A BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1920. The. Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY TKI BBS PUBLISHING COMPANY. NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publisher. MEMBERS OF, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tit AiwvUltd TrtM, of vtilcB Th. Rc M a nrmtr. M at iIu!ti tniulM i th. at tor inMlritlni of all ikot atspatcaat (rrdltcd It or not Mhsrwtaa endiud In Ihlf ptnar, ut also lh local am publlahH herein. Ail light of ruUlcMloo at aur spaclal i'lpfttrhtt ar lo mtned. BEE TELEPHONES frlflta Branch Kirhsnis. Ak foe U.i, Tl 1AAA Dptrlnit or Pron Wintrt. IJ19T IVrVU Far Nlfht Call Altar 10 P. M.i tiillnrtal D1rtinant ........... TMar 1MML Cirrulttlnn rpannnl , . ...... Trltr WML AdirtltiB Daparunsat .......... iowl OFFICES OF THE BEE . Main OfflM: ;th and fmtm S Council Blttffl 15 Scot I it. I SouUt Si da till N 8t Ou-af-Tawa Offcast v Ns Tot M riflh At. I WaiMnttoa 13H O M. CWrsia Slater Bid. I rarta Friara J Baa St. Honors A- The Bee's Platform 1. Naw Union Paatangar Station. 2. A Pip Lin from th Wyoming Oil Field to Omaha. a 3. Conlinuad Imprerarnant of th No Wratka Highway!, including th pava t of Main Thoroughfare loading into Omaha with a Brick Surfaco. 4. A abort, low-rato Waterway from tho Corn Bait to tho Atlantic Ocean. 5. Homo Rul Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. HURRYING TO OLD AGE. Luigi Cornaro, a Venetian who died at 99 three hundred and rifty years ago, remarked when he was 78 that "whosoever wishes to eat much must eat little," a cryptic utterance in tended to convey the idea that a man who eats sparingly will live so long that his total food nhsorption will be much greater than that of one who wholly gratifies his appetites at every meal. The statement was made hy Cornaro because his friends continually pestered him with admonitions to eat more. The ancient notion that a man must eat largely to thrive physically still persists. Many people believe an ailing man should be stuffed with food in order that he may pain strength, when in most cases the cause of his ailing is overeating. ', In tan illuminating article in the Saturday Evening Post entitled "How Old Are You?" Dr. Rinel'art quotes from Cornaro's book "La Vita Sohria'' (The Temperate Life), and writes on old age, with valuable suggestions for re tarding ks arrival. Baldness, gray hair and wrinkles'ht says, are signs of old age no mat ter how' soon they appear, because they result from impaired circulation of the blood. Thus a man may begin to grow old at 30 or 40. And when he begins, it will be well for him "to look a little out" for the causes, and if possible eradicate them. ( "Work and recreation both contribute toward long life," says the doctor, and "toward con tentment." But there must be a "judicious mix ture" of the two. The modern intense applica tion to business and striving for wealth month after month and" year after year, without the proper mixture of recreation and rest, is what is bringing old age upon men young in years. When to the inescapable worries which attend money-making are added constant meat eating and he inhaling of tobacco smoke, one may in crease bis age thirty or forty years in six or eight actual years. The meat gets the kidneys, Dr. Rincbart says, and the inhaled smoke gets the nicotine poison through the lungs directly' to the heart. The moderate use of meat and of tobacco, if the smoke is not inhaled, is not con demned, but the wise man who reads the doc tor's article will irresistibly be drawn to the conclusion that when one reaches 40 it is not too early to begin taking heed lest premature - old nge overtake him. Trade With Soviet Ruaaia. Wrmission to trade with soviet Russia, ust granted by the government to Americans, amounts to little more than taking" official cognizance of a state of affairs already existing. A considerable traffic has been maintained for many months, sustained by various' subterfuges, chief, of which has been consignment to a go between. Similar conditions have prevailed in other of the allied countries, wherever in ex portable surplus existed in any line. Great Britain and France admitted this some weeks . ago, when they adopted an expedient somewhat' akin to that now taken up, by the United States. It was inevitable that this should be so. ftThe move does not carry any recognition of the soviet government, which must continue to ,; work out its destiny under the ban. A year ago, when Jan Smuts was taking. farewell of i" England, he warned the public that recognition ft of whatever form of government the Russian people adopted must eventually be accepted by the world. It might be a modified soviet or ganisation, or something else, but if it met the needs of Russians and was of their own making, then, said the great Boer leader, civilized gov ernments would necessarily have to deal with it. Lenine and Trotsky have learned quite aJ ! little in the last two years. They are moving accordingly. "Soviet" Russia is progressing towards such a stage of stability as indicates"ttie ; approach of a crisis in its government What 1 the near future may determine can not be guessed at. but it is reasonable to expect that Russia ,will in time resume its place among the 1 great responsible nations of the world. Traffic ' with outsiders is one sure avenue for the com : ing of better things for the people there." They m.v not have much to sell, not ability to buy a rcaf deaU but no iana hoios more of promise for material and moral progress. Better Use of Fuel. One of the sweet uses of adversity is to teach us how to properly employ and therefore better enjoy-the things we have. This is be ginning to be appHed to the use of fuel, follow ing a shortage and the accompanying high price. , While coal was cheap and easily obtainable,' prodigality in its use led to extravagant waste. Any sort of apparatus that would contain fire was considered good enough to burn coal in, and the fact that 95 to 98 per cent of the heat value f the fuel went up the chimney in the form of unconsuwed gases worried nobody very much. Finally, in Omaha, for example, the obscuration of the sky by dense clouds of black smoke, the constant falf of soot to defile every thing below, and the pollution of the-air by noxious gas. led to an anti-smoke crusade. ; Everybody knew that the smoke nuisance "was ii proof of extravagance "ami waste., by t "o lnty cared a great deal. Improper and in tnwn evie i-r heating plants were put wtO service, just Is they always had been, and Ve :.'. : 1.-' ;' ' . clouds of black smoke continue to roll out from chimneys, advertising to the world the care lessness of the owners. Now that TucI is scarce and costly, the search for relief is somewhat feverishly carried on. Proper combustion depends on one thing, the admission of a sufficient quanity of atmospheric air at or near the temperature in the firebox, so that it will readily combine with the gases that are liberated by the burning fuel. For big power or heating plants this is fairly well achievedby a number of so-called "automatic" stokers It is the small heating plant that has not yet been cared for. The inventor who will devise a fur nace that may be installed in a home or an apartment building which will approximate per fect combustion will do a great deal for a world that is weary of smpke and pestered by profiteers. V Why "Home Rule" Is Needed. The plight of the Board of Education is another argument in favor of home rtile.. Through the peculiar combination of increasing prices and restrictions as to its tax-levying power, the Independent School District of Omaha finds itself with a "red ink" balance of a little more than a million and 'a half dollar's. Dormant funds have been "borrowed" from until almost exhausted, and the treasurer is finally compelled to' issue warrants to the teach ers, payment of which will be deferred for sev eral months. The inconveniences of this is ap parent. Teachers who have been working for low wages will be compelled to sacrifice a part of their earnings, because of the discount on warrants. If Omaha were . governed by a charter adopted by its own citizens, an emergency of this kind would scarcely arise. Power to fix the tax limit would be in the hands of the city" council, with such checks and safeguards as would protect against reckless extravagance, and the predicament of the schools would easily be avoided. No one questions the willingness of the citizens to provide properly for the maintenance of the schools. Nor does anyone accuse the Board of Education of mismanage ment of the affairs tliat are entrusted to it. Costs of administration and management mounted faster than they could be met. The amount of money that can be raised by taxation under the present limit is insufficient to meet the needs of the schools. But Omaha is powerless and must wait until the legislature, assembles in order 'to get the authority needed to raise the cash that must be had to carry on its most important function, that of operating the public schools. A few months ago the police and fire departments were similarly handicapped. This condition can be remedied whenever the citizens take over en tirely the business of the community. Why wait? These Be Decadent Days. There conies to cur desk a beautifully printed little volume called "Vanitas" the Latin word meaning empty and vain. The foreword on the cover justifies the title. It says the author, Paul Eldridge, "is thoroughly convinced by long study and meditation that life is mud." We are further enlightened by the statement that "he takes delight in slapping Life in the face." How does he do it? H writes of God in this fashion: - God is a little girl" Gay and mischievous. That likes to play with' mud. , . One page is devoted-to Ghosts. Here follow its ' entire5- contents: Dead leaves The wind rolls on, Scaring little birds That rocked on them. Do birds rock on leaves? But let us pass on. On Flirtation we -have another entire page, whose contents follow: i You are a dainty Birdlet SwinRing giddily On the frailest twig T am a gray-eyed Tom-Cat Watching Alas I You never fall. ... How can men write such things? And how do they get them printedin Boston, Of aft places? And what manner of men can read them with patience? The foreword speaks of them as "exquisite poems." Gosh! Figures on Personal Extravagance. An official report shows expenditures for luxuries during the last fiscal year 'of $8,710. .000,000 an average of $7 a week or $364 a year for every family in thefcountry. v For tobacco men spenj $2,110,000,000, for automobiles $2,000,000,000 changed hands, and for candy $1,000,000,000. In the hundreds of millions-range cigarettes, perfumery, face powders, soft drinks, non-essential furs, and musical instruments. Anothef big item in the fist is carpets, rugs and clothing of finer qualities $1,500,000,000. What a bad hour the contemplation of these "figures would give Poor Richard, who sought to establish thrift in America. Superstition Yields Profits. Not since the 13-15-14 puzzle of twenty-five years ago, which made it's inventor a fortune, has a plaything brought its originator such rich returns in cash as the ouija board. The BaltU. more Presbyterian responsible for it is a mil lion dollars better off because of his adaptation of the old planchette board. He gave it the name "ouija" by combining the German and French words for yes. and now says: "Yes, yes; t is a good thing,, financially." But as a medium for spiritual communication he regards It with his tongue in his cheek. ' . A Landlord Spurns Gold. There are smiles to be had in all directions if we will but look for them. Take the caseiof Max Gold, for instance, who owns a hotel on the seashore near RockawayiT-which is leased to one A. Lipschitz. The Gold family went down to the hotel and rented quarters at $100 a week. Then the tenant raised the rate to $120. Mr. Gold refused to pay. Thereupon Mr. Lip schitz called his porte'rs and evicted the Gold family, bag and baggage. . Isn't that delightfully amusing? The owner of a hotel bounced by his tenant I vWe must read Emerson's essay on "Compensation" to get all there is out of this incident. . Ohio accepts her honors cheerfully. Every politician in the state is willing to fill some fat federal office. Our guess is that Mr. McAdoo is the worst -staaa rtrtstirt f 4 si i A i ' t - ' . yJ I V fc I ill ,111 iv -f News print prices may bow before Harding and Cox V "' A Line 0 Type or Two M,w la th Lino, lat tka lulii Ml htr than . IO. Bewildered, patient, lost in life's wild maze uf curious, endless ways that lure me on, I wander, witch-enchanted, weary, wan. Where light Is misted, nights are ghastly days. Still whispering wlldwoods chant glad lisping lays Of warbllnir hymn and leafy benison: Yet blushlnf? blossoms tell of (tlory gone Before mirage' magic, haunting haze. Through shower of sunshine as through glitter- Ing rain. By sobbing seas, past cities' towers tall, Past hearts of friends that fade as flowers fall, Thus onward ever wends my questing vain On flitting as the halcyon spurns the foam, For in my breast God's gadfly has We home. RIQUAK1US. WHEN the so-called American people sus pend business from Saturday to Tuesday, one discovers how needless is a large share of human activity. It is impossible to get any thing done in those two holidays, but half of the business you wish done could wait in definitely. Telegrams are not received, the day they are sent, but few telegrams are urgent. There is no news in the newspapers, but there is very little news any day if one follows Dr. Lhot s advice and omits every paragrapn or column which begins, "It is said," "It is re ported." "It is expected," or "We learn from a well informed source. WHATEVER THAT MAY PORTEND. (From the Daily lowan.) Slater has proven great ability in hurling the discus and holds a national record throw for the last season. His failure to place at the recent conference was a big sur prise, but the confidence of the coaches and fans is still ebbing at high tide. WE all know that Scotchmen get on well in the world, but some of us may not have known why. Mr. Bonar Law explains. The Scotch man has an ineradicable love of education, and to gratify his passion for learning he practices thrift. Dod ay! The Clock In SlagcluncJ. (A. B. Walkley in' the London Times.) There is another way of-playing tricks with the clock, by making it stand still for some of your ypersonae;es. while It ' ticks regularly for the rest. A. E. W. Mason, In one of his stories, gave an extra quarter of an hour now and then to one ot the characters that is to say, the clock stopped for them during that period, but not for him and while outside time, so to speak, he could do all sorts of things (if I re member rightly he committed a murder) with out risk of detection. Rut the great magician of this kind is Barrie. The heroine of his Truth about the Russian Dancers had a sudden desire for an Infant, and within half an hour was de livered of one; a remarkably rapid case of parthenogenesis. The infant was carrifed out and returned the next moment a child of 10. "He grows apace," said somebody. These were cases of the clock galloping. With the heroine of Mary Rose on the island it stands still, so that she returns twenty-five years later td her family precisely the same girl as she left them We all know what pathetic effects Barrie gets out of this trick with the clock. But he has, of course, to assume supernatural intervention to warrant' them. And there you have the con trast with the film. In the "spoken drama," poor, decrepit old thing, they appeal to that silly faculty, the human Imagination; whereas the film has only fo turn some wheels quicker or slower and it Is all done for you. under your nose, without any imagination at all. How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. EVANS . Ouratluna romernlng hygiene, nl tatlon nnd firrventlon of Utaeuie, nuIi mltted to Or. Kvan by rmler oi The lire, wlU b annwerrd prunnlly. ul. J ret to proper limitation, 'where tamped, arttlrwed rneelope I en eloned. Ir. Kvnna will not make dlairnoiila or prenerlbe for Individual dlKennea. Address lettere In rare of The Bee. Copyright. ::o. by Dr. W. A. Evan. WHEN KIDS SWALLOW PINS. If a child swallows a button, what is to be done about it? Th depart ment of health of New York devotes a bulletin to answering this and sim ilar questions. The first question to decide Is whether the object has been swal It wed. The child's testimony on this pcint is not always reliable. Infor mation as to the size and nature of the foreign body should be secured. Next an X-ray examination made tc locate the object. This picture should include the entire abdomen, since objects sometimes pass the stomach readily, but tateh some where else in the digestive tract. YOU may recall that two or three years ago a prominent brewer asserted that modern beer is the result of developing a process handed down by the Egyptians. We now suspect that the intervening centuries were devoted toStudy ing how to clarify the brew. As the secret is no longer of value to him, will some ex,brewer advise us how he cleared the stuff? Chiggcrs Must Bo Blossoming, Which Reminds Va That When the enterprising chigger is Vchigging And maturing his felonious little plan, -He loves to climb the lingerie and rigging And tunnel into Annabel and Ann. The chigger then with chloroform they smother. His Jlttle hour of pleasure then is o'er. So take this consideration with the other, A chigger's life is pretty much a bore. ALTHOUGH the U. S. is technically at war with Germany, we trust that the entente has been restored between A. F. Poppa of Chicago and C. H. Momma of Hamburg. A POMK OV MAY NOT KNOW. (Lament of the Spanish minstrels over the tak , ing-off of Joselito.) Go not to the meadow. The flowers have faded. For the king of the matadors Lies dead at Talavera. From the star-spangled sky A star has fallen. The brightest light Of the bullfighter's art. On May 15, In Madrid plaza, , Jose had bad luck And the right was a sorry one. While he was being hissed A spectator shouted madly, "May a hull kill thee Tomorrow at Talavera." A calamity, indeed. That cry portended, . For Jose was tossed And at Talavera died. -' When Joselito fell Undpr that terrible stroke, H pressed his hands to his stomach, Where the wound was. And on the ground he lay, That unequaled torero. His Jifeblood flowing out From the great rent. THE friends of Ireland (and who isn't?) are looking for'aid on the wrong side of the At lantic. Have they forgotten what Kuno Meyer said. "Germany must fight Ion till Ireland is free?" Saratoga In 1850. . s "Into a tall tin tumbler he dashed little blocks of Ice, clearer than the i-learest crystal, which clicked and rattled refreshingly. Then he turned in the liquors with acareless but ac curate fling, and sprinkled In bits of fragrant mint, with a due allowance of sugar and a very thin slice of lemon. Then holding jhe tumbler aloft in his right hand, he kept up for half a minute an endless pouring into Just such an other receptacle In his other hand, and so on, back and forth, as If he were prestidigitator. stretching a foaming ribbon between the twoj vppjpeis. mis none, wun a rinsing rap as lie set a glass goblet on the counter, and Into this went the mixture, cold, strong, and sparklin; with little hubles, each glass having a long stem of clean white straw standing upright in the blocks of Ice: for the true enjoyment was to im bibe th nectar through such a conduit." MANY of those 30,000 new readers which the Trib recently gathered, without the aid of a net. are advising us that Puis & Puis are dentists in Sheboygan. The last word in this wheeze was pronounced by an old contrib, who sug gested that if the second Puis were a son, the firm should be Puis & Fils.- ' HOW TALL THE CORN IS GROWING! (From Corn Belt Pig Tales, Dubuque.) The young" ladies of the ifflre quietly slipped out to ITnlon park and had dinner, besides doing other things. BY the way, who is the bridge-whist author ity now? B. L. T., v .' ; -"The Strenuous Life. . Hustling farmer (at 5 o'clock in the' morn ing, trying to awake a young town chap, who has hired -to the farmer for the summer): Hey, there, young fellow wfke upi Get a move on you. Here it is MoiVday morning; tomorrow is Tuesday, and the;next day is Wednesday. Half the week gone, and nothing dune yet I Country Gentleman. !i x If the object swallowed .is a pin or bone it is Important thoroughly to examine the back part of the throat, because bones and pins lodge there occasionally. To Jo this wrap a towel around a flnser and use this finger to keep the teeth ftpart. With the index finger of the other hand explore the back of the mouth thor oughly. It is important not to.rrive purgatives to dislodge pins, Bones ami other sharp pointed object s. On the other hand, give plenty of such dry foods as bread, cereals, corn, po tatoes and wheat bran. The popular custom of giving cornbreai made from unbolted cornmeai is a good one. If the foreign body has passed into the windpipe the rule ds that violent coughing and strangling will reveal the fact. The following devices are sometimes effective, fioldlrg the person by the heels with head hang ing down, slapping him between the shoulders, tickling the bac'; of the throat to induce vomiting. However, a foreign body may oass into the windpipe without causing grat ir ritation. I have in mind a man who swal lowed a chicken bone down his wind pipe and did not recognize the fact. It lodged In his lungs and he was treated a long time for consumption Eventually he coughed up the bone and his consumption got well. Lerche reports many cases of bones in the windpipe, lungs and oesophagus, some of which did not cause an excessive amount of cough ing or strangling. Surgeons now succeed fairly well 'n locating for eign bodies in tliPj' windpipe and oesophagus, using X-ray and other instruments, -and in extracting them. The bulletins advise that slight cuts be covered with a clean band age; that no antiseptic be used. That slight burns be dressed with sterile vaseline. When a person .faints he is to be allowed to lie quietly in a horizontal position. It's Good For Mutch's. Reader writes: "Unless I interpret you wrongly you have stated at dif ferent times that there is little or no virtue in deep breathing. By which I understand is meant taking now and then at least long deep breaths. As I remember, Mr. Roose velt,' explaining how he developed from a rather weak and puny boy to an athlete, said it wis done by practicing deep breathing. Was he mistaken about it?" REPLY. Mr. Roosevelt was not always right ' He built himself up as he said. His deep breathing exercises served to develop the muscles of his chest and back, but beyond that they did no good. Better Be K.xnmitied. ' - E. S. writes: '-'i have always walked a great deal atiu taken a moderate degree of physical exer cise. But recently I find that jt I go through any physical or 'deep breathing exercises, 'or awhile aftpr my heart beats at the rate of 100 o more a minute ind I cannot get my breath. Sometimes I waken at west For Help Kxtoiidcd. Lincoln, Neb., July '. To the Editor of The Bee: In tehalf of the Nebraska, State association of the National Association of I.cttei Car riers I wish to thank The Omaha Bee for the loyal support given the letter carriers through your oditorlal col umns at a time when we were striv ing so hard to get a raise in salary. It was through The Bee ana other papers that we were able to get our cause before the public and eventu ally get a raise in salary. Every letter carrier a traveling advertiser, so depend on us to boost The Bee. W. D. SHEAR. , State Secretary National Associa tion of Letter Carriers. night and cannot take a full breath. My ankles are swollen noet of the time. 1 "1. What 6hould I do to relltve this? - "2. Should I give up all physical and deep breathing exercises outside of what I get In my work ar.d walk ing? I drink one quait of milk a day, but eat no meat or white bread. Does one's diet affect the heart?" REPLY. You probably have Vart disease. Have a physician examine you, es pecially as to the condition of your heart, kidneys and thyriid. If you have organic disease you must regu late your exercise on ihe basis of the condition found. It is not likely that your diet lis a factor in your case, though your diet is not a good one. American State Bank ; Capital $200,000.00 ' 18th and Farnam Streets y Founded on Security 1 Built on Service JULY 1, 1920 ' Start your Savings Accounts with us now. This Department has increased $150,000.00 in & very short tinte. . Many of our customers say: 4 compound quarterly interest added to -the account Funds on demand without notice- , To be able to make deposits the first ten days of month without loss of interest for the month - are conveniences they desire. For idle funds waiting for investment at a higher j rate, this Department will pay you well while you are investigating. . ' ) YOU ARE INVITED Deposits In this bank are protected by the Depositors" Guar anty Fund of the State of Nebraska. D. W. Geieelman, President D. C. Geiselman, Cashier : H. M. Krogh, Asst. Cashier - Sugar not used in making Grape-Kuts -nor-reQuired in ' serving, because this . unusual cereal is so sweet from natural sugars developed from .the grains. 1 8 6 9 WmmmM - t .- A franchise to manufacture gas was granted to the Omaha Gas Manufac turing Company in January, 1868. Two lots near 11th and Jackson were leased to the company by the city on Feb ruary 19. 1869. at a rental of $5.00 per year. ' By November, .1869, the company had 198 customers. The price was $5.50 per thousand. Electric light came in 1883. You are invited to transact your banking business with a bank that was in business in Omaha twelve years be fore the town had gas lights and twenty-six years before it saw electricity; a bank that has continued without merger or consolidation strife 1857. f irst National Bank of Omaha uunnnno yvnjr mtr t I is supreme V I Ml II -onaest-livfd piano m the world bar none. Ask for a guarantee from the maker or tetter of any otKcr piano equal to th Mason Hamlin guarantee. SucK a guarantee will est t given because it CAnnot Aik us to . showjou wh 7V wJl i. a it ill 1 m HBaJM 1 I a Jl n lis, 3 I E an BED 3 3 CROWN a 3 GASOUNE 3 Q Q H H H H H H H 1513-15 Douglas Street i "The Art andt Music Store""' A Symbol of Service Aed Crown service stations don't just happen to be always nearby. The man who fills yours tank doesn 't just happen to be obliging" and courteous. And you don't always merely happen to be served promptly. This is all part of the service you get when you stop at a Red Grown, sign, you carry the rest away clean, greater mileage, full -powered gasoline Red - Crown. ' v v;tv,- 3; And when you use Polarine Oil, the ideal motor lubricant, our ser vice and your satisfaction is com plete. Start using, them both today. At your nearest Red Crown station. STANDARD OIL COMPANY . (NEBRASKA) : , OMAHA