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7 A' 1 " this same sort of a premium to the national army in the form of a bonus. Could anything be more im moral or suggestive of a wrong at titude toward the duty which every young man owes to his country?" Money Reserve Dwindles New York, May 22.The actual condition of the clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows that they hold $7,690, 350 reserve in excess of legal re quirements. This is a decrease of $21,061.980 from last week. American people have invested ap proximately $11,000,000,000 in high ways. WEST POINT NOT PLAGE OF MONEY VALUESALONE Less Than $20,000,000 Spent On U. S. Military Academy During 118 Years of Existence. Cox Manager Laughs At Suggestions of McAdoo's Nomination Columbus, 0., May 22.--E. H. Moore, democratic rational com mitteeman from Ohio and campaign manager or Jamea M, Cox, today ridiculed the auggestion that VV. G. McAdoo will be nominated for preii dent and Governor Cox for vice president at San Francisco. -It would be folly," he said, "for the democrats to select a man whose popularity has never been submitted to the voter rather than one who is vote tried and ballot tested, who has been three timet elected governor of a normal republican and pivotal sute. "It Is inconceivable that the party would offer to man who was big enough to have served the people of a great state during six of the most strenuous years in history, the job of inquiring each morning about the state Of the president's health. Hungary to Sign June 4 Paris, May 22. Jhe peace treaty with Hungary, it was decided by the council of ambassadors ' today, will be signed in the Grand Trianon pal ace at Versailles on June 4. Soldier Bonus Is Immoral, Harvard President Says Boston, May 22. Dr. Charles W. Eliot of Harvard university speak ing at the New England Red Cross conference denounced the proposed soldiers' bonus bill as "immoral." After condemning what he termed a tendency to put membership into the junior Red Cross on a pecuniary basis as on a parallel with the prac tice "which seems to prevail in an astonishing degree in American families to make pecuniary payment for services that ought to be per formed for love and duty," he added: "And now it is proposed to offer Effect of Price Cutting Wave in U. S. Felt in Paris Ily Th AmiwUIkI Pr, Paris, May 22. -The American economy campaign has made itself fl-It in Paris. It was learned today that many buyers who are here on behalf of department stores and firms in the United States have been notified to reduce their proposed purchases. . It is said that some of these rep resentatives within the past week or 10 days, have received cable dis patches pointing out that the "over all" movement m the United States has been a preat success and that the whrle country lias joined in a move ment ta ruduceMhe cost it living. To Launch Largest Warship. New York, May 22. The super dreadnought, Tennessee, one of the largest warships in the world, will be commissioned at the New York naty yards June 3, it was announced here. Six hundred Tennesseans will be included amorrjf the ship's crew of 1,420 men. Class of Chicago "Fats" , Take Off 10 Pounds Eac) closed a month's experiment with' tn average loss of lQy pounds. ' Mrs. Susie Joiifst a 45-year-old housewife, who weigrted in on April i 22 at 224 pounds, tipped the scales ; at a mere 200 and led the class with her net loss of 2iyi pounds, i Other members showed losses of , 18,16, J5, 11, 10 and ranging down.. 10 two pounas. MANAWA PARK Opens Today Chicago, women in Robertson's May 22. Seventeen Health Commissioner reduction class has By EYE WITNESS. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be Leaied Wire. New York, May 22. Portraits of THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 23, 1920. army hang ip the ballroom of Me monal hall at West Poin. Those commanders won the greatest war ever fought in the western world. They were all West Pointers and three of them mapped out the vic torious policies. Tteir supreme op ponent was likewise a West Pointer and as a strategist ranks them all. Doctor Eliot says that it takes $20,000 to make a West Point cadet. Undoubtedly the inference he wishes drawn from his statement is that the price is too high. Those men and women of the early 60's who believed that no price was too high to pay for the preserva tion of an undivided republic, prob ably felt by ".the time 1865 had brought peace, that $20,000 apiece was cheap for the makine of a Grant. a Sherman and a Sheridan. Money was worth much more th,n, and $60,000 probably would have paid for six Grants, Shermans and Sheri V dans. Statement of Little Value. ' C 1 .... . T-v i ouui a imcmcni as jjocior cuoi makes relative to expenditure at West Point is highly effective in an argument intended for popular con sumption, partly because it is easily remembered, but it has little value as an exact statement. Such an esti mate is loosely figured. It may in clude all kinds of overheads and de preciations, and in the case of an institution that has been in existence for over a century, those items are almost beyond calculation or it may be based solely on the current puagei. j It is only, therefore, as carrying i general charge of extravagance that Doctor Eliot's statement need be considered here. The large facts that can be presented in reply to it do not give grounds for the sus picion that the United States mili tary academy has, ever been the petted darling of the republic. In its whole history ef 118 years, West Point has not spent $20,000,000 on plant. Last year the academy asked congress for $7,500,000. It got the millions. The naval academy at Annapolis got more than twice as miirh. Sum Small in Comparison. The sums lavished by states and individuals upon institutions of learning, the survival ajid expansion of which are ef high importance to the nation, but which are not direct ly factors in the wielding of the arm of national defense, are beyond the most spacious dreams of a West Point superintendent. Within the time of men still young, Mr. Rocker feller has given $50,000,000 to the University ef Chicago, Eighteen American colleges are now engaged in a drive fcr $220,000,000. If they get halt that sum tljey will still leave West Pnt wondering whether there is really so much pipney in the country for purposes of education. Their standards of expenditure be hind fliose austere battlements are, i like their life there, Spartan. If 'there was in this money spinning, money spending land, a spot where money is not the measure of values, is nof much in men's thoughts, and is no at all the goal of men's ambi tionbecause they know that by the nature of their profession it can not b-that place is West Point. ; Survival of Roman Virtue. Jf it were solely that kind of a place it ought to, be honored and emulated. It is a survival of the antique Roman virtue. Physically and spiritually it is rock hewn. In the most actual sense an American living in a distracted time may point lo it and say, "There and there alone, waste is a crime and soft liv ing infamous." These are no fanciful words and they ought to be spoken in a time when-West Point's austerity pro vides a supremely important exam ple for the whole country. . Even ,the inevitable waste caused by the admission of the wrong boy to fhc academy is minimized. He is not all loss; By the present pol icy ef the academy, no boy is per mitted to resign uptil he has been five months there. By that time he lias learned enough to be a potenr tial emergency asset to the country in the ease of war and thus has paid for the money spent on him. As for the cadet who remains, he receives $720 a year in salary plus a daily ration, which runs to 68 cents a diy. Thus the annual amount spent on nim is linucr i,wu. iai year, owing to causes 'which are world wide and for which the academy cannot be blamed, the ration money will run to $1.08 a day. Martial Law Is Declared In Teschen Plebiscite Area Prague, Caecho-Slevakia, May 22, Martial law was declared in the Teschen plebiscite area Wednesday by the international commission. Bitter feeling has prevailed re cently in the district between the Ciecno-Slovak and Polish work men, and some clashes have been reported. U. S, to Force Theaters To Pay Amusement Tax Washington, May 22. Internal revenue collectors were instructed today to begin a campaign ta force the payment of admissions taxes collected by theaters and moving picture houses. Reports to the Treasury department were declared , to reveal that probably 5,000 such amusement places had failed to turn in the taes collected from patrons. BritUh Schooner Sinks Boston, May 22. The British schooner John Wood has - been rammed and sunk by the steamer Lake Elsab, which later picked tip ; the crew, according to wireless . message .intercepted here early to day, The position was not given. Ia Tokio, Japan, more than $250,. 000 has .been spent for motO fire engines. , ' " ' I Have BOWEN'S FURNISH YOUR HOME at a Saving I Most Emphatically This Store Stands for Unmatchable Values and Superior Service We Are Selling , and Will Continue to Sell 3 3 sst n This Great and Progressive Store is constantly 'alert, eagerly grasping oppor- H tunities to be of greatest service to the public. g Purchasing in car lots, often in train loads yes, in many, instances Entire H Outputs of Factories; this, as you can readily understand, gives us Enormous f s Buying Power. jj " Large Quantity Buying Does Count I H But here is the secret of Bowen's Low Prices 'today. The merchandise we s are selling was bought long, long before the present s day factory high prices. H We Bought at 014 Time Low Prices and these prices are Tower than they can possibly be H again for a long time to come. H This merchandise has been pouring in for months s past until our large warehouses are filled fo over- H flowing. this quality furniture at the Lowest Possible Prices, and you are not required gf to pay on a basis of . today's cost to manufacture. s The Savings We Effect in Buying g are passed to you our customer Our Displays are complete, and our service is conscientious, helpful and of s reai assistance m eiiecting Si HOWARD ST. SETWEEN" 15 Vb. "Bigger S gger oaymgs i , Values in Sun Room Furniture An inspection of this beautiful furniture will convince you that JSowen's sell furniture at the lowest possible prices. This Complete Three-Piece Suite 477 E0 Consisting of Divan, Chair and Rocker. .-. P JJ The backs are neatly upholstered, while removable cushions are luxurious. 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And the services of our decorating artists will assist in the correct choice and hanging of your curtains and draperies. , ' Cretonnes in pretty bedroom pat terns, tripes and all-over floral ef fects; also some effective nursery patterns, per yard, . at ; 59c Bungalow Marquisettes in all-over patterns, with dainty borders in mul berry, blue, rose and green shades; 36 inches wide, per yard, at... 59c Voile Curtain in cream and white, yards long; plain hemstitched, ind with edging front and bottom. Bowen s value-giving price on Mon day, per pair, . at l $1.98 Table Scarfs in all sizes; for library and davenport tables, buffet scarfs and piano covers -Tapestries, Dam asks, Brocades and Velours, at $4.25 10 $16.56 Rugs at Money.Saviiifl Prices. Rag Rugs in 6x9 feet, and in solid colors in blue, pinH," green, tan and rose. For Monday's ' selling only one to a customer. Bowen's value giving price, each, Velvet Rugs in 27x54 inches; heavy quality and in several choice pat terns. 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