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3. A abort, lowrato Waterway from tho
Cora Bolt to th Atlantic Ocean.
4. Homo Rulo Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Reaching Out to the Infinite.
In spite of the misgivings that are so fre
quently given voice, this is a deeply religious
age. The human spirit is reaching out for per
sonal expression, the mind and soul of man are
embarking on wider and wider voyages of dis
covery. Each new revelation of science or reason
increases the sense of the vastness of the uni
verse. A feeling of emptiness and sterility that
almost swamps the thoughtful human being
arises as the horizon broadens and a wider vision
of the majesty of universal law is obtained.
In moments such as these there is need for
an anchor that can not be found in hard realism
or cold reason. Once man could feel sure of the
nature of matter and a conflict between mind and
matter was waged "as between something that
was definite and a thing intangible and largely
tincomprehended. But today it is realized that
both mind and matter are in the final analysis
unknown and unexplained by science.
It is now possible to feel with the philosopher,
"The whole theory of the universe is directed
unerringly to one single individual namely, to
you." Men and women, feeling this, are con
scious of an inner light (call it what they may),
which warms their existence and illuminates
their path. At the center of each one's world
lies the soul.
In a little book by Havelock Ellis, called
"The New Spirit," recently published by Boni &
Liveright, are reviewed the life and thoughts of
some of the literary and philosophic figures who
have left their impress on the modern world.
Among them are Diderot, Heine, Ibsen, Whit
man and Tolstoi, and in all he finds the divine
spark.
"In religion," he writes, "we are appealing
not to any narrow or superficial element of the
man, hut to something which is more primitive
than the intellectual efflorescence of the brain,
the central fire of life itself.' ... If religion
is not :-cience or morals, it Is the sum of the
unfettered expansive impulses of our being. Life
has lcn defined as, even physically and chem
ically, a tension. All our lives we are struggling
against that tension, but we can truly escape
from it only by escaping from life itself. Re
ligion is the stretching forth of our hands toward
the illimitable. It is an intuition of the final de
liverance, a half-way house on the road to that
city which we name mysteriously Death."
The names of such men as Diderot and
Whitman may seem at first thought to be out
of place in a list of those preaching or practicing
the spirit of worship. Yet, they can truly be
said not to have known "the awful deprivation
of disbelief except in the narrowest sense all
artists, musicians, writers, thinkers, those who
Vet themselves with plans for a world in which
ill men shall be equally fed, clothed and housed,
and even those who dream the most radical of
Utopian dreams, are religious. Some may call
themselves , atheists, agnostics or cynics, but
underneath it all, more often than not, will be
found lurkingthe spirit of democracy, of in
dividual expansion, and of reverent harmony and.
unity with life that is nothing less than the pure
emotion of religion. This can not be shaken off
by sophistry or by criticism. Each advance of
knowledge lends fresh wonder to the world, in
explicable, almost overpowering. Before this
dazzling spectacle the mind falters, and only the
soul remains steadfast, at once the most ephem
eral and the most real attribute of man.
The Mind and Health. i
The war, it is said, has led to the recognition
of1 the mind, under certain circumstances, as an
important cause of bodily as well as mental dis
ease. The structure of man is sometimes likened
to that of a motor car, which needs chemical,
physical and mental equipment in order to run
well. The gasoline and ignition are part of the
chemical outfit, corresponding to the method
of healing by drugs; the gears and motor repre
sent the physics, 'or the various methods of heal
ing by surgery of one kind and another; and the
chauffeur, as the mental force, corresponds to
the human mind.
At a meeting of the American Medico
Psychological association in Boston, Prof. Wil
liam MacDougall of the psychological depart
ment of Harvard university expressed the belief
that the medical profession had too long been
over-impressed with the mechanical theory of
disease, which holds that i'.lncss is primarily the
result of some disarrangement of the bodily mech
anism. While he admitted that the many discov
eries in bacterial and micro-organic diseases had
strengthened this theory, he urged consideration
of the fact -that ther are many very important
diseases of an emotional and purely mental
origin, that are just as fatal as those others, and
that important discoveries have been made along
this line in recent years.
The new interest in the study of neurosis and
functional nervous diseases is due largely to the
number of severe cases produced by the war, he
declared. These have shown that "nerves"
is not merely the fancy of idle women of weak
constitution, but that it may affect even the
strongest men. Another change in practice he
pointed out in saying. "We have seen many war
cases presenting symptoms which, if they had
occurred in civilian patients, would have secured
for them admission to mental hospitals with a
diagnosis of grave psychosis, very many of
which have nevertheless cleared up in & wonder
fully satisfactory way, especially when they
have been treated with a little psychological un
derstanding."
This investigator's contention that it i
through mental influences that many functional
disorders are brought about is not new, but
coming from such a source, it shows that con
servatism is not standing in the way of science
There is no encouragement here for charlatanism
or unskilled handling of medical cases, but there
is evident a notice to the medical profession that
some of those things which have been dvsre
garded as unreal or imaginary may be found to
have the highest importance.
Spreading Seeds of Kindness.
What is the reward of service for one's fellow
man?
Edward Bok, who won fame and fortune as
editor of The Ladies' Home Journal, has set
aside securities worth $200,000 to establish an
annual award of $10,000 to be given to "that
resident, man or woman, of the metropolitan
district of Philadelphia who during the preceding
year shall have done an act or rendered a service
best calculated to advance the largest interests
of Philadelphia." Mr. Bok declares his purpose
to be to arouse in young men and women the
idea of helping others.
The project is much to the credit of one of
the country's great idealists, a man who has
furnished inspiration to hundreds of thousands
of people. Yet it does not typify the true reward
of public or social service. That is not a prize.
It is self-respect, the highest reward, the surest,
the truest, that man or woman can achieve.
There are several great prizes in art, liters
ture and science, for which worthy men and
women compete. They are really valuable not
because they attract this competition, but be
cause they focus general public attention upon
such service. Few indeed are the worth while
artists, authors, scientists or public servants who
labor primarily to win a financial reward. With
most the work is a work of love; it is their pas
sion; they live through it rather than by it.
Awards such as the Bok award may ease the
days of some men and women whose life is
spent in serving their fellow men, but such relief
is scattered and at best haphazard. The big
value of these awards is that it stirs a new
thought, perhaps inspires a new sacrifice, in
hundreds of thousands of people, young and old,
who may never think of competing for the prize,
who. may never be in a position to approach it,
but who without it might forget that every indi
vidual, in every day life, has his chance to serve
some little mite.
Big Armament Plans Falter.
Pressure of public opinion is demonstrating
its power in the reluctance of congress to ap
propriate the immense sums urged by some
members for a greater army and navy. The issue
is a moral one and financial as well. The race of
armament that continues after the war to end
war offends the fondest hopes and ideals of those
who fought and sacrificed through those bloody
years, touching also with greedy fingers at the
wealth and prosperity of America as well as
every other nation. '
There is some talk of the danger1 of lowering
the morale of the army and navy by any limita
tion of numbers or equipment, but a matter of
equally great moment is the maintenance of the
morale of the taxpayers.
So now the senate and house conferees are
reported to be at deadlock over the increase of
$98,000,000 voted for the navy program by the
senate. The house of representatives is insisting
on a force of 100,000 men, this being 20,000 less
than that favored by the other chamber.
A yielding attitude has been shown on the
army budget by the senate, which has rejected
the extravagant committee recommendation and
has voted in favor of cutting the appropriation to
$334,000,000, setting the strength of the army at
not less than 150,000 men. Only the day before
the senate had accepted the greater figure of 170,
000, but a reversal of opinion brought the final
draft in harmony with the house estimate as to
personnel, and within $14,000,000 in appropria
tions. Ever since the St. Louis speech in which
President Wilson outlined the hope cf making
the American navy the greatest in the world, this
grandiose idea has had the backing of a number
of influential and no doubt sincere men. Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels, despite his previous
reputation for pacifism, fell into its support, and
now his successor, Secretary Denby, has adopted
the same program.
"And when you ask why, I think I can best
answer that as a Yankee should, by another
question: 'Why not?'" These were his words
shortly after assuming office. Vague though this
defense may be, yet no more definite statement
of the reasons for continuing the construction of
warships at $40,000,000 each has been given the
American people. Before the world war, when
the American navy was not only smaller, than
that of England, but ranked beneath the German
fleets as well, there was none of this uneasinesss.
Theodore Roosevelt, while in the Navy depart
ment, important as he held the need of prepared
ness, did not urge any such program as is now
being defended.
With the aspirations of mankind . so ex
tensively directed toward the ending of wars, to
ward settlemet of disputes by arbitration, and to
ward establishment of international principles of
justice, and with President Harding conferring
with Japan and England over the project for de
creasing naval construction, the plea for immense
increases in sea power appears to many good
citizens as the height of folly. Setting aside the
controversy over the question of the usefulness
of big battleships in view of airplane and sub
marine developments, until some clear reason
for spending so freely on naval construction is
given, there will be every reason for congress to
hesitate over calling on the people for increases.
The Husking Bee
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MIDSUMMER DREAMS.
I love the green clad summer with its dew-shot,
misty morn,
When the glancing sunbeams shimmer on the
green blades of the corn
When the throbbing notes of song birds steal
upon the languid air,
And the fragrance of the roses seems to greet
one everywhere.
I even love the noonday with its glowing, sultry
heat,
When the birds have ceased their singing and
have sought the shade's retreat
When the world at large is tranquil and all
Nature peaceful seems,
And the lonesome mind takes refuge in the castle
of its dreams.
What Is a Rainstorm?
Mighty Exhibition of the Poivcr1
Nature Employs in Her Work
If the government ever finds those 60,000
slackers, it will have to build several new prisons
to hold them, and in addition, as some rapid cal
culator has shown, it will cost about $600 each
to try, convict and feed them while serving a
year's sentence.'
News that Germany has restored beer to 12
per cent efficiency may tempt a lot of thirsty
souls to become pro-Germans rather than prohibitionists.
The physician that advises the world to cut
out meat and be happy certainly was not sub
sidized by the packers or the live stock raisers.
Kear Admiral Sims, who advises Americans
and Britons to beware of propagandists, prob
ably would except himself from the list
The summer time brings memories of my
boyhood days long past,
Those dreams that never em to come with
winter's chilling blast
The woods and fields the swimming hole
though boyhood joys depart,
Return in dreams and always find a warm spot
in my heart.
PHILO-SOPHY.
Hard work is the best antidote for hard luck.
'Jever notice when you order coffee at the
cafeteria, they always stick a spoon in the mug?
Somebody ts going to put an eye dut yet.
There are lots of men who boast of being
economical when in truth they are only stingy.
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CHEER UP. i
Your tins are bound to find you out
Is this a warning, men?
For if they do, there is no doubt
That -they will call again.,
'
Down at Chicasro they think Lake Michigan is
the finest of the crcat lakes, but over at JJuiutn
the folks claim that their's is Superior. (Don't
throw that ink well, Perc 1 11 take it back.)
No, Myrtle, a woman doesn't have to quarrel
in order to make up.
"I like," mused the coiner philosopher, as he
selected a magazine, "to spend an hour or so a
day m the reading room at the public library,
There is such a quiet atmosphere."
It ought to be quiet" returned the rather
cynical business man, there isnt even an elec
tric fan to stir it up."
ANOTHER QUIET SPOT.
Miller Park is a beauty spot,
Delightful, green 'and cool.
But how we wish when days are hot,
It had a swimming pool.
Doesn't matter how much you suffer when
you are having your teeth worked on you have
no grounds on which to deny that your inquisitor
is, as advertised, a painless dentist. It doesn t
hurt him.
GOING DOWN.
Prices on some of our daily necessities are
declining so rapidly that the ultimate powder
puffer finds it difficult to keep step.
trail notices Omaha drug store window
parked full of talcum powder at the pre-war
prices of two bits the box. She lays in a supply,
but before she can get home with it she passes
another window decorated with the same brand
going rapidly at 19 cents.
Don t cheer, guls. Old Man H. L. L. may be
dying. '
DUST.
Man is made of dust, I ween,
Which strikes us rather funny,
Yet we suppose that doesn't mean
A man is made of money.
Poetical youth: You shall dwell in my
memory forever.
Practical maid: Has it a kitchenette and bath r
WHY IS GARBAGE?
Garbage, like the fleas on a dog, seems to be
an institution designed to give the city dads
something to worry about and keep their minds
off their other troubles.
From the time of the plague in ancient Rome
down to modern (except incinerator) Omaha,
cities have struggled with the problem of gar
bage disposal, like a fly on tanglefoot.
Unlike a street paving job, a garbage con
tract seems to be a losing proposition to the
middle man, chiefly, we take it, because the
hogs grab the works and net nothing m return.
One case where the retailer can t tack the freight
rates onto the ultimate consumer. .
Now, a paving contractor will grab a street,
tear it up and hang out a few red lanterns to
warn tratnc that it is impassible, and make
money all summer but the bird who accepts a
garbage contract is like a bear looking for honey,
who grabs a hornet's nest by mistake. He can't
get away from it even though he gets stung.
Looks to an innocent bystander that any city
with garbage to burn ought to have an incinerat
ing plant. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
don't shoot your garbage to the packing trust.
Let this pernicious practice of feeding garbage
to the hogs fall into innocuous desuetude, what
ever that is. and save us from vegetarianism.
You can't get corn-fed bacon from a garbage
ranch.
Like the postal system, the primary object
of garbage collection should be a service to the
people, not a venture in frenzied finance.
Have other cities successfully solved the
problem of garbage disposal? . You tell 'em,
fence. You go around a lot.
APPROVED.
Hubby: Where did you get the beautiful
new lamp shade, dear?
Wife: That isn't a lamp shade. That's a
new hat I brought home for your approval.
LAST WEEK
I wandered into many places
Looking for familiar faces,
But of them I could find no traces
Because they'd all gone to the races.
Most people's idea of a successful man is one
who has everything they would like to have.
AT THE POLICE STATION.
"Officer, what is this. man charged with?"
"Wood alcohol, I think, sergeant."
MODERN METHODS.
Time was when a man used to take his pen
in hand. Now he takes his typewriter in his arms.
"
When a good provider marries a good cook
the divorce courts never get a look in.
Every man has his price, they say, and what
ever it is, the chances are he is a profiteer.
Some fellows will ask and receive and then
kick about the quality.
ISN'T IT THE TRUTH?
The greatest secret of success.
So say successful men.
Is to be right at the proper where
At just the proper when.
AFTER-THOUGT: Money talks-and some
times stops talk. PHILO.
Few people realize just what
mighty forces are involved in a
rainstorm. They watch or listen to
the water as it comes pattering
down, commenting on the comfort
ing shower, the timely rain, or the
fearful deluge, and when the sun
comes forth, go about their busi
ness without thought of the mag
nificent exhibition they have just
witnessed. A rainstorm is one of
tile most stupendous facts in our
existence. Knowledge of its birth
and growth only serves to increase
the wonder the thoughtful mind ex
periences in contemplation of nature,
and adds to the marvel of creation.
Under the fervent rays of the sun
tiny particles of vapor are' lifted from
the surface of exposed bodies of
water. These in time come together
and form the clouds, and, when
condensation has proceeded far
enough, the mass of vapor becomes
too heayy for the atmosphere to
support, and precipitation ensues.
The process is simple, nothing in
mechanics being more readily un
derstood, and it is continuous. But
there is something more than this,
and that is the magnitude of the
operation.
An inch of rainfall means the de
posit of water amounting to 227,601
pounds on an acre of ground (about
one city block), or a weight of 114
tons. In Omaha the annual rain
fall is about 32 inches; therefore,
each 12 months the rain and snow
that fall in Omaha amounts to the
stupendous weight of 3,648 tons to
the acre. This water, if collected,
would fill a reservoir six miles long,
one mile wide ana more man n
feet deep. Study these figures a
little, and you will not only be the
better able to comprehend what hap
pened at Pueblo, but will have a
higher reverence for the simple
methods by which Dame Nature
goes about to accomplish her won
ders. A rainstorm is a mighty dem
onstration of elemental power.
Omaha is not at all unfamiliar
with the uncertain and devastating
effects of the "June freshet," al
though it has never had to undergo
so terrible an experience as has over
taken Kansas City, for example, or
Pueblo, or even Lincoln, where the
insignificant little creek that me
anders across lots through the city
occasionally whoops things up and
makes the peaceful villagers think
they are located in the middle of
the Pacific ocean. The Missouri
river is a cantankerous institution at
its ordinary stage, and when it
reaches flood it is likely to do al
most anything. Omaha, being for
the most part well above even the
danger mark, suffers very little from
the "benders" on which the great
stream goes each June time, yet it
has had some very unpleasant deal
ings with the Big Muddy when on
the rampage.
Most memorable of these was that
of June, 1881, when the high water
set a record the old timers still look
upon with respect. From Ninth and
Douglas to almost Main and Broad
way m council .blurts, tne yeuow
flood stretched. It was the one
arrand effort of the Missouri. Never
since has the stream reached such a
height. All along the river front
in U.n::n? tnings were moving.
Union i'acific shops, the smelter, the
lumber yards i'.'Cc tracks, Wil
low Springs distillery, the boyd
packing house, the squatters' homes,
eveiything between Ninth street and
the river was under way. One of
the sights that will always be recalled
by those who saw it was the steamer
John C. Benton making its way up
Eighth street, taking on coal at the
Union Pacific coal shed as it went
by. I spent several days riding with
my old friend, Ben Estes, who was
engineer in charge of a dinky B. &
M. switch engine engaged in pulling
cars out of the water to safety on
higher ground. We made one trip
over the Union Pacific bridge asj far
as the transfer, but long before the
flood reached its height. The trans
fer was under water and the swift
current east of that depot made
navigation very uncertain. A row
of box cars was run out west of the
transfer depot and many incoming
passengers made their way over them
to higher ground and were brought
into Omaha across the bridge.
Council Bluffs newspapers announced
that Omaha was entirely under
water, and advised all who arrived
at the city to remain there. This,
and the $5 per person fee charged by
boatmen for ferrying people across
the bjg break, had the effect of hold
ing hundreds on the Iowa side who
might have reached Omaha in good
shape.
Soon after the Missouri passed the
danger point, the Elkhornand the
Platte got into the game, and the
Union Pacific was cut off at Valley
and the B. & M. at Oreapolis, so
that Omaha was shut off on three
sides, the only road moving trains
being the Omaha line to the north,
and it could not get very far, be
cause of conditions at Missouri Val
ley and Sioux City. The embargo
lasted for two weeks, and several
more were required to clean up the
muss occasioned by ' the rushing
waters.
That was Omaha's worst recorded
experience with a flood. On several
later occasions torrential rains have
done crreat damaere. One. in the
early summer of 1889 was a tragic
thing for a lot of people living south
of Leavenworth and east of Twen
tieth. It came during the night,
and, as grading operations then in
progress had partly surrounded these
homes with embankments, the gath
ering waters engulfed the little
houses and families were routed
from bed and saved from drowning
by firemen, policemen and report
ers for the Omaha newspapers. The
following year many cellars were
inundated and 'great damage done
in the wholesale district by a rain
that exceeded the then carrying ca
pacity of the sewer system. One
Saturday night in June, 1892, rain
fell for four hours at a rate that
stopped not only the trolley lines
but the cable cars. Old timers will
remember this as the "night of the
Shiverick fire," the Shiverick furni
ture store on Farnam street having
been struck by lightning while the
storm was at its utmost fury, and
burned in spite of all the water the
firemen poured in supplement to the
torrents that fell as rain. Many will
recall a rain that washed out the
wooden block pavement on Harney
street, and floated it downtown, to
block catchbasins and so flood
stores.
In the sprintr of 1897 the Mis
souri made its boldest bid to "cut
off East Omaha and set it on the
east hank of the river. Overflow
ing its banks just below Florence,
the river rushed through North
Omaha, a stream more than 100
yards wide and at least four feet
deep pouring into Carter lake at
what was then Larsen's boat house,
where the "muny" bathing beach is
now located. It was this filling up
of the lake that flpated off its piles
the bridge that led to "Creighton
beach," a resort now swallowed up
in the Carter Lake club. The lake
was filled to the point of overflow,
and only the subsidence of the waters
averted what looked like the es
tablishment of a new route for the
Missouri river on its way past Oma
ha. The chief point of danger in
this was the East Omaha bridge,
then lately completed, and which
was threatened with being left some
distance cast of the channel it was
supposed to span.
The. Missouri river is subject to
freshets, because it drains an im
mense area, and the runoff of water
following the rainy season in the
spring is enormous. Some idea of
t lie surplus water that is carried
I from the ocean to the plains of the
upper valley may he gained by stroll
i ing down to the river bank and tak
I ing a look at the "creek." Remem
ber that all is rainwater you see
rushing by, and you will probably
have more awe for a rainstorm in
the future. McC.
Worth the Trice to Ixe Hint.
If Haywood's Russian trip cost the
X. W. W. $80,000 they have spent
more , money to worse ends. Wall
Street Journal. .
In Season If Not Seasonable.
Just to changs the subject do
your Christmas shopping early.
Albany Journal.
One Thing to Ills Credit.
It 'is to be noticed however that
nobody has been obliged to asl what
Ambassador Harvey meant. Detroit
lree Press,
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run up that curtalnT I
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of a $1,000 bond as an
Educational Fund. Ten years
later another bond was
added. These two bonds
with their accumulations sent
the young man comfortably
through college.
Parental forethought is not
conferred by legislation. It
is deep seated 'in the breast of
every father. It is the result
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hogany or walnut (dull or
polished) five point mo
tor, brass trimmings, full
metal plate, transposing
key device and natural ex
pression. In fact, all that
goes to make up a fine
No. 1 player at the spe
cial reduced price of
With record-breaking prices and
the general readjustment of prices
in all lines, we offer four carloads
of new pianos and player pianos at
almost unheard of prices. These
are all standard instruments, made
by the most reputable manufactur
ers known to the $iano trade. Every
piano and player is a wonderful
value and carries the regular Hospe
guarantee.
$395
Terms are Most Convenient
To start, these remarkably low prices af
ford a saving of from $200 to $300 on these
particular instruments. Many who have
been unable to buy a piano or player at
the regular price of $600 to $800 will wel
come this opportunity to buy In which the
payments will mature in the short time of
24 months. Of course you may pay cash on
whatever terms are satisfactory. Remember
a little down and a little each month sends
a piano or player to your home.
The New Dunbar
Piano
Also in double veneer oak,
mahogany or walnut (dull
or polished), double re
peating action, full tone,
Empire top and full 7
octave. This piano is in
deed an opportunity for
those who have been seek
ing a real value. Fully
guaranteed and offered
in this great sale for
only
1
I
4
$275
Besides these two very special offers we carry the products of 12 DIFFERENT
PIANO MANUFACTURERS on our floors- We have decided to make a clean
sweep and offer at greatly reduced prices EVERY PIANO AND PLAYER PIANO
IN OUR STORE Grands, Uprights and Players-Mwith the exception of two
makes which are sold, at contract price).
The Reason of
This Sale
Business has" not been'
what we estimated and
we are overloaded. Our
stock is enormous and we
want the money. This is
where we lose and you
gain.
A small deposit and we
will hold the instrument
you select until it is con
venient for you to take it.
Out-of-Town Customers
Who cannot get in to attend this
wonderful sale need only to mention the
make and finish desired and our piano ex
perts will select the instrument and guaran
tee satisfaction. The fact that it comes from
Hospe's is an assurance of satisfaction.
A. HOSPE CO., Omaha,
1513 Douglas St. Neb..
Will you please send to the address below
full particulars Meldorf Player, Dunbar
Piano :
Name
Street No
Town State
Your Guarantee
If you are hot fully satis
fied within one year from
date of purchase you have
the privilege of applying
all you have paid, during
the year, on any new
piano or player in our
store. We can safely make
this guarantee, as we have
purchased from these fac
tories for over thirty
years.
Parties who are not able
to see this stock in the day
time we will meet eve
nings by appointment
$250
$2.50 per week
buys a New
Dunbar Piano.
1513-15 Douglas Street
The Art and Music Store
$350
$3.50 per week
buys New
Meldorf Tlayer