THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1921.
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1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of the Ne
braska Highways, including the pave
mnt of Main Thoroughfare loading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A short, low.rato Waterway from tho
Corn Belt to tho Atlantic Ocoan.
4. Homo Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
' Mr. Lauck Parades the Money Devil.
It has been some time since the Money Devil
performed in full view of the audience, but Mr.
W. Jctt Lauck has brought him forth, shorn
somewhat of horrific attributes once his most
potent possession, but still gifted with unesti
tnatcd pow er. According to Mr. Lauck, the rail
roads are owned by the Wall Street banks, and
all the troubles that have overwhelmed the coun
try may be rightfully ascribed to the machina
tions of this combine. It was so in the begin
ning, is now, and perhaps always will be, at
least until a substitute for Wall Street has been
produced. . - ':
What Mr. Lauck does not make plain is the
fact that while the money kings have been de
flating the farmer, and attempting to deflate the
railroad and other workers, they also have been
deflating the railroads themselves. There is not
a railroad line in xthe country today the value of
which, as represented by its shares and other
securities, is equal to what it was six years ago.
A few quotations from the stock list taken at
random, but representing well established lines,
may interest the inquiring reader on this point:
The closing quotations for April 19, 1915, and
the same for April 18, 1921, arc: .
. . 1915. 1911.
,. Union Pacific 131 115 "4
Southern Pacific S3 , 74 H
New York Central ;.. S9 685i
Northern Pacific 110 72
Chicago & Northwestern... 131 63
Chicago. M. & St. P. 64 2
Pennsylvania 110J 33H
This list might be extended to include all the
stocks dealt in, but it will serve to show that
the railrdads have also undergone some of the
deflation Mr. Lauck refers to.' If these stocks
are owned by the banks, as alleged, it must be
true that the institutions referred to have taken
a heavy loss in their assets. A loss of $77 per.
share in the value of the Pennsylvania railroad,
for example, would be felt by any institution. A
similar deflation may benoted in Chicago &
Northwestern-, while even the old reliable Union
Pacific reflects a shrinkage of $16.50 per share in
value in that time.
If, as Mr. Lauck suggests, this is brought
about by the manipulation of the moneyed inter
ests, then it means that the country is being vic
timized by the greatest conspiracy ever known.
However, the real truth is very likely just the
opposite. Our transportation industry was
brought to the very verge of extinction by med
dlesome interference on part of the federal gov
ernment,' by unwise experimentation in govern
ment management, and its recovery -will 'not be
brought about. along the way now pointed out.
If Mr. Lauck's, newest work is to support the
theory of government ownership, it is cleverly
designed, but if it has in View helpfulness tq a
great industry it is not well timed. What the
railroads need most is a few boosts and not so
many knocks.
Rent Regulation is Legal.
;. A ray of light is shed across the tenant's path
by the decision of the United -States supreme
court that the New York and District of Co
lumbia rent regulation laws are valid. This is
not a Magna Charta for the renter, but it is a
warning to the landlord. Anything that ap
proaches modification of the ancient principle
that an owner may do with his property what he
cares to, so long as he does not use it to the
detriment of the public, will be, accepted ,'with
reluctance by the landlords, who justify them
selves on the time-worn doctrine involved in all
property rights.
The state may not seize property except for
I public purposes, and then only by process of.
Jaw and with proper compensation, riow. tar
regulation of rent amounts to seizure of property
is open to argument. It docs seem that the po
lice' power, which continually is being stretched
to govern newer and more personal aspects of
the social relation, may without violence be made
to include the rentals exacted for the use of
property at a time of great emergency, Housing
facilities ar; short because construction was
stopped at behest of ths federal government,
which commandeered labor and material for war
uses. A condition thus artificially set up should
not be allowed to work hardship to many for
the benefit of a few. '
. Opposed to this the landlord presents the
fact that reproduction cost has advanced to a
point far beyond where the former rate of rental
paid him a reasonable profit. This can not be
denied, but the state yet has the power to make
!!iiry and determine the facts, under the Ball
,sw, and, in the case of the New York law. to
forbid ejection of tenants under circumstances
that would work unnecessary hardship. These
new decisions may be opening a way to a better
adjustment of an important relationship, the
chords of which are very sorely strained at the
moment -
now look to the men's brotherhoods instead of
the women's church societies for their greatest
backing, and some indicate the belief that women
are falling away from their religious connections.
They may indeed be too busy or too tired to
perform, the innumerable services that vere"
forced upon them by the neglect of the men of
the congregation, and no wonder, but it is not
to be feared that they are a whit less devotional.
There was pleasure in the drudgery of church
suppers and sociables, but it was drudgery, and
ill paid drudgery at that, judged from the mone
tary reward brought to the church. If the men
are really shouldering their responsibilities, and
the church is put on a sound financial basis, all
will be gainers. '
What The Bee Is Trying tb Do.
The World-Herald, having lined up solidly
behind the Dahlman slate, in the city campaign,
shows real interest to the extent of almost daily
editorial comment in the recommendations
which The Bee has made. Its attention is almost
overwhelming to a contemporary which is en
deavoring Jo steer its course as best it may for
the service of the community, without flam
boyance, without buncombe and without malice
toward' those so unhappy as to disagree with it.
The World-Herald insists upon trying to find
some mysterious Machiavelian cunning in The
Bee's attitude, something not only mysterious
but also since it is The Bee and not the World
Herald something sinister as. well. It intimates
that The Bee is playing politics for some un
stated end, unstated perhaps because unknown,
unknown possibly because nonexistent.
Unfortunately, The Bee can not assist in
shedding light into the darkness, for it sees no'
dark spot. Unlike its worried and curious con
temporary, The Bee is not building political
fences to. support personal ambition. It is not
picking candidates for city office because of the
effect their election may have upon the cam
paign of 1922, upon the election, for example, of
a United States senator. Neither is it possessed
of that peculiar mental obliquity which permits
it to think that Dean Ringer is in league with
the bootleggers and is at the same time over
zealous in trying to curb bootlegging,'
Not being burdened with any of these obses
sions. The Bee has no interest in the city cam
paign beyond the selection of fair-minded, capa
ble and honest men to administer the city gov
ernment Applying that principle of selection
and looking over the field, The Bee came to the
conclusion that Omaha's present commissioners
measure up pretty well, that the city in fact can
do no better than to re-elect them.
It is so simple that one can not wonder at
the confusion that afflicts the World-Herald.
Judged by past performance, that is not the way
in which the World-Herald picks a ticket. Natur
ally it .is befuddled by the very simplicity of the
situation.
Harding and the Old Creek.
Be one's position never so hign there is no
joy like that of the childhood years that are past.
"There are one or two swimming pools in the
creek near Caledonia, Q., that I would like to
get into again right now, if it were possible," we
find President Harding writing to a small boy in
Washington who bespoke his help to build a
pool in a crowded district of the national capital.
Oh! the old ewlmmln' hole! , In the long lazy
days ' .
When the humdrum of school made so manj
' run-a-ways,
How plesent was the Jurney down the old,
dusty lane,- -Where
the tracks ot our bare feet was aU
printed so plane
You could tell by the dent of the heel and the
. sole
They waa lots of fun on hands at the old
awimmln' hole.
But the lost joy la past! Let your tears in
orrow roll
Like the tain that used to dapple up the old
awimmln' hole.
Thus docs James Whitcomb "Riley call up
the memories that rise in the White House and
in many another and humbler home with the
first signs of summer warmth. Middle western
streams are not free from murky soil and bath
ing on sandy ocean beaches may perhaps have
its charms, but for pure" fun, give a boy a muddy
bank down which to make a slippery slide, an.
overhanging tree from which to swing far out
and drop, plunging to the bottom and coming up
with a double handful of silt, and he will not
worry his head over whether every boy really
has a chance to become president or not, not
even pause to wonder if Skinny Maloy is back
in the bushes tying knots in his overalls and shirt,
Enlisting Men in the Churches. ,
If the men are replacing the women as the
mainstay of the churches, this is no more than
they should do. The chances are that all they
are really doing is taking their share of the bur
den, If such it may be called. Too long have
churches relied for funds on the sewing and
cooking of the mothers, wives and sisters. As a
result the maintenance of many churches has not
been on a business basis, but has rested on a sort
; f charity. ' ; ; v. . "
Several Omaha minister report that they
Luther s Reliance on Music.
If, as Martin Luther held, the devil hates
music, for four hundred years the hymns written
by the great German churchman has been a
thorn in the flesh of evil. The battle hymn of
the reformation was Luther's song, "A Mighty
Fortress Is, Our God," and this, with another
of his composition, "How Firm a Foundation,"
was sung on' the 400th anniversary of his trial
before the Diet of Worms, still as fresh and
strong as the day they were written.
It is related that Luther spent a greater part
of the night before he appeared to give an ac
count of his doctrine to the Diet in playing on
the lute, "in order to compose, and calm his
mind." Hard fighter though he was, he had a
gentler side that won him warm adherents, and
his music was as much a part of his appeal as his
more fundamental teachings.
By his translation of the Bible he created for
the Gentian people a unified language which
formed" a bond which later w-as to realize his
idea of unity and independence. The son of a
miner, yet he had obtained a thorough education
and was much interested in the establishment
of schools. Yet the fact that he introduced
choral hymns into religious services, and that
some of his music has come down to us from
the Sixteenth century gives the most human
link of all. '
The California man who urges that Japanese
be barred from America forever, should take
thought that "forever" is a long word, and that
stranger things have been seen in history than
Japanese and American troops fighting shoulder
to shoulder against a common enemy. . 1
A man fell out of a second-story window and
was killed, and, still no one has requested a law
prohibiting second-story windows, perhaps be-;
cause this is the sort of .thing that only happens
once in a lifetime.
King Alfonso is now raising chickens, and in
spite of his natural aversion for the color, !s
specializing in Rhode Island Reds, which in
stead of laying olots. only- lay eggs. ..;'.."
The Spanish doctors have gone on strike, but
then, over there they do not have to be relied
upon for thirst remedies, and the people are not
altogether without relief.
In the Wake of Mr, Chesterton
The Appalling Catastrophe Recently
Occasioned in Our Quiet Home
Town by a Public Lecture.
(By Stephen Leacock in Vanity Fair.)
Until Mr. Chesterton came and lectured in
our (own, life has moved along, in a more or less
monotonous way. I don't mean that nothing ever
happened. There had been the great war of
course, and various things of the sort. But no
real upheaval.
The standard of general intelligence had
seemed to be slowly rising. The ability to read
was almost universal among the educated classes
and was accompanied, to a considerable extent,
by a desire to do so. Schools had been founded
and were received with something like general
approbation. A university had been endowed and
a professoriate attached to it. The legislature
was even considering a vote of a million dollars
to the institution. There were a quite consider
able group of people who understood Browning,
wnne tne aoiuty to give and receive the Kubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam as a Xmas present had as
sumed of late years, a very flattering proportion.
In short there was a decided atmosphere of in
tellectuality. , '
All this is altered now.
On a given evening, with a fair warning to
the public press, Mr. Chesterton delivered a lec
ture on "The Ignorance of the Educated." Natur
ally this topic attracted all the educated and all
the ignorant. No arrangement was made for
seating them separately. They were all mixed up
and there was no way of telling them apart. A
press report referred "to the audience as the "in
telligenzia" of the city; but I don't think it was
quite so bad as that.
At the lecture itself there was little visible
sign of intellectual disturbance. A few persons
at the close of the lecture were permitted, to
ask questions and were treated as they deserved.
It is safe to say that no one at the time realized
the catastrophe that had happened.
The next day the controversy broke out It
is still raging. Till it can be settled our intel
lectual' life is suspended; the vote of a million
dollars to the university by the legislature is in
definitely held up.
The question is this. Some claim that Mr.
Chesterton's lecture was the most brilliant liter
ary diagnosis they ever heard; others say that
it was the damnedest tommyrot they ever list
ened to. The first school hold that Mr. Chester
ton's synthetic hypothesis was fascinating; the
second claim that they don't know what in hell
he was talking about The adherents to the first
view state that Mr. Chesterton's lecture was the
most nimble piece of dialectic imaginable the
others, that it was the most awful piece of piffle
they ever had to sit through.
The above division indicates the general basis
of the controversy, but in detail it resolves itself
with more specific inquiries and more refined
shades of opinion.
Thus, in connection with the general locus of
the lecture it is unanimously held
That it was over the heads of the audience,
That it was below their level,
That it was above them, ,
That it was beyond them,
That it was beneath them. 1
That it was entirely aside from them.
In short, there is no unanimity of opinion
even to the simple question of where the lecture
was. There is a similar diversity of opinion in
regard to the effect or chemical reaction on the
audience.
It is variously held
, That it teft them cold, .
That it got them warmed up,
That they were simply convulsed,
That they were bored stiff,
That they were in fits,
That they damn near died.
And in addition there are a number of single and
particular issues that are joined in connection
with the main line of dispute. Of these may be
mentioned the claims
That the lecture was priceless, .
That it wasn't worth two dollars,
or the very hotly debated argument to the ef
fect that
The whole lecture was a delightful piece of
fooling. ,
That whole lecture was a piece of damfool-
ishness. - -
You might have thought that, some help to
ward a solution would have been found in a
study of-the press reports of Mr. Chesterton's
discourse. But unfortunately they are character
ized by a peculiar vagueness, as if the reporter
himself had suffered internally from the same
controversy as affected the general public. The
report which seems to come nearest to a definite
pronouncement appears to be the following:
,"Mr. Chesterton's lecture last night was a
decided coup de surprise for those who had ex
pected a lecture en regie. From first to last the
whole causerie was characterized by a charming
espieglerie that was little short of diablerie. As
a jeu d'esprit it appealed to us as a tour de force
but whethtr it had any signification is more than
we can expliquer."
' Meantime; the most distressing phase of the
situation is the fact that Mr. Chesterton's doc
trine, or .what is supposed to be his doctrine, is
spreading1. It is generally understood that he
was claiming that education is no use and that
an illiterate waiter is a wiser man than a cabinet
minister.. This idea has taken hold. The speech
and manner of illiterate waiters are being widely
copied. Several of them are now giving lessons
in the illiterate use of English at high prices.
The effects as seen already in the speech of our
leading public men and leading citizens is quite
deplorable. As one example among many, let
me refer to the case of the Anglican bishop of
the city, a man hitherto quite notable for his
scholarship and culture. On the evening of Mr.
Chesterton's lecture he was sitting on a front
seat, evidently much impressed. On the follow
ing Sunday in place of his usual sermon, he is
reported as saying
"There's a lot of guys in this here congrega
tion that are no better than so many boneheads
and tightwads. I want to see them loosen up
and shake out something if not there'll be some
thing doing- in-this church. If every gink in this
church don't come across with his dough he'll
hear from me. Now turn to Corinthians Six and
listen to me spiel a piece of it." -
Deplorable though this is, it is easily matched
by similar cases of Chestertonism all over our
city. The dean of one of our college faculties
is reported as having put up a college notice to
the effect tht "This Faculty ain't giving no Lec
tures on Toosday." Our railway companies are
putting up such notices as "This Here Train
Don't Carry Nothing But Sleepers;" our thea
ters have signs that read "There Isn't Only
Standing Room;" and on the boards in front of
our churches the inscriptions read, "Divine Serv
ice Right Off; Hop In."
We understand that Mr. Chesterton has re
turned to England, But we appeal to him in
fairness, before our intellectual ruin is complete,
to come back and say that he didn't mean it.
A Vanished Hope.
-, Having watched the adventure of Carl Haps
burg over his shoulder and seen it come to an
inglorious end, Wilhelm Hohenzollern oils his
trusty saw blade and resumes his exercise at the
woodpile. Chicago Daily' News.
' He Keep 'Em Seasick.
The Boston Herald says that Colonel Harvey,
who is to be ambassador at the court of St. Tames,
will not rock the boat Not if he's in it. But he
is mighty clever at rocking the boatman. New
Bedford Standard.
All He Owned.
"I wonder will Smithers always allude to his
wife so lovingly as 'my own'?"
"Well, she is his own. Everything else iii
the house he is nayinpr for on the .installment
plan. Pearson's W'eekly.
How to Keep Well
' By DR. W. A. EVANS
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.','.'. The Only One.
w The fellow who can fool all of the women all
ot the time is the fellow who changes the fash
ions. Jewell I Kan.) Republican.
HEROES AND HERO WORSHIP
"I am somewhat Interested." C. F.
S. writes, "in the question of com
petitive athletics between grade
school teams. Some of us have felt
that the college attitude toward ath
Ictlca is being introduced Into tho
hfch schools, not always with the
best results. Where I live we have
had this uprlng basket ball contests
between schools representing the va
rious towns in the county. These
teams were composed of pupils be
low high school ago. There was a
championship tournament with all
the accomplishments of organized
rootinsr and "please to stand behind
tho team,' etc.
"Without wishing to degenerate
Into the old fogy class that disap
proves of everything the youngster
wish to do, I have my own feeling
that such highly organized competi
tive events between pupils of the
seventh and eighth grades are not
desirable. ,
"Moreover, It does not seem to me
to bo a irood thing to- change the
proper duties of a physical instructor
to those of on athletic coach whose
main purpose is to build up a cham
pionship team. Naturally the larger
and older pupils, some of them pos
sibly in the urades because of back
wardness, are made tho heroes of
such contents."
Your letter raises one or two in
teresting rfUestions not dlreotly re
lated to your main theme. One is
the advisability of organizing the
partisanship of pupils in the grade
schools. Most people hold that chil
dren of the grade ajres are better
off when tholr piny activities are left
pretty much alone.
Whatever we do. Initiative, deci
sion, self-reliance, individuality, in
ventiveness must be given opportuni
ty for development. Organization can
be carried far enough to stifle these
qualities. Organization of play ac
tivities runs this risk.
The machinery of major competi
tion in college athletics has its
harmful qualities as well as its good
ones. ' Th'cee harmful qualities are
not lost when the same machinery Is
carried over into high school major
athletics. Why extend them to the
grades?.
Another secondary point which
your letter brings out is the mob
spirit ' and hero worship which it
builds up behind the high grade
feeble-minded and the backward
boy. Eoy$ of thla type- rarely, get
to college. They have neither the
capacity nor the appetite for college
education. Not many of them are
passed or care to be passed into the
high school. But their infirmity
holds many of them in the grades
when they are old enough and
strong enough to be in tho high
school.
Were they In the high school they
would not he good enoufih to make
the team. In the grade they make
the teum hecause they nre stronger
physically than tho 12 -year-olds with
whom they compete. It is a bad
thing for an impressionable, imita
tive boy to make heroes of boys that
are 1 years old physically and 12
years old mentally. I think the pro
posal .is bad, socially and mentally..
Uses Adrenalin.
A. I writes: "Have athma for
nine months, very severe, and have
to use 10 drops of adrenalin to re
lieve me about three times a day. 1.
Is there any harm in using adrena-
,Lets Buy the Oil
Major Frank Knox In the Manchester
(V. H.V Union.
Despite all attempts to gloss over
the facta in the case, the real, un
derlying reason for the re-appearance
of the Colombian treaty" may
be denned in three- letters: O-I-I
Secretary Fall's presence in the sen
ate chamber and the significant
statement attributed to him, that
the greatest oil field of the world
was Colombia and adjoining Central
American territory, featured the re
introduction of the treaty -and Sena
tor Lodge's curious reversal of his
previous position. The underground,
subterranean argunjent, which finds
no expression In the record, but free
ly circulates in the senate cloak
rooms, is that unless we make our
peace with Colombia and salve her
feelings with a cool $25,000,000, the
British will "beat us to it" in the
capture of tho Central American
oil fields. . .
Now, an alert concern for com
mercial advantage for the United
States, particularly in fuel oil re
sources, wholly commendable. We
let England grab oft the major por
tion of the Tampico oil fields in
Mexico, which, despite the embar
rassments that attach to their culti
vation, are depended upon largely
by Britain for fuel for her fleet If
we are on our toes we should prevent
a repetition of - this experience in
Central America. But why not, if
we want- those oil fields, be, frank
about it? Why swallow our pride
by demeaning ourselves to a bunch
of Central American blackmailers
and buccaneers? Why besmirch the
record of our country, and one of its
greatest men, who was-, responsible
for one of the greatest constructive
publp works in world history"?"
If Colombia has oil, it is for sale.
There's not much .of anything down
in that country, including national
and personal honor, that Is not for
sale. What the Colombia crew want
is the money.' They have already
disclosed their Indifference to any
proposed salve to their feelings by
agreeing to the elimination of the
apology for our ruthlessness in sit
ting by and permitting.. Panama to
revolt, and deal directly with the
United States, with consequent mone
tary advantage. Indeed, this indif
ference to questions of honor was
disclosed in their dealings witlius,
prior to the Panama revolution. The
supposed sacredness of a treaty ob
ligation1 , weighed but slightly with
them when they thought by violating
that pledge they could profit thereby.
Nothing conld be more ephemeral
and impractical than to suppose
that the payment of I25.00O.P00 to
the Colombians would insure our
preferential treatment- In oil con
cessions. After we had paid the
blood money, satisfied the bribe, we
would speedily find that if we want
ed their oil we would still have to
compete with others for oil conceav
slons. The thing to do is to ouh,
talking nbout any piker sum like
$25,000,000. If it is the oil we are
after, let's raise the ante and ' buy
the whole country. It isn't worth
much more than the price of the oil
concessions themselves. Our experts
ought to be able to tell us what a
fair price would be. Let's offer-that
and forget all this tommyrot about
Colombia's injured feelings because
she overreached herself . and gave
Panama a chance to carry home the
bacon.
If we buy their oil we will really
get something for our money. If we
try to buy their friendship, we will
get Just what we deserve a hollow,
hoarse laugh from our newly-bought
friend when we try to talk about
oil. They are sure to intimate very
broadly thk down in their country,
the only thing that la articulate un
der such circumstancee Is coin of the
realm, gold coin ot our realm.
lln? 2. Have had my nose operated
on recently. Will that help? t. Is
there any way I can get relief?
REPLY.
1. Probably not.
2. It is possible.
3. You are in New York. Why
not go to a hay fever and asthma
clinic? -
Your Friend Is Wron?.
Mrs. R. I V. writes: "I would
like to get a little information about
my two boys. The oldest is . This
Is about his dally diet: Breakfast,
one average teacup of rolled oats
with milk and one teaspoon of sugar,
one medium slice toast. For his
school lunch he has two sandwiches,
always one of egg or cheese. For
dinner a medium plate of. say, small
piece of meat, small potato, table
spoon of beans, and three prunes. He
never gets more than I have men
tioned. My fromd says he eats like
a man and has tapeworm. Do I
overfeed him or not?
"My bahy Is 4 years old and does
not talk plainly. My doctor says he
Is not tongue tied. Do you think
there is anything wrong? He had
pneumonia at the age of 1 year and
was sick three months. Do a boy
of 11 and one of 6 usually require
about the same amount of food?
They both play and run about the
same."
REPLY.
As to the older boy, I do not think
he is eating too much. The 11-year-old
boy needs more than the 6-year-old
because he is heavier. Weight
determines the food requirement
when the work factor is equal. As
to the 4-year-old, I do not know what
to aay, as no details are furnished.
Spend some time and attention in
training him to speak properly.
Offem Catarrh Remedy.
J. W. C. writes: "For many years
I suffered acute attacks of catarrh,
which lasted two or three weeks, or,
with relapses, twice that long. The
annoyance was very great. Some
years ogo I hit on the plan of
dropping a mild liquid antiseptic
into both mostrils from a medicine
dropper while bending forward and
down a far as I could. I then stood
erect, throwing my head back to let
the medicine run backward towards
the throat. My case is highly chronic
and I could not expect a cure, but
I have been able to control, or large
ly sidetrack, all colds. The cost is
trifling and the trouble is slight By
the course followed the whole mu
cous membrane is bathed with the
antiseptic. The results for me were
more satisfactory than from a spe
cialist's spray under pressure."
Thrombosis Is Blood Clot.
T? T. T nrrlrea: "Is thrombosis the'
same as paralysis, and what is the
general csubo of it? My husband
ia affiiptori with it. but I cannot
.am tn find nv Ann who can give
me a definition I can understand."
REPLY.
A thrrimhriBla in a. blond clot. In
thrombosis resulting in paralysis
tnere is a rormaiion or a civi m
l-.frw1 VA.eal in tVlA VtrAln. AnAnlftYV
or hemiplegia or one-sided paralysis
may be due to thrombosis, embolism,
or blood vessel rupture. - In throm-
hnulo tlin r-lnr fnrma In blood Ves
sel of the brain. In embolism due
to elot tne clot, navmg Deen xormea
rrlprl tn the brain.
Ordinary apoplexy is due to a break
of a brain mooa vessel wwn Hemorr
hage into the brain.
1 "Diet Probably Wrong.' '
J. F. C: "A. Several times' a
year or oftener I am troubled with
white, painful sores on my tongue or
Hps (probably canker sores). When
I get them my tongue generally is
Inflamdd and sometlnmes has dents
cm the side of it. Can you tell me
where these sores emanate? B. Can
It be my blood? C. I think my stom
ach is in good order, i. wnat wouia
you advise me to do to cure myself
of these sores 7"
REPLY. .
Cankers in the mouth mean the
rating habits are wrong. You can
get . relief by touching the cankers
with caustic, taking a purgative in
ternally, and living for a few days
on a very restricted diet To get
remanent relief you must change
your eating habits. The condition of
your blood has nothing to do witn
the case. '
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High Freight Rates.
Button. Neb.. April !. To the
Editor of The Bee: Recently Clay
county purchased a carload of lum
ber on the Pacific coast for bridges.
It cost $850. The freight on that
ear ot lumber was $700. A cltlsen of
this town sent a small Sack of pota
toes by freight to Geneva costing him
55 cents. The freight on It was CO
cents. These cut-throat freight charg
es are due to excess wages of railroad
employes. Soon trunk lines like tho
Burlington will be compelled to take
all trains off except just enough to
carry the malls. Two big stores, one
150 feet deep and the Basket store.
have succumbed to the withering
blight of monstrously; high freight
rates. Tne end or all this is approach
lng and nothing short of a 60 per
cent cut In rail wages will save the
whole business community and the
farming class from bankruptcy.
TAXPAYER.
' Denounce Georgia Horror.
Omaha. April IS. To the Editor
of The Bee: The enclosed resolu
tions were adopted at St. John's A.
M. E. ehurch, April 17.
JNO. C. PARKER.
Whereas, The pullo press of the
country gave Its readers an account
of the operation of a peonage farm
in the state of Georgia, which for
cruelty, savagery, and unbelievable
ferocity and demoniacal brutality
surpasses any'event In the annals of
crime in this country, chronicled in
recent years.
Whereas. The inhuman treatment
of helpless persons such as was given
by the owner of this farm. John S.
Williams and his three sons, to those
poor negro convicts, compares fa
vorably witn the cruelty or the feud
al barons of the 10th and 11th
centuries in Europe, who wreaked
their wills upon their hapless sub
jects. Whereas, The facts In this case
coming to the knowledge of the
country aroused In all classes a desire
that full, exact and immediate Jus
tice be meted out to the accused per
petrators of this awful crime.
Whereas, The federal govern
ment, through the Department of
Justice, instituted an investigation of
the case and took steps to adequately
punish the persons concerned.
Whereas, The government and
the forces of law and order in the
state of Georgia have risen to the
level of the occasion demanded and
have promptly and effectively ap
plied tho punishment demanded;
therefore, be It
Resolved, That St. John's A. M.
E. church of Omaha, Neb., in session
thla 17th day of April, 121, doea
hereby express its sense of deep satis
faction at this manifestation of re
spect for the rights of cttlsens, ir
respective of race, color, creed or
politics, in determining that the law
shall bg impartially enforced; be
It further
Resolved. That we be inspired
with the hope that this act of law
enforcement will be the beginning
of a reign of law and order instead
of continued defiance of the law;
be it also
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be forwarded to the presi
dent of the United States, to the
governor of the state of Georgia and
the daily press of this city.
REV. W. C. WILLIAMS.
Pastor.
JAS. A CLARKES,
MRS. CECILIA W. JEWEL
. JNO. C. PARKER, '
Committee on Resolutions.
Recalls tho Past.
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make the leading character a
waitress and our $5,000-a-week star
refuses to play the part."
"Why?" asked the playwright.
"She used to be one." Birming
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