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"i r r THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1920. TheOmaha Bee tkttt (MORNING) - EVENING SUNDAY I 'WTK T smut retrrwn mmiuv " NtLBON B. UPDIKE, PubHshar, ;( MEMBERS or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' Tk Aaanttalad Pirn at bte Tba Ha I. mmtbm. la in?e eauuea uiuwm guNkttioa of u m aiMtha " nvm.Mimii maiws in aw save?. Mia tea m euMUfeaa aaraia. Ail rihu at aubUuuaa of sot susctal Wiw r sim rummd. 12S J if 1 Braofb. atefiuiM. Aik lot BEE TELEPHONES Trier 1000 Far Ntakt Calla AA IB l M.i . i ttnHtl Danartvirat ............ NW lMst reaction lprtmr.t ......... ryr inoSL inninni iwpamiianT . . . . .. . . Trl lOOtb iTerk i ii OPFMTt OF THE BEE Mala HftMkt uth ana rmi M Baenjt. I South Bid Oat-el-Teera Offlcaai IM F1flb M I WuMnrtoO man suae, i Kill M St. Part franc It But BL 1110 BL . The Bee's Platform t. New Ualoa Passenger Statioa. 1 Coatiauei iorerovemsnit of the Ne. braska Highways including the pave- anani ar aiaia I koroughtaret leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the Cant Bait to tho Atlaatie Ocean. 4. Mom Rtil Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. SHIPPING BOARD SCANDAL. Disclosures of graft, extravagance, misman agement and fraud in connection with the oper ations' of the Shipping board and . Emergency Fleet corporation during the war come merely as additional proof of the shame that tinged the magnificent work of shipbuilding at a time of the world's greatest need. Not only did the shipyards of America present the strangely mixed spectacle of producing sorely needed ves sels in record time and providing bomb-proof employment for a lot of fjllowa who might otherwise have been in tfcr irenches, but they also afforded a remarkable composition of the shrewdest of organization and efficient manage ment and the most reckless of waste, extrava gance and incompetence. All of this was brought about at a time when the public mind was exalted above sublunary considerations by urge of patriotic devotion, and, following its . leaders with implicit trust, could not conceive Jthat any were less lacking in the higher attri butes of citizenship and willingness to serve, and therefore would not suspect any, of the deliberate crookedness that now appears to have been prevalent i ' No way can be adopted to restbre all that , was lost as a result of what then was done in the name of htirhah liberty, but tome method jjjhould be devised to reach the greedy profiteers, SSho assumed the livery of public service in , rder to plunder the people who trusted them. '' ;N question of partisan politics !s involved to jthii. i Even if no(,more drastic jction is tfossiblo fthan to publicly denbunce those who are respond ible for the wantoriaste, that should be done'. .This ought to include thfe men who deliberately 'manipulated the financial operations with great iloss and detriment to the public, and extend Mownward to the man who took big wages ho 3knew he had not earned. Profiteering is not .culpable according to degree, but is a shame td ny regardless of the amount filched. Americans will be inclined td forgive much, because the shipyards did turn Out vessels at a irate that proved of incalculable service in con nectfon with the war. Hop kindled then of a Revived merchant marine, to heat American coin amerce, and this promise, has been in part re 'deemed, at least to the extent that a start actually' 'has been made, but some of the offers made for; 'vessels and equipment to be sold by the United States to private owner indicates an impres sion on part of purchasers that ttie Treasury" is fbtill exuding blessings to those who are lucky . enough to get a connection. Satvage from the shipyards is not making much of a1 dent' on the Ml of costs piled up against them. ! It is quite likely that Senator" Itarding; will find himself free to put into full effect the' provisions of the" Jones act, now suspended by Mr. Wilson's fefusal to undertake the negotia tion of newtWatles fhadVneiesiary by ,tha Jav. jThe -president-elect is also committed tp the policy of permitting the use of the Panama canal jtoll-free to American shipping as well as the (continued exclusion of foreign-built or owned Vessels from coastwise commerce. If friendly encouragement will achieve it, the American' merchant marine will be restored under the republican administration, but its foundations should not rest on the graft scandal coming: down from the war days. Reorganizing the Democratic Party, 'from the day he was named to succeed Homer S. Dimming as chairman of the demo-, eratic national committee, The Bee has held George White to be what the unwashed legions he headed would call "a good game guy." He justifies this opinion by announcing the reor ganization of what is left of the shattered and scattered host of the oiice great party. How ever, heis a little bjt late. The work was com menced in Arkansas, here the itate committee pt the democrats passed a resolution calling on 3fr. Bryan to formally, resign his membership, and to effectually Obliterate himself. You will re tnember, of course, that Arkansas was the home fttate of Jame it. Jones, field marshal of the. !Bryan cohorts during the "second battle," and the request made in the name of Woodrow Wil son becomes the more , impressive, because of ithaMact Oft' that day the Katlotlal Democratic vjtlub of New York made llr.' Wilson and Gov ernor Cox members for life, because of services to the party,' the fir time such an honor has een granted since the days of Grover Cleveland.- These are premonitory symptoms of the reorganization Mr. White has in view, and might 'support the belief that at the 1924 gathering of .the dans, should such occur, a really interesting (time will be had by all. The chairman has his Kvork ahead of him. ! Three Acres and the Immigrant. ; Detroit and Akrort are two cities that ac-' knowledge having enough population fof the pres ent, and they are endeavoring' to have the tide kf immigrant labor, diverted from their doors, 'suggesting thaV li be Spread out over the. rural districts. Frederick R. Wallis, cbmmlslorier of immigration,',hai established, a new bureau at 'Ellis island to aid m the distribution immi tgrants andcheck their tendency tclierd in con igested cities. ' . , ' It would riot be necessary to turn the new jcomers very far aside in Order to put them on jthe soiL On the outjklfts of every city t are tracts of -vacant land that could with great behe ffit be brought into use for market garden, igarms are smaller In the old countries than with us, and it is for truck gardening or small dairy ing that the immigrants, many of whom were brought up as farmers, are best suited. Although many now reaching America prob ably would prefer farming to factory labor, active effort to root them properly is necessary. It will not do merely to set them on a train headed for the middle west and let them drift about in search for a "home. Several agencies are now at work on the plan, among them the National Council of Jewish Women, which has arranged to settle Jewish immigrants on farms equipped for them. If the possibilities of rais ing green stuff for the city markets are realized," city and state agencies may yet co-operate with the immigration authorities to general advantage. Nebraska's industrial Court. Commenting on the re-election of Governor Allen, which it interprets as an approval of the Kansas industrial court, law, the Boston Trah acript falls into the error of saying Nebraska has adopted a similar law. What Nebraska has done is to adopt an amendment to its constitu tion which1 will permit the legislature to adopt such a law. There is the difference. Another great difference is that Nebraska has no coal mines br similar industry, in which the public can take the lively interest shown in the affairs of Kansas. To be sure, a goodly number of Nebraska's populationabout 100 per cent, to be exact, earn their owit living, and eat their bread in the sweat of their face, but as yet they have never sought to attract national attention by raising a hullabaloo about it, such as goes up periodically from the Kansas coal field. 'We have no Howatt, and must struggle along as best we may without the advertising that energetic individual has given to the, home of the Jayhawker. , - We noted the other day whers some be nighted editor referred to the fact that thirty years have elapsed since William Allen White advised his fellow Kansans to raise less hell and more corn.. As a matter of solemn truth, the folks did not take him any more seriously then than they do now, and they continue to raise just as much of the one and no more of the other than during the good old populist days of 1890. However, this is wandering from the subject. Nebraska has not as yet passed an industrial court law, but probably will although wfe won der as to the need of it, just as we were puzzled to know why it was necessary to put permission to do so into a constitution that did ttbt forbid such action. Barriers to Great Lakes Traffic. Those Who have made the voyage through the Thousand islands of the St. Lawrence river,' stepping ashore at Montreal after that final wild spurt through Lachine rapid 5, have a clear un derstanding of just what are the obstacles to navigation that would be avoided by construc tion of the Great Lakes waterway. On the map the St. Lawrence appears to be a broad stream capable of floating the greatest vessels. Big and broad it is, but there i& a drop of 227 feet be tween Prescott and Montreal that sends the foaming water gushing between, great boulders.. Small steamships, by skillful piloting pass tafely down the narrow channel through a series of four dangerous rapids, but it is im possible for- any ship to go back Up this same way. Passoogeri on the decks of the tourist vessels notice just beyond the1 bank of fhie river a narrow channel through ' which steamers, are making their "way back to the lakes. At present this canal will accommodate vesiels of the limV ited size of 300feet, with a draft of 14.6 feet. The Welland cihal, which carries shipping' around Niagara Falls, is designed to carry ships 800 feet long arid with a draft of 2S feet. .Similar works are proposed above Montreal to make the Great Lakes accessible to 80 per cent of the ocean freighters. The question of the construction of this waterway that will give America a Mediterrari-. ean sea of its own will soon be presented to' congress. Throughout the western statefc uffer- ing from inadequate and expensive transpbrta-' tion f or. theif products is, a powerful sentiment favoring this lhiprorVment'. It is up to state and local organizations to manifest their support of the plan and exert all proper pressure to hasten its adbptiOiC .... ' Double Blame for Motor Accidents. Who is more careless, the pedestrian or the motorist? In a' survey Of newspaper articles made by the Literary Digest, opinion is found widely divided as where blame for the toll of automobile accidents should be put. Figures are quoted stating the deaths from motor car accidents number almost two an hour in the United States,' and though it is generally ad mitted that speeding and reckless driving are responsible for many of these, jay walking and carelessness of pedestrians is not found guilt less. One motorist, however, is not inclined to shift the blame, and declares that if no horns were used, fewer accidents would occur because neither the driver or the walkers would feel the false, sense Of security that is given by the ex istence of the warning signal. An experiment 8y a Philadelphia physician throws light On the strain tender which cars are driven in crowded traffic. A blood pressure gage was . fastened, to the arm of a chauffeur, and the doctor, sitting beside him, kept a rec ord of the reactions in a drive through the con gested district. Nervous tension and mental stress scarcely associated ,viih the pleasure of driving was registered ih black-ahd white. ' The blood pressure of the motorist actually soared, moving up twenty points. This very fact suggests the need for some examination of the physical d mental ability of persons before they are allowed to run a car. It pleads also for more care on the part' of the walking public, and a recognition . that the obligation of obeying the traffic rules is not all on one side. A Line 0' Type or Two Hrm U tba Una, Ut Iba ua fall warn tHar mar. A deserter from the Italian army, just out of jail,! has been Chosen mayor of Cremona. Yes, you guessed his politics the first time. The American Red Cross still r'emairis "the world's greatest mother," so answer the roll call which begins today. THE DROCTHY SCOT. Ma frltn'a ayont tho aautet tea - Are unco pleased wl' barley-bree. For there the brawnle chill and carl Can tak the spigot oot th bar'l And drink to frlen'a thay fatn would cheer Wha hate to drink unnatured beer. I'll save more slllar for the time When I can .visit Scotia's clime. Tvoah, man! wha thlrpllntr night 111 hae Wl Tarn McNab and Donald Gray! Hoo they will laugh at me to think I gaed aaa faur to get a drink. While they can aften send for mora i To wee bit public hoose next doorl THISTLEDOWN. COMRADE DEBS observes .that he is not keen about regaining his liberty under the pres ent administration. And when you consider he price of coal and the difficulty of finding lodg ings, he might as welt tarry until spring. WE do not wish to crab W. L. George's act, "Literary Taste and How to Acquire It." but we know the answer. It is to read only first-class stuff. Circumstances may oblige a man to write second-class books, but there is no reason why he should read such. HAtl, AND FAREWELL. (From the Melvln, 111,, Motor.) I have lived In Melvln 82 years. have always been happy as & queen and I Would not trade places with a king for his palace. Last winter I was very HI and came near dying. But the good Lord spared me. He did not want me to die and he Will send me to a better country. I never came to this country W get rich. I received $2,000 from my father... The rest I worked for. I am glad I am poor and honest. I love Jesus and when I pray for anything, I get it. I thank all my nice neighbors for what they have done for me. When I was ill there were over 16 of my lady friends who brought me such nice things to eat. May God bless you. Mrs. Kruschke. "THIS, being Better English week, everyone is doing their best to improve their English." Qulncy, Mich., Herald. Still, Jane Austen did it. Correspondence from Java. Weltevreden, Sept. 20. If this should ever reach you (and, G. k. there's about one chance in a thousand that It will, for this is the original place where Burleson got his training in post-mftsferlng-i-the place where, every post is a s. p. if not a third), it is to inform you that the k. f. at home who sends me the Trib, that is, the Line and F. B.'a column, has the delightful hablt like the old lady who cut off the buttons to save postage and then put them in the pocket, of carefully trimming off the margins upon which the dates are printed, so that, now that a copy hae trickled through, I cannot but suppose it to be a year or so old. This is the place that our. friend 3. C. splut ters about all that stuff about the "first sigh of the East upon my face." Believe me, the place to get that f. a. is in front of a gas log! I'll wager a bottle of these Dutch cocktails found by actual tests that they will remove chewing-gum frorh the sole of a irhoe) that if Doff. E. ever gets hold of the f. s. o. t. E. that hit my face, he could find enuf germs floating around in it to place the entire population of Chi. p. o. ts b. HAWTHORNE. MR, GENEROUS is the claim agent for the New Haven railroad at New Britain, Conn., but a farmer whose cow wandered upon the rails tells us that he lost money by the settlement. In Which a Conscientious Objector Is Belled to a Fare-yo-'Well. (From the Evart, Mich., Review.) '. In my vounger days I sometimes at tended such gatherings, and we always -rnade it a rule not to .serenade the parties married, when they left us a treat at any place. ; So resting in the faith that this practice would hold good at this time, r .went to each of the stores at Sears and ordered A treat -of candy, but no tobacco or cigars. But in face of all this they came to Bell us. Borne, of course, for fun, 'others bent on making me treat to the cigar (which rny conscience would hot permit me to do). They made much noise and I picked up. 74 cartridges that had been fired at our window, we did not care for the noise, but . they broke the screen from the windows and pried it up. I tried ' to put it down when they threw water Into the room until we and the bedding were saturated with water.) I asked them to go away telling them there was a treat for them at the store. We went upstairs and locked our selves in a room. A number of them came in at the window tore the bed up throwing . the bedding on the floor,, went upstairs smoked and tramped around in the hall, until I ask them for Mrs. Huddle's sake to go away. They very reluctantly left the house with all the doors open. Then they placed a tank over the chimney and a tub , over the other chimney. Leaving the place they told us they would' be back the next night if I did not treat to the cigars the 1 next day. They called the treat of candy a kid treat There is a story going the rounds that I . threw the first water. This is absolutely Untrue. 1 threw no water and had none in the room until they threw it in. 1 T. M. Huddle, Sears. ' "WOMAN, 101 Year? Old, Casts Democratic Vote." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. N. f. like an 6. f rNRECOGXIZED. . As up and down a water-aide j I walked at day's decline, i met a ghost of. boyhood years Was loyal friend of mine.. . -"Now where is he was chum to ma In days of aUldJang syne?" "His eyes were bright, his cheeks were red As berries ripe In June, - , And ever from his ruddy Hps Went forth a merry tunes His laugh to hear was ringing clear As bugles blown at noon." Then answered I that dear, dear,, ghost: "The ods are kind to thee; 'Tis thlhe among .thy brother shades A happy soul to be, While I, grown old, have naught to hold That stirs thy memory." j LAURA BLACKBURN. "FOR $ALE. Fresh cow. , Call after 12 m. Ed Ertzinger." Burlington Hawk-Eye. She isn't so rembunctious in the afternoon. ."SWINBURNE had .no moral, ideas to im part. Swinburne never publicly yearned to meet his Pilot face to face. He never galloped on one of Lord George Sanger's horses from Aix to Ghent. He was interested only in ideal mani festations of beauty and. force". We are re minded of these words from Arnold Bennett by the publication in one volume of "Selections from SWinburne" (Doran and Company). The selections were made by Edward Gosse and Thomas Tames Wise, and we think you will find nearly ail your favorites there. To read Swin burne is to listen to music. A TRIPPLE PLAY. (From the Columbus Dispatch.) While visiting her mother. Mrs. A. J. Tripple, .Mrs. Walter Basil became the mother of three baby girls. VftTT rriav fmAtrA vrtiif limtnr irei tli C ' I f" w w w wua ax i vi dkj n IHV aj tl i preme Court. Have you any left to move? o. u. i. How to Keep Well , Bf DR. . W. A. EVANS Quaallaaa canctralnf hygUtia, sanita tion an aravaatiaa of distaaa, tua mlttrd ta Or. Evan by raadera ( Tha Baa, will ba aniwtrad paraonallv, tub - Jatt . to aropar limitation, wbara a atampad, addraatad anvalopa la an closad. Dr. Evan will not make disnol ar prascrlba lor individual diataaa. Addrcta lattara in car al Tha Baa. Copyright, lSiO. br Or. W. K. Evion. Omaha has enough trouble without Dead wood's undesirables takirfg a hand in local affairs. Senator Harding already had lahded his big fish; the tarpon was but an incident. It is nearly as hard to improvise a merchant marine as a navy. Where were you two yeats ago today ? These , Dangerous Days. Chug-Chug! . 6r-rl br'-r-rl Honk! Honk! Gilligil-lug-gillilillug! ,;. ' . , The pedestrian pased at the intersection of two bwy cross streets. He looked about. A motor car was rush ing at him from one direction, a motorcycle from another, a steam truck was coming from behind, and a taxicab wan sneedily approaching. Zip-2ip. Zing-glug! He looked up. and saw directly above him an arish'p in rapid descent. There was but. onoe chance. He was stand ing upon a manhole cover. Quickly seizing it. he lifted the lid and jumped into the hole just in time to be run over by an undenrrou.id train. i London Tit-Bits. , THE PROCESS OP FASTING, "How lonp," W. F. C. writes, "has man been known to go without food and live?" The Bible tells us Christ fasted 40 days. Robert do Molernc, founder of the Cistercian brotherhood, is said to have attempted, what he thought would ba a roundabout suicide by fasting 70 days. This is not well authenticated. Dr. Tanner fasted 43 days. In what are said to have been scientifically supervised cases, Succi fasted 40 days and Jac ques fasted EO Ja,ys. When a person fasts he draws first upon the water of hts tissues. Next he uses up the surplus food eaten during the few days before the fast began and not yet digested, assim ilated, absorbed or converted into human organic compounds. Next in order he uses up surplus food stored In his body as fat. and glycogen. And last of all, he draws on the cells and fibers of his organs. The use of these various souroos of fuel supply overlap considerably in point of time, but after a certain fashion they follow in the order named. In the meanwhile the rato of consumption of fuel slackens. Since most of the fuel burned is for the purpose of making heat, the fasting man when he can do so wraps up well and stays In a warm room. He will spare llmself by moving about very little, talking very little, and In every way reducing his func tioning to the minimum. . The, very fact that he is not eating tends to smolder his fires. It Is not known to be true that inde pendently of all else taking in of food increases the rate of burning of fuel by the body. But fter & man has burned up all the' fuel in his digestive organs and that floating as yet unused in his tissues, he be gins to draw on his tissues. He empties his liver cells and muscle cells of glycogen. He tears down and burns up his stored fat. Chittenden of Yale, who is uni versally accepted as an authority, stresses the fact that in the main the pfotelds will be spared so long as fats and sugars are available. For . the first six to 10 days after fasting begins analysis of the ex cretions shows that a good deal of proteld Is being burned Up dally. By somewhere between the .sixth and the tenth day all food in transi tion, like bank checks going through the clearing house, will have been used, all loose proteid will have been consumed, heat producing,, talking, moving, thinking will have slowed down, and the fuel bins ofLfat will have been tapped. From that time so long as the fat holds out the amount of brain, cells, muscle cells anS other cells burned to ash dally is very rmall. If the sub ject takes plenty of water his' gains In that direction effepi his losses. You Are in Liick. t G. M. B. writes: "Kindly inlorm me what low pressuro Indicates and what to do to bring it back to nor mal. Mine is considerably below normal, so my doctor says, but he "tias not given me any relief so far. I am 60 years old. I always have enjoyed good health." I REPLY. -I have something p say to young people with low blood pressure. Not so with men and women 60 years of age and ovur. If your blood pressure is low and you are in good health thank your stars. You should be less subject to apoplexy. Bright' disease and cardiovascular disease -the banes of elderly people. Set your mark at 100 years and try to live to it. . Needs Long Treatment. G. M. writes: - "Is there any cure for high blood pressure and Bright's disease? I am a woman of 34, have been to five different doctors, but none did me any gcod." 1 REPLY. ' B right's disease, and. high blood pressure cannot be cured by medi cines. - There! is no v hope for you if you gallop around from doctor to doctor. Your hope lies in having some one lay down rules for living for you and in following those rules. Have some physician do this for you. and then stick to him and his method. I Supiiose He Had Bocn ElocUnt? Omaha, Nov. 8, To the Editor of The Ben;. We continually see men tion in the dally newspapers of the action of the Nebraska state railway commission in deciding somo rate case, but at no tlmo during tho past two years have the people received any relief from the decisions of this board in the way of servlco for the Increases granted. Now what are the taxpayers of Nebraska going to lo about It? Here is a branch of state, govern ment which is powerless to enforce th-- laws of the state.' 1 believe there is but one thing to do, and thftt Is in order to save the taxpayers of the state an annual expense of some S80.000 per year, for the Upkeep of a powerless branch of government, would be to either recall the present board or else abolish the state rail way commission of Nebraeska. ROY M. HARltOP. Lithuania Side of Story. Omaha, Nov. 8. To the Editor of The Bee: I wish to explain to the public in general concerning tho Polish ' propaganda. Poland is try ing to pu.ll the wool over the people's eyes by statements In the newspa pers as to what Poland wll do con oernlng Lithuanian territory and the republo.of Lithuania. Poland has unjustly grabbed ox fm Si p Irae, me Aason VJ 1 1CUUVU1 K UK world's Hghest"' priced piano. cTrue, also not one dollar 6fhisliigh er price is $pent irv Gratuities iro . ikmoas artists for heir use oPihe - Alason Sifaiplirv in concert or Tecital. CT7 lis cannot u saidoanv o&er great piano in hexvorld. Our line of the very Mghest type ot Pianos represents twelve dif ferent factories, any one of them is a credit to our house. They' are ; sold with the Hospe Guaran tee, at the plainly marked price whether you buy tor cash or on time 1513 Douglas St. Ask to hear the Art Apollo Reproducing Piano. It's a Wonder. Lithuania territory. The Polish are using propaganda to bltift the world while they are killing Lithuanian! and grubbliiff territory. The state ment in the newspapers say that Poland, will tak that territory in which all people are Catholics and can speuk the Polish !anguaK. This claim Is unjust, if you examine the history of the world, you will see that Poland and Lithuania were, united under ltusvla for a long tlmo and both had to speak the Russian language, which In Hlavontc like the Polish language. Thtit Is the rea son why most LthuaYiluns can speak tho Polish and Slavonic language. But by rare the Lithuanians are neither Slavs nor Poh. Lithuanians are different people and have a dif ferent language from the rollsh or Slavonic. Therefore Patond has no more rlpht to claim Lithuania be cause the Lithuanians can speak Polish than England has to claim the United States hec&use the people here speak English. In the Lithuanian territory oc cupied by the .Ifollsli army, Poland Ih taking What In called a census, but the people .e.re forced to say whether they want Toltah or Lith uanian rule. Poland will Soon claim that the peopld , are Irt favor of Lit Iniania being "a part ot f1nd' i ih,, .. ,,.,, ia tn br conildsrea 14 ... It cannot re p armf not nlnhUclte. press the will of the people. ti, vntm la mcn-t and a Polish a . present, the Lithuanians d express thumselvos ajalnst the Foiisn AMERICAN1 CITIZEN J B. Y. No Hump of iHM-ntlon Irftft. Just before the t. Mlhiel show the Germans blew -up an ammunition dump near a company of Yank, u was reported that there was a largf quantity of Has slitlls In the dump, and as soon as tha explosions begs" the Americans litimedjately made themselves scarce wlth,roat rapid - "y- ', ,i When the danger had passed all started drifting back with the ex ception ot one man, who did not ap pear till the next day. ' "Well, where hhve you been?" de manded tho N top kick, eyeing Mm coldly. ' ."Sergeant," replied the other earn estly. "I don't know where I been, tul I slve you my word I been a)l duf gettlr.' back." American Legion A new development in the eugsr trade is the recent importation of beet sugar, 14,370. tl4 pounds, valued t 12,485,110, reaching ..the Unitod Slates front foreign countries rtnee ii r ..... January, 1920. ' v We learned by Experience It is generally agreed that ex perience is "a valuable teacher. Back of the First National Bank j is an experience of sixty-four yedrs.. , During this time, Omaha .hat, grown from a frontier village to a metropolitan city and the ' .territory back of it has developed " from 'a part of the great American desert to the bread basket of the world. The experience of the Firs National Bank has been seasoned with everything this community has passed through fron 1851 to the present time.- Our growth has been intimately associated with that of the community. All the accumulated experience of sixty, four years of successful operation is at your disposal. WAV I4 if..,;.; 'It rfr la. F Lin' First National IBank of Omaha irr-ivs II, X lo South Winter Tourist Fares Round Trip From Omaha TO- i ia m iiSMH I"' Mar I I if "55 "iL Majestic No. 30 is the highest type ot sta tionary electric heater ever produced. It is a fixture ot more than or dinary beauty. The rrate sets In the wall without flue or chimney. It will fill the room with a grateful, radiant heat. Dimensions; Front, 80t Inches high, 24 inches wide. Body, 27tf inches hlg-h, 21 1, inches wide, 1't Inches deep. There are two othar inaert type of Mijaatic Electric Heiteta N Majestic No. S An efficient portable ' heater containing 8 heat units each con sumlng 40 watts governed by a switch permitting the turn ing on of one, two or three heating units. Equipped with 8 feet of heater cord. Dimensions: Height. 25 V4 inches; width, 17 Inches; depth, 10 inches. There are thrse othar portable Majestic of thla tyaa Ask your dealer febojrf tfaes'c Mobile, Ala. ..)... Hot Spring, Ark. . . , Loa Angelei, Cal. . . . San Diego, Cal San Francisco, Cal., Jacksonville,1 Fla. . , Miami, Fla Tampa, Fla Savannah, Ga. New Orleans, La., Kansas City or , Louis , , .. New Orleans, via Chicago Asheville, N. C. ...... Via Chicago . .". Hot Springs, Va, ...... via St. S 69.42 47.06 114.48 114.48 114.48 88.26 114.60 103.46 85.80 I l 70.20 03.78 71.04 76.50 73.20 Galveston, Tea. $ 65.16 Charleston, S. C. .. .... 87.00 Via Chicago ........ 97.32 Corpus Christ!, . Tex. ... . 72.96 San Antonio, Tex 63.18 Pensacola, Fla. ....... 72.24 Via' Chicago ........ 88.26 St. Petersburg, Fla..... 105.18 Palm Beach, Fla 110.40 Key West, Fla. 128.94 Havana, Cuba, via St. . i Low" ! - 152.20 Via Chicago ........ 158.94 (Far.es to Havana include rail to New Orleans, Fort Tampa or Key West and steamer.) Height, inches. lara-aat. eleetrlo heater made. ll The I r l k iksss HajesticNo.il UK inches. Diameter most powerful portable eonsununa only SIB watts. Can be carrlad from room to room and used wherever there Is an eleetrlo outlet. Equipped with S feet ef heater Cord with separable attachment plug. There era three othar portable Majastlca of thia type Majestrc Electric Development Company ttanfacfortrt satf f ifatfsM . ' Qtr tai fiaadacs Mtlullt feefWc Healers lif la Crtli$n fer Hesf KtiMoa War Tax 8 Additional tothe Above Named Fares. DIVERSE ROUTES: Tourist ticket, to all these de.tina tions may be routed if desired, going: one way, returning; an other, and to most of these destinations at the abore fares. FINAL RETURN, LIMIT;, May 31st, 1921, to southern destinations, and for nine months to Arkansas and California destinations. Stopovers allowed1 en route. . W WINTER TOURIST FARES in effect to many other re sorts in the south, southeast and southwest. BURLINGTON SERVICE SOUTH St. Louis Special at 4:30 P.M. Kansas City Trains at 9:05 A. M., 4:30 P. M., 11:10 P. M. Chicago Trains at 7:00 A. M., 3:45 P. M., 6:30 P. M. TO CALIFORNIA fc Daily througV Standard Sleepers from' 6maia at 4:25 P. M., via Denver, Scenic-Colorade, . ... $alt Lake Citye San Francisco. ,.,. City Ticket fOllice, 14 t Dodr !lM 'Phoni Dour. 1(J Depot TicVel Office, tfth ft Mid Stt., '?bone Da f.iri) liiiipD Phone Douglas 2793 --RH ItVMiestHerOnlCf OMAHA PRINTING UlsasasssS aaasnaT . UMCST asstsvt COMPAMY f3 Oiketi numM CONNERCIAl PRINTERS-llTHOGrUPltCftS STinClt tlWS5n .1'