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.THE BEE; OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1919. L' The OmahA Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BT EDWARD BQ8WA,Tg VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TH BEK PUBLISHINq COMPANY, PROPRIITQS MEMBCJU OF THE ASSOCIATED TRESS The Amexttft mss. of wkleh m ta b i water, to a elaaM eeUUedte tETn m for aublloatloa of aU aea Umtchm ,SiuX to II or Ul MlnlH mOltH la this puer. sad " tluloul vvMUtwd ink AU righia eC (vSuoMlem el mu apatlal dUpeieaai r alas isssrwa. BEX TELEPHONES i Prlraw Brmnab atatenge.. ask fcrlbe TvlPr 1000 Dtpattasst of PartkxUu Penoa Wanted. A JT1CI 1VWW For Night ud Sunday aWlee Calh Clnmlauoa DeperUMBt - J Wf J. adfsrtlslat DPrtm ...... Trier lOOEX OFFICES OF THE BEE , Bon Offles. Bee Building, irta and raraaa. ' Iml'" 0mCUl lortk Mta I Park Mil Law-worth 2a Bill Miff tuy An. Scuta d nil N Street SiSEn Staffs II Sott St W.lnut 111 North Mta :: . 9Tr?J22KS 1.1. a (VTOHER CIRCULATION I Daily 66,315 Sunday 63,160 aferego elrenlMon for tne nonta suoeonosa ana im w w X. B. Itiu. CtroultloB MiMr. - Subscriber taavtes the eltr aheul hare The Baa mlld la them. Addraaa changes aa onen You should know that Receipts of corn at the Omaha mills and elevators increased more than 25 per cent in 1919 over the total of 1918. What The Bee Stands Fort L Respect for the law and maintenance at 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 tha true basis of good citizenship. Homestretch for Santa Clausl Straw votes are interesting, but they seldom elect anyone. Tha Yuletide season works wonders; look at Bryan and Hitchcock! But why did he have to go east to get the advice he might have found at home? . Another effort to control the price of. sugar is to be made. We all know what happened last time. When the soviet ark reaches its destination, the passengers will be able to report progress, but not In America. A $50000 bull burned up in a box car, just as a common feeder steer would do. Railroad wrecks do not regard royalty. Tha United States Grain corporation again promises cheaper flour to combat the advancing prices. It can not come too soon. The Hitchcock-Underwood finish fight has been put off till the middle of next month. One of the principals may go stale by that time. Ten. of thirteen representative industries show increases in number of workmen em ployed for the year. Business is getting back. . If "Tommy" Allen really intends to start a crusade against the home-grown profiteer, he will never have a better chance than right now. That Paris athlete who played on the Istage wearing only a loin cloth recalls Thamara de Swirsky, who danced in Omaha a few years ago . Our old friend, "Gabe" d'Annunzio, declines to bother about submitting the Fiume ques tion to a referendum. He has decided, so why trouble the villagers? The American Legion declines to accept the position of the secretary of war on the Broms "release, and asks an inquiry. If Baker can get away with this, he. can do anything. V Mr. Wilson has revoked sentence of death passed on three American officers who failed in the Argonne fight Saved from death, they will have a lifetime of explanation ahead. - Nebraska teachers have again chosen Omaha as a meeting place by a very handsome majority, thus once more demonstrating the discrimin ating' taste as well as sound judgment of the corps. ' i General Pershing still stands for universal military training as a means for strengthening the physical as well as the moral fiber of the1 nation's youth. This does not imply militarism, but a sensible method of developing the na tion's manhood. A . Denver preacher named Lackland pro poses a "jazz" orchestra to warm up his con gregation, and he is is a Methodist A preacher of that denomination wljo must have a negro minstrel exhibition to put life into his hearers ought to be named Lackjob. ' To Remove the Kick Hearings have been held before the federal prohibition commissioner to devise some means for taking the kick out of hair tonic and bay rum and for rendering innocuous as beverages all flavoring extracts intended for household use. It is insisted by-4he prohibition enforce ment officials that something must be done to render these articles unfit for drinking pur poses, if the country is to be placed upon a bone-iry basis. The suggestion has been put forward that bay rum, hair tonic and other concoctions used in the barber shops should be doctored up with ingredients which would make them unat tractive as beverages, . but the manufacturers protest that a man would not care to have a - lotion rubbed upon hia cheeks or into his hair which would make him smell like a drug store back of the prescription counter. They are willing to have a little croton oil or other del eterious substance added if it does not destroy the commercial value of the article. Manufacturers of flavoring extracts also balk at the idea of bing compelled to put up their wares in such small packages that no man with an illegal thirst could get intoxicated on one bottle even if he drank it all. Their complaint is that many of their customers buy m large bulk, and if they were compelled to put up their goods in small packages it wotld be a serious handi ca a jthcmnWaihingtoa pil TO AVERT FUTURE STRIKES. One feature of tha president's instructions to the commission that is to inquira into the bituminous coal industry refers to that phase of the problem which relates to the rights of tha public. In this he takes tha principle involved in the anthracite coal commission named by President Roosevelt, the outcome of which was so notably beneficial in the way of stabilizing that industry. It is possible to fix a basis for tha calculation of profits and of wages, and so arrange that operations will be continuous while disputes between employes and the oper ators are being adjusted. " The public is interested in seeing that the miners get a just wage, that the operators re ceive proper return on investment and that a steady, ample supply of fuel is available at a price, that is not unreasonable. In such a prob lem, with the factors easily ascertainable, the answer depends on the care exercised in the calculations. The Wilson commission is clothed with all the power the Roosevelt body had, and if it makes an inquiry as detailed and compre hensive, reaching a conclusion as definite and dependable, it will have performed a splendid service. With such a principle established in the min ing industry, a way is opened to the effective solution of the railway labor problem. The Adamson law does not touch the spot while anti-strike provision of the Cummins bill, just passed by the senate, lacks much in the way of providing satisfactory means of settlement When an understanding is reached as to the elements of costs, and this should not be hard to find, then the proper division between owner and operative may also be determined. Justice should determine this, not expedi ency. A bargain ought to rest on something more worthy than the mere physical strength of either party. Might does not make right in the economic any more than it does in the polit ical word. Agreements should be morally and ethically as well as legally sound. The presi dent's soft coal commission, following the trail blazed by the Roosevelt hard coal board of in quiry, may lead to a way by which much if not all the danger of great industrial disturbances may be averted. . s Breaking the Treaty Deadlock. Answering the challenge from the president, the republican members of the senate commit tee on foreign relations have recommended the passage of the Knox resolution, which aims to declare peace without formal ratification of the Versailles treaty. It preserves the salient and important provisions of that treaty, excluding the pact for a league of nations. On this action will come later. "Mild" reservationists and ad ministration democrats, alike are lined up against the Knox resolution, which requires only a majority vote to carry. As an alter native, Senator Underwood proposes the ap pointment of a committee of ten to work out a compromise. The resolutions will come up for discussion soon after the holiday recess, and definite action may be taken early in January. Nothing is shown of the purpose of the Under wood plan, other than it may be taken as in dicative of a mood to mollify the president if possible. On the other hand, the Knox reso- ration fairly expresses the republican attitude on the question, a willingness to declare peace wth Germany and Austria on the basis of the treaty, with the exception of the covenant for a League of Nations. As this pact is the sole point in difference now, it is reasonable that the dispute on it be adjourned while the war is brought to ah end through the formal declara tion of congress.' Mr. Wilsons determination to have his own way has been the stumbling block. Whether he is ready for peace with the league or in anon s to De aeciaeaiater may De known after the holidays. ' Berger's "Victory" Hollow. Only one interpretation may reasonably be put on the result or the Milwaukee election. That is that a majority of the voters of the Fifth Wisconsin congressional district are thoroughly indurated in their condition of "class consciousness." The mistake should not be made of considering the objection to Victor Berger as resting on his profession of social ism. Not at all; he was permitted once to serve a term in congress as a socialist, was allowed to speak and vote as such, and in all ways to exercise the functions of a member of eon-j gress. Prior to his expulsion from the present house he was allowed to draw his pay as a member, although under conviction on a charge of sedition. Other socialists have sat in con gress as such, so this can not be .the reason. Berger was expelled from congress! because he was" deemed unfit to sit in the house, owing to his treasonable course during the war. He will probably be again expelled for the same reason. If the voters of the Fifth Wisconsin district prefer to go unrepresented in order that they may publicly avow their, devotion to their convicted leader, that is their affair. The dis grace of the affair musV be shared in some de gree by the whole country. It does not partake of the Mature of a public calamity, however, any more than does the conviction of a group of I. W. W. agitators or the deportation of a ship load of undesirable disturbers from abroad. Any "victory" Berger may have won is empty save as it feeds his monumental egotism, and shames the nation. ' "Harmony? for Nebraska Democrats. Politics certainly does make strange bed fellows I Here we have the inspiring picture of William Jennings Bryan and Gilbert Monell Hitchcock lying down together like a pair of sucking doves 1 What hath wrought this change? Politics. "Hitch" wants the Nebraska delegation in the democratic national conven tion to support his candidacy for president and the peerless one wants help for his views as opposed to the Wllsonian policies. What stronger cement could be sought? Four brief years ago the secretary of state was rubbing salt into the various spots on th senator's raw body from which the hide had been removed by an ungrateful administration. At the same time the senator was doing what little lay in his power to make rough and un pleasant the path over which the secretary of state had to travel. Is this all forgotten? Don't you believe it Neither of these amiable statesmen ever for gets an injury, however much either may in cline to overlook favors received. But the need for "harmony" is such that each is willing to sacrifice something just now in order that he may get what he is' looking for next June, lay ing over until after the convention all those personal grievances, big and little, that have kept theni apart. The "sting of ingratitude" may be salved but it will rankle, just tns same. The Short Ballot ; From the Chicago Tribune. The best of all ways to defeat democracy is to make its political machinery too complicated for any one but a specialist to operate. It is the best way because the very thing that makes machinery look democratic may be the thing that makes it difficult to control. We are therefore thrown off the track leading to effective correction. The chief illustration of this Is the blanket ballot. There democracy smothers itself. It has acted on the theory that in order to control our machinery at every point we must elect every official directly, and in order to be en tirely free in our choice, we must throw open the contest to every one. This is supposed to be democratic, but it does not work out in practice as democratic, If we have so many candidates we cannot pos sibly learn who they are, so many offices to vote on and so many primaries and elections to attend, we simply refuse to attend. Thus instead of keeping control we lose it. It passes over into the control of taen who make a busi ness of politics, who work at politics while we work at our personal affairs, who work while we sleep. Ihey and their organized followers do not miss primaries or elections. They know all the names on the blanket ballots, no matter how many, whom the names stand for and what. The citizen doesn't He can't It would take all his time to find out. He votes in the dark, except for the principal officers some times, or as he may have learned to trust the report of civic societies or- of newspapers. Therefore, when we increase the number of officials we have to nominate and elect we give ourselves a job we cannot do, we set up machinery we cannot control. We' do not con trol; we are controlled. This isn't democracy, or even representtive republicanism. It is oligarchy weannjr the name of democracy.. The correction for this is to shorten the ballot, to elect a few officials and hold them responsible for results. , We can know a few candidates. We will go to a few, primaries and elections. We therefore can and will control the simplified political machinery. This is real democratic government not bogus: it is real representation; it is political machinery actually under control of the voters; self-government in practice, not merely in theory. Demacroeues who want to olav onlv uoon ignorance and half thinking always favor fre quent elections and many candidates. So do political professionals who wish to keep con trol of the machinery. But the thinking citizen who considers the actuaLworkmgs of represeta- nve government win understand mat n ne is to control he must simplify. The short ballot reform, therefore, is tter- haps the most important political reform we can establish. The constitutional convention, we hope, will cut elective offices down to a mini mum. Merely administrative officers should be" appointed by an executive responsible to the people, as in the case of that great model of government, our federal constitution. The only elective officials should be those which legislate or have to do with public policies. The election of judges is an established policy in Illinois. Roosevelt and His Teacher To say that the late and still much alive Col. Theodore Roosevelt knew everything about everything would be a large exaggeration, of course, but it was entirely characteristic of him that when Viscount Grey, as an expert on Brit ish birds, took him for a long walk in the coun try to tell him about the birds they encountered, he found that the colonel was about as well in formed as himself concerning them and had little to learn except to identify them by their songs. . What the colonel , knew about the British birds, evidently, was what he could get out of books, and it was entirely like him that he ex pressed something like resentment that none of his authors had set down the fact that the Brit ish blackbird was a better sineer than any of its more famous rivals. Colonel Roosevelt did know an approach to everything to be found in books, for not only did he read an enormous number of them all at enormous speed, naturally but he read all kinds of books and he remembered their con tents with an accuracy that enabled him on al most innumerable occasions to astonish spe cialists by holding his own with them in . their own domains. ' His methods of acauisition were his own. and they enabled him to find time for doinir what ever he wanted to do chiefly, no doubt, be cause what he wanted to do he wanted with vehemence. New York Times. OieVELVET HAMMER! Bi)lrtnur'DrooksBaker ml CHARLES HENRY PICKENS. He heads a wholesale grocery whose praise we joy to sing because it is a laudable and creditable thing. He marshals forth our daily grub in grand and vast array, and should he fall down on the job for any single day he d lose a large and lovelv host of true and faithful friends whom sheer starvation would have brought to their untimely ends.. For when a fellow has the proper groceries within, no need to fear that he will grow trans lucent pale arid thin. Fresh, foolish faddists fulminate the fond, fantastic fact that those who eat the less have(more to put upon their back; but who wouhi care to show himself upon the happy street in bones which wore a lot of clothes but very little meat? When Omaha was in its young, abbreviated pants, and few as yet had dreamed its grand and ponderous advance, he helped to save it through those young, impressible years a hero fireman he, among the firemen volunteers. Who knows if, save for those distinguished services of old, we might be but a cinder heap forgotten, gray and cold. . i When steamboats used to trail the river's winding bends, they counted him among their fine and influential friends. He still is known as Commodore because of vital faith in schemes of which there's nothing left but memory and wraith. The gay Missouri still pursues its modeling in sand, but freight and passengers in haste prefer to use the land. Next Subject: Luther Drake. ronAV The Day We Celebrate. Robert W. Patrick, attorney, born 1858. Frank B. Kellogg. United States senator from Minnesota, born at Potsdam, N. Y., 63 years ago. Bambndge Colby, former member of the United States shipping board, born at St. Louis, SO years ago. Edna Goodrich, a noted actress of the American stage, born at Logansport, Ind., 36 years ago. Uoie Kead. well-known Chicago author and journalist born at Nashville, Tenn., 67 years ago. Harvey M. McUellan. utility intielder of the Chicago American league base ball team, born at Cynthiana, Ky., 25 years ago . Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. ' - Mrs. Kountze returned from New York ac companied by her sons, Mr. Herman, Mr. Au gustus and Mr. Charles Kountze, who were to remain in Umaha for the holidays. Collin l. McKenzie. lord lieutenant of Peebleshire, Scotland, was visiting here. Mr. McKenzie was one of the original investors in South Omaha four or five years before.. Articles of incorporation of the Union Ab stract 'and Trust company were filed with a capital stock of $100,000. Richard . Smith and John H. Hart were elected as delegates to the national metring of the Builders and .Traders in St, Paul, tj' President's Plan for Settling Strikes. Oxford, Neb., Dec., II. To the Editor of The Bee: In December 11 Bee, Mr. Ex-Coal Miner writes a lot of sob stuff about tha coal miner going down In a dirty hole in tha morning to come out O. K. In the evening or maybe to be taken home on a stretcher: True, so a man who goes up in an airship, out on the road In an automobile, or to drive a threshing outfit on the farm, or handle a railroad 1 train, mav ba a crushed corpse before night. There is no secure place in this world and the death rate in many occupations is greater than in the mines. Coil mining is a useful and honorable oc cupation and those choosing that oc cupation should receive all the pro- iouuou oi iaw ana au tne rights of cuiaensnip mat any other class re ceives. If We Admit that tha mlnan vara rigm wnen tnev entered into a . piracy to cut the supply of coal at the beginning: of winter, wa mint acknowledge the end of constitu tional government because our con stitution set up the Judiciary idepart- meni to aenne law' and adjudicate differences between rltlzana. Thr is no law against laborers quitting their Job, singly or collectively, but tnerejs plenty of law to nrevnt pun. spiracles to cut off the necessaries of life from the public, whether the conspirators be miners, mine owners or fat-mers. Had farmers withheld their 'products from tha mrkt starvation would have been the min ers- aoom ana their kick would have been against the cost of hnrini rath er than the cost of living. Probably the most disappointing happening of the world-disappointing administration of Presidnnt wn. son Is its complete back-down and abject surrender to th No wonder that Garfield throws up his hands In despair and disgust and refuses to be loneer th fuel i(,,ni. goat When the miners deserted the mines at a picked tim whsn thev i j . - wuiu cauas me most surrering and misery to humanity, out came the statesmanlike nrofilamatinn frnm the White House that the strike was not oniy unjustifiable but unlawful. J.ne president had used weeks of time and thousands of tha nnoniA'a money in conferences with the labor union readers trying to satisfy their ever increasing demands. He had tried to convince them that the gen eral public had a llttln rlaim nr. Mm- the unions had been, given shorter hours and longer wages whenever they had demanded them under his administration, yet he could not sanction their brazen threat to ti. P the commerce and indiintrlna nt the nation. The mines would be worked and the workers given ade quate protection. Existing war-time power would be used to the utter most to protect the public ' if the miners carried out their How that manly stand of our chief executive was applauded by every patriotic citizen. Was there to be a hange? Was the riehta of all the people to be recognized? Was the man Who had surrendered and rirnvA through congress the disgraceful Adamson law at the demand of a few agitators, to rise from his sick bed and redeem American honor? Congress caught the, spirit of Amer icanism and hastened to applaud and pledge Its unanimous support. The good news were blazoned in the newspaper headlines that the public interests would be protected, and the public believed it. But alas for the fallacy of man's faith when it is placed in the present democratic ad ministration. We have surrendered ftn thou whom Wilson has declared law breakers, and more, we have granted them a 14 per cent raise for being criminals, and pledged a future boost of all the public can stand, which shall be retroactive to the day they pulled off their conspiracy to freeze the people and defied the president to make good his word to protect tne public interests. Let it also be remembered that when bickering with these law breakers the administration asked and obtained a postponement of criminal contempt charges against 84 Union heads and also had the federal grand Jury investie-atinn of the mine operators put off. The newspapers are now trying to make an hero and patriot of Lewis and his uk tor acquiescing in the govern menu aoject surrender. Is it not about time that our con gressmen stopped playing for votes ana respected their official oaths? Wilson says the right to strike shall remain inviolate. Then why was the miners' strike unlawful? Why did he send his well wishes to the gov ernor of Massachusetts, who drove the striking policemen from power ana was overwneimingly endorsed by the people for so doing? We can't make one law for the police man and another for the mall clerks or school teachers, or one for tha mins owners and another for those who work the mines. Nothing more man mis Dogus miner settlement can Illustrate what would be the consequences had we swallowed the Wllsonian league of nations with its boishevlkl labor plank. The presf dent's doctrine Is that "the seed of revolution is repression, and the only way to keep men from aeltat ing against grievances is to remove the grievances. If they want hleher wages, let them have them: and if they want to work shorter days and less hours by all means let them do it. It looks now as though the labor question may be the dominant issue in the coming election;- and, if it does, it will pretty well smash old party lines. A. C. RANKIN, Nature-Study fS't Outdoor, 1 Jim Crow. B7 ADELIA. BELLS BEARD. Jim Crow is not black all the way through, though most farmers and some writers seem to think he is. He has red blood in his veins and a warm heart, capable of affection. in his breast. You will find this out ior yourseit it vou tame him when he is young and make a companion oi mm. As a pet he is alwavi doinsr tin expected things and is so funny about it you forgive his mischief. Of all America birds he is the most intelligent and not only un derstands much that you say, but tries nara to answer, making noises in his throat that sound amazingly like words. There was a pet crow in my fam ily wno always grew very confiden tial .when I dug worms for him, Closely following my trowel as it turned up the earth, he would talk softly and sometimes chuckle are nially as if at a joke he was getting on. . Jim Crow is funny in his wild state too, but he has his serious moments and, if you watch him closely, you will see that he uses his reason and memory. He is verv clever and often outwits the farm boy whose duty it is to drive him out of the cornfield. To be sure he takes his toll of corn but he oavs for it Without his vigilant eye and strong, quick snapping beak, the corn would often be entirely de stroyed by its more serious enemies, the cutworm, grasshopper and May beetle. s The crows are with us winter and summer, it is only when they are starving that they "seek fields and pastures new" and then they do not go far. They like to live in big colonies, but after one has been tamed he is never allowed by the others to return to them. As an outcast and stranger he is beaten off if he approaches and must spend the rest of his life in unhappy lone liness. Remember this and do not : tame Jim Crow unless you can keep him. Study-Problems Solved H Starting That Theme. B KATHARINE TAYLOR. Franoli W. Parker School. i If you were starting out to explore an island, would you just wander about till you thought you had seen it all? . No. You would first sit down and plan your journey. You would go about it with some sort of sys tern. When you write a theme, you are exploring a subject with your mind. It has boundaries, high points that stand out, and low places that you ought to know about just like your island. Be sure then to plan your V. It Ai. ..... ... td get lost and certainly you will HCBSOfUWY ABOUT IT TOO roRttvc his' (Next week: rat") "Home of the Musk Boy' and Glrla" Nwppr Servlet. Copyrlght,lll, by J. H. Millar. FROM HERE ANP THERE. In Very Considerate. Fair At Student I hope you don't mind my sketching in your field? . The Farmer1 Bless ye, no, miss, Why, you be savin me the trouble of puttin' up a scarecrow! Edinburgh Scotsman. DAILY CARTOONETTE. ! i 1. EDID- II Envelopes first came into use 1830. - Australia has nearly 300,000 acres or untouched forests. One-sixth of the world's supply of quinine is consumed in India. Sealskin is naturally of a light drab color, but it is dyed for the market A snail, crawling without a pause, would occupy 14 days 6 hours to travel a mile. The world's record of sugar planta tions contain 13,000 acres, has 30 miles of railway and employs 1,800 people, i Eminent scientists believe that not a single microbe exists in mountain air above the height of 2,000 feet The leaf of the Ceylon talipot palm, which grows to 100 feet in height. Is so wide that It will cover 20 men. It is unlawful In Turkey to seize a man's residence for debt, and suf ficient land to support him is also exempt from seizure. A eurious means of communication Is the "drum language" of a tribe in ,the Congo. These people can by this means converse with each other at considerable distances. It Is an Interesting fact that sugar exists not only In the cane, beet root and maple, but also In the sap of about 190 other plants and trees. There is in Delhi a wrougnt iron column which was placed there nearly 1,300 years ago, and at the present time shows practically no signs of deterioration. The staple crop or cmna is earn to be sweet potatoes. There is no section which does not raise them. and they are a substantial part of the diet of a greater part of the Chinese people. Natural dyes, made mostly rrom vegetables, plants and wood, were practically the only dyes known for centuries. Their gradual disuse in the last 100 years has been due to the discovery that dyes could be made from coal tar. According to the calculations or geological experts, the available sup ply of coal still unmined in tne world Is 7.397.000.000.000 tons, enough to last 1,000 years, even If the consump tion continues to Increase at the present rate. ' A Jfortuguese, Aioeno uwreiro Branco, is said to have planted the first coffee tree in Klo de Janeiro in 1760, and from this small beginning has been developed the Industry which has made Brazil the greatest coffee producer of the world. A Parisian paper announces tnat all subscribers will be allowed to purchase ten pounds of sugar at cost price, and since sugar is one of the scarcest commodities in Paris at the present time, it is likely that the circulation of the paper is in for a considerable boom. not know when you have finished your journey. Ihe first thing to decide is the point of view from which to write. This will be determined largely bv the people for whom you are writ- ng. You are writing a theme on base ball. Are you writing for peo ple who never saw a base ball and know nothing about the game? Then you must explain very care- fully and completely the main points of the game. Go at it with this idea: "thev Hon't know ativtViinc atinnt base ball and I must make it so I nt.in . a 41,. m . U n , U ... L.1. , pmiu lu Lut.111 ma, iiicjr vail I licip but understand it." Are you writing for people who see no fun in the game? Then you must show your readers the fun and excitement of hitting a liner over the center field er's head, of catching a runner nap ping off second base, or of making a home run. Next arrange the points you in tend to make in the form of an out line. If you do not do this, you may drag the poor reader on an aimless journey which ends no where and convinces him of noth ing except that you don't know how to write. You are now ready to start writ ing. Use your outline to suggest the road. Remember you are ex-1 plonng the road tor your readers to follow. Make, it so plain they can't miss it Write your own ideas, sim ply and clearly with your reader al ways in mind, and you'll be sur prised to find that getting out that theme is so much easier than you thought. (Next week: "Reading a Land scape.") Boys' and Olrli" Nawipapar Bervlca Copyright. 1911, by J. H. Millar. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. Johnson I aay, Jeemi. dat chlla o vourn'i mlEhty slow larnln' at school. Jeems Yes, that's cause da school am seven miles from hear, and da chile fo'glts all de teacher say alo be gits hall-ways home. Judge. " I hear you are moving away." "Yes." , , "Oolng to green fields and pastures new, eh?" "Yon mleht cut It that way. As a mat ter of fact I'm going to occupy a flat In a 10-story apartment-house In another town. ' Birmingham Age-Herald. IThls pianist Is charging me ' enough for a little music. I wonder how he figures It, by the note?" Dunno. He's making a fearful racket. "I'll say he Is. Probably ha charges by the pouna. Judge. ; Minister Do you belters la a here after T Youth It will be an injustice If there isn't one; .1 havan't been able to find the top sergesnt of my company since tha regiment was demobilized. Judge. Teast Psople will hara' no use for oorkscrews now that a ban baa been placed on liquor. Crlmsonbeak Why not? Thsre'a lota of good old patent medicines with kicks In 'em on the market, ain't there f Yonkers statesman. Victim Sir, your dog bit me.' Owner You must Sardon him, air; this dog wss formerly a police dog, and has been trained to attak every suspicious looking character. Houston Post. Daughter A certain young man sent me these flowers this morning. Papa Don I aay "a certain young man, my dear. There Is none of 'em certain till you've got 'em. Edinburgh Scotsman. Colds Causa Headaches and Pains. Feverish Headaches and body pains eaused from a cold are soon relieved by taking I.AXATTVE UKUMU ouiwixni, laoieis. There is only one "Bromo Quinine. E. W. 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THE passing of a loved one, the breaking of. earthly ties, brings with it sorrow and sufferingno mat ter what may be the walk irj life of the departed and the sorrowing family. -It is then that the great leveler of men enters- into His own leaving stricken hearts in His wake. It is then that the thoughtful serv ice we have been building for many years does much to lessen the suffer ing of the loved ones who remain; by taking from them the many small duties that have to do with the de parted. We take from the shoulders of the family the many details 'so- necessary at life's hardest time. tMIiinhiif mn LJIVUUJLLA Ul TELEPHO dlWdVS" DOUG 525 CUMING ST. AT nWeTCCNTH
