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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST- 5, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Ataoi-lated I'leaa. ut 'Dic& The Bm it member. Is ex clusively entitled to iti uh fur publication of ail newt dluttcht endued to It or not otherwise end! ted in thlt paper, and alto the local ntera published berets AU rifhu of publtcatlou of our f aiwriai aiapeujiea ara aieo reacrvea. BEE TELEPHONES 1 Prltata Braucb Exchange. Art for th Department or Particular Parana Wanted. For Mailt or Sunday Sarvica Calli editorial OeivKment ..... Tela, IO0OL. rtirulatioB Department ...... frier 1008L. AriverUelai Dauanaieot ..... Tjlar 1008L. " OFFICES OF THE BEEi ' Roma Ofiioe, atea BuildlBf. 17U and fare am. R ran oh Office : Ames 4110 North !4th iPark Banana 6114 Military Ara. ISouih Bid t'ouneU Bluff! 14 N Main iVinton Lake 1511 North S4th IWalnnt 0"t-of-Town Offices 1 New Tort Cltr ISA ' iflh Ara. iWaahtnalon Chlceio Beeaer Bid. ILinooln Tyler 1000 J81S Leane worth SS18 N Street 1417 Boutk lsth 811 North 40th 1311 O Street 1330 B Street JUNE CIRCULATION Daily 64,611 Sunday 61,762 Average circulation for the month aubacrlbod and B. K. Rtgan, Circulation Manager. won to to Subscriber Issvlnf the city should hare Tha Bee mailed tt lham. Address changed jaa often requested. You should know that Omaha has three universities, 81 schools, 125 churches, many beau tiful homes, parks and boulevards. Old Sol certainly can come back. The "silly season" seems unusually silly this year. Here is the last straw Chicago bakers haye advanced the price of pie. Do you suppose the High Cost of Living has only a one-way ticket? Here's wishing the Nebraska and Iowa edi tors an enjoyable and profitable sight-seeing trip. The city council chamber is beginning to re flect something of the atmospheric condition outdoors. ' Coblenz is to be American headquarters in Europe after August 20, a fact that may inter est Heinie for a long time to come. It will only cost $50,000 for a round-trip ticket between London and Brazil via airship. Of course, the porter's tips are extra. Everybody seems willing to pass the buck of profiteering, but someone must stand spon sor for the situation. Who will it be? A man who allows vegetables of any sort to go to waste in his garden these times comes very near being an enemy of his, country. Attorney General Palmer says there is abundance of "good law" on the books to reach the profiteers, and a way will be found. All right, but "toot sweet." The Omaha man who complains he has had nine cars stolen from him within the year ought to study up on Bryan's story of the cowboy that went to the dance. 1 -J' TL. J. i.:- ...v- -1 i tic uciuutraui; cuuor who is so snocitcu by the code law referendum decision forgets to say whether the judge rendering it is a demo- crat or only a nonpartisan. It looks as if the W.-"H. editor were dog gedly determined not to let anything please him that Governor McKelvie might do unless he should take a notion to resign. ' Prices in the corn and provision pits in Chicago started down with a run on Monday morning. The food gamblers evidently see the end. Now "watch for somebody getting trimmed. Million-dollar incomes have been reduced from 206 to 141 within the year according to the internal revenue bureau. At least sixty-five of our fellow citizens are entitled to commiseration. "Humble Henry" of the Hohenzollern tribe wants a lot of people put into the dock along with his brother William. It seems now that the "all highest" wasn't such an awful much, after all. ' A Philadelphia preacher expresses the opin ion that too much effort is being made to stop Sunday base ball and not enough to checking some of the real evils that exist. At this dis tance he. looks to be about right. Grateful Filipinos are about to take the Ne braska democratic senator to be their guest, in recognition of his efforts to give them "self government." While waiting for him to appear .at Manila, they might reflect that had his bill gone through at that time, they would probably be annexed" to Japan by this time as part of the reward to that country for its great "sacrifices" during the world war. Revolt of Public Sentiment The "switch" of the Missouri democratic state committee on the subject of the league of nations only confirms what those who have observed public sentiment in the middle west have anticipated. Public sentiment toward the league of nations has been making a rapid change within the past few weeks. Two months ago, or even a month ago, ?n open fight on the league of nations could net even have been introduced in a meeting of the democratic committee, not to mention the success of such a fight. But when the com mittee met here Tuesday the leader of the Reed forces not only attacked the league, but made it plain that the lineup for the two candidates for secretary of the committee was a clear cut issue between those who favored the league and those who opposed it. The opposing can didate was elected. It may surprise the statesmen in Washing- ton that such a fight could be made success fully in a democratic committee, but it is not surprising to those who have studied publia sentiment The people are changing their ' opinion on the league. The beautiful rhetoric with which the league has been clothed, is losing its power in the face of the awakened Americanism which is analyzing the meaning of the league pact in its reality. The peace of the world, even with, the league, is a doubtful condition. But the peace of America is involved forever in the league's formation. Real Americans are hesitating about swapping the peace of America for an experiment in world peace. Kansas City Times. IS A STRIKE THE REMEDY? ' i Railroad men again threaten to tie up the transportation lines of the cftuntry by going on a general strike in support of demands for re lief in the form of higher pay. Have they well considered what is involved in this? Transportation is a basic industry, and the cessation .of its steady operations means the disturbance of all other industries. One cause of high prices is an excessive de mand for all sorts of goods. Normal conditions have not yet been restored, and the factories of the country are not all engaged on peace time productions Until this is brought about, the output will be less than the request It is true that much of the complaint against high prices rests on -the established foundation of illigitimate profit taking. This has been induced and intensified by the speculative ac tivities of food and other similar gamblers. - In order to get the world back to a basis of stability, production to the utmost of our com bined capacity is needed. It is not the dis tribution but the creation of wealth that will curt the existing evil. If these propositions are true, '.and we be lieve they are, how can an interruption of the orderly processes of production assist in reliev ing a condition in which all share alike? If the railroad men succeed in stopping all business, will they not aggravate rather than lessen the difficulty? The answer to these questions must be af firmative. Any-strike now by any group of men, no matter in what industry, contributes to the maintenance of the present high price level, for just so far as such action tends to check production, just that far is the supply lowered while the demand is increased instead of dimin ished by the voluntary or enforced idleness of' any number of producers. Let the railroad men, who are thretening to throw a wrench into the machinery that was just beginning to move with some show of effective speed, consider what effect their pro posed action will have on all the world, and maybe they will 'change their minds. Nebraska in the House. On Tuesday last Nebraska held the stage in the house of representatives at Washington. A pitched battle had been staged over the report of the committee dealing with the disposal of army surplus food stocks. The democrats des perately lined up in defense of the secretary of war, and sought by every means known to skilled politicians and parliamentarians to turn aside the blow that fell. On the republican side Reavis of the First and Jefferis of the Sec ond Nebraska district handled the big guns and drove their shots straight to the center of the democratic position, demolishing it entirely. Reavis made very clear the fact that the War department had undertaken to dispose of the surplus army supplies abroad, for the purpose of holding up prices in America. This includes not only food but clothing. When sales in other countries did not materialize, an effort was made to resell to manufacturers and packers. When the Bakerites had been smoked out on this by the committee, the order1 of July It, permitting sales to municipalities, was issued. And.it was shown .that only a few of the cities of the United States were in position .to take advantage of this, most of them being pro hibited by their charters from engaging in such business. Jefferis exposed the rotten deal in connec tion with the salmon, under which millions of cans of last season's pack were to be con demned as unfit for consumption and returned to the packers. Following this bombardment, the house adopted the resolution directing the secretary of war to place on sale the army surplus food. It has been a long time since Nebraskans were as prominently to the fore as in this great fight for the people against the combination of the War department and the big supply dealers. We have a real delegation there now. End This Intolerable Foolishness. A butcher has been fined $5 in police court for violating a ridiculous city ordinance forbid ding such places to be open on Sunday. He had succumbed to the importunity of 200 customers, who asked to be permitted to keep their Sunday supply of. edibles in his ice box. The need for this is that another foolish city ordinance forbids the delivery of ice on Sunday, and these people have no means of storing a supply sufficient to last from Satur day until Monday. While the honorable city commissioners are looking around for a way to emeliorate condi tions of life in Omaha, here is a chance right at hand. Let the ordinances that forbid the sale of foods and ice on Sunoday be repealed. Give the people a chance. If the strict Sabbatarians would care for authority for the sale of food on Sunday, let them read the opening verses of the sixth chap ter of the gospel according to St. Luke. At any rate, while we are trying to keep the first day of the week holy, let us not make it one of terror to the sick, the needy and those who must sustain life under circumstances that prevent their having all the comforts and con veniences money can provide. Again on the Wrong Track. Our mayor's meritricious proposal to im pound for 30 days all automobiles whose drivers may be convicted and fined for speeding, might have the merit of being efficacious, but that is about all" the merit it has. Most of the speed ing is done by drivers who do not own their machines, so the mayor's remedy would penalize the blameless for the guilty. Even where the speeder happens to be the owner, it is his fam ily or his business or his patrons who would suffer the loss of it. To take a doctor's auto mobile away from him would impose the hard ship upon his patients just as to take a grocer's automobile away from his would leave his cus tomers in the lurch. No, Mr. Mayor, you as a lawyer know guilt is personal, that you cannot punish one for another's offense. It won't work except to pull down a little free advertising. Forget it. Bomb explosions directed in pursuit of ven geance against officers of the law are not cal culated to turn public opinion in favor of the perpetrators.'' Miscreants who resort to such despicable methods of assassination deserve no consideration whatsoever, but when, the law does overhaul them, they proclaim the loudest against its operation. The Cost of Living Problem From the Minneapolis Tribune. The cost of living affects directly every person in the United States. It is a very worrisome problem now despite a rising level of wages and salaries and despite the fuller employment of all kinds of labor and talent. The meat of the trouble is that the purchasing power of the dollar has gone down faster and further than income has gone up. In other words, the increase in pay has not kept pace with the increase in prices of necessities. This condition affects adversely the sal aried class as well as the wage earner. It is hurtful in a monetary way to a considerable percentage of manufacturers,' merchants and persons engaged in other business activities. In short, it presents a problem in a class by it self as to the number whose interests it touches vitally. In an unusual and somewhat startling way the advisory board of -the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers has brought the matter abruptly to the attention of the president, and through him to that of the cabinet The board appeals to the president for measures of relief, accompanied with a warning that if ameliora tive results are not brought about in something of a hurry, thebrotherhood will be forced to the expedient of demanding another wage in crease. Past experience warrants the state ment that behind this warning lies a strike threat. In the case of the Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen, another big organization, its executive .head as much as says there will be a strike of that body of railroad employes if the government does not raise wages or lower the cost of living before October 1. Presumably the board of the engineers went directly to the president because the railroads of the country are still under government ad ministration, but it would seem that common courtesy, to say nothing of a thoughtful re gard for the great masses of the American peo ple, would have prompted the inclusion of con gress, as well as the cabinet, in the appeal, con sidering the responsive relationship of congress to the people. The president, if he would, might insist that the railroad administration heed the appeal of the engineers by raising their wages. He might spur the War department to hasten, the selling of surplus military supplies to the people below market quotations in an effort to lower the general level of prices. He might set the De partment of Justice vigorously to work after vulnerable profiteers with the same end in view, but it would seem that any measures competent to bring Universal relief if such measures be feasible at all must come from congress, whose business it is to legislate for the best interests of the whole body of Amer ican citizenship. Congressional action would not estop state and municipal governments from taking such action as they might see fit in their own jurisdictions to punish profiteer ing and to reduce commodity prices. If the wages of hundreds of thousands of railroad employes are advanced, freight and passenger rates in all probability would have to be increased again to meet the labor payrolls. The extra cost in such cases is passed along to the shipper and ultimately to the consumer, with the result that the latter would be worse off than ever. The engineers' plea to the presi dent takes cognizance of this fact, but not in as handsome a manner as might fairly be expected from an organization of its kind. If there is to be undertaken any government effort to lighten "the struggle for existence," there should be neither thinking nor action in terms of a particular class or organization save as it is directed against those who, by combina tion or otherwise, whether producers, manu facturers or distributors, may be guilty of un conscionable profiteering and thereby have forced prices of necessities arbitrarily beyond the point of tolerance. The problem is too far-reaching to approach it or deal with it in any artificially circum scribed way. Railway men of the big brother hoods are better off today than most Ameri can wage earners. This is not to say that they have no ground for complaint of existing con ditions, but it is to say that it is not up to the administration or congress to single them out for preferential treatment. The rest of our 110,000,000 population is to be considered equally In any government movement to give income a respectable margin over necessary outlay in the great and honorable business of making a living and saving something for rainty or unproductive days. There is in the present situation a great temptation to play politics on the eve of an other presidential and congressional election, but woe to them who may yield to it and seek to make mere partisan capital out of the cost of living problem. Come Easy, Go Easy James J. Hill, discussing the mild form of high cost of living that worried people 10 years ago, said the trouble was really the cost of high living. He was mostly right, too. Now we have the genuine article with us, but it is common knowledge that k is also closely as sociated with the cost of high living. Accom panying the wail against high prices that comes from all parts of the world comes also the general comment of observers that people are possessed with a desire to spend riotously. In Paris, in London, In Berlin, in New York and in Oskosh they are spending now as furiously as they fought or worked in war time. The money of the times is cheap, but it comes eas ily, and there is a long period of painful stint ing to be made up. There is little doubt that the people are spending their Liberty bonds. The world has gone on a spree that is manifesting itself in many ways, of which lavish expenditure is but one. The worst of it is that the cost of high living increases the high cost of living. When spenders are free and easy, traders make prices with a facile pencil. Those who part lightly with their easy money make hard buy ing for those who must part sparingly with their limited funds. He who spends on lux uries without accounting causes himself to pay more for necessaries. To all other inflations we now add the inflation of money made cheap by holding it cheaply. Washington Post. mi )av The Day We Celebrate. Charles C. Belden, president Thompson Belden company, born 1849. Dr. Ralph W. Connell, born 1859. J. O. Detweiler, attorney-at-law, born 1863. C. D. Sturtevant, grain man, born 1878. Rear Admiral Theodore F. Jewell, U. S. N., retired, born at Georgetown, D. C, 75 years ago. Dr. Frank Strong, chancellor of the Univer sity of Kansas, born at Venice, N. H., 60 years ago. Blanche Bates, actress, born at Portland, Ore., 46 years ago. Clare A. Briggs, cartoonist, born at Reeds burg, Wis., 44 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Building permit to the value of $25,000 was granted Joseph and George E. Barker for four-story brick stores, 1513-1517 Howard street. Thomas Swobe of' the Millard left for the Thousand Islands, where his family and the Misses Waterman are spending the summer. Ladies of the Second Presbyterian church gave a soap bubble and lawn party at the home of Mrs. Baker, Twenty-eighth and Blondo streets. Chief of Police Seavey has decided that it is dangerous since the motor cars have com menced running to allow the principal street corners to be blocked by peddlers and street fakirs. Accordingly they have been ordered off. lees- 0 rS.1 Against Secret Conferences. Lexington, Neb., July 28. To the Editor of The Bee: The editorial in the Omaha World-Herald of July 25 on - Senator Norris refusing to go into seeret conference with Presi dent Woodrow Wilson could not have been more than any other American citizen would have done, for a treaty and covenant openly ar rived at and ratified does not need to be dragged into some secret chamber to be talked over. When the draft law was enacted it was for the purpose of destroying those secret conferences, and 60,008 young men, the blossom of American man hood, gave their lives to make it possible for democracies to do away with the secret chamber. And now that Senator Norris refuses to fall for a monarchial whim of the pres ident the World-Herald character izes it as grudge the senator holds against the president. H. M. LUX, Ex-Buck Private, U. S. A. Allows Vegetables to Waste. Omaha, Aig. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: In relation to the crusade against the high cost of giving, a case came under my ob servation a few days ago, which is one instance of many of such cases, and leads to the conclusion that a law should be made and enforced against waste of necessities. A small gardener in the west part of the city has at present consider able quantities of tomatoes, corn and cabbages, which should be gath ered and placed upon the market at once to prevent spoiling. Hun dreds of baskets of tomatoes are virtually going to waste, but the owner appears absolutely indiffer ent and refuses aid in gathering the crop. In the same manner corn is rapidly growing beyond use, though much of it may yet be utilized if the owner will dispose of it This he will not do, saying it is too old. Even after it was tested and shown to be still fit for use he maintained stolid indifference. He offered no excuse for not placing his cabbages upon the market, much of which are bursting and ready to burst It occurs to the writer that some influence is at work to the end that the stuff is kept off the market. It looks as though the produce dealers have made a proposition to the gar dener which makes it Drofitable to allow the stuff to waste. L. P. HARRIS. A Great Camp Meeting. Omaha, Aug. 1. To the Editor of The Bee: There is always something in this restless world to "take the joy out of life," as the song goes. There was a great camp meeting in the "promised land," but we know of a greater one at Twenty-sixth and Lake streets. With all of its cyclonic and religious efforts, high jumping, rolling and tumbling, and extremely loud yelling, it is becom ing positively obnoxious to the neighborhood for several blocks around. In this vicinity is where the laboring class of people live who have to make early time to work in the morning, therefore they need some lest, but this is impossible, as this noise is kept up from early eve ning until the small hours in the morning. P. T. Barnum's steam piano of the ancient days, with all the afigry animals turned loose, is no comparison to this continual up roar all night at Twenty-sixth and Lake streets. We are fully in sym pathy with all religious movements, it matters not of what denomination, so long as you are true and honest in your convictions. What we need in this age of restlessness is plenty of prayer, but' not from such a loud and boisterous standpoint. God said "Go into the world and preach the gospel to every living creature, and he that will come let him come." J. W. S. Dangers of Immigration. Chicago, July 24. To the Editor of The Bee: The immigration question is the most important one in the United States today, for we are threatened with a flood of aliens that may pass 5,000,000 m two years. It will result in immediate hard times, low wages, unemploy ment, strikes, revolution, and na tional decay. My own opinion counts for noth ing, so I will quote. Twelve years ago Goldwin Smith said, "Great American cities are now ceasing to be American." Very recently George Creel has said, "It has been years since the melting pot has done any melting to speak of." Senator Thomas of Colorado said in 1917, "We :e a congeries of peoples. In our great cities there are communi ties where the English tongue is seldom heard and where, among its members, it is never spoken." I am sorry for the starving mil lions of Europe, but to allow them to further denationalize us would amount to intentional national sui cide. "To perpetuate our Institu tions is our first duty. It would be criminal to disregard it," said Carl Schurz, himself an immigrant. Im migration should be absolutely cut off for five years. All immigrants are undesirable at the present time. I do not want my name to be printed at the end of this letter, for the bomb outrages of May 1 clearly proved that any one who opposes immigration is likely to be blown up. In this foreisnized America it is perilous to life and limb to preach Americanism. AMERICANUS. Farm Machinery in Ireland. Ireland's agricultural equipment has been considerably improved. Seven hundred tractors were at work- in this country in 1918, as compared with 60 in 1916. Modern machinery has been introduced and reapers, binders and potato diggers are being employed everywhere, with encouraging results. DAILY CARTOONETTE. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "THE CIRCUS BIRD." (Judge Owl, after growing to great size when Peggy end Billy plant him In A hot house, sets off to Join a circus.) The Scared Circus Crowd. ffDLIM! Blam! Boom! Boom! L) Ta-ra-ra-boom!" The blare of the circus band grew louder and louder as Judge Owl, clasping Peg gy and Billy, one in each claw flapped heavily toward the Bhow grounds. Looking ahead, Peggy and Billy could see the brownish-white tents with throngs of folks clustering about them. These folks suddenly began to run up and down in great excitement and point into the air. They had seen Judge Owl coming and they didn't know what to make of him. Some thought he was a new kind of airplane. Some thought he was a balloon. But it wasn't until he was right over the tents that they saw what he really was a huge owl, the biggest bird in all the world. At about the same moment they saw Peggy and Billy danging in his claws. Then the crowd was scared. They though Judge Owl was a man-eating owl and that he had grabbed Peggy and Billy for his lunch. In stantly there was a loud hubbub. Men shouted, women screamed and children yelled. Mothers seized their little ones and fled into tents and under wagons any place to get away from the flying monster. Even the circus men themselves, used as they were to being among wild animals, dived out of sight un der the canvas when Judge Owl The Manager and the Ticket Seller Looked Vp In a Hurry. swooped down and landed In a clear space before the main en trance. "Hoot! Hoot! See 'em scoot! I'm a wonderful bird," screeched Judge Owl, much pleased with himseir. "You certainly do look fierce,", ad mitted Bill. "And I feel fierce," boasted Judge Owl. "I can eat any bird in the whole world. "I guess I'll lunch off an ostrich." "You'll do nothing of the kind," spoke up Peggy, frowning severely at Judge Owl. "You mustn't be a bully Just because you are big." She looked so very tiny standing there laving down the law to a bird larger than an elephant that Billy had to snicker. It struck Judge Owl. too, as funny. He chuckled loudly and winked genially at PegKy. "Well, if you want me to be good, you'll have to feed me," he hooted. "My appetite Is as big as my body, and I'm starving to death." "Mavbe when they feed the ani mals they will feed you," suggested Peggy. "If we can And the circus manager we'll hire you to him right away." No person was in sight to tell them where to find the manager, but they heard voices In the ticket wagon, and, looking in, saw two men counting money. These two had been so busy they hadn't seen Judge Owl and so hadn't been scared. "Will you please tell me where 1 can find the manager?" asked Billy. "I'm the manager," answered a man in a high hat "I want to hire an owl to your circus," answered Billy. "Don't want any owls; they're too common," growled the manager. - "But this owl is the biggest owl in the world," argued Billy. "I wouldn't, want him unless he was as bigh as an elephant - Get out of here and don't bother me." "He is bigger than an elephant," spoke up Peggy indignantly. "And you're not a bit polite to tel us to go away when we are bringing you the finest freak you ever saw." "Bigger than a nelephant!" ex claimed the manager. "Say, little girl, you ought to be spanked for telling such a whopping story. Big ger than an elephant! Ha! ha, ha!" And he went back to his money counting. "Judge Owl come here!" ordered Peggy. Judge Owl stepped around to the front of the wagon. "Please look," said Peggy to the manager. "Go 'way and don't bother me," he growled, shaking his head. "Hoo! Hoo! Toot! Toot! How dare you answer Princess Peggy that way!" hooted Judge Owl in a voice that shook the wogan. The manager and the ticket seller looked MUCH IN LITTLE. Ecuador has a population esti mated at 1,500,000 and an area of 120,000 square miles. A safe toy gun for children that has been invented shoots a wire with such a spin that it returns to the shooter. For tourists a complete electric water heater has been designed that is small enough to be carried in a traveling- bag. A co-operative bungalow colony for bachelor girls is soon to be es tablished in one of the suburbs of London, Ontario. An apple tree with which a MIs courl nursery firm is experimenting is valuable enough to be enclosed in a wire cage provided with a burglar alarm. A new filter for air intakes of au tomobiles connects dust on a felt cylinder from which it is shaken into a collecting ring by the vibration of a car. A folding wire head rest which can be attached to the back of a cap has been invented for the com fort of men who have to lie on their backs under automobiles. A Spanish government commis sion has practically completed plans for a national system for the pro duction of electric current from waterfalls and its distribution. A table for invalids has been in vented which can be clamped to the head of a bed and swung into position for use or out of the way without taking up any floor space. The native handicrafts of Tunis are in a flourishing condition. The service of native economics is or ganizing several schools to teach native boys hand weaving of oil press mats of alfa grass, a product of the country. It is also reported that a company is being formed at Sousse for the manufacture of oil mats, cordage and other alfa prod ucts. A pig entered in the Bucks Coun ty (Pa.)'Farm Bureau Pig club con test has gained 51 pounds in a month, and two other pigs have gained 48 pounds each. At a meet ing of the Warrington Pig club it was reported that the average gain for the month Is 38 5-6 pounds. The Warrirlgton club is but one of the many boys' and girls' pig clubs in Bucks county. Finland stretches across almost exactly the same degrees of latitude as Alaska and covers 144,252 square miles, of which 79.7 per cent is for est and uncultivated land, including rocks and marshes; 11.7 per cent water; 5.7 per cent cultivated, and 2.9 per cent pasture land. Official figures on December 31, 1916, pave Finland 3,325.003 inhabitants. 521, 208 living in 38 towns and 2,803,795 in the country. The density of pop ulation is a little over 23 to the square mile. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. "Poor old Miss sklnnay goes to every blessed rummage sale. I wonder what she Is looking for." "Perhaps she expects to find a. castofl husband." Boston Transcript. DAILY DOT PUZZLE s 3 4 4o 39 38 34 35 36 6 I e 7 9 10 2J 2.7 U 15 7 31 Soe L9 ! .28 eiV(W IO ft - 23 u IS I Can you find the person she is waiting for? Draw from one to two and so on to the "I dare say your war experences have broadened your vision?" Tmloubtedly," answered the discharged jioldler. "For one thing. I have discovered that It Is possible for a man to work 16 hours a day and keep his health." Birm ingham Age-Herald. "Mav I er kiss your hand, Miss Dolly?" "Oh, I suppose so. But It would be so much easier for me to remove my veil than my gloves." London Tit Bits. "Where can I find that great explorer you were talking about the other day?" Why?" "I want to hire him to find a-flat for me." Juotge. Butcher I am In need of a boy about your size. I would pay you 10 shillings a week. Applicant Will I have a chance to Hfb? Butcher Oh, yes; I wa,nt you to he here at every morning. -Ottawa Eve ning Citizen. Lady Why did you take your boy away from school? Grocer They were ruining him. Why, they were teaching him that sixteen ounces make a pound. Minneapolis Tribune. Country Judge Ten dollars. Motorist Can you change a $20 bill? .lurlf."1 No, but I can change the fine. $20. Massachusetts Technical Voo Doo. Mrs. Perkins How quiet they are In the next room. Mr Perkins Tes. It reminds me of my army days. It was always wonderfully quiet just before an engagement. London Opinion. Wicks How did you manage to get your wife to give up her vacation? Wiseman I gave her a potted fern for a birthday present, and she won't go away and trust It in the care of any one ele. The Olive Branch. TO THE MOON. Oh, moon for centuries . Thou hast been shining In heaven's blue; yet every month Thy crescent sees Thou art called new. Bellevlew, Omaha. up in a hurry, and then In the flash of an eye they had dived under the table, spilling the money all oVer the wagon. "Howling hyenas! What's that?." yelled the manager. "It's the biggest owl In the world,'1 said Billy. "And the best trained one," added Peggy. "Dance, Judge Owl," and Judge Owl danced a funny jig. "Turn a somersault," and Judge flopped over as gracefully as an acrobat. "Sing a song," and Judge Owl made the echoes ring with his "Hoo! Hoo! Too! Too!" As if in answer, an awful howl arose from the menagerie tent. "Ow! Ow! Owl" "There's that pesky tiger In a rage again!" exclaimed the manager in dismay. "If we'd take another creature into the menagerie he'd kick up a powerful fuss. Get that owl away from here in a hurry!" (Tomorrow will be told how Peggy, BUy and Judge Owl set up a circus of their own:) .HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Avoid Imitations & Substitutes Let Us Talk You Out of Buying a New Suit of Clothes or Dress. Let Us Talk You Into Having Your Clothes Cleaned Oftener. Sooner the Better. DRESHER BROTHERS Dyer, Cleaners, Hatters, Furriers, Tailor. Rug Cleaner, Shoe Repairers. 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