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4 THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1921. TheOmaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' Ih aaaoctated Praia, of which Tta Bat la l mambar. W ex thultal entitled Is tb uaa for publloatloo of all nnwa dlspatebei aradltad l It or nnt otharwlta oredlird In Dili piper, and alao the local nawa ptibllilixl harain. All rlgata of publloatloo Ot our special aVipatehat an alas neemd. BEE TELEPHONES rMrate Brtnoh Exohanie. Aik for AT lant!r 1 (Wl tht fiapaxunant or Paraon Wantad. " 1 amlc VW For Nlfhl Calls After 10 p. m i Sdltorlal Daparunant ....... ATlanUo 1031 or 1041 OFFICES OF THE BEE Main Offleet 171a and Farnim Couoctl Bluffs IS ScoU 8t 1 Boutn Bids. aOU South IIU W Out-of-Town Offlctai frm Tori Ctueafo M Fifth Ae. J Wanhlnrton Ull O m. Steser Bids. I Paris. Frsnoa. 130 Bus 8u Hpnort The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improrement of the Ne braska Highway, including tha pave nent of Main Thoroughfare leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A short, low-rate Waterway from tha Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. ' When the Flag Goes By. If, when the American flag goes by in formal procession, you do not raise your hat to it, nor otherwise acknowledge its presence, you have done no harm to the flag. You have merely failed to recognize a fact that is greater than anything else in life, next to existence itself. In that flag is embodied everything that is near and dear to every one who lives under it. The government, the Constitution, the law, lib-, erty under the law, our churches, schools, busi ness houses, factories, farms, mines, mills, work shops, railroads, everything we have that is worth having, all that our fathers fought for and hoped for, all that we have achieved as a people, or hope to accomplish in the years to come, without exception is represented by that flag. When it goes by, the might and majesty of the American nation goes by. When you lift your hat to it, you do not honor the flag, you simply show your own. self-respect. When, as was the other day, a casket wrapped in the American flag is borne along the street, and not a hat was raised among the thousands along the sidewalk, it seems that something has been omitted. Inside that casket was the shat tered remains of a boy, who fell fighting for this country, for Omaha, for Wahoo, for all that goes to make up American life and happiness, oppor tunity and prosperity. Not such a long time ago he, too, stood on the sidewalk and watched the flag go by. Then a great crisis came, and he was caught up with millions just like him, and forth they marched on the greatest quest men ever set out upon, to battle for human liberty. He poured forth the priceless libation of his life blood, that the flag might be kept flying over a free country. Is it too much to ask that when the casket of another dead soldier is borne along our streets, that the slight tribute of a lifted hat be paid him, just to indicate that he did not die in vain? Immersion in private affairs and not indif ference to the nobler things is undoubtedly re sponsible for the seeming neglect of the flag and the lack of reverence for the dead. It will cost very little to recall how those boys were cheered when they went away to war, and how those who survived were welcomed when they returned. Even less will it cost to think just a second of those who are now coming back, so slowly, be cause they are no longer animated by that splen did soul which bore them when they marched to France. Americans surely can pause an instant to reverence the flag they love, and another to honor in death the boy who died for the flag, and for them! Tightening Up the Wheels of Justice. Spasmodic efforts at reform in police court practice dot the annals of Omaha, with little more of real record than is shown by the fact that they were atempted. Another is now mov ing into its second phase, but, we think, with more of potential force than any of its prede cessors. Petty offenders, and sometimes gen uine malefactors, have , slipped through the law because of the great gap between the examin ing magistrate's office and the court of com petent jurisdiction. A fine or other sentence is imposed in the police court, and immediately appeal is taken to the district court. This appeal is backed up by a bond, usually not worth the time it takes to sign it From time to time the prosecuting attorney faces the trial judge and case after case is nolled, with no return on the bail bond other than the laconic statement that the surety is worthless. Justice is flouted, because no one has taken the trouble to see that the law is en forced. A change is promised and this practice is to be halted. T. J. McGuire has shown that he has sufficient determination to go through with what he starts, and his declaration that straw bondsmen are to be prosecuted, and that offenders who have evaded the law by worthless bonds are to be again haled into court may be taken as meaning just what it says. Mr. McGuire has a fine opportunity to justi fy his selection for the job he is on. While the money involved is not so much, the preserva tion of the law is worth a great deal more than the effort it will .take to uphold it. If the move carries any meaning at all, it is that the mill of thegods in this vicinity is to grind a little closer in the future. ' Settling Fate of Stock Yarck One of the remarkable achievements of A. Mitchell Palmer, late attorney general of the United States, was to secure a divorce between the "big five" packers and the stock yards. This calls for the sale of the interest of the packers in the yards. Several plans have been submitted to the court at Washington, and all rejected, with the matter finally being put in the hands of trustees, who are to arrange for the disposi tion of the stock holdings and transfer the yards to other owners. Two of these trustees, former Senator Sutherland of Utah and Col. Henry W. Andersorv-visited Omaha and made inquiry to get at some first-hand bed-rock facts. Charles H. Watts, general manager of the Fanners Union Live Stock association, testified at the hearing that he knew of no attempt to control prices nor of any discrimination against any shipper at any of the yards where his asso ciation does business. This should be compared with the Colver report, on whichj Palmer acted, and in whiflrthe stock yards were set up as one of the great agencies for control of prices by the packers. A group of Omaha bankers informed the trus tees that sale at this time of the shares involved would result in great loss to the owners. By the way, it should be understood that only 29 per cent of the entire capital stock of the Omaha Union Stock Yards company is affected, that amount being owned by members of packers' families hot active in the meat packing business. k Gradually the value of some of the sensa tional reports made to the president by the Fed eral Trade commission is coming to the surface. No part of it is more lacking in support of facts ! than that which deals with the stock yards, j Whether the sale is made or not, it is becoming clear that the real cause is not that discrimina tions and injustice arose from packer control of the terminal facilities at the great markets. Making the National Budget. Assuming that President Harding will ap prove the budget bill, now before him, it may fairly be said that the business of running the country flas entered on a new era. From the foundation day down to the present time, the system, or, rather, lack of system under which revenues were collected and expenditures made has excited the wonder of all who gave any thought to the subject. William Gibbs McAdoo once said to a caller: "The task set Sisyphus was play compared to mine, I am required to keep a reservoir of liquid money full, no matter what the drain. I have no means of knowing where congress will punch the next hole, nor hew big that hole will be. I simply must have the money there, ready to gush out when the reser voir is tapped." That system is to be changed. For the future the secretary of the treasury will not, only know where the holes will be made in the reservoir, but also will have something to say about the size of them. The new law provides that the bud get shall be prepared by the treasury, and not by congress. The committee on appropriations will, of course, have the oversight, for all appro priations must originate in the house, just as all tax measures must be brought forth there. But the committee will get from the comptroller a carefully digested compilation of proposed ex penditures, made up after due consideration is given to the needs of each department, based on estimates presented to the president, and finally adjusted according to the prospective revenue as calculated by the collector. As expressed by the New York Times: There is more medicine necessary for congress. , If the president's budget is to be treated as congress treats the present apolo gy or substitute for a budget, it might almost as well not be prepared. Another compro mise is necessary whereby congress shall pay the respect to a budget of restricting il limitable amendment on the happy thought of anybody who gets the floor and captures a majority by a lucky phrase. No individual, no majority, is so competent to judge the budget as a whole as the president's bureau, under the supervision of the Treasury's sec retary. The budget should require a two thirds majority for its increase. Perhaps no harm would be done by allowing reductions by a majority, but there should be a pre sumption in favor of the budget total as or iginally proposed, so that its increase should be difficult, but not impossible. When con gress accepts this compromise further amendment may be left to future conditions. Plainly we are moving fast to the goal of "more business in government, and the congress is reaching a point where it can have more to put in on constructive legislation and will be able to do more lawmaking in the proper manner and less by attaching riders to appropriation measures. Pay of School Teachers Figures Show How Far Below Other Classes Are Their Wages China's Tribute to Schurman. The announced selection of Jacob Gould Schurman to be minister to China was generally approved throughout the country as a wise choice on the part of President Harding. What sort of reception awaits Dr. Schurman at his new post may be gained from an address made by the Chinese minister at Washington. Himself a graduate of Cornell, Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, speak ing to a gathering of Cornell alumni at Cleve land recently, said: I have known President Schurman since I was a 6tudent at Ithaca and have always maintained the highest regard for him. America is to be congratulated on having such an eminent publicist to look after its interests in Peking. I am sure China will welcome him as one of the foremost Amer ican educators, from whose hand a great many Chinese students have received their academic degrees. I am' confident he will be instrumental in strengthening the rela tions between the two countries. . Minister Sze said something else which will be of interest to all Americans, and which will have some bearing on the progress of Dr. Schur man's mission there. It is: Too much attention is being paid to the signs of unrest in China. China is not ex perimenting now. . She is putting into prac tice a republican form of government, proved to. be workable through the experience of the American people. These are brave words, indicative of the spirit of the new China, born of those students who hadsheir degrees from the hand of Jacob Gould Schurman and other eminent American educa tors. They drank at the spring of learning as it flows under the Constitution of the United States, and they could not help imbibing the spirit of liberty that goes along with that learn ing. China's customs date back forty centuries or longer beyond the . Christian era, but are crumbling under the influence of the New World. On the Right Track Once. We congratulate our esteemed but benfghted contemporary, the World-Herald, on having published in its "green sheet" the "Ding" car toon depicting the wild bulls of foreign competi tion driving the dehorned trusts of the United States out of the rich pasture of international trade. It was prophetic of what might follow disarmament We suggest, at the risk of med dling with a neighbor's affairs, that the cartoon be lifted and run through all its editions, as an antidote for its editorial support of free trade and the opening of the American market to the unrestricted competition of the world. A more eloquent picture has seldom been outlined in so few strokes of the pen. However, we are du bious; our good friends are joined to their idols, even as was Ephraim, and it is not likely that any who did not buy an extra on Saturday will ever see that cartoon. Too bad it had such limited circulation. Anarchy will, it is said, follow Lem'ne's with drawal from Russia. What, do you suppose, do they call the government they noil have?' Student life at Lincoln is not so tame after all (By P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education.) The teacher is the most important factor in the school. Other things help, but good teach ers make good schools under adverse conditions. Poor teachers make only poor schools under the best of conditions. Approximately 60 per cent of all expenditures for public schools in the United States are for salaries of teachers. The pay of teachers is adequate only when it results in giving to all the schools competent teachers, teachers fitted for their great work by native ability and disposition, by general educa tion, by professional instruction and training, and by experience both in school and in the prac tical things of life. Notwithstanding many fine and striking ex ceptions, good teachers cannot. as a rule be had for meager pay. Men and women of the best native ability, of the personality and character which should be required of all teachers of American children and youth, and of future American citizens, cannot be induced to spend the time and money and energy necessary to gain the preparation they should have for as sured success as teachers, and then make teach ing theirprofession for life, for much less than they might earn in other professions and occu pations requiring equal ability and preparation and involving about the same amount of work and responsibility. Even if they would do so teachers should not be expected to live on a lower plane socially and economically than other hard-working men and women. Neither is it good for the schools nor for so ciety that the teachers should live the abnormal life of celibates or of homeless wanderers. Teachers should be nornfal men and women liv ing a normal life as good American citizens in a normal way and under such conditions as will enable them to do their work in the best and most effective way, which can be done only when they work happily and joyously, under normal conditions, with reasonable freedom from finan cial care. Let us see now just what we do pay teachers in our public schools, and ask ourselves whether in the light of what is said above their pay can be considered adequate. The figures given be low are for the year 1918, the latest complete returns available. The average salary of ele mentary teachers is now between 30 and 40 per cent more; that of high school teachers from IS to 20 per cent more. The increase since 1918 has been more in some states, less in others. It has been much larger in the city schools than in the country schools. The first column of the table shows the aver age annual salary of all teachers in the several states. Ihe second, the average annual salary for city teachers; the third, the average annual salary of rural teachers, that is, of teachers in the schools of towns and villages having a popu lation of less than 2.500 and the schools of the open country; the fourth, the average annua! salary of high school teachers in citv and coun try. The states are arranged in the order of the average salary of all the teachers. The figures in ine otner columns tonow this order only in a general way: SALARIES OF TEACHERS IN THD SEVERAL STATES. Salaries Salaries Salaries of of of Salaries teachers teachers teachers of all In city In rural In city State teachers. arhnnlR tnhnnla arinnla ino. Carolina s z4 s Mississippi... 291 So. Carolina . . 315 Alabama E45 Kentucky .... 384 Georgia 366 Tennessee .... 370 Florida 388 Virginia 385 Arkansas . .... 387 W. Virginia .. 408 Maine 443 Vermont 467 Louisiana 471 Texaa 487 New Mexico . . 509 South Dakota K04 Kansas fit Wisconsin New Hamp. . . ueiaware Nebraska Oklahoma .... North Dakota Wyoming .... Iowa Indiana ....... Minnesota .... Missouri ......, Michigan . . . . . Montana ... . . . Idaho Maryland . ..... 687 Oregon ; 703 Pennsylvania 702 Ohio 744 Connecticut Colorado . Utah Illinois 778 Rhode Island 802 Massachusetts 858 Nevada 874 New Jersey ... 911 Washington.. 922 Arizona 852 New York ... 976 California ....1,012 Dist of Colum. 1.0K3 united states How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Quaatlona concerning hygiene, sanita tion and prevention of dlaease, sub mitted to Dr. Evans by reader ol The Bee, will be answered personally, subject to proper limitation, whore (tamped, addressed envelope is en closed. Dr. Evan will not make diagnosis or prescribe for individual diseases. Address letters In car ot The Be. Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evans. ax 521 548 561 562 571 678 578 678 587 651 651 663 670 685 745 749 754 635 - 508 $ 254 750 606 259 845 628 289 733 536 210 918 668 339 887 651 302 964 636 322 844 562 302 919 587 314 819 537 294 918 632 367 1,015 495 !S6 846 554 422 849 694 393 , 911 683 433 935" 727 448 1,023 769 483 973 680 471 948 812 337 973 685 465 918 767 429 930 779 541 920 625 578 996 816 615 1,001 960 521 1,140 720 439 910 730 488 926 948 539 1,069 851 565 1,014 835 513 . 1,072 1,035 589 1,276 860 655 1,077 645 738 990 1.037 517 1,081 774 633 1,124 809 566 1,072 741 743 1,168 . 905 661 1,145 827 702 1,169 1,044 551 1,262 743 684 1,157 871 1,442 1,212 973 632 1,436 946 1,003 1,273 1,006 849 1,172 948 873 1,473 1.038 554 1,438 1.063 929 1,454 .... .... 1,692 854 479 1.099 In only two states were the salaries of all teachers as much as $1,000. In no state was it as much as $1,100. In only six states was the average salary of teachers in city schools as much as $1,000, and in.no state was it as much as $1,100. In only 25 states was the average sal ary of high school teachers as much as $1,000 In only eight was it as much as $1,200, and only iq the District of Columbia, in which there are no rural high schools, was it as much as $1,500. High school teachers are supposed to have had four years or more of college work after gradu atiop from a standard high school of four years, and are further supposed to be men and women of such character and personality as will enable them to control, inspire and guide boys and girls effectively through the golden but dangerous period of adolescence and youth. Compare these averages for the United States as a whole; $635 for all teachers, $854 for all city teachers, $479 for all rural teachers, and $1,099 for all high school teachers, with the salaries, wages and earnings of hard-working, educated men and women of good native ability, strong personality, and positive aggressive character in other professions, callings and occupations, and then when you are inclined to complain of the work of the teachers and the inadequacy of the schools ask yourself: What ought one to ex pect at these prices? We should also ask ourselves: What shall we have to, pay before we may expect compe tent teachers in all our schools and satisfactory results from them? The Age of Ability. Much of the important work of the world, in every field, is done by persons beyond 65. Why should not a man or woman fill a subordinate positior a an age which does not incapacitate the head of a department, or the head of a great enterprise? Mr. Hays is right in abolishing arbitrary re tirement in. the Postoffice department. Louis ville Courier-Journal. Cheaper to Live Than Die. Burial costs have been reduced 10 per cent in some places, but we would advise holding off a little longer if you want to get the full benefit of the reductions that have been predicted. Philadelphia Inquirer. Better "Nevermore.' What is the motto of the Georgia civic organ ization that wants to eradicate peonage and stop the crimes which go with it? Better late than never i"Sia Antonio Express, URGING MORE LEAPYEARS. For some strange reason the fe male of the human species surpasses the male In liking for this old world. At any rate, she holds on to it bet ter. She does noy land here on a numerical parity with her hereditary enemy, but after getting hero she digs In, wraps a proboscis around a root in eel-like fashion, and, having anchored, she stays. Of each 2,057 babios born, on an average 1,057 are boys and 1,000 are girls. During and right after wars the disparity is even greater. In the frontier districts, and among the poorer people, the proportion of boys Is even larger. Among people where like la easier the proportion or girls is somewhat larger than lruthe fig ures given. But with this brief statement the story of the superiority of the male is at an end. In the process of com ing into the world more boys than girls die off. Just why, many have conjocured, but nobody knows. In the first year of life the deaths of boy babies exceeds that of girls 20 per cent, In the sixth year of life by 5 per cent, in the eleventh year by 15 per cent, in the sixteenth by 5 per cent, in the twenty-flrst by 15, the twenty-sixth by 6. The maximum ex cess is in the fortieth year, and it is 35 per cent. Thus we see that the 57 excess of boys In each 2,000 born speedily is lost, and by early childhood girls ore in the majority. Of each 100,000 women born 65,000 reach 60 years of age, while the number of men reaching 50 out of a group of the s.ifp sizp is only 60,118. A woman of 50 has the right to count on 21.7 years of further life. A man at the same age has only 20.3 years of age In store. When women pass into the period of bor rowed timo there are 36,916 left out of the original group of 100,000, while the men can only muster 31, 023. At 90 the women's group has been reduced to 2,260, while the men's group contains only 1,502. According to the vital statisticians, marrying is a good thing for a man. Married men are better insurance risks than single ones. But the ad vantage of marrying is even greater In the case' of women. According to Wilcox, in New York state the death rate among married women is mater ially lower than that among spin sters of the same ages. In ages 30 39 the death rate among spinsters is 7.4 per 1,000. Among married women it is 6.3.. In 40-49 the rates are 10 and 8.2 respectively. In 50 to 59 they are 19.9 and 14.5; in 60-69, 37.1 and 28.1. The older they get the greater the advantage once they get into the harbor of matrimony. There Is but one excep tion. Single women between 20 and 29 have a death rate of 4.7, while married women of the same age have one of 5.7. The hazards of child bearing in this period are respon sible for much of this. . In view of the plainly apparent minority of tha male, I purpose that thre-3 years out of every four bo made leapyears. I would agree to a substitute providing that the male be given the Initiative in matrimon ial matters every tenth year In all other years this privilege to belong to the female. About Gallstones. R. M. S. writes: "I. I'lease give me the cause of gallstones. When is the gall bladder removed in the operation? Ts there more danger in that case? If stones form again, with no duct, where do they go? "9 WTinr r-misea Adhesions after operations? Do stout people have them more than thin people? "3. I have put off the operation for some time. Will my convalescence be slower? How long must I remain In the hospital? When can I go back to the office ?" REPLY. 1. There are several causes. Ty phoid fever is one. Obesity, physical inactivity, overeating, eating too much grease, Inflammation of the gall bladder also are on tho list. It is the prevailing practice to re move the gall bladder. To remove the gall bladder adds to the imme diate danger, but lessens the ulti- mate aanger. rinere i vhj danger of gallstones forming after removal of the gall Diaaaer. 11 tney go anywhere they go into the intes tines. . , 2. Handling, of the parts during operation. Inflammation of neighbor ing parts. Infection. Possibly, but not necessarily. 3. Not necessarily. You may be In the hospital three or four weeks and out of the office from four to six weeks. For Careless Parents. A. writes: "Please say a word In your column for the poor babies who are fed from their fathers' and mothers' spoons. I have friends who would not dream of offering their spoons to me or of eating from mine, who nevertheless make a practice of feeding their helpless children that way. Aside from the danger of di sease. It is forming an ugly habit, which will require time and patience to break later on." Townlcy-Lanircr Debate Deshler, Neb., May 27. To the Editor of The Bee: Regarding edi torial on Townley-Langer debate at Deshler, In today's Bee. Mr. Langer cited the Incidents of alleged proce dures of the Nonpartisan league in North Dakota which produced dls- nnfrnita resuiltA Ha Hlinnliad donil- . merits backing these statements and handed them to Mr. Townley for ex amination. Townley in rebuttal either ignored the charges or brand ed them false and called Langer a liar and a discredited politician, re jected in North Dakota and now out to misrepresent and vilify Townley at the behest of the grain gamblers and corporate Interests. Townley gave statistics showing where the Nonpartisan league program had done great good. Was he right in re fusing to meet the direct charges backed by documents secured by Langer while attorney general of North Dakota? What more can Lan ger do that he has not yet done to show the public the disastrous re sults of applied Townleyism. E. J. MITCHELL. Beware Plo at Breakfast. G. R. F. writes: "I am a man over 40. I have blood pressure of 140. Is that high? What shall I eat? Can I smoke? How about meat, cof fee, pie, etc.?" REPLY. Not If you are twenty years or 40. A person in middle life who has high blood pressure will do well to over come constipation, live on breaed, cereals, vegetables, fruit, and milk, take plenty of exercise. There is some advantage in not smoking and not drinking coffe. Beware of pie for breakfast; otherwise it is all right. Snail Hunter's Lament. J. F. writes: "I am one of the thin skinned, easily and often poisoned with that 'ivy' rhus, sumac, toxi codendron from Maine to Califor nia. I am nn important discoverer of new snails. Whenever real sick I hie to the mountains of the south or west, summer or winter, and have been poisoned as many times in one tea son as another, as I dig through now and ice to get snails lying tinder rocks where the tenderfeet never dig. For a remedy bay rum is enough for mo nr mvjt anvrrilnar thnt carries a strong suspicion of alcohol. Some Here tell me tnat trie poisoning, ine eruptions, return periodically, but It never hits me but once at a time." Have Eves Examined. E. C R. writes: "Is there any cure for granulated eyelids, and what is good for a running ear? REPLY. If you have graunlated lids, vou had better see a physician. So manv cases called granulated lids are really trachoma, a serious contagious eye disease. Have physician treat your running ear. The cause is often ne crosis of the ear bones and destruc tion of the ear drum. "Heroines' for the Movies. Nebraska City, Neb.,. May 26. To the Editor of The Bee: I note that nn eastern movie syndicate is Offering Mrs. Stillman $100,000 a year to appear for them in the mo vies. For my part I do not particu larly caws to see Mrs. Stillman any where, and much less In the movies and I would say that lr in employing Mrs. Stillman this syndicate has for its oDject tne parading oi vice, uuui tery and bastardy before the public, tViAn uiifflnlnnt mihlin indienation and protest ought to be forthcoming to stop it at once. I say tnat u we nave come to the time when we must parade such characters as Clara Smith Hamon and Mrs. Stillman as exemplars of pure womanhood then let's have no movies at all. JACK STEIN. To Presorvo Home Prosperity. Omaha, May 26. To the Editor of The Bee: Today another S100,- 000,000 European loan is open to subscription to the American peo ple. It seems to me that these for eign nations ought to be compelled to pav at least the $10,000,000,000 they owe U3 before our government should allow any more foreign loans to be floated here. For example, as to the result of Omaha people suo scribing to this loan, will not this money to pay for these subscriptions be withdrawn from our local banks, making it harder for us to obtain credit to do business? As a rule, at the present time If Why Flowers Leave Home (From the New York Times.) A very learned volume has been written to show that trees lead a social life. Of course they do. They have to. Or if they ever stray and wander far afield, the passing of their generations is so slow that hastening man himself departs be fore he can note the process of their migrations. But it is different with flowers. Their earthly span is brief, and man, who by comparison lingers through long ages in this valley of delight, can watch them as they stray. Peter Newell's little heroine observed correctly, though she was perhaps unduly "mild." Homekeep ing as they seem and all compact of domestic virtue, "the flowers they are wild." The wild gardener knows this well; It is one of the things that chiefly excite him. Up on a rocky hilltop is a grove of white oaks, somewhat somber in their century-old socia bility. But in a chance opening among their far-flung branches lies a thickly clustering bed of toadflax "butter and eggs" the children call them; and the orange gold of their lips and the lemon gold of their petals catch all there is or eartniy gayety in sunlight. The murmur ing runes of the white oak, sedatest of gossipers, are hushed. Just so the philosophical society might feel if Pavlowa and her band romped In upon their deliberations. This time the wild gardener is wild with sheer delight To the end of his days, as he dreams, summer will always yield him this sylvan comedy. But next year the golden pool of toadflax has ebbed, and another summer finds the white-oak grove undisturbed I Its momentous musing. Down tTre hillsides are scattered small groups of toadflax that yearly wander fur ther and eventually are gone per haps to gather again in a grand ballet and romp in upon the solem nity of another group of white oaks in session on a distant hill. But the wild gardener's philosophers are not to be left undisturbed. Out. of the far unknown troops a bevy of wood lilies, more seemly if less gay in their, dusky purple robes; but in a few years they, too, glide on and are seen no more. It is so with the fantastic colum bine that strikes root in the thin, acid soil of outcropping rocks and ledges, tossing its tremulous flowers to the winds of spring so that their red and gold may stand forth more vividly still against the pearl gray of lichen and velvet green of moss. It seems an eternal home; never should the butterfly look for them here in vain. But as the seasons pass they become fewer and even tually are to be found on some dis tant ledge. So the wild rose makes fragrant a whole hillside, lingers perhaps for a decade, but eventual ly Is gone. The violet in the orch ard: the bloodrot in the damp mold of the wood; the lady's tresses faint ly perfuming the margin of a spring with its houri enchantment, all lin ger briefly as the decades pass and troop onward forever roaming the wild and never really at home. Wise scientists in the bureaus at Washington have a new theory that explains this wandering, though they speak of it mainly as explain ing the benefit that comes of crop rotation. It appears that the roots of all plants as they function cast off a substance that to them is in the nature of - a poison. When the ground is sufficiently saturated they no longer thrive. But another plant may suffer no harm, may luxuriate In abundance of health until in due course it. too, must pass. Eventual ly the oxygen of the air breaks down these poisons and the-cycle may be gin again; but the law of plant life Is migration. That trees live in a longer sociability may be due to the fact that the circle of their roots ever widens, reaching new soil; but even with them as the forest be comes crowded there should some time come a moving day. All this, however, is the prose, of agriculture. To the wild gardener the creatures of field and woodland are things wilder than himself bands of the gayest gypsies, clad in colors more numerous and lovelier far than the rainbow, that move to the stately rhythm of the decades In an ever shifting dance, over the hills and far away. THE CURTIS HOTEL -:- MINNEAPOLIS -:- In the heart of Minnesota's famous lake region. The newest, largest and most distinctive hostelry in the city. Rates average $2.80 the day for room with private bath. you ask your bank for a loan, re gardless of how good your credit may be, your banker's first question will be: "What are you going to use this money for?" or, "Money is so tight now, we prefer not to make any loqns." Those foreign nations, Japs, Chi nese, French, English, Irish, Ger man, Italian and many other nations who get our dollars away from us, which we need in our local busi ness, do not tell the subscribers to their loans what they are going to use this money for; you simply take the word of J. I'. Moisan & Co. as to the security for your money. If you want to see Omaha and sur rounding country prosperous, invest in local securities where attractive interest and surety of principle are as good and better than what is of fered by these war-ridden countries, then most of this money will remain In your local banks, and that will help us, both business and labor. CITIZEN. Study in Headlines. Omaha, May 25. To the Editor of The Bee: I want to congratulate the makeup man for the arrange ment of page 7 of this morning's issue. The headline of the first col umn called attention tc the contro versy over the spending by Van Wyck Bonner of about $500 per month from his late mother's estate while the headline of the second col umn called attention to the fact that there were hundreds of ex-service men out of jobs, and containing an appeal by Comrade Hough for jobs for the Yanks. I was particularly Ktruck by the request that the Yanks be paid at least CO cents per hour, Comrade Hough stating that some jobs had been offered the ex-soldiers at 25 cents per hour. It is not often that, as good a sermon can be found In the prosy columns of a newspaper as is contained in these two news stories. I do not know how useful a mem ber of society "Happy" Van Wyck's son is, but assume that as he is 17 J years or. age, tnat ne nas aone notn ing to society for the $500 per month which he has been spending from his mother's estate. We do know what the Yanks did. They served in the trenches, in the Argonne, at Chateau Thierry, and in every in stance they made good. They went to the front When it took real men to stand the gaff, and they did it for $1 per day in money. When they weru sent away they wero assured by the press and pulpit and govern ment that they would be held In grateful remembrance and when they returned there would be noth ing too good for them. NAnd now Adjutant Hough is appealing for jobs for them at BO cents per hour, while a 17-year-old boy is allowed to blow $500 per month of an estate which he did absolutely nothing to create. Question No. 1: Is there any thing wrong with the economic sys tem under which we are operating? 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