12 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1920. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEB PUBLISHING COMPANY, NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publlahtr. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PUH Tha invented Pno. af rttr Tha Baa la Miter. n) af Hmlnl antlilad to U um for MMimim of ill mm ttltwtehM jwdited to It or not oUMrwtat tntfiud ta tkK nun. aM ala (ha local aaMlrtaa kmlri. ail l(bu af nabilaallaa at aw ajaaal BEE TELEPHONES Dajartoait or Paraou Wanted. 'J SVW For Nlht Calla Attar 10 P. M.I editorial Dmartiunt ........... Trtar 1ML ClrauUtloa I)irtitiatt .......... TrltT 1ML adMrttMa aartaat .......... Tim UtU. OFFICES OF THE BEE CouaaU BluRt Tori tin iwriM; irth .nd r.MM- il awn i. i ant nuik 0(MTrn OtttoMi 1 IM Plfta Ata, I Wuhinitoa 1111 SV Sunt Bios, I I'vU Priaea i0 In St. Honor The Be f$ Piriform I. Nw Ualea fuHipr f tetloav Z. Coatfaaaal inaaraveataat af Uka Na braeke) Higaware, iaalala la paa raaat of MaJai Tkoraaakfaraa iaeaHag into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 9. A abort, low-rate Waterway fraaa iW Cora Ball to tka Atlaalia Oaac. 4. Ham Bala Ckartar far Oanaaja, it City Maaaf ar farai af Gavaraaaaart. WHY AMERICANS FOUGHT. The simple statement by Captain "Eddie" Rickenbackcr as to the motive that actuated the soldiers of the A. E. F. is most convincing. Ad vocates of the League of Nations policy of President Wilson have assiduously sought to convey the impression that our country went into the war to pave the way for the adoption of the covenant without the dotting of an "i" or the crossing of t "t" and for no other purpose. Four years ago in Omaha the president said Americans were willing and ready to fight, just as soon as they could find out which side was right and what they were to fight for. While the war was on he gave several reasons as to why we went in. On May 12, 1917, he said: We go in because we believe that the very principles upon which the American Republic was founded are now at stake and must be vindicated. 1 How closely this expression of the presi dent in the early days of the war squares with that of Captain Rickenbacker may be not by comparison, and they fairly indrCate the line of thought that ran through the minds of all Americans. The captain says of the soldiers; They went over to Europe and fought for their country that is, the United States. I do not believe that any one of them ever thought once that he wav fighting to Set up a League of Nations or to help establish a United States of the World. I know what Mr. Wilson and Mr. Cox say they did, but I do not think that these gentlemen realize what the fighting men fought for or the spirit in -which they fought. They are both mis taken, that is all. We believe that Captain Rickenbacker has hit the bullseye as accurately as he ever did while he was making his remarkable record as leading American "ace." No thought of the league as now proposed ever entered the public mind at the time. The safety pi the United States was what all were concerned in, the de feat of Germany being looked upon as neces sary to this. No one dreamed of a permanent alliance by which we would bind ourselves per petually to fix boundaries, to determine internal as well as external policies, and attend to all the minutae of European political housekeeping. Making the world safe ior democracy was one thing; to perpetuate the determinations of the Council of Paris i. finite anntrirr Pa is . as desirable now as it ever was, is just as much an American ideal now as at any time, but a considerable majority xf the people do not be lieve the only way to peace lies along the route selected by the democrats. How great this majority will be- determined in November. Making the Wheels Go Round One of the encouraging signs is that wheels are turning faster just now in America than they have in a long time. Manufacturers report in a general way that labor is becomingtmore ef ficient; the output per man is getting nearer to a normal basis than has been the experience since the jazz days started right after the ar mistice. Likewise, the railroads are able to re port that cars are moving faster. In 1914 the average movement of a loaded freight car in the United States per day was 26 miles. Presi dent Gray of the Union Pacific reports that for the month of July, 1920, the average loaded car movement on the Union Pacific was 83.4 miles, and for August it was 80.2 miles. This is going some. It means that one box car is now doing as muCli, so far as travel is concerned, as three did before the war. If the processes of loading and unloading have been similarly accelerated, the gain is to treble the efficiency of the freight car. When the item of loading is considered, and it is remembered that the service of the same cars was more than doubled during the war by increasing the minimum load to the 'capacity of the car, an idea may be gained of what has been accomplished, without regard to the expansion of business, which is indicated by th fart that with all the vain in xnred and ton. rage, the transportation system of the country is still far behind demands. But the big men of 'the railroads are making the wheels go round. City or Country Life? , Reports from the census bureau at Wash ington emphasize the fact that urban popula tion in the United States is gaining at the ex pense of the rural.- It is possible that the ap parent rate of increase is but the reflection of a disturbed balance, incident to the general so cial aberation produced by the war. Young" men were caught up from the farm and put into uniform, and have not yet found their way back to their original pursuits. Also, mechanical in dustries called for large numbers of workers and offered such inducements as led many to abandon the smaller communities and take their chances in the big towns. These influences are now losing something of their potency, and there is some reason to think the turn may be in the other direction. It is we'll to keep In mind, when considering this question, that the census was taken before recovery from the war unheavaL in one of the current magazines a writer, discussing the question, gives it as his opinion that when labqr on the farms provides the same return as employment in factories, then a swing to the fields will-be noted, because, he argues, the appeal of fresh air, sunlight, and .the open is irresistible. Perhaps this is true. Other fac tors of the problem deserve equal examination. It is not easy for tke man with small capital to t-ct start in business nowaday; he must begin on a mirfor scale, is compelled to work bard, practice thrift and economy, and watch his step very closely in order to get ahead. Yet such a man has as good an opening in the country as he has In town. For many reasons, all more or less obvious, farm labor will never be on exactly the same footing as that of fhe city. Wages, hours, and other conditions can not be so exactly regu lated, for success on the' farm depends on ele ments that do not enter into the factory cal culation. Nature is whimsical, and her moods must be met by the husbandman. However, the farm does offer a sure living, a chance to save, and through industry and thrift to get ahead. The road is as clear from the corn field as it is from the work shop, lies in the same direction, contains the same bumps, and offers the same attractions. The call of chanticleer is no harder to answer than is the alarm clock or the warn ing whistle, while the drudgery of the farm is far less monotonous than is that of the modern "systemizeu "factory. Men may yet come to realize this and so the balance between city and country population be restored in time. Harding- Has a Plan. If the gentlemen who have complained so dolorously that Senator Harding has no plan for entangb'ng the United States in an alliance with other nations to do things that are extra constitutional in their nature, and admittedly hazardous as well, will read his address to the women who heard him from the front porch at Marion yesterday, maybe they can get a little comfort. Senator Harding did not submit a plan for healing all the ills of a distressed and weary world, but he did submit some views as to what ought to be done in America. Right off the reel he pledged himself to the enforcement of prohibition. That will, very likely, satisfy Wayne B. Wheeler, who has ob jected that the senator's stand was not satisfac tory to him. However, that does not so much matter. What is more to the point, the candi date of the republican party discussed lucidly another and even more important feature of our national life, the care and protection of women. Contenting himself with the statement that he believed the majority of women are opposed to the League of Nations as outlined in the Ver sailles treaty, he took up for consideration woman's new relation to the national life. Depre cating too much interference by federal welfare boards with the social life of the nation, he pointed out that industrial abuses must be cor rected. To secure this he believes a new de partment should be added to the cabinet, under which may be grouped the activities of various boards, commissions and bureaus now dealing with correlated subjects but independently of each other. To this department will be relegated such questions as the public health, child labor, woman's jemployment, and all the details in .which the , federal government may rightfully engage along this line. Here is a concrete example of what Senator Harding has in view as part of his constructive program. Twelve million women ' engaged , in the professions or industry, 'each a potential mother, demand the active and unremitting in terest of the government, not in a paternal way, but that the security of our future may be made certain by safeguarding its base, that of the mothers of the nation. This is a program the women can understand, they know the value of. The sane, rational appeal of the republican candidate to the common sense of the public is having its effect. Whatever his vision of a worJd without war may be, he is not pledging himself to; any vagarious plan, but offers to do those things which are helpful and which can be accomplished for, the good of humanity. Pledges that may be redeemed, not promises to be forgotten or dreams to be exploded, are his offer to the people. Americans can well af ford to trust a leader like that; they can safely follow no other. ' Softening Prices in Evidence. The downward swoop of retail prices may not be as precipitate as was the upward flight, but it appears to have commenced. Advertise ments that appear in the newspapers all indicate this, while announcements from time to time in the news columns of cuts made by factories in the selling price of their products support the belief that the peak really has been passed. . It is not necessary to discuss the causes that have led to this. Many are suggested, but all finally lead to the same end. It will be some time, per haps, before the full effect of the reductions made by manufacturers is reflected at the retail stores, but it is coming. Basic conditions are undergoing the readjustment that has been in evitable, and living will once more take on some thing that has been sadly lacking since the un settlement that followed when the pressure of war was removed two years ago. As much of danger lies in the new condition as was held by that which was passing, and equal care must be observed in order to avoid the mishaps that follow injudicious action. With the exercise of ordinary prudence, prices may be safely brought down from the stilts on which they have moved for many months, and set on a solid footing once more. But we are not yet out of the woods. What a Bird Can Do. According to a legend, a cackling goose saved Rome. The ravens fed the prophet when he had. fled before the wrath of an unjust and despotic monarch. The dove brought Noah symbol that dry land hd reappeared. All through history, sacred, profane, legendary or authentic, we find incidents of some feathered biped doing his featherless brother great service in emergency. Now from Kansas comes a most interesting tale of how a rooster saved the car in which Governor Cox is making his campaign journey from probable wreck. Pursuers of the fowl found him perched on the truck of the, car. and in order to dislodge him were compelled to notice some defects that might easily have resulted in disaster. The fowl was removed, the damaged wheels replaced, and the journey was resumed, both Cox and cock-sure of the candidate's safety. As we noted the other day, the candidate's tour is not devoid of the spice of peril, aside from the hardship it entails, but how lucky it was that rooster sought out the place he did to. hide. Omaha is a noisy place, all right, but the Founds you hear are those of progress and not e of discontent. "Hard Boiled" Smith says he did not Vant clemency, but he took it. Ttft end Hoover make a pretty good p"ir to Here comes the foot ball warrior ', A Line 0' Type or Two Htm ta Ma Una, M tka aalat Ml akara Mur at. I am the Sun my doom Is to burn thoae I love HtUe girl. little girl close ayour ayes run away . 11 i" for I want you I am the Moon little girl shrieking silently my loneliness yearning terribly , for eoul run away - little girl or I will steal your aouj and loae it , with mine , - l . : ta . I am the iters ' fixed high In the night "tearleaalr winking despair I look for you ' little girl with & myriad hopeless eyes and I can't find you anywhere why did you run away little girl riquarius. "IN what directions," inquires a reviewer of a volume of native verse, "is American poetry moving?" Why, chiefly from left to right; al though a few of the modern school run to zig- BASE BALL'S APHRODITE, air: I notice the headline in an evening paper. "Comiekey Bares All." Don't you think he'a horribly unreticent? MARY JANE. WE knew there was a catch somewhere. In response to scores of requests for the name of the place where he got that marvelous meal, W. S. wires that it was Wichita, Kan. ' Ontdoor Theatricals. (From the Wleconaln Rapida Tribune.) Mr. and Mrs. Jonea state that their daughter, Mrs. Irmegarde Morrlaan, was unable to come back with them, a she is Juat recovering from a severe attack of pan torn lne poisoning. "OWING to the constantly increasing cost of operation and the unusual advances in linens and other hotel supplies, all outside telephone calls will be charged at the rate of five cents per call." Portland Hotel Co. Which vaguely recalls the barber who ad vertised: "Owing to the high cost of supplies, hair cutting will be 40 cents." . MISPRINT FOR BIRTH MARK, PERHAPS. (From the Burlington Gazette.) The bride, wore a pretty gown of white voil with a hat of white georgette, and car ried a book mark. NEW YORK'S Evening Post recently in formed the world that George Russell for merly wrote his pen name as a diphthong, but dropped it for the separate letters "A. E." But apparently the Post's proofroom does not read a paper, as the poet's nom de plume always ap pears rxr . - TO PEGGY STUDYING HER HAJiD. ' Aged three months. A tea-rose petal delicately pink, The very sweetness of an English Spring, Is Hot one-half so lovely. Dear. I think, As the small hand you And so interesting. With serious blue eyes, oblivious, Tou watch and turn it slowly o'er and o'er, Intent on your first problem ponderous Of three dimensions first of many more. And ao, methinks, the little Jesus, too, Studied His new-made hand: but with less calm His Mother kissed It, knowing that for you A cruel nail would pierce the tender palm. G. V. B. -"I HAVE been wanting to tell you some thing for some time," said the fair ladye, "but, you see, we had never been introduced." We replied that that should not have deterred her. We have been introduced to only a few of our contributors, and we do not know the names of some of the most intimate of them. "It was a sign, wis it not?" said we . "Yes," she said. "It was a sign for motorists, just before we came to a church, and it said, 'Church. Slow During i Service.' It usually is, isn't it?" she added brightly. ONE DAT OF F. J. IS PLENTY. (From the Rocky Ford Tribune.) ' F. S. Cretcher arrived Wednesday from Scott City, Kan., and will visit here for sev eral days with his family. Mrs. F. J. Cretcher and Mrs. J. A. John son left Thursday afternoon for Monmouth. 111., where they will be the guests of , relatives for the next couple of months. ONE. hundred and twelve police recruits were graduated in New York last week. The class motto was "Ad astra." STICKING CLOSE. Sir: All I waated to say was this, that as 1 went through the Calif, desert places on the limited in August we passed Kelso, where the thermometer was hitting 125 in the shade, and there I noticed that H. Hots & Sons sold gen eral merchandise. H. B. S. A READER of a literary review wants to know whether anybody can put him on the track of a poem containing the lines, "O God," she cried in accents wild. "Take my life but spare my child!" We once knew. And as we recall' the poem, those two lines were the best in it. FOR THE CONVENTIONAL. , (From the Ncgaunee Iron Herald.) The Negaunee Steam Bath Resort con tinues to do a g-ood business. It is supplied with public bathroom for men and women, also private bathrooms. AT the request of Dean Jet Wimp, of the Immortals, we are admitting Miss Jetta Soppa of Joy, 111., to the academic groves. SHOW HIM IN. Sir: The appointment of Julius Stem winder of Broken Bow, Neb., to the chair of chronology would, I believe, meet with the approval of all right thinking people. T. T. BEFORE dropping the subject, let it be noted that Nick Carter of Reno, Ncv., is a can didate for sheriff. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A EVANS Qaaatloaa concerning -hrf taia, aanlta tion and nravantiaa of dlaaaaa, sub mittad to Dr. Evana by raadara at Tha Baa, will ba aaawarad paraoaally, sub joct to proper limitation, whar a stamped, aaw-eeaed envelop ia ea cloeed. Dr. Evana will not make dlafBoala ar prescribe far individual dieeaeea. Addreaa letters be earn at Tha Baa. Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Zvaat. THE ENRAPTURED UND1E MAN. (Fro mthe El Dorado, Kan., Times.) Now that the gold and brown of the big prairies proclaim the world Is being hushed by the solemn sweetness of the passing sum mer, you should remember that Harry Logan has his store well tilled with the best there is in good warm underwear. FIRST call for brown October near-ale. B. L. T. PERILS OP ANTHRAX. In the last 13 years 190 cases of human anthrax were reported from Massachusetts alone. More than one-fourth of these were reported in 1917, the year when the leather, hide and hair trade was most upset by the war. One hundred and forty five of these were reported after the outbreak of the world war. Some of them were the result of the use of Infected shaving brushes. Anthrax is not only a serious dls ease, menacing domestic animals as well as man, . but onoe It gets a foot hold in a county or state It Is elimi nated with the greatest difficulty. Pastures infected by anthrax are un safe to use for 20 years or more. The reason for the great increase in anthrax after the onset of the world war was the coming into trade of hides and hair from far inland, hitherto undrawn on sections of the almost uncivilized world. Almost nine-tenths of the cases were caused by Asiatic hides and hair. In 1917 a new low priced shaving brush was put on the market and the shaving brush cases began. To prevent the importation of an thrax, all hide3, hair and wool should be sterilized. In an article on anthrax in Massachusetts appear ing in the American Journal of Pub lic Health, Dr. S. H. Osborn says the Schattenfroh method of steriliz ing hides is satisfactory to the tan ners, the trade generally and the health authorities. It consists of soaking the hides for 40 hours, at a temperature of 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, in a solu tion of 10 per cent sodium chloride and 2 per cent absolute hydro chloric acid in water. Dr. Slack showed that various combinations of strengths of salt, 5 to 10 per cent, and hydrochloric acid, 34 Per cent to 2 per cent, killed anthrax spores, but that it was necessary to assay the hydrochloric acid used and know its exact strength. To disinfect the hair, the bundles should be loosened and steam run in. A temperature of 230 degrees Faren- helt maintained for half an hour in all parts of. the bundle of hair will kill all spores. Spores in shaving brushes can be killed by prolonged exposure to steam or to formalin. Just a word as to the treatment of anthrax. It is not necessarily a fatal disease. In fact about four- fifths of the cases get well Lancing and cutting out the anthrax carbun cles should not be done. It in creases the chancc'of death materially. Cootie Clings Like Bulldog. E. R.1 W. writes: "Can you suggest a treatment to overcome 'nits'?" REPLY. -Vinegar will loosen them from the hairs. They can then be combed away with a fine tooth comb. If the hair is greased with vaseline, any nits left behind will not hatch. When there is difficulty In getting rid of nits" it is altogether ' probable . that lice supply a new lot when the old lot has been removed, tms may le due to continued contact with in different people. Body lice stay -in the clothes rather than on the body. Therefore, unless the clothing is cleaned of them when the body is, a hew crop of nits will appear. Swimming Is O. K. Mrs. E. W. writes; "1. Can a mother of a 12-weeks-old breast fed baby go in bathing without any harmful results? "2. How soon after birth of a baby should a nursing mother's menstruation resume ?" REPLY 1. Yes. 2. Most mothers do not menstru ate until they wean their babies. There is a good physiologic basis for this. However, a woman need not be disturbed if her menstruation starts earlier. i . i Tears Laurels From Burbank. Omaha, Sept. 18, 1S20. To the Editor of The Bee: In several re cent editorials you couple the name of Luther Burbank with that of Ford and Edison and endoavor ito convey the impression that they be long in the same claaa. Our dally use of their devices will readily lead us to award the two latter the distinc tion of being the greatest of living inventors, but pray name one single thing that Burbank has ever prop agated that has ever proved to be of any substantial use or benefit to any one. The nearest approach he ever came to this was the propaga tion of the Burbank potato a fairly decent spud though not a first class one and It never came into general use. Our commercial seeds nton have propagated many better ones which I could name and they lay no claim to being classed as scientists. Burbank's "wonderberry" was prolific but unpalatable and useless and no one ever grew it a second time. His "pitless plum" had no merit and never came into gen eral use. His "spineless cactus," about which he shouted the loudest, proved absolutely worthless and was condemned by the United States De partment of Agriculture in a special bulletin Issued for that purpose to protect the public from fraud. In fact, after a careful search, I am unable to find a single useful tree, fruit, herb or vegetable to his credit ' Could. Burbank lay claim to being the propagator of the navel orange, the loganberry or some of those grains which the Agricultural de partment has discovered as being especially adapted to our semi-arid regions, then he' might well be classed with Edison and Ford. ' But Burbank, having repeafedly attempted by extensive advertising to foist his worthless productions on the public at fancy figures, I know of no reason why he should not be debarred from the use of the malls and classed where he belongs. READER. Going Too Far. An Alabama mob lynched a man for making Insulting remarks to a woman. But this does seem like stretching chivalry as well as necks. Baltimore American. Add to the Scenery. The politicians would like to know what our "first, fair and fear less" voters are going to do this fall. Columbus Dispatch. Nobody Else Doca. 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