THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY'. MARCH 28. 1921.
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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of the) N
braeka Highway, including tho pave
mont of Main Thoroughfare loading
into Omaha with a Brick Surfaea.
3. A chert, low-rat Waterway from to
Corn Bolt to tho Atlantic Ocean.
4. Homo Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Dealing With Soviet Russia.
In a happy phrase Secretary Hughes sums up
the case for soviet Rusiia that unfortunate laud
is being "progressively impoverished." Many
Americans think that the application of the Le-ntne-rTrotzky
group for formal trade relations
should be granted by the United States, and even
Senator Hitchcock pleads for the minting of Rus
sian gold profeired in exchange for American
wares. These have not fully considered what is
involved in such a proceeding.
To enter formal relations with soviet Russia,
even to the extent of setting trade on the basis
that subsists between responsible governments, is
to recognize the existing regime as the de jure as
well as the de facto government, and thereby to
condone all th.M has been done since 1917, when
the bolsheviki seized power. If the United States
i ready to forgive all the outrages of which the
communists have been guilty, and this must to
done if Lenine and Trotzky arc to be dealt with
as rightful authority representing the Russian
people, then not only the crimes against per
son but those against property must be con
doned. When buying or selling to the Russian
Soviets it should be understood that it is not the
individual or firm that figures in tha transaction,
but the government so-called, and this govern
ment has repudiated its debts.
J The gold that Senator Hitchcock would have
coined at the mints of the United States may be
long to the soviet by right of possession, but it
has been seized by that group from its rightful
Owners. Moreover, it the Soviets have gold to
coin, is it not justice only that they be ex
pected to apply some of it to the discharge of
the debts contracted in the name of the Russian
people? Merely changing the form of the gov
ernment can not operate to relieve its successors
of the, obligations incident to the carrying on cf
the superadded system. If that doctrine were lo
prevail, it would be a simple matter for every na
tion to wipe out its indebtedness by an easily ar
ranged revolution. The German people is not
permitted to ppeal to such a subterfuge to es
cape he imposts of the war, and it is ridicu
lous to suggest that the Russians have such an
easy egress from their debts.
The rights of private property are sacred
in civilized countries; even the savages observe
the rule of ownership, now sought to be abro
gated by the Soviets. It is conceivable that this
my prevail, so far as it affects the Russians only,
tor outsiders cannot undertake to lay down laws
for their guidance in domestic affairs. But the
soviet did not regard he rights of foreigners,
nor do the present rulers even pretend to recog
nize the debts owed the world outside their
country. How, then, can they expect to be ac
cepted as honorable and responsible? The soviet
has yet to learn its first real lesson in the philoso
phy of government.
Going After Bergdoll.
Whether or not the United States government
succeeds in obtaining pardon for the soldiers who
are now in German prison, serving sentence for
undertaking to capture Grover Cleveland Berg
doll, the effort to have that youthful deserter re
turned should be pushed to the limit. Formal
request has been made of the German govern
ment, it is understood. His claim of German citi
zenship is not enough to establish him secure in
the protection of the republic, while reason exists
to-think the Germans will be willing to be rid
of him. He has so aggravated his original offense
that it has almost been lost sight of. As a
draft evader he might have been amenable to
moderate punishment, but in the capacity of an
escaped prisoner he has gone out of his way to
affront the government, which is morally bound
to get him. Nothing of the vindictive desire for
vengeance resides in this, the purpose being
solely to vindicate the power and majesty of the
United States, sorely flouted by young Berg
doll, his relatives and friends. The pursuit of
this peculiar fugitive should be relentless and his
punishment certain, if for no other reason thin
to keep faith with the more than 4,000,000 other
young men of the land who subjected them
selves to the operations of the draft and served
as their country required. Voluntary exile ought
not to afford immunity for Bergdoll.
More for Luxuries Than Schools.
The public school system is America's pride,
and seldom is any complaint heard of the cost
of education. It is pretty well recognized that
compared to the amount paid into the school
funds, the value of education to the individual
and the state represents an immense net gain..
The people get more from their investment in
the schools than from any other part of the
taxes. '
Perhaps it is because of the tremendous con
tribution made by the educational system that
the idea is prevalent that the support of the schools
consumes a large part of the public funds. With
this impression P. 'P. Claxton, United States
commissioner of education, lakes issue. The
amount spent for face powder, cosmetics and per
fumes in one year is almost double the total sal
aries paid teachers in all of the public elementary
and secondary schools, he shows.
Purchases of jewelry in 1920 are given by
government estimates as amounting to $500,000,
000. This is more.iy $100,000,000 than all the
salaries of teachers in elementary and high
schools. All education in 1918, the last year with
complete records, cost $919,729,258. For cigars
and cigarets in one year $300,000,000 more than
this was spent. The cost of tobacco in alt its
forms amounted to five times the teachers' sal
aries. The money spent for chewing gum is more
than double the total expenditures for normal
schools, where teachers are trained, and almost
equals all state and city appropriations for high
er education.
In light of these comparisons, the public
support of the schools appears niggardly. There
is no greater service in a democracy than the
training of the children. Yet salaries of teachers,
as Mr. Claxton remarks, are low, and school
equipment often inadequate. There is need also
for more thorough training of the teaching
forces. If money if spent so freely on luxuries,
more could properly be expected for the very
necessary institutions of education.
In the Coming City Primary.
A list of sixty-three men and two women have
submitted their names to the voters as seeking
nomination for the office of city commissioner.
Only fourteen of these will survive the elimi
nation contest, dooming fifty-one to certain de
feat. Who these will be may not be told with any
degree of accuracy until after the votes have been
counted. Sapient and experienced politicians may
feel warranted in selecting certain of the as
pirants as being without hope, yet even these
have always the chance that resides in the un
certainty of the balloting. No rule has been
formulated for .determining the caprice of the
voters at a non-partisan election.
However, slates are being made up, inter
ested groups arraying themselves in support
of selected candidates. These have primarily the
interest of one or maybe two men deeply at
heart, and have arranged around them such
others as are expected to contribute most to
the success of the especially favored cham
pions. This element of slate-making is or ought
to be well understood. It gives to the chosen
ones the advantage of a fairly solidified sup
port, as (opposed to the fact that the opposition
ii apt to be dissipated amongst a number of
.available candidates, rhone able to concentrate
sufficient support to win.
Thus the nominee is quite apt to be a minor
ity selection, owing his success to the fortuitous
activity of the group backing him. This permis
sible practice does away with the "nonpartisan"
aspect of .the primary, substituting one or the
other of the, factional groups for the organized
national party, and thereby making the contest
as partisan as well might be wished. The en
ergetic efforts of certain of these factions evinces
a determination to make the days between now
and the date of the primary quite as lively as
city elections usually are.
Developments will undoubtedly give th;
voters opportunity to reach a choice as to the
merits of the aspirants. "Sugaring-of" is an in
evitable part of a political campaign, and once
it sets in the end is usually in sight. As days
go on The Bee will find occasion to discuss the
issues involved, to the end that the people may
be fully and fairly informed as to the public
good.
Medical Isolation of the Farms.
- A country mother, with a baby apparently on
the verge of whooping cough, in order to get
medical aid had to take her infant two miles to
town in a motor car because the only physician
of this Ohio village refused to make outside trips
except on the direst emergencies. It is possible
that no country doctor could afford the time or
energy to make the rounds of the community as
the old time country physician used to do, or it is
possible that a change has come over the pro
fession. At all events, the obstacles to obtaining
medical care furnish one of the drawbacks of
rural life.
Even some of the small towns are being
abandoned by the doctors. The chance to earn
a living is more attractive in the cities, and the
sense of family loyalty to he native soil that
used to draw young men back to their birthplace
after completing professional training has failed
to operate. Therefore a group of New England
hamlets have appealed to the legislature at
Boston to allow them to subsidize a village doc
tor by an official appropriation. This seems an
approach to making medicine a public utility,
and not a far cry from the system prevalent in
some European countries of health insurance and
free medical attention from state doctors. Cer
tainly if the individualistic system of attracting a
physician by the prospect of patients fails to
protect the country folk, some such arrange
ment will have to be made.
Curious and Spiteful Wills.
The temptation to have the last word may
be strong in writing a will, but more often than
not the desire to be well thought of overcomes
all other inclinations. Publication of the last
testament of a Londoner, however, disclosed the
single legacy tc his wife of a shilling "to enable
her to boy a rope." It is not long since a simi
lar but more definite provision was made by a
New England man for his daughter "to receive
$1 to purchase a rope to hang herself with."
Without knowing anything of the two women
thus insulted from the grave, most people will
feel that they probably were as good speci
mens of humanity as the men who could r.ot
refrain from giving an insult in farewell, un
able to the last to forgive or to sympathize.
Even as humor, the thing is poor and crude.
Much more witty was the will of Rabelais, in
which he briefly expressed his contempt for him
self and the world. "I owe much; I have nothing;
I give the rest to the poor."
The German Reichstag has ordered all ad
vanced classes of the graded schools to study the
treaty of peace. This will make quite different
reading from the old texts that used to glorify
the divine right of the kaiser and the military
supremacy of the fatherland.
One by one the old illusions perish, and de
spite the idea of transportation given by stories
of "the slow train through Arkansas," a wreck
there is ascribed to excessive speed.
The Chicago woman who is suing for $40,
000 for damage done to her chin must have
counted in a lot of overtime work at double
rates.
Add to the list of noteworthy mouthfuls
Vice President Coolidge's announcement that
"This is no time to press for undue advantage."
Political bandwagons should be equipped
with shock absorbers go that no one will be
spilled off when the hard bumps come.
Education in the United States
More for Luxuries in Singk Year Than
for Education in Three Hundred Years.
(By P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner
of Education.)
Despite the low salaries of teachers and the
meager and inadequate equipment of schools,
many people believe the support of the public
schools, elementary, secondary and higher, to be
our chief burden. This opinion seems to be very
common about state legislatures and other tax
levying bodies. People otherwise well informed
sometimes fall into this error. Recently a prom
inent professor in one of our great universities
expressed the opinion that the support of the
state universities was about to bankrupt some
of the states. What are the facts? How do ex
penditures for the schools compare with other
expenditures, public and private? The truth is
public education is not a burden. Its cost is
almost negligible with other expenditures.
In 1918, the last year for which complete
reports have been compiled, we spent in the
United States for public education, elementary
and secondary, $762,259,154: for normal schools
for the training of teachers. $20,414,689; for high
er education in colleges, universities and pro
fessional and technical school, whether supported
bv public taxation or privatelv endowed, $137,
055,415. Tho grand total was $919,729,258. In the
fifty years from 1870 to 1920, we paid for public
elementary and hieh schools. $12,457,484,563; for
normal schools, $291,111,232; for higher edu
cation in tax suoported and privately endowed
colleges, universities and technical schools, $1,
804,200,272, a total of $14,552,796,037 for the fifty
years.
For the years preceding 1870. $2,000,000,000
for . public elementarv and secondary schools:
$3,000,000 for normal schools and $150,000,000
for higher education would be very liberal es
timates. Adding these to the totals given above
will make a Brand total of about $14,500,000,000
for public, elementarv and secondary schools;
$295,000,000 for normal schools, and $1,950,000.
000 for higher education; approximately $16,
645.000,000 for public schools, elementarv. sec
ondary, normal schools and higher education in
schools of all kinds from the beginning of our
history until 1920.
In all cases the figures include expenditures
for buildings and equipment, repairs, heating,
lighting and other incidentals as well as expen
ditures for teachers' salaries.
Having now had the rent investigation, things
will go on as before. .
The total amount paid in salaries to teachers
in tniblic elementarv and secondary schools in
1918, was only $402,298,516. Salaries of teaches
in private elementary and secondary schools,
colleges, normal schools, universities a'nd techni
cal schools amounted to aonroximatelv $90,446,
724. making a total of $492,745,240. "
Making all due allowances' for defective re
turns, the total amount spent for public educa
tion in 1918, including current expenditures for
private and endowed colleges and universities,
and all expenditures for capital investment in
huilduigs and eauipment. was less than $1,000.-m-m
' A0510'''1111? to government returns for
1920, the people of the United States spent for
luxuries in that year $22,700,000,000; more than
22 times as much as they spent for education only
two years before, and $6,000,000,000 or 30 per
cent, more than we have spent for education
in .ill cur history.
Kxpenditures for luxuries in 1920 included
among other items :
For face powder, cosmetics, per-
fume, etc 1750,000,000
urs 300,000,000
Sott ilrinks 350,000,000
Toilet soaps 40i,O0n.(H
Cigarets NOO.OoO.OOO
' iars 510,000,ona
Tobacco and snuff SOO.OOO.Ortft
Jewelry r SOO.000,000
J-vixurfous service 8,000.000,000
Joy ri'les, pleasure resorts and
races 3,000,000,000
Chewing gum 50,000.000
Ice cream 250,000,000
It is equally interesting to cotripar: the ex
penditures for education with other governmen
tal receipts and expenditures. Receipts of the
federal government from customs and internal
revenues for 1920 were $5,730,978,117. This is
more than six times the amount expended for
education in 191S, and more than one-third the
estimated total expenditures for public education
and all higher education from the beginning of
our history until 1920. It is fully ten times the
total of salaries of all teachers in all schools,
public and private.
If to the income of the federal government
be added the taxes collected by states, counties
and municipalities for other purposes than edu
cation, the total will be fully fifteen times as
much as the total salaries of teachers of all pub
lic elementary and secondary schools, ajormal
schools, colleges, universities and technological
and professional schools of all kinds. To double
the salaries of all these teachers would require the
addition of only $1 in $15 to the total of feder
al, state, county and municipal taxes. For every
$15 paid, the average taxpayer would pay $16.
and after his receipts are put away, he would
not know the difference. If nothing were paid
teachers from public taxation the average tax
payer would still pay $14 of the $15 he now
pays, and would not remember the difference
after the tax receipts are put away. t
We think we believe in education. We talk
much about it and many of us believe that we
pay much for it; that it in fact constitutes a
very great burden, if indeed it is not our chief
burden. No doubt we do believe in education in
a way, but we have not and do not pay much
for it. If this article helps to dispel the illu
sion and to give some accurate information as
to actual expenditures for education, as com
pared with other expenditures, it will serve its
purpose.
The Newspaper Humorist
Another "funny man" has passed away: Bert
Leston Taylor, the original of the sympathetic
scornful, give-and-take sulphitic type of news
paper "colyumists," is dead prematurely, like
Artemus Ward and Bill Nye and many another
humorist. The long-lived humorist, i's indeed
rare. Mark Twain, to be sure, lived to a good
old age; but now we are told that Twain was
more a philosopher than a humorist that mock
ery was but a mask with him, his basis being
serious. So, indeed, he always insisted himself.
But "B. L. T." was content to be a humorist.
His great delight was in the country paper that
is funny without knowing it. There was a most
genial touch upon his column, and for that many
an error of taste was pardoned to him.
Funny columns come and go. They are not
a new institution. Papers of 60 years ago had
them, and "played them up" on their editorial
pages. But the fashion in their construction and
composition changes. "B. L. T." led the way
toward a very personal and immediate sympathy
between the writer and the reader. The up-to-date
"colyumist," as the result of his suggestion
and example, is not only a humorist himself, but
the cause of humor in others. Every day his
table is spread with letters from his ' readers.
He seems to have introduced the touch of nature
that makes the whole world his kin. Unnum
bered treasures of wit and humor are his for the
asking are his even without asking. It looks
easy, but is not. The masterful columnist is a
wizard. He has Aladdin's lamp concealed some
where in his gently mocking mind.
The quality of up-to-date newspaper humor,
unlike that of mercy, is strained. All the com
monplace and "bromidic" is kept back with a fine
sieve. The mind which rejects the gravel of the
ordinary and commonplace, and lets through
only the gold of wit and humor, is that of the
ideal columnist. "B. L. T." was the type of the
minds of this sort, and he has left a hopeful
progeny. Boston Transcript.
The Season of the Optimist.
An optimist is a man who expects to raise
vegetables like those pictured in the seed cata
logues. New York Sun.
The Rating.
Your dog is the one friend who never looks
up your rating with Dun & Bradstrcet. Car
toons Magazine.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Queetions concerning hygiene, imitation and prevention of duriif, submitted
to Dr. Evans by readers ol Tha Br, will be answered peraonally, subject to
proper limitation, where a atainped addreased envelcpe ia encloeed. Dr Evans
will not make diagnosis er prescribe lor individual diseases. Address letters
in care of The Bee.
Copyright, 1921. by Dr. W. A. Evans
OLD REMEDY IS UPHELD.
la recent yeurs chonopoiiium or
worm-seed haa almost supplanted
thymol In the treatment of hook-N '" . L, '. '" ", , .
worm. The worm medicines or our
fathers owed their efficacy to the
preparations made from wtorm
8eed, a widely distributed weed.
Urs. Darling and Smillie, writing in
the Journal of the American Medical
HFsoclutiou, give their experience as
to the best method of administer
ing. They give three-quarters of a
cubic centimeter, about 11 grains at
a dose. This is given in a fresh hard
gelatin capsule. Two hours later the
dose is repeated. Ten days later
double the dose is glvei. The dose
for children was propertionate to
age or weight.
Following this plan it was found
that in a long series of cases 97 per
cent of the hookworms were re
moved. The belief is common that
a purgative should be given before
the M'orm medicine Is given. , This
point was carefully observed and
checked. The conclusion arrived at
was that this preliminary purging
did not. increase the effectiveness
of the treatment. In fact it some
what decreased it.
A second belief which they In
vestigated is the general opinion that
chenopodium is more effective if
taken after several hours of fasting.
They conclude that preliminary
fasting so far from increasing the
efficacy of the medicine actually les
sens it. AVhen given after a 12 to 24
hour period of fasting the medicine
poisons the patient, and so much of
it as the patient's system uses up the
worms do not get.
The third inquiry related to the
advisability of eating a light meal
at the same time the medicine was
taken, say a cur of milk or coffee
and a. little bread. The investigators
found that doing this decreased the
efficacy of the medicine about one
half. A belief prevails in Brazil that to
eat food while the system is under
tho influence of chenopodium causes
fatal poisoning. The investigators
found no proof of the correctness of
this opinion, but the doctors only ex
perimented with food given at the
time the medicine was administered.
"What they have in mind in Brazil
is the taking of food two or three
hours later, about the time the fol-low-un
purge is used. The investiga
tors think there may be some dan
ger from eating at that time.
I think I notice a tendency to let
up on the hookworm fight. If the
state health departments show any
tendency to slow up, that is the more
reason for individuals to keep up
the fight. Drs. Kofold and Tucker
found nt a large military post that
men heavily infected with hook
worm had more disease of ' every
sort and their general death rate
was very high. Especially were
they liable to contract pneumonia,
and when they contracted it the
chance of recover?' was poor.
ested in your communication, "Coin
ing l'opulai' Credulity.' My own ex
perience with niiack or rather with
trlbutor's conclusions that Americans
are 'drug Mends' of the Mist rank.
It is possible that A. C. C. is limited
in acquaintance with the southern
half our country, where it is almost
a unanimous habit on part of both
whites and blacks to have a bottle
of quinine in one pocket and calomel
in the other. 'Why do you use that
dope?' I asked thousands of south
erners during 30 years of travel in
their country. 'Ah need it fo' my
livah,' was tho reply. And. my dear
doctor, T have heard ' ur worthy
self held up to scorn by drug ad
dicts for your common sense preach
ments of temperance in eating,
drinking and general conduct. X
wonder if yon have mingled much
with the great ' rural population of
our central states. Any observant
salesman making the rural districts
will tell you that nine out of every
10 families will have in evidence
bottles of Hardpnn's Teruna Cureall
or Doctor Billun's Tale Pills for
Pink People or other equally damn
able concoctions. Even so-called
reputable medics have told me they
were sorry to see a flght made
against patent medicines, as those
addicted to their use finally resort
to the physician. The foreigners are
until educated, victims of the adver
tisers, as in Europe papers do not
dare publish the same matters as in
this country "
Dog Hill Paragrafs
'By Georse Bingham'
Slim l'ickins weighed again this
morning. Since buying his new plow
As Riii-num So Well Said.
(3. A. writes: "I was much inter-
Dopcnrts on Kucli Cnso.
.1. H. B. writes: "What is advis
able .in a case of hernia? I am 55
years old. 1 have myocarditis. I
have been told that an operation is
the only thing."
REPLY.
Most people with hernia get along
satisfactory by wearing a truss. A
moderate number find it advisable
to have an operation. It is a ques
tion to be decided on the basis of
convenience, the factor of danger be
ing given some consideration.
Probably X Danger.
E. A. M. writes: "I have been
loaning books to a yoiing man to
read. T find he has syphilis. Is there
any danger of contracting the dis
ease from these books, and if so
how can 1 make them safe for others
to read ?"
P.EPLT.
I do not think you are in danger
or that you need to do anything.
lcscrllc Xose Ailments.
h. T. writes: "Please tell me of
an authoritative work on the path
ology of the nose."
REPLY.
In a catalogue of medical books I
find no work on pathology of the
nose. If you are interested in a
work on the nose for physicians
among the best are by Ballenger,
Coakley, Coolidge and Kyle.
Athletic Park Addition
Omaha, Mach 1:4, 1921. To the
Editor of The Bee: Early in 1920,
complying with the request of many
of the South Side business men, the
council ordered an appraisement of
property for an addition to Athletic
park.
Th appraisers were Messrs, Mur
phy, Kopietz and Tebbins,
A delegation of the same business
men and property owners prevailed
upon the council to adopt th ap
praisment on the west one-half
block; after the council had decided
to reject all but the unimproved
lots.
The city clerk's records will con
firm this statement and will show
the petition, which bears among oth
ers, the following names:
A. N. H.igan,
T. II. Knsor.
Anna Carter,
M. Oulkln.
A. Bakke.
W. W. Fisher
Peter A. Johnson.
C. A. Melrher.
W. P. Alkinn.
Elroy Tibblta.
John. Kresl.
Geo. Hardlannert.
1j. Krotky.
L. J. Kubony.
Dr. Robt. L. Wheeler
F. A. CreEaey.
r. F. Mtirphy.
Roscoe H. Rawley.
A. B. Milier.
Anna Chaloupka.
K. R. Leigh.
Harry M. Wells.
H. L. Bergqulst.
Ij. A. Davis.
J a j. E. Bednar.
S. C. Shrigley.
T. J. O'Neil.
John Flynn.
A tax plan was prepared and ad
vertised. The Board of Equalization
approved and assessed benefits of not
more than S 10 a lot, extending as
far north as "A" street, south to "U"
street, east to Thirteenth street and
west to Thirty-sixth street, the total
being $29,488.
The park now belongs to the city
and should be improved. The city
needs more ball brounds; however,
the park department has not had a
sale of bonds during the past three
years, therefore, no larger expense
can be made until funds are secured.
Temporary work is being done to
make this park useful and perman
ent work will follow.
All of the filling done by the Stock
Tards, amounting to 75,000 tons of
manure and 25,000 tons of earth, was
hauled Into the park free of cost
to the city.
"Onward, Omaha."
Omaha, March 24. To the Editor
of The Bee: "Onward Omaha:" For
the luva Mike, let's hope so.
Now if the Chamber of Commerce
will really "onward" instead of mere
ly talking about it for publication
and then fall into a long-distance
slumber that makes Rip Van Winkle
look like a bush leaguer, there's a
chance.
They say Omaha's the gate city.
To what? AVhen you arrive in the
city and take a good look at the
t'nion station you wonder if you
didn't get off at Marion, la., by mis
take. If you come in from Iowa by
way of the Douglas street bridge, an
admission price is charged.
And then when you get here.
Boulevards beside which a hillside
cowpath is a Joy forever; streets con
structed especially' for manufactur
ers of automobile springs and axles;
more smoke than Pittsburgh, and
the skip-stop system.
And the nights will somebody
please tell us where to go and what
they do at night?
ONCE A BOOSTER. (Now Slipping.)
Seeks Some Ileal Reform.
Omaha. March 25. To the Editor
of The Bee: Well, I see OV Jim's
tossed his hat in the ring. Say, it'll
be a landslide that'll come close to
the one when W. W. was burled in
his league of nations.
In his statement accepting the
petitions signed by 10,000 Omahans,
Jim promises he will give this city
a government of the type that a city
of such a size demands.
Sure he will! That's the kind he
gave us before.
Why, If the general public could
know what's going on in that police
department down there, that "3-23-13"
tornado wouldn't be a summer
zephyr compared to what'd hit this
old burg.
Commissioner Ringer and Chief
Eberstein don't know what's going
on in the department. They ought
to. but they don't. Why, when a
man brings charges against a po
liceman, they: blast his testimony
with remarks against his character
and announce to the wide world tha
there are no men in the department
who would stoop so low as to ac
cept "protection money."
And yet, there are a lot of detec
tives and patrolmen on the city pay
roll today that arc wearing diamonds
that couldn't be bought on my In
come, and I'm making more than
any detective on the force.
Put Jim Dahlman back in the old
saddle and there'll be some, cleaning
up around this village. What we
need is a chief of police like the man
that sits in the chief's chair in Chi
cago. Did he weed 'em out? I'll sd- he
did, and not a petit larceny cop
stayed on the force.
Take a poor fellow out of work.
If he asks for help, the police "vag"
him for panhandling. And the po
lice are doing most of the panhan
dling on the streetd of Omaha today.
It's got to stop, I tell you, and if
the old Cowboy Mayor will just don
his chaps and sombrero like he did
in the good old days, we'll have a
real Onward Omaha.
A SQUAWK ER.
.lijii and His Ticket.
Omaha. March 24. To the Editor
of The Bee: Sri the sweet singer
of . "Where the River Shannon
Plows" "yielded" to the summon. of
the peepul.
Well and good. We have no quar
rel with Jim Dahlman. Very likely
we shall vote for him. He's a pretty
good fellow and he used to be a
pretty good mayor. But, woe is us,
the company lie keeps.
Joe Hummel, Dean Noyes, Henry
Dunn. Deliver us. Mr. Dunn is a
police judge. Mr. Noyes is a fore
man in the park department. Mr.
Hummel, apparently, is a gentleman
of leisure. Let us trust they vault
no higher.
So we wish Mr. Dahlman luck
good and bad. We hope he's nomi
nated and elected. But his ticket
let's sidetrack that before it starts.
AN INDEPENDENT.
Another Stranger Complains.
Omaha, March 24. To the Editor
of The Bee: With reference to "A
Traveler" I wish to say I fully agree
with him when he says that for
profiteering restaurants and cafe
terias Omaha stands first in the
country.
In the eastern cities the cham
bers of commerce handled this
question very efficiently. They start
ed an investigation by inviting the
public to send in their complaints,
when were then published in the
newspapers and by this method the
cafeterias, restaurants and other
profiteers got some very unsavory
notoriety, the consequence being
that prices came down in double
quick time. T believe the same
method in Omaha would work won
ders. I think it's about time that
Omaha wakes up and does some
thing to prevent "the stranger with
in her gates" from being gouged
by unscrupulous profiteers.
A TEMPORARY STRANGER.
High School Frat.
Omaha, March 27 To the Editor
of The Bee: The case of the two
High school boys who were so brazen
ly branded with nitrate of silver has
apparently been dropped. Is there
no law In Nebraska against national
high school fraternities in Nebraska
High schools? It seems to me there
is such a law on our statute books.
If there is. then how is it that the
Board of Education winks at these
initiation affairs and allows fraterni
ties and sororities to run full blast
within the walls of our institutions?
I see E. F. want a woman mem
ber of the board. I'm in favor of
that. Never have I seen or heard
of a woman in public office who was
afraid to do her duty. And I am
sure, if a woman were In the delib
erations of Omaha's Board of Educa
tion, this fraternity business would
be stopped. There is no question but
that High school fraternities are
shoes last Tuesday he finds he has
gained three pounds in weight.
Jefferson Potlocks reads where the
center of population has moved about
10 miles in the past 10 years, and
he has reset his boundary fence ac
cordingly. Frisby Hancock says Sidney
Hocks is the only person he knows
of that can sing in the choir with his
book upside down and his mind out
of the window.
(Copyright, 1921, George Matthew Artamn
WHY
Does A Barometer Foretell the
Weather?
The instrument which we know as
the "barometer" is really nothing
more than a delicate bit of mechan
ism which registers changes in the
pressure of the air which, normally
at sea level, is about 14 or 15 pounds
to the square inch or approximately
a ton to the square foot, decreas
ing gradually in direct proportion to
the altitude. When the pressure of
the envelope of air which surrounds
the earth is normal, the barometer,
at sea level, indicates 30, which is,
of course, an entirely arbitrary
mark, just as the "degrees" on a
thermometer are arbitrary. But the
barometer "falls" or ""rises" the
needle indicating a lesser or greater
pressre according to the change in
this pressure of the air.
A "falling barometer," therefore,
is a pretty certain indication of
stormy weather, for storms are noth
ing more than disturbances of the
atmosphere which comes as the re
sult of the hollow or dent in the air
envelope. Just as a wave of water
is usually preceded and followed by
a depression or valley, there i. gen
erally a "hill" or high-pressure area
in front of and behind these low
pressure storm centers, and the ten
dency of nature toward equalization
is such that a rising barometer, pro
vided the rise is sudden and abnor
mal, will frequently indicate a
storm which may be some distance
away and which may not arrive un
til the barometer needle has dropped
below the average figure.
A falling barometer, therefore,
usually indicates snow or rain, ac
cording to the season, while one that
is normal or rising, shows that the
weather will probably be fair until
some further change is indicated
for the "shadow" of a storm is ap
parent in the air pressure some time
before the actual disturbance makes
its appearance.
Parents' Problems
How can children best be
taught courtesy to older persons?
This can be done best by a con
siderable amount of example, with
a little precept added. Boys whose
fathers are especially courteous to
older men, and girls whose mothers
show particular courtesy to older
women, usually require very little
other training in this particular.
harmful. I'm in favor of college
Greek letter fraternities. They are
a good thin!;. There's no argument
to that, but bar the High school
kids. ETA BITA PIE.
Do You Know the Bible?
(Cover up the answers, riart ths nue.
lions and see If ynu can niir thi-m.
Then loolr at the anawirs to are if .on
are right.)
Follow these questions and answers
as arranged by
By J. WILSON ROY.
1. Why was the term Nazairne,
one of reproach?
2. Why did Jcmis fast 40 days and
40 nights?
3. Why was Jesus Christ called
the Lamb of God?
4. What had Isaiah prophesied ic
garding the Lamb?
5. Why did the Holy (iliost descend
upon our Saviour in the form of a
dove?
(. Why did the Jews "have no
dealings with the Samaritans?"
Answers:
1. KeciuM- as is generally sup
posed, ot the meanness of the town
of Nazareth, and the poverty of its
inhabitants.
J. Because as the author and in
troducer of tin- new law, He would
be following the examples of Moses
and Elijah, both of whom acted in a
similar manner on entering upon
their administrations.
3. Because a lamb was a smyhol of
meekness.
4. Isaiah liii. 7. Sec also lohu i.
.'9. 36.
5. Among the Jews, the dove was
the emblem of purity, innocence and
gentleness.
6. Because of an ancient hatred
existing between them, which dated
back to the rebuilding of the second
temple under Zerubbabcl.
(Copyright. H2I, By Tho Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
n
ommon Dense
By J. J. MUNDY.
You and the Income Tax.
You have growled a good bit about
that income tax you have to pay. t
Suppose your income w ere so small
that you need not pay anything m
the way of taxes; would that suit
you?
You can remember the time when
you thought if you could reach an
income such as you now have that
you would never grumble about pay
ing a tax.
You know many men with larger
families who have smaller incomes.
You know many a man who has
much larger expense in every way
than you and whose income is much
smaller.
Pretty fortunate to have an income
which warrants an income tax, are
you not?
Thousands and thousands of men,
who work as hard as you do and
are better fitted educationallyrto hold
a good job. cannot get one as good
as yours.
Would you change places with,
these men?
Before you allow yousclf to think
you are being imposed upon because
you have to pay an income tax, it
might be well for you to consider
how fortunate you arc to have prop
erty which is taxable and an income
which is large enough to be taxed.
If you had no property and smaller
income, would you not be worse off?
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