) 1 THE BEE: OMAHA, "MONDAY, KOVZM15EK 1, lrctJ The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THK BEE PUBLI8HINO COMPANY, NELSON B. UPDIKE. PublUh.r. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th AmkouiwI Frae. e wklrk TM ItM U Dmtr. is -eluiltti; tnUtl.4 lo Um urn tor iniNlettloa nt til iwwt 4!mUI rrlm-I M It or M oiftwwiM (mUlid In Ikli twprr, u tlto ik lo. l urwt puMlthaa' hwun. All flhtt nt Buhllcalhia of out owciU BEE TELEPHONES PrUtl Brines BioJimw. Art tut TvlP 1000 tW iMDtiUuonl or Tmon W nU4. 1 ,CI wvv Far Night Call Afttr 10 P. M.l E.1ltoril Dtcxrtinmi Trior IWOL lirtul.tim VwiwrtDMnt' Tyl 10UIL AUllllti DoutrtliiKil ...... - Tl 11WL OFFICES OF THE BEE Main Offlca: 17th tnd Firum -Coneil BluffI IS 8ill Jt. I South Sid Mil N St Out-ol-Town Offlca.l Nt Tort IM riftb Aw I Withincioo 1111 0 it. Chlcuo tuiw Itldj. I Ftril frtno. 410 But St. tlvnora The Bee's Platform 1. New Umlon Passenger Station. 2. Continued improvement of tha Ne braska Highways, including tka pave manl of Main Thoroughfare leading into Omaha with a Brick Surfaca. 3. A short, lew-rate Waterway from tha Corn Bait to tha Atlantic Qjpaan. 4. Homo RuU Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. WHAT YOUR VOTE MEANS. When you go to the polls on tomorrow you will assist in deciding some of the most mo mentous and important istucs ever presented to Americans. Your vote will express your view!. towards your country's future, not for just a few days or a single presidential term, but per haps for generations. It will also record your verdict as to some things that have lately been done in your name. You wilt be choosing between continuing a futile debate over a treaty provision and the solemn pledge of a great party and its candidate to bring peace with honor and security to the republic. You will make a choice between a scheme that contains danger for the United States and a definite (lan for an association of nations in agreement ito prevent war. You will give your support to a party pledged to keeping up the existing confusion in public and private affairs, and one that promise to set up order as rapidly as permanence of build ing will permit. , You will have your opportunity to endorse the recklessness of the Wilson administration in handling war undertakings, orOu can rebuke the bunglers who permitted these things, and made possible the aircraft scandal, the Muscle j Shoals mess, the Nitro spree, and all the long list of costly adventures from which only the war profiteers gained anything. You can give your approval to the muddling of management after the war, that has enabled the manipulation of pricet so that while wheat and corn and meat and the like havejjone down, and the farmer is getting less than ever for his product, coal and sugar and others things needed in the home went sky-high, or you can vote to do away with such government and put in one that wiil deal with facts and not with dreams. If you think the record of the democratic party deserves further commission in power; if you are content with the way rturleion has run the postoffice; if you are happy over the way Daniels has handled the navy; if Creel's record of admitted mendacity is satisfactory to you; if the deception and duplicity that has characterized the' entire course of the adminis tration accords with your views of decent, gov ernment, you can express such views, by voting for Cox. , - However, if you are in line with real Ameri cans who deprecate and resent the chicanery, the pompous pretence and pitiable performance, the "vision"'that can embrace the woes of the world, but fails to observe the problems that beset the home folks; in a word, if you are weary of Wilsonism and all that it contains, you have the promise of relief in a vote for Harding. You vote on Tuesday will be the most im portant you have ever cast at a presidential election, for It will help to decide whether it is America first or Eui'ope-r-our own affairs or those of a bankrupt world outside. Mr. Bryan's Silence. On the Saturday night before election for many years William Jennings Bryan hat spoken in Omaha, carrying his message kto thousands who honor him for his own attributes, regard less of party. He has preached the gospel of democracy to more people than any other living man. This time the silver tongue did not drip with honeyed phrases, nor swing with sonorous clamor in behalf of the candidates of the party .ft has served so faithfully for JO years. Vir. Bryan is reported to have made the finest effort of his life in his appeal to the con vention at San Francisco. He was battling for his idea of right, of justice, of decency, for a nominee he might be able to defend before the world. Murphy, Nugent, Taggart. Brennan and their cohorts derided him, flouted him, hooted him, and dragooned the delegates into voting for the man Mr. Bryan said wat the least fitted and poorest qualified of all whose names were before the body. The "big four" bosses took vengeance for Baltimore; the party broke away from Bryan and lined up tack of Tammany. Yet some of them expected that Mr. Bryan would swallow the insult, stultify his convictions, set aside hit- sense of honor and obligation, and at least give Cox the lip support that has flown so freely from others who were there. They did not know the Great Commoner as well as they thought. He has kept his own .standing in the party unassailable; while he has not supported its nominee, he has not openly opposed iiim. When the democrats gather in convention in 1924, Mr. Bryan will be there, his judgment vindicated and his influence en hanced, but, oh, brethren, what wouldn't the Coxites have given if Mr. Bryan had followed his custom and closed the campaign at Omaha Ull - " - ..... ticketl Pay Attention to the Peanut. When the Wall street capitalist told Colonel Carter of Cartersville that his proposed railroad would carry nothing, but "peanuts and niggers," he deeply offended the good old Virginian. However, if the colonel's railroad was required to carry all the peanuts that now enter into the commerce of the United States, it would be a pretty busy little bit of track. In 12 states 56,000,000 bushel of the more or less popular "goober" were havested this fall. These are valued at $100,000,000 on the farms where they wen raised. What they will be by the time they have been roasted, shucked, and doled out at the attenuated "nickel's worth" of the prejent day can not even be guessed at. Not all of them will go that way, however, for they enter into food combinations in many other forms. Peanut butter, peanut oil, hatns from pigt that fed on peanuts, and a lot of other ways have been found for getting folks to eat the fruit of the vine that is playing a great share in the prosperity of a region that once was looked upon as hoplessly the land of poor white trash and shiftless darkies. A little examination into that adaptability of the crop has brought it up to a point of respectability, and the next time you refer to something as being of the peanut variety, just remember that nine figures as sembled after a dollar mark are needed to in dicate what this, once disdained and neglected thing has come to mean to the country's agri cultural wealth. Blind Opposition to the Waterway. . The proposal for an international seaway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic is no new thing. As long ago as 189S. when the first con vention of the International Deep Waterways association was held in Cleveland, this plan was urged upon the governments of Canada and the United States by men qualified to speak from expert knowledge of the subject. Powerful in fluences, among which were those inspired by the fear that if the west were allowed free access to the sea the commerce of the port of New York would be injured, kept this plan in abey ance for 25 years, but has in that time only gained strength for final victory. All the old arguments are being brought forth at a hear ing this week in which the New York Cham ber of Commerce is protesting before the in ternational commission that is investigating the desirability of the new ship canal. Transportation can never be too cheap, and to the unprejudiced observer the hostility, of the eastern interests appears unwarranted. One of the greatest foes of water transportation in the United States has been the railroads. Yet in those countries where land transportation has been supplemented by water routes, the rail roads have not ceased to prosper. Ships and freight trains do not do exactly the same work. They do more than compete each aids and complements the other. The ef fect of water transportation is to reduce the volume of bulky, slow freight carried by land and to increase the higher classes of freight car ried by rail, on which the lines depend for most of their earnings. It is admitted that the task of handling the western harvests has grown too heavy for the railroads, and ship lines would, in addition to lowering the cost of exporting grain, lighten the necessity for greater outlays of capi tal in railroad equipment than traffic receipts warrant. Twenty-five years ago, at that first conven tion in which the Great Lakes canal project was discussed, Emory R.! Johnson of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, recognized today as an authority on transportation problems, dealt thus with the opposition of the railroads to the development of waterways: In their ultimate analysis, the interests and welfare of society and the railroads are the same. The highest industrial organization and the most rapid industrial 'progress require the use of all means of transportation and communication railways, waterways and other agencies. The increase of the means of transportation and communication are the sure signs of economic progress. Likewise the development and successful evolution of the railroad system depends upon the variety and rapidity with which society advances in dustrially. The benefits are mutual and recip rocal. What is for the ultimate good of so ciety is for the welfare of the railroads. If this applies to the railways of America, how much more it must apply to the various sections of the country itself. The welfare of the west as it is increased is bound to result in benefit to all other parts of the country. The shortsighted prejudices of sectionalism have held back this great plan by which ocean ves sels could approach within 500 miles of Omaha for a quarter of a century. Surely this spirit of jealousy cannot now overcome the demonstrated benefits of the opening up of a cheaper and more direct route to, the markets of the world. Mrs. Vincent Astor, in the interest of Amer icanization work, recently came up New York harbor in the steerage with the commissioner of immigration. Desiring to understand the mental attitude of the incoming alien, she went through all the regular examinations at Ellis Island destined to keep out undesirables. She was tested for trachoma, literacy and everything else. This is taking a risk that not all of us would feel safe in doing. j The husband of the north side woman who claims that she does her work more quickly when shehas the phonograph turned on is secretly planning to put on a jazz record to speed up her preparations for going to the theater. A bold thinker in Kansas City has suggested that the unsightly signs overhanging the walks be pulled down. Kansas City will be in a das with Omaha if it quits talking about improve ments long enough actually to do something. The bill of $750,000 for rouge, powder and perfume used by American women last year looks large until the men's item of more than $2,000,000,000 for tobacco is brought into com parison. More blacksmith?- than ever before attended their annual state convention, but it was found that in all of Nebraska there was only one ap prentice. Is the horse coming or going? An after-dinner speaker who explained that there are two reasons for short skirts could have headed off a great debate by stating wheth er he meant ankles or knees. The Kantas City churchgoer who complains that in two years she had heard only two chap ters of the Bible read by the minister is perhaps not interested in politics. Live and let live is a good motto, and should not be forgotten by a lot of folks who think they are not getting all that is coming. Governor Cox will soon have plenty of time to add up his talk and see wherein he was mistaken. After tomorrow the cornhusker can have the floor undisputed. Supermen and lupergovernment wilt soon be superseded. . And they do miss Mr. Bryan. A Line 0' Type or Two How ta tha Lino, lot tha quip fall wboro tkoy map. Harvey Suuoe. Tha broth political will stand A dash of aauce; It gives It gumption. But Colonel Harvey's well-known brand rather strong for wide consumption. IN a half-page ad the Apartment House as sociation of New York denies a shortage of dwellings, and offers a list as a sample of a large supply. From this we tee that one can get 19 rooms with 7 baths for $20,000 a year, and if one can get along with 6 baths the rental is only $25,000. Too large an apartment? Well, how about two rooms and bath for $3,200? Still too large? Then let us show you one room and bath for $1,500. IT is sentimental to call Article 10 the heart of the league. Its functions would be better represented by tme other organ. A VALUED contemporary insists that the Americans are an idealistic people. Yes. As idealistic, we should guess, as a Bryn Mawr flapper. October Xlglit. Not Rembrandt's shadings are so deeply bit ar tnose mat Match this harlequin-like night; Not Titian' dazzling brush, a-drlp with bright Italian colors liquidly that lit Venice at sunset, could augment this flit Of apal arrows, all the chrysolite Artillery that turns black woods to white, And cynic world to lyric benefit. Oh, that some moonless month would bring release From throb of beauty f let Its darkness lead My love-lorn thoughts In paths of loveless peace. Binding the wounds that stiver stabs would bleed. And sines no moon our shadows may entwine Let drowsy clouds distil their anodyne. PETRARCHINO. NO man can know everything. Mr. Wilson, for example, was unfamiliar with the island of Yap, and Mr. Harding never heard of Wash ington D. Vandcrlip. A PROPERTY VIOLET. (From the Billboard.) To the Editor: In reply to the statement that publishers cannot get songs that are worth 30 cents let me say that I have from 75 to 100 of the finest songs that have ever been written. These song's will compare favorably with any of the songs of the great poets, Including Robert Burns, Tom Moore, Lord George Byron, W. J. Meekle, Florence Percy and Stephen Foster. Everyone of "these songs is of my own composition, and I am at this time completing a volume of poetry that will compare favorably with any of the above stated poets. I have the greatest confidence In my work ' (We suppress the remainder as well as the name of the poet, as we fear that fur ther publicity might distress him.) OUR curiosity about the funniest wheeze printed in this department is nearly satisfied, and we may publish the contributions. If you have a guess to submit, shoot it along. WHEN is comes" to saving, you can't beat Maine folks. A university foot ball eame is announced to begin "at 2:30 a. m. sharp, day light saving time. Adventure, When Auntie Bess came here to stay, I went down town with her one day, And when her errands were all done We had ice cream and Jots of fun. And then we took a street car back, I wondered, there beside the track, Why I had never known before I rode upon a dinosaur. For now I saw that It would look Just like the picture in my book. I almost trembled when it came, With trail of dust and breath of flame. ,And as it tore along the rails, - Its windows all were shining scales; Its wheels were clutching, might feet That seemed to claw and scratch the street. But when we once were safe Inside I felt a sort of happy pride To ride the monster up and down So calmly through the busy town. And from my swaying, swinging seat I mocked the people on the street. While motor cars like bugs would fly To safety as we snorted by. IRIS. ALTHOUGH Mrs. Elizabeth Hash has re tired from the hotel business, Mrs. Peter Lunch has undertaken to manage the Metropole cafe teria in Fargo, N. D. A BONO OF SPUDS. (From the Three Rivers, Mich., Commercial,) Look this over. I have got 500 bushels of Delaware potatoes. I will sell In this , way. Every person that wants to put In their winter potatoes can get these potatoes this way. You come to my house, at 816 Fourth street and I will give you some pota toes to take home and cook them and eat them, and If you want any of them, you can place your order and your order will be placed as I take them. The price Is 11.25 per bushel, no more, no less. I have got stung on some potatoes and I live hi tqwn, and I want to be with every person I deal with as I want to be dealt with. Don't buy, come to my place for samples to cook. DUTCH BARKS. " MR. WHITE finds that the "east is turning to Cox." This is not a baddish joke on the Wall street gamblers who are laying 6 to 1 on the other star. Skokle. (To Anchusa.) Where flows the muted Skokle now The leaves are falling, falling fast, And over steam, and over bough And field, a dreaminess Is cast; While far and wide the country-side Grows pensive in a purple haze, As Autunm, like an Easter bride, Comes up along her ancient ways And wakes to wonder and to praise. And were It not that In my heart The harvest of the year is piled, To see wan Summer thus depart I were perchance not reoonclled; - Yea, standing here beside her bier, My tears to fall would never cease Did I not -know that far and near Her reign had brought her kingdom peace More golden than the Golden Fleece. LAURA BLACKBURN. NOBODY believes that the league would prevent another war. Isn't the fairer question this: "Wouldn't the league delay a war, and by delaying possibly avert it?" MR. CARPENTIER is sure of $200,000. so that even if he does not survive the ordeal his heirs and assigns will have a trunkful of francs. OISEAUX OF A FEATHER. (From the Qulncy Herald.) Mrs. Herman Henhoff charmingly enter tained the "BOO" club Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Birdie Capen of Cleveland was an out of town guest. ' "DEMOCRTS Rally Tonight." A death-bed rally, we fear. HAVE you reserved your seat on the land slide? j B. L.T. How to Keep Well y ML. W. A. EVANS Quootloqa caatenhlnf hygiono, imita tion and prtvontion of dlooato, tub m It tod to Dr. Evana by rtadtrt ot Tho Boo, will bo answered poroonally, oub joct to proper limitation, whora a ttampod, addroucit onvolopo 1 on clotod. Dr. Evan will not mako diafnosio or proicribo for individual dioeaopo. AdilroM letter in care of Tho Beo. Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Evan is: 6 tee 4 ox News in Advance. Apropos of the lapse of time between sun rise here and on the Hawaiian Islands, John M. N. Reynolds, just returned from a year's Service in a Hawaiian radio station, says: "It's a strange sort of feeling to be getting in the gray dawn of Saturday morning intimate details about Saturday afternoon's big league base "ball games in the states." New York Evening Post. A Patient People. ' If Mr. Lenin knew that Americans are pay ing 20 cents for a piece of blueberry pie with out starting a revolution he would at last per ceive that this country is not ripe for bolshevism. Kansas City Times. ' Mind and Matter Once More. "Psychology is a mouthful," remarked the man on the car, but as a science I doubt if it can distinguish between a mental attitude and a sluggish liver. Toledo Blade. MEASLES IN THE ARMY. Dr. J. R. Gerstley was a specialist on diseases of babies when he be came an army eurgeon. Since his superior offiorr hud no babU-s for this baby specialist to treat, he as signed him to tha care of baby diseases. In the army In war times measels la a very important disease more important even than it is In a family of young children. In the winter of 1917-18 Dr. Gerst loy saw a lot of soldiers sick with the measles, Many of them devel oped pneumonia and some of them died. From hin experience there he learned sosne things and these things ne is wlHBig to pass on to others. In the first place, not everybody has the measles. The army ex perience taught that a very large percentage ,of country boys and a fair proportion of town boys g?t to be 20 years old without having had measles. This Pr. Gerstley did not learn for the first time from the war, for It is a matter of common information that many people escape measles. S In the second place, the older the child when he has measles the better his chance of getting well. The death rate of those who have measles is much reduced when the disease is postponed until the child has reached school age or older. Here are two good reasons a mother should shiold her young brood from measles as much as possible. This Dr. Gerstley knew before he went into the army. He learned that the soldiers with measles who developed disease were those who were overworked, fatig ued, physically exhausted. Another group that were very suscepto pneumonia after measles were those who gave a history of previous pulmonary disease; for ex ample, asthma, chronic bronchitis, repeated attacks of bronchitis, fre quent colds, pneumonia, tuberculosis and pleurisy. Another group that were very susceptible were those with pigeon breast, hatchet chest, barrel chest and poor chest development general ly. And finally there was a group of measles cases that he could piok out as headed for pneumonia by the way they acted mentally. When a patient developed meas les Dr. Gerstley thought he should be completely isolated, more to pro tect him against pneumonia germs of others thaji to protect others against his measles germs. The room should be properly heated and veijtilated. The attend ant should be scrupulously clean, free from bronchitis and coryza and giving no history r.f frequent colds. There is a lot In this for mothers to learn. When measles is around they should guard extra carefully all children with poorly developed chests and all children very sub ject to colds. They should see that their children are not overworked and fatigued. And finally, if any get measles the tiatients should be well Isolated in a well ' ventilated, heated room attended by a very cleanly, healthy person. Requires Cai-oful Living. H. D. L. writes: "Will you please let me know what chronic dilation of the heart means? What causes it? Will one live long affected with it?" REPL"5. In dilatation of the heart the organ is larger than 'normal and the increase in size is due to increase in the size of the cavities. It gen erally results from disease of the heart tnuscle or the heart valves, or overwork of overstrain. A person with a dilated heart may live to reach a ripe old age, provided he regulates his life properly. AuuIj.sIh of the League. York, Neb., Oct. 27. To the Editor of The Bee: As Governor Cox has come and gone It is not out of place to take his measure especially if we use his own tapeline, and measured by thut he is found wanting in the very essentials thai are vital factore In the making uf a statesman of presidential size. He shows that In several ways. One Is the making charges that he cannot prove and when he Is called on to give his proof to say he has not the time let the others disprove it. That is a fine way for a man to act that Is aspiring to be president of the United States, and then whine like i j baby because the other fellows don't fight lair; that the papers are not Kivins him space and boost enough or as much as he thinks he should have, but that is due to the differ ence of opinion between he and them I as to his worth. ! Then he is playing two losing cards in this game, one is his charge of that big slui'h fund with which he is to be buried in defeat by the corrupt use of it in buying up the electorate for his opponent. In the first place, the charge Is an Insult to every decent democrat In the coun try. Because It is either a charge or an admission that his party is a set of corrupt sell-outs and that thev will sell their votes to the republic an committee if they will offer them tho money. I just wonder how they like that. You can guess by this time h'ow I would like it. The second card is his stand on the league of nations. He says he Is in complete accord with Mr. Wil son on that, yet he says he Is in favor of Interpretative reservations to safeguard the United States. Shades of Mr. fttraddlebug, come over us. Yes, sure, that is-all Mr. Lodge and 25 of his democratic senators wanted and the only differ ence between them was what they thought was safe and what was risk and what was doubt and uncertainty Mr. Wilson took a swing around the circle to enlighten the people as to what the league covenant con tained and made a muss cf It by giv ing such divergent explanations of Its meanings and terms and powers tnat he lost lots of friends of the league by the very methods he used to try and show how strong It would be to prevent wars because all the great nations of the world would be In the league and pledged to carry out its provisions. Then when some of America's ablest statesmen showed the country that some of its articles are In square conflict! with our con stitution andagainst our sarety, Mr Wilson rushed out onto the stage to prove how weak it is by saying It does not mean what It says or that we will not be under any obligations to obey the league's orders, unless we want: it will be Just left to us to choose our course. Then what has he got as a league to enforce peace any more than we have now, for can we not now choose whether we will take part or not? If there is nothing in the league covenant to have us do anything only just as we wish to decide it when the time comes, why ill his fuss and Ive elected Posttoasties as President ofthe League of Rations says (o&bp These chilly mornings you should fire up a little with good COAL The Kind You Gat From tha UPDIKE LUMBER & COAL CO. Phone Walnut 300. Vote for Robert W. PATRICK Candidate for Re-Electlon for Municipal Judge Judge Patrick Has Equalized the Poor Man and the Rich Man in the Administration of V This Office A Great Stir Is Made Every Morning Over GOOCH'S BEST PANCAKE FLOOR The Ten Minute l' Breakfast cry against us deciding it now or be fore we sign It and place our do c!B.on in the other fellow's hands? All Mr. Wilson, or Mr. Cox or any other of the league's dreamers may say to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Wilson says we will be under no legal obligation to obey, but we will be under a moral one which la much stronger than a legal one. Then that Is some binding, is it not? llut the British and the French statesmen do not agree with Mr. Wilson.' The French say if that Is the caie let us go back to The Hague treaties and Mr. Lloyd George says It means what It says, or It cannot mean antliing. Mr. Wilson says It only advises and that advice only means advise, then why does it say that "the council will advise what steps shall be taken to give effect to the advice." and in ar ticle IS. It glvea orders what they shall do with a member of the league that dares to refuse to obey the or ders of tho council. It says the council will tell the members "what effective military or naval forces the members of the league shall sever ally contribute to the armed forces to be used to protect the covenants of the league." Now, Mr. Leaguer, read that again and see how you like It. . Then read Mr. Wilson on the league and see who Is doing the mis representing. Now let any of the subject peoples of England. France or Japan cry nut for freedom or self determination llko we did m 1776. and us bound to aelp thj kingdom remain one, to protect territorial lines as now drawn, instead of help ing the helpless as has been our cus tom. But for that bunch to say that we, by not taking It as drawn, we are saying "let the world go hang; we don't care." is as false as the lan guage can make it, for we want to help -humanity, not a few old em pires. FRANKLIN PpPE. Locating nil liulcK'iilent. Omaha, Oct. 28. To the ' PJditor of The Beel Several days ago there appeared iir Omaha papers support ing the democratic party -a letter from Ed Wolverton, who signed himself as an "Independent Voter." The idea, of course, was that th writer had approached tha Leagu of Nations question with a perfectly open mind, and was so Impressed with its wonderful qualities he rushed into print, signing himself as above stated. Now the facts are that Mr. Wol verton has always been an Intense admirer of Woodrow Wilson, so much so that several year ago, when the stork presented him (not Mr. Wilson) with a baby boy, he Instantly named him after the pres ent Incumbent of the White House. I think It only fair to make these facts known so that tha reading public may decide Just how "Inde pendent'' this votr Is. E. H. Serve fruit with LORNA DOONE Biscuit and learn what real short bread is. They have a wonderful flavor, with just-enough richness. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Bee want ads are business getters. THE ARMY n TEACHES TRADES Figure up the time it would take you to become a good machinist and what it would cost you for board and clothes and all the other expenses while you were learning. If you could get paid while learning have money in your pocket at the end of every month and no bills to settle wouldn't you call that a good job? Well, that's the kind of a job the Army offers you. You ' earn a good living and while you're earning a good Irving you learn to be a skilled man in one of a hundred trades. There are few better jobs open these days. ' Ask a recruiting officer to tell you when you can begin and where. I L EARN, LEARN and TRAVEL