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4 D THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1921. TheOmaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BFB PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1SELSON B. UrDIKE. Publisher. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tfc associate frtu. of wblca Tin Bss li fueobw. It si rttutetle ntlllsd to Um um for puMieailoa of ll aevs tirtelMa i-rUMd to tt or not oUurnts credited tn una paper, and alto lb local Bubliahod berem. All ruble o( pubUctuoa of our tpttlal rilar-atetxt eta also rsssrreit BEE TELEPHONES Prlrat Bruich Itohania. A.k for Tvler 1000 lb IHputtsaut of Parana K toted, a jswa a www Par Nlcbl Calls AfUr 10 P. M.I Mittrlal Department '! J2- :irculatlea lerartnient - Trier 100l. Adiertlalof Uejiartaieiit - Trier 1U0UL OFFICES OF THE BEE ill 10 (Hiiro- 11 lb and Femsai CouncJ Bluff I 19 Sooll Ht. I Boutb Side 1311 R 81 Out-of-Town Off lot: Jfaw Tuft tM riftS tn. I Wsahlnitoo 1311 O Bt. Colcato etessr Bills. I rtrii franc 420 Hue 8U Honor The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improvement of the Ne braska Highways, including the pave ment of Main Thoroughfares leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the Corn Beit to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. "THE SMALL ITEM MIND." One of Omaha's good churchmen, Rt. Rev. Bishop Stuntz, emitted a considerable chunk of wisdom in addressing the assembled dominies one day last week, when he said: "There are men with 'small item' minds and men with 'total' minds; men whose minds just go round and round in eddies and men whose minds progress like a stream. There are too many of the 'eddy' minds minds that don't take a broad view ol world affairs." We have no inclination to undertake a classi fication of these men; a roll call 'of them would outstretch Homer's catalogue of the ships that' bore the Greeks' to Illium. Presumably Bishop Stuntz had in mind only those who have to do with the activities of the church; at any rate ho directly referred to certain theological teachers who "went to heaven in a rut." They are not confined to theological seminaries, unfortunately Men in every walk and calling of life allow them selves to get into ruts. Insensibly habit weaves its tendrils about them, till finally they are bound so firmly that it is impossible for them to move outside the narrow groove to which they have doomed themselves. Such men do not appreciate the sweeping vision of the leaders of today, whose thoughts inscribe the great achievements possible for a rejuvenated race, triumphs that will com: through the renewed energy of man courage ously taking hold of life and moving ahead un daunted to his destiny. ' Little items and small totals have nothing to do with the big things that confront humanity. Whether the result may be properly ascribed to the war or not the truth remains that Americans made greater progress socially in three years than in as many decades. For 80 years prohibition had been talked aboit; it came almost over night. Suffrage dis tinctions between the sexes were wiped out in like manner. Had not the disturbance incident ..to the war loosened the bonds that held the minds of men, it is probable the argument ovet prohibition and woman suffrage might yet be going on. As it -was the "little item minds" fell for once at least under the control of the wide gaugt intellects, and the change came. The small total group is still casting up amounts involved in segregated sums, but the leaders are looking ahead to the time when othci changes for man's good will be brought to pass. A better alignment of social forces is sought Amelioration of the hardships of life, admittedly possible, is an objective. As much attention to the protection of child life as is given to the propagation of prize pigs or champion milk producers, for example. It is recorded that when a parliamentary commission was proposed to investigate the evil of child labor in England, such "noble minds" as John Bright and Cobdcn, mill owners .who enjoyed handsome revenue from their enterprises, opposed the move. Theii minds were not only "noble," but "small item" as well, and it took 80 years to convince the British that 13 hours a day was too long to require a child to work in a cotton mill, and even a greater period was required to get any thing like relief from child labor. In the United . States we have the shorter work day well fixed as a permanent institution, but we still struggle futiley against child labor. . Other illustrations might be presented of what is involved in the vision hinted by Bishop Stuntz in his impatient reference to those who retard the forward movement ot all by meticulous de votion to non-essentials or inconscquentials. It is more comforting, however, to note ample proof that the tide of progress is setting strong enough to carry these custom-ridden individuals out of their inertia and sweep them to a forward plane, where they will probably wear for themselves new ruts, only to be dislodged again when a fresh upheaval breaks away the indurated crust of established order and gives man a further chance at something better. . "Who Helps Himself." ! Isn't there room for just a little more self ftelp in this land of ours? When prices are too ' high or too low, when credit is too. easy or too tight, or when the sun rises too early in summer and too late in winter, great hope is put on legislation to correct the situation. It frequently happens that the remedy, while cur ing the immediate complaint, may give rise to other evils which in turn have to be dealt with by law, and so on, forever. Full of exaggcra ' tion though it was, the speech of Senator Thomas in congress a few weeks ago, may serve a use ful purpose. He said: During the last twenty years the states and the congress together have placed 79,000 laws . upon their statute books all of them designed ' to produce a better social and political condi tion by legislation. The nation is not as happy now as it was twenty-five years ago. We are more discon tented, more dissatisfied with our condition and that of the body politic, and therefore we are clamouring for more statutes, like the inebriate who, prior to the 16th day of last January, was prone to, cure his malady by prolonging his debauch. The two extremes of governmental theory are socialism and anarchy. The socialist would nave the state regulate and conduct everything the anarchist would have no state and let each man make his own laws. Just now the swing is toward socialism, which never will be reached, any more than will anarchism. Some where, in between, however, there is a point of balance where individual rights and the rights of society can be harmonized, and it is to this point that people and statesmen should direct their aim. ' Two Jobs, One Man. Americans have an instinctive litaste for one man holding two jobs; this rests on the well accepted statement that no man can serve two masters. Even when the jobs are similar in, character, or so related that one runs into the other naturally, objection is raised. When one of these jobs is under the public, paid for out of the public exchequer, and, for services to be rendered the public, then the people look with genuine disfavor on the acceptance by such em ploye of private service, even if it be of a nature that may not interfere with his obliga1 tion to the public. In the case of a federal judge, for example. He is selected on account of his peculiar fitness for the responsible and exacting duties of the bench. That he may be removed from all ex terior influences, free from the gusts of pas sion that sweep the masses, and beyond any ulterior ascendancy, he is appointed for life or during good behavior, which has almost invar iably amounted to the same thing. His salary is commensurate, in that it provides for his com fortable living and enables him to accumulate modestly if he so desires, while his old age is made secure by the provision of a liberal retire ment fund. From a material as well as from an intellectual point, the position is one worth having. Honor and sure reward go with it, and the regard of his fellow citizens is not the least of the compensations that is the due of the federal judge. When one of these is tempted to assume re sponsibilities that do not belong to his office, to perform services that are apart from his judicial functions; to assume a definite connec tion with a distinctly private enterprise; and when his connection is solely sought to relieve that enterprise from obloquy incurred through conduct of those directly engaged in it, and to cover by his honored name unsavory transac tions and through his own standing to restore something of credit to a disgraced business, the public is perhaps justified in mildly inquiring into the motives as well as the morals of the transaction. Therefore it is no wonder that a Chicago lawyer has asked to have set up an inquiry into the connection between Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis and the business of "organ ized base ball." Nor need the judge be aston ished to learn that such an investigation is hon estly demanded. When Mother Plays. If you were brought up in the Middle West, among your pleasantcst memories may well be those evenings when with your brothers and sisters you gathered around the cottage or-an. This was particularly a Sunday night event, just as the mush and milk that formed the evening meal. Although she started with hymns, before long mother's fingers strayed into the little songs of childhood and to some of those darkey mclo dies beloved of the young. Impossible that such an institution should perish. Today mothers of another generation hasten through their household duties to sit in the center of a gleeful and loving group at the piano. The tiniest lad, who knows only Mother Goose rhymes, must have them first, and the girls, lately inducted into Sunday school, like to practice the hymns, being particularly fond of "Silent Night." Mother, if left to her own taste, would prob ably play opera music, and father, who frequent ly is drawn in, knows only his old college songs. Some of the,-,c "Bohunkuf." "W?ho Will Smoke My Meerschaum Pipe." and that one concerning the bull dog on the bank and the bull frog in the pool, delight the children also, although they feel inclined to criticise father's bass. There is always considerable byplay, and father, as if to explain why he can sing low in the scale and his shining faced children cannot, turns over the music to the song of "Three Little Pigs," who "died of felo de se from trying too hard to say 'Umph, Umph, Umph' when they only could say 'Wee. Wee.'" With what gle: they all join in on the final verse: A moral there is to thks little sung', A moral that's easy to see; Don't try when you're young to ay "Umph, Umph, Umph," For you only can say "Wee. Wee." The moral, of course, Is lost, but the song ranks in favor along with "Jingle Bells," "Riga-Jig-Jig," "Upidee Upida" and that other one with usually meaningless title, "Funiculi Funi cula;" the rhythm in each case being the main attraction. Where -melody is, there is jox and peace. It does not matter whether it comes from piano, violin or from those modern music boxes that have done so much to improve popular taste there is a natural, healthy craving of childhood that is not satisfied without music in the home. Religion in Daily Life. No one but a member of the cloth would dare characterize any theological professor as antedeluvian, though when Bishop Homer Stuntz speaks in this way he is not likely to be misunderstood. His criticism was that men spending their lives in the confines of a semi nary would go to heaven, not over the hard path trod by the rest of humanity, but in a rut. In this we may read an indorsement of the modern tendency to bring religion closer to daily life. There are influences, not so much in the church itself, but in the lay world, striving to keep Christianity a one-day affair and leav ing the other six days of the week without restraint. The public is hearing gradually of the wreck of the Inter-Church World Movement on the investigation of the steel industry conducted under its auspices. This is only one of a number of things that some would have taboo to the church. The charge that men in the pulpit are im practical in their ideals must be admitted in gen eral. But unless these beginnings in social service, are made, they will forever remain so, and in the theological seminaries there will remain those antedeluvian professors of vhom the Methodist bishop speaks. Theology has not changed, and few of us least of all the bishop would have the ancient faith altered. But the world has changed, and is. crying out as never before for the practical application of Christianity. The advantages of disarmament have been apparent for a long time, but it remained for the United States Eeuate to show where it. could b: begun. The trouble heretofore was that it 'was always the other fellow who was expected to start the movement. Of course, if Omaha is going onward, it wants its women folks to go along ( A Line 0' Type or Two Htw to the Lino, 1st tb quips fall where they nay. TO 11. I. T. (Qtiintus Horatiu Flaoeu loquitur.) Slneenn.s Fpranir front royn.1 line. You spring a T,ino diurnal. (Perhaps my joke ifi drawn tno fine For readers ot your journal.) . But what T started out to vy, Across the srulf of ajres. Is that, in our ld Roman day My patro'.i paid ine wages. No barren wreath of fame was mine When .Mac approved my Bluff. Rut casks of Rood Falernlan wijiie. And slaves and sold enough. - And last to keep the wolf away, And Kiiard my afro from harm, He Rave me in his princely way, My little Sabine farm. But now. forsooth, your merry crew O Tempore : O Mores! What do they evpr set from you? Tour Laura, Fan, Dolores? They fill the Line with verse and wheeze. To them your fame in due. What do they ever get for these? Maecenas? Jla: JIa! Tou? So as T quaff my special wine, At ease beside the Styx, Wonid I contribute to the Line? ' Neo.uao.uam! Nunquam! Nix! . CAMP-ON". Our compliments to Old Man Flaccus. whose witty message reminds us to entreat contribs to be patient, as we are snowed under with offer ings. For a week or more we have been trying to horn into the column with some verses of our own composing. HORRIBLE EXAMPLES FOR THE FRESH MAN" tLASS IN THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM. (From the" Kendall County Record.) He Was a loving husband and a kind father, esteemed and respected by ail who knew him for he loved this beautiful old world of ours with its flowers, its bowers, its towers, all ours. As he was through with this beauti ful earth he has gone to Join them where all revel in mirth. He hag proven himself worthy of a crown and a place where they can be hold him and feel his embrace. He was ready and willing to journey away from this beauti ful world of ours. A Friend. THE answer to Admiral Schecr's claim that he beat the British off Skagerrak is a Question: "Where are the German ships of yesteryear?" WOG WIGGLES THROUGH. Sir: I see that a contestant has failed to pry Gust Wog loose from his seat in the North Dakota senate. Do you suppose Senator Wog's wife is named Tolly? CALC1TROUS. Sir: News of Gust Wosr makes me wonder what's become of Wanda Gag, who formerly was an artist in St. Paul. Her work didn't make you feel that way, however. W. S. MR. WHITTAKER quotes Mary Garden as saying. Unce 1 had a voice. It might have been graciously and truthfully added that she still has it, and that it is the one operatic voice that many persons care greatly to hear. The Supreme Test of Writing Well. (George Moore. "Avowals.") Dickens need not have spent the whole of Ins youth on the Boulevard Exterieur. A few years would have been sufficient to dissipate the vile English tradition that -humour is a literate quality. He would have larnt that it is more commercial than literary, and that, if it be Intro duced in large quantities, all life dies out of the narrative. A living and moving story re lated by a humourist very soon becomes a thing or jeers and laughter, signifying nothing. We must have humour, of course, but the use we must make of our sense of humour is to avoid introducing anything into the. narrative that shall distract the reader from the peauty, the mystery, and the pathos of the life we live in this world. Whosoever keeps humour under lock and key Is read in the next generation, if he write well, for to write well without the help of humour is the sunreme test. I should like to speak in my essay of the abuse of numour. mit it would be difficult to make this abuse plain to a public so uneducated as ours, whose literary sensibilities are restricted to a belief that some jokes are better than others, but that any joke is bettor than no joke. 1 do not wish to libel the daily or weekly press, but it would seem to me that we have not a critic among us who is prepared to say that humour is but a crutch, by the aid of which almost any writer can totter a little way. WHEN he gets on the subject of English novelists. Comrade Moore lays about him with a destructive club, but he spares Jane Austen, placing her among the few great ones. "OX, WISCONSIN!" (From the Wisconsin State Journal.) Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lormer, residing southwest of town, are the parents of a, son, born Thursday at their home on South Fourth street. Sir. and Mrs. Wilson Lormer, residin? nouthwest of town, are the parents of a daugh ter born Saturday at the local hospital. MARQUIS OKUMA flatters the United States when he says it is not sincere about a naval holiday. In any except the most domestic relations the United States is 'incapable of in sincerity. Love and Literature. (George Santayana, in The Athenaeum.) English lovers, I believe, seldom practice what in Spain is called conjugating the verb; they do not spend hours ringing the changes on I love, you love, we love. This, in their opinion, would be to protest too much. They prefer the method of Paola and Fransesca; they will sit reading out of the same book, and when they come to the kissing she will say, "Ucw nice that is!" and he will reply, "Isn't it?" and the story will supply the vicarious eloquence of their love. Fiction or poetry. In some supposititious Instance, reports for the Englishman the bash ful truth about himself; and what English life thereby misses in vivacity. English literature gains in wealth, in tenderness, in rambling fidel ity, and in preclousnesu to the people's hearty ON his way to the office Mr. Pasley, the Demon Rewrite, picked up a half-frozen Mal tese cat. Wc are advised that as snnn a l)r Evans pronounces on the sex, a name will be given to .puss. May we not suggest Harmlcar or Carrie? the first for the famous feline of Sylvestre Bonnard. the second for the less cele brated sphinx who, some years ago. reposed beneath our office desk, upon 'a pile of wheeze and verse. BUSINESS OF HITCHING ON WOODEN LEGS, FALSE TEETH, AND SWITCHES. (From the Beardstown Star.) Congregational Let us not forget the as sembling of ourselves for religious services. WE are surprised that only one reader has been moved to reply to W. M. K., who wondered why women still wear their hats in church. Tell him, writes M. E., to read I Corinthians, 11:5. ' First AM. Sir: Our house guest had a nightmare last night. Hp. dreamed that he had been bitten on the ankle by a rattlesnake. Then he woke me up to help him hunt the snakebite medicine. E. M. A. "TEXAS Democrats Give Wilson Walking Stick." Headline. And the republicans, as W. S. N. communi cates, gave him the papers; so he is all set. BUSINESS AS USUAL. . (From the Tryon, N. C, News.) Wallace Jackson called on Miss Jennie Barnette Sunday as usual. SINCE prohibition came in, says the Onion King, Americans have taken to eating onions.. As Lincoln prophesied, this nation is having u new breath of freedom. B. L. T. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Question concerning byfle-ie, Malta tion and prevention of dlseas. sub mitted to Dr. Eans by reader of Tha Bee, will be autwered personally, sub ject to proper limitation, where stamped, addressed envelope ia en closed. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis or prescribe for Individual diseases. Address letter In car of Tha Bee. Copyright, 1920. by Dr. W. A. Evan, Complain of Live Stock Rate Should Make Us Humble. Betelgeuse, the new star, is 30.000.000, times larger than our earth but we doubt it even this information will take the conceit out of so.'jc folks. Boston Transcript. x The Real Ranger. The danger in kissing lies not so much in the possibility of spreading disease Its in flic proba bility of contracting a lawauit. Sioux City Tribune. CONQUERING LOCKJAW. How effective vaccination against lockjaw can be made is demonstrated by tho figures from Great Britain now made available. In the world 'war the British had 2. OS:". 142 wound ed. The number of ciisps of teMous which developed Was 2.385. Of these the number dying was a little more than 500. Five hundred deaths in "more than four years does not equal our Fourth of July rate in the good old days. Two thousand three hundred and eighty five cases Is a rate of 1.17 per 1,000 wounded. In August, mil. the rate was more than throe times that high, being 3.7, In September it. was 9 per 1,000. By 1917 it had fallen to considerably less than 1 per !,000, reaching low mark In December with 3-10 of 1 per 1.U0P, or 1-27 tho rate at the maxi mum. More than that, as the war went on the death rate among those who developed lockjaw became less year by year. The period elapsing between the wound and the onset of lockjaw grew longer and the longer this interval the less tho death rate. At the end more than one-third of the cases were developing more than five weeks after the wound, and when a man postpones his lockjaw more than flvo weeks he has a 6 to 1 chanco to get well. In August and September. 1914, the fighting was done in Belgium and northern France, where the soil was highly fertilized and therefore badly infected with lockjaw. At the same time, the fighting was not done right down in the dirt as it came to be when, after the first battle of the Marne," the troops dug. In for the winter. The very great prevalence of Iock iaw in September. 1014, was largely due to the fact that vaccination was done. In August and September, 191 4, . the British were frantically preparing for war as they fought and aAartxata KlinnlleN Of lOCklaW vaccine were available. By October they were beginning to eaten up. whon thov mnld eet to it they adopted the policy of injecting every wounded man with 1.500 units of te tanus antitoxin. Later they Improved the method by injecting 500 units once a week for four weeks. The lockjaw rate dropped under each of these changes. Later tney mjeuieu i Knn units once a week for four weeks, but. getting no improvement, they went back to the 500 unit dose, j We could adopt that plan in civil ian life with advantage. t n A A it inn tn inlectlniT . vaccine they changed their method of treat ing Wounds. Our experience in Cuba and theirs in South Africa taught that the best policy to follow with wounds -was to seal them up and not handle them much. But when deal ing with the very dirty wounds en countered in Belgium and France it scon became evident that it was best to clean the wounds well, cut away all mangled tissue, and dress them open. It Young, Build Health. X. E. writes: "I suffer very great lv with poor circulation, always feel cold, and frequently have severe pain in my back. Do you think I should live in a warmer climate in the winter? I had a severe attack of pleurisy last winter. Would Asheville. X. C be a desirable place for me?" REPLY. If you are young my advice Is that you stay whore you are and build up your resistance to cold. This you can do by taking cold baths, expos ing your naked skin to cold air, and indulging in outdoor winter sports. If you are old you will increase your comfort greatly by spending the cold season in the south or southern Pacific slope. The climate at Ashe ville is delightful. Ord, Neb., Jan. 15. To the Editor! cf $140,000,000 and much of It Is obtained by this very ineinou ur uu talnlng excess freight rates and so robbing Nebraska people that they may cut enormous melons annually, besides tho regular dividends on the stock of 6 per cent guaranteed by the government and ot which 40 per cent U water. Every load of stock shipped over th C. H. & U. between the points I have mentioned deprives some one of the necessaries of life and lessens their ability to build up the country and wealth to the state. Now comes the. rate clerk of our own railway commission with the comforting as surance in the above letter that the rate cannot be changed, only ad justed so as to raise it and rob others who are on line of Union Pacific. Was ever such A travesty on Justice that the I. C. C. has power to raise a rate but no power to lower it ? What a helpless thing this I. C. C. Is that has power to raise a rate but no power to lower It and no power to compel the C B. & Q. to furnish needed transportation for caretaker with stock beins shipped over its lines. a What is the I. C. C. for except to give some "lame duck" an office at expense of the people? Why not abolish it? For tho very simple reason that the I. C. C. stands as the best friend of the railroad and in this case raised the rate on stock Just as was desired by the railroad. Has anyone heard of the railroad asking for a change because they got no stock shipments from Ord or other competitive points? AVell hardly, as they have a lead pipe cinch on the people of central Ne braska while backed up by their long-time friend, the I. C. C. I will ask the attention of all shippers between Aurora and Alli ance, between Aurora and Sargent, between Aurora and Erlcson, to this systematized robbery and that they write to their representatives and senators and demand that this crim inal rate be corrected or the L C. C. abolished by act of congress. H. C. MARKS. You are Acting Wisely. A reader writes: "A- 7 -year-old girl had searlet fever and it de veloped into nephritis. Is it dan gerous? Will it leave this child deli cate? She is under the care of a doctor and a competent nurse." REPLY. 1 Xephrilis or Bright's disease Is a f ren,uent complication of scarlet fev er. It is dangerous. It may leave after effects in both the kidneys and heart. You know the situation and its possibilities and are taking precaution's and the chances are good that your child will completely recover and have no after effects. Six months after cure appears to be complete have her heart and kidneys examined as a precaution. Let Baby Giraw Bones. "Mrs. X. P. writes: "My 1 -year-old baby weighs 23 pounds. She has been fed certified milk and barley water, lime water and sugar of milk. At present she is taking a quart of milk, two ounces lime water, and one level teaspoonful of sugar of milk. However, she takes only two-thirds of her seven ounce bottle. Please give me a proper diet for her. I give her no other food except fruit juice. She is a wonderfully healthy baby." REPLY. Your baby is doing well, but the time has come to vary her diet She should have hard bread to gnaw likewise meat bones to chew on. Give her cereals and soups. The fruit juice and milk should be con tinued. But when she gets bread and cereal she does not need sugar. Xor does she need" lime water. Since she is somewhat tired of milk you need not give her more than five or six ounces at a feeding. of The 1-ice: 1 have received the fol lowing letter from tho State Hallway commission under date of January G, 1921: "Answering your letter ot the 29th ult. referring to the rate on live stoc k from points on the C, B. & Q. to Omaha. "Beg to advise that tli rates over the Burlington are hiaher by reason of the fact that tho Interstate Com merce commission In Docket No. 975S and Docket No. 9928 ordered tho C, B. & Q. railroad to put into effect rates that wer not to exceed 6 cents less than the rate to St. Joseph and Kansas City. This or der must continue In force for a period of not less than two years. The only manner in which the rates complained of can bo adjusted Is by making application to ralrfe the rate from Union Pacific points. Of course this would not be of any bene fit to anyone. For your information I am enclosing herewith a copy of tho decision of the Interstate Com merce commission In tho above men tioned dockets and would thank you to return tho samn when you have finished with them. Yours truly, C. f A. Ross. Rate Clerk. Tt seems that the freight rate that robs the people of central Xebraska was made on the application of a few men at St. Joseph and Kansas City. No notice whatever was given the shippers of stock on the lines of road affected by the order and it looks like the sole intent of the or der was to benefit the C. B. & Q. rail road and to punish the people of central "Nebraska for daring to pass a law to compel the railroads to fur nish transportation to a caretaker with each car of stock that was shipped to market. This law could not apply to points outside of the state. Had due notice been given the shippers of such a hearing on the question at issue there is no doubt that a protest would have been made against such an extortion, but it is evident that It is not the ship pers or the people of Xebraska whom the I. C. C. represent, but the railroad Interests of the country. Of course the C, B. & Q. were not In any way averse to such a ruling that gave them an excess profit over the IT. P. of $19 per car on hogs and $25 per car on cattle. There are only a few points like Ord, St. Paul and Loup City that central Nebraska shippers could obtain the lower rate, whereas all other points between Aurora and Alliance, Aurora and Burwell, Aurora and Sargent, Aurora and Erlcson were helpless and have been stood up and robbed by the or der of the I. C. C. It may seem a trifling matter to the members of the I. C. C. to de prive these people of the sandhills and central part of the state of the necessaries of life and compel them to pick up "buffalo chips" to use for fuel to prevent freezing, but tnc people of Xebraska will not forget It nor do they forget that this same C, B. & Q. railroad Is now before the I. C. C. asking that they may divide among themselves an excess profit EDITORIAL NOTES Well, we are getting quite Hard inged to it. Columbus tS. C.) State. Some "wild oats" ought to be pre served in the Smithsonian Institution. Greenville (S. Piedmont. Food prices break Headline. Cu rious considering what a little dis tance they have fallen. Dayton News. Ernest Thompson Seton says mor als have no relation to dress, but what Is worrying the moralists is that women don't seem t. either Philadelphia Xorth American. Pctregrad is now Inhabited bv cripples; at least the population has been reduced ,71 per cent, and It I--HfRiinicd that 'everybody who could walk left. St. Paul Xews. South American women getting to bn leaders in fashion. Of course, down around the equator, there's not so much chnncc of catching cold. Dayton News. SPICE OF LIFE She "Tto you write poetry?" He "The editors ay not." Tk '.Vatchman-Examiner (New Tork). The Missing Blush. II tnld the shy maid of his love. Th cnlnr lpft her cheeks: But on the fhoulder of his coat It showed for several weeks. Scalper. "I don't like thrse photos st all." he aid. "I look like an ape." The photographer favored him, with a glance of lofty disdain. "You nhould have thought of that befora vou had them taken." vaa his reply aa he turned back to work. American New Trade Journal. Prof. "Why were sou tardy7" Tom "Clas began before 1 got there." Orange Peel. Teacherr-"Thomas. will ynu tel! ma T.hat a conjunction Is. and compose a sentence containing one?" Thomas tafter reflection) "A. con junction Is k word connecting anything, such s 'The horse Is hitched to the fence by his halter.' 'Halter' it a conjunction, because it connects the horse and the fence." Harper's Bazar. The origin of the hagpipa was being discussed, tho representatives of different nations eagerly declaiming responsibility for the atrocity. Finally an Irishman said: "Well. I'll tell you the troth abont It. Th Trish invented It and sold It to the Scotch as a Joke: and the Scotch ain't seen the Joke yet:" The Watchman-Examiner (New Tork.) 'BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK Y0U LV NICH01A5 Oil Company "Penny Wise" UP TO DATE. Have you seen "society" on the street Wearing galoshes on their feet? Unbuttoned and flortplng awsy Well, that Is the latest fad of today. It was called slovenly a few years ago. But now all society's doing It, you know. No doubt It's attention that they would Invite. Though many would wonder It thev were "just right." Unlike other poor mortals, they scarcely have time. For their brains (if they own any) must work overtime To think of some fad that you and I will amuse. 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