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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. A Pipe Line from the Wyoming Oil
Field to Omaha.
3. Continued improvement of tha Na
braika Highway, including the pave
ment of Main Thoronghfaret leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
4. A short, lowrate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlcntic Ocean.
5. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
READY FOR THE MARCH.
' ' The eyes of the whole country are on Chi
cago this week, the great rnajority of them in
full trust and confidence; but a minority seek
ing flaws and faults in the work of the conven
tion. No doubt exists in any well informed
mind capable of separating desire and fact, and
of arriving at an impartial conclusion, that the
strong drift of public favor and public hope for
the future of the country is toward the repub
lican party and its aspirations.
To express the truth bluntly, the people are
tired of democratic rule. Seven hard years of it
have fastened upon them the conviction that the
democratic party is incapable of conducting the
government honestly, fairly or efficiently. This
judgment is irrevocable so far as the campaign
qf 1920 is concerned, and has been reached not
only by those republicans who have never fal
tered'in their party allegiance, but also by the
great number of former republicans who were
taken in and done for by the anti-preparedness
pacifist policy of Wilson in 1916. In addition
there is a very considerable number of demo
crats who have not been able to stand for the
vagaries and fads of the present administration,
and it is their purpose to administer such a
rebuke to their party at the coming election as
will not soon be forgotten. Their number has
greatly increased since their repudiation of Pres
ident Wilson in the congressional elections two
years ago. Their strength is formidable.
Hope abides, however, with the thick and
thin democrats snugly installed in federal office,
that something may happen at Chicago to
brighten democratic prospects. The hope is
vain. The anvil chorus of the democratic press,
now noisily engaged in attempts to incite fac
tional animosities, will have- more difficult
music to .play after the San Francisco conven
tion reveals the state of their own party, dis
integrating north and south under the intolerant
and vindictive policy of President Wilson to
ward democrats who refuse to place their con
sciences and sovereignty in his keeping.
But aside from all that, the country yearns
for a return of republican characteristics in the
government for the sound Americanism and
uniformly high business qualifications of repub
lican administrations. It is surfeited with stub
born " and narrow partisanship, costly in
efficiency, reckless extravagance, sectional fa
voritism in distributing the burden of war
taxes, the fixing of war prices to admit of
southern profiteering in cotton and sugar, and
the general business incompetence, of the un
American democratic administration of Wood
row Wilson.
It wants a change and is going to have it;
and the republican primaries have shown that
neither the party nor the people at large, are
.caring-particularly who leads its march to better
government. It wants to march, that is the
main thing, and is ready to make it a trium
phant march. The country has again reached the
definite conclusion it always comes to when the
democratic party has been in power a few years,
which ,is 'that it never can be trusted to treat
,he-country right This time it has sought to
destroy the nation's traditions and entangle it
inextricably .with the jealousies, disputes and
Wrs of 'Europe. 'It will never again attempt
such a thing' after it reads the verdict of a
patriotic nation next November.
Fair Committee Action.
' The republican party has reason to con
gratulate itself on the disposition of contests
brought before the national committee last week.
For many years contesting delegations have
protested committee decisions with charges of
partiality and steam-roller tactics and always
with truthfulness.
A new order has prevailed since Will H.
Hays was made national chairman, and after a
strenuous week in which Wood and Lowden
.delegates sought the seating of their friends,
and Lowden was awarded 88 delegates, Wood
only 34, Johnson 7 and Harding 6, the Wood
committeemen, the greatest sufferers from com
mittee action, unanimously declare that "the
work of the committee has been fair and
square."
This is a wholesome change from the meth
pds inaugurated by Mark Hanna in the first
McKinley campaign, when every committee de
cision on a contest was dictated by him regard
less of its merits, and committeemen gave their
factional , feelings full sway. Will Hays has
made good his pledge that the committee would
act with judicial fairness. The ardent friends of
the candidate hurt most by its decisions now
proclaim the committee's decisions just and in
full accord., with the weight of evidence
presented. Il ia a real achievement.
? It is a great spread of lively, entertaining and
instructive special correspondence from the
Chicago convention with which The Bee is re
galing its morning a"hd evening readers this
;week. The same complete news and comment
service will be handled by The Bee when the
democratic . convention is on at San Francisco.
iS The Bank of England is to move into a
lowering skyscraper six or seven stories high.
A dizzy qH town, Lunnon.
Business is needed in politics, but let it be
Understood not bad business.
A Heavy Lost to Meet
One thousand representative Massachusetts
farms show a decrease of 25 per cent in the
number of laborers on them, with 12 per cent
less the country over, compared with one year
ago. Where this labor has gone may be sur
mised from the fact that laborers in the same
period have increased from 10 to 93 per cent in
textile industries, 55 per cent in clothing occu
pations, and 37 per cent in automobile factories,
"All drawn" from the farms, says the Spring
field Republican, "by high wages, short hours
and the pleasures of town life.' But move
ments of this kind have been going on for years,
and the present shortage of labor, not only on
the farm, but elsewhere, has another and more
patent cause than the mere shifting and chang
ing Of employments. The Republican calls at
tention to- the fact that our present shortage,
now put at 4,000,000 workmen, is almost wholly
the result of the cessation of immigration and
the return of much of our alien labor to Europe.
We have for many years "developed industrially
on a large annual immigration." That immi
gration stopped six years ago, and we are now
feeling in every industry, and in tha of the
farm particularly, the loss of it. '
We may charge it all up to the war. The
labor needed in useful employment has been
busy making things to kill men with, and in
the killing of men. Now the world must pay
for all the waste of muscle and life.
The Keg Has Run Dry.
The Supreme Court of the United States has
settled it irrevocably. The Eighteenth Amend
ment is adopted, and the act of congress for its
enforcement is constitutional. The liquor busi
ness is down and out, so far as its lawful prose
cution is concerned.
It has been four hundred years since Bishop
Still wrote the lines that follow, now pathetic:
Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both hand and foot go cold;
But belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.
The time has come for the literature of drink
to become obselete. The arts of conviviality
are lost. You can't shake your shimmy on tea.
The Selective Draft Law Expires.
The compulsory military service law, com
monly called -the selective draft daw, enacted in
1917, expired Monday. There are in the South
ern district of New York 11,000 cases pending
against alleged slackers, and two tons of docu
ments in the district attorney's office containing
evidence. It is announced that every case will
be tried.
Much doubt of the wisdom of the selective
draft existed when the law was passed, but it
created a great force of men who went cheer
fully into the military service of their country,
and are now more than glad that they did. Com
paratively few dodged service, and of all who
did, those who sought and got service proof
commissions in Washington offices, where they
dawdled through the war, are in the most un
satisfactory mental condition today.
General Pershing's intention soon to retire
from the army is not surprising. A man who
has done the great things he has should not be
:onfined to detail work. The general no doubt
will find a field in which to give his talents
full opportunity, and the whole country will
wish him many happy and successful years in it.
Chicago doctors have issued 500,000 rum
prescriptions since January 16, two-thirds
evasions of the law for "sufferers" from boils,
hay fever, catarrh, ulcerated teeth and forty
other ailments. Victims of bronchitis were
most favored. Not one prescription was issued
for chronic thirst for alcohol.
Now it seems that Norway declined the
mandate over Danzig. Another country not
looking for trouble.
This is one of the weeks that will be memor
able in the history of the U. S. A. A president
is in the making.
The Last Call.
If you have been conservative
And lived true to your vow,
And still have on your heavy ones,
Prepare to shed them now.
Tennyson J. Draft, in Kansas City Star.
SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE.
I want more pay for what I do,
And so does everyone else.
I charge more for the goods sold you
And so does everyone else.
I shove up all my fees each day
And those who deal with me must pay.
I think that is the only way.
And so does everyone else.
But still, I yelp and wail and sigh
And so does everyone else.
I kick on prices, when I buy
And so does everyone else.
You boost and boost and so do I
And still we sit and wonder why
The things we have to buy are high
And so does everyone else.
Should Extend the Law.
We always have heard that a limited amount
of profanity is pardonable when one barks a
shin on a rocking chair in the dark. When one
gets up in the dark, however, and with a warm
bare foot treads upon a cold rubber doll with a
whistle in it, we think the limit should be ex
tended. Kansas City Star.
A Suitable Hymn.
A new preacher was asked if he would like
any special hymn to be sung to agree with his
sermon.
"No," he replied, "the fact is, I scarcely ever
know what I am going to say until I arrive in
the pu1pit.'
"Well, in that case," said the vicar, "we will
sing 'For Those at Sea.' "Edinburgh Scotsman.
An Early Populist's Confusion.
, It is sometimes said that a reputation for wit
is fatal to a serious legislative career. But the
statement is not altogether true, for more than
once a bit of wit has prevented legislative folly.
It is a tradition in Philadelphia that during
the constitutional convention it was proposed to
incorporate in the constitution a provision that
the United States army should never exceed
3,000 men. According to the tradition the de
bate, which was posstbly informal and outside
the regular sitting, was abruptly cut short when
Benjamin Franklin solemnly suggested that
there be incorporated another clause making it
part of the organic law of the land that no for
eign nation should ever invade the country with
an army of more than 3,000.
A somewhat similar point was scored in the
state legislature a few years ago when, during a
discussion not over well based, it was proposed
by a shrewd Yankee from the hills of Sunder
land, F. L. Whitmore, that a law should be
enacted providing that ho one should be obliged
to work between meals. Springfield (Mass.)
Republican,
A Line 0' Type or Two
Haw to tha Una, let tha ula fall where they mi.
CAxorrs.
(Reprinted In the midst of alarums and ex
cursions.) -
When quacks with pills political would dope us,
When politics absorbs the livelong day,
I like to think about the star Canopus,
So far, so far away!
Greatest of vleloned suns, they say who list 'em;
To weigh It science always must despair.
Its shell would hold our whole dinged solar
system,
Nor ever know 'twas there.
When temporary chairmen utter speeches,
And frenzied henchmen howl their battle
hymns.
My thoughts float out across the cosmic reaches
To where Canopus swims.
When men are calling names and making faces,
When all the world's a-jangle and a jar,
I meditate on interstellar spaces,
And smoke a mild seegar.
For after one has had about a week of
The arguments of friends as well as foes,
A star that has no parallax to speak of
Conduces to repose.
HOWEVER (a purist tells us that one should
not begin a sentence with however; and cer
tainly one should never end it with the word),
a presidential campaign is tranquilizing in one
respecti It covers up for the time the fact that
money Is hard to borrow and business is hard
to carry on, and that things may be going to
pot generally. When the tumult and the shout
ing dies, the public picks the wool out of its
eyes and blinks at the sun.
PROBLEM: HOW TO GROW TET
REMAIN VIRTUOUS.
(From the Connersville, Ind., News-Examiner.)
The city has built a character, synony
mous with honesty, integrity and decency,
and the building has taken one hundred
years of time. To lose any part of it, in the
flush of its growth from puerile proportions
to full civic adolescence, would be a dis
ter and a shame. It is taken to be Inevita
ble that the booming of business and the
growth of the city should attract some un
dercurrents of society this way, but the
feeling is that these same currents need not
and should not ever grow proportionately
stronger than they were in the calm old
days when Connersville was small.
QUESTIONED as to the Eighteenth Amend
ment, Gov. Lowden said: "My position is that
the Eighteenth or any other amendment or law
should be enforced without fear or favor." It
required courage to say that, but the Governor
was there with the intrepidity.
Hint to Contributors.
Sir: I am beginning to understand your re
peated assertion that humor is not the purpose
of your column. Every time I send you a line,
if it be humorous or even only witty, you bar it
at once and refuse to print it. H. J.
"PRESIDENTIAL candidates," says the Liter
ary, as a seed catalogue. Digest, "are chosen by
national conventions of political parties." Which
leads C. J. to bother us with the question, "Who,
then, selects the nominees?"
QUESTION: IS HE WORTH MORE DEAD?
(From the London Telegraph.)
John Percival Wood. If this should
MEET the EYE of the above, who was last
heard of about 12 years ago in Seattle and
Portland, Oregon, he will HEAR of SOME
THING greatly to his ADVANTAGE by ap
plying to the undersigned. Anybody giving
proof with regard to his death will be hand
somely rewarded.
M HOTEL in the south advertises that its
golf greens are always in the pink of condition.
Down there the dandelion is known as the pink.
HAIRD HIT BUT HOPKFUL.
Oh wad my muse were as o' auld!
But fickle lass, she isna';
That she'd be kind instead o' cauld!
But wae's my hairt! she disna'. .
Lang while the lassie, when I wooed,
Her favors freely gi'ed me.
The noo she's o' anither mood,
For losh! she disna' heed mfe.
Her 'oors nae mair wi' me are spent, '
Wi' her awa I'm weary.
Sae noo I hae nae rymes tae prent,
And oh, I miss my dearie.
t O coorse I canna' sing, ye ken,
Wi' her no sitting near me;
But gin she's kind and eooms again
, I hae nae doot ye'll hear me. ARIES.
THE number of persons in the United States
and Great Britain who think or talk of the
friendly or unfriendly relations between the
two nations is so small that it represents in the
total populations what the chemist calls "trace."
WE SET OUT LTCOPERSICON.
Sir: I have been making garden recently.
My neighbor on the right asks me if I am plan
ning for any tamatas. My neighmor on the left
suggests I ought to plant some tumattoes. All
the time I have had in mind setting out tomay-
toes. But now I am all confused. What shall
I do? TAGDA-MAD.
THAT shameless pair of St. Louis delegates,
Moore and Goldstein, should be grateful for es
caping the sunrise firing squad. Never before
has a national convention been so shocked.
WELL, PERHAPS SHAKESPEARE
WAS RIGHT.
Sif: Did you know that Mr. Seattereood was
a circulation manager for the Chicago Ameri
can? R. E. W.
IN point of avoirdupois, Chicago is this week
the literary center of the United States. All the
gathered talent needs is something to write
about.
The Backward Step.
Sir: I have it on the authority of as fa
mous a writer and as accurate an observer as
Gautier, that prohibition will put the race one
step back in its upward progress from the
merely animal. He says: "Le triple et glorieux
privilege de boire sans avoir soif, de battre le
briquet, et de faire 1'amour en toutes saisons, ce
qui nous distingue de la brute beaucoup plus que
l'usage de lire des journaux ou de rabriquer des
cnartes." He says several other mouthfuls in
the same sentence, but what I want to ask is
how boire sans avoir soif when you can't get le
hooch? L. F. H.
"CROSS the equator, son," said the delegate
from Manila to the Inquiring Reporter, "cross
the equator and solve the high cost of living."
Doesn't 'this oiseau know which side of the
equator he lives on?
YE ED'S ALL-SEEING EYE.
(From the Lake Mills Graphic.)
We saw one of our Lake Mills girls try
ing to "shimmy" along the sidewalk, while
walking past the show tont last week with
her girl chum, in an effort to oatch the eye
of one of the young show fellows. It was
a disgusting sight and we know full well
where it will end if it continues. We ought
to mention the girl by name in order to
protect our well behaved young ladies, but
let us hope she reads this and corrects her
conduct on the street.
WHILE you are waiting for the convention
to be called to order you might be glad to learn
that Lake Erie Holladay practices law in Dres
den, Tenn.
No Better Place to Acquire It.
(From the Lima Republican-Gazette.)
Wanted Lady to work in restaurant;
one who has had experience. Apply at In
terurban Eating Parlor. ,
THE solitary candidate for vice president is
attracting; much attention. Visitors crowd
against his cage at the Congress to have a squint
at him.
KINDLY ADD OUR HA-HA'S.
(From the Chula Vista Star.)
Ha-Ha Joe Soper was unusually happy
one day this week. We hear he popped the
question and was accepted. Here's our best
wishes.
OUR guess is that the nominee will have an
"o" in his hi B. L. T,
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. EVANS
Questions ronrrrtilna; hyflme. sanl-
tntimi anil prevention of disease, sub
mitted to Dr. Evans by readers of The
H, will he answered neroouully, sub
ject to proper limitation, where a
stumped, addressed envelope la en
cloi.nl. Dr. Kvnns will not mnke
diagnosis or nrescrin for individual
dlseue. Address letters to car of
The lice.
Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Evana.
LIBRARY DUST.
The problem of dust in libraries
Is one that perplexes librarians. The
people in the stock room of a large
library seldom get enough sunlight
They work in a dusty atmosphere.
In spite of all they have done a
coating of dust settles on the books.
When they take orders from the
shelves they are certain to breathe
in more of this dust than is good for
them.
It is true that library dust is not
very harmful. It is probable that
but few disease producing bacteria
have survived drying and the dust
particles are not or a size, shape, or
physical or chemical quality calcu
lated to do great harm.
Nevertheless librarians are a pale
lot and dust is a factor, though not
the most important one. I do not re
call ever having seen a rosy cheeked
librarian and certainly I have never
seen a peachblow complexloned
librarian who had worked long at
the trade.
J. W. Redway, who writes on the
dust problems of libraries in the
Medical Times, thinks most of the
dust in libraries is carried in on the
feet of patrons. Air washing devices
in use serve to remove most of the
ordinary atmospheric dust except
smoke carbon. Smoke carbon con
tains a good deal of sulphur and
this makes the paper of the books
brittle and eats up the binding.
The only methods of keeping
down dust due to coal soot are to
locate the library in a part of town
where there are few smokestacks, to
install the best air washing device
available and to use a vacuum
cleaner with frequency. A special
vacuum cleaner for books has a
nozzle closed at the end and is
slotted on the under side.
Dusting or brushing books fills the
air with dust. Wiping them smears
the grease and grime into the paper
and leather. To keep down foot
borne dust several things should be
done. The library should be sur
rounded by a lawn and the cement
or stone walks should be kept clean
by washing. The entries should be
provided with rubber foot wipers.
The best flooring is tile except that
it is noisy. A rough polished wood
floor is highly objectionable. If the
floor is of a coarse-grained wood it
can be covered with rubber mats.
Of the wood flooi materials comb
grain southern pine and Oregon fir
are the best. Varnished floors are
not dusty, but the varnish wears off
quickly and it is not easily replaced.
An oil dressing is excellent, prqvided
the first dressing saturates the sur
face of the wood and subsequent
dressing is well done. Dust which
has picked up oil does not fly readily
and after getting into the air quickly
falls out
Washing oak floors with lye !s
very apt to ruin them. In a certain
library where an oak floor had been
spoiled in this way the following
plan was carried out: A layer of
cement was placed on the wood.
While it was still soft a layer of felt
was placed on it and pressed in.
Next the felt was covered with a
layer of cement. When it had dried
it was covered with linoleum of good
quality. Dust will not fly from a
floor covered with good quality lin
oleum.
Vegetable Diet Is Best
G. writes: "1. If salt is harmful
In cases of high blood pressure, how
about sodium phosphate, Epsom oi
Uochelle salts?
"2. Are coffee and tea harmful?
"3. What are 'the best remedies)
for high blood prsssure with nerv
exhaustion, accompanied by giddi
ness?" REPLY.
1. The continued use of any on
of these is harmful beyond question.
2. Yes.
3. The treatment of high blood
pressure Is essentially dietetic. The
nearer one comes to living exclu
sively on vegetables, fruits, cereals,
and breads the better off he will be.
The bowels should be regular. Bran
bread, vegetables, and fruits should
accomplish. The food should not be
heavily salted.
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marked intellectual tastes his equip
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