THE BEE: OMAHA', TUESDAY. JANUARY 27. 1920,
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You should know that
Almost 60,000. miles of railroad
center In Omaha. Only four other
cities in the country made a better
showing.
What The Bee Stands for: ,
1. Respect for the law and maintenance oiF
. order.
2. Speedy and certain punishment -of crime
through the regular operation of the
courts. ,
3. Pitiless publicity and condemnation of in
efficiency, lawkssness'and corruption in of
fice. . ' (
4. Frank recognition and commendation "of
vhonest and efficient public service.
5. Inculcation of Americanism as the true
basis of good citizenship. '.
Light on light rates is called for.
Presidential booms are beginning to rever
. berate inv Nebraska, all right. .
Seed catalogues. are commencing to bloom.'
The war garden should be, a perpetual Insti
tution. , , v ' '
The United States produces 61 per cent of
the petroleum output of the world,' and uses it
nearly all. '
Terse facts about Nebraska are .being pub
lished, each a luminous point aSs.to why the
state is great v-. .
Egypt Is to bar .'undesirables," a move that
ought to stir what Is lett of the dust of a long
line of Pharaohs.
Turks are said to ihy at bolsnevism. It
would be difficult to improve on their present
system for living without working. ,
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' " " Having replevjnecf AUace and Lorraine, "with
the help of God and a few Allies," prance ougnt
, iVbe able to get "the ex-kaisex out'of Holland.
, ' '. TT,a-rua,avmn Ttrhn tiinrtnrl hark the overcoat
of a 'victim may have spoken with an eastern
accent1, but they did not act Jike eastern wolves.
Bolshevism is said to be spreading in China.
If the heathen Chinee can possibly be worse off
than he is, it will come to him through em
bracing the Lenine doctrine-".
Five days in jail seems a short time for some
:6f the reckless taxi drivers who make Omaha
streets so uncertain for others, but it may give
those who get it-a moment or 'two for sober reflection.
' Down at Junction ' City, Kan., five, men
pitched nickles to see which would be permitted
to, buy a high-priced tourinst ear,. The only
'thing strange about this is where they got the
nickles In Kansas. i "
IdueatJon is the remedy, for most ot our
social Ills. When men and women are trained
s they ean think straight, nearly all of their
IrtwWts will vanish, and they will- go to work
tad toon be rid of the rest. " '
Bf. Garflttd refuses to be content with the
; president's settlement of the coal strike, but as
'the miners and operators, are agreed and the
pubHe ean't help itself,' it looks as if the doc
tor's protest wereinaWij' ',
Capture of a group of Americans who,.'were
to-operating against the reds in Siberia may not
complicate matters, but it will, make us a lot
wore trouble. . Nothing in the war looks worse
than the Russian-Siberian policy of hot and cold.
Exploration yf Ground Well
' , . ' Known
Quite the strangest feature of the current re
vival of imagined trafficking with the dead is
the belief of those engaged in it that they are
-taking a long step forward, and that those who
do not follow them are being left. behind in the
fwogress ot the.race As a matter of fact, the
ong step' is backward, and the imagined pro
gression isa reversion. The spiritism of the
day does have, indeed, some marks of modern
, itjr, but these are all superficial mere embroid
' eries, as it were, of the ancient superstitions
and in essentials the new mysticism does not
differ from, that of the Middle Ages or of the
remoter times when, at many, a., famous .fane,
the gods, spoke through the mouths of'con
.vulsed and entranced 'priestesses.
Between the former and the!present believers,
-however, there, is a single real difference in
the one case faith was justified by the absence
reiutina knowledge, in' tht other the believer
is obliged to ignore available proof that the
phenomena he ascribes to another world all
arise from sources close at hand.
Qu'te needless weight .is granted to the ac
ceptance of spirit communications by men like
'Lodge and Crooks and Dolfc "They are. intel
ligent, unquestionably, and in their own domain
of science or art trustworthy, but ou.t of it they
are far from being experts, and it is only neces
sary to read British memoirs and biographies to
realize that the - English, longer than almost
any other civilized people, have retained .- their
i : i ! t i :.:it ai . -
. jilting ior gnusis, ana ami treat iiicm as some
thing to be proud of as retainers which only
old families can. have. "White Ladies" abound
in Great Britain, and derision of such visitants
is resented by people otherwise sane and sensi-
tie-iNew. x one limes. .-.,?
. COMPROMISE ON -COVENANT.
The ratification of the Treaty of Versailles
by the senate depends now, as it has from the
first, on -whether a sufficient number of demo
cratic senators can bring themselves to accept
reasonable reservations. If they persist in sup
porting the president in his attitude of rigidity,
the -treaty will remain moribund so far as Amer
ica is concerned. .
In Europe the leaders are beginning to won
der at the Wilsonian obstinacy. Statesmen of
England, France and Italy courteously withhold
comment or suggestion, delicately refraining
from mixing in any way in American domestic
affairs. The fact that they are proceeding along
their .own lines to attend to business that con
cerns them, and which might otherwise go be
fore the League of Nations, is most significant.
It is even suggested from sources of influence
there that it would be better for the time were
affairs left to-the management of the alliance
between the Entente powers without regard to
the league. ,
This sentiment naturally has its reflex in
America, where the failure of tho covenant as
prepared at Paris has been foreshadowed from
the beginning. With European leaders willing
to concede the point demanded by the senate,
which finally involves only the right of America
to remain independent as concerns domestic af
fairs and the declaration of war. it amazes the
world that the president of the United States
can not make a similar concession.
Leaders of the League to Enforce Peace, the
agency which more than any other promoted
the propaganda in favor of the League of Na
tions, and whose sincerity can not be ques
tioned, have stated that the senate's reserva
tions are not fatal to the league. Judge Gray
admits -that the hope of adopting Article. X as
presented no longer exists, but the president
still demands it
Responsibility for the further, postponement
of action on the treaty now rests squarely on
the minority of the senate. Whether it is yet
ready to accept Mr. Bryan's advice and permit
the majority to assume its rightful place in the
government will spon be known.
Told in Dollars and Cents.
Some interesting but neither, startling nor
discouraging information is given out by the
National City bank of New, York, which esti
mates the present world's debt at $200,000,000,
000, compared, with $40,000,000,000 prior to the
war.. This implies an increase on account of
the' war in . the tidy sum of $160,000,000,000.
These figures are meaningless to the ordinary
mind, which , can not grasp the idea of what
they represent
In effect it amounts to the oyer-capitaliza-tiort
of the world as a going concern to just
that extent Most of this wealth was blown to
smithereens in battle or sunk to the bottom of
the sea Some of it was dissipated in other
ways, but 'it has all vanished. That is, what
ever of material, actual wealth is represented by
the figures. A considerable portion of the total
consists of inflated valuation, incident, to the
extravagance with which all governments car
ried on their military operations.
Some idea of how the madness for issuing
"money" has affected the nations may be gained
from the further statement that the currency
issues of thirty principal countries jumped from
$7,500,000,000 in prewar days to $40,000,000,000
at. the time the armistice was signed, and .since
then to $50,000,000,000. No account of the $34,
060,000,000, issued by soviet Russia is taken in
thisJ ' "t - . i
' Here is a clear view of what is before the
world:' Until this enormous debt is taken care
of by the replacement of wealth destroyed, the
balance will not be restored. The existing
deficit may be regarded in a sense as watered
stock, arid until each dollar issued is repre
sented by a dollar employed in the business, par
is not attained. How long it will take to
restore 200 billions of wealth is, beyond con
jecture. It can not be done by legislation, nor
by a scaling of debts. Steady production is the
only answer, and the sooner this is realized,
and the world stops jazzing around on bor
rowed capital or fiat currency, and gets down
to hard work, the quicker will" it get out from
under the mountain of debt it has assumed.
The Science of Giving
!tii 0 -r 1 .
Control of Public Utilities.
The constitutional convention is now agi
tated over the question of control of public -utilities,,
having before it three separate proposi
tions, 'any one of which will take from com
munities the powers they now have in this and
bestow them on a state commission. Two of
these -proposals emanate from members of the
State Railway commission, which will have little
if anything to . do with railroads, if the
present plan goes through congress. Under
either of these provisions the railway board Will
become a public utility commission, charged
with the regulation of affairs involved in the
several sorts of public service.
That such service must be controlled is
plain, but it is not so clear that such control
should be "detached from the communities and
vested in a central board. Difficulties in mak
ing bargains between corporations and communities-are
always present, but the business is
part of the life of any municipality, great or
small,. and should.be so accepted. Nor has it
been shown by experience that the people are
always indisposed to deal fairly by the cor
porations. The trouble usually has started from
the other end.
' When the time comes that communities will
make contracts and observe them as do indi
viduals? when investors in public service enter
prises will not be looked upon as public enemies,
nor ask to be considered as benefactors; when
bargains will be fairly made and squarely car
ried out, control of public utilities will lose
much of the formidable aspect it now holds.
Until then, however, the power should not be
taken too far away from the people. .
Douglas County's Valuation.
' The attorneys for a Chicago firm of bond
buyers has turned down the court house repair
issue, because it exceeds what he conceives to
be the legal limit.' His mistake is in assuming
that the $59,000,000 valuation on which taxes
are levied is the true value of the county; The
point is a good one. For many years people
in Nebraska- have been -fooling themselves by
listing property for taxation at what purports
to be its cash value, and then levying a tax on
one-fifth only. Whether the figure accepted for
the levy, or the total really carried, on the as
sessment roll is the one on which to .predicate
validity, of bonds is the question to be settled,
However it may be decided, the incident, should
direct attention to one of the queer customs. in
vogue in connection with the scheduling .of
property for tax purposes in this state, ; -
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From the New York Timel.
Bv an interesting coincidence. Jacob G.
Schmidlapp's bequest of a single million and
the Rockefeller nift of $100,000,000 were re
ported in neighboring columns. It was only
a few decades ago that the world looked upon
a fortune of a million to say nothing of its be
quest to charitv with something akin to awe;
but today it appears a modest estate. In either
comparison, such gifts as the ordinary citizen
is able to make seem small. It takees a second
thought to perceive that thev arre very far from
Deing negligible. A statistical naturalist once
computed that if all the ants in the would could
be assembled they would many times outweigh
all the elephants. The united gifts of all the
mere-millionaires would cut a very presentable
figure even in comparison with the gifts of
Carnegie, Frick and Rockefeller. With the
addition of the humbler doles of less eminently
solvent citizens, the relationship of ant to ele
phant would doubtless be duplicated, and more
than duplicated.
It is for a better reason than their size that
the Rockefeller gifts, and others of their kind,
are memorable. They are memorable as, mark
ing an epoch in the science of giving.' The
genius for organization and management which
made possible the accumulation of so much
wealth has been applied in its distribution for
the benefit of mankind. The Rockefeller Foun
dation and the General Education Board be
tween which the new arift of $100,000,000 is di
vided represent an effort to organize benefac
tion as industry has been organized to make
it alive, progressive and adaptable to the new
needs of each successive generation.,
.The Rockefeller Institute is not merely one
of the most amply equipped and ably manned
of all the world's outposts against disease; it
is an organization fashioned to insure, as far
as is humanely possible, such permanence of
health and vital tradition as has been achieved,
for example, by the leading universities. The
General Education Board, which is designed as
a corrective to malnutrition among universities,
is likewise capable of organic growth. Thanks
to the Rockefeller gifts, the health of the na
tion, both physical and intellectual, should be
come the object of continuous and intelligent
benefaction. The suggestions accompanying the
present gift indicate the scope of its usefulness.
By increasing the pay of college teachers, able
young men will be enabled to devote their lives
to education, while professors of tried ability
will be saved the necessity of abandoning their
high calling. The passage referring, to the
needs of the medical schools of Canada is of
special interest. The Education Board is lim
ited by its charter to' activities within the United
States; but this limitation is now set aside. The
welfare of the neighboring people is accepted
as part and parcel of our own welfare. No bet
ter instance could be given of the growth of an
institution in harmony with the progress of the
world.
The exampje of benefaction in the manner
of Carnegie and Rockefeller is already making
itself widely felt. Mr. Schmidlapp acknowledges
his debt to Carnegie. In the closing decades of
his life he himself superintended the bestowal
of the major part of his fortune. The single
million which remained was only what he re
quired for his own living and for projects of
charity in hand. Like-many others, including
Mr. Frick, he left it to be administered by a
trust company. The time may come when such
estates, both large and small, will be bequeathed
to organizations like the General Education
Board--as they are now bequeathed to individ
ual universities.
Shipbuilders Not Slackers.
- Omaha, Jan." 24. To the Editor
ot The Bee: In looking through
your paper of th 24 th I ran across
a column m your paper headed "Tne
Bee's letter Box." And, reading
down the column came across an
article branding: Mr, Jack Dempsey
a slacker and signed by "E, M. T.,
Member Chicago Tost."
I would lika to ask Mr. E.'lf. T.
how he- classed any man. employed
in a shipyard during, our war pe
riod? . When the war . Started be
tween the United States and Ger
many I was working in a business
that the United States government
classed as exempt i from . war duty,
but at tfle call of Mr, Schwab for men
for the shipyards, I quit and went to
work for a shipyard m the east and
can honestly say I did more for my
country working Jn a shipyard than
I could have done If I- had been
across the water. " Thousands of
other men hold the same Idea re
garding this as I do. I don't want
any reader to think that I or any
otner of my fellow employes tried
to get out of the army by golrg to
work In a shipyard. But wo all felt
we snouid go where we could do the
most for our country, and certainly
myself and all of us ship Workers
know that we did as much for our
country as Mr. E. M. T. of Chicago
post, if not lust a little bit more. And
we are not going around bragging
aDout it. either.
Mr. E. M. T. mav have been across.
but at the same time myself and
thousands like me were working our
neaas on to get him a means to get
him food and shells and a shiD to
co me, "back on. And there were very
tew men that a foreman had to
stand over to get out production and
at the same time to keep our work
to the perfect mark. Now Mr. E. M.
T., don't you think you were just a
little bit nasty In your branding
Jack Dempsey a slacker, because
you brand every man employed In a
snipyara a slacker when you brand
him a slacker. We did not wear
the drab color, but we did wear the
blue overall hi Uncle Sam s vast
army. We did not get a gilt edged
paper showing our record or any-
ining jiKe tnat, but I do think we
won respect from the people of the
uniieu states ana our president.
It. W. LYCELXi.
Why We Tolerate Bolshevism
Americans who cherish America and are
willing to lay down their lives to .preserve this
nation are anything but pleased by the failure of
the allied governments to grapple with bol
shevism. They are astounded at the fatuous
logic of those who suggest that the throwing of
sops to the bolsheviki will help to destroy bol
shevism. They are disgusted with the auction of
the-rBritish prime -minister,: :who surrenders
rather than fight British boishevism- to a finish,
Mr. Lloyd George has made a probably fatal
mistake by trying to'curry favor with boishe
vism. It will take all the advantages he offers,
and .then will turn and rend them.
Let England do as it will,- under Lloyd
George or under a bolshevik regime; the United
States will not yield. As the peril increases, so
aoes me courage or. patriotic Americans in
crease, lhis nation was not born to become a
slave, either to crowned tyrants or to usurpers
disguised as champions of the people. The
United States is more fortunate than England
in the distribution , of land to its own people,
and in the obliteration of class distinctions, no
bility and all the trappings that are now so
provocative of.hatred and civil war.. The fathers
of this republic builded wisely when they made
every American the equal of another, with equal
opportunity and equal responsibility, ihe poor
est American can indulge in reasonable hope of
success in lite, and the richest must obey the
law laid down for all. Washington Fost.
Rights of Radicals
A thoughtful radical and a Russian recently
remarked that the limit of rights for radicals
in the United States is the right to seek to eon
vert others to their views and that there is no
right .of force. This aooears too obvious to need
comment In the case of expelled members of
the Mew York assembly, much ot criticism tias
been brought forth. The criticism if well based
would be warranted.
' Yet one of these men says that the socialists
do not believe in resort to force except as a last
resort. That means when they should regard
their ends other than by force to be hopeless
they would resort-to force. Such a declaration
is a declaration of violent purpose and should
act to debar any persons holding such views
from sitting in any state or national legislative
assemblage.
There must be no reservation as to loyalty
to the constitution of the country until that con
stitution has been altered or superseded through
prescribed political methods. The fact that
these men contemplated, force makes of them
revolutionists and probably, anarchists. As so
cialists, of the clear American brand before the
visitation of the party by the radicals and ter
rosists, no person elected upon a socialist ticket
would be barred from sitting. Baltimore American.
FODAY
The Day We Celebrate.
William Lampman, accountant, county treas
urer's office, born 1872.
Wilhclm Hohenzollern, former German em
peror and king of Prussia, born at Potsdam 61
years ago. h
Samuel Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, born in London 70 years
ago.
Rt. Rev. William Lennox Mills. Anglican
bishop of Ontario, born at Woodstock, Ont, 74
years ago.
George Hox McCain, well known traveler
and lecturer, born at Allegheny City, Pa., 64
years ago.
Bishop Thomas Nicholson of the Methodist
Episcopal church, born at Woodburn, Ont, 58
years ago.
Albert Wickland, outfielder of the New York
American league base ball team, born in Chi
cago 30 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Mrs. Boyd and Miss Chanute, who had been
visting Mrs. Richardson, returned to Chicago.
A gas explosion destroyed the grocery of
Newman Brothers at the corner of Tenth and
Center streets.
-The famous Salvini played the part of Con
rad in "The Outlaw" at Boyd's.
. M. Amblard of Paris was in the city for the
purpose of appointing, an agent to handle a very
fine braad of win ; - - u .
Arc Waffe Workers Profiteers?
Omaha. Jan. 24. To the Editor
of The Bee: Ten dollars a day, at
uie present cost or living, is an
proximately . equal to $5 a day at
the cost of liviner a few vears aero.
when it was figured by economic ex
perts that the ware worker receiv
ing $5 a day received only about one
half of what a just system of pro
duction, and distribuatlon would
have allowed him. If these figures
are correct, a wage worker would
not oe profiteering now if he were
to receive $20 a day.
According to the recent statement
of a Chicago banker, 20,000 new mil
lionaires have come Jnto existence in
this country since the beginning of
.the world war. In addition to these,
many old millionaires, according to
other reports, have accumulated for
tunes so vast that, if all their wealth
were converted into silver dollars or
bills, it would take them longer than
an ordinary life-time, working eight
hours a. day, to simply count it.
Why should any legitimate mer
chant, farmer or professional man
feel offended and cry "bolshevist"
when he hears a worklngman pro
testing against the profiteers? Why.
should they take any stock in the Ef
fort of foxy politicians to classify
workers organizing to. keep from
losing -what they have as the Other
vicious extreme of the commercial
Kaisers r is it pot to their truer and
better interests to! gradually help
raise -the standard ef living f the
masses so long as it la, kept Within
the bounds of equity? . ;
WILLIS HUDSPETH.
Mississippi anil Women's Suffrage.
Omaha, Jan. 25. To the Editor
of The Bee: Why view with alarm
Mississippi's conduct on the ratifica
tion of woman's suffrage? The state
where a woman could bid 10 cents
for the state capltol, and : southern
chivalry would forbid' a man raising
the bid. The south knows the only
way to Keep tne republican party
from dominating politics is to keep
the negro from voting. It also
knows that'at some subsequent time
the republican party to further Its
weirare may insist that the nesrroes
in the southern states be given their
constitutional rights, or see that In
states where negroes can not vote,
mat tnese states have their congres
sional representation reduced in ac
cordance with those who vote. We
do not expect such favors from the
democratic party, but sincerely hope
the republican party will ee a way
to accomplish the act when they
again have the opportunity.
W. E. ALEXANDER,
2512 North Twenty-fifth Street, City.
Smith Ont for Pershing.
Kearney, Neb., Jan. 2S. To the
Editor ot The Bee; Having been as
sociated with the republican state
central committee and also a mem
ber of the executive committee, I
have remained neutral up to this
time as to expressing my dholee of
candidates in the coming campaign.
The time has arrived, however, for
everyone who believes that Nebraska
should' get behind their favorite son,
J. J. Pershing,, and put this state
in the Pershing column, where .it
rightly belongs, should not longer
remain quiet Every man and wo
man who believes as I do in a square
deal for our gallant leader, must as
sert themselves at once. . By doing
o Nebraska will send a solid dele
gation to the Chicago convention for
the greatest living leader of all time.
o. Q. SMITH,
President National Farmers' .Con
gress. No Tjuck! No Luc -Hundreds
killed by earthquake In
Mexico, but Carranza and Villa are
not in the casualty list. Columbus
Record. '
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A Directory of Fun.
Br CAROLYN BHERW1X BAILET.
Still shut-in weather most pf the
time! Well, what difference does
that make, when a cardboard box
from the stationer's and a set of
cards to fit in it such as are used
for card cataloguing will tell you
how to have a good time, any time?
Preparing the Cards.
Some of the cards in thi9 file will
FbrvB 0 ysto.Make
Handicraft
be taller than the other, and col
ored blue and pink. Use these for
your fun titles. Using your best li
brary hand writing, letter them
neatly, recipes, parties, games.
stunts, books, hand-craft and favors.
If there are cards of a contrasting
color to these that hold the mam
titles, letter them with sub. titles.
Back of your, recipe card, have cards
marked. sandwiches, salads, cake
and candy. . Sub titles for the party
division of. your file will be, holi
days, afternoon and evening. The
hand-craft section of the box will
be divided into 'embroidery, dress
making and knitting.
Hack of each colored card stand a
few white cards on which you will
write or paste suggestions.
The First Fun.
You can have your first party fill
ing the fun directory. Ask your
girl friends to spend an afternoon
with you comparing notes as to
recipes, hand work, and good times.
rut all their suggestions and your
own in their proper places in the
card hie. If a suggestion is too
long to go on one card, use two, and
fasten them together with a smaller
paper clip. Be sure that the fun
notes are arranged alphabetically,
and are placed back of the proper
colored card in the file.
Filling the Fun Box.
Almost every day you see a good
recipe,, the description of a game or
party, or sqme new idea about
needle work or knitting in the news
paper or in a magazine. You al
ways read these, but you are apt to
forget them, for vou have no place
to- keep them permanently.
Dont let one escape vOtt, now.
Clip them all. and paste the clip
pings to cards in the right place in
your card file. When you want to
entertain your friends' in the nicest
possible way, look over your cards,
and find out in"a moment how to
do it. .
fFind 'oiit what water to drink
on a hike'. , Miss Beard tells you
tomorrow;)
Copyright,,' 1310, by 3. H. Hilar.
Guns for the Drill Corps. '
By GRANT 1L HTDB.
"We boys want to have a soldier
drill corps, Uncle Bob, bot we
haven't any guns. Our rifles aren't
all alike,' and you can't do the man
ual of arms with an air cun."
v "Yes, uonuy, for a regular com
pany you need your nuns alPal'ke.
I'm glad you're organizing one. I'll
lend you my Infantry Drill ReRuIa
tions and tell you how we used to
get guns when I was a boy.
"Well-designed wooden guns are
best Make a pattern of heavy pa
per, take it to the timber yard or
planing mill and have Runs sawed
on the handsaw of seventh-eigutlis-inch
Cyprus or pine. Order the en
tire number at once and they will
cost but a few cents each. The pat
tern should be about three and a
half feet long, shaped like an army
rifle. You might make it by draw
ing around a 22 rifle, but keep the
point of the stock high so that the
gun can, be sawed from a six-inch
board.
"When the guns are delivered have
each boy smooth his with sandpa
per, varnish it and "put on a tack for
a sight and a carrier strap. Some
companies rig the guns with trig-
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Making a Great: Hit.
Bill' Bryan's compromise now
needs only the approval of the re
publicans, democrats, mild reserva-
tionists. President . Wilson and for
eign governments to be unanimous.
Washington Post.
Safe Bet,
Probably Colonel Bryan will not
be nominated, but the chances are
that he will have Influence enough
in the convention to get more or less
ecohomio unsoundness in the plat
form. Ohio State' Journal.
ger. locks to snap or shoot caps. You
might take the lock cut of a cheap
cap pistol, but it is more fun to
make triggers of cigar box wood.
Here arc two designs:
The more easily made single
lock ha? .the hammer and trigger
in one piece, pivoted at P, and strik
ing a staple (C). Make the spring
(S) by winding stiff wire around a
nan. We used to get the wire out
of an old broom. To shoot: this
lock you pull the trigger and let it
snap back.
.The double hammer lock takes
two pieces and two springs.. If
made right you hold the trigger
when you cock it and the hammer
catches in the notch. Then a trig
ger pull releases it You may have
to experiment with it before you get
the pattern just right especially the
place for the pivot. Fasten the lock
to the outside of the gun and cover
it with a piece of tin."
(Tomorrow Hunting Eye Visits
the Grange.)
Copyrfjrht, 1920, by J. II. BiUaf. :
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J FLIGHTS OF FANCY.
Hewltt-i-How do your and your wife cet
along together?
Jewet First rate, ronslderlna- that our
automobiles are not of the same make.
Houston Post.
Visitor (being shown round the ground
of estate bought by profiteer) That
lower, I believe, goes back to William the
Conqueror.
Profiteer jOh. r.o. It don't'; I've .bought
the lot. Blighty (London). - .
"Did anybody comment on the way you
handled your new car?"
"One man made a brief remark, "Fifty
dollars and costs.'" Boston Transcript.
Mistress Now, Ada, I want you to
show us what you can do tonight. Wa
have a lew very special friends -coming
for a musical evening.
Cook w ell, mum. I 'aven t done any
alngtn' to apeak ef tor years, but u you
Insist upon it you ean pat me down for
"Th 'Oly City!" London Passing Show.
THE DEMAND.
Saddle your aona with the cost of guns
And the toys ot the martial caste.
While the golden whoat ul the things
yea eat
Ar the things that ye think ot last.
Draw out the ere from th mountain
atore
And exchange for. paper and gold.
Bo that tower aaaased in a city vast
May reek with erowda they . hold.
Drain off the oil from beneath the enll,
That the wheeU may spin around
Let the worl - forget the sovereign debt
It owes to the virgin ground.. '
Decrease your looks and -deplete your
stocks.
That the price may remain on high.
While the cities teem atid the millions
dream
Of a home 'neath a country ky. '
The city's lure to the countless -poor
Is a shackle of strongest steel, j
And the open door to a brighter shere
Ye never would dare revsaL
The fond ye share and th clothes y
wear, ,
The coal that ye have to burn.
The thlnga ye seed and the beasts ye
. bred '. ' . '
Are the lessons ye have to learn.
So long as th sua la it course shall
run,- ,
And rain from th heavens fall,
Ths crops will grow and th lood' will
flow . - -
. To the malting months of an.
But not alone, on the breesea blown
And over th rolling plain.
Will the seed take roet and the pal
green shoot
Mature to tha arolden a-raln.
There Is endless toll In the fruitful sell,
Ero the crops shall grow and spread.
And if man shuns, still, th field for thi
mm, i ;
He'll bid hla-h for his leaf of hrearl.
If strong men seek a wage by the week,
And disdain the call ef the land,'
Then supply shall fall and want prevail,
In faee of th great demand. '
' WILLIAM V. STEPHENS;
. 11th Engineers, U. B. 'A.
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