o THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1920. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BKK PUBLISHING COMPANY, NELSON B. UPDIKE, Publisher. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Ata.K-iiti-U I'TtM. of whlca Tti. Bee Is number. Is m cluaneir tnmlrd 1.1 the um for publication of ll nan dlepalrbas sndilrd to It or not ottairwlM rrrditr.1 In this ppr, and aleo UM local npui imbUaluMfftertin All rahle of publlcaUoD at ui special dtapatclies are aiau reaened. BEE TELEPHONES Prlfale Branch Iichanse. Ask for Uia Tl. IrWI Daiiartmeut or rimn Wanted. 7e 1 VAU For Night Call Altar 10 P. M.i Editorial Department ........... Trier 1000L LinnUiioN limmrtmnit .......... Tjlat 1008L AdlerUiIni lli'l attlnwit .......... Tjln lOOtli OFFICES OP THE BEE Main Office: 17th and r'amam Council Bluffi 13 Scott BL Soma Sid 1311 N St. Out-ol-Town Official New York 18 Fifth Ave. I Waihlmton 1111 0 Bt Ohicajo S'.escr Illdf. I Parle France MO Kua St. Honor The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. A Pip Line from ths) Wyoming Oil Fields to Omaha. 3. Continued improrement of the Ne braska Highways, including the para ment of Main Thoroughfares leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 4. A short, low-rate Waterway from the Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 5. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. THE HARDING CHARACTERISTICS. The country will get no political jazz from Warren G. Harding, no sensational stuff, no spoofing or excitements. It will get, 1 owever, a lot of plain common sense, prudent and well considered utterances, sound logic and American wisdom. After he has made his first speech a lot of touts who are now ballyhooing for the opposition are going to curl up and blow away. Make no mistake. That "bushel of brains" in his big, level head is going to count heavily in the campaign. There will be no attempts to gather hurrahs and cheers from excited crowds, no spectacular dancing around on the stump. On the contrary, his utterances will be dignified and void of all attempts at oratorical display; but they will carry conviction and power that will smash through the democratic defenses like a 15-inch shell through a wooden target. They will give a country weary of superthis and super that the feeling that Harding's the man they long have sought, and mourned because they found him not. Those who wish to get a correct idea of the pull this man has on the good will of those who hear him talk or read what he says will do well to dig up the speech he made in Columbus be fore the presidential primary, in which he paid his respects to his friends and talked plainly to his enemies. It was full of the Harding char acter and sound sense. As the campaign pro gresses the people in the homes of the country will be more and more convinced that Harding is the man needed in the White House. His appeal will be to the common people, who cast nine-tenths of the votes, and it will be irre sistible. ' Financing the Campaign. It takes much money to finance a national campaign. The printing, the mailing, the rent ing of halls for speakers, the music, the travel ing expenses of stumpers, the "overhead" of committees, the advertising and other, legitimate and proper expenses all require cash and lots 'of it. , The people do not like big contributions to party funds from very rich men. They fear it may give them undue influence in' government. Very well. What shall be done about it? The resourceful Will H. Hays has the answer. He says let the people themselves finance the cam paign. But how? By dollar contributions col lected in a party drive; with a limit of $1,000 from any single contributor. 1 Good. Let it be started. There ought to be a million, or two million, republicans if neces sary, not only willing, but glad to put up a dollar each to have a safe American i in the White House for four years. Thus the people ' will be pleased, and also the millionaires, who, stratoge as it may seem to those who fear their influence, are never keen to subscribe the enor mous sums which the popular imagination and the cartoonists accuse them of pouring into party treasuries. Indeed, they used to say they had to fry them to get their fat. But, seriously, Mr. Hays has made a wise suggestion. He seldom makes any other kind, and we hope it will be carried out in every pre cinct in the country. Inheritance Laws. The illegitimate son of a North Dakota farmer inherits $200,000. The legitimate rela tives of the dead man get nothing from his estate. With no knowledge of the conditions surrounding this particular case, the fact is likely to shock society, and cause discussion of inheritance laws generally. Nobody, we take it, would have the unfortu nate issue of a man's adultery cut off utterly from sharing what he leaves at death. The bas tard is not, and should not be, responsible for the sins of his parents. Those who stray from lawful paths should be held to reasonable re sponsibility for the results of their illegal con duct. Just how far inheritance laws should go in cases of this kind is not yet fully determined except in North Dakota, where they seem to go the limit. Convention Stories. Every large convention has its humorous in cidents. The big one at Chicago was no excep tion. Two of them have "sifted through" the correspondence of a Boston writer. He says the galleries were for Hoover, but not the dele gates, one of whom toasted him at a dinner with these words: From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, He's lived in every country, Except his native land. -The Massachusetts delegation was polled for vice president and one of the deelgation, seeing 35 votes cast for Lenroot, asked the very quiet Murray Crane if it could be considered settled. The astute Crane said: v'Yesi but wait a min ute; there may be other nominations." But the delegate left the hall for his hotel and tele graphed Governor Coolidge his regrets. Then in rushed a friend and cried: "Isn't it great?" "What?" asked the delegate. "Coolidge's nomi nation," was the reply. "Great Scott ! was the response, "haven't I done it?" ' One of the signs of the times is the boom ing of the subscription list of the Marion (O.) An Unusual Literary Production. The cymbals crash, And the dancers, walk With long silk stockings And arms of chalk, Butterfly skirts, And white breasts bare, And shadows of dead men Watching 'em there. With these lines Alfred Noyes opens a page of striking poetry and illustration in the current Saturday Evening Post, under the title, "A Vic tory Dance." We have seen nothing so caustic, so searching, so freighted with bitter condem nation of our short memory for those who fell to save our civilization. Take this verse, for instance: Shadows of dead men Stand by the wall, Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball. 1 They do not reproach, Because they know, If they're forgotten, It's better so. Nothing so gripping in its presentation of sensuous folly and wicked delight in the pleas ures of the flesh, has come from the pen of any writer in these times save Kipling, as the thirty words which follow: Fat, wet bodies Go waddling by. Girded with satin, Though God knows why; Gripped by satyrs In white and black, With a fat wet hand On a fat wet back. One might almost say the entire nine verses of this remarkable production were written to jazz music. It is all the more effective because, composed with the jingle ordinarily used for frivolous and humorous stuff. There is a picture and a thought that clings in every verse. See, there is one child Fresh from school, Learning the ropes As the old hands rulq. God, how that dead boy Gapes and grins , As the tom-toms bang And the shirnmy begins! The portion of the poem which comments on events following victory are quite as stirring as those we have quoted. All in all, we think the page in the Post devoted to Noyes's "Victory Dance" and Blumenthal's merciless illustrations of it will be cut out and saved for many a collection. No revolution in the past 150 years has suc ceeded without Masonic support. Sinn Feiners who smashed the North Donegal Masonic Hall were not close students of history. -Brooklyn Eagfe t The Masonic fraternity is a stable and con servative body usually composed of high grade citizens. Treason to an existing government is not lightly regarded by it, tut it calls no man to account for his political opinions and tolerates no political discussions in its meetings, accord ing to its openly avowed principles. Southern delegates violently opposed the adoption by the Federation of Labor that colored men should be placed on the same basis as whites in the unions. The action was soundly American. "All republicans look alike to me," said Sen ator Harding in Washington the other day. There will be no intolerance in the Harding administration. Franklin P. Adams brings joy to ' the cam paign poets who have been worrying over rhymes-for Harding by saying off-hand, just like this: One who knows the trick of barding Worries not regarding Harding. He will be elected is the sentiment of the country as a whole on Harding's future. PASSING FAME. There was weeping and wailing -. And gnashing of teeth, ' And wearing of mourning, And hanging of wreath, When the old supreme court Got its fighting togs on And put the eternal Quietus on John. They swung a haymaker And put him to sleep, And drove him to the graveyard, And buried him deep. The champ of all champs, for The truth should be said, Defeated all comers; And now he is dead. Ashes to ashes and Dust to dust. If the reformers don't get us, The profiteers must. Our problems are many, Our troubles a lot. We've no time to mourn. John is gone and forgot. N. Y. Evening Mail. Always Centering on Self. In the jam of the last hours of the session of congress President Wilson lost an opportunity to forget himself and his own aggrandizement and remember the needs of the people. Two republican measures were waiting for his signa ture the bonus bill and the water-power bill. The budget bill he sent back because of a slight defect he thought would lessen his own personal power. The water-power bill he did not reach, although he considered and signed more than one hundred measures and official papers, seventy-three of them being bills and resolu tions, on the last day of the session. The water-power bill opening up the rivers of the country to industries and for irrigation purposes has been hanging fire in congress for ten years. It was fully expected that this ex tremely necessary piece of legislation would re ceive the president's signature. But it seems the president feared it might stand as too em phatic a monument to the achievement of a republican congress. Des Moines Capital. Down By the River Nile. Usually on June 15 the inundation of the Nile commences, the greatest height being at the autumnal equinox, after which the waters subside until the following April. The great advantages which Egypt derives from the an nual rise of the river and saving of the country from barrenness, has caused the Nile to be known by the inhabitants as the most holly river, they believing hat it draws, its source from paradise. In former days it had its appointed priests, festivals and sacrifice's, and if its rising were delayed by a single day they took the most beautiful maiden they could find and dressing her richly, drowned her in the waters as a victim to turn away the god's anger and merit his favors. The caliphs abolished this cruel sacrifice, substituting one less barbarous; they threw into the river a letter in which it was commanded that the waters rise if it were the will of God. ( It has been stated that the quality of the Nile water is such that it is highly extolled for drinking purposes and no matter how long kept it does not become impure. Chicago Journal. - A Line 0' Type or Two Haw to th List, let the sulei (all her t . A DAY WITH LORD DID-MORE. "Mr. Hearst Is the home brew; no other hope." The Trlb. At his usual hour Lord Dld-Mrcie rose Renewed completely by repose His pleasant duty to rehearse Of oiling up the universe. Casting a glance aloft, he saw s That, yielding to a natural law, The sun obediently moved Precisely as he had approved. If mundane things would only run As regularly as the Sun! But Earth's affairs, less nicely planned. Require Lord Did-More'a guiding hand. This day, outside Lord Dld More's door, There waited patiently a score Of diplomats from far and near Who sought his sympathetic ear. Each brought to him, that he might scan, The latest governmental plan. And begged of him,A word or two Approving what It hoped to do. ; Lord Did-More nodded, emiled or frowned, Some word of praise or censure found, Withheld or added his "O. K.," And sent the ministers away. These harmonized and sent away, Lord Did-More finished up his day By focusing his cosmic brain On our political campaign. And night and morning, thro the land, The public prints at his command v Proclaimed, in type that fairly burst, The doughty deeds of Did-More Hearst. A FRIEND explains that Mr. Patten is tired of the human race for a number of reasons, one of which is that garbage-wagon drivers get ten dollars a day. He should join our Order of the Turning Worm and bury his garbage in the garden. "WHELP OF SIN" IS THE QUOTATION. Sir: Will you brush the dust from your "Course of Time," and see if perchance Pollok had any premonition of Nicholas Murray Butler when he wrote, "Slander, the foulest whelp of Hell," or words to that effect? S. T. OTHER batds had more pertinent premo nition of Nicholas Murray Butler, the world's greatest beans-spiller. Blah, Blah, Blasoo! Sir: Many of we Ibanezistas are troubled, senor, by your apparent disparagement of The Four Flushers of the Aposiopesis. It is the erti of red meat In Htrchoor, senor. And this V. Jazzco is there at spilling the Blood of the 'Arena into his red-letter pages. Not very often, true; but there is no clause in the league of nations coverlet against skipping, senor; while six live paragraphs in a modern novel strikes after all a fair average, even if it rings no cam panile. Nor sneer at San Bias on the ground that all he has is the hot stuff, senor Blah, Blah, Blasco, Have V, the tobascoT for reference to Sonnica will soon show that even In this respect the author haa been over rated. For he slings pash with a mean fork, al, senor, though only to bury it under bales of sen tentious hay. I, me, have not read his Woman Triumphant I look at the title, senor, and I no like the Idea. I. RIQ LSAYSO. "WEEDS should be cut twice during the summer, Mayor Burkhardt said, just before go ing to seed." Lima Gazette. So long, old beanl WHY THE EDITOR LEFT TOWN. From the Rochester, Minn., Bulletin. Miss Isabel Jones returned yesterday from Chicago where 6he visited her son Dick and attended the Republican convention. Miss Jones also visited at the National Kindergar ten College which she formerly attended. Of This and That. Sir: Did you ever see a well fitting summer suit? The G. O. P. battle hymn: "Song of Marion's Man." Gone are the days of the ten cent paper novels they now cost two berries. If Debs is elected Prexy, his cabinet will be composed of Sub-D But oh, I'm ashamed of myself! Heaven will bless the person who makes the modern woman's ear-covering hairdressing ex tend a bit further. Q. A. R. IT was cool yesterday; but, take it from a Madison street movie, it was "20 degrees colder inside." ' WE SHOULD SUE MORLEY. Sir: Speaking of "The Four Horsemen" and things, a well known critic in the Atlantic Monthly said that "Parnassus on Wheels," by Christopher Morley, was destined to equal the reputation of "Travels with a Donkey," by R. I S. I bit and bought. What recourse have I? W. S. P. THE president of our Savants' Club wonders why no attention has been paid to the postman who delivered Elwell's mail on the morning of the murder. "An enemy," said he, "could easily get a job in the Postoffice Department, especially at present wages, and contrive to get himself shifted about until he finally reached the beat which included Elwell's house." WHAT'S THE MATTER? WHAT'S THE MATTER? WHAT'S THE 'MATTER? Rupert Hughes, in The Cosmopolitan. "O Lord, let me smash him once! I've got to beat him to -death. I've got to! O Lord, let me! Just once!" May We Not Hope So? Sir: The Maine Central railroad has In its employ Messrs. Snow and Raynee, probably lured away from the weather bureau. This is all right so far as it goes, but what really intrigues me is the fact that H. Bellefeuille Is secretary of the Havana Central railroad. Is this a case of luck, liquor and capacity? And do you think he can hold it his Job, I mean? H. R. HARDING on his porch is a symbol of the lives of the American people, observes the Trib. If it were a sleeping porch. WHEREAS WE ARE HOPING THEY WILL SUCCEED. Sir: I note your suggestion regarding the usefulness of earmuffs In San Francisco. After looking at the inhabitants of your section of the country, I hope that our real estate men will be unsuccessful In making sales during the conven tion. A SAN FRANCISCAN. WE would take it as a favor if readers who "dare us" to print this, that, and t'other would inclqse something worth the audacity. Preferably in a Swimming Hole. Sir: The Papervllle M. E. church has erected a sign at the edge of the quarry which serves as our swimmin' hole. Sign reads, "Where will you spend eternity?" SWIMMER. "SHE carried a basket of sweetheart roses and forget-me-nits." Evanston News-Index. Really, my dear, they ought not to slang a wedding story. HOW BLINDING THE DESERT IS! Sir: Discovered In Peoria, 111., the new fangled Shriner who wears a green celluloid eyeshade with his fez. w. S. THIS much can be said for the proposed third party; it has a good . platform. "Pro Bunko Publico." . AFTER EFFECTS. From the Atwood Herald. Frank Burk has changed the name of his Jack, to Home Brew. He says it is the only thing.around here that has a kick left in it. MR. BUTLER, seemingly, put his foot in his mouth and short-circuited himself. B. L. T. Herbert Hoover is no wooer of Miss Democ racy, and his approval of the republican plat form as "constructive and progressive" has killed the last vestige of the democracy's love for him. Governor Coolidge rents one side of a double house to live in, and pays $32 a month for it. Of such stuff are America's favorite public men made. How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS Sanations ronccrnlnf hygiene, sanl on and prerentlon of dleease, enh mlttcd to Dr. Kvans by reader of The lice, will bo answered pereo pally, ab ject to proper limitation, where a tamped, addressed envelope I en closed. Dr. Evans will nut make diagnosis or prescribe) for Individual dlerami. Address letters In care of The 11 ee. Copyright. 1110, by Dr. W. A. Evans. AS TO NEW BV1LDLNGS. Being a regular reader of your column, J. F. W. writes: i "I wish to call your attention to your statement that you do not know of any peril from fresht wet walls of a new building. There is a distinct peril and that is from dampnessV This is based on the fact that lime end plaster as applied is mostly calcium and magnesium hy droxide and in the first six weeks after the plaster is applied a very rapid exchange of the C02 from the air and the H20 of the limo takes place, the calcium carbonattnit. . "You may have noticed that win ter builders always have charcoal or coke salamanders burning in new j buildings. These are not for the purpose of warming but for the gen eration of C02 gas, the building al ways being shut tight at night, A I pew building in fall, spring or win-t ter always should have an abun-1 dance of heat and in the summer all j windbws should be kept open as much as possible. "Most builders figure that the ccst for coal of the first six months of any new building will run any where from 10 per cent to 25 per cent more than when ths' plaster, lime, laths and lumber have been completely dried out. The exchange between the plaster and the air of COZ will be ilnlshed at the end of about six months. In a reoent open ing of a new bank branch in New York the building had a full head of steam on for four weeks to dry it out completely before the mployes were allowed into the building." In reply most of your statements are correct though you do not make your case. Freshly plastered walls are wet. It is customary to dry them out by heat and airing. Wet walls are inimical to wall paper and cal sominlng. They may cause harm to books, curtains, clothes and other objects. The statement that freshly plas tered walls give off carbonic acid gas may be true. I do not know that builders agree with you that coke salamanders are not for warming purposes. Suppose we assume your two main statements, namely that freshly plastered walls are wet and give off carbonic acia gas, to De true, ine question is what proof have we that these two qualities imperil health? I know of very little proof that wet walla harm health. It has been proved that the In halations of air fairly rich in car Ionic acid does no harm. A man can stand without harm air far richer in carbonic acid than that found in a freshly plastered wall. In ventilation standards a high percent age of carbonic acid causes the ven tilation to be condemned when the gan is due to human expirations, not because the gas is harmful but be cause Its presence in high propor tions indicates pollution by humans. The air In houses is generally too dry. Added moisture from ihe walls is not likely to do harm.. There la some proof that blastomyces organ isms have been found growing on wet dirty walls and have caused hu man blastomycosis. But about there the -proof against freshly plastered walls ends. Sleeping Sickness. A. S. writes: "Have had the sleep ing sickness this winter. "1. Is this apt to leturn? 2. How long should party stay away from business? "3. Do any ailments follow this sickness?" REPLY. 1 and 3. No." 2. Be guided altogether by how you feel. Whether easily fatigued, do you have headaches and back aches? 'If work does not cause symptoms of fatigue you can resume with safety. Epilepsy. J. K. N. writes: "Can a woman, herself not an epileptic, but having a brother who is, bear normal chil dren?" REPLY. Yes. Reductlo Ad Absurdum. Miss L. H. L. writes: "I am 18 years old, and much too stout for my height. I have been told that Epsom salt baths are good for re ducing. Will you please advise whether this is true and how these baths are taken?" REPLY. It is not true. JfteJQude's m Nebraskans Looked After. Springfield, Neb., June H To the Editor of The Bee: An expres sion of appreciation of the Nebraska delegates to the republican national convention should be made. Their work on the convention floor and elsewhere was truly representative of the people of Nebraska. However, the care and attention given to every true Nebraskan who applied for admission as guests or appointees, at the Nebraska head quarters, was highly appreciated and distinctly noticeable With thousands of people seeking admis sions to the Coliseum, the Nebraskfi headquarters by some keen fore sight saw to it that visiting Ne braskans were taken care of when It came to admissions. Bob Smith certainly saw to It that no Nebras kan went away dissatisfied. Yours truly. R. B. HARBERG. A New Richmond. Omaha, June 16. To the Editor of The Bee: From the time of the advent of "The Kansas-Nebraska ISM" to date, Nebraska adds some wcrth-while feature to affairs of state. The Howell resolution is the straight road that leads to curtailing the "Solid South's" political power. It is a new straw to break the camel's back of negro disfranchisement. Straight and "Lily White" republi canism. When this resolution K acted upon in spirit and letter the southern statesmen and politicians will soon realize the fact that all men and women must vote if they wish to retain the representation they now have in convention and congress. NAT F. CARD. 2512 North Twenty-fifth St up with what comfort the modern view has to offer to thosn of us who, while keenly enamored of life, yet unwillingly have reached the moth ball period? Of shall I look to tho Bible for it? ONE WHO ENJOYS YOl'K KDI- TORIALS. POPULAR SCIENCE. A triangular birdcage has patented that ran be placed corner of a room to shield Its pants from drafts. ecu- Airplane engines havtf been adapted for driving motorists an. I pumping machinery. The business of Vuking photo graphic enlargements has been .sim plified by the conafructlon of a ver tical enlarging car iera which is sus pended overhead and projects it light down yf n a sensitized sheet which is pin at 1 on a table under it. The arrangement ana manipulation of the paouT Is much more conveni ently done. i this position. A newPimhrella is assembled In such a rurnner that any broken part may beLremoved and replaced by a new oret without the assistance of an umbreufi maker. Jr w J Men's Sport With Balls. Omaha, June 17. To tho Editor of The Bee: Your short article in The Bee of June 14 abou the part the ball has played In man's life, has given me many a quiet smile. "May I not" ask you to follow It BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK YOU" LV.Nichows Oil Company Breakfast tastes a lot better, is easier to prepare, and makes more smiles when you serve Post Toasties Tliese superior cornflakes have a flavor, substance and satisfaction far beyond the usual. 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