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    THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920.'
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FUTURE OF THE GAS PLANT.
TUe city of Omaha did not buy a pig in a
poke when it purchased the plant of the gas
company. It bought a service, satisfactory so
far as it goes, but capable of enormous ex
pansion. That the use of gas has not been
.jnore greatly extended may be ascribed to the
conservative action of the company, growing
out of the prospect that it would be retired
ftom business at a definite date. Gas has al
most entirely ceased to be considered a factor
in the illuminating field locally, and is chiefly
if not wholly considered as a fuel. It is along
this line that its use may be expanded, the field
f usefulness ahead of it being indefinitely
wide. Thousands of Omaha housewives al
ready use gas for cooking, but other thousands
do not know of its advantages or have no
means to avail themselves of this form of con
centrated fueL Gas also may be used for heat
ing purposes, with little alteration in existing
plants, or the easy substitution of proper ap
paratus. So many ways are open for the
economical and convenient utilization of this
fuel that it is difficult to particularize on any,
bttt the city can do no greater service than to
set about educating the people in the general
use of gas for domestic purposes.
, As to the price of gas to the consumer, the
plant has been acquired by the citizens in ex
pectation of "dollar gas." This has been prom
ised, and should be delivered. It should be
achieved without much trouble, for it only re
quires competent management If the city has
not a manager who is capable of so handling the
plant as to meet the public needs, it should
eenre one.
The reduction in cost from $1.15, the present
net rate, to $1 per thousand cubic feet seems
easy of accomplishment because of the changed
condition of the plant. It will not longer be
held for heavy tax and royalty charges; most
of the big items in the "overhead" will disap
pear when the city takes hold; it will not be
necessary to support an expensive legal and
advisory staff, and in other ways extensive
economies are within reach. The sum of these
economies should be reflected in a reduction
of the price of gas to consumers.
The city already has a man equipped to do
the job. He should and doubtless will take hold
energetically to meet the public wishes. It is
the opinion of The Bee that, with the economies
possible put into practice, and with the in
creased consumption of gas that may easily be
fostered under municipal ownership, dollar gas
can. be furnished the community.
..... Bad. Situation Develops in Delaware.
, The Delaware legislature seems inclined to
vote against the ratification of the suffrage
amendment. . With only one state needed to
give women the ballot in the presidential
primaries and national election, an adverse re
sult in Delaware would be a bitter disappoint
ment to the women of the nation.
Refusal on the part of legislators to be bound
by party caucuses, in spite of pleas by party
leaders, fully justifies the report of Alice Paul
that "the situation in Delaware is bad." But no
contest is won or lost until the votes are
recorded, and it is possible that pressure from
national leaders all over the country may bring
victory out of a situation which at present is
ominous.
. No doubt of ultimate triumph is felt, but
unless Delaware conies clean the amendment
may remain unratified until after the presiden
tial election.
Money in Elections.
There can be no doubt that the people dis
like the use of money in large quantities in
elections, either primary or general. Suspicion
attaches to any individual nominated or elected
after large sums have been expended in his
behalf. The feeling, just or unjust, as the case
may be, exists that somewhere or in some way
the candidate nominated or elected at the close
of a campaign of liberal expenditure, is either
corrupt or has received, financial aid from
sources which will exact repayment later at
public expense, or will wield undue influence
over the official chosen to the detriment of the
people's interests. ,
This is a widespread sentiment all parties will
be wise to heed. Even a statement that a par
ticular candidate is being heavily financed, or
the association with him of men known to be
adriot in the use of money in improper ways,
creates at once a strong prejudice against him
in the minds of the people.
'No candidate for nomination by any party
can afford to be handicapped by such a feeling
among his countrymen. The day when nomi
nations can safely be purchased has passed.
The day when party managers can win by cor
rupt methods is surely passing.
A Doctor of Presidents.
Admiral Grayson, the president's physician,
who has served Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson as
medical adviser, together with a host of cabinet
officers, senators and other distinguished men
in public life, has come to believe that some
siich change in the service of. his profession as
has been adopted in the legal, should occur.
The old policy of sending for a lawyer after
making a bad contract has been changed to
one which brings the legal adviser in to see
that the contract is right when it is made. So,
J)r, Grayson's experience makes him think fu
ture medical attention will be directed to pre
ventive medicine and advice rather than to cur
ing patients already sick in the, doctor's Ian-
guage, "to keep people well rather than to
; treat them after they fall ill."
p That is what he did for the three presidents
in hfs medical care. He had little trouble with
Roosevelt a man who could ride 104 miles on
'; horseback between 3:40 a. m. and 8:40 p. m., was
v physically sound. That's what Roosevelt did
in 1909 after his order requiring army generals,
colonels and captains in Washington, who had
fattened and softened on swivel chairs and of
fice duty, to ride on horseback thirty miles a
day for three days in succession, as a test of
their fitness for military service. The order
raised such a howl that Roosevelt took his.
hundred .miles in one day, knowing' the effect
on the public such a voluntary display of sound
ness would have. '
In President Wilson Dr. -Grayson has had
his most difficult and temperamental patient,
but got along remarkably weH until the presi
dent took the bit between his teeth in his last
ill-starred tour of the West, when he cast aside
all warnings and all but killed himself by overwork.
Our Government and Anarchy.
Curiously enough, our democratic contem
porary goes, to Paris to secure a text from
which to preach a censorious sermon to the
senate of the United States. "Liberte," a Pari
sian journal devoted to "advanced thought,"
which is 'but an euphemism for anarchy, dis
covers that a recalcitrant and perverse group
of American senators have prevented the United
States from coming into the full light and en
joying all the blessings that might flow from
the super-government comprehended by the
League of Nations without reservation. And
from this theme the World-Herald draws in
spiration to proceed "in holy anger and pious
grief" against the senators who thwarted the
president's will.
Under any circumstances this would be
worth while noticing, but it is peculiarly so
when we have the opportunity to call Woodrow
Wilson, president of Princeton university, as a
witness against President Wilson of the United
States. In his work at the university he wrote
a series of articles, dissecting and analyzing our
form of government, and in 1908, four years be
fore he was nominated at Baltimore, he wrote
of "The President of the United States" these
words:
There are illegitimate means by which the
president may influence the action of con
gress. He may bargain with members, not
only with regard to appointments, but also
with regard to legislative measures. He may
use local patronage to assist members to get
or retain their seats.
He may interpose his powerful influence
in one covert way or another in contests for
places in the senate.
He may also overbear congress by arbitrary
acts which ignore the laws or Virtually over
ride them. He may even substitute his own
orders for acts of congress which he wants
but can not get. Such things are not only
deeply immoral, they are destructive of the
fundamental understandings of constitu
tional government and, therefore, of constitu
tional government itself. They are sure,
moreover, in a country of free public opinion,
to bring their own punishment, to de
stroy both the fame and the power of the
man who dares to practice them. . . . The
reprobation of all good men will always over
whelm such influence with shame and failure.
Which of all our presidents has offended
more flagrantly in the way of attempting to
bullyrag and browbeat congress, to overawe the
senate, to enforce his will regardless of the con
stitutional or other limitations on his power?
Woodrow Wilson.
And who has more deservedly invoked the
penalty he lays down for such offense? Dicta
torial from the outset, impatient of the re
straints of law or custom, a breaker of
precedents, declining to take counsel, ridding
himself of advisers whose minds did not track
with his, Woodrow Wilson has been just such
a president as he denounced so justly, and he
will surely taste of the punishment he prophetic
ally called down on such a man.
If there is anarchy in our government, if
the world is disappointed because the United
States has not consented to the treaty, it is
solely for the reason that Mr. Wilson could
not bring himself to consent to the exercise by
the senate of its constitutional function. The
president alone is the anarchist in this case.
The Candidacy of a Nebraskan.
We have known many politicians and some
statesmen in a number of states, but never one
who kept the confidence of his public, who did
not firmly believe in standing staunchly 1 a
clean home candidate for any office district,
state or national.
This very proper sentiment is bom of home
ties. It rises almost if not quite to the dignity
and authority of a sound political principle. As
a rule one finds only the pariahs and adven-"
turers in politics in opposition to a home can
didate who has the respect of his community.
In Nebraska at the present time, for in
stance, who can doubt the kindly feeling of
republicans generally for General Pershing? Is
it good politics'to oppose his candidacy for pres
ident? Should such a course add to the public
regard for any Nebraska man who adopted it
in his ward, city, county or district?
Here is Nebraska with a man famous the
world over, against whom no truthful objection
can be urged, the nation's biggest man in the
war, who holds a personal relation of modest
dignity to the contest for nomination. What
would the country think of the republicans of
a state that would deliberately seek to destroy
such a political asset, that would wander off its
own reservation to promote self-seeking can
didates of other states, with such a dis
tinguished possibility of its own?
Nebraska republicans owe it to themselves
and to Nebraska to unite in support of General
Pershing. He is their fellow-citizen. He needs
no apologies or explanations from any Ne
braskan. He is a Nebraska man to be proud
of, to rally 'round, to enthusiastically support.
And the reports from- all directions are that
the people see it just that way. If there be
laggards anywhere, why?
Kickin' His Own Houn' Aroun.
Champ Clark's "My Quarter Century of
American Politics" is out In it he says:
I lost the nomination solely through the
vile and malicious slanders of Col. William
Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. ... It was
on the fourteenth ballot that William Jen
nings Bryan violated his instructions and by
base and false insinuations to use no uglier
word robbed me of the nomination to
which I was entitled by all the rules of de
cency, justice, honesty, common sense and
fair dealing, as I had a clear majority'" on
eight ballots.
Enough. Why pursue a painful subject far
ther? Champ's toe is still sore, and an un
lovely thing to exhibit. He says in his book
that he once told a number of newspaper men
that he had given them everything they asked
of him except his confidence! A graceful
tribute, indeed.
In Chicago 731 taxpayers report incomes of
a million or more. - That is one of the factors in
the Windy City's greatness.
A Line 0' Type or Two
He te the Line, let the inlkt fall where they nay.
BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS.
As blithe and buoyant thro the glacial air
As if the swales were filled with scented bloom,
The waxwlngs, wandering:, seek their meager fare
Of withered drupes. From out the sparkling
spume
Of drifts, wind tortured, comes a sudden whir,
A chorus of contented lispings; then.
No sign. Where forty living creatures were
Silence and deathly cold now brood again.
Now I may grow from middle age to old
Ere waxwings come again to gladden me;
Or I may visit lands of arctic cold
Beyond the distant shores of either sea
And meet them not Yet once they gave me hail;
Once, for a moment, kept my spirit pace.
Bold as their own, with theirs along the gale
And knew their rapture in the wind-swept
space. Hiram W. Heeze.
When Einstein's theory was first promulga
ted we understood it perfectly. After listening
to a number of explanations of it, we were less
certain that we Had grasped it, having read "The
Einstein Theory of Relativity. A Concise
Statement," we can make neither head nor tail
of it. Moral: Let well enough alone.
Ye Mordant Ed.
From the North Bend (Ore.) Bee.
And then right here in North Bend one of
those cheap government stink-foots followed
us from Sherman avenue to our office door al
most. And do you know what gave him that
great idea? We had oarrled a suit case up
into the Western Home for the lady who Is
working for us. We suppose we should have
let her carry her own suit case, to avoid mak
ing those "hookworm" gents nervous.
When, in a mass meeting of New York land
lords, some one suggested that a net profit of
20 per cent was enough, there were loud cries of
"No I No!" And yet they hanged Captain Kidd.
Paste This in Your Hat.
From the Wayland (la.) News.
As I am working for Mr. C. K. Schantz I
will not be at home In the day time except
on Sixiday. If the shade on the front door
is down I am not at home, if the shade is
raised I am at home and you may come in
and welcome. Persons in the country wish
ing to have films developed or pictures made
may leave them at Boshart Bros.' store if I
am not at home. I will be in town every eve
ning at 6 o'clock. Any one wishing work
done may call after that hodr. When you
open the door a bell will ring. If 1 do not
come in at once you will know I am busy in
the dark room and cannot leave my work.
Meanwhile be seated, I will be in in a few
minutes. Parties wishing to call me in re
gard to work will please call No. 190 between
7 and 11 o'clock p. m. After that time I will
probably not hear the phone and have nobody
to wake me up. Andrew Schantz, Wayland
Kodak Finiflhei
"I hear of an impending strike among the
models of the Art Institute. Let me know the
hour of the walkout," requests P. S. B. Glad
to, if we learn. But how, without a score card,
will you be able to tell the models from the
rest of the Boul push?
THE COMPLETE CYNIC.
Diogenes, that wise old bird.
Walked Main street up and down,
To lamp the scamp as you have heard,
The honest men in town.
Alid whether he found any
Has been completely hid.
But from my new researches,
I'll tell the world he did.
He took their names and numbers down,
With many secret snickers.
Diogenes sold sucker lists
To Hellenistic slickers. Pan.
Liberty bonds will rise if you hold them, the
controller of the currency assures us. By the
same token, if the people who first bought them
had held them, instead of swapping them for
automobiles, diamonds, and fur coats, they
very likely would be at a premium today.
Add Newspaper Classics.
Sir: Charley, the boy wonder of the Denver
Post news room, is sent out to look up a story
about a kid who was reported to have fallen off
a house and bean considerably mussed up. Two
hours elapse. "No, boss," phones Charlie, "there
wasn't any story. The kid does a Brodle off the
house all right, but he falls on a fat man who
happened to be passing, breaks the fat man's
two legs, and wasn't hurt at all."
Desk Slave.
If the Vox Popper who demands fair play
for the editor of the Times of Cuba will send
us a copy of the Times for January containing
the celebrated story, we will see that justice or
something as bad is done to him.
The Atlanta Constitution announces that Dr.
Albert Btishnell Hart "will beat the Piedmont
hotel during his stay in the city." "I lived
there six weeks," says H. S. S., "and couldn't
do it."
Small Town Stuff.
From the Quincy Jouranl of Industry.
We received a very nice present Monday
from our only daughter, Lois, and with it lots
of love. Monday was our birthday and others
remembered us. A true and affectionate love
went back to Lois. We love her with all our
soul.
Albert Space is a paint filler for the Pullman
company, reports G. M. M., and he appears on
the rolls as "A. Space, Filler."
Declares, candidly, a piano house on Wabash
avenue: "We positive., guarantee better pianos
for less money."
"Chaos Follow Departure of Kapp's Forces."
Buffalo Commercial.
Usually they do.
'Teak Promotes Hills to High Position."
San Francisco Chronicle.
Excelsior!
Soeakinar of portable houses, t'. . :-e was, re
minds F. W. R., the one Mr. Wilson took to
Paris with him.
"The story reads like a page from Abraham
Nights." Bluffton (Ind.) Banner.
Abe was considerable story teller.
If this isn't spring it is a good imitation of it.
. B. L. T.
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. EVANS
llr. Kvane villi newer personal In
qulrlea from render of The Be, pro
vided ttamped envrloue 1 enclosed with
the queetlon. He will not d ag-nose Indi
vidual ailment or preacrlbe for them, hut
will live careful attention to all Inqulrlpa,
aubjeot o theae limitations. Addreaa Dr,
V. A. Evans, The Dee, Omaha, eb.
(Copyright, 1920, by Dr. VV. A. Evans.)
TO EVERY WORM HIS DAY.
I "hold no bref for worms of either
the round or pin variety. I am
willing to admit that larval round
worms bore into the lungs and some
times cause coughs and even pneu
monia, that mature round worms
get into the appendix and even per
forate the intestines at times, that
pin worms get into certain locations
where they cause considerable an
noyance, and also that substances
absorbed from various kinds of
worms bring about anemia. I am
also willing to admit that many
more people have worms than we
have thought.
All of these statements can be
verified. But not all of this testi
mony will sustain the case against
worms, for the indictment drawn by
the public Includes Irritability, nerv
ousness, jerking in sleep, restless
ness at night, poor sleeping, night
terrors, and general nervous insta
bility. With this group of symptoms
worms have practically nothing to
do. Nervous instability is in part
inherited. Tarents who suffer from
nervousness are apt to hear nervous
children. Children not naturally
placid are made nervous by family
discord. Nervousness can grow out
of lack of home training or im
proper home training. In some
cases good home training Is upset by
bad playground championship or
bad school environment.
Nervousness in a child Is not a
negligible factor. In fact, it may be
more serious than measles or even
diphtheria. No parent has any busi
ness disregarding the symptom. But
looking to worms as a cause is a
mistake and giving worm medicine,
while it may justify results to the
extent of bringing away worms, is
not the proper treatment.
The cause is bad inheritance, bad
environment or basic training, or
several of these conjbined. The
treatment consists in training or im
proved environment or both. Of
course, it is much easier to give a
dose of santonin or worm seed than
it is to change one's method of train
ing or even to admit that the child
is a chip off the old block. Which,
of course, is no reason for doing the
wrong thing.
Ksi-ape is Ho Kusy.
A. M. P. writes: "I suffer some
thing terribly with winter itch. I
have for a number of years, but this
winter is the worst I ever had it.
I cannot sleep nights or get any
rest scarcely until nearly morning.
I thought it was nervousness and
laid it to tea or coffee that I drank
for dinner. I see that Grateful
writes that glycerin and limewater
is beneficial, but not knowing how to
prepare or use it. I write to get di
rections. What is the cause of win
ter itch?"
REPLY.
Winter itch results from living in
rooms where the air is too warm
and dry. Ventilate better, keep the
temperature lower, add moisture to
the air. You will have no winter
itch if you will keep the room tem
perature below 68 and the humidity
above 40.
To give relief use either of the
following:
Lanolin, two parts; boroglyceride,
one part: cold cream, six parts; or,
pulverized tragacantli, 60 grains;
phenol, rive minims; glycerin, live
minims: oil of bergainot. five min
ims; olive oil, four ounces; distilled
water enough to make one pint; or
glycerin, one part; limewater, two
parts.
Arc or Are Not Fattening.
A. V. M. writes: "1. Can you tell
me if buttermilk and cottage cheese
are fattening? I am trying to get
thin. 2. I have seen an article of
food called Basy bread advertised
in the magazines for reducing. Can
'you tell me anything about this?
Would it be apt to be harmful?
REPLY.
1. They are not fattening. How
ever, if you eat a full measure of
other foods and then eat cdttage
cheese and buttermilk you will put
on flesh.
2. You will lose flesh while eating
Basy bread if you diet, otherwise
not. Diet is the crux of the situation.
Power of Sunshine.
Nikola Tesla says the world will
soon have to turn to the sun for
power. There's much power in sun
shine, especially when it is mixed
with mule, man and plow. Houston
Post.
Nobody Cares.
Portugal has had so many revolu
tions ot late that rumors of a new
one will be received with calmness by
the world. Springfield Republican.
DAY.
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. Charles R. Kennedy, surgeon, born 1882.
Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, born in Idaho,
1867.
Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rocke
feller Institute for Medical Research, born in
Louisville, Ky., 57 years ago.
Thomas 'Nixon Carver of Harvard, one of
the world's greatest authorities on economics,
born at Kirksville, la., 55 years ago.
Col. Wilfrid Tresiger, British consul-general
in New York City, born 49 years ago.
Rt. Rev. Frank Hale Touret, the new Epis
cipal bishop of Idaho, born at Salem, Mass., 45
years ago.
George Sutherland, former United States
senator from Utah, born in England 58 years
ago.
Thirty Years Ago In Omaha.
The city council committee on fire a,vl water
held a conference with President Underwood
of the American Waterworks company, discuss
ing plans to extend the city's fire hydrant serv
ice. At that time Omaha was provided with
1,100 fire hydrants on which the yearly rental
was $80,000.
Charles P. Biddle of thelaw firm of Cava
nagh, Atwell & Biddle, dropped dead at his
room, 1620 Burt street.
Citizens interested in the Prospect Hill
cemetery held a meeting and organized an as
sociation for the purpose of improving and
properly caring for the cemetery.
An ordinance was introduced at the city
council granting to the Citizens' Gas company
the right to lay and maintain pipes throughout
the city for the purpose of furnishing gas, the
cost to consumers to be $1 per 1,000 cubic feet
Save Dollars on Con
pleum Gold Set
Art Rugs, Saturday
Union Outfitting Co.
Practically An Entire Car
load of New Spring Pat
terns Included.
There Are Sizes for Dining
Rooms, Bedrooms, Sun
Parlors and Kitchen.
Don't wait until housecleaning
time if you are in need of new
floor coverings for the sale of
"Gold Seal" Congoleum Rugs at
the Union Outfitting Company
next Saturday brings a saving of
many dollars over the regular
prices.
Lovely patterns and beautiful
soft colors that harmonize with
home decorations are a feature
of Congoleum "Gold Seal" Art
Rups and each one is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction.
Every rug is sanitary, easily
cleaned, waterproof and can be
had in sizes for almost any room
ranging from 6x9, 7.6x9, 9x10.6
up to 9x12 sizes.
Such a sale as this on Congo
leum Rugs just before spring
house cleaning is further evidence
of the money-saving possibilities
at the Union Outfitting Company,
located Out of the High Rent
District. As always, you make
your own terms.
I
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"Quotation Americans."
Omaha, March 28. To the Editor
of The Bee: I note in recent issues
of your very interesting newspaper
editorial mention and reprinted ar
ticles, the purpose of which are to
bring Americans to view with com
placency the attempts of England to
foist upon America ono of her citi
zens or at least an Englishman by
choice as president of the United
States. One of the articles referred
to tries to show that Herbert
Hoover took the stand opposing the
league of nations.
I desire to call attention to the
published interview given by Herbert
Hoover upon the first suggestion that
ho was a possible candidate for the
presidency. He stated that he did
not know what party he belonged to,
but that he was for the league of
nations. He also ' recommended
that the Versailles treaty be ratified
without change, and that would in
clude all of the articles of the
league of nations. Now that it has
been demonstrated that the people
of the United States do not want to
be a party in the league of nations,
he digs up a communication purport
ing to be a disagreement with Presi
dent Wilson on that subject.
Hoover is like the person who at
tempted to answer a communication
in The Bee and signed himself
"American,' with quotations. A
"quotation' American is a parallel
with a hyphenated American, and
if the people of the United States
understand the truth no "quotation
American" will ever become presi
dent of our country.
Again it has been stated that
Hoover is a business man. I should
like to know where he has shown
eny rare ability in that direction. If
the humblest street sweeper in
Omaha were given the billions of
money that has been turned over to
Hoover and McAdoo during the war,
he could not conjure up ways to
waste more than that precious pair
have done.
I reiterate the statement that
England Is back of the Hoover
boom and from an Englishman's
standpoint it is good politics, but
from an American view it is rotten.
There are so many acts performed
FROM HERE AND THERE
In China, English has been adopt
ed as the second official language.
The smokers in the United States
consume 127,000,000 cigarets a day.
More cases of illness and deaths
are caused by malaria than by any
other disease in India.
Each day nearly 250,000 people
use the Charing Cross station of the
London underground railway.
Of the 5G signers of the American
Declaration of Independence, all but
six were members of the Masonic
fraternity.
It is estimated that almost
$1,000,000 worth of oysters in Long
Island Souna are destroyed every
year by starfiish.
In a ton of water from the At
lantic there is 31 pounds of salt as
against 187 pounds in the same
quantity from the Dead Sea.
The young Swedish students of
geology, after an adventurous nine
days' expedition in Iceland, have dis
covered what is believed to be the
largest crater in the world, measur
ing eight kilometers long and five
kilometers wide.
The distinction of being the high
est inhabited place on earth is
claimed for the village of Karzok, in
Kashmir, which is 14,946 feet above
the sea level. The village contains a
few wretched stone houses and a
small Buddhist monastery.
It was George IV. of England who
imposed a tax on bricks. At a later
period in the same reign bricks were
divided, for the purposes of taxation,
into common and dressed bricks,
and the tax on each brick was regu
lated according to its size.
The Puritans of the 17th century
used no ring at the wedding cere
mony, as they considered it "a pagan
symbol and superstitious contriv
ance." All that they required was
that the man and woman should Join
hands when stating their purpose to
live together in wedlock.
1,
L-rike a nouse
oC cards '
previous preC
erence or prejudice
falls to earth,
wkerv. one investi
gates witkout bias
the world's fikesfc
piano, bar none.
r
e tone ieautv of
no orAer piano urjj
encure so Jong asAa
o" tAe Mason f Uainlin..
us sAour you wAy.
Clprigkts ?650 up
Grands $1050 up '
Other Well-Know
Pianos
of lesser price but
wonderful values
are the
Kranich & Bach, Vose
& Sons, Sohmer, Kim
ball, Brambach, Bush
& Lane, Cable-Nelson
and Hospe Pianos.
Almost your own
terms, but at our low
est cash prices, as ev
ery piano is plainly
tagged.
1513 Douglas Street
THE ART AND MUSIC STORE
Have you seen the Four-Leaf
Clover Blossoms now on !?
to th detriment of America which
can be traced to English In
fluence we should beware. The
civil strife of the '60't, the assassin
ation of Tresldent Lincoln, the most
potint Influence which drew Ameri
ca Into the late war are among
them. In lesser things also. At
the British recruiting station in
Omaha, the officers invariably as
certained whether or not the sub
jects for enlistment had dependents
In Great Britain, Biid If so, each one
was instructed to wait for the Ameri
can draft so that the expense of the
maintenance of dependents would
fall upon the United States.
We cannot afford to elect an
English subject, by choice or birth,
to office of any importance In the
United States.
Li. J. HAKftl?.
Jerry Sounds An Alarm.
Lincoln, March 22. To the Editor
of The Bee: Tatrons of the street
cars at Omaha: H was my inten
tion as a member of the constitution
al convention to get some redress for
those who have no mode of convey
ance but the street cars, by Inserting
a specific proposal giving the city
the right to regulate street car serv
ice within the city limits. In pre
senting this righteous proposal to
the convention to give the mayor
and council the power to regulate
the street cars. I took for my text
Seward and Thirty-third street, de
scribing the hardship to the working
women In that locality who are com
pelled to walk a great distance. My
meritorious claim for Justice was de
feated because of lack of support
from some members of the Omaha
delegation. The authority to regu
late the street cars in- Omaha is
vested in the railway commission at
Lincoln, who are not familiar with
the needs of the working class at
Omaha. It is not good policy to
establish the seat of government too
far from home. The chief cause of
Industrial unrest is that our law
makers are not familiar with the
needs of the people. Acquaintance
with our servants who administer
the law would have more effect in
Americanizing the people than any
propaganda of the high priced spell
binders in their conjugation of
verbs, lessons in syntax and spelling
contests.
JERRY HOWARD.
MUCH IN LITTLE
A recently patented chair hat a
single arm, higher than the usual
level, to rerve as a telephone stand.
An Alabama man has Invented a
pistol that la practically a minia
ture machine gun, as its cartridgen
are loaded . Into a chain of almost
any length desired.
French sclentista nave demon
strated that horses gain In weight
if fed a kind of seaweed that grown
on the coast of Brittany, instead ot
grRln and other food.
The development of an air route
from Egypt to India and its use for
carrying malls has been recom
mended by a British government ad
visory committee on aviation.
A thief, who crawled through a
coal hoie and got Into a pharmacy
at Beaver. Pa., did not rob either the
money drawer or the cigar counter,
but he got away with a pint of al
cohol. The United States consumes more
raw cotton and spins more cotton
yarn than any other country, pro
ducing more than 99 per cent of
the yarns required for domestic in
dustry. A Crnwford county (Ohio) farmer
brought a beef hide to Bucyrus end
received $11.70 for it. Pocketing
the m.mey. he said: "I'll take 30
cents from my pocketbook. add it
to the $11.70 and go down and buy
my boy a puir of shoes."
AW. HAVE A HEART!
OI, Tinmd of KilJIcatlnn,
1 think yuu're awful moan,
A HWlpIn our vaculion
Kor which we are to keen:
An' teacher neerta one. ye ilr
Her aeama la huetln' rut.
An' she ain't (tot time to fix 'em,
With all ua klda about.
We need that aprlmr vacation
For we've bein workln hard,
Since the lat of lust Peccmher
And we ot our r"""1"' "ard:
And teacher well. If I waa her
I'd innke an awful fuia,
Fur she's been workln' mighty hard
Aa well aa workln' us.
Oh. Ro'ir.l of Kd llcatlon.
Is hoya la human atuff
ain't no 'rlthmetlc machinal.
K' peilln" ii n' ll'a tufl
To be kep' at It all the time
Without no week of rest
An' It won't make ua feel a bit
Like atudytn' our beat.
My Fpellln' here ain't prrfec'
Hut Klmlny' what'a the uaeT
When you don't reward our workln"
But work ua like -the doocaT
But If you'll a-lve ua that there week.
To play and hike about, , v.
We promise you that afterward!
We'll work like all-set-out.
JACK ADDULBOT.
Union Made
Perfect Fit and
Satisfaction
Guaranteed.
The Way of
Real Economy
This store offers nothing but oppor
tunities to save money. Every pattern in this
vast stock is a quality product that "will wear
to your entire satisfaction. You are sure of an
accurate fit in a becoming model because no
sale is complete until you are perfectly satis
fied. You will save importantly on every pur
chase because these patterns could not now be
bought from the mills at the prices at which
we are polling suits, including
with every made-to-your-measure suit order at
From every standpoint quality, style,
fit or service this organization is supreme.
Open
Until 9
(TJock
Saturday
Evening
N. W. Cor. 15th and Harney
Phone Douglas 2793
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