THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNfi 10, 1920. 8 X V Fhe Omaha Bee !AILY (MORXING) EVENING SUNDAY V- THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. ! 1 NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publisher. 1 MEMBERS OF THE. ASSOCIATED PRESS The AawiaLFd Prru. of which The Ilea ta a member. II ihiftfely enttUi-rt to' Uie nee for twhltcatlun of all nei dlapaw-he fc-edHed to it or nnt nthfrww crinlitftl in Uile paper, and alio the anrat newe piirniiu-u nvrt-ui. All rifhia ur publication or our apenai lapaieoee am also roamed. BEE TELEPHONES rlfato Branch Fiehsnie. Ask for Die T..I 1 fiAA Etopaument or l'rm Wanted. 1 J v For Night Calls After 10 P. M.I (Mortal Department Tjler 10001. irculatlon I.panmnt - - - - - - - - - - Trior loOiU. Jdrertlilni Dii'iitun-m Tyler 10091. rr i.r rc Tup r. r rr urrivu Kir inc. dcc Main I rrrtr.t : Kill ajul Kaniara louncll Bluffs n Si-i.it St. I South Hula till N St. Out-of-Town Officeel w Tork 21ft Kitih Aie. i Waahlumon nil O St. Chicago B .'B'-r Wild. I Tana France 43(1 Rue St. Honor 776 tfee's Platform 1. Naw Union Passenger Station. 2. A Pipe Line feom the Wyoming Oil Fields to Omaha. 3. Continued improvement of the Ne braska Highways, including the pave, ment of Main Thoroughfares leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 4. A short, low-rate Watsr-y from the Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 5. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager? form of Government. Questions asked but unanswered. ,i What it a fair profit? What is the real value $f an article? These are questions which cannot Je answered off hand. We have never seen an jlhswer to either that was wholly satisfactory. (Usually a dealer regards an article as worth Jyhat it will bring1. That seems to be in har mony with the law of supply and demand, and ommercially true. But actual intrinsic values jfnd market values vary widely. Ij Some would limit the value of a commodity the quality of material and its utility. But g- great range of articles are bought and sold lit prices made on entirely different considera tions. Beauty, fashion, season, novelty a score N'jjjf influences wholly apart from usefulness or tf, intrinsic value of the material used have a jpfttent effect on the, prices of merchandise. 5rfmagine a merchant trying to sell a rich silk 0li$s of the finest material, but made up in an put of date style, at the price originally askedl !A cheap novelty may be sold for five times .what it cost, and the profit be entirely fair. Stores whjch specialize in very low-priced goods ire said to average over 300 per cent profit, and yet their trade is .with people who buy small amounts of cheap stuff only. But they are not profiteering, because where a hundred sales must be made to net one dollar's profit the per . centage of profit on each article sold must be very much larger than a business where one sale may net five or ten dollars. So fair profits are greatly dependent on1 the number of buyers and the;average prices of the goods sold. Aut finally, every selling price is fixed on the demand for it. When people buy regard less of prices, sellers are likely to exact large " profits. When customers refuse to buy at high sprites, high prices turn to low prices. It has always been so. But until everybody is agreed to buy only on a necessity basis, no general definition of a fair profit can be made. It is hard on the poor when the rich shop recklessly, and so many of them do that with never a thought that their extravagance is holding up the general range of prices for the necessities which the poor must have in order to live. It is a complicated and puzzling commercial lifewe are all leading. '. An Enduring Fraternal Organization. ! '.The presence of the Grand Lodge of Ne braska Masons in Omaha thi$ week for their v 63q'' annual communication, recalls some Ma 'soHic history. Symbolic Masonry, represented byjthe visiting grand body, was introduced into America by the British, and until the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, the lodges jweje under British authority. But Masonic government is always in acc6rd with civil gov ernment, so in 1777 American Masons chose ithdir own grand master to take the place of the British, official. ffter the Revolutionary war the master and tothjpr officers of the military lodge attended by Geiferal Washington, settled at Marietta, O., jinl in 1790 reorganized the body, called "Ameri jcaa Union Lodge" during the war, and it atill f (exists in Marietta handsomely housed amid , fellVs of great historical interest. Freemasonry is nowfirmly established over ' Jr ctically- the entire globe, but not until after pei ;ods of strenuous opposition. An English act jof Parliament in 1429 made felons of Mason. . jln 1S61 Queen Elizabeth ordered the grand lodge of England broken up. In 1637 France "aHolished'Vthe fraternity. Maria Theresa of Gejjmany sought to break up Masonry in 1747. " fThJr Protestant Council of Berne, various Scotch . Synods, and Swedish, Italian and Brazilian rul jersi have at various times sought its destruc tion for political reasons. Even in the United States an anti-Masonic political party had a can didate for president in 1832 against Andrew Jacjcson and Henry Clay (both past masters, by thejway) and carried the state of Vermont for thtt ticket. Ex-President John Quincy Adams 'declared: "Masonry ought forever to be abol ished. It is wrong essentially wrong a seed of levil, which can never produce any good." In one.partisan paper the Masonic lodge was called ''Hell's masterpiece." 1 rThe endurance of the fraternity," and the character of its membership, are the best evi dence of its fitness to live. But it had to fight for -life for centuries. The Sick President Plays a Strong Hand. President' Wilson's politics is not haphazard. He plays the game adroitly and with chilly dis regard for any person, friend or foe, who gets in his way. He can be indifferent to the prompt ings of all those emotions which long service always stir in grateful breasts, and fiercely re sentful of any seeming infringement on his prerogatives, as was shown in his icy callous ness for the feelings of Secretary Lansing when he dismissed him on a trumped-up charge. But he views with entire equanimity the most radical diversity of conduct in his im- mediate official family when he sees therein op portunity to play both sides for party advantage, Its in the sharp antagonism now existing be- tween his attorney general and assistant secre tary of labor. ' The attorney general "officially declares that the assistant secretary has "tender solicitude for ocial revolutionists and perverted sympathy for criminal anarchists," that he "has defied the rules of evidence, has cancelled hundreds of legal warrants" (against alien enemies), and "has shown constant favors to violators of law," in the very teeth of the protests of the Depart ment of Justice. .And with this knowledge the president re tains in his official family the assistant secre tary who has made "wholesale jail deliveries of self confessed anarchists," and lias practically nullified the deportation statute in order to keep dangerous enemies of order and the gov ernment in this country, in spite of all the ef forts of the attorney general to enforce our laws against them, and send them overseas -where they belong. Why? To hold the votes both of those who defy all law and of those who believe in law enforcement. And while the democratic press seeks to excuse presidential inconsistencies and toleration of dangerous in fluences on the plea of the president's sickness, the "sick" man takes his party by the neck to choke it into endorsement of his unpopular policies, and force the nomination of a man who will continue his kind of administration. When strength is needed to "put over", a presidential factional plan, it is there. i Days of Real Sport. In our swimmin' days a bathing suit was a thing unknown. We hit the Ohio or the Mus kingum (living at different periods beside each river) in the altogether, after the preliminary rites had been observed. To go in the water with "any sort of clothes on would have been a disgrace. Alongside the clay banks above one broad beach much frequented by the boys of the vil lage, where we were born, were clumps of trees and bushes whereto bumble bees attached their mud nests. A feud existed between boys and bees and frequent battles occurred, the boys us ing paddles made out of white pine shingles. No lad who hesitated to enter an engagement with the enemy while stark naked was in good repute with his fellows. Many a sun-browned boy have we seen rushing to the cooling water with a howl of pain when an angry bee sunk his white-hot javelin into some tender spot. Oh, to be a boy again and live life overt A Plaint of the Critics. Our democratic friends are touthingly, sor rowful because the Chicago convention "lacks leadership." Possibly republican observation of the present leadership of the democratic party is the reason for the present untrammeled na tional republican convention. The democratic plight is a sufficiently sad illustration of what a certain kind of leadership will do to a party, at any rate. If there are no rings in the noses of the Chicago delegates we shall have an abundant display of that sort of thing at San Francisco. It does not seem te) have occurred to the apprehensive critics of the Chicago con vention that the men who compose it are there to select a leader, not to take orders from a boss such as holds the democracy in fawning sub The liquor question is definitely out of politics. It can come back only by way of a repeal of the prohibition amendment and no constitutional amendment has ever been re pealed, yet. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia univer sity might win the plum at Chicago, but the prejudice against college presidents in the White House is something awful among republicans. It looks like a fair field and a real race in Chicago, with several heats before the winner can be recognized. New York quotes betting odds on the Chi cago nomination of from 20 to 1 down, but little money is up. Senator Lodge can say it, if you wish an utterance with punch in it. THE COMMON LOT. Once, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man: and who was he? Mortal, howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee. Unknown the region of his birth, The land in which he died unknown: His name has perished from the earth, This truth survives alone: That joy and grief, and hope and fear, Alternate triumphed in his breast: His bliss and woe a smile, a tear: Oblivion hides the rest. 1 The annals of the human race, ! Their ruins, since the worjd began, Of him affords no otntr trace Than this There lived a man. James Montgomery. Or Get a Fresh One. It is a source of constant surprise to u in these times of stress in the domestic economy what wonders a woman's deft fingers can ac complish with a few old ribbons and pieces of lace and other odds and ends and we suppose Eve could give a couple of dexterous twists to her figleaf and look ever so much more chic when dressed for dinner than when about her work in identically the same garment in the morning. Ohio State Journal. To Hold Cotton to Forty Cents. "I am a cotton farmer," writes C. E. Trim ble, Mobtetie, Tex., to Capper's' Weekly, "and have three bales of cotton on which I cannot even get an offer because it is low grade, al though cotton goods made from low grade cot ton are advancing in price all the time." A former Kansas man, just back from a business trip through Texas says thousands of bales of cotton belonging to the government are being allowed to rot, while the people are being made to pay outrageous prices for cotton products. "Nearly every cotton gin I saw," he says, "was surrounded by a half a dozen , or more bales of cotton rotting in the open." Capper's Weekly. A Faithful Supporter Backs Up. When Senator Hitchcock stands out against the president on a matter of foreign affairs re lated to the league of nations, it becomes a question how long Mr. Wilson .will be able to command thounquestioned support of any body of democrats. Every little while another group declares its independence. It is not for, nothing that Bryan, who carefully preserved the pre tense of supporting the president for four years after they had split, now openly flouts him at every opportunity. It was not safe then; it is now. , The spirit of independence has grown until it now inspires a large part of the democratic party in congress. There is hot much open antagonism to the president, because a presi dential campaign is coming on and party splits are to be avoided; but whenever a question comes up in which there is a clash between the president and congress, there are enough demo cratic votes to help the republicans into an impressive-looking position, and they are not al ways cast by the same democrats. New York Evening MaiL A Line 0' Type or Two Hew ta the Line, let the ! fall where thejr mu. THE Supreme Court does not always "follow the. elections." a Mr. Dooley said. Sometimes it precedes them. THE committee on platform may now pro ceed with a ringing plank in favor of national prohibition. With Pleasure. Sir: Wduld you please divulge to the Repub lican convention that Wane & Logan are two vehement Republicans who run a garage at (ireenvlew, 111.? WITH the possible exception of Trotiky, Mr. Hearst is the busiest person politically that one is able to wot of. Such boundless Heal! Such measureless energy! Such genius an infinite capacity for giving pains! - HOW! Well, here I am I wintered 111, I also springed or sprung the same; I've swallowed many a noxious pill To keep me sitting In the game. I'm shattered, dull, and quite cadaverous, v But still, you'll kindly note, palaverous. STONE PHIZ. "I DO not care for 'Treasure Island.' When I devote time ta a book, I expect either In formation, genius, or, something I have never heard of before." Ed Howe. "- You must give Old Ed credit for one thing: he hag no literary taste. NOWk HERE'S A MAYOR WORTH HAVING. (From the Platteville, Wis., Journal.) In the down pour of rain yesterday the sewer, at corner Main and Fourth streets became badly clogged and had it not been for the work of Mayor Hoosler who re moved the gratings and cleaned the open ings, some of the Main street basements would have been flooded. The mayor waa completely drenched after doing this work. IN politica Hiram Johnson Is the equivalent of the Oliver Optic hero so dear to our youth. Against a background of mercenary villains his honest face shines like a cherry by candle light. In Which Kllen Tells the World. (From the Monticello, Ky., Outlook.) Dear Editor I notice in your issue ef the 20th that you say was taken from the County Clerk's Record, where marriage license had been Issued to Oobel Troxel, of Bronston, and Ellen Clark, of Zula. Now I have known for a long time that the world was getting very fast but I never one time dreamed of a young man going to the Coun ty Clerk's Office and getting his license without first having the consent of the girl to whom he was going to be married. Now as I have stated above, the world is getting to be very fast. New styles and fashions seem to be all the go but if this Is one of the new styles I guess that I will live to be an old maid for I never one time thought of marrying Mr. Troxell and if I was thinking on that subject I would think every time that I wouldn't. Yours, Miss Ellen Clark. "THE public has no rights which are superlo? to the toiler's right to live and to his right to de fend himself against oppression." Gompers. Vanderbilt put it more pithily. "MEMORABLE SENTENCES." Sir: i You remember Egdon Heath.. "The great invidlate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim. Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or In an hour. The sea changed, the fields ichanged, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained." ELEANOR. THOMAS HARDY turned eighty this June, and we suggest that you join us in re-reading "The Return of the Native." Meanwhile here Is a Hardy poem you may not know: AFTERWARD. ' When the present has latched Ha postern be hind my tremulous stay, , And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neigh bours say, "He was a man who used to notice such things?" If it be In the dusk when, like an eyelid's sound less blink, The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a. gazer may think, "To him this must have been a familiar sight." If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm, When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn, One may say, "He strove that such Innocent creatures should come to no harm, But he could do little for them; and now he is gone." If, when hearing that I have been stilled at last, they stand at the door, Watching the full-starred heavens that winter sees, Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more, "He was one who had an eye for such mys teries?" And will any say when my bell of quittance Is heard in the gloom, And a crossing breeze cuts a pause In its out rollings, Till they rise again, as they were a new bell's boom, "He hears it not now, but used to notice such hings?" SEE AMERICA FIRST. Sir: From the theme of a foreign student in the University of Chicago: "If you wlshi to see America, the mighty scepter of power in your, hands will gather for you the laurels of victory. I have been in this country for about a year. My earnest lucubra tion of the way the American live has showed me since the day I arrived here that this Is the blessed land of unlimited opportunity if one Is willing to tackle hard and bring home the bacon." M. A. C. G. "PERSONAL Qentleman would pay forgas to motor L. A. and vicinity-Sundays. Hamlin Clay, 1202 S. Mariposa st" Los Onglaze Times. They have every kind of bird out there. ESSENTIALS. Every thought needs something To make It seem complete: Friendly words for greeting, Smiles when loved ones meet; Waves to rock the water, Stars to stud the skies; Grasses for the meadows, Wings for butterflies; Roses for the garden. Honey for the bee; I Sunshine for the summer And your heart for me! IRIS. AN ABSENT-MINDED BEGGAR- Sir: There's an authentic story about aZng will which may explain his failure to please American readers when he visited this country about seven or eight years, ago. Once he called at the home of a friend of mine, in a little vil lage near Paris. In leaving he raised his hat with a fair show of gallantry, for my friend and his wife were at the door, at the same time put ting one foot through an empty bandbox. And so characteristically intent, was he on his own thoughts that he strode on down the path for nearly fifty yards, quite oblivious to the fact that the bandbox still clung to his ungainly ankle. My friend observed him as far as the high road, but does not know when Zangwlll discovered the box. M. M. HELPFUL HINTS. Sir: A new use for the discarded war-time knitting bag: bassinet for thermos bottles car ried by luggage-laden travelers. Suggestion for amassing fortune; service station for pressing accordeon-pleated skirts. ' W. S. WHAT has become of the old-fashioned workman who declared, "No beer, no work." ASIDES. M. C-: We should love to have you. Gene: All three. J. L.: Not published yet, THE dark horses are feeling their1' eats. i'N. L. T. How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS Question concerning- hygiene, sani tation and prevention of dUease, eub niltted to Dr. Kvans by readrrn of The Bee, will he annwered nrrsonully, mill. ' Jert to proper limitation, where a stamped, addresned envelope Is en closed. Itr. Kvnn will not mnke diagnosis or nreNrrihe- for Individual dlaeaaes. Adurens letter In rare of The lire. Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Evans. FRISKY AT EIGHTY-FIVE. J. V. C. is 85 years old, 5 feet 6 inches high and weighs 110 pounds. When he enlisted in the t'ntjn army 59 j ears ago he weighed 153 pounds, which was 12 pounds above the wfight proper for his'are and height. Hi sends nie three pictures of himseJf.. In one he is an up standing, straight, vigorous old man. In the second he is shown riding horseback, while in the third he is preparing to pet into a flying machine. The record of his trip showed that he did not indulge in ony tail spins, loops, or other daring stunts. Our letter from J. F. C. contains several .lessons for those who would cttaln old age. He is 40 pounds lighter than he was at 26 yenrs of age. - The tendency is for a person to put on weight progressively until about 50 years is attained. The thyroid gland is supposed to secrete less as a person passes from youth into middle age. In consequence a man loses pep, snap and restless en ergy. "Since he is fond of food, has plenty of it and eats as much as when younger he puts on flesh. Somewhere about 50 he enters on a period of weight equilibrium. Somewhere In the 70s as a rule he begins to lose weight. At 85 he should be encouraged to eat sugar, potatoes and bread, if he digests them well, in order" to overcome the tendency to lose weight. J. F. C. Is keeping young by main taining his hold on life in keeping busy and in finding new interests. Instead- of slouching down he holds himself straight. His picture shows a man with a soldier straight body. He rides horseback. No other exer cise is so effective in massaging the liver, stimulating the abdominal or gans and flushing the capillary bleed vessels of the face. Instead of being ready to quit, J. j F. C. is indulging in new sensations' by riding in a flying machine. I doubt if any physician would ad- ; vise a man of 85 to take up flying. Aviation requires a capacity of re- , sisting dizziness! Recently a bridge builder over 70 accustomed to walk ing girders fell from a tree with fatal results. It is supposed he -became dizzy or fainted and foil. Some eld men faint in bath tubs. They are not able to withstand the com bination of heat, humidity and still air in a bathroom, lose conscious ness and sometimes drown in the tub. Nothing else strains . just this equilibrium apparatus. Nothing else is so liable to produce dizzi-' ness, faintness, swimming of the . head as aviation. Elderly peopto will do well to imitate J. F. C. in i his avidity for new interests but not in flying. And finally, J. F. C. keeps at work. He flew while in California, but he emphasizes his statement that he was there on business. Interesting Historical Iticidcnt. Omaha, June 7. To the Editor of The Bee: Referring to your edi torial, June 7: The women who burned the British flag in Washing ton will have to defend themselves. But you ask, "What would we think if the flag of the United States were publicly burned, etc?" In the Svar of 1812 a certain Bri tish general captured Washington, destroyed government documents and burned the White House. For this act King George's great grand sire rewarded the general with a coat of arms portraying the flag of the I'nited States grasped in the Ei glishman's fist. The deseendents of that general still publicly use that coat of arms with tho permission and sanction of the present British government. Sir Horace Bottomly publishes "John Bull." It has a larger cir culation than any other paper in England. It is violently anti American. If you will persuade the posterity of the noble general to turn over our flag to the noble edi tor, and if you will accommodate the latter' with a match, the' ex pected will probably happen. It is silly to hate the English, but as to the money they owe us ask any owner of a liberty bond. . THOMAS LYNCH. Omaha, June 1. To Honorable J. W. Woodrough, Judge of 'Federal Court, Omaha, Nebraska Your Honor: Believing in the quotation in the Book of Books, which says teeth,, receding gums, pus around teeth, bleeding gums. 3. By keeping the teeth and mouth clean, chewing hard foods. 4. 4. Brushing, washing and oth erwise cleaning the teeth several times a day, using dental floss ifter each meal. Having the teeth cleaned thoroughly periodically. Having pyorrhoea treated in its early stages. Increase Care of Teeth. M. H. writes: "Kindly give me the following information: "1. What is the cause of pyor rhoea? "2. What are the symptoms? "3. May pyorrhoea be prevented? How? "4. What is the cure? "My dentist looks for pyorrhoea each time he examines my teeth, because he notices that the gums bleed very readily. I have noticed this of my gums since childhood, and it does not alarm me much. Yet I will try to prevent it if there is a way." N REPLY. 1. There Is an infection of the gums. Whether this is the principal cause or not has not been decided. 2. SpBngy gums, gums red at bor ders, failure of gum line to grip All First-Class Dealers Sell fM&Rock f "TLIU lr- D.lT-U-fir-i-A i lie TTunus uesiiaow waier JfhiteRock I Extract Teeth Without Pain Moreover I use only the BEST of materials for all bridge and plate work and all work leaving this office is ready for inspec tion by any state's dental board. DR. 17. F. CROOK 20S NEVILLE BLOCK, OMAHA Entrance on 16th St., at Harney Tyler 5117 Hours: 8130 ta 6 Victor Records and Victor x Victrolas There ar many very beautiful new records you. should have and many old favorites you have been waiting for. 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