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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1920. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BT EDWARD BOSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hie Associated Preee. of which Tht Baa II member. II a ettulrelr enutled to Um uu fat publloeUoa of eU news dlmtxkM endued to It or not otberwlae credited in thii paper. ul alio Um lor1 saw puDIIined herein. Ail ninls el pubUeauoa of liu aseeisi diapauses are alio iwmd. BEE TELEPHONES! Private Branch Bxcnani. Aak for the Tirlav 1 Aflfl Department or Particular Person Wanted. jrlCr 1 WW Far Mcht and Sunday Service) Callt Editorial Department ...... Trial 10ML Circulation Department . . . . . Tyler )0iL Adrartlalnf Department ...... TjIm 100SL OFFICES OF THE BEE Roma Offloa. Baa Building. lTth sad Fare am. Rrannh Offloaa: Ames ill North 141b I Part Mil Leeres units Banana 1114 Military Ara. 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A little give and take in the senate will help a lot The governor of Arkansas or somebody else is seeing things. Thrift is the only certain method whereby to defeat the h. c. of 1. Call for Lucy Page Gaston I Spaniards are rioting because they are short on tobacco. Get in on this thrift thing. It means much for your future as well as that of the country. Income tax blanks are now reminding the citizens that the government at Washington still needs the money. Death won the race against the air mail, but that should not stamp the service as un worthy. It was a gallant attempt. Herbert Hoover thinks the lifting of the blockade will end bolshevism. "The most im portant thing is it will stop starvation. Roger Sullivan will, it is asserted, head an uninstructed delegation from Illinois to San Francisco. More trouble for the peerless. , Manufacturers of wood alcohol have decided .not to sell to the retail trade. The trouble has been that others are not so particular. Mayor Smith left his boosters still guess ing as to his political plans. A good way to settle this question will be to file his name. Commissioner Roper has cross-sectioned the country in planning his campaign to enforce the dry laws, and now the battle may proceed. Reginald de Koven's music is to be played at the funeral of the composer. We can think of two or three songs that will not be sung. Elihu Root says the people of Russia de serve every encouragement. ' So they do, and they will get it as soon a they get down to business. Reports from the "soviet ark" are -to the effect that the deportees on board were orderly and obedient .during the voyage. They had no one tyit themselves to talk to. The original Declaration of Independence is to be displayed at all the moving picture theaters in the country. It would be Well if everybody get familiar with its text. Herr Hohenzollern helped strengthen the dykes .around the Bentinck castle to keep out the rising Rhine, apparently having lost his former high regard for that noble stream. ' French customs standards are interfering in the intercourse between the Yanks and the girls they left behind. Man's puny efforts to regulate universal impulses always have made trouble. Bombarding the Moon, Poets have been inditing elegiacs to the moon, from Sappho, the moon-struck maid of the Greeks scholars will please note the refer ence is not vouched for to the latest of the male maunderers over the sheathing glow of the crescent orb. Pleas and plaints and petu ' lance and adoration have been poured forth to the "queen of the night," the mildest of descrip tive platitude masquerading as poetry. Having so long been bombarded with bon bons and bon mots, the shadow sphere is now to be bombarded with rockets. The announce ment comes from the Smithsonian Institution that Professor Goddard. of Clark college, has invented and tested a new type of multiple charge rocket for exploring the unknown re gions of the air. A height of merely 19 miles is all that has yet been recorded, and that is as nothing to the altitude that would be reached by the Goddard rocket that would soar and soar and then some more until it had quenched its tiny glow in the expanse of some lunar lake or ocean. , While the moon is the ultimate object of the scientist's bombardment, the serious pur pose is in fact not such nonsensical aim, but to carry recording instruments far beyond any height yet reached, with a view to ascertaining more about the upper strata of the earth's at mosphere. Nevertheless, the man in the moon will look down with concern over the prospect for an end to his isolation. Perhaps he fears the penalties of an eavesdropper and a spy. Baltimore American. STUDENTS AND THE TREATY. Administration commentators on the vote taken In the colleges on he treaty mostly went off half-cocked. This especially applies to the conclusions reached by Senator Hitchcock, as indicated by his address in the senate on Thurs day. He wss relying on partial and incomplete returns, and so was led into statements not war ranted by the outcome. Instead of ratification without reservations having the big bulk of the student vote, the group favoring ratification with compromise reservations led by more than 1,400. As be tween the Lodge reservations and the Wilson plan, the vote was in favor of the latter, but proper consideration of the elements of the proposition justifies a modification of the ver dict. What might have resulted had the ques tion been put plainly and without the alterna tive ci compromise can be conjectured. Out of a total of 139,788 votes cast, 49,653 favored compromise reservations, and 27,970 favored the adoption of the Lodge reserva tiona, while only 48,232 favored ratification without reservation, a clear majority of 8,723 in favor of some modification of the treaty as presented by the president. Ten per cent of the itudents voting, 13,933, were opposed to ratification of the treaty at all. If these be added to the others against the Wilson plan, the judgment of the college groups must be accepted only as condemning the effort to force on the people something foreign to our policies and traditions. i Whatever the consolation the administration senators may extract from the returns from this referendum they are entitled to. It indicates, if anything, that the intelligent sentiment of the country is opposed to the president's ideas. The unmistakeable demand for a compromise adjustment, in which the great majority of the senate can unite, should be heeded. Eighty-six senators voted for ratification in one form or another, and a basis on which sixty-four of these can join ought to be provided. It is not a question of men or of party policy, but for the good of America. No Group In American Politics. The statement made by Chairman Cum minga of the democratic national committee that no group will be permitted to dictate the policy of that party fairly expresses the atti tude of the republican party, long ago made clear. In days gone by even astute party lead ers made special pleas or attractive programs for racial groups. The harvest of this sowing was reaped when our country was called to war. That the hyphen cut so much figure in American affairs vjas in no sense the fault of the foreign-born. Encouragement had been given it so long that its users looked upon it as a vested right, setting them just a little above the native-born. A sad awakening followed, and that more deplorable results did not follow may be ascribed largely to the fact that a preponderating number of its wearers were will ing to shed the hyphen. The issues of the coming campaign are purely American, having to do with our domestic affairs principally, and touching on foreign relations only to the ex tent that our national interests be made secure from any outside influence or agency. . No group formed on racial lines will in the future be permitted to sway the policies and practices of this country. Undivided and exclusive alle giance to American institutions will be required of all, and such as cannot give this and prefer to remain wholly or partly alien to the country in which they make their home must be pre pared to accept the fact. Aladdin's Lamp in Modern Days. When Sir George Pullman decided to build his model town for the workmen in his great car factory, he startled the world. His experi ment failed, in the sense that he could not bring the men employed in the shops to accept his views as to the conditions under which they were to maintain omes. The overlordship of the company was eventually abandoned. Other similar experiments have come to different ends, but all tending in the same direction. The Russian town of Dalny was to be the expression of the czar's autocratic will in far eastern Si beria; it went down when the Japs uprooted the Russ in Manchuria. John Alexander Dowie's holy city survives him, a monument to an idea. These are the extremes. The Westinghouse company is the latest to show how Aladdin's lamp may be rubbed by a modern industrial organization. Having oc casion to remove seventy-five of its mechanical engineers with their families from Pittsburgh to a new plant, the company solved the housing situation by erecting the necessary homes, and furnishing them complete. Blue prints of house plans were submitted to the prospective occu pants, and each was asked to designate where the furniture was to be placed. Experts car ried out the job, and when the little army moved it stepped off the train and walked into new quarters, with everything ready to take up the routine of life. Whether this will be generally followed or not, the idea has something of fascination in it. Individual expression as to the home was anticipated, and with nothing standardized, save that the company footed the bills, the happi ness of domesticity is assured because the occu pants had a word to say in carrying out the big scheme. Any new note in industrial man agement will be listened to, and this sounds good, in spite of the incidental element of paternalism it contains. . Air Mail a Needed Service. Elimination of the item for the maintenance and extension of the air mail service from the appropriation bill in the house was a mistake that should be corrected in the senate. The United States has been notoriously negligent in the matter of developing the airplane. Al though it was an American triumph that prac tical flight was proven possible, we have al lowed Europeans to surpass us in every point of the road to its adoption for services. Our flustered efforts to repair this omission on en trance to the war turned out to be a tre mendously costly and not altogether credit able performance. What might have followed had the war gone on is not in point. The thing to be considered is what has been done. The Postoffice department secured a small appro priation for.purpose of carrying on experiments in carrying mail by air. The plan was shown to be feasible, and the service of such practi cal value that its transcontinental extension was proposed. This is now checked because of the failure of congress to provide another small sum to carry it through. The $850,000 item stricken from the bill on a point of order by a Kansas congressman should be restored in the senate. It means life to a vital service Some Senators Have Resigned From the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Hitchcock is a candid senator and a perplexed man, but he does not seem to realize that he and his followers in the senate have re signed from it, so far as the League of Nations is concerned. Mr. Hitchcock says that he does not know what to do because he does not know what President Wilson will accept. Executive control of legislation is a fact more often than the theory of legislative gov ernment cares to concede, but here is an avowal of it, explaining a suspension of legislative ac tivity. Mr. Hitchcock is not a senator. He is trying to be a ouija board. He does not get a message. He cannot say anything. Mr. Hitchcock and the senators of whom he is the leader are not legislators. They are instruments of the executive government. They put themselves in the position of cabinet mem bers. They are to execute administrative poll' cies. They are to be called in, given instruc tions. and are to do as thev are told to do. Mr. -Lansing will write a note to Mexico if the president tells him what he wants to say to Mexico, but Mr. Lansing retains office at the will of Mr. Wilson. He is the proper crea tion of Mr. Wilson in the proper administer ing of the presidential office. Mr. .Hitchcock is not the creation of Mr, Wilson. He is the creation of a state which co-operates with other states to delegate cer tain powers to two separate branches of gov ernment. Mr. Hitchcock frankly and honestly deserts the branch in which he was authorized to act and attaches himself to the branch for which he has no commission of any sort. If this had been the idea on which the re public was founded there would have been noth ing in the constitution providing that the sen ate should advise and consent in the making of treaties. That provision puts a check upon the executive government. There can be no check if the officials thus empowered think that their duty is to execute policies of the admin istration. It would be much more practical, in such a scheme and in such an emergency, for Mr. Hitchcock to give his seat to Mr. Tumulty. Mr. Tumulty has the privilege of seeing the president He may not know what Mr. Wil son will accept from the senate for the Amer ican people, but he has many more opportuni ties than Mr. Hitchcock has to find out. Mr. Hitchcock and his supporting senators will not think and act as senators and they cannot act as executive functionaries. The proper scheme has broken down and the other one, which is improper, will not work. Strikes and the Railroads . When the Cummins bill passed the senate it included the anti-strike provision which has aroused great public interest and which is bit terly resented by many leaders of union labor. The house has not yet accepted the anti strike principle of the Cummins bill. As the sen ate seems definitely committed to it, however, and as many members of the house are of the same way of thinking, it is quite probable that the railroad legislation finally sent to the presi dent for his signature will contain an anti-strike clause. Samuel Gompers says that congress has no warrant for taking from men the right to strike. Gompers and other labor leaders have gone further than this in declaring that they will not obey an anti-strike law if it is passed. On the other hand, it is unbearable that the American people should continue to be sub jected to the threat of a general railroad strike, as they have been, on and off, for more than three years. To propose such a strike is a threat not only against the comfort but against the lives of millions of our people. Railroads have become absolutely necessary to the exist ence of a modern state. Most of the men now in railroad service knew this when they sought their present jobs, and most of them are acutely conscious of it when they threaten the people and the people's government with a general stoppage of railroad traffic. Obviously the enactment of a law which would limit the right of workmen generally to strike would be an act both of folly and of in justice, lhe reason that the government would be justified in applying an anti-strike law to railroad workers is that their service is a mat ter of absolutely vital importance to the peo ple. People who labor, either with their hands or with their brains, as a general rule, have a right to work or not as they desire but the government has a prior right to protect the mass of the people from unemployment and starvation. Union leaders often declare that labor de mands the same rights that capital enjoys. How long would the government permit the owners of the railroads of the United States to stop railroad traffic? Cincinnati Times-Star. Ok VELVET U A a T T. iPT i 1 1- vi vi r' l,mv a li a. a a x J. A-r a-'' "Rll .3Hfilir "RrniL. -R..L VS-S " f w ..... u , ii vvnj ianii rfff tsar ft., i JAMES B. HAYNES. There used to be a busy- time when those athirst for fame attired themselves in sheet iron suits and played the warrior's game. Some mus cular exertion was insistently implied, and while you dulled your axe upon the other fel low's hide to see how much rough use the well known human frame endures, he also plied upon your hide an axe as good as yours. But now we gain celebrity by writing out a check and not by planting hardware in an utter stranger's neck. The ancient form of ef fort its exertions and its pains, are all elimin ated by the art of James B. Haynes. Though you may be today unknown, a quite unheard-of chap, if you produce the wherewithal he'll put you on the map. When moves of public interest require a push and start, he heaves them into action with his advertising art. He clarifies to common eyes the righteousness and worth of doing this important thing to help improve the earth and bring it from its normal state, uncultured, rough and raw, to such a plus perfection as we find in Omaha. ' He once was a stenographer and labored for the court, condensing lengthy legal phrases to hen-tracks sharp and short He gathered truth and training in the office of The Bee, which partially explains the present eminence you see, for he who helps this Influence prepare its news for type will soorr acquire a sprightly mind, well ordered, round and ripe. Next Subject: Anton Hospe. Venus and Jupiter. Omaha, Jan. 17. To the Editor of The Bee: This morning there was a large star shining directly over the moon. My girl friends and I argued whether or not it waa the morning star, and which of the stars It waa. There was also a star in the west and we would like to know., which star it was. ANXIOUS GIRLS. Answer: The star above the moon on Saturday morning was Venus, and the morning star at present The one in the west was Jupiter. These are the loveliest and the largest of the planet. Juries in Omaha Omaha, Jan. 16. To the Editor of The Bee: After reading such letters in your valuable publication as the one written by a gentleman of West Point, Neb., dated January 14. I get a pain such as I used to get when my mother chastised me when In my good old kindergarten days. What right has he to criticise the Juries of Douglas county? A person is presdmed to be Innocent until proven guilty. How can a Jury con vict a man if he is not proven guilty? Is everyone i guilty that has been brought to trial? He should know as well as I know they are not. A Judge's instructions to a Jury trying a case are, as a rule, "If you are con vinced beyond a reasonable doubt." I have no doubt that if anybody is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt but that any Jury will do Its duty. How can everyone brought up for trial be guilty when only a comnara- tively few are guilty out of the esti mated mob of 20,000? I am not mincing any words. I deplore the riot as much as anyone else, but I don't consider that any privilege to "bawl" out the whole universe Just because things don't happen to "break" for me to my lik ing. But aside from that I think If the said gentleman of West Point had happened to be a father of one of these innocent girls that had been criminally assaulted here in Omaha, he would not be so willing to con demn the Juries of Omaha. If he keeps posted on doings In Omaha, as he apparently attempts to do, from his letter, he will recollect we had about 20 criminal assaults in about three months. I don't think that even God. as merciful as He is, can forgive a man for ruining an Innocent girl, for there is not a more hideous crime. And furthermore, I think we In Omaha feel bad enough about it without having this small town stuff handed to us. FRANK W. MOKRT. jftMle Qjoy (or?z&r ature Study Outdoor; Life "Brer" Red Fo. By ADELIA. BELLE BEARD. Cunning, sly, crafty, thievingl That is what most people think of one of the handsomest and most interesting of our wild creatures. But many boys and an increasing number of girls know that "Brer" Red Fox. is slim, graceful, and agile; that his fur is of a beautiful yellowish-red; long and thick; that he has a splen did brush for a tail; and that his dog-like face is handsome and in telligent. He is called sly and crafty because he uses his wits and seldom blund- ron av The Day We Celebrate. Eugene Brieux, one of the most successful of modern French dramatic authors born in Paris, 62 years ago. Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford, jr., university, born at Gainesville, N. Y., 69 years ago. Bishop John Louis Nuelsen of the Methodist Episcopal church, born in Zurich, Switzerland, 53 years ago. Joseph M. Carey, former United States sen ator and governor of Wyoming, born at Milton, Del., 75 years ago. Arnold (Chick) Gandil, first baseman of the Chicago American league baseball team, born at St. Paul, 31 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Cullis and Sargent, revivalists of world wide fame, began holding meeting at the First Baptist "church. Mr. Cullis was called the Moody and Mr. Sargent the Sankey of the meetings. The Fort Omaha Musical union gave a so cial at Central park. Colonel Harry Hall, city ticket agent of the Burlington road, tendered his resignation after having been in the employ of the com pany for 40 years. Jerry Wants to Start Something. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 15. To the Editor of The Bee: I am curious to learn from the champions of the League of Nations or anybody else, what provision is made for the free dom of the seas. To my mind the freedom of the seas is very essential. Therefore, I desire to agitate this very Important question through the columns of your frank and fearless paper. JERRY HOWARD. Two Boyd Theaters. Fullerton, Neb., Jan. 14. To the Editor of The Bee: Your paper of January 11. states the Boyd theater waa built in 1 890. Cannot see how they held entertainments in 1SS8 and 1889. We have a program in our possession showing 1 and my daugh ter attended a play called "The Stowaway" under the management of Jacob Litt, played Monday, Tues day and Wednesday, January 7, 8, 9, In 1 888-89, the Boyd's opera house. Let us give Governor Boyd oredit. JAMES WALTON. Answer: There were two Boyd theaters; the first stood at the cor ner of Fifteenth, and Farnam, where the Nebraska Clothing company's building now stands, and was opened to the public in 1881. The New Boyd was erected on the present site at Seventeenth and Harney streets, and was opened to the public in 1891. Thus it has been possible for 89 years to attend a play at Boyd's the ater in Omaha. Governor Boyd took great pride in his theater, and surely showed a remarkable degree of civic pride in giving Omaha such beauti ful temples of art. Corroborates Agnew's Fignres. Julesburg, Colo., Jan. 15. To the Editor of The Bee: Those who read the article written by Frank A. Ag new on boycotting eggs under the heading, "Figures For Egg Boycot ters," got Information on this subject that was not exaggerated. Do you boycotters of eggs realize that many egg farms are closing out their stock because at the pres ent high feed costs, the profits real ized from heir flocks are too small to warrant their continuing In this business? In this county, many crates of chickens are sold on the market each week simply because tne larmer cannot feed expensive feeds and come anywhere near "breaking even." , Perhaps these women think some thing Just as good can be substituted to take the place of eggs. There is no food as complete In nutritive val ue as the egg. The vitamines, so es spntial to life, ate present in eggs as in no other food. We poultrymen are advised to feed corn and oats In an effort to make more profit from our flocks. Wheat at present prices can not be fed extensively to poultry But the poultry ration without wheat is incomplete and the returns from an economical ration will also be economical. Every boycott of eggs helps drive Just a few more from this industry, with the ultimate result of decreased production which calls for increased prices. Think before you speak. RICHARD L. MATOUSH. QUAINT BITS OF LIFE. A camera small enough to be swallowed and photograph the In terior of a stomach is the invention of a Danish surgeon. Four rubber balls In a new elec trical machine massage persons' spines aa effectively as the lingers of a strong masseur. Spanish goats have been Imported by the insular government to im prove the standard of the native animals in the Philippines. The manufacture and consump tion of macaroni and vermicelli in china has reached enormous pro portions and is still growing. The Fukien union university of Foochow is about to erect a million-dollar group of buildings which will require considerable building material, furniture and articles of various kinds. To enable airplanes to alight at sea. Great Britain has built a ship with a deck 635 feet long, entirely clear of obstruction, the smokestacks being horizontal and the pilot-house and wirelass masts collapsible. The earliest coinage that can be called American was ordered by the Virginia company and was minted in the Bermudas in 1642. But then, and for long afterwards, the stand ard currency of Virginia was to bacco. Three highwaymen held up the manager of a moving picture theater In filifqnlrAA rn Vii wnv hnm, lntp at night and grabbed a sack he car ried in nis nana, running away witn out stopping to examine It The sack was full of peanut , X m m aMejiaii'wneaajrweiareaW 11 'mm mm, micm rDOWNONTHS HUNT ers, because he is wonderfully wise in woodcraft, because he is expert, not only in tracking his own game, but in avoiding being trailed him self. No more a thief at heart than any other wild thing that must pro vide for itself, he robs hen roosts only because there he finds miracu lously spread before him more food than many days' hunt would sup ply. Some of you must have seen "Brer" Red Fox, for he lives very near the farms, north, south, east and west. There are still men and women who consider it fine sport to mount their horses and, helped by a pack of hounds, run down and kill one little fox, which is often first taken alive then set free for the chase. No doubt a number of boys are thrilled by pictures of the red-coated fox hunters, but they will feel differently when they realize how lacking in fair play such sport is; not to mention its cruelty. Even with all odds against him "Brer" Red Fox sometimes escapes and often seems to enjoy the game himself in the beginning at least when from some elevation, he watches his pursuers, for he knovi-s well how to double on his tracks and fool the madly rushing dogs hunters. He knows how to confuse the trail by sudden side jumps to high ledges and by taking to the water where the dogs lose the scent. (Next week: "Red-tailed Hawk.") Copyright, 120, by J. H. Millar. Some Day We'll Know. In Ohio they have begun a recount of the votes cast on the federal pro hibition amendment, and the revised result may be known by the time the next election rolls around Pitts burgh Gazette Times. 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Don pictured some Indian guides whom he watched packing "duffle" into canoes. Helen remem bered a withered little old woman, who peered from her door at their noisy picnic party. Lois wrote about a horseback ride at night. Every one, you see, selected an experience that was vivid in his or her mind. Here is part of Lois' story. You will find that in 12 places she tells you what reached her sense of sight; in seven places what appealed to her hearing. She gives you the odor of the night the feeling of the 'cold air on her face. The more senses she could appeal to, she knew, .the more successfully she could make her reader feel that night ride as she had felt it. When you have to write your next theme or story remember these two principles that Lois applied. First, write about something you know, and second, appeal to your reader's senses. Lois' Story. The cold, dewy grass looked strange in the faint starlight, as I crossed the meadow to the barn to saddle my horse. I could hear the sounds of the night, indistinct, in definable; I could see the shadows, and both sounds and shadows set my pulse a-tingle. The pines stood dark and cold across the dreary river. The road stretched in silence before me. As I rode off into the darkness, the trees on either hand stood like great, straight giants. The stars twinkled. There was a sweet smell of clover. Away I galloped, the cool night breeze blowing my hair. The constant roar and splash gave everything a dreary, fearful look. I raced with the wind. The of the waterfall came to my ear through the deep, silent night. The air felt crisp, the black road gave back the solemn, thud of my horse's hoofs. The absence of the moon IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. "Tour wife evidently has a will of her own. old rhap." "Yes, sjid I em the sole beneflelary." Furrier res, sir; furs hare Increased In price. Mr. Jones I suppose because It eoeta the animals so much more to live. Judge. "Now that you have heard my daugh ter, where would you advise her to go to take singing lessons f" "To any thinly populated dlstrlot." Lon don Opinion. 1 8uUor Please, Pd like to marry your daughter. Father But can yea support her in the manner In which her favorite screen heroine Is accustomed te live? Life. "I saved I today." "That so? How?" "They had beefsteak on the bill of fare, and I took a ham sandwich and a glass of milk Instead." Detroit Free Press. Sellers (a suburban property promoter) what was ths sermon about today, Jessie? Mrs. Sellers (home from church) Oh, that old stereotyped stuff about why we should be contented with our lots! Mr. Sellers (enthusiastically) Tou den't say! By Gdorgel I'm going to send that good old scout a check for fifty bucksl Buffalo Express. TRADE AUK fSij '"J ; BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK YOU LV.Nichous Oil Company DAILY CARTOONETTE. ?0H N-DEflRUJKt J0NT YOU U)fTRR THRT L0UELY NECK TIE MOTHER (JAUE YOU CHRISTMAS TOTHE OFFICE TODAY? AND HE DID-i-i Vs' I 1 ' ' tJ CDC a , CDC cai1 -3 nr -iSaL can cold night air whistled past me. I saw the trees standing back against the sky ahead. The road flew un derneath me. I heard the water rush past me. My pony galloped oyer the wooden bridge. A flickering candle light in a window told me somebody had heard me. Next week: "Advice for Memory Training.") Copyright, Hid, by 3. H. Millar if of Ready m MONEY Practically no modern wants can be supplied with out ready money. Few opportunities in business life amount to anything unless there is ready money to meet them. Are you building up your cash resources for future "opportuni ties? Whether your earnings are large or small, you can accumulate "ready money" by building up a Savings Ac count in the UNITED STATES NATIONAL. WHEN the former head of the house is called by death when it seems as though the world must stop it is then that the loving sympathy of old time friends is most needed. 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