OMAHA. MONDAY. MARCH v 7. 1921.
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BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
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V CHAPTER XII.
The Prairie Chicken.
After he left Mr. Fox, Benny
Badger hurried here and there and
everywhere in Search of a prairie
thicken.
lie found one, after a time. But
the lady wouldn't t,stop to talk with
him. The moment she spied Benny
.she whirred into the air and flewToff,
though she certainly must have heard
him calling :o her.
But at ' last, just as t ed streaks
hegan to shoot up in the eastern sky,
Ikuny caught sight : of a stately
Yes. indeedPahe answered.
dame, who was - so busy catching
grasshoppers for her breakfast that
she hadn't noticed him. ,
He did not dare to go too.near
her, for fear of scaring her. So he
called to her in as gentle a tone as
he could, saying, "Don't be alarmed,
rp.adatnl I only want to ask you a
t question."
The prairie chicken stretched her
neck as high as she was able, and
looked all around.
"Here I ami" Benny sang out
' from a grassy hummock.
The startled lady saw that he was
not near enough to be dangerous.
So she asked him, with a proud air,
what he question mcht be.
"I'm interested in birds' eggs,"
Benny explained, "llave you any,
madam?"
The prairie chicken took a few
steps towards him, in a very grand
manner.
"Yes. indeed!" she answered. "I
have a baker's dozen! They are the
most beautiful eggs I've ever seen
though perhaps I shouldn't say so
They're speckled with brownish
specks," she continued.
"Plow interesting!" Benny Badger
exclaimed. "J must hate a look at
those eggs. Where is your nest,
madam?" . -.
And just then the prairie chicken
did a strange thing. Without a
word of warning she sprang into the
air and sailed away, leaving Benny
Badger to gaze after her, and won
der why she hadn't answered his
question. 7
He soon made up his mind that
he would find .her nest, anyhow.j
Now, since there Hvasn't a tree
anywhere in the neighborhood,
Benny felt quite sure that the lady's
r.esf! must, be on the ground. And
since he knew that all prairie chick
ens slept at. night, he waited until
dark before he began his, search,
for he wanted tj find Mrs Prairie
Chicken at home when he called on
Iie j
So when night came "once more,
Benny Badger left his den and went
forth on his errand.
He had gone only a .short di?
thce when he met his old. friend,
Mr. Fon, who had told him a lit
tleand very little, too about eggs.
"Are you having any luck tonight?"
Benny Badger inquired.
"What do you mean?" Mr. Fo.x
asked him.
"Have you found any eggs?"
Beniy questioned.
Mr. Fox said something that
might have been either "yes or "no."
Benny was not quite sure which it
Do You Know the Bible?
(Cover up the answers, read the oues
tions and see if you can answer them.
Then look at the answers to aoe if you
are right.)
Arranged by J. WILLSON ROY.
1 Xame another prophet who was
one of Micah's contemporaries.
2 During whose reign did Micah
preach? --
v,3 At what period did the prophet
Habakkuk. live? " '
Why was Habakkuk sent from
God? .
5 Who was Zephauiah?
, ; Answers.
1 Isaiah. - '.
2 Jotham, Aliaz and Hezckiah. '
.1 About 600 B. CV , ,
4 He was senjt to warn the king
dom of Judah of the invasion of the
Chaldeans. ;
5- -He was a propltct living about
630 B. C. ,
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But since Mr. Fox shookhis
he decided that it must be
"no."
"I think we're too late," Mr. Fox
remarked. "The eggs must have all
hatched by this time." "
Benny Badger hastened to set Mr.
Fox right. -
"That can't be possible," he re
plied. "T met Mrs. Prairie Chicken
this morning and she to'd trie she
had a. baker's dozen in her nest."
"You must be mistaken about that,"
Mr. Fox assured him. "Where did i
you say her nest is?
1 "f didn't say," replied Benny
"Xo, of course not!" Mr. Fox
corrected himself. "What I meant
was, where did Mrs. Prairie Chick
en say it is?"
"She didn't say," replied Benny
Cadge.
"Thar, unfortunate," Mr. Fox told
him. "It would have saved ns a
good deal of trouble if she had ex
plained where she lives."
Then he told Benny Badger to go
home, and not to trouble himself
anv more. "I will hunt for the old
lady's net." Mr. Fox declared.
Benny Badger couldn't help think
ing that Mr. Fox was a very kind
person. And he went away feeling
that it was very fine to have a friend
like him. t .
But after a while he began to won- I
der if he waMi't mistaken;. for he hap- j
pened to- remember that Mr. Fox
hadn't said a' single word about let- ;
ting him know when he had found
flie nest with the 33 eggs in it,
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Starting the Nation to Build.
By SILAS BENT
(In the Nation s Business.)
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IN the United States, last year there were a million
- weddings. Seventy thousand homes were built.
, Thus in striking fashion the housing shortage was
put before the National Council of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, at its conference last .
month in Washington. The chief obstacle to remedying
this extraordinary situation ies in cost the cost of
building materials, of money and credit, of labor. One
speaker candidly advised delay. "Don't build wait!"
he urged.
Others suggested various palliatives. So far as gov
ernmental aid is concerned.vit is a question, as Senator
William M. Calder expressed it, whether the aid shall
take the form of "facilities or subsidies." The answer
to that lies with American business. Building is
a business function, too long neglected owing, in part,
to governmental interference during the war and to
turbulent economic conditions since. The present short
age involves a grave menace to health, industry and
government. "Homeless people make bad laws," one
speaker warned the councillors.
1 So acute is the situation' that, in the words of one,
speaker, it "challenges the sagacity of this generation."
It has resulted in a pressure upon Congress for relief
work which moved Senator Calder, chairman of the
committee on reconstruction and production, to utter a
warning and a. threat. The shortage" may become so
serious as to necessitate governmental subsidies. '
"This will mean the adoption of European precedents
of monarchic paternalism," he said, "rather than a con
tinuation of American precedents which have made it
possible for each man of exceptional thrift and indus-
try to become a property owner."
He expressed earnest opposition to government
ownership and management of housing projects, and
v expressed the hope that "our reconstruction process
wWl proceed through private initiative and enterprise."
To go vernment regulation of housing activities no
objection was expressed. As to government aid through
the exercise of its taxing power, through the exemption
of taxes on housing construction for a period of years, a
difference of opinion was in evidence. The use of gov
ernment credit or money for projects-to be privately
controlled was favored, it appeared, by a small minority,
although this preference was not expressed through a
vote nor in the resolutions. ' ,
Lawson Purdy, former president of the Board of
Taxes and Assessments in New York City, expressed his
belief that the need of tax'exemption for new building
in those states where it is possible far outweighed the
objections commonly advanced against that form of sub
sidy. This wts Mr. Purdy's proposal :
Various forms of subsidies have been suggested,, usually
i in theform of loans at less than economic interest. As
a rule, states and cities cannot use theif credit for such
purpose without special constitutional changes. I be
lieve that ordinarily it is an unprofitable thing for any
government to compete with .private citizens. If the gov
ernment enters a field of competitive business it must
take over the whole business or keep out of it. When,
- government enters the field it underbids and so diseour
ages all private enterprise. The effect, therefore, of the
building of houses by the state on any considerable
scale or the lending of money by the state or the guar
anteeing of loans by the state will be almost certain to dis
courage builders and lenders to such a degree that the net
result wiirbe fewer houses and less money available.
Is there any way in this emergency in which action by
the state can encourage the building of more houses?
1 am sure that there is a course that can be pursued in
those states, about one-fourth in number, which are not
constitutionally restrained from using the taxing power in
telligently. A
Throughout the United States buildings are taxed as
heavily as, and in most states more heavily than, any
other labor product. With a 26 per cent tax rate on an
assessment at full value the net rate must be about one
third more than if there were no tax. If the net rent
equals 6 per cent of the cost of the building the tax is
five-twelfth of the net rent. At the present time doubt
less there mlist be a prospect of a much higher net rent 1
"than 6 per cent in order to induce building, but even if
the net rent is 10 per cent the tax is one-fourth of the
rent. . It is obvious that the tax is a very important factor.
If the tax on new-dwellings is remitted for a term of years
a substantial inducement is offered to builders. How sub- n'
stantial that inducement is few people realize.
Mr. Purdy did not fail to take into consideration the
objections which have been offered to this procedure.
It has been said for instance, that such an exemption
would reduce the assessment roll, but he denied this.
Existing property would not be exempt. On the other
hand, Mr. Purdy said, the exemption might reasonably
be expected to stimulate the building of additional
housing which would not otherwise have been produced,
and which would be taxable after the exemption period
had passed. During that period, this building activity
would swell the assessment roll by increasing land
values; and he continued:
It is said that it is "unfair to the owners of existing
buildings to exempt new buildings. The owners of exist
ing buildings have seen the value of those buildings doubled '
by no act of theirs. In many cases the rent they can ob
tain is more than doubled. The value of those buildings
will tend ta be about what it would cost to reproduce them A
provided always they are suitable. It does not seem t$at
there is any hardship to these owners of existing buildings
in encouraging the production of new buildings costing '
v twice as much.
. ..' The emergency is great. The need is serious. We
should give every possible encouragement to the erection
of new buildings by private enterprise by a method which
does not introduce the dangerous feature of competition
- by the government itself. v
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Phone Doug; 1936 . : Omaha
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i ' Douglas- 3500
T. S. McCaffrey,
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15th and Jackson,
Omaha.
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Starter Ring Gears
For Fly Wheels
Salea and Service Station for Eisem.nn
- Magneto and -Aayf ield Carburetors.
P. Melchiors & Son
' MACHINE WORKS
41 7 ! So. 13th. Douglas 2550
The Gate City
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Phone Tyler 2970. Office
140$ Jackson St.'
Douglas Oil and Gas Co.
Oklahoma Oil Lands
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Phon. Doug. 6291. 1819 California
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