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    THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1920.
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MAIDS. WIVES AND HUSBANDS.
London has flashed the news all over, the
world that the price of wives has increased in
Central Africa from four spearhead to eight for
a fine young woman sixteen hands ;high, and in
the cattle district from four cows to eight. A
fact to smile over "' ''
But hold. In our land of love and free choice
in matrimony, 1ias there- not been an even greater
advance in the expenditure nccessarv for the
maintenance of a wife?-Is it not true that in this,
the natural mating season, the hopes of cort
:jugat bliss so dear to many well matched young
.pairs are thwarted or postponed because of the
high cost of living? :', ,
Doubtless so. Marriage, in the cities at any
rate! is not the simple. affair it once was, finan
cially considered. In years past, when a young
woman married with the expectation of being a
frugal housekeeper for her husband his cook,
maid, washwoman, sewing girl and money-saver,
as well as companion and wife both entered
matrimony prepared and expecting to do with
out many conveniences and luxuries until to
gether they might earn and save enough to buy
a home and enjoy the fruits of their Own self
denial. It was a working agreement thlcn .for;
both husband and wife. '
We dare say it is the same now, in many in
stances. But not in all. Young women are -tiot
quite so willing now to give up comfortable
homes and undertake to control their futures
by economy and hard work. Many of them
look upon matrimony chiefly as a release from
care and financial responsibility, and will not
consider it upon other than comforting assur
ances of abundant pin money, servants, fine
clothing, excellent living quarters, and social
pleasures, i nere s a reason. 1 .
Our young people, many of them, have been
trained in the expectation of "living easy" on
the results of the labor and self-denial of their
parents. Too many parents, perhaps, are deny
ing themselves comforts in order that their
children may enjoy unearned pleasures;, and
thereby robbing their sons and . daughters of
. manly and wpmanly ambition and independence.
;The young man and woman who step front
1i ,n . n 4 U a 1.1... fM, on1 ilti.- A t ' U
iivniv ii iiit- iiuiwu aim nuai, aim iijiip Atic
altar and church to the world of work domestic
for the woman, money-earning for the man
determined to win success by their own- efforts,
stand a far better chance of happy and useful
lives, than the pampered darlings of indulgent
parents, who start life's most important duties
impeded with the money somebody else has
earned. What must be the effect on the morale
of a newly wedded pair to be "kept" by. the
earnings of others?
There's another reason.' Many young women,
admitted to business opportunities, have tasted
the joys of self-support and independence, and
learned to love them. They hesitate to throw
them over and trust everything to a man. Many
of them have seen the selfishness of men in their
homes; have watched their mothers bend under
household burdens; can visualize tnemseives in
the same unhappy circumstances in the future.
They shrink from that possibility. And in
many prosperous families the daughter sees her
father pocketing all the property and resources
the . mother's care has assisted in earning, as
if it were his own to have and hold forever.
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there's many a husband, if he were just to his
wife, who would turn over to her One full half
of his property and permit her to spend or save
its income as she saw fit, and dispose of it by
will as her conscience might dictate. But that's
another story.
The President Should Worry.
Th nresirlenr w an hiisv last summer with
- - - - j - - -
Hs Leagne of Nations, so interested in the com
fort and prosperity of Europe, that he had no
time to buy the 1920 Cuban sugar crop, offered
at 6M cents a pound. Twice the sugar equaliza
tion board urged Mr. Wilson to act, but he
wouldn't and didn't. However, sixty days later
he permitted his attorney general to agree to a
price of 17 and 18 cents a pound for Louisiana
sugar, and naturally Cuban sugar advanced.
Did the president refuse to assure the people
Cuban sugar based on a price of 6Y2 cents be
cause he wanted the southern cane planters to
catch up with the cotton planters in their
profits?
Whatever that great brain had in its potato
side, its decision is now costing the people a
billion dollars a year extra for "sweetening" on
an 18H-cent basis. But what is that compared
with the sacred Article X of the covenant?
Why Sugar is Going Higher." y
An admission by Attorney General A"
Mitchell Palmer throws a bit of light on the
sugar situation. He owns up that he told the
sugar planters of Louisiana that 17 to 18 cents
a pound would not be considered an "unfair"
minimum price for their output. This only
about five times the pre-war price for unrefined
sugar. It is three times what the president
might have secured the Cuban crop for in
October last. It is more than twice what te
Louisiana planters expected at the time of the,
harvest last year. However, it is in a broad
way illustrative of the "fair" price procedure
of the democratic attorney general, who has
been looking for votes in the San Francisco
convention, while pretending to protect the
ceoole from extortion by profiteers. Mr.
Palmer's course is in perfect harmony with that
of his party on this point. Promises cost noth
ing when the maker has no notion of carrying
them out. However, proceedings-have been
started down south against a Greek restaurant
Weeper who charged 50 cents or a club sand
wich. ' ' '
"Made in America" May-Day.
The first day of May is to have a new sig
nificance this year, to be attended by some
ceremonies that vary "quite materially from
those which, have characterized it in the past.
Imported" from Europe along with some other
.things -that might have been - dispensed with.
came, the idea of .making' the opening' day of
May a' terror to all peacefully inclined people by
a display of the red flag. Followers , of that
emblem give it varying significance, but all
their explanations turn to one end, that it is
the destruction of governments and society as
they, exist. Whether to be brought about by
evolution peaceful or revolution horrent, they
intend to overturn things, to put the present top
at the bottom and the bottom at the top, and
to disturb all that lies between. Most leaders
of this "reform" have agreed with the Na
poleonic dictum, that "you can not make an
omelette without breaking eggs."
It is one of the ironies of life that the May
Day celebration, once a source of joy and de
light to the young folks, who danced 01: the
common around the May pole, while their .elders
sipped the newly-tapped strong beer, should
have been devoted to such a grim purpose as
the red flag suggests. Yet that is typical of the
movement back of which lurks the anarchist,
scarcely troubling to hide his presence, stead
fastly bent on destroying all that is in the
form of law and order, because his warped mind
and distorted vision sees no good in anything,
not -even his own grotesque and fantastic
dreams.
America 011 tomorrow will present the world
a spectacle of an American-made May Day cele
bration. Millions of earnest, honest, hard
working men and women, boys and girls, all
devoted to the high ideals and sound principles
of Our government, will march the streets of
our cities, a living proof that the spirit of
Liberty lives, did Glory will wave over them,
proud of the army of peace as it ever was of
thai of war, and the cheers that go up will be
a benediction on that flag and the country it
represents. Our land, our homes, arc safe, while
Americans can march as they will march on
Saturday.
Decreasing Bank Deposits.
'.-.On February 28 the private deposits in the
naftiOnal banks of the country were approxi
mately J56OO,OO0,OOO less than they were on De
cember .31 two months previous.
j' This big shrinkage, in the minds of financial
economists.1 marks the beginning of a long
decline in-bank' deposits, which doubled during
six years because of enormous war profits.
Many depositors, owing ta strikes, decrease in
business, unrest and other post-bellum influ
ences such as speculation and high living costs,
have been tapping their bank accounts to tide
themselves over. But people who go to bank
with their money dislike to have it get away.
For that reason, there is now a slowing up of
purchases and a turning toward econom;-, by
bank dep6sitors at least.
The happy-go-lucky spenders arc still scat
tering their earnings. Not so the prudent, who
know the value of a nest egg. They are ceas
ing to buy unnecessaries and practicing thrift.
After a while the spenders will be doing so,
not because they want to, but because they
have to. With this change, prices of commodi
ties will be marked down instead of up little
by little, probably until the dollar regains - its
former purchasing power. Then a maid worth
five a week will not get fifteen. An inefficient
workman who loafs on his job will not get eight
or ten a day. People will get along without
help that does not give a fair return for wages
maybe!
'At any rate, the big decline in bank deposits
has real significance as a sign that the period of
retrenchment has set in at last.
Reviving. Our Merchant Marine.
A bill has been prepared by the senate com
mittee as a substitute for that passed by the
house which proposes to restore the American
merchant marine, and to maintain it as an
American institution. It goes .back to the prac
tice that prevailed before the war in connection
with the coast-wise trade, requiring that all
vessels engaged in that traffic be American
owned. , One of the chiefest counts against the
present democratic administration is that, under
the guise of war emergency, i sought to break
down this protection to the great domestic
water-bo'rne commerce by admitting foreign
built and owned bottoms to it on equal terms
with American. The new bill goes a little fur
ther and provides that 75 per cent of the capital
stock of shipping concerns operating under
American register must be owned by Ameri
cans. Other advantages are that special rates
will be permitted for rail-and-water freight, with
discriminating tonnage duties against foreign
commerce. These are practical and effective
methods for building up and conserving the
shipping industry. Such a law, continuing the
great authority of the Shipping board in con
trol, if administered with ordinary wisdom and
prudence, .should So foster the newly created
merchant marine of America, giving it life and
energy to attain a vigorous growth, that an
other generation will see almost the total of
America's overseas or external commerce car
ried on American bottoms. It is a matter of
dollars and cents, of profit and loss, but, just
as the iron and steel, the tin and other great
manufacturing and Commercial enterprises were
built up under protection of our tariff laws, so
should it be possible to develop the shipping.
"Jimham" Lewis is picking candidates for
the republican party, overlooking the fact that
his own crowd is in considerable of a quandary.
Or is he merely playing safe?
The American Legion is going after mem
bers. If the boys carry on as they did against
the Raiser, the drive already is a success.
. Working prisoners on highway construction
is' not an experiment, and Nebraska can well
afford to adopt the practice.
One thing we like about the present Mexican
revolution is that so far the battles have been
conversational.
A parade of the Cowan heirs will be next
in order.
A Line 0' Type or Two
Haw to til Lla. let ttM aula! fall whan thai eiaj.
Line up for America tomorrow
WE prefer to believe in a multitude of uni
verses, rather than to think ot the earth as
Alone, alone all, all alone
Alone in a wide, wide universe. .
It's a little more sociable, more chummy, to live
in a comparatively small universe surrounded
by other universes. i
Tlw Ingenuous Profesor.
Sir: Speaking of the professor who -asked
the little boy, "Yhat is the Saturday KVenins
Pout?" -my friend M. Xj., who i a professor of
DhilosoDhy. and I were picked up on the' road
by an old farmer In an Older flivver; and after
ridine a mile r so the dear professor turned
to the farmer and in all good faith said: "What
make of machine is this, it rides so smoothly:
The farmer gave him one look and burst into
guffaws. B. I. K.
TH E.expense of the oriental picnic proposed
for Congress and wife could easily be met by
increasing jlhe so-called excess profits tax im
posed on the salaried class, whose salaries have
not been increased and whose dollar, is now
worth-, fifty cents. . . ti.
Throw Ins; Down the Ciaunllct.
(Notice posted in Ocean Springs, Miss.)
Take Notice There is a dirty low down
bait thief lurking around this Bayou, lie
is not a sportsman, just plain thief, to laay
to catch his own bait and to stingy to buy
it, so he steals it from a fellow fisherman
and he would steal from his best friend.
Whoever .he is he is worse than thief. I ,
dont know his name. Mine is T. II. King.
"TO speak frankly,' Judge Stelk said, 'I
think witnesses' are more likely to speak the
truth if they are put on their honor instead of
under death.' " The valued Post.
We take the liberty of doubting' if. -Friend,
You Debouched a Mouthful.
(From the Northwood, la., Anchor.)
The big metropolitan newspapers rind
no end of sport in criticisingr and making
fun of the letters written to the country
newspapers from neighboring villages and
wayside country places. They seem to think
it is all foolishness. Yet the country editor
can find as much to amuse him in the Sun
day editions of the big sheets. It is amus
ing to learn that at a reception of the 400
Miss Jones wore a gown of white satin and
iridescent sequins and Miss Brown was
rigged out in a ravishing toilet of apricot
chiffon taffeta with silver-lace. When you
read in the country newspaper that farmer
Jones has built a hew barn you learn that
something substantial has been done to bet- "
ter conditions. The doings of farmer Brown
are of more importance than the much ad
vertised frivolities of tho so-called "400,"
many of whom never did a day's work in
their life or had a sensible idea In their
heads.
"THE supreme council," cables the A. P.,
which is nothing if not explicit, t"has decided
to' ask the American government to assist the
new republic of Armenia financially by a loan."
"HAVE you," writes a Chicago lady to a
Green Bay man, "a small motor boat for a
newly married couple canvas covered for a
month?" Overalls?
THE DERNIKK CIU.
(l-'roin the Greeiv Bay Press-Gazette.)
Friends of J. II. Tayler, president of the
McCartney National bnk, claim for liini
the distinction of being he first man in this
city to don overalls. . Mr. Tayler appeared
on the streets clad in Wu denim.
Allards Overalls, $2.50 value at $3.95.
AS was predicted,, the fad has boosted the
price. u '. , ;
IS "LIFE" TRYING TO BE HUMOROUS?
(From its theatrical notices.)
Eltings. "Breakfast in Bed," with Flor
ence Moore. . Clever eceentric comedienne
making all the fun possible in an adapted
French farce. - v .- ..'-.-.).
"WITH his keen political nose he sees that
the issue cannot be muddlcd."--Siotix City
Tribune. ' . '
Quite as good as some classics. -BY
SOCIAL STANDARDS.
"Tu ne quaesteris, LeUconoe."
Meddle not, Leuconoe,. 1 ,
Fret nor fume nor fussi S ';
Let the silly ouija be: v
' What's the odds to us
Whether spirits ever stir?
Leave it to Sir Oliver
' What is so or thus.
You have psychic powers, you say?
So I should surmise.
,1 would walk a weary way
Just to see your eyesl;
If a simple baronet
Can attract the spirit set.
You should get a rise!
Chase this bee, Leuconoe.
From your bonny head;
Spooks are shady company,
Badly born and bred.
Your controls are getting fresh,
We should cut 'em in the flesh.
Better cut 'em dead! PAN.
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. EVANS
SPEAKIN'G of candor, the emblem of the
Detroit and Mackinac railway is"-a turtle, or
tortoise. v
THE YOUNGEST IMMORTAL.
(From the Natchez Democrat.)
'Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Junk, Jr.-,. are . re
ceiving congratulations on the arrival or a
little son. The little boy will be named for
his maternal grandfather. Mr. V. H. Sharp,
and will be called' Virgil Sharp Junk.
AS we expect to visit -Constantinople some
day, we hope the Turk will remain there. The
Turk respects the past and its monuments, and
he is, incidentally, a gentleman.
It Was Beginning to Worry Vs.
(From the New Orleans Times-Picayune.)
Brewster-Peres The many friends of
Mr. Waldion C. Brewster and Miss Agnes M.
Peres will be glad to . hear that they have
been married since October, 1919.
"FOR sale, a Ford coupe sedan, one seated."
Denison Review. Backed like a weasel and
very like a whale.
MADAME BUTTERFLY.
(From the San Francisco Chronicle.)
Japanese woman wants little washing in
morning, two hours; take car by-by after
noon. PhoneWest 8719.
."THY mandates make heroes assemble. . ."
BUT who wants to assemble in Armenia?
B. L. T.
CueVELVET
T3tj Jlrthur "Brooks "Baker ,;aSe5
GOULD DIETZ.
Peak calls to peak and height to height across
the . lower land. "Two tall ones speak
a language which they both can understand. So
when a man of eminence is due in Omaiia and
we must meet his advent with the suitable eclat,
we send him an official host who elegantly
greets and need it be appended that his name
is Mr. Dietz?
For Dietz has been abroad upon this tracked
and traveled earth, has mingled with a lot of
folks of prominence and worth, with notables
and nobles both of heritage and pep. They have
no gaits so fancy that he ever loses step. So
when we set him in the front to shed the
needed light, we feel assured that everything is
very strictly right.
And Dietz's place is properly and fitly to the
fore. To sit in B or further back" would be for
him a bore. He lends his flossy motor. car for
sons of fame to ride and lets the movies show
him sitting snugly by their side; And Omaha
reviews the sight with gratitude intense that
nothing is omitted from the fitness of events.
In private business he runs a thrifty lumber
yard, where customers can buy their wood in
either soft or hard, though . it is very obvious
in this inflated day that prices , of the softest
pine are hard enough to pay. ; So let the reck
less worm respect the twj by four he eats when
human guys so highly prize the merchandise of
Dietz.
Next subject: A. R.. Guiou,
. ; . . .
"LIVE IN THE PRESENT."
A high railroad official, a man
with an unusually well trained, well
poised, keen mind, had a mild stroke
of apoplexy. ; He accepted this as a
warning and when he returned to
work after traveling several months
he had' workid"out a business prin
ciple. Thereafter he cleaned up his
desk every day. Wluyi he left his
desk each night every item of busi
ness coming over his desk that day
had either been disposed of or else
had been put in such shape that a
successor might take up the work
without interruption the next morn
ing. This plan worked so well In the
conduct of his business ho decided to
apply it to his personal life, and,
starting with a poised, well trained
mlhd, he succeeded easily. He closed
every battle, every struggle, every
light. The ledger having been bal
anced for the day, he carried over
rro .animosities, hatreds, angers, jeal
ousies, envies, grudges, scores to the
following day. (
Ho foiiKht hard, hut he took his
successes and his failures as they
came, never grouching outwardly or
inwardly after the day's work was
over. For one thing, this policy
cured him of Insofntiia. It kept him
mentally fit. It kept him from mix
ing his emotional with' his intellec
tual processes, vity promoted poise
and equanimity. It added to the
pleasure of living.- H lost him some
battles, but it wonfor'him more than
enViugh to compensate. Osier called
this living one day at a time "the
freshest, the oldest,-and the usefulest
of all the hygiohic rules of life," and
he Jived according to his, belief. i
Prof. W. HBurnham of Clark uni
versity wpuld ' have " parents and
teachers train , all; children to close
their accounts each I day. He says,
while most adults are too set in their
ways to acquire -fhi'. capacity, chil
dren can be" trained to, it. Naturally
they live in-'the present. . .
AV'ith them -a disposition' to carry
over resentments Into the morrow is
more or less artWicial. -Quite as help
ful are Prof. Burnham's suggestions
as to the., use of successes in the
training ,of children.
When Briggs cartoons' what a baby
is thinking about he frequently hits
off the thought that tho baby con
sciously or unconsciously is realizing
satisfaction :fTom an end accomp
lished. -..'Right up through infancy
and chiliVsood one of. the greatest
stimuli is accomplishing results.
matching realities with mental
images success, i
Instead of giving one prize to the
student attaining tho highest success.
Burnham likes better the scout plan
of giving a reward to every child
reaching a certain level of accom
plishment. He would have praise im
mediately bestowed for each praise
worthy act. But this policy can be
catriad ia the point when it produces
selfishness, lack of ability to valua
oneself as compared' with others,
egotism, and ego mania. Therefore,
there is needed the antitoxin of fail
ures. Especially Is this antitoxin needed
during adolescence. Failure itself
can he made the basis of the very
best of training.' aside from its use
in properly regulated doses as an
antidot.o' for success. It can be used
to beget initiative, determination,
persistence, courage; as well" as an
alytical planning.
To illustrate this point he uses the
old story of two mice that had fallen
into a jar of milk. Ope cried "Help!
When You Speak
of 'Profiteers' You
Don't Mean US
because our prices,
since the war, have ad
vanced about 25,
whereas we are paying
all the way from 100 to
1500 per cent more for
labor and materials.
- we treat you fairly.
Phone Tyler 345
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jftBowen (&
u mar arena
Help!" and drowned. The other
cried "Hustle! .Hustle:" and jumped
up and down vigorously until he had
crawled upon a pat of butter and
went to sleep.
He even goes bo far as to find pos
sibilities of training in worry. How
ever, he draws the line at the chronic
useless worrier. When you analyze
the sense in which the word worrier
Is used by Prof. Burnham and by
the outlook as quoted by Burnham,
you find they have in mind tho prop,
eily cautious and tho fairly logically
forehanded rather than the worriers.
It Won't Clear Skin.
Q. 'A. writes: "1. Is the following
a good blood puriller?
"2. In what amount, should this
preparation bo taken to clear the
skin?
. Mixture of cream of tartar and
sulphur. Potee: Taken with mo
lasses. -
"3. Is cream of tariHr Injurious to
the blood when taken morning and
night? Dose: One teaspoon to a
glass of water."
REPLY.
1. No.
2. It will not clear the complexion
whatever dose you take.
3. It is not wise to continuously
take too much of auy mineral for a
leng time.
Tells of Her Itemrd.v.
Miss A. B. S. writes of how she was
cured of what she calls eczema of
the hands, after trying many other
remedies without relief. Each night
she passed her hands through a fine
spray of hot water, as hot as she
could bear it. She then greased her
hands with an oil containing witch
hazel. The greased hands were in
eaeed In gloves. These treatments
were given nightly for some time. In
the early winter of 191!) the disease
returned, but was promptly cured by
the means described.
Exctt'lxcu May Help.
A. Xi. R. writes: "What is the
cause of what is commonly known as
'chicken breast' and how may it bo
corrected?"
REPi,Y.
Chicken breast is a deformity of
the chest which results from rickets.
It is duo to a deformity of the ribs
and therefore not much change in
the shape of the chest can bo ef
fected. However, exercises which
develop the heavy muscles of tho
back and neck are of service. Such
exercises as rowing, work on parallel
bars, work on ladders, and climbing
Bhould prove helpful.
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MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.
King Alfonso of Spain has the
reputation of being the best dressed
king.
For forty-five years Sir WilliAm
Soulsby has been the official secre
tary to the lords mayor of London.
Only a little more than 10 years
ago Mr. Handley-Page, the famous
English aeroplane builder, now Vis
iting America, was an unknown
electrical engineer working for a
wasro of $ IS a week.
The latest addition to the ranks of
literary .prodigies is Carl Morris, an
English' boy of 15, from whom a
London firm of publishers has just
accepted a 10,000-word novel, en
titled "The Power of Love."
.Sir Auckland Geddes, the new
Rritiah ambassador to the United
States, is probably the only man liv
ing who has been an army generat.
a plain "Mr." and a knight, all in
the short space of four days.
James Hynie, a New York law
yer, is the first Catholic to be elected
to the Harvard corporation, which
dates hack 2X4 years to 1 638. And
with one exception, he is the first
man to be elected a fellow of the
university who Is not s resident Ol
the vicinity of Boston. I i
Estrada t'abrers. whose regime
has been overthrown tn. Guatemala,
lived In constant fear of assassina
tion (luring the more than 20 years
that he held the presidency of the
republic. He. kept himself con
stantly surrounded by a big nuard of
soldiers, and ttueh was his fear of
being poisoned that for many years
he had all his meals cooked by his
own mother. '
Lloyd George, Rrltain's prime min
ister, is an able French scholar, and
the story of how he mastered the
language ts not without Interest. The
death of his father had left tho fam
ily penniless and the future states
man was brought up in the fumily
of an old uncle, who was a shoe
maker in the little Welsh village.
There was no opportunity of learn
ing French in the village, and yet
voung Lloyd Oeorgo considered a
knowledge of French necessary to
Uis future success. The way he got
out of the difficulty was for his old
uncle and himself to sit for hours
laboriously spelling out of an old
French lictionary and out of a gram
mar the rudiments of the language.
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The "Western Engineer" was the
first steamboat to ascend the Missouri
as far as the present site of Omaha.
This was Sept. 6th, 1819. Bv 1857
there were fifty boats making Omaha
a port of call.
The arrival of the first steamer in
the Spring was a great event. Prac
tically the whole town would turn out
to receive it and it was the custom to
hold a Grand Ball on shipboard.
You are invited to transact your
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doing business in Omaha when the
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