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, The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Paitengar Station.
2. Continued improTement of the Ne
braika Highways, including the pav.
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
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 Gorerntnent.
Hooting at the President.
A cat may look at a king (though it some
times appears that it had better make haste),
and any one may write a letter to the president
Hamilton Holt, in availing himself of this right,
has produced a piece of correspondence that
reads little different from the missive of an
anonymous crank who had gone dotty from al
lowing his mind to dwell overmuch on some
hallucination.
A more direct attack on the sincerity of
President Harding could not be imagined. Os
tensibly an appeal for full announcement of a
' complete plan for abolishing war, reducing arma
ments, calming unrest, ending economic rivalry
between nations and inducing the lion and the
lamb to lie down in peaceful vegetarianism,
actually Mr. Holt places his thumb to his nose
and hoots that if America does not accept the
League of Nations covenant, no international
pact is possible. So wrought up does he become
;that it seems he even forgot to use simplified
spelling, which is another of his hobbies.
Mr. Holt does not speak for the majority
opinion of America, although he undoubtedly
echoes the feelings of a number of other nations.
As the possessor of the Order of the Sacred
Treasure of Japan, as an officer in the Grecian
Royal Order of George the First, and as the
bearer of honors from France and Italy, there
can be no doubt that he expresses a sufficiently
international viewpoint His efforts at closer re
lationships with other countrie as proved by
his directorship in the American-Scandinavian
foundation, as a member of the Japan society,
the Friends of Russian Freedom and the Italy
; America society and as trustee of the American
College for Girls in Constantinople, show him
to be a league of nations in himself. He has
"been a lecturer for the Carnegie Foundation for
International Peace, a representative of the
League to Enforce Peace, and an advocate of
the League of Nations,
Feeling so deeply on this subject, he may be
pardoned for the insulting tone of his letter to
the president, which may have been due to his
impatience at the slow approach of the millenium.
If Mr. Harding were to announce that he had a
Sure cure for all the troubles of the world and
were to make, an eloquent, Wilsontan speech
about the heart of the planet, Mr. Holt, it is to
be expected, would imrnediately call him brother,
But no such quackery is desired by the Ameri
can people.
Meet the Farmers Half Way.
The congressional investigation of the agri
cultural industry ought not to spend all its time
in Washington, but should get out where it could
hear the growing corn crack o' nights and get a
whiff of the new mown hay.' A tour of the coun
try such as that taken by the federal commission
on industrial relations is necessary to enable the
collection of testimony from busy farmers who
are not able to drop their work and run down
to the national capital. Congressman Jefferis
has shown the right idea by inviting the joint
committee of congress to hold hearings in Omaha.
" The entire commercial and social system of
our nation is based upon farming. Almost every
crop raised last year represented a loss to the
farmers, a catastrophe let it be said which in
volved every other line of industry. Something
is out of whack, and no opportunity should be
missed by this inquiry for finding out what re
pairs are necessary and possible. Agriculture
must be established upon a sound economic basis
and as much assurance of a return on capital and
labor should be given the farmer as those en
gaged in any other line of business. .
Cooling Off the Price. Thermometer.
That the high cost of living is no more has
now been established in court. Omaha mer
chants, under oath, have testified in the "case of
a woman who alleged the impossibility of living
bn $400 a month that prices of various neces
saries from meat to clothing have' decreased any
where from IS to 45 per cent from the high levels
of a year ago. '
Thus by direct word of mouth is obtained
proof of the statistics compiled by various private
and public information bureaus. The index of
the United States Department of Labor, which
stood at 189 the first of this year, had fallen to
1S4 by May 1, and will show further reduction
for June 1. These estimates are based on whole
sale prices, the level of 1913 representing par, or
100. Similar comforting figures are found in
Bradstreet's index, which represents mainly raw
materials. The price theremometer then stood
at 115 on June 1, thus indicating that the prices
f commodities which it covers were then only
IS per cent above prices before the war. While
the full force of these reductions may not have
reached the consumer, yet substantial cuts have
MeA made in almost all lines.
! The cost of living has fallen so gradually
that it has hardly been realized. There may be
some question as to its actual benefit, since the
disarrangement of industry which accompanied
the movement has left so many without em
ployment, but a reduction was what everyone
thought was needed, and here it is. The re
cession now is slowing up, and those who still
are willing to venture a prediction declare that
will eventually be stabilized at a level
eoaskierab'.y above that of 1913. But the public, j
taking things by and large, as is its way, no doubt
would be willing now to abide with the assur
ance that the level of prices makes no difference
so long at employment is good and wages are in
harmony with the cost of living.
Nebraska and Its Bankers.
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a nere may nave Deen grounds in early clays
for the belief that western banks were dominated
by the eastern financial groups to the detriment
of the best interests of the west, but the state
bankers' convention held in Omaha this week
gave signal demonstration of independence from
such influences. One after another of the reso
lutions evidenced this fact, and none of them
more than the demand that the federal reserve
system be made more responsive to the agricul
tural and live stock needs of the west. The in
dorsement of the Federal Land bank, which
once was widely opposed by bankers; the offer
of support to the $50,000,000 pool to be lent to
stock raisers, and the pledge to the Great Lakes
waterway project which means so much to ship
pers in the west may be pointed out
It is as Merton L. Corey of the Federal Land
bank said to these 1,000 bankers of Nebraska:
Why should you not be devoted and un
selfish to the nation's and Nebraska's needs?
The middle west has nurtured you and has out
of its vast wealth given you all you have and
all that you are; all that you shall have and all '
that you can hope to be. Why should we not
then be assured that you are ready to do your
part in this period of reconstruction? I have
an abiding faith in the courage and strength
and the unselfishness of the bankers of Ne
braska, and I am sure that you will soon bring
to us a return of the quiet, level tenor of busi
ness and of life, a restoration of the normal
which means continued prosperity for our
state and increased happiness for her splendid
citizens.
A Real American City.
Omaha is as thoroughly American in spirit as
could be asked. In peace and in war its people
have kept the faith the faith of their fathers, is
the phrase that rises naturally on the tongue.
And yet the census returns show that one-sixth of
the total population of the city was born abroad.
When they sing that national anthem their
voices do not die out on the phrase, "Land where
our fathers died," but ring as loud and sure as
the voice of any Son of the Revolution or Daugh
ter of the Mayflower. America, first among the
democracies of the world, has indeed been the
spiritual home of liberty lovers for more than
a century.
Czecho-Slovakia, as Bohemia is now called,
leads in number of immigrants living here, 4,305;
next comes Germany with 4,227, followed by
Russia with 3,825; Sweden, 3,798; Italy, 3,108;
Denmark, 2,875; Poland, 2,374; Ireland, 1,904;
Austria, 1,619; England, 1,460; Canada, 1,166;
Mexico, 682, and Scotland with 565. There are
others in smaller numbers, but with compara
tively few exceptions, individual and not racial,
all have contributed something of value to Amer
ican life, giving as well as receiving.
One of the characteristics most frequently
found among those from other lands is thrift, not
particularly an American quality, but still one
that should not be dispensed with. Love of
music and the arts is also general among many
foreign nationalities, in excess of that otherwise
found in America. In many ways they have
added their mite to the culture that is gradually
being expanded and broadened here. Omaha,
long regarded as a typical American city, is none
the less so for the presence of so many adopted
sons and daughters.
Who Is to Pay for the War?
If Germany is able to borrow from the United
States, through sale of reparation bonds, im
mense sums with which to meet its obligations
to France, Belgium and other countries to which
it owes indemnities, nothing would be solved.
The creditors would be changed, but the Ger
man debt would remain .unliquidated. The fed
eral reserve board has declared that in order
to make feasible the plan of the-ceparations com
mission investors in the United States would
have to buy large blocks of German bonds.
This transfer of international obligations pays
no debts, although it is possible it would aid in
world readjustment. - It is evident that both
France and England look to America as the
clearing house through which this arrangement
of credit' is to be accomplished and through
which German goods are to be marketed. In
the final settlement, the only way the German
government can meet the indemnities is by the
manufacture and sale of goods. France does not
want to ruin its own productive agencies, and
England already is complaining of the rapid in
flow of German products.
It begins to look as if the United States, as
the richest nation in the world, is going to be
saddled with the duty of paying for the world
war. Buying reparations bonds is one step, and
buying German goods in order to make possible
the payment of interest and principal on these
bonds is the next one.
The effort being made to protect the Ameri
can market against foreign made goods is un
derstandable when these facts are brought into
view. Even those who doubt the scientific
soundness of high tariffs are without any solu
tion of the fix America, Germany and the whole
world is in.
Judges no longer sentence men brought be
fore them to the army, and the new wrinkle
seems to be to send them to the farm instead, as
the temptation to water milk and put the big
gest apples in the top of the barrel was not as
powerful as any temptation in the city.
Wyoming train crews are said to have been
instructed to let tramps ride freights unob
structed, and this will not injure the public so
long as the hoboes are allowed to travel in both
directions.
One of the things that only adds to the dif
ficulty of school teachers is Hoover and Harding
splitting their infinitives. Any boy may now
hope to easily speak like a president.
Colds in the head will probably be fashionable
now that the French women have adopted the
fashion of carrying a handkerchief a yard square.
,
There is a good deal of talk about doing
something for the farmer, but the man with the
tractor will believe it when he sees it.
Nations may fight for a place in the sun, but
all their citizens ask is a place in the shade.
What a rollicking skeleton Stillman makes in
the Rockefeller family closet.
The only one the high cost of meat is not
laid on is the animal itself.
Scrap Heap of Illiteracy
Education and Correction
In Need of Co-ordination
Fred B. Hodgins, in the Survey.
"Ain't it hell, warden, that a fellow's got to
die just when he's learned to write his namel"
Thus said "Bull" Cassidy, murderer, to War
den I.awes of Sing Sing, on the day of his ex
ecution, just before Christmas, 1920.
It was "hell" for Bull, and his remark might
well be put into the mouth of organized society
as a statement of fact, a protest and a resolve.
Bull Cassidy was an American citizen. As
such, he came under the law of the land which
applies to every boy and girl: that they attend
public school between the ages of 7 and 13. Upon
his own showing and record, Bull either evaded
this compulsory law or the law was not enforced
as it ought to have been in his boyhood. He
learned to write his name while in Sing Sing.
The death house was the only scbool house Bull
ever attended. His schooling there was compul
sory, and society saw to it that this educational
provision of the criminal law was strictly en
forced until Bull was graduated to the electric
chair! Had the equally compulsory provision
of the school law been as vigorously enforced
years before, there might have been a different
story to tell about Bull.
Bull Cassidy was an illiterate under the legal
definition of that term which describes as such
a person "who has not learned to write in any
language." This is the ultimate official test. It
registers the lowest grade of the uneducated. But
there ar nearly two million native-born white
illiterates in this country. Thcreis a still larger
number of foreign-born white illiterates, and
their number is increasing. There are about two
and half million negro illiterates. Thus our total
group of illiterates, native and foreign-born, white
and negro, is over six millions enough to fill 372
cities having between 10,000 and 25,000 popu
lation; , enough to equal the entire com
bined populations of Philadelphia, St. Louis, Bos
ton, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit
and Buffalo. The illiterates in the nation equal
the population of Greater New York.
The startling and menacing fact is that 83 per
cent of all illiterates are over 20 years of age.
Most of them therefore, are in industries or are
idle and . never go back to school or retrieve
their lost opportunities for education.
To this last class belonged Bull Cassidy
murderer. He had no business to be in that
class, and no child in America of school age, na
tive or foreign-born, black or white, has any
business in that class. But suppose we find them
in that class and suppose, further, we find them
in Sing Sings and death houses, as we prODably
shall: what then? The problem can be woriced
out if we stop playing politics with our courts
and schools and secure such co-operation be
tween our judicial and educational systems and
practices as will give society a chance to recover
some of the appalling waste from the scrap heaps
of humanity from one of whose piles Bull Cassidy
was rescued for final destruction.
The trial of an accused person should be con
ducted not only to establish the fact of guilt or
innocence, but the cause or intent of the guilty
act. It should be the nrsfendeavor of criminal
jurisprudence to deal with the basic reasons for
delinquency and not merely to mete out re
tributive punishment, however richly deserved.
Every convicted person should be committed
to the. appropriate institution for the care and
treatment of the peculiar trouble from which he
is suffering, and not herded indiscriminately, as at
present, in mere detention prisons. Alcoholics
and drug addicts need medical and hospital treat
ment; the feeble-minded need segregation in
open-air farm colonies; the morally weak need
help and encouragement; the idle need employ
ment; all need education. The wardn of a fa
mous workhouse in Virginia once said to the
writer:
The trouble with this institution is that most
of my patients short-term misdemeanents
are mere "commuters;" they come and go with
increasing regularity, but do not stay long
enough for me to do anything with or for them.
This man had the right idea. He believed
that a factory superintendent was more than a
mere custodian of raw material; that he was
really a manufacturer of raw material into a fin
ished product. But he couldn't do this because
he wasn't allowed by the courts to do it. We
measure a child's education not by the hcuirs or
terms of schooling he has had but by what he
knows when he graduates. Why not apply the
same principle to our "criminal class" and con
tinue the process of physical, mental and moral
transformation until it is completed?
It should not be impossible for courts to adopt
some system of sifting out the various kinds of
culprits who are tried and convicted in them and
of sorting them according to some intellectual
and moral standards, so that the process of edu
cation may be resumed and finished, even behind
prison bars. Since early education is in actual
practice often voluntarily relinquished before the
legal limit is reached, why not combine compul
sory completion of cultural and vocational edu
cation with the compulsory confinement which
society employs to guard itself from the unre
strained and vicious propensities of its lawless
members? Illiteracy is the greatest bar to social
relationships. It breeds an anti-social spirit that
is the most potent menace of a democracy whose
foundation is laid upon the intelligent and con
structive co-operation of all its citizens. They
are the easy dupes of demagogy and the willing
tools of its leaders.
If a child, through parental neglect or con
nivance, or through any other loop hole, escapes
the teaching and discipline of education and in
consequence becomes an illiterate, a dependent
or a criminal, it should be the business of the
court or institution which is called upon to deal
with him to determine his intellectual and moral
stature and compel him to reach an equal and, if
possible, a superior status to that which the law
abiding citizen has attained through the process
of teaching and discipline afforded by education
and the other social restraints of ordered society.
The individual thus caught and confined in after
life by reason of early misfortune or delinquency
should not be returned to social life until he is
fit and equipped to resume a self -supporting and
self-respecting position therein. Our parole and
indeterminate sentence systems are admirable
helos toward the solution of this problem of so
cial conservation and work well when not abused.
But the intelligent and common sense sifting and
grading of all convicted persons at the start of
their compulsory restraint would be far better
than any eleventh-hour leniency.
Even were this improvement made in our
jurisprudence, there would still rema'n the prob
lem of providing for the training of this living
salvage from humanity's scrap heap. The funda
mental defect of our system of dealing with this
phase of our remedial practice is: We think
and act as we think that an equally low-grade
personnel is good enough to take charge of a
service which calls for the most advanced and
high grade specialization among teachers, doc
tors and guardians. We pay prison teachers
something like $30 a month and we get corre
spondingly poor results.
The present crisis in American cultural edu
cation, serious as it is by itself, suggests that
it is time for us to overhaul all our agencies for
social reconstruction. It is to be hoped that a
federal department of social welfare may be es
tablished and given an opportunity to co-ordinate
the operations of the various official and volun
tary agencies for social reconstruction, either by
way of advice or regulation. There is need for
both. Our educational and correctional systems
should be much more closely knit together. They
affect the welfare of our social order in a pe
culiarly intimate way. They should function far
more usefully and universally than they do now.
They might be made to safeguard our citizenship
in such ways as would prevent the appalling
moral and economic waste disclosed by the
human scrap heaps that challenge our intel
ligence and menace our civilization.
Patriotic Rword of the Irlwff.
Palmyra. Neb., June 15. To the
Editor of The Bee: In reply to the
iiarty named Jesse Kinder of Lin
coln, who wrote an article in The
Hoe's Letter Box June 14, I'd like
to have him tell nia what a true
American is. When he makes such
a statement about the Irish descent,
can he back it?
Read United States history from
the time of 'Washington until the
present day, and is there any for
eign race more patriotic than the
Irish and Irish descent? Who were
Washington's most trusted generals
and soldiers?
In the war of 1812, Mexican war.
civil war, Spanish war and the world
war, weren't the Irish and Irish
descent there under Old Glory?
There's damned few Irish, if there
ever were any, that were ever trai
tors to the Stars and Stripes.
If Admiral Sims loves England so
much as to be making such state
ments of just as good and patriotic
Americans as you are. perhaps they
would give him a pns'.Uon in the
English navy, as they did Benedict
Arnold in the English army when he
turned traitor. True Americans will
enlist and fight in war time for their
country, and in peace time hold re
sponsible positions in the govern
ment, business, etc. And ir you go
through the statistics of the Irish
and Irish descent, you will find that
in every war their quota and more
were there.
And in peace time there are plenty
of Irish descent in this country
alone whose reputation will stand
any test their slanderers will.
Any true American's sympathy
will go for Ireland as it did for Bel
gium or any other country that is
oppressed and trodden on. Admiral
Sims' remarks in London were un
called for. We owe England abso
lutely nothing. All the United States
ever got from England was paid in
Irish, French, German and Ameri
can lives on the battle fields of. 1776
and 1812, and good old United States
gold. THOMAS C. MANHART.
How to Keep Well
By OR. W. A. EVANS
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Utility Rates and Trices.
Edgemont, S. D., June 15. To
the Editor of The Bee: Under the
above caption, in the issue June 14,
is a letter written by E. S. Jones, in
which he makes some statements
that I do not feel should go by un
challenged. Mr. Jones says: "In
this period of transition many busi
nesses are suffering losses and many
will continue to do so for some time
to come. Notwithstanding this evi
dent fact complacent but economical
Iv uninformed bodies persist in hold
ing hat everything in the shape of
a public service corporation must
earn a certain per cent, no matter
how much the public in general may
suffer thereby and regardless of the
ability of this public to bear the
burden.".
Now, my answer to th above
statement is, as far as the regula
tory bodies taking the stand that
any public utility should be allowed
to earn a fair return on the fair
valuation of its property, that they
take exactly the right stand, but, as
to the uninformed regulatory bodies
I will say that if they are unin
formed, where does he get his in
formation that the rates being al
lowed by the regulatory bodies are
too high? The regulatory bodies
with their staff of engineers, ac
countants, etc., are surely in much
better position to secure information
on which to base rates than is the
man on the outside, and a man mak
ing the assertion that the public
services are being" allowed to squeeze
the public through the instrumen
tality of the regulatory bodies snould
at least inform himself on the sub
ject, so that he may be able to deal
with the subject fairly. I venture
the assertion that- the man who in
forms himself along these lines will
get the surprise of his life, for in
many cases he will find that the very
utilities that he thinks are gouging
the public are not paying actual
operating expenses.
It is surprising to know the num
ber of people who are users of light
and power that think when a utility
pays for their fuel, labor and sup
plies that the balance of their in
come is all profit. It is nothing un
common to hear a man say, speak
ing of a utility, "They don't need an
increase in rates, they are making
lots of money." Such statements
as those are made from pure misin
formation. One of the greatest
handicaps in the operation of a pub
lie utility is the lack of information
and duty on the part of the public,
In a great many instances where a
utility files an application for an in
crease in rates with a regulatory
body and the city m question is noti
fled of such application, the first
thing that is done is for the mayor
to instruct the city attorney to op
pose the granting of any increase.
I do not know of a rase where the
city attorney was instructed to in
vestigate the matter, and if you find
that the utility merits an increase
we will not oppose it.
Relative to the effect that high
rates have on reconstruction, I will
say that a great many people take
the stand that it has just the op
posite effect from what it really has,
There is no kind of an institution
that serves to develop or advance
a community as the public utility,
but, if they are, by means of low
rates, compelled to dperate their
property right on the "ragged edge,"
so to speak, they are handicapped
to a great extent from the fact that
they must keep expenses down by
reducing the number or employes,
curtailing extensions fkid improve
ments and In many ways not being
allowed to utilize their developing
powers that they otherwise would if
they are allowed to charge a rate
that will let them employ a greater
number of men, pay the interest on
their investment, set aside a reason
able amount for the depreciation
of their physical property, all of
which certainly at this stage of the
game would be reconstruction.
F. C. DE WEESE.
Parents' Problems
What should be the procedure of
grownup tnends ot a family toward
a child spoiled by the iamilyt
The best procedure in such a case
is to treat the child as any other
child would be treated showing
him neither more nor less attention
than is shown unspoiled children.
As a Specimen.
"Where in the demnition blazes
is that new reporter, Jobbles?" bel
lowed the city editor.
"I sent him out' to cover a lec
ture on the 'Missing Link,' " said
the assistant city editor.
"You did. ch? .Well, I hope you
told him to sit in the rear where
he wouldn't attract much attention.
At a meeting of that kind he's liable
to be drafted." Birmingham Age-Herald.
Would Watch It.
' "Well, Tat." said Bridget, "what
kind of a bird have you brought
home in the cage?"
"Well, it's a raven," replied Pat.
"A raven. And what did you
bring home a bird like that for?"
"Well, I read in a, paper the other
night that a raven has been known
to live for 300 years. I don't be
lieve it, so I am going to put it to
the test." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph,
HOT WEATHER DIARRHOEA
If there had been space the head
line above should hav read: Babies
with Diarrhoea in Hot Weather,
Thank to better sanitation diar
rhoea in adults has ceased to be
diseaso of any importance excepting
to those due to chronic dysentery.
Diarrhoea in adults does more good
than harm. Besides, hot weather is
not a factor of importance in adult
diarrhoeas.
The babies! That Is another story,
Every baby with loose bowels is a
case for an intelligent physician. But
read what Iverley says in his text
book on diseases of children, written
for physicians.
"The time to treat these cases of
intestinal indigestion in order to se
cure most effective prevention of
severe and grave disease is before
the physician sees the patient. The
reduction in the mortality rests In
the education of the mother to the
point of recognizing that a loose
green stool is a danger signal. When
it occurs she is to give a big dose of
castor oil (two teaspoonfuls), stop
the bottle or stop the nursing, and
give the baby boiled water or barley
water until the physician can see
the patient' Any physician who
does not so instruct the nurse and
mother fails in his obligation."
Here is the way Dr. J. M. Brady
handles the baby who develops diar
rhoea in hot weather. At the first
appearance of symptoms the food is
stopped. For 24 hours nothing is
given except water. This may be
sweetened with one grain of sac
charin to a ouart of water if the ba
by has had its sweet tooth educated
to the point where it has no taste for
vnsweetened drinks. He disagrees
with Kerley as to the need of giving
a dose of castor oil. Either he does
not give any castor oil, or gives only
one dose.
Dr. I. A. Abt agrees with Dr. Bra
dy that in most cases of dirrhoea
there is no need for a purgative.
The baby is kept as cool as pos
sible. A little clothing around the
abdomen is about all the covering
the baby needs. If there is fever
the symptom is controlled by tepid
baths and sponging. At the end of
21 hours he begins feeding Finkel-
stein's albumin .milk. This Is sweet
milk, curdled by pepsin, to the curd
of which buttermilk, flour and water
have been added. A sort of modified
cottage cheese. ,
There are half a dozen of these
preparations on the market In any
event recipes are available. Dr.
.ommon Dense
By J. J. MUNDY.
Pull Together.
Mr. Married Man. why do you
not get busy-and do those little odd
jobs about your home of which your
wife has spoken to you so many
times?
You know the fact that they have
not been done irritates her. '
She is sure to form the idea that
you are not interested in your home.
' You know how you feel when your
wife docs not keep the home looking
as you think it snould look.
You compare your home with the
homes of your friends and her
housekeeping with that of the wives
of your friends.
How can you expect your wife
will not look upon your failure to
keep up your share in the outside
work without grumbling, in any
other way than that of lack of in
terest? And you may be sure she is com
paring you with other men who
seem to be interested in their homes,
though- she might deny it if she
were asked.
There must be a combination of
effort, and there must be teamwork
if the home is made attractive and
you keep your wife's interest in you.
You think she has the children,
and no matter what you do she will
be there.
But a man has a certain place to
fill in the home and certain wor"
to do.
(Copyright, 1921, International Feature
Service, Inc.)
Brady gives ono ounce of this seven
times a duy. To it ho adds 1 per
cent malt food and a little saccha
rin. The amount fed is gradually
increased until the baby gets three
ounces of the milk for oaeh pound
In weight. The malt food is in
creased to 5 per cent by degrees.
While the baby specialists differ in
details, they agree that at the be
ginning the baby is to get no food
for a day, Is to have water and is
finally to be fed some milk substi
tute until the time has come for a
regular milk diet.
What Probably Is Meant.
H. F. B. writes: "From newspa
per reports It seems that a physician
at Battle Creek, Mich., has discov
ered that sleeping sickness Is
caused by eating canned spinach,
and that his opinion had been en
dorsed by leading physicians. I have
heard every case investigated seems
to have been ' caused by eating
eannod spinach, no matter how far
separated theso cases may be."
REPLY.
I have not heard that ' eating
caned spinach caused sleeping sick
ness. Cases of botullnus poisoning
attributed to eating canned spinach
have recently been reported in Chi
cago and elsewhere. I presume
those are the cases you have in
mind. A good many cases of botu
llnus poisoning due to eating vari
ous kinds of food have been report
ed during the last year or two from
different parts of the United States.
Cleanliness and proper heating dur
ing the processing are necessary to
avoid this. The consumer, by
thoroughly cooking his food, can
avoid danger of botulinus poisoning.
Second Case of Mumps.
B. B. G. writes: "1. Would you
kindly tell me if one can have
mumps more than once?
"2. Should the patient be kept in
bed?"
REPLY.
1. Yes. I have known a person
to have a second attack of mumps.
There is a danger of a second at
tack with any disease. In the case
of mumps the danger is something
more than theoretical. An attack
on one side does not seem to pro
tect very well against an attack
showing itself on the other side.
2. It is not always advisable to
stay in bed. Precautions against
taking cold should be carried out.
Moles Aro Mysterious.
J. A. S. writes: "Will you tell
the cause of moles and whether they
do any particular harm?"
REPLY.
Nobody known the eanse of moles.
As a rule, nmles do lib harm unless
they are picked at or otherwise dis
turbed. They are like Knakc, good
enough bedfellows if you do not
cross them.
Where It Started
Tulips.
The tulip grows wild in the r.ar
cast; it was introduced into Europe
as a garden flower in 1599, by John
Henry Herwark, at Augsburg. From
16J4 to 1637 they became so popu
lar, especially in Holland, that bulbs
sold at fabulous prices. One root
was sold for 12 acres of land. The
highest recorded price was 7,000
florins (nearly $10,000.)
Copyright, 1021. Wheeler Syndicate, I no.
Better Be Examined.
Mrs. W. S. writes: "Kndly name
the causes of chronic dysentery of
a catarrhal nature. I have been
suffering from -it for two years and
have found no relief. At present I
am eating a well balanced diet.
Would you suggest any special diet?
keep my normal weight"
REPLY.
Have your physician examine you
for amoeba coli. If the dysentery
is amoebic, Ipecac and Its alkaloids
are curative in most cases.
Only Minor Operation.
M. W. writes: "I have had a
growth under my tongue for the last
three weeks. Our family doctor
calls it a cyst. About every other
day it will burst, bringing forth
something like the white of an egg.
Please advise if it should be cut."
Reply.
This is a retention cyst pf one of
dangerous. A minor operation will
the glands under the tongue. It
Drug News
Sterno Heat
Canned, for cooking and
curling. Saturday, 9c can.
Through error, this item
was advertised for 19c in
the big Sherman & McCon.
nel Drug Co. ad in yester
day's Bee.
The big sale of Toilet Goods
and Drug Store Sundries
continues Saturday and
from the throngs that at
tended this sale Friday
Saturday is destined to be
a busy day at these stores.
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