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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of tbe Ne
braska Highways, including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfares leading
into Omaha with Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rate Waterway from Ihe
Cora Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Planning for the Conference.
Quite as interesting as the Japanese attempt
to secure omission of Far Eastern questions
from the program for the Washington confer
ence is the insistence of Premier Hughes of
Australia that a preliminary pact be framed
in tondon, before the big show opens.
Hughei frankly states that Australia will not
consider disarmament until the Pacific disputes
are settled. These include the Shantung and
Yap questions, which Japan insists are settled
by the Treaty of Versailles, and the mandate
given by the League of Nations.
Here is the making of a nice little dispute,
one that can not help but shock those ardent
advocates of disarmament, who had convinced
themselves that all that stood in the way was
Jack of agreement among the great nations to
disband their armies and sink their navies. With
the United States committed to the "open door"
in China and Japan opposed; with the Yap dis
pute unsettled, disarmament sinks to second
place a$ between the two powers. Willingness
to discuss these questions, and to secure an
amicable adjustment, resting on fundamentals
apd not on the selfish interest of one or the
other parties, characterizes the approach of the
United States. Mr. Hughes' letters, one with
reference to the oil in Mesopotamia and the
other concerning the Yap mandate, left no
doubt as to the intention of the United States to
stand firmly for its rights and those of other
nations. Japan's attitude has all along lacked
the element of frankness; bullying at Peking,
yielding at Paris, and evading at Washington,
the,' government at Tokio. is open to suspicion
that it now seeks an undue advantage.
'"Any preliminary agreement at London is
unnecessary; the United States may or may not
take part in a tripartite understanding with
England and Japan, but if at all, it will be on a
basis quite djfferent from that underlying the
Anglo-Japanese treaty, renewal of which is
sought by the Japanese, but has met serious
opposition in England and generally through
out the empire. At Washington cards will be
laid on the table, face up, and the nations en
gaged will deal openly with the facts as well
as the policies, so that any compact there en
tered into will have binding effect on all. Con
ditions, not theories, will undoubtedly govern,
to the end that hopes of men will not be lifted
up only to be dashed, but that some, progress
may be ma4e P the direction towards the goal
which now fills the eyes of all right-thinking
people, of peace on earth and harmony and
concord among the nations.
freight Rates Must Come Down.
East pf the Mississippi river is a demand for
hay that can net be fully met under the present
costs of transportation. In contrast to , this
shortage is the accumulation of hay vhich can
not be shipped without a loss greater than if it
were burned. The Omaha Hay exchange is
authority fop the statement that there are thou
sands of tons of hay throughout Nebraska car
ried over from last year through inability to
market it profitably, and the statement is made
thrt some meadows have been burned over
lather than cut. In face of this situation which
pinches the prairie farmer here and the dairy
fanner of flic cast alike, jt is clear that freight
rates p this commodity must be reduced.
Marketing hay, it is pointed out, is not merely
a matter of geUing it to Omaha, for from here
it has to be shipped on, a great deal having been
sent to New York and to southern states when
rates, wepe lower. A milk producer in New
Jersey recently wrote to Omaha for prices on
hay and after comparing prices found that he
could get alfalfa from California, shipped by
water through the Panama canal for $6 a ton
less at any Atlantic port. This difference in
price represented the difference in freight costs
by water from California and by land from Ne
braska. (t appears from this that not only are the
inland farmers at a disadvantage, whether they
live in Nebraska or Ohio, but that the railroads
themselves are gradually losing a vast amount
pf traffip through stubborn and ill-advised main
tenance of rates. Freight charges on farm
products must come down.
Caught n H?s Own Trap,
An Iowan, intent on settling prowlers, fitted
up a shotgun trap so that when a basement door
waj. opened the load would be discharged. Then
forgetting all about the deadly device, one fine
morning he walked carelessly into .the cellar
and received a charge of shot from which h
probably will die.
This it far from being the first time a gun
trap has caught the man who set it. Not long
ago an Omahan died from a device of this sort
which he a4 installed in his chicken coop.
Lapse of memory js so likely a thing when ac
tions that are matters of habit are concerned
that these traps for thieves are always danger
ous to the men who set them. One who has
gone each day to the cellar or to the chicken
yarqs tans into uuuig sir uuu uiuiiiduidM,
without the exercise of thought
Innocent persons who know nothing of the
trap also are endangered. A child or a neigh
bor could be made a victim without being
guilty of any evil intent, for the gun set to go
off wheejhe door opens and pulls the trigger
makes no distinction of persons, filling just and
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unjust witn snot, in an mis nuwung nag uccn
said of the justifiability of utilizing such merci
less means against prowlers and petty thieves,
but whatever may be thought on this score, this
deadly trap is full of savage" cruelty and as such
is to be condemned.
Courses in Matrimony.
The proposal of a Chicago judge that
courses in matrimony be added to the public
school curriculum partially discloses a yista
along which the imaginative man may well
hesitate to proceed. Just how it proposed to
anticipate the various things that young folks,
and old ones, too, must learn when engaging in
the uncertainties of conjugal undertakings will
stagger the experienced. Perhaps that word
uncertainty should be modified. Nothing can
be more certain than the outcome of a mar
riage; if all goes well, and the partners are well
balanced, it will run along to the happiest of
conclusions, while if either is out of line with
the other no doubt attends prognostication of
the finish So marriage holds none of the
element of chance.
All the advice that ever has been or could
be given as to what to look out for and what
to do in the selection of a mate is wasted on the
man or woman, no matter what the age, when
the urge to matrimony manifests itself.. A hen
who persists in setting may sometimes be cured
by immersion, but usually she will con
scientiously devote herself to the carrying out
of her sublime intent, even to pestling over a
nest filled with dornicks or doorknobs. So it
runs through all animate nature, male or fe
male. What effect a prescribed course of study
could have on such an impulse eludes even
speculation.
Matrimony has been practiced for a long
time under rules that have developed as the
game went on, yet none of them departing very
widely from the fundamental fact that two indi
viduals of opposite gender feel, or imagine they
do, an attraction one to the other. That is the
spark that fires the train, and the history of the
race supplies ample proof that it is a pretty safe
plan to go by. A course in matrimony is wel
enough, but it is better obtained in a school
from which there are no graduates sent out.
"Cities pf Dreacjful Streets."
The health commissioner of the City of New
York undertakes to give Gotham clearance from
the charge that its streets are unnecessarily
dangerous by showing that in other communi
ties more people are killed in proportion by
automobiles than there. His compilation of fig
ures is an indictment of American carelessness
and disregard for human life that is shocking.
Omaha is not included in his tabulation, but
that does not mean that this city is entirely im
mune. Los Angeles heads the list with' a rate
of 391 fatal accidents per million of population
for the year 1920. Pittsburgh is next, with 332,
and New York tails the list, with 166. Taking
the population of New York at its claim of
5,600,000 for 1920, this means that over 900 lives
are crushed out each year by automobiles there.
Such a toll is beyond reason. Death from an
auto is invariably attributable to carelessness,
and therefore is avoidable. This applies to
Omaha as well as to New York. Reckless driv
ers are the menace, and their presence is as
much of a danger to the careful driver as to
anyone else. The driverwho proceeds without
due regard for the rights of others, who does
not exercise at all times the prudent watchful
ness that is essential to safety, is responsible for
American communities becoming cities of
dreadful streets. A speed demon on the streets
is a potential murderer, and deserves to be dealt
with on that basis.
3topping a Treasury Leak.
The order of Charles G. Pawes, director of
the federal budget, halting sales of government
property and supplies until centralized machin
ery for disposing of them can be set up may
add a good deal to the initial saving of $112,
0Q0.000 which previously has been announced
as a result of the budget system. Steel, cement,
lumber, furniture, foodstuffs, clothing, ships, au
tomobiles, buildings and many other articles of
war equipment have been peddled by dozens of
un-co-ordinatcd government bureaus. During
the previous administration it was alleged that
material sold by one department had afterwards
been bought back by another, with handsome
profits for the enterprising middleman. Hardly
any taxpayer will doubt that much of this ma
terial has been sold at prices far below its actual
value, although this advantage in few cases was
passed on to the ultimate consumer.
As Brigadier General Dawes, the budget di
rector served on. the staff of General Pershing,
being chairman of the purchasing board and
general purchasing agent for the American Ex
peditionary Force. Later he was a member of
the allied purchasing board and of the allied
liquidation commission. He knows what some
of these things cost, and he must be amazed at
what they have brought Creation of a central
sales board ought to stop a big leak in the
treasury.
The Ku Klux Klan may be organizing in
Fremont, but pews from Texas indicates that
this gang of tar party artists is going to be
badly disorganized down there. The I. W. W.
has nothing on the K. K. K. when it comes to
direct action.
The town of Ashland appears to have had a
woman city attorney who understood that her
job was to enforce observance of the law. We
await the chorus of "I told you so" from those
who have always claimed that women had no
place in politics.
From now on every immigrant from Russia
wil have his story of a fortune confiscated by
the bolshtviki. It will be a good deal like the
myth of ancestors who came to America on
the Mayflower.
Now that the Federal Reserve banks in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco
have lowered rediscount rates to SJ4 per cent,
the middle western districts may properly adopt
a receptive attitude.
There is no moaning at the bar which is re
ported to be operating outside Long Island's
three-mile limjt. As Philo might say, "It's a
sea of gurgling glee, with jollity on tap."
What does Juge Landis want to stir up
congress again for; didn't it run up the white
'flag on the question of impeaching him?
Lake-to-Ocean Waterway
One Hundred Miles of Rapids
Blocks the River at Present
This is the second of a series of articles
explaining: the significance of the proposed
opening of the Great Lakes and the St.
Lawrence river to ocean navigation. Econ
omists estimate that the increased price of
wheat alone, resulting from lowered ex
port shipping: coat, would add , 000,000
annually to the income of Nebraska farm
ers, to say nothing of other crops or other
savings.
By VICTOR B. SMITH.
The Lakes-to-Ocean highway, designed to
bring the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago, Duluth
and other inland cities, is not a dream. A large
part of the work is already accomplished. It
has been done by the Dominion of Canada,
without help from the United States although
the United States benefits in every degree just
as does Canada. What is proposed now is
merely to complete the project, to build the
final link which will enable the full use of other
work now complete or nearly so.
Canada has faith in the Lakes-to-Ocean
route. Canada is spending $90,000,000 for a new
Wetland canal, by which steamers pass from
Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, around Niagara
Falls. The old canal was too small. The new
canal will admit vessels up to 25 feet draft and
800 feet length. There are no such ships on the
Great Lakes today. Canada could have saved
millions of dollars by building a smaller canal.
But Canada is building the New Welland on
the assumption that Canada and the United
States jointly will open the channel from Mon
treal to Ontario. Then, the big locks and deep
draft of the New Welland will be needed.
The same sort of faith is shown by the city
of Toronto. Toronto is spending $25,000,000
for a joint harbor, industrial and public park
improvement, approximately $6,000,000 going
directly into harbor work. Toronto has a popu
lation of half a million people; it is the second
city of Canada. But it has no commerce today
to justify a $6,000,000 expenditure. It has none
in sight unless the .St. Lawrence channel is
opened to the sea. Toronto is preparing for that,
is spending money on the faith that it has in the
ultimate completion of the whole project.
One smiles today at thought of a great ocean
steamship the White. Star liner Megantic, for
instance lying at a pier at Chicago. Yet, bar
ring a few odds Jand ends of dredging and lock
work that will cost only a few million dollars,
only 100 miles separates the Megantic from
Chicago.
Big ocean steamers, passenger liners and
freight cargo vessels, dock at Montreal today.
When work now under way is completed they
can pass from Lake Ontario to Lake Michigan,
or Lake Superior. They can pass today on a
part of the St. Lawrence river between Mont
real .and Ontario. But 100 miles intervenes.
That is tjie distance of the big rapids of the St.
Lawrence, between Prescott and Montreal.
That is where the work still is, to be done, if
Nebraska farmers are to ship their grain by
low-cost sea transportation direct from Chi
cago to Europe.
There is a drop of more than 250 feet in the
water level of the St. Lawrence between Lake
Ontario .and Montreal. That is 100 feet more
than the drop over Niagara Falls.
To get around the rapids which this drop
entails, it is proposed to build a huge dam,
which will back up the water in the St. Law
rence and wipe out certain of the rapids, though
not all. The proposed dams have a total fall of
230 feet. Ships will pass the dams in locks,
two of which alone will have a lift of over 70
feet each. The water will be used for hydro
electric power. The fall is 80 feet greater than
Niagara (50 per cent higher) and the volume
of water is all that parses over Niagara plus
very considerable increases accumulated from
springs and streams entering the St. Lawrence
and Lake Ontario. Niagara is acclaimed as the
greatest water power field in the world. Electric
power from Niagara is used today in Windsor,
Qnt, 220 miles away, and is about to enter De
troit. But this proposed St. Lawrence development-exceeds
Niagara nearly eight fold.
the real work involved in the proposed St.
Lawrence river improvement centers right here
in this single 100 miles stretch. For a part of
the- distance, the river is the international boun
dary between Canada and the United States;
tor part of the way, it lies entirely in Canada.
Details have yet to be worked out, but no one
assumes that the United States will command
less than half of the electric power generated
by the entire project.
In fact, the United States stands to benefit
not only in proportion to its share of the in
vestment in this 100-mile development, but in
most of the Canadian government's own work
as well. Treaties between the United States
and Canada forbid cither nation to charge tolls
to vessels in international waterways. Canada's
$90,000,000 expenditure for the Welland canal
is an absolute expenditure, without hope of di
rect return. Ships of the United States, which
is spending not a penny on the canal, can pass
through it without tolls, just as will vessels of
Canada and other nations. Canada is spending
$90,000,000 because of the indirect returns ft
expects to accrue to the commerce of its cities
and to the producers of the commodities which
it has to sell, principally the products of the
farm.
Canada is spending $90,000,000 in one lump
for one part of the Lakes-to-Ocean highway
and stands ready to spend more. Canada has
8,000,000 people, raises only about 10 per cent
of the grain that the United States does and
has but limited manufacturing facilities at pres
ent. But Canada has faith in the future, par
ticularly the future of sea-shipping and hydro
electric power.
Contrasted with what Canada is doing, the
proposed St. Lawrence project is trifling. It
contemplates a $250,000,000 improvement, by
joint effort of the United States and Canada,
under terms which mean that the project will
finance itself, that the entire cost will come back
in the revenue from the sale of electric power,
that the taxpayers wjll pay not a penny.
(A third article on this subject will ap
pear in The Bee Monday, with others to
follow).
Family Singing
"Why," asks a contemporary writer, "do so
few parents nowadays sing either to or with
their children?" She goes on to urge a revival
of this fine old custom.
Perhaps, as she suggests, the phonograph,
with its mUsic-making facilities, or the automo
bile and the movie, forever dragging people
from their homes, or jazz with its exotic and
difficult cadences, have driyen the old sweet airs
and the habit of family singing from the Ameri
can homes.
Old hymns of noble verse and nobler music,
beautiful old ballads in setting of simple but
perfect melody, are a valuable part of the equip
ment of any life and memory. Every little
while music of real merit is produced which
should be added to the collection as pearls are
added to a string.
Home in which such songs are sung, homes
in which fathers and mothers sing such songs
first to and then with their children, are among
the greatest influences of civilization. More im
portant than the songs or the singing is the
habit instilled in early life of finding pleasure iin
habit instilled in early life of finding pleasure in
home itself. Concord Monitor.
A Long Step Forward.
There if no promise of a millennium in
which there shall be no wars in the conference
called by President Harding. But any forward
step will be an achievement in practical ideal
ism of great importance to the world. Kansas
City Star.
Moonshine Is High-Power Stuff.
The Chicago police are talking about dyna
miting a still. What with, the contents? De
troit Free IVess.
How to Keep Well
By OR. W. A. EVANS
Questions concerning hygiene, sanita
tion and prevention of disuse, sub
mitted to Or. Evans by readers of
The Bee, will be answered personally,
subject to proper limitation, wbere a
stamped, addressed envelope is en
. closed. Dr. Evans will not make
diagnosis or prescribe for individual
diseases. Address letters in card of
The Bee.
Copyright. 1821, by Dr. W. A. Evans.
MISS HYPOCHONDRIA,
FLAPPER.
I have a letter from a girl 17 years
old. It is 44 pages long and in it
she gives me her symptoms and asks
269 numbered questions, but, since
many of the questions carry lettered
sub-questions the actual number of
questions and sub-questions is 324.
She wants a full answer to each.
From this letter I learn that
within a year she has had two oper
ations, in which she has had a total
of four things removed. She has
about made up her mind to have
another operation done.
But her operations, so far from
curing her, have left her an invalid
for a year. She sits around all day
and does nothing In her catalog of
present complaints I find weak and
nervous, nervous spells, fainting
spells, shocks through the head,
navel pains, neck pains, backache,
pains in abdomen, insomnia, ner
vous when people talk, wants to be
alone, constipation, rumblings in
bowels, bladder disease, kidney dis
ease, stomach disease, menstrual
trouble, uterine disease, lump in
breast, suppression of urine
In addition she is interested In,
but may not have, Bright's disease,
diabetes, ulcer of the stomach,
hemorrhoids, cancer, fistula, dropsy,
paralysis, high blood pressure, blood
poisoning, enlarged turbinates and
catarrh.
Of course, the girl is a neurasthen
ic. Being Idle physically and men
tally, she is given to introspection.
Whenever she can stir up an ache
or pain her mind dwells on it. She
exaggerates it, multiplies it, say 320
times. Her letter gives evidence of
both physical and mental bad hab
its. Yielding to her aches and pains,
some composed out of the blue, and
some merely the ordinary minor
discomforts of the flesh, magnified
manifold. She sits around idle and
waited on. This has.led to bad phy
sical habits as to muscle ease, use
of joints, bowel habits, and bladder
habits. In turn her bad ' physical
and mental habits have increased
such physical basis as there Is;
Discussing aches and pains, for.
doubtless, of her circle she is the !
most experienced member, she in
vents new ones. And those opera
tions! My, how an operation does
impress such a mind! Is it any
wonder she wants to be whittled
some more?
Who is responsible? I imagine
many have contributed. Her par
ents probably have contributed
most. She inherited poor nervous
balance in all probability and doubt
less she was poorly trained. She
was never taught self-control, poise,
unselfishness, social responsibility.
She does not mention either parent
or brother or sister in her 44 pages.
I think her school teachers failed
in their duty in part. Certainly her
doctors, surgeons, hospitals and
nurses have contributed their parts.
I expect I have somo responsibil
ity. In response to her 44 page let
ter I wrote her the plainest letter
she ever got, but I did not answer
one of her 324 questions. I told her
the only way of escape for her that
I could see.
It is characteristic of neurasthen
ics to blame others. From time
to time this girl will doubtless
blame her inheritance, her parents,
her teachers, her doctors and me.
She is young not beyond the age
where training is possible. If she
does not train herself out of her
present state she can blame herself
more than all the others combined.
A Girl Kpt'ttkM Out.
Omaha, July 19. To the Editor
of The liec: This editorial is on
three things: The street car fare,
bathing suits and that Mrs. Smith
Wilkinson, who spent so much
money In Paris.
Th Ktrppt rar company wants to
raise the fare. They have no right
to do so. For 5 cents we got better
service than we are now getting for
7 cents. Why are they sucking to
the skip-stop system? The war is
over and prices aro coming down
slow but sure. The officials of the
company, aren't starving to death,
neither are their employes. They
were making money at 6-cent fares.
Why should the faro raise? Other
cities' fare is coming down.
Women seem to get the blame for
everything. Why don't people talk
about men wasting money on to
bacco and so forth instead of rav
ing about women using costumes?
Wiiy should a woman wear any more
bathing suit than a man does? If
a woman must wear a two-piece
bathing suit why shouldn't the men?
Men cause more trouble than wom
en ever could. If the men weren't
bad the women couldn't be. I hope
they (the men) get their reward.
As long as the men go in the water
with a very abbreviated suit on I
shall wear any suit I want to, ab-
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Noah in Washington
(From the 'w York Times.)
Mr. Noah W. Cooper, chairman of
the Southern Methodist Sabbath Sav
ing Crusade, has gone from Nashville
to Washington with 25 other savers
and a fat petition with which the
waste basket of every member of
congress will bo enriched. Mr.
Cooper's prenomen was well chosen
by his parents. No doubt he is one
of the most amiable, excellent and
worthy of men, but he dates from
the Ark and his intellectuals still feel
the motion of the waters. Still, there
is a beautiful, engaging simplicity in
his opinions. Heated himself, he re
freshes a superhumid world. Con
tinental Europe had the continental
Sunday. Consequently, "God's fury
broke upon it in the world war."
We are imitating a fatal example
and earning the penalty of destruc
tion. Babylon and Belshazzar and
all the other good old sign-posts on
the road to ruin are trotted out.
How shall destruction be avoided?
By passing a federal Sunday law for
bidding the carrying of passengers,
freight, newspapers and all mails in
interstate trains, shutting up all
postorfices, and prohibiting all mail
deliveries on Sunday and all amuse
ments and business for profit, there
by compelling the heathen millions
of Americans whose notion of Sun
day observance differ from Mr.
Cooper's to conform and be good.
"We might just as well destroy the
sacred rite of marriage as to de
stroy the sacred Sabbath," and
everybody Is destroying It who
doesn't keep it after the manner of
the Southern Crusaders.
Amid the present discontents, and
these inebriations of the mercury, it
would be too much work to give to
this proposed plunge into the back
ward ot time and this suspension of
the necessary vital flow of traffic and
recreation all the wonder and the
amusement that it merits. Perhaps
even In these steep-down gulfs of
liquid fire the admirer of Mr.
Cooper's conservatism or reaction
may be strong enough to suggest to
him that only by persuasion and
example, if at all, can his austere
Sabbatarianism make any headway.
Law, if it could be enacted, and
force, if it were used, could only
cause a multitudinous national rush
Into a still looser Sunday observance
and "our doom." Moreover, all these
Wahabi rigors tend to diffuse a cer
tain uneasiness amonff the great
number of persons who accept' pro
hibition as law-abiding men and wo
men, but are not enamored of it. Is
there no end of efforts at govern
mental regulation of private habits?
On the "Plum" Plan.
Envious democrats who are being
asked to give up their offices are
asserting that the federal govern
ment is being run on the plum plan.
Galveston Tribune.
piano? nave set a new
standard of tone
purity and lonqevity
'and nave had (he
courage to stop af
no expense to attain.
it that is why Ihe
Mason 8Hamlm vs
ikqhrt priced
uLqnest praised
1513-15 DOUGLAS STREET
The Art and Music Store
,,.,.r.1 nr tint. The Old CiaDS Wno
are still in ought to be satisfied
to make themselves miserable and
leave the girls alopo. We can take
care of ourselves.
Mr. Wilkinson spent money thick
and fast, but I don't see where t-ho
contributed any fortunes to the
American rolicf fund or helped the
crippled soldiers. The United States
better shut its doors to that fool
ish woman. We need no lessons
from her. She Is probably crazy.
We have enough money-spender!
here now. A GIRI
Tliv Bad Boys Must Help.
The door Is wide open. If the bad
boys Of the senate will turn to and
help put tho house in order and dust
oil! tho chairs and put a few extra
leaves in the table, perhnps the
people on the president's list will
bo k'oJ to accept his invitations to
his party. Worcester Telegi.
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all classes of patrons. Beautiful riverside ride
leaving Omaha and into Kansas City. Good
roadbed all the way.
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Missouri Pacific
Lv. Omaha
8:05 a.m.
Lv. Lincoln
7:20 a.m.
Lv. Independence. 8:53 p.m.
Lv. CoBeyville ... 9:30p.m.
Lv. Clarernore ...11:01p.m.
Lv. Wagoner ....11:43 p.m.
Lv. Sallisaw 1:15 a.m.
Ar. Ft. Smith 2:00 a.m.
Ar. Little Rock... 7:25a.m.
Lv. Union 9:35 a.m.
Lv. Atchison .... 2:05p.m.
Lv. Leavenworth.. 2:55 p.m.
Ar. Kansas City. 3 :45 p.m.
Lv. Kansas City.. 4:00p.m.
Omaha-Hot Springs sleeper arrives Hot Springs
10:00 a.m.
Lay-over sleeper for Ft. Smith may be occupied
in Ft. Smith until 7:00 a.m.
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City Ticket Office, 1416 Dodge St.
, Phone DOuglas 1643
Or Union Station Ticket Office
Phone DOuglas 5570
Omaha, Neb.
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No One Can Explain It
Woodrow Wilson was admitted to
the bar, and now let's hear Lord
Cunson repeat that a lawyer can't
explain the league of nations.
Washington Post.
Lowering Government Cost.
One of the achievements of this
congress is expected to be the rais
ing of 2-cent letter postage to 3
cents. Springfield Republican.
T:iutlon. .
Taxation with representation has
its drawbacks. The more represeta
tives the mora taxes. Knoxvtlle
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The Soldier Bonus Bill
The soldier bonus bill must be passed, eventually, if America Is to do
even part justice to the boys who fought her battles, if America is to
keep her faith with them and retain their faith in her.
Whether it is possible or advisable to put such law into effect right
now, may be debatable. "Eventually why not now?" may not apply
in the case under consideration. But, eventually such provision must
be made.
The primal mistake was our conscription law. When the red-blooded
young manhood of the nation was conscripted, the labor and capital
of the country should have been conscripted.
It is as fair to compel men to go to work at a certain set wage, as
to compel men to go to war at a certain set wage.
It is as just to compel money to serve the government for a moderate
profit, as to compel men to serve the government for no personal profit.
But 6uch provisions were not made.
John was asked to go to war. Bill and Tom were permitted to stay at
home. John and Bill haJ good jobs. Tom had a profitable business.
"Johnny get your gun!" said the government. Johnny didn't desire
to leave his paying job; but Uncle Sam crooked his finger and said:
"Come on!"
Johnny went; and endured hardships and risked his life for a paltry
price. Bill and Tom stayed at home, and, went on making money.
Bill and his comrades threatened to strike for still larger wages. Tom
placed a higher price on his goods; and got it. Both of them continued
to prosper to prosper more and more.
Johnny took exceptions to tho partiality shown, but the people of the
country said to him: "Go on; we'll make it all right with you when
you come back."
Johnny performed the task set him; and returned home. Now all
he is asking is that justice be done in his case; that the people of
America keep their solemn promise to him. He isn't asking pay for his
patriotism. He isn't demanding remuneration for his valor. He is just
asking for an equalization a partial and meager equalization of
wages paid and profits realized.
Shouldn't he have it? He must have it just as soon as the govern
ment can safely arrange to grant it to him!
We are gravely asked to forgive and forget the billions owed us by
European peoples. Shall we do it? and then refuse to bestow a few
billions upon our soldier lads? Who bore the heat and burden of
battle? Who have a perfect right to expect adequate remuneration for
their services?
If we prove false to the trust these lads reposed in us well, we will
everlastingly regret it.
Courtesy of Chicago Journal of Commerce.
"Them's Our Sentiments
L. V. NICHOLAS OIL COMPANY
President
"Business Is Good, Thank You'
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