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l NEBRASKA AND GENERAL PERSHING.
' If asked what state he hails from,
Our sole reply shall be:
"He comes from old Nebraska
And the Allied Victory 1"
V New York is a proud and powerful state,
.i Pennsylvania is a stronghold of loyal repub
' licanism. Massachusetts. "there.she stands," is
. the head and front of New England influence.
Ohio it the original and splendid cornerstone
" of the Northwest Territory. Illinois is the un
' disputed commercial center of the middle west
i These five great states, unrivalled in their
j services to the Union in war and in peace, have
long been foremost in agricultural, industrial
h and business development, at well as in political
tagacity.
. What would be the attitude at this time of
the republicans in any one of these common
wealths if it were the home state of General
Pershing? Is it conceivable that a single one
of them would hesitate for one moment to rally
to hit tupport for the presidency gladly and
enthusiastically? Is there one of them that
would be blind to the yalue of such a political
asset for state, party and nation? '
Republican Nebraska is now stirring to the
fact, and preparing to take advantage of it,
that with General Pershing she has such a clear
track straight to eminence in national politics,
straight to the active approval of her sister
states, at comes rarely , to any state, and never
to many. Illinois seized such an opportunity
in 1868 with General Grant New York did the
same thing with Colonel Roosevelt in 1904.
Nojr in 1920, comes Nebraska's chance to lead
the nation in political advocacy of the greatest
American figure in the greatest of wars, Gen-i
eral Pershing, whose genius for organization
and co-ordination, whose management as director-in-chief
of the vast business machine he
hind our forces in, France, whose unselfish lead
ership in the decisive policy of putting the
Allied forces under one supreme command,
shortened the struggle many months, save'd the
I: lives of many thousands of our gallant soldiers,
: and won the war.
v . Can any one who believes the rank and file
of the republican party in Nebraska has com
, mon sense, patriotism and a spirit of loyalty to
i' the honor and glory of their state, doubt their
hearty support of their distinguished fellow-
- citizen and neighbor at the primaries on the
;j 20th of April?
;' Make no mistake. Every republican state
j in the Union is looking at Nebraska and won
i't deringl More than that, their leaders see the
I trtnd of events the country over pointing to
? the selection of General Pershing at Chicago
if Nebraska-goes to the convention united for
Vim, as the will. ,.
,i Free from the animosities engendered by
the conflicts of rival candidates in a score of
4' states, with a spotless record of devoted service
f j and high achievement for his country, with un--;i
dying fame already his, the friends of candi
dates beaten in the turmoil of the convention
i j by conflicting' interests will turn to hint as
. naturally and as certainly as the hearts of the
' mothers of the land turned to him when their
. boyi went overseas to the war.
And then Nebraska will at last have a
, presidential candidate who will be elected I
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Occupation of Constantinople.
For the first time in almost 600 years, sol
diers of Christian powers stand in Constantino
ple other than guests of the Turkish govern
ment The importance of this fact scarcely can
be exaggerated; it leads to the hope that
Turkish misrule over non-Turkish peoples is
at an end; it ought to mean that Turkey's power
in Europe is forever broken, and that what John
Fiske called the "greatest crime against hu
manity ever committed" is now to be atoned for.
Lloyd George and his ministers must have
felt the effect of the wave of indignation that
went np not only in England, but all over the
world, when it was announced that the Turk
would not be expelled from Europe. He may
now redeem his prophecy, made early in the
war, when he said the hour of destiny had
track for the Turk, "the miserable, wretched,
contemptible empire on the Bosporus." His
denunciation of this race as "a human cancer, a
creeping agony in the flesh of the lands they
misgovern," was well applied, and deeply en
dorsed by thinking, earnest people. His ulti
mate decision to leave the Turk undisturbed
astounded the world, and must be reversed.
It it not on religious grounds that the ex-
5. pulsion of the Turk from Europe and the re
ttriction of the Ottoman rule is demanded, for
there are far more potent reasons for the action.
J But even the difference in religion is a warrant.
! Last week Mr. Lloyd George remarked that
V St Sophia would not again become a cathedral,
f' for it had been a mosque too long... Six cen
tones" of Mohammedan worship has given it
peculiar sanctity, he holds. One might ask
what of the effect of 'the nearly ten centuries
of Christian worship that preceded? Do not
the followers of the Galilean enshrine that
first great temple' of their faith with love as
ardent as that of the Camel Driver's flock? ' St.
Sophia might well be restored to its' first
religion as a symbol of one of the tremendous
i imports of the war.
' it would be to confirm him in his long record
of infamy. -
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ff- The Service Man Knows.
f Throngh all onr national history we have
had pacifists who have dodged their duty to the
country in time of war, and opposed the selec
? tion of soldiers for office after war. They are
- still with us, and using the factic3 of the past
v ,to influence public opinion. We went into the
war with a pacifist president, a pacifist secre-
The service men need no guide post to
. direct them, into the party which, through all
its history, has ttood for rational honor and,
independence. It is the party which Claude
Kitchin, democratic leader in congress, said
would be made to pay for the war. ( Nor do the
service men need any instruction as to the
party which fought preparation for war, which
sought first to avoid participation in the war
when it was forced upon us by the aggressions
of Germany, and later delayed to the very brink
of repudiation, to go to the assistance of civ
ilization in Europe. The record is plain. The
service man knows.
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Boltheviki Come Bearing Gifts.
One of the outstanding features of the bol
sheviki proffer -of peace to the civilized nations
of the world is freedom of traffic in Russian
products. Gold and platinum, iron, coal and oil,
hides and leather, wheat and flax, and a con
siderable additional list of raw materials is in
cluded in the proposal that relations, be set up
by which commerce may be freely carried on.
In passing, it may be well to note that Ameri
can knowledge of the contents of the proposal
conic from abroad, publication here having been
withheld by the government, because the docu
ment was considered "propaganda."
' For France a particularly alluring provision
is contained, the willingness of the soviet gov
ernment to assume 60 per cent of the repudiated
external debt of Russia. This means 60 per
cent of 14,000.000,000 francs to the, French.
England i expected to find in the food and tex
tile materials something attractive, while to
Americans the prospect of a wide market in
which ability to pay is represented by a con
siderable store of precious metals has an ap
peal that can not be denied. Whether for prop
aganda or not, Leninc's proposal is securing,
considerable attention.
Admitting that' Lenine is- a condition and
not a theory, and that his presence is a fact,
however repugnant that fact may be to our
sense of (liberty and justice, and we therefore
must deal through him if at all with Russia,
some other factors of the problem are thrusting
themselves forward. One of these as 'to do
with the gold stolen from Roumania. That
government will very certainly undertake to in
tercept any shipment of gold from the soviet
region, and the American government has de
clined to interfere with this course. Therefore,
Americans are warned in advance that trading
with Russia will very likely land them in courts,
with a more than fair prospect of seeing the
purchase price seized by Roumania. Caveat
Vendor applies here. :
What most outsiders would like to know, is
how "Russia proposes to get the surplus the
soviet government boasts of down to tidewater.
Food is said to be plenty in Russia, and yet
famine prevails in large regions" because trans
portation is lacking. Until the means for in
ternal communication are restored, Russia can
not carry on any extensive commerce. Trading
will be revived, both external and internal, but
only after the Leninists or whatever cult sue-'
ceeds them has again set up highways for com
merce. For the present, Russia serves only
as a splendid illustration of the impotency and
futility of possession of the means of wealth
without intelligent and competent direction to
turn the raw materials into wealth.
Mr. Bryan Talking Out.
A press telegram from Palm Beach has an
nounced Mr. Bryan's departure on a speaking
tour which is to cover Washington, New York,
Boston, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska and Los
Angeles. With it goes his statement of inten
tion to talk politics, as follows:
I am going to discuss national issues.
When a man's candidacy for the presidency
has been filed his candidacy becomes a proper
matter for public discussion, and I am going
to discuss the candidacy of any such man.
I am interested in the peace treaty. I ex
pect to see it ratified in a very few days.
What candidate for the presidency Mr.
Bryan will discuss in Nebraska may safely be
left for consideration by those who know him
best; but his errand, in 1 this state, is hardly
likely that of a barmqnizer or compromiser.
Mr. Bryan's acquaintances will doubt his ca
pacity for such amiable forgetfulness as charac
terized Mrs. Elizabeth Bass's recent visit to
Omaha, for instance, to participate in the pro
motion of the candidacy of a gentleman who
opposed woman suffrage, of which Mrs. Bass is
an ardent champion.
Already in Washington, Mr. Bryan has said
enough in his statement below to convince the
democrats of the country that Mr. Wilson is
faithless to the principles of his party, to Jef
ferson's teachings, and to popular government:
The majority must decide conditions and
the minority acquiesce unless we are pre
pared to repudiate the fundamental princi
ples of popular government and the founda
tion principles of the democratic party.
It is unthinkable that democrats who for
six months have been working for ratification
will henceforth join with the irreconcilable
enemies of the treaty to prevent ratification.
Jefferson declares that acquiescence in the
will of the majorjty is the first principle of
republics and that applies to representative
bodies as well as to peoples as a whole.
Between the lines of the foregoing may be
read an indictment of Mr. Wilson's disloyalty
to his party and utter disregard for the will of
the majority.
The Black Heart of the Covenant.
The Kansas City Times covers in a para
graph a fact that acres of printed pages in
democratic papers have sought to hide and
smother. It says:
If the president's position is correctly
stated in the latest White House report that
the compromise reservation on Article X of
the league covenant is nullifying in its effect
then the danger of that article in its
original form has not been overestimated. If
it nullifies its effect to declare that congress
shall have the final and deciding word as to
I the purposes .for which the military and
naval forces of the United States shall be
employed the need of the reservation is
made very apparent The president could not
- have made it clearer that Article X is a denial
of American sovereignty.
Fifty counties in Minnesota are reported as
failing to instruct on the presidential prefer
ence. This may cast a shadow on the an
nounced result. 1
Admiral Sims makes thirteen charges
against Josephus Daniels. That is an unlucky
number for someone.
The katzenjammer still prevails in Ger
many. That is one place where prohibition is
not to blame.
"Hi" Johnson had a lone hand in North Da
kota, but that will not get him the nomination.
Te bank guaranty fund is due for another
bump. '
Gold Exports and Inflation
Fcom the Brooklyn Eagle. ,
The story that London and Paris are pre
paring to ship to the united states some
$250,000,000 gold to meet payment on the haif
billion dollar Anglo-French loan due October
IS was preceded and , hat been followed by
several interesting developments which point
to the operation of some new force in inter
national finance developments which blend so
well with the reports ot large gold imports mat
it is already partly credited in quarters which
would ordinarily suspend judgment pending the
receipt of tome official announcement First
we saw the Anglo-French notes advance from
93 1-2 to 98, then the recovery in sterling ex
change from ?J.18 to $3.6K and, concurrently
with the latter, a reduction in the price of gold
in London from 129 shillings to 114 shillings,
sixpence. - '
Over all was the knowledge that England
and France were confronted with the un
precedented task of meeting the maturity of
$500,000,000 of notes in a foreign center, and
doing it with due regai(' for the existing state
of the money market and for the necessity of
having the redemption offer conform to the
psychology of the American investor. The
oainfullv slow response of the chief , American
banking cities to the United Kingdom loan a
tew montns ago and more recently ine lanure
of a strong syndicate to float a $45,000,000 loan
to three French cities had reflected the real
condition of the investment market and had
emphasized the need for a shining example of
the stability of foreign credit seekers. Here is
the main reason why England and-France
should bend every effort to prove their ability
and willingness to refund the loan in cash.
Hence the huge-figures in the gold import
story. '
The harm that might be clone to the finances
of England and France, especially the latter, by
a too heavy drain on their gold, supplies is a
subject of interest to the United States in view
of its great interests in those countries. Still
the phase of the situation which comes home to
all classes in this country most directly is the
probable effect a great increment in our gold
supply might have on domestic credit, and
therefore on business, -wages and high prices.
The banking authorities have been engaged
in deflation to conform to shrinkage in reserves
due to the Joss of gold to Argentina and to
other creditor countries, a program which was
serving the purpose also of bringing hoarded
goods into the open and was calculated in time
to break at least the advajnee in prices. The
question arises, Would a great influx of gold
undo all this, by furnishing the basis for greater
credit? Would it be instrumental in causing a
resumption of price inflation and another mad
race between wages and the cost of living?
On the other hand, would it not be an effective
offset against a steady loss in gold to South
America which, if continued unabated for any
long period, would surely endanger the banking
situation or reduce credit to a level where
essential industries would be compelled to cur
tail operations?
These are questions which need not be
answered until some official statement on the
rumored gold imports is made. So long as the
United States remains a free gold country it
must bow, in a sense, to the will not only of
those countries that stand as our creditors, but
to the debtors as well. We cannot prevent gold
from coming into the country any more than
we can stop its outflow.
Pine Tree Halves
The Massachusetts pine tree shilling was the
first, or almost the fir st, American coin. A -coin
of Bermuda, ornamented with the likeness of a
hog, is sometimes rated as American and given
preference. Numismatists and writers of school
histories almost unanimously give the honor
to the pine tree coin, and its likeness is a fa
miliar illustration in books of learning.
Now the state of Maine, which was until
March 15, 1820, a part of Massachusetts, wants
another pine tree coin. A Maine congressman
has introduced a -bill to authorize the coinage
of 100,000 50-cent pieces in commemoration of
the centenary of Maine's admission to the
Union. The bill does not specify the design of
these proposed half dollars, but inasmuch as
Maine is the pine tree state, it may be assumed
that the stately conifer will be honorably rep
resented on either obverse or reverse.
Hitherto it has been difficult to induce con
gress to strike special coins in honor of special
years and celebrations. Columbian half-dollars
and Isabella quarters were struck for the Chi
cago fair of 1893, while the St. Louis celebra
tion of 1904 had a gold dollar for the collectors.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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NORRIS BROWN.
To rap the politician is a stale and vogue
less game. We have no inclination to experi
ment with same. The worthy common people
need a leader who can lead, to furnish them
with counsel which is suitable to heed, to tell
them what should be the goal and aim of their
desire, to give them weighty judgments which
their interests require. ,
This occupation neatly fits the gifts of Nor
ris Brown. He followed it, with large results
in glory and renown. He, fought the needy
grain trust which was hungry to acquire the
wealth for whidh Nebraska farmers labor and
perspire. The thankful common people saw in
him a heavyweight and helped to make him
senator to grace a grateful state.
For though they say that gratitude is no
familiar word and . is not keenly understood
among the mob and herd, it is a sentiment, my
friend, which one may irrigate and bring to a
vigorous and profitable state. Some say ap
preciation does not prosper in the mass, while
others- nurse that sentiment to quantity and
class. , -i
But if the commoners perchance forget what
Brown can do, the corporation presidents are
keeping it in view. They recognize his weight
as an opponent in a scrap, and many of them
guard against a possible mishap by thought
fully retaining him in contracts neat and wise
where he cannot consistently oppose their en
terprise. Next subject: J. Laurie Wallace.
The Day We Celebrate.
James G. Martin, live stock commissioner,
born 1864.
William Jennings Bryan, former secretary of
state and three times a candidate for president,
born at Salem, 111., 60 years ago.
Sir Lomer Gouin, for fifteen years prime
minister of Quebec, born at Grondines, Que.,
59 years ago.
Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, German
minister of marine during the world war, born
71 years ago. , -
Alice French (Octave Thanet), well-known
author, born at Andover, Mass., 70 years ago.
Moorfield Storey, eminent Boston jurist and
former president of the American Bar associa
tion, born at Roxbury, Mass., 75 years ago.
William Wambsganss, infielder of the Cleve
land American league base ball team, born at
Cleveland, 26 years ago today.
Thirty YeaBB Ago in Omaha.
Hon. M. V. Gannon returned from a business
trip to Davenport, la.
The Board of Trade committee, consisting o
Euclid Martin, J. S. Brady, and W. S. Nason
left for -Chicago to confer with President
Hughitt regarding the extension of the North
western from Verdigris.
Jacob J. Jobst was appointed by the mayor
as superintedent of construction of the new
city hall building.
' Mrs. John P. Newman, wife of Bishop New
maa of. this city, was in Washington, D, C.
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. EVANS
llr. K.vana wilt anawer parannal In.
qnirlea front rcadrra or TBa ltr, pro
vided a ataniDfrf euvHop ia vnvlunad lih
th qiirnlln. Ha will not dlainoa Indi
vid na I ailmrnti or prrNrrllM lor them, but
will (It careful attention to ail inqutrlra,
imujri'c 10 tncit imiiiMiimi. .uiirMa nr.
W. A. tvann. The Hrr, Omaha, Jirb.
(CopyrlRht, 120, by Dr. W. A. Evana.)
THE "CON" UNIVERSITY,
"If that Kuy had stayed in school,
that wouldn't have happened to
him." The school waa the vocation-
al school of the Chicago Municipal
Tuberculosis sanitarium. That "guy"
waa a lunger who had been a student
in the school of pharmacy. Having:
received a legacy, he decided to stop
school. Progressing favorably at
school, he relapsed, and after he haa
been on a policy of Idleness for a
while h'e commenced having hemor
rhages. The speaker 'was one of his class
fellows. The policy of having
consumptives do light work Is more
than B0 years old, but only a fcAv
institutions practice it to any con
siderable extent. , A few books have
been written about, but not many.
There is nothing- in this plan of
treatment which is contrary to the
teaching- that overwork. Including:
anxiety and worry, brings on con
sumption, and that rest In the open
air is the keystone of treatment.
These cardinal opinions stand Just
where they stood before. But after
a consumptive has rested In the
open air until his temperature has
become normal, his disease haa qu.-
eted down, his weight has been re
stored, and his anxieties have been
allayed, from that time on the pa
tient's chance for cure is increased
if he will work lightly under the
close direction of a physician.
The advantages are several. Light
work stimulates the repairing pow
ers or tne Doay just as overworK
hampers them. The man who feels
that he will go back to life from tu
sanitarium with a trade or training
at which he can sustain himself is
buoyed up. The man goes through
his period of muscle and nerve train
ing for work under the close super
vision of the physicians and free
fro .1 worry about money affairs.
Like other universities, the Chi
cago "Con" university has its col
leges or departments. In the depart
ment of laboratory' convalescents
fitted for it are given lectures and
practical laboratory work three ui
four hours a day. In the pharmacy
training school qualified students
get some work in preparation for
pharmacists' assistants. In the de-
parment of X-ray and photography
students do three hours' work a
we-k. In the patient's undergrad
uate nurses' training school a six
months' course of light work, study
and lectures is given. There is a
course in dietetics' and cooking
given. ,
In the department of English there
are three courses. A course given
by tho board of education for chil
dren In the sanitarium covers uiuu.
of the work ordinarily given in the
grades. The children go to school
four and a halt hours a day in open
air rooms. There also are courses
for adult English training, principal
ly for the foreign born, and there
also is high school preparatory
work. In the commercial depart
ment they teach shorthand, type
writing, and commercial training.
Among other departments are
telegraphy, electricity, agriculture,
horticulture, woodworking, sewing,
embroidery, knitting, crocheting,
tailoring, hairdressing, manicuring,
barbering, and shoe repairing. One
graduate of the barbers school.
cured of the disease, earns .$15 a
week by working one day and two
evenings. The balance of his time he
has for rest and recreation.
The university is ahead of some
state colleges in that it has a fine
auditorium it calls the Hall for
Health Education.
Vaccination for KniulIM)x.
E. O. E. write: "1. Will yoti
please tell us something about vari
ola? "2. When is It best to be vac
cinated? 1
"3. How often is vaccination necessary?
"4. Is the diet given in smallpox
the same as in typhoid?
"5. Do all the cities have the
same laws about vaccination? If
not, what is the difference?"
REPLY.
1. Variola is smallpox. The di
sease is highly contagious. Its incu
bation period is 12 to 14 days. There
is a period of fever lasting three to
four days, followed by the period ot
eruption. The' eruption is at first
shotlike, then is blisterhke, and nil'
ally becomes an umbilicated pus
tule. It is striking in appearance on
the face, the palms of the hands,
and the soles of the feet.
2. In childhood and once every
six years thereafter.
3. with most people vaccination
at six-year intervals is often enough.
Vaccination protects for a lifetime
with some people.
4. There is no special diet that is
to be given in smallpotf.
5. No. Some require vaccination
before entering school and, in addi
tion, at any time upon exposure.
Some have no law, leaving the mat
ter to the health officer to work out
as well as he can.
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On lti Rock Itiand Line
What the Farmer Wtuits.
Pacific Junction, la., March 12.-
To the Editor of The Bee: In an
swer to Mr. II. M.'s letter in The Bee.
will say that 1 am a member of a
farmers' organiBition in this state.
I am sure from the letter he wrote
that he is not a farmer, and further
more, does not understand what
principles the farmers' organizations
stand for. We are not fighting your
high wages; all we ask is a fair price
for our produce, so that we can pay
the price for our labor and make an
honest living besides. As far as
hoarding our produce and demand
ing a bl? price is concerned, he is
badly mistaken. Who ever shipped
a car of hogs to market and forced
the packer to pay a big premium for
it? Who ever shipped a car of corn
or wheat or oats or anything else
and set his own price? Even for
our, butter and eggs, we take what
the speculator wants to give us. All
we want is prices so that we can pay
this high rent and hired help and
make a living besides. In fact, we
are asking for the same thing you
railroad men'are, and as for kickhig
because we cant hire a man for
$1.50 per day, go out and talk to the
farmers and they will soon tell you
where the trouble is. In my opinion
there are too many people in this
country that try to live without
working, live too high for their
pocketbooks and then blame - the
nigh cost of living. We farmers are
not making any more now than we
lld before the war; we handle a
little more money, but we merely
keep0 it In circulation, because we
have to pay about twice as much
for farming tools as we used to.
A. w.
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Rea.sons for tho Bonus.
Genoa, Neb., March 15. To the
Editor of The Boe: I wish to ex
press my views relative to the bonus
for ex-soldiers. This is no pro or con
proposition. The argument is, "Will
we or will we not get our bonus?" I
have been reading several articles of
criticism on this bonus question and
as yet I have failed to find any foun
dation of reasonableness in said ar
ticles. Reading between the lines,
you ccqld detect selfish or mercenary
motives by tno writers, une "bird
says: "We fared as well overseas as
the civilians did herein the United
States." The absurdity of this state
ment Is good for digestion for all
A. E. F. boys, for it makes you laugh.
The soldier who says we had abun
dance of sugar or any other com
modity over in France must have
been a "dog robber" for a "ma
hogany" colonel down in Washing
ton, D. C, for he does not know what
he is talking about. Our outfit was
fed pretty good compared, with the
doughboys" menu when, they were in
GARRISON
Correct 'in Heijjhl
andDedign
Always aik for
(pilars
OLDEST BRAND IN AMERICA NL
UNlTtOaMM.TCOllaCO.
the lines and marching to the front
in a beating rain.
1 have seen the hardships of our
late war In France and have endured
some myself during my overseas 1
service, from September, 1918, until
Mjirch, 1919. It makes me peeved
to hear these "bomb-proofora" tell
ing the geneial public through the
press that our .. E. K. soldiers were
on a vacation "over there," and de
serve no extra compensation for our
service. I want to say that our only
ambition was to get over the Rhine
and we did.
We were not thinking of bonuses
during those black hours in Septem
ber and October, 1918. We were too
hiiav then to think of mnnpv. but we
find on our return h6m there were'
pay-triotlc "one dollar" year boys
whose sole ambition' was the' dollar
sign, with seven figures bringing: up
the rear. I don't begrudge one cent
anyone made In war contracts, but I
do protest against the opposition be
ing displayed against giving the ex
soldiers bonuses by men who made
millions from and behind the lines
of red-blooded American soldiers
who were facing all the suffering
against the booties. The bonus asked
for by the American Legion Is Just,
and as most of the boys have mar
ried since being discharged and tho.
bonus given would be in most cases
applied to purchasing homes or di
verted into other commercial chan
nels. , My plan is $50 per service
month, with $100 additional for A.
E. F. men, with a maximum of 18
months' service to any one ex-soldier.
V. A. BRADSHAW.
Ex-tanker. 1 ;
Bo.wen's
Value-Giving Offer
for SATURDAY
See our Ad
vertisement in this paper
on Friday.
m
ONE Solid GAR
Guaranteed
Mattresses
for pure and fluffy
roll edge mattresses
good quality of
ticking.
Genuine Felt mat
tresses of guaran
teed quality; beau
tiful art ticks and
roll edge.
$157i
Box Springs to
Order
For any size or style bed.
Pillows at Value-Giving Price.
The Public and the Railroads
We are talking about the
railroads because we have
the accounts of many busi
ness houses which need mod
ern railroad service and need
a great deal more of it than
they have ever had.
If the customers of this
bank, many of them shippers,
have the transportation facil
ities they need, the prosper
ity of this, and every other
community, is assured.
The railroads have been
turned back to their owners
and for a long time they will
be short of facilities. They
must have the co-operation
of the public while they build
to catch up with the coun
try's progress.
All cars should be loaded
and unloaded promptly. An
increase of two tons per load
ed car would be equivalent
to more than 200,000 cars
to the number available for
public use. t, .
Now is a, good time to begin saving.
Suppose you open an account here today.
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iBank of Omaha
Street Floor Entrance
Either Farnam or Sixteenth Street Door
Established 1857
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Coming!
1
Another Servant for the Home
The sar-saving"
cereal
GiapeNuts
finds ahandy
place in homes
where the cost
of living is
considered.
"HieresaReason"
Imostf impossible)
L vdu -would savr"
was tke ideal set rip
as a goal W the J'
creators of" the
iJto&jSaraliit
Tfus ideal was t to
create apian$ which,
regarcuess or cost.
should so eeel air
fine pianos in tone
and durability thaf by
sheer merif it would
dominate -the market
in which quality is
considered more mv
rtant than prii
jnpe-
(n inspection tenff
rove to you notxr
splendiaJy this ideal
'hasheen achieved.
Don't JMisIs Hearing
' the Much Talked of
Kranich & Bach Pianos
Vose & Sons Pianos
Sohmer Pianos
Brambach Pianos
Kimball Pianos
Bush & Lane Pianos
Cable-Nelson Pianos
and the Hospe Pianos.
Easy to buy; low prices;
monthly payments.
Every instrument plain
ly marked; one price;
cash or time.
- 1513 Douglas Street
THE ART AND MUSIC STORE
Newly Arrived
Sunlus Contract
Goods
66c
BROOMS, new,
for
KNEE BOOTS, new, 4A nQ
good grade VT'eOJ
HIP BOOTS, new, good grade,
with strap over in- dC 7C
step for mud . . . vO O
TURKISH TOWELS, (-Q
new, good weight OJC
COTTON SOX, ordinarily sold
30c to 35c, 19c
BOY SCOUT SWEATERS, army
styie a lew ot these $3.75
values to clean up, 9
Summer Onion Suits
Balbriggan, White Crepe,
, , , Nainsook, at
$1.41
, each
Spring weight, long leg and
short sleeve
S2.41
Army Blankets
Olive drab wool, repaired, in
good as new
shape, choice . . . . . .
Army Shirts
14 to 156 only. Regulation
U. S. Olive Drab
No. A-l, like Oft
brand new 9"tit
No. 1. No holes, rips ttQ QQ
or tears sPaSaJO
No. 2. Repaired but good for
lots of wear, 1 f
anly ijl,07
Scott Army
Goods Store
, ,1503 Howard
4729 South 24th St.
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