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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY. MAY 21. 1921. i .3 TheOmaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY ' NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publuh.r. t MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' lunliti Pna nf vhlek Th. Bm to a raanber. li clwitelj him to th. um fw vubllMtlm of all Base dispstehas ' tredttrt la It or not otlMnrlae endued In this vara. aa4 ales taa tnl nrt publlihee harem, ail ntfiu or publication at out special d.rtct are tin reeerted. . BEE TELEPHONES ! 'rlrtl Irenes Biehtnte. Atk tor IT lntl 1000 let De0ertmeo at renoa Wanted. A VW Far Niaht Calla Aflar 1 . l ; . Editorial Department AT laatta INt at Mai V OFFICES OF THE BEE j fcliln Office: 171b and Paruaa 1'cunell Blufri 15 Scott St I South Sid. S5 Seota Jeta Out-of-Town OfHcaai : Ni Tmk tl Fifia Art. I Waihlattna 1111 0 St ; Caieaio Stetw Blaj. I Farie, rraaee. 410 Hui St Hoaor J I' I The Bee's Platform 1. Naw Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improvement of tha No bratka Highways, including tho pave ment of Main Thoroughfares loaaHag into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A short, low-nits) Waterway from tha Cora Bait to tho Atlantic Ocaan. 4. Homo Rulo Charter for Omaha, with City Manager-form of Government. V America's Position Made Clear. r The address of the American ambassador to Great Britain, delivered at a formal dinner in London, may be accepted as a frank statement ' of President Harding's attitude towards the League of Nations. Why, it will be asked, was it necessary for Colonel Harvey to reiterate what ' the president himself has said so many times? " Simply because the ardent advocates of the Wilson plan for an international super-govern-,." ment have resolutely declined to accept the vcr- diet rendered in November, when the "great and : solemn referendum" disapproved of the league ; psct as presented to and rejected by the senate of the United States. These had seized on many - little things to support their hopes, even pre ' tending to derive some sort of sustenance from 1 the action of the "irreconcilable" senators, who opposed peace by resolution as energetically as they did peace by treaty. The striking similarity i of the mental processes of the two groups sug- gests a closer sympathy than their open profes " sions would indicate. Colonel Harvey very plainly told the world t that President Harding is sincere in his stand, ' and that the League of Nations pact, o far as j, :he United States is concerned, is as dead as any ; of the edicts , of Cyriis or Ashurbanipal. This . does not imply that our country is undertaking I to evade any of the responsibilities that devolve upon a leader, That our ambassador' is to take . part in the discussions with regard to Silesia is t i proof of the active interest of America in such problems. Co-operation in world affairs is dis tinctly separate from the obligation that would have been assumed with membership in the i League of Nations. Now the United States is i able to help because it is free to act, and that ; is appreciated by those who will most need our friendly counsel and help. - 3 In his pronouncement as to the relations be tween the United States and Great Britain, Col-, onel Harvey merely restated a traditional policy More than a century of unbroken friendship, dis turbed at times by questions of deep import, ;ometimes acute and frequently vexatious, shows how completely and durably the English-speak.-ing peoples are united. War between them is all but impossible. They have worked together in the past, not for the exploitation but for the. improvement of the world, and will continue to nfluence the march of events to the betterment if conditions of life for all mankind. World policies are' alow ly . but definitlly ;rystalizing along lines that are not the less en couraging because they hold not so much of the uncertainty of altruism and a little moreof the possibility of reality. We give over none of our deals in declining to risk them on the uncharted vaters of internationalism, and , will be the stronger because of holding firmly to our nat ional independence, with -an ever present will ingness to help all and to meddle with none. all points on all railroads." He recalls the old system., of excursion rates, when . many lines voluntarily sold round trip tickets to certain points at about 2 cents a mile, and conies to the conclusion that this must have paid through attracting heavier traffic. This system, however, has not been discarded, and railroads today are selling round trip tickets at a rate much lower than normal to tourist, and holiday resorts. But if is for an extension of this method that the Kansan is pleading. He would have- one way tickets to any station sold at a one-day bar gain rate, good only on a certain train. The increased travel, he suggests, would make up for the reduced fare. If this honorable gentleman would consider abandoning his garage and run ning for president of some railroad, he would be sure of a heavy majority, but the recall might be resorted to if it developed that no one traveled except on the special day. 1 Removing Mental Barriers. Rainy days are not without their influence on our industrial, habits and mental attitude even today. Outdoor workers are then driven from their tasks and a damper is put on the thoughts that only the sun can remove. The ef fect, however, of stormy weather is much less now than in the early days of man. ' The inven tion of the umbrella, of the raincoat and of water proof footwear represents' a victory of man over nature and illustrates the struggle with climate and weather conditions that has exerted so much influence over the development of the various races. The ill-protected, scantily clad and poorly housed primitive man was pretty much the crea ture of physical circumstances which have been offset by his modern successor. It is said that the people of Europe, in spin of their efforts to maintain their distinction .one from another, are each year growing more and more alike. Arti ficial control over temperature by dwelling's and by. altering the weight of the clothing with the degree of heat or cold, the changes in diet due to easy communication with other regions, and all the inventions that tend to make life in one part of the world much like that in another are mak ing for similarity. Many influences are drawing mankind to a closer agreement in feelings, habits, and even in manner of thinking. H. G. Wells has now come forth with a final proposal to this end. It is that standard books dealing, with all phases of human knowledge should be compiled and printed in every language. With this common basis, he hopes that the world would be able to come to complete understanding of itself, arriv ing at a tolerant and pacific conclusion., Attired in this mental raincoat and rubbers and equipped with a mental umbrella, there indeed seems a pos sibility of a new age in which the different races would render themselves immune to a large ex tent to the physical factor of prejudice and the natural misunderstandings that so complicate modern life, in which all the buffers of distance Kand isolation have been removed, but in which the mental barriers still, remain. S Showing Them the Farm. Regent Judson's little plan for taking groups nf.big business men to visit the state farm at Lincoln is a wise one. The gentlemen who make jp his parties are men of affairs, who understand :hat agriculture 'is one of the world's basic in dustries; that it is practiced in its highest form n the United States, and that in Nebraska its levelopment has reached a climax. As to de ails of modern agricultural practice they are, ."or the most part, profoundly ignorant. Their ways in life lie apart from the farm, and it is un fair, for example, to expect the head of a great railroad to possess intimate knowledge of a lister, a tedder, a disc harrow, or the application of hese or any of the other numerous implements :o the preparation of the seed bed, the, cultivation of the growing plant, or the harvesting of: the ripened grain. Nor is such real knowledge likely to be acquired by a single visit to the state farm. What will be gained is that these city dwellers, Hrho are deeply versed in the processes of com merce and industry and accustomed to deal with materials after they have left the farm, will learn how processes' of production are improving, how icience and agriculture are getting together for ihe benefit of humanity. .Such, diffusion of in ormation is worth much more than the effort laken to impart it, and Regent Judson may rest serene in the belief that he is doing something tery practical. A Bargain Day for Travelers. Almost everyone has a plan for solving the transportation problem. Except in the case of those directly interested in the profits of the railroads, these center about a reduction in rates. While most of the attention is directed at freight charges, yet the opening of the vacation season has bestirred some to think of the passenger tariffs, ' Representative Flood has a bill 'in congress now providing for a flat reduction of one-third in passenger rates through the sale of mileage booklets. Down in Kansas is a plain citizen .who emerges from merely local fame with a sugges tion that tickets be sold on certain days at 2 cents a mile instead of the present price of 3.6 cents. "Honorable F. J. Blake, to quote his local "newspaper's account, "the gentleman who is here conducting the office work for the J. I. Plumb garage, believes that there should be cheaper railroad fares at least one day. in the week to "Workers' Control" Gaining Industrial Conditions in Europe Yield to ike New Movement China Puts In Saving Clause. The note of protest forwarded by China to Great Britain and Japan is worth very little more than its face value, and yet it is quite significant. A common practice, since John Hay disturbed the' Europeans in their complacent carving up and apportionment of the Celestial. Empire among themselves, has been to insert in treaties some reference to the preservation of the integrity of China. A ort of saving clause, like the pro forma phrases that appear in " con tracts, indictments'; and other documents of a legal nature, wherein , the phraseology is fre quently of more import than the actual contents. China has been making some progress, how ever, and is beginning to wonder why contract ing powers sometimes do not consult the people most concerned when they begin to guarantee the integrity of the Chinese, empire. Inspired . by the experience at Pari.s, where the Shantung peninsula was awarded Japan in despite of the outspoken objection of the American delegates, the Chinese government is slowly coming to realize that it has some. rights, and maybe plans on exercising "a few of , them. If the group of statesmen who assemble at Peking will read thej record made at Gdneva a few weeks ago, when Argentine withdrew from the assembly of the League of Nations, they may discover that the doctrine of equality of nations on which they now rely is academic rather than practical. Con siderable distance ' remains to be traversed be fore that theory is transmuted into practice. However, the note just emitted is quite likely to set the leaders of British and Japanese politics thinking, and it. surely will be closely conned by the rest of the world.' Getting Trouble in Perspective. . The fascination of moving pictures is illus trated by the extreme incident of a 15-year-old girl who attempted to commit suicide because her parents would not allow her to attend the theater with a group of girl friends. The sor rows of childhood indeed weigh heavily, but scarcely ever press to desperation such as this. Things really of small importance bulk very large in youthful minds, and the fact that a whole lifetime of film shows lay before her could not lessen the grief of this one depriva tion. Grown-ups are not free from this tendency to exaggerate the importance of little things,' either. It has been necessary for a philosopher to give the advice, "Never run after a street car or a woman there'll be , another along in a minute." So many happenings that bring worry and distress are really small, after all. If this girl, or if the rest of us, coutd only stop and ask our selves what difference a certain event that seems of preponderant present importance could make a year from now, many-troubles would be put to immediate rout. Colonel House has written a book on "What Happened at Paris." One thing we know is that President Wilson did not allow Secretary Lansing to run the show. The season for overland hikers is upon us, but those mysterious benefactors who used to make bets that they couldn't accomplish a cer tain distance in a certain number of months or years seem to have disappeared, and high train fare is the popular excuse. The marvel is how people lived before there were government positions for them. Lower freight rates will serve the better than lower pay for section hands. public Lloyd George, is talking turkey to the FpleJ. (From the Boston Transcript.) Throughout the world the movement for par ticipation of employes, to a greater or less de gree, in the management and direction of indus try, is gaining ground. A publication from the international labor office, recently received in this country, quotes the report of the Italian Chamber of Deputies when the workers' control bill was introduced last February, as describing how workers' control of industry had been in stituted by law in Austria in 1915; in Germany in 1920; and in England by means of the Whitley councils. Even in Norway, there will shortly be in operation "works councils, district councils, and a supreme council of industry and commerce rep resenting both workers and employers, whose duty it will be to stimulate production and regu late the progress of industry." This development is being accomplished not without violent change or the threat of it. As is well known, the seizure by the metal trades workers in Italy of certain large factories last summer was the direct occasion for the present legislation in that country. But it is a mistake to suppose that all representatives of labor are enthusiastically in favor of the pending propos als. The extreme left says bluntly that the min isterial bill will satisfy no one. The secretary of the General Confederation of Labor is quoted as saying that the bill will hamper production instead of assisting it; the journals'-of the Catholic party assert that control without profit sharing can not satisfy the masses. On paper, the controversy is as hot and furious as it was last summer in the factories. For the employers, the most violent opposi tion in Italy has come from Sole, the organ of the Milan Chamber of Commerce and of several employers' associations, which declared in'a re cent issue: "The bill for trade union control of industries is not the natural result of in economic situation demanding new measures, but the sad expedient of an opportunist government, which despises legal methods and has been un able or unwilling to withstand a gust of suicidal folly." The international labor office has performed a distinct service in bringing together these vary ing views, together with the documents present ing the proposals of the different parties to the controversy. Of interest as showing to what length employers are willing to go to meet the demands of the workers is the following list of suggested duties for each industrial commission of control : 1. The regulation and control of waees. hours and general conditions of labor in the industry, in relation to the cost of living. i. Ihe improvement of the hvsrienic condi tions of the workers. 3. The compilation of statistics and returns concerning the supply of raw materials. 4. ihe consideration of economic and finan cial questions concerning the industry (customs. transport, home -and foreign markets from the point of view of demand and of the supply of raw material, selling price, exchange, credit, rates, taxes, etc.). 5. The encouragement of the study of indus trial development and of scientific research with a view to ' the improvement of industrial processes. v 6. The tabulation of statistics concerning the progress of industry and the development of pro duction. 7. The administration of laws for social in surance! accident, sickness, old age, uncmplov ment and all the laws of the same nature which may in future be enacted. 8. Co-operation with the .competent author ties in the. organization of vocational instruc tion. 9. Co-operation with commissions of control in other branches of industry for the solution of problems of. common interest. . These are to be the duties of each commission of control, composed in equal numbers of repre sentatives of employers and workers, manual and otherwiseL The object of control, declare the employers, should be "knowledge, of the posi tion of a given industry," with the ultimate end. of facilitating good relations between employer and employes "as well, as their common action for the development of industry, the vital source of national life." Should it turn out that "control" in Italy fol lows thjs line, there will be few to dispute its value, ; Starving Brains Maxim Gorky; through an- appeal published in Finnish newspapers, invokes the aid of "the whole world" for his. colleagues of arts and let ters in Russia. About 5,000 savartts, he estimates, have' not enough to eat. Russian teachers and w riters have been carrying on under the greatest difficulties. They have sat in freezing rooms without fuel or light, muffled in all the clothing they owned. The torpid brain refuses to function properly under these conditions. They have disposed of necessary garments piecemeal or had them confiscated by searching parties Life has been a ceaseless stillhunt for Jood and fuel. Instruments and books for rseatch have been impossible to secure. Doctors have had to do without antiseptics or anesthetics. H. G. Wells in one of his articles described a great composer who would presently have to cease writing be cause of the exhaustion of his supply of music paper. What science there is must be soviet sci ence; A lecturer on astronomy is rebuked if be fails to fell his audience that there is no God. As for. the printng of technical or artistic or general literature, there is complete stagnation. The only publications are those that bear the hallmark of soviet officialdom. Science must be censored, and Truth js on the scaffold to bol shevist headsmen. The significance of Gorky's plea arises from his peculiar independence. He had been a vigor ous antagonist of the soviet rule. Yet he was made head of the bureau of publicity and prop aganda. He continues to speak out in a way that is sometimes embarrassing to the supreme auto crats. It does not suit them to have him ask the world to help, while they are doing their very best or their very worst to keep the whole world out. , Nor do they care to have him depict a state of starvation while they are attempting to exhibit e panorama of prosperity. Philadel phia Ledger. e- Just Like American Police. Among the conditions in soviet Russia ported by the local newspapers is this: "The militia, or otherwise police service, is composed mostly of women in Petrograd, but owing to severe frost they do not go on duty or, if they do, they hide themselves in the houses on their beat, so that one seldom sees them about. Furthermore, owing to the total absence of lights in the streets at night time, robberies and assaults are plentiful. Vladivostok (Siberia) Daily News. Kind Word for the 44-Hour Week. About the most that can be said for the forty-four-hour week is that the man who can work no longer than forty-four hours a week makes the going a little easier for the man who expects to get there. Indianapolis News. Another Perennial Puzzle, It might bear explanation why a woman can appear at this season with a straw hat, while the same proceeding by a man would attract a crowd and result in a riot call. St. Paul Pioneer Press. That Saved Hundred Million. . That $100,000,000 Germany ciidn't pay to Mr. Schwab will come in handy now in making up the payments for rcpara.tfon. 3t. Louis Globe- How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Quaatioaa cencarninf feyfiana, aanlta tion and pravantien el disMta, aub . mittad to Dr. Evan by raadcra of Tha Baa, will ba anawarad paraonally, aubjact to propar limitation, wharo a atampad, addraaaad aavalopa ia aa cloaad. Dr. Evana will not maka diafitoaia or praacriba for individual diaaaata. Addreaa lattara in care of Tha Boa. , Copyright. 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evana. WHEN THE BUYER GAINS. A certain meat market advertises by distributing a dodjrer or circular all over that part of tha city in which it is located. The last half is devoted to direct advertising, giv ing the price of different articles and the usual claims as to quality. The first half is devoted to indirect advertisment. The circular is headed in large caps: "Why Does aFIy Fly?" The answer follows: "Because there is less danger in flying than there is in walking and she gots to her destination much quicker. Do you know that the fly is the most detestablo and danger ous insect to human beings? A fly's favorite playground is a place where there is filth and lots of it. It will crawl on dead rats, eats, dogs, or any other attractive filth, especially garbage. "Did you ever see a person spit ting on the floor or on the sidewalk? Jn a few seconds the flies are having a feast on it, and do you know there are thousands and - hundreds of thousands of people suffering with that terrible disease called con sumption? These people are apt to spit more frequently than a healthy person; the flies will carry some of that diseased expectoration on their feet and deposit it on whatever place they will select next. It may be on your next meal such as steak, pork chons. lamb. veal, or not roast. boiled ham, and many olher eatables too numerous to mention." One asks why all those adjectives and this grimy realism in an adver tisement of a meat market? The answer starts in the next paragraph of the ad. It reads: "This Etore is so well protected against flies that Jt is almost impos sible for i fly to get near any one of our meats and poison them. No body wants to wash a nice, tender, juicy steak, pork chop, or veal cutlet and thereby spoil the flavor of it. "But how do you know that nb flies have crawled over it before you bought it?" The answer follows: "Buy your meats from us. We have a flyproof market." This dodger is backed up by a request for an inspection. Especial ly do they ask for a comparative in spection of markets in the same part of town. When meat markets, gro cery stores, and dairies begin to compete in this particular, when they advertise that they are fly free and invite trade on that basis, a drop in the typhoid rate, diarrhoea rale and baby sickness rate is bound to follow. An advertisement which calls up a matter as easily observed as an abundance of flies and which causes esthetic revolt when flies are seen on food ii very poor business nolicv unless the claims are made good. If made good so' that the casual customer can see it the ad is a eood one. Probably the market is building its case largely oh screening and screening is valuable, but flies will come in .when doors are opened. Some establishments ' protect the doors bv a fan, flies not being fond nf tackling a strong air current. Rni u-halL-ver method is employed there will not be success unless the establishment is kept clean. There fore the customer can be assured of another- guarantee. It a place is flyless it means not only good screen ing and fans before the door but al so high standards of cleanliness back as well aa front. OX Analysis of Freight Situation. Loomis, Neb.. May 18. To the Editor of The Bee: If I remember correctly, and if I am wrong I woul be glad to be corrected, Mr. James J. Hill states in his memoirs that it cost them about $80 to move a ear s.ooo miles. To he fair let us raise this 60 per cent for changed o.ontli tions and get a sort of yardstick to measure present freight rates and as a guide to what they should be. ap proximately, at least if somewhere near "normalcy." ' Our local dealer stales that an average car of coal costs for freight from $225 to $300; and lumber from $100 to R00 per oar. Applying our yardstick on coal, we find from the mines to central Nebraska and back to the mines with the empty car, a total distance of 1,000 to 1,500 miles, would cost the railroad company, adding 50 per cent to Mr. Hill's figures, about $85. Again applying our yardstick tp lumber from the west w-e find, add ing one-half to Mr. Hill's estimate, that' it must cost the railroad about $120. Again on grain from central Nebraska to eastern United States consuming points, we find a 1,500 bushel car taxed about $600. In Mr. Hill's time it cost about $S0 to move It. or say $120 now. Now, to be absolutely fair, let us double Mr. .Hill's figures and we will find the railroad "cost" and "sell ing" prices of their freight about as follows: Coit SoM Cur coal 1110 226S00 Par lumber 11 400 00 Car grain...'. ISO 00 A study of these figure may help explain many things melons, stock dividends and such and the far ther fact that tonnage is declining. Now, the public must be just to the railroads and no doubtx the railroads were entitled to rate ad vances" during the war Inflation. Especially in central states territory like Illinois and Indiana, when even the less than carload shipments took moderate rates. For instance, "be fore the war a car of wheat moving from our town east to Chicago had "proportional" rates as follows per ewt.: I.oonils to Omaha r 1-3 of tha total lii tance) ll.l cents cwt. Omaha to Missouri river, (another 1-3 of total distance) 6 cents cwt. Mississippi river to Chicago, O-S of the totnl distance). 3 cents per cwt. So it will be seen that even In the old days the Nebraska farmer was paying over five times as much for the western third of the haul as the railroad felt necessary to collect for the last third. Then on top of this came tne arbi trary, unscientific, and in many cases unjust advances or rates, until the territory west of the Missouri river is, so far as shipping some or its crops . is concerned, practically out of the running. One trouble with our railroad af fairs today is that the "powers that be," while men of ability no doubt, are not men of practical experience. There are too many politicians, law yers and stock Jobbers at the wheel when there should be farmers and merchants and railroad men. For instance, Jim Hill was a mer chant; first strictly speaking as a fuel dealer, and he had the wider vision also. He said, "If you want business provide the facilities and go after it." This does not appear to bo the present day Viewpoint. It is not probable Mr. Hill would ap prove of rates that discourage and paralyze industry. Now, how ia this rate situation really affecting tho west? It is true the 2 or 5 cents on a pair of shoes or a tin pail does not hurt much. It is likely the advances do not cost the average farmer over $100 per year on his "purchases. It is the farmers' sales that are hurt. Our average farmer raising, say 1,000 bushels of wheat and 2,000 bushels corn, is taxed about $1,200 to get this to market, say Now York or common points. Of this $1,200, about $500 or $600 comes from pure arbitrary advances, made without rhyme and not an over supply of reason. With our farmer "shorted" coming and going $600 or JiOU in freight alone, is it any wonder he isn't buying? And when lie can't buy, the re tailers can't sell and the bank can't loan and tho jobber can't buy of the factory and the factory shuts down. Well, what's the remedy? For one thing, everybody must "holler." The west wants two things: First, the general lowering of rates, and second, the unjust discrimina tions of the past done away with. It doesn't cost any more to haul freight up the Flatte valley than it does back in muddy old Illinois and there's no sense in Nebraskans pay- , ing twice as much for it. I Every community club, every com- j niercial club, every farmers' union, i every business club, such as hnrd ware, grocer?, niillcre, and all must i realize their interests are mutual ! and join hands to pet rid of the j heaviest load of taxation that was i ever pulled off on a supposedly f fee I people. .1. A. Jl'GURE. iOoO srr Ihe leaclership oC x the world irv Tine musical instruments by common, consent among those who know is Ojiven to the matchless -D n Sayselfeai H-ererervce for the lasonGr'Hamlm is irv dicative or a superior musical nature." It could not' be x Better phrased. ids: 1513 Douglas Street The Art and Music Store Tru. Your Own Doctor. J. S. writes: "I am troubled with what one doctor calls 'lightning pains.' His name well describes the trouble, but I would like to know what is the cause of them. Some The New Postal Order (From the Boston Transcript.) The theory that four years of Harding ' is tobe only four years more of Wilson, received today a rude jolt,- when the Wilson order which placed postmasters of the first, second and third class perma nently under the civil service, with out the formality of a competitive examniation, was rescinded. In its place President Harding has issued an order the effect of which will be two-fold: (l).to pave the way for an act of congress that will provide in legal and effective terms for the transfer of the postal service to the protection of the civil service law, and (2) will apply by executive or der civil service procedure as far as is possible to the filling of vacancies as they arise: in advance of the necessary legislation which congress will be called upon to enact. The rescinding of the order of March 31. 1917, and the terms of the new order, realize the hope we ex pressed in our issue of March 3 5 that the postmaster general would tnke soundings before recommend ing a course of action to the presU dent. The more Mr. Hays investi avi'ted, the more he became con vinced that the circumstances under which the old order was drawn up were not such as would inspire con fidence in its efficacy. The republi can member of the commission was excluded from the conference which the former postmaster general held with the democratic members of the commission, after one of the lat ter, Mr. Charles M. Galloway, had entered a vigorous protest against the exclusion. His protest was ig nored, and the order as formulated In partisan conference has stood un til today. The first examinations un der it were not held until eight months after its issuance, and these were only to fill a few vacancies In offices of the third class. It was not until 1918 that any examinations were held for tho higher grade of flees, and when the lists .were sub mitted to Mr. Burleson he held up the nominations in some instances for another year or longer. When ft was discovered that tho first - 67 nominations for offices paying above $2,400 in salary contained the names of only eight republicans, it began to dawn upon the country that in stead of introducing civil service re form Into the postal service, the old order had only introduced Burleson ism into the civil service. - i Our appeal to the new admlnlstra- 1 tion last March was "if postmasters of the first, second and third classes are to be covered into the competi tive classified civil service, let It be done legally and in good faith." A long step in this direction has been taken by the issuance of the new order. President Harding and Post master Hays have not only advanced the cause of postal reform but they have lifted from the cause of .civil ervice reform the curse of political hypocrisy placed upon It by the or der they have revoked. It now re mains for all citizens interested In civil service reform and postal re form to join hands and support the administration in its efforts to ob tain from congress the legislation necessary to take" the postal estab lishment completely out of the field ot partisan politics and place it per manently under the classified civil service. The executive has gone as far as he can in this direction: the legislative branch must bridge the have said they were due to harden ing of tha arteries, high blood pres sure, neuralgia, neuritis, tic. jmm ening of the arteries seems most likely to me, because the pains ap pear when my bowels are not mov ing as freely as they should. The pains scarcely ever appear in same place in rotation, and so far have ap peared only in my legs or feet. The affected spot is not sore nor does not swell, but lightning pains strike tne spot every few minutes for a period of six to 10 hours, then I may go for several days and when the pains appear again they are at an other place. Is there any cure, for these pains, and if the trouble should be hardening of the arteries can anything be done other than to keep the blood thin?" REPLY. The mention of lightning pains in the feet and legs always suggests locomotor ataxia. I do not know how you would go about keeping your blood thin and if you did it would not affect a hardened artery or locomotor ataxia. Trust your physician to do whatever can be done for you. Hav Throat Examined. Miss D. F. writes: "For a week I have not been able to swallow any thing hard. I had my tonsils cut two years ago. The inside of my throat is red and swollen. , Some times I can hardly catch my breath. Can you tell me the cause?" REPLY. No case of sore throat should be neglected for so long a time. 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