THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 26. 1920.
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ntit of Main' Thoroughfare leading
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3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rale Charter for Omaha, with
. City Manager form of Government.
THE AMERICAN LEGION.
When the seconJVannual convention of the
Nebraska division of the American Legion con-
J.venes at Hastings today it will be confronted by
i a rather full program. - Without undertaking to
ij decide any questions for the convention, The
I Bee congratulates the legionairrs on their hiv-
ing corne this far along the road, guided by
t'reason and showing good common sense in all
their doings. We believe the Legion represents
ithe true spirit of the young men who served with
f the colon. It is unfortunate that a few of the
f men who made up the great army of liberty
, have failed to get the right light on its purpose.
J These are agitating for the destruction of the
; Legion, by organizing counter moves, none of
?; which can serve the interests of the men they
.taffecj to support, because the base on which
V they rest is too narrow. No class distinction
Si was recognized in the army. High and lowt
rich and poor, all wore the same uniform, slept
in the same quarters, ate the same "chow,"
' fought in the same trenches, underwent hard
ship and privation in common, and now there
should be o artificial division among them.
;The "class conscious" individual who seeks an
organization of service men devoted to the pcr
' petuation of his selfish views is not doing good
i for anybody. . The army was American in its
It conception, in its kirns and in its achievements,
and whatever successor it is to have, whatever
I body is to perpetuate its glorious history,' should
be founded on its sublime pripciples. That body,
we believe, is the American Legion, and in its
membership will yet be found al! who are wor
thy of the name of American soldier.
An Illuminating Incident. ,
Recently Governor Cox and a party of his
friends, returning from Wheeling, W. Va.. in
iiotor cars, were halted by a rural Ohio officelf
i For speeding. Great indignation was expressed
i that the -governor of Ohio should We subjected
to such an affront on Ohio soil, and a repufc
? .ican "plot" to humiliate him was .suspected
! until it developed that the constable , was a
; democrat. . : . '
The governor was impatient under detention,
the party sne'ered at the officer's attempt to put
; them under arrest, and Mr. Cox curtly notified
( him who lie was, and that he eould be found, at
; the State House; Then they drove on with a
' rush. '-i -
x This seems to be one of those minor incf
; (lents which reveal what a man is under his . skin.
, There was no ctaim, made at the time or, since
': that the car was not going at excessive and un-
i Vawful speed, or that the constable wa$ not pcr-
!j forming his sworn duty. His offense consisted
; in applying the law to the governor of his state.
That was an insolent and unwarranted interfer
j nce'with the plans of a man whose subsequent
V conduct demonstrated that he was, in his own
' judgment, above and beyond the reach of the
; Ohio statute against fast driving.
Ij We may be in error, but it occurs to us that
I Governor Cox, as a candidate for the presi-
dency, lost 'a great opportunity. Suppose he
j had talked to the constable, while the newspaper
. man of the party took down his words, as fot-
II lows: v J
I compliment you on your strict and im
partial enforcement of the law. While I am
governor of Ohio, I am subject to the law ex
actly as other citizens. I want no special
consideration. We were driving too fast
and I will gladly remit to you . whatever
fine may be assessed. Our country needs
training in respect for law. These gentlemen
will join me in best wishes to you as a shining
example of the fidelity and watchfulness of
even the humblest officials in Ohio whose
duty it is 1o keep our great highways safe for
travel.
vBut Governor Cox is not that kind of a man.
' Having rebuked and shamed an officer for hav
f j ing dared to attempt au enforcement of law upon
,t hit exalted person, he and his party sped off
.' fumingover the "indignity" they had been sub
;j( jecttd 'to by a "hick constable."
I ' The Ohio Primary Election. 1
i; Attendance at primary elections usually has
.'.. significance in that it shows the comparative
I public interest in the tickets of contesting par
v ties. The official vote at the Ohio primaries is
; a surprise in its proportions in view of the fact
thittwo Ohjo men had been nominated for the
presidency when it occurred the 10th of this
i; month, and that both their parties are claiming
' Ohio's vote. '
' The democratic candidate for governor re-
ceived 130.909 votes: the republican candidates
got 335.074 votes. .
; For lieutcnanjt governor the democratic can
didates got 127,250 votes; the republican candi
dates got 301, $70. !
For secretary of state 136,720 democratic
I votes were cast, and 307,403 republican. .
United States senator' 128,543 democratic
vote's were cast, and 320.106 republican.
. These figures, comiitg from the first election
,' for twelve years in which Ohio has had a united
' Republican Party, are especially significant in
j their enormous increase over' the years in which
1 the Bull Moose Party existed. In our judgment
i they eliminate all doubt of a tremendous repub
! lican majority in Ohio in November. Also, they
verify remarkably the private predictions of well
informed democrats all over the country as to
the general result of the presidential election.
- With Ohio republicans turning out at a
primary election in the proportion of far and
away more thap 2 to 1 over the democrats, the
die is east.. It is merely a symptom of the over
whelming sentiment all over the country for a
change at Washington.
MoraUObligation of Article X.
While the League of Nations is vanishing as a
"paramount" issue a few devoted followers of
democratic fortunes insist on lugging it out as
the panacea for earthly political ills. They per
sist in the assertion that Article X as it stands
does not interfere with the constitutional pre
rogative of congress alone to declare war. The
purpose of the Lodge reservation was to make
this plain. As finally adapted by the ; senate ou
March' J5 this reservation reads:
The United States assumes no obligation
to preserve the territorial integrity or political
independence of any other country by the em
ployment of its military or naval forces, its re
sources, or any form of economic discrimina
tion, or to interfere in any way in controversies
between nations, including all controversies re
lating to territorial integrity or political inde
pendence, whejher members of the League or
not, under the provisions of Article X, or to
employ the military or naval, forces of the
United States under any article of the treaty
for any purpose unless in any particular case
the congress,' which, under the Constitution,
has the sole power to declare war or authorize
the employment of the military or naval forces
of the United States, shall, in the exercise of
full-liberty of action, by act or joint resolution
so provide. ' f t
' In plain .words, congress alone can declare
war for the United States.
What interpretation does Mr. Wilson put on
Article X? On August 19, last year, he con
ferred with the senate committee, on foreign af
fairs, and discussed the treaty, especially 'Article
X, which he then declared to be the heart of the
covenant. According to the press report of that
meeting, the president said the . article as it
stands would leave each nation "complete free
dom of choice" as to the application of force.
But the president went farther than that, and
declared:
Whatever advice the council gave undents
authority to take such action as it "deemed
appropriate" must also be deemed appropriate
by th United States to be binding on this
government, though irt the background would
be such a potent moral force that he doubted
if the nation would often decline to act.
Mr. Wilson then clearly believed that under
Article X the council of the LeSgue of Nations
could call the United States into war. He made
an effort to clear up his somewhat ambiguous
language in replying toa direct question by Sen
ator Brandegee in regard to the "moral obliga
tion:" A moral obligation is, of course, superior to
a legal obligation, and, if I may say so, has a
greater binding force. In every moral obliga
tion there is an element of judgment; in a legal
obligation there is no element of judgment.
The president felt that under the article being
discussed, whatever action the. council deemed
appropriate must be deemed appropriate by the
United States, and that the moral obligation to
follow the mandate, even if it led to war, was
more binding on this country than a legal obliga
tion could possihly be. And Mr.W''90" na9 not
changed his mind on this, point.
The president is undoubtedly right in his in
terpretation of Article X; under ft the council
can declare war for the United States'and that
is just why the senate insisted on having the'
Lodge reservation. .. '
Back Yard Orchards.
The orchard behind the village home has al
ways been an asset of great value. We knew
one jnce that had cherries, pears, plums and
apples for the entire frujt season early and.
late and it yielded enormous dividends of pleas
ure and health for a full quarter of a century.
A few fruit trees may be grown with profit in
the back yards of cities not too closely built."
One exists- in, a nearby, city, where ten years'
ago a wise husbandman plantedv(ruit trees in
his backyard, and for ornament set out Japanese
apricots and dwarf quinces' in his front yard.
From his trees he. now has two crops,' orre of
surpassing beauty during blossom time, and an
other of palatable and healthful food later.
'There are also berries on his lot in abundance,
and a wild goose plum tree that carries
prodigious crops.
It may be stated as a fact that no man ever
planted fruit trees who did not thereby become
a benefactor. There is room for thousands of
them in the rear of Omaha homes.
The Crackling of Thorns Under a Pot.
It is amusing to observe sundry democratic;
editors quivering with indignation and rattling
the phlegm in their throats over a mythical
"senate oligarchy." which if it existed would be
government by a few, while bowing not only in
humble submission but in abject servility and
adoring admiration to the actual autocracy
which exists in the White House in the person
of Woodrow Wilson, and is government by a
single individual.
If not the gods above, the princes in the
realm of his satanifi majesty below, must
chuckle in glee over the canting dissimulation
of these special pleaders who pretend to see
danger to the Republic in the constitutional
functioning of the senate, and nothing but holy
consecration in the exercise of extra-constitutional
war powers by Wilson twenty months
after the war has ceased to exist.
Hot and Cold Water.-
Habit is a, curious thing. One man takes a
big drink of ice water before he goes to bed.
Another swallows-" glass of hot water. Both
are after comfort
The ice water, paralyzes alt stomach action
for half an hour -or longer. Thev hot water
stimulates stomach action and draws the blood
from the brain, thereby inducing sleep. '
It is worth while to learn to like hot water.
It is.more, satisfying than coldr The former
jolts the digestive processes, the latter pleas
antly promotes , them. And many a time, the
doctors say, when a person craves very cold
water what he really needs is hot water. ,
Lloyd George is apparently impatient of the
wanderings of a 'single-tracked mind that has no
terminakfacilities.
A couple of years ago our democratic con
temporary was not so eager to make war on the
bolsheviki.
Sympathy for Ponzi's victims will be diluted
by the thought that they should have, known
better.
To put the 'tear" In profiteer and take away
the profit is the job before the public.
The Tennessee antis seem to "have foozled
their putt. . s -I"--- - -
Governor Cox:
Put up or shut up I
A Line 0 Type or Two
Htat ta tit Llat. Vat Ika ailat fall vkra Km .
A NEW CHESS OPENING.
In Leland, Michigan, !
I saw a notice posted r
That caused a lot of .- .
Intolerant amusement ' J'
Among the aun-scorcned
Fishermen. r
The flannelfed -Tennis
courtiers
. And the knickerbockered
UnkboyB.
The notice set forrti
That Mr. So-and-So '
Desired an adversary
At chess., STONE PHIZ.
THE Japanese question in California, says
-the Japanese vice minister of foreign affairs, "1s
only a local issue.' But so was the little con
troversy which Helen of Troy set going.
ADAM BEAT US TO IT.
Sir: Recently I heard a preacher say he be
lieved that we ought to "perpetrate" the race.
Da you? 4 A. H. K.
IF. -you should lead us blindfolded into a
smoking car we should know where we were by
the atmosphere. And yet a vVoman will plunk
herself down in a car filled with men smoking,
and. when told she was in the smoking car, will
evidence genuine surprise. .
NEW ENGLAND SABBATH.
The smell of pines along the way
To church; a blue glimpse of the sea;
The nearer waters of the bay
Lap at the marsh grass lastly; '
Whispering breezes call to mt
Soft-voiced across the lowland, sod (
Lfke immanent divinity f
" Be still, and know that I am God."'
"I catch the scent of ripened hay,
' N I hear the low drone of the bee;
I watch the tiny insects play '
On the warm walls in humble glee;
The lichened rocks, the barberry,'
The spires of early godenrod.
All speak in glowing ecstasy
" Be still, and know that I am God." t
Why must man meet this lovely day
With solemn face and anxious knee?
All the earth quivers in the ray
Of the kind sun, and only he
Walks downcast-eyed. More wise than we
Is every bud and bloom and pod.
These hold Creation's secret key
" Be still, and know that I am od."
Soul of all growing things, to Thee
I raise my spirit's litany.
You answer me from every clod
" Be still, and know that I am God."
ANCIIUSA.
OCCASIONALLY there !s a candidate
whose platform is defimTe and graspable. Thus
Albert W. J. Johnsen, candidate for congress,
announces as his platform:. "For Good Beer
and Light Wine." 1
CH APTER.
Sir: Among Greek letter activities Ljiotice
a reference to the Alpha Sigma Rho Muchapter.
Mu chapter would be much apter.
4 CALCITROSUS.
HISTORY is caVeless of details. It may be
that Grace Darling, after a heroic rescue, pow
dered her nose. .
Correspondence from Japan.
Tokvo, July 22. The Japanese language Is
assuredly, not for the dilettante. A two-year-foreign
resident confided that, though he had
studied assiduously, he couldn't 'even start an
argument with a native son, while a certain
mentally alert American, eleven years in the em
pire and a special studenjt of Japanese, admitted
it was a strain to try to carry on a conversation
in this strange speech. And dummed if itwa'n't
two weeks before I ' could pronounce my hotel
so the 'riksha boy wouldn't lose me out near the
eas works. In four wVeks I could buy a ticket
to Oimachi; but what in the name of the FortyJ
Seven Uonins is a feller gotng to do if business
calls him to HamamatsuchoY-or yet to Higashi
kanagawa? ' v SIB.
"THE walls are painted; and they become
mildewed," (' writes -one of Doc Evans' patients,
"yet there is no apparent dampness in our cel
lar." Sorry. But there are many others in the
same state of deprivation.
The Second Post ... v
(In which Dear Addie is almost touchefb)
Dear Addie: I thought I would rhe you a
few lines to let you know that I am in Jail. Addie,
I am on $2,000 bail, and I can't get anybody to
go it. That is hard lines, haint it. Addie. Well,
Addie, tell Fill I send my best regards. When
I get out of this place I am going to straten up
and get married to some good woman like you,
nd lead a good deasaht life. Well, Addie, it is
too bad I am in here, but it will learn me a les
son. Well, Addie, you remmember how I used
to help you in the nous out home, I am a pretty
good fellow, hain't. I, Addie. Well. Addle, if you
have got a little loose change please send it up
to me for cigarettes. Hoping to hear from my
friend soon I will close. By by, dear. From
air, , Erie County Jail.
WF nUcurvf the ad of "a Dracticallv non-
alcoholic hair tonic, containing only 21-100 parti
of 1 per cent of alcohol." Moreover, "it is cspe-J
dally adapted for dry scalps.
X A LARGER PROBLEM.
Sir: Safety razor blades are a small matter.
Kindly enlighten me concerning the problem of
destroying old copies of Ben Franklin's weekly.
They are so bulky that it's a waste of time and
effort to burn them. By the way, the Salt Lake
Tribune say that Ring Lardner is known
wherever the English language is used. Whad
dayamean English ? OKADI.
RECLAMATION is thekey t6 the high cost
of living, declares Mr. Roosevelt, thus adding
another to a sizable bunch of keys. But none
of them seems to fit.
'The Street Called Straight,
(By the inspired stenographer.)
Inasmuch as we have not had business
relations before, refer to Dunardbrad St.,
and you will find us rated from two to three
thousand in high.
YOU might hastily conclude that Joy Love
of Aurora, 111., was a poet or a movie queen.
But he merely runs a foundry.
MISS PERKINS ONACATION.
(From the Danville Commercial-News.)
x Experienced stenographer wanted for re
lief during vacation of our regular stenog
rapher. Emery Dry Goods Co.
"REPORTED Rift in Flute; Danger for
Democracy." Knoxville Sentinel.
WE should call 'it a crack in theass djm.
B. L. T.
Where Genius Has Dwelt
A good many great men have lived in attics,
and some have died there. Attics, sayi the dic
tionary, are "places where lumber is stored," -and
the world has used them to store a good deal of
its lumber in at one time or anothejts preach
ers and painters an4 poets, its deep-browed men
who-find out things, it's fire-eyed men who will
tell truths that no one wants to hear these are
the lumber that the world hides away in its at
tics. Haydn grew up in an attic, Chatterton
starved in one. Addison ahd Goldsmith wrote
in garnets. Faraday and De Quincey knew them
well. Dr. Johnson camped cheerfully in them,
sleeping soundly upon their truckle beds, like
the sturdy old soldier of fortune that he was,
inured- to hardships, and careless of himself.
Dickens spent his youth among them, Morland
his old age. Hans Andersen, the fairy king,
dreamt hte sweet fancies beneath their sloping
roofs. Poor, waUCard-hearted Collins leant his
head upon their crflty tables.- Benjamin Frank
Jin, Savage, young Bloomfield, "Bobby" Burns,
Hogarth, v Watts the roll is endless. ' Ever
since the habitations of man were reared two
stories high has the garret been the nursery of
genius. Jerome K. Jerome. ,
y ' ' Some Claim to Recognition.
We have no desire to dispute he claim to
the presidency by Mr.' Watkins, the prohibition
candidate, who does the family washing, but
sometimes as we shake out the dishclpths wist
fully after the company has gone it' seems as
if we had qualified for the vice presidency any
wav. Grand &pids Press. ,
How to Keep i Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Quastion concerning hyfiena, aanita
tion and pravantioa cf diaeaaa, aub
mitted to Dr. Evana br rradera of
The Bee, will ba anawarad personally,
aubject to proper limitation, where
a atamped, addretaed anvelopa is en
closed. Dc Evana - will not make
diagnoaie or prescribe for individual
diaeaie. Addreia letter in care of
' The Bee. t
Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Evans.
TYPHOID "SHOTS" RESULTS.
If a man has been vaccinated
against typhoid fever, how many
typhoid bacilli can he drink without
contracting typhoid? How much is
he protected against paratyphoid
fever and other close kinsmen of
typhoid? If he contracts typhoid,
will his disease.be any milder? How
long does his protection against ty
phoid last?. These are questions in
vestigated by Dr. Victor p. Vaughan,
Jrf, a brilliant young Michigan phy
sician, who died in France shortly
after finishing this study. ' .
Although the typhoid rate of the
American army in the World war
was only one two-hundredths as high
as that of the Spanish-American war,
and although the army typhoid rates
of this war were the lowest by .far
In the history of the world, ' our
forces had some typhoid. There was
almost none until after our forces
took over heavy fighting fronts.
Dr. Vaughan, by reason of his as
signment in the army, had an oppor
tunity to study 270 cases of typhoid.
His answer to the first question is
that a man who has been properly
vaccinated against typhoid cannot
drink diluted sewage with safety.
Some of the men in the front line
trenches 'drank water from shell
holes and badly polluted small
streams. Some of those who did
that got typhoid. Even though a
man bo vaccinated against typhoid.
he should not drink very filthy water J
wiinouc cniorinaung: u.
Paratyphoid is closely related to
typhoid. Dr. Vaughan saw 44 cases
of paratyphoid. Ho holds that vac
cination against typhoid alone does
not protect against paratyphoid.
Vaccination apraiiist both typhoid
and paratyphoid does protect against
the latter, subject to the name limita
tions as those of typhoid "vaccina
tion. Typhoid in a vaccinated man runs
about the same course as typhoid in
an unvnecinated man. In this Dr.
Vaughan does not agree with Dr.
Gay of California. Nevertheless, Dr.
Vaughan found that those having
typhoid within eight months after
having been vaccinated did have a
milder disease. After eight months
the story was different.
Dr. Vaughan did not investigate
as to how long the protection given
by vaccination against typhoid last
ed. The common teaching is that
protection lasts three years.' There
has been a marked tendency Of opin
ion In recent years toward holding
that protection does not last three
years.
Perhaps one reason for the In
crease in typhoid in the fall and win
ter of 1918 and the spring of 1919
was that the protection was begin
ning to run out.
Another observation, made by' Dr.
Vaughan was that a man protected
byj'accination, but who had drunk eL
lt of very filthy water, misht get
typhoid bacilli into his gall bladder.
The Sugar Saver
among cereal foods ;
No added
sweetening needed.
- loull like the appeal
ing flavor of this
sugar-saving food.
SOLD BY GROCERS
EVERYWHERE!
in tram nave ma-no"
makers striven to
produce a piano equal
to tne matcniess
in its superlative toney
beauty and truly in
comparable resonance.
Ine famous "tension
resonatorof the Mason
& Hamlin (exclusive be
cause patented) makes 0
it prxr against sue ' -cessful
imitation-also
proof against that:
deterioration which is
the fate oC every other
piano in the world"
without exreeotiorv..
js US o sJwctrycx zcAy.
There are Mason and
Hamlin Pianos in use
today sold by us in the
eighties, over 30 years
; ago. '
1513 Douglas Street
The Art and Music Store
GidpfNuts
I
In some cases they caused subacute
diarrhoea, which so weakened tha
subject that eventually be contract
ed typhoid. He saw several cases
that led him to believe there was
something in the old theory about
men getting diarroea which "ran
into typhoid."
Gay says we must not look to ty
phoid as an ended danger. One hun
dred and fifty thousand people have
typhoid each year, even under pres
ent conditions. Many would be safer
vaccinated. But though vaccinated
they should guard against grossly
polluted water and milk.
Herc's"Alviee for Both
A. W. Writes: "1. A woman fl?
60 takes a 25-cent bottle of bromo-
seltzer every week, alo aspirin now
and then. Is she right in doing so
and what is the result?
"2. Also, 1s if right for a 35-year-old
woman to take mineral oil after
every meal? Please advise these
two women. The older one takes
the stuff because of headache and
bad feeling in the morning; the
ycunger one for constipation.
REPLY.
1. She is not. The continued use
of coal tar remedies for headache
produces , headacho.
2. If possible, she should overcome
constitpation by eating bran, vege
tables and fruit. However, we do
not know of hyrm done by mineral
uii. I
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