THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1919.
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You should know that
Only seven cities in the United
States have more large banks than
we have in Omaha.
Getting warm again in Mexico.
Omaha is showing up pretty fine as a sum
mer resort.
Japan's explanation is that as Germany
could not pay, China must.
Austria lias fifteen days to think it over, but
might as well sign at once.
Austria also will cease to be a sea power,
having neither fleet nor ports.
A bumper crop of sugar is coming on, so we
may avoid "rations" if nothing more.
Panama rules that 4 per cent beer is non
intoxicating, but that is so far to go!
Berlin workmen have lucid moments. They
are now reported as seeing no good in a "peace
V strike."
London crowds kept up the peace celebra
tion over the secodd day. But London has not
yet gone dry.
Des Moines police made the mistake of im
personating federal officers. It is bad enough
:o imitate a "copper."
The man who beat his wife because she
:ou!d not supply the table on $5 a week ought
. :o go to market himself occasionally.
An Omaha parson says he would not give
nuch for another "Billy" Sunday revival. But
somebody must shake up the sinpers.
All China asks is freedom from Japanese
. aggression. Surely the big nations can afford
; v.o grant that much relief to the Celestials.
The president has an unfailing recipe for a
quiet Sunday. I; s to go aboard the May
flower without papers, and stay out of sight.
Packing house employes appear to think
that wages ought to go up with hog prices. It
night be all right if they came down the same
ivay.
According to the Omaha Hyphenated, the
; only settlement of Shantung short of war is to
"let Japan have its own way. That was all the
: kaiser ever asked.
Nebraska "suffs" aim to meet with the leg
. islature and see that the ratifying job is prop
erly done. So far this move is not threatened
with a referendum.
Interest in The Bee's Free Ice and Milk
fund shows how the big heart of the world
responds to the call of the little ones. And this
is 100 per cent service.
Senator Pomerene says . the United States
must be on guard for the next two years, and
Secretary Baker is "scrapping" the army as
rapidly as he can. These democrats should get
together.
; Half a million dollars' worth of diamonds
came over from Holland in a package no bigger
than a cigar box. This may recall to some Ne
braskans that another cigar box once held con
; tents of considerable importance.
;;" The agreement between the grain dealers
and the wheat administration that the United
States prices will be "reflected" in purchases
of wheat from producers is all right as protect
ing the man who raises the grain. Now let a
similar arrangement be made for the benefit of
the folks who buy the bread, and all will be
forgiven.
The Soft Drink Bar
The Bartenders' Union it will not disband.
It is proposing to maintain itself in perfectly
good standing as a labor organization. Expert
mixers of beverages why should their talents
be wasted? Well they are not going to be
wasted, not even temporarily; not even during
the "demobilization" dry spell. The drink mix
ers know a few tricks about mixing drinks that
will put punch in the punch that has no high
wine kick to it. And as to cocktails well there
are cocktails and cocktails and not every cock
tail has an alcoholic juice to it. There is the
oyster cocktail, for instance, that is mostly cat
sup and cayenne pepper, and there are other
cocktails with less alcoholic kick than the new.
Orthodox, 2.75 per cent beer.
As to what can be done with highly gas
seated water, a gill or so of Mr. Bryan's favor
ite beverage or a selection from forty other
concentrated fruit juices may be with a little
ginger or a little cayenne pepper put in, and,
perhaps, with a few other mysterious touches
known to the artistic drink mixers, and, there
you are with a nonintoxicant brew that, like as
not, would cause a red Indian to deliver a few
'.mpromptu remarks.
, There are floating rumors about an artificial
champagne made from gassed water and pine
apple juice, which, according to the vouchers
for this kickless substitute, will fool anybody
who don't know the difference between cham
pagne and gassed cider, and it is alleged there
have been many in the years agone who have
Imbibed gassed cider under the belief that they
were putting down champagne. The soft drink
has really never yet been developed to the limit
4 possibilities. Baltimore American.'
REVIVING A DEAD CRY.
Clacquers for unqualified endorsement of
the peace treaty and its League of Nations con
tent are now resorting to a miserable subter
fuge in order to discredit the senators who wish
to make certain reservations. Unless the sen
ate gives assent to the treaty, with approval of
the Shantung deal, we will have war with Japan.
In fact, it is boldly asserted that the critics of
the document are looking for war. This is
quite as silly as was the "war" cry that proved
so potent in 1916, and the appeal is being made
just as it was then, in hope of catching ap
proval from the hysterical. The president
shows little faith in the success of this venture,
for he approaches the senate from another
angle. He has asked permission to name a
commissioner from the United States on the
reparations commission. For the moment the
senate is inclined to wait until it ean examine
the proposal to see just how far such action
will commit the body toward accepting the
treaty. The crisis is not far away at Wash
ington, and the several maneuvers of the ad
ministration leaders give color to the belief
they are preparing to make some concessions.
The treaty must be ratified and the league en
dorsed, but with specific reservations Tj points
vital to American interests. This result will
not be materially changed by the effort of the
democrats to blow dust in the eyes of the
people.
Peace Terms for Austria.
Conditions for peace presented to the Aus
trian government are in the main the same as
those assented to by Germany. The exact amount
of indemnity to be required from the smaller
country will not be determined finally before
May, 1921. The peace commissioners recognize
the inability of the Austrians to pay all they
are responsible for. and will deal with them ac
cordingly. Prewar debt is to be apportioned between
the new nations that have arisen from the
wreck of the empire, on the ratio of revenue
provided. War debt is to be assumed by the
new republic; such portion of it as is held by
nationals of the new countries is to be disre
garded entirely. As an offset to this all government-owned
property of the late empire,
including public service utilities and crown
lands, goes to the new nations as reparation in
part.
Austria's army is to be reduced to 30,000
men, and universal service abolished. Arms or
munitions may not be exported or imported,
and only one factory will be permitted to man
ufacture such materials. Others must be dis
mantled or converted. This determines the fu
ture of the great Skrupa plant. Making of war,
which has been really a fine art with the
politicians who revolved around the Hapsburg
court for many generations, will go with their
army to the discard. The shrewdest, most
unscrupulous diplomatic double-dealers the
the world ever knew no longer can menace
humanity.
Other details of the treaty are carefully
worded, so that the high and mighty power
that precipitated the world war by undertaking
to crush a little neighbor is humbled to the
limit. And yet the terms are just, and have due
regard for the present and future of Austria.
Vienna will cease to be a world capital, but
may yet become the political and social center
for a happy and prosperous people.
Shoe Leather and High Prices.
The Shoe and Leather Reporter, replying to
a letter from Senator Capper, who inquired as
to the reason for the proposed great uplift in
the price of shoes now promised for the fall,
passes the buck in several different directions.
Increased consumption of leather, due to the
war, is the principal cause alleged, but advance
in prices on steers, on hides, on leather, in labor
costs, and in other ways are made to share the
blame. Finally, we are told: "It would be
conducive to a better understanding if the
American public could be informed that shoes
have been selling at $25 and $30 for many long
months in both the warring and neutral coun
tries of continental Europe." Well does the
American public know this, and what is more,
it knows that for the last five years it has been
urged by the Red Cross and other charitable
agencies to contribute of old clothes, worn
shoes and the like, that poverty-stricken mil
lions might not go naked and barefooted
through the winters in continental Europe. Are
we to be reduced to that condition? Only a
few in Europe could pay $25 and $30 a pair for
shoes, and not many in this country can stand
such prices. The Shoe and Leather Reporter
winds up its statement with the comforting con
clusion: "That there have been occasional ab
normal profits and losses in the leather indus
tries, just as there have been promotions and
casualties in the war." Ability to pay will rule
here as elsewhere.
Labor and the League of Nations.
That the American Federation of Labor
heads should send out an appeal to affiliated
bodies asking support for the League of Na- i
tions is no occasion for surprise. At the late ;
Atlantic City convention of the Federation, the
league was endorsed in principle by a vote of
29,909 for to 420 against. This was after care
ful and dispassionate discussion of the league
on the floor of the convention, it having been
privately debated among the delegates for
more than two weeks previously.
Organized labor, however, is under no de
lusions as to the nature of the proposed com
pact between the nations. It was known to the
delegates before the vote was taken that certain
cf the principles embodied in the labor "magna
charta" written into the treaty had been modi
fied by the Peace conference at the instance of
Sir Robert Borden of Canada, who was un
willing to go as far as the others. In spite of
this, the document is accepted even by those
who -have misgivings as to its entire service
ability, because it offers a reasonable solution
for the political troubles of the world, while
setting up machinery by which some of the
economic problems may be dealt with.
Organized labor of America, through its cen
tral congress, frankly accepts the proffer of the
statesmen assembled at Paris, pledging its faith
by the overwhelming vote of endorsement. It
will be well if the statesmen do not "keep the
word of promise to the ear and break it to the
hope" of these men.
New York's birth rate was driven down by
war and the marriage rate is curtailed by
economic pressure. Either cause is enough, but
both may be removed in time,
Why Not a Ford Dictionary
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
Henry Ford, who is now red-hot for pre
paredness, nevertheless still wishes the world
were in such a good humor that no part of it
would think of going to war with any other
part of it. It may seem presumptuous for what
our president calls a "pigmy mind" to make
suggestions to a man of the mental stature
of Mr. Ford, but wouldn't it be possible for the
great Detroit business man to put the world
in that kind of humor by publishing a work
entitled "Ford's Unabridged Dictionary?"
We have been struck with the definitions
given by Mr. Ford on the stand in his libel suit
against the Chicago Tribune. Judging from
the few samples disclosed at this trial, we ven
ture to say that a lexicon compiled by Mr.
Ford would be notably marked for its original
ity and for its independence of all other lexicons
with which the English-speaking race has been
blessed or cursed. We have had a plentitude
of dictionaries for the high-brows, the aristoc
racy and the bourgeoisie. We are in sad need
of one for hoi polloi, or the proletariat one
that shall be simple; one that shall look upon
words as without ancestral trees; one that shall
be conceived and executed in the new atmos
phere of a world made safe for something or
other.
A few deadly parallels in definitions are in
order:
Noah Webster defines an idealist as "an
adherent of a doctrine of idealism." It doesn't
get us anywhere except into deeper trouble
than we were before.
Mr. Ford says an idealist is "one who helps
make profits for others." There we have en
visaged for the mind's eye a person who does
something that we all understand.
Mr. Webster defines an anarchist as "a mal
content respecting all existing institutions, re
guarding them as essentially tyrannical, either
as aristocratic plutocratic." Very well, but
what do malcontent, institutions, tyrannical,
aristocratic and plutocratic, each and several,
mean? No response from the galleries.
Mr. Ford says an anarchist is "one who
throws bombs or seeks to overturn a govern
ment." It fills the eye and mind at once with
the bewhiskered man, the smoking, foul-smelling
thing and the object at which the man
takes a smash.
In an unabridged work we should expect
Mr. Ford to tell, of course, why is a United
States senator.
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.
Service In Siberia.
A Worried Mother No orders
have been Issued for the with
drawal of the 2 7th Infantry, now
stationed at Vladivostok. Siberia. It
is employed on guard duty there,
looking after American property
and assisting in maintaining
order. Your son. having vol
unteered, may be held for the full
period of his enlistment, unless he
was accepted only for the emer
gency. If the latter is the case, then
he will be released from the service
as soon as he can be spared after
peace has been declared, but can
not be held longer than six months.
Would advise you to write to the
adjutant general of the army to
ascertain the exact status of this
soldier.
Frightfulness in Reaction
The German finance minister's plan of
raising $22,500,000,000 by "levies on capital" is
a direct response to the reparation obligations
accepted in Germany's ratification of the peace
treaty. That document calls for the payment
of $20,000,000,000 within the next five years and
such further sums thereafter as may be decided
upon by a reparation commission.
Minister Erzberger has spoken of the tax
rates necessary to make this preliminary pay
ment as "frightful." As now submitted by him,
they are all of that. They are assessed not
against income but against property. Persons
having no more than $1,250 in total property
possessions are exempt, but above that amount
the rates start at 10 per cent and end at 65
per cent, for properties exceeding $750,000.
This means that the wealthier people of
Germany must give up to the state over one
half of all they possess. They cannot do this
all at once. That would involve a forced liqui
dation absolutely ruinous to industry and all
concerned. They will be given time to pay,
but pay they must, first or last, and pay they
must under such a levy if they flee Germany,
as many of them are doing, for they cannot
take their real property with them.
There is no precedent in all history of a
people brought under so heavy an industrial
servitude as this. The billion-dollar indemnity
imposed by Germany on. France in 1871 was
the greatest of the kind known up to that time,
but compared with this preliminary levy on
Germany it was about as 30 days in jail
to the 30 years through which the repara
tion provisions of the peace treaty are to run.
This is German military frightfulness in
reaction upon Germany. It expresses itself in
other terms on the rebound, but they are terms
which can be understood by all. New York
World.
Sal line Dates for Casuals.
M. E. L. Sailing dates for casual
detachments are not announced in
advance. When there Is room on a
transport these unattached organ
izations are assigned, but it is not
possible to tell in advance when
they will start. This applies to the
medical corps who have been at
tached to the casual camp at Brest.
This department does not appear in
The Sunday Bee.
Why Bolshevism Must Fail
If one wants to know why bolshevism must
fail, all he need to do is to take note of the fact
that the bolshevists have confiscated the
churches of Russia and suppressed the Sunday
schools and prohibited all religious teachings in
public. Then he can meditate upon the fact
that since the beginning of time no govern
ment has ever been maintained that did not
have some kind of religion for a basis.
Lenine and Trotzky were shrewd in many
ways, but they were foolish in the matter of
religion. Had they been wise they would have
at least "used" the churches or encouraged
religion of some kind. It need not have been
the Christian religion; it need not have been
the Orthodox Greek church as established in
Russia, although that would have been the logi
cal thing. But to break down the churches
with one mandate and to forbid religious teach
ing that was suicide, however long it may be
until the corpse is buried.
But it would not have been bolshevism had
it not sought to destroy religion. Religion
and bolshevism are as far apart as the poles,
and they can never be made to work in har
mony which is to say that bolshevism cannot
be made to work at all. In his daily needs
man demands religion of some kind. He may
find consolation in the worship of Buddha, he
may find solace in the contemplation of the
words of Confucius, he may pray to Mahomet
or to Zoroaster, or he may commune with God
r but the fact remains that unless man worships
at some shrine, unless he takes note of some
thing besides the material things of life, neither
his home nor his government will endure nor
peace and happiness fall to his lot. Columbus
Dispatch.
The Day We Celebrate.
Thomas E. Wilson, who rose from a clerk
ship to be one of the great leaders of the Chi
cago packing industry, born at London, Ont., 51
years ago.
James Speyer, international banker and pub
lic spirited citizen of New York, born in New
York City 58 years ago.
Joseph L. Bristow, Kansas newspaper pub
lisher and former United States senator, born
in Wolfe county, Kentucky, 58 years ago.
Bishop John C. Kilgo of the Methodist Epis
copal church, South, born at Laurens, S. C, 58
years ago.
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, who led several ex
peditions to the Arctic region, born in Spring
field, Mo., 57 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Rev. R. A. Shaffel, first president of
Creighton college, after a residence of 12 years
in this city, leaves for St. Louis, where he will
take up church duties.
Omaha has 272,771 yards of asphalt pavmg,
and there are only two' cities in the union that
have more.
E. Rosewater left for Long Pine, where he is
booked to address the Long Pine chautauqua
tomorrow editors' day.
The state bank examiners, T. E. Saunders
of Lincoln, J. C. McNaughton, Hastings, and
A. P. Brink of Cedar Rapids are in Omaha on
business for their department. This is their
irst appearance here.
Third Army Sailing Dates.
Miss J. H. The announcement
you saw to the effect that the
"smaller units of the Third army are
losing no time in getting out of
Germany" had reference to va
rious groups, such as the air service,
the repair shops, salvage corps, and
such, connected with headquarters
at Coblenz. We have not as yet
noted any sailing orders for the
138th aero squadron, which has
been stationed there. Two divisions,
the First and Third, are to be held
in Germany, and some of the other
units will no doubt be kept with
them. Watch the papers for announcement.
Many Questions Answered.
Helen J. We have no iniorma
tlon regarding the sailing date for
the Fourth division. It has been
released for return home, and is now
In the back area making prepara
tions for the start, but we can not
tell you which one. Neither can we
give you the name of the transport
on which the engineers regiment
will sail or the date on which it will
land in America. Watch the papers
for announcement.
C. A. N. If there is a bill pend
ing in congress to give a J75 Liberty
bond for each month he was in the
service to each honorably dis
charged soldier, we haVe not heard
of it. The $60 bonus is the only law
of this kind yet enacted. Several
moves have been set on foot to se
cure six months' additional pay for
each honorably discharged soldier,
but nothing has come of any of
them.
A Mother The First and Third
divisions have been designated to
remain in Germany, although how
long they will be kept can not be
said. These divisions comprise
about 30,000 men.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"THE NEW QUEEN BEE."
(Peggy and Billy are changed Into been.
Peggy finds herself a prisoner of the lady
bees, who take her to their hive. Honey
dew plot to muke her queen, but Husby
buzz forces her to work.)
German scientists have obtained
paper pulp from hop vines.
At present more than two-thirds
of the Polish industries are at a
standstill owing to lack of raw mate
rials and machinery, of which they
were stripped during the war.
American exporters should think
of Munster (the south of Ireland)
as a prosperous farming region, with
a. population almost as large as
Connecticut's and an area a little
greater than Vermont's population
(1911), 1,035; area, 9,532 square
miles, but with less spending power
per capita than the average Amer
ican. Java has taken leadership In the
cultivation of quinine away from
India will have 34 per cent less
wheat than anticipated. All of
Asia will undergo a shortness of
food also, the rice crops of China,
Burma, Japan and India being far
below normal. This will mean that
these markets will be smaller pur
chasers this year than heretofore.
As is known, Czechoslovakia and
Poland have for five years been
isolated from all connection with
foreign countries and as a result
their stocks of all kinds of goods
have been exhausted. At present
they are in great need of raw
materials and manufactured goods.
The prices which at present are paid
in Poland for most manufactured
necessities are very high and very
large imports are needed to supply
immediate wants.
THE SONS OF HAN.
When purple Husk drifts low between the
weather-beaten walls
And shadows paint an eery scene where
each dim alley sprawls.
Expressionless and almond eyed, on cat
like feet they pro.
The Sons of Han, tho yellow men whom
I shall never know.
Behind their stolid masks they hide a
thousand buried years;
The rivers of achievement glide beneath
their unshed tears,.
What mystery Is In their hearts, what
vision in their eyes.
Is secret as the silent moon that mounts
the lonely skies.
Who knows what gongs ara ringing In
their wistful dreams at night.
What junks are slowly swinging down
their fabled Streams of Light 7
With bannerets and dragon flags, with
lanterns and with song,
Perhaps they see the hosts of Mine in
vision pass along.
Grimacing gods and lustrous jades, fan
tastic allks and scents,
Two-handed swords, with carven blades,
black lacquers, Tartar tents.
Are in my mind at sight of them as si
lently they go,
The Sons of Han, the yellow men whom
tl shall never know.
Herbert S. Gorman In the New York
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CHAPTER III.
The lice Babies.
HyoJ have no right to keep me
J. a prisoner in this stuffy
hive," said Peggy Bee to Busybuzz.
"Set me free this Instant."
"You'll never be free," sniffed
Busybuzz. "Here you work and here
you die. Follow me.
There Was nothing else to do, so
Peggy reluctantly obeyed. She
made up her mind, however, that
she would seize the first chance to
escape. And if she couldn't escape
any other way she might consent to
take part in Honeydew's revolt and
become the new queen of the hive.
Busybuzz led the way to a high
wall in which were set hundreds and
hundreds of cavelike holes or cells.
Over the wall were crawling active
lady bee workers. Looking into a
cell as she passed by, Peggy saw
curled up in it a plump, white,
wormlike body with a head resem
bling a bee. In all the other cells
were other plump bodies.
"Why, they look like babies bee
babies," exclaimed Peggy.
"Of course they do and why
shouldn't they," sniffed Busybuzz.
They are bee babies, and your Job
is to 'tend them."
"My gracious, what a lot of them
there are to tend," gasped Peggy.
Busybuzz now called to an ener
getic lady bee who was bustling
around among the babies.
"Fuzzyhum, this is a new nurse
maid I've brought you. I don't know
whether she is much good, for she
is the looking around kind, but you
may get some use out of her."
"Hum! Hum: Keep her yourself
DAILY DOT PUZZLE
'The Queen!" Rumbled Fuzzyhuni,
"Now You're In for a Row!"
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Meet my old friend Johnnie Wicks.
Draw from ona to two and ao on to the end
you need honey gatherers," ob
jected Fuzzyhum.
"I don't want her," declared Busy
buzz. "She'd keep me busy keeping
her busy and I'm busy enough now,
goodness knows." And away hurried
Busybuzz for the clover fields.
"Hum! Hum! I guess I'm as
busy as she is," rumbled Fuzzyhum
crossly. "With all these babies to
feed I haven't time to waste on
idlers."
"I'm not an Idler," declared Peg
gy indignantly. "If the babies need
feeding I'll help you feed them.
Then I'm going home."
"Hum ! Hum! Bee babies always
need feeding. You can feed 'em and
feed 'em, but they'll not stay fed,
and new babies are always coming
along by the hundreds."
Peggy didn't wait to argue that
matter further. She pitched right
in and began to feed the baby bees.
And she quickly found that she
had a real job on her hands. There
were hundreds of them, all hungry
for dinner. As she d them she
fotgot she was a prisoner and that a
plot was afoot to make her queen.
"How funny they look!" she gig
gled. "Hum! Hum! They look no fun
nier than you did when you were
a bee baby," rasped Fuzzyhum.
Peggy giggled a bee giggle for, of
course, she had never been a bee
baby. Fuzzyhuni heard her giggle
and tlew into a rage.
"Quit that laughing and get busy,"
she ordered. "We haven't time for
gigtrling or nonsense in a beehive."
Some of the babies were queen
bee babies, some were worker ba
bies and some were boy bee babies,
or drones. The queen bee babies
got the most food and the best, tha
workers came next, and the poor lit
tle drones had to take what was
left. Peggy was sorry for the
drones, and she sought to feed them
like the others.
"Don't bother with those lazy
drones," ordered Fuzzyhuni. "There
are too many In the hive now. We
don't try to raise them."
"How awful!" exclaimed Teggy.
"You bees are as bad to boy babies
as the Chinese are to girl babies."
"I don't know anything about the
Chinese, but I do know that drones
eat a lot of food they don't work for
and a hive is better off without
them," said Fuzzyhum. "We sting
'em to death or drive 'em out to
starve."
"That's cruel. I'll put a stop to It
when I'm queen," cried Peggy.
"Buzz! Buzz, Buzz! Treason!
Treason! Who are you who dares
to talk of being queen?"
Peggy whirled around to find her
self facing an irate lady bee much
larger and more Imposing looking
than the workers. And the lady
bee's eyes were flashing with anger
and her stinger was ready for ac
tion. "The queen!" rumbled Fuzzyhum.
"Now you're in for a row."
(Tomorrow will be o!d how Peggy de
fies the queen.)
UfteJZ
tees
3? "-wvl t i y
ox
Future of Dairy Farming.
Wahoo, Neb., July 14. To the
Editor of The Bee: One of the most
prominent Saunders county farmers
yesterday, in commenting on two
articles that appeared in the last is
sue of the Country Gentleman,
namely, "Nebraska's Great Farmers'
Union," with its picture of the Farm
ers Creamery at Fremont, and the
article on "The Dairy Man's Difficul
ties," stated that, in his opinion, the
methods of farming will be revolu
tionized during the next five years.
His first prediction is that the best
land in the county will raise in price
until it reaches $500 per acre and
never drop below that price and
that, eecond, the large tracts will
give place to smaller and more In
tensively cultivated farms. He pre
dicts that in the future the Saun
ders county farmer will devote more
of his time to the producing of poul
try and dairy products, they being
more dependable as a surer income
and pin less of his hopes on grain
alone.
He believes that the paving of
roads In Douglas county through to
Fremont, Valley and Yutan, the es
tablishment of the Yutan bridge and
th? eventual hard surface roads that
will cross Saunders county, east and
west and north and south, will re
suit in the establishment of general
trucking lines that will pick up the
farmer's milk, cream and eggs at
his door and his small fruits that he
will eventually produce and take
them to the markets at Lincoln,
Omah.i and Fremont, relieving him
of the whole responsibility.
He further states that one of the
reasons why the Saunders county
farmers have not taken kindly to the
dairying products is that the fer
tility of the soil and the resulting
good grain crops have caused a dis
like on his part for dairy enterprises
because of the time required in get
ting th? products on the market, but
that if this objection is removed the
Saundes county farmers generally
will go more to dairying and small
farming. The scarcity of help and
the 6ti!l increasing cost of machin
ery, etc., is another item which he
states wilL influence the building up
of the smaller farms. .
GEORGE A.'DAVIES.
Observing the Sahbath.
Omaha, July 15. To the Editor of
The Bee: Man Is made of three
parts, part is energy, part is divine
and part is pleasure loving. If he
lacks one of these he is an unnatural
man. Now, God gives us seven days
in every week, six days for ourselves
and one to worship Him. We are
spending six days in work, the one
day left in pleasure seeking. Where
does God come in? As an individ
ual how can God bless us when we
steal His one day?
As the man is, so is the nation.
Are you not afraid our great United
States will crumble and fall as
others have done in the past, when
they forgot God? Now if a law is
passed, stopping all amusements on
Sunday, where is the working man
going to get his pelasure? We don't
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want & man unless there is a little
Joy in his makeup.
Now, I believe I see a way out of
this trouble, if someone will only
grasp my idea and push it along.
Why cannot we, as a nation, have
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons
as holidays, and make every man,
woman and child take one of these
holidays, and have all of our games
then? I think it would be only a
short time until our churches would
be enlarged, and we would have a
quiet Sunday instead of the noisy
ones we now have. Look not with
contempt on the man that goes to a
Siinciav ball game, but rather on Mr.
Money Bags that cannot let him
have one afternoon a week, and
on our lawmakers and on our voters.
We would be Just as rich and a
great deal better, to spend a small
part of our six days Jn pleasure and
give to God the one day He asks
of us. A MOTHER.
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Wooded Freak in Brooklyn.
A maple tree planted years ago by
the citv of Brockton in front of the
residence of E. F. O'Neill, West Elm
street, died before its time, but some
how the seed of a wild cucumber
vine became lodged In the wood of
the tree and, with the vines now be
ginning to spread, the hanging gar
den is attracting much attention.
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1513 Douglas Street
The Art and Music Store.
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UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION
Director General of Railroads
Improved Sleeping
Car Service
Omaha and Cheyenne
Two Sleeping Cars are now
operated locally between
Omaha and Cheyenne. The
'No - loss - of -business-time-car"
leaves Omaha 4:25 P.
M.; arrives Cheyenne 10:30
A. M.
a
MM 1 9
1 he late evening car
leaves Omaha 1:20 A. M.
(ready for occupancy at
9:30 P. M.), arrives Chey
enne 4:05 P. M.
Eastbound both cars leave
Cheyenne 3:30 P. M.; ar
rive Omaha 7:05 A. M.
The foregoing service is also
available between Omaha
and all important points,
North Platte and west.
Passengers for the Haig
branch should use car de
parting at 1:20 A. M.
Union Pacific
A. L. CRAIG,
General Passenger Agent.
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