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THE METHODIST GENERAL
I CONFERENCE.
The general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, which meets at Des Moines,
; la tomorrow for a session of several weeks, is
the general legislative body of that church. It
meets every four years, and is composed of
ministerial and lay delegates from every con
ference of the church in the world, and naturally
includes in its membership the most dis
tinguished men and women in Methodism
.women having been admitted to its councils
some twelve years or more ago. The delegates
come from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and
South America, as well as from North America.
Allit3 delegates are selected by the sub
brdinate conferences by ballot, and spirited con
tests arise over various issues upon which' many
of the delegates are directly instructed by their
home conferences. A surprising amount of
business is done by this great church body,
which possesses' legislative, judicial and in some
directions executive powers. It elects bishops
in whatever number its judgment approves, and
also editors of its church papers and managers
for its great book concerns. It decides bound
aries, adopts policies, and controls discipline
throughout the denomination, This year,' as in
the years of former meetings, an effort is being
made to remove the explicit prohibition of cer
tain amusements condemned by the church
some forty years ago, among them being card
playing, dancing and theater-going. '
The bishops take turns in presiding over the
deliberations of the conference. At former
meetings a conference daily paper has been is
sued, containing all the proceedings, speeches,
reports, etc., with greater accuracy than the
Congressional Record records the doings of
congress, for the conference Advocate does not
print speeches that were never uttered. It is
hoped the scarcity of paper and labor will not
interfere thisijpear witji this invaluable church
record. -'""A, ,j
JDes Moines will entertain an organization of
great learning, dignity and world-wide impor
tance and influence, whose decisions will be
feljt in every country and , clime where the
religion of Jesus Christ has a foothold.
Seizure of Saghalien.
One of the odd developments of the Far
Eastern situation is that Japan at last lias come
into possession of part of the loot taken but not
held in the war with Russia. When the Ports
mouth peace conference was held, an incident
of the settlement was the disposition of Sag
halien, which island dominates the Sea of
Okhotsk. It was then held by the Japanese,
and the final adjustment was to award the
southern half of the island to Japan, the north
em to Russia. .Its present possession, together
with that of the outlaying islands, already held
by Japan, places that country in control not
only of the littoral of the Sea of Okhotsk, but
practically of the northwestern Pacific, bring
ing the Japanese into touch with the United
States on Behring's Sea. Kamschatka still is
part of Siberia, and presumably Russian, but
as the Japanese already control Korea and the
island of Saghalien, and have occupied a con
siderable part of the coast territory held by
Russia, it is easy to conceive the extension . of
their authority oyer the so-called Maritime
Provinces, and Kamschatka, and thus be separa
ted from the United States by the scant nine
miles of . water that sweep through Behring's
Strait The Aleutian isles, which carry our pos-
jHjfisions well Into the eastern hemisphere, may
yetVtake on a considerable greater importance
tharmas hitherto been givetv'them. If the matter.
progresses as it well may, we must cease to think
of japan as a neighbor distant by many thousand
miles of ocean travel, and realize that our little
brown brother may look over his own fence
J right into our back yard. The problem of the
Pacific is losing a great deal of its simplicity.
" : . The Never Ending Quest.
. 4n quest: of happiness an ex-coiurict 70
years old threw a brick into a plate glass store
window, entered and stole a pair of rubber
boots, after which he lingered at the scene of
his crime for a policeman.. "I want to go back
to the penitentiary to die," he said when ar
rested. "There is no work for an old man. I
spent, many happy, comfortable years in the
pen, and I want 'to go back there. I want to
die happy in a cell."
Die happy in a cell! Why not? What is
happiness?. "A state of well-being characterized
by relative permanence; freedom from irksome
cares;" which is exactly what the judge gave
this old man when he sentenced him to ten
years. The reader may well be shocked by
such a conception of happiness, with all its im
plications of wasted opportunities, failures and
hardships. But where content abides, where
there is mental ease and quieture, with freedom
from anxiety or agitation, the unfortunate of the
rarth find their nearest, approach to true- hap
piness. Security a roof and warmth in "winter,
with the specter of hunger forever banished
meant happiness to the old convict "He that is
happy doth know and judge himself to be so,"
said Coleridge We cannot go behind the re
turns in the convict's case He is happy, poor
fellow; and we who are without penitentiary
, walls, who have never, known the bitteness of
disgrace, go about the streets discontented,
seeking what the criminal has foundl We
shrink from the confinement he welcomes, but
with that confinement he finds a freedom from
care and anxiety worth more to him than the
personal liberty we prize so highly. -
"You'd Be Surprised."
Youll be surprised at things said by Count
.Ilya Tolstoy at Louisville recently, recounted
by the Courier-Journal. Through a window of
the Hotel Henry Watterson floated the notes of
a saxaphone to the strains of "You'd Be Sur
prised." The count -was. Also he was indig
nant. But not' non-resistant, although pacifist
and enemy of force like his father Leo, "the"
Count Tolstoy. The dance music set him wild.
He whirled around and ejaculated condemna
tion of jazz notes and decadence generally in
music, art and philosophy, as evidence of the
world's ''moral decay and . underlying social
rottenness." '
" Then he, lit into the late William Shake
speare, "jhe evil genius of English literature,"
to quote his words. "I hate him," he cried;
"brutality from the beginning to the end of his
works. . . glorification of war and violence."
This is hard on the immortal bard who wrote:
O warl thou son of hell,
Whom angry heavens do make their minister.
"The purple testament of bleeding war" is a
hideous thing. "Nothing except a battle lost
can be half so melancholy as a battle won,"
said the Duke of Wellington. But every great
moral and political advance the world has made
was through blood. War was the midwife that
presided at the birth of American liberty and
independence. The end of slavery came as an
incident of war. Christ himself, whom Tolstoy
takes as the exemplar of his life, said to his
apostles: "'Jhink not that I am come to send
peace on earth: I come not to send peace, but
a sword."
But the visiting son of his father is not all
wrong. Jazz is not music. It is just inoise, the
.crude efforts of barbarians who cannot ap
preciate harmony in sounds or art in colors, but
love to paint their bodies grotesquely and to
assault their ears with weird and harsh discords.
' Home Shortage in Omaha.
A study made by the Chamber of Commerce
committee on Jiousing finds that Omaha is just
now minus 1,000 homes that are needed for the
accommodation of its citizens. This condition
is not peculiar here, for almost every city in
the United States is experiencing a similar
shortage, due to cessation of building while the
war was on and ' the unusual influx of in
habitants. The remedy, of course, is more
building. In Omaha the plan is to give as
sistance to those who want to put up houses to
live in. he prospective builder will be aided
in his reasonable undertaking, and to the end
that he will be made a permanent citizen, inde
pendent of the landlord and the vicissitudes of
house hunting. It deserves support. Omaha
has long been a city of home owners. Once it
had rank very close to the proud position oc
cupied by Philadelphia at the top. Erection of
apartment houses has had some effect on the
steady growth of home owning, but the main
check has. been the cost of building. High
prices for sites and for material have been more
potent in restraining the man of limited means
thant anything else, and really have played into
the , hands of the apartment house owners. This
is obvious, but it is equally plain that if the
Chamber of Commerce will come forward with
a scheme whereby the man with a little money
and a steady job can secure a home for himself
and family, it will soon find customers in plenty.
The Case for. the Teacher.
One of the encouraging facts in connection
with the public schools is that folks are coming
to realize that the teacher is a human being, and
subject to all the material conditions that de
termine and control existence for a normal man
or woman. It took some time for this to per
colate into the popular mind.
Somehow folks had imbibed the notion that
the school teachers of the land were a peculiar
tribe or institution, whose needs were not those
of ordinary mortals, and, such as they were,
supplied even as was the prophet of old when
he fled to hide in the mountains from the wrath
of the king. Now they know that in addition
to the special and expert training insisted upon
by the efficiency committees of the board of
education, essential to qualified fitness, and a
natural adaptability that can not be acquired,
the teacher also has creature wants that must
be provided for in order that proper service can
be rendered. '
A teacher must eat, must .be housed, and
must be carefully clothed. Note, we do not say
expensively, because it is understood that garb
of any kind, from overalls to organdie, is1 costly
these days. All this knowledge has come, as
did the presence of the angel in Ben Adhem's
tent, "with a great awakening light."
! The committee of the National Educational
association finds a shortage of 100,000 teachers.
Allowing thirty pupils to a teacher, this means
that 3,000,000 school children are now deprived
of the training they ought to have because the
wages paid the teachers were not enough and
they went into other employment in order that
they might have means to live. 'Just what this
means anyone who thinks can answer for him
self. It is a blow at the foundation of the tem
ple of good citizenship, for the public school is
the cornerstone of the republic. .
Only in one way can the situation be
remedied, and that is by flaying decent wages
to the school teachers. More money for build
ings and sites, for frills and fancies, is provided
by the public on request The crying need, the
imperative demand, is for greater allowance for
the pay roll, and until it is met the schools are
in danger. '
Brother Charley Bryan' is shaking salt into
the democratic wound, in apparent disdain of
the fact that an election is to be held in Ne
braska next fall.
( If the profiteer hunt had been as vigorous
six months ago as now, a "different ending might
have been written.
At soon as Mr. Weeghman gets the Chicago
bill of fare tamed, he will find a warm welcome
in Omaha.
The navy is now undergoing its real test.
Josephus Daniels has shoved off for a cruise.
" Watch the marching columns today for an
idea of Americanism.
, ' ,
Americans, fall in! Forward, gUde right,
march! '
A Line 0 Type or Two
Htw U th Ilea, M th Im tall tthtr tkqr Hay.
' THE most interesting news of the day how
comes from the gathering of scientists in Wash
ington. The electron has lost its distinction of
being the smallest unit. According to Doc
Langmuir you "can pour-a quart or two of
"quantels" into an electrou. s
Speaking of Burleson 1
Sir: Here Is a little thing from the Koran:
"A ruler who appoints any man to an office,
when-there Is In his, dominions another man
better qualified for it, sins against God and
against the state." , i G. W.
WITH both Edwards " and Bryan in the
Democratic convention the show will be well
worth attending. We'll wager 5 to 4 on Bryan.
ADD FAMOUS DATES.
(From the Fort Madison Democrat.)
May 1 has beei set for "low shoe" day
In Fort Madison, according to announce
ments this morning by shoe dealers of the
pity.- The low shoe is recognized as ideal
footwear in the seasons when it can be
worn with safety. Ordinarily the adoption
ot low shoes is made earlier than this time
of the year', but due to the late spring this
year it has been necessary to defer the fix
ing ot the date. -. .
MR. ALESSANDRI, candidate for president
of Chile, promises that if elected he will try to
be another Woodrow Wilson. You say it.
I Skeptical. '
Sir: How many strokes do you take per
round to reduce your circumference by July 1?
Of course,, with daylight saving, and having a
million people doing your work for yoi, you can
get In a lot of golf by July 1; but at that, the
old club must fly around like a flail at threshing
time to produce the results you claim. Myself,
with plenty of warm weather, and being off
my game all summer, as I always am, can
tighten up one hole by Dec. 1. Better improve
your game and keep your circumference.
E. F.
P. S. : Please disregard above, as it occurs
to me that you probably- use a .full swing in
putting. E. F.
WHILE Mr. Landsberg is waiting for the
clouds to roll by he might let out his brewing
plants to the army of home brewers, who at
present are messing up the kitchen and cellar.
SMALL TOWN STUFF.
i (From the Dallas City News.)
Last Friday Mrs. Scott discovered a log
being repeatedly driven by the wind and
.waves against the sea wall at Willow Beach.
Terry Ank, of Pontcoosuc, happened along
and learned that Mrs. Scott wished to hire
some one to -tie a line on the log and tow
it away from the wal. Terry being an ex
perienced river man, and an expert swim
mer, undertook and accomplished the diffi
cult task, with no harm to himself.
"PERSONAL Middle-aged gentleman will,
drive to San Francisco in a few days. Will take
a person with no charge." Loz Onglaze Times.
Preferably, we conjecture, a middle-aged
widow. .'. '
A GLUTTON FOR AUTHENTIC INSTANCES.
. Sir: Before booze becomes a mere tradition'
let the rum hounds tell : of examples of pure
whisky "so old It had the consistency of syrup."
Discovered three 'quarts of absinthe in my cel
lar, and one bottle rewards the "authentic in
stance" of molasses-like red eye. C. 1).
SAVE your postage. We have heard the
story about' the two-ladies who walked back
ward out of the public conveyance.
The Ultra Amelita. .
(From the Manson, Ga., Democrat.)
MadameGalli-Curci appeared on a stage
in the center of the great coliseum, with,
over six thousand people In front of her,
''.below her, above her and all around her.
Only she and the concert grand- piano and
-her accompanist were on the stage, In a
simple evening gown, not too decollette, and
in which red was the predominating color,
the Italian queen of melody appeared. Her
characteristics are ultra-Italianesque, with
her wealth of Jet black hair rolled over her
ears and falling down over an ivory-white -
( neck almost to a pair of perfect shoulders,
the contour of which Venus herself might
envy. The full chest and neck development,
a result of years of vocal training, was a
prominent feature. Full, red Jips, spark
ling black eyes, a nose of ample dimensions,
yet a not unpleasant characteristic, slender,
tapering jaws and a coquettish poise of the
head completed the picture of an attractive
woman as well as one talented beyond any
who has appeared in the later years on the '
world's stage of song '
"SERVICE in Commercial club rooms 10:45.
Subject tomorrow, 'Prohibition after death."'
Janesville Gazette.
Is there no balm in Gilead? . 1
EVERYBODY SING.
Sir: The marriage of Mr. Worth W.' Long
and Miss Lucille Heighway, of Akron, Ind.', is
announced. "There's a long, long trail a
winding." . P. V. D.
TO Dorothy: Don't be discouraged by Dou
ble Blunderbuss.- Write some more verses. We
know of two men who have fallen desperately
in lewe with you.
THE A B C'S.
Sir: Every once in a while somebody breaks
forth into eulogy over the good work done in
their day by the dead languages, but never is a
kind word of praise bestowed on the living
a-b-c's. Despite the slight, the a-b-c's uncom
plainingly, plod their weary way, minding their
p's and q's and asking of those who use the
alphabet only two things: dots for the is and
crosses for the t's two wholly reasonable re'
quests.
Literature owes to the a-b-c's everything that
it is, yet nowhere from Chaucer to Lardner does
there appear a recognition of the alphabetic
debt. . Yes, and without the alphabet where
would acrostics be? How, without initials, could
the Smiths or the Joneses be conveniently iden
tified? More important Still, how, without the
aid of the alphabet, could little children ever
know what was meant by their deceitful parents
who, instead of being -open andr aboveboard in
lonversation, slyly refer to a well-known com
modity as "ca-nd-y?" To be sure, in the case"
Df people who stutter there is some justification
for complaint against the treatment they re
ceive from b's, l's, mrs, p's and b's, but such
people should not for a moment forget that the
impediment letters do frequently prevent the
speaking of hasty words, even if they infringe
the Hght to freedom of speech guaranteed by
the Constitution. ,'
In view, therefore, of the inconsiderate
treatment from. which the a-b-c's have in the
past Buffered, it seems only fair to give them
now their due. v And, while their heaviest
debtors are engaged in making a proper
acknowledgment, the rest of - us ought to give
the alphabet some little recognition, say, twenty
six cheers. ' " - J. J. C.
CONAN DOYLE told. an audience the other
day that there are snow-white mediums whose
hands are clean. .Not here, Watson.
Asides.
F. W. B.: Can't say; don't belong,
G. : 4.90, subject to the fluctuations of ex
change. ,
-Jeanne: Trop compjique; try something sim
pler. K. N.: We're not much at compiling book
lists.
O. W.: Plain prose is more effective.
Prospero: Needlessly restrained. There are
times in writing when restraint is not a virtue
"WINTHROP avenue To rent Large dou
ble front room; . hard to find; near, lake."
Wantad. , '';'
What is your conclusion, Watson?
, And He Lives Right Up to- It
Sir: .It may interest you. to knowthat our
mail boy's name is Julian Crawl. t
ADVANCE RUMELY CO., Inc.
, AMATEUR hootch-makers should take ad
vantage of the invitation of the Malt Marrow
concern, whose sign reads: "Still at your serv
ice." . , ' A USEFUL DECORATION. i
(From the Fairfield Journal.)
Lost I lost my glass eye at the post
office. Finder please return to Box 75. I '
need my glass eye, as I no longer have the
eyes of youth.
SUBMITTED without comment: Will
Propheter sells pqtatoes in Sterling.
,. , ., . . .
FORECAST of the Supreme Court decision:
Dry, 5; wet, 4 B. L. T.
How to Keep Well
By Dr, W. A. EVANS
OVER 90, BUT STILL YOUNG.
Dr. Rftbert Crav ' of Oh Inns s.
Mexico, who is over 90 years old and
expects to live to be 100. writes me
of the factors which in his opinion
have contributed to his longevity.
Nor is Dr. Gray in the "lean and
slippered pantaloon" stages holding
on to life by sort of dazed, half -dead,
spasmodic embrace. He is working
nara at tne practice or medicine.
"I have been-having & hell of a
time." he writes, "alone in an epi
demic of influenza in a city under, a
siege blockade one that was sacked
by the rebels lately. All the doctors
fled, and I have weathered the gale in
an epidemic of influenza for two
months that would have taxed a
young man to the limit of endur
ance." Dr. Gray practiced medicine in the
southern part of the United States
on a "miasmatic slave plantation."
He then served four years in the
confederate army as a field surgeon.
With the surrender of Lee he rode
horseback from Appomattox to his
hime in Georgia.
Arriving at his home, he found
that all of his male relatives had
been killed in the confederate army,
his home having been in the track
of Sherman's march to the sea, his
mother, sisters and his affianced had
died of "diphtheria and destitution."
He sold his property for what he
could get and again mounting his
war horse rode away to Mexico.
Chiapas is the southernmost state
in Mexico, lying next to Honduras
and Guatemala and near the six
teenth parallel. People are not sup
posed to be . long lived in tropical
countries. To what can be attributed
Dr. Gray's vigor at 90, "with rea
sonable prospects of. reaching the
summit of Ave score years?" First
and most important is his long lived
stock.- He belongs to a "race of men
who rarely fell by the .wayside short
of the century line." "
Second in importance, in his- es
timation, I take it, is the use of sour
milk. "Clabber milk never was ab
sent from the table, and its use con
tinues until this late day. Metchni
koff once wrote me that I was on a
journey of -200 years." Clabber is
a aoured milk containing all the
whey as well as the coagulated
selids. It is popular in the rural dis
tricts, especially in the south.
Presumably Dr. Gray always has
Indulged in out of doors . exercise,
though he does not say so. Witness
the four years as a field surgeon in
the confederate army, followed by
his horseback ride from Appomat
tox, Va., to Georgia, and immedi
ately thereafter from Georgia to
Mexico.
Temperate living is another factor.
He writes, "Family law inexorably
exacted temperate living." He is of
the opinion that living the laws! of
health pays. "Cold, sober judgment
admonished me that it was rational
and noble to study and practice the
laws of health and teach their les
sons in the professional treatment of
suffering humanity." A labor , of
love that has produced pleasing' re
sults whenever native vice was not
inimically deadly. Normal humanity,
a stranger to current vice, ia im
mune to disease, with the possible
days of life (innumbered. Further
more, work and hope are factors, as,
witness the tone of the various quo
tations. .
The only physician in a blockaded.
sacked city during an epidemic of
mnuenza that would have taxed a
young man; hopeful, expecting to.
live to De a hundred at least, with
much to be bitter about; but bitter
about nothing. - And, finally, a
grouchy old bachelor .comments:
"Easy. He didn't have a wife' to
worry him to death," for Dr. Gray
remained loyal to the memory of the
sweetheart of his youth.
. On Creating Asthma.
Mrs. E. F. . writes: "My little
daughter, 12, is subject to asthmatic
spells causpd often by certain foods
to which she is sensitive. Most of
these we know, having had her inoc
ulated, and avoid, but frequently4 her
attacks come from an acid condition.
We can alleviate and often cure this
by giving her about 30 grains of
soda bicarbonate a day. Will you
kindly tell me -
"1. Can soda be given regularly to
prevent attacks?
"2. Is it possible to give an over
dose? s
"3. Would the constant use of it
lessen its powers to neutralize the
acid?"
REPLY.
1. When soda is taken it stim
ulates the production of acid. Given
persistently, it causes a persisting
acid condition.
2. It is not easy to take an over
dose of soda. Full doses cause pur
gation, which gets rid of the excess.
3. Yes, indirectly, as suggested in
1. I, suggest that you read an article
by Gottlieb in the Journal of the
American Medical Association for
April 3, 1920.
Will They Demonstrate?
Miss A. S. writes: "Some people
say eating does not make a person
fatter. If it does, how can one keep
thin?"
REPLY.
. SnnnnRA voir fl.sk nnmp whci are nf
that opinion to prove their point by
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One Veteran to Another
Grand Island, Neb.. Aprlll 28.
To the Editor-Of The Bee: In your
paper of April 26, 1880, Dr. M. V.
Clark argued the right of the bonus
for the members of the world war
array-and navy. He argued from his
standpoint as I presume a. civil War
itatAPan crAArl art1 urikl 1 ' ITa dvoiiaI
- - - A u 1 1 1 (juuu atiiu vivas a. . ttifjuvu
with a weapon he must admit is
out of date and if my memory don't
fail me it was more than $13 a
month those veterans got. I 'would
like to call Dr. Clark's attention to
the fact that hand in hand with
a monthly compensation the veter
an qt the civil war received land
homestead erjuar to the request
which to laid down in the bill in
troduced to congress in this session.
In those days $13 went a long way,
yea farther than $60 would in these
days and $100 bounty at that time
bought I" imagine more than one
suit of clothes in our days.
So, Mr. Clark, I believe your argu
ment efctried more for the good of
the bonus question In discussion than
you wanted a person to read in it
Your last sentence shows a point
of heroism and you wanted recogni
ation for it. Well, if I was in
favor of this administration I sure
would recommend you for the D.
S. M inasmuch as you have shown
patriotism and self denial in a heroic
act as suspending; voluntarily your
government pension and so helping
and aiding to uphold the ideals you
fought for in 1861-1 S65, and we,
from 1917-191 S. BERT BAHR.
World War Veteran.
Bonuses and Pensions.
Oakland, Neb., April 27. To the
Editor of The Bee: Referring to
Dr. Clark's letter in regard to the
soldiers bonus bill; After the rev
clutionary war soldiers got from $8
to $12 Rer month pension, about $25
now-a-days, land grants, etc. Indian
war veterans received $8, $12 and
$20 per month, and veterans of the
Mexican war the same. Civil war
veterans, who served 90 days or
mere, get up to $30 per month and
many a man was paid large boun
ties to enlist, records show up to
xi.uuo. No such a thing in this war.
We went when called or even be
fore. Spanish war veterans receive
$12 per month. Last report of the
commissioner 'of pensions shows
that pensions paid out during 1919
amount to $222,159,292.70, total of
numbers now on roll 624.427.. The
average value of civil war pension
for 1919 is shown to be $373.00.
The nation never has believed
that the giving of this compensation
squared its debt of gratitude to
service men. Members of the G. A.
R. were alwayB honored in spite of
the fact that they received pensions,
EX-SERVICE MAN, A. E. F.
of economic forces today . we find
that there is great need for .con
structive though with regard to the
weaknew in our present railway sit
uation as bearing upon the farmer
and consumer. Everyone knows of
the annual shortage of cars during
the crop moving season. Few people,
however, appreciate that this short
age of cars amounts to a stricture
in the free flow of commodities from
the farmer Ao the consumer. The
result is that the farmer, in order to
sell his produce, often unknown to
.himself, makes a sacrifice in price
owing to the local glut of the mar.
ket, while the consumer at the other
end is compelled to pay an increased
price for foodstuffs owing to short
age of movement. As an effect of
the car shortage in transportation of
potatoes, we find a margin oxisting
today between the farmer and con
sumer broadened 100 per cent and
at the present time it is reported
that over 40 per cent of the entire
crop of 1918 in Nebraska remains in
the hands of the farmers for the lack
of cars to move the grain. -Another
factor in transportation is the con
trol by food-manufacturing and mar
keting concerns of refrigeration and
other types of cars. The result has
been to build up the domination of
certain concerns and stifle free com
petition. Much of the same results k
have been attained by special groups
in control of stock yards and in some
cases elevators.
The usual remedy for this situa
tion is insistence that the railways
shall provide ample rolling stock.
trackage and terminals to take care'1
of the annual peak load. We need
an exhaustive, economio and prac
tical investigation into our great
Beards, of Trade with a view of .ex
tending their legitimate functions
and preventing their altuse. Wide
margins between the producer and
consumer is always a measure of
hazard and the abuses of exchange
lie in the manipulation of their pro
cesses to create artificial prices for
speculation and it is within thtf
power of the speculator to eliminate
these abuses. We want our Indus,
tries to develop, but we want uri I.
culture to keep pace. So long as w,
feed our industrial . population tin
greater industry grows, and thy
greater is our whole community. p
want to improve our machinery, w
do not want to tour it down; nor d
we want it owned and operated, f o
the benefit of a few. If we assuni"
the basis of price is not to be reme
died, the line of practical remedy t
tho farmer lies In decreasing the cost
of placing his products in the hands
of the consumer. Every cent that w
decrease the cost contributes; to ,th
consumer, but even more largely to
the benefit of tho farmer, and de
stroys the opportunity of the profi
teer. The government of tho Unltcil
States has returned the railways t
private ownership under generous
terms and private ownership is now
on Its final trial. The proprietor
now have to demonstrate thoir initio -tlvo
that they can maintain a right
relation to their employes and main
tain their administrative efficiency
and keep out of national and locul
politics, that they can conduct these
operations in the senso of complete
service to the. community.
ROY M. HARROP.
CHEROKEE
PURE CIGAR CUPPINGS
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i Regulating the Railways.
Omaha. Anrll 2fi. Tr tho ITdlrm-
of The Bee: Amid the complex flow
not eating, say, for one month. To
get thin, eat less, particularly less
bread and other food made from
Wheat, oats, rye, corn and rice, less
candy and desserts, and other foods
made from sugar.
Eat, Sleep, Quit Worrying.
A. writes:, "1. As I am thin. I
would like to know if you could tell
me how x can gam in weight.
"2. I have rather a bony neck and
would like to know if massaging it
with olive oil would help fill it out."
, REPLY.
1. In addition to your regular
meals eat a sugared cereal with
cream. Supper Just before retiring
helps. Sleep nine hours at night. Do
not. worry. . .
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that one gas is as good as another?
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Our gasolenes are straight run and made from
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