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THE BEE: OMAHA; TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1920.
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You should know that
The geographical center of the
United States is 1C0 miles south
west of Omaha. ' ,
What The Bee Stands For:
1. Respect for the law and maintenance of
order.
2. Speedy and, certain punishment of crime
through the regular operation of the
courts.
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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.
Mr. Bryan also has some friends in Nebraska.
The January thaw seems to be here on time
this year.
,- New Zealand voted to remain wet, but that
is such a long way off. "
Dollar dinners are still dollar dinners, re
gardless of the cost of living.
The national "wet" campaign is being opened
in Omaha. Why pick on this city?
'J ! Helsingfors is the happy land to get the
"soviet ark'" It is now up to the Finns.
; Chicago had a zero day for crime, follow
ing a record raid. The inference is easy.
Presently we will kno how far the rail
roads "ran behind for 1919. It will be enough.
, v The Pittsburg burglar who takes "jam instead
of jewels is not a new, thing. The fad originated
in Omaha.
'' Democrats are considering the compromise
proposals. Yet they say Mr. Bryan has no in
fluence with his party. '
" A joyriding party with two gallons of "dago
red" was overhauled in time on Sunday1. Some
times the police are of service.
We suggest that the letter of Senator Glass
on the need for economy be referred to Messrs
Baker and Daniels for action.
Oklahoma has bought 440 airplanes at one
time. Some of the sooners must be planning
on reaching the top of the boom.
Thrift is becoming contagious in the United
States, says Wheat Director Barnes. This is
one contagion that well may spread.
"Mitch" Patmer is about to take up the work
of filling in the details of the protocol with the
f3ckevrs. lhis will be worth watching.
, A convicted criminal asks a new trial be
cause of the "inflammatory speech" made' by
the prosecutor. Peaceful, lawabiding citizens
might wish for a few more such speeches.
... The terrible earthquake in Mexico might
have been looked upon as a dreadful calamity
a few years ago, but more than a mountain will
have to split to draw attention from Europe.
The democrats also are wondering just what
Mr. Bryan is going to do to them. He will let
them know in good season, tut his activity does
not help Martih Glynn or "Jimham" Lewis any.
Six western governors are on their way to
Washington to .secure an appropriation of a
quarter of a billion, all the while their con
stituents are clamoring for economy. A little
consistency might be mixed in here.
A bankers committee again insists tha,t the
government must finance the industrial recov
ery in Europe. America is to be the loaning
nation, but Uncle Sam will have to be shown
that It is any part of his duty to invest money !n
promoting private enterprise abroad when con
ditions. are so unsettled at home.
New Army Plans
."f A large defensive force available on short
notice, but containing the fewest possible pro
fessional soldiers, that is the plan of the senate
army reorganization bill, according to an outline
made public by Senator Wadsworth, chairman
of the military committee. That sounds like
, the ideal policy. Now it remains to enact such
legislation. - ,
Compulsory military training ' is the axis
around which the whole plan revolves. This
training could be taken by enlistments in the
National Guard or by'attending federal camps
for four months. Then those trained youths
would be placed on reserve in what is called the
citizens" army. They would be called only in
; time of extreme. emergency. "
v. The regular army would consist of 280,000
men and 18,000 officers, only enough properly
to garrison the United States and her posses
sions ad train youths. The National Guard
would have the most careful federal supervision.
'f The' bill provides for a general staff mod
eled upon the French plan. An under secretary
of war is created who would supervise the busi
ness and industrial problems incident to equip-
: ping an army. An air service branch of the
' professional army is proposed and there would
be chief for each combat service. A new
plan for promotion of officers is provided.-
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CONGRESS AND THE PURSE-STRINfcs
A solemn warning iissued by Carter Glass,
late secretary or the treasury, that unless rigid
economy is observed in public expenditures' an
other issue of Liberty bonds will be required to
meet obligations. That this is true will sur
prise nobody, but that such admonition should
be given to congress is amazing.
-Appropriation committees are at work on
the budget for 1921. These have before them
estimates prepared by the several departments
of the government, each asking for increased
allowances. A generous rivalry appears to
have sprung up between the cabinet officers as
to which will ask for the larger sum of money.
The magic of the "billion-dollar" era still, holds
sway in Washington, and under its potent influ
ence an hundred millions seems to be the small
est sum a department head can visualize.
When the present congress wai called into
extraordinary session in May, it was to deal
with appropriations the democrats had failed to
provide. Thirty-eight working days 'were al
lotted for the job, but in that short time the
bills that had been approved by the preceding
congress were revised and the totals reduced
from $3,767,975,974.73 to $2,828,283,432.76. A
great hullabaloo had been sent up about the
filibuster that had blocked the appropriations
in the Sixty-fifth congress, although that body
had had nine months to prepare and pass the
measures. That so-called "filibuster" saved the
country $940,000,0001' '
Department ' estimates submitted to con
gress have already been reduced by the com
mittee by more than a billion and a half of
dollars. The 1921 total is not yet available, but
it is far less than the sum requested by the
democratic cabinet officers. Congress is not
niggard in making provisions for continuing
the government in all its varied activities, but
is not responsible for the extravagance con
templated by the administrative officers.
Senator' Glass would do' well to address
his communications on the subject of economy
to his democratic brethren in the cabinet.
Beatific Mr, Bryan.
"So far as I am concerned," says William
Jennings Bryan, "if I have an enemy in Ne
braska, the enmity is all on his side." Happy,
benignant Mr. Bryan, shedding the soft, lam
bent rays of universal brotherhood over the
great commonwealth, embracing the entire citi
zenship in one all-enfolding clasp of love. From
his high seat on the water wagon he looks down
with wondrous pity on those dear brethren of
the democratic household whose bruised bodies
have just come from under its wheels, and bids
them be of good cheer, to come and have full
part in his friendship and follow him again into
the lush and luscious pastures to which he shall
lead them. Yea, bo! - '
But how about the other fellows, who so
ately were classified as porch-climbers, thugs,
booze worshipers (the latter with all the subtle
and corrosive variations invented by Rev.
"Billy" Sunday, whose classifications were en
dorsed by the great commoner), minions of
Wall Street, and other furiously fond epithets,
hurled in deliberation from the stump or out
of .-the editorial sanctum? Have they forgot
ten? Is there only one sting of ingratitude in
Nebraska? , Don't you believe it. .
Mr. Bryan may be in the beatific mood he
assumes, but it will be some time betore he
imitates Androcles and- leads the submissive lion
home. It is within the range of possibilities
that the organized appetite which calls itself
the democratic party may pretend to accept the
peerless leader again at his face value, but it
will not be fooled by his seductive voice into
elieving that the wounds are all healed and
the scars effaced. Other days are yet ahead
for Mr. Bryan.
Skill as a Bar to the Reds
Home from Siberia.
Eight thousand American soldjers are soon
to depart from, Siberia. The last of the A. E.
is about to embark from France. In a little
while no American soldier will be on foreign
soil, with the exception of the marines, who are
preserving order and "establishing civilized life
in San Domingo. This condition will please
most of the people, even the idealists having
realized the failure of our effort to extend our
ways to the unwilling, save as we supported our
proffer with force. America must yet assume
its just share of the white man's burden; as the
foremost among enlightened peoples, with un-
imited wealth of resources, it must aid the
backward to a better way of living. But our
people are loath to present their philanthropy
at the point, of a bayonet, and until those we
seek to help are willing to accept the aid we
can give in the spirit we offer it, we must wait
The expedition to Siberia was fruitless, as was
that to Russia, because of the unreceptive mood
f those we sought to assist. In days to come
that part of the world will again be open to
civilizing influences, but for the present anarchy
and violence will prevail there, as it does in
Russia, while the great nations of the world are
busy with the more pressing problems of home
affairs.
Coping With Crime.
"If we are to cope successfully with the
problem of reducing crime in Chicago, we must
understand the criminal There has been too
much meddling by well-meaning people who do
not understand crime," says the presiden, of
the Chicago crime commission. His words will
apply with full force to other communities.
The intentional criminal is a man who thinks
he is smarter than those around him. He pits
his wits against society. That he is frequently
successful is an encouraging factor for the
guidance of others like minded. Surrounding
these men with comforts and conveniences
changes the conditions, to quote again from the
Chicago report, until "what was previously in
tended as punishment is no longer a punish
ment but a vacation." It must not be argued
that prisons are to -be made into places of ter
ror, but they must have some quality that will
create a feeling of awe in the minds of men, so
they will think twice before incurring the risk
of imprisonment 1 And, above all other things,
mercy should not temper justice until the law
becomes a joke and its penalty a promise of a
softer way of living than comes through honest
work. "
Of course there are germs in powder puffs
and lip sticks. This was known as long ago
as the . early part of the Seventeenth century,
when the dear girls were forbidden to use them
to the undoing of the guileless male.
The weather man comes forward with the
information that December was abnormally
cold in these parts. Anybody who fed a furnace
could have told him that
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' From the New York Times.
Out of the stereotyped revolutionary patter
of the latest communist manifesto, one signifi
cant sentence emerges: "The older unions con
sist primarily of skilled workers, whose skill is
in itself a form of property." It is no longer
enough for the reds to berate the bourgeois
and bomb the capitalist The American Feder
ation of Labor also is anathema. It possesses
an asset skill, and the sense to make use of it.
Therefore, it is allied with the fell powers of
property. It is "reactionary;" it "merges in im
perialism." No one who followed the steel strike will be
likely to underestimate the potentialities of syn
dicalist TjroDaaranda. In its brief dav. it over
ruled the saner counsels of the Federation of
Labor and threatened a great basic industry,
appreciably retarding the rehabilitation of a
world sorely vexed. What it will do in the fu
ture is still to be determined. (The war is not
merely a war of the "have-nots" against the
"haves." It is a war 6f the confessedly
ignorant and unskilled against those whose
hands are trained to expert labor and whose
minds are fixed upon the realities of life. It has
often been said that no one who owns an acre
or has an account in the savings bank can be
a willing victim of bolshevism. The manifesto
of the communists now adds a category, and a
most interesting category, to the incorrujti
bles. This does not, however, abate the perplexi
ties of the acting commissioner of immigration,
which also have more than a suggestion of
opera bouffe. Confronted with a flow of new
immigration which the industries of the coun
try sorely need, his quarters on Ellis Island are
filled to overflowing with the emigrant reds.
What was built as a one-way avenue is threat
ened with turmoil and congestion. In this sore
trial Mr. Uhl pleads for one of the abandoned
army contonments, to be used as a communist
concenetration camp.' The idea has possibili
ties, but it seems likely that, in his wholly com
prehensible confusion, the commissioner has got
it wrong end to. No let or hindrance should be
interposed to the speedy ejection of the reds.
That will command universal assent. As for
the immigrants, it is daily becoming more evi
dent that we are too casual in the matter of
their welcome.
Those who have considered the oroblem
most deeply recommend a program of "selective
immigration and scientific distribution." For
the proposed process of selection, through
trained and responsible agents abroad, we are
not yet equipped. But with our own end of the
difficulty we can easily deal. At only a slightly
greater expense than would be necessary to
"concentrate" the reds, we could hold all im
migrants under observation while data were col
lected as to their character and capacities. Thus,
when they were turned loose upon the country,
they would, go where they were most needed.
and where they would come most immediately
and wholesomely in contact with the spirit of
our Americanism. This spirit means, among
other things, the ownership of land and of bank
accounts, the love of craftsmanship and the de
light in its useful employment. Few amone
those who come to us are so ignorant or per
verse that they cannot, learn to apprecrate and
to love a nation in which "skill is in itself a
form of property. The most hopeful of all
bars to the propaganda of the reds is free scone
to tne workman s delight in his cratt
Wonderful Telephone
As it has been found necessary to use the
words "wired wireless" in describing the new
kind of telephonic communication invented or
discovered by Mai. Gen. Georee O. Sauier. it
is evident that common folk for the present, at
least, must not expect to understand his
achievement any better than they do the theory
of general relativity enunciated by Dr. Einstein
and accepted by the Wise Ones so ht and few.
The tyro cat hers from the first announcement
of what the chief signal officer has done that
by his new device he can transmit, not a single
human voice, but as many as ten at once, along
a single wire. The transmitting agency, how
ever, is not the sort of electric current sent over
or through a wire tn ordinary telephony and
telegraphy, but the same sort of ethereal vibra
tion that is utilzied by the radio operators.
The wireless men hitherto have been unable
to direct their messages, but have had to fill a
huge sphere with waves, and so have wasted
energy and lost secrecy. General Squier, it
seems, sends a real "wireless" message, but he
makes it use a wire for its core and so gains
both limitation and direction.
How he does this is as yet undisclosed, but
there is great interest in the fact that his inven
tion is to be given to the government and public
instead of being made a subject of private ex
ploitation. This course the general has taken
with previous inventions, but the praise he de
serves for it can be given without implication
of adverse criticism of other men in the gov
ernment service who have not been moved to
be equally disregardful of commercial possi
bilities and personal interests. They kept well
within the regulations of their service, presum
ably, in whatever they have done with their in
ventions, and it is easy enough to maintain the
contention that special work quite outside the
regular line of duty earns special rewards.
The country, however, would have been
spared several unpleasant controversies if it
were the law that all inventions made by a serv
ant of the government belong to the govern
ment. New York Times.
Work or Get Out
Go to work or leave town, was the crisp
order given to loafers recently hi a number of,
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cities in uicianoma. ine oraer nas oeen carried
out with vigor in several cities, and a lot of chaps
are traveling. The order has started discussion
and some people contend it is not wise. The
claim is made it merely keeps the men traveling
and does not solve the problem of the loafer.
It. is pointed out that these same men might
have been given sentences for being loafers or
vagrants, put to work on the city rock pile,
cleaning and repairing the city streets and doing
work that is needed in every city and for which
funds are not available.
No city has yet been able completely to solve
the problem of the loafers, probably no city
will be able to solve it until education and other
uplifting influences bring men to a fuller real
ization of their duties and responsibilities. For
the present the loafer is with us. He was here
during the war. Neither love of land nor love
of high wages brought to him a love of labor.
It was only when the wOrk-or-fight order went
into effect as a war order that loafers ceased
to be idle and made a pretense of working.
Ohio State Journal.
The Day We Celebrate.
Duke of Aosta, first cousin of King Victor
Emmanual and recently mentioned as a possi
ble successor to the throne, born at Genoa 51
years ago.
Prince Arthur of Connaught, only son of
the duke of Connaught, born 37 years ago.
Lord Balfour of Burleigh, celebrated British
statesman and scholar, born 71 years ago.
I Maj. Gen. William P. Duvall, U. S. A., re
tiretj, born in St. Mary's coun'tyi Maryland, 73
years ago.
'Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Hon. A. J. Poppleton was appointed city
attorney by Mayor Gushing. .
The musical farce-comedy, "My Aunt Brid
get" considered the test of its kind since
"Natural Gas," played at the Boyd. '
Senator Manderson introduced a bill in con
gress increasing the amount of the appropria
tion for the Omaha postoffice building and site
to $2,000,000, $800,000 to be made immediately
available. " . .
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Rogers returned from
Chicago. v
Mrs. Joseph Garneau left for a .visit in
Boston, -
"No Place for Racial Groups."
Omaha, Jan. 10. To the Editor of
The Bee: I also read your pithy ar
ticle. "No Plana fop T? nrinl flrfliini
In America," and was so Impressed
and pleaaed that I put down the
DaDer to let tha thmurht enik In
good and plenty.
I ram a tn thin ijmi , mv wn
free will in 188S, (many come be
cause ior one reflsnn or innthttr
tney nave trn. After T rot r.
acquainted with conditions I ar
rived at th rnniliialnn that 4ha
government would some day have
to break lir thnsa rllfr.r.nt
units, who bring their several laws,
customs ana naoits with them, and
live them here, regardless of the
laws, customs anrl nsno-aia n trila
country. That time has come and
the government is now engaged In
the task. However, there is one rac
ial group who speak our language
and loudly claim to be 100 per cent
American, ana yet spend a lot of
nine ana consiaerarjia money in ly
ing propaganda aganist that nation
from which we received our lan
guage, laws, customs and habits of
me. mo a person acquainted with
the facta it. miltu Tin HifTarannA
whether such radicals are born in
ireiana or the United States, they
aro taugnt irom mrancy to hate
Britairr and evervthlno' Tiritiov, v
we know that Britain has done more
man any otner nation in bringing to
the dark portions of this earth the
blesslias of riiristi
and democracy, and surely did her
pan in tno woria war to make this
civilization safe. And, let me add
what is Vfirv well lrn ATS7T1 hilt t AI'AOT
referred to openly by the said Irish
Americans ( they are Irish first
not Americans first), that they and
their at homn friends rlirl
they could to hand Ireland and the
i nuea states or America over to
Germany, as Admiral Sims has tes
tified. Yet Mr. Whelnn hirn..
with selling out to the British. That
siaiemem win at once show you that
such radicals are impossible and not
worth a moment's thnuo-ht TViab-
God the Irish do not govern in
i-anaua or Australia, or In America
no, not yet When they do.
gooany aemocracy and freedom en
ter church autocracy.
AN IRISHMAN OF A DIFFERENT
STRIPE.
Democrats Afe Scarce.
Carleton. Neh.. .Ten a t. w
Kil if nr Ctf Trie Tlaa T
'I oubts the scarcity of democrats in
ims pan or tne state ne need only
reaa in last Sunday's Bee the state
ment of the supervisor in the Fourth
district that he was still short 70
or thereabouts, enumerators. The
actions of the democrats in filling
these appointments would make a
yellow cur laugh if he still had any
respect for himself. The application
blanks read are you a committee
man, but not of which party. The
significance of this is forcefully
impressea upon us. when we hear
the appointee in this precinct shout
ing democracy at the top of his
voice whenever he gets Into a
crowd. The Indian wasn't far
wrong when he stated that the ob
ject of the fighting was to make the
whole world the democratic party.
J. H. BRYANT.
A GYPSY SONG.
Hava you nevor walked along- th right-of-way,
.
Stopping in a prairie town with tret
of clay?
Hav you never heard the 'thumping;
of tho windmill, and the bumping
Of the empty car that switch around
for hay ?
Have you nevpr seen sweet Williams by
the track,
And the violets and roses farther back?
Or the fence's border bristle
With the Yucca and the thistle,
While the wheat beyond Is sweating In
the stack?
Have you never smoked your briar In the
dark,
Seml-dreamlngr aa the distant watch
dog's bark?
Have you never heard the warning
Of a ralnerow In the morning?
Never listened to the matin of larkf
Have you never as a gypsy raised your
eyes
In the stillness to the painting of the
skies?
. This, you say. Is not your measure?
Then -you've missed a lot of pleasure
In the Eden of the rover of the ties.
WILLIS HUDSPETH
For Girls to Make
Homecraft
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Stenciling Your Curtains.
Your own room, dainty and beau
tiful with the furniture you, decor
ated, may have stenciled curtains
to match. The same stencil design
of flowers or fruits that you used
for the chair and table will be at
tractive for the curtains. Use
heavy, unbleached cotton, cheese
cloth, or scrim . These materials
stencil well, and make good wearing
curtains.
First Step. -Lay
a large piece of blotting
paper on a board, and over this the
edge or the corner of the curtain
that you are going to stencil. The
stencil pattern should then be pinned
to these about half an inch from the
hem. Then test your oil colors on
an old piece of cloth. The paint
should be as thin as possible to
give the right clor, so you may need
to mix turpentine with it An old
cup may hold each color, and you
should have short, bristle brushes,
one for each color. 4
Putting on the Colors.
Once you learn the process of
stenciling, you can do tt very
For Boys to Make
Handicraft
Swing Rowing Machine
BT GRANT M. HTDE.
You've heard of the rowing ma
chines used in college gymnasiums
to develop the back, leg, and arm
muscles of varsity crew men? A
swinging-plank rowing machine is a
similar device that any ingenious
boy can set up in the attic, base
ment, or. wherever ? there is 'room
and fresh air. v
The principal part of the rowing
machine is a swinging-plank hung
on four ropes from joists or rafters
above. The plank should be about
li plank:
rarettT
HAMDLC
Use as little paint on the brush as
possible, and dab the brush on the
cloth that shows through the holes
of the pattern, working from the
edges of the design toward the
center. As you remove the stencil
to pin it farther along, hold the
curtain up to the light to see if the
color is right Wipe off the pins
betore using them again, and be
very sure that the edges of the
stencil are clean of paint before
you fasten it on for the next strip
of the design.
Finishing Touches.
Be sure not to fold the curtains
until the stenciling is perfectly dry.
If your colors are not too thick, the
curtains may be washed with the
care given ordinary colored ones,
The hems may be done in hem
stitching, and a stenciled valance at
the top of the window will add ever
so much to them.
If you did your furniture in yel
low, the curtains may be decorated
with stenciled nasturtiums in yel
lows and orange. A blue room needs
roses on the curtains, and green
painted furniture is attractive with
a design of violets that is repeated
in the hangings.
uoesn t tnis sound like your oest-of-all
craft work? And the nicest
part about it is that stenciling is
so easy.
(Next week: "Useful Things of
Cretonne."
(Copyright. 1929, by J. H. Millar.)
Old Age Discredited.
The fact that a Brooklyn man and
his bride are spending their honey'
moon in Jail seems to administer a
Jolt to the old idea that love laughs
at locksmiths. New Orleans States,
Doesn't Worry Vs.
Alexander Berkman thinks he
knows what will happen to him If
the white guard in Russia gets hold
of him. But that's his funeral.
Detroit Free Press.
Chinaman has lost his . ,
Thirty-nine and then add three.
Draw from one to two, and so on to the
end.
TPADl
WRx .a-
"BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK VOlf
LY Nicholas Oil Company
Will Amuse Him.
Mr. Gerard says his candidacy for
the democratlo presidential nomina
tion is not meant to annoy Mr. Wil
son. And our guess is it won't
Macon Telegraph.
Using It for Doormat
Just now that celebrated "Face on
the Barroom Floor 'is the expres
sive visage of John Barleycorn.
Chicago News.
Every
Household
Should Have
JuniperTar
COUGHS COLDS
SORE THROAT
Are quickly relieved t
. mis tima-teateo remedy
at uruccist
DAILY CARTOONETTE.
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10 feet long, V2 to 2 inches thick,
and 10 to 12 inches wide. It should
hang about 8 inches above the floor
on four ropes tied separately to pre
vent tilting. To be stiffer, it might
be hung on four long narrow boards,
say 1x4 inches, pivoted on pikes at
each end.
The handles, or stationary oars (E
and E) may be made of sections out
of the "handle of an old shovel or
rake. The uprights (D and D) to
which they are fastened with bolts,
should be about 2 feet long and of
2x4s. The crosspiece (C) to which
the uprights are najled should be
a 2x4 about 3 feet long. The clear
ance between the inside ends of the
handles must be at least 20 inches.
The footrest (F) is a 2x4 about 30
to 36 inches long, nailed edgewise
to floor.
The distance between the handles
and footrest depends on the boy's
size. Hang the plank and build the
oar and footrest frameworks. Be
fore nailing them to the floor, sit on
the plank, lean far back, almost
touching the back to the plank, and
keep legs absolutely straight While
in that position, have someone place
the footrest so that it is against the
feet and the oar framework so that
you can just reach it with your
hands by stretching. Then nail the
framework in that position.
To use the machine, sit on the
plank, with the feet on the footrest
I'll BUY ThIS OLD FIRE KPfti
tlORSt TOR nt JUNr VINSON,
M) tipiD Jps
and pull yourself forward with you
hands,' allowing knees to bend: then
push back with your feet ' Do it
slowly and pull hard. A load of
boys on the plank will help the ex
ercise. (Next week. "Home-made Call
Buzzer.")
(Copyright, 1120, by J. H. Millar.)
Like Being Hit
By Ratte Snake
Says that every time you cut
or pick at a corn you
invite lockjaw
You reckless men and women who
are pestered with corns and who
have at least once a week invited
an awful death from lockjaw or
blood poison are now told by a Cin
cinnati authority to. use a drug call
ed freezone, which the moment a
few drops are applied to any corn,
the soreness is relieved and soon the
entire corn, root and all, lifts right
out with the fingers, without one
particle of pain. (
Ihis freezone is a sticky sub
stance which dries the moment it is
applied and just loosens the corn
without inflaming or even irritating
the surrounding tissue or skin. He
says a quarter of an ounce will cost
very little at any of the drug stores.
but this is sufficient to rid one's feet
of every hard or soft corn or callus.
You are positively warned that
cutting or picking at a corn is a sui
cidal habit.'
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Right NOW!
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Brambach Grands
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Apollo Grands
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They are here. You get the
1920 Grands at the 1919 prices.
Same with
Player Pianos
Apollo Reproducing Grand
Apollo Upright
with the phonograph interior.
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Hospe Player
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THE ETERNAL
MESSAGE
Delivered by
PAUL CALHOUN
A Powerful and Inspiring Speaker
In a Ssrle ef
Special Meeting Every Night ex
cept Saturdays, at
CENTRAL UNITED
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Twenty-fourth and Dodge Sta
JANUARY 11-25
Topic for first four meetings)
Sabbath Morning, II A. M. "Why
Jesus Christ?"
Sabbath Evening, 7:45 P. M. "Th
Sign ef Power and Wisdom.'
Mondsy Evening, 7:45 P. M.
"Wisdom Calls Men."
Tuesday Evening, 7:48 P If.
"Who Shall Be King 7"
Wednesday Evoninf, 7:45 P. .V-
"Cive Cod A Chance."
SPECIAL MUSIC BY
CHORUS CHOIR.
Everybody Welcome
Bank Day
Every week day ia of
course a bank day, be
cause banks are an ab
solutely necessary part
of business life.
Saturday, January
17th, has been desig
nated Bank Day by the
National Thrift Com
mittee, and at their sug
gestion the First Na
tional Bank will keep
open house Saturday
evening, January 17th,
from 7 to 9 P. M.
All our customers and
friends are invited to
visit our new Savings
Department, our Wo
men's Department, and
our main banking room
on that date.
In the meantime let
us suggest that you open
a savings account or a
checking account some
day during the week.
)
First National
iBankof Omaha
- Street Floor Entrance
Either Farnam or Sixteenth Street Door
Established 1857 f