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    THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1919.
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Omaha apart from all other cities
of its size.
BACK TO NEW LIFE.
When the lights of the city were turned on
Saturday night, after a fortnight of darkness,
Omaha seemed to take ou a new lease of life.
With the return to normal and accustomed
hours of business, there should also be some
thing more than just a renewal of the routine.
Out of the adversity should be gathered a little
lessoh of foresight. The community was given
something of a jolt, emphasizing the fact that
not a little of the unpleasant interruption was
because of neglect of preparation. This fact
should not be, forgotten in the rush jof the busy
days to come. And the days ahead will all be
busy. While holiday shopping has the floor for
the time being, other things are preparing to
take the stage. Announcement that the housing
accommodations of the city are yet at least
2,000 dwellings or apartments behind the re
quirements presages a building campaign of
unusual extent, whiile the demands of business
means that many of the big projects that have
been on architects' tables for months will take
on the form of construction as soon as the
weather will permit. New enterprises are com
ing into life, and the greatest period of pros-
perity in the city's history lies just ahead of us.
The end of the fuel embargo is the start of an
era of growth for the community. Relighting
the stores was in very truth' an omen of brighter
days to come.
Foreign Trade Facts and
Hints.
What The Bee Standi For:
1. Respect for the law and maintenance of
order.
2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime
through the regular operation of the
courts. ;
3. Pitiless publicity and condemnation of
.inefficiency lawlessness and corrup
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.
'A new police head will oe a very nice Christ
mas gift for Omaha. -
The Mexican situation is rapidly settling it
self. Two more Americans are being held for
ransom.
President Howatt of the Kansas miners may
some day find himself in the fix of the tradi
tional parrot.
The Bee's Free Shoe Fund ffers one sure
way of getting help to the little ones who need
it. Come in. '
Astronomers of authority agree the end of
the world will not come on Wednesday. Lifts'
an awful load of worry. ' " 1
Forty-four states having ratified the federal,
prohibition amendment, that phase of the pro
ceedings may be considered closed.
A Prussian preacher declares himself still
loyal to the "man of Amerogen." No doubt,
but Count Hohenzollern is "S. O. L." just the
same. ,
.: If no booze can be exported after January
l, it means that there will be a nice stock on
hand to greet the happy day to which the wets
look for ultimate relief. .
Seventy-five per cent of the miners are re
ported to be at work. The rest will soon fol
low, and all of them will be getting over-time
before the coal supply catches up to the de
mand. '
"Liberals'! in session at St. Louis finally
lecided to launch a new party. If this keeps
n, the "liberal" voter will be in a quandary
as to which of the, numerous "parties" he be
longs with.! ,' '
, Farmers in the Euphrates valley want some
, American to teach them to raise crops accord
ing to modern methods. The interest in this
lies in the fact that that valley has been turning
out good yields for at least 100 centuries.
Lodge Punctures Hitchcock's Plea.
Many times in the course of the debate on
the Treaty of Versailles, Senator Hitchcock
has referred to what he calls the "material in
terests" of the United State's. He has set up
that unless .the treaty is ratified as presented,
th. nation will lose all the advantages con
tained in the settlement, particularly those deal
ing witih property interests and rights. , In his
recent speech at New York he especially em
phasized this, and again on Saturday, while the
matter was before the senate on the Knox ef
fort to revive consideration of the document,
the democratic leader injected the issue of ad
justments relating to property. To this Senator
Lodge replied: v'
The great vital interests of the United
States, not only now, but in the futurV, are
not for sale for 600,000 tons of German ship
ping or $800,000,000. i ,
This is a phase of the question that has been
persistently ignored by the administration group
from the very outset. The Treaty of Versailles,
which contains the covenant for the League of
Nations, looks .o permanent settlement of cer
tain grave questions. The president himself
has said it is intended to do away with war
"for all time," and his mouthpiece in the senate,
has echoed this on many occasions. If that is
true, it is all the more reason why the ar
rangement should be approached cautiously.
Senator Lodge speaks for a group that is
unwilling to bind the nation forever to a
course that contains so much of the experi
mental as that now proposed by the president.
.Nor are they willing to put into jeopardy the
future of the United States in order that imme
diate possession of certain formerly German
owned shipping and other property may be
confirmed. The price asked is too high for
Americans to pay.
The difference between Lodge and Hitchcock
is that between principle and policy. One looks
to settlement based on justice, the other to
an adjustment on expeaiency. Americans can
afford to wait until right comes in for recogni
tion. ,
-,- The American "sport" who is starting with
a million dollars to. "break the bank" at' Monte
Carlo may or may not succeed, but he will do"
a great deal to restore the prewar conception
of what an "American" in Europe amounts to.
.Mr. Wilson being able to get around the
house he ought to reach his office after awhile.
Whether this will make any material difference
is not clear. The bureaucrats have not de
parted very far from traditions established since
1913.; . ' . . '
. General Pershing is eminently correct -in
his conclusion that the American army had
something to do with the German defeat. If
he had been as cautious in the field as he is
in his report, the result might have been different.,
A Chicago reporter tried to find one of
the $24.50 suits recommended by the "fair
price," committee, but had no better"luck than
an ordinary purchaser might have encoun
tered. He brought back word that "there ain't
no such animaL" -v
German Dream oj Trade
Supremacy
As the cables depict it at one time, Germany
is prone- on its back, needing the helping hand
of Uncle Sam to give it a lift which will enable"
it ' to potter along somehow industrially and
economically. And then, just as this pathetic
picture of the giant Rrovelinsr amid the ruins
of its own house of cards is impressed on one,
presto, changeit And as it by some tairy trans
formation, such as one is familiar with on the
'stage, the setting changes and the helpless and
the hopeless German industrial chiefs suddenly
. appear as alert and equipped men blustering
. . j t it;
. ana tnreaiening ana leaving noimng unaone
.. to recapture the world trade. This curious al-
ternation has been a feature of the dye industry
controversy ever since the armistice was signed.
And now, at a time that Representative Long
. worth asserts that unless a strong anti-German
monopoly dye law is passed by January IS the
- American dye industry will be destroyed, the
J curtain lifts on the picture of the German dye
industries consolidating and increasing their
( capital to nearly 1,000,000,000 marks. - It is true
A ;that the XJerman dye industries, now that they
" are no longer engaged in making high ex-
plosives, are in a better position to meet the
competition of the world than any other Ger
4 man industry. And even if the great bluff a
new farm of economic friehtfulness does not
exactly terrify our own dye makers, it cannot be
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tlpni Ledger.
' ' Garfield and the Cabinet.
Explaining the reason for his .resignation to
a special committee of the senate, appointed to
inquire into , the fuel situation, Dr. Garfield
cryptically refers to a "cleavage in the cabinet,"
and leaves an impression that the president's
proposal for a settlement does not truly repre
sent the basic thought in the executive's mind.
We are hardly ready to implicitly accept
this. Admitting that the principle laid down by
the late head of the fuel administration to be
the correct one, The Bee adheres to its already
expressed view tha the president acted as he
has in 'all the serious matters that have come
before him, as an opportunist. The principle
on wheih Dr. Garfield relics, that of establishing
a correct ratio between wages and work with re
lation to the production and the selling price of
the product, was equally involved in the rail
road question, which was disposed of by the
passage of the Adamson law. Expediency
rather than justice then 'determined the issue.
A great strike was averted,' but the problem was
not definitely disposed of.
So it is in the coal industry at this moment,
although it must be admitted that the plan
adopted here is far more likely to reach a cor
rect conclusion that was' that which prevailed in
the matter of railroad wages. Proper inquiry
into the fundamentals should establish eventu
ally the correct basis for wages, and if the
president's commission proceeds in this way, it
eventually should meet the requirements laid
down by Dr. Garfield. '
As to the relations between' the doctor and
the cabinet, the public can wait patiently for
the explanation that will come in time. The
Wilson administration has become noted for its
movement along the line of the least resistance
and this instance is neither peculiar nor
singular.
Revival of "Spelling Bees."
Nebraska's state superintendent of schools
is reported to be in favor of a revival of "spell
ing bees," the purpose undoubtedly being to
restore the lost art of orthography. No good
reason has ever been presented for the neglect
of spelling in the public schools, but ample evi
dence is available that the children have not
been taught as they should be in this branch
of education. As a result some shocking ex
amples have come to notice. Not a great many
years ago The Bee received a letter from the
hed of t notable institution of learning, un
doubtedly written by himself, in which was
exhibited such lamentable proof of the writer's
inability to spell that', the effect was shocking.
That man had the right to attach after his sig
nature a considerable portion of the alphabet,
indicating his success at great universities, but
he could not spell. Perhaps, in the weight of
his extra erudition he found no place for ortho
graphy, and had jettisoned it as unnecessary,
but his example on those whowere studying
under him must have been bad. Various ef
forts at spelling "reform" have contributed, in
directly, maybe, but not the less effectually to
the result Accurate spelling is a detail of edu
catioa that shows for itself the amount of de
votion applied in the course of acquiring knowl
edge, and, just as correct pronunciation evi
dences b familiarity with the spoken word, bo
does proper spelling show an understanding of
From the New York Times.
The report of the secretary of commerce,
now in private life, dates back to June. The
last fiscal year made world records for imports,
exports, and tne credit balance between nations,
but forecasts for the current calendar year,
which are practically complete except for de
tails, indicate a change in both quantity and
quality of our foreign business. For the fiscal
year there was a balance due us on merchandise
movement of $3,978,134,947, but the balance for
the calendar year will be $1,000,000,000 less. No
one will be surprised at the decrease in exports
of munitions and their materials as the months
pass away from war, and therefore toward
normal, conditions. That the decrease in the
total of exports is no greater is due to the
change in , the character of the trade.v Our
foodstuffs are still in demand, and must be
until another harvest, but there is an increasing
demand for the products of our labor in the
form of materials more or less ready for con
sumption. How trade makes trade is shown
by the fact that our larger exports of manu
factures necessitate increase of our imports of
materials for manufacture, the figures being
$1,650,000,000 for this calendar year, or nearly
$500,000,000 more than in either 1918 or 1917.
Our total exports and imports for both the cal
endar and fiscal years are above $10,000,000,000,
or more than doble our prewar total.
Evidently the momentum of trade between
the nations which have not and the nation
which has is so great that it defies the diffi
culties of which financiers make so much. The
difficulties in the exchange of currencies are
daily greater, but the exchange of goods pro
ceeds nevertheless. The suggestion is that the
exchange of currencies affects but few, while
.the exchange of goods affects all. In normal
times the sale1 of goods for pounds sterling
meant the exchange of goods for something
which could be brought away from England,
and which would buy other goods anywhere
in the world. But the sale of goods for pounds
now means the exchange of something of uni
versal demand for currency which cannot be
brought away from England, and which can be
spent there only at high prices, and often
times cannot be spent for what is wanted.
We are lamenting that our dollars have lost
half their purchasing power at home, but they
have an advantage over other i currencies be
cause nearly all countries want dollars to spend
here, as the volume of our exports shows. It
is not strictly true to say that there is 'a separa
tion between the exchanges of goods and of cur
rencies, but it cannot , be maintained that the
hitherto unknown relations in the currency ex
changes have the effe?t upon the exchanges of
goods which would be expected. Normallythe
exchanges of goods and currencies are equally
free. Now the exchanges of goods are free,
but the exchanges of currencies are hampered
in many ways.
The world has now a greater merchant ton
nage than at any time in history. Our own
shipyards for the fiscal year built more ships
than the world's annual construction before the
war. American tonnage in the , world's over
sea trade in the fiscal year was . sixfold that
before the war. There is no mechanical ob
struction to the exchanges of goods, and the
demand matches the world's distress. But there
is nothing left undone to make the exchanges
of currencies for each other, or for goods, dif
ficult, dangerous, , expensive. Substitutes for
true money are in use everywhere. There is
under present conditions a minimum of ex
changes of goods for currencies, together with
a maximum ot exchanges ot goods for goods,
merchants supplanting bankers,, unless both
functions are united in merchant bankers.
This condition is unstable. The world's
wants will not await the leisurely process of
our unionists and lawmakers. We lose our
profits, and millions abroad lose their health
or lives, -while our strikers delay and, decrease
the production of goods which might procure
for us other goods. The machinery for the
creation of dollar credits, which might enable
us to sell abroad our surplus product, for which
the foreign buyers cannot supply goods in bar
ter, has hung fire for months, and takes the
form preferred by congress rather than that
known to. be best by those who do such busi
ness. The surprise that we are doing so well,
nevertheless, -is a poor substitute for gratifi
cation over how much better we might be do
ing. - '
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Replied to "B. J. B."
The Bee has received several let
ters in reply to "B. J. B." who pro
posed that the ex-service men , as
sist In settling the coal strike, by
taking the places of the strikers.
Som of these are signed and some
unsigned, but all are of the same
general tenor. The writers' shaTply
criticize "B. J. B." and express sen
timents quite the opposite of his,
The Editor regrets that these can
not be printed in full, but assures
the writers he appreciates their in
terest In the matter.
We Blast Educate.
Auburn. Neb., Dec. 11. To the
Editor of The Bee: Yes. Mr. Editor.
we must, educate, must move toward
civilization and being truly humane.
The Presbyterian movement to ap
ply the teachings of Jesus under-
standingly and thereby not only
bring about the solution of the ques
tion, but the extinguishing entirely
or to some extent at least, the
quenching of that hell called war
that hell the whereabouts and tem
perature cannot be doubted.
The Presbyterian churches. 9,600
In number, have been advised as to
this movement and to do all pos
sible toward checking this great
evil and the consequences that have,
and are sure to follow. '
It is but a few months since Pope
Benedict was anxious to come to the
front to render all possible assistance
to the end that human slaughter
no longer contribute to human
misery, here, there or elsewhere, but
that that gentle doctrine, as we term
it, be the guiding star. By that
gentle doctrine. of Christ of course,
is meant the reaL the human that
the principles of which have never
been called In question, but only
avoided by those so deeply imbued
with human selfishness that dollars
come to the front and the theory
or lack or theory about repentance,
forgiveness and many other falacious
findings brought to the front, are
being oft repeated, are by the pen
and the press as well as by those
who call themselves "the teachers
of Christ" until it goes undisputed
that such teachings and teachers
have to remain silent when told of
setting forth some times as 'much
hatred, revenge, retaliation and in
human conduct, while boasting or
our religion and our patriotism.
Again let it be remembered that
along the line of the better way was
the steps by Jews when 500.000
placed their signatures to the lines
urging international disarmament.
These with the multiplied millions
of prayers by mothers, fathers,
wives, husbands, sons and daugh
ters, should be considered instead
of the woeful inhuman reaching for
dollars. I These and other moves
should be aided and encouraged as
along the line of true patriotism and
true humanity.
J. H. WTJNDAS.
ature Study
Outdoor
Life
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Pi) Jlrtnur brooks Baker
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GENE MELADY.
( He counts the day completely lost whose
low descending sun illumines from his worthy
hand no organizing done; for though the ath
letes froth and fume to break each other's
necks, their anger needs the spur and prop of
good and gaudy checks, mjich as two youns?
and rival bulls are eager for the fray, but can
nily refuse to fight until they get their hay.
So Gene Melady earnestly promotes athletic
stunts. Me doesn't want the U. S., A. to breeil
a race of runts. The order of tlie Dresent dav
requires that some shall toil, shall go and dig
Xow. Let's All Boost.
Omaha, Dec. 11. To the Editor
of The Bee: It's all over now! It
was some battle I'll say. But It's
settled and we now have more rea
son to be thankful to the Almighty
than ever before.
We, the people, got it coming and
eoine: we were out in no-man's
Hand, caught in the barrage thrown
down by both sides, subject to tne
cross-fires of both armies and inci
dentally threatened by other new
armies joining in the war and sub
jecting us to further and more dras
tic barrages..
Can we ever forget the peril of
our position when we lay awake at
night and wondered where our next
ton of coal would come from or
how long our Jobs would hold out
before being closed by the all-powerful
fuel administrator.
It's all over now! Soon people
will resume the old hours of work.
street cars will take up their old
schedules, "movies" will re-open and
all the world will rejoice to the
music of the merry hum of pros
perous business.
The battle is won. Both armies
were victorious. Both sides are sat
isfied with the term of the armis
tice and renewed hopes for contin
ued iirosneritv are expressed on
vrv side.
Let everyone Join in the rejoicing
whirh should take place at this
time. . Now is the time to promul
gate the idea of better times. Now
is the time to endeavor ;to bring
happiness and content to every
household in these United States, by
advocating cheerfulness and opti
mism and by making the balance
of the year a universal holiday sea
son. Let everyone endeavor to the best
of their ability to keep down for
ever the smouldering fires of dis
content which without 'our every co
operation may at any time break
Into a flame. Let everyone declare
a moratorium on ill-will and gloom
dining this season.
To further, get tne puunc minu
Sleepers.
By ADEL1A BELLK 8 BARD.
Do you ever wake up on a winter
morning, then snuggle deeper under
tne oedciotnes and wish you might
sleep as long as you want? Well, that
is how some of the wild creatures
feel. No one insists upon their get
ting up so they nestle deeper in their
beds of dry leaves and grasses, shut
their eyes again, and fall into a
sleep which, in many cases, lasts all
winter. 11, in your section of the
country, these animals do riot al
ways take such long naps, you may
know it is because, where the win
ters are warm, their habits are not
c;uite the same as where winters are
long and cold. '
One champion sleeper is the black
bear, found in lonely places where
the land is rough and there are deep
wooas. niter a summer ot careless
freedom and an autumn spent in
growing round and fat, the black
tear teels stupid and sleepy, and
hunts up a shelter in a hollow where
the drifting snow will cover him
warmly, or in a hollow tree or a
cave among ,the rocks. There he
goes to sleep nd sleeps so soundly.
tic uucs noi rouse nimseit until tne
warm fingers of spring shake him
into life again.
It is a far cry from a big black
bear to a tiny wood mouse, yet the
mouse loves to sleep too for part
or tne winter at any rate. In the
tall, he piles up a store of grain afrd
seeds, then becomes a soft, buffy ball,
and goes to sleep in his dugout. It
is said that he wakes at times to
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feed on-his supplies, but he won't
leave his quarters as lone as his
food lasts.
The chipmunk also goes into re
treat for the winter and deep in his
burrow, all snug and warm, he sleeps
away the cold days and nights. Prob
ably betore tucking himself in, he
devours the grain and nuts, so in
dustriously laid by, and the hearty
meal lasts him until he wakes up
again in the spring.
Another sleeper, the handsome,
but to-be-avoided skunk, gets almost
too fat to walk before he finally
'urns in for the winter.
(Next week: "Jim Crow.")
Boya" and Girls" Newapapar Service.
'Copyright, 1919 by J. H. Millar.
their country's coal or till their country's soil, ' away from strikes, unrest and gen
and men who bear upon their bofies a lot of i era! gloom, we ask the people of
Umana aim viemity, 10 sei wa
five or 10 minutes each day for dis
pensing holiday cheer and everyone
during that period to think, talk
and boost for a happier holiday sea
son. Let everyone Join in 'boosting a
universal holiday season from now
until the New Year.
M. G. ROGERS.
husky freight assume importance far bevond
their simple beet and weight. '
He put the great Joe Stecker in the burly
wrestling game, to gather for his worthy brow
the furbelows of fame. He still believes in
pious peace for parsons and for doves, but likes
to see the huskies mill with reasonable gloves.
If he were judge he would extend the mercy
of the court to all who place an honest bet on
gentlemanly sport. )
In private life he buys and sells the thrifty
farmer s kine, reserving for his service a com
mission thin and fine, and guarding rustic Reu
ben with a roll upon his limb from city slickers
looking for a healthy hick to trim, protecting
him from bargainers who readily would sell the
toll bridge on the river, city hall and Fontenelle.
Next Subject: Ward M. Burgess.
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the written language,
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Let us have the "spelling
The Day We Celebrate,
John Douglas, manager Douglas Printing
Co.. born 1863.
James C. Dahlman, secret service depart
ment, police branch, federal railroads, born
1865.
L. J. Te Poel, attorney, born Saunders coun
ty, 1877.
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the engineer who
built the Eiffel Tower in Paris, born at Dijon,
France, 87 years ago.
Duke of Atholl, the only individual in Great
Britain who is entitled to maintain a private
army of his own, born 48 years ago.
Van H. Manning, director of the U. S. Bu
reau of Mines, born at Horn Lake, Miss., 58
years ago.
Rev. William Devlin, S. J., president of Bos
ton college, born in New York City, 44 years
ago.
Joseph Barrell, professor pf structural geo
logy at Yale university, born at New Provi
dence, N. J., 50 years ago.
Rear Admiral John E .Pillsbury, ,U. S. N.,
retired, born at Lowell, Mass., 74 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. '
Mrs. A. J. Poppleton went to Stamford,
Conn., to spend Christmas with Miss Poppleton
and Miss Mary Poppleton.
The Immanuel Baptist church at Twenty
fourth tiid Binney was formally dedicated. Rev.
H. C. Woods. D. D., of Lincoln delivered the
dedicatory address.
Mrs. Thayer of Colorado was visiting Mrs.
Dundy.
T. C. Patterson was in Washington, D. C.
"The King's Fool" opera company sang to
a crowded house at the BoyA. JUaii Sax was
the , .
"Forty Senators."
Omaha. Dec. 12. To the Editor
of The Bee: The World-Herald
quotes Senator Hitchcock as saying,
"there are 40 senators ready to
take the treaty as it is, without any
reservations. They take no stock In
the idea that we must view the na
tions associated with us in this war
as suspicious characters who are try
ing to lead us into a trap. They
take no stock In the idea that- a
plot is afoot to ruin the United
States, destroy our Monroe Doctrine,
fasten us forever as a member of
the league, put upon us the whole
burden of world peace, get con
trol of our army and navy and de
stroy the constitutional powers of
congress." If the honorable sea
ator'a words are true, these betray-
a greater tragedy than even the
wildest flights of our imagination
had conceived. Can it be possible
tnat among tne authorized repre'
sentative body of the American peo
ple there lurks "40 senators" who
"take no stock in the very essen
tials of our national liberty and gov
ernment? The names of these "40
senators" should be published
throughout the land and publicly
branded as fully worthy to take their
places beside such gentlemen as
Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold.
There isn't the least doubt in the
world that Emma Goldman and
Alexander Weinberger, awaiting de
portation for sedition and anarchy,
would loudly applaud the names and
deeds 'Of these infamous "40." But.
thank God, there are only "40" and
those 40 will get a nice long vaca
tion far. far from Washington after
the next election. We thank you,
Senator Hitchcock, for your timely
tip and beg to assure you thut in
the future we will be careful to se
lect men as our representatives who
do "take stock" in their office and
responsibility.
"AMERICA FIRST."
Study Problems
Solved
The Encyclopedia.
By ISABEL W. CLAYTON.
You have some friends who are
not always known but who have a
great deal of information which will
help you in your studies? These
friends are very obliging and will
give you help if you ask for it. They
are more numerous than the dic
tionary. You do not always find
them in your home but they can
always be found in the public library
and in most schools. Ihey are
called encyclopaedias. There are
various families such as the Ameri
cana, New International, Britannica,
i
and others. Do you know how to
use them?
You are asked to find out about
apples. Will you look in the dic
tionary or encyclopedia? The dic
tionary tells what they are. while the
encyclopedia describes them by
means of words and pictures, tells
how they are cultivated the names of
the different kinds, their uses, their
diseases, what insect pests affect
them and when and with what to
spray the trees to destroy the pests.
Therefore, if you want to find out
more than the definition of a subject,
use the encyclopedia.
Ihe encyclopedia is arranged in
alphabetic order like the dictionary
but usually in more than one volume
depending on the amount of material
it contains. The articles are loneer
and fewer than those in the die-
It Was Worse. t
Lady Here, my poor fellow, is a
quarter ror you. It must be dread
ful to be lame, but I think It must
be worse to be blind.
Tramp It is, mum. When I was
blind they was always handing me
counterfeit quarters. The American
Legion Weekly.
DAILY CARTOONETTE.
tionary. A general encyclopedia like
the New International or Britan
nica contains articles on all subjects.
Some treatjf only a special subject
such as art, natural science or elec
tricity. The articles are arranged
under the subject noun, such as rub
ber, apples, and boats. At the end of
the most important articles, are lists
of books treating of the same sub
ject. On the back of each volume is
printed the first part of the names
of the first and last subjects treated
in that volume. The same is done
on each page. This helps you to find
the volume and page which contain
the subject you are looking for. If
you wanted to find out about apples
in the New International Encyclo
pedia, you would look in t he volume
beginning with A and ending with
ARABIC and on the page begin
ning with with Appert and ending
with Apple.
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general conditions. But it is silent
on the one overshadowing subject
involving the welfare of this coun
try.
What is the government doing to
get coal? On this vital question the
president says nothing. Kansas City
Times.
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sorrow to all homes, when the
family must be separated. It is
then that the tnoughtful service
of the well equipped mortician
lessens the burden for those who
have charge of the last rites that
are paid to the departed. It is then
that the sympathetic, thoughtful,
and kind mortician enters into in
timate relations with the family,
serving as best he may, with and for
them. We take from the shoulders of
the sorrowing ones many details which
are so hard at that particular time. It
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to conserve coal in
order that the supply we
have available will serve
the necessary needs of
our community, our
state and our govern
ment, v .
We have been urged
to conserve food to
the end that a surplus
be created to help feed
the starving in Europe
and the hungry at home.
An urgent appeal
should be made to
conserve money so that
our Nation will have the
means of financing our
future prosperity. A
savings account at this
bank will help to provide
a surplus for this work.
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