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THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1921
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1. New Uaion Plate agar Stalioa.
I. Continued improvement of the No
kraaka Highways, including tka pave
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the
Cora Beh to tko Atlantic Ocean.
4. Homo Rule Charter for Omaha., with
City Manager form of Government,
Freight on Building Material.
A concerted effort or part of building material
men to secure some concessions on freight rates
is veil timed. With the exception, possibly, of
agriculture, no industry has been hit harder by
the excessive cost of transportation than building.
All the material that enters into the construction
bt any form of struct u re is bulky; sand, stone,
brick, cement, lime, lumber and steel, all is coarse
material, grouped among the low orders of
freight, but subject ut present to such impost
of rates as practically prohibits hauling. An
Omaha lumber jobber is responsible for the
Statement that he can buy lumber at the Pacific
coast mills now at practically the 1913 price,
but must pay $6.75 more freight per thousand
feet than then. It is against this condition the
.trade is protesting.
Some observers arc inclined to the belief that
!f the financial alTuirs of the country were less
sjgid. sufficient tonnage would be produced to
1 employ the railroads, even at present rates. That
is a purely speculative pointy and scarcely worth
considering at the moment. The outstanding
feature of business is that money is not easy,
that producers arc not employed, and that freight
is not moving. If the. lowering of freight rates
will set wheels to turning again, it seems to be
better for all hands that the rates come down.
Needed adjustments in other lines will be made
with less of disturbance after something like a
general resumption of business activity has actu
ally been experienced. The demand for housing
facilities is acute in all parts of the country, and
will not be lessened until the builders are em
ployed. The railroads have put a strangle hold
on this industry by high tariff schedule. We hope
the authorities at (Washington will give heed to
the protest now made by the material men.
Every Farmer His Own Packer.
Contrary to what is often alleged, the state
agricultural college at Lincoln is teaching the
farm boys, that they do not need a lot of fancy
equipment on the farm. The training is directed
toward enabling them to make the most of
what they have, and not to give up because they
can't have every convenience.
For instance, Prof. W. J. Loeffel is showing
them how, with a good sharp knife, a heavy
sledge and a few other simple instruments, they
can produce their own meat.' For a time agri
culture seemed bound on a narrow specialization
that would leave the farmer raising 'only one
crop and buying most of his food. In some
country homes butter never appeared on the
table, substitutes being brought out from town;
meat was shipped in from the cities and fruit
from the Pacific coast
There is a slaughter house on the state farm.
It has supplied the school cafeteria with meat
and sold during last winter $1,000 worth , of
meat. The students are taught to slaughter,
dress and cure their own meat, to make lard,
tallow, soap and other by-products on the farm,
and a study is now being made of home tan
ning, this being made important by the present
low prices for hides.
The boys judge the cattle, sheep and hogs on
the hoof, keep a record and compare it with the
result when the animals are killed and dressed.
In Addition to learning how to provide their own
beef, pork and mutton, they are learning what
is (under the lndc a useful thing for any stock
grower. The home economics girls learn from
this proqess how to judge meat and become
acquainted wiih'the names of cheaper cuts than
T-bone stitius and rib roasts. Professor Loeffel
hae a theory that if the names of the cheaper
cuts were made more 'familiar, customers would
not fall back on the expensive cuts out of their
ignorance, but would more often call for the in
expensive parts.
Reference formerly was to "the independent
farmer." Later some one denned this by saying
that he was as independent as a hog on ice
if be couldn't stand up, he could fit down. And
indeed the definition has fitted somewhat closely.
But with such training -as that given in the
farm slaughter house a very real encouragement
to more self-contained agriculture may be given.
' Solemn Warnings for Somebody.
Crover Cleveland Bergdoll is m Germany,
leering at the United States, while "Bis BUI"
Haywood is supposed to be "somewhere in Rus
sia," presumably also jeering at Uncle Sam's
leaky jails and elastic system of dealing with cul
prits. Both these men are at liberty because
neither is trustworthy. ' Bergdoll practiced on
tht credulity of his counsel, we almost said sim
plicity, and through a fairy tale succeeded in get
fJtaf one, a former officer of the United States
artsy, to pledge for him if allowed to leave his
place of confinement temporarily. Haywood
Jumped his bail, the bond, it is reported, having
beta furnished front the exchequer of the I. W.
W. Now, k is barely possibl that late Brig.
Gen. Samuel T. AnseU has learned another Ut
OB that he did not pick up while he was acting
Judge advocate general of the army, and win
eer again permit himself to be gulled as he
yt by the notorious Philadelphia slacker.
Likewise, we doubt if the next secretary of the
Sobblies" will find the "sab cat" quite so ready
to risk $15,000 in actual cash on his fidelity and
staunch devotion to the" organization while the
door of the penitentiary is open for him. This
pair of deserters have made life just a little
tfrtir for everybody by subtracting a little
something from the sum of human faith. It will
be a sorry day for mankind when all men must
be dealt with as faithless and recreant, but judges
and jailers alike are not encouraged by such
performances as those under consideration.
After the Vote Is Counted.
The citizens of Omaha have registered their
choice for commissioners in a manner that leaves
no room for doubt as to the result. With the
high man of the defeated group 3,000 votes be
hind the low man of the winning combination,
and more than 14,000 votes separating the high
and low of the fourteen, the outcome is beyond
dispute as to intent or result.
The Bee is not in a mood to dissect or analyze
the lesson of the ballots, believing the underlying
cause to be beyond cavil or question. What we
do ask is a closing up of the ranks of the citizen
ship, that the onward push of the city be not re
tarded by the bitterness that was engendered dur
ing the campaign. Unless there is harmony and
unity of thouglu and action, community growth
will be halted.
Four members of the new commission have had
much experience in public office, Messrs. Dahl
niin, Butler, Zimman and Hummel!. They are
familiar with the details of city management,
and so form a nucleus around which a stable
organization may be framed. Dunn, Koutsky
and Hopkins are the really new members of the
commission, and may be expected to take their
places as such. It is certain that some changes
will be made in the method of government, but
it is not expected that the greater plans for the
future will be interfered with .because of the
altered attitude on other matters.
The Bee gave its support during the campaign
to six men whom we felt were qualified by ex
perience and training to well ser.ve the city as
commissioners. Two of these were elected. We
especially wish to congratulate MrUre on the
fact that, although defeated, he Jed the group
with which he was finally identified. This is a
tribute to him. because it is a recognition of his
ability as an official.
Another fact which The Bee feels justified in
pointing out at this time is that it took no part
in the unseemly doings of the campaign, save
as a chronicler of the news. None of the candi
dates were attacked through its columns, but it
did sincerely and seriously argue for those who
seemed better deserving of public, support. If
the proceedings were not always on the high
plane this paper believes is the correct one to
occupy when seeking men to control and manage
the public affairs of the community, blame must
rest elsewhere. The Bee has earnestly tried to
appeal to the sensible judgment of its readers,
and to be fair in its dealings with them, a policy
to which it is at all times devoted.
Welcome to the Students.
Omaha will be host, Friday, to a thousand or
more students of the University of Nebraska.
Some of them, perhaps, will visit here for the
first time, and all coming once, will want to come
again. The shops and factories of the city have
taken upon themselves the duties of hosts, and in
conducting the students through the various
business institutions, in showing them from mo
tor cars the beauty and extent of the city, pleas
ure and instruction will be combined.
The occasion is not an athletic contest but the
more simple one of getting acquainted. These
young men and women are in training for life,
and come to Omaha to get in touch with the
reality that is so difficult of attainment on the
campus. There are among them engineers who
will tour with interest the works and plants that
they know from their books. Many others will
be from the school of business administration,
coming to view finance and industry from the
practical angle. Scoffers used to say that "col
lege bred is four years' loaf," but the truth is
quite otherwise.
Omaha is proud of the state university, and
welcomes these young men and women. It will
do its best to make their visit a holiday, but at
the same time will, through the co-operation of
the business houses, strive to open whatever
books of knowledge they may wish to examine.
Under Deluge of Gold
New York Assay Office Sent
Out S. O. S. Because of Burden
Roads With an End.
Faith in good roads continues to grow in
spite of the increasing costs of construction.
Announcement of plans for improving 400 miles
of highways in Nebraska under the provisions
of federal aid, at a cost of $1,500,000 is evidence
of this. Thirty-three counties are to participate
in this program for hard-surfaced roads.
It is an old story now, the arguments in
favor of easier access to market ior the farmers.
In many instances the cost of getting the crops
from the farm to the shipping point over poor
roads has been "as great as the freight charge
for transportation to the terminal
Some significance may be seen in the widely
scattered routes chosen for permanent construc
tion Cross-country trails and highways have
their advantages, but the road that holds the
most utility for the farmer is one not paralleling
any railroad, bat bisecting it, bringing the pro
ducer into quicker and easier contact with his
shipping point.
Governor McKelvie is allowing the lawyers
of the Thirteenth district to vote on who they
want to be made judge, but the persons with the
greatest interest no doubt are the lawbreakers.
Burleson in the postoffice and Admiral Benson
on the shipping board have proved that govern
ment ownership may be less friendly to the work
ers than is private ownership.
The accusation that a leader of the Anti
Saloon league draws $25,000 a year from John
D., Rockefeller, jr., disregards the ancient fact
that oil and water do not mix. -
What a fortunate thing it is that the 8-year-old
boy who has tolen four horses does not
know how to run a motor car, with so much
greater opportunities. -
Too mach sunshine, fays a scientist, will make
one sick, and everyone knows what moonshine
will do, so thert's nothing to do but Stay in
the shade.
The chances are, in spite of the favorable de
cision of the supreme court, that Senator New
berry regrets ever having made that campaign.
Booze brought in by airplane ought to make
extra good high balls.'.
(From the New York Timet.)
Deluged with a steady stream of gold from
every quarter of the world, and with their vaults
choked and creaking wider the weight of gold
in bars, in strips and in coin, officials in the
government assay office have thrown up their
hinds and called a halt to the amount that shall
be dumped upon them by bankers, for melting
and assaying. The assay office in New York has
instructed bankers importing gold to send the
meU! to Philadelphia. This is being done with
approximately half of the $40,552,000 that has ar
rived in New York since April 1.
Hie Equitable Trust company sent its last
shipment of old to Philadelphia for assay and
credit. The Bankers Trust company' is ship
ping some of its imports to the same mint, and
the American Express company is sending vir
tually every bar it imports in especially guarded
-cars.
There are two means by which hankers can
dispose of the metal now rolling in on them.
One is to deposit it with the Federal Reserve
bank, the other is by depositing it with the
assay office. The Reserve bank now will take
only British bars, on which it makes an advance
of 98 per cent to importers, settling up when
the metal is assayed. The assay office advances
90 per cent of the estimated value, remitting the
balance when the gold finally is melted and
weighed. ,
Officials of the assay office say there is ample
room in the underground vaults of the new
building, but that the gold, before storage in
these vaults, must be weighed and assayed. This
department acts as the neck of the bottle and
it is here the congestion in the gold traffic" has
interfered. Men employed in the department
have been put on a 12-hour shift to reduce the ,
quantity of gold on hand.
A canvass yesterday of large banks in the j
financial district which import gold led to the
discovery that many have recent imoorts oi
gold in their own vaults, and that the waiting list
at the assay office is a long one, putting a cur
rent shipment of gold through the assay office
about two weeks after its arrival. Bankers say
the actual gold in their vaults does them no good,
but, in effect, is so much frozen credit. They
lose not only the interest the money it repre
sents could be drawing, but they lose, as well,
they say, business which the credit the gold
represents could be establishing.
1 Efforts have been made by the government
officials to get New York bankers to route their
gold from Europe to Philadelphia direct. In this
they have been unsuccessful. Bankers say the
vessels that touch at Philadelphia are not suit
able as gold carriers; that they do not make the
fast time the vessels coming to New York make.
The insurance companies also object to the gold
being brought over on any but the largest and
fastest ships afloat.
An executive of the Equitable Trust company
said yesterday his company was. sending most
of its gold to Philadelphia and that the results
were satisfactory. "Our shipments are made by
express," he said, "and are heavily guarded. We
send a representative along. The gold goes im
mediately to the mint. We have a record of
shipping a consignment of gold from our office
here and of getting a telegraphic remittance from
our representative who accompanied the gold
for 90 per cent of its value, signed by the Phila
delphia mint, within three hours."
The Philadelphia mint is a large one, has
about 400 employes and is not in much danger
government officials say, of becoming choked,
as is the New York assay office. The capacity
of the New York office is approximately $15,
000,000 a week. With the arrivals of gold at this
port considerably above that amount and with
no prospect of a let-up in gold shipments for a
few weeks at least, the officials say that all that
they can. do is to refuse the overflow, let each
shipment take its- turn tor advise shippers to
rely on the Philadelphia mint. .
Yesterday's Federal Reserve bank statement
shows gold holdings to be $2,317,569, a gain from
the $2,298,071 of the week before. Arrivals of
gold from the 26 countries now dumping gold
in New York approximate $40,500,000 since the
first .day of April.
Let's Have the Facts
Have the rail executives during; the past six
months operated their lines as efficiently as they
knew how? Or have they gone ahead incurring
deficits and paying for repairs ' and equipment
prices not wiiranted by business conditions? W.
Jett Lauck, spokesman and. expert for the rait
unions in their controversy with the executives,
says the latter has been the case.
It is scarcely to be believed that railway presi
dents and boards of directors would deliberately
break faith with their stockholders as this state
ment implies. Being themselves -heavy stock
holders in most cases, it would appear to be folly
for them to plunge their properties into bank
ruptcy with no other purpose than to reduce
wages. Ordinarily in times of depression the
most efficient management is expected and act
ually provided.
The investigation about to be undertaken by
the Cummins committee should leave no stone
unturned to ascertain the truth regarding the
charges that have been made about private rail
operation since the properties were turned back
to their owners. If an attempt has been made
to precipitate bankruptcy on the railroads the
fact should be established.
An early decision is now expected from the
rail labor board regarding wages. Many expect
that the award of last July will be set aside. If
the charges and allegations of both sides in the
controversy- can be investigated and the facts
established the labor board will have a better
foundation for making a just award.
The testimony at Chicago of such men as Mr.
Lauck on the one hand and Mr. Atterbury on the
other is so consistently conflicting that the pub
lic is confused. Without the facts intelligent
action by the labor board will be difficult.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Saving Verdun.
Verdun was once rescued from the Germans,
and now it clamors for salvation from its saviors.
The spot where the blood of heroes was out
poured to beat back the hun is desecrated by the
guides, the tourists, the place-markers and monu
ment builders, the souvenir hunters, the exploit
ing profiteers and folk of the type Wordsworth
described in burning scorn when he speaks of
One who would peep and botanize
Upon his mother's grave.
In a paper published under shell-fire at Arras
during the war, "The Lion of Arras," there was
an appeal to those who should come one day to
see the ruin that they would come not as tourists,
but as pilgrims. That plea applies to Verdun
today. If half the energy expended in curious
impertinence now had been mobilized in time of
war, there would not be so many graves. Those
moldering forts at Verdun are a sanctuary and
a shrine; they should be conserved and visited
with reverence. They are not a picnic resort, but
"fame's eternal camping ground." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Shows Them He Is Square.
A Chicago grocer has hit upon a way to con
vince his customers he is doing business with
them on the square. He sells groceries to them
at wholesale cost, then when they pay their
weekly bill he adds 15 per cent of the total to
cover overhead and profit. If big business would
put its cards on the table like that it would not
have to result to propaganda to court the friend
ship of the public. Capper's Weekly.
Out again, lit again, hot again, cold again j
the furnace.
About time for cereal hats to make their ap- j
pearance. j
"Springing to Arms Over-Night."
The Japanese hasten to protest that there is
no significance in the general call to the colors
of all ablebodied men. Presumably the move
ment is merely a little spring exercise to warm
the Wood. Detroit Free Press. .
How to Keep Well
Br DR. W. A. EVANS
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Copyright, 1121, by Dr. W. A. Evans.
OF INTEREST TO DIABETICS,
Head the story of a man who has
lived for 2J years in spite of being
a diabetic, who does the day's work,
is lh reasonably good health, and
who plans to live 20 years longer. As
I figure it he is now 60 and he ex
pects to Improve upon the record of
his mother, who. In spite of being a
diabetic, lived to reach, 77 years of
age.
When he found he was a diabetic
he went at once to the best authority
on the subject and learned from him
the principles of self-eare. But he
8on found that, while all he learned
was rifrht in a general way, he need
ed to modify some of it to make it
fit him. The man is Dr. C. M. Cobb
and he tells his story in American
Medicine. .,
He found that overeating, espe
cially between niPals, and lunches
at night was about as bad for him
as eating starch nnd sugar. "I soon
learned when I was particularly
hungry it was a warning to me to
eat less and go on a nearly starva
tion diet."
He can eat no store pork. A mod
erate amount of pork at hog killing
time agreed with him, but pork at
other tlmrs did not. Cabbage, let
tuce, dandelions, spinach, romaine,
celery, chicory, and other greens are
always beneficial. He o k's apples,
both on his own experience and, that
of his mother.
When he suffered from lumbago
he took a Turkish bath. After he
began dieting properly. he had no
more lumbago, therefore he quit the
baths. He gets eight hours' Bleep
and then begins his day with a
shower. Ha has tried every bloom
ing exercise fad' that had been put
out by fadists or men with well de
veloped sales instincts. If one has
not oriprlitality enough to do some
thing that interests htm there is
nothing for him to do but to follow
rules somebody else lays down.
He finally adopted automobile
camping trips as his hobby. Last
year he rode over 2.000 miles on
such trips and this year he plans to
cross the continent camping along
the way. Tf he lives to cross west
ern "Wyoming. Utah and Nevada he
should last to the borrowed time
age.
Dr. Cobb tells of a United States
senator who learned that he had
diabetes and who took up logging
as a cure with considerable success.
Tr. Cobb does not hesitate to go into
the woods in mid-winter for snow
pictures. He keeps hie bowel habits
proper5. He watches )i!s teeth care
fully, saying that extra care should
be exercised to prevent pyorrhoea
or to keep it under control.
He concludes: Each case must
have its special diet: fatigue due to
out of doors work is healthful;
worry should be avoided: the gen
eral health must be looked after.
OX
1921 Will Reward Fighters.
J. K. V. writes: "Eighteen months
ago I broke down with t. b. and have
been 'takini? the cure' ever since. I
had all the trimmings, one bad
hemorrhage about 10 months ago.
I have been very careful and stayed
very low indeed. Now I show no
signs and have been clear for about
Ave months, and, of course, have
no cough, sputum, or temperature.
I have taken light exercise for three
months. Do you think it safe for
me to try a light Job now? I have
had some experience on engineering
work and can get a Job as transit
man on government construction
work in the southwest, where the
'stars hang low.' I would live out
doors and sleep in a tent or the
onen. Would not that work and lo
cation Just suit me? If I take caro,
of myself and follow what I have
learned, do you tninK i now nave
a good chance to 'beat the game?' I
have, been told that a person with
t. b. never can really come back. I
do not believe it. do you ?"
REPLY.
Rome of the best work in the world
has been done by men who came
back. Get the best opinion possible
as to your ability to stand up under
this Job. As soon as you are ready
for it, the Job and the location are
ideal.
A ru.sled Brother.
Omaha, May 2. To the Kditor of
The Bee: I want to ak some person,
who is naturally optimistic. Just what
he thinks the present turmoil of the
world may lead to? I have tried to
train myself to see the beauties of
life, and to look ahead to a rosy
future, which I never get any nearer
to; but I'll confess that I think we
are hanging over a flaming abyss,
and by a thread that at any time may
break.
Thinking people sense approaching
events by intuition. The atmosphere,
I mean the mental atmosphere: Is
ntaiaiant and sultry, and tho clouds
orMho horizon bespeak the gathering
storm.
I do not desire to alarm anyone,
nor am J, myself at all alarmed. But
I do see that the governments of the
civilized world are unable to solve
their various problems, and that as
Frank Harris wrote; "We are headed
for Niagara, and are already in the
rapids."
It appears to mo that we are heud
od straight for another war, and I
fear that it will be a clash between
capital and labor, and that it will
be frightful, and will result in "The
Battle of Armageddon." i
I wish that I could see some hope
that such a crisis might be avoided.
Capital is surely getting the
strongle hold on us. Labor tries
every lawful means to reason with
capital, all In vain. I believe the
situation " Js grave and dangerous.
Even my friend, H. G. Wells, the
novelist, states that bolshevism in
Russia is but a beginning of a world
wide revolution. The civilized world
is heaving and rocking, and the pity
of It all is that those who have the
destiny of progress in their hands sit
sleeping at the throttle.
Sometimes I see rosy tints of the
new dawn of universal brotherhood,
but alas anon, they fade into the
darkening shadows.
CLARENCE SJOBLOM
To Governor McKelvie.
Fremont. Neb.. May 2. Hon. S.
R. McKelvie, Governor, Lincoln,
Neb.,: My Dear Governor: I
guess, if you will permit me to say
it, -that you average up fairly well
as governors go, and I have met In
the course of the years pretty much
all of the Nebraska governors from
David Butler down. There are some
things that I have liked in your of
ficial career very well: not unnatu
rally some along very vital lines that
I have not liked. You had Justly
something to account to your constit
uents for in the last election and
before that because of your leaning
towards the criminal elements of the
state aa evidenced by your wide-open
policy with the penitentiary
Tour wide-open disposition is now
further evidenced by your veto of the
censorship bill, and your message in
connection therewith. The fact that
the censorship bill passed the legis
lature and that its passage extended
practically through the entire session,
giving ample time for the people out
over the state to express themselves
to their representatives and senators
at Lincoln, indicates conclusively that
a majority of the people of Nebraska
favors a large measure of restriction,
Hope Springs Eternal.
With signs of life in the Elwell
and Wall street bomb cases, who
knows but somebody will be brought
to book for the assault on Billy Pat
terson ? New York Herald.
The Good Old Stork.
One swallow may not bring the
spring nor does the bluebird always
bring happiness, but the stork sure
brings a ?200 tax exemption.
Ashland Star Journal.
The Ideal Tux.
There is only one fair and equit
able tax law. That is the one under
which the other fellow pays all the
taxes. Linn County Budget.
CENTER SHOTS.
.
The hum of industry has subsided
into a "H'm!" Boston Herald.
How to Get Pamphlet.
Mrs. J. S. writes: "1. Will ypii
please tell me where, I can obtain
the book called 'Helps and Hints for
T. B. Patients.' by Dr. C. L. Minor?"
"2. I also am interested in what
foods to eat. as I am considerably
underweight."
- REPLY.
1. Send 10 cents to the Journal of
Outdoor Life. 331 Fourth avenue,
New York City.
2. Milk and sugared cereal twice
a day. one portion Just nefore going
to bed.
Don't Fatten Baby.
Mrs. L. K. writes: "My baby is 1
year old and only weighs about IS
pounds. She has been raised on
condensed milk.
"1. "What food can I feed her that
is fattening? She is very healthy.
"2. Is she too young to be fed
certified eggs? Is one every day too
much? -
"3. "What can I feed her next
summer to prevent diarrhea? T
"4. May I feed her spinach and
carrots?
"5. When may I stop giving her
the bottle altogether?"
REPLY.
1. Do not try to fatten your baby.
See that she grows, but stop there.
2. Some babies at 1 year of age eat
eggs to advantage. As a rule, eggs
should not be given until the child is
IS months old. Some children can
not eat eggs with advantage until 2
years old.
3. The danger of diarrhea next
summer will not be great if you do
not overfeed and ar? careful about
d!rt and flies. Boil the milk during
hot weather. Give no corn, un
manhed peas, cabbage, or unripe
fruit.
4. Yes.
8. If you mean stop giving her
milk altogether, do not stop at all,
but feed it from a cup.
April First Is Lucky Day.
T. C. writes: "1. Is there any
harm to share the head of a person
who had the fl about two years
ago?
"2. How soon will the hair appear
after the shave? Ever since I had
the flu my scalp has been tender and
my hair lifeless.
"J. What month is the best month
to have scalp shaved?"
REPLY.
1. No.
2. Shaving the scalp will not in
crease the hair. If that is what
you are after you will be disappoint
ed. 3. One month is as good as anoth
er. Try April 1.
How to Kill Nits.
3. L. writes: "How can I get rid
of nits In my hair? By telling me
this you will stop my dismissal from
high school."
REPLY.
Hot vinegar is the best agent for
removing nits. After washing with
hot vinegar use a fine tooth comb.
Nits are louse eggs. To kill lice use
kerosene.
How happy Tap could be with
either, were t'other dear charmer
away! Chicago News.
Europe seems to think that Ameri
ca should always stand a loan.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
Chauncey Depew reached 87 Sat
urday on strong bull trading, and is
expected to go to par. Chicago Post.
Youth is always going to do to
morrow the things old age didn't do
yesterday. Columbia (S. C.) Record.
It's not that they love the Roose
velt gush less, but they love the
Colombian gusher. Columbia (S. C.)
State.
Speaking of relativity, why is it
that fleas stick so close to a dog and
rarely bother even the meanest men?
Tulsa Tribune.
Gabrlelle d'Annunyio is married.
Oh, well, what could he do? Italy
refused to fight with him. Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
A wealthy New York woman dis
appeared a'fter telling her chauffeur
to wait. Maybe she is still shopping.
San Antonio Light.
It is now declared that New York
has cats trained to set buildings
afire, and in that fashion obtain the
Insurance. Gradually uses are being
found for a cat. Harrlsburg Patriot.
DISFRANCHISED.
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And abe could alng.
She could do
Moat crerythlnr,
Play the piano
without a note.
Proa and poetry rompoie
But her a en ahe'd not diaclosa
So ehe could not vote
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regulation, censorship of this present,
very largely rotten moving picture
business; and you will have a whole
lot of people Willi long memories to
whom your recent veto is gulng to
loom large on the debit side of their
ledger account with you.
That Omaha Bee headline of Sun
day, "Nebraska H;irks Veto of Movie
Censorship Hill," is suro enough a
Joke. A dozen or 15 from out over
the state are quoted as having writ
ten you endorsing your action, and
constitute "Nebraska" nil HkIu, tin
doubt. Three of them, I notice, are
from Fremont, all three of them
most excellent men and citizens; but
that on this one subject, anyway, of
letting tho movies run generally
loose and unrestricted they do not
represent Fremont is pretty conclu
sively demonstrated by the fact that
our city with 10,000 population has
never permitted a SundaV picture
show, und in the recent city election
the candidate for mayor won out,
while not himself so specially a
"church-man," thought it best to
publish an announcement In advance
that if elected ho would not favor
Sunday movies.
We know full well of course t ho
reason for recent much talk about
"blue laws" and against moral res
trictions of any sort. It is an Indirect
assault upon and an effort to under
mine prohibition. The recent 200,
000 majority for prohibition in On
tario does not indicate any recession
or defeat of the moral forces. It
would be a mistake for you and The
Omaha Bee, for both of whom many
of us desire to entertain a cordial
respect, to pin your futures on that
kind of a wide-open policy. Yours
very truly,
J. F. HANSON.
Condemns Public Slander.
Omaha, May 2. To the Kditor of
The Bee: The average aetivo busi
ness man has small opportunity to
observe the from day to day activi
ties of our city administration. He
must depend largely upon the press
as to the nature of this work, and
the character of tho men who rep
resent the city. Probably every one.
has read two editorials of the World
Herald one in 1914, and the other
during this campaign. No effort
soems to have been made to reconcile
the two. If the. editorial of 1914 be
true, then some of the men on the
ticket it supports are wholly unfit for
the positions to which they aspire,
and it Is difficult to see how self
respecting men and women, believ
ing the former editorial, as recently
published, to be true, can vote for
some of the candidates supported by
the World-Herald, and it further
seems to me the publio is entitled to
an apology from that paper for in
sulting its intelligence by urglns
them to do so. On tho other hand, if
the editorial of 1914 bo false, some
one should be "doing time" for mali
cious slander. Isn't it tlmo that, con
co.ncerlng our home people and home
affairs, false statements and slander
should be eliminated from the press?
Such publicity can serve no good
purpose and puts Omaha in a falso
light. WILLIAM STi:LL.
Jury Degrees in $772,000
Liberty Hontl Theft Caio
Chicago, May 4. The jury in the.
case of William Dalton, lo-vear-old
bank clerk, who Mule $772,00t
worth of Liberty bonds from the
Northern Trust company recently,
disagreed and was discharged today
after it had deliberated for nearly '4
hours. Almut half of tlu- jurors
were understood to have been in fa
vor of acquitting the self-confessed
boy bond thief, while the others fa
vored conviction.
American Express Company
Announces Pay Revision
Xew York, May 4. T he American
Railway Express company a.i
nuunccd here today it had notified
its 80,000 employes that it contem
plated a revision" in wages, effective
June 1.
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