamp lands, of
using our new merchant marine and of making
available for soldiers such farm land through
out the Urrited States as could be easily pro-
cured, .running into many millipns of acres.
The' British did not waste their time in talk
or express airy hopes -that "business would ad
just Itself." Dr. Christopher Addison, ' head
of the ministry of reconstruction, not only
made reports on which many of the orders
in council have - been based, but he co-operated
with the military authorities. in the mat
ter of demobilization. British demobilization
was not by units, but by trades. Soldiers to
man the "key industries," on which the pre
liminary reports reproduced in these columns
placed so great emphasis, were sent home first.
Clearing, houses for both labor and machinery
were established. Card indices of men and ma
terials were prepared and systematically used.
The English war industries were equipped
with modern machinery and were built with the
view to their future utilization in peace pro
duction, without dislocation. British armament
firms that were turning out machine guns and
naval monsters until November 11, 1918, are now
advertising sewing machines, turbines, gas en
gines, magnetos, motor cars and typewriters.
The British steel industry had doubled its capa
city. New coal areas and iron ore deposits have
been discovered. A month after our govern
ment ignored the suggestion of the American
consul at Basle that it should get an option on
products of the Basle dye manufacturers, the
British Board of Trade, bound them up with
contracts. No wonder there is a note of jubila
tion in Dr. Addison's prediction of England's
needy -and abundant piospcrity. St Louis
Globe-Democrat.
NO SWING AROUND THE CIRCLE.
Impression is gaining ground that the presi
dent has given up his plans for a speaking tour
of the country in behalf of the peace treaty
and the league covenant. Instead, he will re
main in Washington and endeavor through
personal contact to reach such agreement with
the senate as will result in action on the issue.
Whether it be true or not, as rumored, that he
is sounding the entente as to possible reserva
tions, it is true that he has personally tested
the disposition of certain senators, and plans
to talk with others. In this course the presi
dent shows a keen perception of the practical
side of the controversy. He is meeting the
senators directly, and instea.d of seeking to
influence the senate through addresses to the
public will reverse the process and address the
public through the senate. It is' expected that
some time this week Mr. Wilson will deliver
another message to the senate, intended to
"clarify counsel" to the extent of removing
what he deem to be misinterpretations placed
on certain points of the treaty. This is a
marked recession from the attitude announced
by the administration spokesman, who asserted
the fight would be continued for adoption with
out reservations of any kind. Interpretative
expression from the senate, in which the posi
tion of the United States is made plain, will
very likely be accepted" by the president, who
appears to realize the strength of the opposi
tion, if he does not his own weakness tn the
point.
Why Americanization Has Failed.
Writers and speakers employed in the
"Americanization" campaign still lay their
greatest emphasis on the need of a common
language, and propose to bind the alien-born
to us by more impressive oaths of allegiance.
Thus they miss the human element entirely.
Tucked away in the tail end 'of an interesting
article in one of the July magazines is the key.
It explains the failure of a large element of foreign-born
to become assimilated, and presents
a reason for the growth of socialism and the
existence of bolshevism.
The writer is telling of experiences in the
great East Side of New York. Referring to
some of the difficulties encountered in the work
of inducing these people to take on American
ways, she incidentally mentions a phase of
their new life that must arrest attention of the
thoughtful. Exploited by greedy and unscrupu
lous employers, whose selfishness is beyond
comprehension, plundered by avaricious land
lords ,they are further victimized by petty ex
tortions practiced 4y officers of the law to
whom they must in their helplessness turn.
The liberty they sought is mocked by those
who should assist them, aMd they find the
democracy of America as cruel as the despot
ism they left behind. Nowhere has a warm
idealism been chilled with less of ruth, or
high hopes dashed by a more desolate realiza
tion. This has had but one effect, exhibited in
revolt and distrust of our institutions. It. is
not enough to teach loyalty and law and order
to these people. Along with the cultural les
sons of Americanism must go the practical
ones of social and economic justice, now de
nied these foreign-born citizens. This task will
not be easy, for the radicals have gotten in
ahead and have sown the soil prepared by the
exploiters, and a great crop of anti-American
ideas has sprung up. To uproot these will not
be easy, but it may be done if the job is prop
erly taken in hand.
"The Hole in the Doughnut."
Adherents of the administration may seek
to quiet the opposition to the Shantung section
of the peace treaty by ridicule, but the people
are vaking up to the knowledge that a great
injustice has been done. The outstanding facts
are that Germany made a deal with Chjna in
1897, by which certain concessions were ob
tained. It was stipulated as part of the bargain
that these concessions were not to be trans
ferred to any other nation without the consent
of China. Japan later made a secret bargain
with England and France, under which all the
German concessions in China were to be
handed over to Japan, and without consulting
China. And this secret bargain was carried out
at Versailles.
When Germany made its bargain with China
the decadent empire was falling to pieces,
seemingly, and Europe was grabbing. France
a"l England already were "secure in their hold
ings of Chinese soil, and the "spheres of influ
ence" were being extended. Both Germany and
Japan aspired to similar loot, and only the
United States withheld from joining in the pro
posed dismemberment and exploitation of the
country. It is a familiar chapter of American
history how, under Presidents McKinley and
Rco:cvclt, this process was stopped, the "Open
Door" set up, and Chinese integrity virtually
guaranteed by this government. Why should
Japan now be permitted to enjoy the fruits of
an international crime committed" a score of
years ago? x
Japan's interest in China is admitted to be
paramount, but present problems will not bring
the United States nearer to war with that coun
try than we have been in the past, and over
China, too. We are asked to acquiesce in an
imposition practiced on a weaker nation, whose
protests are impotent, in order that we may
evace a war with the aggressor. Where are
American traditions, and how is America's
sense of justice served in this?
Honorable discharges from military service
for men who were called but not sent to camps
is a bit of justice "Big Jeff" has won from the
War department for a class v of men who have
been under disadvantage of having nothing to
show that they were ready and actually doing
their duty when the armistice ended building
up the army. These men deserve an honorable
discharge far more than those who got one
after spending their time in the army under
restraint because of unwillingness to perform
any military duty. If slackers can be recog
nized, surely the boy who waited his turn is
entitled to acknowledgment of his service, even
though it were slight.
A Kansas farmer tells of his overalls being
set on fire by the sun. He might have made
the story good by laying the fire was ex
tinguished by streams of -perspiratfcfn.
Los Angeles takes on added attraction, that
of a bar just outside the three-mile limit. Look
for a steady movement in that direction.
War Pensions in England
(From the London Times.)
Sir Douglas Haig has long been known to
have strong views about-war pensions and their
administration. Yesterday he spoke his mind.
Not only the army, but all of us, have reason
to thank him for being so outspoken. Every
decent man among those who did not go to
the war registered a vow when others went
that, so far as money and organization could
prevent it, they should not be sufferers on our
account. The old way with- the army was to
butter the men with fine words when we were
at war, and when peace came to let them sup
plement their miserable pensions with organ
grinding and a free meal at an annual patriotic
dinner. But if that callousness was possible
when the army was recruited for the most part
from the failures and ne'er-do-wells, it is not
possible now, and most of us thought that we
had made decent arrangements for the welfare
of those who had served their country and of
their dependents. But the warmth of Sir Doug
las Haig's criticisms yesterday shows that the
undoubtedly good intentions of the country are
to some extent being defeated. He may have
lacked a perfectly just appreciation of the diffi
culties of the administration, but it is surely
better that there should be an extra touch of
acerbity in criticism of the administration than
that even one man who has deserved well of
the State in the war should get less than his
rights now. And that not only on the grounds
of personal justice, but because the welfare and
the credit of the whole State are involved. For
every miscarriage of justice to thes men, what
ever its cause, is a potent breeder of discontent,
and the brood will sooner or later come home
to roost.
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Let The Bee Tell You.
Sir Douglas Haig's criticisms are very de
tailed, but fall naturally in two well-defined
clisses. The first class of grievances arises out
of faults of administration. Among these faults
we put first the failures of the medical boards.
The pensions depend on the degree of disable
ment, which, in turn, depends on the doctor. It
is not too much to say that the doctor makes
the pension. But the average doctor who ex
amines the disabled man, being as a rule a
civilian, usually knows nothing about the dis
eases of war. Malaria, trench fever, and shell
shock, for example, are disablements about
which this war has taught medicine most of
what it kn6ws, and only those who have had
access to that knowledge can estimate the de
gree of disability of the sufferer. There are
young doctors unemployed who could, from
their war experience, do justly and with sym
pathy the work that is often done ignorantly
and without sympathy. For not only is there
no uniformity in decisions, but, as Sir Douglas
Haig complains, some doctors treat every ex
aminee as a malingerer. We have several times
drawn attention to this perhaps the bitterest of
all the grievances of the disabled soldier. Next
to the doctors, bad business organization of the
Departments concerned is the chief cause of
injustice. More than half the complaints 'arise
out of the delays of the Departments in giving
the men the rights that are undoubtedly theirs.
Sir Douglas Haig dwelt on the hardship and dis
tress caused by these delays delays in award
ing and renewing the wound pension and serv
ice gratuity, in assessing the degree of disabil
ity that determines the retired pay, and in ob
taining the special emergency grants. Papers
that have to pass through several Departments
are unaccountably held up, and while the De
partments are filing and referring documents
backwards and forwards, and occasionally, no
doubt, losing them on the way, the poor man
to whom they refer may be suffering the acut
est anxiety and even sometimes actual want.
We know, of course, that the secretarial work
is enormous, but the congestion is largely due
to defects of organization that are preventable.
One prime fault is the tendency of Government
Departments to regard themselves as indepen
dent great powers with rights and dignities that
are affronted by schemes of co-ordination for
a common end. Thus the War Office will dis
charge a man before the Ministry of Pensions
is ready to deal with him, and the Ministry of
Pensions will have done with him before the
Ministry of Labor can take him and equip him
for work. The soldier in quest of the rights
that are his is always liable to fall down the
cleft between one Department and another, and
each stage in the punctilio of the Departments,
each example of their common habit of ignor
ing each other's existence, may mean hardship,
worry, and a bitter sense of injustice in the
individual whom it is intended to benefit.
Brand Whttloek, New Ambassador.
Brand Whitlock, who haa been
named to succeed Thomas Nelson
Page as United States Ambassador
to Italy, has been Minister to Belg
ium since December, 1913. During
the German occupation of Belgium
he remained in Brussels as supporter
of the relief commissioner ad
ministered by citizens of the United
States. Mp. Whitlock is an author
and reformer who had won consider
able prominence in the middle west
prior to his entrance on a diplo
matic career. A Journalist, and later
a lawyer by calling, with experience
in both vocations in Chicago and
Springfield, 111., he arrived in Toledo.
O., in 1S97. and there began to dis
close his progressive theories of
povernment and sscial reconstruc
tion. His identification of himself
v. itn the interests of the masses, and
his ntfacks on the political machines,
led to his election to the-mayorality
in 1903. He won against four other
candidates, and was re-elected three
times.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"THE NEW BEE QUEEN."
(Pegs? and Billy are changed into
honey bees and Peggy, obeying tome
Strang force Inside of her. Joint th lady
Deet in tneir worn, although warned
against them by Bumble Bee Buzz.)
These causes of grievance are all remediable
by administrative action without costing the
country another penny. Sir Douglas Haig went
farther, and argued that the provision of the
widows and children and the rates for total
disability should be increased. The amount of
the rate is not, we think, the grievance that is
felt with most men. What they want most of
all is not an increase in the rate, but that they
should get the full rate to which they are en
titled without delay. But it may well be that
these rates stand in need of revision. They
were fixed, most of them, by the Royal War
rant of August, 1917, and since then there has
been a very sharp rise in the cost of living.
What was generous then is in ) some cases
barely fair now, and1 what was fair may now
be so stingy as to produce "abject poverty"
a phrase that Sir Douglas Haig used more than
once. On the other hand, there are cases in
which a flat rate allowance may still be exces
sively generous. Probably justice might best
be done by allowing greater latitude and sub
stituting a sliding scale for the flat rate, so as
to give greater freedom in meeting particular
circumstances. No two cases are exactly alike.
It would be a gross injustice to the soldiers'
case to represent it as an attempt to dive
deeper into the public pocket. More money is
not their first demand. But neither is economy
in these matters the paramount duty of the
Departments. Their first duty is to do justice
to those to whom the State is indebted. What
ever that may cost, the country is ready to
meet the bill.
The Day We Celebrate.
William N. Chambers, house wrecker and
mover, born 1879.
Anna A. Gordon, president of the National
W. C. T. U., born in Boston 66 years ago.
Dowager Queen Maria Christina of Spain,
mother of the present King, born in Vienna
61 years ago.
Mrs. Frances Folsom Preston (formerly
Mrs. Grover Cleveland), born in Buffalo 55
years ago.
Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna. archbishop of
San Francisco, born in Rochester, N. Y., 59
years ago.
Fred M. Warner, former governor of Mich
igan, born in Nottinghamshire, England, 54
years ago.
Joseph A. A. Burnquist, governor of Minne
sota, born at Dayton, Iowa, 40 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha
Central Lodge of Omaha, No. 54, U. O. T.
B., gave a picnic in Germania gardens.
About 600 people attended the plumbers,
plasterers and bricklayers' picnic at Calhoun.
The bricklayers won the base ball game. A. O.
H. band supplied music. The picnic was a ben
efit for the striking plumbers and netted them
2,000.
Bishop Newman preached to a large con
gregation at the First Methodist church.
The motor railway is an assured fact. A
full train made a trip from the power house 'at
22d and Izard over the line on Burt and Cuming
streets to Walnut Hill, thence down town,
around the loop on Fourteenth and Howard
streets and back to Walnut Hill
Dr. diaries M. Sheldon's Novel.
I understand Charles Sheldon has
written a new book based on the
consolidation of Protestantism into
one great body. Can you tell me the
namr- of it, or where I can get it
Mrs. S. L.
The book you refer to is Dr.
Charles M. Sheldon's latest novel
"All The "World" published by
Doran company and any local dealer
will have, or can secure a copy for
you. Since a decade ago when he
startled the religious and the literary
world with "In His Steps; Or What
Would Jesus Do?" Dr. Sheldon has
been a prolific writer and his work
has matured in beauty of style. You
will remember that, following the
appearance of this book, the author
edited the Topeka Capital as a news
paper should be conducted in a
Christian land from the standpoint
of "In His Steps."
About the time of the beginning
of the war he made a tour of all the
countries of the globe in the
interests of the Y. M. C. A. and
carefully studied the development of
Christianity and real brotnernooa in
the Orient. Some of the most con
structive results of his study are
embodied in his latest novel about
which you inquire. At the present
moment. Dr. Sheldon is slowly re
covering from a serious operation.
Chairman of the I'nited States Ship
ping Board.
A Reader: John Barton Payne,
who has been selected for the
chairmanship of the United States
Shipping Board in succession to Ed
ward N. Hurley, is a well-known
Chicago lawyer and jurist who for
some time past has been serving as
general counsel of the Railroad Ad
ministration. A Virginian by birth.
Judge Payne received his ed-ucation
at the hands of private tutors and
in 1876 was admitted to the bar.
For some years thereafter he re
sided in the town of Kingwood, W.
Va., where he practiced law and
served a. term Its mayor. In the
early '80s he removed to Chicago,
where he soon became recognized
as one of the leaders in his profes
sion. In 1893 his abilities were rec
ognized in his election as a judge
of the superior court of Cook coun
ty. In addition to the performance
of his duties at the bar and on the
bench Judge Payne has found time
to take a leading part in many civic
and public welfare movements . in
Chicago.
Mount Theodore Roosevelt.
The tablet you are interested In
Is only part of the memorial to1
the late Theodore Roosevelt. High
up in the Black Hills of South Da
kota, a towering peak reaching up
from Man's valley, to be known
henceforth as Mt. Roosevelt, stands
as a natural monument to him who
loved the west so well. The tablet
on the summit is of bronze, im
bedded in native stones, carrying
the words, "In Memory of Theodore
Roosevelt, the American. "
Dedicatory services took place
July 6, and the two outstanding fig
ures of the day were Capt. Seth Bul
lock, ranchman friend, member of
the Society of Black Hills Pioneers
and originator of the idea of re
christening the mountain and erect
ing a monument; and Major Gen
eral Leonard Wood, lifelong friend
of Colonel Roosevelt and orator of
the day.
Mount Theodore Roosevelt Is
within sight of the country over
which Theodore Roosevelt as a
young man ranged his cattle- and
hunted wild game and Just above
the trails he followed while a vis
itor in the district. ,
CHAPTER II.
Captive in the Hive.
THE lady bees took a short cut
through the woods on their
way to the hivs. To Peggy's bee
eyes the place looked like a vast,
pathless jungle, filled with huge
trees and immense vines.
"Aren t you afraid of getting lost
in this great forest?" she asked
Busybuzz, who was close to her
side.
"Buzz! What nonsense! How
could we get lost? We're taking a
bee-line," sniffed Busybuzz, dis
agreeably. Peggy couldn't see anything that
looked like a line.
"What is a bee line, please?" lihe
asked. "Is it like a railroad line or
a clothes line?"
"Silly!" sniffed Busybuzz. Honey
dew, however, answered the ques
tion. "A bee-line is the shoretst
way to a place," she said. Then
Honey dew lowered her voice and
whispered to Peggy: "And the
shortest way to become queen is to
get rid of the old queen. I'll have
you on the throne of our hive be
fore night."
"Peggy! Princess Peggy, where
are you?" screeched the birds,
searching through the woods. Peg
gy answered, but her voice was lost
in the humming of the hundreds
and hundreds of lady bees who sur
rounded her.
Out of the woods and across a
plowed field flew the lady bees,
coming at last to the hives several
dozens of them in a regular bee
village set In the midst of a pleasant
orchard.
Here the main stream of bees be-
'Hoot! Hoot! Wherever You Are,
Princess Peggy, Keep Away from
the Lady Honey Bees."
i gan to separate Into smaller streams,
I each of which flowed Into the en
1 trance of a hive. There were thou
; sands upon thousands of bees, and
I the hives all looked alike. How each
I bee could pick its own hive, Peggy
j didn't know, but pick It each did,
auu um it quaii.v auu ouicij.
When Peggy had looked at bee
hives with little girl eyes they had
seemed fairly small. Now looking
at them with honey be- eyes they
were like city skyscrapers.
"Hoot! Hoot! Wherever you are,
Princess Peggy, keep away from
the lady honey bees," tame th
warning voice of Judge Owl from
an apple tree.
"Buzz! Buzz! Is Princess Peggy
among these bees?" hummed the
voice of Billy Bee, and Peggy saw
him hovertng just above her. She
was about to greet him with a glad
cry. when she became aware of an
angry stir among the lady bees.
"There's a strange drone. Sting
him to death!" buzzed Busybuzz,
and a dozen bees started toward
Billy, their stingers ready for action.
"Fly. Billy, for your life. You
can't save me now," buzzed Peggy
as loud as she could. Billy heard
and fie toward her. But the lady
bees met him, and Billy quickly saw
that they were too many for him.
Waving his wings to Peggy in a
signal that he would come back, he
fled at a pace that soon left the
honey-laden bees fa; behind.
Busybuzz led the way to a plat- '
form fairly swarming with bees,
some just arriving with loads of
honey, others departing for the
clover fields. It was like a crowd
at a movie theater. Teggy was swept
through the door of a hive and to
her surprise found that the inside
was even more like a skyscraper of
fice building than the outside. Cor
ridors led into many sections of the
hive, and in each section were hun
dreds of tiny rooms or cells rising
tier o ntier away up to the roof.
"Store your honey here." ordered
Busybuzz, showing Peggy an empty
cell. Peggy was swift to obey, for
the load was growing heavy.
"My, I'm glad to get rid of that,"
she buzzed pleasantly. "Now may
I look around your hive for a mo
ment, before we go back to the
clover fields?" Both Busybuzz and
Honeydew stared at her in surprise.
"Look around, indeed!" sniffed
Busybuzz. "You'll do no looking
around. You'll go to work, my fine
lady bee. There's a job for you right
here in the hive one that will keep
you busy the rest of your life."
Peggy was alarmed at these
words, and the alarm grew as there
came to her faintly from outside the
hves the song of the workers.
"Busy, busy, busy bee,
Never idle, never free.
Busy, busy, busy bee.
She remembered the warning of
Bumble Bee Buzz: "If the "lady bees
get you, they will make you a slave
and work you to death."
But Honeydew was whispering In
her ear, "You shall be queen. My
plot is working for you."
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Veto of "Daylight Saving" Repeal.
Omaha, Neb., July 16. To the
Editor of The Bee: The veto of the
bill for repeal of the so-called "day
light saving law" by the presi
dent, shows either that he has no
use for the common run of people or
else he' listened to the demands of
the golf players and other pleasure
seekers. Wilson was out of the
country too long and lpst track of
the sentiment of the country, for
if he had taken honest pains to find
out, he would have found at least
75 per cent of the people of the
United States earnestly opposed to
the daylight saving system. It is
the one war fad of all the war fads
that were forced upon us and it is
the one war fad that ought to have
been the first repealed.
It does not sound well for the
president to talk so eloquently about
the will of ttre peoples of the earth,
then go squarely against the known
will of a vast majority of the people
of this country as he has done.
Many legislatures of great states
have asked for a repeal of the war
fad and the only ones who have
fought the repeal are golf players
and golf clubs.
Forcing people to get up an hour
earlier in the excessive weather we
have had lately and making them
lose that hour of sleep that can best
be had after some of the hot nights
we have had, works a hardship on
them. Some have claimed that the
farmers are the only ones opposed
to this stupid law, but I fail to find
many people of any line of life in
favor of this fad.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
Disposal of Garbage.
Florence, Neb., July 18. To the
Editor of The Bee: As a taxpayer
of Douglas county and the city of
Omaha, I object most strenuously
to the $45,000 yearly payment to
any firm for the hauling of our
city garbage to their hog ranch. I
have raised a great many hogs in
my time and know the worth of the
garbage proposition and the contract
is very unreasonable; therefore my
objection. A much better plan would
be for the city to purchase a large
acreage tract and handle the garb
age question themselve"s where hogs
could be fattened, steers fed for
slaughter and a milk ranch could be
started; killing establishment
erected, city prisoners put to work
and municipal markets opened for
said products in our city along with
poultry, butter, eggs, vegetables,
etc., which will give relief to the
suffering public from the extortion
ate prices as are now being charged
by the so-called packing trust of
America. A proposition of this kind
would be an original move for our
city and would be one of the best
advertisments for Omaha.
C. L. KETHAWAY.
Pointer for the Police.
Omaha, Neb., July 18. To the
Editor of The Bee: I have read quite
a few items in The Bee where peo
ple have been drowned such as the
Rhedin case, where they called for
assistance 'from the police station.
About two hours later the police
came to the place instead of trying
to revive the person drowned they
searched the place for whiSky bot
tles. I think they needed a little
drink before starting. If they would
try to save the peoples lives and
then hunt whisky afterwards prob
ably these poor widows would have
some comfort in this world. Have
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the police any heart? Are they
human or are they beasts? To think
of throwing a man into the patrol
so it would gouge his eye out! It
is awful. Everything that happens
now days is suicide or insanity
anything to clear the police. I have
known of two or more cases where
officers have come to houses inquir
ing after booze for excuses, then
throw out insulting remarks to
women. Just how would they like
some one to insult their wives, or
would they care?
M. C.
IN THE BEST OF HUMOR.
Jones Have you references from your
former employer?
Typist Well, no; I'm unfortunately
married to him. Boston Globe,
'Money Isn't everything."
"Maybe not, but right now It's the only
thlnp I can think of that I really want."
Detroit Free Press.
Ella They had a "war wedding." dldn
they ?
Stella Yes, but they afterward found
that it was only a skirmish- Life.
"nidn't you feel foolish?"
"Worse than that. I felt like a man
does when he is riding In an automobile
being driven by a woman. Judge.
"taking a glass of water. Colonel?"
"Just experimenting a trifle," said the
Colonel genially. "I may have to drink it
as a beverage later on." Louisville Courier-Journal.
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