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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1920.
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1. Nw Union Pusengor Station.
2. A Pip Lino from the Wyoming Oil
Field to Omaha.
3. Continued improyotnent of tho No
bratka Highway, including tho pmrm
nont of Main Thoroughfare loading
. into Omaha with a Brick Surfaea.
4. A ihort, low-rat Waterway from tho
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
9. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
,. A BIG JOB FOR OMAHA.
j Imagine yourself set down in a town in a
foreign land, friendless, almost penniless, un
acquainted with language or customs, compelled
to seek employment and able to get only the
coarsest and most distasteful of jobs. Then add
to this the undisguised contempt of the natives,
their cold greed taking advantage of your
ignorance of local manners, victimizing you in
little as well as big things, and no door save
that of theworks at which you drudged and
he miserable hovel in which you kenneled open
to you.
to you think you would imbibe love for
j that land or anything that pertains to it?
Suppose that on your arrival there you had
been met by a man or woman who had aided
Voir in meeting the annoying difficulties attend
ant on getting established in new surroundings;
that they taught you the language of the land
along practical working lines, had given you a
knowledge of money values and social usages,
had welcomed you as a human being and gone
somewhat out of their way to see that you
were treated as a human being.
Would not such treatment have given you
a kindlier feeling and led perhaps to a greater
desire to know more of the lanJ in which you
had cast your lot?
The first case is that of the great mass of
foreigners who come to America. They have
been exploited, shamelessly, not only by the native-born,
but most of all by the "Americanized"
foreigners. People to whom they have stretched
out their hands in supplication have neglected
them, and then have wondered why these aliens
remain aliens. The second illustrates what is at
tempted by real "Americanization" work, as it
is being carried on in social settlements today.
Omaha has a considerable problem in this re
spect, and something of a job on hand. Thirty
five thousand foreign-born residents, represent
ing 31 nationalities, have their homes in the city.
It is to reach these people, to teach them that
America is not one great packing house or rail
road shop, that the government does not consist
of the more or less casual "cop" or "booze"
hound," and the truant officer and juvenile court J
do not represent the ultimate achievement of
constitutional endeavor, that the social settle
ment on the South Side is striving.
Some devoted women have carried on this
work, until it has gone beyond the experimental
stage. The job is too big for them now, and they
must have help. Concretely the problem soon
will be set before the citizens, and it will be for
Omaha to say if these guests are to have the
welcome due them, with equal opportunity to
share in the blessings of free government o.i
an'-understanding footing, or if they are to be
kept in the state of sullen, sodden resentment
that soon degenerates into hatred for the coun
try and its institutions.
It is a big job for any community, but
it should be attended to. If it is neglected,
' Americans alone are to blame if they find bol
shevism, anarchy, violence, pestilence, physical,
social and political, coming out of the miserable
quarters to which they have banished those who
come from abroad to cast their lot with ours. Do
not blame the foreign-born for not loving Amer-
. ica if they receive only coldness and neglect
from Americans.
is too high. He bases his conclusion on an esti
mate that is several billion dollars below the
value set on the roads by the owners. Disin
clination to accept reproduction cost as a basis
for calculating earnings alone it responsible for
the attitude. Yet it must be plain that the roads
are compelled to pay market price for everything
they buy, and that the huge sums they are
borrowing to provide equipment must be capi
talized on the costs of the present day and not
on those of 1914, and earning capacity should
be in keeping. ,
The $386,000,000, surplus Mr. Thome insists
will result from the granting of the rates asked
will very likely be absorbed in the wage increase
anticipated by employes, and that would leave
the companies no better off. Justice to the rail
roads demands that they be given a chance to do
business so that capital needed for extensions
and improvements may be attracted and not re
pelled. Extortionate rates should not be set up,
but inadequate revenues will not remedy a con
dition from which the entire country suffers.
Omaha'a Growth in Population.
Disappointment that the census figures did
not show Omaha as having a population in
excess of 200,000 will be generally felt by the
citizens. In fact, Uncle Sam's count will be
seriously challenged by many, who base esti
mates on various evidences usually considered
safe as supporting calculations. Howeve,
191,601 is the official figure, and as such will
have to be accepted.
It is eminently respectable, at that, and
justifies selfcongratulation on the part of
Omaha. Chiefly because it represents 22 per
cent of solid, substantial growth for the dec-'
ade. Omaha did not share in the war industry
boom that brought the population of many
other cities to eminent figures. In fact, Omaha
suffered from this cause, for thousands of its
building mechanics and other working men
were called away to swell the totals for other
communities where the great business of war
production was carried on, and many of these
have not returned. Other causes may be set
forth, such as the shortage of houses, to ex
plain why the count fell just a little short of
the coveted mark.
On the other hand, Omaha'a" importance as
a market town, as a commercial, financial and
industrial center, and as a good place to live
will in no way be adversely affected by the
count. All the elements of growth that have
brought the city up to its present magnificent
proportions still exist, and still are potent as
factors in future growth. Progress for the
next ten years at the same rate as characterized
the last twenty will see a quarter of a million
people here before 1930, while, if all things come
out as planned, that goal may be reached by
1925.
Omaha's greatness never was measured
finally by the number of its citizens, but by
its activity along all lines for spiritual, intel
lectual and material progress. Keep that fact
in mind, and watch Omaha growl
"Jimmy" Reed Steam-Rollered.
The Wilson machine numbers at lfast one
eminent victim at San Francisco. Senator
"Jimmy" Reed's flattened form marks the spot
, ' where the steam roller passed, and he will not
take any part on the floor of the convention
- as a delegate from the Fifth Missouri district. ,
Denial by the democrats of the right of the i'
people of a district to select the man who is
to represent them in the party's convention
marks in plain fashion the progress autocracy
.has made in the counsels of the unterrified.
.It is true that Reed was a thorn in the flesh
of the administration; he could be reliably.de
pended upon to oppose the will of the White
House on the floor of the senate, and he prob
ably would do the same in the convention.
Therefore he must be rendered harmless by
the simple process of elimination. But as a
victim of boss rule "Jimmy" Reed will have far
more influence in the convention than he could
possibly have exerted as a delegate. His fate
will be an inspiration to the anti-Wilson men,
and the ruthlessness of his dispatch a further
warning to those who do not bend to the im
perious will of the White House dictator. In
punishing Reed the Wilson machine has made
a lot of trouble for the future, and the effect
will not make any smoother the path of its
candidate.
Justice to the Railroads.
The slowly moving process of untangling the
railroads is bringing but little relief to the com
merce of the country, which suffers in many
way because of the situation. That operations
are hampered in many ways is clear, yet a con
siderable part of the public suspects that the
magnates have not done all that might have been
done to restore the orderly and efficient ser
vice of the lines. Whether this is well grounded
or not, the fact remains that' a considerable part
'.' of the perplexity of the managers arises from
the efforts still put forth to restrict them after
'the fashion that prevailed before the war.
Clifford Thome gives an illustration of this
in his statement before the Interstate Commerce
commission that the increase in rates now asked
Too Much Law in America.
Another voice of influence is raised against
the great American practice of undertaking to
regulate everything by law. At the centenary
celebration of the Harvard Law school on Mon
day last, Charles Evans Hughes said: "It is
true that democracy can not live without re
spect for law, but it must be remembered that
law in democracy will have only the respect it
deserves." Plainly, a statute to be self-enforcing
must be one that runs parallel to the thought of
the multitude, and not counter to some of the
"liberties" that are prized Also, it is understand
able that in a democracy the law suffers con
siderably because the individual is inclined to
make his own as he goes along. This general
habit leads to the infraction of a great many
restrictive statutes, enacted with good purpose
in view, but not always enforceable because
everybody is not willing to accept them at their
face.
Furthermore, Judge Hughes points out that
"a passion for legislation is not a sign of demo
cratic progress, and in the mass of measures in
troduced in the legislatures of our free common
wealths there is too little evidence of perspec
tive and abundance of elaborate and dreary futili
ties.' . . We are constantly Impressed with
trie lost motion and the vast waste in the en
deavor of democracy to function wisely."
This leads directly to the accepted propose
tion that democracies are essentially disorderly;
when they cease to be disorderly they cease to
be democratic. The situation Judge Hughes
comments on is a resultant of the penchant of
groups for regulating the mass. Such a grist of
statutes is continually coming from our law
making mills that no man is able at any given
moment to say just what is the law in one state,
let alone in 48, while the steady flow of refined
and re-refined reasoning that comes from the
courts is such a reservoir of contradiction as
puzzles even the elect at times. Nor is it likely
that we will soon be relieved of this. Our legis
latures and our courts are industrious and con
tinuous. i
One way is clear. When each man regards
with serious aspect the rights of other men,
binding himself by those conventions that are
countenanced by civilization and which rest on
good Inorals, he will not need to worry
greatly about the compiled statutes of any state.
Right and wrong are not fundamentally condi
tions of legal enactment, and the mart who al
ways deals squarely in his daily contact with
other men is generally safe
Mr. McAdoo sees himself being forctd into
the convention, but he can not forget what
happened to "Champ" Clark and "Uncle Jud"
Harmon at Baltimore.
The new regime in Mexico starts with a
promise to pay all bills. If this is redeemed it
will keep the country quiet for a long, long time.
It looks as if the "wets" were beginning
to weaken at San Francisco, but Mr. Bryan
still, leads on the militant "drys."
It is better to face and fight the coal shortage
now than in December.
Mtore towns are below than above Omaha
in the count.
Come on let's make it 250,000 in 192S.
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A Line 0' Type or Two
Mtw ta tht Una. M Ml ! fan htr tht aej.
THE BIRCH TREE.
A slander birch tree in a circle of dark firs.
Like a white nymph, dancing- 'mid satyrs rough
wno watcn with wondring eyes her graceful
piav;
A sunbeam slips between the firs, and strikes
Into pale gold her robe of woodland green.
BERTHA TEN ICK JAMES.
A DISTINGUISHED London physician de
clares that teeth decay because the mouth is not
kept clean. To keep it clean he recommends
dry champagne, although beer is also good for
the purpose. Will the democratic platform build
ers oblige with a "Save the Teeth" plank?
The Progrcas of Democracy.
(From the New Glasgow, Ont., Enterprise.)
The flag at the Town Hall is waving In the
breeie today marking two Important events,
the birthday of King George and the arrival
of a bouncing baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Chesher.
"APHRODITE" is coming to shock us in Seo-
tember, we read. Aphrodite's other name is Sep
tember Morn. But we doubt the shocking. The
general will not know what it is about, and the
judicious are not easily shocked. The book from
which spectacle and opera were made is a piece
of pure paganism, and has no more to do with
morals than a centaur.
SHE SAID AN EARFUL.
(From the Farmington Bugle.)
Engineer Richardson bumped a flivver and
its sole occupant, a woman, off the track Sun
day afternoon while bringing his engine over
from Monmouth. The woman was determined
to contest the right of way with the locomotive
and drove on to the track just in time to get
hit as the engineer could not stop in time to
avoid it. The fliv was wrecked but the only
damage sustained by the woman was a com
plete wreck of her disposition and she handed
Blchey an earful of language.
PERHAPS if Mr. Wilson were to exclaim,
like King Henry, "Who will rid me of this pes
tilent Bryan?" four of his barons might under
take to chuck the Old Man into the sea.
Another Red, Revolutionary Attack on
American Principles.
(Walter Bagehot, "The English Constitution.")
"The most strange fact, though the most
c2 5lnJn nature- is the unequal development
of the human race. . . We have a great com
mU,V, y. ',1.' crowds ot people scarcely more
civilized than the majority of 2,000 years ago;
we have others, even more numerous, such as
the best people were 1,000 years since. The
lower orders, the middle orders, are still, when
tried by what is the stlhdnrd of the educated
ten thousand,' narrow-minded, unintelligent,
incurious. . . . Great communities are like
great mountains they have in them the pri
mary, secondary, and tertiary strata of human
progress; the characteristics of the lower
regions resemble the life of old times rather
than the present life of the higher regions.
And a philosophy which does not ceaselessly
remember, which does not continually obtrude,
the palpable difference of the various parts,
will be a theory radically false, because it has
omitted a capital reality; will be a theory
eaeentlally misleading, because it will lead men
to expect what does not exist, and not to an
ticipate that which they will find."
THERE was a spirit abroad in the land in
1812 which resented the idea of search and
seizure. But now the populace will lie flat and
let search and seizure walk all over it. If this
be progress, pass the catnip tea.
HERB'S BUST DAY.
Sir: Old Herb Sharpies was sitting reading
his mall in his store the other day and a
stranger entered. Herb approached him and
asked him what he wanted. "Oh, I'm just
looking around," replied the stranger. "Well,"
said Herb, "come in tomorrow. I'm too busy
to watch you now." E. C. M.
OTHER psychics say that the late Dr.
Hyslop is on the wire, but up to now he has
been getting the wrong number.
THE SUN-WORSHIPPER.
I was & Druid grim
Once in the log ago,
Climbing by cairn and hillside dun
Upward to greet my flod, the Sun,
Singing the ancient Triad hymn,
Bearing the mistletoe.
Now at an lmpluse strong,
In the fresh morning hillside dun,
Lifting my face to greet the sun.
Breathing a half-remembered song.
Plucking the daisies white.
"WHAT caused' the waters of the Jordan
to separate for the children of Israel?" Chi
cago Journal,
Spring it! We'll bite.
TRY MR. HEARST.
Sir: A Chicago man has written a book
on "Third Party Insurance." Wonder if Sen
ator Harding and other G. O. P. leaders
wouldn't like to take out a little.
A MOST ingenious paradox resides in the
fact that E. Z. Mark is a horse dealer in Willow
River, Minn.
The Empty Stage.
(Further Letters of John Butler Yeats.)
The desire to go on living is the passion and
sin of the old man and the scorn of the young.
The young do not see death and the old see
nothing; else, or rather for the young it is a
figure of the imagination and to the old a
reality that conquers or would conquer the
Imagination. Indeed, when we are young, for
us whether men or women, there Is fascina
tion in the scythe Time holds in his hand.
We gather round it and examine it and admire
its tragic sharpness and its terrible swiftness,
but old people, whimpering and trembling,
stand round the hour-glass and are-careful lest
anything should agitate the glass and the
hands that hold it. In youth we do not see
death, the stage is too crowded. In old age
all the actors have left and they were only
actors and death remains sitting patient on
his stool.
SCOTLAND YARD STUFF.
(From the Kankakee News.)
The man must have been murdered as it
would have been impossible for him to have
tied his hands behind him in the manner he
did.
A VERSATILE chap is Curt Thornton of
Tuscola, who deals in "fine ice cream sodas and
Duroc hogs."
A Midsummer Resort's Dream.
They advertise they rest the guest.
The hostess' cousin gets the best,
The hostess' paw you've gussed the rest
Plays cards and warmly bets the guest.
The latter loses, bets the rest
Of all he owns; Paw wrests the best.
The host none other gets the rest.
And all combine to best the guest. Q. A. R.
THE INTERNATIONAL JOKE.
Sir: After riding with a friend on this
island of Samso and destination reached, we
were about to alight from his fliv. I sat with
him in rear seat and was about to open door
on my side when he remarked quickly in Dan
ish, "Use this door (on hio side) with me as
to avoid unnecessary wear on this 'Blik
Daase,' " (Translated means, as you guess,
tin container.) PHYLLIS.
"AUTHENTIC INSTANCES."
Sir: A pint of agar (or should it be a
pound?) lor satisfactory proof that anyone
ever turned on his heel. H. R. P.
"IT is suprising how little we should; know of
most birds if they were dumb," says a writer in
the London Times.
AND all political birds. ' B.'L. T.
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. EVANS
Suestlon reaccniina hyaicM, Bail
on and prevention Of discs, aob
mlttod U Dr. Kraea bf reader ef Tha
Boa, will be eoawered penieaaUr.
Ject ta proper limitation, where a
stamped, address1 iope la en
dated. Dr. Evaa will not Bank
diagnosis or nrcecrlbe for tndlvldoal
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The Br.
Copyright. Ills, by Dr. W. A. Eraoa. I
CONSUMPTION AGE GROUPS.
The British committee on research
put its stamp on a study of consump
tion, by Dr. John Brownlee. This
study appears to prove that there
are several types of consumption,
each due to the type of tubercle
bacillus, and a given case will run
tru to form.
His three types are:
1. The young' adult type affecting
chiefly growing adulta and causing
death at 20 to 25.
2. The middle age type in which
the common age at death is 45 to 51.
3. The old age type in which the
common age at death is 55 to 65.
At various times within the last
200 years first one and then another
of these types has been the prevail
ing variety. Just now the prevailing
type is the young adult, a variety
which was at its worst nearly 50
years ago and which is now on the
decline.
A study of various trades showed
some peculiar conditions. Coal min
ers have leas consumption than men
In other trades, but when miners
reach 55 to 65 years of age they suf
fer as much from consumption as
does the general population. This
ta thought to be because they are
susceptible to old age tuberculosis,
but not to the younger adult iype.
On the other hand, bootmakers
were found tc have more than their
share of young1 adult consumption.
It was thought that this was due to
the inhalation ot volatile organic
substances used in bootmaklng.
Upon investigation It was found that
young adult consumption was the
type prevalent in Leicester and other
bootmaklng centers among the gen
eral population not engaged in boot
making. This bowled over the most but not
all of the support that the inhala
tion of volatile organic vapors by
bootmakers was responsible for a
good part of their consumption. .
It was found that slate quarrymen
suffered unduly from consumption.
Their rate was seven or tighttimes
as high as that of other quarrymen.
In all forms of quarrying and min
ing in which there was much slate
in the dust the rates were high. This
was supposed to be due to the irri
tation of the lungs due to aluminum.
Slate miners and quarrymen die
from old age phthisis at about 65.
On the other hand workers who in
hale silica or sand dust die from con
sumption at ages 45 to 55. Their
rate is high, but below that of slate
workers. Lead and iron workers
suffer from the old age type of the
disease.
Iron workers have a consumption
rate twice the normal and lead min
ers by four times the normal. The
tin miners of Cornwall react to con
sumption differently from any other
group.
The two older age types are mere
influenced by changing the environ
ment than is the case with the dis
ease ot the younger type. 1
Blood Pressure Facta.
An' inquirer writes: "What is the
normal blood pressure for a woman
of 60; also pulse, temperature and
respiration ?
REPLY.
Pressure about 140; pulse about
70; temperature; 98; respiration
about 15.
( Improvement Seems Unlikely. ".
Troubled writes: "Will you kind
ly tell me if there is a hospital in
Brooklyn where I can be treated for
infantile paralysis? My right foot
was affected in 1907. I have been
visiting hospitals for the last nine
or 10 years but with no results. Do
you think it can be cured. I am 16
years of age and walk with a limp."
REPLY.
It is not probable that you will
gain anything by treatment. Thir
teen years of the established order
is too much to be overcome. Nine
years of treatment has proven in
effective. Bad, Used In Excess.
A. L. M.'writes: "What effect will
a daily use of bromo seltzer have on
the system or health? An uncle has
stomach trouble and a good deal of
headache. He takes it in large
doses. Has been taking it more or
less for two or three years. Is the
effect detrimental?"
REPXY.
It contributes a moderate dose of
acetanilide. The continued use of
this medicine causes headaches and
anemta. It also contains bromide
and caffeln.
Some Exercises Help.
M. F. writes: "I am 15 years old.
I have a rupture and wear a double
truss.
"1. What exercise can cure me?
"2. What kind of food do you ad
vise? "3. Has lupture any relation to
hernia?
"4. What are the symptoms of
hernia?"
Carbolic Acid Snow.
W. J. B. . writes: Please advise
through the columns of The Bee
what is carbonic acid snow, and how
to apply the same and where to se
cure the same. I assume it is the
same thing as the crystals."
REPLY.
Carbonic acid snow is solidified
carbonic acid. Your druggist can
get it for you. Have your physician
apply It. Do not try to use it other
wise. I wonder if you have carbolic
acid crystals in mind in your last
question.
"DANDERINE"
t
Stops tiair Coming Out;
Doubles Its Beauty.
Umbrella With an Eye,
Saw a man going down Washington street
in the pouring rain with an 'umbrella that was
fitted with an isinglass window in front. Not
a bad suggestion for some of the pedestrians
who plow through a crowd endangering eyes
with the wicked points of their "rain sticks."
Boston Post.
Presidential Primaries.
It is believed that after a single, trial that
has been had the presidential primaries will go
into the waste basket. Knoxville Journal and
Tribune. ;
A few cents buys Danderine.
After an application ot "Danderine"
you can not find a fallen hair or any
oandruff, besides everv hair shows
new life, vigor, brightness, more
cotor and thickness.
Building Laborers' lay.
Omaha, June 25. To the Editor
of The Bee: As an Individual allow
me to speak of the trouble between
the building laborers and their em
ployers. During the winter all
crafts, including the laborers, -sked
for an Increase of wases, in most
cases to start on April 1. The labor
era were told by their representa
tives that they wero to havo a con
ference with the contractors and ar
range their wase scale, working
rules, etc., for the season. Parts of
their new working rules which went
into effect on February 1, notably,
that which related to classification
of workmen called for by '.he con
tractor and not hired, etc., were ob
jected to by the contractors. In a
spirit of fair play these were re
visod by the laborers.
In due time the mechanics were
granted their conference; also an
increase of wages. At :ast the lab
orers received theirs a slip of pa
per, some four or five typewritten
lines stating that commencing
April 1 wages were to be 60 and 70
cents per hour, in no case exceed
ing 75 cents; that all overtime was
to be paid for as straight time, in
stead of time and a half; also 48
hours to be considered a week's
work instead of 44. Our rates had
been 60 and 70 cents sinoe last sum
mer, and this virtually was a cut
instead of an increase. Day by day
the men grew more restless, con
sidering that injustice instead of
Justice had been granted and you
would have to argue a long time to
convince one of them that he was
worth only 60 cents per hour while
another, with very little, if any,
more skill than ha possessed, was
worth t his employer $1.12 1 2 to
$1.25 per hour.
The confplaint was made that
laborers were becoming loss effi
cient. Is it any wonder? On the
third instant the Building Trades
council promised to aid them to
secure an increase. On the 10th
they were informed that there was
to be no increase. Friday morning,
June 11, all loyal to local No. 297,
who had not been granted an in
crease to 75 and 87 1-2 cents per
hour, ceased work. If the men had
more of the radical type among
them they would have done so be
fore, but they were not anxious to
stop building operations in the city.
All they wanted was justice. A few
days later the contractors ! skod
them to return to work at the old
scale; they (the contractors) to see
the owners about granting an in
crease to 67 1-2 and 80 cents per
hour, according to work performed.
Was there such an argument as
this advanced when the mechanics
arranged their wage scale? I for
one never heard of it. Later the
men agreed to return to work at
these figures or the contractors'
American
State Bank
Capital $200,000.00
18th and Farnam St.,
Founded on Security
Built for Service
A word about Savings
WHY
Thia department has In
creased $100,000.00 in a short
time. 4 compound quarter
ly interest added to your ac
count. t
Deposits made on or before
the 10th day of any month
considered as having been
made on the first day. A
good place to put idle funds
waiting for investment, or
funds accumulating for in
vestment at a higher rate.
Subject to withdrawal without
notice.
Deposits in thia bank protected
br thj Depositors' Guaranty Fund
of the State of Nebraska.
D. W. CEISELMAN, President.
D. C. CEISELMAN, Caahiar..
H. M. KROGH, Aaa't. Caahiar.
terms, but the answer was: "N!
Your wages are as before."
In the main, I consider tho above
statement as correct. Lot me now
give a few words bf advice to e
employers of laborers: Have you in
any way practiced the Golden
Rule? Have you not, rather, treat
ed your laborers with contempt,
claiming that they were of llt.le
value to you? If any one s to e
rushed is it not the laborer Inste? .1
of the mechanic? Apain, is it not
a fact that the laborer is the r an
you make the profit on? I have
heard that you figured on a profit
of $6 per day on each man.
To the laborer, let me say: Try
to elect men to your executive of
fices who are qualified and then
trust and support them. Study the
business methods of those whr suc
ceed and apply them to .our local.
Again, the Golden Rule applies to
you as well as to your employer.
Again, conserve your health and
energy above all things. It is also
well for you to save what money
you can for the proverbial rainy
day. A) laborer myself, desirous of
placing the situation as I eeo it
fairly before the public, I hope that
The Bee will see fit to print the
above in full.
CLAUD F. ELLISON.
1609 California Street.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
A new circular saw for quickly
cutting railroad rails is operated
either by an electric motor or by
hand.
European railroad has adopted
steam-driven motor passenger cars
that resemble American gasoline
electrio cars.
According to a notice publlsheJ
in the British Board of Trade Jour
nal of May 27, the British depart
ment of overseas trade has been in
formed by the Latvian legation that
the proposed fair at Libau this sum
mer cannot take place.
A census of the 1920 maple ru.'.ar
crop In Vermont makes it appear
that 5,824,000 trees were tapped,
and the total production of maple
products in terms of sugar was 13,
104,000 pounds. The production
per tree averaged 2.25 pounds, as
compared with 1.79 pounds in 1919.
The pastor of the First Refomed
church at Lebanon, Pa., has Just
handed a red rose at the Rose day
service to Miss Florence W. Mish of
the seventh generation in line rrm
the donor of the church grounds,
who made the gift on condition ol
the payment of a red roso annually
to his descendants forever, If de
manded. The oil palm produces the palm
kernel, which yields a nut white oil,
and the pericarp of tlie kernel
yields tho palm oil, nn orange-red
oil In its crude form.
I CANNOT SING THE" OLD
SONGS.
"I cannot hi(C tha oM Bouts
I tmiiff long yearn aKO. .
For henrt and vole would fall m
Anil bitter tears would flow."
I cannot alna; tho old sons;
Aliouf sixteen to one,
It sounds too much Ilk joking
Too much Ilka rolling run.
I can't alng1 "Watchful Waiting,"
As t did years ago.
For they are still a'raljilng;
llell down in Moxko.
t cannot sins: the old sons:
"We are too proud to flKht'
For I'm afraid some douxhhov
Would whig me in my flight.
I cannot sing the old song
"He kept us out of war;"
They'd think I meant the airplanes
That never got that far.
I cannot sing the ditty
About the fourteen point.
With twelve of them abandoned.
The others out of Joint.
No use for me to try to sing ,
About the covenant;
I cannot reach the foreign pitch.
No, on the dead, 1 can't.
And, oh, the feehle swan song
Are but ghosts of the old.
With saddened heart I make my how
And quit the chorus cold.
A. DKMO. KUAT.
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