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THE BEE: OMAHA, "WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1921. TheOma'haBee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY TH BSE PUBLISHING COM PANT MXUQN B. UPDIKE. Publiahar. MEMBER Or THE ASSOCIATED MESS ' taMM Praia, at waist TM Baa U turn. It a. SK"? ""' to tk w fw ptikUcatlta all Mtn dlftxtahw f2 to Mw M oOmtvim orMltad la ttata rpw. u4 alio Usa ay 't " " weueauoa at our aeaeial local i BEE TELEPHONES STSUSA tXS. AT Untie 1000 Far Nlttt Call Atar 10 . avi Mltorltl ttojwrteMoi . ATlaaUa 1U or imi OFFICES OF THE BEE Maw Ofttoai ITth au riraim Coaaatl BM it toou at, t feaia Slot. WS5 ttttk U St Oat-l-Twa 0(fkaai Tark tM Fifik Am. Wuain a total SM Pwl. traaca, 4M But at. Bonara The Bee $ Platform I. Naw Ualoa Paaaaaier Statioa. S. Coatfauad improvemeat of tba Na break Hitawayi, including tha pave snaat i Main Thoroughfare leading lata Omaha with a Brick Surfaca. 3. A short, lawrata Waterway from tha " Cora Bait to tha Atlantic Ocean. 4. Heaao Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. The vitatton World Peace in Prospect. reception accorded the president's in- m Europe and elsewhere is the best possible proof that a conference will soon be held in Washington to determine some of the greater issues on which the peace of the world depends. While Pacific problems arc put' for ward as the main occasion for the conference, reason exists for thinking the agenda will permit the consideration of other topics. Disarmament certainly is to be discussed, and an understand ing may be expected, even if it does not go to the extent of disbanding armies and permanently docking navies. t England and France have taken the matter in the spirit in which it was presented. The fact that Ambassador Harvey had been busily en gaged in preparing for the president's announce ment supports the repeated statement that Mr. Harding was earnest in his promises to the country. Impatient or captious critics of the administration- have shed a great deal of ink in berating the president because he has not al ready settled all the questions that surround the preservation of peace. These are now demand ing that the "shroud of secrecy" be Removed, and that all the details of the preliminaries be given to the public. Such a course is feasible only 6 far as it concerns the United States. Other nations look on these proceedings from a dif ferent angle, though, and are not particularly anxious that everything concerning their affairs be given to the public. Mr. Wilson's "pitiless publicity" campaign broke down at home, and when he went abroad he found himself hope lessly involved in camera with other con sultants. When the senate asked that he give them full information as to what actually took place in the secret conclaves at Paris he found it , necessary to deny the request. Thus Mr. Harding may find himself prohibited by con sideration for other nations from giving out everything that has occurred since March 4, 1921. ; cc-iference is practically assured, at which agreements may be reached that will obviate many of the difficulties and complications that now cause friction between . nations. Conces sions will have to be granted, adjustments reached, and even some sacrifices made, if the end sought is to be achieved. It will be well to remember, however, that England, France, Japan and Italy each has its own aspirations as well, as its problems, and that neither may be inclined to entirely revise its program to square with the aim of the United States. Keeping this in mind will help when the delegates are convened, and the big discussion starts. All are eager for peace, because reconstruction depends on the absence of war, but each will maintain Its national dignity and interest, and only make those concessions as do not impair its inde pendence and national character. Good will coma from that conference, and a better under standing for air the world. ' cultured, and fully acquainted with the higher things of life, while their wives have been care fully nurtured and trained in all the soft way of living, yet they value a home most of all, and set themselves cheerfully to the task of making one on the means at hand. It can be done, and Cupid wins more often than does tfie bank roll " Looks Like a Long Dry Spell. Z "As gently as any sucking dove" Ur Stauffer Rohrer enters on the duties of the office of' prohibition enforcement inspector for Nebraska, This republican appointee comes to Omaha from Hastings with a long and honorable rec ord as a leader in the work of the Anti-Saloon league. Although he announces that no special policies are to be undertaken and that he will he guided entirely by orders from Washington, ytt undoubtedly he will be given enough leeway te show what a thorough believer in prohibition can do. - There is considerable difference between his mental attitude and that of the Wilson appointee who now surrenders the office. The latter ad mittedly lacked sympathy with the strict con struction placed on the eighteenth amendment by temperance advocates, while the former pre sumably is as strongly biased against all the pleadings and theorizing of the so-called lthoraW. ' The conduct of prohibition enforcement under Mr. Rohrer will be watched with interest .throughout the state. There unquestionably is traffic in liquor in Omaha, but it is no worse here in proportion to population than in many other towns in the state, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Rohrer does not limit his enthusiasm t6 the metropolis 4 Cupid and the Pay Roll From the classic precincts of Far Rockaway comet the disheartening news that an engage ment to wed between one of the navy's heroes and the girl of his choice has been broken "amicably." All because, as the girl's mother explains, the hero's pay as an officer in the naau of the. United States is not sufficiently Surge to "support her daughter in the style she has been accustomed to." "Alas for the maiden, alls for the judge 1" When cold cash is set up alongside Cupid's best bid, the cash frequently wins. We have no reason to complain that this young couple decided that the future should be measured in terms of dollars and cents, or the luxuries they might enjoy if wealthy. Most of us dream such dreams, but manage to struggle alang in far less. It is comforting to think that hundreds of young officers in both the army and navy have been wedded and lived happily ertr after on the pay they receive from the gov Mississippi on Parade. It was field day for Mississippi at Washing ton on Monday. Senator Pat Harrison and Representative James William Collier made such demonstrations in the senate and house respectively as must convince any who attends their utterance that they have justified the electorate who sent them to Washington. Sen ator Harrison, his eyes still on the campaign of 1920, when he marched in the fore front of the forlorn hope led by James Middletown Cox, showed how patriotic a thing it was for con gress to vote for whatever Woodrow Wilson de sired, and how reprehensible it is that Warren G. Harding should even approach the senate with suggestions for legislative action, let alone prepare bills and resolutions and have them in troduced by his spokesman. Representative Collier, according .to the headline in our es teemed democratic contemporary, "lashed repub licans in talk on tariff." This, too, is in keeping with good democratic practice; in fact, to be a democrat at all one must always be prepared to lash the republicans, especially on the tariff question. Here, if anywhere, it is "truth forever on the scaffold." Representative Collier hails from Vicks burg, in the Eighth Mississippi district, which district contains five counties and is ac credited with a total population of 177,185, and which cast a combined vote for president in 1920 of 6,842. The First Nebraska district, with seven counties and a total population of 173, 458, is nearest in size to the Mississippi district. Its vote for president in 1920 was 54,767. In other words, it takes eight times as many votes to elect a congressman from Nebraska as it does from Mississippi. Moreover, women were debarred from voting in Mississippi last fall. Most important of all, Mississippi with a, popu lation of 1,790,618 will cast eight votes against the tariff bill, while Nebraska, with 1,296,372, will have only six votes for the measure. Yet Mis sissippi cast but 82,592 votes for president, while Nebraska's total was 382,053. This is the essential difference between a highly progressive, intellectual community, where the citizenry takes active interest in politics and is permitted to vote its preference, and a backward, laggard commonwealth, where an oligarchy controls and the people are indif ferent as to politics, save to prevent "niggers" and women, poor whites and the like from vot ing. Mississippi's parade in congress may please the democratic bosses of the south, but it does not inspire high confidence in the party through out the nation. When the Equator Slips. What is not always recognized is that there are summer days when the middle west lies in the torrid zone, in spite of all the geoographies may say. Umaha is not sunering any more from the heat thaiv are many other cities in North Dakota the thermometer recently regis tered 108 degrees. That a Mexican should suf fer sunstroke in Omaha is proof enough of the tropical nature of Nebraska. How to meet the problem of heat never has been adequately considered. There are some who merely avoid it and ride away to the shade of the pines and the cooling waters of the lakes. Much has been done, however, by means of lighter clothing, sleeping porches and electric fans. Children find relief in shower baths be neath the spray of the hose on the lawn, and even men and women may be seen at dusk in their bathing suits undo such improvised shower baths. Some find relief in change of diet, forgetting the corned beef and eating the cabbage, going meatless in the hope of being heatless. Vegeta bles and fruit are considered more cooling than pastry and meat. The department of health in Detroit has advised housewives to refrain from lighting their ovens and to wash dishes in cold soapy water, scalding them just before they are dried. No doubt there are lots of little dodges that are useful. Some day Americans may be willing to admit that they live in a torrid climate for a part of each year, and build their houses and conduct their lives in recognitfon of the facts. If persons have furnaces to keep them comfort able in winter, why should they not have house hold devices for keeping them cool in summer? A refrigerating or ventilating apparatus such as is used in the theaters may some day be a requisite of every well constructed home. One is almost tempted to pile ice on the furnace grate and turn a fan on it, or to consider the possibilities of a freezing solution in the steam pipes. Successor to Semiramis. Cabled report that Lady Surma, an English educated Mesopotamian, has been made presi dent of Assyria, strikes no distinctly modern note. Lady Surma may be the nrst woman io have the title of president, but back in the dim beginnings of history, tradition says, this same land was ruled by a queen, Semiramis. There is at least a poetical fitness that the newly es tablished nation of Assyria should begin as did the ancieent state, with a woman in power. The capital of the new Assyria is Mosul, just across the Tigris from the ruined walls of ancient Nineveh, a city reputed to have been named after Ninus, the imperial husband of the great queen. The new state, which is under the actual control of Great Britain, includes part of Mesopotamia and North Armenia and adjoins Persia. No doubt its people are rejoiced over the recovery of the semblance of political freedom, but to the world it signifies only an other little state, possibly later to be bitten with the desire for the re-establishment of historic boundaries and expansion to the limits of the conquests of Tiglath-Pileser, who overthrew the ancient kingdom of Damascus and even pene trated to India. Under Assurbanipal the power of Assyria was feared from the frontiers of India to the shores of the Aegean. Constant wars, however, drained the country of its men and money and luxury sapped the foundations of the joint kingdom of Babylon and Assyria. Now, however, this ruined land is merely a pro tectorate, with its glory departed and remem bered mainly as a warning from the past. Carrying Concealed Weapons How Missouri Expects to Deal With Gun Toters in Future. Samuel E. Allcndcr, chief special agent of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway company, writes to Mr. A. D. Bunsen, inspector of the American Surety company, 445 Omaha Na tional Bank building, Omaha, as follows: "My dear Mr. Bunsen: Returning to the city today I find your good letter of July 5, en closing interesting editorial from The Omaha Bee. I have read the editorial with consider able interest. "The argument in the editorial is the same argument we were confronted with in our ef forts to get Missouri to try to do something , in sections of this region at least m the matter ot the pistol menace. It is the goiter may be as prevalent as it is in How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Quaatioaa caacarnlng byg-iana, 'illa tion and pravantioa of diaaaaa, aub mittcd to Dr. Evana by raadare of Tha Baa, will ba anawared peraonaily, aubjact to proper limitation, whara a atampad, addraaaad envalope ia an cloud. Dr. Evana will not make diafnoaia or preecriba for individual diaaaaea. Addreee latter la care of The Baa. Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evam. THE MYSTERIOUS GOITER. The great lakes basin Is one of the A Trust Coercion. Omaha, July H. To the Editor of The Bee: An official circular of the "open ahop" division of the "Employing Prlntera of America," who have had so much to say lately In favor of freedom and Justice, jives the following advice: "Every employer should take the ME .rtwrti 0ir prevJ Individual employment contract a alence, as was shown by the army .i. .,1k , draft. A much more intensive studv i" h.. made by ur. s. Levin indicates that . v. ,n, v,nA membership in any labor union." Surely the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty will deal with the squad of deputy sheriffs who raided that old-fashioned beer entment, These ygyf g men are well educated, gajen in the midst $i, the hcj waye, same argument answered by Governor Hyde in his statement made in signing the bill, which statement you will find in the copy of the Na tional Police Journal sent you some days ago. If the argument that because of the circum stance that the law may be violated by some person who can not qualify tinder the heading 'lawful age and good moral character' going across the border, or writing a mail order house, is intended to be taken seriously, it means that, Oh. well, whats the use of trying to dp any thing in the matter?' This means, of course, don't start anywhere. The governor answered that argument very well by saying, in effect, let's start somewhere. Our country is made up of 48 different states. Missouri is one of the 48 'spots' which could be given a 'bath.' And if the other 47 spots will take this bath, in some form or other, we will get somewhere in the matter of getting at this revolver menace. Nation-wide prohibition was made easy because of the circumstance that almost every state was cither dry or partially dry when we were handed national prohibition. It started in some one spot and spread. ' It can not be expected, of course, to be a cure-all. and bring about the millenium, en abling all law officers to go fishing at the same time, and stay long, close our courts and pris ons, and all of that. But if it just makes it a bit more difficult for these favorite tools of the criminal to be had on the impulse of the mo ment it will help some. A big thing to note in this connection is that the law does not in terfere, materially, with any reputable person. being 21 years of age, getting his pistol or re volver. It does make it more difficult for the other kind of people to get it legally. Keterence the law being evaded, or gotten around, by stepping over the border into some other state, etc., and securing the weapon, one of the big arguments we made on this point was the example of New York state. New York is the only state having had for sev eral years any sort of a law which is in any way effective governing the sale and purchase of pistols and revolvers. It is known commonly as the 'Sullivan law,' named after a member of the legislature who several vears aeo not it through. It is defective, full of blowholes; first, because it has designated justices of the peace all oyer the state as the officers to issue these permits, and an investigation recently developed that some of these justices had been issuing these permits by the bale, to gunmen, and oth ers who peddled them or gave them away. The permit to purchase in New York, as we under stand it, permits the purchaser to carry it con cealed upon his person. These two defects, I know you will agree, are bad. But, in spite of these delects, in spite ot the circumstance that criminals and everybody can step right across into Jersey to a number of important towns in a few minutes, or to the several little states north of New York state and acquire these weapons without a permit; in spite of the cir cumstance that ships are arriving every hour with passengers probably possessing such weapons; in spite of the circumstance that New York City is noted for its eunmen. vet. in soite of this, New York City had in 1919 five mur ders per 100.000 population. That some law. detective as it may be, is better than no law, is shown by the circumstance that in the same year St. Louis, in a state having absolutely no regulation of the matter, had 16.5 murders per 100,000 population. These figures were quoted by the governor in the statement referred. I personally gave the governor a copy of The Spectator, an American' weekly review of in surance, published in New York, for the benefit of insurance people. You probably get this publication in your business. At the end of each year a Dr. Hoffman, who writes for this publication, writes about a two-page article on homicides in American cities, and in his article gives a table of about 31 cities leadine m homicides, and this table showed the figures mentioned above reference New York and St. Louis. It is needless to say that the facilities for stepping out of the state in New York City and getting the weaoon are greater than is the case with reference to any other state in the union. , The explanation of the dealers' great fight made against any start being made on this subject is that they appreciate that the way to prevent a thing growing is to not let it start: as was the case reference to prohibition. They j no not require much intelligence to reason that I it one state adopts a measure, and it works out somewhat successfully, other states arc ikely to adopt it or something similar, and thus make the movement grow. This is the danger the dealers appreciate, and is the explanation ot their strong fight against it getting started in Missouri, or anywnere else. It is certainly gratifying to note the inter est taken in this matter, as indicated in the edi torial you kindly sent me in reference to con gress trying to enact some law governing the snipment oi tnese weapons. Again thanking you for your active interest in this. I am, yours very truly, iAMUtli ALLZNUER, thief Special Agent." Abuses Under Prohibition. Congressman Hawes recentlv exolained clearly and forcefully the attack in the Dendinsr Volstead amendments on the rights of physicians juiiuduiciiidi ngius inai toucn xneir sacrea obligation as healers, that blacken and restrain the whole profession in order to check a few law-breakers. His protest against the out rageous treatment of the medical profession was unanswerable from the standpoint of fundamen tal rights, constitutional law and logic. Mr. Hawes spoke from the general standpoint of right and law. Mr. Van Buren protests not only from the general standpoint, but from the standpoint of a lifelong prohibitionist and an en forcer of the prohibition law. He foresees in the abuses of prohibition legislation and enforce ment not only disrespect for all law, but the utter failure of prohibition. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Cop Favored Prohibition. A newspaper writer in New York tells of ap proaching a big Irish policeman on an East Side street and saying, as he pointed to a vacant store room, whose windows still carried an anti quated saloon sign: "It's a pity to drive those fellows out of business, isn't it?" He thought this kind of approach would bring out why New York policemen don't want to enforce prohibi tion. It did bring out just the opposite. The "co'p" looked at him scornfully. "If you only knew," he said, "how many times I have been called into these houses around here to nab men who were trying to murder their wives and driving half-naked children out into the snow, you'd thank God for putting those places out of business. The government's been pretty free giving personal liberty to the old man; it's time now. to get personal liberty for the kids Continent. . Nextl With the Sims incident, out of the way and the Harvey speech pretty well exhausted, it is almost time for something else to happen to distract our national law makers from .their, busi aesaarMilwauket Sentinel certain cantons of Switzerland, if not more so. Dr. Levin examined all the people, sick and well, old and young, in two townships In Houghton county, Michigan. He has lived there for some time and practically all these people have been known to him a long time. He found 1,783 of his neighbors had some degree of goiter, though few of them suffered from it or even knew they were different from other people. Of the 1,783 known to have goiter 1,243 were born in the country and t the 640 born elsewhere 341 had lived in the county more than a year. Dr. Levin was not very successful in finding the cause of the prev alence of the disease. The water is obtained from, three sources Lake Superior, Gregory springs and private wells. The disease was about equally prevalent In the three groups divided on the basis of their water supply. Amyot has studied the water of Lake Superior. It is not unduly polluted. There are many million people in this country with less goiters drinking water that is more contaminated with sewage .bacteria than the water consumed by this group of people. Amyot found that the waters of Lake Superior had an unusually high chlorine content, but this was due to salt. Levin found in ail the waters as much sodium as there was calcium This is contrary to one explanation dt goiter. All in all Levin saw no evidence that either pollution of water or unusual purity or unusual themical balance was responsible for goitre. Of the persons examined about 45 per cent of the males and about 80 per cent of the females had some enlargement of the thy: roid. This proves that sex has some thing to do with It. It was noticed that during pregnancy goiters en larged. Likewise they enlarged somewhat during menstruation showing further that sex had some thing to do with It. Age was another factor. Forty' seven per cent of the children A years old had it. The percentage increased rapidly up to 10 years of site and almost as rapidly up to 18 years of age. At 18 95 per cent of the girls and 60 per cent of the boys and 89 per cent of the boys and girls taken together had It. After that the percentage In both sexes slowly decreased. Half the men -and wo men 60 had It. In men it was most prevalent in boys at 12, but had fallen off four-fifths in men at 34 In women it kept around 80 per cent for all ages over 10. He divided what he called goiter into f our kinds. The simple en lareements of the eland, without any other symptoms, were mucn tne most freauent in persons younger than 35. Six hundred and eighty two people had that kind. Adenoma cysts more accurately tnyroia tu morsbegan to develop among people at the age of 38 zo nao thl kind. Most of the eoltres that r-auHprl nervousness. . tromblinsr of the hands, loss of flesh, diarrhoea. rnses of thvroid uoisoningr. were m this group. Forty-four were what is called colloid goiters not many of them had the prominent eyes of fruiter. Thus we see that while four-fifths of the people of this region under et veura of aare had enlargement of the thyroid, the majority of them could feel no 111 effects from it. We need more study of goitre in such reeions as Houghton county to ais ommr if there is anything wrong with the climate and conditions of Hvinar there and also to determine just which kinds or goiter are narm ful and why. Scrofula Often Cured. a minted Father writes: "I have iriri in vpnr old. suffer In sr from scrofula, manifested by swelling of her neck. I do not know anything about this sickness." REPLY. Scrofula is tuberculosis of the clnnrts of the neck. Tne most ire- Is drinking milk from (uhorpiilniiK cows. In the older dairy districts around the cities about 25 per cent of the milch cows are tuberculous. The milk can be made safe by pasteurizing it or boit inir it. Tuberculosis of these glands ,Wa nnt. often lead to tuberculosis. Tf the tonsils and teeth are put in order and the drinking of infected milk is stopped most cases of scrofu la can be cured wunout operation. Tha elands should be treated with light. Tuberculin is given hypo dermically. Good feeding and plenty nf rest, in the oDen air helps. Some cases need to be operated on. Typhoid on the Wane. H. H. F. writes: "Will yon kind iv khv whether or not typhoid fever. taken the country over, is on the wane or is gaining in number of cases treated annually.' REPLY. Tvnhoid fever is on the wane. In the large cities it is down to about one-tenth the figure or 10 years ago. In the rural districts it is not one half as prevalent as it was about the same period. It is yielding less in the cities and towns with 15.000 and less, but they are getting in line also. The Spice of Life. Philadelphia hat adopted tha daylisht aaving plan, doubtleaa for lust aummer. Hot Sprinrs Sentinel-Record.- Pupil (to teacher) "I am indebted to you for all that I know." Teacher "Don't mention it; it a a mere trifle." Warwick Life. Tou don't know how nervous I was whn I propoaed to you." "Tou don't know how nervoua T whs until you did." Tha American Legion Weekly. "Say, waiter, la this an incubator Chicken? It tastes like it." "I don't know, air." "It must be. Any chicken that has had a mother could never (et ai tough as this one ia." Wampus. "To think that acting should ever come to this!" "To what?" "Just now I heard a moving-picture atar refer to the stage as 'the apeakiea.' " Youngstown Telegram. "I will put ns money in this campaign, and am obligated to no one, but If nomi nated and elected will be tha Jailer of all tha people." From the campaign an nouncement of a candidate for Jailer of Jerry County, Kentucky. Professor (in the middle of a Joke) "Have I aver told tha class thla ona be fore ?" Class (In a chorus) 'Tea." Professor (proceeding) "Qoodl Tou will probably understand It thla time." Punch Bowl. "I saw tha cutest little hat this after noon." "Pld you buy It?" "Not yat. I've got to pick out a more expenstv one tor my husband to refuse to buy so I can compromise on this one." That sort of restraint of liberty is aa vicious and complete as if the end were accomplished by threats of violence. The reason it Is per mitted by government is because the law relating to property rights, established centuries ago when pro duction was largely an individual matter and no one could force an other to work for him through fear of want, has not kept pace with the progress of civilisation which . has made production largely a publlo matter. The private trustification of present-day production, without organised labor to countor-balance it, would have labor very much at its mercy. Contracts like the above remind us of sailors finding a man drowning and charging him a hold up price for saving his life. Some employers try to justify this duress by alleging that labor alsq has become generally oommonized, and that they have as much right to diotate the terms of employment a 3 labor has itself. But the cases are not parallel. The laborer has the inalienable right to his own la bor, while the capitalist has only the legal, not the inalienable, right of private ownership of the present day means of production. The law should be made for the service of man, not man for the service of the law; ana this Is precisely what the highest courts have recently held in sustaining state competl tlon in business. WILLIS HUDSPETH. Fanners Living At Central City Boost Milk Fund The Bee Puree for Helpless Babies Goes Over $800 Mark as Result So in America nizatlon Problem Agriculture. Omaha, July 11. To the Editor of The Bee: The census returns of foreign-born farmers in the United States which is just published pre sents some reassuring information to those anxious souls who are beset with fear for the future of this great country. The nrst fact which . will engage the attention is that the old er generation of land-hungry Euro peans who were attracted to the United States by the lure of free homesteads during the last half ot the 19th century is fast fading away. So that by the 1920 census we find we have lost 13.2 per cent of for eign-born farmers in the last 10 years. Furthermore, the total of foreign- born farmers is only 9 per cent of the men engaged in agriculture. This is a percentage all too small to constitute a formidable Ameri canization problem. When we further analyze the problem and find that 41.2 per cent of all foreign-born farmers are British brothers in blood to the ultra American, and Scandinavians who Americanize over night into pseudo George Washingtons, your Americanization problem on the farms dwindles into insignificance. One may not easily forget the passionate zeal of some who insist on prompt Americanization of German-born citizens, and many of the Germans are farmers. But. withal. the German-born farmers, including Austrians, constitute only 2.6 per cent of the farminsr pooulatlon. Doubtless should the German-born farmers realize they are nationally such a drop In the bucket the? would the more gracefully forget the fatherland! But it is the mis fortune of many foreign born that an alien language compels settle ment in colonies, and the narrow association of a colony gives an exaggerated idea . of strength and importance to those so situated. Hence, the tenacity with which t few neighborhoods cling to old world customs. But a German 2.6 per cent of the farming population can by no stretch of the imagination be called an Americanization prob lem. These census figures dispose of an idea that constituted more or less a bogy of the past generation. Agrl culturally considered thera is no problem of Americanization of for eign-born farmers. This is not to say, however, that a big share of the approximately 6,000,000 American- born farmers do not need a good deal of Americanization. There is long, long road winding from Plymouth rock to Portland. And there are a lot of ns who have come hurriedly along the way without stopping to rest in the shadow of Bunker Hill monument. H. F. M'INTOSH. Manager Agricultural Bureau of Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Farmers living in the vicinity of Central City, Ncd., made a collection of $14.67 for The Bee's milk and ice fund for poor kiddies. Mr. and Mrs. Frank King took charge of the money and sent it to The Bee with a pleasant little note of good wishes for the little folk to aid whom the fund is intended. Many quarts of milk and chunks of ice to keep it cool these hot days Omaha's poor kiddies will owe to the generous farmers. The Visiting Nurses' association administers the fund, which today goes over the $800-mark. Contributions are listed as follows: Previously acknowledged IT61.81 A friend o.w Mrs. J. H. Morrison, Superior, Neb. 6.00 Frank V. King, Central City W. M. Stanford B.OO R. J. Dinning 8.00 Wlllard C. Blabaugh S.OO Total 8801.64 Omaha Lions Plan Visit Of 50 Delegates in City The Omaha Den of Lions decided to call it a season at their meeting Tuesday noon at the Rome hotel and voted to discontinue regular meet ings until August 30. During the meeting plans for en tertaining the 50 or more delegates to the national convention at Oak were made. The delegates will ar- rive in Omaha over the Burlington railroad at 8:10. They will be met by the Omaha Lions in automobiles. Mayor Endorses Concert Club Campaign for Muny Music Endorsement of the City Concert club as a factor in education and recreation for Omaha is made by Mayor James C. Dahlman in urging Omahans to subscribe $5,000 for municipal music. Mayor Dahlman says that an appropriation cannot be made at present but with the grant ing of, free use of the Auditorium for the City Concert club next sea son the cause will be aided. Music lovers can show how much they de sire municipal music by raising the fund needed to engage the musi cians, he avers. The fund would make possible the continuation of free concerts next winter and band concerls tifls sum mer. It is to be raised through a club membership fee of $1 and per sonal contributions. llllll!lllllllllllillllllllllllllllMIIIIIIMlllllllllllll!lllf Indian Grill Room Pure foods put into complete 75c luncheon and a substantial $1.25 dinner each day at the Indian Grill Room are as good as health insurance. Animated entertain ment by the Twen tieth Century Society quintette. IS were crying for more production and low wages and long hours to retain prosperity; now we have over production and high, wages as the cause for no work and low wages. "O consistency, thou art a Jewel." "O honesty, where is thy virtue." Tours for greater light, Ex-soldier, PAUL D. SALLE E. P, S.: Just a working stiff, that's all. At jlc who loves the Beautiful does not, cannot, hesitate at it cost. XT llicjHesf -priced j?iano in the world, the- it learnt S mnffat is also thejnostecan The cut in Pianos and Player Pianos made by this house during our sale recently continues on all unsold instruments. There is the Meldorf Player at : . $395 The Dunbar Piano at. .275 On $2.50 and $3.50 Weekly Payments The other Pianos and Players (ten additional makes) are cut to fit the times some new Grand Pianos as low as $675; some Uprights, nearly new, as low as $160, $180, $190, $200 and $225. Easy payments. 1513-15 DOUGLAS STREET The Art and Music Store iiiliil!;ii!liili:liili!liiliiliiliilliliiliiijiililiiliii::nuiii:ii!i Causes for Crime. Omaha, July 11. To the Editor of The Bee: The crowing disre spect for the law is your summing up of the cause of crime. Tou meet the case at a single point, with a legal mind, disregarding; the effect of the law; you assume the law should not be violated because It Is the law. Our lawmakera are only human, so the law Is not divine. However. I nnd as a rule all reo- ple believe in the sanctity of the law ana will not break the law one time in 10 if they get fair nlav. Disrespect for the law is not the cause of crime, but the result of conditions that make it imDossible for one to earn an existence within the law. forcing men to use any avenue available to keep body and soul together. A man with courage and self-re spect will not submit to privation to the point of a physical, mental and moral breakdown before he takes the one last chance. How can men respect the law when we see strong financial groups getting favors and special privileges that further en trench their Interests. In naming the cause of crime. I would name the following:: (1) Work at low wages, high prices. (Z) Unemployment. (3) High tariff, with no attempt to adjust finance or stabilize prices. (4) Legislation favoring a sales tax and favoring a reduction of in come and excess profit tax. (a) Enormous appropriations to the army and navy with no assist ance given to agriculture, education and public improvement. (6) Officially ignoring a reauest for a fair adjustment in labor dis putes and helping to defeat labor's attempt to a fair settlement. (7) Defeating the soldiers bonus bill and awarding railroads millions of dollars and increasing freight and passenger rates. (8) Officeholders awarding them selves, their firms and friends city, state and government contracts at exorbitant prices. (9) Violations of nominations, elections and pledges by candidates and .political parties. (10) Making it illegal for a man to have a pint of whisky in his home or pocket and making it legal for those who can afford wine cellars leaded with capacity to have theirs. (11) Our intellectual giants, bankers and financiers and colos sal generals of, industry a, year ago i Established in 1891 and showing a steady growth for thirty years, with present resources of $17,500,000.00 Is the Record of THE CONSERVATIVE During this period thousands of Omaha people have availed themselves of the safety and the service of this strong institution. Dividends at a rate consistent with safety have been distributed twice every year since organization. You are invited to become identified with us. or mjJAi&Xairtiuti mmm s -.i.S . -, s o c i a.t ton. OFFICERS PAUL W. KUHNS, Free. J. A. LYONS. Sec. E. A. BA1RO. Vic Prea. J. H. M'MILLAN, Treaa. foarnov With 7,702 people, hat a state nCiMICJ" ,tate hogpital for tubercular, stat . 1 1 1 ! I - I L normal, state indus trial school, military academy: also a nublic lake covering 48 acre. Kearney' per capita wealth is $1,187.50. A wide-awake city. Tha WELLINGTON INN ia a wide-awake hotel. No af fort ia spared to make you comfortable. You ahould aae the aacond floor parlor, with ita thick carpets, eaty chair and oft light. Not Our Information Bureau attandanta don't bark at you thay'ra glad to antwer all your quattion. Wellington Inn OMAHA FARNAM AT 18TH 150 Restful Rooms at Reasonable Rates Detached Baths, $1.50 to $2.00; Private Bath, $2.50 to $3.00)