THE BEE:. OMAHA, FRIDAY. AUGUST 15, 1919.
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JUNE CIRCULATION:
Daily 64,611 Sunday fcl,762
i" circulation for the moath sutuortbed and iwora to t
B. B. Bafen, Circulation Menaier.
Subscribers leaving the) city ahould have Tha Be mailed
to them. Addreea changed often aa raqueated.
You should know that
In the United States there is
one auto to every 18.3 people;
in the "Omaha Empire" the
ratio is one auto to every 9.4.
Rent raiser are lightning calculators.
If hoarded food were hidden booze but
what's the use?
Omaha landlords evidently do not believe in
a hereafter.
Be patient, advises the mayor. And go hun
' W, he might have added.
What seems to be most needed hereabouts
is a self-starting set of public officials.
One thin; America can spare to Europe is
the malt, for which we have no further use.
Congress is to fix the amount of "kick" in
beverages, but who will put a limit on the
headache?
You would hardly expect Senator John
Sharp Williams to talk for political effect,
would you?
"Experts" are now busy reviving the corn
crop they burned up a-'few days ago. It is a
wonderful summer pastime.
Hurrah 1 New York has fined a profiteer.
But one swallow never did make a summer, and
what is one where we suspect so many?
Looks like the courts were to get a chance
to pass in advance on the constitutional con
vention. It may be as well to find out before
we go any further whether we are on the right
track.
, It is the public that pays the bills in the
end, no matter who sets the strike in motion,
and as the workingmen largely make up the
"public," so must they bear the greater part of
the cost. i
Every department of the federal govern
4 ment is asking an appropriation to run down
food hoarders and the like. Why could not
the ordinary machinery be set in motion for
this purpose?
Boston shoe dealers say that shoes they
offer for $6 or $7 are not purchased by the
public. Not at that price, perhaps, but a few
years ago the dealers would have looked on
$1.98 as a fair price for the shoes.
Bela Kun was a thrifty ruler at thai, having
walled up 180,000 golden crowns against the day
when he would not be in position to get it so
easily. He made the mistake of leaving the
cache where it could be located by others.
Mr. Howe may encounter some difficulty
in getting folks to accept his statement that
the price of meat is held down by raising the
price on hides. The packer is generally re
garded as a business man. not as a philanthropist
.' The embargo on German potash has been
lifted by the government, and now the Nebraska
output will meet competition just where it
ought tfJ have protection. The southern cotton
planters, have the best of the deal at the White
House yet
That new bridge over the Platte between
Douglas and Saunders counties seems bound
to excite contention. Move that the parties at
interest be given a chance to settle their own
differences before any public money goes into
.the enterprise.
Consumption of cotton is reported to have
fallen off to the extent of many thousand bale
for the last month, probably getting in line to
' meet the lessened production brought about by
the restriction of acreage practiced by the
planter to keep up prices.
No Chance for Quibbling
. llr. Lodge made a point of interest and
Importance when he declared that not only
should the reservations as to the league cove
nant be incorporated in the resolution of ratifi
cation, but that the other members of the coun
cilthe Big Five should be required to accept
these reservations or amendments before the
covenant could be regarded as having been
adopted.
- His point is interesting. He does not pro
pose that in time to come, early or remote,
there shall be any quibble about what is the
real meaning of the league covenant by this
nation or by that on account of any interpreta
tions or reservations which may have been
made by one and not accepted formally by the
-others. And that is the staryl which all the
reservationists are likely to adopt, for unless
these amendments coming from our govern
ment are accepted and approved by the other
government most interested what assurance is
there that they take them seriously and recog
nize the fact that the covenant has been
amended?
v Without such formal acceptance, it might oe
said that' the criticisms of the senate and the
reservations adopted were not binding upon
the other governments and that as a matter of
fact the only binding contract was that signed
by the president in Paris. Any such nullifica
tion of reservations as that Senator Lodge
. would avoid. Minneapolis Tribune
WHAT HURTS OMAHA.
"It hurts Omaha to be advertised as the city
with the highest living cost" is the declaration
which some of our merchants aie repeating to
themselves.
To be sure it hurts Omaha whenever our
city suffers by comparison with others in the
same class, whether it be in heavier tax bur
dens, bigger debts, poorer roads, worse health
and sanitary conditions, police inefficiency,
higher rents, scarcer dwellings, lower wages,
poorer schools, or what not that goes to make
the attractiveness or repulsiveness of a place.
But it is the toleration of such conditions,
without effort to correct them, not the adver
tising of them that hurts. Folks who come to
Omaha from other cities at once find out what
the situation is, and if they feel themselves im
posed on by false representations they either
do not stay or harbor a grievance which they
air on every possible, occasion, to say nothing
of advising friends from where they came.
On the other hand, those who are already
living in Omaha have a right to know whether
they are victims of greater profiteering than are
folks elsewhere and to protest and take meas
ures to protect themselves to whatever extent
they can. That is the only way they can im
prove conditions and secure relief.
What we all want is to put Omaha on the
same level with, if not ahead of, the other
cities inviting people to make their homes
among them. The search-light of publicity is
the only thing that holds the promise of re
lief the only thing the wilful profiteer iears
the only agency that operates quick and fast.
If Omaha will show itself alert to repress evils
that threaten its welfare and progress it will
not be hurt but helped by the exposure.
Nebraska's Potash Industry.
When the blockade of Geniany shut off the
supply of potash salts supplied by that country
to American manufacturers of fertilizer, a great
cry went up on both sides. Cotton planters and
farmers along the sandy shores of the Atlantic
bewailed the lack of fertilizer needed to make
their land beaf profitable crops, and the Ger
mans rejoiced that the world would be de
prived of the supplies that could only be grown
by the aid of potash.
It was then that Americans turned to the
alkaline lakes of the west. Much publicity was
given to a packing company and a great powder
making concern for extracting small quantities
of potash from kelp, but little was said of the
"golden waters" of northwestern Nebraska,
from which was drawn a supply of potash, even
in excess of requirements, so that when the war
ended large quantities of the precious salt were
held in storage.
After the armistice began a campaign on
part of the southern democrats for the restora
tion of the 'German product to the American
market. This can be bought cheaper than the
Nebraska, and as millions of pounds of it are
now stored in Germany, awaiting shipment, the
recent order of the Department of Commerce,
lifting the embargo, is hailed with delight by
the fertilizer makers and their customers.
Nebraska was all right when the war was
on, but now that we are at peace with Ger
many, let us buy over there because it costs
less. The Nebraska potash will keep till an
other war comes, or until the German surplus,
filched from the mines of Alsace, has been ex
hausted. Soon we will be buying from France
or from Nebraska, because the German stores
will not last forevver, but while Heinie can cut
the price no attention need be paid to Ameri
can interests.
Why Beat Around the Bush?
The agitation that is kept up on the as
sertion that the United States wants to annex
Mexico has no foundation of truth in it as
far as this government is concerned. W.-H.
Why beat around the bush with this palpa
ble camouflage? Of course the government
does not "agitate" for the annexation of Mex
ico or any other territory, but it is undeniable
that the people of the United States have
looked upon Mexico with covetous eyes for
three-quarters of a century and that a large part
of our people are convinced annexation is only
a question of time as the solution of the diffi
culties besetting Mexico. It is the firm belief,
too, of many of our thoughtful men and women
that the destiny of the United States will not
stop short eventually of connecting up with our
possession of the Panama canal by extending
the control, if not the sovereignty, of the United
States over all the intervening land, and that
this would be as much and more for the benefit
of the inhabitants of those parts as of our
selves. It would be a happy sign of growing en
lightenment if the petfple of Mexico brought
themselves to the point of asking the United
State to step in and give them a government
capable of maintaining order and administering
affair in a way to secure steady development
of the rich natural resources now going to
waste there. Mexico presents one of the press
ing problems for the United States to solve
and we gain nothing by shutting our eyes to
that fact.
' Foreign Language Papers
From the Kansas City Star.
The inefficacy of the government's policy
toward foreign language publications of sedi
tious and inflammatory character is repeatedly
demonstrated. These publications flourish in
great number in New York, Chicago and other
cities. They circulate among alien populations,
unacquainted with any language but their own,
ill disposed toward all government, without
knowledge of the character of American insti
tutions and ready and willing to believe that
disorder and revolution are remedies for con
ditions their own ignorance and backwardness
have brought upon them.
The character and purpose of the men con
ducting these seminaries of ariarchy are known
to the government. Yet, as a general policy,
the government contents itself with keeping an
eye upon them, and takes no action against
them until some mischief is done. In New
York, for instance, special agents maintain an
office where all such publications in that dis
trict are received as fast as they appear and
are translated and examined for utterances that
may violate some specific statute. This pro
cedure is bound to be slow and ineffective. A
report must be made to the Department of
Jnstice and the evidence submitted. Months
may pass before the department finds that any
particular article renders the publication in
which it appeared liable to exclusion from the
mails or its publishers to prosecution. Mean
while the flow of sedition goes on unchecked.
Frequently, too, it has been shown in prac
tice that a publication adjudged unmailable is
not thereby suppressed. It simply changes its
name and starts all over again,
There ought to be better and quicker ma
chinery than this for the suppression of sys
tematic and professional teaching of anarchy
in America. The teachers ought, of course,
first of all, to be barred from landing here.
They ought to be deported w.hen they fucceed
in landing. But in addition to such precautions,
and after it has been shown beyond all doubt,
that publications printed in a foreign language
are natural and inevitable vehicles for the dis
semination of anti-American, if not absolutely
anarchistic, doctrines, there ought to be pro
hibition of such use of all foreign languages.
It is obvious, in the first place, that no for
eigner admitted to our shores can be a desirable
citizen until he learns the language of the coun
try. He won't learn it as long as he hears
and reads his own language. The mere fact
that he prefers his own language is sufficient
evidence that he isn't in America for the pur
poses that underlie, or ought to underlie, the
spirit of our immigration laws. He has no in
dention of becoming an American, and nobody
wuuse uucuiiuu is umcr man tu uciuiuc a
citizen ought to have domicile here or receive
the protection of American laws and institu
tions, while helping to destroy them.
October Weather
It seems that the Prince of Wales has just
heard about our "Indian summer" and is worry
ing about the kind of weather that prevails in
the United States at the end of October. Natur
ally, familiar with the fogs and damps of the raw
autumns of England and northwestern Europe,
persistent oceanic climatic conditions which led
the French revolutionists when they reformed
the calendar to label October "Brumaire," or
foggy, the young prince is quite unaware that
the continental climate which we share with
Canada normally gives us an October of blue
and gold brilliancy, with clear, crystalline skies
the rule, and the only interruption to this type
of weather, with its sharp tang or early frost in
the air, is the return of the dreamy, halcyonic
days which suggest the return of the summer
and have been called poetically "Indian summer"
ever since the early Colinial days. The phe
nomenon of Indian summer has always in
terested English writers, though most of them
who have discussed it are in error as to its
causes, and the phrase long since has played its
part in English literature as a synonym for the
peaceful, tranquil, golden evenings of life, the
second summer of one's declining days. It is
true the meteorologists have shown the phys
ical similarity of our "Indian summer" to "Saint
Martin's summer" of November and "Saint
John's summer" of December, which figure in
European folklore. But "Indian summer" in
October has a quality all of its own as the last
gorgeous hues of the maple and dogwoods and
the oaks color the vistas and make late Octo
ber the most delightful time of the year. So
the prince need not worry about our October
weather; if it be normal it will be quite as con
tinental and as "American" as anything else
that he will experience over here and quite as
stimulating, and a golden memory he will never
forget. Philadelphia Ledger.
Speeding Up on the Treaty.
From the room of the senate committee on
foreign relations comes the report that con
sideration of the peace treaty is to be speeded
up and early report made. Democrats, who
now appear to be willing to accept the "mild
reservation" plan, say they need only twenty
more republican votes to bring ratification on
this basis. Down from the White House
comes the disquieting word, however, that the
president will accept no modification of his
plan. If Mr. Wilson remains obdurate, he may
reasonably expect resistance from a senate now
in a mood to meet ftim half way. Should this
come to pass, the failure of file treaty is fore
shadowed. It is perhaps possible the president
may secure sufficient votes to defeat any reser
vations, but it is not probable he will be able
to secure the majority necessary to ratify. He
will be required to co-operate with the senate
in the discharge of its constitutional function
in treaty making. The expected visit of the
foreign relations committee to the White
House may bring the answer.
France is to buy American army supplies
now in that country for $40(5,000,000 on long
credit. This is better than piling them up and
burning them.
Omaha is just now entertaining a collection
of "tanks," but before the state went dry it
was not needed to send abroad for them.
Out of His Own Mouth
"B. L. T." pulls the following in the Chicago
Tribune:
"Come Over Here, Where the President of the
United States Can't Hear Us."
(From "A History of the American
People," by W. W.)
In April, 1844. Mr. Tyler sent to the senate
a treaty of annexation which he had negotiated
with Texas. Secret negotiations, a piece of
business privately carried to completion and
made public only when finished, suited well
with the president's temper and way of action.
A man naturally secretive, naturally fond, not
of concealments, but of quiet and subtle man
agement, not insincere, but indirect in his ways
of approach, he relished statecraft of this sort
and no doubt liked the Texas business all the
better because it seemed to demand, in its very
nature, a delicate and private handling." The
senate rejected the treaty by the very decisive
vote of 16 to 35, men of both parties alike be
ing irritated that the president should spring
this weighty matter upon the country in such
a fashion, taking no counsel beforehand save
such as he chose to take.
ITOnAV
The Day We Celebrate.
H. C. Bostwick, president of the Stock Yard
National bank, born 1844.
Moshier Colgetzer of the Chicago Lumber
company, born 1877.
Dr. Louis Swoboda, physician and surgeon,
born 1869.
John B. Sheldon, superintendent of telegraph
for the Union Pacific, born 1860.
Mrs. John A. Logan, widow of the famous
civil war commander, born at Petersburg, Mo.,
81 years ago.
Ethel Barrymore, one of the most popular
actresses of the American stage, bom in Phila
delphia 40 years ago.
Col. Sir John S. Hendrie, K. C. M. G.. lieutenant-governor
of Ontario, born at Hamilton,
Cnt., 62 years ago.
Rear Admiral Joseph W. Oman, U. S. N.,
governor of the Virgin Islands, born in Co
'umbia county. Pennsylvania, 55 year ago.
Rt. Rev., Jules B. Jeanmard, Roman Catholic
bishop of Lafayette, La., born in Attakapas
county, Louisiana, 40 years ago.
Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, noted explorer, now
planning a flight to the North Pole, born in
Newfoundland 44 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
FrohmanV Lyceum Theater company played
"The Wife" in Boyd's opera house to a large
and enthusisatic audience. Henry Miller was
in the cast.
Judge GrofF returned . from Washington,
where he went at the solicitation of Senator
Paddock for an interview with the president.
County Auditor Evans has compiled a state
ment showing the cost of the Dcuglas county
court house and jail to be $435,061.K4.
Ex-Governor Thomas A. Osborn of Kansas
is in Omaha
Railroad Strikes of
the Past.
for
of
on
In 1887 30,000 employes of the
Reading railroad went on strike for
an advance in wages. The men re
mained out two months, during
which time the aggregate loss to
them In wages amounted to $3,800,-
uuu.
In the Pittsburgh district during
the riots that accompanied tne great
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railroad sirine or. in, nemiy .v.uv
cars and more than a hundred loco
motives were burned and the county
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or Aiicgnany was neiu mun
damages of more than $3,000,01)0
Following the disastrous strike
erpat strike
American railroads until 1S86, when
the employes of the Missouri Pacific
system were ordered out by Martin
Jones. This strike involved nearly
10,000 men, lasted two months and
resulted in a heavy financial loss.
One of the shortest railroad strikes
on record occurred in 1890, wnen i
s-ennral atrlkn um declared bV em
ployes of the New York Central lines
against the dismissal or men wno ire-
longed to the Knights or wtoor. ine
differences were speedily adjusted
and within two days the men re
turned to work.
At the time of the great railroad
strike in 18 U4 rresiaenr. Lievemuu
sent federal troops to Chicago de
spite the objections of Governor Alt
geld of Illinois, an dthe orders were
quelled, but not until the railroads
had lost nearly a million in property
destroyed and more than $4,000,000
in earnings, while the loss to strik
ers and to shippers also reached far
into tho millions.
Following the railroad strike of
1894 President Cleveland appointed
a commission to investigate the na
ture and causes of the strike. This
commission, headed by Carrol D.
Wright, then commissioner of labor,
suggested $hat something like gov
ernment control must be exercised
over quasi-public corporations, and,
though not composed of socialists,
cautiously hinted that government
ownership might be undertaken at
the proper time.
In the railroad strike of 1877
President Hays, after issuing two
proclamations, finally sent federal
troops into Maryland, West Virginia
and Pennsylvania. The rioters gave
way before that force without blood
shed. But there were disturbances
as far west as Chicago, where 19
men were killed. The deaths at
Scranton numbered three and the
mayor narrowly escaped being killed.
At Reading machine shops and ware
houses were burned and pillaged and
nearly a dozen persons were killed.
The American Railway union
strike of 25 years ago, which orig
inated in the town of Pullman on
account of a cut in wages and the
laying oft of many men at a time
when business was dull, was of
greater consequence than any pre
vious labor disturbance and for a
time threatened to tie up the entire
transportation system of the United
States. The strike spread through
half a dozen western states, but dur
ing the whole of the troubles the
eastern roads were but little affected.
CURIOUS COMMENTS.
Peat is largely used in stoking the
railway engines of Sweden.
Cigars are regularly exported
from the Philippines to 40 countries.
Each human being takes about 18
breaths a minute, or nearly 26,000
a day.
It is believed that nearly a quar
ter of Australia has not been visited
by civilized man.
A locomotive going at high Speed
is said to give 1,036 puffs each mile.
The oldest unifrrsity in Canada
is King's College! Windsor, Nova
Scotia, which dates from 1789.
The Belgians are said to be the
greatest potato consumers, outrank
ing even the Irish in that respect.
It is believed that forests some
times take fire through the branches
of the trees being rubbed together
by the violence of the wind, thus
producing the friction necessary to
ignite them.
The "death plant" of Java has
flowers which continually give "ft a
perfume so powerful as to over
come, if inhaled any length of time,
u full-grown man, and which Kills
all forms of insect life that come
under its influence.
"THE TRAIL."
I followed the trail, and It lead me
Where once roamed the buffHlo
And tn the canyou, whose rocks are red
And the pine, and the spruce trees grow.
Still further on where mountains Brand
Whose peaks eeem to tourh the sky
And 'cross the desert where sage brush
grows
That are white with the alkill.
And throush the Salt Lake valley
The land of thrift and Industry
The trail was not at an end 'til 1 stood
Where the sun drops low In the sea.
BEr.LVTKW.
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DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
DAILY DOT PUZZLE
(How aa tha result of a curloua accident
Judge Owl again altera his form.)
A Lemonade Bath.
CJ OW, yow, yow!" laugheed
L the beasts of the menagerie
when Major, the elephant, begged
Judge Owl to stop spanking him.
"I guess you've learned that It
doesn't pay to be Jealous," hooted
Judge Owl to Major.
"Yes," trumpeted Major. "PH be
a better elephant after this."
"Well, then, as you're going to be
a better elephant, you can still be
lord of the menagerie," hooted
Judge Owl generously. "I make
you lord chief policeman, with all
the other elephaants as your help
ers." "Hall, lord chief policeeman,"
trumpeted the elephants.
"Hail, lond chief policeman,"
howled the animals) all except the
tiger, who was still angry at the
ducking Judge Owl had given him.
"Coward, you are afraid of the
owl," snarled the Royal Bengal
Judge Owl's quick eaar heard the
taunt.
"Lord chief policeman, that tiger
needs another bath," he hooted.
"Watch me give it to him," trum
peted Major, leading the elephants
to the tank of the hippopotamus.
There they filled their trunks with
water. Before the tiger knew what
they were up to they were squirt
ing water into his face like firemen
at a fire. As was said before, the
tiger didn't like water except to
drink and the queer shower bath
made him squirm and snarl and
beg for mercy.
"IIoo, hoo! Too, too! Now we
can all take another snooze," hoot
Judge Owl, as the menagerie quieted
down again.
"You'il not have time," said Bil
ly. "The crowd for the evening
show will soon begin to come."
"I'm tired of crowds," answered
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Why does Susie cry out "Oh"?
It's a great big cawing .
Draw from one to two and ao on to the and
"Hoo, IIoo! Hurrah, Hurrah! I'm
a Freak No Longer!"
the Judge. "I long for the quiet
woods. I want to go hunting for
field mice. I'm hungry again."
"You can't go back to the quiet
woods now that you're the biggest
bird in the world," declared Peggy.
"And it wouldn't do you any good
to hunt for field mice, for you'd
never find enough to fill you up.
You have such a big appetite you'll
have to stay a circus freak to get
enough to eat."
"I'm tired of being a circus
freak. I don't like being the big
gest bird in the world. This stuffy
tent makes me ill. I'm homesick
for Birdland!" And Judge Owl
lookdd very woebegone, Indeed.
"I'm thirsty, too," ho added, as his
eyes chanced to rest upon a barrel
of ice-cold lemonade at the men
agerie refreshment stand. Hop
ping over to the barrel, he plunged
in his beak.
The elephants, like good police
men, were setting the tent in order,
picking up peanuts and eating
them and putting the spanking
wagon back into place. It happen
ed that the spanking wagon hit a
hummock as two elephants were
pushing it along. The hummock
steered it toward Juge Owl, Just as
he bent over the lemonade. Bump!
the wagon smashed into Judge Owl.
Splash! Judge Owl's head was
driven deep Into I he. lemonade and
he was Knocked In a somersault
clear over the barrel and into a
stack of ice cream tubs and cans
The lemonade spilled all over him.
the covers were knocked off the ice
cream cans and the ice cream flew
about like a summer snowstorm.
Then there was an amusing mix
up of cold lemonade, chopped ice,
fYosien cream and Judge Owl. And
the more the Judge floundered and
kicked the worse he got messed UP
in the frigid mixture.
"Hoo, hoo! Too, too! Get me
out of this, I'm freezing!" he hoot
ed. But Peggy and Billy couldn't
get him out, he was in too much of
a tangle.
Then an astonishing thing hap
pened. Judge Owl began to srrlnk.
Just as the hothouse had made him
grow hlg, the cold lemonade and
the frozen ice cream made him
prow small. And he shrank Just as
fast as he had swollen In the first
place. In two minutes he was back
to his own size.
"Hoo, hoo! Hurrah, hurrah! I'm
a freak nd longer! Now I can go
home to my own dear woods,"
hooted Judge Owl, and away he
flew as fast as he could.
"Here, here! Who has been
wrecking my ice cream stand?"
yelled an angry voice, and a circus
man came rushing at Peggy and
Billy. Turning, they fled out of
the tent, through the streets, and at
last, bllnkety-blink, there was Peg
gy back in her hammock safe and
sound.
"My, I know Judge Owl Is glad to
get home," she sighed. She knew
because she was glad herself.
(In the next Installment will be told the
story of the mysterloue blrdman, hli beau
tiful sons and his search for a lovely
daughter.)
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Hide Goes With tho Carcass.
Omaha, Aug. 13. To the Editor
of The Bee: I Just read an editorial
in this morning's Bee on hides,
which is very misleading. It is a
fact that the packer buys the hide
on cattle at the live cattle price, but
you have failed to state the packer
credits the dressed carcass of beef
with the value of this hide, when
the cattle are killed, at the market
value of hides, less the cost of cur
ing and shrinkage.
Yor instance, today we are credit
ing light native cow carcasses with
the hides at 57.70 cents per pound;
native steer carcasses with the hides
at 49.70 cents per pound; extreme
light native steers with the hides at
57.70 cents per pound. This re
duces the cost of beef Just the value
of tiie hide.
It is Just such statements as this
that causes a lot of dissatisfaction
and dissension. I think it might be
well before an editorial writer
would make such a statement that
he would try and get the facts and
give the public sound information.
I might also add the packer buys
the viscera and its ci utents, which
is a waste, at the live cost of cattle.
Wish you would publish this
statement. R. C. HOWE.
in these days of unrest, quibbling
and passing the buck. C. R. J.
1 Just a Metaphor.
"They were married in an air
plane." "The latest fad, I understand.
How long was it before they got
back to earth?"
"About six weeks."
"You don't mean to tell me they
were up in an airplane that long?"
"I was speaking figuratively. At
the end of six weeks the average
honeymooners strike terra firma
with a sickening thud." Birming
ham Age-Herald.
True.
"Why do you spend all day at the
piano? Your wedding is only a
month off."
"Ah. music is the food of love."
"A little practice on a gas range,
however, won't come amiss after
marriage. ''--Louisville Courier-Journal.
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This Encourages t?s.
Omaha, Aug. 11. To the Editor
of The Bee: Will you let an old
reader of The Bee congratulate you
on the four fine editorials which
appeared in The Sunday Bee Au-
ust 10? (Thev were. "Whpre
Does the Public Come In?" "Presi
dent's Remedy for H. C. of L.";
"Making a Great Mistake" and
"Seven-Cent Fare for Omaha.")
If so, said congratulations are
hereby extended. Not that the
above are an unusual exhibition of
gOOd. Sound artiflpa that ara
stantly appearing in The Bee, but
four in a string, so timely and to
the point that we heard it remark
et uy many as voicing their opin
ions, which only goes to show that
your paper Is "still there" when it
comes to treating the affairs of our
daily life in a manner that satisfies
the man who ts innirun tnr.
willing to abide by a square deal
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