THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1921.
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The Iiee'a Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued Improvement of the Ne
braska Highways. Including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Peace by Resolution.
The certainty that the Knox resolution, with
certain modifications, declaring: a state of peace
with Germany will be passed very soon after
the senate resumes its sessions next week holds
some encouragement. Its iirst and greatest ef
fect will be to confirm to the world what already
lias been signified by events, that the United
States "will not be a party to the Treaty of Ver
sailles. That document, although signed by the
American commissioners, among whom was the
president, contains a number of provisions that
are not acceptable to the United States, chief of
which is the covenant of the League of Nations.
Two years ago Mr. Wilson w as in Fan's,- fin
ishing the text of the covenant and weaving it
into the text of the treaty, knowing that it had
the avowed opposition of a considerable group
Of influential men at home, lie had been ad
vised by Secretary Lansing that certain of the
proposals therein contained could not be ac-,
cepted by Americans, on account of their non
conformity to the Constitution of the United
States. These objections and obstacles were
brushed aside by the president, who hoped by
his personal endeavor to induce the country to
accept his judgment. European statesmen have
not misread the vote of the senate and then of
the people on the issue. - They know that so far
as the ' United States is concerned, the pact is
dead. What they sought is a definite and de
pendable announcement of the future attitude
of the United States. .
Tin's will be given them in the resolution de
claring a state of peace; that the United States
will look on a future war between great Euro
pean powers as a- matter of grave concern fo its
own interests, and thai this government holds
Germany responsible for the late war, and will
aid in exacting reparations. Such an expression
ought to clear away any misunderstanding or
misgiving. France, of course, rested much hope
on the unprcscntcd Wilson treaty of defensive,
alliance, which will not likely be sent to the
senate for consideration. In lieu of . this the
declaration of policy should Icrve as voicing the
sentiment of America, but extending it to in
clude other nations as well f.s France. This
country is bound to Fiance by peculiar ties of
friendship and concord of interest, yet it has
concern for all and is ready to help any in time
of stress. Therefore the general rather than the
specific declaration on the point is more nearly
representative of real American sentiment.
No room for argument exists as to Ger
many's responsibility and the necessity for pay
ment of indemnity. Propagandists who have
been active in endeavors to build up a contrary
feeling in America have wasted their effort. Our
government stands1 first for justice, and this
means between nations as well as individuals.
On this basis we can stand four-square to the
world.
Care for the Wounded Soldier.
Soldiers wounded in wars of the naiion are
not wards of the nation. They are our creditors;
they have performed for us service not to be
measured in -money, and the country owes to
them a debt that never can be discharged.' Sad
to relate, we have gone about to recognize and
move under this obligation in a way that has oc
casioned considerable aggravation of the suffer
ing of the injured men and naturally a great
deal of warranted criticism. President Harding,
talking to a group of these victims of war at the
Wa'lter RcicI hospital recently, promised them
he would do all he could to relieve their situa-.
tion, adding that the nation could never repay
them. In redemption of his promise he has
called into being a commission with Charles G.
Dawes at its head, charged to look into present
methods and machinery, locate the difficulties,
recommend remedies and advise as to regula
tions for the future. The Dawes committee has
settled down to work' and hopes to be through
with its inquiries and ready to give intensive
study to the problem by the end of this week.
Whether it will be able to make the definite
recommendations' that arc to govern the care of
wounded soldiers for the next fifty years docs
not matter it only it can devjse some means for
taking better care of the men right now. Let
the future deal with problems as they arise, but
let the present generation make it plain to the
en who arc bearing injuries incurred in public
service that their suffering is appreciated by
their countrymen, and that as far as tender care
can compensate them, they will be repaid.
"Best Place on Earth."
Omaha may now hope to tack the imposing
initials, "B. P. O. E.(" after its name as the
"Best riace'on Earth" for the "Best People cn
Earth." as the initials of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks are sometimes trans-
. . i ln4rr. Vizir rmnnnsprl ftf 5.000
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members, classing Omaha within the 10 largest
lodges out of the 1,400, chances ought to be good
for securing the national headquarters.
Another great fraternal organization, the
Woodmen of the World, already maintains its
central offices here, giving proof that the pivotal
location of Omaha makes it naturally fit for an
executive center. Railroads and motor high
ways converge here and none of the 11 other
cities scckirtg to be chosen has any advantages
that can not be found here. It is not a matter
f bonus, for. the Elks, with their membership
of 800,000 are know n to pay as they go, and are
not seeking special favors.
Omaha wants this headquarters. It likes the
Elks and would be proud to be their hosts.
Wherever the headquarters is located, a $2,000,
000 building will be erected, hundreds of em
ployes will live, thousands of dollars will Lc
banked, a printing plant installed, and taken al
together, these would mean much for the city.
Rivalry in Transportation.
Certain changes In methods of transporta
tion arc taking place without attracting general
notice. In some cities the motor bus is giving
deadly competition to the street car, and in all
parts of the country the motor truck is cutting
in on the business of the railroad. A few lines
telling of a produce dealer at Alma, Neb., who
operates a truck line through the neighboring
small towns and farming district illustrates what
is going on. In three months he hauled $17,000
worth of eggs and poultry, saving $12.24 over
express charges on each 28-mile haul. In addi
tion to this he eliminates drayage charges that
would be necessary if he relied on railroad ship
ment. The dispatch concludes with the statement
that he plans to add larger trucks and develop
the system. Such is the process that is being
carried on quite generally. Trucks moved 1,200,
000,000 tons of freight in the United States last
year. The freight business of the Androscoggin
& Kennebec railroad in Maine has been taken'
over by a motor trucking firm at a lower rate.
Short line railroads, in which there seldom has
been any profit, are not now being built, and
their lack will be supplied by automobile. A
coal company in Pittsburgh uses 800 trucks to
deliver .1,800 tons of coal daily direct from the
mines to its customers. Raw wool weighing
12,000,000 pounds was delivered by truck to the
mills of the American Woolen company in one
year.
It is claimed that in this way costs of de
livery are cut down, and there are many other
advantages that indicate the new method has not
yet reached its highest possible use. There are
more than 120,000 trucks on farms, widening
the fanners' market and freeing him from de
pendence on freight trains to a considerable ex
tent. Stock yards are receiving each year more
live stock brought in by motor truck, and in
1919 the yards at Indianapolis received more by
this route than by steam.
The higher railroad rates, it is stated, have
increased the utilization of motor trucks in
Massachusetts to such an extent that, railroad
traffic between Boston and other manufacturing
centers has been materially affected. The ad
vantage' of good roads and cheaper gasoline
transportation has been pushed, and it hardly
seems probable that if railway rates are reduced
the cut will be large enough to discourage the
growing use of motor trucks.
South Dakota "Blues."
The public may never be treated to the com
plete demonstration of what would happen if all
the laws were strictly enforced, but South
Dakota is having a glimpse at least. Some
county attorneys there have given warning that
they will enforce all Sunday closing laws and
others are planning to enforce particular parts
of them, such as the provisions forbidding base
ball and moving picture shows. The attorney
general of the state is quoted as saying that he
is interested only in those two blue laws and the
one making it a misdemeanor to show any film
suggestive of crime or immorality.
In some parts of the state, merchants, gar
ages, theaters, soda fountains and filling sta
tions closed their doors upon being warned by
the local officers. Elsewhere no effort was made
to enforce any part of the law, and none of the
usual Sunday amusements or activities was in
terfered with.
It was easy for the legislature to decree a
state of suspended animation on Sunday, but the
officials charged with the enforcement of the
blue laws quite evidently are at a loss how to
proceed. The attorney general, although recom
mending rigid carrying out of the statute, has
contented himself with arresting a single moving
picture theater proprietor in Huron, in order to
carry the issue to the supreme court and de
termine the constitutionality of the act. Two
months delay is promised by this procedure, and
general enforcement of the blue laws will wait
the court decision.
In some counties, meantime, the entire list of
prohibitions will be upheld; in others only a
selected few, and in others, none. There is
something wrong with a law that results in such
demoralization. It may not be unconstitutional,
but it seems to lack good sense. Nebraska now
has before the legislature a bill cut of the same
cloth, the proposal for moving picture censor
ship. Out of it might sprout the whole unlovely
series of repressive legislation, for in cases of
this kind one step leads naturally to another,
and when common sense is pushed aside, all
limits are off. .
Matter of Forfeited Bail Bonds.
The Board of Education has taken an im
portant step in assigning to Attorney ,T. J. Mc
Guire the job of cleaning up the bail bond situa
tion. Not that there is any likelihood that the
balance in the treasury will be extensively aug
mented as a result; but because, if the work is
well done, a really scandalous situation will be
cleaned up. It is one of the sad truths in con
nection with our city housekeeping that the road
between the police court and the district court
provides many loopholes through which an of
fender may vanish. Culprits are tried and sen
tenced in the police court, file notice of appeal,
present a bond, and more often than not that is
the last heard of them. Frequently when called
for trial the defendant does not appear and the
bond he gave is found to be worthless. Of
fenders are encouraged by this system to take
appeal when convicted even of minor offenses,
trusting to- luck or" good management to
evade appearance in district court. Many times
in the past a row has been kicked up over the
bail bond practices, and many threats have been
made, but nothing definite done to correct the
evil. Mr. McGuire now is given a chance to
do some real service to' the community. If he
will so conduct his inquiry as to impress bonds
men with the fact that they are assuming a
responsibility when they become surety for a
prisoner, he will accomplish a reform that is
sorely needed. But the law has been too long
and too commonly flouted through the unworthy
bondsman,, and it is time a change were beinef
worked.,
The last horsethief has been caught at Wil
bur, and there are some horse fanciers, no doubt,
who are deeply appreciative of the proof that
someone still thinks enough of the animals to
steal one of them. ,
For the Control of War
Stop Making Arms Is the Easiest Way
to Disarm.
Writing to the Boston Transcript, John R. M.
Taylor discusses the question of disarmament
from another angle. He argues for the control
of arms-making plants. Going back in history,
he finds that at the close of the eighteenth cen
tury "making small anus and ammunition was
as much a household industry as making apple
jack." He proceeds:
During the life of Napoleon armament did not
make v. sng'e step in vancc. which is strange
enough thing for that essentially military period.
The old flintlock musket of 1777 and the guns
of Gribeauval of 1765 were the working tools of
the epoch; the first survived it until 1840 and
the guns until 1827.
In 1799 the guns for coast defense were
shipped to a United States fort and the comman
der officially informed that he could doubtless
find, timber out of which to make the necessary
mounts. During our Civil war a gun carriage
for the heaviest mobile artillery of the time could
have been built in a week by a village blacksmith
and wheelwright working together.
How far we are from that ' today must be
realized by anyone who has seen even pictures
of the monstrous and complicated artillery em
ployed in the war which is not yet over in spite
of the highly placed gentlemen sitting about
green covered tables. And these monstrous arms
have grown, not only in size and complexity, but
in their insatiable demand for ammunition. At
Gettysburg, in 1863, the union army expended
32.000 rounds of artillery ammunition. At St.
Mihicl, in 1918, the United States army expended
1.000,000 rounds. In the same year one American
division expended in thirty minutes, during a
raid ,a mere minor operation, as much artillery
ammunition as the whole United States army ex
pended, in 1898, during the war with Spain.
If we turn to the modern high-power rifle
we see that it has progressed equally far beyond
the musket of a hundred years ago. It is now
an intricate production. The 1917 Enfield is
relatively simple in construction, yet the soldier
can dismount his Enfield into 86 parts, and some
of these are made up of component pieces. Many
of these pieces must be made with great pre
cision, gauged with microscopic 'nicety, and fin
ished with unusual accuracy. To produce any
modern rifle on a grand scale in private plants
would imply the use of thousands of gauges, jigs,
dies and other small tools necessary for such
manufacture, as well as great quantities of spe
cial machines. Accordingly during the present
war we used the Enfield rifle as, during 1914
and 1915, among other governments, both the
British and Russian had turned to the United
States to supplement their sources of rifle supply
while they, particularly the British, were build
ing up their home manufacturing capacity. By
the spring of 1917, England had built up her
own manufacturing facilities at home, and the
last of her American contracts were nearing com
pletion. Here, then, was at hand a huge capacity,
which, added to our government arsenals, could
turn out every rifle the American army would re
quire; regardless of how many troops we put
in the field. We would have been forced to
spend preliminary months or even years in build
ing up an adequate manufacturing capacity for
our own rifle, the Springfield, while our men in
France were using what odds and ends of rifle
equipment we might have been able to purchase
for them, except for this well-nigh providential
condition in our small-arms industry in early
1917. .
From April to August. 1917, the total pro
duction of rifles by the United States govern
ment plants was 16,000. Then foreign govern
ments released to us the plants which had been
manufacturing for them. All plants produced
from August 1 to December 31, 1917, for the
United States, 414,000 rifles. From January to
November 1-9, 1918, these same plants produced
2,506,307 rifles. This shows how long it takes
to get ready for quantity production of small
rms.'i
In August, 1914, the guns of the world were
made by Krupp, Skoda, Cockrell, Creusot and
Vickers. No one else could make them efficiently
in quantity production for no other countries,
except ours, had the necessary combination of
large and cheap supplies of coal and iron, with
high mechanical designing and constructing abil
ity. Italy had the mechanical ability but not
the coal and iron. Japan was behind in mechani
cal ability, but was improving by practice. The
United States had all the requisites for construc
tion, but had never gone into making guns on a
large scale.. We could make them if we had
time to get ready and our first foreign contracts
were placed early in- 1914. It was not until
October. 1918, that quantity production really
began. We can make them now, we shall con
tinue to be able to make them as long as our
mechanics remember how, and as long as the
necessary jigs, gauges, and patterns are in store;
but the history of our munitions in this war
shows how long it takes to put imagination, abil
ity and resources into quantity production.
The control of war is the control of the
means of making war. In theory the solution is
extraordinarily simple. In December, 1918, its
application would have been almost equally sim
ple. All that would have been necessary for the
control of German and Austrian armament would
have been the destruction of certain machines
at Skoda and the Krupp works, machines useful
only for the manufacture of arms, and of the
contents of certain storehouses filled with the
drawings, patterns, jigs and gauges, which are
necessary for the quantity production of muni
tions. To replace them would take much time
and during this time the skilled workmen would
be forgetting their ability to use them. Then if
the ammunition dumps which are now supplying
certain warring people had been destroyed--and
there was a time when some of the largest could
have been destroyed there would still be fight
ing, but in many places where they t are now
using guns and rifles, they would be using knives
and stones.
Why was this not done? It is hard to' say.
Such questions of high policy are settled be
hind closed doors and those doors have not yet
been opened. Was there a serious desire to limit
armament? It is awkward to raise questions
which may affect your own armament and when
it may affect your own international trade in
arms. Everyone knows for how long Creusot in
France and Krupp in Germany have been com
peting in the international munition market. With
the control of the iron and coal of central Europe
in the hands of France Creusot could have no
dangerous competitor.
The guns of the world, tiie rifles . of the
world, the aircraft of the world, are made by a
small group of highly civilized nations. The
others cannot make them efficiently and buy
from those who do. Close that market and those
nations can make war only at the will of the
gun producing group. Against them they are
hopelessly outclassed.
Today that highly civilized group of nations
is staggering from the effects of the present war.
It is not yet over. Civilization itself is in the
balance. The forces released by modern war
on a grand scale are too monstrous to permit
its recurrence within that group. The. world of
the gun producing group is too closely inter
connected to permit it. An increasing number
of men see that another victory, would, like de
feat, spell destruction.
What is the solution? Simply rigid gov
ernmental control of the munition plants in the
gun producing group and the rationing of muni
tions for police purposes to the non-gun produc
ing group. No patterns, jigs, or machines for
their construction should be sold, only the fin
ished product. It is simply an extension of the
system of prohibition conlrol of alcohol now
being tried out in the United States, in which the
great plants have been shut down and rationing
for medical purposes only is permitted, v
Community Center Work.
Omaha, April 2. To the Editor of
The Bee: Your editorial of Satur
day morning, April 2, on Communi
ty Centers, was read with very much
interest by me.
Your suggestion that community
centers should be run alt tho year
round is a very good one. Also, I
might suggest that the playgrounds
should be run In more months than
just durllng the summer. Now is the
bestjtime of year for playgrounds to
be in operation, but neither one of
these) activities can be continued
longer than the scheduled time by
tho recreation department at the
present time.
According to figures in my office,
the recreation department handles
about twice as many people and does
about twice as much work in tho re
reation line as a few years ago. I
also want to call your attention to
this: That the recreation 'depart1
ment i3 running on the same appro
priation, $20,000, as it did in the
first year of its existence, 1915.
The Omaha newspapers have
helped us to put over tho biggest
year in community centers we have
ever had and I believe that with tho
help of the Omaha newspapers, a
larger appropriation might be ap
portioned the department that the
community centers could be carried
on the year round and that tho play
ground facilities might be Increased.
I want to thank you for the in
terest your paper has taken in com
munity center work this winter and
hope that next winter will be a still
bigger year in community center
work. IRA A. JONES.
Recreation Director.
"Sponsor" Cites Examples.
Omaha, April 4V To the Editor of
The Dee: Permit me to reply to my
ertic signing himself George D.
Curtin in Monday's paper. Mr. Cur
tin says the welfare board has kept
the public morals as clean as it
could, thereby fulfilling its rurpose
and thereby in my estimation show
ing the fallacy of his argument "as
clean as it could."
He points with pride to the fact
that the Monarch cabaret was closed
immediately after a man committed
suicide in the place. That, in Mr.
Curtin's opinion, was commendable
on the part of tho welfare board.
That, in my opinion, is or should not
have been and 1 believe it was stated
by a member of the board at the time
the place was closed, did not have
anything to do with the action taken
by the board. Recently a man com
mitted suicide in a downtown hotel,
but the welfare board didn't close
the hotel. Recently Burnell Law
son murdered his wife in tUe Holly
wood apartments, but they were not
closed by tho welfare board or any
other organization. Again, the jani
tor of one of Omaha's churches was
found murdpred in the basement ot
;the building but it was not closed.
A mob hanged a negro and attempt
ed to hang Mayor Smith but the wel
fare board didn't close the court
house or the city hall. So, Mr. Cur
tin, I am of the candid opinion that
your alleged argument in favor of
tho welfare board, that (has kept
the morals of the city as best it
could) does not hold water. Come
again. Cite some more examples.
welfare Sponsor.
Not Strong for Itlngcr.
Omaha, March 29. To the Editor
of The Bee: Allow me a few lines
to respond to Perplexed who comes
to the aid of J. Dean Riger and his
bunch of incompetents in your paper
Tuesday morning seeking "to know
where the city could find a better
candidate." Oh, such ignorance is
appalling to those of us who have
seen good government and law and
order in the past when those terms
meant something. Under the Ring
er and Committee of 5,000 regime.
Omaha has become the "nnrqijse of
thieves, burglars and other, branches
of the 'crooks' craft."
Crime has been rampant. I ask
you, Mr. Editor to give the space In
your columns to a listing of un
solved murder and lesser degree
crimes which now adorn the report
sheets of the police department,
placed there under the Ringer re
gime. I defy any sponsor of Ringer
to cite another city in the country
with as many unsolved crimes.
How many bank robberies per
petrated in Omaha in the last three
years have been solved? Off hand I
can mention one successful and one
unsuccessful attempt on the Citizen's
State bank at Ralston, together with
the $105,000 robbery of the Bank of
Benson, December 31,1919.
How many men who participated
In these robberies are now serving
sentences in the Nebraska state peni
tentiary as a result of the Omaha
police department's activities in ar
resting them for the robberies? Not
one, Mr. Perplexed. Not one.
I could ramble on at length, Mr.
Editor, citing examples of unsolved
mysteries but what's the use. Let
this suffice. Omaha's best bet lies
in attaching the well-known "tin
ware" to one J. Dean Ringer on
election day in May.
Let's boost liim out and give
the real substantial residents of
Omaha something to say about run
ning Omaha instead of continuing
the city in the hands of the crooks.
ONE NOT PERPLEXED.
Up and Down of Prices.
Omaha, April 3. To the Editor of
The Bee: What is the cause of the
decline in the price of commodities,
and the demoralization of our in
dustrial system, which has resulted
in a great army of unemployed? Will
an increased gold standard facilitate
our present day problem? Has con
gress the power to remedy this
situation?
There are a number of fallacies
current to which are attributed the
cause of our slump in business pro
fiteering: scarcity of commodities;
high taxes; inefficiency of workers.
But none of these are well founded,
nor can they be responsible for pres
ent day conditions. Profiteering
changes the distribution of currency
into different channels, which re
sults in increased buying of certain
commodities, but does not change
the total distribution of currency.
Government reports show a greater
surplus of raw materials today than
at any period of our history, there
fore, the scarcity of commodities in
America does not exist. High taxes
have little or no effect on average
prices; and the so-called inefficiency
of workers is a trumped-up excuse
to lower the price of labor, and a
pure delusion, for the average per
capita production in the United
States has more than doubled dur
ing the past 25 years according to
government statistics. The cost of
distribution of commodities has a far
reaching effect on commerce. The
immense increase in freight rates by
the Interstate Commerce commission
has produced a shipper's strike
which has temporarily parallzed ac
tivity in all our markets.
Through a systematic study of per
capita production, bank deposits and
clearings, labor wages, and the scar
city of commodities caused by mo
nopoly, also high taxes, we still find
In spite of all statistical evidence to
the contrary that the law of supply
and demand controls the markets,
and that tho total amount of cur
rency, controlled by its velocity of
circulation, has complete control
over price levels, industry and the
prosperity of the nation.
Tho reason wo have unemploy
ment today, and industries nro at a
standstill, with farm products at
lower level?, is that tho federal re
serve banking system of the nation
has complete control over the total
amount of currency and its velocity
of circulation. Its restrictive meas
ures on the expansion of credit has
had the effect of diverting circulating
currency back into the United States
treasury, thereby increasing the rate
of interest without a benefit to the
government. The federal reserve
system, by curtailing its loaning
powers and demanding immediate
cash payment of outstanding loans,
has permitted financial interests with
available cash to exact the highest
rate of interest at a time when the
United States government is in the
money market as one of the largest
borrowers, and is directly responsible
for the present day conditions.
There is only one thing that can
affect the circulating medium of
this country without the consent of
the Federal Reserve board, and that
is .an increase in the production of
gold and silver in this country. An
increase in the output if these metars
will have a greater effect at this
time on our financial conditions and
general prosperity of the nation than
any other act of industry for the
reason that it will afford employ
ment for thousands of unemployed,
giving them money with which to
purchase the necessities of life, thus
creating a market for all commodi
ties, which in turn will start the
wheels of all industry, place business
again on a hard cash basis, and bring
peace and prosperity to this country.
ROY M. HARROP.
JUST IN JEST.
"I will not be responsible for iiny debts
rnntrm'tert only by myself," adenines Air.
Barker of Gary, Ind., who appears to have
no. confidence In his shopping ability.
New York Illustrated News.
"I'm sorry that my en gait' ments pre
vent my attending your charity concert,
but I shall be w,lth you in spirit."
"Splendid! And where would yen like
your spirit to sit? I have tickets for
half a dollar, a dollar, and two dollars."
The Drexerd.
Prof. Albert Mlehelson, sn American
astronomer, has just succeeded, with th
aid of an apparatus he lias Invented, In
measuring the star Alpha Orionis. It
Is also reported that Secretary Lienbv Is
busy constructing a number of appar
atuses for taking the measure of the Ris
ing Sun. Punch (London).
Kitty, aged 4, had been naughty and
her father had had to administer vigor
ous correction before going to business.
That an impression had been mad was
apparent when, on his return from busi
ness in the evening, Kitty called upstairs
with frigid politeness: "Mother, your
husband's home. The Argonaut (San
Frnnciseo).
"Have you a little fairy In your home?"
"No, but I have a little miss in my
engine." The Dreierd.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Question! concerning hygiene, sanitation and prevention of disease, eubmltted
to Dr. Evans by leaders of The Bee, will be answered personally, eubject to
proper limitation, where a stamped addressed envelope Is enclosed. Dr Evans
will not make diagnosis or prescribe (or individual diseases. Address letter
In care oi The Bee.
Copyright, 1921. by I)r. W. A. Evans
THE SIXTH YEAR MOLAR.
Tho sixth year molar is tho first
permanent tooth to break through
the gums. Coming as it does toward
tho back of the mouth at a time
when the other teeth are nil of tho
temporary variety, it generally is re
garded as one of the milk teeth. The
people who are on the lookout for
the first permanent tooth have their
thoughts focused on the front of tho
mouth. It is queer that the tir.xt
permanent tooth should be a jaw
tooth when nil other beginnings of
teething are in the front of tho
mouth.
The consequence of all this is that
the sixth year molar is neglected as
is a rule with temporary teeth, in
stead of being cared for as many
permanent teeth are cared for.
The sixth year molar begins to
form about five months before birth.
At birth the top of the crown is cru
cified.' At one year the entire grind
ing surface is calcified. In this first
year must of the severe illnesses of
childhood occur. Is it any wonder
that a large proportion of the first
year molars arc found to have faulty
grinding surfaces. 'At 5 years of ago
the entire crown is finished and at 6
the tooth erupts. v
In a study made by Dr. H. B.
Butler of the Public Health Service
of the first year molars of more than
6,000 children it was found that in
one-seventh of the children 6 years
old this tooth already has begun to
decay. The largest percentage of
decaying sixth year molars was
found in boys 10 years old and in
girls 9 years old. At 11 years 9 per
cent of the sixth year molars had
been extracted. More than one-half
of tho children 11 years old had one
or more missing or decayed molars.
The rate of tho onset of decay was
less after that. It seemed that if
tho child could get beyond 12 with
out a cavity in his molar he was able
to keep it cleaner.
(if 1,000 cavities In this molar
almost 900 wero on tho grinding
surface. Over 100 were located be
tween this molar and the tooth in
front of it. There were practically
no cavities on any other surface.
A part of the cary decay of the
sixth year molars Is duo to faulty
development of the crowns. Perhaps
Ihe illups-ses of the first year of life
are partly responsible for this. Per
haps faulty food is a factor. Pr.
Butler thinks in order to correct the
trtiubln treatment should begin with
the pregnant mother. Tho mother
tmmilil eat a properly bslanced diet
for the sake of her unborn child.
Later the baby should be shielded
agaiiifl severe illness. When old
enough to take a mixed diet harder
foods hhould be given than is the
custom.
The decay in temporary teeth Im
perils tho t-lxth year molar. There
fore, care of tlip temporary teeth
should be given from the beginning.
They can be cleaned with cloths or
paper wrapped around the end of
a linger. When the sixth year molar
comes through It should be recog
nized as a permanent tooth and
given the care accorded that set.
That's Not Injurious.
Mrs. E. M. C. writes: "The In
structor at the gymnasium I attend
gives us a sieat deal of Jumping,
j u st ordinary .lumping up and down,
about eight or 10 times before rest
ing. Do you consider this injurious
to young women? I am 26 and have
never had any internal trouble."
REPLY".
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