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THE BEE: OMAHATUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PEOPBIBTOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The AuKviated I'ltu, of wtucn Tb lies it Mattr, U ex . elusliely enUtled to the um fur publication of ell news dUpetchei credited to It or not otbtrwite emitted la this paper, and also tha local news published bmin. All rlfbu of publication of our special dispatches are alM ressrred. BEE TELEPHONES! Prlratt Branch Rfchanfe. ask for the Department or Particular Person Wanted. Tyler 1000 editorial Department fln-ulatlon Department Advertising Department For Nlfht or Sunday Service Calli Tyler 10001. Trier IoObL. Trier lOitfL. V OFFICES OF THE BEEt Home Office. Bee Dutlding, 17th and FUaMeV Branca Office: Ames 4110 North I4tb (Park J615 Learen worth Haneon 61U MlllUri Are. South Side II J 18 N Street Council Bluffe It N. Main (Vinton,, MAT South lth Lake MIS North Mtb IWalnut 81 North 40th Out-of-Town Official New Tort Cite MO XlfUj Ate. IWaabiniton 1311 O Street Chicago rketrr Bid. iLlncoln 13.10 H Street JUNE CIRCULATION i Daily 64,611 Sunday 61,762 Acenge circulation for the month eubecrlbed and sworn to or . B. Ragan, Circulation Uauafec Subscriber loavtnf the city should have Tho Boo mailed to them. Addreaa changed often aa ' requested. You should. know that The percentage of illiteracy in the United States is 7.7 ; in the "Omaha Empire" it is only 1.9. Maybe that rain will help by making vegeta bles more plentiful. The dry bill will be dry enough when the senate gets through with it. Fruit rotting in the railway yards is a poor commendation for our civilization. Some delay is noticed in getting word to King Hog that prices are coming down. 1 " I i v Funny how a refrigerator car loaded with fruit'ean disappear from a railroad yard, isn't it? Colonel Bingham has started the biggest "bargain" sale held in these parts in some time. "Work and save" is the advice of the Fed eral Reserve board, and it is good and sound. War between the milkmen, if any such there be, has not yet disturbed the consumer to any extent. The mayor's plan to impound speeding autos is to have a trial. The proof of the pud ding is In the eating. A little readjustment of the transfer system might serve to reconcile street railway patrons to the new rate of fare. A girl in London fell out of bed while asleep and was strangled to death in her night gown. There is a moral to this somewhere. An eastern association of grocers suggests that the excess profits tax be removed as a remedy. Fine; let the profiteers keep it all 1 A Washington preacher endorses kissing, but advises care as to the kisses. Wonder if experience taught him, or if he is only theorizing? Up in Saginaw the populace sallied forth and burned the car barn as a protest against a 75cent fare. How milk and meek seems Omaha in comparison. f -t Well, Nebraska has struggled along for ten days under the "code" law, and no sign of a revolution yet. Maybe the pesky thing is going to work out, after all. The Drews and the Barrymores, line up with the actors; Willie Collier and Holbrook Blinn 'with the managers. That is about the way the public would classify them. Mr. Plumb would have directing and operat ing officers of the great railroads elected by the employes. Picture the daily sessions at the round house and the switch shanties under this system. Two or three years ago, when profiteering first became unpopular, the authorities chased a train-load of eggs for several days through the Chicago railroad yards, only to find in the end that the hen fruit had existence only in the imagination of some produce gamblers who were in deep water. Could such an experience be duplicated in Omaha? Include Customers Also The Federal Trades commission, in discuss ing the high prices of shoes, blames packers, 'tanners, manufacturers and retailers. Its con clusions are based on an inquiry of conditions -between 1914 and 1918 inclusive. There are some abnormal conditions beyond control of the classes mentioned which are a pronounced , element, as we have heretofore pointed out, ' but there is still another class that should be included. The customer himself or herself, as it very often happens to be is a great booster of prices, not only of ihoes but of other things. There are no figures of percentage available. "but observation has shown that many men and women purchasers turn from shoes with com paratively low prices and buy those twice as expensive. Some may do it because they really believe that the quality and durability, must be greater, while others do it as a matter of habit. They "always buy the best." Some delight in telling acquantances how they were "robbed." It is no uncommon thing for a railer against profiteers to stick out a shapely foot and declare: "Why, they held me up $16 for these shoes." It is not difficult to detect a touch of vanity in the complaint. The same attitude is assumed toward other articles of apparel, by both men and women. They feel somewhat humiliated unless they buy the most expensive things on display. The vanity of men is especially illustrated in the purchase of shirts. Many insist on silk shirts, regardless of price or wearing qualities. They are the kind of people who pay more for style than for substance when they dine. They buy morocco bound books, although cloth bindings last longer, while being cheaper. Even the dealers in furnishing goods have a system perfected to catch the "regardless of price" customers.. Onemay find at the mar ket boxes of berries that differ little if any, yet bearing different prices, so customers who in sist on the best may enjoy the privilege of paying more. Only the choicest cuts of meat, to be prepared hurriedly, will suit these fas tidious ones. The tendency to live high is as pronounced with all prices up as at any time in the past. A little more close buying would greatly reduce the cost of living. St Louis Globe-Democrat BETTER CAR SERVICE NEEDED. Omaha people bore patiently with curtailed street car service while the matter of increase in fare was being adjusted. Now that the com pany is receiving the added 40 per cent from each passenger, a little reciprocity might be shown. People would not take it amiss if a few of the regular trains that were taken off last fall should be restored, and thus make shorter the waits between cars. Particularly does this apply to the Hanscom Park, the Crosstown and Walnut Hill lines. Shorter intervals during the rush hours, to avoid the overcrowding now practiced, would help considerably. The patron submitted to being jostled and jammed in the awful crushes, because he felt in so doing he was in a measure contributing to assist the company in getting over a tight place. Now, that he is paying in money, he does not relish being also asked to give unreasonably in personal discomfort. When these matters have been adjusted, some attention may be given to the transfer system. It could be easily arranged to give more accommodation to passengers and work no hardship on the . company. Existing ar bitrary rules, that seem to have no elasticity frequently result in a patron being compelled to pay double fare to complete a single trip, unless he finds it convenient to abide by the whimsical requirement of the management that he change at a certain spot and nowhere else. Transfers from one line to another at any in tersection, so long as the journey is always in the same direction, involve nothing unreason able, and should be permitted. Omaha ought to get the service it is paying for. Andrew Carnegie, Ironmaster. Andrew Carnegie, American ironmaster, student, philosopher, philanthropist, industrial and financial leader, is gone the way of all mortals. His active career ended many months ago, and death found him at 82 a broken old man. He had not wasted the "borrowed time" that was his beyond the allotted span of man's life, nor is it likely his labors in that added decade were all vanity. Mr. Carnegie's career has often been re view as an jxample of the reward possible to industry when intelligently applied. From pov erty he mounted to great wealth; from obscur ity to immense influence in the world. ' Al though his fame and wealth alike came chiefly from his connection with the iron and steel in dustry, in the development of which he was a leader, his life was many-sided, and before he became a furnace master he had won success in other ventures. His philanthropy was ex pressed in many ways, chiefly thrpugh the gift of libraries to communities in this and other couptries. An endowment fund for payment of pensions to college professors is another of his gifts, and his beneficence in other ways and through many channels is said to have been notable by those who know, although much of his giving was through channels not public. To the cause of universal peace he was so devoted that the great Peace Palace at The Hague was constructed at his expense. The failure of his hopes in this direction affected him deeply, and he came home from England during the war broken and disappointed. He was not spared what he once playfully termed the "disgrace" of dying a wealthy man. He actually did give away nearly if not quite the fortune he possessed when he made the remark, but it was his fate to accumulate faster than he could spend. Bread and the Price of Wheat. Julius H. Barnes, United States wheat di rector, hits the bullseye several times in suc cession in a recent statement concerning the food situation in America. Among other things, he has this to say with regard to the price of wheat alid of bread: In America flour is 50 per cent of the final wholesale cost of bread, and SO per cent is made up of labor, other ingredients and de livery. Roughly speaking, to reduce the 10 cent loaf of bread to 9 cents, 65 cents per bushel must be taken from the price of wheat.' If flour were supplied to bakers free (the present cost of labor and other materials re maining the same), we could hardly attain a retail 5-cent loaf. Bread, fortunately, is al ready the cheapest item in the diet. At 265 pounds of flour per person per annum, flour alone covers between 35 and 40 per cent of the entire diet, in terms of calories. In other words, about $16 per year buys over one third of the individual's food, and if all other foods were at the same rate, the total cost of food per person per year would be about $50, or a total national food bill of five bil lion dollars, instead of eighteen billions, as at present calculated. This, of course, is im practicable, but let us spend a few millions in teaching housewives, and through our schools, how and what to buy to get food value at reduced expenditure, and without sacrifice as to taste and palatability. Wheat, therefore, is not only our chief staple but our cheapest food as well. Efforts are being made in the senate to remove the govern ment guaranty, in order that speculators may set the price proportionately as high as other things have gone. It is not likely these will succeed. The American basic price is figured on the world price, and as such is fair, and it should remain where it is until such time as improved conditions warrant its being lowered. Lumber Wasting at Army Camps. A subscriber writes to inquire why the sur plus lumber held at army camps and canton ments is not put on the market. A similar in quiry was made in congress the other day. and elicited no response from the War department All that is known is that hundreds of millions of feet of the best lumber, boards, planks, di mension stuff and all sorts of the best grade is piled up at Camp Grant, and other places throughout the north and south, idle, useless and going to waste, while the whole land is crying for building material. The only con clusion is that it is being held in conformity to the policy announced by the secretary of war in connection with the surplus food and cloth-ing-t-tha! it would not be put on the market to break the price. Now that the cost of living has come to an acute stage, it is possible that the head of the War department will be com pelled to recede from his plans, and put some of the needed building material within reach of those who will use it for erecting homes. Nebraska's wheat and corn crops are run ning far ahead of last year's, although not up to the wild guesses made by the crop "re porters" early in the season. The increase on corn alone means almost $100,000,000 to the state at present prices. Ousting the Capitalists From the New York Times. The spokesmen of the railroad brotherhoods are frank in explaining their purposes. They say in their latest statement: "We demand that the owners of capital, who represent only the finan cial interests, as distinguished from operating brains and energy, be relieved from manage ment, receiving government bonds with a fixed interest return for every honest dollar that they have invested in the railway industry." The owners of capital invested in railways are not, as the brotherhood chiefs seem to imagine, all assembled in Wall street. The capitalists they propose to dispossess are the 12,000,000 owners of the six billions of money deposited in savings banks; the 12,000,000 holders of life insurance policies to the amount of some $25,000,000; the multitude of private owners of shares in investment institutions. These capitalists are represented in railway management or were until the government took over the lines by men elected by their votes, directly or indirectly, to be members of boards of directors. It is the opinion of the brotherhood chiefs that among these millions upon millions of persons interested or actively concerned in railway management there is neither skill, energy, nor brains. The chiefs say that the men actively engaged in conduct ing the railroad industry must be chosen "not from Wall street, but from the railroad offices and yards and out of the railroad lines," for these represent all the brains, skill and energy that there is in the business." The men of the offices and the yards and the lines undoubtedly have skill, brains and energy, they also have experience in the business of operation. That business, however, would be to the very last degree easy and simple compared with the financial problems that would concern the new "democratic" management of the railways. As the brotherhood men see it, this, too, would be simple. Perhaps they underestimate the magnitude and difficulty of financing the railroads under a system of joint control by government directors, labor party directors and officials. Their plan is to get rid of the , present owners of railway capital by giving them government bonds in exchange for their securities. They talk of a 4 per cent bond. As the savings banks, insurance companies and private owners might not accept a 4 per cent government bond, the transaction would have to be put through by a forced exchange. This would be taking property without due process of law, but when "democratization" of indus tries is in the wind the constitution, of course, would have to be set aside. In the literature of the "Plumb Plan league" we are assured that "the public can ob tain the money to purchase the lines at 4 per cent, whereas the public is now charged rates to guarantee the roads 6 per cent on their money." Where would "the public" obtain money to purchase the lines at 4 per cent? No where but from itself; there is in all the world no other source from which it could be drawn. What it means is that the brotherhood chiefs would have the government issue bonds at 4 per cent in exchange for the $18,000,000,000 or $20,000,000,000 of outstanding railway securities, and whenever money was wanted to operate or extend the lines more bonds would be put out. Men skilled in finance and of such abso lute integrity of mind that they would not at tempt to deceive the brotherhood chiefs will enlighten them, if they wish for enlightenment, as to the certain consequences of an attempt by the government to issue 4 per cent bonds to the amount of $2,000,000,000 in addition to its present war debt of more than $25,000,000, 000. For national defense, to deliver the gov ernment of the United States and the liberties of the citizens from dire peril, that great sum might be obtained, but not at 4 per cent. But this new debt is to be incurred not for national defense, but for an adventure in government ownership and in the "democratization" of in dustry which every man pf observation and common sense knows would be foredoomed to disastrous failure. To get money at 4 per cent the investment must be secure beyond all chance or question. With the Russian ex ample of democratization of industry fresh in mind and still before its eyes, the American public would not be very eager to supply money at 4 per cent or arjy other rate for the purpose of putting the railroads into the hands of the representatives of labor and the politicians. It is very evident that the radical wing of the labor party in England has imparted its ideas to the representatives of the brotherhoods The program of that party declares that "the individualist system of capitalist production, based on the private ownership and competitive administration of land anil capital," has or will have "received a death blow." Also "the labor party stands not merely for the principle of the common ownership of the nation's lands to be applied as suitable opportunities occur, but also specifically for the immediate nationalism of railways, mines and the production of elec tric power." It is plainly a venture into radical socialism that the brotherhood chiefs propose; more than that, it is a very long step toward the principles of Lenine and Trotzky and of soviet govern ment. The plan is so violently at war with all human experience and human reason that the impression gains strength that the brotherhood chiefs, who are men of undoubted intelligence, do not for a moment believe that they are go ing to put it through. It is coming to be looked upon as a method they have devised for frightening congress into granting their new demands for wage increase, which it is esti mated would call for an appropriation by con gress of about $800,000,000 of the taxpayers money. "Quiet Way" With Bombers. What is wanted by the War department at the disciplinary barracks, as we understand it, is an elderly gentleman of loving disposition who will not be afraid to say "Shame on you!" or something like that, when a conscientious objector takes a shot at the flag or an I. W. W. playfully drops a bomb in the officers' dining room. The need of the hour in a dis ciplinary way is for someone who will be able to tell the misguided young man that it is wrong to do such things Kansas City Times. ITOHAV The Day We Celebrate. Rear Admiral Thomas Snowden, United States navy, military governor of San Diego, born at Peekskill, N. Y., 62 years ago. Julius Rosenwald, eminent Chicago mer chant and philanthropist, born at Springfield, 111., 57 years ago. Baron Chelmsford, the present viceroy and governor-elect of India, born 51 years ago. James W. Wadsworth, United States sen ator from New York, born at Geneseo, N. Y., 51 years ago. Pauline Frederick, one of the most popular actresses in motion pictures, born in Boston 35 years ago. Christy Mathewson, one of the noted veter ans of professional base ball, born at Factory ville, Pa., 39 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Goodrich lodge, I. O. O. F., gave a literary entertainment and ball at their hall on Saun ders street, for the benefit of the hall associa tion. Rain prevented the base ball game between Minneapolis and Omaha. The railroads have decided to make a rate of one fare plus 50 cents for the round trip to Omaha during the state fair, from all points in Nebraska and 250 miles east of the Missouri. The letter carriers of this city took their wives and families across the river to Fair mount park for a picnic. About 60 attended. 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. 'JAe qJcMs' Cym&r Service Insignia for Navy. Printer Man The service ribbon for the navy and marines Is the same as that for the army, but a medal will be substituted for the button worn by the soldiers. These medals have not as yet been fur nished, but are expected to be ready soon. They will be issued without cost to all who served in either the navy or the marine corps, whether afloat or ashore. during the war, and will be known as the Victory medal DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "THE JEALOUS ELEPHANT." (Judge Owl growi Into the biggest bird In the world and Joins a clrcua. The other animals are jealous of him, particularly Major, the elephant. Urged on ty tho tiger. Major decides to drive Judge Owl from the circus.) Slay ("limine Beneficiary. Soldier You may change the beneficiary named in your policy of insurance at any time, without con sulting the existing beneficiary. You may name one or more as beneficiar ies, but always within the list pre scribed by the law. Simply write to the bureau of war risk insurance, giving notice of your desires. Many Questions Answered. Mrs. J. W. D. The Third division was released for return to the United States some weeks ago, and is in readiness to start, although no date has been announced for the sailing. It will reach home some time this month. L. R. H. The Fourth Infantry Is part of the Third division, and was recently reported enroute to Brest irom wnence it win sail lor nome No time has been announced for this division to embark. Mother The 108th military police company is at Langres, and has not yet been released for return to America. Very few of these units have yet been sent home, and it is likely they will be the last out of France. Lucille The Third ammunition train is assigned to early convoy, and is expected to reach New York about the middle of the present month. Harry No more troops are being sent home by way of St. Nazaire. The last transport left there late in July. Father Soldiers enlisted for the emergency still are held in service, and may be for four months after peace has been declared. These men in the regular army units are being replaced as rapidly as possible by new enlistments. To pet your son released, make application to the commander of his company, setting forth the reasons in form of affi davits. These must go through the regular military channels. Larry The 17th field artillery reached New Y'ork on Monday of last week. Can not tell where it will be sent for demobilization. Sicter The 13th regiment of marines arrived at Hampton Roads, Va., on August 7, coming on the transport Siboney. C. L. K. The Eighth field artil lery has been demobilized. It landed at New York on June 20, and was sent to Camp Funston to be mustered out. Judge Owl's Dangerous Nap. WHEN Major, the elephant, made up his mind to beat Judge Owl and drive him from the circus, he didn't rush straight at the Job. He was more sly than that. An elephant has a very long life and he could afford to wait until Just the right time to catch Judge Owl off his guard. Major was very strong, but deep, deep down in his heart he had a fear that Judge Owl might be even stronger.' So Major wasn't going to take any chances. "Why don't you sneak up behind him now?" urged the tiger. "There are too many folks around," snorted Major. "I'll wait until the crowd is gone and the trainers are at supper. Then maybe you'll see what I'll do." BRIGHT AND BRIEF. Pigeons have been known to fly 600 miles in continuous flight in ten hours. A new "baby" aeroplane, of Swed ish irake, weighs only 700 pounds, and has a speed of 80 miles an hour. The British and Foreign Bible society issues the Scriptures in up wards of 370 languages and dia lects. Bankruptcies- are almost unknown in China, probably owing to the fact that they entail immediate execution. A certain county of Connecticut boasts of its record of having had hut two murders in nearly 100 years. Of the 60,000 or more daily and weekly newspapers in the world, more than half are printed in the Englirh language. It is estimated that the money spent by Uncle Sam on munitions during the war would be sufficient to rebuild New Y'ork City twice. The gigantic wall which the Dutch are building across the nar row entrance to the Zuyder Zee will be 18, miles long and 230 feet wide at. sea level. For a short distance a lion or a tiger can outrun a man, and ran equal the speed of a fast horse, but they lose their wind at the end of a half mile at the most. ON GROWING OLD. B with me, Beauty, for the fire (a dying. My dog and I are old, too old fnr roving; Man, whose young passion seta the sptnd thrlft flying, Is snon too lame to march, too cold for loving. I take the book and father to the fire. Turning old yellow leaves. Minute by minute. The clock ticks to my heart; a withered wire. Moves a thin ghost of music In the spinet. I cannot Fail your seas. I cannot wander Your mountains, nor your downlands, nor your valleys, Kver again, nor share the battle yonder Where your young knight the broken squadron rallies; Only stay quiet, while my mind remembers The beauty of fire from the beauty of embers. Beauty, have pity; for the young have power. The rich their wealth, the beautiful their grace. Summer of man Its fruit-time and lt flower, Sprlng-ttme of man all April In a face. Only, as In the jostling In the Strand, Where the mob thrusts or loiters or Is loud, The beggar with the saucer In his hand Asks only a penny from the passing crowd. So. from this glittering world with all Its fashion, Its fire and play of men. Its stir, Its march, Let me have wisdom. Beauty, wisdom ana passion. Bread to -the soul, rain, where the sum mers parch, Give me but these, and though the dark ness close, Even the night will blossom as the rose. John Masefleld In the Atlantic Monthly. DAILY CARTOONETTE. P"0HN-TJEflrv-IUJI5H YOU'H EXPLAIN BRSE-BALL TO ME. 1 20NT UrVJJE"R5TflNll IT ABIT. I lf til M) HE DID- v "Wake Up, Judge Owl! The Ele phants Are Attacking You!" Shouted Billy. The circus crowd was already streaming out of the tent. A few boys had a hard time tearing them selves away from the monkey rage, but at last even they straggled away. A bugle call drew the largest num ber of the circus folks to the cook tent, and the menagerie became de serted except for the animals and several attendants left on guard. And these-attendants were soon doz ing. So were many of the animals, for it was napping time in the menagerie, one of the few hours of the day when all was not bustle and excitement. "My. but it is hot, and stuffy In this tent," hooted Judge Owl to I'eggv and Billy. "It's making me awfully sleepy. I'm not used to being up so much in the day time. I guess I'll fly away to my hollow tree for a nilet little snooze before the evening show." "But you can't do that now," said Peggy. "You're a freak, and will have to stay with the circus." "And besides, you're so big you couldn't possibly get into your hol low tree," added Billy. "That's so!" yawned Judge Owl. "This being the biggest bird in the world isn't so much fun as I thought it would be. I wish 1 were back in my own cool nest, I wish I were, I wish Rnor-r-r-r-r-r-r! Snor-r-r-r-r! Snor-r-r-r-r!" Judge Owl was fast asleep. "I feel sleepy, too, yawned Billy, "but wo must keep awake to guard Judge Owl." "Yes," vawned Peggy, "because we can't tell what mischief these animals are plotting." But when she looked around the tent it didn't seem as if the animals were plotting any mischief. They were feeling very content after their supper and were nodding drowsily. Every one seemed about to go to sleep. Peggy and Hilly felt their own eyes growing very heavy, and they closed them, just fur a minute, and in that minute they dozed off to sleep. How long they slept they did not know, but suddenly Hilly sat up wide awake. He felt a strange thudding of the earth and heard a loud rumbling noise. He knew in an instant that the rumbling was Judge Owl snoring, but he had to DAILY DOT PUZZLE UJvJZ m it; Work, Not Walling, Needed. Omaha, Aug. 11. To the Editor of The Bee: I have no sympathy with this wail over the high cost of living or the cost of high living. Wailing will not reduce the demand for what people want or need, and will not increase the supply. The adjustment of supply and demand will eternally govern the financial relation existing between the two. Spasmodic corners and occasional combinations may exaggerate the demand or conceal the extent of the supply, but for not any great length of time. Such commercial incidents are mere wavelets lrj the great ocean of business. It Is plain to everybody that the world's supply of everything people wish to buy, luxuries, as well as necessities, is insufficient to meet the world's demand. We have more than anybody else and we demand more than any other part of the world. What is more to the pur pose, we individually as well as col lectively, have more with which to buy than any of our neighbors. Demand having so far outstripped supply, everywhere the puny ef forts of producers to limit the sup ply in order to increase the de mand is fatuous and unprofitable. The demand for everything is so imperative and the supply so plain ly inadequate that the only question the buyer can put to the seller is "How much?" Competition cannot exist when every merchant has a larger demand for what he wishes to sell than he can possibly supply. If all the available meat, fresh, cured and dried were equitably dis tributed to the butchers of Amer ica and they were to offer it at auc tion on the same day everywhere, the price would soar above any thing we have ever known in Amer ica. No act of congress or price fixing commission could control the bids or the sales. All our people have money, and employment. Meat consumption is at its lowest ebb at this season in most households. Yet all meats and fats are ridiculously high in price, not by reason of manipulation alone, but because meat is scarce and wages and earning power are high. If all the meats in storage are thrown upon the market, it will temporarily break down prices, but the total amount can readily be consumed within a very brief period. This would increase the demand and probably materially increase the subsequent price. Americans are the heaviest eaters in the world. They consume more meat per capita than any nation. They eat more sugar than all of Europe combined. They eat more rice than Japan. They consume more bananas than the people of the states which produce them. The same is true as to many other foods, food products and, in great measure it is true also as to clothing, furs, diamonds, coffee, tea and other im ported luxuries. Every American wishes to live well and to have his family well cared for, and on the average he is not thrifty or even prudent in the management of his finances. In no other land are there so many automobiles, bicycles, taking ma chines, pianos and children's play things. In no other land are there so many bath tubs, and nowhere else are people so well dressed. The movie patrons are not the rich or the salaried middle class. The A. TV xtesmoi soothes ( and heals sick skins Resinol is what you want for your skin trouble Resinol to stop the itching and burning Resinol to healt eruption. This gentle ointment is so effective that it has been a standard skin treatment, among physicians, for many years. It contains nothing which could irritate the tenderest skin even of a tiny baby. All druggists sell Resinol. Trial free. Writi Dept. 5-R, Resinol, Baltimore, Md. movie is the workingman's recrea tion and he is paying the extrava gant salaries which film artists re ceive. It follows that prosperity in Amerlcaa is only another name for extravagance, judged by European standards. The American gleefully, speedily and persistently pays whether It is for the hat girl's tip or the high priced silk shirt. lie may kick on his grocery bill, his wife's millinery statement or the coal and ice expense, but cigars, club expense, drinks and personal outlays go right on regardless. "Times are good. Everybody has money. What's the use?" Our government itself sets the pace. Never in history has any nation been anywhere near so lav ish in expenditures as the United States after entering the war. The government has not yet entered upon any systematic economy. In other words, Americans have money, their government gets it easy, and individually and collectively, we are all crazy to spend it. The most impecunious will spend his last dollar like a prince because he knows how easy it is to go and get another and get it quickly. Under such conditions, it is folly to seek for scapegoats upon whom the sacrificial blood of a sin offer ing may be sprinkled. The Amer ican people are either profiteers or improvidents, and there is mighty little difference between them. The miser anfl the hobo live much alike and one is about as useful to the world as the other. The profiteer could not exist without the im provident. Both must contribute their utmost efforts or there Is no high cost of living, and hence no profiteering or improvidence. The 34 & .27 erOV 37 .24 38' 5 ; v A. ? '7 2 What does Susie hear? Draw from one to two and so on to the end. look around to see the cause of the thudding. When he saw he grabbed Peggy in a hurry, making her start up in alarm. "The elephants:" he cried. "They're after Judge Owl!" True enough, the elephants, led by Major, were headed right for the sleeping bird. They had pulled up the stakes to which they were chained and were free to do as they pleased. "Wake up, Judge Owl! The ele phants are attacking you!" shouted Billy. Snor-r-r-r-r-r-r!" answered Judge Owl. The elephants stopped short when they heard Billy's shout. They were nervous enough about tackling Judge Owl when he was asleep and didn't like a bit to face him when he was awoke. "Snor-r-r-r-r-r-r!" went on Judge Owl again, and the elephants, believing him fast asleep, moved forward again. "Wake up! Wake up!" screamed Peggy and Billy again. Judge Owl blinked one eye in a funny sort of a wink, and all of a sudden Billy and Peggy knew that he wasn't asleep at all. He was just pretend ing to be. He was really wide awake and only waiting for the elephants to attack. He had some bold plan of his own with which to meet them. (Tomorrow will be told how Judge Owl upset the elephant's plot.) IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. "So am I," replied the host. "You've wasted Just about 80 cents worth." De troit Free Tress. 'What Is the trouble, sir?" asked the sollcilous waiter. "Whnt is the trouble?" repeated the sniffing guest. "Why, I asked you for a three-minute egg,' and you've given me a three-year one!" Town Topics. Husband fat dinner) By George, this Is a regular banquet. Finest spread I've sat down to in an age. What's up? Do you expect company? Wife No, but I think the cook does. Boston Transcript. Yeast It is said that a frog sounds call under water which can be heard law docs not and cannot reach either ! C-rlmsonbeak And how much further and it will not. nrtemnt to enrral :." ue heard under dry conditions? i,i, ,,,... . , i V . i 1 onkers Statesman. i-Miiu. i.'uicr uowi are eillTiiriiiieu the social economy of the situation remains unchanged. If both should cease their activities and disappear, we should know that the bread line and the soup house will take their place. Union labor, demagogues, and al leged statesmen may bring it to pass Merchant They say you are very sue-' ce.ssful with old bills and seldom have to dun them twice. 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