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1. Respect for the law and maintenance of
' 1 order. . : , : :
2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime
; through the regular operation of the
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3. 'Pitiless publicity and condemnation of
. inefficiency, lawlessness and corup-
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5. Inculcation of Americanism as the true
basis of good citizenship.
Profiteering is bearing its legitimate fruit
Why not turn the industrial situation over to
Burleson?
Foot ball and cold weather seem to go to
gether, so Omaha submits to both.
Women doctors also disagree as to smoking,
thus running' true to form.
. Two things for your "tickler" this week:
Ak-Sar-Ben stock and the school bonds.
Automobiles may be necessaries, but we sub
mit in all candor that a diamond is still a luxury.
Saturday's record of automobile accidents is
appalling. Something is wrong when the pleas
ure car becomes a juggernaut.
Fruit cake may convince the bdys in Siberia
that they are not forgottten at home! but it is
a safe guess that they would rather be here.
"Barney" Baruch is a cheerful optimist,
being able to see good coming from the indus
trial conference that broke down completely ,
The house committee on privileges and elec
tions will report adversely to Victor Berger,
convicted of sedition. What elsecould it have
done? .
About the only consolation in sight is the
promise of the wholesale coal dealers that
prices will not be raised while present sap
plies list. . v
The Nebraska school superintendent who
refused permission to school children to partici
pate in the Roosevelt day exercises has a pecu
liar but definite claim to fame.
"Old Doc" Renner says not even starvation '
will induce the Austrian republic to sell the
Hapsburg art treasures. Some of them may be
recovered on a search warrant) however.
Uncle Joe Cannon's mind is remarkably'
clear on the subject of control of national ex
penditures. He says outgo should not exceed
income, and, that taxes should be laid as
lightly as possible.
Dropping "Honey Fitz" from the roll .of
congress and seating another democrat will
hardly be charged against the republicans as a
partisan act. As a matter of fact, it merely
recognizes the rottenness of the democratic
machine that controls Boston.
'-Meddling, which began when congress
passed the Adamson law, has brought confusion
to a degree the democrats did not then dream
of. If the president and. his advisers ever get
the present muddle straightened out, they will
be content to let things alone hereafter. j
Carranza's leader in the Mexican congress
says the "revolution" has been a failure, and
that the people have reaped no benefit from
years of banditry and disorder. This is not
news to the outside world, however much its
frank admission by "our great and good friend"
south : of the Rio Grande may surprise, the
public.
A Free Pulpit
ceived emphatic support when the executive
council of the Free Synagogue formally upheld
the. right and duty of Rabbi Wise "to speak the
truth as he sees it upon any question, whether
it e religious, spiritual, social or political."
' The occasion for this exemplary avowal was
-l-k ...niMtc mamKar ri T)r. IVIsr's
a protest uj . .vvf ...v....".. - v.
congregation' against his recent criticism of the
attitude toward organized labor assumed by
Chairman Gary ,of the steel corporation. With
out passing upon the timeliness or the taste of
the sermon thus assailed, the expression of the
executive council was made all the stronger by
its restriction to the reaffirmation of the basic
principle of the synagogue's constitution, which
is that its pulpit is dedicated to freedom and
troth. v , .
' Freedom is sometimes abused "and the truth
is sometimes misapprehended by men of the
cloth as well as others, but the remedy in such
cases is not shackles or ostracism. It is con-
4k. a m'nictar nf a n v faith miffht (ri-
C1 V auic Litai ",,,Jlv' w J ; . . 7 ....
tertain views as to the master spirit of a billion
iollar corporation that would not be agreeable
to all his parishioners and yet be well qualified
'.o instruct and lead in every matter relating to
soul and conscience.
The world needs more, not less, free forums.
For the organizations that recognize and sus
tain this truth there can be nothing but respect;
for those that timidly or selfishly deny it, noth
ing Hut commiseration ' and contempt New
York World. . .
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The time has not yet come to assign Theo
dore Roosevelt his place in American history,
beyond the indisputable fact ' that his name
stands Aigh among the greatest He may fall
a little short of the enthusiastic eulogies of his
devoted adherents, certainly he exceeds in meas
ure the stature conceded him by his opponents.
On one point all agree, his intense, unswerv
ing love of America and his unflinching cham
pionship of our . free institutions. From his
first appearance in politics, as a member of the
legislature of New York almost forty years ago,
then just out of college, to the day of his death
last January, his career was an inspiration be
cause of the energy and sincerity of his battle
for right and justice. The many-sidedness of
his genius, manifested in science, literature,
politics, statesmanship, military leadership', de
noted him an unusual man.
He suffered not a little in estimation be
cause the public seized on phrases and asso
ciated them with the man, separately from their
context. The "big stick" was one of these, and
"his spear knows no brother" was another. Yet
there is something in them characteristic of
Roosevelt; his swiftness to act, his stern de
termination when once a course had been
chosen, gave color to such, expression; and in
this way served to justify popular fancy in ac
cepting them as personal to the human dynamo
who had brought them into common parlance.
His last years, his latest effort, were devoted
to arousing his countrymen to the danger in
which, their liberties stood. His pleadings for
preparedness were the promptings of an ardent
nature aflame with patriotism, and his criti
cisms of the course of the country in war the
expressions of judgment tempered by long ex
perience. It is one of the least creditable parts
of our national record in the war that the presi
dent could not see his way to give this great
American more adequate employment in con
nection with the struggle.
The birthday of Theodore Roosevelt is to be
observed tomorrow by a general demonstration
throughout the land. It marks the conclusion
of a popular subscription to provide two
memorials, one at Washington, in the form of
a monument, the other at Oyster Bay, where
"Roosevelt Park" will be set up as a perpetual
public pleasure ground in honor of the village's
most notable citizen.
This should1 not be the end of public ob
servance of the day. As time moves forward,
the services of Theodore Roosevelt will be
more clearly understood and more highly valued
by Americans, and greater honor will come to
him with better understanding of what he did
for his country. ,
Time to Keep Cool.
Just as The Bee advised soberness of
thought and expression when the country was
about to enter the" war, so now it advises all
to. act in the industrial crisis that looms so
dark. No revolution is likely, for the men on
both sides are ardent patriots, devoted to Amer
ican institutions and unwilling to disturb them.
Questions involved are economic and not politi
cal. Differences of opinion as to industrial
policy are sharply outlined,' and there must be
recession on both sides. Ground on which all
can stand exists, and will be found if wisdom
prevails. Neither side is wholfy in the right,
and neither is entirely Wrong. , Threats from
either are cheap, and will not help US reach the
settlement that is needed before the forward
march can be started again."' A little cool coun
sel now will be of immense service to aft the
world. Dictation from either capital or labor
will not be long brooked by the public, and the
one that tries it will be loser in the end, no
matter how great its temporary victory.
"Keeping Up Wtth the Procession."
"We must keep up with the procession,"
is the excuse given in support of the tendency
or inclination on part of many to thoughtlessly
break away from old-fashioned notions of order
and right It is necessary to "keep up with the
procession" at all times. Progress depends on
the capacity for receiving and assimilating new
ideas, new impulses, to learn new methods and
apply them.
Just now, however, the ordinary thinking
man is puzzled as to which one of a consider
able variety of, processions he wants to join.
The field for choice is wide. Assured by the
advocates of any one of the new and novel
doctrines being preached that the old order has
disappeared, religion proved a. failure, civiliza
tion a mistake, and the morality of our fathers
misleading, men and women are invited to get
in behind the new leaders, no matter which way
they may be headed. Anarchy has set up as a
sound practice of, government; atheism or
animism as rational religion; we are asked to
be lenient with the "unmarried mother,"" that
the world may again be repopulated; decadence
in art and literature lifts its head and proclaims
itself the flower of freedom. Putrescence of
thought parades its phosphorescence as the
glow of inward worth, and the bewildered
seeker for solid substances finds no anchorage
in the whirling maze of unfledged philosophies
that swirl and eddy about human affairs today.
Which procession are you going to keep up
with? Would" it not be wise to stand still just
for a moment, until the dizziness has passed,
and a clear vision shows whither the column is
proceeding? The world has not lost its sober
thinkers, firmly grounded in reason and holding
steadfastly to the right. Their voice is not
heard above the hubbub of the charlatans and
panacea-mongers, but must prevail in the end.
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: ' OCTOBER 26,-1919.
VieWS ana KeVteWS Home Health' Hints
Meeting of Roosevelt and tfa
Kaiser
In view of the fact that tomorrow is the
birthday of Theodore Roosevelt and the be
ginning of the drive for the Roosevelt
Memorial Fund, I am giving over this col
umn to some new sidelights on Roosevelt's
personality, taken from the just-issued book
by Lawrtnce Abbott, closely associated with
him before and dur-
ing his connection feL2!l
with The Outlook. -
Reliable advice given In this
column - on prevention end
cure of disease. Put your ques
tion In plain language. Tour
name will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Help You.
Dead and Gone Day
light System
Perhaos the most notable incident of this
Eurooean tour, at anv rate in the light of sub
sequent history, was Roosevelt's meeting with
the kaiser in Berlin. His visit to the Prussian
capital had been arranged before he left Amer
ica, and was made for the purpose 'of delivering
a lecture at the University of Berlin. TMs lec
ture did not particularly interest me. It was
entitled: "The World Movement." I "can't
help feeling that Roosevelt subconsciously
strove to impress the university pedants of
Germany that an American democrat could be
as scholarly and acedemic as they were and
could deal in abstract ideas as ponderously as
they could. The address in my judgment
does not compare in style, in content, or in
effectiveness with his speeches at the Sorbonne
and the Guildhall or with the extemporaneous
address to the undergraduates at Cambridge.
Nor was the ceremony itself as human and in
teresting as that at the Sorbonne, although it
was much more elaborate and formal. It is
true that a chorus of students dressed in the
rather" theatrical and bizarre costumes of their
various corps sang, as only Germans can
sing, finely harmonized arrangements of "Hail
Columbia and The Star-Spangled Banner.
But the professors . in their academic gowns
struck me as rather stodgy. The kaiser, dressed
in what I supposed to be a Hussar's uniform,
was in trie audience; and, much as 1 despise
his course in the European war, I must admit
that he had a very marked attractiveness of
personality and manner. ,
On: the day of his arrival in Berlin Roose
velt lunched with the emperor at the palace in
rotsaam and I had the good fortune to be
one of the party. We went out from Berlin
by special train and with a brilliant com
pany of army and navy officers and govern
ment officials. Chancellor von Bethmann-Holl-weg
was of the party. Everything had been
done by the kaiser to make it evident that he
wished to treat Roosevelt with special honor.
For example, the day following the luncheon,
the kaiser invited Mr. Roosevelt to review
with him some remarkable field maneuvers of
the German troops and they spent in this op
eration five hours together on horseback.
Hx-Ambassador Henry, White, who was the
only civilian present except Kermit Roosevelt.
described the scene to me that evening. The
emperor was dressed in the uniform of a gen
eral of his army, Mr: Roosevelt in a simple rid
ing suit of khaki and a black slouch hat. As
they set side byside in the saddle, responding
together to the' salutes of the officers and
troops who passed by in review, the scene must
have been of dramatic interest the only differ
ence in their station being indicated by the. fact
mai ,ine emperor was aressed m unitorm while
Mr. Roosevelt wore the dress in which h
would ride across country at home, and by the
manner of their salutes, the emperor as com-
manaer-in-cmer touchtnc hi visnr Mr Rnn.
elt as private citizen raisiW hi hat rinrin Investigation later revealed the
the review the emperor, with his bodyguard of
officers in brilliant .uniform gathered about
him, raised his helmet and, turning to Roose
velt, said in German: "Roosevelt, mein freund.
I wish to welcome you in the presence of my
guards; I ask you to remember that you are
me oniy private citizen who ever reviewed the
troops of Germany." Those who are familiar
with the strict military procedure of the Ger
man empire under Kaiser Wilhelm II and who
understands the intimacy of the German ex
pression meirf fmend." can nndretanH tV
real intention of the kaiser to impress his of
ncers ana me country with his desire to confer
what he believed was a mark of distinction
upon Roosevelt.
Roospvelr annri4ti ft.... t...
t -Kf v mt:a; 1.UU1 ICS1C5 UUl
think he rather felt the element of mediae
valism and artificiality in them. ,At all events,
ihat Ml A a. - A. L f, a i
. i juL eaa as sirmlr flatteries
turned the heads of some American exchange
professors to Germany during the European
wai, iur i me very outset ne denounced the
invasion of Belgium.
. New Alms of Heeling.
The medical eehoole are about to
reopen. A new generation of stu
dents la about to reap the. first of
the harvest which has ripened In the
days of war. We are at the begln
lng of a new era In the prevention
and the knowledge of disease, writes
the medical correspondent of the
London Times.
To those who have labored long
for recognition of the new ideaa. It
seems almost as if a miracle bad
happened. Views which were scout
ed only yesterday are today recog
nized as fundamental. It is worth
while to understand what has
wrought this great change. '
Until the war began medicine Was
.weak in that Us findings were not
'often put to the 'test. Opinions
might be expressed and confirmed
without relationship to the necessi
ties of life. A man, for example, with
a murmur in his heart, might be
told that he had heart disease and
made to live a quiet and easy life.
If he succeeded in keeping alive, a
victory for diagnosis and treatment
was apt to be claimed. In the same
way symptoms of various kinds
were classified and dealt with, and, if
the victims managed to go on, the
results were regarded as good. It
was too often enough to cure aches
and pains and to recognize states in
which no cure could be expected.
But with the war a new, demand
was made on medical kfiowledge.
Blunt questions, for example: "Is
this man fit for active service?" had
to be aoswered Yes or no. And the
answer was going to be written
down, too, and carried about with
the man wherever he went. In a
month or two it was going to be
proved or disproved.
In that day medical men realized
suddenly how Inadequate their
knowledge was In a direction that
was clearly of great importance.
And then- all kinds of unexpected
things happened. Men with appar
ently sound hearts broke down with
all the symptome of cardiac failure;
men whose hearts had aroused anx
iety, passed easily through fiery
trials These, of course, were In
stances: in other instances the diaar-
fnosil given at the beginning proved
j.o ne correct.
' It was a stern test, and it opened
the professional mind. At once the
point of view changed. The im
portance of prognosis, that is to say,
of medical prophecy, became evi
dent. But prognosis is built upon
knowledge of what' has happened to
other people with the same i symp
toms, not
Omaha, Oct. 2. To the Editor
of The Bee: A few days ago a well
known lawyer said to me: "Thank
Ood, the daylight system will come
to an end next Sunday."
That seems to be about the uni
versal sentiment in Omaha at least
Having noticed that the city coun
cilmen of the city of New York have
recently voted to recall the obnox
ious system for that city for next
year.I took it onto myself to wrtte
to the mayor of New York on the
subject as follows:
"I saw by the press reports that
your city council has voted to renew
the silly war fad, the so-called day
light saving system, next year. I
hope that some one will go into
court and knock it out for you. V If
you New ' York people want to
imitate the English eo much, why
don't you move to (H)ingland and
get all you want of It?
"I have heard any number of
people in Omaha in the last few
weeks say they will be glad when
the Wilson daylight system, as
many call it. Is over for good. If
there was a vote taken on the ques
tion today of the people of Omaha
the daylight system would be
knocked out by a vote of at least
90 per cent of the vote taken on
the question.
"What do the New York people
want to differ with the vast major
ity of the people of the United
States for, anyhow? By having
one system In one part of the coun
try and another In the rest of the
country, tends to mix things up all
around.
"There are many more reasons
for the complete abolition of the
so-called daylight saving system
man mere are lor its retention.
"The ones who favor the English
German daylight saving fraud are
the golf players, the speed maniacs
and the ones who would rather loaf
than to work.
"Your fraud of a daylight saving
system forces people to get up in
the dark even In the summer time,
and makes them lose their natural
hours of sleep. It forces people of
older years to change their hours
of sleep of a lifetime. It forces
workingmen's wives to get up at
unseemly hours to get their men
folks ready to go to work.
' "I have heard lots of them com
plain of the loss of sleep on ac
count of this fraud system. It
forces children to go to bed before
dark In the summer time and forces
them to get up for school before
daybreak. Why don't you 'fall
in' with the rest of the country and
show a little common every-day
sense and judgment? .
"I fought the system from the
time it was first passed by congress
and some idiots said I was disloyal
ror ngntmg tne silly system. , But
the west" FRANK A. AGNEW.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
UDon mere thenrntloAl
Ideas of what this or that signmust I now a great many credit me with
mean. It was necessary to study I having done very much to crystalize
disease from a new angle its rela- . sentiment against the system all over
tion to functional efficiency. No
matter how great a departure from
standard a 'particular symptom
might appear to be. If it did not In
terfere with action, with I function,
at the moment and subsequently, Its
significance was small. On the other
hand, a limitation of function .point
ed to disease. This might not be
capable of being detected so that
the man was "organically sound"
from the old point of view. It was-
nevertheless certainly present. The
army had no use for the man; It
had use for the man with symptoms
and signs which did not interfere
with ftls activity.
But to go back for a moment t th lunch
eon at POtSdam. It Wa nrrtVl-tlv annnint.rf
and managed and the etiqutte of precedence
" on upuiousiy ooservea. it was served at
smalt round tables in one of the tati.
rooms to a company of, I should 'say, SO or 60
iauiCS ana gentlemen, including Mrs. Roosevelt
tn attmri n3 f- J: e , '
-..,p.v., anu nines oi me court, un leaving
the table we adiournel to 2 OTPat pnttnn
room known as the Muschelsaal, so called be
cause the artist who built it in Frederick the
Great s time stuck the yet-soft .plaster full of
...utsixui, mussei snens with the typically
Prussian notion of apcthot.Vc ,,,. ,! . u
r , . . mai. mis WUU Q
form a Amr-nrtinr. t I x. T. .
ui ucuiy. n is naraiy nec
essary to add that it does not. Colond Roose
velt and the kaiser withdrew to one corner of
kimi iviussei aaion and entered into a
lively conversation. The rct f h.
mained at the other end of the room chatting
as a group of guests would do anywhere at a
s,iat tuurullcon.
After some time huA UncA t
a. a viuiuvu x iiyj IJ.V.CU IJ1C
military commander in charge of the affair
I think it was General von Plessin go up and
wmsper to Lhancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg.
tl j ",c,r wa'cnes ana tnen con-
te "n Th un' the mini8tr of the in-
" j . "F" went to tne empress
nu lamea with her in low voices. Their ci
tation was so marked and so out of keeping
With what ha1 h..- ah .. ping
; 1 iision us tar ob-
great importance of a history of In
iection or intoxication teeth, ton
sils, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever,
typhoid, syphilis, malaria, dysentery.
irencn rever, auto-intoxication, and
so on. Victims of infection tended
to become functionally inefficient
without marked sign or symptom. A
new Interest was awakened in the
prevention of infection, in its cure,
and In the means of increasing bod
ily resistance to it. i
The issues are clarified now. and
the student will flqd his medicine
falling naturally into three groups.
First there Is the prevention of dis
ease, on which a new stress Is being
laid; then there is the search for
cures of disease, that word being
usea m the sense in which salvar-
san is a cure for syphilis. Finally
there are the means by which the
natural powers of the body can be
augmented, so that disease will not
gain a fpoting or will be expelled.
At the very bottom of the list comes
much of the medicine of the past
the attempts to tinker up an already
undermined constitution and the
treatment of symptoms where the
underlying cause has passed beyond
treatment.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
served that I turned, to 'young pufa of i
ntry whose acquaintance I had made comit
fprtl , " ana w-h0 sPke English pe
vel JZ 2K 0ffrC,al rdati0n RoSs
velt, and said: "May I ask if anvthine h
gone wrong?" He replied: 4.!n.,n.!L ?:
End of "Daylight Saving."
When the clocks of the country were moved
back today to register standard time again, one
of the foolish- experiments of the war came to
an end. Conceived in the best of intention, the
plan to encourage early rising failed to bring
the result promised for it. Its effect was the
opposite. Habits established on the progress of
the sun in its course were upset, and a clamor
soon arose from the farmers and others, who
found that nature was not to be adjusted by
arbitrary rules. Claims of immense economies
following the "daylight saving" innovation have
not been supported by substantial proof, but
the inconvenience endured by those who pro
tested was real enough. By ome curious
process of reasoning, the president found him
self sufficiently engaged to twice interpose his
veto against an effort to repeal thev law, but
was overridden by congress on the second oc
casion. This has encouraged the hope that
some other fads and folderols imposed on the
land in the name of "winning the war" will also
be removed by congress, and that a sane way
of doing things will be restored in the govern
ment.
as
Va ,1.. Dn.:t
tra nc rf, D i: ' . V . . ?F.'i
2fi I rn! ,fl. L A " J" 31 0 ClOCk. (lt IS nOW
20 minutes to 4 and we are afraid that we shall
ui rcacn me station in r .
those days if a German military train, especially
a royal railway tram, was ri;i, h- -.7.
.! tfte mp,r was Pl. temporarily
least to go to pieces. But th
a??h v dom,n?t.ln of the kaiser was such,
?rrtmthaeh-flCers,0f h,s court ha been so trained
trom their earliest youth, that there was not
m inUtlj ( .V roo"-not even the prime
iiVra-if t. j c'"r'e. not even the empresa
herself who dared sten arr. .t. " T
M 1. e h.a'?'r of ?n in,Portant engagement.
Signal. 1 he gave the
By and by he came out nf th. i,vnnti. :o..
ence which seemed to be exercised by the "Col-
;r . Vi I- ou5n tt'aers - (as the kaiser liked
to call him) and gave the necessary informa
tion that we were to go. We were rushed to the
siauon, pinng into the vehicles with very little
attention to the precedence which had been
ov.j,uiu:,iy ooservea wnen we came from Ber
Ji".m.th.eJ morning, and barely got our train,
inis incident seemed amusing to me at the
time, but I now think that it was much more
than amusing, that it had an important sig
nificance. It was a symptom of that kind of
ldolatory which led the German people to
follow, the kaiser and his Potsdam circle into
the greatest national disaster of history.
The Japanese silk cocoon crbp this
year is estimated in excess or 17,400
000 bushels.
An electrical novelty can be used
as a ran, portable air washer, heater,
hair dryer or deodorizer.
Concrete piles 100 feet long and
weighing 20 tons were used in build
ing a New Zealand wharf.
A grape vine planted in an English
palace yard in 1768 still is bearing
about 400 bunches a year.
The Japanese government is fos
tering the domestic production of
chemical fertilizers of all kinds.
The top folds down over the back
in a new etepladder intended to oc
cupy little room when idle.
Mail is being carried regularly by
airplane between the Swiss cities of
Berne, Zurich and Lausanne.
Poor construction of pipe lines is
the cause assigned for the loss in
one year of natural gas valued at
$9,000,000 in the states of Missouri
and Kansas alone.
After long experimenting an Ital
ian scientist has succeeded in mak
ing felt and cloth from spun glass
for use as insulating material in
storage batteries.
A Berkshire farmer set up a scare
crow in his cornfield, near the rail
road, and the trainmen pelted it so
hard with chunks of coal that the
farmer got more than two tons of
coal out of it. ,
Lewis E. Gates of Shrewsbury has
discovered that the reason why he
hasn't got any ripe berries from his
strawberry patch this year is that his
Scotch terrier Gypsy has eaten, all
the strawberries as fast as they have
ripened.
A company has recently been
formed in Nottingham, England,
for tne purpose or promoting a
scheme for the utilization of waste
or refuse from coal mines. The
project is a novel one, and it is be-
.lieved that when fully established it
will attract other industries to this
city and district
Trade statistics as issued by the
Canadian government show that the
imports into the country from the
United States decreased from 1762,'
S10.283 for the 12 months ending
July, 1918. to S5.28,163 for the
year ending July. 1919.
same time exports to the united
States increased from $411,860,008
to $431,705,058.
Auto trucks are now very largely
used for hauling about Havana,
rapidly replacing the old-style drays
and wagons for this purpose. There
are a large number of the heavier
American trucks, besides a general
use of lighter trucks. It Is under
stood there were between 1,000 and
1,500 trucks of different capacities
In use In and about Havana at the
end of 1918, and almost an equal
number In use In other parts of the
islantv
China has a dozen ritien with ruin
ulations of over half a million.
Tne judges at a baby show at
Cedar Falls, la., did their best to
please everybody by awarding every
contestant a prize.
A prize of $25,000 has been of
fered for the first aviator who makes
a nonstop flight between Paris and
New York in either direction.
a native or unina nas invented a
shorthand system for his own lan
guage and has attained a speed of
1 40 words a minute with It
For drawing horse lawn mowers a
small gasoline tractor has been in
vented that is steered from the
mower seat with handles like a plow.
The entire mechanism of a furni
ture lock of European invention is
contained in a tupe that can be
inserted in the thinnest drawee
front
W. C. Hambree, 81 years old, went
up for a 15-minute ride in a com
mercial airplane. As he alighted, he
said: "I came to Yamhill county by
ox-team in 1847."
A cablegram from the American.
consul general in Calcutta, under
date of August 27, 1919, states that
an embargo has been placed upon
the export on hides and skins from
Lfiritish India to destinations outside
Y tha Hrltiah Arrmlrff pvo.ant under li
cense.
Latest revised estimates of the
losses caused by the storm which
swept Valparaiso harbor on July 11,
12 and 13 last, Rlace the total at
about $6,000,000 United States gold.
About 60 men were drowned, the
majority of whom could have been
saved if the port had been equipped
with adequate life-saving appara
tus. H. O. Kent was in his store at St.
Albana, Vt when a man in the 80's
walked in and after some conversa
tion asked him if he had seen his
father lately. Mr. Kent replied he
had not seen his father for 38 years,
but that the last time he heard from
him he was living in Detroit, Mich.
"Well," the man replied, "he isn't
there now. He's here, and I'm the
mau. I
Consul General Sammons has ca
bled from Shanghai, September 25,
1919, that after October 30 cargo
will not be passed by the Chinese
maritime customs unless accom
panied by invoices and other docu
ments. The American Chamber of
Commerce requests that the widest
publicity be given urging American
exporters to mail invoices so as to
arrive with the cargo, tnus Keeping
serious criticism from Americar
trade methods.
Tbo Day We Celebrate,
Hon. A. L. Sifton, minister or pud
lic works in the Dominion cabinet,
born at St. Johns. Ont. 81 years
ago.
Sydney Rosenfeld. one of the most
successful of American dramatists,
torn at Richmond, Va., 4 years aeo.
Benjamin L. Jefferson, United
States minister to Nicaragua, born
at Columbus, Ga., 48 years ago.
Rear Admiral Charles Fremont
Pond; U. S. N., born in winanaro
,,ntv Connecticut, 63 years ago.
William (Kid) Gleason. manager
of the Chicago American league base
ball team, born at camarn, u., -i
years ago.
Thirty Years Ago In Omaha.
t n.rn.nn. ir.. has Just pur-
.h... trnm the Pvle stables at
Humboldt the handsome little mare
Rose Coghlan for $500. -.
nuttier is making her
in comedy at . the
rnnA nnitrfl. hOUSS.
The opening ball of the Metropoli-
tan cluo looK-piac i. "
Committee on arrangements are:
George Heyn. I. New and D. Kauf-
Mrs. J.' R. Buchanan has returned
r.Arn vi visit, to Chadron.
Mr. W. McMillan is at home, after
a visit of three weens in tne easi
ODD AND INTERESTING.
Wigs were worn by the Egyptians
and Syrians.
The Italians dislike wedding gifts
that are sharp or pointed
Photography can prove the pres
ence of skin eruptions wnicn are oh
tirely invisible to the naxea eye.
There are over 60 known varieties
of the banana, with as great, or
erater. variation in character as In
the different Kinas or appiea.
China, and JaDan are pre-eminent
ly the seaweed-eating nations of the
world. Among no oiner peupie mo
nan-weeds so extensively eaten and
relished as food substances.
The nut trees of the world, it is
calculated, could provide food all
the year round for the population of
the globe. Brazil nuts grow in such
nrhfiiHlon that thousands of tons of
them are wasted every year.
Tn .Tanan a child is told that if he
wills a cat. it will revenge itself for
seven generations; or that If he kills
a frog and watches its twltchings in
its oeath struggles ever arter nis
hand will tremble when he tries to
write
The shah of Persia possesses- per
haps the most -aluable pipe in the
world. It is the rersian omciai
pipe and is smoked only on state
occasions. It is set with rubles and
diamonds and is valued at $500,000.
Visitors to 8amoa are much puar
zled at first by the fact that many
boys bear feminine names, wniie
girls as frequently have masculine
names. This confusing use of
names is not due to ignorance, but
in reality is the result of a highly
poetic native custom. Thus if a girl
is born soon after the death of a
brother the latter's name is givsn to
her, in the belief that his spirit and
all his good qualities have been
transferred to her. On the other
hand, if a boy is born after the
death of a sister, he takes the lat
ter's name, and, as the Samoans be
lieve, all her lovable traits become
his.
IN THE BEST OF HUMOR.
Farmer Want t hlra ut fr a month?
Hobo Ooah, no; I want to llva today a
If I txpenJ to die tomorrow Housion
Poat.
1 aaa thy ara thlnklns about Invaatl-
atlnr wmt of our blf bualnraa mm.
"Well, tnay'd twttor hurry up or tnar
won't b ny left." Lit.
Jill Tha man I marry muat ba abta to
kar rook.
jaoR utignt ana ariy mmwre.
inar I'm solns tn antfr a aihool of hypno.
I lorn Buffalo Sxprrva.
Waa Roma foundd by Homao?" In
quired a pupil of the teacher,.
"KO. my ooy, rapuru ,n
It wa Julli-t who waa found lad by
Romeo." London Tlt-Blta.
"Can you prova all you eay?"
Peraape not," replied Senator eor-
hum. "But thtnsa averaga up. inerar
a lot of ihlnira I could prova that 1 oon I
dare eay." -Waahlnaton Star.
. . - . ,
Teacher1 Can any of you tell ine iome-
Ihlne: about ina? Well, Johnny, what
do you know about It ?
jonnnv fiease, miaa. it la ammi-n.
you always hava to keep oft of. LBsdoii
Anewere.
"Should you Inslat on havtns a friend
precede, you In nterlnt a oar?"
"I consider It wtae, anyhow. He a apt
to pay the far for both." Philadelphia
Bulletin.
"You charge too much admleaton at thta
pier."
"But th muelc, tha ocean "
"Th muaio part la all well enough, bii(
I'm paying my hotel for tha uae of thfl
ocean." Jadge.
"Early to bed and early to rise makes
a man healthy, wealthy and wtae "
"Wall. It takea a lot of wladom to de
cide what la beat to do about daylight
aavlng." Kanaaa City Journal.
"Why did you quit tramping?"
Wail, it waa a hard lit before.
there waa wore to come."
"They're llabl to take you for a hoi
ahevlk now." Loulavllla Courier-Journal,.
But
Ha Oh, pray, Mlaa Dalyrlmpl. don't
call m Mr. Brookea. .
ghe Ob, but our acquaintance ha a been
ao brief tSweetly) Why ahouldn't 1 call
you Mr. Brookea? , .
He Oh, only berauae my name a Som
erset. Dallaa New a.
FOR COMING THROUGH.
Greatest world you ever knew for coming
through! .
Wher mountalna never ar so Digs
Against tht everlasting sky
That w can't tell 'em all good-by.
And com oo through!
It's Just to know th work's to do
To come on through!
.lust that the way our fathers trod
Is to be traveled ea and sod;
And then, by strength and help of Ood
We all com through!
Frank L., Stanton In Atlanta Constitu
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