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IHbr OMAHA, MU.NUAt, ;U V fciUliCK ZV, IVS). The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THK BEG PUBLISHING COMPANY, NELSON B. UPDIKE. Pu blither. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tit Awaititd of wbloA Th, Bm it a BiMnbar, it M clmltmr tntltlMl to tht an for publlctlon of til uws dnintchrt r,-dftil to It or not othtrwltt orrdltml la thit tMprr. and slto lb I'vtl ni iutlihrd li,rwn. All mutt of uublicsllou of our tptciaj BEE TELEPHONES Trlnft Rrtnrh Enhsngt, Ak for Trl 1 (Wi tut iii runout . I'snua WsnWd. ijrier 1 lW For Mini Calls Afttr 10 P. M.l MltnrUI Dpifmit CtnmUtloa Jirtmil ......... A lttrtltlut Dtititrtmrat ......... OFFICES OP Trlfe BEE Mtln Offktt irth tnit rtmia Council BWfi 13 Haiti at. I South Sid. Out-ef-Town Offlcttt Trltr 1M0L Trier Wl Tjltr 1WUL 1211 N lb Kt Tort I b k'kro !M Firth At. I Wiihlniton 1S11 0 St. Ntc Bids. I Paris Frilxa 120 But St. Bntiora The Bee's Platform , 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improvement of tha Ne braska Highways, including tha pave ment of Main Thoroughfare leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A thort, low-rate- Waterway from the Cora Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. - "THE BRICKLAYER A SYMBOL." One of the well reasoned editorials lately repeating in our interesting contemporary, the World-Herald, dealt with the bricklayer as a symbol. Teaching by symbols is as unsatis factory at times as is trying to impart informa tion by parables; folks are prone to interpret the symbols for themselves, and frequently ar rive at a conclusion some distance from the truth aimed at.- This has proved to be the case in this instance. Not a few have completely missed the lesson contained in the preachment. The Bee has a letter from a contractor who is familiar with the processes, and who sets out in detail the various steps by which the cost of 1,000 brick in the wall has risen from $14 in 1909 to $45.05 in 1920, or 221 per cent ad vance, this covering material and labor cost alone. Bricklayer's pay has advanced from "55 cents to $1.25 an hou.r, and his daily stint has dropped from 2,000 to 1,000 brick laid. HeTper's 1 pay has jumped from 30 to "5 cents an hour; the price of brick has gone up from $7 to $19 per thousand; the sand used from $1.80 to $3.75, and the cement from $1.80 to $6.30, a general increase of 174 per cent in the cost of material, .igainst 127 for the bricklayer and 150 for the helper. The material difference is that the , money paid for labor now only buys half as irtany brick in the wall as it did in 1909, showing a net increase in labor cost of 370 per cent. In this the bricklayer; is a symbol, and a potent one. ' He is symbolic of the inversion of economic , laws by which Americans have sought to get rich by the singular process of producing as little as possible and asking for it an exhorbitant price, "Not the bricklayer alone is an offender in this regard, nor labor, but capital as yaUn lias shared in the prevalent folly. Presently there must" be a settlement day. Investigations of conditions in New York by the Lockwood cotrffhittee have disdosed not only the miserable graft carried on by Brindell "' and acquiesced in by contractors, but also that a nation-wide combine exists to control price of building material. Soriiethnig similar may be suspected with regard to other commodities, the alternative being that Americans show a re markable unanimity in deciding on the selling price of the same article in widely separated localities. When prices were going up, we were - told it was on account of the cost of raw ma terials. Whct, corn, hogs, cattle, sugar, all have come down, but bread, meat, candy and all stay at the same old peak price. The symbolism of the j bricklayer is that Americans will not make any real headway by , passing the buckj Too many are trying to iive well and do nothing. If the bricklayer will" resume 'his practice of 2,000 brick laid in the wall in a day. instead of 1,000; if the 135 days work in a yea now given, to 500;O00 coal miners is increased to 270 days for 250,000 ai.d the others are released to be employed in some occupaton where labor is scarce, and similar readjustments are made all down the line, the step towards a solution of the problem will be notable. Cutting unit output increases unit cost, and does not add to the wealth or happiness of the nation. The sooner labor and capital alike abandon the inversion of economic laws now being practiced so generally, the sooner will "we . get back io the normalcy sought by all. The bricklayer is a symbol, but not of what so manyl appear to regard him as representing. Leaders Seldom Go to Jail. ' In a ringing pronunciamento, emitted at Washington, Charles S. Barrett, president of the National Farmers union, advises the members in Kansas to go to jail rather than submit to any effort to require them to market , their crops. Perhaps the devoted followers of 3tr. Barrett will take his advice, and tie empty jails of Kansas will be filled with men" who harvested big fields ofNpheat, but are unwilling to dispose of the grain at market prices. It is " not necessary to consider here the further ad monition of the president that tiie farmers ' cease to plant until the world is starved into j paying a price fixed by the union. It was just that sort of spirit that brought denunciation on the coal miners a year ago, when they were willing to let the country both freeze and . starve if their demands were not met. Yet the loaders of the miners did not go to jail, nor will ihe president of the National Farnfers union. They may advise their supporters to thus sacri fice themselves, but as a rule they keep a safe distance from the jail door themsefves. One ot the highest words of praise ever spoken for "Jack" Galligan, once chief of the Omaha fire department, was that he never" asked a fireman to go where he would not go, himself. Why would that not be a good thing for President - Barrett to study? The Child's Right to Health. v The old das when- mincing, or eating be J tween meals, was forbidden to children seem ;uite definitely past with the advent of nutrt - lion classes in the public schools. Omaha k f .inly one among many cities that ae now trying o build -up the health of the children t the iamc time that they are cultivating the minds. An investigation disclosed that 45 per cent . ' of the children in three schoolsiiere were under weight, ' and. practical measures ere taken to - remedy this -condition. . Each morning the worst cases art fed bread and Bilk, and each , afternoon, graham crackers. Fresh aiV in sleeping rooms, frequent bathing and abstin ence from teaand coffee are added to the treat ment. In the -first week gain of from half a pound to more than two pounds weje reporter!-! in one of these nutrition classes. Under a somewhat similar arrangement, in fourteen schools in Kansas City, Kan., fresh milk is served to students as a part of the plan to raise the standard of hcal;h. The Red Cross nurses who carry out this wcrk sell a half pint of milk and two graham crackers to the pupils for five cents, which is just a fraction under the actua! cost. This half pint of milk,' they say, equals in nourishment two eggs or a large helping of meat, - Of these two systems, it is perhaps the bet ter that the cost of this extra, nourishment be borne by the school district. The right to health is properly as inalienable as any other, and. in striving for strong minds in strong bodies, the public schools are not glancing on on a fad, but heading in a sensible direction that has been too long in being takrn. . A Line 0Type or Two J 5$$ Hew to tha Line, ttt th quip fall whtre thy may. r Mb Pensions for Indian War Veterans. The" Bee is reminded by a correspondent at Battle Mountain sanitarium that the Capper bill providing for pensions for Indian war vet erans is coming before congress again this winter. Here is a measure that ought to pass. Perhaps if the men who will benefit by it were more numerous, it would have been passed long ago. Much of the history of Kansas and Ne braska is written in connection with Indian wars. The middle 60s were eventful times on the frontier, when commerce was streaming over land between the new west and the hustling east, this commerce being forced to run a gaunt let of Indian country stretched across he west ends of the two great states. . , 1 Not only was the commerce itself endan gered, but the development of the country, then beginning, was involved in the pacification of the tribes of Sioux, Cheyenne, Cammanche, Crow and Blackfeet, who disputed the ground with the palefaces. Beecher Island is the memorial of an epic of the west, the battle of "Sandy" Forsyth and his troopers, recrujted around the settlements of Kansas, against Roman Nose, supported by the full strength of the Cheyenne tribes. It has never seized the popu ular imagination as did the Custer massacre, yet nothing in history holds more of heroic devotion, nor had a more direct effect on the course f events it influenced than did thek de feat of the Indians by the little company under .Forsyth out there on the Arickaree. But this was only one of a number, of services 'performed by the pioneer settlers who were involved in the petty Indian wars.' Such of these as survive are now well stricken with years, ndne of them long for this life, and it Is high time the government were recognizing its obligation to them by granting them the sol dier's reward a pension. ' tVol or Hrlfk In Walls. Omaha. Nov. 26. To the Editor of The Ue: In reply to an editorial In the World-Herald on November 22, entitled "The Bricklayer a Symbol." The Associated Employers of n- idiuna gave some figures, as to the the bricklayer liys per day. The rate per hour in the v statement is Just DboiU fhe ume as the rate wwp in Omaha from 1909 to 190. and the bricklayer InOmnha lays about the same aniourtfper day as in uny other city in the I'nHd States. I think the Associated EmplVvers of Indiana did not Rive the bricklayer a square deal Vuspoilcil. To Mabel, 'it ex Beach is a summer resort; Lapis-luzuli a Turk; Chippendale sounds like the breed ot a dog, Hococo a dangerous dirk. She's crazy to visit Anatole, France; A Whistler, its plumage to smooth; Rusk in reminds her of bold Hussion Reds; Morocco a past for her tooth. ' Einstein, she thinks, is a vendor of furs; Rolls-Royce, is the name of an earl. But whenever 1 Seek with my come-hither eye w She responds with an armful of Rirl. BOTULINUM. ACCORDING to the New YorkxEvening Post, there are great deposits of coal in "16 feet 15 inches north latitude and 160 feet 31 inches west longitude." So England, at one end of the I ,- - l Kl'O , -" " " - --i-t..-. m estimate oi uie nuinoer oi 1 time. x hrlf-kU lnid upr da v. T vnnt to he BUT WHAT DID THHJ PAPER GET OUT fair with both the employer and the employe. ' hile the bricklayer s wages are high, they are not alone responsible for the hieh cost of building-. I want to give some figures on the cos of brick layed In the walls; rMvanf the consuming public to know whaj it costs for niateriat as well as fo1 labor, also the cost of other items that must be taken into considera tion by the builder. These figures will show just what the public pays for brick worly Wace Per Hour N'o. Tirlck. Cost. Tr. Brklnyer Helper Per Day 1.000 1909 .. .55 , .SO ',000 ' t 3.49 1916 .. .f.S' .35 ' 1.500 5.40 mis .. .so .:o i.noo 10.40 1!19 ..1 00 .6.', 1.000 13.20 1920 ..1.25 ,75 1,000 16.00 Tr. 1909 1916 191 8 1919 1920 Yr. 1909 , 1916 . IBID . 1919 . 1920 . COST fP 5.40 10.40 13. :o 16.00 25.40 29.05 mil Cost 114.00 19.05 33.45 38.60 45.05 Easy Come, Easy Go. Less than a year ago a New York speculator succeeded in cornering the stock of a certain automobile company. Other speculators who had gone through the fiction of selling shares in this-company which they did not possess,1 were forced to pay enormous prices in order to de liver, and it wasj finally necessary for the stock exchange to step in and stop the slaughter. Allan A. Ryan had cleaned up millions, and laughed at the exchange. v Now comes the announcement that a com- mittee of bankers has been formed to take charge of this same gentleman's affairs. The slump in Wall street price's found Mr. Ryan unable to finance transactions that are said to amomit to $16,00Cj,0OO. Most of this sum was borrowed money, and the eastern banks naturally want to save what they can from, the wreckage. ! The question arises as to whether credit was not too generously extended to Mr. Ryan. If that $16,000,000 had been invested in the middle west to finance agricultural operations that are in sad need of credit, the banks would not need to worry about their ultimate ability to collect1 payment, with interest perhaps not so high, but more safe. " In Behalf of Tenants With Children. It is .not enough to have bden a child, but one must have children of his own in order to sympathize with those families who are barred from renting certain houses or apartments be cause of their brood. The Central Labor union's legislative committee, in offering a draft of -an ordinance making it a misdemeanor t refuse to rent to families having children on doubtedly is regarding the matter from -tht parents' standpoint. And yet the sentiment of "all fathers and mothers will not be unanimous. We. are all sure enough, even though each day we assure our children that they are the worst in thc world, that they are in reality much better behaved than those youngsters j down the block. If yve had a house to Vent, A we would , not let that family with those lusty noisy boys have it. The neighbors might ob ject, the woodwork would most certainly be scarred up, the lawn ruined, and we are afraid that the whole place would go to rack and ruin. Such are the difficulties facing families seek ing a roof in a city. Children very often are destructive, and if they are not occasionally noisy they are not in good health. It is conch-able that there may be isolated instances where houses or flats are too fine to be sub mitted to the wear and tear of childish feet and hands, but there is no general justification for the rather widespread reluctance to accept ten ants with growing families. That a law would be either effective or justified that forbade the landlord to choose to whom he would rent is not so certain. , , - Wonder who those American oil men are that have been barred from England's mandate territory in Mesopotamia? Wonder No. 2: Is this worth risking international friction over? Aristides was banished from ancient Athene because the people tired of hearing him called ''the Just," and this same thought may. possibly afford some .comfort, tctfVenizelos. " No one will ever find any pork in the, recommended appropriation of $15,000 for nea year's work on the Missouri river between Kansas City and Sioux City. i A New York paj" says the electoral col lege i now a co-ed affair, but1 it will never be n$ interesting a's" the' real thing. . A St Paul man who stole four microscopes may have wanted to examine his weekly salary alter paying i bill, OF IT? (From the W'ahoo, NebWasp.) This morning a lady called up the Wasp office and said that they had ' taken up a red hog and wanted a notice of the fact printed in the Wasp. ' In a short time ona of our citizens called up and wanted a notice printed that he had lost a red hog. and after giving description of his hog was informed that if ha would go to certain neighbors he would find his hog. Which proves the old theory that it payato advertise, NEWS from Washington is that the League for Making Virtue Odious has opened cam paign' for making x the Wednesday evening prayer meeting compulsory. YOU ARB NO. IS. Sir: I know you are surprised that no one has called you attention to the fact that "black and tan" selected Croka- Park la Dublin as an appropriate spot. H. S. O. THE notion that the war was fought to make the world safe for democracy is not strongly supported h Greece. IN dedicating ter autobiography to her hus band, Mrs. Asquith quotes Epictetus: "Have you not received powers, to the limit of winch you will bear all that befalls? Have you not re ceived magnanimity? Have you not re ceived courage? Hae you not received en durance?" Mr.' Christopher Morley thinks, the gentlemen needs them, but we are not so sure. It is said that when Margot mentioned to him the large sum she was to receive for the book, Mr. Asquith remarked, "I hope, my dear, that it isn't worth it.." They Order These Things Differently, if Xot ' Better, in Anatole, France. (From The Athenaeum.). The author Of "Les Balsers" approaches his amorous experiences with the detached manner of a psychologist interested in the mental reac tions of certain corporeal pleasures whose mechanism he has previously studied in his capacity of physiological observer. His attitude is the same as that of the writers of those comedies of manners wlrfch hold the stage in the theaters of te boulevards, fit is dry, pre cise, matter-of-fact, and almost scientific. The comedian of the boulevards does not ooncernful work, crime- will be reduced to himself with trying to find some sort of .meta physical Justification for the raptures of physi cal passion, nor is he in any way a propagandist of sensuality He is simply an analyst of facts, whose business is to get all the wit that is pos sible out of an lequivocaiLsituatlon. Similarly, the. author of these poems does not try to make us believe that physical pleasures have a divine justification. Neither has he any wjsh to "make us grovel, hand and foot in Belial's gripe." He is merely engaged in remembering "des heures et des entretiens" which were extremely pleas ant hours which strike for every one, conver sations and meetings which are taking place in all parts of the world and at every moment. This attitude towards volupte is sufficiently old in France to have made possible the evolu tion of aj very precise and definite vocabulary in which' to describe its phenomena. This lan guage is as- exact as the technical Jargon of a trade, and as elegant as the Latin of Petronlus. It is-a language of which we have no equivalent in our English literature. It is impossible in ".English to dafecribe volupte elegantly; it is hardly possible to write of it without being gross. To begin with, we do not even possess a Word equivalent to volupte. "VoluRtudusness" is feeble and almost meaningless; "pleasure" is hopelessly inadequate. From the first the Eng lish writer Js at a loss; heicannot even name precisely the thitg he proposes to describe and analyze. But for the most part he has not much use for such a language. His approach to 'the subject is not dispassionate and scientlfrc, and he has n6- need for technicalities. The English imorlst is inclined to approach the subject mpturously, passionately, philosophic ally almost in any way that is not the wittily matter-of-fact French way. MR. SHANKS voxoops that traffic should be relieved, not prevented, as -"the Automobile is obsolutely important in .modern business life.? Now, the fact is that the automobile has be come a nuisance; one can get about much faster and cheaper in the city on Mr. Shanks' w. k. mare. Life today is scaled to the automobile, whereas, as our gossip Andy Rebori contends, if ought to be scaled to the babv carriage. Many lines of industry ar.e short of labor be cause this labor has been withdrawn for the care of automobiles. V How to Keep Well By DR. W A. EVANS ' QuMtlon concerning hyfien, nlttion and prevention et d I , ubmlrtra' to Dr. Evans by readers of The Bee, will be answered personally, subject to proper limitation, where stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed. Dr Evans will not make diagnosis or prescribe (or Individual diseases. Address letters in care ot The Bee. Copyright, lOJO. by Dr. W. A. Evans. Cost of Rrlck and Material I'er Thousand. CoBt Brick. Rand, Cement Per M .$ 7.00 (1.80 1. NO 110.604 . , 7.50 1.95 4.20 13 65 . 16.00 2.25 4.80 23.0 . 17.00 , 3.30 5.10 . 19.00 3.75 6.30 Cost of One Thousand Brick, Labor Material. Brick. Sand. Cemt. Labor. 7.00 $l.S0 J.1.S0 $:1.40 7.50 l.::. 4.20 16.00 2.25 4. SO 17.00 3.30 5.10 19.00. 3.75 6.30 USE THOUSAND BRICK TODAY .- S 15.05 Architects fee, 6 per cent (very low) 2 25 Contractors profit, 10 per cent. 4 5t " Surety bond and liability insur ance about 2 per cent 90 TOTAL COST TO, CONSUMER $52.70 While the wages of the bricklay er have advanced, the- same thing is true to a greater or less degree of the other building crafts. It is true ot evdry industry in the country. The trouble does not lie with the produc er, but with the non -producer, while the bricklayers and .other building crafts do not do as much as they did in l!)0p, wc have thousands of able bodied men who do not per form ono -bit of useful labor but who derive their sustenance from the toil of otheitj. ' Reduce the hours of toil in crease the number of toilers at use- a minimum ana we win oe people. Is this not a suggestion worth thinking about and acting uoon? it shoyld appeal to the man who does not produce as' well as the man who does.- vj. ; CHARLES BAUEK.' 5310 North Twenty-fifth street. l)OW TO SLEEP OUTDOORS. Would you know how to sleep out with plcasuru and contfort traveling happily the road to health? Bead "Tho Outdoor Sleeper," a booklet by Frank T. Koons. Just why ho slept out he does not tell us, but he does tell us that for him it converted a sick man into a well one, and tho while he was en tertained and happy as never before. Ho learned to get entertainment from tho stars and clouds, the trees and tne birds. But my friends will be more in terested in what he says about "sleeping warm" in winter. He made his bed warm by ' placing lightweight blankets between the springs and mattress, and one or two lightweight blankets on top of tho mattress. The blankets on top of the mattress are well tucked in. The blankets are cov ered liv a sheet., on thuu the. per son lies. On top there is a Wieet and one or more light blankets folded at the sides and bottom until the folded edges almost meet at the center. On top of all this is a heavier blanket which is tucked in well at the sides and foot. It will be noted that Koons de votes much more than tho usual , atnoiint of attention to making the under side of the bed warm, a point where many outdoor, sleepers fail, and thus invite discomfart. A paper blanket would have saved him the use of more than one woolen blanket. Wool insulates because -tho airn the spaces conducts heat poor ly. Paper acts by being impervious to cold air currents. In certain loca tions a paper"wall Is more effective than a wooden one. It also will be noted that Kocns uses large blankets with plenty of edge for tucking in and folding back. Again one paper blanket on top would have lessened the weight of cover needed for com fort. He advises against the use of artifical heaters, stove pigs, hot water bottles and heated bricks, and he is right, At least with the great majority of people. Tho sleeping porch should be partially uncovered. On clear, bright nights he advises sleeping under the blue vault of tho skies. If there is rain or snow he rolls tho bed -back under shelter. ,m He kept his head Farm with a light knit Tam o' Shanter. .such as skaters wear. This can be drawn over the ear, if necessary. He' wore pa ianias made o outing flannel, with sleeves narrowed at the wrist. In mildweather the feet are incased in half wool socks, the tops of which are drawn over the ankle ends tf the pajamas. In very cold weather jie wore over his socks an outing flannel shoe arrangeWnt. .This lasten'ed light! &V the ankle. He puts grelrt stress on keeping the feet warm. That alwys has struck me as important. We clothe the young children in night ' clothes which have a foot covering, but the customary night wear for all per sons over 4 years of age provides no covering for ta feet that antanilcal part which feels the cold most. The bathrobe discarded as the sub ject crowls Jnto bed is thrown across the foot of khe bed, and fleece lined slippers are placed close at hand. If there are no electric lights a flash lighrand a watch conipleto the uijuitment. If the bedding is wide though anil long enough it can be tucked in until it Is almost as snug and secure as a buttoned up sleeping bag. Watch Milk Ho Irhik. I M. writes: "I am a young girl of 2ft about to marry a young man of 23. His father died at the ag of 50 of tuberculosis of the glands. Is there any possible chance of this young man ever having the disease? He works out of dors and has a heaity color." i REPLY. , Every ofo is in Some danger ot Uiberculosis. The young, man is no in much more than average danger. Tuberculosis is not inherited. The father did not become Infoctcd In all probability until some 20 yearsafter the young man was born. Nor is glandular tuberculosis easily copi munlcnted to other members of the. household. When you begin to boss thls young man Wo that ho drinks no ravr milk. Drinking raw milk from tuberculous cows l the most fre jnent cause of glandular tuberculo us. ,, l.ltN (f Itllllk AtMMIt t'MK. W. B. wrotes: "1. I have heard that moat soup causes gas in thf stomach and should b eaten only unco or twice a woek. Is this true? 2 Is chicken soup healthful? 3. Ar apples and cold milk a bad com-, binatlon for tho stomach?" REPLY. 1. No. 2. Yes. 3. No. Nine-tenth of the notions about food combinations are rank nonsense. IIt-r Arc Wt-fliiltlon. .T. O. writes: "Aro nuerasthenla and psychoneurosis the same or sim ilar diseases?" RE FLY Stedman defines psychoneurosis as a minor disease of the mind nhorf of actual insanity and neurastheniav as a functional neurosis marked by intense nervous Irritability and weakness. Tho two Conditions aro closely related. Some consider neur asthenia as ofto-of the psychoneuro-ses. American State Bank - . 18th and Farnam Streets CAPITAL $200,000.00 EXCEPTIONAL SERyiCE In exceptional times indicates the qualityof a banking connection. This institution has come through trying times unscathed in every instance. So have its custom ers. We invite your account on the basis of service. Deposit wh us your savings or funds waiting to invest or re-invest -4 compound quarterly interest on fund deposited in our savings department added to your account. Funds in our savingsdepartment are subject to with, drawal without notice. ' Deposits made on or before the 10th day of any month considered as having been made on the first day. S Deposits in this Bank Protected by the Depositors' Guarantee fund of the State of NebrarktrT I D. W. Ceiselman, 1 President, D. C. Geicelman, Cashier H. M. Krogh, Assistant Cashier ' Riu' a. Rm'ya the laughing t lissome queen rules o'er, the island ultramarine i into her night eyes' witching twin star , gazes the minstrel "xf Khulam'hzar wondering whether ' ' I his mocking bar " ? M mirrors her. night eyes t - on his guitar or If her luring glance is the lay but Rm'ya's dancing smile is gay , - for the troubadour trembles as his sobbing strings keen ' 1 ' .through the island enchanted ultramarine where Rm'ya playsv. on' her luteguitar' Tlitzli the minstrel of Khulam'hzar f riquarius JIUSSIA'S finance commissioners have been directed to prepare a plan for the abolishing of money. They haven't far to go. v SIGNS OP THE TIMES. In a Milwaukee store: "Art finds its most sublime expression in these hats." On a ranch near San Diego: "Rabbits, for mating or "dressed.". pn a New Orleans barber shop: "Front place, shave 10 cents, haircut 15 cents; back place, shave 5 cents, haircut 10 cents." ALTHOUGH Jedge LandisHs making no promises, it is hoped to get the boys out of the hooch trenches by Christmas. B. L. T. y Close Observer. Tiie other day Prof. Dink Beesou wai try ing to suggest to his class in commercial law the word "endorsement." "Now if the country November 2 had by their votes continued the democratic party in power for another four years, what would that have been?" ' ' "A miracle," replied the boy who reads the newspapers. Los Angeles Times. What Miss Robertson Will Do. When Miss Alice' Robertson, cafeteria pro prietor and member-elect of the next congress, arrives in Washington she will have all the bills arranged on long tables and let each congress man , pass along and select those he wishes to' vote for. St. , Paul Pioneer Press. Decimals Too. , ' Vc are 'tii a fair way to become a nation cf sixth graders, says a voice from Dane county, Sixth-grade knowledge is not so small. Let's ee, wc will know all about fractions, be able o trace the circulation of the blood, and give the boundaries of all the countries of the earth. It will mean haifd study fights for most off' us. Milwaukee Journal. . " -tg? J.:: Bread-- ' ijV yu are one women , ' ' ' reazes at tie highest quality is the i ,s -& "" -s " truest economy you will find it worth while IV S Ka Klfi O ' to find the grocer who sells GOj&CH'S BEST I j&yp'1 ay. ou w nc kat it makes V l bread which is as rich in nourishment as it i r-y s f 1 "T77n7fr !,vi delicious in flavor. liIfWif ft IvKlI Fo every baking purpose ' MiSff 1 fill ' I I hi 111 W VC! you will find GOOCH'S BEST FLOUR of 4&W.J j J j II Jj il (NJ superior quality for it is milled of choicest jUPaf j rM. Vrf s whSat which is carefully selected and tested M " . " The Gooch Milling and Elevator Co . ' . Lincoln, Nebraika - fefcf V ' K Cooch's Beat Pancake Flou BSgl Gooch's Best Wheat Heart ' K-it'rV f?S a . Af A Gooch 's Beat Macaroni . fJliCH'S BEST FLOP A '"' " 0 tr