THE "BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY. MARCH 22, 1920.
For Boys and Girls
Study Problems
Saving Puts Money in
; Pocket; Words in Brain.
BT ARTHUR DETMERS
(Francis W. Parker School)
How would you like to have
2 enough money always in your pocket
to buy 'whatever .you liked? And how
should you like to have words
enough in your brain to be able to
say just what you wanted to say
- the right word every time? It would
certainly take a brainful of them.
;Have you the exact words to de
scribe a sunset, a garden, a church?
" Can you name all the objects you
find in a kitchen, a hardware store,
a grocery? Can you describe a butch
er knife to your mother so she will
know what it is without you naming
it?-
It takes a long time to -acquire
; word-wealth. Hut it's a real game
and you'll like it. When I was a boy,
I kept a notebook in which I set
down every new word I met, using
my friend Dick (short for dictionary)
; to help me Jo the meaning. It was
: a bankbook, you see, only it was
words I deposited, not money."
Whenever 1 wrote in word, I
. looked back over the old ones and
tried to recall their meaning.' I was
like a miser counting his coins.
Words whose meaning wa hard to
remember I wrot: the definition of.
I found out that a'lot of very useful
short words there are much more
useful than the sesquipedalian (ah,
jia, you don't know that word. Look
yit up) words. In a few years' I had
- hundreds of words not only in my
bankbook but in my head as well
real treasure I was getting rich.
r
Nature Study
Outdoor
Life,
Bullfrog Holds Record for
Long Distance Singing, Jumping.
By J. H. MILLAR.
Suppose that. you could crouch
down and in one spring leap clear
over 3 house, or suppose that you
c3uld sing in Chicago and be heard
in New York! You would be some
fellow.
But, if your legs and lungs were
as powerlul in proportionate your
size as a Bullfrog s, you could do
exactly these things. A very big
frog is 7 to 7 1-2 inches long in the
body, not counting his legs. He-has
been known to take leaps 8 to 10 feet
long and, 5 feet high. His voice
is so powerful that it can be heard
tor several miles..
"Suppose a little frog noses his
way through the stiff, cold mud
and piper, Spring, spring, spring!
lias he not as much claim upon our
faith as a bird that drops down from
no one knows where with the same
message?" If you are fortunate
enough to hear these cries from an
old ice-covered pond, you forget the
March winds and the March 'mud
for you know that .spring is really
coming.
When you hear of a nlan that
"leads a double life," you don't ex
actly speak of him as an amphibian,
but that is exactly what the ,word
means. It is the name given to the
big family to which the frog belongs, i
lhey lead a double life because
they live partly in the water and
partly on laud. There are two main
classes of ampliibibians: the frogs
and toads, which have no tails, and
the newts and salamanders, which
have.
A frog is half way betwn a fish
which lives entirely in thcater and
EATER
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The Second Live
Stock Marketof
The World
It has lh. most modern Stock Yards
In" the World today no expenae has
been spared to make it sju
It is situated in the center of a
territory producing more food prod
ucts than any in the world hence the
largest .demand for feeder sheep and for
this reason OMAHA is the LARGEST
FEEDER-MARKET IN THE WORLD.
Horse Market is best equipped in the
west. Fireproof barns with capacity of
1,500 horses.
Railroad ''facilities are unexcelled,
being the only Missouri River market
located on the main lines of all ths
western railroads; the shrink, there
fore, on shipments to this market is
less than to others.
Union Stock Yards
Company -of Omaha
(Ltd.)
Omaha, Neb,
Lee W. Edwards
CHIROPRACTOR
24th and Farnam Sts.
A Growing Necessity for
Growing Omaha
Douglas 3445. -
Inter-State
Title & Mortgage Co.
421-435 City Nat'l Bank Bid.
We Buy and Sell
Farm Lands,
Farm Mortgages
We Buy
LIBERTY BONDS
At Prevailing New York Prices.
WARE & LELAND
Stocks, Bonds. Grain and Cotton.
Members All Leading Exchanges.
Private Wires.
727-730 Grain Exchange Bldg.
Douglas 4274.
American State Bank
18th and Farnam
Solicits Your Banking
Business
Phone Tyler 80
Where did I comil across all these
new words? In the books and maga
zines I read. Usually, 1 didn't stop
to look up the words because tlia
interrupted my reading too much. I
ptft a dot in the margin opposite
the line that contained the word I
didn't know and, when I had riinish
ed, I went back and picked up the
unknown words and put them away
in my notebook, always consulting
friendVDick. of course.
' The next thing to do was to invest
ttOhe new word, that lis, to use it;
for it was really little use to me
till I could handle it easily in talk
ing or writing. Generally I made up
, sentences to see if the word was
actually mine; if 1 thought it was,
1-ventured to employ it in my con
versation or my compositions.
PLATNER
LUMBER & COAL
' COMPANY
46th and Farnam Sts.
a rep
laud.
reptile which lives entirely on
All school hovs and eirls
know the story of the tadpole. lie
is the fish, for he breathes through
Kills; the grown frojr fs more of a
land animal for he has lungs, and
breathes Ihro'ygh a nose. .
Tadpoles are vegetarians; grown
frogs live on meat. They can throw
out their tongues to capture unfor
tunate bugs. 'J'hey can do this be
cause their tongues are stuck in
backwards. The bijj; end is fastened
at the front of the lower jaw just
behind where the teeth ought to be;
the little end points down the
thro,'1.;.
flrWINSIORIKUl
FITCH reBKINS
Barnhart Brothers
& Spindler
Type Founders
Printing Machinery and Supplies
incorporated 1883
OMAHA
LOAN AND BUILDING
ASSOCIATION
Assets, $13,250,000.
A mutual savings and loan association
WM. R. ADAIR, President.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA.
Omaha Paper Stock -Co.
Packers and Shippers
Paper Stock
Office and Factory, 18th and
Marcy Sts.
Phone Doug. 159. Omaha, Neb.
Benson & Meyers Co.
Investment Securities
Farm Mortgages
Omaha, U. S. A.
IGNITION AND CARBURETOR SPECIALISTS
Service and Repair parts for Eisemann Magnetoes and Rayfield Carburetors
Let us rebore your cylinder blocks and make new pistons and rings.
P. Melchiors & Son Machine Works
417 South 13th Street
Douglas 2550
National Roofing Co.,
(Incorporated)
Roofing and Paving Contractors
Established in 1878
Douglas 551. Omaha.
OMAHA HARDWOOD
LUMBER COMPANY
Hardwood Products
and Vehicle Woods
Omaha, Neb.
Dutch Twins Go Fishing.
One summer morning, very early,
Vfouw Vedder opened the door of
her little Dutch kitchen and stepped
out. ,
She looked across the road which
. rin by the house, across the canal
on the-other side, across the level
green fields that lay beyond, clear
to the blue rim of the world, where
the sky touches the earth. The sky
was very bJue; and the great, round
."' shining face of the sun was jusY
peeping ovev the tops of the trees,
as she looked out.
Vrouw Vedder lisfenecj. The
roosters in the barnyard were crow-
ing, the ducks in the canal were
quackinir.'and all the littlp hirrU in
'the fields wen singing for joy.
Vrouw Vedder hummed a slow little-tune
of her own, as she jveiit
back into her kitchen.
Kit and Kat were still asleep in
' their little cupboard bed. She gave
them each a kiss. The Twins opened
their eyes and sat up.
.'O Kit and Kat," said Vrouw
Vedder, "the sun is up. the birds are
all awake and singing, and grand
father is" going fishing today. If
you will hurry, you may go with
him! He is coming at 6 o'clock; so
pop out of bed and get dressed. I
will put some lunch for you in the
yellow basket, and you may dig
worms for bait in the garden. Only
be sure -not. to step on the young
."Cabbage that father planted."
Kit and Kat bounced out of bed;
in- 3 minute. 1 heir mother helped
tnem put on their clothes and new
wooden shoes.- Then she gave
them each a bowl of bread and milk
tor their breakfast. lhevate it
sit'"i on the kitchen doorstep.
- This is a picture of Kit and Kat
Twins. 'There was a little hook on
the end of each line. 1
Vrouw Vedder kissed Kit and Kat
goodbye.
"Mind grandfather and don't fall
into the water," she said.
Grandfather and the Twins start
ed off together down the long jroad
beside the canal.
- The house where the Twins Jived
was right beside the canal. Their
father was a gardener, and his beau
tiful rows of cabbages and, beets and
onions stretched in long lines
across the level fields by the road
side. Grandfather lived in a large town,
a little way beyond the farm where
the Twins lived. He did not often
have a holiday, because he carried
milk to the doors of the- people in
tne town every monune earlv.
Sometime I will tell you how he did
it; but. I 'must not tell you now,
because if I do I can't tell you about
their going fishing.
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Highways, Use
VITRIFIED PAVING BRICK
Western Brick Manufac
turers' Association,
Kansas City, Mo.
- Johnson Hardware Co.
Fine Builders' Hardware
Complete Line of
Contractors' Supplies
1217 Farnam St. Doug. 581.
Vaughn Construction
Company
. General Contractors
Bee Bldg. Omaha
Mid-West Electric
Company
Jobbers of
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
Doug. 456. 1207 Harney St.
What Do You Know?
digging worms. You see they did just
.as. their mother said, and did not
"step on the young cabbages. They
,; sat on them, instead. But that was
an accident. - '
' I.' t A.. .U ... nnt Vli
JXil uug tllC WUII119, a I IU JUl
hem into a basket, with some earth
in it to make them feel at home.
. When grandfather came he
brought a large fishing rod for
himself and two little ones for the
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- By J. H. BEVERIDGE.
6. When and where did the Boxer
rebellion take place?
7. Why was the exposition at
Philadelphia in 1776 called the Cen
tennial? 8. ' What was the first battle of
the revolutionary war?
9. What was Washington's salary
per year as president?
. 10.-" Who is "The Wizard of Men
lo Park5"
(Answers published Thursday.)
WINNERS.
Answers to Thursday's questions:
1. SlS.000,000.
2. 1856-
3. Samuel Morse.
4. Samuel Gompers.
5. 1867.
Winners: Howard Biiffett, 1015
South Thirtieth avenue, Omaha, and
Dorothy Lameke, 922 Avenue. H,
Council Bluffs.
BOILERS SMOKESTACKS
TWO PLANTS
Drake, Williams,
Mount Co.
Main Office and Works
23d, Hickory and U. P. R. R.
Phone Douglas 1043.
Branch
20th, Center and C. B. & Q.
Phcme Douglas 1141
Oxy-Acetylene Welding
STANDPIPES TANKS
Phones: Tyler 446 Walnut 326
Geo. A. Roberts
Grain Co.
Receivers and Shippers
GRAIN HAY
SEEDS
Consignments a Specialty
20-31-32-33-34 Grain Exchange
Omaha, Neb.
Le Bron & Gray
Electrical Works
Motors. Generators, Electric Elevators
Repairs. Armature Winding, Electric
. Wiring
US S. 13th St. Phona Douglas 2019
JOHN E. WAKEFIELD
COMPANY
Builders 4
Doug. 326
'.SO Brandeis TheaAr Bldg.
Correcting the
Shrinking Dollar
(The Literary Digest)
The inadequacy of the dollar under present condi
tions of American life is something which, unfortunately,'
is not open to argument. A -Yale professor's idea for
I stabilizing the dollar is, in a nutshell, to add weight
thereto, or subtract weight therefrom, in accordance with
the fluctuations in prices. . Confronted by such a book as
Prof. Irving Fisher's "Stabilizing the Dollar" (Macmil
lan), it would be an impertinence on the part of the re-
t viewer to attempt either to endorse or to discredit. His
province is to place before the reader as clearly as
is possible within the allotted space the author's
conception of the problem and his suggested remedy. The
war having loosened the fetters of tradition, now is the
time for the consideration of new and radical ideas. It
was the French revolution which led to the metric system.
To quote Prof. Fisher I "It would not be surprising if, as
is being suggested, this war should give Great Britain a
decimal system of money, revise the monetary units of
the nations so that they shall be even multiples of the
franc, give us an international money and sfable pars of
exchange, and, as the greatest reform of all. as well as
I the simplest, give us a monetary system in which the units
are actually units of value in exchange, as thev ouzht.
1- J .! J- J X 1 '
m. aim weru iiuenueu, 10 De.
Ill France, before the war. nrifres were five nr (en
t times those of a thousand years ago. In England between
1789 and 1809 prices doubled: between 1809 and 1849
-they fell all the way back and more; between 1849 and j
iuiu nicy iubc tv jjcx cent. .Between xoio ana ioio in
gold standard countries prices fell, while in silver stand
ard countries nnces rose. Between 189fi nrl 1914 nnVps
- in uit- umieu oiaies ana ianaaa rose ou per cent, ana
. in the United Kingdom 35 per cent. That was a period
ot 18 years. During the war prices in the United States
rose seven or eight times as, rapidly, and in Europe the
rise was even laster. The. purchasing power of a dollar
today in the United States is about that of 35 cents in
1896. For the purpose of establishing the facts by an in-
aex- niimoer ot prices, Frot. Fisher takes the year 1913
as a basis for comparison. ' He calls its price level 100
per cent. The index number representing the price level
of 1917 was 176 per cent and of 1918, 196 per cent. It
is the thnlt of the nation that has suffered most from this
fluctuation. A workiner cirl who in 1896 Dut $100 in
the savings bank and left it there to accumulate at 3 ner
cent would now have nominally twice as much as she put
r m, dut: prices are now more than two and a half times
what they were in 1896. Likewise the bondholder has
had no real interest. He has cut his coupons and cashed
- them, but his principal, nominally intact, is, in actual pur
t chasing power, less than half what it was. He has been.
in effect, eating, ud his capital. Even if that bondholder
had saved every penny of interest and compounded it,
ne wouia nave less purchasing power nowthan when he
started. The newly rich today are not bondholders, but
stockholders.
In the suggested remedy the dollar standard should
be worth a specified bill of goods, to include, sav. one
board-foot of lumber, 15 pounds of coal, half a pound of
; sugar, a quarter ot an ounce of butter, a quarter of an
ounce oi leather, a quarter ot a pound of steel, etc. Such
an aggregate of goods, selected on the basis of their rela
tive importance in trade, may be called a goods dollar '
or a market-basket dollar. Such a goods dollar would be
a good standard of value, but a poor medium of exchange,
being too heavy, bulky and perishabie. Therefore it is
" Proposed to retain irold as medium nf avohuntra Knf '
(I .1 O - " " "V.H111 v. V.Vlll!!, U U l -TO
correct tne gold dollar so as to make its value eaual to I
that of the imaginary goods dollar. It would be merely a
matter of varying" the weight of the gold bullion dollar,
C with the understanding that the use of coined gold be
entirely aoonsned. Today gold circulates most by proxy
through paper certificates, which are redeemable in
gold bullion bars. The proposal is simply to change the
rate at which these bars are exchangeable for certificates
rfrom the present fixed rate of 23.22 grains of pure gold
for each dollar of cetificates to a higher or lower rate
1 from time to time.
The changes in the dollar's weight would not be left
I to discretion, but would obey the index-number of prices,
h Every two months, for example, this index number would
be calculated representing what the imaginary basket of
goods, called the goods dollar, actually costs. If this
basket costs 1 per cent, or 1 cent, more than a dollar, 1 per
cent more gold is added to the dollar. If it costs 1 per cent
less than a dollar, the dollar is lightened 1 per cent. In
considering the international aspects of the matter Prof.
Fisher points out that the plan does not require concerted
action of nations, though concerted action would be'de-
fr-siraJbie to avoid tje inconvenience of fluctuating ratios
tof exchange. .
Nebraska and Iowa
Steel Tank Co. ,
A. N. Eaton, Prop.
' 1300 Willis St.
Phone Webster 282.
Everything in Sheet Metal
Products.,
Oil Tanks and Si$plies.
(MEGG&
3H32i
CORNHUSKER
TIRES
The Cheapest
and Best
You Can Buy
Put one on your car op
posite the tire that has
given you the greatest
satisfaction.
NEBRASKA
TIRE & RUBBER
COMPANY
Omaha, Nebraska
Cornhusker Tires
Distributed by
Western Products Co.
Service Phone Tyler 3899.
Automobile Repairing
In All Its Branches
MOTOR SERVICE GARAGE
Douglas 2923.
2406 Leavenworth St., Omaha.
Affordable
Motor Truck
Corporation
Manufacturers of
AFFORDABLE TRUCK
ATTACHMENTS
McKeen Motor Car
Co.
Gasoline Engines
High Class Machinery .
Mechanical Engineering
Potash Reduction Co.,
820 World-Herald Bldg.,
Omaha, Neb.
CHIROPRACTOR
t Ethel Thrall Maltby, D. C.
'iS (Palmer Graduate)
.alalia
Adjustments, $1 12 tor $10
Elks' Bldg. 2d Floor. Doug. 3072
Say to Your Grocer
"ELKHORN MILK,
PLEASE"
The Ideal Family Loaf
It Boosts for Omaha
Jay Burns Baking Co.
Omaha Printing Co.
Omaha7 U. S. A.
Western Paper Co.
Omaha, Neb.
We Paint Autos to
SATISFY OUR
CUSTOMERS
JULIUS BANHART
Doug. 1088. 16th & Leavenworth
Bowman Machinery
' Cbmpany
Contractors Equipment
iylerlS18 , 1207 Howard
Omaha. Neb. .
FUEL OIL DISTILLATE
In Tank Cars or by Motor Truck.
THONE OUR SERVICE DEPART
MENT FOR INFORMATION RE
GARDING OIL AS A FUEL.
OMAHA REFINING COMPANY
Webster 900.
Carpenter Paper Co.
Wholesale Distributor
Printing Paper, Wrapping
Paper, Paper Bags, Build
ing Paper, Fancy Stationery
GLASS
That very attractive all
METAL STORE FRONT
is an
EASY-SET FRONT
glazed by
PITTSBURGH PLATE
GLASS CO.
11th and Howard Sts. "
Nebraska Power
Company
"Your Electric Service
Company"
Electric Service for Your
Home, Officeand Factory
. Electric Building,
15th and Farnam Sts.
BERTSCHY MANUFACTURING
AND
-ENGINEERING COMPANY,
Manufacturers of
BERMO WELDING AND
CUTTING APPARATUS
Omaha, U. S. A.
"Little Red Wagoni"
T f; STROUD & CO
Colfax 2998. 20th and Ames Ave.
The Paxton-Mitchell Co.,s
Manufacturers ol -
The Mitchell Metallic Packing
Gray Iron, Aluminum, Bras
and Bronze -Castings.
HENNINGSON
Engineering Co.
Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Archi
tectural Engineers; designers of sewers,
paving, waterworks, electric light plants
and public buildings. Douglas 8229
12th and Harney Sts.
C. Hafer Lumber Co.
Ships Direct ta ths User
Lumber, Millwork, Hard
ware and Paint
Ws have our own woodworking factory.
135 W. B'w.y, Counucil Bluffs, la.
Eastern Plating Company
Plating Auto Parts
Ws Plats Gold, Silver, Nickel. Copper
Brass and Bronze.
1218 Farnam St. (Third Floor)
Telephone. Douglas 2566.
CROW
TIRE & RUBBER
COMPANY
600 Bee Bldg. Omaha.
OMAHA BODY CO.
Builders of Truck Bodies to Fit
All lakes of Trucks.
1 329-31 -33 N. 16th St.
Phone Webster, 337.
HUDSON MFG. CO.,
Implement Supplies,
Omaha and Minneapolis
F. P. GOULD & SON
BUILDERS
1137-40 City National Building.
OMAHA, NEB. i
Q
RADIATORS
nil Radiator Core, to?
Automobiles. Truck and
Tractor.
MADE AND REPAIRED
Hend Tour radtator by ei
preat. Guaranteed work
liromjit aerftc. and res
onahle etiari?i.
OMAHA AUTO RADIATOR MFG. 0. ,
1819-21 Cumlm St. OMAHA
Western Smelting &
Refining Company
Manufacturers ot
All Grades of Babbitt and Solder
Buyers of
Old Battery Lead
Oliver Chilled Plow Works
Doug. 3236
10th and Farnam Sts.
Omaha
Fistula-Pay When Cured
A mild system or treatment that cures Piles,
Fistula and other Rectal Disessss to a short time,
without a severe surgical operation. No Chloro-
- ' furm. Ether or other general anaesthatie oed.
A cure (Tuaracteed In every ease accepted for treatment, and no money to be paid until
eared. Write for book on Rectal Diseases, with Mines and testimonials of more thaa
l.iOO prominent people, who have been permanently cured.
BR. C ft. TARRY 24i Bte Bul.dinf ON.AHA, NLBRASKA
BEMIS BROS.
BAG CO
of Omaha
Pioneer' Glass &
Paint Company
All Kind
Paints, Varnishes, Glass
and Store Front Construction
14th and Harney
Alfalfa Butter Co.
D3903
WALRATH
& SHERWOOD
LUMBER CO.
Wholesalers
1501-06 W. O. W. Bldg.
Omaha. U. S. A.
The Hugh Murphy
Construction Co.
Contractors of
Public Work
D. 834. 206 Karbach Bldg.
The Lion Bonding
& Surety Company
s
is an Omaha institution and a Ne
braska product. It is desirous of Ths
Lion's Share" of your business, and
this .claim is based- not alon. oa ths
idea suf seated as to our being a Home
Company, but because v. are tau
hmijr wsvis, juvnv, and
HIGH-GRADE. Ws are in the
Kennedy Bldg., 19th and Douglas
Come Up and See Us.
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