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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1921. TheOmaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE I) ICR PUBLISHING COMPANY NtUoN It. liPDIKK. Pobli.b.r. MEMBUI OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The AamitlH Pna. af abtrk T ll la uwuticf. M at atoaiiaJ litl4 to u iw f'f iniMi.'ittm of ill now dtataMeka oradltad Iw II wA uUtiar cmliiad m una paiiar. an J aiau lln local nraa rnjMlihl l.iwn All riab'.i 0 puUIksuim of our aiciaJ alispatclia ara aim rarotj BEE TELEPHONES PrlMta Branch Eiflnto Ait for AT lanlir 1000 taa lMnriaanl ur Parana VantaL 1 " ,ww Far Nlrbl Call Altar 10 p. m i tllllorlal bsvsrtmant AT Initio 1021 of 1041 OFFICES OF THE BEE Man iKf'T: HI at Karnam Couaotl Rttiffa IS Uom at Souui aiua. ISM aVatb 2(ia R Out-ol-Towa Officasi Ka Tf laicito 3l rirtk Ata. I Wa.hlnttuo 1311 0 m. Waer UUta. I'aria. rraurs. IM Bua at. Honor, The Bees Platform 1. New Unios Passtngcr Station. 2. Continued improvement of the Ne braska Highways, including; the pave ment of Main Thoroughfare Inadinf into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. , Disarmament Plans Not Lagging. Headers tor immediate disarmament of the United States anil all llic nations of the world vnight accomplish the:r purpose easier were they to go about the jolj in a more systematic man ner. Merely to urge the desirability of a world without war will not set them far on towards the goal they hope to reach, nor when they ad versely criticize those who do not wholly agree V'ith them do they aid the general movement. Mow, as at the end of every war, there is a great spiritual revulsion against war. This time the reaction is the more scriou and widespread for the reason that the war itself affected more of the people of the earth than any in all history. Con-idrrab'c- progress hud already been made in the direct' 11 of at lea: t a limitation of armament prior to ';M. One (lenient blocked the way, but it yince lias been effectually removed. Now the question is coining on for international con sideration once more. The overwhelming sentiment of the . United States- is in lavor of a peaceful world. Our na tional genius is not warlike, despite the dema gogic pretence that we are perpetually in danger ot a militaristic control., At the moment the president of the United States is earnestly, de voutly seeking the way to peace. So, too, is the congress of the United States. That there is a difference of opinion as to the method to follow does not alter the fact that all arc anxious to find the way. While it may seem that the senate and the house arc working at cross-purposes, to so charge them is both unfair and absurd. Any divergence of views that may exist between them serve only to illustrate the diliiculties that lie i'i the approach to the topic. Disarmament can not be achieved by any off hand process. Many steps preliminary must be taken. Confidence between nations first must come, with a composition of many conflicting in terests, and the establishment of a mutual trust to replace the suspicions and jealousy that now exists. Mankind was not purged of any consid erable part of its infirmities and propensities through the operation of the war. Experience since the armistice was signed should be ample warning to any of the danger that yet persists. "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick," but the perversity of human nature has postponed many times the blessed hour w hen "the lion ,and the lamb shall lie down together, and a little child Shalt lead them." The president of the United States is pledged to the policy of disarmament; he only awaits authority from congress to issue a call for a conference on the point.' Is it not fair to accord to him a sincerity that is inferentially denied by the clamors for precipitate action, and to await the outcome of a discussion that is not materially aided by hysteria? v. A Mad Act. Worse than a mad dog is the bandit who fa- tally shot a woman on the street in Omaha Sat urday night. There is not, of course, any system cf ethics generally observed by robbers, but "usually they refrain from such desperate and hearties acts. Savagery knows nothing more ruthless than this murder. " Out around Ihe state the impression has been fostered that Omaha is a place where such deeds fnay be cxpected. Tliis is no more true of Omaha than of any other well governed city. Mad 'dogs are found, now and then, even in the most peacc iul rural communities. Only last . week the discovery of a body floating in the Niobrara ,' river exposed a slaying committed in the coun try, fully as atrocious, according to report, as any Omaha has ever seen. Cit'cs tre not particularly places of wicked ness and crime. The killing of Mrs. C. M. Hy- land is as much of a shock to residents of Omaha as it is to those of any part of the state. Surely the police yll not fail to apprehend the guilty man. ; Making a New Supreme Court. ,- Whether Mr. Taft or Mr. Hughes, or sonic one not yet mentioned be named to the vacancy caused by the death of Chief Justice White, the episode of his death again calls attention to a fact that was given some prominence during , the campaign last year. It is within the range of possibility that Mr. Harding will have oppor tunity to entirely change the composition of that august tribunal, as three others of the nine judges may be replaced by his appointees. Jus tice Holmes, McKenna and Day all are past the age . and have served more than the requisite number of years to entitle them voluntarily to retire. Each of these is well beyond the allotted ta of man't life, and Justice Holmes has reached four-score, so' there is every likelihood, of the president having to name a successor for each of them. Interest in the situation grows largely from the fact that both Holmes and McKenna belong to what is known as the Platitudinarian" schools as opposed to the "strict constructionist" group. They, with Justices Braodeis and Clarke are looked to to furnish the interesting dissenting opinions that characterize every important decision, particularly those in volving issues between human rights and prop erty rights. No hope is entertained that a court -will ever be unanimous on these questions, and the certainty that rigorous dissent is forthcom ing warrants faith in the body on whose ma jority vote depends the law and the progress of the nation. Mr. Harding has before him a duty more grave than many realize. Health and Garbage Disposal. Once more Omaha is confronted with the problem of garbage collection and disposal. As so often happens when the business is left in private hands, the city has taken a chance of the fulfillment and continuance of its scavenger con tract and lost. Arrangements of this sort with men who haul the kitchen refuse to farms for feeding hogs are tentative at best. Frequently, as in this case, where the city pledged payment of $45,000 a year to the collector, lack of profit, disease among the hogs or other causes have left him with a loss and the city without any organized system of disposal. Commissioner Zimman declares that the gar bage question will continue to be troublesome until the city votes bonds for an incineration plant. A proposal for a vote on issuing $300,000 bonds for this purpose has been initiated and is deserving of support when it comes up in the election this fall. Health is the primary consideration in this matter, and burning is the only satisfactory way of dealing with it. The process of incineration has been in use for 35 years, and now several hundred American cities are using this method, among them being 19 of the 66 cities of more than 100,000 population. Tin cans and other refuse are handled along with the rest. Al though this cleanses and destroys without odor, it represents a complete loss of the chemical matter found in kitchen leavings. A more modern and economical plan than mere incineration is reduction. By this process, which is considered best adapted to cities of more than 100,000 population, the inherent values are extracted from this refuse and it is reduced from obnoxious matter to a refined and whole some product, part of it vegetable oil and part fertilizer. Twenty-nine cities with reduction plants now produce 36,000 tons of grease and 150,000 tons of fertilizer per annum, valued at $11,000,000. This amount of grease is sufficient to make 200,000,000 cakes of soap, and a large portion is used for such purpose. Cleveland, which has used the reduction process for ten years, sells 3,000,000 pounds of grease a year. Paper, rags and tin cans are sal vaged, baled and sold, also. Los Angeles, New York City and New Bedford have the latest type of dehydrating machinery. From one ton of refuse the reduction plant at the latter city obtains: one-fifth ton of fertilizer, valued at $15; 70 pounds of grease, $4.90; and 30 pounds of bones, 45 cents, with a total value of $8.35. It is said that for a city of the size of Omaha this method should result in profit rather than expense. Thus, in Los Angeles, the city is paid 51 cents a ton for garbage delivered at the plant of a private reduction company in the heart of the city. The cost of collection is about 35 cents a ton, which leaves a net profit to the municipality.- This is the sort of scavenger service that Omaha needs. The cost of installing a plant is heavy, but the expenses of operation are not large. It is possible that it might be financed on a. capital of $300,000, and the subject is one that demands attention, not only on the aspect of cost, but of sanitation and the utilization of waste as well. Sales Tax "Evidence" Fallacy of Some Arguments Presented Against the Plan Pluck of Pueblo Prophetic. "The outstanding feature of the Pueblo flood disaster is the utter absence 'of discouraged grief," says an Associated Press dispatch from there. It is just what we expected to hear. Pueblo's people undoubtedly feel grief and sor row deeply for the calamity which has overtaken so many of their number. Homes have been wrecked, families broken up, lives dear to many are mourned by relatives and friends, and im mense property loss has fallen on the victims. Hut they do not mourn as those without hope. A calm courage, a willingness to pluck fortune from the grasp of disaster, marks the city. It will rise again, stronger and better than before, build ing for permanence, and go ahead to its destiny strong and vigorous for having overcome adver sity. That'is what makes American cities great; they overcome misfortune; fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, all forms of terrible visitation over take and shatter them, but out of the wreckage the spirit of youth and strength, sustained by hope and faith, spring up to rebuild and recon struct and go aheld. The process has been re peated so many times that it may be accepted as, characteristic of our people. Discoursed grief is about the last thing to look, for when the job calls for plucky acceptance of a situation and energetic effort to remedy it. ' Rail Rates and Unemployment. Shippers of lumber and road building ma terial have been laying their demands for lower freight rates before railway officials in Wash ington. Everyone knows the effect of high transportation costs on the price of lumber and the process of building., A cut in this tariff would provide one more stimulus to the struggle against a housing shortage. Similarly important is the request for lower rates on road building materials. It is reported that throughout the nation highway improvement is virtually at a standstill because of the heavy burden of rates on cement" and other supplies. Government reports show that more men were idle in May than in April, in spite of the natural tendency to open up new work with the coming of warm weather. With building and road construction hampered by excessive freight rates, it is proving difficult to resume business as usual. There has been enough shilly-shallying over railroad rates. It is time to end these conferences; make a reduction, perhaps of an experimental nature, and start traffic moving in its old volume. The Lincoln jury that found King guilty of murder deserves commendation for its courage in resisting the specious pleading of a clever at torney. Such stamina is too rare in Nebraska juries these days. They arc not yet stealing paper off the wall, although an Omahan is accused of making off with a lot of wallpaper that has not yet been pasted on. If there was only enough rain to go around. Pueblo has deprived a goodly portion of the west of its share. The second coming of summer is also wel come, because the corn needs sunshine. (From the New York Timet.) Opponents of the salc3 tax, like the railway brotherhoods, fancy that their arguments and even their "beliefs" arc evidence. Thus the sen ate committee listened to the statement by Prof Fairchild of his belief that the sales tax was designed "ultimately" to supplant the income tax. If true, that would be important ultimately, but not now. If it is untrue it is of no im portance now or ultimately. Sales tax advocates nave proposed that the sales tax shall make good the failure of the income surtaxes to be productive above 30 or 40 per cent. If Prof. Fairchild knows of any supporter of the sales tax who has the same belief as himself that the sales tax can, or should, or is designed, to super sede the income tax, he would do well to make the name or names public. It is true that Senator La Follette argued that "we nave reached the beginning of the end of the income tax when a sales tax becomes a part ot the revenue system. But that is rather the testimony of a friend of the most obnoxious sort of income tax than of a friend of the sales tax, and the senator and professor must be set down as expressing only personal opinions. That ap pears from Senator Penrose's prompt reply that the income tax has come to stay. The strength of the new tax proposal lies in the failure of the excess profits tax and the income surtaxes to realize the predictions of those who traduce the sales tax and adhere to the proved errors of their theories. At the same hearing they objected to the untaxing of the rich and claim that the sales tax burdens Ihe poor unduly. The poor man spends all his in come, they argued, and is taxed on all he spends. But the millionaire who spends a tenth of his income escapes on nine-tenths. Thus the sales tax was represented as an unjust income tax. But the millionaire who spends $100,000 is taxed fifty-fold the tax of the man who earns and spends $2,000. If the sales tax makes the millionaire pay taxes on $100,000 of expenditures, it is almost a clear gain, for exemptions are so liberally provided as life preservers for the mil lionaires tnat tliey can decide for themselves what surtax they shall pay. Theoretically they may escape all payment by putting all their wealth into exempt bonds. There is excess of proof in the income tax returns that billions escape the tax collector in that way. The sales tax would make such escape more difficult. ihe critics ot the sales tax who condemn it for the difficulty of its administration should pay more attention to the faults of the present tax. The "invested capital" of 50,000 corpora tions has not been settled even so far h.irt ae 1917. For 1918 only 60 per cent of the returns Have been examined, both personal and cor porate. For 1919 only 10 to 15 per cent have been looked at, and for later years practically nothing has been done by way of revision of the self-taxing statements. The most important have been prepared by skilled counsel. The re visions are made by clerks who serve for $2,000 or less, as preparation for resigning from gov ernment duty and earning more by reducing col lections than by making them. It is said that there are $1,000,000,000 of uncollected taxes, which fast are becoming uncollectible. What ever the defects of the sales tax, it is no slight recommendation of it that it would be paid as sales were made and would reach the govern ment even monthly, if the law were made so. How to Keep Well By OR. W. A. EVANS Question concerning hyciea, sanitation and pravantion of disrate, submitted to Dr. Evaaa by roader ef The Bee, will be answered personally, subject to proper limitation, where a stamped addressed envelope is enclosed. Dr Evan will not make diagnosis or prescribe for individual disease. Address letter la car ef The Be. Copyright, 1921. by Dr. W. A. Evan Humanizing 0 f ficial Correspondence Pueblo, its head above water, says, "Let's got' .That' the spirit that win. Postmaster General Hays has already insti tuted a number of timely innovations in the de partment over which he presides. The depart ment and the general public have been swift to approve. For, in his announced determination to "humanize" the postal service, the keen and able postmaster general strikes a chord to which the men and women of today are exceedingly responsive. ' Having first divined and subse quently established the existence of popular responsiveness to the idea he has "had in mind, "General" Hays presses forward boldly. "Get away from the cold form letters," is the gist of his latest order to his department. Employes of the department have, in the case of innovations instituted to date, readily adapted themselves to the new order of things. The idea appeals, and, in all seriousness, there is no greater incentive to the efficient performance of any task than the assurance that that work is being done in an atmosphere of "human" sym pathy and understanding. Yet one can not but speculate, as one considers the new order, upon the possibilities which an enthusiastic adoption of the new plan for "official correspondence" might open. Official correspondence lias, indeed, ever been a drab and routine matter. It has the habit of beginning, "Sir" or "Madam;" has proceeded to refer to "your letter of the steenth inst." and has dragged on through a series of colorless paragraphs to the signature of the writer, who professes, with ill-concealed shallowness, to be the addressee's "obedient servant" or to belong to him "respectfully" or "truly" or in some other unlikely manner. Henceforth such stereotyped absurdities are tp be under the ban of the Post office department. The cold form letter is to go. The postmaster general gives various sam ples as to how the thing should be done. But they have not yet been made public, and one may, in the light of that oversight, be pardoned for the mental picture of a pile of official letters upon Mr. Hays desk of a morning the first be ginning, "Will, dear, I had your nice long letter in which you suggested, etc.," and signed "with love and kisses" by the chief of this or that bureau. The imagination staggers as it seeks to draft the "human" reaction of the popular post master general. Washington Star. "Going Off Half-Cocked." Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of the Woman's League for the Peace Treaty, has sent to President Harding a telegram protesting "against the unauthorized statement of Ambas sador Harvey. 'that America would not directly or indirectly have anything to do with any as sociation of nations." This is 'all right, except that Mr. Harvey never said anything of the sort charged up against him. All he did was to make it clear that the American government is through with the Wilson league, which is quite another matter. The good women who compose hc league for the peace treaty ought to remember that it is sometimes better to be accurate than enthusiastic. Detroit Free Press. Some of Them Are. Edward D. White was a democrat, but it was President Taft who advanced him to the mighty responsibility of chief justice of the su preme court. Franklin K. Lane was a democrat, but it was President Roosevelt who called him to Washington and started him in his great na tional career. The republican leaders are ready to recognize ability and patriotism wherever found. Los Angeles Times. Will It Be "St Volstead?" New York woman wants us to take snakes for pets, but really we haven't seen one since Volstead did the St. Patrick emulation act and ran them out of America. Richmond ' Times-Dispatch. Our Choice. O Lord, prayed we earnestly yesterday, make us neither an easy tvtark nor. a tightwad, but if thou must make us one or the other, make us an easy mark. Ohio State Journal. Can Anybody Explain This? When a man is tickled to death with one edi torial and strongly disapproves another in the same paper he writes the editor about the latter. Chin Stala IournaL WHAT TO FEED CHILDREN While It Is Important to recognize that a child is Buffering from mal nutrition. It Is more important to knnur what in H n aKiu, If TCut vnn I cannot know what to do about it un in von Know rnn ranm Mr t n ferro Clark givesL the following as among' tne more important causes: 1. The child does not get enough food. 2. He doe's not get the right kind of food. By eating candy and other highly seasoned foods between meals he loses his ap petite for substantial foods. 3. He eats Irregularly. He eats between meal hours. 4. He bolts his food. 5. He drinks coffee and tea, Instead of milk and water. 6. 'He does not get enough sleep. A child 10 years old should be In bed at 8. The bed room should be well ventilated. 7. He is constipated. 8. He gets too much emotion al excitement. 9. He plays too hard, too many hours, too intensely. Or goes to shows after supper. 10. He is overworked, in school or out. 11. His teeth are bad or his tonsils are diseased. 12. He may have malaria or hookworm or other disease. No child labors under the entire dozen handicaps enumerated. As to food for growing children, he suggests the following: Two to 4 years old: Milk ifl the nrfmn rtppauuitv A Ion use fruits baked apples, stewed prunes, apple sauce, stewed peaches, oranges, baked pears, stewed pears. All cereals. White vegetables po tato, rice. Green vegetables string beans, asparagus, lettuce, stewed celery, carrots, spinach, greens, green peas, beets, chard. Breads All kinds of bread, macaroni, spa ghetti. Desserts Junket, custard, tapioca cream, apple tapioca, prune whip, cooked fruit, simple Jelly, sago, cornstarch pudding, rice pud ding without raisins, bread pudding without raisins. Ice cream. Protein foods Eggs, boiled fish, chicken, mutton, steak bmh liopf Slmmi Fats Butter, oleomargarine, peanut butter, olive oil. Among the list of approved foods for children 4 to 12 years of age are milk, meat broths, bouillon, milk soups, all soups, eggs, meat from fowls, all ordinary meats, all ordi nary breads and cereals, macaroni, spaghetti, tiotatops. rii-p Cheese. T)eas and hpflns UKnrap-na spinach, greens, squash, pumpkin! celery, tomatoes, beets, carrots, lenuce, onions, parsnips, cocoa, pud dings, taoioca. Kflen hlnni mancr. Ice cream, cooked fruit, raw ripe i run, ngs, appie sauce, graperrult, bananas, hprrips. tnnkof anif mn. tardt ' The list is lone ennnirh tr nffnivl selections to suit any taste. Grow ing children need- considerably more food for each 10 rmnnila nf u.-nlirlnf than adults do. They need consid- praoiy more proieia iooa per pound, both because they play as hard as a ditcher dica n.nd hfn.aiiaa their rrrnxir and growing is hard work. ir. is wen to bear In mind the seasonal variation in. growth. Chil dren grow rapidly In the spring. They grow but little in hot weather. Let the mothers of young babies re member the latter half pf the above statement. the cause of this acid, and what the cure? Aside from this I enjoy per fect health. I am 65 years old. Am not constipated, and am careful what I eat." RETLY. Everything you eat should sour. The stomach cannot dlirest the food until it first sours it. The belching up of sour food and a feeling of burning in the stomach are symp toms of a number of conditions. Among these are constipation. chronic appendicitis, gall stones. innammatlon of the gall bladder, ulcer of the stomach and duodenum. 2. Suppose you change your food somewhat. Eat less. Eat only when you are hungry. Chew your food better and take more exercise. . If this does not cure you have a phy sician investigate the condition of the organs referred to in the preced ing paragraph. N lees t irr e Tuke More Exercise. C. II. G.. writes: "I would like to know what causes a chronic coat on the tongue. It is grayish in color and now and then I seem to detect a trace of brownish yellow. I have had a tongue like this as far back as I can remember. I am in apparent good health, never sick, no head aches, eat well, and sleep well. I brush my tongue with a tooth brush and tooth paste twice every day, and in this manner I can keep it fairly clean, not thoroughly clean. Any information that you can give me regarding this tongue will be great ly appreciated." REPLY. Alvurez says, and he knows better than any one else, that It means torpid bowels. Continue scraping, but get more exercise, drink more wa ter, and eat more bran, vegetables and fruit. Need More Sugar. Mrs. S. writes: "Will you cleaso tell me a remedy for nausea during pregnancy? I am suffering greatly from it, almost constantly, and noth ing l have taken or done has af forded any relief. This is only niv third month and as I always have this acute nausea during the entire nine months I am almost desperate. I wrote you some time ago con cerning my babies, who always are afflicted with malnutrition from birth, and appreciated your answer." REPLY. It has been found that in pregnant women tho blood is deficient in sugar. It is held that this shortage is responsible for the nausea, of pregnancy. Therefore, such women are advised to eat bread, crackers, cereals and other starchy foods; to eat some such food dry while still In bed in the morning and to repeat about every four hours during the day. Some women vary the diet by taking sweets. It Is sometimes ad visable to give solution of sugar by injection in order to supplement this feeding: Another approved treatpient is the use of lutein or ovarian extract. This is best given by injection into a vein or into muscle. It can be taken by mouth. There Is no reason why the two treatments should not be given simultaneously, if your physician thinks it advisable. 1'Iau to Kevlvo Business. Omaha, June 6. To the Editor of The Bee: In order to bring pros perity and hapiness to every person in this United States, I believe the following plan is the only one that will do it and do it quick. At first glance it may appear ridiculous but think a little further. Let the government have a hun dred or more places where men could go and always And work at a minimum wage, say $2.50 per day. If the government started this, the tirst day would probably cost $2,000, 000, but every day after that it would grow less and less and less, until after a very short time it would be very little. Why? Because when that first day ended the men would have 12,000.000 to spend for food, clothing, shelter, etc. Business would begin to pick up, and after a few days employers would want .help. Where would they get it? They would hire, some of these men at better wages, who would then rjave more money to spend, which would stimulate business some more and so the thing would go on and on and very shortly everybody would be happy again. This can be elaborated on to a great extent but I have purposely condensed it. Some things cun be said against it. One of them would be: There will be graft in it. Well, what of it? We have got used to that and 100,000,000 people could afford to be grafted out of $1 or so if they were prosperous and happy. It probably wouldn't amount to more than the cost of one battle ship In a year, anyway. Herbert Quick and H. G. Wells write some fine articles on "Salvag ing the World," etc., but their plans are too slow. What we want is something right now. They say a nation grows" rich by Its people producing things, so I guess we are not making much progress Just now. If some one has a better plan, for God's sake, why don't they produce it? , F. D. HADLEY. Stillman Hearings Will Reopen on Next Wednesday New Rochelle, N. Y.. June 7. Supreme Court Justice Keogh today limited until June 14, the stay which he granted yesterday in the Still man divorce case. Opposing counsel thn aorrrd to resume hearings be fore Referee Glcason June 15, at J Poughkeepsie. Mrs. Anne U. Stillman permission to file an amended answer to her banker husband's complaint chani ivg' her with infidelity. Defense" counsel had announced yesterday that if this permission were re ceived, a woman known only as Clara, would be named as an ad- I ditional co-respondent. In her original answer Mrs. Stillman named , only Mrs. Florence A. Leeds, ail ex-chorus girl. Probably Mlsquototl. An Anthony High school senior U said to have remarked in his com mencement oration that "It is im possible to know it all." But -the Mulvane News believes thnt the young man was misquoted. Kansas City Star. .7 he advanced ciple of oiano con struction embodied in. he matchless What a Dull Day It Would Be! Somebody ought to proclaim an obey-the-law day. Tossibly it might get some people into the habit. Albany Journal. It's Frequent Symptom. Mrs. M. T. E. writes: "In your talks on tuberculosis I never no ticed any mention of pain in the chest. Does tuberculosis ever cause pain in the chest, and should this symptom lead one to suspect tho disease when the general health is poor?" REPLY. Pain in the chest is a frequent symptom of tuberculosis. It is 0110 of the symptoms which suggest tu berculosis However, most people who have chest pains are not suffer ing from tuberculosis. Try Change of Diet. J. D. G. writes: "For a number of years I have been troubled with sour stomach; everything I eat sours and causes much distress un less I take dyspepsia tablets. I drink one cup of tea at each meal, have tried warm water, but cannot see that it makes any difference. What is Tearing Down an Idol Gulbransen Player-Piano EARL H. BURKET BURKET " EitablUhcd 187. FUNERAL DIRECTORS G3 I VMM aMr Instruction rolls in cluded! Learn how to play in 10 minutes! Without musical knowl edge you can learn how to play a Gulbransen . Player-Piano Made in three models. White Houss model, $700. County Seat model, $600. - Suburban model, $495. Either in mahogany, wal nut or oak. , ' , .Terms if Desired ' 1513 Douglas Street The Art and Music Store results in an instru ment which not onr musicians, tut even scientists, and the cultured generally; declare to be ihe greatest piano he world has ever seerx, ffjohedpriced UiaAesi' praised 1513 Douglas Street The Art and Music Store Bowen's For Turkish and liuck Towels Tomorrow All kinds and sizes of Towels for Wednesday's selling at remarkable sav ings. Less than their real value. Get your Towels at Bowen s tomorrow. Advertisement (From the New York Times.) Some years ago an initiative and referendum- amendement was added to. the Missouri constitution. The good bubbled with happy expecta tion. The short cut to perfection had been found. The grand secret of good government was revealed. Henceforth Missouri was to be the model of a new-model common wealths. Our indomitable progres sive friend, the Kansas City Star, was among the most passionate worshippers. Now, alas! it is ready . to burn the god adored. It "has ' been convinced by the experience of the last few years" that the disad vantages of the amendment "great ly outweigh its possible good to the state." Curious is the explanation of the backsliding. When the amendment was adopted the legis lature "had been notoriously tinder the control of big interests." There was always a fight to keep the legis lature "from granting away the rights of the people." It was sup posed that the power to submit laws to the people would protect their rights. . Since then, under tho Influence of the progressive movement, legisla tures "have become more responsive to the popular will, and progressive legislative programs have been the outcome." That Is. a progressive program is always the popular will. Strangely enough, the popular will has failed to confirm the progressive measures. Tho black-hearted inter ests "have turned to the initiative and referendum" that is, to the peopje "as the best weapon for at taining their ends." Thus, what was to be the majestic expression of the people's will expresses the will of miserable lawyers and loathsome corporations. Unbelievers In the sacred "reform" will surely not be brutal enough to intimate that the distress of its former friends in Mis souri arises from their confusion of what they want with what the peo ple want. No doubt it is true, as our eon temporary says, that "the laws at tacked aro often of a technical character, in which it Is difficult to arouse general Interest and which can be defeated by an interested minority;" but it is everywhere true that it is difficult to arouse the gen eral interest in referendums, be the measures referred good, bad or in different. Moreover, when laws pul lulate so muHitudinously in every legislature, and thousands of private societies make a business of manu facturing unnecessary stntutPS, what excuse is th-re for the Initiative? Ir respective of how it works In par ticular cases of states, it is a false principle. This Is or was a repre sentative government. Suppose we tick to it f Polarine's double duty ' and twin economies Lubricating oil must do two things enable the engine to deliver maximum power protect every bearing and engaging part against wear. The quick, complete combustion of fuel generates maximum power. But it requires a gas-tight oil seal between piston rings and cylinder walls to hold this power to its work. And to get maximum work every bearing and engaging part must offer the least possible resistance to movement - must stay in perfect fit and alignment, cushioned against wear and friction by a protective oil film. Polarine meets every requirement. 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