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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1920. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COM PANT. NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publisher. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS T)M amoitt.a' PrtM. of wblea Tin Bm it a matter. It luilf.lr alidad to Ui. uw for publleatiOD of tl) mix alapatebai nUu4 to It or not otlionriM erndltM) la tkti pssor, aad ala tot lotai n.wi puhllMuiJ harain. ail rttku af puMlcatloa of out apodal airpatcaai art alto raamd. BEE TELEPHONES Prlrata Drams Bxcbinno. Aaa for Ilia T-U. 1 fWI Dtparuntnt of Partuo Wanted. IJ19T IWU For Night Calla Aftar 10 F. M.f Brtllorlal DtTiaitmont - Trior 1M0L CiiculaUoo Dovartmont .......... Trior IO08L AdrartlaiBj Dapanmanl .......... Trior 1008L OFFICES OF THE BEE llain Offlro: 17tn and Paraaa CouneU Blaffi 15 Scott 8t South Side till H St Out-oI-Town OKicMi Ktw Tor iM Plftb An. Wathlnrton ltl O St Cbieata Btaior Bid. I Parlt Franc IM Baa Be Bonora The Bee Platform 1. 'New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improTemeat of the Naw braaka Highways, including tha pav manl af Main Thoroughfares leading into Omaha with a Brick Surfaca. 3. A shortf low-rata Waterway from tha Corn Bait to tha Atlantic Ocaan. 4. Horaa Rula Chartar for Omaha, with City Managar form ftf Government. CAN HE GET AWAY WITH IT? A series of astonishing inaccuracies of state ment stands out so prominently in the speech of acceptance delivered by Governor Cox on Saturday that courtesy is strained to look on them as inadvertencies. It scarcely seems pos sible that the governor could be aware of the actual facts, as he must, and then by osdinary processes of reasoning lead his mind t$ the con clusions he announced. Especially does -this apply to the revenue question, over which he slips so gracefully, contenting himself with the assertion that the republicans wholly neglected to cure the defects in the measure, and then making his promise to those who wish to evade taxation that he will try to find a way to help them out. When the war came on us, all unprepared, and without plan or program, one of the first questions raised was that of wherewithal. This went to the ways and means committee of the house, where Claude E. Kitchin, the statesman from Scotland Neck, delivered himself of the well remembered declaration that he would ar range a bill under which the north would have to pay for the war. How well he succeeded in doing this is also a matter of history. The rev enue law of 1917 containedthe excess profits tax, deliberately adopted by a, democratic con gress as a device to lay a heavy impost on north ern industries and enterprises. Its inequalities and glaring injustices were early discovered, and some effort was made to cure a few of these, but the principle was retained and the terms of the 1918 revenue act were made even more drastic, also by the democrats. When the election of 1918 wrested control of congress from the democrats the president's party at once extended the provisions of the 1918 law to cover the 1920 period,, thus fore stalling any effort of the republicans to repeal or amend it in any material matter. When the ways and means committee of the present house prepared and considered certain specific changes designed to remove some of the obnoxious fea tures of the law, Carter Glass, then secretary of the treasury after consultation with the presi dent, formally notified the committee that if the bills it had prepared to amend-the democratic revenue law were passed, they would be vetoed. Here is the simple record: A democratic congress passed the law; a democratic president preserved and protected the law, ' and now a democratic candidate for president berates the republican party because the law still is on the book I Governor Cox can not be ignorant of the history of this measure. What must be the conclusion, then, after reading his remarks criti cizing the republicans for the existence of a democratic law that is unpopular yet is retained because a democratic president would not assent to its correction? Topknots for Lovely Women. We dote on women's fashions. Politics fade before them. They are the one universal femin ine art which ranges from the taste of the bar barian to the aesthetic niceties of intellectual and decorative culture. No intelligent mind will dismiss as unimportant or superficial woman's delight in personal adornment. It is sociolog ically and psychologically significant in its every phase, from shoes and stockings to hats and bonnets, from manicure sets to powder puffs. He loses much who confines his study of it to the totals of the shopkeeper's monthly bills. Autumn approaches. The styles of summer will soon be passe. Every woman knows it, and knowing, scans the horizon for the first rays of the rising sun of Fall Fashions, fhey are there for all to see; decrees which leave no de tail in obscurity from pink toes to scalp. Let us consider coverings for the latter only on this occasion.The retail millinery association, 2,000 strong, have seen their duty and "done it." Their fashion show for the season of 1920 was a brilliant feature' of New York . life . last week Let us study its enchanting disclosures. First, it is to be a feather season, from guinea to ostrich. Vivid hues are to be the vogue bright cherry, deep coral, golden brown. Vene tian blue. Nile green, copper, brown and orange The word wizards of millinery publicity call them flamingo, cochin, copri, ochre, lapis, and other trade names, which we have translated into plainer English in pity for masculine ignor ance. Evening hats are to be large, "with drooping' brims and little trimming." Others will be smatl, in toque or turban form, and extensively feathered. And notice: Ribbons are taboo. Away with them! And now let us await with patience the local displays. They will come like gorgeous sunbursts kaleidescopes of color to charm and entrance us. Later we shall see them on the streets in every chic and alluring form, on the heads of the always adorable, always fetching sex, crying aloud to us: "Come hither l" Nature's Extra Dividends. Once in a while nature plus an unusual mar ket pour unexpected riches into the laps of farmers. A few years ago apple orchards in southern Ohio had an enormous yield, in con trast to short crops elsewhere, and their owners realized from orchards alone on farms largely devoted to wheat, corn, potatoes and other crops, thousands of dollars more than their en tire farms had cost them. A merry Christmas followed. This season has been doing similar favors to wheat growers in the west One Kansas farm of 160 acres, bought in April, 1919, for $15 an acre, yielded 4,600 bushels of wheat from 100 acres, sold for $2.53 a bushel. ' Seeding, cultiva tion and harvesting cost $20 an acre, which left a net profit of $93 an acre. One hundred acres bought for $1,500 gave a net yield of $9,300. With $7,800 velvet on one crop the owner ought to enjoy his turkey on Thanksgiving day. Talk about city life, big wages, bright lights, stock speculations and all the other pleasures and excitements of the town if you will, but by heck, the good old soil and the western rains and suns are there with the goods this yeart Plenty for Both Canals. A writer in the current issue of "National Waterways" assumes that the prime object of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence project is to kill off the New York barge canal. Nothing could be farther from the facts. The one is planned to supplement the other, and plenty of business will be found for either. For example, one of the illustrations used in connection with the article shows a lake schooner going through the barge canal under tow, saving thirty 4ays' time that would have been consumed in reaching New York if the voyage had been by way of the St. Lawrence and down the Atlantic coast. i When the river project is complete and in operation, it will not interfere with any vessel reaching New York by the barge canal. What it will do is to give western farm products destined for European markets the advantage of some 2,000 miles saved by the more direct route, together with the gain of not having to break bulk either at the foot of the lakes or the foot of the Hudson river. Vessels loaded at Duluth, the Twin Ports, Milwaukee, Chicago, or any of the; lake ports, will go to Europe direct. In the meantime, the barge canal may be used for transporting slow-moving freight inland, to carry such shipments as are destined for New York or through that port to the world, and properly should find plenty of employment. It is not particularly an argument in its favor that under present conditions, when such a de mand exists for transportation facilities, that this canal is used only to the extent of about one-tenth of its possible capacity. Maybe when the greater project is developed, and Chicago becomes a rival seaport, New York will wake up and begin to get some service from the great waterway that is now so sadly neglected. It will not, however, be permitted to interfere materially with the construction of the other great utility whose completion means so much to the middle west, . - The Plush Car Seat The faithful plush railroad car seat is the, target for a whole-souled philippic in the edi torial columns of the Colorado Springs Tele graph. Red plush is condemned with especial virulence, and we suspect the indignant editor of having seated himself on a red plush seat where some fair young creature had just dropped her warm chewing gum with dis astrous results to a favorite pair of trousers. In any event he declares the object of his dis like hot in summer, dangerous to health as a collector of germs and microbes, and ruinous to clothing. He appeals for leather, near leather, or cane seats in preference to plush. ., Far be it from us to irritate an amiable gen tleman by opposing his views on a tender sub ject. We may, however, say that we have al ways regarded, the plush on seats as comforta ble. In hot weather a newspaper spread over it is a perfect nonconductor of heat Its powers of absorption, so to speak, are simply prodigi ous. Dirt, bugs, vermin, microbes, germs, dust, once tangled up in its deep velvet recesses, be come harmless. Indeed, we have repeatedly ob served that passengers arising from plush car seats display cleaner clothing where they have been in contact with the plush back or seat, than elsewhere. We incline to the belief that the nap or shag really acts as a cleaner for clothes and a trap for germs. In the matter of color we concur with the conclusion of the Telegraph. Red is not the best for indoor decoration. Green is the restful, comforting dye. We have never seen a Pullman upholstered in red, and there we are supposed to find the greatest comfort in railroad travel, to the body, to the eye, and to the mind. . Europe Knows the Truth Now. The Sun and New York Herad carries a statement of Senator Medill McCormick that Harding and the republican party are in full accord with Lloyd George and the statesman of Europe on reframing an associations of nations. The British prime minister has declared that the covenant must be revised, and that it will be done for the better. Lord Grey proposes that a new president, in consultation with the senate, shall be invited to rewrite the whole plan for a concert ,of nations. In both France and Eng land public men are bitter over the misrepre sentations of America by Wilson. These are the facts! President Wilson de ceived the peace conference while putting over his league of nations project. They know it now across the water. But in America, to pro tect the democratic party from utter collapse, partisan organs keep up the dreary fiction that the heart of the world is breaking for love of Wilson's lost cause, which was the control of the world by himself. The attempt to put the United States in control of a foreign council has failed, and it is not likely that an American president ever again will attempt to destroy the sovereignty of the American people and their government by throttling the patriotism of an American senate. One hundred and fifty-one profiteers have bitten the dust in the campaign on by the De partment of Justice, but this has not had much effect on the brood as yet. , Sunday might once have been a day of rest, but it is fast becoming a day of terror to sur geons, coroners and police reporters. Putting a blockade on Russia is like beating the bolsheviki with a feather duster it only tickles them. Nebraska's wheat and corn fields are get ting more attention than politics just now. What the Poles need is a little of the spirit the French showed at Verdun. , Mr. Bryan seems to be too proud to fight or do anything else. Now will George White be good? A line 0' Type or Two Haw It tka Llaa. M tha tain Ml altera that a THE president "suggests and requests" that we .celebrate, on Dec. 21, the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, and all those who feel that we can do this without peril of foreign entanglements or impairment of our hundred per cent Americanism will be glad to save the day. FROM M. Paderewski's latest political Pre lude and Fugue we gather that Poland, far from taking the offensive, had the war forced upon her. JOHN D. and Chauncey M. swapped chest nuts at Lenox t'other day, and the Oil Koenig fr rinw s jintu rhratmit and two shinv nickels "for good luck." This was the ultimate proof of friendship, tor tnose two nicxeis were the ones John D. began business with, lays of the lake xlv It Is autumn night ' on a northland bay the cold waves moati on the shore there's a weathered shack wlth a woods in back to sing with the bay wind's roar within there's a crackling fireplace with a snapping cypress log In its flickering blaze on th rug I laze by my dreaming collie dog and the rest of-the world Is lost In a haze of night , and tha autumn fog rlquarius A DISTINGUISHED AUTHORITY ON CITIZENSHIP. (From the Kansas City Star.) Mr. Ford says in his Dearborn Inde pendent that we hava a good government but It suffers through, poor administration, and advises more Interest in elections. Mr. Ford speaks with authority, having voted three or four times in his life, and besides, he is enabled to reach this conclusion from his profound knowledge of history. THE Star also notes that as Capt. Hobson is still waiting for his reply from Mr. Cox on the prohibition question, he must have failed to add, "Reply at my expense." There is an idea in this for the candidates. When inquisitive persons bother them with inquiries about this and that they should send a reply of not less than a thousand words, and mark it "Collect." EVERY JACK MUST HAVE HIS JIIX, AS EVERY CLYMER HAS HIS HILL. Sir: Clymer ft Hill operate an eatatorlum In Minneapolis. They say every Jack has his Jill. C. M. D. EVERY other day some reader asks for a copy of something which has appeared in these parts at some remote period; but as we do not maintain a card index and have no semblance of order in our affairs, we are able to oblige only when we come by accident upon the item desired. There is Old Grimes, for example. Voila! O. F. GRIMES. Old Grimes is dead, that o. f. man, He's gone to get his dues: He used to wear a black string tie And o. f. square-toed shoes. Yes. Grimes is gone. We grieve that w No more shall see his face He used to own an o. f. watch Inside a. chamois case. He wound It with an o. f. key That hung upon the chain, And he carried when he walked abroad An ivory-headed cans. He also wore a plain gold ring, And gartered up his sleeves, And when the weather H was warm He lines his hat with leaves. Ah. poor old Grimes Is now at rest; His o. f. coat was black; When taking money from his purse He used to turn' his back. In these and other o. f. ways , His o. f. humors ran; And everybody, said he wan A fine old o. f. man. WHEREVER we tarried in our recent wan derings the telephone service was said to be a little worse than it could possibly be. anywhere else; and then we would meet travelers from the other side who assured us that the worse we had was better than London or Paris had. It was Figaro that observed that to get a tele phone connection in Paris was no longer an achievement, it was a career. MARION'S chief citizen declares that he wilt stick to his porch until October. Along in mid-August the sticking ought to be very good. IT is an ingenious paradox to speak of beer with an alcoholic "content" of one-half of one per cent. "HOME Peace Best, Harding Asserts in Porch Address." Headline. BE it ever so monotonous, there's no other like it. ) B. L. T. All the Year Round. Summer is the time to worry about next win ter's coal supply. Autumn should be devoted to fretting about the bill. And" as for spring1 Hardly are the ashes sifted Ere the next year's price is lifted. Boston Traveler. What He Really Needs. Mr. Cox promises a real dirt farmer as sec retary of agriculture, but he might get even farther by promising a real Burbank to shake the plum tree. Milwaukee Journal. . Varying Effects of Indigestion. It has just about gotten so in this country that when a woman has dyspepsia she goes on a diet, and when a man has it he votes the sore head ticket Dallas News, ' How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Quoatioaa concerning hrfi.n., aantta tkm and provontloa af diaaaaa, atib mlttod to Dr. Evana by roadera el Tha Baa, will bo anawarad paraonalljr, aubjact Co propar limitation., whora a atampod, addraaaad onvolopo ia aa cloaod. Dr. Evana will awl mako diaf noaia or aroacriba for individual dlaaaaaa. Addraas lattora ia cara of Tha Baa. Copyright, 1120, by Dr. W. A. Evana. FOOT LORE Drs. Mann and Folsom, two navy surgeons, have written a manual on foot care and shoe fitting. In which they give the following treatment for sweating feet: The feet are washed once or twice a day in cold water, using a little high-grade toilet soap; socks are to be changed not lesa often than once a day. It is frequently bent to wear canvas or cloth slippers with leather soles. After washing the feet dry thoroughly; then apply a mixture of commercial formalin, 10 parts; water 90 parts. Place a small quan tity of the following foot powder In the shoe: Salicylic acid, S parts; boric acid, 10 parts; talcum powder, 87 parts. They also recommend the Stlllian's plan. This consists in applying a 25 per cent solution of aluminum chloride in distilled water. This is gently dabbed on every third or fourth day, and allowed to dry. Three applications are usually suffi cient In-growing toenails. Trim the nails square Instead of round. Lift the corner of the ingrowing nail, and put a small piece of cotton under it. Change the cotton dally. Tho size of the pledget of cotton is increased daily until the corner and edge of the nail are lifted away from the sore flesh. When this Is accomplished, the soreness rapidly subsides. Crane advises the line of dentists' base plate gutta percha instead of cotton. He cuts a small triangular piece of this, softens it by heating In tie flame, and inserts it under the corner and edge of the nail. This is left in position until the nail has lifted away from the eo-e flesh. If pus is present, apply Vt per cent alcoholic iodine after cleaning and before inserting cotton or gutta percha plate. Some idea of the size and shape of the foot Is given by foot imprints or patdographs. Mann and Folsom use this for mula to paint the sole of the foot Tincture of iron. 45; glycerine, 5; alcohol, SO. This is painted on the sole and the person stands on paper. While standing there the contour of the foot is outlined with a lead pen cil. To the imprint a solution of 10 parts tannic acid in 90 parts alcohol is applied. This turns the print black in color. Ordinary ink works almost as well. ' The shape and size of shoe needed can not be finally decided upon from a print: other points need to be taken Into consideration. ' However, they give some information. Measuring for shoes in the navy is done with a good deal of elabor ate detail. Present Food Too Rich. Mrs. J. D. T. writes. " I would very much like to have you tell me what causes a SV4 months old baby to throw up, after feeding, sour rurdled milk?- The child does this between each feeding. I have tried all the common baby foods, yet I find cow's milk agrees with him best. My formula is as follows. Sixteen ounces water, 10 ounces whole milk, three ounces cream, one ounce lime water, one and one-half ounces milk surar. This is fed to him every three hours, in fouf and one-half ounce amounts. Xo night feeding after 10 p. m. I have to scald the milk, as uncooked milk gives him colic. He is very constipated and onlj moves freely through Injection. "2. How soon can 1 1 give him friilt juice? "3. When can I give him strained vepetables?' "4. Would malt help him any? "5. In today's paper you speak of dry milk. Will you please send me a formula? ". What causes him to have THEY are still called "employment agen ties." Perhaps you remember, Ben Bolt, when" rhpv contained a row of chairs occupied by ladies who reallv desired employment. As you ' . . a . t I- entered, these ladies would iook up wun a nope ful expression. Ah. those But, as Burke ob. ar-rved "to comolain of the age we live in, tc murmur at the present possession of power, ! to lament the past,' to conceive 'extravagant hopes of the future, are the common disposi tions of the greatest part of mankind.". IF YOU CAN CALL THEM PLEA8URK CARS. (From the Harveyvllle, Kan., Monitor.) What Kansas needs is freight cars, but all she seems to be getting is pleasure cars. THE Bolshevists have crossed the Bug. And when Bug crosses Bug then comes the tug of war. "The Delicious Vice" of Reading.; (Sidney Dark, in John o' London's Weekly.) When once the love of books has come into a man's life he can never be lonely, he can never be bored, he can never lose his Interest in life, he can never b quite unhappy. Books are the friends that never fall, and the men and women that only live in books arc the best and the most real friends of all. If I were to set down the names of the twenty friends who mean most to me, I should And that more than half of them live in the novels of Dickens and Thackeray, Dumas and Daudet, Wells and Hardy, and Meredith. The happy life is not spent altogether in the world of streets and shops and offices. A large part of it must be lived in the world of imagination. And living with the imaginings of great writers, we, too, learn to dream, and the happiest homes in the world are the castles in the air that we build for Ourselves. They are, indeed, the only homes the foundations of which are unshakable rocks. u r ' ' f I BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK Y0lf LV. Nicholas Oil Company TYPEWRITERS FOR RENT All Makes Typewriter Co. 205 S. 18th Tyler 2414 a. HOSPE CO. PIANOS TOTED AST) REPAIRED Ml Wort Gaarsnfewo UH Donglsa Hi Tel Hw. IM. Jerry Has a Protest. Omaha, Aug. 7. To the Editor of The Bee: While, the steam rolling tactics in tha Rathskeller cellar last night did not equal the riots at Denver and elsewhere, ths shame ful scene was more in accord with the tactics in the House of Com mons yesterday where Joseph Develin and the labor members were expelled. I am curious to know if the "Federal Brigade" and "Botheen Boys," who attend to howl down candidates whom the bosses don't own are advancing the prospects of the democratic ticket. The old days of ballot box stuffing could hardly compare with the ac tions of last night. A few politi cal manipulators put their slate through by stifling, the voice of four-fifths of the committee and completely ignoring the candidates' choice for secretary. Some of our presidents were assassinated and the government went on Just the same. Stuffing a ballot box, which Is tantamount to ignoring the wishes of the people, is worse than the as sassination of the president, because ignoring the wishes of the people, whether through the stuffing of the ballot box or otherwise, is under mining the government. Whither are we drifting? God, save America! JERRY HOWARD. little yellow pimples on his head, breaking out five to six at a time? He has a red rash on his stomach. He Is bathed every day. "7. Where run I get a good book ou infant feeding?" REPLY. N 1. Your mixture is too rich.' If you want to use a formula of that kind try Whole milk ounces Supar Vi ounce Boiled water 10 y2 ounces If he throws this up make it weak er still. 2. Now. 3. About the onset of cool weath er. ' 4. Malt sugar is much more laxa tive than cane sugar. 6. In using milk powder replace eight and one-half ounces of whole tnilk with one ounce of milk pow der. Use 20 ounces of water instead of lOJ.J 6. In part due to too much cream. 7. Write to the children's bu leau. Department of Labor, Wash ington, D. C, for their free booklet, "Infant Care." Also to your state and local health departments for their literature on babies. When Folks Quit Coffee because of cost to health or purse, they naturally drink "There's a Reason 11 Live and Let Live! Our well organized system enables us to render Reliable Dentistry and effi cient service at REASONABLE PRICES. Or. L, L. Irvia, ftXt 1 Phone Guarantee Lad) OMAHA DENTISTS 151 5 Va Farnurn Street, Omaha Between Henahaw Hotel and Security Bldg. Open Evenings. I piifilil 1 9tea-'V Just Joe B. Redfiald against the waste of paper, ink and money. Advertising literature that does not bring back the order is wasted. K-B Printing Co. are specialists in selling by mail and know how to make your advertising pull. K-B Printing Company Redfield & Milliken Owners Printing marters A' a&&?f Harvey Milliken I s j ! 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The following named cars have just come from the repair and paint shops and can be seen at our salesroom: 1 Cadillac Type 55 Victoria 1 Cadillac Type 57 Roadster 1 Cadillac Type 55 4-passenger 1 Cadillac Type 57 4-passenger 1 Mitchell Town Car 1 Velie Touring 1 Chalmers Touring 1 Cadillac Type 53 Touring 1 Hudson Super-Six Touring 1 Cadillac Type 51 Touring 1 Cadillac Type 53 Cabriolet 1 Cadillac Type 53 Roadster 1 Overland Coupe Come in and look at these cars. It will pay you to inspect these bargains and deal with us Open Evenings This Week J. H. Hansen Cadillac Co. Harney 710 "A Safe Place To Baf Farnam at 26th 1 ..... JL .... if;
