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Good morning: Been burgled yet?
The actors' is one strike that does not affect
the cfst of living.
Wonder what the chief of police understands
by "conscientious?"
No xtra, charge for this fall weather, which
is some consolation.
Household economy is getting closer study
than the political brand these days.
Everybody is ready for the downward shoot
of prices, if somebody will only cut the string.
.Major General Howse says the Mexicans
should respect us, but how are we to make
them think so?
Mayor Smith has changed his mind again
on the "muny" grocery, but no one is startled
by the statement.
An appropriate text for today will be Paul's
Vemarlt-to the effect that "Unless a man work,
neither shall he eat."
The Welfare board has adopted its rulesfor
dancing next winter,' and now will come the
fun of getting then) enforced.
Senator Owen disagrees with Senator Knox,
which is another reason fffr thinking the latter
trhows what he is talking about.
LABOR DAY AND LABOR'S DAY.
Labor did not acquire a new dignity, as
softie have asserted, through th$ fires of war.
The dignity of labofis better recognized, that
is all. A dumber of old ideas went into the
discard, along with certain out-worn customs
and institutions, but the great fundamental of
human happiness is unchanged. ven yet some
are unable to recognize the facts in theif true
light, but these will see more clearly as days
go by. " .
Labor stands for the productive and creative
functions of man. It is the essential of life, of
growth and progress, the elder brother -of
Capital, and the one sure source of content
ment. Artificial divisions and distinctions have
grown up, obscuring these vital truths, but
the fact has been unchanged. With the ad
vance of methods some of the relations be
tween the two great forces were distorted or
turned aside from their natural channel, with
the effect that has disturbed what should be
orderly progress. Efforts are now being made
to set aright operation of these agencies of
good, that harmonious results may , proceed
from their proper employment.
Present day disturbances are symptomatic
principally of the reaction incident to breaking
ujj the old and the establishment of a new order.
Men who have controlled are reluctant to re
linquish that domination, and others who are
coming Up are eager to seize more than right
fully is theirs Greed is not confined to class.
But the balance will be set up.
Labor's day is dawning. It is not to be a
day of ease and idleness, but one full.of ftusy
hours,, with every faculty and energy employed
to the utmost in the creation of things needed
for the happiness of man. It will be a time
when the productive impulse will be guided
more intelligently; injustices and oppressions
of the past will disappear and the idle will no
longer eat while the worker goes hungry In
equalities will always exist, and men will be
discontented with their lot, just as they have
been from the beginning. But all will work
with greater joy, because all will know that the
effort is not jn vain.
Of course, you remember the president
made the house stay in Washington during the
hot weather. -Now it wants to get even. ,s
Mr. Wilson will set a record for traveling
'that no future president may hope to eqal if
he spends any time at all in Washington.
v Chicago folks complain that the news of
the drop in hog prices has not Reached thel
'butcher shops. That sort of,' information
I ravels slowly. j
One thing may be said ii favor of the
ijurglar's now operating in OmahV None has
"ret attempted to break into either the city hall
or the old jail.
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' Railroad men who ha;ve tied up California
sire now getting back on i the job. Most of the
timeMor the next" few weeks will.be spent by
them in trying to find ojut what it was all about.
South Africa wants" a little more attention,"
aud seeks publicity , 'by threatening to break
away from the Britirsh'empire. That is one sure
way of attractingnotice, but it seldom goes
amy farther. )
' Another pronvise is mafe from Washington
liiat the h. e. Cjf 1. will be cut within ninety
days, if we can just hold out that long. That
will bring us to the Christmas shopping sea
son, so it is not clear where the pocketbook
v. ill get off.
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One of 'the outstanding facts developed by
lire many investigations under way is that
everybody is willing to have the other fellow's
business regulated by the government. Maybe
when thley all get back to the good old rule of
live anl let live, folks will feel a lot better and
worryj a heap less.
Yur Symbols of Disillusion
f Along with the worn-out ordnance and other
thigs in the discard of war must be noted the
baclkyards war gardens. No one has had the
heart to mention them lately so many people
hifve seen them. They are truly pathetic, in
t!ese carts at leaest: our only reminders of the
devastation wrought by the cataclysm of war.
e No Man's land of our lost endeavor. Of
'purse the weather man is being blamed, but
would take more than the coming true or. a
FSt. Swrthtn leeend to dampen any. kind ot en
thusiasm that started so many patriots digging
a few seasons ago. w
We are afraid the weather, with all its
idiosyncrasies, is more of an excuse than any
thing else when it, comes to the general neglect
of the war gardens. To dig and plant and hoe
and brag as our amateurs did for so long was a
- stirring manifestation of patriotism. It was
easy to imagine every vicious weea a nun or
. a strand of Von Tirpitz's whiskers, to be
whacked. It is quite another thing to fight
,mud and worms and plant lice merely to give
congress, more time in which to talk about the
peace treaty and look into the cost of living.
'At any rate, our amateur cultivators are on
strike for a higher incentive. They will not
work for such meager rewards as are promised
by this year's product, and many a hopeful one
' is deploring the loss of a valued grass plot
jziven over"1othe war garden in the vain en
deavor to beat the high cost of living. Of
', course, it was foolish to have started gardens
: last spring, but that is where human nature
came in.. The war garden was to be followed by
a peace garden, and the upshooting of fresh
green things was to symbolize the new era of
peace and tranquility to be ushered in by the
conference at Versailles. Alas, the back yard
'.now symbolizes our complete disillusionment.
Hve know now that peace is a relative term
and that tranquility is a nebulous aspiration,
v And. besides, there are plenty of excuses for not
working gardes .this year.Bjgoklva Eagl$.
Future for Labor
' Going Around the Circle. '
Scrutiny of the progress of food c5st in
quiry in Omaha, such as has been had, will
give a very fair idea of what is being dqne
generally. It is admitted that agreat and un
expected rise in price of necessities is present.
Furthermore that some par of this is not at
all justifiable, and that undue profits have been
exacted. Opposed to this 'retail dealers, whole
sale dealers, manufacturers, producers of raw
materials, all unite in repudiation of profiteer
ing, and there iati' have it.
The variety .of remedies suggested offer lit
tle hope, evety if we generally adopt the ever
recurrent advice to buy "cheaper" supplies. As
a matter ot fact, thtre are 'no cheap supplies;
some are lower priced than others, but( none
are che,ap. A grocer testified that his meat
market first sells its porterhouse steak, and
finds' difficulty in disposing of the less dainty
portions of the carcass. This is easy to un
derstand. People like porterhouse steak and
none can blame tnem. some years ago quite
an extensive campaign was carried on to in
duce the public to purchase less expensive cuts
of meat, and when it had met with fairly good
success the prices on these portions were cor
respondingly marked up. This has been re
peated in other lines than meats.
Little headway is made m befogging the
public mind with long arrays of figures, show
ing lessened production, increasing consump
tion, currency inflation and the like. These are
elejuents in the main problem. Their presence
does not relieve the suspicion that much if not
most of the advance in the cost level was ar;
tifically stimulated. The government has not
and probably will not be able to lay its hands
on the culprits. It has been established, though,
that the business of producing and marketing
in the United States is highly organized.
.Nothing is gained by singling out individual
cases of extravagance, because the fact is ap
parent that most people are compelled to prac
tice close economy in purchase and use to get
along at all. The cost of high living can not be
held responsible for all the trouble.
Each ha his reason and each his remedy
fdr the evil, but we are all moving in circles.
Until this "milling" is ended and somebody
leads the country again on a tangent, no head
way willoe made.
, I
s Pershing-and the Investigators.
General Pershing has declined to appear be
fore a subcommittee from the house committee
that is investigating war expenditures He
giyes as his reason the fact that all his records
have been boxed and shipped to the United
States. This will strike most people as a fair
excuse for his declining to submit to an ex
amination It is certain he would be asked a
great many questions he could not answer from
memory, and in absence of the archives of his
office he (Would be unable to satisfy the ex
aminer. Such a proceeding would be productive
of no good. The presence of the subcommittee
in Paris may have the effect of bringing out
much detailed information that could not be
gotten at from this side, but it is clear that the
records, so far as they affect the action of the
general in command, must be referred to and iP
they are on their way to the United States, they
will be available here. The insinuation that
General Pershing is trying to evade a respon
sibility is hardly warranted from his record as
a soldier. .
New York, Aug. 30. Industrial peace of the
world is at stake on this Labor day, says Dr.
John McDowell of Baltimore, Md., on taking
office as head of the newly created department
of social service of the Presbyterian New Era
Movement, in a message from the church to
labor, issued at Presbyterian headquarters, 156
Fifth avenue, today. , -
Hf. McDowell urges that industrial democ
racy stand for a state of society where a man
will get all he earns and earn alt he gets. He
gives labor full credit for winning the war, and
says that the big task confronting labor today
is that of democratizing industry. He pleads
that labor substitute faith for fear, and substi
tute reason for force, to bring about a world
peace in all international and industrial rela
tions. Ije invokes the spirit of justice and
brotherhood to make democracy "safe for in
dustry. People who rock the boat, he says,
must be stopped. He blames existing chaos
upon the failure to look beyond industry as a
reventie-producinir process.
"The first note in the message of the churclr
to labor on this Labor day, says Dr. McDowell,
"is one of gratitude for the indispensible service
it rendered during the. world war. No one who
knows the facts will ever question either the
quality or the quantity of labor's share in mak
ing the world safe for democracy. On the field
and in the factory labor proved its unflinching
loyalty to the cause of humanity by a service
that knew no limits and by a sacrifice that
never counted the cost.
"The vast majority of the eight minions of
men who laid down their lives that liberty
might not perish from the earth, were from
the ranks of labor. It is not too much to say
that without the man who fought in the ranks
and the men and women who worked in the
factories the war could not have been won. ,
"Society cannot exist without the worker.
The steady toil of the masses is a factor that
cannot be ignored. It is the basis of society
and civilization and makes possible literature,
science, art and philanthropy. In tracing the
causes of social advance, we cannot omit the
unpemitting toil of the nameless millions whose
laborand industry have built our republic, and
when we tWnk of that long and honorable rec
ord since the dawn of human history, we are
impressed anew with the dignity and worth of
labor.
"All human labor is in a very real sense
social service. In any conceivable future social
order the workers will be honored, moVe hon
ored than ever. In the kingdom of God service
is the test and measure of greatness. Grati
tude fills the heart of all the lovers of liberty
for the heroic service rendered by the workers
of the world during the past four years.
"The second note in, the church's message
to labor is one of inspiration for its future
tasks. There are big problems just ahead of
labor; problems which will demand clear
thought, tireless energy, limitless patience and
courageous faith. The welfare of mankind, as
well as the future of America, is wrapped up in
these problems.
"The biggest task confronting labor just
now is that of democratizing industry. The
war has broadened and deepened the demo
cratic current in modern life. It has also helped
to demonstrate the unity underlying all human
relations. The problem of labor and capital is
no longer one which concerns only or even
mainly these two essential parties to produc
tion. As never before, it is a community prob
lem, a national problem, an international prob
lem. To speak of the old world and the new
world, says Owen Wister, is to speak a dead
language. The world is one. All humanity is
in the same boat The passengers multiply, but
the boat remains the same size.
"And people who rock the boat must be
stopped by force. America can' no more sepa
rate itself from the destiny of Europe than it
can escape the natural laws of the universe.
'The labor problem of the twentieth century,'
says W. L. McKenzie King, 'is indeed the
problem of industry and humanity. To com
prehend this truth adequately is a necessary
first step towards a solution.'
"The third note in the message of the church
to Tabor is one of appeal to bring about a
world at peace, in all of its international and in
dustrial relations, by substituting faith for fear,
and reason for force. The democracy needed
in industry is something more than a mere
form,. it must be a real faith, with its roots in
God andjn man. Nothing short of an infusion
of a new spirit, and that the spirit of justice
and brotherhood, will make democracy safe for
industry and thus usher in industrial peace.
"Labor must never forget that the whole is
greater than its parts and that humanity has
rights superior to those of industry or even
nationality.
"In his address to congress on February 11,
1918, President Wilson said: 'What is at stake
nowis the peace of the world. What we are
striving for is a new international order based
upon broad and universal principles of, right
and justice.' '
, "What is at stake now on this Labor day,
September 1, 1919, is the industrial peace of
the- world, and what is needed is a new indus
trial orde based on the eternal principles of
right and justice.
"If industrial democracy is to prove a bless
ing to the world it must stand for a state
society in which a man will get all he earns,
and earn all he gets, a state of society in
which no man will live on the fruits of an
other man's labor, and no man will be denied
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"Alcoholic DUtfMse" Mytli
la a drunkard a drunkard because
he is ill; or is he ill just because
he is a drunkard? It is regarded
as. a fallacy by Charles B." Towns of
New Tork, whose activities in the
study and prevention of the drink
and drug: evils have made him wide
ly knoWn. In an article entitled
"Who is Responsible for Drug-Addiction?'
contributed to The Ameri
can Journal of Clinical Medicine
(Chicago, July). Mr. -Towns exr
presses his belief that a large snare
of the responsibility of alcoholic and
other drug-addiction must be laid at
the door of physicians, nurses and
druggists. To quote and condense
his- article:
"There is no such Jthinf? as inher
iting the alcohol or the drug habit.
A man's father and mother and
all his relatives, back to Brian Boru
or Julius Caesar may have, been
drunkards or opium smokers or co
caine snuffers; still .that does not
constitute the slightest reason" why
the man himself must inevitably
be a drunkard, a 'hop-flend,' or a
cocaine, user. ' For the drug habit,
like any other habit, is an acquired
trait: and acquired traits are not
transmissible. i
"I know that this assertion will
cause acute mental discomfort to the
many that have made their family
and friends, as well as themselves,
believe that the unovercomable and
most grave and respectable reason
for . their excessive indulgence ts,
that their father or grandfather
iransnmiea to tliem the hankering'
for the poison. But there is iij sci
ence absolutely no basis of justifica
tion for such a claim.
"This does not mean, however,
that a man may not inherit n un
stable nervous system from ances
tors that has systematically poi
soned their organisms. A man that
has a father whose cells were thor
oughly saturated with 'booze' and
tobacco could, and probably would.
Inherit a defective nervous system.
But he could not inherit a craving
for narcotics or alcoholics.
"I am not mimizing the fact that
certain alcoholics seem fordoomed
to drink to excess because their
highly nervous organisms crave the
excitation conferred by alcohol, be
cause they do not get enough to eat,
or because they do not assimilate
their food, or because their tissue
cells cry out for fuel. Still others
become alcoholics, because, through
the help of stimulants, they have
habitually forced themselves to
overwork, to bear burdens of re
sponsibility beyond their normal
strength, or to overcome poor
health, eye-strain, grief or anxiety.
"These people may be physically
or mentally abnormal: but they do
not suffer from 'alcoholic disease,'
as such. There is no such thing as
an 'alcoholic disease.' There are
diseases engendered by alcoholic
poisoning there are degenerate
conditions of both mind and body
brought about by alcohol but there
is no such thing as the 'disease of
alcoholism.'
"The alcoholic is a sick man; how
ever, he is sick because of the alco
hol used. He is not alcoholic be
cause of an inherent phsychosis that
impels him to the use of alcohol.
"Delirium tremens is a disease;
alcoholic insanity is a disease; but
these have their origin in nothing
but alcoholic poisoning. If the man
oe meaicaiiy unnolscmed. he can
Pastor Explains What
Obey Means.
I TO DAY
not experience any of these disexseri
conditions. In these circumstances
the responsibility for the develop
ment of his tolerance must rest with
the one that first administered or
first supplied the drug. In this re
spect a great army of present drug
takers never were -properly safe
guarded against forming the habit
much less properly helped in
overcoming it.
"The average physician, for one
thing, never has realized how easily
the drug habit may. be established,
and so. in perfectly good faith, he
has preserrbed opiates for the re
lief of pain or discomfort, which
pain or discomfort it might have U
Den possible to relieve in other
ways. So, the patient, naturally as
sociating his relief with the means
adopted to ease him.Tias persisted
in the use of the opiate, when pos
sibly it no longer was necessary.
Conservative physicians are so
keenly aware of this possibility that
some of them go so far as never to
carry a hypodermic outfit.
"Nurses, too, have a heavy re
sponsibility to shoulder in respect
to drug addiction. For scores of
thousands of habitues have been
broken into the use of the drugs
that subsequently owned them, body
and soul, by a careless nurse, debo
nairly seeking the easiest way to
brirtg relief irrespective of what
she might be bringing on while giv
ing this relief.
"When anyone can go Into almost
any drug store and buy paregoric,
it can readily be understood how
upon the laxity of the law that per
mits this practice theTe can legiti
mately b charged a damning re
sponsibility. "Paregoric contains 46.5 per cent
ot-alcohol and 1.9 grains of opium
in each fluid ounce a 'shot of booze'
that would satisfy the most exacting
toper, and a dose of morphine
equivalent to that usually given a
normal adult. Yet the sale of this
tincture comes within the law. In
fact, the extent to which the manu
facture, sale and use of many so
called 'patents' and 'proprietaries'
are responsible for the growth of
arug addiction is not even now
understood. Tet these preparations
are alKdJspensed within the law.
They are part of the regular stock
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t.l r ,l ui iU. n: "".'Y""D cveiy uiub ami are
inc iauacy m mc wuuc yia.ii m ui soia in the regular course of busl-
tTess, with perfect legal propriety.
the fruits of his own labor.
"This is what industrial democracy means
when it is, true to the highest ideal, the Chris
tian ideal. If industrial democracy is to be
true to the Christian ideal, the Christian church
must fill industrial democracy with the spirit
of Christ teach industrial democracy the mind
of Christ, and inspire industrial democracy to
do the work of Christ, and thus make good the
prophet's vision cf the time 'when a man shall
be more precious than gold, even than the
golden wedee of Ophir.' "
Brains Are Very Necessary
Potter. Neb.. Aug. 25. To The
Editor of The Bee: On the 19th of
this month there appeared an edi
torial in The Bee which was mis
leading in its entirety. The writer
has read especially the editorials of
The Bee with pleasure for a number
of years, but never has he found one
that was so wholly at variance with
facts as the one headed: "Episco
palians Making Progress." The
genial editor calls it "progress" to
omit the word "obey" from the mar
riage ritual of the church. If the
word "obey" is a relic of an age that
has passed, if that were all that la
involved, one could very well dis
pense with it. but the word "obey"
is not a "relio," but is distinctly
biblical. And if it is "progress" to
get away from the Bible, then the
Episcopalians are welcome to make
that "progress." But, I think, an
injustice is done to the Episcopal-,
ians in congratulating them for
eliminating a clear passage of Holy
Wrtt.
Had the editor taken the time
to study this question as he should
have done before launching into the
deep bU.ie sea, I know that editorial
would not have appeared. ,
The word "obey," as used in the
church ritual and in the Bible, was
never meant to convey the idea that
the husband could or should com
mand his wife as though she were
his slave, but signifies obedience to
the marriage vow. "Obey" here
means: "Thou shalt not commit
adultery"; in other words, the wife
is here enjoined by God net to do
anything by which the marriage re
lation between her and her husband
is violated. And to be permitted to
do this by omitting the word "obey,"
The Bee surely would not call
"progress." That this is done in so
ciety cannot be called "progress,"
and is far from being a cause for
congratulations, and cannot be wel
comed by anybody having the wel-
rare or Society at heart. Then, why
the law of our state to punish adul
tery, or any laws protecting the
state of matrimony? The word
"obey," at least in the Lutheran
church, never gave the husband the
right and privilege to command his
wife and make her "obey" him at
his every whim. He can demand
obedience to the marriage vow only
insofar as God has stated. . And, be
it remembered, the same obligation
ia also the husband's. The Word
of God is very explicit on this, as
witness: "Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ loved the
church ... so ought men to
love theirNqyives as their own bod
ies." Eph. v. 25. Likewise: "Wives,
submit yourselves to 'your own hus
bands as unto the Lord." Eph. v.
22.
Of course. If churches have given
this Word of God a wrong interpre
tation, then complaint is justified,
but not on the grounds of a "relic
of an age that has passed," but
rather that the Word of God has
been violated, for rituals of the
church should be in conformity with
th Word of God; in other words:
The church should "obey" the Word
of God. I think the editor of The
Bee win heartily agree with the
writer and 'give this correction the
same prominence given his editorial.
Mistakes jrvill happen to the best of
us. Yours for upholding the mar
riage vow. H. W. SAEGER.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
A needle passes through 80 epera.
tions in its manufacture.
Railways use almost half of the
woria's entire output 'of steel every
year.
Korean umbrella are covered
with oiled paper, and cost about 10
cents each.
Mohammedans do not wear silk.
As it is the product of a worm, they
consider it unclean.
Certain Parisian tailors regularly
Issue fashion-plates containing the
designs for clothing for pet dogs.
In Egypt the telephone operators
are required to speak English,
French, Italian, Greek and Arabic.
Persia has no distilleries, brewer
ies or saloons, and native wine is
the only intoxicating beverage used.
The superstitious use of horse
shoes as emblems of good luck
originated in England about the
middle of the seventeenth century.
Medical authorities state that it
takes 15 days for the average human
body to recover fully from the loss
of two consecutive nights sleep.
The coast of the' British Isles is so
well protected with lighthouses that
if a ship sailed right round England,
Scotland and Ireland by night only
on six occasions would it be where
it could not see the light of a light
house lantern.
The Day We Celebrate
Walter I. Selby, real estate man,
born 1854.
Emperor Toshlhito of Japan,
born 40 years ago.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether
lands, the only woman now occupy
ing a European throne, born 38
years ago.
Dr. Joseph A. Blake, who served
as chief surgeon of the American
Red Cross hospital in Paris, boni
in San Francisco, 55 years ago..
James E. Ferguson, former gov
ernor of Texas, born In Bell county,
Texas. 48 years ago.
Mrs, Harold F. McCormick.
daughter of John D. Rockefeller,
born in Cleveland, 47 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
i Miss Mary Fitch, principal of
Dodge school, and Miss Mattie Tib
betts, have returned from a trip
through western Europe.
A branch of the order of the Gol
den Shore has been instituted here.
C E. Currien is worthy president.
Contract for the city hall has been
awarded to John V. Coots.
Members of Shakespeare lodge
No. 217 of the Order of St. George
gave dissociable.
James Kane of Troy. N. Y., has
i tv.n o-i.eit ht Tom Cushinsr. son
r un R C Cushing. for the past
4 m mnnthfl.
Nebraska's State Fair.
On Monday the Nebraska State Fair will
open its gates again, with a greater array of
exhifiits than ever shown on the grounds or in
the buildings. The event is of real importance
to the state for many reasons. The prime edu
cational purpose of such an exposition is not
questioned; its opportunities for exchange of
ideas and comparison of methods have been
too well established. Here as nowhere else the
progress in the . industry in products, in ma
chinery and appliances, in processes of animal
breeding, and all other forms of knowledge
useful to the farmer may be noted under the
best of conditions for proper understanding.
Along with the educational value of the fair
goes its amusement features. Sometimes it
may be questioned if this phase is not too
grealy emphasized, Tut at all events, it is given
such importance, as must attract many who
might not otherwise be lured to the grounds.
The Nebraska fairhis year starts under splen
did prospects and ought to . realize the hopes
of its managerf -
Four" brotherhoods lies in the assumption that
agreat railroad system can be run and ex
panded without great constructive genius, and
that great constructive genius will work with
out adequate incentive.
It was the brain of J. J. Hill that conceived
and built the Great Northern system and de-v
veloped the northwest. The opportunity was
there, but Hill saw it and had the nerve to
take risks in order to prove that his ,faith in
the future of the district was well founded. 1
"there are just as efficient conductors and
engineers and firemen working on the road as
when he laid the first rails, but they could not
have built up the system.
There is in every city a score of large busi
ness enterprises which existed first in the brain
of one man. The employes whom he hae called
to his assistance could not have developed the
business, though some of them think that they
should control it and tell the directing brain
what he should do.
And there is in every city one or more great
enterprises built up by the genius of a single
man which have gone to ruin when that man
died.
Men of ordinary ability are for sale; but the
constructive genius never sells himself. He
commands the services of others and builds on
the foundations which are embedded in his own
Awill and in his own determination to put the
thing across. '
The world is full of wrecks of big enter
prises, the inheritors of which, whether they
were the heirs of the founder or the subor
dinates who took it over at his death, were too
little to carry on.
There may be railroad geniuses in the
brotherhood but they are not in sight, and the
chances are all against the success ot tneir r.nnrti to
plan, even if it were advisable for other rea- and one In America." Punch, Lon.
iOjj.Philadclphia PjibHc tfjgeij, . doft
feo no really informed person
now questions the fact that the
present state and federal laws have
not accomplished the purposes for
wnicn they were intended.
"Yet neither the medical profes
sion nor the druggists are willing to
admit responsibility for the utter
inefficiency of N the present method
of narcotic regulation. Indeed, it
is rather significant that the drug
interests have officially put their un
qualified approval upon the law as
it exists at the presenttime a lais
ser faire endorsement with a ven
geance. "In view of all these facts, and in
view of the further fact that the sit
uation is rapidly growig worse, all
the various interests concerned
must be brought to co-operate to
ward I lessening this evil. In no
other way is it possible to fix the
responsibility and to correct an in
iquity that is perhaps the most de
basing and degrading one that has
ever been perpetrated by man upon
his brother man."
, Standards of Value.
"One of the summer boarders of
ours is a regular profiteer," ex
claimed Farmer Corntossel.
"Why he's the one that pays the
money."
"Yes. But he eats enough at one
meal to put him ahead of the game
for the rest of the week." Wash
ington Star.
A Kcbuke for the "Drrs." '
The "dry system has received a
nasty blow. Asked now many Drotn
trs he had, an Ipswich publican is
have saia, "two anve
This Modells
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Stunning new
models now on sale
by the best dealers
everywhere.
Step in today
try one on.
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i& Louts, U.S. A.
FROM HBRE AND THERE.
More great battles have been
fought in August than in any other
month. The list includes Blenheim,
Plevna, Gravelotte. Charlerol, Mons,
Anzac Cove, Heligoland Bight,
Chevy Chase, Taku and Kandahar.
In Brazil there is a variety ot
magnolia which, for a few weeks in
the year, opens and closes at the
same hour every day, regardless of
both light and temperature. Cer
tain of the natives, who have neither
clocks nor watches, gauge the time
by this flower. i
Westminster Hall, whero the for
mer German emperor may be
brought to trial, is, next to the
Tower and Westminster "Abbey, the
most historic edifice in Liondon. Ad
jacent to the House of Commons,
it dates back over 800 years, al
though Richard II is responsible for
its present glories.
In two important battles fought
by British soldiers they did not lose
a single man. One was In 1868,
when Napier stormed Magdala in
Abyssinia, In that tight thousands
of the enemy were killed. The
other instance was at Futtehpore,
when Havelock, marching to relieve
Lucknow, defeated the rebels heav
ily, but lost not a man.
THE SPICE OF LIFE.
"To lve th face a ood "color," ar '
xohamto, "t a pot of routa and a ra
blt'e foot. Bury them two rnllei froa
home and walk out am) back once a da.
to no If thry ara atlll thara." Boatot
Transcript,
"So tlila ta tba.flrat tlmaou'Va ava
on tho ocean." aald nor eecort.
"Yea; the very flrat time."
"And what do you think of It I" r
jni ana nima in ei-em? --
just lika ovulars," Boston Transcript
"Look here." aald the new tenant, "you
advertised this place as belnt near tha
water. Tve looked In every direction a sal
1 don't sea any water.".
You Viaven't looked tn tha cellar yat,"
the agont told him." Boston Transcript
"I suppose the bl( fish go away."
sneered the Indolent acquaintance,
"Of course," rejoined the true fisherman.
"They huve learned to know me. Any
full-grown fish around here hldra as aoon
as 1 step Into a boat."WaahUigton Btar.
We atrongly advocate -i. plan wlrereby
young ladles attending church In tha even
ing can rglster tht-lr namea in the church
vestibules, so that young men wlo ara in
the habit of lingering around tha church
door can see at once wheher or not thwlr
best girl Is present, and thus eat M troubled
brain at rest. The Clifton Hill Hustler.
High IJalug.
Baby Gertrude found somo coal,
She nibbled tt with great dejlfht i
Till pa ssld: "Gertrude, pray control ,
Your expensive appetite.''
Brooklyn Cltlsen.
SONG OF A HUMBLE CITIZEN
With temples throbbing and hot,
With temper ruffled and red,
A citizen sat In his rent-raised fin.
Wearily propping bis head; '
"I'm a man of peace," ha moaned,
As he fingered his grocer's Mil.
"Yet self-control Is leaving my soul
And I am nursing a longing to kllL"
It's atrlke. strike, strike.
From dawn to evening glow;
And strike, strike, atrlke,
Wherever I chance to go. V .
The slogan, wherever I psss.
In our land-of-do-as-you-llke,
Is "Get to a man aa much as fou can.
Then ask for more and atrlke."
It's strike, strike, atrlke,
From actor to engineer;
And strike, strike, strike.
For cheese or decimal beer;
I'm a lover of Justice and pears,
But, whoever may happen to vln,
I stand no show; what I'd Ilka to know
Is, Where do I come Int
It's strike, atrlke, strike.
From window cleaner to clerk;
And strike, strike, atrlke, -
With never a thought of work;
I'm strong for order and law.
But I hava nothing to aay.
For first and last I am leaned to tha mast;
Whoever may win, t pay.
With templea throbbing and hot,
With temper ragged and red.
A citizen -eat In his rent-raised Tat,
Wearily propping his head;
"I'm a man of peace," ha moaned,
"But all this snakes me sick; '
Upon my soul, I've lost control;
I'm turning Bolshevik."
ELIAS LIEBKRMAN In New Tork
Times.
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All baths and electrical
equipment useful in the
treatment of the sicK.
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Our cash prices are our time prices.
We take Liberty bonds at par.
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