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THE BEE: OMAHA, . SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1921
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1. Ntw Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of the Ne
braska Highways, Including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfare loading
into Omaha with a Brick Surfaea.
3. A abort, lowrate Waterway from tha
Corn Bait to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Mom Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
"Burn the Night Lights."
If General Dawes had not attracted So much
attention for hi "hell'n'Maria" locution, he
would have come to the surface because of his
talk to the 600-odd men who do the spending for
the government, made at a mass meeting in
Washington on Wednesday. He did not emit
one sentence" that well may be substituted for
the mildly profane ejaculation accredited td hint.
"Burn the night lights," he advised the bureau
and department heads, chief clerks and others,
including the president and his cabinet officers,
who were present.
Reduction of government expenditures is the
first step necessary to the lowering of taxation.
It may be achieved in several ways, but to get
results that will be of service requires the care
ful attention of responsible officials, directed to
a phase of the problem that has been entirely
neglected for too long a-'time. General Dawes
proposes that the process be reversed, and that
instead of looking for places to spend money,
scrutiny must be for the purpose of saving money.
He has assaulted the citadel in his first attempt,
bringing home to the men who are more than
.ny others chargeable with the duty of saving
because they are the ones who make up the esti
mates and look after the disbursements.
It has bcerl suggested by some cynical ob
servers that Dawes will meet his defeat because
he is plunging against the solid, unyielding, ir
responsive and irresponsible phalanx of the
bureaucracy. It is hard to overcome the tradi
tions of the governing guild, and yet it is poS
jible to teach any of them a new way of doing
business. One of the discomforting aspects of
our governmental processes is what may be de
nominated the "departmental mind," the habit of
following custpm and, making no question1, doing
the thing m 'the' way it has been done from the
beginning and. eschewing innovation of any kind.
This is just what the budget law seeks to break
up'. The fixed and lodged practices iri the; va
rious departments of the government will be dis
turbed, but a better way should come in the end.
"Burn the night lights" will take oil its full
meaning in Washington when the met! who ad
minister the government hive! caught the Dawes
spirit , Just as they set the example, so will the
country bt inclined to follow, although the busi
ness men and manufacturer! have been burning
the night lights these many weks, looking for
the solution of their own problem. Presenta
tion of a budget in July, with assurance of sub
stantial savings and corresponding relief from
taxes, will be helpful and encouraging" to the
country as a sign that the administration is
earnestly striving to aid as faf as it can to bring
the life of the land again to normalcy.
"And May the Best Mali Win."
;.. Were it not for one stubborn fact, all America
would be on its toes today, shouting lor; th4
champion to win at Jersey City. A very large
section of the citizenry can not forget that jack
Dempsey ingloriously sought a funk hole when
the war clouds rolled over the land, and the
splendid bruiser who hopes to heap tip another
fortune today by fighting was then able to Satiate
his thirst for glory by employment in a ship
yard with a factor of safety of 6,000 miles So fat
as the actual firing line was concerned. On the
other hand, Carpentier laid aside the padded
mitts arid marched with "Madeline" through four
years of such glorious carnage as the world never
witnessed before. If moral courage figures any
where in a prize fight, the French challenger has
conspicuously the better of the deal. However, a
contest of the kind usually turns on another sort
of qualification; indeed, the finer feelings that
would lead a warm-hearted youth to bare his
breast oh the battle field in defense of his coun
try may well be considered a handicap when op
posed to the sordid, calculating selfishness and
cold blood that could seek safety at such a tithe,
preserving- the precious hide of its' owner un
scathed -that he might in better days pursue hjs
vocation tof battering down less- expert 6r dur
able aspirants for his crown. Let the better
man win today, even though that outcome may
take the prized championship to La Belle France,
from whence it may in time be returned by an
American, whose record is just a little more to
the liWng of his countrymen than is that of Jack
Dempsey. And, if the latter does retain his
smirched laurels, the smell of the .shipyard will
linger around the wreath while he wears It
' Where the West Excels.
President Harding, off on a holiday visit to
New York state, travels not by special train or
by private car, but in the chair car of a regular
passenger train. So says the dispatch from
Washington, but those who have experienced the
discomforts of travel oh the eastern railroads
will hardly believe that he found a real reclining
chair car, supplied with clean and cool linen head
rests. They will image the president Sitting amid
the discomforts, the heat, dust and smoke of an
ordinary day coach on a train that does not
carry Pullman.
Few westerners appreciate the superior serv
ice given by the railroads out here. Old equip
ment that would scarcely be deemed fit for a
stub line in Nebraska is found on the most im
portant runs out of Boston and New York. The
average journey in the east is shorter than out
here, and the public puts up with inferior service
that could scarcely be endured on the long trips
through the west "If President Harding wanted
to go for a ride, for the pleasure of riding, he
certainly would not ehooie to buy 8, ticket on
one of the New York state railways.
Taft for Chief Justice. - .
In appointing William Howard Taft to be
chief justice of the supreme, court of the tjnited
States, President Harding has made definite the
continued service of a great American to the pub
lic. Something eminently fitting may be noted
in this) the Taft list of activities shows an hon
orable progression through a long and varied
employment, in the course of which he declined
to be made associate justice of the supreme
court, culminating in the office of president. Step
ping down from this exalted place, Mr. Taft took
up immediately the duties of citizenship, and with
the emergency of the war demanding his great
ability, became one of the most useful of men.
It is almost trite" to say that he grew after
he left the office of president. 'What really did
happen is that the people of America discovered
him. That he did change in some degree he
admits himself; in Omaha last summer he made
the statement that he had, almost entirely altered
his views on the labor question, a result of his
experience on the War Labor board. Thus, as
the people came to know Taft better, Taft also
came closer to the masses, and the inevitable hap
pened. Senator Borah'i cynicism will not de
tract from the popularity of the selection.
A great deal of speculation will probably
ensue as to whether the aspect of the court itself
is changed by the accession of Mr. Taft. Chief
Justice White was of the strict constructionist
group, as distinguished from McKenrta, Holmes,
Brandeis and Clarke, who are loosely classified
as liberals, and from whom Some very notable
dissenting opinion have emanated recently. As
a judge of the circuit court Mr. Taft made a
record that would warrant his being set down
among the rigid expounders of the fundamental
law; his long and intimate contact with the af
fairs of life since then may not have given his
anchorage any shifting wrench, but it surely has
enabled him to get a better viewpoint as to the
application of those principles of law he so de
votedly espouses. What is certain is that Wil
liam Howard Taft is riot a temporizer or a
trimmer. He will harmonize to the utmost ex
tent what appears to be the conflict between hu
manity and the law, but none need doubt that
he will be inflexible for the right when that has
been shown to him by the light of reason and
experience.
The selection of Mr. Taft for the high place of
service to his country is Singularly fitting.
City Deserves the Saving.
An expected situation has arisen in connec
tion with some big jobs of public work in
Omaha, particularly with the paving of Dodge
street and some other projects of like nature.
Since the original bids were presented prices on
material have receded greatly. Cement, for ex
ample, is down 53 cents a barrel; labor is back
to 35 cents an hour, prewar figures, and 6ther
factors show similar decline in cost.
The city Should have, the benefit of this. No
good reason appears for allowing the contrac
tors to reap the enormous added profits that are
to ensile if the work is let on the basis of the
original bids.
Omaha has taken th "short erid" of several
deals, letting work at high figures, selling bonds
it uriusual interest fates, arid otherwise contrib
uting to the "prosperity" of the postwar period.
It is time that some advantage were being taken
of changing conditions. No business man would
contract today for finished product on the basis
bf raw material tost of three months ago, or even
of yesterday, when he sees that material dally
going lower. He would ask for his goods oh a
basis of price modified by the cost of production.
So should the city. If cement and other ele
ments that enter into the cost of paving are go
ing downj it is Inexcusable that a big contract
Should, be let eh the higher figures of months
ago. '
The Slight delay that will be incurred through
advertising for new bids is hot material. Indeed,
it can welt be borne if a substantial saving can
be achieved through waiting a few days longer.
If the city commissioners are Sincere in their
professions, and really mean to lower the cost
of government to the taxpayers, they have a
splfcndid chance right here. Seventy-five cents a
yard saved on the cost only of the Dodge street
paving will be a handsome monument to them.
Winning Back From Burlesonism. "
A sign of recovery ht the management of the
Postoffice department under Will H. Hays is
noted in the restoration of Warren Vandervoort
to the position of superintendent ot the Thir
teenth division, railway mail service, with head
quarters at Seattle. Mr. Vandervoort grew up
in the railway mail service. He was once chief
clerk at Omaha, from whence he was taken to
Chicago to be assistant superintendent, going
from there to Boston as superintendent, where
Burleson found him. The ion of a former commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of the Re
public, a republican in politics, offered a fine
target for the czar of the postal service, and
despite his Splendid record of service, Vander
voort was demoted and sent to Seattle as an as
sistant Superintendent He was just a trifle more
devoted to the postal service than was its head,
for he refused to resign and waited for a better
day to come. Postmaster General Hays is re
deeming his pledge to the ptl''c when, he re
stores such men as Vandervoort to positions
from which they were removed by Burleson in
order to make place for his favorites. The Hays
policy will succeed, and the destiny of the post
office be better fulfilled when merit and not
favoritism controls appointments and selections
for important posts.
The 2-1 victory 6f a republican candidate for
congress over his democratic opponent in Michi
gan the other day will fill a vacancy, but will
come far from bearing out the hopes ot demo
crats that the Harding administration has lost
any of the public favor which put it in charge
of the government
The deputy sheriff of Platte county haa
bought two bloodhounds, but the people of 'Co
lumbus will hate to wait for cooler weather
before staging a realistic Uncle Tom show with
Eliza crossing the ice.
Stillman is not considered to live up id the
implication of his name insofar as being a man
of quiet habits is concerned, but he certainly was
a still man on the witness stand.
Love Slain by Napoleon
The Death of Charles J. Bonaparte
, Recalls Romance of American Heiress.
The brother of a powerful European mon
arch, himself soon to become king of a less im
portant state, falls in love with a beautiful
American girl.
Jerome, for that was his name, is a captain
in the navy of his native country at the age of
18, when he makes a voyage to Baltimore. At a
ball given in honor of the visitors from overseas
he meets Elizabeth Patterson, a belle at 17, and
daughter of the second wealthiest citizen in
Maryland.
All that sounds rather familiar to readers of
historical novels. "Ah, yes," they will say, "his
royal brother opposed the match, and the girl's
father, realizing that the brilliant prospects of
the youth made a love match inadvisable, for
bade their marriage. Romances of that sort all
read alike."
And so they may, but in the year 1803 those
things happened in real life. The death of
Charles J. Bonaparte, attorney general of the
United States under President Roosevelt, re
moves the last living evidence of the marriage
between the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and
the daughter of William Patterson, owner of a
Jreat line of Yankee clippers. A grandson of
erome Bonaparte and a grand-nephew of the
great Napoleon, he was for all that an American
through and through, unlike his father, who
lived much abroad, and his elder brother, who
resigned from the American army in 1854 to
join the French in the Crimean war, serving
later in the dragoon guards of the Empress
Eugenie.
That ball where Jerome Bonaparte fell cap
tive to the charms of Miss -Patterson was more
than a hundred years ago; it was given by Sam
uel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Inde
pendence. The , courtship that followed was
blocked first by Mr. Patterson, who, seeing
clearly that the" first consul would object to any
such marriage, sent his daughter to Virginia.
This separation only increased the ardor of
the couple, who were neither more than children,
and in a short time they became engaged through
secret correspondence. As soon as he reached
the age of 19 Jerome procured a marriage li
cense and the ceremony was solemnized before
a large and fashionable assemblage.
The great wealth ot the Pattersons did not
serve to lighten the anger of Napoleon, who sent
a message td Jerome that if he left the "young
person" in America his youthful indiscretion
would be forgiven; If he brought her with him
he should not set foot on French territory.
This did hot suffice- td send the honeymoon
into1 eclipse. After two years in Baltimore the
pair embarked on one of Mr. Patterson's fast
sailing ships, bound for Lisbon, where they
found a French frigate to prevent their landing.
In a moment of desperation Jerome , went on
alone to Paris to plead the cause of his bride,
who proceeded on the ship to Amsterdam.
There two men-of-war awaited her, and she was
forced to take refuge from the hate of Napoleon
in tngland.
So great was the excitement there that the
British authorities had to send a regiment to
Dover to control the multitude that watched her
arrival. A few days later her son, Jerome Bona
parte, was born. Her husband, though remain
ing in trance, constantly sent her messages ot
affection and fidelity, Napoleon, still obdurate,
attemhted in vain to induce the pope to anntil the
marriage, and had to content himself with an
annulment by his imperial council of state. .
On condition of her going to America, he of
fered her a large pension, provided she did not
take the name of the family. In the hope of
conciliating her brother-in-law, the American
heiress returned to America, still little more than
a child, for all her bitter experiences.
As for your affair with your little girl, I do
not regard it," Napoleon informed Jerome, and
created him a prince of the empire and admiral
of a fleet for his desertion. Later he was made
not only a general, but successor to the throne
in the event of Napoleon's leaving ho son, and
in 1807 he became king of Westphalia. In the
same year he married Prirtcess Catherine Fred
erica of Wucrtemburg, by whom he had three
sons.
This ' was the bitterest blow for Madame
Bonaparte, as the American girl still rightly
railed herself, and she employed every means to
uphold the validity of her marriage and the le-
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fllimacy oi ncr son. xcais unci, wucu .nayuiwn
II mounted the throne, she was granted a for
mal hearing.
Then occurred an incident that won the sym
pathy and attention of Europe for the deserted
wife. Jerome, the man who had wooed her as a
youthful sailor, appealed to the council of state
to forbid his son to assume the name of Bona
parte. Nevertheless, the council decreed that
the Son was entitled to the name of Bonaparte,
although he could not be recognized as a mem
ber of the imperial family.
Ambition seems to have overcome the inde
pendent spirit of the mother. Instead of show
ing natural pride and going her own way, she
ever after sought td establish herself as a con
nection of French aristocracy. Her son refused
to sue for the hand df the daughter of Joseph
Bonaparte and insisted on marrying an Ameri
can girl, and this episode alienated froiri her
both father and her sen. She then passed much
of her time in Europe, reveling in the sympathy
she found -there and untouched by the ostracism
to which she had been so liberally treated.
Her father's death left her a millionaire, but
as age came on she became a miser and misan
thrope, although she never lost her brilliant con
versational powers and her noble airs. The dream
of the glory that might have been herS never
was lost, and at the downfall of the second em
pire and the death of Napoleon III, she was un
sparing of money or effort in advancing the
claims of her grandson, the elder brother of
Charles J. Bonaparte, and hoped to see him
called to the regency or perhaps the imperial
throne if the republic could be overthrown.
It is strange that she, her son and this elder
grandson, despite the wrongs and insults that
had been heaped upon them, shoufd have main
tained the close relations with the French court
that they did. Her son was never naturalized
as an American citizen and spent much time
abroad, cultivating terms of intimacy with the
father who had endeavored to disown him. His
eldest son, too, served with distinction in many
French campaigns, leaving only the brother who
t lusi di.e(1 to carrv on the American branch
of the family, which now has disappeared.
v P. G.
Dirt a Hard Thing to Get in New York.
A gentleman living on the upper East Side
has a window box and the other day he hunted
for some dirt in which to grow some flowers.
Getting flirt in New York is like finding a drink
of cool, Sparkling water in the middle, of the
Sahara.
He asked some workmen in Central Dark
for a few handfuls, and although they were haul
ing it away to the dump, it is against the rules
for anybody to take park dirt away for window
boxes. It is quite easy to see that there would
soon be no park if everybody in town started to
dig fishing worms or take away dirt for window
boxes.,
So the gentleman finally, through cor
respondence with John S. Phillips, editor of the
American magazine at one time, arranged to
have some good plain, every day dirt nothing
fancy sent to him from Phillips' estate up on
the Hudson. The moral is: You can find dirt in
New York if you keep on trying, or something
like that Minneapolis Tribune.
When a Feller Needs a Friend.
Among the day's pathetic figures is the
youngster who, as the school year draws to a
close, seeks a diplomatic way of informing the
old gent that he failed to pass. Buffalo Express.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Queationa concerning hyfltna, aanlta
tlon and prevention of dlaeaae, aub
mitted to Dr. Evan by rtador af
Th Boo, will b answered personally,
subject to proper limitation, where a
stamped, addreated envelops la en
closed. Dr. Evans will not make
diagnosis or prescribe lor Individual
diseeaes. Address lstters la care of
The Bee.
Copyright, 1921. by Dr. W. A. Evans.
WHEN BECOMING DEAF.
That a great many people have
their efficiency lowered no one will
deny.
Of the mass of letters which pour
In over this desk few subjects stimu
late so many of them as does partial
deafness. The story they tell Is much
the same. A person somewhere
about middle life, accepting himself
as Just as good as he ever was, no
tices that ha Is gradually becoming
deaf. Even more Irritating are In
cessant head noises. He has tried
a doctor or two and taken several
kinds of medicine. Finally he con
sulted a nose and throat specialist.
He is beginning to think he Is get
ting into trie stage of decreasing
efficiency. There are hundreds of
thousands on that list.
The physicians agree that the de
mand for relief is great. When it
comes to explaining this form of ear
trouble they are not agreed. Some
say it is an Inherited condition and
develops after the years of puberty
because of certain changes In the
bones of the ear region of the skull.
Others say It is because of Infections
of the nose and throat which, having
continued for a long time, finally ex
tend to the ears. Others say that it Is
the result of systemic infections In
which the'lnfecting agent locates in
the bones of the ear. Just as in
rheumatoid arthritis It locates in the
bones of the finger joints. There are
still other theories.
I expect all of them are true. Cer
tain cases are inherited run in
families. Certain other cases are
due to infection which has extended
to the ear from the nose and throat,
Probably certain other cases are cut
on the rheumatol(t.arthrltis pattern.
Careful examination will show in
which of these classes some cases
belong. Some cases are found to be
due to an association of two or more
varieties.
To the readers of this column this
matter has no Special interest. What
ever the cause may have been, even
though it be neglect on his part, is
now a secondary concern. He is in
trouble and what he wants to know
is how to get out and how to keep
out. Some cases are helped by treat
ment of the nosa and throat.
Drs. Pollock and Beck say that
some cases are helped by the con
tinued use of adrenalin. That drug
seems to fix the minerals of the bone
so that the tendency is to become
spongy or changed. In his very able
discussion before the Medical Asso
ciation of the Southwest Dr. E. E.
Earnest referred to these changes in
the bone itself in certain kinds of
deafness developing in middle life.
He said that some cases are benefit
ed by iodides, especially where there
is a history of syphilis. Certain cases
are helped by vibration of the ear
drum.
After making allowance for all
these groups we are compelled to
admit that the outlook for this large
group is not good if we have in mind
restoration to youthful conditions.
Most of them, wheri they have
had their noses sawed and ripped,
have finished the round of special
ists, and taken the various remedies,
will be just where they started or
not far away. Certainly no one
who knows anything about the
changes which take place in the
bones will have any faith in the wild
promises of the quacks.
What can a person . with progres
sive deafness and head noises do?
So far as the noises are concerned,
he can train himself to disregard
them. Every man is self-trained
consciously not to see anything ex
cept what is directly in the field of
vision. Why get hysterical over head
noises? As to the progressive deaf
ness as our vision changes with age
do we try to find the cause and re
move it? No, we change our glasses.
I am afraid that there is not much
more for a man with deafness to do
except to learn lip reading and to
use some of the devices to aid hear
ing. This Boy's a Wonder.
Mrs. W. E..M. writes that she is
taking care of a difficult child. He
is 8 years old. Until he was 5 years
old he would eat no solid food, tak
ing all his. food, even mashed po
tato, through a bottle. He was
nauseated easily. Sucked his thumb.
Was a bed wetter. He is extremely
nervous and fidgety. Loves to play,
but tires easily and changes from
orve play to another incessantly.
Belches. This bad constitution has
been made worse by social training
or lack of it. He goes to motion pic
tures shows and sits up until 10 or
11. He demands . constant amuse
ment and entertainment. He has
good powers of observation and a
good memory. Will not go to school.
Will not try to study. Says it tires
him if he stays in school over an
hour. In two months he has learned
his alphabet fairly well. . Can read a
little. What can I do? If he is
found to be physically sound and I
cannot .handle him otherwise am I
justified in using the rod?"
REPLY.
The child should have a thorough
physical examination. He should be
given a mental test next. The third
step should be an analysis of his be
havior. What is to be done depends
on what the various tests, including
his behavior test, show. Assuming
that all correctible physical causes
have been attended to and the child
has been found not to be mentally
defective, the treatment of the case
is one of behavioristic training. In
the training of most children abnor
mal as to behavior discipline is all
Important. Many of them need
old-fashioned corporal punishment.
However, certain o them, especially
in certain racial groups, have been
made worse by having been beaten
at home. Decision as to which group
a given boy belongs in requires
judgment.
Something Is Wrong.
Mrs. L. B. writes: "1. My baby
Is now 2 years and 3 months old and
only weighs 22 pounds. While preg
nant I had pneumonia. Do you
think that has anything to do with
her now being underweight? She
walks and Is very active, and has
all of her teeth: 2. I give her grade
A milk, orange juice, cereals, soups,
vegetables, etc. Is there any advice
you could give me regarding her
condition? Her appetite is rather
poor." ;
REPLY.
1. No. 2. Do' not give her more
than a quart of milk a day. She
should have some meat. Are her
bowel habits proper? Does she get
enouerh sleep? She snouia nave an
ajfrnoon nap as well as plenty of
sleep at night
Diet Probably at Fault
A reader writes: "Is there a re
stricted diet for cure of canker sores
in mouth and similar trouble in
bladder which is very painful and
annoying? Stomach is ) K. Med
icine does no good. I eat very acid
fruits, etc. Would a raw vegetable
diet help any?"
REPLY.
Some change of diet is indicated.
One person found he was living on
bread, meat, potatoes and coffee al
most exclusively. When he added
vegetables, fruit and sweets his
trouble ended
OX
Drliigtng Ocean to Farm.
Omaha, June 27. To the Editor
of The Bee: The lonfc awaited re
port of the International Board of
Engineers who have been studying
the problem of constructing a chan
nel for ocean going vessels through
the rapids of the St. Lawrence river
from Ogdensburg, N. Y., to Mon
treal, Canada, a distance of 120 miles,
by which Duluth at the head of
Lake Superior and Chicago at the
head of Iake Michigan and all cities
down the lakes may have direct
ocean transportation to every part
of the world, has been completed
and will be laid before the joint in
ternational commission for submis
sion to congress and the Canadian
Parliament in a few days.
The'report will pronounce the en
terprise practicable under present
day construction systems. It will
recommend river channel "slack wa
ter" dams and short canals, requir
ing a system of 10 locks to give a
channel , for vessels of 30-foot draft
from the ocean into the Great Lakes
water system.
As a result of this construction,
merely an incidental feature of it,
water power aggregating 1,750,000
theoretical horse power will be cre
ated. But the great achievement
will be to bring ocean going vessels
1.200 miles inland to carry the sur
plus produce of the farms to the
north and central west to world
markets at a cost greatly less than
the rail and water rates now exist
ing. On the basis of freight rates
existing under government operation
of railroads (generally 33 per cent
below present costs) secretary of
commerce, Hon. Herbert Hoover,
said the construction of this pro
posed canal would add at least 8
cents per bushel to the value of all
grain produced it the northwest.
If that opinion was measurably true,
the canal, doing business with rail
road rates on the present basis,
would render service of untold value
to the interior of this great conti
nent. We are told that our farmers
have now to compete with the cheap
lands and cheap labor of Argentine.
This is only a theory. We know,
however, that we may have to com
pete With cheap ocean freighters
from Argentine, the arable part of
that great and fertile country being
within 500 miles of acean transpor
tation. And it is never denied that
wheat and corn can be brought from
Argentine ports to oUr seaboard
cities at a much lower cost than it
can be taken from Chicago to the
same points.
We are told by engineers that the
construction costs of. the river im
provements proposed, at present
prices, will be about $250,000,000.
This is ft great sum of money equal
to the cost of six modern battleships!
But the engineers tell us, also, that
the water power developed by the
construction will pay for construct
ing the water way improvements in
a few years! From this we infer
that not agriculture alone but manu
facturing industries will reap great
benefits from this canal.
There is a well-organised oppo
sition to the canal construction pro
gram. The interests opposing it are
those who, having long profited by
old channels of commerce, believe
their graft has become a vested right
and that new methods and new lines
of traffic, however economical, may
not shake them loose from their po
sition.. Their appeal will be to na
tionalism. The river is part way in
ternational part way wholly Brit
ish. This is unfortunate. But God
made the river, and men made the
national boundaries. We have to
take the river where we find,, it. The
benefits of the improvement' will be
long to the world, but most directly
and in the greatest deeree to the
farms and cities of the middle west.
H.. G. M'INTOSH,
Manager Agricultural Department of
the Omaha Chamber of Commerce.
Opposes Miscegenation.
Omaha, June 28. To the Editor
of The Bee: I note with great in
terest, the letters written by the
Rev. W. C. Williams and the RevJ
Russell Taylor in regard to Judge
Sears' decision taking away the
white children from their mother
who married a colored man. The
decision in question was a correct
one on account of the fact that Ne
braska statutes positively prohibit
that marriage between thai races
and shall not be countenanced, re
gardless of where the marriage takes
place, and for a further reason the
stigma brought against these chll
drtn by their mother's sins from
their schoolmates and other associ
ates is enough to give them their
freedom from such a curse. How
ever, society may be to bldme in not
assisting this mother in her trou
bles, and I eally claim it is on ac
count of the fact that we should
have, a national statute prohibiting
such marriage, and if not a national
law, every state in the union should
copy the Nebraska law and pass It
at once, which prohibits the inter
marriage between the races. This
is the only way to "bridge the
chasm." The advocacy of the mar
riage between the races by the col
ored people is one ot the reasons
to my mind in the organization of
the Ku Klux Klan at this time. It
cannot now or never can be coun
tenanced by the Caucasian race.
The colored people should take
more nrme m their own race ana
tight against the amalgamation of
other races, the same as the Cau
casian race does. This will bring
about peace and less friction be
tween the races with no riots to
contend with, as most all trouble
between the races is caused by en
croachment on each other's rights.
This must be alleviated if law and
order shall prevail. The advocacy
of this question will ultimately
bring about Its solution, which will
stamp out the blight on our race
Let's hear from others.
C. L. NETHAWAY.
. SAID IN JEST.
"I have iuat heard of a woman who
went to a hotel unaccompanied and dis
covered that the acoustic properties of
her room were such that svery time she
spoke aloud there was an echo. She
then made a bold attempt to get in a
last word, and In so doing talked herself
to death." v ortiana express ana Advertiser.
"What's the charge, officer?"
"Vagrancy, your honor. He was loaf'
Ins around a street corner."
"Ah, impersonating an officer." Pup
pet (Carnegie Teen).
First Doughboy Did you have trouble
with your French while in Parts?
Becond Ditto No, but the Parisians
did! Western Christian Advocate (Cln
cinnatl).
"Saeres tell us that the best way to
get the most out of life is to fall in love
witn a great promem or a Deauurui
woman."
"Why not choose the latter and get
both 7" Amherst jjora Jen.
First Undergrad What shall we do?
Second TJndersrad I'll snin a- coin.
If it's heads we'll go to the movies: tails
n go to the dance, ana it it stsnas on
edge we'll study. London Opinion.
"I can't play billiards In the winter
tlmo at all."
"Whv nnt?"
"fcvery time I get to knocking those
three tails srouna it reminds me or. my
overcoat." Gargoyle (Michigan).
"Can you demonstrate your theory so
that it can be nooularly understood?"
"Perhaps," replied the eminent scien
tist. "But why consign it to ooscuruy
bv ending a very interesting discussion?"
Washington Star.
Great Western Changes Time.
Effective Tulv 3 the Chicago
Great Western Railroad will have a
seneral change of time.
No. 6 for Ft. Dodge, Dubuque and
Chicago will leave Omaha, 3:16 p
m.
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St. Paul and Minneapolis will leave
Omaha, 7:30 p. m.
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CENTER SHOTS.
fntr rt thn nnlirrthnr'a hll
dren grow up to be hanged In spite
of what you think of them. Hous
ton Chronotie.
a nrini reformer says It is hard
to understand the plural wife.
Equally hard, nowever, 10 unaer-i l
stund the singular wife. -Btrmlng-M
ham News.
Tnese are me njro ,i.
not Heed a telescope to see sun
. ...ill.. f .a '
'pots, everyone im" ,-,v"- -
of his own. Wheeling Intelligencer. J
,-. 't .nm niannfnrturer give a
straw hat a boomerang shape, so it
will come back when it blowa off?
Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont.
It is a hit odd how Important a
man may be as a cabinet member
nnd cut such a small figure In pri
vate life afterward. Canton (Ohio)
News. 1
She Half a doten doctors have
given Mabel up.
Ho-YHeally? What's the matter
with her? , ...
She She wouldn't pay their bllia.
London Mail.
Mrs. Nnbrtde t ' had hysterica
last night and rm all in. via you
over have them? "
Mrs. Young No, Indeed. My hus
band gives me everything I ask for.
Life.
Mr. Hoover reports that Europe
is getting nearly enough to eat and
soon will be able to buy some new
clothes. Next thing we know the
old world will be putting on gtyle.
"Raw sugar back to pre-war
prices." How sweet that sounds.
Do you remember when everybody
condemned dandelions as a pest?
Wilmington (Del.) Journal.
Now comes the season tvhen the
ills bf the world are cure d under the
chautauqua tent. B oaten Tran
script. Any woman who doesn't care how
her hair looks in the back U des
perately ill. Atlanta Journal.
If that comet smashes the earth.
at all, we hope it will do it in tlm
for our mall edition. Columbia
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