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THE ' BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. MARCH 8, 1021. TheOmaha Bee DAILY (MORNING ) EVENING SUNDAY THI BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publl.ktr. MEMBUt OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tta iuwlittd Tnu. f which Tk Be ! ft mtmbn, Is n aluutslj MtlUcd Id Uu in fur publlcfttlM of Ml diitwUshM cndiud la It or wl oitimrtn sroditrd In tbi pir, tne tin th ln.-l nm itiblltirj strtin. AU nibi of puMlottloa of our ipotlu (UiMtctaM r slw ratmtf. SEE TELEPHONES Tyler 1000 Far Night Calla After 10 P. M.t BJUtorUl DtptrtftWDt ........... T.ltr lMOT. Clreulstlno Iprtmit ........... Trlw 1008L 4ditrfltlii trtiunt ........... Tlw lOCtfl. OFFICES OF THE BEE 1 litin Officii 17th and Fimsa Council Slttrtl IS dootl it. South aid Sill X It , Out-of-Town Officm Nan Tori IS fifth Art. I Waihlnrton 1S1I O it Chlcaio 8tec.tr Bldf. I Farli, Franc. 420 RuSt Boner Print Brin'h Sutiaar. Aik for Uw l)itrtuiit or Ptraoa WsntwL The Bee'a Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued Improvement of the N. braska Highways, including (ha pave man! of Main Thoroughfares landing into Omaha with a Brick Surfaca. 3. A thort, low-rata Waterway frcm tho Cera Bait to the Atlantis Ocean. 4. Hem Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. Omaha's Building Campaign. This is the building season. Omaha needs a!! the homes that can be erected between now and another winter. These are two self-evident facts. Another self-evident fact is that there will be little or no building unless costs arc' reduced. People can not afford to .build at present rates. Everything that goes into, the construction of a building still is held at a figure near the peak, l abor and material alike arc higher than reason dictates. Such concessions in price as have been made are not sufficient to loosen the jam. A conference between the representatives of the workmen and the contractors is under. way, the topic for consideration being the proposal submitted by the employers that wages be cut 20 per cent. As 60 per cent of the cost of construc tion is labor, this concession, if granted, will mean a reduction of 12 per cent in the cost of erecting a building. In the matter of small homes, such as were put up around $2,000 and now go at $4,000 or more, this is not sufficient. If a corresponding reduction of 20 per cent is made on material and other items of construc tion expense, or the equivalent of 8 per cent on the whole, it would permit such saving as might induce a general campaign of building. The Bee has no means of knowing what is in the minds of the material dealers, contractors or workmen, other than that it believes each of the groups is desirous of seeing work get under way, at the same time hoping to sell at the best possi ble price. The problem of readjustment is a difficult one, the more so because neither of the several factors shows any inclination to yield. . Yet each realizes that somebody must give way if the erfd Sought by all is to be attained. We hope the contractors and the mechanics ' may come to a speedy and satisfactory agree ment. Then we hope the others will also see thtf wisdom of aiding in the general movement by such action as will give free way to what may . eilir kirn t A fA Wvefr atirt Ktic I.. iA 11 rt vawiijr w v nia via. mo atg vat uu uuoiv.i, year in Omaha's history. ' J Postoffice Shows Nation's Growth. Appropriation of $500,000,000 for the postal setfvic for the fiscal year of 1922 is to be con tracted! with that of $50,000,000 for the sane department in 1885. In thirty-five years the cult ol the service has increased ten times. As the T'os-.omce department n self-sustaining, and scvcial times actually has covered a surplus into the treasury, the fact indicated by the figures ought to be immensely gratifying. In that pe riod of thirty-five years free delivery has been extended until it now is all but universal. Only in a few isolated and sparsely settled regions do ;the patrons yet have to journey to the post office for their mails. Elsewhere the government undertakes to do what it agrees to when it as sumes the charge of the letter or parcel entrust' cd to its care; it will deliver to the addressee any form of mailable matter. Principal of the improvements in the present century have been rural free delivery and the narcels nost. The addition of the air mail, not , , yet so permanently established as to be beyond attack in congress, has so far Justified itself. In crease in expenditure is due mainly to extension ot the service, although within the last two years long delayed and sorely needed additions to pay have been granted the employes, who for many years had pleaded for and had not received the relief they sought. Until the pay of these men is. brought up to a figure that somewhat ap proaches the rate allowed for similar service n private enterprise, the Postoffice department will be falling behind in what is expected by the pub- fl . - . . Its growth, has kept pace witn mat ot tne ra- tion, whose people arc tne most noerai in mcir patronage of the mails of any known. Experience has shown, however, that the public wants scrv- fee, and is willing to pay for it. Burleson and the CivU Service. Anticipating the change in administration, the late postmaster general undertook to forestall a raid on the list of postmasterships he had to turn over to his successor. He prepared a show ing as to the extent to which he, had observed the merit system, and by produces a number of republicans filling positions under the Post omicc department, he paved the way for a pro test on part of civil service reformers against a possioie lauurc on pan 01 me naming ad ministration to agree that the democrats left on the payroll are equally meritorious. This will at be gainsaid, buf; the argument presented r not convincing. No reason to turn a msn 'out of office just because he happens to be a democrat, nor is that an especial reason why he should be retained. All other things being equal, it is a natural course for the republican administration to prefer a partisan. Will H. Hays has pledged himself in advance to take tht postoffice out of "politics from top to bot tom, and in this he will most likely have the . sympathetic support of his chief. Yet none will be surprised if Mr. Hays prefers a republican to a democrat when that is the sole qualification on which a choice may rest. Such a selection will not interefere with the public service in any degree, nor outrage any of the fundamentals of tfc merit system which Mr. Burleson sought to make effective 'after he had well looked after tfc Btrtisaa interests of the administration. It was not until March 31, 1917, that Mr. Wilson emitted the order which the civil service reform ers now fear President Harding will revoke, tn light of the record, we fail to discern wherein the late postmaster general is entitled to esps cial credit for his devotion to the merit system. Allied Occupation of Germany. Lloyd George says that occupation of certain German industrial centers by the Allies will begin today. This should force the issue of reparations and indemnity to a conclusion. Germany's counter-proposals for a settlement fell far short cf the Allied demands, and the second proposition, submitted Mori day, is reported to have been no more satisfactory than the first. Accordingly, there is but-one course open, unlets England and France are content to suspend demands for pay. ment. That course is occupation of German ter ritory. Whether such a move will have the effect of increasing production and inclining the German mind to a more tolerant consideration of the 'n demnty program of the Allies is uncertain. Chiefly the effect will be to impress the in habitants of the region beyond the Rhine with the thought that they really were beaten in the war. With that established, the rest of the pro ceeding ought to be simpler: Germany is not a ruined country, viewed from a physical standpoint. It did not suffer the wreckage of war, was rot devastated by conquering troops. Its homes, farms, cities, mines, all its material resources were unscathed, beyond the havoc that came from overwork of those needed for war purposes r.nd neglect of those not. This is what the Allies have in mind,; When the peace . was conncluded at Versailles, the amount of reparation or indemnity to be exacted was left to be determined after careful inquiry and full consideration. This is fixed at 226,000, 000,000 marks, to be paid in installments over a period of fortytwo years. German leaders plead utter .inability to meet such a penalty, which amounts to about $1,000,000,000 a year for the term. Expressions of the press and politicians indicate that same hope at Berlin rests on the attitude of the United State!, although why they should look to this country for assistance is not clear. Criticism of Dr. Simons for hit handling of the mission to London is bitter, tinged with a suggestion that better arrangements may lie made. Such intimations were in anticipation of further negotiations pending the proposed occu pancy of Dusseldorf, puisborj and Ruhrort. If the Allies take up the march today, as promised, the developments for the next few days will be the most important for Europe since the signing of the Armistice. Harding Shaved Himself. An exemplar of democracy, of the simplicity of life, the president of the United States shaved himself on the morning of his inauguration. He i not the first to have done this. Mr. Wilson did it, and so perhaps have others in the line. We well recall that when Woodrow Wilson was making his campaign in 1912 considerable atten tion was paid to his razor strop, which had the peculiar property of indicating approaching changes in the weather. Most of us who perform the rite are content to use the strop to revive the drooping edge of the blade, but the Wiltonian strip of well soft ened leather, rendered the more efficient by long and careful usage, had the dual function of shaip-' ening the razor and foretelling if the day would be fair or otherwise. So it acquired a place alongside the old caligraph on which the great man performed one-finger exercises in the course of preparing his copy. Nothing is said as to what sort of kit is in the Harding menage, but it probably is one hallowed to its uses by long service. His preference for a self-applied visit of the steel to the stubble need not disconcert the barbers. They yet have before them the fact that Louis XI elevated his barber to the position of premier, and discussed affairs of state while getting his chin scraped. If they need a companion for Oliver in this eminence of statecraft, let them contider the lather-mixer immortalized' by George Eliot in, "Romola," or follow intimately the story of any one of a number of great men, who licked- the skill to serve themselves in this most intimate of personal needs. It will encourage many a man, however, at he stands, mug in hand, surveying his homely visage in the bathroom mirror, to re call that Mr. Harding shaved himself the day he was inaugurated president. Russia's Latest Revolt. While much of mystery still surrounds the latest revolution in Russia, at least with regard to its origin and the forces behind it, enough is known to warrant the belief that Lenine and Trotzky, with their soviet regime, arc threatened seriously at home. Whatever other effect the proceedings may have, the demonstration may alter plans laid for the invasion of Roumania and the renewal of the war with Poland. Reason may be cited to support the conjecture that the outburst is propagated from Paris, where Kerensky and a group of friends have maintained a provisional government ifor many months, and from which a steady stream of counter-intrigue has gone forth for the un doing of the Lenine group. Predictions have been made often of late that the soviet govern ment would be dispersed within the year, and a more substantial administration set up in Russia. Whether these were made with a foreknowledge of the present uprising does not so much matter. Conditions have developed to a poin where even the most enthusiastic supporters of the commune realize its failure. Even Lenine has been credited with admissions that the present experiment has not produced results to justify its continuance. The world must wait, though, until the Russians have spent their madness and are ready to settle down to orderly ways of living. "A new govern ment may be emerging, and if so the hope will be that it wtll be wise enough and strong enough to restore political and social health to the sadly demoralized wreck of the late empire. That a mob tried to assassinate the president of Panama who wished to settle the dispute with Costa Rica peaceably instead of going to war introduces one instance in which the theory that the common people never would vote for war is disproved. Mexican railway employes may strike, but even this is an improvement over a revolution. Liberty bonds may be low in Wall street, hut they are in good demand among the burglars. The married man's revenge the bill to tax bachelors in Montana $3 each. . . . -. A Line 0' Type or Two Hw te the Lin, 11 the quips (all where lhjr may MlSTF.K TOB1V. A gentle, kindly man is he, The soul of generosity. Our little ones he gladly gives The right to split infinitives. The boya and girls who go to school ,Approvo of Mister Tobln's rule, They find no cause to make complaint At learning words like das't and ain't. Two negatives hne every boy, And uses them with pride and Joy; And every girl hue utmost skill In interchanging shall and will. Those noble boys anil girls decry The priggish use Of "It is 1." If you should aak "Who was with he?" They'd answer simply, "It wan me." PANTALETTA. THE landlord in the Resr-Your-Pardon de partment who declared that his rents arc "more than reasonable," has excited a good deal of frivolous comment. ANOTHER ULTIMATUM. (From the Salt Lake Tribune.) I deny the lies and 'misunderstandings printed in some of the dally papers, and I will not bi reHponslblo for any further mis understandings. John Kich. "I'LL make the Line some dav or jump into Great Salt Lake," warns C. W. O. Pick out a soft spot, friend. Wc jumped into it one dny and sprained an ankle. Xo, nntl There Xcver Was. Sir: Cigarrtte smoke at the breakfast table Is very offensive to me. With an indifferent ap petite, at best, the cajolpry of sizzling bacon and steaming Java is impotent in the presence of an oaor or cneap tobacco and burning paper. I am very fond, however, of a preparation of my own, including, among other ingredients, horse hair, woolert doth, and old rubber. A few whiffs of smoke from this concoction will often enable me to forget everything else for an hour. But here' the rub. Although I have been unable to find a restaurant where I can enjov a quiet morning repast without being nauseated by a cloud of fumes from some putty-faced, dooy ayed pill-roller, whenever I start to enloy a few puffs of my own brand they want to throw me out. Is there no justice? E. C. W. MR. HARDING'S inaugural was a remark ably even paper. Each five hundred words was as good as the next five hundred. OUR LANDSCAPES ARE NICE AND FRESH TODAY. Sir: Mother in department store making in quiries regarding sources of oil paintings: "Does your buyer purchase .private collections?" "Oh, no, madam! We don't handle second-handed pic tures!" RAPHAEL-. A READER in far off Chile sends us a cut ting from an Ackley, la., journal; an amusing item, but hardly suitable for so carefully a cen sored column as this. v THE THOUSAND AND O X E AFTERNOON" 8. XXIV. Story of tho Bellhop. In all my experience,' said the Police Cap tain, 'I have not been so diverted as by the ad ventures of this same pink shirt, and I am much mistaken if there is not more entertainment In store for us when this bellhop relates hi part in them. What have you to sav for vnurseir. vnuns- ttian?' 'Sir, said the youth, 'I am so accustomed to wouoie tnat lr two days pass without my get ting into some difficulty I can scarcely believe myself to be awake. I have much to say for Imv self, but it would not better my condition in" the least, for there is a curse upon me.' 'Never mind that,' said the Police Captain, 'but tell mo wnere you got tne shirt you are wearing, and take care that you do not lie about it.' 'air' replied the bellhop, 'all my troubles would be enaea ir i were able to tell a lie. but thoua-h v.iu were to torture me you should get nothing but the truth. Aa for this shirt. It was a present irom my uncie, wno, wnue admiring it extrmely, found it too email for his personal adornment. 'Ha! And where did vour excellent; unnia nhtnin tne garment?' demanded the Police Captain. 'That I do not know,' said the youth: 'and you may be sure that If I did know, nothing on earth could prevent me from telling you. 'One mo ment,' said George Barrington Wild. 'Has your uncle a large black moustache?' 'Very like a walrus, answered the bellhop; and responding to further questioning he disclosed that his relative wae employed as barber and engineer's assistant on a lake steamer, which should be at that hour in port. Whereupon the Police Cap tain summoned an officer and bade him fetch the barber wfth all speed. 'As for you, Mr. Perkins,' he said to my brother, 'I advise you to keep an eye upon your shirt, which teems to have a trick of disappearing.' 'Oh; sir, said the bellhop to Valentine, 'you may be certain that I will return your property, for I am obliged to be. honest and truthful by the curse to which I referred, a curse put upon me by my father. 'Excellent,' exclaimed the Captain. 'We ahall have another story. Sit down, my son, and let us hear fur ther concerning this paternal curse." The youth put on a doleful air. 'It is a longish tale, he said. 'So much the better.' replied the captain. 'We ehall be occupied while waiting for your excel lent uncle." WE observe in the Tulsa World a picture of Rudolph -Ganz, with the description, "The Jay Gould of the Piano." STRANGE, INDEED! Sir: Why ia it that every time a residence bomb explodes some one or two are blown out of bed? The walls don't fall and the shock seems to center on the bed. Is it the modern bed spring, adjusted to peaceful conditions, or are we light sleepers? ENNESCORTHY. "FORMER princes peal potatoes . . . arc now pealing potatoes . . . prince peals potatoes . . . peals potatoes for his daily bread." Web ster City Freeman Journal. It must be proof room style. TO (YOU KNOW PERFECTLY WELI; WHO I MEAN). Could I but sing as sweetest bird, A sparkling note for every word, Your name would be the song you heard. (But cf course discretion forbids that I men tion It here.) Could I but paint, with loving care, A loveliness beyond compare. Your face would make my canvas fair. (It's kind of provoking that 1 can't sav here even so much as whether you are blonde or brunette.) Could I but write in metre true. My theme would be, both old and new, The wondrous charm I find in you. (Although I couldn't possibly do it Justice, or expect anyone to love you as I do, dear est! ) IRIS. IF Iris is alludin to us we say, Thanks, lady, for the ad. ANOTHER WIDE FIELD. Sir: Just a passing word to inform I've given up my old system of naming baking systems, and am now engaged in naming and preparing design for taxicab systems. NATE. "VESTA wishes dates with gentleman own ing nice automobile. Call 1573." Bloomington Pantagraph. "How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!" A Herald of the Spring. Sir: Will It add to your feeling of printempsf ness to learn that, with the early blue birds and robins, Mr. Spray Gardner came to Omaha to claim his bride? ' D. B. M. "THIEVES Enter Y. W. C. A. Room and Steal a Lawyer's Clothes." Cedar Rapids Republican. Append your own moral. PASS THE ROCKFORD. Sir: The Grand Cafe in Phoenix advertises "American, Swiss, and Rockford cheese." Is Rockford keeping something from us? MARY. "LEMME UP. DARLING I LEMME UP!" (From the Detroit Free Press.) My advertisement of Feb. 24 was error. I will be responsible for my wife's debts. Lea Tyo. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS QuMtlon cunctrnlnr hyiicnt, sanitation and pravantion of 41, submitted te Dr. Evan by radera of The Bee, will b anwrd personally, subject ta proper limitation, where a (tamped addreed envelop is enclosed. Dr Evans will not make disfnosis or prescribe lor individual disease. Addr Utttrs in care of The Bee. Copyright, 1421, by Dr. W. A. Evans AND so begins what may be known as the Era of Normalcy. ' B. L. T. Old Time Form. According to a Chicago message, the world's record for long distance crowing is claimed by Rock Island, 111., for a cock whose crow can be heard 600 miles away. This is something like the America wc used to know before the war. Punch, London, A TIP FOR MR. GRIFFITH. Mr. V. "VY. Cirimth: In your picture, "Way Down East," there is one thlni; I wish you would change. If you cannot change it, please make another picture of that part of that scene where a man rescues a girl, thinly clad, on an ice floe headed for tho falls, in the midst of a blinding snowstorm, A man wrapped in a heavy fur coat somehow gets across the float ing ice, picks up the almost frozen girl and carries lur to land. He fails to. take o-'f that fur coat and wrap it around the girl. Please make tuiother picture in which the fur coated hero will wrap up the fainting girl right thcro on tho ico beforo ho picks her up, if possible, but if tho falls are Just about to got them and a moment is all Important then let him wrap her up as soon us ho gets beyond the zone of imminent danger. There is . mote than one reason for this request". Mr. Griffith. You have a genius for exact detail. A man wrapped In a heavy fur coat is considerably handicapped when it comes to picking up a woman and Jumping around ico floes in a snow storm. You have a genius for effccts.Your audience would like to see this brave man take off his furs and throw them r. round the girl. You have devoted your life to visual education. Please make a picture in which you would teach a little wdrth while point in first aid that would be all the better taught because there would be no taste of the schoolmaster about it. H is this: Whenever anybody has fainted or Is faint, has lost con sciousness, has been overcome. Is suffering from nhock, or has been In an accident (including those who have been in tho water or on lee floes or In k snowstorm or are cold and chilled from any cause), much tho most important thing, as well as the first thintr, to do is to get that person warm. Use fur coats, overcoats, ordinary coats, blanket, hot bricks, anything. Just so it is hot. But do it quickly. Do not burn the person, but be certain to provide warmth. That is all im portant. The reason whisky or brandy were used in the old day? was because it made persons feel warm. Never mind about the "hifftlutln" remedies for shock. Never mind looking in the book for "remedies for faint ing," "remedies for chill," Just wrap tho victim up good and warm and then look it up in tho book. You can teach this, Mr. Griffith, better than anybody I know. If you cannot change this picture make a new one in Which a fur coated hero wraps up the beautiful frozen lady in his fur coat and then carries her somewhere. Many Ointments Help. K. M. writes: "I have what Is called a varicose ulcer inside my right ankle, following a fall down stairs a few years ago. It was all well, but last September I received a knock which opened it again. I went for treatment. One doctor ad vises me to use zlno ointment and another doctor said I should use Lassar's paste and aristol. I suffer lots of pain, mostly at night, when I go to sleep. "1. What would you advise? "2. Has the condition of the teeth anything to do with the healing of the ulcer? My teeth need to bo re paired. "3. Why does an ulcer take lone to heal?" REPLY. 1. AH depends on the care given this ulcer. Varicose ulcers can be healed with cither ointment or with any one of a dozen others provided good care is given. If it Is not in telligently .cared for nothing will cure it. 2. Possibly. . S. The veins are Gilated and the circulation is poor. ' embolus Just a technical term for blood clot? 2. Is there no way to foresee or prevent it? 8. Je it nearly always fotal? 4. What kind of a drug is codetn? 6. Is it given to stimulate the heart or Just to alleviate pain?" REPLY. 1. Embolus means a clot or ob struction found elsrcwherc and swept by the blood-stream to its lodging place. Mont, but not all emboli are blood clotA The cnuses are many. Among them are dlslodgpd fat in fractured bones, dislodged pelvic Clots in labor cases, dislodged heart clots In heart troubtes. 2. In most cases it strikes sud denly and without warning. 8. Frequently, but not always, nor in most cases. ' 4. Codeln fc derived from opium and Is akin to morphine. 5. To alleviate puln. Raw Mlllc Probable Cause. V. M. K. writes: "What causes tuberculosis In newborn babies? Is It possible for a woman to bear such children and bo free from It herself? Can children so born thrive? Is it contracted or inherited?" HE PLY. There are a few cases of con genital tuberculosis. The more likely explanation ia Infection through drinking raw milk from tubercu lous coivs. Close contact with a person having tuberculosis is a cause occasionally. When a woman free from tuberculosis has a tuber culous baby, the probability is that it wiis Infected through milk. A great many tuberculous children re cover and become strong men and women. Strikes Without Warning. Mrs. , H. MV writes: "1. What causes embolus of the lung? Is ADVERTISEMENT INGROWN TOE NAIL TURNS OUT ITSELF A noted authority says that a few drops of "Outgro" upon the skin surrounding the ingrowing nail re duces inflammation and pain and so toughens the tender, sensitive skin underneath the toe nail, that it can not penetrate the flesh, "and the nail turns naturally outward almost over night. "Outgro" is a harmless, antiseptic manufactured for chiropodists. How ever, anyone can buy from the drug store a tiny bottle containing directions. Naturo Hoes the Work. J. A. B. writes: ."Occasionally I should liko to wash out my nasal cavities to free them from dust col lections, etc., and to aid nature in overwhelming a somewhat dry ca tarrhal condition therein. May I ask what sort of simple solution you would recommend for use as a nasal douche to 'accomplish these alms? What probable effects on the senses of hearing and smelling would such a practice have? Two different solutions wero described to me by a layman, but I hesitated to use either without knowing more about their merits or demerits. One was a tea spoonful mixture of equal parts tablo salt and common baking soda in a pint of lukewarm water. The other was a teaspoonful mixture of table salt, baking. soda, and ordinary borax in a pint of lukewarm water. Do you consider either of these of any value, and, if so, which Is the better?" REPLY. Both are stock nasal douches or washes. One is as good or bad as the other. For all ordinary pur poses the nasal secretions do all necessary washing. Douches and, washes do mure harm than good. If you want to use something usa an oil or gi-easc. SALE OF MATERIALS Located at amp Dodge IOWA To b sold by sealed hMt cloainf 12 o'clock noon, March 21, 181. NEW MATERIALS 11. Sit ftacon Can. Model 1916. 120 Bacon Can. Model 1910, 4,661 Pair Rawhide Shoe Laea. 4,531 SxS inch Pouches for article. 2,499 Pair Spur. Model 1911. S Camera Tripods (Metal.) IS Developing: Tanks for S'lxSft films. RECLAIMED MATERIALS 1.880 Heavy Duck Feed Bag. 1,971 Heavy Duck Nob Bag. 46S Boli Noe Bags. 8,112 Meat Can. 1.842 Bacon Can. Model 1916. 20,920 Enamel Cup. 2,923 Tin Cup. 6S O. D. Cotton Coats. 8,?62 Nickel Till Knives. 1.475 Tin Pie Plates. 20,055 Spoons. 2 Medical Cart. 32 Escort Wagons. For terms of sale and complete descriptions of materials offered above, write to Depot Quartermaster Surplus Property Branch 1819 W. 39th St., Chlcafo, 111. WAR DEPARTMENT "Surplus Property Seles" SoDTtneirsei Coal Highest Grade Bituminous Free Burning Big Hard Lumps No Slack Updike Lumber & Goal Co. 'General Office, 45th and Dodge Streets Phone Walnut 0300 i1 Phone Douglas 2793 WeffllwYbffOfflct OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY i iwrrr n .i IMWU& amust FAMM jsea. I Vs" COMMERCIAL PRINTCRS-LlTIIOGRAPHCftS STEEl DIE EMBOSSERS 10OSC. lCAtOC VICCS viio Piijb for the War? Omaha, March 4. To tho Editor Of Tho Bee: The committee had gathered to llx the tux for the ex penses of the war. They were very thoughtful, these men, and worried. That waa evident from their expres sion. The chairman suld: "Just Jiow can this tax be lovlod? We, of courae, do not want to bear any of it." Tho others eageily acquiesced. How could it be done? After some serious contemplation, one member rose to suggeRt that It be l-vied on all ex cept those who worked fqr tho gov ernment This solution was hailed with Joy, It sounded woll, It was expansive, and it Included themselves, which was desired. One member, after more serious thought, remnrked that it would leave the tax to be pnid by practic ally half tho wage earners in the country and leave the other half free. He was immediately hushed Into silence, for what mattered that If they themselves ranked with the half that could pocket their salar ies and need have no thought as to how the war tax would be met. "But," said the other member, "you know that that will include all court house employes, all city hall employes, policemen, nchool teachers, mail carriers, etc. It scarcely seems right that wo should burden the one-half of tho popula tion and leave the others free." but he was interrupted with hisses and cries, and the law was put through with a rush before some other foolish member might take pity on tho ones who did not work for the govern ment, and call the attention of the public to the trick that was being put over on them. D. rt. OX A Mighty King Has Fallen. fiabula, Ta., March 2. To the Editor of The Eee: I was the mlght est king that ever lived: when T reigned, other kings yielded to me as a child to its sire. I laughed at all other gods, from Osiris to Je hovah. Give me niv throne again, and T will show you that I have power to wipe out whole nations from the face of the earth. I have many friends among men still, who are anxious to have me back on my throne, and , not a few women are willing to sell their virtue to me. Give me my throne back, and I will destroy ambition, shame priest and preacher, debauch the best of women, ruin statesmen: I did it in the past, and they seemed to love me for Jt. The Tnsane asylums and prisons are getting empty: give me my throne and t will fill them. I will agree to house those I cannot send there 1 nhovel, and feed them with husks. And I am quite sure they will love me. tilvo me my throne; and I will prove 1o you that many a father Is still willing to give to me their sons, and mother's their lovely (laughters, and maidens their lovers. You ask why I think bo? Can't you see they are fighting for me and my re turn? Ycsl Give me my throne, and I will show you how t can ruin great, industries. Influence Judges to yield to my power, and how ad vocates will forget under the spell I Khali throw over them to plead for the light. I will burn cities, and with one touch sink a navy and de stroy great armies. 1 further iixrce never again to sleep on my J'ib. I will turn gold Into dross, liciilth into nilnery, beauty into car icature and pride into tdiame. If you do not think I can, Just give me the opportunity, and I will show you: when I reigned, .the more I hurt, the mor 1 was sought after. I can raise a man, to what he thinks as his highest heaven, and In turn sink him into the deepest hell. I have always been SHtan's right hand man. T did his work freely, cheerfully: and never received any pay; but I have the bent of reasons to believe ha w.ir ashamed of me. You ask, "What is my name?" It is Rum. You sure have heard of me. But friends of mine. There are a good many people who are doing their very best to utterly destroy me. Will you not come to my res cue? Unltvs you do; I fear I am doomed! WILLIAM n. PHELPS. Pastor of M. E. Church. When A I tent Ion Is Needed. The last case in which Charles E. 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