f I V f M. f r i 1v if! i t if The Omaha bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEX PUBUSHWO COMPANY.. ,. NEL80N B. UPDUS. Publisher. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tht asiocistea rrta, of wbleti The Bm II amber. U a elasttot eaUUod to lb dm for jn(csttoe of ill sees dtrateher endued to U er not otlunrlte ndl'4 In this turn. a4 tin the Iml atwt pabushoj hertla. All rtstsi of puMluUoo of ear special dl && ore also mened. , j BEE TELEPHONES v SSS.JSJT pJ Tyler 1000 For NIfht Coll After 10 P. M.i Uttorttl Derartnent ........... Trior 10001 2lKUltlon Doperuaent Trior 10011 tdreruelns Depsttaent ...... Trior 100I OFFICES OF THE BEE Hsln Office: 171b and rinii 18 Boott BL I lomh aide 1311 R Si Out-sf-Tmrn Offlcooi Ms rtftb An. I ttfcihJrxto 1311 O at Stout Bide I firli Francs 410 Rut St. Hooort Ooanell Blaffi lfo Tort . CUomo The Bee's Platform 1. Now Union Paasenfjer Station.' 1 2. Continued improvement of the Ne braska Highways,. Including the pave- -,. mant of Main The rourjhf area leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A hrt, low-rate Waterway from the Core Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. t. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager for on of Government. THE REAL RATE PROBLEM. Proceedings at Lincoln, which are generally ' being duplicated or will tie throughout the union, indicate the intricacies jbf the rate problem now ' confronting the railroailr. "To bring the intra-, late rates onto a parit with" interstate requires the action of the state immisions, and to them ' the roads rriust preseijjt their pleas, supported by proof' that 'the jryjease asked is justified. There is af present a jide discrepancy between the charges on local ajhd through business, and the question o be dcctled is 'whether any justi fication exists for the continuance' of the situa tion. One interesting delight is thrown on the matter by action just fiijgun in Minnesota, where ther state railway commission is seeking toi re vive a suit relative to; former rates which were suspended by the couriji. Among other items in this is the 2-eent farej; , ' ' Local shippers are intensely interested in all this, for the outeotnejwill affect them most vi tally. It is not enoi-jh for the roads to-come .Jnto court and show ijhat a great divergence ex istsV bftwecii through and local rates. Under all rulings so far laid down, they must establish that the charges are not compensatory. When the Interstate Commerce commissionmade its recent order, granting a general increase on through business, it bad in mind the expense of operation, and took such action as would ensure the roads a reasonable revenue, based solely on through business. , Operating expenses naturally include maintenance of local serv ice, and if this already is compensated for under the new general order, it may be ques tioned if the generalise proposed on intrastate business is entirely warranted. The movement revives interest in the plank of the republican platform of 1912, which pro posed a unified federal control of all. rates. If that plan had been adopted, it would now be possible through the-regional rate-making bodies to establish railroad tariffs that would bear something of a proportional relation. As it is, with the revenue of he roads secured tinder the general order, a similar advance on local busi ness is certain to produce an excess, and a fur ther readjustment ill be needed , in order to get the transportation charges on a proper basis. The complexity of the problem leads to the belief that it is not going to be answered im mediately, or by rule-of-thumb methods. Gen eral reforms can not be accomplished while so , many agencies, all more or less detached and , working frequently; at cross purposes, have con trol. Before the transportation industry of the United States is on a satisfactory footing, the plan of the Tepublicans, so roundly denounced by the democrats, orj something along the same line will have to be adopted. J Place fat Class Distinctions. Senator Harding his declaration that jhas struck a high note in I the republican party does. not intend to appeal jo farmers or wage workers because of their greater numbers, but "we wish the confidence of afl." It is on this basis the republican party hai always approached the voters. The party or cause that seeks temporary, success by exalting one division of the citizen ship above another! is certainly doomed to fail ure. Prosperity that Is not shared in by all is not prosperity; laws that: do not operate equally and give the same chance to everybody are not just lavs; a government that undertakes to dis tinguish between its citiiens is an unsound gov ernment. These truisms apply to the present campaign, just as tbey do to all others. Efforts are being made, and wilt be made, to array one group of citizens against another; promises of special favors or advantages are being made, add pleas resting on clan differences have been and will be heard. This sort of campaign effort has Usually" been left to the socialists, or other proponents of special panaceas. It is no part of the republican program, for the party that has stood for human liberty from the first is not yet ready to cut away? 'from its solid anchorage of truth and frstice. j A square deal and an ven break is all it proves. i ' ' ' Camdeif Cornea Across. '.Walt Whitman's old home town has learned to honor tim. For years after, his. death not a single topy of his works was per mitted in the Camden library. Forty years ago his "Blades of Grass," extremely indelicate and very frank, was kept under lock and key in many libraries ateng with Balzac's "Droll Tales," Bob Irrfjersoll's "Lectures," the "Decameron" and other tabooej works. Not until Emerson pitised the book did it get what we may call social recognition, or was it allowed on the cf en shelves of most public libraries. ... Now Camden, J., has bought the house fa which Walt resided, and will use it as a Whit man museum." -1 ' ' .' Easy Money in Soston, If there is anything men go to with en thusiastic abandon jit is easy money, and since the shrewd Porui tamed how to make 400 per cent by accumulating foreign money at a big discount, sending it to the countries Which issued ft, and exchanging t for international reply cou pons at normal rates, which were payable in American money, le has had the attention of financiers the country over. : la three in on fii In had Boston crazy, the fraud fefieral deteiqtives running around in cir cles, and the whole country wondering how he did it. . Then came a run from his patrons, who were paid SO per cent profit with an ease that made bankers turn green with envy. And Ponzi is still "doing business" with mil lions to his credit. He bagged an idea, set it to work, and ever since has been singing: "My Lord, how the money rolls in," while would-be competitors wonder how he beat them to it. The Cruelty That Corrodes. "I want it understood that Charlie did not beat nie," says Mrs. Chaplin, discussing her suit for divorce on the ground of mental cruelty, "buthe caused me to suffer great mental anguish by his neglect. I never knew where he was or whatshe was doing. He married me, and as soon as he married me he forgot all about me." Cruelty indeed, refined and intensified. Mere physical hurts are not to be compared with in- juries to peace of mind and that composure which is essential to mental health. The man who slaps his wife, jerks and twists her arm, knocks her down, or kicks her. is a brute unfit for entrance into any home. Knowledge of his conduct bars him from respectable society, and puts him in universal contempt. But there is a worse kind of mistreatment. It is that which humiliates, distresses, and pun ishes the mind of a wife. Women are hurt worse by words, by unhappy facts that disturb and distract their souls than by bruises of the flesh. And yet, such is human nature" that many a wife whowould leave her husband instantly after ta physical blow, worries along under men tal insults that all but drives her mad. Let it be said also, that men are not the only creatures who cause mental anguish. A crupl woman can inflict agonies upon a man who loves her. She can torture him beyond all endurance by her words, her conduct, even her glances, with never a physical touch. Many a man has been nailed to the cross of an un happy matrimonial alliance, whose sufferings have made life" itself a hell for him. Cruelty is not a trait of men alone. It degrades both sexes. Modern life, especially among those whose circumstances,- permit indulgence and ex travagance, and provide abundant leisure which degenerates into idleness and discontent, is prolific of marital troubles. The busy life is the only safe one for either sex. When pleasure becomes the ruling passion, and work is re garded as unnecessary, when economy is aban doned and duty ceases to press, the ties of home and love and honor too often weaken. Then comes domestic tragedy, and with it the suffer ing by the innocent party that brings a great and courageous soul to the heights of self-sacrifice and nobility. White's Irreverence1 for the League. A a practical politician George White, now the personal representative of Governor Cox, has a canny belief that the people of the United States are not enamored of a league of' nations through which one citizen of this country ap pointed by the president cart force us into war or any other sort of political enterprise in Europe by voting for it as America's representa tive on the council of the league. George has dwelt for many years under the influence of Marietta college, a famous institu tion thoroughly in accord with New England ideas, in a community founded by New England veterans of the Revolutionary War, and still permeated with deep reverence for the original principles of the Republic of Washington, of the Declaration of Independence, and of thev Constitution. That is why George told astonished eastern apostles of Wilson's heresies that "Ohio is not thinking much about the League." It isn't; and what little it does think about it is not of a wholly complimentary nature. Marietta and Ohio have not yet. learned to "think, interna tionally," being kept sufficiently busy intel lectually trying to solve the home problems of "prosperity," and incidentally dodge the busi ness penalties accruing from a presidential policy that keeps us out of peace. The New York Times and the World do not like White's irreverent attitude toward the pres ident's pet hobby, and have taken to lecturing him. They'd better let him alone. We know him and his disposition. As chairman of the national democratic committee he is a man of authority, and if he takes a notjon to discipline a few New York newspapers caught in the forks of Article X they'll not like it. A demo cratic chairman who goes to Washington with out craving permission to bow the knee at the White House altar is not a person to monkey with. ' An Ancient Plant. The pedigree of asparagus is the subject of a paragraph in an exchange, which remarks that it was cultivated in Rome 200 years B. C. and quotes Pliny as saying there was in his day a variety of Which three stalks weighed a pound. Whether its quality as a food ranked with that of the Nebraska product" of the present time may well be doubted, for epicures the country over bow in ecstasy over the delicious Ne braska growth. The soil here seems to add a flavor not found in the product of other states. In the Seventeenth century sparrow grass was the common name, for the plant, but for a hundred years that corruption of the word has been out of vogue. An Ohio Chairman's Scandals. George White's Scandals of 1920. Globe Theater, B'way and 46th St. Adv. i Among them being, presumably, George's naive remark: "Frankly, we don't know much about the League of Nations in Ohio;" Cox's White House side-step, with progressive varia tions; the Dayton News' 1916 German editor ials; the dry wetness of the democratic candi date, and other political head-liners. A new one coming every week! , r "Snappy" parties have caused a scandal at the University of Illinois. The only novelty is that it is professors and not students who are involved. " v Another encouraging sign is that buyers are commencing to ask "How much is it?" instead of saying "Wrap it up." Tyrus Raymond Cobb is going to "line 'em out" for Cox and Roosevelt. Another sign that Ty' is slipping. New York democrats still declare in favor of 2-point-75. Why put a limit on wishing? "Home brews" home broils. is very potent in starting Where dqe the democratic oarty stand' THE BEE: OMAHA THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1920. A Line 0' Type or Two How to mo Liu. M Mm uIm fill hora thy mvt. THE NIGHT TRAIL. On misty nights, while raring o'er the hills, I scan the sky for faint Polaris' light. If Dipper's pointers show the place ft fills, Full reassured I set my course aright. If I could rearrange celestial things, i . Could shift the fires in night's inverted bowl, I'd pluck great Sirius from where it swings And pivot it above the whitened Pole. This matchless Jewel of the firmament Would burn thro" mists that quench Polaris' gleam. Its splendor aeons hence will be unspent.... The camp Are embers die while thus I dream. C. W. A. THE original Bluebeard, -whom legend has slandered, did not keep a dairy. The modern Bluebeard keeps a record of his armours. Cer tain items in the diary ot the frenchman Lan i dru touch the imagination those which show the purchase of round-trip tickets for himself and single tickets for his wives. MR. HARDING accuses the democrats of "softpedaling" the league issue. Does he refer to "Peace, progress, prosperity?" PPP, or ppp, indicates pianissimo, which in the popular mind is associated with the soft pedal. SIR THOMAS believes the Shamrock would have slipped more easily through the wave if he had given her a coat ot blackieaci The next Shamrock, we understand, is . to be built of slippery elm. A TENNESSEE IDYLL. (From the Houston County News.) On Sunday, a day when summer showers and open skies made a bewitching pano rama of clouds and sunshine. floating over pretty landscapes, symbolical of a fruitful and gracious life, just at beauteous eventide but before the shades of night began to fall, occurred a pretty wedding at the home of Mr. and Mrs W. C. Pegrim, when their charming and accomplished daughter. Miss Leta Mali was given in marriage to Mr. Charley Banks. MR. HERRICK, according tos the Minne apolis Tribune, was received at the Hotel De ville, which traveled Americans will remember as one of the. best bostelries in La Belle France. , t The Dear Dead Days. j Sir: I have just returned from Kentucky and deplore the fact that every Kentuckian hasn't a still in his backyard. In fact, I record the awful Incident that I swapped sodas with the gents in the Blue Grass' state. And speak ing of Kentucky, reminds me to tell you that, in the Good Old Days, a speaker of note, address ing a Kentucky audience, inquired if anybody In the crowd had a pint flash. There wasn't a move in the room. Suddenly an old timer stood up and said: "Will a quart flask do?" "Yes," replied the speaker. Whereupon the entire au dience rose. BISH. THIS Parley Christeneen parlevoos like a poisson frit. You may never have heard one speak, but as the phrase has been in use for centuries it must convey some shade of meaning. A PUCKERING STRING MIGHT SERVE. Sir: The young lady who listens to dicta phone cylinders went shopping for a nifty bath ing suit. She returned vehemently asserting that rather than pay $75 for a suit she would go without. How can we keep them up? SIG. lays of the lake xiii. sweet love me , as the gentle tide breaks softly . on the shore I would not have you love me less you could not love me more caress me as the rippling waves kiss once 1 then fall . to sleep sweet r' , .''" love me as the tranquil bfue tryst with the sands doth keep o love me as the setting sun rests softly on the sea i and crimsons all the turquoise wave so blushing smile on me when twilight fades In purple haze upon the opal deep caress me as the rippling wave v still whisper , in their sleep then lov me as the amber rnon makes magic through the trees and silent falls on raptured sands . cooled by the hushed ' sea breeze sweet love me as the gentle tide breaks softly on the shore I would not have you . love me less ' ' you could not love me mare rlquarius WE believe we have recorded the fact, but if not let it be set down that the specialty of Mr. Amorous, of the Hare's Motors company, is chummy roadsters. . . BY changing a word the compositor some times makes an item more subtle than is neces sary. Let us run this again and see whether we can get it straight: TES, WE KNOW IT, WHAT OF ITT (From the Washington Times.) Do you know thaf. During the middle ages and in the renaissance period brides were crimson to the exclusion of all other colors? "ASSERT Man Suicided by Laying on Track." Manitoba Free Press. "In Nashua five women were kept In a cell k. . . without even a mattress to lay upon. New Republic. Nevertheless, the teaching of grammar in the public schools should.be continued for a while at least. WONDER WHAT A SMALL TOWN x SOCRATES THINKS ABOUT. (Correspondence Marion Republican.) Ezra Carter was heard soliloquizing re cently, and the impression gained by the ibne who heard htm was ample evidence that his mind was inextricably conglomer ated on the question of Woman's Rights. SOUTH CHICAGO'S star cherry picker averaged 121 quarts per day. His name is D. Canter, and you iave one guess as to what he does with the cherries. "We Were Crowded In the Pullman." . Sir: The Pullman company sold a lower which I had already bought to a couple of young ladles. Now, a berth is crowded enough with two persons in it. let alone three. SIM NIC. TAKE your choice. Both examples of climax have been criticised: "Ready to serve ourselves, humanity and God." "For God, for country, and for Yale." PLASTER CASTE. (From the Barry Adage. V Our school building is being replastered -' by that prince of the trowel, Fred Glllings. FRIENDS, the flood of bunk is rising fast. Provide yourself with a mental life preserver and book your passage on the Ark. "Gov. Edwards: 'Westward hoi' Mr. Bryan: 'Westward H20.' "Detroit News. WHO, sups with Lenin should have a long spoon. . B. L. T. Mutual Aid, If Europe can get in shape to entertain American tourists the financial stress over there can be quickly relieved as the tourists are re lieved. Savannah News. Democratic Dogma. The democrats also believe in party rule but one m$n constitutes that party. Boston i Tnoiiru water and hold on to it. Since there is to be an effort to get the water out of the tissues an effort should fir?t be made to lessen the saltiness of the tissues. Men who wi-ite about canr.ibals say these people recognise certain people t,s being saltier than others. Some cannibals pick out a salty fellow to eat just an some of us prefer a salty herring. Ordinary food cooked wit hout any salt will contain about 1'i grains of salt in the day's food. Even baJly damaged kidneys can get rid of that amount of salt without the help given by th Rkin. Persons with HiiSht's disc and drop?y should rat no salt me t or -salt winter fish. Thc-lr bread should be cooked with out Fait, and their Jtmtter should be um-alted. No salt shoul fl be used in cooking and the use oil table salt should be forbidden. Since the principal desire for salt li i as a con diment rather than a fond, a good deal of spices, lemon Julo e, vinegar and sugar should be us ?d in its stead. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Quootloao conceralaa hygloao, oonlto tion and prevention of diieue, oub mittod to Dr. Evans by roadoro ol Tho Boo, will bo answorod poroonally, sub ject to propor limitation, wboro . a stamped, addressed envelops is en closed. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis or proscribe for individual diseases. Address letters in cars of The Bee. ' Copyright, 1V20, by Dr. W. A. Evans. MORE ABOUT BRIGHT'S DIS EASE. There are a great many diet cures for Bright's disease. In eddltion to those with some standing anions physicians, nearly every man who has had Bright's disease for 10 years or more has faith in some diet cure, and many of them arc generous enpugh to want to tell their fellow man about it. Whenever any disease gets a rep Many Are UencAto d. Undecided writes: "I ait i 19 years old and have been taking the cure for consumption for about t a year. My doctor says I am imprl iving and will be able to go home within a fow months, but I read in your paper that if a young adult gets t. b. he always dies before retv ming 25. If this fs ko, would it not be better if I went home now, thertil y saving my parents a lot of expena a as long as there seems to be no exe eptlon to the rule?" It E PLY. You misunderstood what I wrote. I did not say that young consump tives always die before re :hing 26. On the other hand, a largi propor tion of young consumptives get well their disease is arrested. utation for severity, which it does not deserve, a crop or cures in; evltably springs up. Dr. B. gives in the 1920 Year Book of Medicine his opinions on the dietetio treatment of tho different kinds or Bright s dis ease. With acute Bright's disease a man should begin treatment by drinking one quart of' sweet milk a day and taking no other food or drink. He can flavor his milk with a little tea or coffee and drink a little out of a spoon every three hours. In about three days he should have increased this to two and a half quarts. Of this 10 ounces should be taken every three hours. If he prefers he can tako his milk as skimmed milk or clabber. If everything goes well aftei a few days reduce the milk to two quarts and later to one and one half quarts, and add three ounces of biscuit and three ounces of sugar. After the acute 6tage has passed gradually lessen the milk and add a smalj quantity of meat. This should bo well cooked. Rare meats are not allowed, nor is it safe to eat "high" meats or those which have been held until they have developed con siderable "flavor." .As the kidneys get into better condition consider able latitude in diet is allowable. Once a man has started to diet for acute Bright's disease he is liable to stick to his limited bill of fare too long. In Bright's disease wltli dropsy it is advisable to use a salt-free diet. When too much salt is eaten sonfe of it accumulates in the tissues. Salty tissues pick up Always Stands Hltche d. Whatever else may be sa id about Vice President Marshall, nol ody can properly accuse him of havl ng mag nified his office Dallas Nev is. K. M. A. A first-class Church School for boys of good character. For catalog address Col. Henry Drummond The Kearney Military Academy Kearney, Neb. Here's fish If 1 WA h oa , TH. 2 jjjll ODD BITS OF INFORMATION. The yearly milk bill at one of the principal London hospitals now amounts to-$S0, 000 as compared with 125,000 before the war. A cablegram received from Minis ter McGoodwin Caracas, June 12, 1920, states that the "Venezuelan gov ernment has granted a oontract to an American citizen for the construc tion of an eloctrlo railway from San Kelix, on the Orinoco river, to the C.uaslpatl gold fields, as veil as the rental of the Caronl river falls to furnish the necessary hydroelectric power. When William B. Maxey of Gardi ner, Me., was a boy he put $14.06 in the Gardiner Savings Institution. It amounts now to $157.08 and Mr. Yax ey is thinking of turnng tt ovev to the city to be left at compound In terest for a long term of years. A state bank examiner has figured that M"5"M"55--"J-W-M""'- ! Right Now j is the time to have your win ter garments put in shape to wear. Let us have them during August, when we can take plenty of time and pains with them. . We put new linings in coats or overcoats, ut on velvet collars and new buttons, make new edges on sleeves and bot toms of trousers, put in new pockets, etc. Send them now and be prepared. 77,, Pantorium "Good Cleaners and ISIS Jonos St. Phone South Side: 4708 South Phono So. 1283. GUY LIGGETT, President. OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY smesns unmmms UHariB hov v Joes star y really sfeied VE CLAMBERED down. 3 JH ROUGH HEAVY thickets. 0 0 0 tND WE rowed the boat. ... o o o C lUT TO a rocky ledge. 0 0 0 V WERE BLACK bass bidet. T HEN JOE let out a roar. 0 o o ' F OR HIS cigar box. O O 0 H AD FISH lines In It O O 0 It I8TEAD OF smokes. 0 0 0 A ND HE refused with icern. O O 0 0 UR CIGARETTES. 0 0 0 H B SAID they were npL- 0 0 0 E,T rEN FIT for batt. '000 H TO HAVE a man's smoke. 0 0 0 01 I NOTHING. 00 A ND FOR an boar. 0 o o H E GOT nothing. 0 0 0 N JT EVEN a bite. 0 0 W HILE WE pulled 'em la. . o o o -Al . ' LAST h grunted. a a o IMME A cigarette." 0 0 0 Af 10 IT Jut happened, 0 o HI I LUCK changed then. .oo SO i NOW Joe swears. 00 TH 1AT THOSE cigarettes. 0 0 0 Wl IRE 80 blamed good. . - ,' Ht u BAITED a hook. O ' -O ! 0 Wl TH ONE of them. a o o AN J CAUGHT a whale. PA RTICULAR FISH, be sas. ' HII USELF AMONG them. , . o r o o ' E JUST the sort IT' THEY satisfy. so in 604 years at Compou id interest this 1157.03 would amount to $41. 144 692.2S, or about 10,538 times the variation of Gardiner. A -'Xtnetfcan in nlmc and ownership " but worldwide in ft matdUess siijjremacy; itlieiTiiamliit ' cuisite small qrands , just; received .J Htihesipriced-hiahest pitised J '- 1513 Douglas Street The Art and Music Store Dyers" Doug. 063 24th St. Phone Douglas 2793 umot smiim c TifP at W1 iwwf-rnai "mug sjenii'ii its i ii.tv COMMERCIAL PRINTERS LITHOGRAPHERS STEEIOIECMSOSSERS LOOSC LCAf OCVICCS With acknowledgments to K. C B. MANY a cigar smoker will agree that Chesterfields "satisfy.?' They let you knovr you're smoking. And yet they're mild mild and smooth. What's the secret? Just knowing how to blend choice Turkish and Domestic tobaccos just irightt II ire