THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY. MARCH 18. 1921.
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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of the Ne
braska Highways, including the pare
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rat Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Gorerament.
Readjusting Government Employment.
Congrcssni.Th Reavis reports that he is finding
Jircat opposition to the work of reorganizing the
departments of the government, many of those
on the payroll preferring to be let alone rather
than to have their attachment to soft jobs dis
turbed. This is natural enough, but the reor
ganization, now seriously undertaken, will not be
permitted to lag. Almost from the first day of
our government's existence, it has been con
fronted by a condition that has now become an
actual menace, and is a challenge to our effi
ciency as a . nation. In making the necessary
expansions, thai the functions of the government
might extend to and in some sufficient way serve
i the needs of a growing country as they arose,
additions have been made to the machinery, with
a result that it is now a huge and in some ways
a grotesque conglomeration of departments, bu
reaus .and conimissions, unarticulated and un
wieldy, expensive and wasteful.
Grover Cleveland, with his announcement that
a "public oflice is a public trust," recognized flic
situation and clearly foresaw the peril. He strove
to secure faithful service and adequate return
from the subordinates he appointed. His suc
cessors have one after another given the matter
attention. Roosevelt tried in vain to apply the
remedy through -a proper reorganization; Taft
presented the matter to congress on several oc
casions, his message of December, 1912, dealing
largely with the report of a survey he had caused
to be made. Mr. Wilson gave the subject some
thought, and recommended to" congress that
some better form of doing business be adopted.
Now, under Mr. Harding, the big job has been
tackled in earnest, through a committee of which
Congressman Reavis is a member, he being
recognized as one of the closest students of the
situation and unusually well informed as to the
needs and relations of the several administra
tive agencies of the government.
The committee has for its purpose the elimi
nating of overlapping, interfering and duplicating (
bureaus and commissions; the allocation of du-
j'ties to" the several departments so that the di
j visions finally left will be properly co-ordinated
with distinct regard to their relations one to an
other as well as to the general plan of admin
istration. Such a definite arrangement would.
! long ago "have been adopted in any private cn--
terprise. The object is not to deprive any pres
ent employe of the government of his job, but it
is expected that ultimately many useless jobs will
be eliminated, and their present holders will be
returned to the ranks of industry for employ
ment." The principal end in view is to get the
(affairs ef our general government on such a
j basis as will permit it to be tarried on effectively
'and at a eost much less than that now paid.
When the taxpayers of America realize that,
they are getting some return in service for, the
money they contribute, they will not resent so
much the annual recurrence of income tax day.
And it is to bring this about that Mr. Reavis and
his associates arc now at work.
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Xne Base Ball Fiasco.
Xo blemish is removed from professional base
ball' by the dropping of the cases against the
former White Sox players who months ago were
indicted for the alleged throwing of the world
series of 1919. The state's attorney who allowed,
the casts to be stricken off the docket after the
judge liad refused to continue them for six
: months talks now of obtaining fresh indictments,
but the' public may be allowed considerable,
skepticism as to this.
The confessions of certain of the players were
complete and definite, and one whose sense of
justice is unclouded by knowledge of the tech
nicalities of the law will find difficulty in com
prehending why the prosecution could not have
been 'prepared against what it now terms the
"corruption" of its witnesses, Jackson, Cicotte,
and Williams.
It would have been better for the reputation
of the sport to have had this trial long ago, that
it might pass from account with the opening cf
the season. Now. whether it hangs on or is
completely abandoned, the public will remember
it with suspicion. At All events, it may naturally
be supposed the pastime of gambling on the
result of games will have a hard time reviving
itself to its former proportions.
Can River Boats Come Back?
As far back as 1819 the Missouri river was
navigated. Remnants of that great commerce
which led ships 2,285 miles upstream to Fort
Benton still persist in isolated stretches, but the
most astonishing thing that could happen would
be a resumption oLthrough traffic.
xYet some lfope of the development of thii
great waterway through the richest part of the
continent is to be found in the statement of the
new secretary of commerce, Herbert Hocver,
that co-ordination of land and water transporta
tion must be adopted as a national aim. What
may this not mean for the development of river
cities such as Omaha, and in the way of low
freight charges for the producers?
The low water volume of the Missouri river h
unequaled either by the Ohio of the upper. Mis
isiooL Without falls or rapids it offers an east
' and west and north and south trunk line pass
ing through great mining districts and a stu
oendous empire, of live stock and grain, The
stream is 500 miles longer than the St. Law
rence with the Great Lake?, three times as long
as (he Rhine and twice as long as the heavily
laden Danube.
According to an article by Holland recently
appearing in The Bee, instead of fighting water
transportation, some railroads now are willing
to co-operate. If this is so, and if thevfederal
government sees fit to stimulate the revival, a
12-foot channel past Omaha is not a distant
prospect.
Scarcely a Straw.
Possibly-there may be some of the thirsty
ones who find comfort and assurance in the re
sults of an election in the Minnesota village of
Osseo in which thevchizens went on record by a
vote of 58 to 21 for "legislation favoring - the
sale of light wine and beer." The dispatch con
veys the further information that the council ij
expected to notify the state legislature and con
gress. Nevertheless, this information falls under the
classification of "unimportant though true."
Somehow, it draws up a recollection of a scene
in a general store in the backwoods hamlet of
Oakville as the news of the national election
began to creep, in.
"Cleveland elected?" was the astonished ex
clamation of a long-bearded citizen. "It can't
be, it can't be. Why, Oakville went for Harrison
3 to 1"
Prussia s Recent Election
Analysis of the Voting and Possible
Party Grouping
Chesterton and Dickens.
There-are some persons it is well not to wi.-U.
to see, much less to converse with over a hand
shake or at dinner. Think of those writers or
public men to whom you are most devoted and
hope never to be disenchanted from your en
thusiastic ideal by actual acquaintance. Heroes
and idols can not bear close inspection which
invariably reveals them to be but human, after
all.
Probably in this way the visit of G. K. Ches
terton to America has been unfortunate. He is
neither as fat as had been imagined, nor docs
he rise to the public importunities to say some
thing very clever, t was Charles Dickens who
pioneered the American lecture platform for the
caravan of authors who have toured our country
with what scoffers liken to the aims of the pros
pectors who went west with "Pike's Peak or
Bust" painted on their prairie schooners. Back
in the 60s Dickens made his second visit, after
having mercilessly exposed the crudities of
young America in a book. It is interesting to
read the welcome extended to him by "Brick"
Pomeroy,' one of the most popular newspaper
humorists of that day, beginning:
"Boz.
"We saw him.
'"E came from Hengland. Came hover the
hocean hin two steamers, the blarsted things 1
He came over to collect interest on his notes of
Americans taken some years since. He said the
Americans were hall Hasses, and the Dickens 1"
The purpose of this visit, it was hinted, was
the combined one of making money and of
teaching Americans manners, politeness and chA
ilization. But in spite of the criticism, the tour
was a success, just as was that of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, who lectured to immense crowds in
England and Scotland in the 40s. Perhaps ii it
is realized that Britain is ready to listen to Amer
ican notabilities, some of the reluctance at ex
changing courtesies will disappear.
Women at Prize Fights.
In striving to account for the attendance of
women at recent prize fights the theory is now
advanced that they are asserting themselves iust
as do the. men who crowd the theaters for
spectacular performances that center the main
interest on the charms of the chorus. In other
words, what one of the "folly" shows is to the
bald-headed contingent, that is the prize fight to
the elaborately coiffeured contingent. In the
one feminine grace and beauty furnishes the at
traction; in the other the more -masculine quali
ties'" of -strength and physical skill attract.
There seems no doubt that most w6men admire
muscular abilit3 In college, it is the athletes
who are most popular among the co-eds, while
seldom does a man become a social favorite
through his good scholarship. Some wives.' of
course, will say that they like best to see their
husbands in a dress suit, bat it may be sus
pected that this is because all are on .an equal
level there, one man as good as the next,
whereas stripped for a prize fight: hubby might
seem very much at a disadvantage.
However brutal the face of the men in the
ring (and not all of them are lacking in facial
handsomeness), the flexible, glistening muscles,
the clearness of the skin, the grace and swift
ness of the combat, the absence of all awkward
ness may well be expected to draw some femin
ine appreciation. All that exercise and dis
cipline can do for the human hide is displayed
with as little reticence as exists upon the stage..
Not all women, indeed a small per cent of
them, allow this admiration for the manly art to
overcome their natural repugnace at brutality
but neither. do all men attend the "girly" show3.
Lots of women are not especially interested in
the other sex, anyhow, these days. Newspapers,
making a practice of printing the pictures of
beautiful women to the neglect of the handsome
men, do so on the theory that women like to
view their sisters, either to admire or criticize,
and feel only the mildest interest in the like
nesses of men. So it is that in the matter of
prize fight attendance, whatever it may be that
draws some feminine spectators, the'se strug
gles will remain almost exclusively for mas
culine eyes;
(Walter Littlefield in the New York Times.)
The Prussians on February 20 held their first
state election under the new constitution. The
results reveal, even more emphatically than did
the elections to the Reichstag last June and the
elections in Saxony last November, a weakening
of the present governmental system in all Ger
many by dc8ections from the coalitionparties
(in Prussia the majority socialists, the democrats
and the Catholic centrists in the direction of
reactionism on one side and of revolutionary so
cialism on the other.
The government, therefore, in order to mainr
tain its majority in the new Landtag, or Diet,
will be obliged to ally itself with factions which
are either less democratic or more democratic
than itself. Leaders of the majority socialists,
in view of the pending reparation deliberations
with the Allies, are said to prefer the more modi
fied alliance one with the German people's
party, for example. This would mean a decided
step in the direction of all that Prussia was be
fore and duriug the war rather than a step in
the direction of rational democracy, of which
the foundations were laid by the revolution. Un
fortunately, the government cannot mark time,
and its present tendency toward das Reichs, even
though there be visible no kaiscrlich taint in it,
is rather ominous.
Soon after William II came to the throne in
1888, he cultivated the social democrats, until
they asked him to reconstruct the electorate,
which would cive them Drooertional reoresenta-
! tion. By a species of gerrymandering, which
Bismarck Had once described as the most dis
graceful in the world, the social democrats, al
though measurably in the plurality, on account
of the great industrial centers, only had about a
fortieth representation in the lower house of the
Landtag, or Prussian Parliament. William II
had the ambition to become the patriarchal ar
biter for the proletariat, but. when they asked for
proportional representation, he diverted their
attention to more promising political conditions
abroad. Nevertheless, under his nursing the
rank and file of the social democrats greatly in
creased in numbers, but without any marked
political advantage.
The advantage came with the revolution of
October, 1918. A few months later a Con
stituent National Assembly was elected by uni
versal equal and secret suffrage of men and.
women, and met March 14, 1919, for the pur
pose of making a new constitution and of legis
lating until a Parliament should take its place.
The constitution adopted thirteen months
later gave every-citizen over 20 years of age
the right to vote: a Parliament of one chamber
took the place of the old Landtag of two (the
Herrenhaus. or House of Lords, and the Ab
geordnetenhaus, or Chamber of Deputies) and
the ministry, kept in office by a majority of the
elected legislators, became invested with the
powers of the former king, principally its assent
to all laws and its initiative in projects of laws,
save those concerning finance, which must
originate in the Landtag, or Diet, as the new
one-house Parliament was . to be called. The
election places it in office for four years from its
inauguration on March 10.
From the war and the revolution the follow
ing party changes had been produced: From the
fact that a majority of the social democrats
had supported the government's policy in the
war, they became the majority socialists., and for
a time were still led by Scheidemann, while those
who had placed internationalism above Germany
joined the independents of the Reichstag who
were led out by Hasse. Bernstein and Kautsky
in March. 1916, and who. under Ledebo-.ir,
threatened a revolution a year later. Their ac
tion then received the -applause of the entente,
but it must not be forgotten that later from the
same crowd sprang Licbknecht and his Spar
tacides. The old clerical or center toud became for
I a rime the Christian-democratic people's partv,-
I ana unaer tins name sougnt tne support ot the
! Protestant clergy and laymen on the ground
I that all were opposed to the, anti-Christian tcn
! dencics of socialism.
The tormer conservative factions, the junkers
led by Count zu Revcntlow and the pan-Germans
led by Count von Westarp, formed under
the latter the national party (the Deutsche Na
tional Volkspartel) and drew to it some factions
from the old center which described themselves
as Christian socialists, but who in reality were
anti-Semites.
A. democratic partv was formed, which gath
ered in the more radical of the old progressive
people's party as well as the more, radical of the
old national liberal part-, and many independent
republicans besides.
Another party absorbed the right wings of
the two parties, which had already lost their, left
wings, representing the agrarians of the rural
districts and the big business interests of the
cities. This partv was called the people's party.
the Deutsche Volkspartei). Just before the
Assembly election it attempted to absorb tlie
purely political elements of the Christian-democratic
people's party and failed, although it
gained many recruits,
'These were the principal changes observed
in the parties which took part in the Assembly'
elections of two years ago, the Guelphs, or
Hanoverian separatists, retaining their ancient
program and with these changes the majority
socialists have since maintained a government
m co-operation with the center and the demo
crats. During the last two years all three had
gained seats, from the minor parties or factions, ,
the majority socialists 3, the center 7, and the
democrats 5, but all lost heavily by the recent
election reducing the government's bloc from
305 to 219, while both the conservative' parties
gained. The people's party, which the coalition,
is said to be now courting and the less kaiserlich
of the two, gained 25 seats, and the national
party. 23 seats. Just what has happened will be
seen from the following table, showing the As
sembly seating and that of the new Diet as far
as the -returns of the latter have been cabled:
Parties. Assembly. Diet.
.Majority socialists 145 111
Center (Catholics) 94 83
Democrats is a 3
How to Keep Well
I -By DR. W. A. EVANS
Quaatiant concerning hyflen, sanitation and praventian of (titrate, submitted
to Dr. Evan by raaaars of Tha Be, wUI ba antwtred personally, subject to
roper limitation, where a stampae addreeaed envelope i encloted. Dr Evans
will not make aUaf noels or prescribe lor individual, diseases. Address letters
la car ol Tk Be. r
Copyriht, 1921, by Dr. W. ,A. Evsns
The early spring is blamed by an eastern
psychologist for the crime wave. This is the
way-he explains it: "Energy which otherwise
would be used in keeping warm has been re
leased by the warm weather." And thus is the
correctness of a term in the cooler given approval.
The American Posture league has hit on a
bright idea instead of telling women that cor
rect dress and standing up straight and breathing
deep will improve their health, fhey are now
promising that it will improve the complexion.
The man who is irritated by trifles has jio
great worries, and when it is considered that the
criticisms of President Harding made thus far
deal only with trivialities, the conclusion is that
everyone is pretty well satisfied.
Nationalists '41
People's party IS
Communists
Independent socialists
Agrarian democrats . .
Guelphs
Other parties
1
6
6
64
43
SO
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It takes as much patriotism to pay taxes wit!
out kicking as it does to fight a war.
Another tiling prohibition is responsible for is
hip disease. ' , '
Totals 401
The .communists did not vote as such tor the
Assembly two years ago. On February 20 they
polled 1,200,OCO votes and elected 30 deputies.
With the 26 independent, or minority socialists,
they will constitute the extreme left opposition
wing in the chamber. '
Thus we see this alternative presented to the
coalition, which has lost .86 seats, while the con
servative or reactionary parties have gained 48
and the extreme socialist or revolutionary i par
ties have made a gain of 32 over thejr sole rep
resentative in the assembly, the indepefident so
cialists, who there had only 24 seats: Either the
coalition in order to keep in office must gain sup
port from the extreme right or from the extreme
left If from the former, which seems at last
accounts the more likely, it will ask the support
of the least reactionary of the two conservative
parties, the people's party, but even so, the latter
would naturally demand representation in the
ministry. That would be the entering wedgi.
Hereditary Peculiarities.
According to an evening paper the lady who
has just become duchess of Westminster has
"one son, a boy." On the other hand, the duke
himself has two daughters, both girls. Punch
London).
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A Nelson Relic.
The sword which the Spanish admiral handed
to Nelson on board the San Josef after the bat
tle of Cape St. Vincent fetched 5 guineas at
suction sale at Codalming the other day. Lon
lon .Times,
ESCAPING FROM "NERVES."
"Inclose clipping of your answer
to 11. V . K., i lours ery Truly
writes. "This Is not the first time
I Ijave thought you lacking- in help
fulness to those who appeal to you.
To tell a person to get self-control
Is not really to help very much.
Why not direct him to the literature
(you surely must know the proper
books) that will instruct him to ac
quire poise and relaxation?
"Why lead them on to hope for a
solution of their little-big problems
only to give words and no means to
their ends?"
(The writer says she hesitated
about sending the letter, decided not
to, then reconsidered.)
for the benefit of the readers of
this column I should say you went
after me pretty savagely, but that,
having written your letter, you -first
decided not to send it and finally
sent it with the signature erased.
The need of brevity as well as the
wish not to repeat too frequently pre
vents me from giving a list of books
In each public reply to letters about
worry, neurasthenia, nervousness,
and nervous prostration. I do print
such lists from time to time, but I
should not be expected to do so at
snort intervals.
The treatment for such disorders Is
social. It must be self-admlnistered
In the main. Books serving: as text
books for self-cure of bad mental
and social habits are of sen-ice. I
wish every woman subject to nerv
ousness or nervous prostration would
read Myerson's "The Nervous House
wife."
It would reveal many of them to4
tnemseives. While diagnosis is not
cure, it le the first stage of cure,
Many women can cure themselves
once they get wise to themselves,
and that "The Nervous Housewife"
will do. Now that Dr. Myerson has
this book off his hands. I wish he
Vould get busy and write a com
panion to it. He milwit call It "The
Nervous Husband" or "The NervouB
Business Man."
Dr. Myerson does not discuss how
the individual nervous housewife can
cure herself, leaving that to the
basic good sense of the woman or
to her medical counselor. But he
does devote a chapter to broad gen
eral suggestions as to how to avoid
the making of a class of nervous
housewives. The balance of the
space today ' will be given over to
quotations showing what Myerson
means by nervous neurasthenia, and
nervous prostration.
"To be neurasthenic Is to magnify
the pin pricks of life into calamities
and to be the victim of an abnormal
state that is neither health or dis
ease." He says: "A tired feeling, worse
cn arteinjr than on going to bed,
Is a distinguishing mark of neu
rasthenia. The neurasthenic takes
half a day to get going, and at night,
when she should have the delicious
drowsiness of bedtime, she is wide
awake and disinclined to go tt bed
or to sleep. However, many neu
rasthenics do not have this quality
of behavior. v
"Neurasthenia is characterised by
easily induced fatigue of mind, of
purpose or of mood. The poor
housewife is a victim of this disease
of occupation-nervousness. Every
practicing physician, every hospital
clinic, finds the nervous housewife
a problem evoking pity, concern, ex
asperation, despair.
"She goes from specialist to spe
cialist, orthopedic surgeon, gynec
ologist. X-ray man, neurologist. By
the time she has completed a course
of treatment she ha tasted all the
drugs in the pharmacopoeia, wears
plates on her feet, spectacles on her
nose, has her teeth tinkered with
and her Insides straightened, has had
a course in hydrotherapeutics, elec
trotherapeutics, osteopathy, and
Christian Science."
Traveling Men Healthy.
B. H. W. writes: "1, Please in
form me what are the statistics rel
ative to the healthfulness or un-(
healthfulnesa of traveling as an occu
pation. Is riding in filthy trains,
sleeping in public beds, and eating
indifferent hotel cooking conducive
to ill health and disease, or do these
exposures set up an immunity from
disease?'
"2. What causes milk to taste'
strong in the fall and winter
.months? Does this indicate im
p.ure and Insanitary conditions?
Does the cows' food have anything
to do' -with this and how- can this
be remedied?"
EEPLY. i
1.; I have never seen any vital
.statistics relating to traveling men.
l cio not tninK tney are regarded
as bad risks. Perhaps that Is be
cause' many of them are compara
tively young men. It is the custom
for drummers to graduate into
capitalists, proprietors and , other
occupations for which their' earlier
work trained them, and the health
harm' done-is assessed against the
last occupation. Seriously, all trav
eling men always should be protect
ed, against smallpox, typhoid fever
and possible pneumonia during the
winter-spring.
2. It is probably due to stable
odors. Certain foods affect the
odor of milk, likewise its taste.
Why not stick to hot milk or boiled
milk? Sufficient heating kills all
disease producing bacteria and also
drives off most odors.
It's Serious Disease.
Mrs.- K. P. N.' writes: "I have
been told I have Addison's disease?
Is it-curable? Please tell me some
thing about it and remedy."
TtEPLY.
Addison's disease is due to
tuberculosis of a ductless gland
located near the kidney and called
the adrenal. Some cases with symp
toms of Addison's disease get well,
though the outlook in a given case
is not good. The treatment is that
of tuberculosis in. other locations.
Skin Food for. Chinese.
M. W. S. writes: "Is it true that
raw carrot eaten freely turns the
skin yellow? The family has been
eating raw carrot as a salad once
a day for several months and people
are commenting on the yellow huo
of our skins. Is there any connec
tion as people believe?"
REPLY.
It is true. It has been proved
that when carrots are eaten in largo
quantities for some time the pig
ment colors the skin Just as feeding
carrots to milch cows gives the but
ter a yellow color. Is eating carrots
good for the complexion? Yes, for
a Chinaman.
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Here's ICasy Remedy.
Mrs. K. writes: "Please give mo
a formula for excessive perspiration
in the armpits.
"1. Is such a preparation harm
ful? "2. What is the cause of per
spiration? "3. Would any pharmacist get up
this formula for me?"
ItEPLY.
A 23 per cent solution of aluinin
um chloride in distilled water. Ap
ply two or three times a week at
night. Do not overdo, if this
preparation is overused it causes
Inflammation of the skin. The'
formula is simple and easily used.
talngr
What's What
By HELEN DECIE -
It sometimes happens hat during
a time of trouble with his back teeth
a boy begins to use only his front
teeth for mastication. There is
danger that this may become a per
manent habit after the temporary
cause has been removed.
Neglecting to use the 'grinders"
or back teeth while eating is not only
injurious to the over-used "cutters"
or front teeth, and to the unwhole
somely unused back teeth, but the
practice, when it has become a fixed
habit, disfigures the whole count
enance by throwing the jaws for
ward in an inhuman and canine
action. Perhaps it is "the virtue of
a defect" that this ugly manner of
eating is seldom, if ever, adopted by
girls, whose very vanity protects
them from making "dog-faces"
which are repulsive to all beholders.
(Copyright, 1921, by fubiio Ledger Co)
It's Published in Chicago.
M. M. D. writes: "Will you tell me
where 1 can find the Journal of the
American Medical association in
which Dr. C. E. Cornwell has pub
lished the table of foods of which I
read In your Interesting article or
January 20?"
P.EPLY.
Purchase It from the American
Medical association, 533 North Dear
born avenue, Chicago, 111., or have
your bookseller order it. The article
appeared in the issue of December
11. 1920.
Co:
mmon jense
Spare the Rod.
By J. J. MUNDY.
As a parent, is it not true that
often you did not punish your chil
dren when you should, because it
made you feel worse than it did the
youngsters?
But it is not a kindness to with
hold deserved punishment.
Children are keener than most per
sons think and realize any point of
advantage gained over parents.
They may look ever so meek and
quiet when you arc within hearing
and seeing distance, but you have no
idea what is in their minds as a- re
sult of escaped punishment.
A child allowed to have its own
way grows up careless and heedless
of others' comfort and avith no
sense of fairness or justice!
He has more favors and expects
more than he has a right to have.
As he grows older he .demands
more and it takes more to satisfy.
If the child grows up with a fair
ly active brain his mentality will
get him into many unhappy experi
ences because his sense of fairness
and justice has not been appealed to
in younger days.
The world combines against the
arrogant man or women and pos
sibly the breeding of the arrogant
person is at fault and he must suifer,
A Hor.se "From Aberdeen.
A story told by th. lord provost of
Glasgow at the Scottish corporation
gathering merits a wider publicity.
It was that of a Glasgow man, who
had brought down from Aberdeen
ft Clydesdale, which he had-bought
there, and who was dismayed to
find the horse stand stock still in
the middle of Sauehiehall street. All
t-'fforts to move the Clydesdale were
unavailing, till at last a man in the
crowd, who was something of a vet.
called out: "Look at his feetf" The
suggestion being that the horse was.
In veterinary phrase, "set." At the
request of the owner, the amateur
vet came forward to examine the
feet. He lifted the first nothing
wrong the second, the third, noth
ing wrong there, either. The fourth
hoof was lifted with some difficul
ty and it was then found that the
animal was-standing on a six-pence.
London Morning Tost.
A Vose Piano
adds to your
Home Comforts
Hundreds of owners
have told us that they
would own no other
piano but the Vose.
They are recommend
ed to the prospective
piano buyer by piano
teachers and those
thoroughly ac
quainted with piano
construction.
In the home it will
help to beautify and
give it the last touch
of perfection.
There should be one
in your home.
Our easy payment
plan will interest you.
1513 Douglas Street
Nw Stock Sheet Music
Mr. (irihWc Is Nominated.
Omaha. March 15. To the Editor
of The Bee: I think It Is possible
that 1 may claim the credit of sug
gesting to George Grlbble of the
South Side, first, that he run for city
commissioner this spring, and I am
very g'ad to see he is willing to run.
No one need to blush if he votes for
George Grlbble, for he is one of the
most clean cut young men of the city,
and is a successful, business man as
well.
Should he be nominated and elect
ed, he will look after the interests of
the whole city and not of a few, and
he will not want to force people to
pay extra taxes two or three times a
year in order to buy up unsightly
places for athletic purks when many
thousands of workingmen of our city
are out of jobs.
We need a successful man for city
commissioner, and not one who is
eternally figuring on how he can
niako the taxpayers pay more money
out for unnecessary purposes.
If the people of Omaha want a Ike
and keen business man for city com
missioner, there should be a general
movement to support George Grlbble.
I write this on my own hook, as
no one knows that I am writing this
boost for a citizen who is worthy of
the office ho now seeks.
T'UANK A. AGNEW.
SHORT-ARM POKES.
Th real scrap that causes wars Is
the long green. Florida Metropolis.
After glancing over a few dozen
editorial headlines, we note that the
times are still trending. Nashville
Tennessean.
Gardening would be more popular
if one had a. caddy to carry his
spade, hoe and rake. Jackson Citizen-Patriot.
"Yap" shall henceforth take its
felicitous place in the vocabulary as
the place where the wires crossed.
Knoxville Sentinel.
The Germans kick against indem
nities just as hard ns though they
really intended to pay any. Roa
noke (Va.) Times.
What is the stage coming to? Most
chorus girls nowadays wear little
tnough to go out On the street in.
S'orfolk Ledger-Dispatch.
Now is the time for William Hoh
enzollern to step out and crave the
honor of paying the first 10,000,000
marks. Boston Herald. -
CENTER SHOTS.
Wilson Spent Last Evening Study
lug Hill!. Headline, tfo did we. -Arkansas
Gazette.
That's what I call giving some
thing for nothing," said the htisbinwl
as he viewed his wife's new evening
gown. El Taso Herald.
A United States treasury, official
says there aro millions hidden in the
United States. Well, they can search
us. Sprlnglleld (Ohio) News.
The new sweet pea to be exhibited
st the llower) show next week is to
be named for the President's wife.
Obviously, a Harding annual. New
York Tribune.
"business is coop thank you"
The "crime wave" moves sapient
law-makers to enact more rigid gun
toting laws. Soon it will be too dan
gerous for anybody except burglars
to own a revolver. -Labor,
i Van- Vnrlr inirHnpr Tins designed
a new hut called the -"highwayman."
copied rxom a tvanun s cap. i nu
nothing. Husbands ,have known for.
centuries that women's hats were i
holdups. Elmira Star-Gazette. j
Why Bpther
With Ashes?
Ashes,' soot, shaking the
furnace, bother of shoveling
coal all can be done away
with.
Install a
3gc n ore I
Automatic Heater
The Automatic Janitor
Burns fuel only when heat
is needed. Automatically
shuts off when your home
reaches the temperature you
require. Is under thermostat
control. Gives a home all
the heating conveniences of
a modern flat. x
It does away with heating
worries.
Ask your friends about
the Nokol. See the one
which heats our building.
We think it the most inter
esting thing in Omaha.
LV. Nicholas Oil Company
"An Investment
in Contentment"
Is what some one has called a Savings account.
Shares in the Conservative are such an invest
ment. It arouses ambition behind the grow
ing account is the desire to make it worth while,
to make your capital count to own property
to buy. or build a home.
Such Investors Are Better Citizens
They are doing something to help home owners
and are protected by First Mortgages, the best
possible security. In nearly thirty years The
Conservative has paid dividends to sharehold
ers promptly twice each year. Don't speculate;
invest in a home institution.
The Conservative Savings and
Loan Association
1614 Harney Street.
South Side Agency, Kratky Bros., 4805 Sovth 24th St.
as
RIM OF THE
WORLD CONTEST
1'
Won by
BRISCOE
in Class "A"
Conducted by the Automobile Club of Southern Califor
nia; began June 5th, ended June 7th; distance 114 miles
over mountain roads.
Official report from "Motor West," June 15th:
Class Weight Entry Ton Gas. Mil Water Oil
Jiilea Cain. per Gal. pint Pints
A 3400 Briscoe 61.65 i.'tS SO. 4 1.76 TtH
A S856 DoOse 31.S7 6 18.0 8.50 f.r.0
A 2565 Chevrolet 30.68 4.75 24.0 1. .33
B 3060 Stephens 47.52 4.75 24.0 . 4. ..'3
Tl 3450 Bush 31.39 6.25 ' 1"2 SC. .33
K 3400 Buiok 27.67 7. 16.28 4. 2.
B 8575 Hupmobile 25.47 8. 1 1.5 4. 2.
B 8480 Essex 16.18 12.25 9.3 2-1.50 2.
C 8650 Templar 52.01 4. 2. 5 1.60 .33
C 8186 Templar . 60.99 8.54 32.2 .25 .83
D 4700 Dcrris 39.66 6.76 16.h8 .26 .33
The new Model 34 with unit power plant, counter bal
anced crank shaft, frame seven inches wide, spiral gears in
rear adding strength, hotchkiss drive, double universal joints,
only self-centering propellor shaft, long springs, make it a
car, built for easy riding, in rough going, and the leader of
light weight, dependable cars.
If You Try It You Will Buy It.
Bixby Motor Co.
" Distributors of Dependable Cars.
1803 St. Marys Ave. Phone Tyler 792.