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( 8 THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921. 1 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE rOMLISHIKO COMPANY NfcLSON a LPDIJUtF.Mi.htr. - MEMBER Of THE ASSOCIATED. PRESS Th aWwtt PivMk af vturii tM Bee la aseDf. It ea wvit KlitM w Ik m rw piMlnliat ef all nm l twtOM srr-lita) to It nr M Mamtse (MX le Qua pxwr. as liaa uw itm w iMl Mraw. an ridK auUfcsuua ef ear alwstefter ar alw mumit BEE TEXErMONES Pnat (nnrti taNuv IW iMPertsMBt ar I'srm Z. ATIantic 1000 Par Night Calla After I av. a. I Stfttortet DavertSMnf ....... AT liMta mi ar IMS OFFICES OF THE BEE .1 in trtfW: il'h and Paratin 11 HeiMl W. aVxuk Bale, ml Council Bleft :u at Oul-cf-Tewa Offices) ff Tart tM riflk It Warfttnaint mi a n. MlHUHcam ' I '.V . I I'M . The Beet Platform 1. New Unioo Passenger Statiesu 2. Coatinued improveracat of the Ne braska Highways, including tha pave mant of Main Taoreugkfares leading into Omaha with Brick Surface. 3. A thort, low-rata Waterway from the Cora Bait to tha Atlantic Ocaaa. 4. Horn Rula Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. 2 Is :,,;' The Question of Car Fares. J Not so many years ago a new panacea was j5 evolved to relieve the people' difficulties with wj public utilities. It carried the interesting and pj promising title of "physical valuation." It was K put forward as an antidote to watered stock, at f that time the big bugaboo of public utility rcgu jj lation. All one had to do was to ascertain by a gg few simple, definite and fixed rules the actual H physical value of a utility, throw in a sum for "going value" or "good will" and presto change 1 '("nme had the bed rock figure on which to base fSt Ta"st ' which to buy for municipal ownership, SJJ n which to tax. The problem was simply one of engineering and arithmetical calculation, both P presumed apparently to be incapable of trickery f;or subterfuge. jgjj " -Tut only yesterday Omaha had the Nebraska Power company before it and the physical val N nation claims of the company and the city were JJ about as far apart as scarlet and yellow, if not ,rr quite black and white. Today the Omaha & M Council Bluffs Street Railway company comes forward for a similar inspection and starts off with an estimate of its own value at well above $20,000,000. The city will not concede more gjtban half that amount, it is safe to say, and the jjweary procession oi expert witnesses will be on Magain, J5j .' At that, v. e must not be discouraged. This 2 still the best known method of arriving some S where sometime in attempting to solve the prob igjlem of utility regulation. The people look to $5the city and state authorities to see to it that Injustice is done. Present conditions may make it appear that justice is playing a game of hide and wSseek with the facts in the case, but intelligent Maad persistent effort will bring some degree of rc vard. 55 ' Public opinion has not. in recent times, oh- Serfs - W,)ccted to all increases of public utility rates. It yilus accepted some as necessary, without serious remonstrance. It will hardly acquiesce, how jiever, in an increase of street car fares at a time jJvhcn other costs, are on the down-grade, unless convincing proof is given of every possible jTJecoiiomy of operation, to say nothing of the with tjholding of dividends on stock not represented jy real value. Cutting expenses to fit revenue father than making revenue meet expenses is a jkJwpular pastime nowadays. 1 A Will in Forty-Eight Words. Whether the estate left by Chief Justice Ed- n kvard D. White be much or little, there is not 1 much chance that it will be contested, misun- jylcrstood or demand court interpretation. In 48 yords divided into two sentences, it stands a tMmoaei ot simplicity tor tnose who are worneo jMrer the question of how to make a last testa Sjnent that will be proof against dispute. Here Ht stands: x tus is my last will. 1 give. bequeath and devise to my wife, Letta M. White, in com plete and perfect ownership, all my rights 'and property of every kind and nature, whether real, personal or mixed, wherever situated, ap pointing here -executrix without bond and giv JBg her aeisin thereof. Brief as it is, to one less skilled in legal 5 t t terminology and forms, it seems to contain a ,i3certam amount of superfluous verbiage, ."Seisin" Sis a word brought dowr from feudal times, sig jiifying legal possession. No higher authority nIegal meters could be found than the su- rcme just'ec of the supreme court of the United States, and among the chorus of approval will it heard the voices of most lawyers. Samuel .J. j Tilden, famous also at the bar, left a long will ;; hich was the subject of costly dispute, and thai it s from complicated sentences and multiplicity of words, rather than from brevity, that controversy arises is a fact worth general attention. ; Chicago Asserts Itself. An ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent lUOiciary, exciaimeu : cmei justice Marsnau, ikas the greatest scourge ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and sinning people. From this castiga- lioo the voters ot Chicago have saved themselves lv defaatinsr the judicial candidates tunnorted the machine of Mayor ThomDson. For six j Vcars this ring has been in control of the affairs toe second largest city in America. A conut- lion in which numerous conflicting interests were I struggling for selfish private advantage gave the pportunity to the strongly knt, aggressive and Jjmgle purposed group led by the mayor. Some , the newspapers opposed to him had dis jxrtdited themselves, until , the electorate did not Jjaiow whom to believe or whom to suspect. Now at last other interests have been put side in the united effort to save Chicago from Jnisgovernmcnt. If the machine had not raised moral issue by endeavoring to gain control of JJthe processes of justice the union of the numer ous improvement clubs and reform societies, each dropping its separate purpose to take op the greater duty, might not have come so toon. JJ As it is now, the .effort to fill the bench with inexperienced men put up only because of their Htoyalty to the machine, has failed. In addition "he proposal to authorize the issuance of $9,000, 'bo0 in bonds for building a city jail was turned itjdown. Cut off from "complete control of the tljusttce some of them may fear, and deprived of 'the spending of an immense sum, this gang may t&ee! itself slipping from the position of power Sand security it has occupied for six year. A beginning has been made by the aroused citi zenry, and if they only can subordinate the self seeking groups among them, the stable may yet be cleansed. Not a Matter of Machines. In addition to calling thoughtful attention to the inefficiencies of modern industry, the report of the committee of engineers examining into the subject of waste will reveal to the public for the first time what has been done toward stop ping some of the leakage that used to exist and which may stilt figure m the smaller factories, using old;time methods. . Standardization is one of the economics that is too little made use of. Sweatshop conditions have now been generally recognized as more expensive in the long run than the more humane and enlightened form of industry practiced in well equipped factories. In one great clothing factory in St. Louis is a great room filled with cloth cutting tables each 75 feet long. A single piece of woolen cloth for men's suits is unrolled on one of these, covering the full length of the table. The cloth is marked with crayon into sections, for trousers, coats and vests. The curves fit into each other so closely that hardly a scrap is wasted. The small space between patterns is utilized for flaps and other small parts of garments. Waste of cloth, at least, is at a minimum in such plants as this. In many smaller workshops, a suit would be cut from the end of the roll, and both time and material wasted. Mechanical problems such as these are being met by large scale production, but at the same time managerial and labor efficiency may often be decreased through lack of close relations with the workers, through unnecessary hiring and firing or through such mistakes as running overtime one month and practically closing down operations the next. Waste there is in modern industry, and waste in consumption, too, but it is not a matter of ma chines, but of personal relations and human powers. Whether or not engineers are skilled enough in this aspect of the problem to outline changes for the better is an important question that only they can answer. "Vanity of Rank." It was of the navy and the army that Secretary Denby was thinking when he urged upon the graduates of Annapolis deeper respect for the man in the ranks. "You must so conduct your self that your superior in rank shall respect you, your equals love you, and those under your com mand obey you with a smile," he told the young officers upon their graduation. "You must be officers, but not snobs. Your commissions are ill bestowed unless you arc free from the foolish vanity of rank." ' As a gunner in the navy and as a private in the marine corps, and with the added experience of the rank of major, Mr. Denby spoke with more than official authority. He knows the respect that an enlisted man gives ungrudgingly to an .officer who is "every inch a man" and of the unsoundness of any discipline enforced by men who can not command respect from the ranks. These same factors operate in civilian life as well as in the armed forces of the nation. Those business executives who hold the deserved respect of those under them, and who see some thing more than a mere machine in' their em ployes are on safer ground than those who see their function as that of a slave- driver. The "foolish vanity of rank," of which the secretary of the navy speaks is not often found in men great either in industry or war. Small men, holding more trifling power, are more often swollen with pride and contempt than, are those who occupy' the higher positions. Thus," one may find an office boy filled with hauteur aud upon reaching the inner ofiicediscover his chief to be human in every respect. A great deal .of indus trial trouble and a considerable amount of the fric tion that galls society is due just to this evident feeling of superiority on the part of those. who, though in subordinate positions, as are those budding naval officers, yet have the direction and control of considerable bodies of men. To Budding Journalists. Announcement of the intention of installing a course in journalism in Central High school will not draw the praise that might be expected from practical newspaper men. Into the crowded curriculum there is no thought of projecting a class jn medicine or law, subjects that in the larger sense have no more important bearing on human affairs than does daily journalism. It vis not that the press is not in need of trained men, but that proficiency. in the technical details of newspaper v.ork, such as is attempted in most courses in journalism, is the smallest part of the total requirements. The routine of journal ist is easily acquired it is the groundwork of general information that is more difficult of at tainment. - Here is no case of "Join the navy and see the world," but rather is the injunction, "Know the world and then enter newspaper work." So, a knowledge of how tr write headlines or of the most acceptable method of reporting a fire, a motor accident, a wedding or a murder is of small importance compared to the need for a grasp of the general facts of life. It is history, civil government, economics, sociology, a bit of science and a clear understanding of ethics and logic that should furnish the foundation for a newspaper man. Editing a school paper or studying, the sires of type or learning to operate a typewriter is flimsy preparation for the respon sibility that falls on any man or woman who writes the news that is read by thousands and millions who must, perforce, base most of their judgments on these reports. It is impossible not to chuckle over the hits at some of the sacred policies of civilization, even though the world may bt less in need of sarcasm than of comfort But when we find Bernard Shaw explaining. Jhat the white man's burden consists of. teaching savages to wear trousers so we may pick their pockets, who among us can repress a smile? The pipe which Sir Walter Rajeigh, one of the early devotees of tobacco, smoked while on the scaffold in 1618 has just been sold. Sir Walt may have been the first to smoke his head off, but is far from being the last. China, in notifying the League of Nations that it is going to cut expenditures on armament, is showing good faith without taking any greater risks than it always has run. ' Having published the slacker list, the gov ernment might now consider issuing the roll of war profited, Our Motives in Cuba Why the United States Takes So Great Interest in Its Neighbor (From the Boston Transcript) The motives of the United States, in its policy toward Cuba for the past twenty-five years, have been under serious discussion in the Cuban House of Representatives, where Senor Maza, a nationalist, in introducing a resolution asking the executive to furnish information regarding the purpose of General Crowder's present mis sion on, the island, declared that the United :,.. : i;Krofintr Cuha from the Spanish tyr anny, had "acted simply for the selfish purpose of increasing her world power." Senor Maza s attack was quite fully and with considerable spirit answered by Scnores Lopez and Recig, tne one a' liberal and the other a conservative, rep resenting the dominant shades of opinion in Cuba. But there can be no doubt that a considerable section of sentiment in Cuba denies to the United States any altrustic motive whatever m its relation with the island republic. A remnant of Spanish sentiment regards us still as ravagers and robbers, while the radical nationalistic sen timent, which hungers and thirsts for the "right of perpetual revolution and glorious anarchy, is fi.rrlv nnnosed to the protective and restraining .influence which is exercised under the Piatt amendment. Probably no American would deny that the motive of "enlightened self-interest," of intelli gent selfishness, if Senor Maza pleases, figured in our declaration of war agamst Spain in 1898. We went to war because the .Spanish rule in Cuba constantly inflicted loss, disturbance and danger upon the people of the United States. For one and a sufficient reason, the Spanish misgovern meift was responsible for the continual prevalence of yellow fever epidemics on the is land, which epidemics from time to lime crossed the channel and the gulf to our shores and ravaged our southern cities. The resolution of r n .nnnmnrinir lVii nrfsident to USC the military and naval forces of the United btates in freeing Cuba recited the "abhorrent conditions on the island, "so near our own border," cul minating in the destruction of a United States battleship with 266 of its officers and crew, and it made no concealment whatever of the motive of our own outraged interest. To that extent the 'selfish motive was esiaDiisnco. But what did the war resolution of 1898 do .1 y T, r,mrr.AA tr rlprlar, dmtinct I v. that lllv.il t 1 L jji in.vi.uvu " " - " - . - the United States "disclaims any disposition to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof, t ..-c it. rl.tormi'natinn when that IS aC- anu d.-,ci va i uviv...i.ii..i."i - cotnplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its own peopic. im ucv.ia.a tion established a new epoch in the history of the world. Here was the beginning of the altruistic idea m the relations ot nations, l ne United States blazed the way in 1898 for the .urln. svf c1f.fttfi-niinatiftn of neonles. and its UUV VI 1 1 1 V. V' . 0V. - I t . subsequent policy toward Cuba has maintained the record. The Spanish war left Cuba com pletely in the hands of the United States. If our intention, as Deputy Maza says, had been merely to increase our world power, we never should have withdrawn from Cuba. We held to the promise that our power in the island would be for its pacification only. The Piatt amend ment was a mesure of pacification, of protection, with the security of the United States against evil sanitary conditions in Cuba, affecting the health of the people of the United States, added. Twice I,-.., iiM.-rit in riihn anil twice, the is- r V, II VI T V, iiivvi .vnvv. ... . -- land was pacified and restored to order, we have withdrawn our forces and left it to "the govern ment and control" of its own people. They are under their own government and control now, if they choose to exercise that government and control; The purpose of General Crowder's visit is to assure the exercise of Cuban self-government and Cuban self-control. It rests, however, with the Cubans themselves whether they shall con tinue to govern themselves. We have under taken to keep peace in the island, and we are not likely to relinquish the duty. Self-government involves self-control. We can no more af ford to have, anarchy and other "abhorrent con ditions" under Cuban rule than we could under Spanish rule. To that extent "intelligent self interest" still animates the American people in relation to the island. But we are not after "world power" at the expense of Cuban freedom. Interpreting the President We have no wish to criticise the head of the nation at this early date in his term, especially when the balance of his acts is so heavily in his favor. But his high public position makes it permissible to comment on the peculiarities of his technique, the most striking feature of which is the vagueness of his public utterances. . In his speech in New York President Harding spoke of his desire that this nation should be "so powerful in righteousness that none will provoke her wrath." ,,The casual reader paraphrased that expression quite justifiably as meaning "so sure she is right that nobody can make her angry." One such reader paused, and then gasped out: "By jove. President Harding also thinks that a nation can be too proud to fight, but he used ten words to say what WriIson said in four takes the sharpness out of it in a midst of words, Got; bless him!" This thought being too incredible to pass muster, the reader tried again. This time the phrase seemed to mean "so powerful in right eousness that no -one will dare to provoke her wrath." That was more plausible, in yiew of the sworn hostility of the present administration to every tenet held by its predecessor. But what did the speaker visualize as "right eousness?" Did he mean that combinations of honesty and muscular love of justice and hatred of ait wrong which Theodore Roosevelt preached to us in the days of the strenuous life; because that fundamental Tightness alone does not awe nations from hostile designs, unless it is backed up by united public opinion and by respectable resources. Roosevelt knew this, and coupled with his creed of righteousness the doctrine of the "big stick." Little Belgium proved it; for she was righteous enough in 1914, but she lacked material power. Power, in a national sense, does not come from righteousness; the two must go hand in hand. We suspect that this is what the president meant. But he did not say it.. We do not believe that .this is a captious crit icism. AnJ it applies to many of the president's utterances. His words are so vague that oppos ing groups of men are able to read into them what they wish. Later these groups look for the fulfilment of what they believe he has advocated, and half of them are disappointed. In this way the seeds of disruption are being sown. For the peace of his party and the nation. President Harding should adopt the Rooseveltian practice of submitting his speeches to his friends for editing before he delivers them. Chicago Evening Posfc ' Notable Trip of Japan's Prince. The visit to London of the crown prince of Japan has a significance we should not miss. Jt is the formal ending of the era of Japan's sola t ion; in all Japan's previous history no em peror or emperor's heir has ever stepped out side the island empire. Villager. Another Win for the New Order. The debate in the New York Yacht Club over changing the rules so as to give women the right to smoke anywhere and anything in the clubhouse was a - terrific struggle between the old and the new order, but modernism won out, 187 to 134. Springfield "Republican. An Almost Forgotten Event. The threat of an Indian uprising, such as comes from Utah, is a novelty to present-day American citizens, who think of Indians as rugged foot ball players or "ldiers in khaki. New YJs Herald. How to Keep Well By OR. W. A. EVANS Queatioa concerning hr(int, aanitation anal prevention at disease, aubmittad te Dr. Evans by reader ei The Bee, will be answered personally, subject to proper limitation, where a stamped addressed envelope is enclosed. Dr Evene will net make diagnosi er prescribe lor individual discsses. Address lettera in care el Tan Bee. Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evens ABOUT UNDERWEIGHT BABIES. No mother wag ever turned out of the church for fibbing: about the weight of her new born babe. The eln la too human, even though It is In violation of tha 10 command ments. If the baby was large at birth it weighed over 10 pounds. If it was gmall the weight was given as very small. No other baby of that Bize ever lived. Bragging about the ba-by'g-welght wns a favorite sport and a harmless one, and daddy was not above taking a hand in the game. It did not seem to make much dif ference one way or tho other. But now we are coming to have some accurate Information on the sub ject, and from the facts as recorded some helpful opinions and compari sons can be drawn. Drs. Schwarz and Kohn give some observations on low weight babies and on twins in tho American Journal of Diseases of Children. They found In a given study that about one baby In every 50 is a lightweight fellow tho percentage lay between 2 and S. The light weight babies do not get an average hold on life at the start off. Such babies are 10 tiin?s as liable as normat babies -to die in the first month of life. Taking the first year of life as a whole they have four and a half times the chance of dying of an averaged size baby. The smaller they are the poorer the chance of living. I do not know that a pregnant; woman can so diet herself as to starve her baby and thus cause him to be underweight at birth, but if! often?" This is enough Vomiting and other rather still in between between bedtime. sometimes extract is vein or May she can do bo she had better go slow if these conclusions of Scnwarz and Kohn are to be accepted as correct. If the underweight baby Is also a premature baby his chance of liv ing is small, being only one-twen tieth that of a normal weight, full time baby. unaerweigni naoies grow In weight and length at about the same rate that normal weight babies do. This means that at 1 year of age they still are underweight and short. After the first year thoy catch up faster. At 4 years of age the chil dren born underweight are of nor mal weight. They attain normal length (height) somewhat earlier than 4 years. If the underweight babies survive the hazards of babyhood they de velop Into normal children as to height weight and resistance to disease, except that they are a little more than average disposed to ane mia and rickets. Such children need to play out of doors more and to be fed more meat, green vegetables and yellow of eggs. Underweight babies have Just as much mental capacity as any babies regardless of weight. And now a few conclusions as to twins. A mother does not add as much ai she thinks to the sum total of the human population , when she bears twins. The death rate of twins in early infancy is nearly twice that of children born at sin gle births. Strangely, the death rate of twins born prematurely fs no greater than that of single chil dren born nrematurely. The rate of growth of twins in infancy and childhood is about that of children born singly. Reduce Baby' Food. T. B. writes: "My baby, aged 9V4 weeks, has been suffering from colic, due, as I have discovered, to overfeeding. I have been advised, besides reducing the time of nurs ing, to administer doses of bicar bonate of soda at the rate of one and one-half teasnons every 24 hours, as well as milk of magnesia. Do you approve of such meafii'-oi?-I hesitate to use the soda, particu larly as the baby is not excessively troubled. Am inclined to lot well enough alone.' REPLY.-' I think continuous -use of bicar bonate of soda is harmful to a baby as well as to an adult. I can see no need for any treatment except to lessen overfeeding. "That Way Madness JAcs" " E. S. B. writes: "Please explain tho comnosition of 'madstone.' Also picas advise if it is reliable for the cure of mad dog bites?" REPLY. So-called madstones , are merely The War For Life (From the Washing-ton Star.) The marvels of surgery have come to be accepted as more or less to be taken for granted. So many wonder ful things have developed in the past SO or 40 years, particularly in the past decade, that people are no longer astounded at some new dis covery or invention. It is virtually assumed that science can do any thing with the human body except actually restore life after an interval after death. The latest demonstration is re ported from Philadelphia. A bullet was extracted from the lung of a youth, not by means of incision, which would have been fatal, but by forceps through the breathing tubes and throat. So far as known this is the first case on record of this kind. The operation was made' pos sible by use of an instrument called the bronchoscope, which is a thin, silver pipe, a combined periscope and Instrument channel. It enables the operators by means of an elec tric light and magnifying glasses to see internal conditions and to guide the forceps. In this case the opera tion was completely successful and the patient was discharged from the hospital two days later. X-rays have permitted some re markable surgical explorations and achievements. No longer is Jhe sur geon compelled to work blindly. No computation of the number of lives saved by this means is possible. At present science does not surrender as long as life prevails. Foreign substances such as bullets are not regarded as beyond reach or the pa tient bearing them beyond hope, no matter where they are lodged, so long as the heart continues to act. The bronchoscope is a development of the X-ray idea and the operator is enabled to see precisely what he id doing and where he is doing it. Medicine is going hand in hand with surgery. Advances in the con quest of disease are continually re ported as progress is made toward the solution of the most obstinate problems of health preservation. Remarkable gains have been made against leprosy. Recently at the Molokal leper colony in Hawaii 200 cases were discharged as cured as a result of the new oil treatment. Cancer, too, has been marked for conquest by methods soon, it is un derstood, to be announced. All this might suggest that the problem of life has been solved and that disease and accident are reduced to such a point that a long span will be added to human existence. Vital statistics, however, do not in dicate any prolongation of life. Yet the statistician of a half century honce may find the results apparent, provided no new menace develops meanwhile. Muny Ice Sen Ice. Omaha, June 7. To the Editor of The Bee: The municipal ice stations have changed their hours from 7 to 13 and from 1 to 6. As most working men, I quit work at S o'clock; that give me one hour to get home and get to the station. I was at the station at Seventeenth and Leavenworth streets at 20 minutes to 6, and was told the ice was all out The man who handles i; said that It would happen often. There were at least a dozen men and children waiting for ice. Are we to have the same trouble with tho ice that we have had with tha gas? Why change the hours from 1 to 6? Probably that gives the grafter a better chance to hog the people through the morning. Hoping that Mr. Howell will see fit to place the ice when and where the people can get It. FRANK SEWARD. Economic Warfare. Omaha. June 8. To the Editor of The Bee: The Letter Box is a hne thing, and I would not wish anything of mine published there that is unbecoming to the paper. I claim by all the evidence presented that there are two economic classes in society capitul aid labor. One is pitted against the other. I don't know how. many working people of late have told mo that capital is now trying to break up the labor unions. Has not capital got unions so that labor may be held In sub jection? Take away from labor its unions and no weapons of defense remains. For the same reason the farmers stones with a spongelike capacity for absorbing water. They suck some fluid from a wound. Therefore when applied within a few minutes after a bite they have some ability to suck out blood serum, and perhaps poison. Used at that time, they perform the same function as sucking the wound. Beyond that they are ot no service. In so far as the notions about them mislead people Into neglecting prop er precautions the use of madstones does harm. The madstone cure is one of those relics of the dark ages which cling like a cockleburr. ' Increase Starch in Food. P. O. T. writes: ".My wife is pregnant and has been for the last two and a half months. She vomits from two to four times a day and has for tho last 15 days. Is this too REPLY. not extreme, but it is to disturb her nutrition of pregnancy can general ly be controlled. Have her eat bread starchy and sweet foods freely. A good plan is while bed in the morning to eat a few crackers or a cereal. Repeat breakfast and dinner and dinner and supper and at Jsugar enemas are given with advantage. Ovarian given by injection into & into muscles. are uniting, inasmuch as only thus can they prevent being fleeced. Are these methods of defense and an gression of farmers and wage work ers to be branded as "bolshevism?" If so, what nort of an "ism" is capi tal guilty., of? Are mlllons of destl tue unemployed men to stand dumbly, riveted in economic chains, and allow capital to ride over rough shod ? We may say that there are no foreign markets because the war bankrupted them, but millions of us here at home demand wealth that is not supplied because capital will not allow us to work and supply ourselves. C. SJOBLOM. Require 0eration. Mrs. M. A. C. writes: "My sister was operated on in August for a tumor, and since then there is a small hole in her abdomen where there is a drain of pus and some times blood. What can be done about it? Is it dangerous?" REPLY. This is a fistula. It may be due to something retained in the abdo men. In some eases X-rays show the cause of the trouble. Operation is generally called for. Try Self-ControL H. S. writes: "I am eating too much candy and would like to know a good way to stop. I am in a place where I can eat as much as I wish, which I know is altogether too much." REPLY. ' Nothing takes the place of self-control. Ireland and World Pcjtce. Omaha, June 7. To the Editor of The Bee: Bishop Shayler has asked people of all creeds to unite for world peace. The' Bee, editorial ly, argues for peace with justice. I think we -are nearer to world peace since three great European empires have been destroyed. Ger many, Austria and Russia have abandoned kaiser, czar and nobili ty. What is even more important, they have been forced to give up control of the Polish and Bohemian nations, as well as of that group for which the name Jugo-Slav has been found. The British empire en dures. His Majesty George, by grace of God, king and emperor, has not yet shared the fate of his cousins Nicholas and Wilhelm. By imperial decree his new legions are being levied for the reconquest of Ireland. General Smuts says it Is wrong. Thousands of Englishmen are de nouncing this new effort of the Brit ish tyranny. And as long as that tyranny lasts it is futile to ery "Peace! Peace!" Americans distrust ail empires and they are today watching the British in Ireland as they watched the Germans in Belgium keenly, silently, anxious to keep out, but de termined that the principle of self government shall not receive a set back. Those who love peace should correctly inform the British ruling caste. The English and American CENTER SHOTS. "Maid Left Employer $11.000." If she left him that much, think of the wad he had before he paid her off. Baltimore Sun. Friends of the sales tax should make sure every one in the pie beJt understands that a turnover tax is not a tax on turnovers. Boston Herald. Great good news for the shoe trade. Chicago dancing teachers give the assurance that the . use of feet in dancing is coming back in to vogue. Lansing State Journal. If America insists on separation Europe will doubtless expect big ali mony. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. Standardizing Morals. . Many people have grave questions as to the vahie of the movie legisla tion that has Just been passed by which it is possible to have all of the various moving pictures cen sored by a central authority. Per haps we may succeed in getting uniform : morals in due time if we can have uniform control, but some way or other the world is more in teresting because of tho variety in it, and it might be possible that It would become very dull and unin teresting, no matter how high the standard was, if there was not a little kick somewhere in someway. We know this is wicked and shows a degenerate state of mind; but we cannot help feeling that we do legis late too much where the results from year to year fail to respond ex cept in a general and steady decline. Andover Townsman. , Yj OMAHA Iff, .IB .T ( PRINTING $SfT e'J company 'teS-11 American Dollars Well Spent In the five years of work of the Near East relief, $60,000,000, con tributed by at least 20,000,000 Americans, has been spent, with the result that 1,000,000 people in Asia Minor, who might otherwise have died, are now alive. 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