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3 THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 192J. The Omaha Bee PAILY (MORNINQEVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PHOrjtUETO NEtSON B. UPDIKE. PRESIDENT MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PREM T miw4 rim, 1 irhfca TH la t mm, at !i tiT utlcd to Uw im fur publluUo tf ll am imi AU MMt of luUUoa o( 0H Pjjl BIZ TEIXPU0NE5 Prtu Brtnck SxctuiiM. Atk for m T 1 Ann PtptrtaMM or Ptnkulw Poraua Wutcd. 1 JltT 1UUU Tor HUM an Suaaay Service Cell I nmwlll Dtpanauml lirculMton ItcMrtnfiit OFFICES OF THE BEE i O0tc: iftb uti Puua Amm , 4119 Noma it i a.JUUi tld , v,uikU Bluff 16 BuoU St. Wtltut Ptrk Mil UmnrK . Out-el-Towa OfficMt Iftw Tork OSkt tU Flfta At. I WiibJnf toa ww sugar tuot I rru ft. Trier Trior IteM, Tflar Ml Kit N Kt til Xoria 40U I'll ft. rrif mac 42 But St.. Booort The Bees Platform 1. New Union Pattenger Station. 2. A Pip Line from the Wyoming Oil Field to Omaha. 3. Continued irnprevament of the N bratka Highways, including the para, mant of Main Thoroughfare leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 4. A thort, lew-rate Waterway from the Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 5. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with Citjr Manager form of Government. SUGAR AND SEALING WAX. High-priced sugar has many unpleasant ramifications. If it merely cut us down a lump or two in our coffee, or robbed us of exces sively sweet things, perhaps our adult popula tion, which eats too much sweet stuff anyhow, would be better off physically. But 25-cent sugar deprives children, who need it, of pure candy, and throws a gloom over every dining table. . But those, are minor considerations. The big blowto the people when siigar is high is the , way it stops the preserving of fruits which must have sugar, for the winter season. It is id that of all the tens of thousands of carloads of peaches from Georgia and California, to say nothing of energies, berries of all sorts, pears, plums, quinces, tomatoes and a hundred other products of tree and bush that go to the mar kets of the country, only a small proportion are eaten raw or during their seasons, by far the greater portion of these important crops are "put up" by thrifty housewives and stored away as health preservers and appetizers for, the long winter, or canned by great packers for the sup plies of the grocer. How can this be done with sugar at 25 cents, not to mention 50 cents? It cannot and , will not be done, that's all, by nine-tenths of the families who will sorely need it when snow is flying. Nor is the loss all theirs. The grow ers are likely to find themselves with great crops of fruit which the public will not buy be cause it cannot afford the sugar necessary to keep them under sealing wax. Truly a deplor able situation. Already, it is said, the delicious rhubarb, the first and one of the most healthful and delicious of spring acids when properly toned down by cooking with sugar, is showing great decreases in retail sales because cf the outrageous price of sugar. Is there no remedy? Certainly there is. but ;it is tot likely to be applied. There will 'be the usual "inquiry" at Washington, no doubt, the usual pretense of the Palmer kind of action, which is hot air, a few promises of relief, and then nothing doing! Instead of grasping the matter firmly and handling it strongly, the gov ernment at Washington, if it may be judged by its past performances, will have its head in the clouds in vain efforts to get "over the top" with its League of Nations without reservations with no time nor strength nor disposition to force sugar down to a reasonable price. It may, with a flourish, fix a maximum price around 30 I cents, and try to make the people believe it a great achievement, while the sugar barons chuckle over the prodigious profiteering at the expense of the people which has been the one outstanding feature of the Wilson administration. In the Matter of Pardons. , Something of a tempest is being stirred up in Lincoln because Acting Governor Barrows pardoned one Ray Sandlovich, - a 20-year-old youth who had pleaded guilty (V receiving stolen automobiles, had become a state's witness and had helped to convict others, all on the promise of the then county attorney" that he would be let off with a fine instead of imprisonment. The trial judge disregarded the prosecutor's plea and sentenced the boy to prison. The case was appealed, Sandlovich was released on bond and conducted himself for two years, it is admitted, in an exemplary manner. Then, as he was about to be returned to prison, the acting gov ernor pardoned him. In view of the protest aroused by other par dons, paroles and furloughsnot all of which, by the way, have been issued by acting gov ernors Lieutenant Governor Barrows clearly risked a storm when he acted. But plainly there were certain extenuating circuhntances. When the state, through its prosecutor, makes a' promise that promise should be kept. When It youth of 20, during two years freedom on bail, conducts himself like a good citizen, there is some ground for belief that he wilt continue to do so. Reform, after all, is the declared princi pal purpose of our courts and jails. Governor McKclvie has permitted himself to be drawn into the situation, declaring that the acting governor should transact no business that can possibly await the return of the elected governor. In that, The Bee cannot follow him. If the governor wills to Jeave the state, the acting governor assumes full responsibility and power. H he errs, he should be called to ac count, but the error does not lie in the fact that he accepts the responsibility and uses the power. That is what he is there for. For a "Military Candidate." Considerable is being said these post-primary days about Nebraska having rejected a "military candidate" for president. It is true that two gallant soldiers were before the repub lican voters, asking for endorsement which neither, received. But the vote cast shows that a majority of the republicans of the state did not dread ''militarism" as much as some of the objector appear to think. Instead of 90 per cent, as one man insists, being frightened by the thought of a soldier for president, it will be found when the final returns are made that ap proximately 60 per cent of the republicans voted for either Pershing or Wood. If allowance is made for the democrats and nonpartisans who took part i" the primaries as republicans, the endorsement by the party of a soldier candidate will be found even larger -in proportion. It is time to stop this nonsensical talk about "mili tarism" in the United Stetes. Tbe country is not in such danger now, and never was. It is in far more danger of the milk-and-water ele ment gaining control. Tbe world has had enough cf war, but only a nation that is ready and able to defend itself wilt maintain it posi tion in the march of progress. Power of the Consumer. Overall clubs, old clothes clubs, and similar combinations of protest against the high cost of articles needed may tx sporadically.or tem porarily effective in producing Jowtr prices, but they wilt not bring permanent relief. The trouble is deep seated, and will not respond to remedies rubbed on the surface. Sound econ omy does not consist in spasmodic movements, aimed irst one way and then another. More than one hundred million Americans must he daily fed and clothed, and after a fashion that exceeds that of any other people in the world. Notoriously extravagant and wasteful as a nation the aftermath of the war did not bring with it any general impulse to saving. The American market has been for generations and still is the richest in the world. In no other country does the ordinary man live so well as he does in this. When a flood of war profits was loosed, accompanied b,y a demand for our goods greater than ever before known, it had the effect of increasing consumption at home. The unfortunate phase of the situation i that the increased consumption was not ac companied fey extra production. Naturally, prices went up. Condition since the war have not improved in this respect. Production has not yet reached a point where supply equals demand, and scarcity in general has brought a steadily mounting price level. That the world is cursed by greed is plain, (or the profiteer has shamelessly extorted enormous gains from his customers. That the consumers have shared in this is manifest by the fact that the national tendency towards ex travagance was never so much in evidence. Patriotism requires that each do all possi ble to maintain the high standard of living. This can not be done by "overall" movements. Careful; purchasing, avoidance of luxuries, and reasonable restrictions on individual outlays will help. The element of Jive and let Jive must enter into the calculation, for only when all prosper is tbe condition healthy. But at the bottom is the need for greater output from farm, mine, mill and factory, to the end that a balance be restored between supply and demand. The Georgia Upheaval. Tom Watson of Georgia writes the Sun and New York Herald that his contest in the recent democratic primary was made and won because lie "made a straightout fight against President Wilson, the insane extravagance of his adminis tration, and the League of Nations." Incidentally he declared for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Washington's Farewell Address. "On this platfornt," he writes, "and without stirring from home, f carried the largest popular vote and the largest number of counties. It was a victory not for me personally, but for the principles for which I stood." It was more than a victory. It was an up heaval of the backbone of the democracy to shake off the intolerable burdens piled onit by Wilson. Its full significance will not be real ized, perhaps, until the November election re turns begin to come up from the south. But enough of its portent is understood to cause dismay among the party hacks of official Wash ington, buckled tight in the galling Wilson harness. Wilson's Grim Determination. The president's determination to make his League of Nations the paramount democratic issue in the coming campaign, as expressed in his letter to a Kansas delegate-at-Iarge to the San Francisco convention, is giving intense sat isfaction to republicans everywhere. The letter is full of absurd and untruthful statements which further strengthen the general belief that our Louis XIV is suffering under the delusion that his personal desires and purposes are those of the people and the government, that he is the state, and that all he says must be approved as the voice of America and of the Almighty. The republican party will welcome the sight of the democracy panoplied with the habiliments of Wilson, and rejoice to-exhibit it thus attired to the gaze of the public. Incomprehensible Distances. While money-hunters are speculating in cot ton, sugar and other earthly commodities, as tronomers speculate on heavenly distances. A Washington press dispatch put the mileage of the universe, in eighteen figures a distance in conceivable to the human intellect; and one learned man has discussed the possibility of a million universes. A paltry two of them would be news to us, in view of the meaning of the word universe given by the dictionary, which is "all created things," or in one word, "creation." But maybe our scientists have discovered while star gazing that there are things aloft wnich were not created I Amazing Growths. An annual billion-dollar automobile business in America was looked upon a few years ago as the wildest sort of a prediction. Now nobody elevates an eyebrow when an official of the United States Rubber company announces that the 1920 automobile tire business alone will be $1,200,000,000. ' Fifteen years ago the moving picture busi ness was regarded as a transient plaything, hazardous in the extreme as a financial propo sition. . Now hundreds of millions of dollars invested in it are yielding enormous returns. A flareback on the overall movement is noted. California carpenters complain that the clubs are putting the prices so high mechanics can not afford to pay for the garhient that is in dispensable to a workingman. Old Kink Ak is on his annual rampage after members again. Five thousand is the goal, and it ought easily to be reached. ' , Notice from the Allies to Germany that the terms of the protocol must be met hardly ad mits argument. "Eighteen hundred and froze to death" might have been something like this. Ohio's voice may not be loud, but it is deep and determined. A Line 0 Type or Two Hnr It tha Uat, lot 4ht UlM Ml ttwr eu. Sugar is sweet and expensive. CAKMEX DE VERE LEM Nescio an noster Horativa sic eomposvlsset. ADESTNB VEB LENE, AMOENVM, IVCVN DVM? MODO CEHENNAEI VERI CAKEMVS KVNC CANTUM PROFVN DVM? MODO GEHENNAE! IX AREA DOMV0 NIX IACET IA.M, . AGGEKIBV8 MVENS VIOLA CLAM CRESCIT SPEItAMVR), ET IVFP1TER, PLWIVs'eT GRAKDINOSV6, INSANVS. . SEDET, IRRIDET, NVLLVJMJVE DAT DAM! CERTE CANE MVS NVNC CANTVM FjROlfVN- DMV, i NAM VER ADE8T, AMOENVM, IVCVNDVM MODO UEHENNAE! FERUS. HEAVEN'S. THERE ARE T'O OF THEM! (From the Corydon, la.. Time-e Republican.) Mr. Andy Gump of Seymour was a busi ness caller Ok the county seat lat Thursday. THE spirit of 76 still lives. The embattled University club, its flag to April's breeze un furled, has decided to wear shirts with attached collars. Sic semper tyrannisl FOR YEARS WE HAVE WONDERED WHEN THIS WOULD HAPPEN. (From the London Times.) Staff Sergeant RueselL R. A. O. C, was severely Injured while bidding; good-bye to a friend at Dover railway station. The friend kept agrip of his hand after tbe train had started, and the sersreant was dashed heav ily against tbe bridge at tbe end of the platform. ' COMPARED with the sugar profiteers, Cap tain Kidd seems to Senator Capper to have been a blameless citizen. Certainly he was a more attractive pirate. He had his faults, but they were splendid as his virtues. Moreover, he risked his liberty and life, whereas the pirates of commerce operate without fear of punish ment. ' Speaking of the High Prices of Potatoes. (From the Reclamation Record.) Had he sold his potatoes at digging time Mr. , Hawley would have received about 1.40 a hundred or $2,500 for the crop, but now they are selling for $5 a hundred and he finds that the spuds are worth 11,000. While only a few of the potato growers will be lucky to share in the big price it nevertheless emphasizes the im portance of providing storage and it is pre dicted that the big pdtato storage warehouse in Powell will turn out to be a profitable invest ment. TWO-LEGGED SPITZ. i Sir: The corridors and other portions of some of our buildings indicate that corners have the same fascination for spltters as a row of trees nas ior a dog. i iUNUO. SOME time ago the World's Greatest News paper stigmatized California as a "boob state." Since that time it has discovered other boob states. As a matter of fact, there are as many boob states as there are stars in the w. k. flag. These are the U. B. S. A. The Process Seems to Be in Full Flower Now. (William Graham Sumner, in 1887.) If the employer could simply add any in crease in wages to his prices, and so recoup himself at the expense of the consumer, no em ployer would hold out long against a strike. Why should he? Why should he undertake loss, worry, and war, for the sake of the con sumers behind him? But if the employes should demand 5 per cent advance, and the employer should grant it, adding so much to his prices, they would naturally and most properly im mediately demand another 5 per cent, to be charged to the consumers in the same way. There would be no other course for men of com mon sense to pursue. They would repeat this process until at some time or other they found themselves arrested by some resistance which they could not overcome. 'WE should not assume that Martian life represents a high order of intelligence," says Dr. Campbell of Lick. We don't Doc The Martians probably do not know enough to go in when it rains. How should they? It never rains on Mars. REPLYING FOR THE WORLD. WE'LL SAY WE NEVER THOUGHT SHE DID. (From the Bluffton, Ind., Banner.) I want to inform my neighbors and friends that I didn't leave Indiana with no traveling man. I left with my mother and came to Spokane, Washington, to live with my mother and single brother, and oblige me. Mrs. Clara Coven THE manuscript of a poem by Charles Dick ens, designed for a lady's album, has been sold at auction in London for $25. Not much for a manuscript from so distinguished a hand, but it is not much of a poem, if we may guess from other lines from the first one, "Autumn leaves, autumn leaves lie strewn around me-here." HILL DAWN. Like slender flames of snowy fire The birches rise through gold-green haze; On upper slopes the winds conspire To rout the Mist God's morning greys Till early ghosts are fled. Leaving the nodding pine tops red Where Eastern light has set them all ablaze. But mine some pool beneath the hills. Where questing sunbeams cannot see Through which the hidden river spills In half-lit pools of mystery. And here, while men still sleep, The wakeful, playful grayling leap ' Till the brown river smiles in glee. C. A. S. A ST. LOUIS oil corporation advertises that it has begun the drilling of two wells, one in Costa Rica and one in Pajama. DIE SCHOENSTE OHIO LENGEVITCH. (From the Rock ford Press.) The nine children of Wm. Kuhn will give a humorous entertainment at Wild Cat school house on Saturday evening. Every, body come and take a good laugh until you can't laugh no more. "FORMER was hurt while cranking street car here." St. Louis Times. The Toonerville trolley has been extended to St. Louis. PARADISE REGAINED. Sir: Sign on a movie: "Back to God's Country and Charlie Chaplin." L. M. B. WELL, anyway, onions are coming up. B. L. T. CfteVELVET HAMMER Tn, vflrtftur 'Prooka "Baker WILLIAM FARNAM SMITH. Salute a seasoned expert in the merry so cial games, who wins the glad approval of the daughters and the dames. They purr with ap probation and they warm him with their smiles, whose concentrated radiance is visible for miles. He doesn't hesitate to spend his earnings and his coin, but chums in every sprightly set and seeks for more to join. Although it's widely known that his discreet and blameless life has not been complicated by the presence of a wife, the future won't confide to us his purpose or intent, and may be saving up some large and unforeseen event. The finest works of caution which a bachelor has wrought may be a contribution to the game in which he's caught. He holds for eastern capital of dignity and weight some Omaha investments in established real estate, from which the monthly revenues, reliable and soft, suffices to enrich his life and keep his head aloft, for those with competence derived from well developed rents have got considerable edge upon some other gents. - He knows a flock of orphans and they like to see him come, particularly if their shoes or socks are on the bum. For he's a kindly citi zen; he's everybody's kin; he buys the clothes that help to warm the little newsboy's skin. He incubates successfully his practicable schemes for making others happy at society's extremes. Next Subject: Gould Dietz How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS TYPHOID FEVER IN IOWA- Typhoid fever in iowa is on the de cline. Each year the people of that state suffer less from that disease. The disease decreased 50 per cent be tween 1905 and 1916. A like de crease during the 12 years succeed ing 111 would bring the rate down to the level of that of the large cities of the country. ' . A etudy made bj- Levinc and Mid dlfton shows that typhoid in the ru ral districts commences to increase in April and reaches its helstht in September. In these sections the disease is spread by flies and by peo ple who have the disease. If the people in these districts could lessen the number of files and keep them awap from the milk and the food generally they would not have much typhoid. If they could see that every case of typhoid fever was well nursed, the excretions sterilized or destroyed, the hands of the caretakers properly washed and all flies excluded from the sick room the disease would be further decreased. Inthe cities of Iowa the' range of typhoid throughout the year differs; somewhat from that of the country; districts. The disease commences to increase in April. It rises rapidly in the summer, but declines in the early fall. A. later rise brings the disease to it Haximum in December. Wher ever the, high mark of typhoid fever is reached In December it is reason ably certain that water and milk are the chief agencies by .which the dis ease Is spread. Some authorities designate as rural people all those who live in towns of 10,000 or less as well as those who live in the country. Others drew the line at towns of 8,000. The Iowa people think the line should be drawn at 500, all people living in places larger than that being desig nated as urban people. Another suggestion is that when ever a community incorporates its people thereafter should be classed a urban. Another suggestion, and one that seems to me a good one, is that whenever a town has water works and sewers the people thereof should be classed as urban. Classifying as urban all those who live in incor porated towns with more than 500 inhabitants Levine and MJddleton are of the opinion that there is much more typhoid fever in the cities than in the country. The statement of Levine and Mid dleton that typhoid in Iowa is an urban disease is not in contradiction to the generally heard statement that it is a rural disease. The apparent contradiction is due to the different levels at which the dividing line is put. They would all agree that the smaller cities now have most ty phoid and that the truly rural com munities are not as free from it as the better large cities. In Iowa there are 15 cities each with a populatioh in excess of 15.000. The only city wiAh more than 100,000 is Des Moines. It is exceedingly dif ficult for a city with 15,000 to 50,000 people to keep their typhoid rate down. Generally they have not much money to spend and they put the most of what they have into a city hall, public schools, paving, po lice department and fire department. They spend very little on a health department. Levine and Middleton find least typhoid in the counties having no town of over 2,000 and most tn the 15 counties with cities of 15,000 and over, while the counties containing cities of 2,000 to 15,000 come in between. The typhoid in these cities of 15, 000 and over can be prevented by better control of the water and milk supply. Ordinances requiring pas teurlzation of milk Would eliminate much of it The remedy for the wa ter situation is not the same for all of the cities. If the water is always safe the fewer using water from in dividual wells the lss typhoid there will be. .Likewise) the fewer yard privies. A proper garbage disposal TRADE "BUSINSSIS GOOD THANK YOlf LV. Nicholas Oil Company ' We Are Closing Out Our entire stock of Granite Ware, Aluminum Ware and Kitchen Ware. Come in Wednes-' day, Thuriday, Friday and Sat urday. Take advantage 'of thi wonderful closing out sale. H. H. HARPER CO. 1713 Howard Strett, Flatiron Building CADILLAC Recognized everywhere for its PERMANENCY of VALUE J. H. Hmsen Cadillac Co. Omaha Lincoln ADVERTISEMENT Kintho Beauty Cream For the Treatment of FRECKLES In Use for Over 15 Years Your freckle need attention NOW or may remain all tummer. Ue Kintho, the old and time-tried treat ment that hat given aatisfaction for over IS years, and rid yourtelf of these homely tpot. At Sherman & McConnell and All Druggists and Department Stores. by' lessening f!'.: would lessen ty phoid. OUve Oil ns n Food. Mrs. M. M. writes S "Is olive oil a good flesh produced and how should it be taken?" REPLY. It Is' not. Olive oil is a good food. It is best eaten as the Italians eat it, a an inurement or saiaa dressing taken with green leaves. It goes very well with bread. Rcilncing Fat AImIoiim-ii. L. 8. write: "1- Can you advlwr me what kind of exercise to take tb reduce surplus fleth around the ab domen? The other parts of my body are solid, but I have an outstanding abdomen which does not agree with me. "2. I, am 19 1-3 yearn old and weigh 170 pounds, height 5 feet 7 1-2 Inches. Is this the proper weight for my age and height? "3. Can you also state what kinds of foods ure not fattening?" KETLY. 1. Lie on your back on a hard sur face (a) Have your feet higher than your head. Raise your feet until your legs are perpendicular, (b) Catch your toes under something and raise your body to the upright or perpendicular position. Both exer cises will help you. 2. You are 28 pounds over weight. t. Watery vegetables, fruit and meats. Settling Correo Dispute. T. J. 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