THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1919.
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You should know that
In the "Omaha Empire" there is
one "bank to each 1,456 peopled
In the United States one bank to
each 3,666 people.
mat The Bee Stands For:
1. Respect for the law and maintenance of
order. , !
2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime
through theregular operation of the
courts. "
J. Pitiless publicity and condemnation of
inefficiency, lawlessness and corup
tion in office. ,
4. Frank recognition and commendation
of honest and efficient public service.
5. Inculcation of Americanism as the true
basis of good citizenship.
It ia now up to the grand jury.
"
' Does the admonition to "cease talking" in
clude the h. c. of 1.?
Queen Elizabeth is also enchanted with
America, making that score even.
Amman's fool friends can do him more dam
age than an equal number of open opponents.
Von der.Goltz is "loyal to the fatherland,"
which is about all the dear old country can
stand.
Professor Taft is 'back on the job at Yale,
but this does not mean he is lost to public
activities.
October 16 is now set for moving day yit
Amerogen. The Allies may soon designate the
destination. 1
The negro policeman ' on North Twenty
fourth street seems to know what his bosses
want him to do
Less drunkenness in England is ascribed to
weaker drink. Natural enough, but John Bull
'till will have his "beer."
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"Sky way" will be in demand hereabouts for
the next day or two, with arrival of racing
planes from both coasts. -
The Salvation Army has decided that half a
loaf is better than no bread, and will go ahead
with what funds it has on hand. , (
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Mourners with a taste for literature may get
some consolation from reading Burns' "Address
to the Unco Guid" and "Holy Willie's Prayer."
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The republican majority in the senate de
clines to permit the democrats to run things,'
and therefore is conducting a "filibuster." Can
you beat it?
With pork on the hoof 8 cents a pound
cheaper than it was a few weeks ago, one is
almost, justified in expecting to get bacon and
the like at a slight reduction from prevailing,
prices.
Senator Johnson tells the Oregonians that
the treaty will be ratified with reservations,! and
that the president will accept the reservations.
This is understood by everybody except the
administration leader in the senate.
', King Albert wins special mention because he
"run" a locomotive ten miles with the engineer
by his side. The engineer might direct the
kingdom of Belgium for a similar length of
time, with the king standing by to take hold
whenever trouble started.
Citizens of Omaha have had the opportunity
of adopting home rule any time they wished for
these many years, but have neglected to avail,
themselves of it. That is one reason why we
have to run to the legislature every now and
then to get permission to regulate our own
affairs.
The Wrecker s Instinct
Tl t.itimnnv hrfnrr a coneressional COm-
mittee to the effect that "nearly everyone on
Cape Cod was wearing army and navy eloth-
ing after the wreck of the Cunard liner Port
Hunter In Vineyard sound" seems a sufficient
solution of the committee's inquiry to discover
; ,v..t hram nf $2,000,000 worth of the steam-
Ier's cargo of overseas supplies. It went where
the cargoes of wrecked vessels have tradition
i -t 'aUy gone since shipping began and helped nu
' i 4crvinr fishermen and coast dwellers
i to meet one problem of the cost of living.
There are temptations, it appears, against
which even a New England conscience is not
proof j But no doubt the incident is of less in
terest to the moralist than to the student of.
heredity. The wrecker's conscience, ' like the
smuggler's, is elastic, and, given a treasure-trove
of army supplies cast up by the sea, distinc
tions between meum and tuum are apt to be
come blunted. The fact for remark is the avid
ity with which the opportunity to despoil a
foundered ship was embraced on the instant.
The Wrecker's instinct, dormant in blood pos
sibly derived from coast-dwelling English an
cestors, flared up at the call of sea loot, and
certainly the job was as competently done as
it might have been of old on the coast of Corn-
...!! Wo tli nrartir al1o-rt tn in vnorlie
J?'in former tirryes on certain sections of the New
, , Cngiana SCSCOaol "I Hanging a mmci 11 iiuuiiu
a cow's neck to delude mariners a libel or a
true bill? Perhaps, the recent exploit of the
Cape Cod wreckers has a bearing on its authen
ticity. New York World,
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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
" RECOMMENDATIONS.
With the ' recommendations made by the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce through its ex
ecutive committee, looking toward thorough r
organization of the police department, The Bee
is in hearty accord, with some minor qualifica
tions. . x -
The Chamber of Commerce lays down a
program of legislation to be enacted at the next
session, to strengthen the police arm of the city
government, including power to spend more
money, to disregard seniority in promotions
and remove "for the good of the , service," to
increase the size and pay of the force, to per
mif the choice of a trained chief "from any part
of the country where he may be found."
For the city is proposed a program within
present municipal powers, embracing appoint
ment of a trained police drill master, a com
petent and experienced chief, equipment with
standard arms, unhampered power and respon
sibility for the police department head, and con
struction' of a modern city jail and police head
quarters building.
Finally, the public is called upon to develop
greater respect for law and better support of
its law officers in proper discharge of their
duties.
All this is obviously predicated upon the
proved need of new headship to replace ineffiV
ciency, for if the present police administration
were satisfactory, there would be no need to
open the way to secure an experienced chief
from outside. It is the irony of fate that those
demanding more funds and a larger police force
now are the very ones heretofore responsible
for holding down- the limits of police expendi
ture, while coddling the fire department, so that
we have always had more men and money to
protect property than to protect life.
While merit alone should govern police ap
pointments and promotions, the power to re
move without cause must have its limitations.
A police officer; like a fireman or "a school
teacher, who earns a permanent-lisfplace must
have some protection against dismissal on
mere whim or to make way for some favorite
under pretense of bemg "for the good of the
service," especially when he has acquired vested
rights in pensions, relief funds and sick bene
fits, after spending the best years of his life
in serving the public faithfully. For dismissals
without cause, if justified at all, certainly unani
mous action of the whole commission should at
least be required.
So far as going out of town to get an ex
perienced police chief is concerned, we see no
objection' to it, assuming the authority would
be used only as $ last resort. We go outside
now when necessary for a trained educator to
superintend our schools, and we should do the
same for the police and fire departments. It
should be recalled in passing, however that the
prohibition which the Chamber of Commerce
now wants removed was put into the law over
protest of The Bee after the incumbency of
Chief of Police Martin White, the best chief
we ever had, who was brought here from Chi
cago, by the same influences that find it now a
bar to action.
What the Chamber of Commerce report
means in deploring "any studied attempt to dis
credit a public administration by exploiting
false charges" is not clear. Any exploitation of
false charges against anyone, in public or
private life, should be deplored, whether
"studied" or not. The same is true of false
charges exploited by one part of a public ad
ministration against another, as for example the
charges instigated by the police department
against a municipal judge before the governor,
pronounced after investigation to be wholly un
founded and unwarranted. True charges of in
competency or inefficiency, however, are not
to be deplored because they are the only safe
guard the people have against abuse of official
power. 1 " : t '
On the whole, the Chamber of Commerce
recommendations are the best and most sensi
ble that have been offered in the present crisis,
and we hope their sponsors will not stop until
they are put through and made effective by in
telligent application.
Program for the Industrial Conference. ,
Some disappointment may be' felt because
of the adjournment for a day of the industrial
conference because no definite program was be
fore it for action. This, however, is really an
encouraging sign. The conference is not ex
pected t6 bring about an adjustment by magic.
Agreement must be had on general principles,
application of which will follow in order. Haste
will not beget the effective results that should
come from this gathering.
Each of the several groups of delegates as
sembled is aware in general and to some extent
in detail of the situation in America. How to
Vet in operation methods that' will not only
readjust but will also tend to stabilize business
is their problem. Merely to declare that the
.need of the .country is greater production, and
that wages should be high and return to, capital
adequate will not solve the problem. It may
be asking too much of the delegates to suggest
that they discover some way whereby the sub
stance of the resolution" offered by the em
ployers' group can be achieved. Yet such a,
solution should be approximated, if the con
ference is to have any definite result. To reach
this there will have to be yielding, perhaps, on
all sides, to the end that the common center
may be attained. Concessions can not come
altogether from one and not from the other.
The gathering does not partake of the na
ture of a conclave assembled to decide terms of
which peace is to be offered a vanquished com
batant It is merely a conference of men of
affairs, who have a single aim in view, that
being the continued prosperity of the country,
but who are not entirely agreed as to how best
to reach the end all seel That they are as
sembled in conference is a hopeful sign, and
that some assistance may come from their de
liberations is reasonable to expect
Minister Noske of Germany says he can not
understand why the Americans should go along
with the "entente." Neither could any of his
predecessors. Some" day a mirror will be found
into which the German may look and see him
self as others see him.
' Italy's king has issued a royal decree rati
fying the Versailles treaty, but the act must be
confirmed by a national assembly yet to be
elected. The big jump is yet to come.
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Lloyd George insists the British government
is bigger than any body formed under it, and
perhaps he is right. The revolution is not get
ting very far in England.
Great Inclusive Third Party
' I From the Minneapolis Tribune.
Naturally" there will be keen public interest
in the deliberations and outcome of the indus
trial conference which began in Washington
Monday by call of President Wilson. What
the trend will be and what the concrete result
are conjectural. That will depend largely on
the mood of the representatives of capital and
labor in approaching their business and in car
rying on the deliberations.
It is said that the spokesmen for both cap
ital and labor will enter the conference with ifo
set programs as to what should be done.s That,
if true, is a hopeful sign, but out over the coun
try there is an industrial situation as a back
ground that may make harmony a difficult
thing, of attainment. There is also, of course,
a possibility that this very situation will serve
a purpose in makinpr the two interests more
conciliatory in attitude and more sincerely dis
posed to arrive at .understandings that will be
for the good of the industrial structure the
country over. -
' , President Wilson specially requested that
the strike in the steel industry be deferred until
after this conference. The leaders of the strike
declined to heed the presidential wish, one of
them giving as a reason the fear that if the
strike were postponed the I. W. W. element of
the country would point to the American Fed
eration of Labor and say it was not the organi
zation to be depended upon to look out for the
best interests of the laboring classes. The
events of the strike have engendered wide
spread bitterness. It is in the presence of this
feeling that the conference gets under way.
One thing is certain. -There isn't going to
be any right agreement that does not make the
interests of the third party, the general public,
paramount to the interests of any group or part
of the public. That is axiomatic and it should
be the textor all the conferees to keep in mind
throughout the conference. In their open letter
to the conference the industrial engineers state
a basic truth in these words:
Great powers have been used arbitrarily
and autocratically to exact unmerited profit
or compensation bjr both capital and labor.
This policy of exacting profit rather than ren
dering service has wasted enormous stores
of human and natural resources and has put
in places of authority those who seek selfish
advantage regardless of the interests of the
community. j
It is essential tnat this spirit, on the sides
of. both employers and employes, be put aside,
or the time spent at 1his Conference will be
worse than wasted. With that soirit orevail-
Ling there will result an industrial hnpasse and
tne ettect is likely to be an intensification of
the class feeling already prevalent in an un
healthful degree.
We have read and heard much in recent
years about the evils of special privilege.
Granting the existence of such an evil in cer
tain forms,, we find today a powerful pressure
not to abolish special privilege, but to trans
fer it from one greedy base to another. This
demand takes no proper account of the prop
rietary interests of the whole American people,
and therein is its fatal weakness. In the pres
ent conference the great third party insists on
its prior claim to attention. It is the great party
because it includes all parties, ar at least in
vites the inclusion of all parties.
'Paying Interest by Refunding
In helping to win the war the United States
loaned the allied nations, altogether, $10,000.
,000,000, upon which interest was to be paid.
To raise that amount, and for other war pur
poses loans were asked for nd obtained from
the people of the United States about $20,000,
000,000. . All this was done by authority of
acts of congress. '
Our government is paying interest to- the
people on that $20,000,000,000. When the war
closed and the armies were disbanded, it was
thought that the interest to be paid by the for
eign governments, would go a long way to
wards the reduction of the nation's interest ac
count. But it develops that these foreign countries
are paying nothing on that interest account As
it has fallen due it has been to the American
Treasury department; paid with I. O. U.'s.
Thus the debt due from foreign countries is be
ing increased, to the extent of accruing inter
est. This has been done without asking and
receiving the consent of congress.
On the nart of the deht created, which was
' 1 J A it f . . T.
appiica to uic prusctuuun oi our pari in uie
war, taxpayers expected to be taxed to pay
themselves the interest, and the principal when
it became due. But; they did not expect to be
taxed to pay interest on a loan made to a third
party. Knoxville JournaFand Tribune.
Heed the Warning
It has taken the illness of the president to
remind us that here is a man, working under
continuous high pressure and under such re
sponsibilities as have fallen to the lot of but
few leaders in America, who has gone for years
without a vacation. Mr. Wilson s vitality has
been marvelous and his grit and devotion to
duty will not be forgotten. The country may
consider itself fortunate if the present break
down is no mere than a warning. ; '
Our presidents have been singularly exempt
from severe illness during their terms of office.
This is the more remarkable when it is con
sidered that the occupants of the White House
have, as a rule, been in middle life when they
entered its portals, and frequently well along
in middle life. 4 I
Illness has removed only two of pur 27 chief
executives during their terms of office. Wil
liam Henry Harrison succumbed to sickness
after he had been only a month in office, and
Zachary Taylor died after a year and four
months as president
No president of recent years, with the pos
sible exception of Mr. Rooseveit, has been so
active as Mr. Wilson. Mr. Roosevelt craved
activity. He was able in the less critical times
of his administration, however, to get in an
occasional vacation. Mr. Wilson, in his '60s,
has been under a strain that would test the en
durance of many a younger man. Boston
Globe.
ITOhAV-
The Day We Celebrate.
Charles W. Hamilton,' banker, born 1859.
Casper E. Yost, president of the Nebraska
Telephone company, born 1841.
Jay D. Foster of Foster-Barker company,
born 1861.
Myron T. Herriok, former United States
ambassador to France, born at Huntington, O.,
64 years ago.
Maj. Gen. Leonard S. Wood, U. S. A., born
at Winchester, N. H., 59 years ago.
Wesley L. Jones, United States senator
from Washington, ,born near Bethany, 111., 56
years ago.
Henry L. Myers, United States senator from
Montana, born in Cooper county Missouri, 57
years ago. . 1 , "
William C. Braisted, surgeon general of the
United States navy, born at Toledo, O., 55
years ago. ' 1
Thirty Years Ago In Omaha.
C. N. Dietz and Victor White returned
from the Knight Templar conclave at Wash
ington. They called at The Bee and expressed
themselves much pleased with their stay n
that city.
Thomas A. Edison and his family left Paris
for Germany. The great electrician has been
receieved in Paris with more than royal honors.
During the absence of J. H. Bickford at
Stillwater, Minn., Mr. E. M. Knight will have
charge of the motormen of the Omaha Street
railway.
The veteran firemen held a meeting in
Chief Galliean's office.
Rev. P. S. Merrill, newly appointed pastor
of M. church, arrived in the city.
UFA
Favors the Morgan Bill.
Omaha, Neb., Oct . To the
Editor of The Bee: The American
Legion is putting: forth an extensive
publicity campaign in benau of the
bill H. R. 6545 which Hon. Dick T.
Morgan, Eighth district Oklahoma,
has placed before congress.
Beyond a -Question or doubt this
bill is much superior to any pther
bill or plan now pending before con
gress, as it will cover a greater body
of men and it reaches -out for the
hand of the city man as well as the
farmer and we can't all be farmers
while we wbuld have to be If we re
ceived the benefits of a bill that is
passed other than the Morgan bill.
But there is the advantage of Mr.
Morgan's bill; it equally benefits all
men both city and rural, for we
both fought side by side and carried
our flag to victory and are entitled
to equal rights.
I trust that you will give us a
hand in giving this a wide publicity
and request that all men who have
served to write to Hon. Dick T. Mor
gan, house of representatives, so
their letters will serve as a support
for the bill. li. E. LUTTRELL,
( 3819 California,
ShQ-Likes the Idea.
Omaha, Oct. 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: I am the same person
that wrote to you a couple of weeks
ago about our raise in rents in the
Marion-Maple Court apartment, and
In reading your "last Friday's paper
I can't help but drop you a few
lines as am sure it is to your credit
if they do build that beautiful apart
ment that was pictured in last Fri
day's paper, and I hope that Mr.
Goldnames will place me on his list
for one of the first apartments fin
ished. I certainly think he will
nave them occupied as fast as he
can build them.
MRS. A. MUNSON.
1812 Maple Street
GET RID OF BILLBOARDS,
Houston Council Checks It Up to
Residence Districts.
The billboard Interests have been
given a year by the city council to
remove the nuisances from Main
street and residence districts.
In erecting billboards In the fu
ture, It will be necessary for them
to get the consent of 15 per cent of
the immediate residents of the
neighborhood wherein it is pro
posed to erect a billboard. This,
too, is fair. If a majority of the
residents of a district do not have
pride enough to keep the billboards
out, then the city will not interfere
to keep them out. This is an ap
plication of local self-government
which should meet the situation.
In the meantime, the opponents of
the billboard nuisance should edu
cate public sentiment to the menace
of the boards. When this Is done,
the boards are pretty sure to be
removed from every place where
they mar the scenery or contribute
to any unfavorable condition.
Houston Post.
Set the Date.
A young Swede In South Dakota
who had been sent out to collect bills
for the general store returned with
this report:
"Yon Brown he say he pay when
he sell his wheat; Ole Oleson, he
say he pay when he sell his oats;
and Ton Yonson, he say he pay in
Yanuary."
"In January," repeated " the pro
prietor, surprised. "Why, he never
set a date before. Are you sure he
said January?"
"Veil, Ay tank it bane Yanuary.
He say it bane dam cold day when
you get your money." American
Legion Weekly. '
- ' A Pest
"So you enjoyed your vacation?"
"I certainly did. In fact I had
the time of my young life." .
"Good! Her'e comes a mn I
don't want you to meet He would
spoil your disposition.",
"Why?" '
"He has worked for 'the same firm
for 25 years and it is his . prOud
boast that he has never missed a
day." Birmingham Age-Herald,
What Makes Man Happy.
Mrs. Tungsmith Miss Filmstar's
husband is: so devoted. He spends
all his time looking at photoplays
that she appears in. . '
Her Husband That's not devo
tion. Any man would enjoy 'seeing
his wife busy and silent at the same
time. Houston Post. v
Reflected Vision.
"Uncle Ned, they tell me you re
member seeing Tecumseh."
"No, 1 sah. My father uster re
member seeing him and I remember
seeing my , father." Louisville
Courier-Journal. 1
And Learned Quickly.
' The French government has made
800 per cent on the- sale of some
American tobacco. They must have
had somebody over here learning
the ropes. St Louis Globe-Democrat.
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' WAR'S AFTERMATH.
I who went forth to war, am home again!
No favorlt of Death'a, h pasaed ma by.
Through endlesa day of weary Indolence,
Through night of tortured nerves, of
harp suspense,
Through namele horror of th aoul and
aense.
He branded me:
No favorite of his, he passed m by.
I, who went forth to war, am home again!
America, the free, 1 mine once more.
Here multitude of joyous children play.
Here toll flnds recompense In ample pay,
Here pleasure tread her measure night
and day
A roundelay.
America, the free, 1 mine one mor.
Oh you whose Uvea ar crowned, who live
in Death,
Ton know the purpose In war' bloody web.
Oh, Splrrt Brother! Help u weave the
rest!
Into life' commonplace there must be (
War's sacrificial spirit; this may test
I, too, am blessed;
No favorite of Death', he passed m by!
B. A. B. In the New York Time.
DAILY CARTOONETTE.
BYCjOSH-THE WIFE'S NEW
Mfliu is some baby! I'll
kiss her!
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DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"GRASSHOPPER HOP."
(Peggy and Billy seek to save th corn
fields of Famsr Dalton from a grasshopper
army. With th aid of Darter, a Fairy
Humming Bird, they become a small as
hopper, and try to lure in army into an
oil-covered lam.)
CHAPTER V.
The Charm Works.
T'HE huge arasshopper army, hop
1 ping and eating, was sweeping
like a river toward Farmer Dalton's
corn field, as if about to swallow it
up, when the song of Peggy and Bil
ly made itself, neara among mem.
Fair field II beyond th lake.
Would you of their Joy partake?
That was just the kind of a song to
make the grasshoppers stop and
take notice. They didn t care a
snap about the pleading song that
the children had first sung, but
when they heard about the fields
whee "eats await," they were ready
to listen.
The onward march of the army
halted. The ranks turned toward
"Blue Heron la Fishing In the Shal
s low Watr."
THE SPICE OF LIFE.
"We have an old family knocker on our
front door."
"We faav on Inside." Baltimore
American.
Policeman (to prisoner leaving dock,
who has just been sentenced to six
months.) "Excuse me, but do you want
to let your house?" London Opinion.
Two young ex-service men In Eldorado
are packing their duds tn feverish haste
to get off to college before dad's order of
government bacon arrives. -Kansas City
Star.
Mayme "I have so many callers pester
ing the Ufa out of me. I hardly know
what to do with them all. "
Orayce "Why. how long have you been
a telephone-operator "Baltimore American.
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To Those Who
i Would Be
Physically Fit:
To these who realise the
tremendous importance
of keeping themselves
physically ia the best of
condition, and to those
who already are ill, THE .
SOLAR SANITARIUM
offers a service unex
celled. All baths and electrical
equipment useful in the
treatment of the sick.
The Solar Sanitarium
Masonic Temple, 19th and
Douglas.
Phone Tyler 920.
"Business IsCood.ThankYou"
WHY-
IV. Nicholas Oil Company
Peggy and Billy, and soon the grass
hoppers were crowding around them
so thickly, that they could scarcely
breathe.
"Our charm is working," whis
pered Peggy to Billy. "They are
under our spell just like the rats
of Mamelin Town - were under the
spell of the music of the Pied Piper.
, "Yes, but the spell will be our
ruin if we do not do something in a
hurry," answered Billy. "We must
stop their crushing In upon us this
way."
"We Will lead them to the lake."
answered Peggy, then she sang the
second part of the song:
Hasten, hasten, eats await:
Hurry, hurry, don"j be late. '
A raspy whisper ran among the
grasshoppers: "Eats for me and
eats for you; eats for all In pastures
new." They surged forward in a
mass, and Peggy and Billy would
have been buried in TSvXangled, fight
ing heap of hoppers if they hadn't
quickly leaped away.
"We've got to flee for our lives."
cried Billy to Peggy. "We ll be
squashed flat if we don't."
"Flee toward the lake," answered
Peggy. "We've got them coming:"
And they did have the hoppers com
ing coming faster than the chil
dren wished. Peggy and Billy took
long and desperate hops to get out
of the crush, but the hoppers
hopped after them until, before they
knew it they found themselves in
a mad, whirring, leaping, flying race,
with the grasshoppers forcing them
on and on and on. It was like
fleeing before a rushing railroad
train. They had to keep ahead or
be ground into the dust by the mass
of hoppers.
Teggy no longer sang, and neither
did Billy. They needed all their
breath to hop, hop, hop. But the
hoppers rasped out their whispery,
rustling song, even as they raced
along: "Eats for me and eats for
you; eats for all in pastures new."
The grasshoppers were no longer
stopping to eat They were rushing
with all their might toward the
"fair fields beyond the lake," which
were promised in Peggy's song.
They came out upon the top of a
hill, and down below them lay the
oil-covered lake.
"When we get to the lake, the
hoppers will fall in and we will be
safe," panted Peggy.
"No," answered Billy. "We can't
stop.i -This rush will carry us right
into the oil and water. We will be
nnisneu wun uie noppers.
Peggy felt that what Billy said
was true. The waves of grasshop
pers were surging down the hill with
a force which the chijdren couldn't
possibly resist. Peggy and Billy
had been caught In their own trap
and there seemed no chance for
escape.
But Peggy, leaping high, saw
something ahead which made her
shout with hope.
"Blue Heron Is fishing In the shal
low water along the shore," she
cried to Billy. "Perhaps he wHl aave
(Tomorrow will be told how the gras
hoppers go swimming against their will.)
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