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THE BEE: OMAHA, MUD AY,' SEPTEMBER ID. The Omaha Bee DAIIY (MORNING) EVENING (SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COM PANT. KELSON B. UPDIKE. Pabliihn. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tk iaMiM mm. at wok ItiBNlii mat. M ax tlrtnH aautla to Um on tat pvMtoattoa af all nam dlWa araditai to H or not ataaralaa anAtaa ta tala pipw. aa4 aiaa taa tool nm sublMMd Mil Ail flgbu of BObllcatloa of out apaeiai Bee telephones ' DaWrawW " " Tyler 1000 Far NIfbt Call Attn 10 P. M.t Mtntat Papaitnanit Trior 100M. CreslUJoi Ptpartawat Trior lMfl. tarortMm Paaartmant ......- Tylor )00L OFFICES OF THE BEE i Main omoo: 17th and Fun Ml - Council Bluffi II Seott Jt I Booth Sioa Hll K St Ont-of-Town Offkooi Him Took MS Tlfth An. I Wuhinitoa 1311 O ft. surer Bioc i ran rraaea an mm at. Honora The Bee's Platform I. New Union Passenger Station. Z. Continued improvement of tha Na brash Highway, incluaVhf tna pave ment of Main Thorough far loading x into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3 A short, low-rate Waterway from tha Cora Belt to tha Atlantic Ocean. 4. Homo Role Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. OPPORTUNITY AND LIBERTY. Laying aside his prepared speech at Hamline, Senator Harding moved his hearers to enthusias tic applause by his remarks on Americanism. He referred to America as "a land of guaran teed freedom and opportunity." In those simple words the senator summed up the basis of our country's greatness. Here, as nowhere else on earth, the individual has his chance. Here industry and thrift are rewarded, and the man who toils and saves will inevitably prosper. No man in America is condemned by tradition and economic . environment o follow his father's vocation, willy nilly; none is required to make shift as . best he may while waiting for another to die that he may succeed to permanent employment. The careers of the two candidates for the presidency is the best possible illustration of what America holds. Neither had anything out ;of the ordinary in the way of a start in life. They came from modest homes in small coun try towns, had only tle early advantages that are in the reach of every boy in the land, and started on the race of life with no undue advan tage over any. Governor Cox has reached the distinction that comes to those who are listed as millionaires; he is the first of that class to be nominated for the office of president in the his tory of the country. Senator Harding has not -accumulated a great store of the world's goods, but he has made for himself an honored name, jjhis election to the United States senate in 1914 j by the people of Ohio being a genuine proof ,;of the estimation !n which he is held at home. !! These men are examples of what may be 'achieved in America. Nd foreign born citizen may hope to become president, but any has the 'fullest of chance to attain any other position. And it is to retain and preserve to Americans y that guaranteed freedom and opportunity that ' the republican party aims. Harding's candidacy is a pledge of this to all. j Middle West Labor Condition. A special investigator of labor conditions in the middle west, writing for the New York eWorld, finds a big change since Labor Day in p919. Instead of a shortage of unskilled labor he finds a surplus appearing, which includes ,semi-skilled labor. In other words, instead of employers bidding for labor.v labor is now seek j( ing employment. I; The "World's man says this' operates to in crease efficiency. It also will result in gradual reduction of wages,) he thinks. He finds also a considerable increase of open-shop sentiment, especially in cities where automobile manufac ture has slowed down and many thousands of !men are out of jobs as a consequence. One employer who installed a machine guar anteed to turn out 50 pants an hour was get ting only 35, he tells the World. He ?sent for an expert to see what was wrong w'rtn Xwt machine. Thereupon the man on the job trturned out 65 an hour with ease. The expert left without having to look the machine over, it being evident that the workman was de liberately reducing the output. He continued to do that very thing. Men were at a premium then. But now it is different. This particular 'employer started a different wage scale, and 'now the man on the machine is paid for what he produces. This is what is going) to happen everywhere. The shirks are being retired for honest work men who want to do a full day's work. In this is seen the change. The employer is still glad to pay very high prices for efficient work, but is not now compelled to pay them for loiter ers and men whose aim on the job is not to help the employer, but to sting him to the limit. h A Hook Baited in Vain, i More and more the American citizen, male and female, sees the real meaning of Article X of the covenant of the League. While Governor Cox sees in it only notice that "the Powers of . the earth must keep off the grass," and declares ."that is the whole meaning of it," the American citizen sees also that it is his son who must do .the fighting when some Power gets on the . :grass. If we enter the League with Article X pas it is, we bind ourselves to send our soldiers ;and sailors to help in every war that breaks out ; in Europe. And Wilson and Cox say it must go without change. ,5 A people deliberately deceived by a candi date who "kept us outof war," is not going to 'swallow the Articfe X hook, particularly now ' that the women of America have the vote. They do not want their sons to fight the wars of Europe and they will not vote for a party that Intends to sew the United States up to Europe "or a candidate who waves the League of Na tion flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. ;jti , , ;V Why Omaha Needs Home Rule, jsj One of the many matters tentatively touched I upon at the "open forum" session at the Labor ?Temple was that of home rule for Omaha. Com jnissioner Towl touched upon a single phase of the general question when he said, "We should ,have the authority to finance our own improve ments in our own way." The process of going o the legislature for permission to do things tthat are needed for the good of a growing city 5s tedious and expensive. . V Limitations existing in the charter were placed there for many reasons, some having in 1 View one set of circumstances, some another, -W all intendeds to circumscribe the authorities in their activities. It is not proposed that any necdeed restriction or prudent safeguard is to be done away with. The charter should not make it a wide open game for the city com missioners, but the decision as to what is good for Omaha ought to be with the people of Omaha. , Parcels Post Store Delivery. The domestic life of Omaha is to be fur ther improved by modern methods, as it has been determined that purchases at local stores will be delivered through the postoffice. That is the true meaning of the service of parcels post. One of the arguments used when the system was being presented for adoption by the Post office department was its convenience in this direction. An important factor in merchandis ing is that of Cost of delivery. People have not given the matter much consideration, although it has been carefully inquired into by the mer chants themselves. The first comprehensive study of the prob lem was undertaken by the automobile makers, when they sought to adapt their vehicles to comme'reial uses. A survey was made of the larger cities of the United States, Omaha in cluded, and it was discovered that the cost of delivering a parcel was roughly in the neigh borhood of 10 cents. The cost varied in locali ties, being' affected by the varying conditions which controlled traffic, but the discovery was made that not many merchants had properly weighted the item in their list of costs. Delivery is chargeable to overhead operating expenses, and the first result of the disclosures of the survey was an addition to cover the ex pense. Introduction of the automobile lowered the cost,! because it was possible to cover more, territory than with a single vehicle. Systematiz ing routes helped some, and economies were ef fected in other ways, but the total of cost mounted steadily, because some factors could not be controlled. When the postoffice takes over the work it will have several distinct advantages. One is already established routes, another that there wijl be no overlapping. Instead of a procession of delivery wagons chasing one another over the streets, the government wagons will pro ceed in order throughout the several zones, cov ering their assigned routes on schedule, eliminat ing the present expensive duplication of effort, as well as providing regularity in service. Mer chants will know the exact cost of delivering parcels, and so will be enabled to fix definitely the value of an item that has been more or less elusivel The stability of the service ought to be a decided improvement, even over the best of private systems, and the public generally should be gainer because of its introduction. Old Persons and Young. Old people have always been doubtful of the future of young people. They are justified in their doubts, because a certain proportion of the young inevitably go wrong. The old Nick attends to that in spite of all the old can do. But while the young of today have a different line of amusements, frivolities and hazards - from those which faced the old people of the present fifty or sixty years ago, temptation is essentially the satnenow as it was fifty years or fifty cen turies ago. There has been little change in the funda mental characteristics of virtue and vice, good habits and bad, right tendencies and wrong, since the beginning of civilization, and so the old should not worry overtime because of the new things which lure the young into indiscre tions. On the other hand, the young cannot find good ground on which to combat the prudent admonitions of the old. The old have long ex perience and observation to justify their anxie ties. They have learned, perhaps through bitter humiliations, that certain kinds of conduct al ways end unhappity and the young will do well to heed them, rather than impatiently to scoff at their advice. The young person, if blessed with a grain or two of wisdom, may well reflect upon the undoubted fact that the aged friend has only his or her welfare at heart. As a rule the young person who heeds the counsel of elderly persons greatly profits thereby socially, morally, physically and financially. Parents and old people are useful, else they would not have been tolerated and honored by so many generations. The Revival of Prise Fighting. When war came on boxing and prize fight ing came with it as a necessary part of the training of soldiers for hand-to-hand encoun ters. War is a brutal thing, the chief purpose of the soldier being to kill. He must do this or be killed himself, either by long distance missiles or close-up jabs of the bayonet. As the purpose of war is to kill and destroy, so the purpose of prize fighting is to disable and paralyze the ability of the opponent to stay on his feet. Like war itself, fist fighting is brutal, and' when scientifically done by trained athletes, is a sight the squeamish may well shun. Boxing is listed as a sport, and may fairly be considered such up to a certain point. But when' pressed to a knock-out it is something repulsive to1 many persons perhaps to the ma jority, although the demand of the public for every detail of bloody fights arouses doubts as to our advance from savage delights. At any rate, a public sentiment against the prize fight built up by many years of educational effort seems to have been wholly swept away by the war. With a multimillionaire candidate for presi dent the democrat, who loves to call it "the poor man's party," may be pardoned for stuttering a little. ' , vt Secretary Danielson says the tlafe fair needs more ground. All he has to do is to convince the farmers in the legislature of that fact. Dollars saved and safely invested in Septem ber are worth more than October or Nevember dollers. Do you think that Italian tremblor was a flare-back from one of the Los Angeles "fires?" Tammany is beginning to take some note of the fact that Mr. Bryan is not spouting for Cox. J Maybe Omaha can get along another, year without that "inner belt" traffic way. New Hampshire made its position on the League of Nations plain enough. A pretty girl is especially winsome when dressed in gingham. Who crowded "F. R." off the front page? A Line 0' Type or Two Mm to Hi Llm. tot Dm aalaa fall wra thty ay. FURTHER successes for Gen. Wrangtl are reported. Or. as Comrade Trotrky recently sent word, "This is the beginning of the end of Wrangel." "I LOVE him most" Mr. Harding is speak ing of Hamilton "for the way in which he did things. He was content to use other men as the instruments of his great work and let them take the credit." But why not go further and say that Hamilton was never president of Princeton, and that his first name was not Woodrow? Mind-Dislntcgratlng Problem of Conduct. (From the British Weekly.) ' The Rev. Francis Stamford Hope is an attractive preacher, much admired by va rious young- ladles ot his congregation. He in unmarried. At a bazaar held in aid of the church funds Miss Grace Gordon offers him a box containing half a dozen fine cam brio handkerchiefs, with the remark, "You cannot refuse to buy these, Mr. Hope, when I have taken the trouble to embroider them . with your own initials." Mr. Hope gazes in surprise and dismay at the letters, "F. S. H.," beautifully worked. He is much annoyed and feels that a great liberty has been taken. What should Mr. Hope do? WARNING to prophets: Keep away from Lorimer, la. Miss Truth Stoner lives there. SELF-RESTRAINT OF THE CONSTABULARY (From the Galena Gazette.) Although several extra policemn were on duty during the fair no arrests or no dis turbances of any kind were reported. s "ONCE aboard the lugger," which happened to be a yawl, we disposed ourselves in various uncomfortable positions and fell to criticizing the poor taste of the castles and pavilions along the shore. (No wonder the millionaire gets tired of his castle after living in it a while; it must bore even him.) Thc-yawl being put upon an other tack, Cap'n Burnett brought out Lawton Mackall's "Scrambled Eggs," and read it aloud, to appreciative responses of, snorts and cackles. In fact, this paragraph is merely a boost for "Scrambled Eggs. May we not recommend it for your Christmas list? It is" a small book and a merry. .'. . ONE of the most interesting Ithings about sailing (after the fall of night and the inevitable withdrawal of. the breeze) is the spirited discus sion of tha question. "Are we making headway or sternway?" The skipper alwayi plumps for the affirmative; he is an optimist. But there are pessimists in every party, and these insist that the light oh the point is getting farther away instead of nearer. Eventually it is conceded that the pessimists are right, and the next question is, "Are these provisions enough to last until morn ing?" And some one recalls that the box of cheese sandwiches was not opened at luncheon, so the situation is ,ot wholly desperate. ; Another Instrument Overlooked by Percy . Grainger. (From the Wichita Eagle.) Members , of the Princess orchestra thought EarJ Brlcker the drummer had? ee- -cured some new sound effects with his drums, but investigation disclosed that it was merely a squeal in Bricker's chair which rang out every time he moved about. It was decidedly novel, if not altogether mu sical. A DELEGATION of Socialists ha? returned from Russia with the news that Sovietude leaves everything to be desired, that "things are worse than in the Czarist days." Naturally. The trouble is, the ideal is more easily achieved than retained. The ideal existed for a few weeks in Russia. It was at the time of the canning of Kerensky. Everybody had authority and nobody had it. Lincoln Steffens, beating his luminous wings in the void, beamed with joy. The ideal had been achieved; all govern ment had disappeared. But, this happy state could not last. The people who think such a happy state can last are the most -interesting minds outside of the high brick wall which sur rounds the institution. , . "Tell Me a Story." (From an interview with W. L. George.) Why do people read stories? Is there a fundamental story hunger in people, or is the craving for a good yarn an artificially stimulated taste? I do not believe that. the question can be arfswered as simply as that. If we get down to fundamentals we find that the thing that mankind hungers for is illusion. We labor, and we do not like it, and so to console ourselves we Invent an illusion about the nobility of labor. We want to be great, to be noticed, to have stir ring adventures, and because life is common place we Invent the illusion of romance hence the story-telling art. If I should analyze the old craving of "Tell me a story," I should divide it into three primary illusions. First there is the illusion of the glorious, bright, beautiful world the roseate world that one may see only with rose-colored spectacles. It is an escape from the world In which plans do not work out smoothly, situations are not pat, ambitions are frustrated. Second, there is the illusion of the world of adventure, in which things are hap pening thick and fast, in which men and women are lifted out of their ruts into bright new paths of stimulation and achievement. And, as this illusion works out in a story, the commonplace reader sees himself in the person of the brawny and handsome hero,' and, of course, gallops gloriously through all the adventures. The third type of illusion is the illusion of humor. It represents the philosophy of the man with a good deal of digested experience, who, finding that things will not go' as he pleases, deliber ately builds up for his intellectual life a world of cheerful cynicism a world of laughter and merry doings, in which the blows of real life are softened by a refusal to take them, seriously. And the kind of illusion that any person seeks in Action depends, as I see it, upon the kind of treatment he has had from life. AN Indiana paper refers to her as" "Galaker chy." Ln New York this becomes "Galakoitchy." CONSIDERABLE LITTER. (From the Waterloo Courier.) For sale, two sows with pigs, ducks and geese. 333 La Porte Road. CALL no man happy until he is dead, said the ancient Greeks. Still, we met a man yester day who has just found, in unpacking hjs house hold goods, stored for some years in a ware house, eight bottles of cherry bounce. What a magnificent bounce. FAIRLY SAFE. ; Sir: The advertisement of a hotel mentions ".Vacancies Now Open." Am I correct in as suming that this condition will prevail until all the occupied rooms are filled ? R. G. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Quaation coacarnlnt fcffltoa, aanita tion and prevention el diaeaaa, ub mitted to Dr. Evan ky readara of Tha Be, will b anaworod poraonallv, aub J act to pro par limitation, wharo a (tamped, ddreeaod envelope i an cloaad. Dr. Evana will not make dlagnoala or prcrib for Individual diaeaaea. Addreaa latter in can of Tha Bee. Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A Evan. "THE liabilities of the Pond Bureau are given as $60,259.20, and the assets $72,044.54." New York Evening Post. Or, as you might say, bones. SHORTAGE of paper, we read, has "forced German publishers to, the walv" Why tlon't they use the wall paper? B. L. T. , Use of Money. Mr. Gompers made one pertinent observa tion. It is purchasing power that the toiler needs. The number of dollars are not so im portant except in the payment of debts, public and private. Houston Post. The Real Issue. Of course, the league of nations is an issue of the campaign1, but our advice to candidates is to talk about the price of ham and eggs when addressing the gravel-train vote. Columbus Des spatch. , ; i All Set for the Big Show. Now that the picture of the sisters and cousins and aunts and darling little ones of all the can didates have been published in the newspa pers, the American people can vote intelligently. Troy Times. , , u . Safety First For the benefit of those automobile drivers who slow down to 95 miles an hour on the turns, we ought to put sideboards on the roads. Seattle Times. 1 Eternal Separation. Some folks don't believe in having a treasure in heaven because they don't think they'll have a chance to spend it there. Arkansas. Thomas DRY SUMMERS KILL BABIES, The French-Canadians are rather disposed to resent the charge that they have an awfully high baby aeatn rate. They do not dispute the facts as snown by the statistics, but they resent the inference always im plied and often expressed, that the high baby death rate is a result of neglect or bad housekeeping or poor mothercraft. They .say that they snouia not be compared with the vices whose women have one or a few babies and can concentrate all their attention on the small family, out wnn the peoples whose women have families of ten or more. The French-Canadian mother not infrequently has ten children, and occasionally as many as twenty. Nevertheless they and their doctors are trying hard to get their baby death rate down to the lowest level possible. Dr. A. Jobin of Quebeo argues that heat and lack ' of hu midity are important factors in in font mortality. In very hot weather the babies die at a rapid rate because the milk spoils rapidly, because the flies abound, and also because of the ef fects of the heat directly on the baby. The temperature of the skin of a baby is higher than that of an adult. They lose heat to the air faster than adults' do, and their heat production is on that basis. If they are dressed too heavily and cannot lose heat as fast as they should, the temperature of the body goes up. He says babies not infrequently get sunstroke or heat stroke when the temperature of the air is only' 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Maurel has shown that a baby re quires only two-thirds as much food in hot weather as fie does in cold. If he eats as much in hot weather as he did in cold he receives one-third more than he needs, is overfed to that extept, and gets tetter or some other rash, bowel trouble, or some other bad effects of overfeeding. A hot, dry summer is harder oa babies than one in which there is plenty of rainfall. Turcong proved that in France the drought summers were hardest on the babies. . In 1915 -and 1916 there was very little rainfall in the vicinity of Que bec. The pastures burned up and the streams got very low. The pol lution in the drinking water taken from certain streams was unusually concentrated, and many adults as well as children suffered from diar rhoea. In a certain low section of Que bec, where about 50,000 people live, 240 babies died in 1915 and 216 in 1916, as compared with 136 in 1917 and 118 in 1918. The average rain fall in the last two years was two To taste LORNA DOONE Biscuit is to know a new delight ir ddicioun, tender shortbread. Buy a pound today. NATIONAL BISCUIT v COMPANY w ' I rv V0 j- pianos used flip world's leading Artists, (hey U Mason Mamlin alone bears his distinction; li is rused only mm persona prefeiipnce, never Lecause ofa sczisidy &am manu- facturer o artist? est priced-- i highest praised! Be . sure 'and investi- , gate our nearly new and refinished Piano and Player Depart- 7 ment. Big , bargains here all the time. ' You can purchase a serviceable Piano for as little as $185 on $2.50 per week payments. 1 MT 06 mm 1513 DOUGLAS ST. The Art and Music Store CARUSO CONCERT, OCT. 12 and a half times as great as that of the first two years. Another factor in Infant mortality is hot houses. The interior of a small, thin walled house becomes very hot on a hot day, considerably hotter than the outside air. Keeping babies outside or in some cool place lessens the baby death rate. Heart Mny Improve. Joe McD. writes: "I am a boy go ing on 15. 1 have been lying in bed for seven months with heart trouble. For the first four months my heart was decompensated, and later It is compensated. I am getting around a little now, but my heart shakes my whole chest. It is a double mi tral lesion,, and I have kidney trou ble. "1. How long do you think I will still feel my heart shake my chest? "2. How long do people live with such heart trouble? "3. Do you think my heart will ever get decompensated again?" REPLY. If you have .established compensa tion you have reason to hope you can live a long time. Do not be im patient about getting around. If your heart shakes your chest, it is not likely that you can get around much without doing yourself harm. After you can exercise without disturbing your heart you will find that your heart muscle will build "up Just as your other muscles do. Good luck to you. ; lie Governed By Pulse. . R. E. J. writes: "An X-ray exami nation has shown that one of my lungs Jiad an ulcer that has heiled and now the other shows a slight af fection'. 1 have taken physical ex ercise Shall I continue, to what extei aid what exercise will be most ujneflclal?" REPLY. The amount of exercise you should take should be regulated by the ef fect on your pulse, temperature and sense of fatigue. If you have any fever, rest quietly in bed until the fever abates. Do not take any ex ercise which causes your fever to nnma nn nc inftronnA vmir nulsa rate more than 10 or leaves you leenng fatigued, in tne aosence 01 any 01 these effects continue your present exercises. . General Wrangel Near City of Alexandrovsk ' Constantinople, Sept. 9. (By The Associated Press.) General Wrangel, head of the anti-bolshevik forces in south Russia, is within 12 miles of Alexandrovsk, the head quarters of the field staff of the 13th soviet army, dispatches received to day report. 1 Five Greek Transports Have'Vrrived at Ismid Constantinople. Sept. 9. (By The. Associated Press.) -Five trans ports of Greek troops have landed at Ismid, on the Gulf of Ismid, 55 miles southeast of Constantinople, nnd are replacing the British forces there, according to advices received today. "bur Physical Condition is reflected in your face. a. w 1 1 Have an Examination. E. S. writes: "Would you please elve the reason for ankles swelling so. after you waiK any lengtn 01 time? Is there a remedy? Please I tell me what I can do, as they hurt. and swell-almost as large as my calf." REPLi. Have a physician examine you for heart disease, Bright's disease and cirrhosis of the liver. Instant Ipostum A BEVERACI totum Canal Camaaa. Ruddy cheeks and a clear eye are generally indica tive of health. On the other hand,a sallow complexion may indicate that coffee is causing the indigestion, sleeplessness ana upset nerves which are responsible for your condition. . InstantPostum instead of coffee will prove "There's a Reason" MacUby Postum Cereal Co, Inc, Battle Creek, Mich. BRING 'EM TO LIFE AGAIN your last season's clothes --- they looked sort of discouraging when you laid 'em away. but we can put life, style, ginger and wear into those clothes again. they'll fairly snap back into life again When in the hands of our mas ter workers. . , Phone Tyler 345 and say: ''Dresher, we are going to try you out. Send a man." DRESHER BROTHERS CLEANERS 221117 Frnam Street Never was there a better time to add the of a PIANO to your home Come in see and hear the differ ent models. We know you will be delighted with the action, tone and case designs. Prices Are Not Prohibitive Easy Payment If Yotf Prefer r7 Tha Honus of Pleasantl Dealings, X warn. Fifteenth and I Harney. USE BEE WANT ADS THEY BRING RESULTS AUTO LUNCH SETS Going Away? There's a lot of satisfac tion . in .knowing that your baggage creates a favorable impression in knowing that it's ab solutely right-our stocks 'of travel bag gage are adequate bags and other luggage of the finest quality ma terial and workman-ehip. Omaha Printing Company We have them in a varie ty of styles and sizes to the motorist who en joys a trip to the open country and who has had an otherwise pleasant trip marred by a messy lunch the convenience of these auto lunch sets will be apparent. Thirteenth tit Farnftm i