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The Bee's Platform
1. Nw Union Pantr Station.
2. A Pipe Lin from tho Wyoming Oil
Flalda to Omaha.
3. Continued improreinent of tke Ne
bratka Highways, including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
4. A short, low-rat Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
5. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
JTHEi SELFISHNESS OF NEW YORK CITY.
The state and city of New York are opposed
to the St. Lawrence deep waterways project,
according to testimony before the international
.waterways commission at Buffalo. That is
j natural. The reason for the opposition is ex
I actly the reason which causes the great central
I ;west to demand the improvement.
f. New York opposes the waterway because it
would give a direct water-freight outlet to all
Fthe export freight from a great territory, reach
Ting from the Alleghanies to the Rockies, from
f$he Ohio river to the Canadian line. At present
ithe export trade of this inland empire must fun-'
Bel through New York harbor. It must be
transported in freight cars to that congested
Center, must be transferred at expensive docks
o ocean ships, frequently must be carted across
the city. All of this extra handling makes
jnoncy for New York. It takes money from the
producers of the west.
If the St. Lawrence deep waterways project
! completed, a dozen lake ports will be the
loading points for trans-Atlantic shipments.
jThere will be no congestion at the ports. Freight
.cars, and railroad motive power, so greatly
seeded, will be saved a long haul to the sea
board and costly delays due to congested ports.
The opposition of New York is easy to
Understand. It furnishes proof of ( the merit of
the project. '
Acquaintance With the Great.
Personal association with the great and the
distinguished carries with it a reflection of their
honors. It is a thing to be taken as good for
jtune when it comes naturally, but never to be
ought for selfish reasons. A man of real qual
ity never hunts for sudden friendships. To do
jo shows lack of manly independence and cer
tain ignoble traits of character readily de
tected. It is one thing to meet people; of high
achievement by the voluntary kindness of mu
tual friends; it is fluite another thing to seek to
bring about such meetings by thrusting one's
t elf forward for that purpose. The best people
never do such things. j
In a country like ours, where social conven
tions are not rigid, and politics draw many men
into transient association with public men, sud
den turns of fortune occasionally throw one
man into' fame in aday. Immediately thou
sands, if he happens to be a presidential nomi
nee, who perhaps have merely touched his hand,
or been presented to him in an informal way at
a political meeting, suddenly conjure up a
fictitious association with him ! the past, and
proceed to gather reflected ray of glory from
the great man's public prominence by regaling
their friends with preposterous tales of an in
timacy which never exjsted.
They are men who always want to "sit on
the stage" at public meetings, or crowd hotel
lobbies when a great man is about, in the hope
that they may be able to meet him, and thereby
win fictitious honor.
f Harding Will Grow.
Ohio people have known Warren G. Harding
a long time, and have found him in public life
responsive to public opinion. He is big enough .
to be stable, with an intellectual displacement
that reaches down to the great currents of
patriotism and fundamental depths of enlight
ened opinion and national experience. He is
not, therefore, tossed hither and thither by every
transient and fickle wind that sweeps over the
waters. As president he will steer a true course
to national unity, justice and prosperity.
. The reception given his nomination by the
press may be described as normal. None of the
hysterical expressions of joy which hailed
Bryan's first nomination have been observed,
But everywhere among those who might nat
urally be expected to give a republican candi
date support, we find acquiescence and belief in
his fitness.
Opposition papers range the barren, deserts
of suspicion, ridicule, misrepresentation and dis
appointment over Senator Harding's nomina
tion. They are in for four mouths of increasing
distress, because the republican ticket will grow
Stronger as discussion of it continues.
The Unholy Use of Patronage.
The democratic press found much satisfac
tion in the. senatorial investigation of campaign
expenditures. Its conscience was outraged at
the thought that men should spend money to
present the claims of rival candidates .for the
republican nomination for the presidency.
But what about the trading of federal jobs
for the votes of democratic delegates? The
J Boston Bar association, representing the attor
neys of Boston, has filed vigorous protest
against the appointment as federal district
, attorney of Boston of a man who; they charge,
qualified for Attorney General Palmer's favor
by his ability to put Massachusetts' democratic
delegates in the Palmer column at the San
Francisco convention. s, 1 '
, Expenditures of money which savor of the
' purchase of votes, either directly or indirectly,
have been condemned. The people who pay the
taxes will hardly vjew complacently, however,
the expenditure of ifWf money, through fed
eral salaries, for the saHc purpose.
Signs are not Jacking tlvt politics will take
on temperamental phases atj f" Irancisco,
Common Sense or Academic Dreams?
Harding wilt stand before the country as
the embodiment of everything that Wilson is
not. Wilson ignored congress. Harding in
corporates the will to recognize congress.
Wilson often wa "in the clouds." Harding is
essentially a man whd "gets down to earth."
Wilson is academic. Harding is common
sense. Wilson was theoriiing at Princeton
while Harding was building up-a typical, self
made American business. Philadelphia Pub
lic Ledger's Correspondence.
The more definitery these thmgs are put
before the people, the larger the Harding ma
jorities will be. The country is surfeited with
Wilsonism. Every democratic leader knows it
Many of them frankly confess, privately, that
commendation of Wilson policies and the Wil
son administration by the San Francisco con
vention means th overwhelming defeat of its
ticket.
But what else can the party do? It's
damned either way. There, is no escape. The
universal knowledge of the fact is emphasized
by the serious proposal to throw the party into
advecy of the restoration of the liquor busi
ness without a restriction, by a wine and beer
plank. ,
The Democratic Two-Thirds Rule.
An effort is to be made at San Francisco to
abrogate the eld rule which requires a two
thirds majority to nominate democratic presi
dential candidates. It rnakes little difference in
results. When conviction in a convention set
tles on one man as the choice there is usually
a twothirds or larger majority recorded.
But the bare majority rule is more in accord
with American political ideals than a two-thirds
requirement. There seems to be no sound rea
son why the nomination of a president should
require a greater proportion of the vote cast,
than the election of presidential electors by the
staters, or the actual constitutional election of a
president in the electoral college.
This is a government of majority rule, or is
fondly supposed to be such. The democratic
rule is an anomaly that might well be abolished.
A somewhat jaded democratic press turns
with relief and apparent pleasure from its gall
ing task of defending presidential vagaries, to
criticize and condemn the republican platform
and. candidate.
One unacquainted with partisan politics
might imagine, from the tone of the democratic
papers as a whole, that if the republican con
vention had taken a different position it might
have won their unqualified approbation. Alas I
dissimulation and other arts of insincerity too
often take precedence over better employments
in the arena of politics.
1 Of course the democrats are not overlooking
the fact that Governor Cox of Ohio, aided by
that dainty master of delectable and sanitary
politics, Mr. Murphy of Tammany Hall, is seek
ing to pry loose the fingers of the president
from democracy's windpipe, and thereby break
the Wilson influence. 'Tis a crool thing for Cox
to try to do, but being an Ohio man, the worst
may come to pass through his devilish 'machinations.
Montreal offenders are shipping booze by
th'e ton billed as "fertilizer." A quart by any
other name would smell as sweet.
DUST.
Dust upon my window aill-t
Only dust It la. and (till,
Drifting dust Is where w know
Everything will ever go!
Every dream and every plan
Everything pf every man
Every dome and pillar must
Molder back Into the dust.
Where are Babylon and Tyre?
Where the temple and the spire.
Fabulous In Trey and Borne?
All have drifted to the loam!
Lover and beloved, too
Every kins they ever knew, ,
Even every aweet caress, , '
Flaming once to loveliness
Sleep where every (lory must
In the drift of passing dust.
Dust upon my sill who knows
But It waa a crimson rose?
Did It blossom In the sun
For a wanton or a nun?
Dusf, the wind Is bringing In
Who can tell what secret sin.
What the fever, what the pain,
What the fire in the brain,
What the vigil and the prayer
Carelessly la, sleeping there?
Paat upon my window sill
Oaly dust it Is, and (till.
Drifting dust la where wa know
Everything will ever go!
-Louis Ginsberg In the New Tork Time.
Became a Personal Matter.
"It's the little incidents that change the
course of an ordinary man's conduct," said A
sergeant of the Jate war during a talkfest at tjle
Enlisted Men's club the other evening.
"We had a man in our outfit who was a drag
on the whole company; he was always the last
man to do anything, and didn't show the least
interest in the war.
"During mess one day a shell exploded near
the company table and blew this man's grub in
a million directions. Without a word he rose
and announced to the bunch: 'Fellows, I went
into this war from a sense of patriotism, but
from nbw on it is going to be a personal matter.,
"And his subsequent attitude toward the
enemy showed plainly that it had become so."
Columbus Dispatch.
i Important If True.
If congress should now enact that a S per
cent beer and 10 per cent wine are not legally
"intoxicating" probably the supreme court
would hold that it is within the discretion of
congress to so enact, and the 18th amendment
would not prohibit the sale of such drinks.
If it should be legally determined that wine
and beer are not intoxicating there would be no
more restraint on their sale than on the sale of
soda water. Beer and wine could be sold at
every stand, in, every village without let or hin
drance. Our legislatures would have no author
ity to restrict the sale of beer or wine that they
do not have to restrict the sale of coffee
Now what would happen if beer and wine
should be classed with soda water and sold
everywhere without let or hindrance we need
not he told. In one generation the American
people would be the most tipsy people on the
globe. Atlanta Constitution.
Views of General Dawes.
Gen. Charles G. Dawes, who was McKin
ley's comptroller of the currency and has lately
come home from the war, says there is too
much demagoging and inefficiency everywhere,
in municipalities, in states, in Washington.
Chicago cannot find money to pay its clerks,
police, firemen and teachers enough wages, but
it can pay for waste, inefficiency, extravagance,
corruption. General Dawes declares that, with
an unpadded municipal payroll and ordinary
business administration, the city could afford
to pay its servants' decently. '
The federal case is precisely like it. Con
gress can scarcely find funds so pay decent
money to postmen, to army and navy officers.
The federal departments coiitd be run on smaller
appropriations and still pay their necessary em
ployes better stipends, were the business mod
ernized and kept apart from politics.
A president of administrative ability and
business habit could go far toward providing
the nation with this relief, thinks General Dawes.
Demagoguery and waste are about as expensive
as corruption. We no longer can afford such
indulgences. Their price comes home to all of
US in hiffh cost of livinsr. Minneaoolia Journal
A Line 0' Type or Two
Hew to the Lie. M tkt aulas fall whsra taw ajr.
FIVE hundred undertakers have gathered in
Peoria. "The coming ofsuch a convention so
often seems a season for attempting a joke that
one stops to ask why?" observes the Peoria
Transcript. And bangl goes a particularly good
wheeze that we had in mind. To stop to ask
why is fatal to any wheeze.
The RepuMloan Sounding Bonrtl.
ir: 1 agree with Gov. Coolldge, who sata
of the platform, "It la sound." "Which reminds
ma that once when a sounding board waa In
stalled behind a pulpit nn auditor asked what It
was for, and was told, "To throw the sound out."
"But," said he, "It you throw out the sound
what Is there left?" G. M.
SAN FRANCISCO suggests that the dele
gates wear fairly heavy clothing, tarmulfs will
also be found useful, as a slight protection
against the rhapsodic real estater.
"NOW IT CAN BE TOLD.''
Sir: Now that Sir Philip Gibba has spoken,
perhaps it will not be Indiscreet to make known
a fact which was most distressingly indicative ef
our own unpreparedness in the Groat War, and
which until now, so far as I know, has not been
revealed to the American public. In written
communications, most officers and men spelled
It "Chaplin." HOLY JOB.
TFE QUICKLUNCH AND THE DEAD.
Sir: Juxtaposed cards in St. Louis street car:
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VALHALLA
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' PARIS considers Harding a foregone con
clusion, while London thinks that it will be
necessary to count the ballots. We incline to
the English viewpoint.
TRIE TO FORM.
Mark the fellow fond of fishing:
'Neath the urge he needs must wish;
Urged the more thereto by wishing,
Bye-and-bye he's bound to fish.
O'er his tackle-box he putters,
Noting what he has to get.
"Leaders, lines, and lures," he mutters,
"Sinkers, swivels, hooks, et cel."
Soon he seeks a lake he wota of,
Soon, or sooner, he's afloat;
Finds a reef he's oft had tho'ts of,
Full five fathoms 'neath his boat.
Working whiles, he 'tween while lazes,
Heedless how th moments pass.
Now and then he reels like blazes,
Netting whiles a nifty bask
On by one his string increases,
Bye-and-bye his bait is spent;
Then, and not till then, he ceases,
Shoreward heading, well content.
Some days hot, and some days hotter,
Bully days, but all' too brief,
Each day finds him on the water
Looting old Five Fathom Reef.
ARIES.
BACK TO THE BED AND BOARD.
(From the Boston Herald.)
Wife Lost I deserted you 10 years ago.
I am now rich and wish to return. My
Ouija Board tells me you will be at tho
Plymouth theater tonight. I will meet you
there during the intermission. Plea.se don't
make a scene. Edward.
"THE only fad I have had for the last twenty-six
years is my husband." Mrs. Harding.
This is one of the very few really worthy fads
that women have ever taken up.
This Unquenchable Spirit Wonld Have Put
Pompeii on Its Feet Again.
(From the Evansville, Wis., Review.)
Last Sunday morning the Are whistle
blew and one could look out of their bed
room windows and see the red flames leap
ing against the skies, this would send a
shiver through anyones body and it did
especially through, the two brothers who
have owned and operated the Cozy Cafe
for many years. Some time in March the
same building was completely demolished
by fire and then to have it burned to the
ground Just after they had put new equip
ment and new fixtures In it, would take the
heart out of most anyone but these little
things never seem to stop the oncome of
these two brothers.1 These men are to be
congratulated on their spirit, they are not
only Working for themselves but for the city
vas they see the need in a city of this size of
a'cozy cafe and they are trying their best to
fill the bill.
O-O!
Sir: I knew all the time that Harding would
be Jnominated, and the two 'o's' that I referred
to are used in spelling OHIO. Yes, of course, I
am a transplanted- Buckeye and proud of it.
H. FORBID.
AT the Hotel Dwan in Benton Harbor
"rooms may be had ensuite or connecting." Or
should you prefer that they lead one into an
other, the management will be glad to accom
modate you. i
The Oh Sprfnish Trail.
(From a pome by Evelyn Brogan, the Sweet
Singer of San Antonio.)
Along this highway traveled adventurers, ex
plorers, priests,
While wild beasts and wilder Indians the hard
ships and dangers increased.
Ponce de Leon, in Florida, sought the fabled
Fountain of Youth,
The first European of the mainland of the
United States by proof.
At Tampa Bay landed De Soto in fifteen thirty
, nine;
Plunging into the wilderness, cut a trail thru
thicket and vine.
Three years they searched for treasure that did
not abound,
Penetrating far to the westward of the mighty
river he found.
PROBABLY WOULDN'T HIT IT WITH
THREE MORE CHANCES.
Sir: Signs on Western avenue, near Fif
teenth street: "Labers Wanted" and "Labour
ous Wanted." Do they deserve another chance?
L. P. B.
IT is rather warm for sausage, but if you
must have it may we not recommend August
Link & Son, Butchers, of Davenport, la.?
The First Park Horse.
Sir: How to groom a daJk horse for the
presidency may be learned from Suetonius' Life
of Caligula. Wishing to nominate his horse In
cltatus for the consulship, the emperor provided
him with an ivory manger, a purple blanket, a
pearl necklace, a well furnished house and re
tinue of servants, "that those who were invited
to meet him might be more sumptuously en
tertained." -Incitatus, the original dark, horse,
missed the consulship by a' nose, because of the
untimely death of his friend and backer. With
a little more horse sense in office the whole
course of Roman history might have been hal
tered. PAN.
MY DEAR. I WAS SO PLEASED.
Sir: 'At a club meeting In San Francisco the
charming Madam President announced: "The
motion is carried, and I am glad to say that the
vote is extremely unanimous." B- P.
ONE may send "harmless live "animals" by
parcel' post, with the chances eight to five that
the animal will be reduced to pulp or die of old
age.
1 SAMSON SHORN.
(From the Montpelier. Ia., Newa)
The Chief of Police lost his badge in a
scuffle yesterday. Finder please leave at
News office.
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. EVANS
Questions eonrernlng hygiene, sani
tation anil prevention of Tsran, suli
mltted tu Dr. t.'vuua by readers of Th
lit, will be anwerHl prrnunally, ub
jTt to proper llmltutinn, nlier
stamped, addressed envelope la en
rlonril. Ilr. rlviw will imf make
iliagnoela ur prescribe fur Individual
diseases. Adiiresa letter In cara of
The Ilea.
Copyright, 1920, by Pr. W. A. Evan.
PELLAGRA STILL UNSOLVED
For piany years we have been dis
posed to hold that pellagra was due
to living for a long time on a diet too
low in protein and too rich in
starches. Or, to put it in more easily
understood tetnis, to a diet contain
ing too little meat, milk, eggs and
butter and too much cornbread and
molasses.
Pellagra is a very serious disease
and in certain sections is so prevalent
that it constitutes an important
health problem. Certain sections,
largely in order to conquer pellagra,
are going extensively into the rais
ing of chickens and eggs and" the
making of milk and butter.
Dr. Seale Harris of Birmingham,
who spent some time la tho warring
countries of Europe,' thinks this
change in the agricultural products
of those sections has been worth
while for other reasons, but will not
make any impression on the pellagra
situation. He went to Italy In pur
suance of tho thought that Italy, be
ing the home of pellagra, the star
vation of the war years .would have
caused it to Increase enormously.
For several years the Italians have
lived on cornbread, rice, a few pota
toes and other vegetables and beet
sugar. They have had practically no
meat, or milk, or butter, and very
little wheat. They are very much
undernourished, in fact, close to the
starvation line.
What did he find? In Rome they
told him there might be some pel
lagra in north Italy, but there was
none around Rome. In north Italy
neither the army surgeons nor the
civilian doctors had seen any pel
lagra.
The snrgeon general told him the
Italian soldiers had not suffered from
peljagra. The draft records showed
that in raising an army of 6,000,000
only thirty-five had been rejected on
account of pellagra.
In Coryza, the section over which
the Italians and Austrians fought for
two years and where the food had
been of tho scantiest and worst,
there was no pellagra. In other
words, the wave of pellagra which
had swept over Italy a generation
ago had burned itself out and even
the cornmeal and sirup diet of the
several years of war had kindled it
up again. Nor had it prevailed in
Austria-Hungary or in those parts of
Germany, where for more than four
years the people had lived very
largely on a starchy diet, with but
little meat and less milk and butter.
We are very much in hopes that
somebody will find the cause of pel
lagra and a way to prevent it. We
know that many of the cases can be
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THE Democratic convention is yet to be,
and meteorology is an inexact science; and so
it is too early to predict, that the, weather on.
election day will be ideal for golf. B. L. T.
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discoveries that will solve the pel
lagra problem we are sustained by
the knowledge that in Italy tho pel
lagra wae has passed and not even
war hunger served to bring it back.
By Private Physicians.
E. W. B. writes: "Could you in
form me of any clinic, medical in
stitution, etc., that makes a specialty
of physical examinations and the
probable cost of an examination?
Am not sick, but would like a thor
ough physical examination."
REPLY.
There are such institutions in
practically every city now. Exam
inations are made by private phy
sicians. Look in a medical directory
or classified directory for your city.
STATISTICAL NOTES.
A ehotgunt used in the battle of
Bunker Hill, in 1776, nnd the battle
of New Orleans, in 1815, has been
presented to the State Historical So
ciety at Columbia by P. J, Hainey of
Barnard, Mo. It is an old model
muzzle loader, 89 inches long, with
a 43-inch barrel. It has the same
lock, stock and barrel used at Bun
ker Hill, and though much worn, can
still shoot. On the stock is attached
a tallow and patch box which was
used to grease the balls when loaded
in the gun.
' Official figures recently pomplled
show that Birmingham has the high
est unemployment rate of any city
in England, reaching a total of 724
per 10,000 of population of greater
Birmingham. ,
Time equivalent to 8,000,000 days'
Is said to have been saved to the
women of the United States by the
electric washing machines sold last
year.
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