Nebraska Newspapers

    v6 B
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 17, 1919.
The Omaha Bee
DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY
FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER
VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR
THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR
' MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TIM Auoeiited ('int. 01 vtucu The KM II in ember, II !
clutrly niltled to tli uh far pubHratloi of all nt diivtchet
i-redurd to It or not othenriw credited In Out paper, and 1m
. the local netn putolliocd herein All rlfhu of publication of our
racial dlnu-tif ire alao reterred.
BEE TELEPHONES!
Prints Branch Exchange, lik for tha TvIai 1 flfrfl
Dauanmtnt or Particular Peraon Wanted. jrl-l WVV
For Night or SuntUr Sarvlca Call:
editorial rparimnt ..... Tyler 10001.
Cirrulatlon Dapartuient - . - Tyler 10081.
AdvwUalna Department ..... Trier 10U8L.
." OFFICES OF THE BEE:
Home Office. Be Building. 17th and Parearo.
Branch Offices:
A met 4110 North itth Part M13 l-eiteownrth
Itannn Jilt Military Ate. Hoiitb Bid .1318 N Street
Council Bluff! 14 N. Main 'Vinton 3467 Snuth 1Mb
Uka 131S N'orth 2tth AValnut 819 North 40th
Out-of-Town Offices i
Ne Tort OU t8tt Klfth At. Washington 1311 O Street
Chicago Setter Bldf. IMncoin 1330 H Street
JUNE CIRCULATION :
Daily 64,611 Sunday 61,762
Ararat circulation for the month tubtcrlbad and iworn to to
C. R. Racan. Cirrulatlon Manager.
Subscriber leaving tha city should have Tha Baa mailed
to them. Address changed aa often a requeated.
You should know that
National sales managers re
port that Omaha branch offices
are among the most productive
in the United States.
Lard is not slipping much.
Herr Hohenzollern keeps right on sawing
wood.
The unexpected has happened a Nebraska
democrat has resigned from a state office.
One theft a day did not keep the police
away in the case of the St. Louis prowler.
The New York man with seven wives cer
tainly had little dread of living conditions.
Ohio food profiteers are on the run. Now
if the others will catch the habit, relief may
follow.
Paris gowns are to contain less material
than ever, and consequently will come higher
to the wearers.
A few more wallops at the price of hogs
may put bacon and pork chops back on the
poor man's table.
One point made in favor of the farmer is
that he has not struck or walked out in order
to limit production.
Carranza has just ordered a British official
to leave Mexico, perhaps to show that he is
playing no favorites.
- Waning summer's beauties would be more
enjoyable if one could get his mind off ap-
proaching winter's problems.
Cuba threatens to raise the price of sugar
again, showing how well American notions
,have permeated down there.
When the governors assemble in solemn
conclave, at Salt Lake, they will not be without
a subject for deliberation over.
New Yorkj is to get some benefit from a
strike. A realfy honest-to-goodness all-star
cast is about to give a performance.
A public market, where the consumer may
meet the producer without the intervention
of several middlemen, will help a little.
"Home-made hootch" is now under the ban
in Nebraska, and next the "booze hounds" will
be smelling around the kitchen to see what is
being cooked in the pot.
Another batch of four contracts for good
road construction in Nebraska has just been
approved by the state engineer. Slowly but
siireMy the problem is being met.
Cut rates on freight to and from South
American ports may have a reflection in lower
prices here. It would be unfair to allow the
dealers to absorb all the advantage.
.'.Japan's declaration that the future of Shan
tung depends on how China behaves is well
placed. It might be that the Celestials will
wake up enough to defend themselves.
J. Ogden Armour's acceptance of the pair of
shoes and his outline of a modest wardrobe
shows him to have a sense of humor mixed
with his thrift, with an eye to the main chance.
Germany declines to remove General von
der Goltr as commander of the Baltic forces,
and the prospects of another war with Poland
are thereby much enhanced. It is up to the
Allies again.
V An early report to the senate on the treaty
is looked for. It ought to come very soon
after the meeting on Tuesday, when the presi
dent and the committee will reach a definite understanding.
, One momentous problem has been solved
to the relief of everybody. The University of
Nebraska has decided on a Missouri man for
foot ball coach. He will be paid at least as
much as a street car chauffeur.
Common Sense in Students
Columbia University professors are going
to find out in advance whether a student has
commoit sense.
It's a splendid idea, if only the test amounts
to anything. That is the trouble with virtually
all "examiners"; their tests are not efficient. A
professor will spend a week preparing an ex
amination which a student is supposed to pass
in a few hours, when as likely as not the pro
fessor himself couldn't have passed the test had
he not spent a week preparing it. Any man
ought to be able to work out a set of questions
that even a college professor couldn't make a
10 per cent grade in answering.
; We are greatly impressed with the common
sense of the professors who propose to find
out whether other people have it. One of
them says that one test will be "to tell at a
glance how many small boxes are inside a
larger one," a.nd adds that the object is to
show "how constructive imagination manipu
lates concrete visual imagery." We'd hate to
have our "common sense" rated by a professor
-who used such language in stating a simple
nrooosition. Columbus Dispatch
REAL REFORM VS. MOVIE STUNTS.'
It is a homely adage that the housemaid
who stirs up the dust most furiously is not al
ways the one who keeps the room tidiest. So
in this furor of public officials in response to
the outcry against excessive living costs
through profiteering, the most spectacular per
former is not necessarily the one accomplishing
something tangible for relief from objection
able conditions.
The pity of it is the overdoing of the job is
too apt to produce a reaction that will leave
people with a feeling of helplessness, make
them resigned, to submit tamely to many evils
that could be at least mitigated, if not removed,
by more common sense procedure.
By way of practical application, right here
in Omaha, The Bee has been a consistent ad
vocate of the public market as a salutory
agency for bringing food producer and con
sumer together and stabilizing prices and we
believe a system of public market places, as
maintained my other cities, would be very help
ful to us. We know local grocers and commis
sion men have steadfastly opposed the project,
from a mistaken viewpoint, in our opinion, as
detrimental to their business interests and it
has never had a fair trial in Omaha. The city
has now gone into a municipal grocery store
enterprise without adequate preparation or ex
perienced people to operate it, and if the re
sults prove disappoiniing. another obstacle will
be set in the way of every future advocate of
the public market for direct trading between
householders, truck growers, and fish, meat and
produce venders.
Just to brandish a big club and pass the buck
from packer to jobber and jobber to retailer is
good diversion, but it is for the moment only.
Some constructive and lasting reorganization
of our household supply system that will pre
vent periodic recurrence of the same complaint
should be forthcoming.
Gold and the Elastic Dollar.
Prof. Irving Fisher's comments are always
interesting, and his conclusions illuminating,
therefore he will be heard for his argument as
to the relation of the price of gold to present
high prices. Dr. Fisher champions the idea
that it is to the inflexibility of the money value
of gold that existing price difficulties may be
ascribed; that if the gold dollar were not fixed
and stationary, the purchasing power of the
dollar could be stretched or contracted, to suit
changing needs.
This much is clear enough as a theory, but
the end to be attained must in practice be
achieved in another way. The inflation of
currency that has so greatly reduced the pur
chasing power of the dollar is not due to the
rigid value of gold, but to the uncertain pur
chasing power of the credit dollar, which in
trinsically bears only a remote relationship to
the metal money, and yet, Hke Hamlet's "mil
dewed ear," eats the life out of the healthy one.
More than three and one-half billions of credit
money are in circulation; a short time ago in
congress Representative Andrews disclosed the
fact that $1,500,000,000 of fiat currency had been
put out by the Federal Reserve banks, although
this is being gradually retired.
This enormous volume of paper money,
which is founded on credit alone, has been the
big factor in the shrinkage in purchasing power.
Calling a bushel of wheat $2 does not create
an additional kernel of wheat, nor can any
process of legislative necromancy provide a
roof to shelter another family. Whatever por
tion or phase of the existing monetary mischief
may be properly chargeable to the lessened
value of gold, it must be remembered that the
shrinkage complained of has been brought
about by the emission of enormous quantities
of credit currency. When this is reduced or
retired, as it must be in time, the gold standard
will be found unimpaired. The only anomaly
presented is that gold has gone down or rather
has not gone up along with the other things,
but this is because the credit of the govern
ment is now supporting the credit of the in
dividual, a condition that may not always pertain.
Summer Hotels and the Old Front Porch.
' Apropos of nothing at all, an American art
critic lifts his voice to complain against the
American summer hotel. Wanderlust stimu
lated by sultry weather has led him to many
places in search of surcease from torridity and
other discomforts attendant on the season, but
in vain. His esthetic soul revolts at the simi
larity he finds in the resorts where a varied
simplicity might at least superinduce quiet by
mental reaction to the suggestion if not the
presence of ease. Instead of this, the tourist
is confronted with such an array of massive or
fragjle furniture, immovable or impracticable,
as gives rise to the notion that hotels are
standardized, and flight from one to another
affords little opportunity of escaping the terror
inspired by any. After reading what this dis
couraged traveler has to say, the old home
porch looms brighter and more inviting than
ever. It is a place where at least you can have
your own way about a few things, always keep
ing in mind the rules and regulations laid
down by the missus. The willow rocker, or
the hickory-splint haven of rest, the pipe and
the evening paper, very nearly reconcile the
stay-at-home to the president's persistence in
his habit of vetoing bills to repeal the "daylight
saving" law. And when the crickets and the
katydids, the locusts and the tree toads strike
up their evening concert, the satisfaction is so
perfect that some lazy wonder is excited that
folks ever go away from home in search of
rest during hot weather. The old front porch
is the best summer resort as yet invented.
So they will not let the only man on the
commission who knows anything about the
business to run the "muny" grocery. All right.
But what is the good of having expert knowl
edge if it is not put to use?
" Life in and around the Chicago packing
house must have its attractions unknown to the
outside world, if it costs $2,000 a year to main
tain a family of five. In many other parts of
the city it is done on less.
Deaf mutes holding convention here insist
on having instruction in the sign language.
They ought to know what is best for folks in
their predicament.
If the peoples of Europe would only quit
fighting and start in to earn their own living,
folks on this side might feel a little better
about having to contribute to their aid
I
Views and Reviews
Sidelights on Carnegie Who
Coined Iron into Gold
I saw Andrew Carnegie for the first time in
the winter of 1888, a little over 30 years ago,
while I was serving as a page in the United
States senate and have an interesting souvenir
of the occasion in my autograph album. After
I had done some errands for him, I asked him
to write his name in my book. Complying
with the request, he inquired who I might be
and, when I told him, he said he knew my
father as a fellow telegraph operator during the
war and that though he had often talked with
him over the wires he had never met him.
"I'll send him a message." he added, "which
he will understand."
Whereupon he put down in the lower corner
of the page this inscription:
"Seventy-three To The Bee. A. C."
''Seventy-three" translates itself in telegraph
parlance to the code word "Regards" as I
found out when I later exhibited the book to
my father.
The over-the-wire acquaintance became a
personal friendship afterwards. Both men used
to attend the annual meetings of the national
organization of military telegraphers and my
father was more than once entertained at the
Carnegie residence in New York.
While I was on the Omaha Public Library
board I engaged in correspondence with Mr.
Carnegie at two different times to enlist his
( favor for a branch library or an enlargement of
the present main building. His library subven
tions were handled through a secretary charged
with that part of his benefactions and adminis
tered under rules and regulations with which
strictly applied our proposal could not be made
to conform. Unless special exceptions were
to be made, the conditions excluded the con
struction of branch libraries or additions to
existing libraries even if we could have met the
requirement of stipulating an annual expendi
ture equal to 10 per cent of the amount given.
These rules did not stand in the way of secur
ing a Carnegie library for South Omaha, for
which I also exerted my influence, and an
nexation has made that library a branch of
the Omaha Public library something we were
told the fund could not permit.
Mr. Carnegie was one of the members of
the White House conference on the conserva
tion of natural resources called by President
Roosevelt in 1907, to which I was appointed by
Governor Sheldon to represent Nebraska, but
was not active in the discussions. His age was
even then beginning to show. I saw him two
or three times after that. He had apparently
grown steadily more and more feeble.
By coincidence the annual report of the
Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of
teaching came to hand at the same time as
the news of the founder's death. This is the
fund set aside to provide retirement allowances
for superannuated college professors for which
our Nebraska university foolishly failed to qual
ify till it was too late. The report shows that
the annuity granted by special dispensation to
Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews has been
passed along to his widow. The mortuary roll
for 1918 contained also names of some other
educators within personal acquaintance x
Chancellor Chaplin of Washington university
at St. Louis, who delivered the address at one
of our medical school commencements; Dr. E.
H. Spieke, under whose instruction I started
my Latin at Johns Hopkins; Dr. Marion
Learned, who guided me into German literature
at the same institution. And the pension roll
proclaims the retirement from active col
legiate service on allowance of Simon N. Pat
ten, Pennsylvania's veteran teacher of political
economy; President William F. Slocum of Colo
rado college, and quite a few others. The board
in charge of this fund announces a complete
change in the method of administration, in fact
its conversion into an insurance endowment, by
which the benefits will be available on fixed
terms to professors and teachers who qualify
by taking out policies and paying part of the
cost themselves as they go along in the nature
of premiums for protection against disability
and death. Thus the charge of subsidizing our
higher educational institutions with tainted
money is wholly negatived, first, by putting the
fund on a business rather than a charity basis,
and now, by the death of the man who gave
the money and who might possibly have as
serted the claim to gratitude.
Let me pay a tribute to "Mogy." In his
limited sphere he has been a real factor in the
life of Omaha for 20 years by activities that
have made him known far and wide. He
started his career here as a newsboy for The
Bee. He was always big-hearted and open
handed never hesitated to go out of his way
to do a good turn for somebody genial and
generous to a fault. He will be missed by many
more than many who achieved loftier heights.
The Girl He Brought With Him
According to the American Legion Weekly,
the soldiers and sailors of this country have
brought back with them from France, England,
Ireland and Scotland 18,000 brides most of
whom, of course, are utter strangers in the
land, and nervously apprehensive of the first
meeting with the husbands' relatives. The lan
guage is not stranger than the mode of life;
it's a long way to the thatched roofs and white
walls of the village beyond the sea. When the
doughboy was in France he freely admitted his
longing for the sights and sounds and ice cream
sodas of home. Is it wonderful, then1, if twinges
of nostalgia afflict the demoiselle or colleen
transplanted to the new world with all her hap
piness staked upon the matrimonial venture?
Some of them, of course, suffer a bitter dis
illusionment. The husband tires of the sworn
allegiance, and there are slackers and deserters
in marital even as in martial affairs. The im
ported bride finds that the man she married is
far less solicitous and considerate now that he
is back in a land where girls of his own tongue
and social tradition are plentiful. She is per
haps less decorative than some of these young
women; her training has been in, the more sub
stantial accomplishments of the home-builder.
He looks for more of the playmate than she
knows how to be; her youth may have been
spent in sobering toil, and since the war nearly
all the fun in the world has been in America
and not in Europe. We are bound to remember
when we institute comparisons that Europe has
been a house of mourning when we have been
a house of mirth. We may learn to make al
lowance for features that are not always frivo
Jously pretty when we reflect that the iron has
entered into the soul.
Let us, as we are urged to do, receive the
war-bride from abroad with every manifestation
of sympathy and not as though she had en
snared the doughboy into an entangling alli
ance. In few instances can it be truthfully said
that she is marrying him for his money. In
most cases he is coming from $33 a month to
conjectural occupation. She is bravely electing
to share with him a hazard of new fortunes,
and she displays a valiant initiative like his own
when he went over the sea to fight. She may
not reveal the lively versatility we associate
with the nature of the American girl, but she
will, in a congenial environment of answering
devotion, show the attributes of affectionate
constancy that are the assurance of haDDv mar
riages. Philadelphia Ledger
Home Health Hints
Reliable advice given In this
column on prevention and
cure of disease. Put your ques
tion In plain language. Your
naraa will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Help You.
Nutrition of Newborn Infiuits.
W. R. Ramsey and A. G. Alley
(Amer. Jour. Diseases Children, 15
(1918), No. 6, pp. 408-412). The
following; observations were matte
at the University of Minnesota hos
pital: of 300 newborn Infants the aver
age weights were for males 3,391
gm. (4.47 lbs.) and females 3.27J
gm. (7.22 lbs.). The average
quotient was found to vary .in in
dividual cases from 43 to 75 calories
per kilogram of body weight, for
the first 10 days at least. In all
cases where the infants received 100
calories per kilogram they were
found to be overfed. The average
initial loss of weight was found to
be 240 gm. and the average time the
loss continued was three days. The
average daily gain In weight after
the third day was about 20 gm. per
day. About one-fourth of the in
fants regained their birth weight
before leaving the hospital on the
10th day. ,
These figures are compared with
those generally regarded as authentic.
Studies of Infant Feeding.
A. W. Bosworth, H. I. Bowdltch
and L. A. Giblin (Amer. Jour. Dis
eases Children, 15 (1918), No. 6,
pp. 397-407). Investigations have
led the authors to believe that many
of the troubles encountered with
bottle-fed infants receiving cow's
milk are due to the ill effects pro
duced by the calcium. They believe
that notwithstanding the high cal
cium content of cow's milk the cal
cium metabolism of bottle-fed in
fants is seldom greater and often
less than that found in breast-fed
Infants, much of the calcium being
eliminated as insoluble calcium
soaps. They refer to a method of
reconstructing cow's milk which per
mits the removal of much of the
calcium, and advocate the use of
this "decalcified" milk in place of
the usual simple dilutions.
Calcium In Cow's Milk.
L. E. Holt, A. M. Courtney and
H. Li. Fales (Amer. Journ. Diseases
Children 16 (1918), No. 1, pp. 52
56). The authors find that of a
group of 32 bottle-fed children from
2 to 15 months of age, 29 had a fat
retention of 89 per cent or more of
the intake 18 having over 90 and
10 over 95 per cent while only two
retained less than 80 per cent. In
their opinion, this seems to indicate
that there is no serious loss of fat
when the usual simple dilutions of
cow's milk are fed. They conclude
that unless the harm caused by a
fairly high calcium intake can be
definitely demonstrated it would
seem safer to allow an excess of
calcium in the intake rather than
to run the risk of providing less
than is needed for the normal
growth of the bones.
Undernourished Clilldren.
C. H. Smith (Amer. Jour. Dis
eases Children, 15 (1918), No. 6, pp.
373-396, figs. 10) This article out
lines the methods used in a nu
trition class which was started No
vember 1, 1916, in the outpatient
department of the Bellevue hospi
tal, as an experiment to determine
how much could be dune to improve
the nutrition of undernourished chil
dren when handled in Inrtje num
bers. It was found that 57 per cent
of the children enrolled in this class
gained at 1.7 times the average rate
for their ages, and 22 per cent at
about the average rate. Of the re
maining 21 per cent, the author
claims there were one or more eas
ily ascertained reasons for failure in
every case.
TlioXursing Mother.
E. V. McCollum and N. Simmonds
(Amer. Jour. Physiol, 46 (1918), No.
3, pp. 275-301, pis. 3). The authors
call attention to the fact that the
extent to which the material or
ganism, through the secretion of
the mammary Bland, can serve as
a factor for safety for the suckling
is still very little understood. They
believe that the lactating mother,
like the growing animal, is unable
to effect chemical transformations
of one food complex into another,
and that she can utilize food proteins
for milk production only to the ex
tent that they yield amino acids in
proportion suitable for rearrange
ment into milk protein. The result
of experimental studies led them to
the conclusion that the nursing
mother "is a very important factor
of safety for her young in that her
mammary tissues can remove from
the blood all elements necessary for
the production of milk, approxi
mating more nearly the normal in
quality than was the food from
which it was produced. She can
pass these on into the milk in de
cidedly more favorable relationships
than they exist in her food. This
the mammary gland can do when
nourished by blood which contains
certain inorganic elements in such
relationships as render the circula
tory fluids of the body a pabulum
from which the tissues of the young
can not secure satisfactory supplies
to permit the cells to grow, even
though the organic portion of the
diet is satisfactory."
Beri-Berl at Army Base Hospital.
J. D. Riddell, C. H. Smith and P.
G. Igaravidez (Jour. Amer. Med.
Assoc., 72 (1919), No. 8, pp. 569,
570). Laboratory investigations
and clinical manifestations of 60
cases of beri-beri are reported
which are said to be the first to be
diagnosed as such in the island of
Porto Rico.
A report of the diet of the regi
ment from which the majority of
cases came showed that polished
rice was a stap'le article of food,
being served on an average of two
meals a day. While the rations
were well balanced, there was a de
ficiency in fresh vegetables, potatoes
and beans being the only ones serv
ed in large quantities. Canned
meats and canned vegetables were
extensively used. The beri-beri pa
tients had consumed all the rice of
the daily ration, but had eaten spar
ingly, if at all, of the meat. All
patients began to improve when
placed on a high protein' diet.
FROM HERE AND THERE.
The cost of building a house in
England is three times as much as
before the war.
The British museum contains the
oldest known examples of Chinese
writing in the form of inscriptions
on animals' bones.
The law in Switzerland protecting
rare plants is so strict that to be
found in possession of specimens il
legitimately collected is a penal of
fense. Fans are carried by men' and
wonl'n of every rank in China. It
is a compliment to invite a friend
or distinguished guest to write some
sentiment on the host's fan as a
memento of any special occasion.
Bohemia is the country of long
courtships. In no other part of the
world are they so abnormally drawn
out. It is not rare to hear of en
gagements which have extended
from 15 to 20 years.
Venezuela received its name from,
the early explorers. Its coast was
visited by Columbus in 1498. and
the following year the name Vene
zuela, or "Little Venice." was civen
to an Indian village built on piles.
WheatDirector Barnes
On Food Outlook
Now York, Aug. 12. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: Referring to my
letter of August 6.
The responses received from many
of the editors addressed indicate a
sincere desire to better understand
the wheat problem, which for this
year is one of national policy and
national interest. Therefore. I am
encouraged to add this note on cur
rent developments since my last let
ter. The government rrnn ronnri la-
sued on August 8 confirmed my
woist iear, snowing a rail from the
high prospect of 1,236.000,000 bush
els, June 1, to 940,000,000 bushels
prospect, as of August 1, in the
United States. Knowing that Can
ada has suffered a similar deteriora
tion, it is evident that the expected
surplus of North American wheat
has been cut in two.
A survey of the bread grain crops
of Europe and of Europe's minN
mum consumption requirements,
with the most favorable estimate
justified of the surplus available
from the United States, Canada, Ar
gentina and Australia, indicates a
most discomforting margin. Un
questionably, jhe supply and de
mand situation of the world is
such that the American guarantee
price is certainly not above a world
level.
I have been in accord with those
who felt that if the guarantee main
tained wheat prices above the world
value of wheat, then that measure
of inflation should be charged
against the national treasury as a
war expenditure and not assessed
upon the consumer. In view of the
disappointing shinkage in the bread
grain crop of the world, and par
ticularly in America, that is no
longer a practical question. The
American people, when they ap
preciate this, will, I conceive, accept
it philosophically and pay their self
respecting way to still another har
vest, confident, as I am, that be
fore then the weapons of war in
Europe will become instruments of
production and thus reduce the call
on American food.
The wheat director has had a
party of crop experts in Europe for
three months. Traveling by auto
mobile 5,000 miles from Paris,
across Austria, Serbia, Roumania
into Russia, back through Poland,
Czecho-Slovakia, . Hungary, tier
many, Belgium . and northern
France, in that entire distance, only
once, when their machine was mired
for three hours in the lowlands of
a river bank, did they have any
trouble whatever, although several
times they crossed railroad bridges
which had been repianked to serve
wagon travel as well. Our con
clusion is that in many sections of
Europe 90 per cent of the normal
crop acreage has been put in against
tremendous difficulties, and probably
the average in Europe is about 75
per cent, in spite of lack of man
power, implements and horses a
most reassuring commentary on the
normal desire of mankind to work
and to produce. In some sections
food is ample, but distribution to
the congested centers is broken not
only by railroad and water transport
disorganization, but also by the
political obstruction, still perpetua
ted by racial antagonism. The
showing is very hopeful and another
year of peace will put these people
far on the road to complete self-support.
An equally astonishing develop
ment at home lies in our own flour
consumption. Our pre-war normal
consumption was 235 pounds per
capita per annum, ' which by the
way is lower than in most coun
tries of Eurone. Diir-intr tha
year just ended our flour consump
tion in America is no higher than
171 pounds per capita. We are
forced to the conclusion that, with
better spending power in our people,
they have gone to the more ex
pensive foods, probably meats. The
annual food bill of America is cal
culated at $18,000,000,000. A
restoration of our normal flour con
sumption to 235 pounds, and a dis
placement thereby of the higher
priced foods, would save our people
fully $1,000,000,000.
Food substitution during the war
accomplished much, guided by the
response of a war conscience. Is it
possible to use the newly trained so
cial conscience and secure not only
a reversion to our normal cereal con
sumption, but perhaps an increase?
By thus reducing the strain on other
foods and thereby naturally easing
the price which excessive demand
has made, a saving in the food bill
would reach beyond the actual dif
ference in cost Tjetween meats and
cereals.
For that section of the public that
proposes outright subsidy there is
only the reply that the act estab
lishing the wheat director office did
not contemplate nor authorize de
liberate subsidy of food and that
their policy can not be embarked
upon without the unequivocal di
rection of congress.
1 do not wish to burden you with
statistics or information, but this
oilice will be glad to answer, to the
best of its information, any ques
tion as to crops, consumption, stocks
or any phase that furthers the bet
ter public comprehension of the
wheat problem.
JULIUS H. BARNES.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
The works of Charles Dickens
contain 1,425 different characters.
Serbia is said to lead in centen
arians, with Ireland In second place.
The largest orange grove in the
world, covering an area of 2,000
acres, is in Cuba.
Workmen in Japan wear on their
caps an Inscription stating their
business and their employer's name.
The highest railroad bridge in the
world is the Gokteik viaduct in
Burma. It is 800 feet above the
water.
Chariots worked on the principle
of the taximeter are 'said to have
been used in China in the fourth
century.
The tallest people in the world
sre the Bororos, living in southwest
Brazil, whose average height is 6
feet 4 inches.
The iridescent fire in the opal is
due to the water in the gem, opals
being simply a mingling of silica
flint and water.
Sociologists estimate that among
every 1,000 bachelors there are 3s
criminals, whereas married men
produce 18 per thousand.
In Assam an oath is taken stand
ing within a rope circle, to imply a
wish to perish as the rope does if
the witness does not tell the truth.
It is estimated that one seed of
cotton, given the application of ail
possible care and skill, would pro
duce forty thousand million seeds
in six years.
Crusade Against
Tobacco
Monroe, Neb., Aug. 13. To the
Editor of The Bee: In the Sunday
issue of your paper, August 3, ap
peared a news Item quoting the as
sociation opposed to national pro
hibition as declaring that the W. C.
T. U. had declared war upon to
bacco since the advent of prohibi
tion upon the grounds that it was
a vicious and filthy habit, render
ing fathers unfit for childish
caresses, etc.
As superintendent of anti-narcotics
for the Nebraska Women's
Christian Temperance Union I beg
leave to fully state our position on
this subject. We are and have been
for years opposed to the use of to
bacco because of its Injurious effects
to the human system, especially the
growing child, due to its narcotic
nature. This campaign of education
has upon its own merits aroused
sufficient interest to bring to pass
the enactment of the scientific in
struction law which requires that
the effects of alcohol and other nar
cotics (of which tobacco or nicotine
is one) be taught in every school
in Nebraska. We have given and
still continue to give prizes for es
says upon these subjects from both
the economical and health stand
point. We are not seeking to Infringe
upon the privileges of the present
or coming generation, but are trying
through education to discourage its
use. Neither are we teaching chil
dren to disrespect their fathers, who
may be users of tobacco. Does not
the association realize that many of
us are living happily with these
same fathers who are in many cases
as interested in keeping the boys
and girls from forming the habit
as we?
That we are raising our Jubilee
fund for this purpose is true only in
part, as this great union of organ
ized mother love has many other
fields of activity which need funds.
However, it takes fire to fight fire.
We need money to present the truth
about tobacco through the press.
The day is past when the papers
can give free space, no matter how
much they may agree with a given
cause. The tobacco trust has un
limited funds at its disposal. How
could it otherwise fill page after
page with its advertisements, 1
might even say propaganda, so cun
ningly worded that it would seem
that the use of tobacco was the only
gateway to success or the pursuit
of happiness. Neither does it hesi
tate to send distributors to everv
door to distribute samples. Is not
its one purpose to increase consump
tion? The clfearet has leaped Into
popularity because of this campaign,
in spite of the fact that science
proves it detrimental to the physical,
mental and moral man corpora
tions hesitate to employ its ad
dlcters, colleges and high schools
hold it responsible for lowered
scholarship, athletes will have none
of it, and so we might continue.
In consistency with our' campaign
for better babies, our future citi
zens and so on we can do nothing
but oppose the use of tobacco by
the growing child. We are working
in the interests of American child
hood. Can the association say as
much?
Thanking for this opportunity of
presenting this to your readers, I
am, Very sincerely,
LIZZIE JEXKINSON.
I TO DAY
Tli Day We Celebrate.
Albert V. Presher, merchant
tailor, born 1874. ,
Bradley M. Smith, clerk B. & M.
freight house, born 1881.
Former Emperor Charles I of
Austria-Hungary, now an exile in
Switzerland, born at the imperial
chateau of l'ersi-nbarg 32 years ago.
Sir Erie Prummond, who has
been appointed secretary of the
league of nations, born 4 3 years ago.
Sir Edgar H. Bowring, Newfound
land steamship magnate, born at
St. Johns, N. F 61 years ago.
Lord Bertie of Thame, who was
British ambassador at Paris during
three successive reigns, born 75
years ago.
JIaj. Gen. Clement A. F. Flagler,
tl. S. A., former commander of the
"Rainbow division." born in
Georgia f2 years ago.
Jesse Lynch Williams, novelist
and dramatist, born at Sterling, 111.,
4S years ago.
Julia Marlowe (Mrs. E.. H. Soth
ern). long a leading actross of the
American stage, born in Cumber
landshlre, England, 49 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Onuilia.
W. K. Sveesy and H. A. Clark
have returned from a six weeks'
trip among the Great Lakes and
eastern cities.
invitations have been issued for
the marriage of J. S. PeVries of
Fremont to Miss Miriam Woodman,
a prominent young society lady of
this city.
Messrs. Chris Butler and Oscar
Beindurrf gave a lawn party to
about 50 couples at the residence of
Mrs. Beindorff. 2M'l Chicago street.
Mrs. Sadie Nash is visiting friends
at Salt Lake.
Two motor cars filled with Scotch
lads and lassies, members of the
Hums crub, spent the day in the
woods near Council Bluffs.
IN THE BEST OF HUMOR.
"When you broke off th engagement
with Jock, did you et-nd him back his
diamond ring ?"
"Of count not! "What do you suppose
I accepted him in the first place for?"
Stray Stories.
There was an old chief of the Sloui
Who captured a paleface or tloux.
"Your people," ;tid he,
"Once took care of me,
And now I will take hair of yleoux.
Chicago Tribune.
"Kicking ah a fw millinery bills?
Why, I could n:ve married Wombat, who
is now a millionaire, liut I didn't.'
"That's the one big reason why he'e
a mlHionairj." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Costly Luxuries.
Before fe overthrow of the em
pire Russia's 30 grand dukes en
Joyed & joint income of about $15.
000,000 a year, owned some 5,000
square miles of land and 325 palaces
and . castles, and employed about
20,000 servants.
"What Is your opinion of the League
of Nations?"
"I regard It," replied Senator Sorghum,
"as one of the most in teres ting pieces of
unfinished business that ever came to my
attention." Washington Star,
Flatbush The editor of this country
paper ways "the sound of the hammer la
aain heard in tho land."
HensonhurM Sounds as it his wife had
returned home. Vonkeis St a t osman.
Pretty Girl (to soldier just discharged
from hospital) And how did you feel
when the builet went through your arm?
"Well, I felt distinctly bored, don't you
know!" London Tit-Bits.
Mr. Newliwed Where did you put all
those unpaid bills, darling?
Mrs. Newliwed Oh, I knew they were
troubling you, John, so I just destroyed
them all. Edenburg Scptsman.
Yeast Have you got your fuel supply
in your cellar for next winter yet?
Orimsonbeak Well, I've got about 11
dozen bottles laid In there ao far.
Yonkers Statesman.
"Guess I'll go into th parlor."
"No fun in th're, only sis with her beau.
What you wanter go in there fer?"
"I won't be long. He'll pay me a quar
ter to git out." Kansas City Journal
Sub-Editor Nothing doing In the newi
lino today.
Editor All rlpht. Put a pair of trous
ers on the office cat, photograph him,
and we'll run a special on the oltiosu livfng
man in the town." Palla.s .w,
r
KJoncernma the
J
macJe$s
laryswet (eyes, contralto, ias
written, T 1
it appears to me tha.
piano is so firmly establisKed ir-.
the world of music that the orvly
comment left (or me is to acknotd-'
eclge grateully that I have been
permitted to know if."
But- 'take no one's word,
no artist's praise. Investigate
for yourself? and you, also wilL
-reali-ze wkv it is the finest piano
irvthc world, without exception,
er 1
Higiest
priced"
Aighest
1513 DOUGLAS STREET
The Art and Music Store
I I I I III inn .1 I ml III I I 'I 'I I I I I II I I .1' I l:J'JI
Have You $300?
It will buy three of our shares. If you have not this
amount, start with less,"and systematically save with us
until you reach your goal. No better time and no better
place. Dividends compounded semi-annually.
The Conservative Savings & LoanAss'n
1614 Harney St.
Resources, $15,500,000. Reserve, $525,000.
i .1 1. 1 i i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 '. ' iii i '
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i
WHEN THE FLEA.
I like It back in Omaha
in t lie sirins and in the fall,
Whpn the lilac ts In blossom
Mi';n the bhi jays loudly call:
I like It e-n at otlur times
He mighty sure of that
It's lovely hack In "maha
Where the flea Is on the cat.
Out here the bud i.i on the rose,
ThM scent is on the pine.
The foam Is on the dashing wave
The melon on the vine;
The frisky crab Is on the rock
Hut way out here the flea,
Instead of being on the cat.
Is oftener on me.
BATOI.L NE TRELB.
Hollywood, Cal., Aug. 10, 191J
PARTICIPATING FIRE INSURANCE
Liberty Fire Insurance Company, Old Line Stork Company,
writes every known kind of fire, tornado, hail and automobile
insurance at regular rates. After paying 7 ft dividend to stock
holders, the policy holders participate in the profits of the company.
Remember, it costs no more to insure your property in the
Liberty Fire than in any other responsible company and you share
the profits. $100,000 00 Liberty Bonds deposited with the Nebraska
Insurance Department.
OFFICES:
Suit 606 Fir.t Nat'l Bank BIdg., Omaha. Phone Tyler 318S.
Fourth Floor First Nat'l Bank BIdg., Lincoln. Phon B-4881.
AGENTS WANTED IN OPEN TERRITORY.