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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1920. i ii The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, NELSON B. UPDIKE. Pub!lihr. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th AMHttd Tmt, of Khleh TU Be It aieniber. I Inaltelr entitled to Use dm for publication of til nen oHapatanea endlutf to it or ant otherwise credited In thla taper, and alto the kvel aew publlibtd herein. All rigau of BuMlcatlMi of out apattal tiepatehe an alto ittwitd. BEE TELEPHONES Prtttta Bruea Eichant. Atk (or tht Department r rtnoa Wanted, Tyler 1000 Far Nifht Call After 10 P. M.i Editorial Dtmrtaent ........... Trier 1900 1. Clreulatlea Department Trier 1008L adnrtlataa Deptrtiaent .......... Trier 1008L OFFICES OF THE BEE Italn OITIce: 17th and Faniam Couaeil Bluff 19 Scott 8L I South Bid nil M It Out-of-Tawa Offfceet Ft Tort tst rifth At. I Waihlnnton 1S1I O St. Chleaio Steger Bid. I Pan Franc M But St. Honor The Bee's Platform 1. Naw Union Pattcnger Station. 2. Continued improvement of the Na braika Highway, including tho pave raant of Main Thoroughfare loading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A thort, low-rate Waterway from the Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. SOLDIERS AND LEAGUE PREACHERS. In conversation recently we heard a young loldier who served six months under the French government while we were preparing: for war, and then enlisted in an American regiment in which he served until the spring after the armistice, express himself on the preachers who urge the United States to undertake to keep order all over the world via the Wilson League of Nation route. "When we start in to guarantee the boun daries and the political systems of foreign coun tries by force of arms, which would be the only' way to do it," he said, "it will be never again for me in the army until every preacher who talks and votes for the Wilson league, has enlisted for fighting service, and not canteen and Y. M. C. A. work." We have a notion that A. E. F. men gener ally, who know what foreign military service is, have the same feeling about the pulpit promoters of the idea that American youth should back up with their blood the future wars of Europe. But the number of such preachers is de creasing. And they alone should not be singled out for military service abroad. Every man who argues and votes to saddle the wars of the world upon the United State should be con scripted first, should we enter the league. Colonel House, in his correspondence to the Philadelphia Public Ledger has a similar notion. As the Ledger puts it: And now Colonel House comes forward in heartless and disrespectful fashion and sug gests that in future wars the men who decide that the nation must accept the dreadful re sponsibility of sending its youth to the sham bles by the hundred thousand, if not by the million, and who know at first hand what it is all about,, should themselves follow the gallant example of the king of the Belgians and go under fire. Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas. However much the Hawkeyes, the Jay hawkers and the Bugeaters may dispute about some of the lesser matters of life, they are agreed en one central fact: Of all the food-producing states in the union, these stand out pre-eminent. A dreibund of wealth and health and happiness, triple alliance of bounty and beneficence. Any one from either of these states is justified in the pride he takes wherever he may be that he hails from a commonwealth whose absence would be sadly missed. If now and then he boasts a little, do not chide him; he can back up most of his statements with government figures. For example: The government crop report for August 1 estimates the total wheat crop of the United States for 1920 at 794.147,000 bushels. Of this stupendous aggregate 170,695,000 bushels was grown in Kansas and Nebraska. No other three states in the union will turn out an equal amount. . In the matter of corn, the August 1 estimate for the United States promised a yield of 3,003, 522,000 bushels, and of this wonderful total eredit is given to Iowa and Nebraska for 624, 886,000 bushels. No other two states can ap proach this. Of the principal grains, corn, wheat, oats, rye and barley, the Department of Agriculture fore casts a total yield for the United States of 5,471, 342,000 bushels for the current year. Of this Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa will furnish 753, 268,000 bushels of corn; 185,257,000 bushels of wheat; 335.209,000 bushels of oats; 31,452,000 bushels of barley, and 9,083,000 bushels of rye; a total for the three states of 1,314,269,000 bushels of the great grains, within speaking distance of one-foorth of the aggregate crop of the United States. This makes no account of such food supplies as potatoes, apples and sugar beets, nor does it consider the millions of tons of hay. It just gives the high spots on which rests the wealth of the great empire of three states that will vote for Harding just as sure as election day comes. A Congenial Pair. The Philadelphia Public Ledger contemplates "Governor Cox rushing madly about, dropping a little strychnine here and a bit of paris green there," poisoning the wells of political truth with noxious vituperation. The public is taking notes as well. There's F. Roosevelt also, his companion in the distribution of slanders, who spoke of republicans in his Milwaukee speech as crooks. "I hate fighting crooks," said F. Roosevelt, "and we are being fed up in this country today by a handful of crooks with a lot of lies. Let us call them by their names." Thi is the same F. Roosevelt, candidate for vice president on the democratic ticket, whose public declaration that the United States would control twelve votes in the League of Nations has been flatly repudiated and branded as a falsehood by an official in the democratic State department at Washington. A presidential campaign sheds a bright light on national tickets. Look upon Harding and Coolidge; and then gaze at Cox and Rooseveltl Woman Suffrage in Nebraska. So long as the slightest possibility exists that national equal suffrage may be delayed by litiga tion Nebraska should take no chances. The proposed amendment to the state constitution to be voted on September 21, which will be sub mitted as No. 18 at that special election, should not be neglected. If provides for equal suffrage, and Nebraska's women electors are entitled to vote on it. Being a special election, and on many pro posed constitutional amendments, the people, owing to a strange misconception of its im portance, and a disinclination to study the issues involved, cannot be depended on to cast a full vote, which makes it all the more important for friends of woman suffrage to rally at the polls. Produce the Proof. Intemperance of public utterance is one of the most positive symptoms of unwillingness to accept defeat. Candidate Cox, apparently well assured of the outcome of the vote in Novem ber, which undoubtedly will definitely remove him from the political map, is preparing the way to his ultimate explanation of defeat by hysterical assertions concerning the tremendous corruption fund being raised for the perpetua tion of the "senate oligarchy." He has found a companion in Tennessee, where the lady presi dent of the Southern Woman's Rejection league is quoted as saying: We were beaten not by the will of the peo ple but by forces that ran rough shod over the people. The ratification of this amend ment means the defeat of the people of the nation by methods of corruption too disgrace ful to be chronicled here, put over by women who have assumed to enter politics for the purpose of purifying it. I had personal knowl edge that votes were offered for sale. I was told of two men, said to have been bought with money by the other side, who would for a little more money leave Nashville on a night train and not be present to vote the next morning. Making all due allowances for the chagrin and disappointment of the lady, natural to the defeat she has seen her plans encounter, these assertions are such as demand substantiation or retraction. Wc hope she will not imitate Candidate Knox, who refuses to produce his proof, but amplifies his allegation at each op portunity. In the meantime, the vast majority of the people of the United States are not alone content that suffrage has been granted to the women, but rejoice in the fact. The Meanness of Husbands. A New Jersey woman's husband, when asked by his wife if he could name anything that hasn't increased in value during the past five years, answered: "Yes you." This is rather above the average in brutal conjugal repartee, a domestic "sport" indulged in far too frequently. What happens in the privacy of home mar ried life nobody knows, of course; but enough too much, in fact happens in the presence of friends, relatives, and sometimes the public, to leave it a matter of doubt that acidity and caus tic conversation is quite general. We remember once, while dining in a popu lar Broadway restaurant, hearing a man give his wife a most offensive "bawling out." She was covered with the shame of it, and every man within hearing felt an impulse to give the fellow the sound thrashing he deserved. He was a particularly flagrant offender of the kind now under discussion. Doubtless circumstances arise in the best regulated families where it is difficult to refrain from cutting retorts, even when the parties con cerned really have a deep affection for each other. But they sting, and ofttimes the incident rankles for years in unkind memory. There have been husbands, and are, we have been told, who have never said an unkind word to their wives, never "fussed" with them, never found fault about the house. Such, men are blessed with dispositions truly angelic. We would not attempt to persuade any hus band to set his mark of conduct so high, lest he lapse too far in the opposite direction. But many a man who yields to occasional fits of ill humor and displays his unlovely traits to a suffering and likely angered wife, might check his tendency in that direction with profit to him self, his wife and his listening children. It has been said that no two human beings can dwell together for any long period in entire har mony but undoubtedly those who try to do so in matrimony, at least get more out of life, than those who give vent to their tempers. There need be no loss of dignity, of self respect, or of later happiness, by a strict repres sion of the critical humors which come to all of us. The home, of all places, is worse marred by unkind words than any other. I it not so? A Real "Dirt Farmer." In the death of James Wilson Iowa loses one of its most distinguished and useful citizens. A proper and fitting eulogy of this man might be written in the words: "He served God, his country and his neighbor." His familiar sobriquet, "Tama Jim," was bestowed on him to distinguish him from another James Wilson, whose home was at Fairfield, but it came to represent the real affection in which this love able and industrious Scotchman was held by his fellow Hawkeyes. An honorable public career was his, service in the legislature, membership on the state railway commission, on the Board of Regents of the state university, as a member of congress, as a director of the state agricul tural experiment station, as a professor in the great school at Ames, and finally his long and remarkable term as Secretary of Agriculture under McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, a record of labor scarcely equaled in American annals. Through it all he was devoted to the interest of true agriculture, a "dirt farmer" in the best sense of the word, one who recognized the primary importance of the agricultural industry, and who did his utmost in a practical way to advance methods and results. He lifted the department to a first-class position, and left for himself a monument of achievement. Somebody is always taking the joy out of life. The expert dietician now denies pie and cake to the school kids as unhealthy. It is more than ever a wonder that some of us grew up. Colby's note is said to have had a potent in fluence on the bolsheviki army investing War saw, but we will venture it was not half so effective as the Polish infantry fire. Building the Yankton bridge will be the realization xf a dream nursed in Omaha for longer than a generation. The weather man may be right when he says the climate is abnormal, but we'll say it's wel come. Governor Cox promises to fire, his big bomb today. What will it be dud or fizzle? . The "suffs" have proved themselves better winners than the "antis" are as losers. The red army travels well in back motion. A Line 0 Type or Two Hew to the Hat, let III aulet Ml where tho . Maryland's lady voters object to the motto on the state's coat of arms, "Deeds are mascu line, words feminine," and they desire a substi tute. That should not be hard to find. There are sundry variants of the sentiment objected to, such as "Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves," the origin of which might be traced back to Eden. "I fatti sono maschii" was true at one time, when the red-haired champion from Camelot tilted against the title-holder, whilst his lady encouraged him with cries of "Hit him in the slats, Bobl Hit him in the slats I" Startling, Indeed! . Sir: I was remarking: the o. d. that we had not heard from Calcltrosus lately, when f. w. startled me by asking, "What is calcltrosus, hardening of the arteries?" J. L. u. In the declining years Anatole France has associated himself with the bunch called "Clarte," a conscious group organized by Bar busse, the object of which is the "union of all partisans of the true right and the true liberty." How wittily the Abbe Coignard would have dis cussed "Clarte," and how wisely M. Bergeret would have considered it! Alas! it is sad to lose one's hair, but it is a tragedy to lose one's unbeliefs. IN WHICH OLD MAN DESCRIPTION IS AGAIN ALMOST REDUCED TO BEGGART. (From the Kankakee News.) A News reporter looking for thrills climbed to the roof of the City National Bank building. He had always believed Kankakee the "city beautiful," but what he saw convinced him that here was a panorama almost beyond description. Looking over the city from such a height makes one want to learn aviation at once and circle forever over the town. To the north are the industries and the railroads. A long meat train was winding like a great yellow and red snake across the New York Central bridge. The Bradley factories lay smoking m the sunlight, and the listener could almost hear the drone of the shops. Farther north were the fields and the beauty of the winding river. Southward lay the business district, a collection of roofs and chimneys. Beyond this the beautiful state hos pitals, one the finest beauty spots in the state. So may anyone who loves his city and the pos sibilities that lie before it go up into the high places and dream that "The bolshevik columns are advancing in Echelon." Tonopah, Nev., Times. And the Echelonians are in full flight. Possible Relief for Old "Notes and Queries." Sir: In connection with tlie convention of the American Numismatic association there are to be attendants qualified to inform the public concerning its possessions of old coins. As a victim of thousands of inquiries, I appeal to ask whether the association cannot te induced to make Its information department a more perma nent affair. Think of the rafter afforded to conductors of Questions and Answers depart ments, who are inundated with inquiries as to the value of Columbian half-dollar and the old coins which have enjoyed so rnany years of circulation that "the dates are no longer visi ble." , NUMMA. "It is an open seceret," says a special to the New York Times, "that republican leaders are worried." In spite of democratic efforts to hush it up. AIN'T THEY THE DIVILS! (From the Grand Fork herald.) The Right- Rev. Michael Gallagher, bishop of Detroit, has been elected national president of the Fiends of Irrsn Freedom. The Second Post. (Received by a w. k. university.) Dear Mr. Dean: Your letter is at hand. I decide now to reside permanently here in Wash ington, D. C, and for this reason will be unable to pursue any course in your Institution. I do not receive yet the catalog, as I do not nead it any more I will either return It to you or give It to some of my friends, who may intend to go to Chicago to study. Your disposition, how ever, will be followed if you have any to sug gest about it. Yours respectfully, etc. Great Britain, we take it, has given Egypt its time, as they used to say in New England, and likely still say. POEMS YOU MAY NOT RECOGNIZE. (From the Catalina lstander.) The day is done, The darkness falls from the Wings of the night As an eagle in his flight. The Trib's reference to a "loan Negro ban dit" has stirred a flock of inquiries. What is the difference between a loan bandit and a loan shark? SCRAMBLED. Sir: At a revival in northern Iowa the evan gelist informed his hearers that they were sheep, seeking a harbor they knew not, extinguishing the divine spark within them, nt only for chaff in the Great Judgment. Miss Haifa Moon shines in Rose Bud, Ark. Get a glass on her. boys. KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD. Sir: The proprietor of the Hotel Schuyler in Rushville writes me a receipt for "one dollar and sixty cents for one 'knight's lodging and break fast." Brothers, is he kidding me? DARK AND STORMY. WHY THE EDITOR LEFT TOWN. (From tho Bloomington Fantagraph.) Mrs. Charles Stephenson of East Grove street has gone to Chicago for a time. THE UNATTAINED OBJECTIVE. Sir: Can you explain why cur parvenus con sider the objective case so immodest that . it should never appear in the best society? Con versation overheard at avinia park: "Hazel, do have a gumdrop. Arn't I redicu lous to buy those kind of things? I know they arn't refined, but there's nothing more tasty to Elslnore and 7 . . , We sure must come here again, and bring he and Dave with. Such a refined class of people . . . Yes, Dave is mak ing out so well. His situation might make a man so vulgar, ton, and yet I don't know any one , more really cultured that I'd com pare with he. ... I do think those slang words live up a conversation wonderful some times, although of course, they wouldn't do for you and I, as a rule, very often. . . . May I not see that progrum a moment? What are they doing now? Oh, yes. the doc sells the ten . a love portion, but it's really nothing but a llck-quer with an awful stro,g kick in it. . a voice like he? Dave could give it, too .... . Say. though, what wouldn't Dave give for a voice like he? Dave could give It. too . . ." BEOWULF. "The rocks," declares she who wrote Ellen Beach Yaw, apropos of her latest wedding, "the rocks that so often wreck the matrimonial raft are on the dining table." Pass the biscuits, darling. B. L. T. Otherwise All Right. A prominent club woman says that woman's besetting sins are envy, laziness, gluttony, jeal ousy and revenge. Outside of that she is, we presume, the angel we have always liked to picture her Boston Transcript. The Young Shavers. A correspondent tells us of a barber college yell he heard recently. It runs thus: Cut his lip Gash his jaw Leave his face Raw! Raw! Raw! Boston Transcript,. A Single Skull Craft English Paper "He lived by himself in a lonely old household, from which he paddled himself ashore every morning in a top-hat." Boston Transcript. Suggestion From Missouri A thrifty man might undertake to convert 'he tail of an $18 silk shirt into-neckties. There's waste below the waist. St Louts Globe Dent rtcra How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Question concerning hygiene, sanita tion and prevention of diteaae, ub mitted to Dr. Evan by reader of The Bee, will b anewered personally, aubject to proper limitation, whera a a tamped, addreated envelop I en cloaed. Dr. Evan will not make dlafnoel or prascrib for individual dlaeasea. Addrea Utters in car of The Be. Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Evan. and that nimiiy FIGHTING "SICK HEAD ACHES." Ordinarily the treatment of no other disease is quite so unsatisfac tory as is that of migraine. As a rule the person who is subject to periodic attacks of "sick headache" loses hope of relief from medical men after a dozen or more have been consulted, and from that time on goes to bed as resigned as possi ble and stays there for the two or three days the attack lasts. It is a matter of common informa tion that somewhere in the late 40s the attacks became lighter and some 10 or more years later, as a rule, they stop spontaneously. The sufferer comforts himself with the thought that after a while his at tacks will spontaneously lessen in se verity and frequency and finally will cease to trouble him. The doctors do not appreciate the importance of migraine, because they rarely see true migrane sub jects except during the first few years o fthe sufferer's subjection. Dr. Bernard Fantus says a number of years ago he rpad of Dr. Lauder Brunton's remedy, and he soon found it so satisfactory that he rare ly has used anything else since. It consisted of 15 grains of salicylate of soda and 30 grains of bromide of potash. If it is preferred to make this into an effervescent combina tion, then put sodium salicylate 90, bromide of potash 180 and bicarbon ate of soda 180, into six blue pow ders and 162 of tartaric acid into six white ones. Any one accustomed to taking sedlitz powders knows how to work the combination. To get the good effects of the Lauder Brunton remedy it should be taken at the earliest possible mo ment. Most migraine subjects know when an attack is impending. They notice that when they are nervous and irritable before going to sleep they are due for an attack in the morning: or that they wake up drowsy in the morning with a feel ing of weight in the head; or they notice that their vision is blurred, or they can scarcely see; or there are flashes of light before the eyes. Each soon learns what is his sign of impending trouble. Dr. Fantus advises that a dose of the remedy be taken at once and repeated in one hour. The plan is to get. enough absorbed before vom iting sets in, if possible. If a man is taking it without medical super vision he had better limit himself to seven grains of salicylate and 15 grains of bromide taken every hour until the ears ring, if necessary. To this advice there should be added: take an enema. To prevent attacks, Dr Fantus advises that the 'yes, ears, nose and teeth be examined and put in order; Note the wide, heavy flange for floor connection. 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I love thy noble peaki, Which took Pike aeven week To wain their walla, I love their canona deep. Down which the torrent (weep Their waterfalls. I love thy pralrli'a wITIe O'er which the cowboy rid And herd the uteera. To aee them on the trail, lrlnk naught but Adam ale No whlskle. beers. 1 love thy middle west, The corn when at Ita crest. Looms o'er my head. The lusi lous sugar beet, its myriad slacks of wheat Mountains for bread. GEO. B. CHILDS. Hi North Fourth atrcet. aoove an. .Might Try Iodine. M. A. H. writes: "I have several warts on my fingers. They are very annoying as they are on the palm side of the hand. How can I get rid of them? I will try any thing. I also have moles on my neck. Is there anything to be done for them?" REPLY. G. H. writes that he had a multi tude of warts. They started on his left hand; later, about as many de veloped on his right hand. 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