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1. Now Uoioa Pautaaftr Station.
2. Continued improvamant of tho Na
braska Highway, including tho pa
noat of Mala Thoroughfaraa loading
into Omaha with a Brick Surfaea.
3. A short, low-rat Waterway from tha
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Homo Rulo Chartor for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
j. ith,. 1 laiuuig aim uic ixaiuvauo.
The insistence of President Harding on im
mediate lowering of railroad rates undoubtedly
is backed up by popular sentiment. Nothing
else could give so much confidence to agricul
tural and commercial interests as a reduction of
freight tariffs. At a time when farm products
have declined about 50 per cent in price and
when wholesalers and jobbers have made reduc
tions of from 40 to 60 per cent, freighftates are
35 per cent higher-than they were a year ago
and 48.75 per cent above the 1916 scale.
The present high freight rates were granted
just as the price of farm products began to
slump and have.no relation, to what the traffic
will bear. . In fact, the opinion of all except
railroad executives and a few others is that they
are higher than the traffic will bear. Transporta
tion officials contend that stagnation in business
has caused freight traffic to drop off, but are
unwilling to admit that high freight rates have
been one cause of stagnation, . ,
It is good news that the president's cabinet
is with him in believing that transportation
charges must be reduced, even though members
of the Interstate Commerce commission may
hold to the opinion that rates can not be cut gen
erally until it is proved that investors in railway'
securities will be assured of. adequate returns.
Wage of rail employes are to be slashed to the
extent of $400,000,000 annually at the end of this
month, and still the railroad corporations are
unwilling to pass any share of this benefit along
to the public. v"
This is the situation that confronts President
Harding and the people. , His theory is that once
rates are lowered enough business will .be stimu
lated to increase the net return to the railroads.
Higher freight rates have not yielded revenue -enough
to offset the loss in traffic, and cheaper
tariffs might reasonably be expected to stimulate
enough, movement to beepme more profitable.
To the lay observer it seems that the railroad
companies are pursuing a short-sighted policy.
To continue .to penalize shipments is bound ulti
mately to localize traffic , and lessen the volume
of transportation permanently. Competition by
water routes and, motor trucks will be given
advantages that may never be overcome. The
public is . gaining the suspicion that rail lines
are being run, with some honorable exceptions,
not by men of engineering genius bent on giving
the most efficient service at the lowest practica
ble Cost, but by a, clan of financiers who can see
notning but the dollar and lose sight of the mu
tual interests of transportation and all other in
dustry, forgetting that it is impossible for the
railroads to profit unless business in general is
prosperous also.
!j& Street Cars and Buses.
The use of the automobile and the motor
bus has relieved the small town from the neces
sity of establishing and supporting a street car
system. Kin some large cities automobile trans
portation has cut deeply into the revenues of
the trolley companies. The wartime increases
in fares appear to have given opportunity for
competition of this kind.- .
As a result of the working out of economic
laws, the 5-ccnt street ear fare is to be returned
to Indianapolis for 60 days trial. The public
authorities decided to put the fare back from
6 to 5 cents and to increase the charge on
transfers from 1 to 2 cents. "" -
The street car company, after obtaining high
er fares, complained that the jitney buses took
most of jts business away. If passengers con
tinue to patronize the bus system in spite of the
reduced street car fares, it is said that the buses
will be put under strict regulation , that ' will
make competition less easy.
V- It does not seem probable that trolley trans
portation is going out of date, , but one, who
stops to think of the development of science
and invention in this generation will hot be sure
that the problem of city transportation, is fully
Settled. It is just and proper tfiat bus systems
should be regulated just as is any other pubtfc
utility, but it is not in the general interest that
burdens designed fo' render their competition im
possible should be, laid upon them. ,
be depended upon to take no steps that will en
danger their own lands by denying to America
the right they insist upon exercising.
Cost of maintaining the imperial navy also
will be considered. In other days Canada and
Australia have insisted on setting up their own,
and such establishments actually exist. An Aus
tralian war vessel achieved great distinction
through running down and destroying a German
raider that was harassing shipping in the Indian
and South Pacific oceans. Canada also hejped
materially in the naval operations of the war,
Mr. Hughes has frequently referred to the Briti
is h navy, as the bulwark behind which Australian
liberties lie safe, and his sentiments are gener
ally shared. They are all vitally interested in
the naval holiday proposed by the United States,
but may be depended upon to risk nothing by
premature or ineffectual efforts at disarmament.'
Ignorance at the Bottom.
Proceedings at Tulsa will shock decent minds,
as such outbreaks always bring sorrowful reflec
tion ' to right-thinking . people, no matter
where they occur. Whatever cause may be
ascribed for the deplorable exhibition, it chiefly
illustrates how close to the surface and how
easily aroused are the worst passions of mankind.
The real contest at Tulsa was not between whites
and blacks; it was between order and disorder,
between law and lawlessness, liberty and license,
intelligence and ignorance.
Culpability can not reasonably be fixed en
tirely on one side; blame for the affair should be
shared by all, and in some measure it extends
beyond the locality and generally touches the
entire nation. Oklahoma has been from the start
afflicted by a peculiar condition. When the'
"sooners" dashed over the line that summer day
in 1889, they were madly racing for homes to be
built on the virgin soil. These pioneers were
energetic, hardy, fearless men, who brought the
strength of mind and body to the forntation of
a new state. Along with them, however, rode
reckless men, .who regarded not the law nor
looked beyond the moment for achievement
Slowly, but sUrely the orderly minded citizens
asserted control, bands of outlaws were broken
up, open defiance of decency was put down, and
Oklahoma was on its way to peace and pros
perity. .
. Another factor entered, when the great grain
fields of the state called for the presence of mi
gratory labor. . I. W. Wism grew as rank as
did the prairie flowers, as dangerous as the loco
weed. When oil was discovered " each gushing
well'- brought a new crew of adventurers, and
the radical found there a field for his propaganda,
more fecund than any in the land elsewhere. He
taught among the ignorant, and found in the
negro his most ready' proselytes,
Here is where the blame rests on the intelli
gent whites. "Jim Crow" cars, "grandfather"
election laws, and similar devices have not turned
the neero to seek leadership and guidance from
the better element f the white race It is not
race hatred but ignorance that has bred the storm
of passion, whose terrible blast swept Tulsa.
When the intelligent members of all races and
classes unite to systematically and honestly com
bat ignorance, to remove misunderstandings aris
ing therefrom, and to carefully observe not only
the laws but the common rules of decency and
consideration for others, danger ot race riots will
disappear.
Food Dollar Bigger Now.
In a number of country stores about Nebras
ka is to be seen a window display full of interest
as showing the decline ,in certain items of the
eost of living. The centerpiece is a 100-pound
sack of sugar, and grouped about it are other
articles of food in sacks and cans. The sign
which tells the story generally reads something
like thisj '. '
- ' ONE TEAR AGO.
160 pounds of granulated sugar cost $30.
TODAY, 80 BUYS
12 cans tomatoes
12 cans peas
12 cans corn
12 cans poaches
12 cans hominy
12 cans pork and bean
j British Iityperial Policy,
A conference between premiers of Great
Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the
South African Union, soon to be held in Lon
don,' will be of genuine historical interest. It is
noteworthy," because it . marks an. advance
in the composition of the empire, growing
out of the war. Self-government for. the domin
ions has ot, apparently, softened the cement
that holds the empire together, but, through the
division, of responsibility, has actually brought
the several elements into closer contact -and be
cause of a better understanding of mutual and
individual problems, onto a better working basis.
Questions of imperial policy are to be dis
cussed and perhaps action taken that will dis
pose of some. One of these is the Anglo
jfapanese treaty. No surprise follows the an
nouncement of Premiers Hughes of Australia,
Smuts of South Africa and Morris of New
Zealand that they will assent to a renewal of
the treaty, but only on terms that will be satis
factory to the United States.- Each of these has
at home a problem akin to that of our Pacific
coast in relation to the Japanese, and they ; gay, 1
100 lbs. sugar
lOO lbs. flour
- 21 lb, oatmeal
1 box crackers
1) lbs. rico
1 lbs. beans
' 4 lbs. coffee.
There is no deception about this, for these
merchants stand ready to make delivery at this
price. Farmers who come to town to lay in
supplies are put in a better frame of mind by
discovering such a practical illustration of how
the slump in their produce is being reflected in
this line of the retail business. Urban dwellers
also pause before the display and are struck by
the fact that some change for the better has
actually been made in living costs. Traveling
salesmen have been known to linger about the
front and inquire why, if the cost of food has
gone down, to such a remarkable extent, prices
in the hotels have not followed to some notice
able degree, -t . .
It is a good thing to prove beyond dispute
that the dollar will actually purchase more food
now then a yearago, and it would be interesting
also to see a similar comparison of the costs
of other necessaries.
Giving Pupils the -Wrong Idea.
Omaha's grade schools will close June 17,
amid the quite natural and customary rejoic
ings of the small scholars. The advent of vaca
tion will bring a change from the routine of the
class room to the full liberty of care-free child
hood. When the fall term opens many children
will be ffiti to return to their teachers and their
classmates, while many of the older pupils may
have found employment and come to think that
their education is complete.
.In many grade schools elaborate gradua
tion exercises will be held by. the eighth grade
classes. There may be a danger in these cere
monials conveying the notion to some boys and
girls that this is the goal instead of the half
way point' No child of normal, development
should be given any reason to believe that his
education has been completed without attending
high school. ' v
Germany has paid France a million gold
narks and thereby has erased one of the black
narks chalked up against it. '
Democrats who are shouting for economy,
now were a year ago defending the reckless
waste of the Wilson administration. Don't forget
j - ,
The Federal Reserve board reports a turn
for. the better m May. It had to be so, for
things scarcely could hare been worse.
Nebraska went wet, almost unanimously,
vastly to the benefit of the growing crops.
a- EM oy rWEP -yestydjart!
The Iron Law:,
4i
Doctrine of Karl Man Had
Ample Test Under Lenine
(From the New York Times.) .
According to the philosophy of Marx, the
"iron law of wages" was that capital would ex
ploit labor by absorbing the excess of its pro
duction above wages until the world experienced
such misery that the capitalist system would
collapse in catastrephe. Marx arrived at this
"law" by deduction from his inner conscious
ness. Those who prefer induction from observed
facts to the discovery of law, rather than to make
laws in their minds and find the facts to sustain
them, remark that Marx professed to follow the
inductive method, but really followed the de
ductive. "Das Kapital" abounds with the ob
servation of facts at that early stage of capital
ism, but the trouble with the law based on them
is that the facts havr altered amazingly and no
longer fit the philosopher's deduction. Those
who think that the world has advanced toward
economic catastrophe since Marx deduced hi
law must De lonesome outside ot a lunatic asy
lum.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
QuMtleas conctrntnf fcyfira. Muta
tion and pravaattoa of dtiaaaa, anb
mftted to Dr. Evans by raadara of
Tka Baa, will ka aaawarad paraonally,
aubjact to proper limitation, wharo a
atampad, addraaaad anvalopo ia an
cloaad. Dr. Evaaa will aat niaka
diavaoaia or praacrlba for individual
diaaaaoa. Addraaa lattera ia cara of
Tha Baa.
Copyright, 1821, by Dr. W. A. Evant.
The world war falsified his prophecy in two
ways. It demonstrated the world's weak-mind
edness in allowing itself to be unset bv the de
lusion of economic wisdom and leadership on
the part of the kaiser; but that has only indirect
bearing on Marxism. Secondly, Marxism has
been confuted by the misery of the proletariat in
Russia, which only the deceivers of the Russians
think is atoned for or compensated by the
greater misery of the bourgeoisie under the pro
letariat than ot the proletariat under the bour
geoisie in any capitalistic system.: It is true
that some Marxians distinguish between bol
shevism and Marxism, but the difference would
never have been discovered if the experiment in
vivisection had gone according to program. Bol
shevism is the rule of the proletariat beyond dis
pute. Lenine himself has declared its funda
mental principles to be, first, that only manual
worKers snail nave political power, and, sec
ondly, that the government shall control all in
dustries. He had ft"ee hand, and has plunged
his proletariat into greater misery than was ever
predicted for capitalism. Also, he has wearied
the world, as well as Russia, with all leaders
into the economic millennium. The world has
been taught that, if capitalism is not perfect, yet
it has blessed the world, in comparison with any
sane expectation from either Marxism or bol-shevism.
The reason for takintr this nosition is that
Marxism threatens capitalism in a manner Marx
never imagined, and that capitalism needs de-
tense against a perversion of Maexism. or its
twin as like as one Dromio.to another. The pro
letariat of all lands know that the wage earners
are better off than ever they were in their lives.
Their work is shorter ' than ever before, their
wages are. higher, they are sharers on equal
terms in conveniences and even luxuries of life
which neither kings nor Croesuses could have
without capitalism. But although workers who
are sane and honest know this, they are still
misled by the successors of Marx into the de
lusion that profit is the enemv. and that if onlv
profit could be divided among the workers In
stead of among the, capitalists their position
would be bettered. That delusion Is of the same
quality as Marxism, and perhaps more dangerous.-
In an economic sense as well as moral.'it
makes little difference whether profits absorb
wages, and labor is exploited in that manner, or
whether waires absorb orofits. and ranitatisni it
betrayed. There is danger in injustice to either
labor or capital. The safe road lies in the middle.
Government, the state, spends but does not
create wealth. Government is concerned with
the regulation of conduct, a task far less' difficult
and risky than adventures in the making of
money. The failures of government in govern
ing are the starting points pi those w ho clamor
for government distribution of What others create,
and which will never be recreated'if government
tries to correct its errors iii the regulation of
conduct by undertaking the correction of eco
nomic inequalities which would not' exist if gov
ernment had not failed to function in its first
and easiest duties., The imperfections of cap
italism are due in large part to the imperfections
of the makers and administrators of laws. Cap
italism is curing its own faults faster than those
who would apply economic corrections to
moral lapses, and do not see the wisdom of keep
ing the two things apart The-exploitation of
labor by any form of sweating or underpayment
is both immoral and uneconomic. It is for the
state to correct the wrong, and it is for capitaV
ism to cure its economic errors. They are ftiis
taken - who think that either . unionism or law
makers' have played the chief part in the better
ment of the conditions of the proletariat What
they, have accomplished would have been im
possible if capitalism had not consistently and
persistently improved its methods of production
so that there was a margin ever larger which
could be spared from profits.
..Wages and profits must both come from pro
duction.. The state cannot compel profits, al
though it can prevent them, and distribute .their
accumulation once and never, again. The
Neomarxists are the exploiters of capital, dis
tributers of he creations of others, which they
never themselves could provide for distribution.
They like to call themselves soldiers of the com
mon good, but it does not occur ,fo them that
capital is a partner in the common task, and that'
they should co-opetate for the general welfare
instead of combining against it in a manner ex
emplified in current affairs.
One of Our Weaknesses
A PROBLEM OF TEACHING,
"T have a boy In my schoolroom,'
miss ti. Lu k. writes, "who has
state or disease railed alexia. He is
8 years- and 2 months old, and his
Q. T. (intelligence quotient) ia 81.
When given the Pressv test he was
S.3. and he scored 73 points on that
date.
"Physical examination shows him
to be all right. His vision is good
He is a sturdy little fellow, height
47 H inches, weight 5 pounds. His
nenaviw is good, likewise his. per
sonality.
"Amplifying: my statement rela
tive to his mind, he knows six let
tors, a, c, e. k, o. and p, if written
but not when printed. He knows
about 14 words when written, but
seldom knows them when nrinted
Sometimes he will fail to recognize
a printed word, but will know it if
I spell It aloud. He pan write his
spelling on paper from the memory
of my written board work, but he sel
dom knows the words, except as to
nis 14, when they are pointed out
to him, even though he has written
them himself. His memory of his
reading seems wonderful, as ha can
read page after page. But that all
this is memory is shown by his in
ability to recognize words he has
just read.
"He talks well, except for a alight
impediment in his speech.' He is
good in arithmetic. He does very
good constructive work on both
cardboard and wood. He seems Well
poised and can see either the funny
or tne. sensible side or things.
"The other members of his fami
ly are normal, except that the moth
er has a slight speech trouble simi
lar to that of the boy. He has three
brothers who are all good in anth
metic, but who have all had trouble
with reading. There seem, to . be
rour Boys all normal except to' a
varying degree of word blindness.
This boy is still reading in the
primer. Will he ever be ready for
tno nrst reader?"
In reply, as far as one can judge
by the tests, the boy Is bright in
mind and sound in body. Except for
his word blindness and his moderate
speech defect, he is normal. Since
he is not subnormal mentally there
is an excellent chance that he can
be educated and a fair chance that
he can be taught to read satisfac
torily.
In the Training School Bulletin
for September and October, 1920,
you will find an excellent article on
alexia written by J. E. W. Wallen.
While it does not deal directly with
the subject of educability, the last
paragraph in the October number
is devoted to that part of the sub
ject, . ,
.Perhaps the boy can go ihto the
class with playmates of his own age
when it comes to other subjects,
such as arithmetic and geography,
but he will have -to remain in a spe
cial reading and 'spelling class. In
his education the oral method will
need to be made use of to the maxi
mum. Lantern slides, pictures, and.
above all, moving pictures should
prove satisfactory in the highest de
gree. If It were possible, an animated
cartoon in- which the letters and
words were formed by slabs or "sol
diers are first lying around and then
assembled In proper positions:, tb
make the letter, word or. sentence.;
Instruction by play- and by work4tf
in the shop is another educational
channel. All in all, there is a fairly
good chance that, -given equipment,
you can teach the boy to spell -and
read and, of . course, an excellent
chance that you can otherwise edu
cate him. The history of the other
boys, as well as the literature of the
subject, encourages you. While at
it do not forget the desirability of
teaching thei boy calm and poise as
a means Of curing his speech defect
Read tomorrow's story on alexia.
What the League Has Done.
Sutton, Neb.;' May Sl.To the
Editor of The Bee: The Bee com
plains that the Townley-Langer de
bates are of no value to either sWe
because of the-rancor of the disputants.-
Perhaps, so, but whose fault
is it? Townley . claims that It is
Langer's, and that he is compelled
to some extent to defend himself.
So unbiased observers would judge
from the tenor of the press reports.
If'the Nonpartisan leaguo policies
now partly In operation in North
Dakota are unsound here is a chance
for linger to point them out and
not waste his time in personal abuse
of his opponent. Townley at some
timo may have been in his neighbor's
melon .patch, but what has that to
do with a state-owned terminal
elevator? He m,ay have slept In the
same bed with Arthur 1 Seuer, but
does that detract- from the sound
ness of a state-operated reserve
bank? What have the I. W. AV.'s
to do with policies that have been
tried out successfully in other coun
tries and in part, in other states, long
ago? How does a state-owned flour
mill differ from a municipal ioe plant
In Omaha and other cities?
Louisiana in conjunction .with New
Orleans spent more than $3.-,000,000
for public-owned grain elevators.
cotton warehouses and a canal con
necting the Mississippi river direct
ly with the Gulf of Mexico through
Lake Pontchartratn. Did you know
that no less an authority than the
secretary of the treasury in Harding s
cabinet has pronounced the bond is
sue of North Dakota perfectly sound
and that the federal supreme court
has unanimously decided the pro
gram constitutional? Do you be
lieve In majority rule? Then re
member that the people have en
dorsed the league program at five
different elections.
Part of this program was voted
for before the league was born and
at a time when Townley was break
ing prairie near the village of Beach.
True, last fall the league had a close
call. Nevertheless, they scored a
success In spite of the money that
flooded the state from the same
source that spent more than a half
million to purchase a United States
senatorship in ' Michigan. There
were two excellent results: rnc
election of Dr. E. F. Ladd to the
senate and the defeat of Langer for
governor; the former a staunch ad
herent to the farmer's cause, the
latter a rejected deserter. Yours
truly, A. G. GROH.
Why High Prices?
Omaha, May 31. To the Editor
or The Bee: wny qo tne retail
dealers in Omaha continue to hold
us up on prices or necessaries or
life nearly to the war time standard?
It is about time something w-as done
to stop the high price business in
Omaha.
Why nay the high prices for
bread when wheat has gone down in
price greatly In the past year and
when the Agricultural department
at Washington reports an increase of
nearly 300,000,000 bushels or wneat
n the country over last year: it
is simply because there is a fast and
close organization of the retail
dealers of Omaha to keep the price
up. no difference how much prices
ought to fall. I believe and always
have believed that the retail dealers
are to blame for the high prices
more than anybody else.
Not long ago I asked a leading
baker if the price of bread had
come down In Omaha any, and he
said not one cent. Yet I heard this
same baker tell a friend of his a few
days ago that he and his family are
going to spend Beveral months In five
or six different countries of Europe
this year. H will use thousands of
dollars on that .trip that ha has
gotten out of high priced bread from
people who have to work hard to
get the money that he can uso on
trips that none but tho wealthy can
afford to take. ,
Why should we have to pay-as
high' as- 40 cent a pound for pork
chops and equally as high prices
for other kinds of meats when all
kinds. of live stock are much lower
than they were one year ago?
Why pay 60 and "0 cents a quart
for ice cream now when we got good
butter for 30 cents a pound and milk
as low as 8 cents a quart? It is
simply another case of holdup to say
it right out in plain English. Each
ear the price of ice cream ia in
creased about 10 tents a quart and I
suppose in three or four years it
will cost $1 a quart unless something
is done for the relief ot the general
public.
It is about time we should elect
a legislature in Nebraska that would
do something else than pass a lot of
silly laws because they are demand
ed hy this club or that "club in
Omaha. . ' ' ' .
It is about time we .should elect a
legislature that would look after tho
interest of the public in general
rather than of something that some
high toned club, may demand.
Something, should be done to stop
the high price business In Omaha for
it is not just or right that we should
be held up as we are today. If we
could once elect a legislature
pledged to repeal about 90 per cent
of the laws of this state, it would be
a refreshing change to come about.
We have too many laws that are
useless and sillly and not enough to
protect the people form the greed
of those that can take advantage
of them unless they are restrained
by laws, as some of the retail dealers
in Omaha ought to be, and not only
a few but a good many of them. I
would like to ask some of the retail
dealers what excuse they have for
such high prices for bread, for flour,
for meats and many other things in
the eating line, when butter and
lillk have gone down in price?
What excuse have the ice cream
dealers for raising tho prices every
year and then advise people to "eat
more ice cream for health?" I sup
pose it is meant for the health of the
ice cream, dealers. . .
FRANK A. AGNEW.s
CENTER SHOTS.
The old-fashionod man who'iised
to borrow your lead pencil now.car
ries a fountain pen which never has
any ink in It. Jefferson City (Mo.)
Democrat-Tribune. .. , .
; No matter what the cause really
is. every fellow who -appears on the
?-.wa with n nliirhr aht-nsinn on thn
bridge of his nnso is accused of hav
ing been drinking out of a fruit jar,
Cedar Vale County (Mo.) Liner.
College men may become great,
but seldom by degrees. El Paso
Herald.
Homeward the plowman plods his
weary way to read the box scores ere
ho hits the hay. Baltimore Evening
Sun.
The girls ask what they chall do
to prevent .blushing. One good way
would be to wear more cloth.es.
Flmt Journal.
Statistics show that the averag
income of the class of 1911, Chicago
university, is i.5,732. Not bad for
mere college graduates, is it,
Thomas? Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Poor old Milwaukee! At a, gather
ins of newspapermen there recent
ly a majority of the younger- set re
ported that they had never tasted
beer. Still, come to think of H.'ne
one ever "tasted" beer in Milwaukee,
Minneapolis Journal.
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Gulbransen
Player-Piano
One of the harmless diversions of our Cana
dian neighbors is indulging in mild derision of
doings on this side f the boundary. The Toronto
Mail finds amusement in special weeks for spe
cial activities. It "comments thus:
Our neighbors are so restless, so strenuous
and generally preoccupied that-they rarely
have scope . for the simultaneous exercise of
their numerous virtues and benevolent im
pulses. In order that in the general scuffle
none of these should be completely overlooked
and as a result of disuse become atrophied,:
they set aside various days and weeks devoted
to the cultivation or commemoration of a sin
gle useful habit or worthy aspiration. Thus
they have Clean-up Week, Go to Church, Sun
day, All Americans' Day, Mothers' Day. Hire
a Hall Week, Safety First Week, Eat an Onion
Day and Go Chase Yourself Week. . Cana
dians have not emulated this special day , or
week fetich of their American cousins, but
must admit there is a certain punch and ad
vertising value to a celebration that is concen
trated in one day and is nation-wide.
The Canadian cousins have so assimilated the
various virtues that they do not require the
stimulus of special days. They are always clean,
they go to church without urging or coercion,
they are 100 per cent loyal to king and country,
good to their mothers, observe all safety pre
cautions, chase themselves'-and treat animals
with consideration. We know this and envy
them. Heirs to a thousand years of nationaliza
tion, nourished in exalted ideals and traditions,
why shouldn't they be superior? . They know it.
And when they look across the boundary at us
they view our efforts to emulate them as the re
former did in the play which diverted us a gen
eration ago, who used to sing: "Of course, you
can never be like us, but be as like us as you
ever can be." Seattle Post-Intelligenccr.
4 The Old, Old Story.-
The senate fight over disarmament recreates
anomaly long historic in the newspaper world.
Ever since the cub reporter brought to his city
editor from a meeting of the Society for the
Promotion of Peace a report there was no news
because the meeting broke up in fight Wor-
VCCatttLjelS
Eat Fruit, Vegetables, Bran.
W. H. C-writes: "I am past . 72
years old and constipated. Please
recommend a diet"
'' REPLT. ' . ' :
Eat plenty of vegetables and fruit,
bran bread ani bran as a cereal.
and sour milk preparations. Drink
plenty or water, oia people snouia
beware of constipation. They are
liable to become extremely const!
Dated without suspecting it. Rather
than have this happen they are justi
fied in taking aloes pills, mineral
oil, agar,, or using enemas. . r
v Operation Seems Best.
Mrs. 8; M. writes: "My mother.
64 years old and the mother of nine
children, has had a .hernia lor 24
years. It isas large aa a half gal
lon bucket and is located in the pit
of the stomach above the , navel! Is
she too old to be operated on? If
you have any good medicine for
hernia send me a bottle of it and I
will send you the money. She gets
spells of colic in her hernia. The
hernia goea down when she lies
down. Please do not frighten her
or send us medicine which tastes
very bad. Have' you a price list Of
your medicines?
REPLT.
I do not have any medicine. I
do not sell anything. And now hav
ing cleared the decks let us have
something about, hernia. ,A hernia
located above the navel la not very
important as a rule. What makes
it important In this case are thpse
colicky pains. That means that the
intestines in the hernial sac are be
ing pinched and just a little more
ninchin? mar mean a highly dan
gerous strangulation. So, in spite of
the fact that she is 64 years old and
has had. a largo hernia for 24 years,
I think an operation should be per
formed to prevent her from waking
nn some morning with a strangula
tion. Ne medicine for hernia is of
the slightest benefit.
V THE SPICE OF LIFE.
' "Excuse My Duat." ran tha aim -en
the hack of the apeeder'e car. '
"Watch My Smoke." aald the motor
cvcle cop a he atarted in pursuit. De
troit Motor Newa.
Man (to ang-ry apouae) rion't quarrel
with me on the atreet. What nave ve
Itot a home for? Overhead, by J. M. C.
and reported to the Christian Evangelist.
Professor What! ForMtten 'your
pencil again, Jones! What would , you
think ot ft aoldler without a sun?
Jonea (an en-aervloe man) I'd think
he waa an officer. The Brown Jut,
Terribly rouuh," aatd the stranger on
board the ocean liner. -
"W11." aald tha farmer, "It wouldn t
be near ao rough If the captain would
only keep in the furrowa." The Virginia
Reel.
The Artist Dobbins, the art critic, has
slated my pictures unmercifully.
HU Friend Oh, don't take any notice
ot that fellow: ho has no ideaa of his
own he only repeats like a parrot what
everybody else is saving. London Opinion.
Artist (in desperation) That, sir, I
consider the finest In my exhibition. Tou
can have It for half the catalog price.
The Visitor Blesa my aoul! Tou don't
say ao. By the way, what la the pric
of the catalog? Punch (London.)
Let us not be unreasonable. People
went crasy before there were any moving
picture shows. Toledo Blade.
Retired Auctioneer And what can you
give my daughter?
Prospective 6on-in-La A thousand a
year, a car, a country houae
Retired Auctioneer (absent-mindedly)
srCcia: Iha FsMlaf aow iLondon), '
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Made in three models.
.White House model,
$700.
County Seat model, $600.
Suburban model, $495.
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