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itation that beats the Buffaloes.
For this reason the demonstration proposed
for Friday afternoon, when Manager Butch and
his heroes return from their successful trip
around the eirctrit it appropriate. A crowd
should welcome them, and for the matter of that,
every game from now on ought to be watched
by such an assemblage as will make the boys
j g'ad they are wearing the name of the best
! town in the west on their uniforms.
The Bee' Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of tho Ne
break Highways, including the pare
men! of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rate Waterway front tho
Cora Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charier for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Federal Reserve Board Activities.
A request by Governor Harding of the Fed
eral Reserve Board that a sweeping inquiry be
made into all the activities of the board as well
as the twelve banks organized under it wilt very
likely get prompt response from congress. The
actior is taken because of the repeated and
numerous charges made against the bank, espe
cially the one that asserts that it is responsible
for the direct loss of $31,000,000,000 suffered by
American producers. Such an inquiry will be
productive of good, if it is properly and un
flinchingly carried to the bottom and all the
facts given to the public
A bank is either a beneficent agent of civiliza
tion" and progress or it is an ogre too hideous
and malevolent to be tolerated. Which depends
on the point of view. As a matter, of fact, it is
neither, but is a very necessary, element in the
social organization of the world. Banks are not
creators of credit or wealth, but are the depots
where these are concentrated and from which
they are distributed. The Federal Reserve bank
was set up for the purpose of exercising helpful
supervision over the operations of the banking
institutions of the United States, that there might
be an even flow of wealth as represented by
money and that credit might be sustained equally
throughout the land. At no time was it intended
that this general supervision should be exercised
either to create pne or the other of the elements
'with which it deals.
Should it appear that the supervision has had
the effect of favoring one or unduly restricting
another class, then it has either transcended or
fallen short of its object. Reason for thinking
it has done both is plenty. This may not be sup
ported by the actual facts. Chiefly farmers and
stock raisers complain, because they felt most
acutely the pressure when it was applied- Ex
tension of their paper was denied under condi-
"tione that meant great loss to them, but it is
alsci' true that the banks demanded payment from
others who had borrowed to the limit, so that
the 'charge of favoritism here lacks support. As
to tjie assertion that a loss of thirty-one billions
was sustained because the Federal Reserve Board
exercised its great power to end an era of ex
travagance,' of mad speculation and wasteful ex
penditure, that rests on paper alone. To say
that' s many dollars were lost merely implies
that! inflated values collapsed to that extent
f The expected inquiry should make plain the
function of the Federal Reserve Board, should
disclose the weaknesses as well as the strength
of the reserve banks, perhaps suggest some modi
fications in the existing law, and finally once
more confute the false philosophy that mistakes
the volume of circulating medium for genuine
substance. If mere cash were wealth, Russia
should be the happiest land on earth.
Bullying the Press.
Evidently Premier Lloyd George inclines to
the. notion that the privilege of newspaper to
"cuss the government" should be modified. Re
fusal of facilities for interviews and news out
side the bare statements contained in official
communiques might be inflicted on less im
portant journals than the Times, and be over
looked by the public, but the barring of the
"Thunderer" has led to a demand for explana
tion in Parliament
Because the London Times asserted that
Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Curzon, the for
eign minister, were not fitted to represent the
"British empire at the disarmament conference
In Washington, the premier announced that this
paper and the others owned by Lord Norlh
eliffe would be denied the news, and has justi
fied himself in the House of Commons by the
"statement that, "Courtesy . should beget cour
tesy." Insofar as this may be taken to mean
that only newspapers not making attacks on
public men are entitled to full information on
public affairs, it is a dangerous stand, further'
more throwing discredit on the reliability of
papers favoring the administration, as perhaps
being bludgeoned into witholding facta or
honest opinions from their readers.
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Omaha Should Welcome Its Team.
The Omaha Western league ball team is now
engaged in a nip and tuck struggle with Wichita
for top place in the standing table. The way up
has been long and hard, but Barney Burch has
proved a leader of courage and skill, and behind
him his men have toiled with such ica! and en
ergy that they have literally climbed from last to
first place. Such persistence deserves recogni
tion. A base ball team is an asset to any live
community. That which represents Omaha car
ries with it the prestige of the city, and in its
battle for the honors of the league it has fairly
typified the spirit of the-community.
The Buffaloes left . home in the second di
vision; they come back contenders for first, with
only one rival. Thus they have established them
selves as possessing the first quality requisite for
championship honors, the ability to win games
on the other fellow's ground. A "good road
team" is the apple of the manager's eye, and the
pride of the home fans. It is accepted that such
a team will win at home; what gives real joy to
its supporters is that it also chalks up victories
abroad. -That qualification marks the Omaha
team as the prospective champions of the West-
Money Is Not Wealth.
To say that the dilemma In which the world
finds itself today is largely a matter of book
keeping gives an accurate summing up of the
difficulty. A war has occurred with consequent
destruction of a great accumulation of goods. It
is these goods, and not the debt of gold, which
represent the wealth lost in conflict. Looked
at in this way, it is apparent that the cost of
the war has actually been paid; it is from the
pinch of this payment that suffering comes.
Immediately .after the armistice, the view
was rightly taken that only by increasing pro
duction could recovery come. Farmers and
manufacturers alike extended themselves to fill
the need. But goods began to pile up, prices
fell and markets disappeared. What has hap
pened was that the standard of living of mil
lions of people m Europe which had been low
ered during the war had failed to rise. Less
food was eaten, less clothing worn, less of
everything, including luxuries, was consumed.
The falling off of international' markets
struck hard at the prosperity of the nations
which had seemed farthest on the way to re
cuperation. It began to be said that civilized
man, aided by labor saving devices, had reached
a stage where he could produce more than he
could consume, and that consequently he was
bringing ruin on himself, although it would in
deed be difficult to explain how having too many
shoes or too many of anything could be ex
pected to impoverish the world.
Something is wrong with the world's book
keeping. At a time when production ought to
be stimulated beyond all past records, millions
are idle, both in America and abroad. With
bountiful supplies of food, millions go half-fed.
Those who applied themselves to adding to the
total stock of available goods are in many cases
worse off for their industry. There is no rhyme
or reason about this condition. Can it be that
too much attention has been turned on the sub
sidiary question of pure finance that when the
people should have been thinking in terms of
clothes and food and shelter they have turned
aside from these and pondered over questions
of gold, paper and foreign exchanges?
Solace of the Night-Cap.
Once more has the redoubtable and unflinch
ing "Tom" Watson risen to defend the shrinking
rights of American citizens. This time he tilts
in behalf of "the mawnm's mawnin," the mid
day toddy and the indispensable "niightcap." All
his fiery nature bursts forth in eloquent plea for
these established institutions, disappearing before
the slowly-spreading influence of the dry law.
Which reminds us of a tale told of the late
George Frisbie Hoar and John, Tyler Morgan,
one United States senator from Massachustts;
the other from Alabama, but close personal
friends despite political differences.
One morning Senator Hoar complained of in
somnia. "I'll tell yoti how to cure it," said Mor
gan. "When bedtime comes tonight, turn down the
covers, kneel down and say your prayers, and then
pour into a tumbler a three-finger drink of good'
whisky and drink it. If you are not asleep within
fifteen or twenty minutes, get up and take an
other. Keep that up, and in a little while you
won't care whether you go to sleep or not."
The "night-cap" surely is a solace.
Owed to Democracy.
Five fathers who had failed to send their
children to school have been fined $5 and costs
for each child from whom they withheld educa
tion. Fourteen boys and girls in Valley coun
ty henceforth will be unobstructed in their
right to attend school. It is possible that they
did not desire to attend class, but .stilt the blame
is their parents, for not even in this advanced
time is the complete right of the child to self
determination recognized.
Statistics are not yet available on the pres-.
ent standing of Nebraska in regard to literacy,
but it is close to the top, or perhaps in the
lead of alt other states.. , In 1910 there was
only 1.9 per cent of population of those 10
years and over in Nebraska who could not read
and write; this is a remarkable showing com-
pared with that of the supposedly cultured
commonwealth of Massachusetts, where the
percentage was 5.2. Still, there were 8,845 men
of voting age here who were illiterate.
- It Ut not only for the benefit of the chil
dren themselves, that they may increase their
earning power and their enjoyment of life, but
for the progress and safety of democracy that
illiteracy must be abolished. In Omaha the
Americanization schools and night classes are
potent influences for good citizenship, and in
the country districts the very least that can be
expected is that children should attend the free
schools that are provided for them.
A New Englander suspected of having illicit
liquor broke his jug on the street when accosted
by officers, who thereupon sopped up a few
drops .with blotting paper and saved evidence
enough for conviction. Sherlock Holmes him
self could not have done better.
Those enthusiasts who advise first achieving
disarmament and postponing settlement of all
points of international friction until later over
look the fact that some very bloody battles
have been fought with knives and clubs.
Shoe manufacturers have raised a fund to in
struct men in the art of wearing shoes, although
the money might well be devoted to lowering
prices, trusting to the consumers to get them
on the right foot.
The agitation against the high cost of ice
cream cones and soft drinks seems trivial until
it is understood that the American people spend
$350,000,000 at the soda fountains.
"Science Bans Powder Puff as Menace to
Health." Headline. So also did it ban corsets
and high-heeled shoes, but to what end? ;
Cost of-living came down three-tenths of 1
per cent in June, that is 1 cent saved on each $3
spent Nothing to brag about r
Mastodon Bones in Plenty
Curator of American Museum Siys
Fossils of This Animal Are Common.
(From the New York Evening Post.)
"They are really very common creatures,"
said Dr. Frederic A. Lucas of the American
Museum of Natural History, fastidiously. He
referred to mastodons., "Another one has just
been plowed up at Newburgh, where they had
headquarters from ten to twenty thousand
years ago. The mastodon used to be a pet of
mine, but his remains have been pressed upon
me so frequently that now I wish some one
would produce the skeleton of a modern African
elephant instead. There are at least eleven good
mastodon skeletons in the country, and just
one of the elephant Jumbo's from the zoo.
You can hardly spade up an asparagus bed in
Ulster, Sullivan or Orange counties without dis-1
turbing the eternal repose of some mastodon.-
"There is quite a plantation of them on
Frederick W. Schaeffer's farm, near Newburgh,
and when the first one was turned up the finder
believed that his fortune was made. But they are
no treasure. At the United States National
Museum we had to address a special circular to
owners of mastodon bones, making it plain that
we did not wish to purchase any, for we were
flooded with information about mastodons for
sale. However, I myself was a bull in the mas-,
todon market at the time of the Buffalo expo
sition, and it was then that I investigated the
uniquely rich deposit at Kimmswick, Mo., where
there were at least a thousand prehistoric bones
and 350 teeth, representing perhaps 300 masto
dons. It was there that Dr. Koch made up his
fantastic monster, the "Missourium," out of an
assortment of mastodon parts, put together
picturesquely,
"Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties were
the mastodon's last retreat, and he came back to
that region after the great ice sheet which cov
ered eastern North America withdrew. It was
there that he made his final stand, only to be
come extinct, although he once ranged from
Connecticut to California and from Florida to
Alaska, boasting a wider distribution than any
of our other animals except the buffalo.
"What could have killed off such a creature,
with no natural enemies of which we know, ex
cellently adapted to survive? Science is at a
loss to answer. When the mastodon came back
to New York he encountered broad tracts of
bogs, meadow land, and pools, and he probably
became mired in those and perished miserably,
just as the elephant often mires himself today.
On the site of that ancient swamp a region
west of the Catskills and parallel with the Hud
son valley you everywhere come across bones
that are brown and rugged as roots, and doubt
less are taken for such by many tinders. Ihe
mastodon lived on trees and shrubs, but, like the
elephant he was very fond of water.
"We cannot prove that the early Indian and
the mastodon lived on the earth together; but
I believe they did, and I am always hopeful to
hear of a mastodon skeleton with a stone arrow
head imbedded in the bone.
"The most nearly perfect mastodon found
anywhere is the Warren specimen, which we
have downstairs, ihe creature had slumped
into the mud and been covered by water, which
kept the bones in good condition. It was un
earthed six miles west of Newburgh in 1845.
Quite a good one was found on the Harriman
estate at Arden.
"When mastodon remains were new and very
popular a thrilling duel, over one of them
took place between professors of Princeton and
Yale. I regret to say that unethical means were
employed to obtain the victory. The repre
sentatives of the two universities raced for a
mastodon which had been discovered in a dry
pond bottom up in Sullivan county, and while
the Princeton man induced the conductor of a
freight train to drop him off at the nearest spot.
Prof. Marsh of Yale persuaded the engineer of
his express to get a hot box there, and by the
time his rival arrived he had bought the masto
don. But he never got the hind legs.
"The earliest mention of our mastodons was
made by Cotton Mather in 1712 in a letter to a
friend abroad. He regarded some bones found
'in Albany. New England,' as proof that there
were indeed giants in those days, for he be
lieved them to be human I Probably the first
of the numerous mastodons found near New
burgh was the one which they dug up in a mart
pit in 1801, and ever since some trace of them
appears in the course of ditching, draining, and
will digging every season.
A quantity of long, coarse, woolly hair.
found in one swamp, has riven us a sample of
the mastodon s coat, bome or the bones are
uncannily well preserved.
ihe picture which many people have of the
mastodon is that ot a never-never monster com-
pared with which the reality was almost delicate,
The mastodon stood no more than ten feet, and
seldom attained the height of a full-grown
a r -I I i m , T
mncan ciepnanc ine persistence or mis un
just conception of his person and disposition
(at first he was thought to be carnivorous) seems
strange, when restorations are so easily to be
seen.'
Where the Shoe Pinches
Cotton prices are down to pre-war levels.
Wages for cotton pickers this summer and fall
will probably be in keeping with cotton prices.
Farm labor has gotten back more nearly to
normal wages than has any other class of labor.
Nevertheless, the railroads will not grant any
special rates to cotton pickers moving about the
state to harvest the crop this season.
From the standpoint of the railroads, per
haps they are justified in declining- to grant the
reduction. ' To do so would be granting special
privileges to one class, a proceeding which could
be justified only in case of an emergency, af
fecting the whole people, and it cannot be
argued that an emergency of that nature exists
or is likely to exist this year. The mere fact
that cotton pickers' wages are down does not
justify special privileges for them.
At the same time, this incident does serve
to emphasize the disparity between the level of
railway charges and the level of prices the
farmer receives for his labor and his products.
While the one -receives rates higher than ever
before, the farm laborer gets just about what he
got before the war, and the farmer gets prices
equal to or below those prevailing in 1913. The
contrast throws some light on what. is the mat
ter with the country. Houston Post
A Pointer for Harding.
We shall not make a habit of giving pointers
to President Harding, for like a true democrat
we must do all we can to wreck his administra
tion so that our friends may get back into the
offices. But this is in good faith. He may as
well go ahead and act upon his best judgment,
since there is little hope of pleasing anybody
nowadays, anyway. Houston Post
Why Not Spank the Man?
An Omaha judge "said a mouthful" when
he told a girl of 16 she deserved a spanking
along with a divorce, and that no man who
wants to marry a girl of 15 is of the slightest
account. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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Doctors to Cut Their Fees.
In addressing the Detroit College of Medi
cine and Surgery, Dr. J. B. Kennedy announced
that Detroit and Michigan physicians were
planning an agreement on easier fees for the
sick. Medical Record. .
Caesar Conquered Caul!
A great Latin dictionary started in Germany
20 years ago had been carried through the letter
C when the war came. Things stopped just
when the Germans found out all about Caesar.
New York Evening Post
Carrying Coals to Newcastle
There are said to be 30,000 poets in Japan.
D'Annunzio was in the wrong, pew when he
was in Fiume. Minneapolis Morning Tribune.
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How to Keep Well
Br DR. W. A. EVANS
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Copyriabt, lilt, by Dr. W. A. Evani.
THE WAGES OF PROSPERITY.
On the broad street of a peace,
ful New England village there once
stood three houses side by side, as
commodious and attractive as any
in the town. Into these three houses
there moved in succession four men
and three women heads ot fam
ilies. No, reader, this ia not the begin
ning: of a story ot New England life
by Hergesheimer or Ben Ames Wil
liams. It is a story by a Harvard
professor and about diabetes.
The story goes on to tell that of
those seven rich, intelligent, good
citizens, six died ot diabetes.
Had these six deaths been due to
smallpox, the health department
would have become agitated. Had
they died from tuberculosis the
neighbors would have insisted that
the houses be fumigated or even
torn down. But, diabetes being the
cause, nobody thought it more than
a coincidence.
It may be that in those three
houses tonight three families of fat
people will sit down to a heavy din
ner of seven courses from soup to
pie, and then will sit Idly around the
house until bedtime. Dr. Joslln, who
writes this novel, has blood in his
eye. He finds that diabetes, aa a
cause of death, Increased 8 per cent
In the United States Jn 15 years,
while the increase In Boston was
almost 1 per cent He would have
the health department get busy.
Obesity is the forerunner of
diabetes, and there is the place to
strike. Prevention must begin with
anti-fat procedures, Just as preven
tion of consumption starts with anti
spitting campaigns and efforts to
promote ventilation.
The Chicago health department
has done a good deal to educate the
people as to the harmfulness of
obesity and how to attain the
lissome.. That is wise. Every
health department should follow
Chicago'a lead.
P. O. Brigham proposed to the
Colgate alumni that they assess
each member fS for each Inch of
girth measure In excess of 38 inches.
Other alumni ought to follow suit.
The life insurance companies are
falling far short of what would be
good business policy on their part.
Joslln suggests that all persons
have their urine examined on their
birthdays. If all will not accept this
advice why not appeal to every fat
person to make that a rule?
He calls on all diabetics to take
up the campaign of education. Since
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Blames the Dry Law.
Omaha. July 18. To the Editor
of The Bee: It is very amusing to
read the comments of the World
Herald, New York World and Nw
York Times on the Harding adminis
tration. The -World-Herald is be
ing subjected to a aeries of night
mares concerning disarmament and
the Versailles treaty. Its editorial
of Thursday, July 14. entitled,
"Tangling Up With Abroad." is
nothing more than a rehearsal of
the League of Nations accepted and
adopted as new creed by the demo-
there are five times aa niany diabe
tica aa there are physicians they
would make an effective body of
educators. Louisa Drumm was 79
years and 4 months old when she
discovered that she was a diabetic.
She died a few days later, yet, in
the meantime, she examined the
urine of 10 people who thought
themselves well, found one to be a
diabetic, and put him in the way of
getting proper attention.
As It is now. the only worth
while campaign against obesity, and
indirectly against diabetes, are the
fashion plates and the theaters. To
bo fat is bad form among the wo
men. Knee skirts have done much
In the way of campaigning against
obesity and diabetes.
Will some fashion fixer turn his
guns on big bellied men?
If the women would refuse to
nvarry them the campaign against
diabetes would have a good beginning.
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cratlo party. That editorial la cer
tainly an amusing comment on the
present administration, but it must
not be taken seriously for the demo
cratic press has no responsibilities
to maintain, only to play the role of
critics and assist old democratic
grandmas to nurse that Incorrigible
youngster, the League of Nations.
Let us not forget that it Is more
easy to carry on the work of de
struction than the work of recon
struction. The previous administra
tion had the billions necessary to
carry on lta work, but what has it
done in reconstruction since the
armistice to March 1, 1921? It has
unloaded a debt of over $20,000,000,
000, millions ot unemployed and
thousands of overseas men that have
been victims of the weapons of war,
all these have been unloaded on the
new administration. They are tell
ing us that the country la going
bankrupt, and the other statement
is made, it can be heard every day:
"What has Harding done?"
Well, a democrat will say he has
done nothing and cannot do any
thing. Well, let us see.. First, he
has abolished despotism In our
postal department by appointing
Mr. Hays as postmaster general, a
man that understands what democ
racy means and has made the
postal department one of the most
democratic! institutions in the United
States. What else has he done? He
has kept his promises that America
shall dictate Its own foreign policy
by preserving us national maepun
dence and it shall question the con
tents of the Versailles treaty to
suit Itself.
It was a Ood-send to be relieved
of such despots as Burleson and At
torney General Palmer, who our
good demooratlo party had imposed
upon the American public. Prohi
bition, the handmaid of our previ
ous administration, should be held
responsible for 60 per cent of the
cause of our present period of stag
nation. I look upon the Volstead,
prohibition law as un-American,
absolutely antagonistic to the Decla
ration of Independence and the con
stitution of the United States. I
doubt very much if that law is 25
per cent American. The moonshine
industry is prosperous, even in Oma
ha It Is not eold secretly. Drunken
men can be seen on Sixteenth etreet
in the evening. The cost of enforc
ing the prohibition amendment Is a
heavy burden upon the government.
Thousands of prohibition officers
are appointed to enforce the law,
but are they doing It? If they don't,
why should Uncle Sam pay them.
As the churches are partly re
sponsible for the Volstead act, they
should be compelled to contribute
for Its maintenance. May those who
are barking at Harding's adminis
tration remember that the mistakes
and blunders of the previous ad
ministration are all stumbling blocks
that will be removed through the
efforts of our present president
Wisdom and ffove of liberty and na
tion will carry us through.
JESSE MARTEL,
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The Housewife
and the Budget
The budget plan of tainting
the home is coming more and
more to be recognized as the
correct one. By this method it
is possible to live better and
more economically, and at the
same time do away with many
little annoyances and embar
rassments. The Women's Department of
the First is being used by thou
sands of housewives. Here they
keep the household account,
pay all buls by check and han
dle the finances of the home on
a business basis,
i Omaha housewives who have
;not already done so are cordial
jly invited to open an account,
Isecure a First National budget
I book and make use of this
bank's exclusive Women's Dr
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