THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921,
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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. CeatisatMl imprvHiat of tbe Ne
braska Hifhwaye, including tk pave
ment ef MaJa Tberougbfaree .sling
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A short, lowrato Waterway from tho
Cora Bolt to tho Atlantic Oraaa.
4. Homo Rulo Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Soldier Bonus Postponed.
Great disappointment will be felt by many,
, perhaps most, of the former service men, at the
; action of the senate in recommitting the soldier
bonus bill. These men had anticipated the early
passage of the measure, which would have given
them a small, sum of cash or have arranged for
certain credits that they might enjoy, as "ad.
justed compensation" for their service while in
the army. Many of these men are out of work
and need the money, and as they feel it is due
them, their complaint will be the more bitter.
Admitting the force of these statements, it is yet
true that the reasons the president gave for post
poning the payment are cogent and compelling.
The financial situation will not permit of the
action at this time. However willing Americans
are to grant the bonus to the soldiers, means for
payment are not available, and the effort Would
be made only at the cost of further disarrange
nient of - an already sadly confused industrial
condition. 'What the soldier needs more than
anything right at this time is an opportunity to
employ his ability, whatever it may be, so that
he may earn a living for himself and those de
pendent upon him. Such opportunity will come
only with the restoration of business activity,
and this, would be further put off by the in
creasing of the tax burden and lowering of the
government credit. ' ;
The men who went to war made great sac
rifices, but so also did the majority of those
who remained at home. It is a popular thing to
refer to the "20,000 millionaires" created by the
war; profiteering is defenseless and not to be
apologized for, yet it was not alone the soldier
who suffered because of the rapacious greed of
a few. Right now everybody is making sacri
fices. Artificial prosperity incident to the in
flation of money and credit has disappeared, and
more people are facing ruin than were made
wealthy by the high prices of the last three
years.
If an active flow of life through the arteries
of commerce could be incited by the passage of
a law, adversity would never trouble any nation.
Xo act of congress will revive business, how-'
ever, aithpugh the effect of one may be to re
tard it Such an act would be to "add a huge
sum to the government obligation," necessarily
to be. taken from the resources of the nation,
and consequently increasing the embarrassment
of taxpayers already burdened to the limit. Sal
vation must come through other means than
legislation. Soldiers who sought relief from the
federal treasury are asked to postpone their
claims and share with others until a better day
has dawned.
with men, yet they have not lost their femininity
Woman still functions as the center of the
home, and her experience in business and politics
has only served to widen her opportunities and
extend her influence for good.
Shifting Sands of Opinion.
Consistency no doubt is a beautiful trait, but
it sometimes is carried to the extremity of stub
bornness. Not so much nowadays, perhaps, as
in other times when it was customary to "fight
it out on this line if it takes all summer." Lack
of consistency, then, may indicate a willingness
to adjust opinions to changing conditions and a
praiseworthy inclination to strike an average of
compromise for the sake of general peace and
good.
Thick and thin supporters of hard and fast
doctrines are rare these days. One notices this
in the periodical press even as much as among
the politicians. There is, for instance, that little
magazine, the Freeman, which started out to be
very radical, and yet has reached a point of
sweet reason where it actually defends the pack
ers and criticizes government ownership of the
merchant piarine. Then there is the Weekly
Review, which began as a frankly reactionary
and hidebound organ of the eternal Tightness of
whatever is. It is now singing hymns of
pacifism and assailing the time-honored theories
of the tariff. The Nation, which some , have
called pro-German, is declaring that the French
African "horror on the Rhine" does not exist,
and a spectacle also is afforded by the Balti
more Sun, a cornerstone1 of democratic journal
ism, contributing $500 to the defense fund of
the socialistic New York Call.
These are new times indeed, and new meth
ods. Insofar as the tendency represents a de
parture from bigotry and a realization that there
are two sides to every question, the net result
will be a gain. However, where the spirit of
time-serving enters and . a disposition arises to
say whatever one thinks the people would like
to hear, whether it is right or not, something
of value will be lost.
The Free Employment Bureau.
One of the big problems of any period of in
dustrial depression is to get the jobless man
onto the manless job. Omaha is in a fair way'
to solve this question, for it has three free em
ployment bureaus where service is given without
cost to either the man looking for work or the
employer looking for help, of any kind. One of
these is at the city hall, maintained by the city
in connection with its welfare work; another is
at the court house, kept lip by ;the American
Legion, and the third is located in the Grain
Exchange building, under direction of the
Omaha Business Men's association. In addition
to this, the state has an agent in the city, whose
principal business is to acquaint business men
and prospective employers with the fact that
these agencies do exist, and to urge them to
send there when in need of help. Progress is
being made, and while these agencies are not
dispelling altogether the great burden of unem
ployment, they arc bringing men and work to
gether at a rate that is helping wholly to justify
the maintenance of the plants. The service is
paid for by the public, and it should" be taken
advantage of by men who are looking for work
and by others who are seeking for help at any
time.
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The Home Still Stands.
Recognition of the rights of women has gone
far enough in America to demonstrate that the
old-fashioned fears of the degradation of the sex
were not well grounded. The unsexing of
woman, the loss of the mother instinct and
break-up of the home have not put in their pre
dicted appearance. In its beginnings, the wo
man's rights movement took on an eccentric
character which aroused considerable fear. Not
only were short hair and the bloomer costume
adopted as a sign of intellectual liberty by some
of the advocates of the movement in the 1850s,
but some of the most enthusiastic agitators
among the women adopted a doctrine of free
love and the abolition of marriage as a bar to
human progress and the equality of the sexes.
Such .doctrines are given little expression
and less hearing these days. In Wisconsin a
law has just been enacted extending every civil
right to women that is given to male citizens,
and yet who sees in this final establishment of
legal equality anything that looks like a menace?
A legislator is quoted as -saying that the law
now gives women the right to "wear trousers
and stand on the street corners chewing
tobacco," but not even he could hae taken that
contingency seriously. Modern women are not
ashamed of their sex nor do they attempt to
imitate men. Although the industrial revolu
tion has foced many to conrpetecmornically
Mexico Coming Out of ; Disorder.
Several signs indicate the restoration of rea
son in Mexico. One of these is an invitation to
countries having claims for injuries inflicted on
their nationals in Mexico during the years of re
volt to send delegates to a conference at which
reparation will be discussed. . Obregon expresses
himself as ready to settle in full all just claims
against his country. Another unmistakable
portent is the refusal of the Mexican senate to
vote an expression of gratitude and thanks to
Hon. Robert Marion LaFollette for his services
in preventing an invasion by the United States.
The Mexicans voice the opinion that the senator
from Wisconsin was moved by a desire to ful
minate a little politics rather than by a,ny sincere
wish of being helpful to a neighboring land. In
view of the fact that whatever Senator La Follette
may or may not say, the policy of the United
States toward Mexico is friendly and will re
main so. A third sign of encouragement is that
activity in the Tampico oil field is being re
newed. Whatever of cause for the cessation of
work may have been, they are now seemingly
adjusted. President Obregon appears to be over
coming not only the mountain of difficulty he
faced when he succeeded Carranza, but all the
obstacles his'enemies can throw in his way. If
he does succeed in getting his country on art
orderly footing again, he will deserve to be put
in the same lisfwith Juarez and Diaz as a savior
of his nation.
Omaha's Glad Eye.
Is there a man in Omaha who has never
attended one of those feats of mirth, music, hot
dogs and near-beer at the den of Ak-Sar-Ben?
Answer, comes rushing in, unanimous as the
election returns .in Mississippi; "There is not."
No reason exists, then, for there not being more
knights of. Samson each year, and the hustling
committee that is out to solicit members ought
to have an easy, task.
When guests come to the city, a visit to the
Monday night show at the den is the pleasant
est memory they take away. It is there that
the keys of the city are presented to strangers
and it is to this spot that pilgrimages are made
from towns far and near in Iowa and Nebraska.
Newspapers all over the state are discussing the
Ak-Sar-Ben festivities and the editors are look
ing forward with delight to being entertained at
the den show during their convention.
Omaha receives more advertising from Ak-Sar-Ben
than Irom any other source and it is
the best sort of investment, both for fun and for
business. The glad eye and the welcoming hand
are found at the den, where a spirit of hospitality
is bred that permeates the whole city. But
everyone knows about Ak-Sar-Ben, and the
membership committee surely will not find many
who pull back' and refuse to join.
A fearful mother complains that children are
carrying more or less deadly ice picks with
them on their visits to the rhuny ice stations,
risking an accident for the sake of being able
to chip off a piece of ice to suck on the way
home. Why not call for some one to invent
a chipping instrument a little less like a stiletto?
If Kermit Gassoway ever sneaks aboard an
old-fashioned mustang off the Wyoming range
he may have some of his uncontrollable 'love for
horses bucked out of him. '
The call from the Women's Christian Tem
perance union for new vigilance in defense of
prohibition affords a good answer to the wet
paraders.
If the Great Lakes waterway will move
Omaha any nearer the ocean that would be fine
in summer. . "
Amundson's schooner may have been found,
but what good will it do him he can't fill it
here. . ; ,
Ambassador Harvey may drive a Ford, but
it is hitting on all four cylinders.
Spanked Into Shape.
Out of what was once the wildest and wool
iest part of the west comes a strange story.
About a year ago, it will be remembered, the
town of Jackson, Wyo., came under petticoat
government The women, newly enfranchised,
won all the offices. Now there has just been a
special election to decide the question of divid
ing Lincoln county. The result shows the. di
visfcnist have won by 700 majority, and the
town of Jackson has been chosen as the county
seat for the new Teton county. This new county
takes in much of the famous Jackson's Hole
country, once the resort of the bad men of the
old west The gentle hand that rocks the cradle
may govern where the trigger-finger was once
-supremt.vPhiladelphia Record.
Personal Touch in Industry
President Harding's Views on
Right Relationship Expounded.
(From the Boston Transcript.)
Personnel, the official publication of the In
dustrial Relations association, makes public in
a recent issue an interesting letter from i'resi'
dent Harding. "I am highly gratified," writes
the president, "to see an organization such as
yours devoting itself to the spread of more
friendly relations between employers and the
employed. It is hard to exaggerate the impor
tance of this better feeling of industry. In a
period of readjustment such as this, it is all the
more important that we should work out onr
problems m harmony together. A closer con
tact, a better understanding between managers
and men, is one of the first essentials to a
prompt return to prosperity.
During the last few years the growing need
of industry for especially trained men to assist
management in the handling of employment
matters has been recognized quite generally
throughout the country. There is hardly a big
plant today that is without its personal depart
ment" and "personal director," or, as he is often
called, "administrator of industrial relations."
During the present period of depression, this
kind of service has necessarily been somewhat
curtailed, and personnel workers,, great and
small, have been laid off along with the workers
in the factory, office and shop. With commend
able zeal to keep their useful calling in the public
mind, the officers of the Industrial Relations
associations have enlisted the president of the
United States in an innocent, and, it is to be
hoped, effective advertising campaign.
The secretary of labor, Mr. Davis, has joined
his chief in the symposium published in Per
sonnel. ."This is a field," he writes, "in which
there cannot be too many workers." He holds
out some encouragement to those who paint a
black picture of the industrial situation: Con
ditions between the thousands of employers,"
continues Secretary Davis, "in our country and
their millions of employes, are, I believe, better
than we suppose. The press is filled daily with
news of disputes and. deadlocks. . Nothing is
heard ' of the quiet communities where entire
agreement and harmony prevail. The conse
quence is that we get a distorted view' of the
facts. The disputes come to be regarded as the
rule and not the exception."
A few months ago, when the weight of the
depression was first severely felt in the ranks
of industrial relations workers, the cry went up
in some quarters that employers as a whole
were taking the first opportunity to scrap activi
ties of this kind. But careful inquiry since
made has developed the fact that this is not
the case. In general it is true that where per
sonnel activities have been reduced, the reduc
tion has paralleled reduction in forces through
out the company. In certain instances, too am
bitious personnel and betterment work has been
entirely thrown overboard; the structure had
grown too rapidly and could not endure in the
storm. The Boston headquarters office of a
large group of textile mills has increased its
personnel work during the. last nine months.
and plans are in process for still further develop
ments when times permit. The magazines and
special publications devoted to this field show
weekly and monthly evidence of the keenness
with which new methods are being discussed and
old ones tried out or discarded.
'Industrial relationship, to use once more the
familiar but yet not clearly defined term, has
evidently come to stay. President Grace of the
Bethlehem bteel company contributes this evi
dence to the symposium led by the president
of the United States: ". . . ' I am verv glad
to say that the industrial relations activities
which we have carried on have been of much
benefit in establishing a better relationship be
tween the management arid the employes. We
have organized departments, in both our. ad
ministrative offices and individual plants, to carry
on this work in the most effective manner, and
we regard the administration ofthis policy with
equal importance to that of any other important
branch of our business."
Mr. L. P. Alford, the editor of Management
Engineering, puts the case for industrial rela
tions work at any time and in all times on the
ground that, "where properly administered, it
improves and increases production by maintain
ing the labor, and so has an economic justifica
tion. It will live." Among the representatives
of large industrial concerns contributim? to the
symposium, none counsels cutting it down at
this or any other time. An officer of the Jeffrey
Manuiacturing company ot L-oiumous states un
equivocally: "Our personal relations work is
constantly increasing in its strength and in
fluence. We have always believed it to be one
ot the most fundamental factors in any industrial
enterprise; consequently we could not consist
ently let up during times of depression. If
personal work Ls properly conceived and inau
gurated it will stand the test of dull times. We
consider it as essential an agency as any other
part of industry." Another contributor sums up
the whole situation in the following words of
Poor Richard:
"He that hath a trade hath an estate, and
he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit
and honor, but then the trade must be worked,
at and the calling followed, or neither the
estate nor the office will enable us to pay our
taxes."
President Harding and Secretary Davis have
acted wisely and with vision in throwing the
influence of .the administration thus early on
the side of an industrial relationship in which the
human element, personal touch, "team-work"
call it "what you will will again prove the factor
that it was in the earlier days of our national
life. .
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS '
Questions concerning hygiene, sanitation and prevention of disease, submitted
to Dr. Evans by readers of The Bee, will be answered personally, aubjeet to
proper limitation, where a stamped addressed envelope la enclosed. Dr Evans
will not make diaf nosia or prescribe for Individual diseasss. Address Utters
in care ot ihe Bee.
"WHO'S LOONY NOW?"
Two questions were asked tho
other day: v
"Why is everybody reading 'Main
Street?" "
"What is the explanation of Carol
Kennicott, the character who thinks
in print In 'Main Street?'"
The first is not directly related to
mental health. In consequence we
assume that it is based on something
that is substantially a fact namely,
that everybody is reading "Main
Street," and that, therefore, we are
justified in discussing the second
question.
Most of us who read "Main
Street" will agree that there was
something the matter with Carol
Kennicott. They will agree that she
was "wrong in the garret ;" but. how
and why? Mr. Friend Spalding,
who lends me worth while books,
says of Carol: "O, she's a nut.
She's crazy. She did not know half
as much as the other folks on Main
street, but she was such an egotistic
fool that she never knew It."
Spalding thinks the character
Lewis should have had think In
print was Will Kennicott. He was
worth while and his thoughts would
have been wholesome. Well, how
about It? Was Carol crazy? No.
Was she a nut? That depends on
what you call a nut. She was a day
dreamer and the ills that she pulled
down on herself and all those whose
lives she touched were the result of
this very bad mental habit. She
came by it naturally. The narrative
tells us nothing of her mother ex
cept that she died when Carol was
9 years old. But her father was a
day dreamer beyond question. The
older sister probably was much
more wholesome minded, since she
kept out of all Carol's mental
messes. It is logical, therefore, that
the older sister inherited her men
tal makeup from her mother, while
Carol got hers from her father.
The story tells of the smiling and
shabby Mankato judge, learned, but
a failure, retiring from the bench
when Carol was 11 and dying when
she was 13. . More than once her
mind runs back to the fairy tales
told her by her father. His imagin
ings, his dreams, his fantasies, col
ored her life and her memory ran
back to the tamltab, the skitmangy,
and other entrancng fairy charac
ters which her father conjured up
for her as a child.
But, regardless of how she came
by it, Carol was a day dreamer. She
was a dreamer as a child when she
stood on the hills of Mankato. The
story opens with Carol a schoolgirl
day dreamer on the St. Paul hills
as she looked out over the Missis
sippi. Her dreams shaped her col
lege work and her work of training
following her college days. Partly
as the result of inheritance and
partly as the result of indulgence
in pleasure provoking had mental
habits, she was unfitted for the
realities of life.
When she struck the drab realt-
tles of Main street she fell back on
her day dreams just as a drug ad
dict uses his drug to escape unpleas
antness. Hence the reform spasms
of Carol, her easy fatigue, her lack
of persistence, her shifting from one
thing to another, her failure to fit
in, her discontent, her general mis
ery and the unhappiness and failure
with which she threatened her hus
band. : Probably her selfish disre
gard of the rights of her husband
and her child was the Indirect result
of the same cause. Fortunately Will
had an abiding philosophy which
saved both Carol and himself.
Sinclair Lewis would have done
society more good without engaging
it less had he added to tnat mree
quarter page prefatory explanatory
statement a diagnosis of Carol Ken
nicott made by a psycniainst. aa
he done so some folks would have
understood her better.
Ancient of Scourges.
A.M. Z. writes: "1. Would you
please state what are the first symp
toms of leprosy? 2. Also, what is
supposed to be the cause of lep
rosy?" .
v ItEPLY.
1. Most cases start as red patches
on the face, knees or arms. These
are sensitive. When this stage
passes there ls left a white patch in
which nothing can be felt, it is an
esthetic. Or there are multiple sen
sitive, painful patches accompanied
by blisters on the arms or legs. In
most cases the diagnosis is not made
until the disease is somewhat ad
vanced. 2. Tho leprosy bacillus.
Postal Savings Banks.
Sutton, Neb. "July 10. To tho
Kditor of the Bee: Suppose a per
son deposited $100 at the post office
on December 1, 1920, and withdrew
it December 31, 1921. He would
receive no interest on this deposit,
although it had remained nearly 13
months. Why? Because-he will re
ceive interest only for a full year's
deposit, and the month of deposit
fs not counted. Then for a full year
of 365 days he will receive only 2
per cent. This money ls deposited
with banks which pay 26 per cent
interest. On an average the govern
ment pays less than 1 V4 Pr cent. It
made a profit of $1,720,000 on de
posits of 181,000,000 last year. The
foregoing is the substance of Post
master General Hays' report. What
the banks make out of this, however,
he does not disclose. The postal sav
ings banks were put into operation
in 1910. In the fiscal year ending
July 1, 1921, there were 12,823 post
offices authorized to receive depos
its, but- last year there were only
6,314. while the' depositors had
doubled during the same time. Who
is at fault? Your lawmakers at
Washington. They do not legislate
for the benefit of the common peo
ple unless driven to it. The postal
savings bank and the parcel post law
a few "years later were passed with
the purpose of satisfying the radi
cals and doing as little as possible for
the people. Now comes Postmaster
General Hays with - the commend
able proposition to at least Improve
the system. He would pay 3 instead
of 2 per cent and pay for a fraction
of a year. He would increase the
postoffice depositors from 6,300 to
50,000. Well and good as far as it
goes. Perhaps that is as far as he
dare venture at this time. More
might be accomplished. In Canada,
New Zealand and elsewhere deposi
tors receive 4 per cent, and at cer
tain offices a regular banking busi
ness is being done in limited
amounts.
Some thought last year that Will
Hays might be classified with Mark.
Hanna and others of unsavory mem
ory, but it gives us pleasure to give
credit where it is due. Perhaps he
will tackle the parcel post next and
make it of real use to the common
people as well as for. the large de
partment stores. A. G. GROH.
Views of Teuton
Youth
(Charlee J. Kosebault. in the New York
Times.)
The reaction of the German youth
to present conditions tends in two
directions to the reforming of an
aristocratic leadership and to a
union of workers and employers for
the redemption of the nation by in
tensified production. Both agree in
condemning the past and in scoffing
at the present control.
The former believes in the mon
archical state, but has no desire to
restore the kaiser. The latter has
thrown all the old cards into the
waste basket and calls for a new
deck and a new deal. His purpose
is to bring together all those who
are determined to work for a new
Germany, to instill new courage and
new zeal into the masses and to
rouse them to their utmost endeav
ors by the promise of a better fu
ture. He sees in the compromise be
tween the big employers and the
workers the seed for future develop
ment. His purpose is definitely to bring
together the workers of town and
country, so that they may decide tho
final compromise with the employ
er. His whole inspiration lies in a
burning desire to revive the German
people and his faith is that this can
be done by realizing that they are a
nation of workers.
The young monarchist is not so
far from the same thought, only he
is an individualist, and is convinced
that the impulse must come from
above and not below.
An aristocracy formed of selected
individuals, who will devote them
selves entirely to the welfare of the
nation, who snail nave no otner
task than that, is the basis of his
theory. It presupposes an idealistic
world in which those chosen for
leadership shall be superior to the
temptation of using their power for
personal ends.
It would be' foolish to suppose
that the German youth thinks the
peace of Versailles a just one, or is
convinced that its eldera brought on
a world war. Very likely it will
acquiesce in the terms of peace, for
there is no other way out. In the
turning of the young Germans from
the works of their elders they may
have 'discarded also the psychology
which upset the world.
SAID IN JEST.
"Ethel, een't you tell us the shape at
the world)" asked teacher, dear, encour
agingly. "Teesum; It's In a pretty bad shape
lust now," replied the precocious child,
who had heard her daddy aay a fe
things at home. Florida Union,
A Voice In the Wlldedrneaa (I. ., the'
United Slates Senate) "How can we pre.
vent another greet war? Why. gentlemen
of the senate, only In the same way In
which all the Itreat ware of hlaiory have
been prevented by being thoroughly pre. ,
pared!" Judge.
' The original one-way traffic Is along
the road paved with rood Intentions.
Life.
New car?"
new top." Lsfsyetts
"Hello, old top.
"No I Old car.
Lyrs.
"When T married you I thuht you
were an angel."
It's quite plain you did. Tou thought
I could manage without either clothea or
hata." Karlkaturen (Chrlstlanla).
Visitor (In early morning after week
end, to chauffeur) "Don't, let me miss
my train." ,
Chauffeur "No danger, sir. Mlseu.
aald If 1 did, lt'd cost me my Job. Lire
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Sic 'Em, Dawes!
The "watchdog of the treasury."
who used to -figure so prominently
in public comment, has ' been re
stored to popular attention. Wash
ington Star.
Cause - and Effect.
Nine out of 10 old bachelors never
learned to waltz Osborne County
(Kan.) Farmer.
mcxsiciarv.
vmo seeks ie ideal
piano finds &at die
iferm&fptlm
qives "him the yupreme
artistic pleasure and
satfafactiorv he crave.
finest priced .
uignesc praisea
"BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK YOli
LV. Nicholas Oil Company
The cut in Pianos and Player Piano
made by this house during our sale
recently continues on all unsold
instruments.
There i 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
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Trains Run By Spirits
The above headline sounds like the report of J
a dream by bir Uliver or Mr Lonan, but there is
nothing supernatural about it. Ihe spirits m
the case are those that, not being allowed to
drink them, we at least may use them for fuel.
cut down in brazil they have taken a wider
view of alcohol's fuel possibilities, probably for
the reason that the big republic astride the
Amazon river is very short of coal and very
long on the many forms of vegetation from
which alcohol is easily and cheaply manufac
tured. And Brazil, as matters stand, is seriously
considering the installation of the alcohol-burning
system on locomotives serving 800 miles of
line adjacent to the land's eighty modern cane
sugar factories.
We in New Orleans, who have seen the
mushroom-like growth of the great industrial
alcohol plant and who recognize that the waste
material from sugar, manufacture is the raw ma
terial for that great plant, will not be surprised
at the action of the Brazilian sugar men in
proposing to save the big coal bill on their loco
motives by making their own alcohol from the
stuff that has been refuse on their hands.
In the open market such alcohol is now sell
ing in the Brazil market at 22 cents a gallon,
but as that price includes several intermediate
profits it is clear that when the manufacturers
use the stuff themselves it will show a book
keeping value far and away less than 22 cents
possibly not half that. At such a price the fuel
is expected to make a distinct savins; over coal
and it, of course, will cause a collateral saving
in labor, because all the stoking will be done by
a twist of the engineer's wrist. New Orleans
Times-Picayune.
Restoration Service.
General Pershing's first act as chief of staff
was to order all army officers in touch with ex
service ; men to aid their former comrades in
every possible way in getting their dues from
the government. It was a sensible and humane
direction, and besides ,has the merit of prac
ticability. An ounce of help to a suffering ex-
service man is worth a pound of rhetoric New
xork Herald.
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"Three Cheers for
'ROYAl Week"
That is what more .than one mother and father. say about "Royal" Week, and
the children are calling for a Royal Week every week, and they can have it, for
" Royal " Week opened up an entirely new appreciation of good home baking.
The New, Royal Cook Book which was given away by the thousands showed
how to save money, work and waste, by baking at home with
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Absolutely Pure
But, best of all, it showed how to make your baking wholesome not merely
delicious, but really wholesome. 'Any baking powder will raise a cake, but it
takes Royal to give it that fine, tender, glorious texture that makes home baking
supreme.
The New Royal Cook Book Free
Your grocer may have a few copies of the New Royal Cook Book left if so he
will give you one with a purchase of Royal Baking Powder. If not, rather than
have you disappointed, we will send you a copy free if you address
ROYAL BAKING POWDER COMPANY, 135 William Street, New York City
Just one of the great recipes from the New Royal Gxi Book:
FUDGE SQUARES
$ cups near 1 tablespoon butter
1 cup milk or cream 1 taaapoon ranilla extract
4 or I tablespoons cocoa or I ounces unsweetened chocolate
Put sugar, milk and cocoa or chocolate into saucepan: stir and boil until it makes soft
ball when tested in cold water; take from fire, add butter and vanilla, cool and stir
until creamy. Pour on buttered plates and cut into squares.
ROYAL contains no alum leaves no bitter taste
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