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TfiE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1921. V. 5 I; r 1 I I' It it' r The Omaha Bee DAILY, (MORNING ) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. KELSON 8. UPDIKE. Publliktr. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tae iwxHttod Prm. of wUd The tj It number. M ee flunlnlf utult4 lb UM for eubllctUoa f ell mwi i tlchm indited It or lot et bar in at ei-d!tl to Mil MP", end aim U ! puWiehtd nerwn. 411 ruble of publication el our at-slal di.petobee tlM IHHTli BEE TELEPHONES Prittte Snore Buhum, Art for Tlv " (Wl tlie Oeputnenl ot rereua Wanted. IJICr iUW Far Nlgkt Calls Ahtr 10 F. M.i fjiuirnl Deptrtmwii ........... Trior I000L t'lrealeUo IXwrtount ........... Trior 100IL edTertlelaa Dotwtaoal Tjlec 10081 OFFICES OF THE BEE MoId OSIeei ITU) on Fimom . IS Sooti St. I South Bide. MS South 3tk fit Out-oi-Town Officeei tM Fifth Am Wuhlnrtoa 1311 0 St Bunt Bide 1 1'iH. rnaea M ItiaK Honor lotuiell Blufi N Tor riilotio The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued impravemant of the N braike Highway, including tha pave ment of Main Thoroughfares laatiiag into Omaha with a Brick Surfaca. 3. A shert, lowrate Waterway from tha Corn Bait to tho Atlantic Ocaan. 4. Homo Rulo Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of GoTemmoat Let the Censorship Bill Die. The legislature has now a splendid chance to redeem at least some of the time St has wasted in considering a matter that only relates to the morals of the state, that of censorship for moving pictures. This measure has "consumed more ef fort on part of the lawmakers than any other one matter before the body, and to the end that a disagreement exists between the house and the senate. It has finally been referred to a confer ence committee, and there it may well be left to decently expire, while the more urgent mat ters of appropriations, revenue laws and the like be given a little heed. It is not a question of good morals or pub lic morality that is involved in the effort. It is fun damentally an attempt on the part of a few to prescribe for the whole what is good for them, a decision that is to rest on the bersonal opinion of a small board. Such a plan is re pugnant to the principles of American govern ment Here we guarantee to each the right of free conscience, of free speech, put no restric tion on religious worship, but undertake to pre serve to each and all the exercise of unrestricted choice in these matters. Obscene, indecent, ir reverent or otherwise improper exhibitions are forbidden by law, and ample authority exists al ready for their suppression. To vest a small group of men and' women with authority over the pub lic conscience, to undertake to regulate taste by law, is to set up a tyrannical power that will iooner or later either defeat its own end, or will grow into something greater. Why should such danger be deliberately in curred by a people that is supposedly intelligent? To commonwealth in all the union is more blessed with schools and churches than -is Ne braska. Nowhere are people to be found more worthy to choose for themselves in mattters that affect themselves. Why has it became necessary to supplement these agencies by a board of cen sor? Crr citizens have always responded nobly and promptly to any progressive movernenf, have react?! promptly, and with generous enthusiasm . to every good project, and have made a fine name for themselves because of their high standard of public as well as private morals. Have they reached a time when they no longer can be trusted to decide, these things for themselves? Is there need to remind the legislature that interference with the personal haBits and indi vidual conduct of citizens, no matter how circum spect and docile they may be before the law, is likely to be provocative of such resentment. as will defeat the very end at which the law may be aimed? Why should man's, perversity be ag gravated, further by such a law as the house bill aims at, and which the senate sought crudely : to correct? -. :.' . . - If wisdom and sound reason prevail at Lin coln, we will hear no more of censorship, save that the measure has gone to a deserved death. . Home Atmosphere in Politics. If the public will pause to regard the doings of the National League of Women Voters in the convention at Cleveland, jt may learn some thing to its advantage. Here was a meeting of women from all parts of the. nation, of various partisan faith, inherited or self-chosen, gathered to discuss their part in public affairs. Did they rise to demand offices for their leaders or poli tical spoils for their sex? Was there anything in the whole session to give grounds for any of the fear that has sometimes been expressed over women entering into full suffrage? . ., Well, no. The things they discussed were not partisan affairs, but Uhose concerning national -housekeeping. The main reports adopted dealt with American citi?enship, child welfare, food Supply and demand, election laws, social hy giene and uniform laws concerning women and children in industry These are rather homely topics, such as mothers in their homes and their clubs are thinking and talking about. It is difficult to imagine a convention of men voters spend ing much time or effort in disenssing matters of this kind, important though they may be. The broad human side of public matters is going Id bulk larger and larger in importance now that the women have Jhe vote, new decency will be injected into politics and elections never again can be merely a struggle for position and per jenaj or factional advantage. , Omahas Delayed Building Program. A building show is to be opened on Monday, the purpose being to give an impetus to home ' construction. Everything pertaining to home building 'will be ' on exhibit, with the one im portant exception of how to "get' the work started., This is the real question, for Omaha to solve. The housing situation still is acute, rents are high and places to live in are scarce. Hun dreds of plans are .waiting execution, all held back, however, while the projectors are hoping for something to happen that will put the cost within their means. Some concessions are being made, basic material prices are being lowered in other cities, and soon this change must be re flected in Omaha. Bqton reports the hammer and saw busier 'than in many years, with work- men accepting a reduction in pay; Minneapolis is in the midst of a genuine building boom, and similar "reports come from many other cities eaSt ""Ind west. Here the industry appears to be dead- .ocked and no material progress being made to ward a settlement. The building show may open a way; at least it should stimulate the urge to build to a point that will exert some influence on those who are engaged in the industry and get them to hunting for the basis on which work can go ahead. Might and Majesty of the Tornado. , Terror of the tornado, as Omaha well knows, overshadows any other thought or consideration likely to be bestowed on the phenomenon. Sci entists have studied it, have at least agreed on the physical conditions from which it is begotten, and generally on some of its aspects as proven by its performance. But beyond some elemental facts research is baffled by the apparently lawless thing that really moves in conformity to the primal law. If so terrible a visitation of nature's force may be said to hold majesty, then the tor nado is the most majestic of all spectacles, m6re so ven than a volcanic eruption or earth quake. For the tornado is born of incorporeal substance, expends its energy against the most Tenuous of all elements, the atmosphere, and makes of that yielding and unstable matter an instrument of teriffic destruction. As a sun-spot denotes a violent outburst of confined forces, involving areas inconceivable to man, so does the tornado upheave and disrupt the atmosphere, and from it comes such effects as disclose its might. Devastation marks its path, but for hun dreds of miles around the country feels the might of the dread exhibition. Eight years ago the storm that wrecked Omaha almost drowned Ohio. So now, the twister that tote through Arkansas had for its aftermath the blizzard that covered many states with snow and sleet. Little imagination is needed to outline a pic ture of this awful convulsion of nature, the effort to restore an atmospheric equilibrium that will permit the soft days of spring to follow the turbulence of winter. Meteorologists are con cerned chiefly with ponderable facts, making all allowance for things beyond the record of their instruments, yet they explore with assiduity the realms of the air, hoping to find something to support a law. All they have learned is that when a certain condition exists a tornado is almost certain to develop, and beyond that it is guesswork. What France Has Done How Work of Restoration Has Been Prosecuted by Government (Paul Crnrath la a Letter to the New York Time.) Nothing could be so calculated to prejudice American opinion against .the German side of the reparations discussion as the cruel and un just charges made by Dr. Simons. What the French people have accomplished in two years in rescuing the battlefields of northern France from the ravages of the war is uttie snort ot marvelous While the French gov- ox Self-Determination Hits New York. Why not make a state of New York city, va rious interests there, chafing under the restraint and control exercised by the rural sections of the state, frequently inquire. There is no doubt that in New York state the rural districts, which have lost population while the cities have gained, exercise more influence in legislative matters than their comparative population would jgar rant. And yet many citizens of the metropolHtowiU continue' to be content with the sense of se curity that comes from knowledge that the sane, sober judgment of the farmers is available to prevent corrupt city political gangs from going the full limit and be it said, to bffset the growth of radical thought among the industrial popula tion. ! New York city, as far as numbers goes, is large enough to make a new star in the Amer ican flag. It contains more than half the people of its state, and has more population than all other commonwealths except Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. Indeed, from this standpoint, it could even make a respectable showing as a free and independent nation. With its census showing of 5,620,048 persons, it may claim more than the whole continent of Australia, almost twice as many as either Denmark or Norway, nearly as many as Holland or Sweden and 1, 500,000 more than Switzerland. Only 20 per cent of the New Yorkers are said to be of native parentage, and 40 per cent are said to have come there as immigrants. Sen timent apparently is growing for separation from New York state, but thus far none has risen to suggest going the whole way and erecting an empire with a flag, a national anthem, an army, navy and a conception of national honor which must be protected by diplomacy and force, set ting up a tariff, repealing the prohibitory laws, and making William Randolph Hearst either king or royal jester. Insure Even Dogs Now. The uses of insurance broaden out year by year, and the latest innovation is the decision of one substantial old line company to issue policies on dogs. Cats, . although commonly re puted to have nine lives, are not yet accepted as risks, perhaps because -of the difficulty of ascertaining how many of the nine have termi nated before the pet is offered for insurance. Sta tisticians have neglected dogdom, and the com pany has set its own dignified experts at work gathering data and drawing up mortality tables. Dogs are insured for two-thirds of their value, at the fate of 12 per cent for males and 15 per cent for females. Death from automobile ' accidents is specifically excluded from protection. While the various fighting breeds are admitted, toy degs are not insurable, because of their lux urious surroundings and irregular diet of bon bons and other rich food. , : ..., One by pne the accidents of fate are being provided against. Soon we may hope to insure household canaries, gold fish and pet rabbits, or even guini pigs, but the time will nevef.be reached when a scratching hen with ambitions to dig in the neighbor's garden will be accepted as a good risk. It is possible to conceive of in suring the sweet peas against not blooming, but in all these cases the consolation of money will not repair the sorrow of loss. Why is it '., people on reaching their eightieth or hundredth birthday, insist on danc ing a jig? The way to show youthfulness of spirit is to toddle a bit to know how to jig is to admit and call attention to not being spry and up Vith the times. ' ' Some attention should be paid to the Chicago bank cashier who broke up a bandit raid by kill ing one, woundingftwc' and capturing two others of the gang. ' Sufh news is rare, but is good reading. ' ' : . ' ' . . j ' Perhaps the legislature killed the charter amendment permitting municipal milk service through the suspicion that it might in some way become connected with the municipal water works. , Nicaragua has a real volcano,, but a number of othen nations have substitutes of a political kind that are slightly more than satisfactory. None of the candidates for city commissioner found the primary race very expensive. Purity in politics "is slowly approaching. April Is certainly fixing: things for" May planting. '"' Look out for the silent vote this time., Lost Art of Pretendering Pretendering used to be classed among the romantic arts and extra hazardous) occupations. It shouldn't be any longer, in, the light of ex Emperor Karl's experiences in Hungary. Under the old rules he ought to have faced death or imprisonment as the penalty of his Budapest fiasco. ' In the older days governments and peoples took the kingly theory more seriously. Once a king always a king, was a doctrine applied by the ins against the outs as well as by the outs against the ins. The only eood oretenders. from either point of view, were the dead ones. Rut the war seems to have changed all that, even in central Europe, the stronghold of legitimism. Karl still talks the language of his former roie. He said he would go to Budapest and see whether anyone would, dare to lay hands on his royal person. He was kept waiting in an ante room of an ex-subject, Dictator Horthv, and was treated less like a returning "master" than like a discharged chauffeur.' The Hunsarian nolitiriana had nothing irr particular against him, but they were bored to have him back. They pointed out diplomatically that if he wanted to plav out the game as King ana emperor much the best and safest place to play h was in a Swiss chateau, The central states deposed their kings and emperors because, the latter lost the war. There was little personal feeling against the monarchs, who were mostly figureheads. But a new and materialistic test of devotion to royalty has been introduced. To keep his post a monarch, like a prime minister, must make good. Karl never made good. He could not hold the dual mon archy together, and that was the sole remainine function of the Hapsburg dynasty. He saw at one stage that the empire might be saved if he made a separate peace with the allies. But he was easily frightened off by Germany. As em peror and king he has been cashiered for in competency. Knowing this, the Hungarians and the allied powers alike refused to get ex cited about the "restoration" he was stasinir. He is a movie pretender. No one thought of stand-. jng nun up againsr. a wan, wnicn shows that the world has moved a long, way since Queretard. -New .York Tribune. ' Rents Must Come Down. ' Secretary of Labor Davis informs President Harding and the country that high house rents in the industrial centers now form the greatest obstacle to mediation in labor and wage dis putes. While the cost of living in other respects has declined very substantially within a short time, rents refuse to budge from the high figure established under war conditions. It used to be a rule of the economic doctors in relation to family budgets that no family should spend more than a fourth of its income on housing. But rent conditions are here shown to exist for millions of workers where a third and more of the family income must be expended for housing alone. T What the federal government can do about it is .not exactly clear. But what the states can do is rather strikingly shown in the above comparison, where New York City figures rathd favorably as a result of the rent-restriction leg islation of last year. , Even the increase here, however, is too much. Rents will have to come down in harmony with the general tendency in living costs, and landlords should make due note of the fact New York World. What Dean Ringer Has Done. ' Omaha, April 14 To the Editor of The Bee: Pursuing cuttle-fish methods and dodging the real issues of the municipal campaign, tho World -Herald has turned its mud batteries on J. Dean Ringer, city commissioner tn charge of policy, sanitation and public safety de partment. In doing this It is ap parently a studied effort to turn the ponce aepariment over to the re gime that existed prior to three years ago a regime that was hand In hand with crooks and the lawless element. No one will contend that J. Dean Ringer Is a man who has not made mistakes, but all who are fair- minded will admit' that such mis takes have been corrected and that at the present time the police de partment Is as efficient as any In the country. This efficiency has been brought about, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Ringper has been com pelled to work under a tremendous handicap, as the old gang whose leaders are now supporting James C. Dahlman for mayor have done everything in their power to break mm, destroy his usefulness and pre vent his re-election. To keep the record straight, briefly let us go over a few of the things that Commissioner Ringer nas done and which have met with opposition from the old gang hat would aain fasten its clutches upon the throat of the city, crushing law eminent, like the governments of most of the war-stricken countries, may have been wanting m courage and efficiency, any well-informed per son knows that its chief concern has been the rehabilitation of the devastated areas. It has accomplished a great deal considering the dif ficulties that confronted it. The French government has provided about 35 milliards of francs for the restoration of the devastated area, all of which was raised by in ternal loans. It has endeavored to insure the ap plication 'of this money to actual reconstruc tion by the enactment of the law of 1917, whiab placed a premium on local and immediate re construction of agricultural industries by pro viding for advances to owners,.agreeing to start rebuijding within a stated time, of sums covering the cost of material and equipment at the time of rebuilding, provided the new construction was within 30 miles of the original site. Owners not -intending to rebuild received reparation for meir losses in tne lorm ot non-transferable gov ernment bonds. Already about 80 per cent of the destroyed industrial plants have been rebuilt or are in Drocesi nf rphnilHintr Tn 10?n tlo . duced about 55 per cent of their prewar output! RtalSr1 ha? hSSSmth. The results accomplished "in the rebuilding of "doDe" mna1 Lbr"fn ft! nomes and recurvation of the land ' are even more striking. At the time of the armistice the population of the devastated area had dropped to less than 2,000,000. By June, 1920, it reached 4,000,000, only a little less than the population before the war. Of 9775,000 acres, of arable land within the devastated area, all but about 295,000 acres have been restored to cultivation. Machinery of the valuj of 4,372,000 franci has been provided by the government for the 'aim ers. The preuuetion of agricultural products in the devastated area has now reached about f:0 per cent of its prewar volume. Northern France is again self-supporting so far as the local sup ply of food is concerned. About 250,000 build ings which were partially destroyed have been reconstructed,' while 36,000 b-ii!dings have been completely rebuilt. Municipal life has been re sumed in 5,000 ravaged communes and 6,000 schools have been rebuilt. I have not at hand the statistics as to results accomplished in "the cleaning up of the war areas" said to have been undertaken by "influ ential groups of promoters," but any recent visi tor to France who was familiar with the condi tion of the devastated regions at the time of the armistice knows what surprising results have ,beenj accomplished. Statistics might be multiplied indefinitely but enough have been given to dispose of the. monstrous charge "that there exists in France only a limited degree of concern for the rehab ilitation of the devastated regions." If progress is to be made in creating in, this country a public sentiment favorable to a solution of the reparation problem, that will afford Ger many a reasonable opportunity to resume pro duction on a scale that will keep her people busy, the Gerrdan spokesmen must realize how sincere is the sympathy of the American people for France and how firm is their belief that simple justice requires the allies, and France and Belgium in particular, should receive reparation from the Germans to the full extent of their ability, to pay. Versatile , Automobile. ; Mr. Wit The latest cars must have con densed milk in their radiators. Mr. Slow Not really? T Mr. Wit Well, here's the advertisement ir. the newspaper: On a farm; wanted a young man to milk arid -drive an up-to-date car. London Answers. : Will It Take Longer to Turn? An "English scientist has discovered hOw to lengthen the lives of worms, but unless there has been a general misapprehension as to the lives worms lead, it is not likely that the invention will excite much enthusiasm among them. Toronto JJail and Empire. ' . ; ' ' ' Travel Note. ' Col. George Harvey, who started on Septem ber 15, 1910, from Trenton, N. J., for London, England, expects to arrive in the British me tropolis within a few weeks. New York Herald. dope" selling gang and been In strumentat In. sending a number of the members to the penitentiary. In one raid his men brought in "dope" of the value of $40,000. During the last year, while Mr, Klnger has not been able to stoo bootlegging, under his direction, his men nave confiscated and destroyed 271 stills. v , During last year under the direc' tion of Mr. Ringer, the police con. flscated and destroyed 40,000 gal lons of mash and moonshine liquor of tire value of more than 1400.000, Is Jt any wonder that the bootleggers and their mends are opposing Mr. Ringer and enforcement of law? By reason" of arrests and convic tions of bootleggers, last year fines aggregating more than 135,000 were imposed and collected and In addi tion scores and scores of Jail sen tences. - The record shows that last year crime decreased 2& per'cent in Oma ha, while there was an increase in nearly every" city in the United States. - In Chicago,' St Louis, Denver, Kansas City there were numerous bank robberies, but in Omaha only one was reported, during the last year. In scores, of cities you read of reports of "bank and other mes sengers being hejd up in broad day light and relieved of pay rolls, yet nothing of the kind has occurred In Omaha during the last three years. So much for Ringer and the police that are denounced by one of the Omaha papers. In Omaha automobile thefts de creased 54 per cent in 1919 and 25 per cent in 1920. Auto theft insur ance has been decreased 30 per cent In Omaha during the last year. A gang of pickpockets Invaded Omaha a year ago. Before the mem bers' were able to start work, the gang was broken up by the Omaha police and driven from the city, and this was due to the efficiency of the police and superintendent, J. Dean Ringer. - Hundreds of Instances 'of the good work of .1. Dean Ringer and the police might -be., cited,, but, what's the use? People know of this good work and on, election day tha law abiding voters -of the city ' are going to cast their -votes for Ringer. and the other - candidates on the Committee of 5,000 ticket. ' Comparison of Bail Bonds. Omaha, April 15. to the Editor of The Bee: As attorney for Clifton Hannon, the young man who was shot by Detective Herdzlna and then taken to the South Side police sta tion, and allowed to remain there for 36 hours with a bullet wound through his right arm. and, a .SS caliber bullet imbedded In his skull an inch and a half, without medical attention, I feel - duty bound to call the attention of the -public to this boy's condition, - as It now exists, would probably have' been'dlfferent had the police captain of the South Side station been somewhat more considerate - am not demanded a bond for Hannon's release at an excessive, absurd, ' wholly beyonft reason, sum of $3,000. This same captain set the detective's bond at $2,500. Five hundred less than that of Hannon, and he, openly ad mitted that the only charge possible that could have been filed against the boys was disturbing the peace, drunk or Investigation; the latter being the one he was Anally released on. If Mr. Ringer terms the actions of his captain In setting these bonds as efficiency and condoles his actions as legitimate and within scope of reason, then we, as citizens, if ar rested and held under his jurisdic tion, are subject to the same treat ment as that accorded Clifton Han non at the South Side police station under the officers of his appointment This Is a serious affair, and one that the thinking people should take to heart. If Mr. Ringer terms this "ef ficiency," then he -does not know the proper meaning of the word, and has been acting in his official capacity as commissioner of police on principles different than what we, as citizens; thought he meant when he spoke of "efficiency In his department." . FRANK M. DINE EN. , Weston, of Vlvianl. Arlington;-April 16. To the Edi tor of The Bee: r"When the dlstln guished visitor from France arrived in the United States, people natural ly wondered what nia real mission might be, so he. or his represent tlves, garve the explanation that he came pn' a "mission of courtesy" and merely "to lieten." It is rather difficult to be convinced by that ex planation when .the- regular French ambassador and his staff of dtplo mats at Washington could attend to that Just as well. In all probability Kane Mviani is here to obtain some favor from the United States. France's Ann nolat plight is serious and our assistance may be asked in collecting reparation payments from Germany. But . graver events may be in the shaping, and it behoves us to be on our guard Our ideals are totally - different from those of France and other Eu ropean countries. It is not often mentioned, nor generally known, thai France was before the world war. and la today, the most-mllltaristic nation in the world, keeping more men under arms in proportion to her population titan any other coun try. Even today when France is nearly bankrupt she keeps a stand ing army of over 800,000 men, an extravagance that Is not justified in view of the fact that the German army of which she pretends to be in fear, has been reduced to one eighth tlK't number. This large standing, army, together with the newly formed alliances with Bel glum, Poland and , other near-east nations, brings about the same con ditions that existed ' before 1914. England ami Japan are allied ana if this course of arming and cliqulng is followed, strong attempts will be made to draw the- United States into , soma clique. Possibly, just because tne Jburoppan diplomats were able tiv persuade Woodrow Wllaon to abandon the lofty ideals embodied in nis 14. points on which the armi stice was ooncluded. thev . mav trv to influence our new administration-. rresiaent Harding' first message io congress proves that he is keep lug his own counsel so far. His spcccri breathes true Americanism. His foreign policy promises to be shaped neither in favor bf France, Germany, England nor any other European nation, but with an eye single to the welfare of xh I'jiited States. Let us uphold htm in his truly patriotic course. And when any propaganda appears that might lead us into foreign entar.i-inents, regardless of whether it comes from friend or foe, let us nail it t.nl pre serve our freedom of aetlon. H. G. METER. Money in Suapentlcd Bank. Omaha. April 13. To the Editor of The Bee: Please answer this question: A man has a few thou sand dollars in a bank closed by tha government and in the hands of a receiver. Bank has been closed over tnroe months; have no idea what per cent we will get. riease tell me, can this money be an asset; if so, now mucn on the dollar? MRS. F.'M. Answer: If the money is deposited in a Nebraska bank, it is worth 100 cents on the dollar, as under the state law all bank deposits are guar anteed. If it is in a bank not cov ered by the Nebraska law. then the value or the deposit as an asset can only be determined when final set tlement is made. At present it is merely an unliquidated claim and its value difficult to determine. , Xo Need for Cat Club. Omaha, April 15. To the Editor of The Bee: Being a woman I always defend my own sex when the case will Justify, but I must con fess I am certainly ashamed of my sex who are supporting the Cat club. I wonder if they know that half of the children In our city are under weight and I wonder if they know that hundreds of mothers in our city are struggling with poverty over the washtub trying to eke out an existence for their little ones, and I wonder if it wouldn't bring them bigger returns If. they would give some of these poor mothers a boost along the way. Children are the foundation cf our state. Children first and then cats. MRS. .JOHN HAXTHAUSEN. Dry Law Still Dry. Lincoln, Neb.. April 15. To the Editor of The Bee: There seems to be some misunderstanding In refer ence to the amendments to the state prohibitory law, which have Just passed the legislature. It seems that some members of the house thought the new amend ments made it possible for doctors to prescribe intoxicating" liquors to their patients. This Is not the case. Section 25. of the law. passed by the 1917 legislature and approved April 21, of that year, absolutely prohibited physicians from prescrib ing intoxicating liquor to their pa tients. There is nothing in the amendments, just passed, which, in any way, changes this phase of the law. The people of the state seem to have gotten along very well under the above "bone dry" enactment and we have never thought for one min ute, at this juncture of the game, of recommending any change, what ever, that would let down the bar or make. our law less stringent - , F. A. HIGH. Superintendent Anti-Saloon League of Nebraska. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Quotioni cracirnlaf kyfian, lanitation and prevention of diaaata, aoKraitUd to Dr. Evaaa by roadara ol Tha Boa, will bo anawartd personally, aubjact to proper limitation, wher a etampad addreaeea envelope It encloaed. Dr Evana will not make dlatnoaia or prescribe for individual dlaaaaaa. Addresa letters in car of Tha Bee. Copyright, 1921. by Dr. W. A. Evana M TO PROTECT THE STATE. The Illinois legislature has under consideration a bill drawn by a com mittee on which appears a munic ipal chief justice a corporation coun sel; a chief of police, a speaker of the house, a director of the psycho pathic laboratories, and a half dozen other able and experienced pcopla besides. This bill is entitled an act for th prevention of crime by the segrega tion of the mentally defective with criminal propensities. It' provides a way by which' society can protect itself against certain groups of Us enemies who are irresponsible for their acts. The theory Is that while many of these people should not be punished for their antisocial acts, society has the right to protect itself against them. This must be done in a hu mane way, one that does not con stitute punishment, but that insures protection. The method should be economic as well as humane. The members of the group are mentally sick. This should be rec ognlzed, but it should be valued for what it is worth, hot overdone nor yet too lightly regarded. I am told by Dr. W. J. Hlckson of the psychia tric laboratories of the municipal court that the act does away with the old right and wrong test of respon. slbllity and substitutes one that Is better. A mental defective is defined as meaning a person who has (a) a defect of intelligence; fb) a defect of emotion, or (c) a defect of will of such a degree that he has crlm inal propensities and while at large is a menac to the persons or prop erty of others. The definition draws a distinction between the intellect, the emotion, and the will. A person may be feeble minded and wholly inoffensive and harmless. In so far as his mental limitations will allow he may . be a useful member of society. Another person may have his limitations due to lack of emotional control. So far as purely intellectual processes are concerned he may be above the aver age. His sickness is in his emotion al makeup, not in his higher, brain cells. Every community has its legends of some one or more crazy men who were more than a match mentally for the lawyers who prosecuted them and the physicians who testified against them. Genius and insanity get together in individuals as well as in families' There are persons who are feeble minded but do not have dementia precox; others who have dementia precox but who are not feeble-mind ed, and still others who are both feeble-minded and have dementia, precox. That degree of lack of emo tional stability that results in Irre sponsibility is what this law baa In mnd. - 1 i " "We have a larger nterest In the larger group who are emotionally unstable and are, therefore, less happy, less successful and less ef ficient than they would otherwise, bo, but who are not and should not be candidntes for segregation. We are specially interested -in them be cause so much of their mental lit health could be overcome by train ing. , Avoid Sugar and Starch. Mrs. R. E. G. writes: give me a nonfattenini seems that all food eaten but not much to strength. about 20 pounds overweight. not a heavy eater." REPLY. Avoid all foods containing sugar. In so far as possible avoid bread and other foods Into which flour enters. Avoid cereals and all other starchy foods. , Would Surprise Specialists. X. Y. Z.' writes: "Were any cases of myasthenia gravis ever cured ? 2. How long does a person have It?" REPLY. 1. ' None that I have ever heard about. If a case of suspected my thenta gravis were to recover thai nerve specialists would be disposed to doubt the diagnosis. 2. - The course is variable. In some cases the patient seems to get back at times, but he ultimately relapses. Sfarch. ... . f i: "Will yetf f ng diet? it i en goes to fat. 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VOTE FOR Islet j R Ziiimsii 1 tsisK v. y.; 1 Jt For Re-Election as CITY COMMISSIONER He was the champion of municipal own ership of the waterworks. ; He led successful fights, early in his ca reer, for reductions in electric light rates, in telephone rates, in street car fares, for uni versal transfers and for school children's tickets. - , He helped correct long-standing scandals by his successful fight for open specifications and the widest latitude of competition in street ' .paving contracts. He opposed the five-year gas contract, which the council, over Zimman's protest, granted in defiance of the injunction. . He .was one of the first workers for woman suffrage in Nebraska. He led the fight in the council for dollar gas. He led the fight in the council for an increase in taxation of the pub lic service corporations. . He .was the author of the occupation tax on public service corpora tions, requiring a payment into the city treasury of 3 per cent of their gross receipts, which has netted Omaha to date close to $2,000,000. : He has acted as mediator in labor controversies and was instrument al in settling many threatened strikes. He was active in the fight for municipal taxation of the railroad " terminals. . t He supported the initiative and referendum. He opposed the. twenty-five-year extension of the gas franchise. He opposed, only recently,. the taking over of the gas plant, not as an enemy of municipal ownership, but because he believed the valuation was excessive and would result in. increased rates. .He has shown active opposition to the increase in electric light rates. He worked for the present "honest" election law. , REGISTER NOW! .... ! Election Tuesday, May 3 i I I HI II'.- - ' . - T