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THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. MARCH 22. 1921. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE CEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, NELSON B. CPDIKE. Publisher. i . . t MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Til lvltiJ Press, st blea Tbs Rss M member. Is si ctuislr entlllsd ta llto um (or iubtlesllen of 11 newt disestclie credited la it nr nut othtrwiM criditMl In (hit paver, sod slss tbs ! n published brm. !l ftitts of ruiiliotioo of not siiJ dltottcues trt tltu resected. BEE TELEPHONES Prlr.il Rrineh Itchsnss. Ash for Tv1t 1 fWt Ui Dwtruisnl or Person Wanted. Ijricr IVW Far Nichl Calls Alter 10 P. M.i Editorial Dtiuninant .. Trior WOOL l'ircululou liepartuimt Trier l08l. adrertlilns Deprtont Trier IMPl OFFICES OF THE BEE ' fcliln Offlrr ITtb sod rimlm 1) HeoU Ht I flnwh 8J, Itlllips Dm t. Siors Out-of-Town Office: 26i Kifiu ah. i wuuinittun . ni n at SUner Bills. 1 Pari, t rance. 420 ItutBL Honor TlHUICll IllUf'l 4 New Tie The Bee's Platform 1. Nw Union Passenger Station. 1. Continued improvement of the N. ' braska Hithways, including the pave went of Main Thoroughfare leading - into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A abort, low-rate Waterway from the Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. .4. Homo Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. lent as it is now, such a difference might wreck our home." There is a great deal of absolute rot of this kind now current. No one, even those who give it out, can believe the half of it. Modesty and privacy no doubt does and should prevail in the home, but if love and marriage means anything, it is companionship and the sacrifice of personal whims on both sides. Sometimes a great deal of giving tip is entailed, but where love is, it will not be all on one account. Andy Gump let fall a remark not long ago about the tendency of new' laid eggs to tell how chickens should be raised, and it is with equal lack of authority that those who have not beet married, or those who have made a failure of matrimony, speak when they undertake to give advfee on how to be happy in pairs. Unification of the Railroads. . One thing is very apparent in connection wjth the railroads oi the United States. A choice soon must be made between the several plans mi.v being urged for their control and management, or the transportation industry will sink into even more complete chaos than now enfolds it. Oper ation will have to be maintained on a bask equivalent to government management, or uu ' restricted competition with the role of "the devil take the hindmost." None of the plans so far submitted seems to hold the tjxact remedy, nor docs any do entire justice to all, fot; the reason " that in each the case oi the weak line is made the gauge by which the service is to be standard ized. This applies squarely to the Warfield ex posal, just submitted to Senator Cummins, wfcidi contains the essence of the Plumb plan,' with the government ownership feature eliminated. These are schemes of palliation, not of remedy, and arise from a failure or lack of courage to f:icc facts. Ma Warfield is chairman of the National Association of Railway Security Owners, ;uid naturally is interested in the situation of the in vestors who have put their money into projects that now represent a net loss amounting to al most the entire investment. The issue is be tween these and the more fortunate holders of stocks iu lines that arc paying good returns on the capital they represent. - The public can have no objection to any legitimate movement, the effect of which will be to bring the lo.'er grade stocks and bonds up to a profitable plane. It this can be ac complished by tho practice of economy in man agement, by the centralization of control and the more efficient use of equipment, either exist ing or to be produced, the end is justifiable. Closer government supervision is contemplated in the Warfield prospectus, and even this is supportable on the theory that it will produce more effective ute of the existing systems. We doubt, however, if the result will be more sat isfactory than has been experienced in the past, (lovdrnment interference Avith private control lias not!so far achieved thejenel"its predicted. If the purpose is, as frequently has been al leged, to force the government into permanently taking over the roads, that objecve should be approached from another angle. The govern ment lias no right to undertake to. make profit able an Investment that has failed under com petitive conditions. Should the roads again be taken over by the federal authorities the mistake made under Wilson should be avoided. When Mr. McAdoo was put in charge of the lines, it Wis assumed that each should return a profit, whether or not it was earned. That and similar tii-.tions of manajjeuvnt. cost the-public nearly three billions of dollar's. I .any lesson is to be derived from the experiment, it should be what not to do.' y- ' Good Sign of Clearing Skies. No phase of the nation's material ills was .more acute than that which .grew from the :n flation of currency and credit, incident to the war, and nothing has been more perplexing than the deflation that had to follow the cessation of that war. This curative process has been going ahead for several months, however, and is making most satisfactory progress. Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve banks indicate hoAv far the business of the country has ret-aced the course to normally. For the last week loans declined $143,531,000 and circulation was reduced by $42,960,000; debts being discharged at the rate of. $20,000,000 a day. "over new commitments, and circulating medium being retired at the net rate of S6.000.000 a day! Since December, 1920, Federal Reserve banks have reduced their loans by $506,000,000 and note circulation by $442,000,000. This' signifies, if any thing, an end to the speculative era, a reduction of debt and a contracting of the currency that trade possible the flight of enterprise that rested solely on- the speculative clement. , Legitimate business is accordingly benefited, since the way to sc'id basis for all trade is cleared by the re .mova! of much that was unruin. It is most . . .... .i ... ..I. I !,.,.. ;., significant mat mis very. tun i',,u.iint.imi; ... nc situation could b. brought, about with as li.tle disturbance as lias been noted. . y Notes discounted by .the F;.le-i! Reserve bank are necessarily gilt-edged.11 and the payment of half a billion of such obligations, within sixty days over and above all the newor renewed borrowings of that period is hopeful iu that it shows how far business is advanced towards the healthier state wherein obligations are promptly met... Retirement oC almost halt" a billion of cur rency in the same time shows that the new rela- tion between money and commodities is asserting itself, and that a dollar will again become a sub stantial unit of- value within Sr short time. The situation justifies optimism. Advice From Matrimonial Bankrupts. , 1 A New York woman, suffering from what she quaintly describes as a "matrimonial hang over," out of the wealth of poverty of her ovi experience and misadventures, warns the world that the maximum of privacy is the secret of a happy marriage "A' new style of architecture is suggested, by her belief that separate v wiur,s should be built on house for husband and wife. "Taking meals together Is bad," she ' asserts." "The morning I want chocolate, my husband might want coffee, and with the domestic prob- Vote in Upper Silesia. Conforming to the provision of the Treaty of Versailles, inhabitants of that region called for convenience Upper Silesia have been per mitted to decide for themselves if they will re main German or become Polish. Reports' from the balloting indicate the decision in' favor of Germany by considerably more than 2 to 1. Thus the national destiny of a rich and highly de sirable territory is disposed of. . Somt satisfaction must be felt, even by the opponents of Germany at the outcome. First, it justifies the hesitancy that prevailed at the con ference when the treaty was being adopted as to the right to dispose of a considerable number of people without consulting them as to the gov ernment under which they preferred to exist. Mistakes made'at other conferences where simi lar questions were settled on the basis of ex pediency or the advantage of one of the high contracting powers served to influence the com missioners at Paris, and they wisely allowed the inhabitants of the region to make the decision for themselves. The impulse to contrast this with the fashion in which Shantung was disposed of is irresistible. Another salient point) iu the election and iis outcome is the facUthat it vindicates the sincerity of the Allies. Pledged to supervise and make sure of the fairness of the plebiscite, they carried m the assignment in good faith, and so have disarmed German criticism, no ma,tter what the loles may think. We may be very certain that Poland will be required to abide by the choice of the voters As a practical method of settling such ques tions the plebiscite is much to be preferred to the old-fashioned practice of handing such dis puted territory over to the conqueror. Upper Silesia may be looked on now as fixed in Ger many. Some 13 years hence a similar decision is to be had in connection with the Saar valley, and then another interesting paragraph may be recorded in history. The Occupational Divide. Almosf with apprehension good citizens view the dividing up of the American people, in:o large antagonistic groups. Even thnsc who are themselves conscious and active rr.embers of one or another of the many blocks of interests are heard, now and again, to spea hi distress of the tightening of the lines. First and foremost is the contest between capital and labor. Both in the United States and Canada the farmers are organizing a third occupational group. The veterans of the world war band together to make themselves felt, and women, too, are trying to set up a division based on sex. The questions argued back and forth be tween these forces" are not all social or eco nomic, but more and more merge into politics, that battleground of theory and practice, ideals and selfish interests. These are not all the groups far from St and perhaps by the process of subdivision the lines may become less hard and fast. No sign of that as yet, however, for steadily the conflict grows. Just as wars used to be fought by the small proportion of men bred to arms and have now become duels between the entire popula tions of rival nations, so has life, once a strug gle between man and man, turned into a gigan tic affray of enormous and powerful sections of the public. Neither history nor politics is an exact science, and no one can outline the developments of the future. It does, however, seem inevitable with the growth of intelligence, that a spirit of rec onciliation and compromise should arise. In every class of interest there is a body of citizen s:. who are reasonable and whose only demand is for equality of justice. And with them is to be found another group filled with selfishness, with bate, with fear and the unbending tie termination to advance some special interest of themselves or their associates. It is ,this ele ment that is making life so fretful now. These are the men who break up public meetings, who resort to violence and intimidation, who oppose and deny the right of free speech and the equally important right of the many to freedom of hear ing and of reading. On all sides are agitators and propagandists, but theirs is!not the blame, for they would not exist unless there were elements in each group to back them. There also are men seeking. the midtjle way of true American democracy. These men often do not attract the interest or support that should be forthcoming from the rational ele ments they speak for, and it is only when those who are in their quiet way striving to be good , citizens and to live in peace and adjustment with their fellows come forth and assert them selves, even to the extent of ousting or throt tling the dishonorable or unfair trouble mak?rs of their group, that.unret and unreason will cease to disturb. Fijty-Fijty in Industry How the Labor S it tint ion Is Sized Up by an Observer By NORMAN HAPGOOD. I niversal Service Matt Correspondent. Washington, March 21. If labor sometimes seems unreasonable, as in certain aspects of the railroad fight, it should never be forgotten that it is fighting for all the progress of several de cades. It is convinced that under every specific move of capital at the present niCmenf there lies the same purpose: The breaking down of labor joint action, the introduction of the "open" shop closed to unions. , ' A most terrible fact has just come to my knowledge.- There have recently been formed, both in this country and in England, strike-insurance companies. They, deal with the smaller employers. The big ones do not need them. The big ones can insure themselves These com panies will insure av employer for as much as he makes or more. They insure: him at a low rate, of course, after he has taken out such in surance, he tends to become more arbitrary, less conciliatory wit!? "his labor. Therefore, strikes become more likely. A question immediately occurs to you. . If the insurance itself tends to increase the risk, how Can the companies afford to give low rates? No doubt you have guessed the answer to the question at the moment you asked it. They could not afford it if they were run on legitimate insurance principles. They can exist only a-; a screen behind which the big- employers, in the present determined drive against labor, are will ing to guarantee the smaller employers if they also will join in the fight. These strike insurance companies are nothing except one more club of the big employers to beat unionism to death. The aspect of this war that we have most vividly before us at the moment is the railroad situation. Is it to be wondered that the unions were bitterly disappointed when the roads passed back into private ownership? What they saw as a result to them was net a question of immediate wages but a great step in the war against them. There is now before the supreme court a case in which there will probably be upheld a verdict of $600,000 against the United Mine Workers. There will also be $50,000 damages. A largo part of the funds of the miners have been tied up in litigation. The members of the mining unions arc becoming frightened. Many of them are resigning from the unions. They foresee their personal savings' being attached and they think it safer to get out before the final decision of the court is rendered. So desperate is the discouragement that many friends of union labor feel that jthe miners will be disintegrated, rendered helpless, by the verdict. There is another case before the supreme: court in which a decision adverse to labor is also confidently expected. It is another test of whether the Clayton act was intended to mean anything, only this time it is the Clayton act re enacted in a state court. When the backbone was taken out of that act in the Duplex de cision, one of the most famous jurists in tlie United States said it was not an attempt to in terpret the law; it was, in his opinion, a mere determination of judges to limit the rights of labor, or, in other words, to support existing property conceptions where they clash with the effort of labor to improve its standards of living. The attempt berhg made all along the line to break down collective bargaining is undoubtedly looked upon by the more bourbon capitalists as a return to freedom and equaljty. Their idea of fair and equal bargaining is fo'ian enormous ag gregation of capital to act a4 a unit in making terms with Mr. John Smithski, a helpless single laborer. A diplomat the other day told me a story that fairly represents such conceptions of equality? A darkey was selling something that he callej rnbbit sausages. The food inspector' came by. "Well. Sambo." he said, "what have you got in them rabbit sausages?" 1 "I'se got rabbit in dem," said Sambo.' "Nothing else?" . ' "Well, boss, dcre's some horse in dem sau sages." , "Home much horse and how much rabbit?" "I calls it 50-50, boss." '"You mean one pound of horse to one pound of rabbit?" ' "No, boss, I means one rabbit and one horse." The unwisdom of high freight rates is em phasized when it is considered that the cost of transportation is included in the price of most articles whether they have been shipped in or not. In other words, prices are naturally set by what it would cost to bring in articles of the same kind from outside. As far as the railroad aspect of the fight be tween capital and labor is concerned, it cannot be doubted that labor finds its best hop? in tiic imminent collapse of private ownership. Some of the leaders have been holding conferences with a few of the more enlightened bankers and they are inclined to think that these bankers prefer some such plan a9 that I have outlined in previous articles to the financial collapse threat ening private ownership, with the consequent huge loss to the owners of the stock and bonds. The bankers are the persons who will idecide in thevend whether to support some carefully worked out plan of government ownership be fore it is too late, or struggle on to a finish and a Jotal loss. . I was talking today with a man whose grasp of railroad facts has made his name a household word. He conceded that the failure of the roads to make good since they went back to private control had many legitimate excuses. He thinks they are inefficient, but also handicapped by the fact that rates are made for them, by water com petition and by the tionmovement at present of the most lucrative freight, such as coal and ore. "The one thing I cannot forgive them for," he said, "is not knowing when they were well off. The war gave them a chance to get rid of their troubles and save their investment, and they had no more sense than to cry for their roads back again. That Js the incomprehensible error." A Privilege Better Abandoned Self-determination could go no farther than to allow the prisoners ' in the jails of Upper Silesia to vote in the plebiscite. The choice 4or them presumably lies in whether they wis'it Polish jailers or German. ' , Great Britain has bought, another ocean cable line connecting it with America, and it begins to look as if Uncle Sam would have to buy or lay one of his owu to settle some of its vexing problems. ' :v It' may be worthy of note that the Omaha church which shows the largest membership as veil as the largest clas in confirmation is oiu. that does not depend on revivals to stimulate in terest in religion. Just as President Harding gave wide currency to the word "normalcy," which till he went to its assistance was slowly dying at the hands of a few mathematicians, so now, by dividing an infinitive in one of his official letters, he ill revive the perishing controversy as to the rights and wrongs of that locution. Again we shall be told, just as Prof. Lon:is bury did in the best days of the old quarrel, that infinitives have been divided so long, so often and by so many writers that criticism of the prac tice is absurd. We shall also hear again that, though the dividing ot infinitives is not criminal, it is something that even' the greatest of writers cannot make pleasant to either the ears or the eyes of the sensitive, and that it isn't either quite generous or quite kind to hurt a lot of, people by doing something for vvhich there never is the slightest need something from which no in crease of force or lucidity is ever gained. As for President Harding, of course his au thority on literary style is no more coercive now than it was before he went to live in the White House. He can divide all the infinitives lie chooses without running the slightest risk of im peachment, but he would be minutely a better writer if he did not exercise this particular and inalienable right of an "American citizen. New York Times. How to Keep Well ' By DR. W. A. EVANS Question cunctrniaf hrgien. Itstloo and prevention of dlMaae, uhmlttrd to Dr. Evan by reader et The Bee, will be answered personally, euslect to proper Umltation. whtro a stamped addressed envrkp Is enclosed. Dr Evens will not make diagnosis er prescribe (or individual diseasss. Address letters in care ot The Bee. Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W, A. Evgna . SOME FORGOTTEN FACTS. As to hours, of labor, the experi ences of the war taught us two thinsn. One was that excessive hours of work resulted In lessened rather than Increased production. In simpler phrase, whore men worked twelve hours each day for seven duys a week they actually produced less than when they worked fewer hours. A British foreman said of Sunday work In the munitions factories dur ing the earlier days of the world war, "It gave six days' output for seven days' work and eight days' pay." lias any economist said it bet ter? Is not this epigrammatic turn mingup entflled to live? A hard and fast eight hour day for men, women and childriyi'regardleas of the kind of work engaged in was not founded on physiolnglcaj or health considerations. Sonic can wofrk more than eight hours with ad vantage to their health. Others can not work eight hours. Some tusks cannot be worked at for move than eight hours with advantage of health. The reports of the various com missions on health of munition workers and commissions to study fatigue are scientific and valuable. The American Journal of Public Health quotes R. K Huttou of To ronto as saying that the chief factor In fatigue Is the adaptation of the worker to his Job. , Tho tendency is to blame the em ployer and, the factory for over fa tigue, of employes and for all the ill health of employes developing both inside and outside the factory. It is out of the ordinary when tin advisory councilor for scientific and Industrial research on fatigue places the man firet and the environment second. . The man who is badly adapted to his job either physically or mentally fatigues quickly, and not only fails to produce much during some of the hours for which he Is paid but he goes home at night worn out, ir ritable, on edge, dissatisfied and a prey to disease. Other causes of fatigue contribu ted bv the employe in addition to poor adaptation are personal wor ries, age and poor health, including poor physical development. Among tlie factors that the employer had to do with are hours of labor, ventila tion, Mght. space, conditions of the air as regards temperature, hu midity and cleanliness; also speed, rhythm, rest periods, concentration requires, posture, noise, vibration, monotony, accidents and health hazards. Gout or Bunion! 8. S, writes: "I have been trou bled this fall and winter with what I think Is enlargement of the great too joint. It is very much swollen and very tender. At times when it Is very bad I cannot bear to put my shoe on. Also the ball of the fopt right under the Joint has a sort of cramp. When T put my weight on it H has a dead feeling almost as if it were asleep. What would cause the enlargement? I never have worn tight shoes or abused my feet in any way. Do you think it as a bunion? What can I lo for it? It Is impos sible for me to see a specialist. The left foot has a slight enlargement on the joint, but does not trouble me. am a woman 3 years old. REPLY. I euepeet that have the gout in fpite of hard times and the It. C. L. If mo. colehicum and a vegetable diet should benefit you. Your physician will prescribe the remedy. If, on the Throwing Out Ballast Powder Talks. Great Britain and France propose to hold a gun on Germany until it pays. That is about the only argument Germany understands and it took several years to get it to .comprehend that. From the Portland Press. . Can't Be Done. "Parsimonious, is he?" "Yes and then some. He even tried to get ' discount on his income tax because he paid ash!" New York Sun. Not Employing Blacksmiths. No suggestion for turning swords into plow shares appeals strongly to General Foch at the present moment. Washington Star. ' ' . r Evidently Speaks the Truth. Bryan is now about as popular with the demo cratit party as the scales arc with the plump woman. Minneapolis Journal From the New York Times. It begins to seem that the French know better than anybody else how to deal with the Germans. Over the opposition of. Bavaria, the. German Federal Council on Sunday adopted the government's law ordering the disbanding of the Einwohnerwehr and all other "self-defense organiza tions." That apparently includes the famous Orgesch. Bavaria complains of bad faith on the part of the fed eral government, and there will be meetings of protest; also, it goes without saying that the disbanding will hardly be carried out to any greater extent that is absolutely nec essary. Under cover the organiza tion will remain and such arms as these forces possess will be hidden away wherever possible. Nevertheless, it is something to have got this definite action from a government which in January pro tested that the Einwohnerwehr was all but indispensable in Bast Prussia and Bavaria. Officially the German government is now going to carry out the work of disarmament, as pro vided by the. treaty and the Spa agreements.- It will hardly be more than partly successful. If the or ganization has to go out of sight, if some of tho arms arc confiscated, if official Germany is compelled to for bid, with such authority as the gov ernment possesses, these very ques tionable organizations whose purpose is certainly not innocent, their in fluence will be much reduced. It seems probable that if the allied troops had not occupied Diissoldorf and the other towns taken last week this would not have happened. The German mind moves slowly, unless it is dealing with purely Teutonic fantasies but. it, does move. It is perhaps another sign of the timet that Dr. Simons could publicly ex press In the Reichstag on Sunday sentiments which he has quite pos sibly entertained all along but which are very different from the sort of things he was saying ten days ago. Something more than mere "intoxi cation of victory or lust for power" is back of the allied demands, he tells the assembly; all the allied cpuntries are suffering from "ex traordinarily heavy troubles and dis tress." The men who direct German public opinion know that and are glad of if, but.the docile masses have been induced to forget it. Moreover, says Dr. Simons, a better world per spective can be obtained from Lon don than from Berlin news that must be surprising to the Germans if to no one else. People who go to London and meet the allied leaders will realize that trie whole world thinks that Germany is in the wrong and fs doing nothing to undo the harm she caused. If she continues obstinate, says Dr. Simons, that opin ion will be confirmed and Germany will lose the good-will she needs to get out of her troubles. It Is a little late for this good ad vice, which ' Dr. Simons needed a good deal of courage to give to a na tion in Germany's present frame of mind. Germany has lost the world's good will and will have a hard time getting' It back. Nevertheless, Jt can be done to some extent. Dr, Simons thinks the allied terms are ?'a po-. HUco-flnancial Utopia and economic nonsense." Let Germany disarm in earnest, give up her stubborn re fusal to keep her promises until the bayonet is at her throat, and see what she can do toward meeting the allied demands. There is good rea son to believe that the chief ground lor German opposition is the fear that it would be possible to pay the Indemnity and rebuild France, if iermany really tried other hand, you have a bunion you ill get better when you wear a broad toe shoe and straighten out our toe by wearing a pad between it and, the second toe. Gunpowder for lUiigworm. II. L. contributes the following: "Ringworm A recent correspond ent called for a remedy for this dis tressing ailment. A speedy and ef fective one will be found In tho use of gunpowder. At bedtime wet a little of the powder with cold water, spread lightly over the sore (as if it were a poultice), cover with a soft cloth to hold it In place, and allow it to remain all night. It probably will require but one application to effect a cure. , "Itch The old New England remedy for this repulsive trouble which affects so many school child ren was sulphur In melted lard. The custom was to mako three applica tions, one each night for threa suc cessive nights. Great care must be exercised to prevent all possibility of the child taking cold during the three days and nights. The treat ments should be applied In a very warm room, the child put to bed in a well warmed bed, and should re main indoors during the three days. The method, though tedious for all concerned, never failed. Of course all the clothing previously used must be carefully treated to destroy 111 the insects." .. OX Stethoscope is Better. .Mrs. D. W.- S. writes: "Will you kindly tell me whether incipient tuberculosis con be detected by an examination of the lungs by a steth oscope or whether an X-ray of the lungs is necessary?" JtEPLY. (The answer to your first question Is yes. Of the two 'methods exam ination by stethoscope is the more dependable as a rule. In practice both methods are used in cases that are difficult to diagnose. Each con tributes something which the other lacks. May ltute The Goiter. Mrs. M. G. writes: "My daughter, 21 years old, suffers with sudden fast beating of the heart, although she has not a weak heart. What can be the cause of it? When these spells come on she is greatly upset and her hands begin to shake." REPLY. Your description suggests goiter. However, there are other causes of nervous heart. - ,u Locomotor Ataxia. L. A. writes: "1. Are occasional double vision, drooping of the right eyelid, and severe twitching of the legs while asleep symptoms of loco motor ataxia? If so, what do you advise? "2. Does locomotor ataxia always affect the brain?" " REPLY. J No. 2. No. It. Is essentially a disease of tho rear section of the spinal cord. It's n Relative Condition. H. W. writes: "Just what do you mean by 'shortness of breath?' Is It not perfectly natural to get out of breath from such exercises as run ning, jumping, climbing, and even real fast walking in winter air, when the nostrils are obstructed oil when facing a wind?" ' REPLY. It In natural, as you suggest, but there are degrees. When one gets much out of breath from exertion which does not disturb another per son in the least, we say he is "short of breath." At Any Medical LalKiratory. Mrs. A. E. C. writes: "How can the urine in a child of 3 be tested to ascertain if it contains pus and how much? "I. How can I' tell whether it Is acid or alkali?" REPLY. 1. This can be done in any medical laboratory. 2. This test is made with litmus paper. Any one can do It. , Rowing and Kwiinruing Good. C. O. writes: "1. In the winter is there any harm to sleep with the window wide open at night and with out heat in the room? "2. "Which is the best way to de velop the chest?" REPLY. 1. No. 2. Take rowing, swimming and climbing exercises, rope( ladder and bars. Bridge on Karnittn Street. Omaha, March 18. To the Editor of The Kee:, I have read with much satisfaction that our City Commission has voted favorably to submit to tho people the matter of a bond issu for a free bridge across the river to Council Bluffs. This is one l the most constructive measure present ed to the voters in 80 years. A vital factor to be considered is the location of the bridge.' Some mention bus been made of having it's approach on Farnam street. Since the advent of the automobile all cities havo lni.l a new problem to solve traffic con gestion. It Is a big problem in Oma ha and Council Bluffs and therefore it would seem of great Importance to locate the bridge at a p.. lit whcni this can be remedied rather than hindered. Farnam street Is today, and prob ably always will be the main east and west artery of traffic. It should not be burdened by the added traffic, created by a bridge Inlet. Harney street or Howard street have less traffic today than other east and west thoroughfares. Both are to be 1m- I proved in the near future to relieve tho traffic conditions now existing. It is the plan to widen Harney sfreet and open It up beyond Thirty-sixth street. Howard street is to be grad ed and opened up to the proposed St. Marys avenue improvement, thus givinf an outlet to the west and south to serve a large section of the city. If tratllio can be lad Into either of theso two Btreets from the proposed free bridge tho future congestion of the business section of Omaha will be greatly relieved and one of the big problems will bo solved beforf the problem develops. Building the bridge Is simply a financial and en gineering proposition soon ended, but Q1 Omaha grows its traffic will ln ci ease and the need of' more avenues of outlet from congested districts will be felt. Tho preparation for handling fu ture movement of the natural in crease in traffic should bo given seri ous consideration 1n tho location of the bridge approach in order to ac complish the greatest relief before hand of a certainty of a difficult future problem. SUBSCRIBER. Need for More Gold. Omaha, Neb., March 19. To the Editor of The Bee: Your, editorial of March 19. entitled "Embarasa ments of Gold" was a timely article for the reason that the present gold situation is more acute than It has been since the time of King Midas; and there is no government In exist ence which has fjhe gold with which to pay the interest on Us bonded In debtedness. , ; I desire to stato a few facts which I have learned through study of this situation as well as actual experience as a mining operator. Today this government has something over four and one-half billion in gold coin and bullion which is 60 per cent of the total gold supply of the world, while on the other hand the United States government has a bonded indebted ness of practically $30,000,000,000, payable in gold, and statistics show that our annual output of gold 1b decreasing yearly. The statement that tho purchase power of the American dollar is said now to be only 65c as compared with 19H prices; and according t theory the more gold available the less It is worth is an incorrect theory for gold has a standard value of $20.67 per ot-.nce while every other commodity fluctuates In value. Therefore, there can bo no relationship between the purchasing power of gold, which has an established standard of value, and the. price of fluctuating commodities which are controlled by the market of supply and demand. WTe are led to believe by some financial expertsand bond brokers that there Is too much gold. In this country. This is done for a purpose. They want to continue to deal in paper money and thereby clip inter est coupons from our national bond ed indebtedness, which forces a di rect tax against the people and every industry to pay this interest. Our small gold reserve is locked up in the treasury to back" up our bonded indebtedness and this is the reason we do not see gold in circulation to day as a medium of exchange over the counters of our local, banks. Therefore, there must be a scarcity of gold, and not a surplus, as these .ommon berrse By J. J. MUNDY. Eliminate Self-Pity. When you are blue you think life is hard and forget the many things for which you should be thankful. A whole lot of youf life has been sunshine. You have had to' work, but that is your good luck, not your misfortune, and you are fortunate that you have been well enough to' work. Illness or trouble may have taxed your bank account severely, but how fortunate that you had the money from which to draw. Suppose you had had to go in debt to pay for services to keep good health; that would be worse. You. think you have worked hard and saved little while other men have worked little and put away much and it seems unfair. Have you stopped to think that possibly these men have not gained their money honestly and the posses sion of it may be such a worry or the fear of losing it may rob them of joy? You would not change places with mapy persons if you knew all. Stop thinking of yourself with pity and cultivate a spirit of thankfulness that you are no worse off, for none is so' badly off that he could not he worr-e. (Copyright, 19;i, by International Feature s-rvh'e. Inc.) A. HOSPE CO. PIANOS TUNED AND REPAIRED All' Work uuaranteed , ISIS Douglas St. Tel. Doug 18S financial experts would have us be lieve.'- America today Is the world's bank er, and tho balance of the world's trade Is still In our Javor. At the same time we find our Industries pruoticallv at n standstill for the reason that gold has temporarily ceased to function as R medium of exchange. But there la no way out of this dilemma. America should Im mediately recognise the Russian government. Russia Is the only na tlon which bus the avallublo gold to exchange for our products find in stead of looking to the allies for payment of their debts when they refuse to pay the interest. It is high time, that American financier and captains of Industry turn their eyes toward the markets of' Russia, and let the ;ullicd nations wallow until they gi t. ready to pay their honest obligations to the United States of America in gold as they agreed to do. The only thing that will stimulate Industry in this country Is the re sumption of gold and silver mlnlnej. This will give immediate employment to half a million men at living wages and furnish tho means for ex tinguishing our national indebted ness; but this cannot be done until gold as a commodity Is placed on a parity with other commodities, and In order to do this the government must increase the present standard of gold bo that Is can be mined at a profit. This rests with the United States congress and will do mora to relievo the unrest thnn any other act as well as give Europe ample opportunity to pay their debts tn America in gold. This will furnish a market for America's surplus products. ROY M. HAI&ROP. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. Mrs. foolish were n blu Surgn travrl .tnn suit II mlxlit liavo tieeii mred "nit or a walking suit an well aiiA topped II off with a hlark sirsw turlmn. On each sldi' ffipre frit n ranrnde of pa radix K:nnlhlir lliiwU KTAOIN KTAOI wstst was dark blui) Gorgon, heavily flsuel In iolured beads. I'hlludelphia Kvcnlntf Ledfrr, Ivarhnr '"nitinms, will you 111 me what a irotijunutlnn Is. "end - compose a c-oniwnce tonialniruj nnp?" Thonitiri (afi-T nflPt-tirm) "A "onjunr- ' Hon Is u word otinnpftlny anything, sub tiB Th hori' ift hltehfrd to iho fence by hi nnlter.' 'Haltor' is a conjunction, he iaue it connects the horse and the f-Mice." HanT' Uozur. "Maud Is sorry now that she look Jack' linK back 10 Iho store to be valued." "Why?" "The Jeweler Ucpt it. He said that Jack hadn't nen In in settle for it. accord ing 10 his promise." Boston Transcript. "What is the hardest thing about skut tnir when you're learning?" "The ice." Boston Transcript. "What' y.ur idea of ctpan sport?' "Swim mini;. "Orange Feel. "Hid you see that movie called 'Oliver Twist' ?" Frosh "Tea, and say, wouldn't that make a peach ot a hook? "Brown Jut. "No doubt nppea ranee has a lot to do with one's sucreae." "But not so much as success has to do with one's appearance." Tho Bulletin (Sydney). Weather Feels Sort of "Spring-Like" Doesi't It? You'll have to Have a Lot of Clothes Cleaned This Spring Won't You? And We Know Where You Will Send the Clothes to Be Cleaned DRESHER BROTHERS Dyers Cleaners 2211-17 Farnam Straet Phone Tyler 0345 or, if in South Omaha, Phone South 0050. .!TT:!r,j !aassBBSSBTsaasasasssssssssssssssssassssssssssBsssasB a "business is coop thank yoW IV. Nicholas Oil Company McCutcheon whose genial satire and genuine humor are more of a habit at breakfast with several hun dred thousand persons than coffee or bacon. . McCutcheons Cartoons appear in The Omaha Bee Exclusively in Nebraska and Iowa
