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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1921
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Staffs owes something lilte $7,000,000,000, more
than double the amount due the United States
for war loans to France.
The State and Treasury departments at
Washington have now made a search of the rec
ords without finding any unpaid bills of this
kind. The profound discovery of f. Bernard
may have been a hoax, but in the eagerness with
which it was received by his countrymen may
be read the thrifty hope of wiping out th war
loan without either repudiation or actual payment.
The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Paaaenger Station.
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Continued improvement of the
break Highways, including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfares leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
A short, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
Home' Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager .form of Government.
First Aid for the Farmer,
The ..'really oicounigiiig tcatiu'c" ot'v the no
gram as beiiig outlined for the scs'sion of con
gress soon to a.-cinble is that consideration is
to be given first to the plight oi the farmers. This
will take the form of a revival of the Fordney
tariff bill, vetoed by ('resident Wilson, which
measure will lie taken io at once, and its early
passage may he expected. President 11. inline
undoubtedly will approve it, and whatever of
benefit may flow from it will be for the direct
advantage of the agricultural industry.
The measure will have opposition, particu
larly' from eastern interests, who are committed
to a revision of the tariff along such, lines as will
tend to encourage foreign trade. A singular
development is noted here. When the doctrine
of the protective tariff was adopted by the re
publican party as part of its creed, the opposi
tion went among the farmers preaching that the
law was all for the manufacturer at the expense
of the grower of food crops. Opponents of pro
tection now seek to array the manufacturer
against the farmer, on a reversal of position. The
position taken is not fair, and those who are en
deavoring to arouse a sectional feeling over the
tariff are doing the, country a bad service. What
is aimed at now has been all along the object of
protection as popularly understood. Preservation
of the home market to home producers is the
greatest thing the American government can
achieve. Foreign trade is desirable, but it should
not be attained at the expense of so important a
tning as our larmmg interests.
The middle west is for the Fordney tariff bill.
The south wants it, and wherever in the east
dairying and other allied industries are carried
op. there is a request for it. Cattle raisers and
sheefl men are for it, and the fruit growers have
their share in it. It cuts olT competition that
threatens the food producers. It may appear
anomalous that in a land that but lately was
looked to to, feed the world, and which did win
the war by saving food, a situation would develop
where those food producers' would be made the
chief sufferers from the result of their own ef
forts, but this has come to pass, and it is to
remedy the situation in some degree that the
Fordney bill fs intended. ,
Scientific revision of the tariff may follow
later. The Underwood law is to be completely
and thoroughly overhauled as part of the general,
plan to work out a satisfactory system of revenue,
but the Fordney bill is an emergency measure,
designed to give relief to the farmers of the land,
and as such deserves to have the earliest con
sideration. When a little help is given to the
home folks, then we may take up the other task
of straightening out the world muddle, but we
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larnessing Science and Industry.
No recent invention appeals to the imagina
tion with the force of the reported discovery of
a metal lighter than steel and yet strong and
tough. The' Germans bit upon' this secret alloy
during the war and used the composition for the
frarnework of their Zeppelins, but no other na
tion was able to produce it until now the prob
lem has been solved by jesearches conducted in
a steel mul at Pittsburgh.
' The first thought of the average man is that
this might, enable the weight of automobiles to
be cut down, with the consequent saving in
power and gasoline. Railroad men may wonder
if it can be used to lighten the weight of their
equipment. In thousands of ways a decrease in
the Weight of metal machine parts would be of
immense advantage. The immediate effect con
cerns only the giant dirigible balloon which is
being built for the government, but it is more
thau possible that the prpduct will have itts peace
time uses greater than those of war. The prog
ress of aviation is not entirely a military matter,
and if by the use of this light metal dirigible
balloons are able to be improved, this single
item would assure the value of the discovery.
The Germans, driven by the necessity which
is proverbially t the mother of invention, first
found this alloy, lmt great credit is nevertheless
due the American' scientists who found it for
themselves. Research of this nature until late
years was neglected in the United States, while
Germany devoted the greatest attention to har
nessing science to its industries. Now in a
number of technical schools the great manufac
turing corporations are paying tor the education
of chemists and engineers and financing their
experiments in order to be sure of keeping
abreast of the .rest-if the world in just such
things as this.
Billion Eat Billion. '
The jingle of B. L. T., written at the close of
the war, in which be remarked, "We've paid our
debt to LaFayette " and inquired who else we
owed, is called into doubt by the latest sensation
in France, where, one Jean Barnard claimsto
have discovered that America never reimbursed
the French nation for aid and loans made during
the Revolutionary war. M. Bernard also claims
that part of the purchase price of Louisiana also
has not been paid, and these claims have even
been discussed m the French Chamber of
Deputies.'
By compounding the interest on these items.
Paris -newspaper estimates that, the United j
Square Pegs in Round Holes.
Employers often are heard to lament the lack
of really good men to fill positions of responsi
bility, but that does not prove that there is any
real deficiency of talent in the world. Rather
must it be taken as evidence of a lack of system
which prevents the right man getting in touch
with the right job. v
Chance, which plays a great part. even in the
vital matter of love and marriage, functions
even more freely in the choice of human occupa
tions. On the verge of college, most young men
tre uncertain whether they shall turn to the
study of law, engineering, medicine, teaching or
what other vocation, and their decision is more
than likely to be purely accidental.
Almost everyone grows up without ever really
looking inside of himself, not recognizing the
points of weakness and those of strength. Special
talent for art, muic or scholarship may be d
tected, but beyond this is a region seldom ex-;
plored. The factors of memory, will, quickness
of understanding, sureness of touch, or acutencss
of any one of the senses are seldom taken into
account. Such qualities as these might make for
success in some special line, or fo failure iii an
other. In the same way young people going into the
cmplovment market know little of the require
ments of any job. The attention is centered on
the superficial aspects, such as its cleanliness, the
hours, the treatment received from the boss, rnd
the like. The possibilities of reward in the event
of success may be considered, but whether one
is' fitted to discharge the duties with pleasure
and efficiency is seldom or never pondered. Spe
cial capabilities remain undiscovered and perhaps
the job becomes one of drudgery, even ending hi
discharge, whereas if the person concerned should
have stumbled into a place for which he was
particularly fitted, both the industry and the in
dividual would have benefited.
Much is heard about conservation of natural
resources, but there is need also for conservation
of Iwjman resources. One who is thrown out of
a position as unfit, stands small chance of gain
ing opportunity to start anew without being
handicapped by the thought of failure. One of
tht biggest problems of life is how to avoid
being a square peg in a round hole.
' Dark Age Methods in Georgia.
A tale that smacks of the medieval comes to
ui from Georgia. .There a farmer, accused of an
offense against the law, calmly proceeds to re
move alt evidence against him by murdering the
witnesses. If this had taken place anywhere be
tween the eighth and the fifteenth centuries, it
would have excited . little wonder. Such Houtgs
were not uncommon then, but that the record of
twentieth-century America can be so stained
shocks even the mind attuned to strange things.
Possibly some good may be extracted from the
affair.
Consideration of the crime itself must lead to
closer attention to the lesser crime. Wholesale
murder -will undoubtedly be dealt with sternly
by the law, and maybe that same law may be
brought to deal more sternly with the peonage
proposition. One of the greatest of all the
problems of the south has been that of labdY, and
laws that deal with it have been generally framed
on a basis that gives the ieast of thought to the
worker and lays greatest stress on the necessity
fat- securing a certain amount of work, from every
individual. Harsh laws define vagrancy, and con
viction on such a charge is followed by enforced
labor, the contract system prevailing yet in some
localities; It was so that the negro might be
kept from idleness that these measures were at
first adopted, but they have proven a source of
profit, and have been extended until the white
man suffers from them as well as the black.-
On the other hand, the peonage laws were
set up to give the man not under sentence of va
grancy and willing to work some protection from
the oppression the greedy were wont to visit oh
the ignorant. Out of the present instance may
well come such a discussion as will effect the sit
uation in the south to where more humane and
worthy methods will be adopted for handling the
labor problem down there.
Quest for the Odorless Pig.
Esthetes of Lansing Mich., stimulated by
Henry Ford's mechanical cow, are now casting
about to locate an odorless pig. They are a
thrifty lot tip there, and want to use the garbage
collected to produce pork by feeding it to pigs
in a municipal piggery. Bmythe odorl No need
to tell certain Omaha folks about that. Similar
experiments carried on here have come to a
sudden end, merely because the residents could
not abide the smell that came yelling up from the
piggery, although we have not yet generally
adapted that word for local service.
We would like to suggest to the Lansingites
that they are going about the quest from the
wrong end. What they should seek is the odor
less garbage; the pig in general is not an un
savory animal. Take him as he tj reared in Ne
braska, under the clean sky,. the happy denizen
of broad meadows or carefully devised "hog
lots," and his porcine presence is more an in
spiration than a menace. If he suggests odor at
all. it is that of crackling bacon or sputtering
ham, sizzling sausage or savory chop, a fragrance
that not only ravishes the sense of smell but
delights the whole soul of man with such prom
ise of gustatory joy as only can be experienced
by the hungry-man when he senses the presence
of the dainty, delectable food through its herald
ing smell.
However," if the fastidious Michiganders feel
they can be satisfied, only by the deodorized pig,
we suggest to thetn'they do not carry their ex
periment too far, or they may deprive themselves
of the purpose of their quest. Otherways'to
dispose of the accumulations of household refuse
may be found (Omaha still needs information on
this point), and pigs may be raised successfully
and never taste the garbage gathered by a city,
but no way is known of depriving a pig sty cf
the scent imparted to it by the persistent use of
sour swill.
The Omaha man who explained that his mash
was for the use of a sick pig perhaps referred to
one of those poor, sightless ones that find so
much comfort in the moonshine.
Germany1 s Industrial Leader
Brief Sketch of H ugo Stinnes
Biggest of All Teutons Today
London, March 28. Hugo Staines, gen
eralissimo of German industry, recently accuscJ
of plotting a strike of several hundred thousand
workers in the Ruhr district to make more diffi
cult the- Allied occupation of Dusscldorf, Duis
burg and Ruhroot, is referred to by the Rerlin
correspondent of the Times as "an earnest and
dangerous patriot."
Stinnes, a multi-millionaire member of the
Reichstag, has put through some of the greatest
financial deals of his career since the armistice.
He has been called a "relentlessly efficient,
human calculating machine." It has been said
that he would sacrifice every mark of his
enormous fortune to bring back the monarchy.
Mine owner and coal merchant, ship owner,
landed proprietor, head of a great chain of news
papers, proprietor of the very finest hotel in
Berlin, trader in oils, paper, hides, jute, peat
and manufactured wares of many kinds, Stinnes,
the Times correspondent says, is today the
wealthiest, most influential, best known, and at
the same time the least well known man in Ger-
manv."
Publicity and notoriety are alien to him, it is
Stated, and he prefers to remain behind the cur
tains in the Reichstag, permitting his henchmen
and lieutenants to do the talking while he pulls
the strings.
"There is nothing in his appearance to betray
the man of genius," says the correspondent. "Just
50 years old, of medium height and sturdily built,
with black hair and beard that show tip strongly
against a rather sallow complexion, Hugo Stinnes
is an inconspicuous figure as he slips in and out
of the Adlon hotel, his bowler hat tilted slightly
on one side, his hand in his pocket, and one or
two secretaries following hard on the heels of
their chief m his well worn black coat and black
tie. He stops to speak to no one. He has no
time for small talk in the lounge with other
guests. He is a relentlessly efficient, cool,
human, calculating machine."
The foundations of the Stinnes fortune were
.'aid by the present Stinnes' grandfather and in
creased by his father. The youth was sent to a
gymnasium and later worked as a miner and at
tended the School of Mines in Berlin. Embark
ing in business for himself ?.t the age of 23, his
remarkable career began. He went with success
into the coal and iron trade, becoming a promi
nent ' figure- among the magnates of Rhenish
Westphalia, and branched out into the develop
ment of tramways and electric power in the coal
fields.
But his "real great spring, to fortune," says
the Times, "came with the great war."
"His fortune before the war was estimated
at 40,000,000 golden marks. What it is now he
probably could not say himself possibly 1,000,
000,000 marks." Newspapers now owned by
Stinnes are said to number at least sixty.
"People are eagerly asking with what ulti
mate object all this colossal wealth is being in
cessantly piled- up," says the Times corre
spondent. "Does his present association with and
financing of the Yolkspartie mean that Stinnes
is preparing to bring back the monarchy?"
"Stinnes," concludes the correspondent,
referring to the alleged truculent conduct of the
financier at the Brussels Financial conference,
"has measured himself once with the Allies and
received a severe snubbing. He is not likely to
risk a second similar rebuff. Nor is he likely to
forget. Let the Allies in their turn remember
that, witness his unconciliating manner of the
conference table, heis an. earnest and dangerous
patriot." , j
How to Keep Well
Br OR. W. A. EVANS
Quaatlont cvncernlnf hygiene, sanitation and pravantien el dlaaaaa, aubmlttrd
te Dr. Evaaa by readers et Tha Bar, will be anawared personally, aubjact to
pro par limitation, wbtra a stamped addreaasd snvalcee is encloaed. Dr Evsns
will not make diagnosis or praacribe lor individual dieaaeee. Address letters'
in care el Tha Baa. '
Copyright, ID 21, by Dr. W. A. Evans
Alleged "fantastic salaries'' demanded by Ger
man film stars has caused film producers so much
concern' that a move has been made toward limit
ing their pay. The moving picture companies, in
making this announcement, gave out a list of
salaries w hich they' believe exorbitant; .
The salaries of a few women reached 800.00Q
marks yearly, it is said, although the usual pay'
for first-class work is about 3,500 marks' daily
while employed. It is customary to hire even
well known performers by "the piece." Those
tinder regular contracts are paid from 7,000 to
30.000 marks a month. Unknown players are
paid as low as 150 marks a day.
German, burglars face a new obstacle in the
strongbox which a Berlin inventor has iust
placed on the market. The portable steel box is
equipped with an alarm which can be set before
the lid is closed,
When the box is lifted or moved ever so
slightly 'the alarm sounds and can be. stopped
"only by nnlocking the box and adjusting the
mechanism which controls the buzzer.
Hotel guests are buying the strongbox and
placing it against their doors at night, or setting
it on luggage which they wish to protect. The
boxes are produced in various sizes and with
alarms varying in strength from an ordinary
buzzer to a. fire alarm gong.
Paris March 28.-To mark the place where
the German advance in the spring of 1918 was
stopped it is proposed to erect pyramids along
the entire front beearing the inscription: "Here
was arrested the rush of the barbarians."
The number of pyramids and the places
where they are to be erected will shortly be de
termined by Marshal Petain.
Taxing Vocational Students
Now the 100,000 ex-soldiers in the United
States w ho 'are taking vocational training are in
formed that they must pay an income tax on the
maintenance compensation they receive from the
government while under instruction. This is not
all they must pay. A tax is even demanded on
the tuition the government pays for them at edu
cational institutions and on the books, materials
and. appliances furnished thera free of charge. Of
course, congress has passed no law utilizing such
an extraordinary source oi revenue. The con-,
grcss which exempted its own members from spc-.
cial war taxation, until the war was virtually over
would hardly invite the comparisons which a law
of this sort would inakcjitcvitable. That the tax
gatherer is sent in pursuit of the vocational stu
dents is due to the fact that the bureaus at Wash
ington have been legislating again.
The most remarkable feature of this attempt
to raise revenue from the government's students,
which comes about by reason of a ruling by- the
internal revenue commissioner, is the assumption
that the books, tools and other educational facili
ties "become the property of the recipients." But
the voucher which the student is compelled o
give when he obtains these necessary things
specifically sets forth that they are "the property
of the Vocational Training board," are subject
to the orders Of that board and must be returned
when training is discontinued. The entire ruling
seems ungenerous, arbitrary and unwarranted. If
a desperately wounded ex-soldier requires hos
pital treatment with the continuous attention of
night and day nurses, would the entire sum rep
resenting the cost of his care be credited to him
as income and taxed.-1 Some degree of disability
incurred in the service is necessary to eligibility
as a vocational training student, They are as
much wards of the government as hospital
patients: vocational training supplements hospital
treatment. The ordinary citizen is not taxed cn
gifts made him. Why should these men be tax'd
on gifts fronivthe government? Why, particu
larly, shouU they be taxed on the $3,000,000
worth of books already furnished them when the
books are only borrowed? St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Chinese Revere Print
To destroy a newspaper, even though it is
week old, shows, in the opinions of the Chinese,
a gross lack of character; to crumple a printed
advertisement shows the haste of unreason; to
toss a book carelesslv on the floor shows a ten
dency toward violence; to tear a printed page
shows that you are mentally deficient. It is a
sad commentary on the quality of much of our
reading that we of the western world, where
illiteracy -is rare, have so little reverence for the
printed naec. Chieaeo lournal. 11
BEWARE SCAPHOID N
SCAPULA.
The palm readers tell me that one
oui'siion patrons want to Know about
is the length of the life lino. "How
long wilt X live?" is a question that
the phronoloRlst is called on to ans
wer. Life is a groat adventure and
death is ranked as ''the great advent
ure." Some men Rlory in adventure
while others cling to the beaten
path. Hut all, bold and timid, some
openly, some covertly, are anxious
to pull back the curtain a little and
steal a look into the future. Witnccs
the wave of spiritualism that is
weeping over the land just now.
In the Osier Memorial volume I
find a contribution by Dr. W. W,
Graves of St. Louis which lays down
a sign of longevity or its opposite
which has more scientific foundation
than the life line of the palm, the
knots in the skull or the Images in a
crystal.
Do you remember Katisha and her
wonderful shoulder blade? Had Ka
tisha been around Dr. Graves he
might have robbed her famous bone
of its romance and he might even
have gone further and predicted long
lifo for its possessor. The shoulder
blado, known to the osteologists as
the scapula, is the heavy triangular
bone lying on the upper part of the
back of the ribs. One corner of the
triangle co-operates with two other
bones to make the shoulder joint.
The edge of the scapula which runs
north and south lies not far from the
backbone and nearly parallel with it.
In stooped shoulders the chest is
barreled and the fiat shoulder blads
slips forward on the sharply curved
ribs. In such people the shoulder
blades stand out so that thy are
sometimes called "winged scapula."
It is easy to feel the backbone edge
of the shoulder blade in such people
it is not even aimcuit in flat-backed,
heavily muscled people.
Now for the sign. In a vigorous,
strong person this backbone edge of
the shoulder blade is arched toward
the backbone. In people without
much vitality this edge Is straight or
it curves in the other direction the
concavity points toward the back
bone. The sign of weak constitution
and, therefore, of tendency toward
short life is the "scaphoid scapula."
The name sounds troublesome and
maybe the description also is, but
how about the life, line of the palm
or the knots on the skull?
The expert skill of the palmist, the
phrenologist and the fortune- teller
sometimes commands diamonds, au-
lomoDiies ana liveried servants. Dp.
Graves bases his opinions on the fol
lowing observations:
Old people who have success,
fully weathered the storm of life
were found to have convex
edged scapulas.
In children the scaphoid scap
ula was frequently found.
A very large part of the sick
ly children had scaphoid sesp
ulns, Children with certain Inheri
ted diseases and defects general
ly had scaphoid scapulas.
Dr. Craves hits had some iveople
under observation for more than a
dozen years and he observes that the
scaphoids have a greater average
tendency o succumb to the vicis
situdes of life. Even the most shel
terer life is full of adventure. The
venturesome have more hazards.
Dr. Graves' point of view is that the
scaphoid scapula shows Inferior
physical constitution and that those
who have it succumb to the hazards
of life on an average at a consider
ably greater ratio than do the mem
bers of other groups.
Can Kop l"p Lessons.
B. C. M. writes: "I have a daug
ter 16H years old, who is attending
the university. She takes vocal les
sons. She has a goiter. I lust noticed
it last fall. It is small, but we are
worried. Can I treat it in any way?
Should she stop singing?"
REPLY.
A small anatomical goiter In a
schoolgirl is not necessarily a matter
of moment. Advise with your physi
cian as to giving her small dosoa of
Iodide for a while each spring. There
is no reason for discontinuing either
her vocal or regular lessons. Be cer
tain to teach her poise, equanimity
and control.
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The Mental Age
(From the Boston Transcript.)
In the midst of many troubles
comes what would be a new source
or anxiety and alarm, were some
current ideas concerning human
mentality to be taken at their face
valtio. It is well known that dur
ing the war the men in the American
army were subject to a variety of
mental tests. Since then tabulations
based on the results of these tests
have been made for the mimosa of
showing the mental ages of the
American population, The conclu
sions that some of the students of
me statistics araw ironi them are
enough to convince the' pessimistio
that human progress must come to
a standstill.
Volumes have been written about
the government's psychological ex
periments with the men of the
army. One of the commentators
announces that the tests indicate
that 70 per cent of the people of
the United States have a mental age
or less than 15 years. He wants to
know if we can hope to have a suc
cessful democracy where the aver
age mentality is 13. Ha reveals in
figures by means of which the great
number of men described as posess
ing C-mlnus intellects are compared
with the select few who form tho
band after the letter A.
It would be very depressing were
It hot for the fact that wo are all
familiar with what those montally
1 o-year-old boys did 'on the battle
fields of France;' It is not forgotten
that tho speed with, which those
psychological infants, taken from
civil life, were transformed Into
soldiers amassed, the world. When
sensilble folk are told that the Amer
ican people, or 70 per cent of them,
will never grow up, and that this
sad prediction is based on army
tests, the sensible folk are likely
to receive the news with derision.
They are not alarmed about the per
petuity of American institutions.
They know that the government at
Washington will Rtill live long after
the gloomy deductions from the fig
ures made by the psychologists have
been forgotten.
Thousands of
Bundles of
Spring Cleaning
Work Are Due
to Arrive at
This Plant About
Now
And do you realize how
you could help to relievo
this. congestion by send
ing in your cleaning work
a little before you actu
ally need it?
Even a few days, a day,
or even a few hours' lee
way helps greatly when
the annual spring rush
is on.
Thanks.
Phone Tyler 0343 or
"South 0050" if you
are a South Sider.
DRESHER
BROTHERS
Cleaners Dyers
2211-17 Farnam St.
Exact Nature Unknown.
Mrs. A. M. T. writes: "1. What Is
Raynaud's disease and is it fatal?
2. Please tell me about carbuncle
of the urethra? Is it an unusual dis
ease, does it terminate In cancer, is
there a cure and does standing or
straining at stool cause it, or what
does cause it?"
REPLY.
1. In typical Raynaud's the tip of
a finger, toe, nose or car will become
almost bloodless, then gangrenous
and finally will slough. In mild cases
during the attacks, the affected
member becomes blue or white and
the circulation Is very poor. The
mildest cases are related to cold feet,
chilblains, etc. The exact nature of
the disease is not understood.
2. Carbuncle of the urethra is not
an infrequent condition. It seldom'
terminates in cancer or any other
serious condition. All such cases get
well under treatment. Some cancers
of the urethra resemble carbuncle
Showdown la, ( ailed.
binahn, March 27 To the Editor
of The Bee: Who is this fellow.
"Welfare Sponsor." who raps the
Welfare board? Is he afraid to sign
his name and come out with his
complaints into tho open like a real
man? Hts argument is no good.
He has no argument in fact, for he
jltes no specific instance where tho
Board has failed, while many ensOs
where it has done good can be
enumerated.
I believe this fellow. " Welfare
Sponsor," is really a midnight prowler
who wants to go to underworld
places where he can do those terri
ble dances to his heart's content,
drink all th moonshine lie wants
to, and cut all tho capers that a fel
low with his peanut-brain craves.
Otherwise, ho would come out in the
open and sign his name to the letter
he wrote you. Let's hear from him
again, only make him tell who he
is and just what he means when ho
says the Wclfaro board is no good.
I'm for law- and order. What's ho
for? ROUERT W. DANIELS.
Kor the Fags.
Omaha, March 26. To the Editor
Of the Bee: And now, tho dear souls
want to take our cigarets away from
us.
Wei!, when they draft a bill against
cigarets, why don't they draw up
a sister hill against skirts that reach
but to the knee and have a hard
time doing thrit, silken luvo that
gives tho leg the anpernii'-o i f hoirg i
bare, dresses that droop in front, al-j
most to the wa!st-Hne?
The war is over for tho tako of ,
argument, slthough no ponoo treaty
has been signed but during that,
time millions of men lonmed the
sweet pleasure ef a cool oljr.vot j
smoke: and they don't propose to !
lose that pleasure now.
While the boys wore overseas, they
oozed the dry law through, hut '
there's going to be some dh'ltculty
in passing an anti-eigaret law.
Why make all these laws. Jus? ;
to force young Americans to be
come lawbreakers?
America may be dry. but many
a youngster who would have boon
afraid to go into a saloon until h :
had reached the. ago when hp didn't ,
care much for hard Honor, reaches ;
easrerly and craftily for the moon- j
shine. And every time those Hip-h ;
school boys take a drink "from the
hip" they got a little holder, snap
their fingers n little nuleker a: fuels
Sam, and pretty soon they're on the
hifih rend.
And as sure ns Rhnntln if tloB
anti-eigaret law gains momentum
uniong Ihe dear sisters who bans:
onto l'ussj foot Johnson's skirts and
won't let go tho apron strings or
dear Lucy Page Giispipe, there'll
he monlaw-bi caking and this crime
wave that's canning so much worry
among leading police officials of the
country will develop into a veritable
typhoon.
Lay off tho clgaret It's doing
mighty little luirin the way It Is
iinw, but Just restrict clttarets, and
there will be lots more harm done.
ONE WHO KNOWS.
Intoi'i-Motl III Ringer.
Omaha. March 25. To the Edl
tor ef The Dee: Whnt about Mr.
Ringer? Wo inn?e for reply.
of cmrse, Mr. Ringer, at least to
tho naked c ye, appenrs a bit balmy
in the bran, sn to speak, and the
wheels in his attic revolve upon one
subject licker: but who Jo you
pick to succeed him?
Look tho list over carefully, boys.
Give it tho north, south, east and
west. Is there n candidate who Is
likely to do better?
We'd like to know and we've given
it up.
PERPLEXED.
Sees the Issue Plain.
Omaha, March 27. To the Edi
tor of The Doe: Rally round tho flsg.
boys, rally onoo again, for now is
the time lor nil good men to come
to tho aid of their city. The city
campaign is on and the Issue has
been made ns plain as day, for
ir-n't .Judgo Sutton, loading the forces
of right, and United States Marshal
Dahlman opposing hint. It's down
to a case now of standing- by or
ganized government! as 1t has been
fi r Uie- past two years, or. falling
hack into the grasp of the old Third
ward gang.
Mow is it that United States Mar
shal! James C. Dahlman may rtin
for a public office and still hold his
Job. Isn't there some kind of a
restriction to that?' Seems funny
to me there hasn't been a little morn
said about that. And while I'rL
writing to you, I want you to know
that none of the women in my neigh
borhood will ever vote for him.
MR3.
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