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6 rilE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1921. TheOmaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. KELSON B. UPDIKE, Publisher. MEMBER Or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tba avclai Frrw, of which Tba Km Is uiarebtr. it Slnatral; aotltlxl la taa uw (of 1'ubllcatloo of all Bent duratelwa radila la H nf ml nihtrwlM rmtiiad In ihia par", aft! alau Uia bwal ukiutud arntii. all rlUu of DubllcaUoo of out auaniaJ lapaukw an alas raatneiL UEE TELEPHONES Prima Braarh Ktdiauia. Art tnt Tv1sr 1000 Uia Dwsrtmant o I'ttaoo Wauttd. ' v avww For Nlfbl Calls Attar 10 P. M.l Mitarial Dtpartdunt - Tjln MML emulation DiartnMnt ........... Tylw WitL Aotanlstni Papartinanl Xjlaf 100(11 OFFICES OF THE BEE Main Offloa: Win anil Ktmam CoaaeU Bluff 15 Boott 8t I Bnfctb Sid S31C N St. Out-of-Town Offictai Srm Totfc t8 Fifth Aa Waahlnitim 1311 0 Bt Chloais Susat Bids. I Fails, franca, tJOBua St Honors The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improTement of tha No breska Highways, including the pare ment of Main Thoroughfares loading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A short, lowrata Waterway from the Cora Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Homo Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. Relief for the Farmer. Farmer of the west must feci great satisfac tion at the decision that the federal farm loan act ii constitutional. Millions of. dollars will be available in a few weeks for the sorely distressed farmers, putting new heart in them and giving them the means to carry on their business. Since last May the bonds of the farm loan banks have been unsalable, owing to the allegation of the private mortgage dealers that the government had no right to exempt these securities from taxation. Interest rates for the farmer climbed from that time, until in the last few months some landowners without any incumbrance were actually unable to obtain a loan on their prop erty. The reopening of activity by the Joint Stock Land banks and the Federal Land banks will put new life into those rural districts and those country towns where a condition ap proaching stagnation has existed for the last few months. It may be all right to talk of financing vari ous European countries, but it was indeed high time to think of affording credit at home to make it possible to produce for domestic use. Exports of grain to Europe have been larger this year than last, which indicates that the process of financing abroad has not been neglected; but meanwhile stock raisers and grain growers on the prairies have been working under a handicap that eventually would have meant enforced underproduction, with an actual short age of meat and other food. Eastern capitalists will be eager as always to purchase the bonds of the federal land bank, which are secured by land of twice the valus of the bonds. ,This money will flow into the pro-, during region and truly act as a life saver, not only to the farmers, but to all who do business with them. v Although there are savings in interest and -commissions through the use of the co-operative institutions, a more fundamental beneht is to De found in the long-time amortized loan which gives the farmer 20 to 35 years in which to pay off his indebtedness, and the converting of ihe farm mortgage into a farm bond, which gives the farmer a form of security acceptable, to large Investors. Nearly half a billion dollars was raised in this way for the uses of agriculture in We two and a half years in which the federal lystem operated. '. The farm loan act stands; this is the starting joint for the creation of a system of finance adapted to the needs of agriculture. The decision f the supreme court means! that agriculture thall have free access to its full share of the forking capital of the nation and that the farm ers will be able to secure at reasonable rates and on convenient terms whatever money is re quired to finance the business of feeding the tation. White Elephant Railroads. Senator Cummins, before entering on his career in congress, was a railroad attorney, and kence has considerable knowledge of the trans portation question. One can not doubt that he is opposed in principle to public ownership of the railroads. His prediction that unless greater economies of management are established gov ernment operation of the lines is inevitable amounts to calling attention to the fact that if the properties become losing investments no one but Uncle Sam could afford to own them. ' It would be interesting to discover how the multitude of stockholders in lines that are losing money feel. While it would be unprecedented, it surely is not beyond imagination that many of them would, if dividends continue meager and infrequent, willingly exchange their securities for government bonds. What would those who now advocate nationalization say if the first ad vance came from the owners of the roads them selves? The chances are this would be one gift horse that would have his teeth examined with more than ordinary courteous care. Weather by Wireless. Afloat and ashore and aflying, the United States weather bureau i of immense value. Ships far out at sea receive storm warnings from the ob servatory, aviators carrying the mail await no tice of air conditions before venturing up, and persons planning to go on a picnic tomorrow are able to determine with some degree of ac curacy whether to wear low shoes or galoshes and a rain coat. So much is fairly well known about the weather bureau, and the daily predictions found in the newspapers provide more material for conversation than any divorce or ultimatum. What is not generally realized is the value of this service to farmers and shippers of perishable food and other products. M. V." Robins, the v government meteorologist at Omaha, has called this to public attention by an interview telling of ranchers and farmers in Nebraska who ere receiving daily weather reports by wireless. Every morning the local operator flashes the forecast from his tower. Some agricultural col leges already are giving instruction in radio work In order to make it possible to utilize this service. Mr. Robins states that some of the ranchers in the west, where blizzards sweeping, down suddenly kill great herds of cattle are in talling their own receivers, and of course on the arms as in the cities there are many boys of mechanical trend who have wireless sets al ready in commission. It can easily be seen how thousands of dol lars, yes, millions, could be saved to the agri cultural regions by timely warnings of frost and storms. A good deal of comment, some humor ous, some seriously critical, is heard about the weather bureau. Of course the science of the weather is not yet an exact science, but neither are history, sociology and economics exact in the sense that one is able to predict precisely what is going to happen in the future. This docs not diminish their value, nor does it do away with the esteem in which meteorology is held. Problems of Profiteering. What Is profiteering? Taking more than a reasonable profit is the usual definition. But a fact that is often missed is that no one has yet decided at what point profits become unreason ably high. No law of congress or executive edict has ever marked the line definitely. A thousand per cent or a hundred per cent clearly seems extortionate, and the federal excess profits tax begins to bear down more vigorously after earnings exceed 20 per cent of the capital. The case of the railroads, where with stand ard rates for traffic some lines have made a good profit and others have been impoverished, illustrates a condition that exists in every indus try. The profits of coal mining, manufacturing, banking or merchandising vary with the favor able or unfavorable location of the particular plant, with its efficiency or inefficiency, its size, backing and other factors. In every line of business there is a wide range of profits, between those of companies that are making little more than expenses and those gathering in immense returns. This is inevitable as a part of competi tion. The cost of an article theoretically is de termined by the cost of production of the least efficient producer who remains in business. If the more efficient plant is restrained, less ef ficient ones would take its place, with costs mounting. Here is where the various attempts to regu late industry appear to fall down. The profiteer has no friends, and society would do well to rid itself of him. But thus far no way of deciding the boundary between profiteering and fair profits have been attempted, and no way of limits ing profits outside of taxation has been at tempted, without penalizing efficiency and thus reacting on the prices the public must pay. It is to be suspected that some of our public men who have been so loudly denouncing the profiteers realize inwardly their inability to cope with the problem and are merely making a noise. Following His Father's Trail. Young "T, R." is to be the assistant secretary of the nary when Mr. Harding goes in as presi dent. This is as it should be for many reasons. It is not essentially necessary that the name of Roosevelt be permanently attached to the Navy department, yet there is a fitness in the present instance of extending the tradition to the incom ing administration. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., has proven his mettle. He has in" his record nothing of ranching days in the Little Missouri country, no recollections of Medora or DeMores.but he did pick up some real ideas as to roughing it while serving as an officer in the A. E. F. and in other. wys. His entry into political life was made modestly enough as a member of the New York legislature, where his father started. He i:as not and perhaps will not include a term as po-v lice commissioner of the metropolis in his cartel, although there is no telling what one of his breed and with so illustrious an example may not accomplish. The "country may believe, how ever, that if another such occasion should arise, the 'fleet in the- western Pacific or any other tar off corner of the globe will get the tip, just as Dewey did in 1898 from the Roosevelt who was then assistant secretary of the navy. "Young Teddy" is following his father's footsteps, but is moving on his own feet.' A Line 0' Type or Two Htw ta the Lina, Itt tha quips fall whtra thejr ma Strange Event in Germany, j The gift of cows to the German people, made by farmers in the United States, is a piece of relief work of which little was known until the cables brought back an account of the reception given the country lads who accompanied the cargo. The account of the hospitality they re ceived and the need of he people as told in the dispatches might in other days have been re garded as a piece of enemy propaganda. It is true that technically America and Germany are still at war, but this fiction is one only for diplomats. The story now may shock a few, but for the most part it will be welcomed as indicating that the world is not forever to be divided into bitterly hostile races, each loading misfortune and hate on the other. There is misery the length and breadth of Europe today, and it is natural and just that America's greatest sympathy should go to those who were wronged by the German armies. But it begins to be seen that the peoples of the earth depend on each other and that a poverty-stricken or disease-ridden district, like a rotten apple in a barrel, corrupts all the others. The protestations of Thomas W. Laniont that the allies will pay their war debts to the United States are dulled by the public realiza tion that this is the age of propaganda. To a man up a tree it sometimes looks as if in some of these cases the eventual choice may lie be tween repudiation and forgiveness of debts. The damage suit which reveals a boy of 9 as getting $75 a week in the movies would divert childish ambitions from thoughts of pre preparing to be a cowboy or a policeman except for the happy fact that boys don't realize what money is, or that it is at all necessary. It would have been much cheaper if some one had thought to attire the soldiers guarding the Hotel Crillon in embroidered slippers instead of hobnailed boots. The bill for $125,000 damages to this Paris hotel is now explained, but not excused. News that Holland regards the kaiser ind his sons as foreigners provokes the question whether they regard themselves as citizens in the German republic or just where their alle giance lies. The treaty of Sevres, like the china made there seems to break easily, and the Greeks would be wise to have the next agreement made of old English ironstone. . The worst of this thing of robbers stealing pennies from the children's banks is that the sophisticated youngsters can't help suspecting their parents HIGHER CRITICISM What Joy! to listen to lectures on Wordsworth's imaginative Interpretation of nature sitting behind ttve hundred attentive freshmen in the remarkable auditorium of the Christian Bible College ". . . plain living and high thinking . . ." a door slams and a piano tinkles a Swedish pastor softshoes down the aisle; a soprano trills a scale and a door slams ". . . it is a beauteous evening calm and free . . . a door slams five Norwegian Bible students stalk around the balcony a red-headed co-ed drops her notebook a door slams and a baby cries . the professor deprecates "the phenomenal manifestations" of the remarkable auditorium of the Christian Bible College "... and then my heart with rapture Alia and dances with the daffodils ..." a young man in a green sweater slouches around the balcony I looks down on the Imaginative interpretation of Wordsworth and blows his nose RIQUARIUS. The selection of Mr. Hoover has pleased more people than anything else that has hap pened in a coon's age. And not a little of the pleasure arises from the thought that the politicians may not share it. "THE love, the worship of truth is the most essential thing in journalism," says the editor of Le Matin. Or, as the ads read, "loVe of truth essential but not necessary." The Tooncrvtlle Bulldog. (From the St. Joseph,' Mo., News-Press.) A vicious bulldog caused considerable ex citement at Eighth and Edmond streets this morning. He snapped at the ankles of a number of women pedestrians and the po- lico were called, but before an officer ar rived the dog's owner took him away. Y'OU may remember the Memphis person who burned holes in a handkerchief by breathing in it? The feat can be performed by putting a bit of metallic sodium in the handkerchief and wetting this with saliva. OBVIOUSLY SHE MEANT BAR CHOCOLATE. Sir: Our Mary has been handing out prac tical info on how to present an 18-year old figure with 45-year old material. Mary and I have the same end in view, though perhaps hers is that Is, mine is oh, you know what I mean consequently I should be glad to follow her advice if I were sure I interpret it correctly. She says, "Avoid overeating; especially bar choco late." Do you think she meant "especially bar chocolate" or "especially bar chocolate?" Please give your version for the benefit of the stout sis terhood. EDGEWATER BEACH. "SINCE her tour of the Pacific Coast," de clares a Berkeley bulletin, "Miss Case has made strident advances in her art." The lady, it ap pears, sings. THE THOUSAND AND ONE AFTERNOONS. XVII. In his short experience as a law-breaker Ceon- tiued the fair Saidee) George Barrington Wild had learned one thing, that the chiefest obstacle to uninterrupted prosperity in this adventurous calling is woman. This had been plainly indi cated to him in the lives of his eighteenth cen tury heroes, whose deeds of derring-do he had followed raptly in his father's library. Newgate and Tyburn and the dance without music was their fate, no doubt inevitable, yet had they not run to women after every successful exploit, nad they not swaggered abroad with their- doxies when the hounds of the law were on their traces, they might have been vouchsafed many more years of activity in their picturesque profession. But as we learn from example that we learn nothing from example, it was necessary that Mr. Wild should fall into the clutch of the law three or fouri times in order that his reading of his tory shchild be illuminated by the best but dearest of teachers; whereupon he avowed himself to a mild misogyny until such time as he might change his occupation to one more compatible with female friendship. So firm was his resolu tion, and so well had it been kept, that although weakened it was not destroyed by the disorder ing magic of the pink shirt. The instinct of self preservation is stronger even than that of sex, and so when a clamor sounded from below stairs, and voices grew nearer and louder, the house breaker disentagled himself from the lady's arms and prepared tor flight. He whispered to her that it was time for Peter Pan to return to the tree-tops, but this she denied, and clung to him so passionately that he was not able to act as decisively as the circumstances called for. In a similar situation one of Mr. Conrad's heroes would have commanded 'Perfect immobility!' He might even have hissed it. But Mr. Wild mora naturally put a hand over the lady's mouth and pointed towards the door. The lady's compan ions were without. They rattled the door knob and called 'Ernestine! Ernestine!' And although Mr. Wild continued calm, and wholly collected, it6 .elj that tne si,uatin had become difficult. He had a distaste for violence and crudeness: to 'use all gently' was as good advice for him as for a play-actor. .Therefore he took the latjy gently by the hand, and switching off ! the light he moved to the window, raised the sash, and looked out. The coast was clear. If the lady would only refrain from arousing the neighbor hood all would be well. To reassure and tran quillze he embraced her warmly, whereupon she happily resolved his perplexity. 'Peter Pan. you shall take me with you!' she whispered. 'With all my heart.' said he, and stepped out on the roof of the porch. The enamoured lady fol lowed. "I CAN readily understand," confides Jay Aye, "the potent influence the pink shirt would possess, it the mere printed Harrativc has such an attraction for a woman no longer young." REFERRED TO MAE TWEE WITH POWER TO ACT. Sir: Touching on the improvement in the movies, at Barbee's Loop "The Servant In the House' is advertised with four illuminated pho tographs of Mack Sennett'snbathlng beauties. W. S. , IF you prefer the violin, there is Mr. Spald ing tomorrow afternoon. If you prefer the piano, there is Mr. Bauer, In either case, the utmdst refinement. "Knowledge Is th Antidote to Fear." Sir: In my favorite chronicle-history are the lines Pet Marjorie used to repeat to Sir Walter, when (on-dlng o' snaw) the Shirra had we'l happit up the bairn in the neuk of his plaid, under Mrs. Keith's kindly eye, and carried her off to 39 Castle street. "For I am sick, and capable of fears, Oppressed with wrong, and, therefore, full of fears, A wdiow, husbandless, sulflect to fears; A woman, naturally born to-fears." Ah again and yet again it dawneth upon me that Will was indeed not for any age, but for all time. Dulcinea has just looked into the scrip torium with a bottle of her company grape juice, from our choicest Niagara. "Oh, dear! I'm ter ribly afraid this has fermented. Yes, I'm sure It has. It Just makes me sick to think of it. It's the last bottle. What shall we do?" i P. D. S. "AFTER submitting a contribution, how long must one remain in suspense?" asks E. L. W. That, sir, depends, as has been well said. But you would be safe in assuming, after, say, three months, that the contribution has been mislaid. WARNING! The Maunesha House, of VVaterloo, advertises: "Particular atten tion paid to guests without baggage." l "THE end is drawing to a close," advertises Mr. Ben Hirshcimer of Pittsficld, 111. And it is a long end that has no closing. "U. S. CALLS rap Mandate Void." "At first glance," writes G. E. W.. "I thought the reference was to the Eighteenth Amend ment." THE Isle of Yap, the Isle of Yap, Where burning Sappho never sung! You ain't so much upon the map, But Uncle Samuel murmurs, "Stung I" B. L. T. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Quaations concerning hygiene, aanitatian and prevention of dlaeaac, aubmitted In Dr. Evana by raadera of Tha Bea, will ba anawered personally, lubject ta proper limitation, where a a tamped addraaaad envelope ta enclosed. Dr Evana will not make diainoaia or prsacrlM tor inaiviouai aia In car of Tha Baa. liasaasa. Addreaa lettert Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evana ITCH NO SIGN OF TRAVEL. "In our town the people are plagued with what we call French itch, S. W. writes. "An overseas soldier tells us that the trouble works the same way the French itch did on people they were billeted with in France. What is it and what can we do?" ' It is unfair to our recent allies to change the name of our. old friend, "Seven Years Itch" to "French Itch." Of course, your soldier boy saw cases of it in France, but he has no doubt seen cases in America and might have seen them in any European country. It is a good bet that in some section of France they now call this disease American itch. Since every returned soldier took a disinfecting bath and had his clothes disinfected before being dts charged, it is reasonably certain that the disease in vyour neighborhood, while the same as that seen in France, is "made in America." The treatment of itch is standard ized so far as its general principles are concerned and has been for a long time. Sulphur is the remedy and the standard method is thorough rubbing in of some sulphur ointment. Different mathods are used, but sul phur always is the main ingredient. Different methods of applying are used, but the general effort is to get the stuff rubbed in well. If Not Sooner. 1 In traveling over some of our country roads we come to the conclusion that they need not only federal but also immediate aid. Farming ton Timcs-Hustlcr. 7 Dr. L. Lomholt of Copenhagen uses the London Lancet to tell the English speaking peoples of a meth od of curing itch which had been employed in Denmark for ten years. There they have treated many hun dred cases and every one has been cured and no one has relapsed. They make a sulphur preparation that is such a sure killer of that itch bug that they can afford to go lighter on the preliminary scouring and wash ing. While they disinfect the cloth ing they say it is not really neces sary. One application suffices for a cure and the subject' can go about his work. This constitutes a consider able list of advantages, enough to offset the trouble the 'druggist will have in compounding the cure, the unpleasant odor of the medicine, and the irritation of the skin sometimes produced. The medicine is made as follows: Dissolve three ounces of sublimated sulphur in six ounces of 50 per cent solution of caustic potash in water. Gentle heating is required. The re sult is a clear yellow solution which we will call No. I. Mix three and three-fourths ounces of petrolatum with an equal quantity of water free lanolin. Mix well, but do not heat. This we will call No. 2. To the seven and one-half ounces of No. 2 add six and one-fourth, ounces of No. 1. Dissolve one-half ounce zinc sul phate in two-thirds of an ounce of 20 per cent solution of caustic soda in water. This we will call No. 3. Add No. 3 to the mixture of Nos. 1 and 2. This brings the total quan tity up to one pound by. sddlng liquid parafln. Finally add about 30 grains of benzaldehyde to deodorize the mixture. To use Takfl an ordinary warm soap bath at night. Rub the sulphur olnment over the entire body, ex cept the face and head. It is not necessary to rub extra hard. Put on clean nipht clothes. It will be safer to sterilise the clothing during the night. The next morning wasn the hands with soap and water. Leave the ointment on the remaind er of the skin. Dress and go about the day's work. ; That night wash with soap and water. '' ;' l'ou Are Marked For Life.' J. B. writes: "I have a tattoo mark on my right forearm which I, would like co have removed? Will you kindly advise me how it can be done?" REPLY. It cannot be done. Please" pass then word alontr to the boys who are getting tatooed. Here's Further Proof. E. B. R. writes: "I am one of. those persons who ,have a bluish tinge to the whites of the eyes. My bones are like chalk. I have had; bo many fractures I have lost, count of them. The same is true; of a nephew, a cousin, an unclev and other relatives. They have bluish whites of the eyes and chalky i bones. What is the cause of this ! condition ' and what is the remedy, i if any?" ! I REPLY. ! The only cause of which I know Is inheritance. I know ot no remedy. Needs Examination. - J Mrs. M. J. R. writes: "I am troubled with a cough and a pleurisy pain in my left side. I also have cold night sweats and toward eve ning I have slight chills and fever. I have no appetite. Am 20 years old; have one baby (on bottle) 5 months old. "1. Can, you give me a reason for i tnis? "2. What can be done?" REPLY. ?'. Have a thorough examination. 1. Y'ou may have consumption. Dilute Milk a Little. Mrs. T. R. wants to know what diet is proper for a baby with rick ets. The baby is 8H months old and cannot sit up. Drinks undiluted milk, vegetable soup, whole wheat j cereal, and plenty of orange Juice, REPLY. I Assuming that you are right in ! the diagnosis, it ls fortunate that your bafcy is not trying to sit up. Babies with rickets get bow legs, crooked backs and crooked pelves it they are allowed to sit or stand early. More than any other children they must be restrained. If your chilil has rickets keep her in the open air as much as possible, have her sleep in a- well ventilated room, keep everything very clean and give her enough fats and phosphorus. In New York City the health depart ment used a daily dose of cod liver oil as a preventive of rickets. Rick ets is more Influenced by hygiene and sanitation than it is by diet. Un diluted milk is a little strong for the average baby of her age. She is having enough variety In her diet. Exceot for diluting the milk with one-third its volume of water I see no reason for changing the diet. Great Core Is Essential. Mrs. A. T. H. writes: "1. My hus band's mother has tuberculosis and spits blood. "As he and I live in the same home with her, do you think there is any danger, provided we nre careful about towels, dishes, etc.? "2. Her parents both died of tuberculosis. Do you think it Is hereditary? My husband has had pneumonia four times, but his lungs seem to be good, as he recently pass ed examination for life Insurance. 3. Do you think it may develop In him later?" REPLY. 1. If there are no children in your family and all of you are careful and understand the art of making the members of a household safe against consumption there is little danger. 2. No. 3. It is possible, He should keep his w;eight above normal, avoid phy sical exhaustion and stay in the open air as much as possible. Newspaper Advertising Cheap (William A. Thomson, Director, Bureau ot Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers' Association.) Newspaper advertising is much the cheapest of the printed mediums per thousand of circulation. News paper rates, like all other commodi ties, have advanced somewhat in the past couple of yearn, but they have not advanced In anything like the same degree that the materials and producing costs of newspaper mak ing have increased. To illustrate the relative cheap ness or newspaper advertising, let me say that for the money necessary to buy enough postcards at a penny apiece to send just once to the 28,- 000,000 purchasers of the daily English language newspapers in this country, you could buy at least a page and a half of advertising in every one of the 2,042 publications. Probably there never was a time In our economic history when ap plied national advertising offered by the newspapers was so much needed as today. The selling costs of many national distributers are too high and the competitive condition into which we are moving threatens to increase these costs. Manufacturers are looking for consumer sales, and they must get these sales at the low est possible ngures. Increased rail road rates for transportation of all kinds must be reckoned with in sending salesmen and in shiDDine goods to any market. All these con ditions point clearly to the wisdom of knowing your markets and culti vating business through advertising at points where it is profitable to operate. Newspaper advertising will be used in great volume in J 921. be cause it offers to the manufacturer the two things which are essential today in advertising efficiency and economy. 'Jfie&oe'Si More About Prohibition. Albion, Nob., Feb. 25. To the Editor of The Bee: In yesterday's Bee, "Bee Reader'' opposes prohibl tlon. Queer how history repeats it self. Way back more years than I care to remember certain men op posed laws against horse stealing, and as they "didn't exactly believe in it" they tried to defy the govern ment, with the result that our Jails were cluttered or "clogged with horse thieve and would have boon more clogged still if some "accident" had not happened to them. These men said, "What's the use? You can t stop horse stealing; long as there's horses they'll be stole. Y'e ean stop it." Hut Uncle Sammie has a mighty long arm. And we don't hear of many horses being stolen nowadays. He says it don't take many people to make a law. But it took a good many people to Why Do You "Clean House?" because it makes the house LOOK and FEEL better. Why Should We Clean Your Clothes? because we will make you LOOK and FEEL better. phone for our mtn the phone number is Ty ler 0345. If in South Omaha phone "South 0050." DRESNER BROTHERS CleanersDyers 2211-17 Farnam St. make the prohibitory law practic ally all the good people of the United States. Unel.) Sum is mighty gen tle and kind to his people, but any old time the bootleggers, bolsheviks, I. W. W. or any other outfit think they ran , outwlt and conquer hlni they have another thought coming. Why should an "ordinary mur derer or robber have a better right to a cell than a bootlegger? As the rum seller has killed more people, bpth body and soul, than any other cause, ami robbed these poor dupes and countless women and children besides, he has first claim to the cells. ANN (other) B. READER. "BUSINESS 1$ COOP THANK YOU Why Shovel Coal? Shaking the furnace night and morning, carrying out ashes, cleaning out soot, having uneven het all are Unnecessary Let us put in the Nokol Automatic Heater The Automatic Janitor Burns, less oil than any oil burner on the market and has complete combustion. Requires no attention reg ulated by a thermostat in your living room. There are almost a hun dred installations in Omaha. See the one we have in bur office. IV. Nicholas Oil Company in . Phone Douglas 2793 WtwnapiiVfcrOfnM OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY OBU0 tuaitT nwuat 4 I3lka4 fMHAN COMMERCIAL PRINTERS LITHOGRAPHERS - STEEL 0 IE CMB0SSCRS LOOSC ICAF DEVICES Li WW WORKS Evergreen .Tree Shrubs Hedge Flowers Tree Surgery and Pruning MILANS 24 Years' Experience Supreme Landscape Gardening 4421 Decatur. Phone Wal. 4308. Omaha, Neb. A Firm Foundation Build your foundations with Aah Grove Portland Cement, insuring greater strength, economy and endurance. Every ounce of Ash Grove Portland Uement is dependable because it is. ground extra fine and tested hourly to insure absolute uniformity. POIrTTLAND CEMENT SUPERFINt AMD SUPCRSTDONa Illinois Central System Passenger Trains Noted for Being on Time The'only record showing the percentage of on time arrivals at des tinations of the passenger trains on all the railways of the United States was made by the United States Railroad Administration for the months of August, September, October, and November, 1919. These four ' months are considered by railway men to be as favorable for railway ' operation as any period of the year. This record, compared with that made by Illinois Central System passenger trains for the same period, follows: ALL RAILWAYS ILLINOIS CENTRAL SYSTEM" August 83 per cent 95.4 per cent September 84 per cent 96.2 per cent October 84pereent 95.4 per cent November 82 per cent ' 96.2 per cent During 1920 the Illinois Central System operated 79,022 passenger trains on its more than 6,000 miles of lines in 14 states of the Mississippi Valley. The percentage of on time arrivals at final destinations, by months, was as follows: i January ........ .93.4 February 96.4 March 94.0 April .;...... .93.4 May ....94.2 June ...V. 96.4 July 96.9 ' August 96.8 September 96.7 October .97.3 November , 97.0 December '. 93.8 Believing that the assurance of arriving at destination on time is an essentially important factor in passenger train service, the Illinois Cen tral System is seeking constantly to improve this phase of service. Maintenance of schedule, however, is' but one feature of the incompar able passenger service offered by the Illinois Central System, every feature of which is distinctly outstanding. . The equipment of the famous Panama Limited, operating between Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans, represents the highest known standard of the art of railway carriage construction. The Panama Limited has been designated by its patrons as the "finest train in the world." Illinois Central System passenger trains are noted for the safety with which they are operated. More than three and one-half billion passengers have been carried one mile since a passenger riding in a proper position was injured fatally. Another outstanding feature is the character of service rendered by Illinois Central trainmen the courtpsy and attention with which passengers are served, in which we take great pride. 1 Conscious of our obligations to the public, we are making every effort consistent with honest, efficient and economical management to render a service that will not only please our patrons, but will justify them in commending it to their friends and acquaintances. In its passenger service, as in all other departments of its organiza tion, the Illinois Central System seeks the co-operation and confidence of its patrons. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. C. H. MARKHAM, President Illinois Central System.