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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1921.
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CTilosta Slatar Bids, Pana. Franc. 430 But 8c Honors
vcls, stupid and shoddy attempts at amusement
and the thinly-disguished gambling games cf the
street fair. But each summer these carnival
companies make their triumphal way about the
country, even stopping in Omaha. Not one
thing that is elevating and very little that is
really amusing, except in the lowest sense, is
provided, yet crowds are almost always assured.
Grand Island's mayor and city council,
while deserving the thanks of their constiuency
for their efforts to prevent these side shows,
are not warranted in expecting anything like
unanimous support, for a great part of the liu-
man race spends its leisure hours in seeking
some one to part it from its small change.
The Bee's Platform
1. Nw Union Passenger Statioa.
2. Continued improvement of tho Ne
braska Hithwayt, including tho pave
man! of Main Thoroughfares loading
, into Omaha with a Brick Surface).
3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Homo Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of CoTerament.
Railways and Trade Revival.
What congress may do with the bills sanc
tioning the settlement of the claims of the
railroads by payment of $500,000,000 will excite
much interest. The railroads have asserted that
more than $1,250,000,000 was still due them as
compensation for the use of the lines under
government control. It has been admitted by
the government that it still owed $500,000,000
under its guarantee to spend as much money
for maintenance as during the prewar period,
pins the increased material and labor costs. A
ery vague claim of labor, inefficiency, rejected
by the president, was used by the railroads to
hold the government for an amount more than
double what is offered.
Under the proposed arrangement, the roads
will waive all their demands for additional com
pensation and accept the treasury offer of $500,
000,000 as payment in full. A further complica
tion nas neen me tact mat tins amount is
matched by the government claim for $500,-
000,000 and up for new trackage and equipment
which it had added to the systems while under
government control. If the proposed settle
ment goes through, the railroads will receive
$500,000,000 in cash from the treasury of the
United States and will meet their own obliga
tion to the government by depositing an equal,
or perhaps larger amount in railroad equipment
bonds with the treasury.
This transaction amounts to a loan to the
railroads, since they get the cash and the nation
gets the bonds. Though the transportation in
dustry may have brought its serious financial
plight on itself, yet on account of the effect of
its condition on the whole industrial life of the
country, the government will be justified in
aiding towards railroad rehabilitation. As soon
as the roads receive this money they are ex
pected to place large orders for equipment and
materials. This ought to stimulate the Iron and
steel industries and lessen unemployment. Many
business leaders regard the improvement of the
buyinjr power of the railroads as the most hoDe-
fiM plan for the revival of trade.
' The railroads are guilty of many faults;
their rates are too high and their service is often
poor, but alt this does not warrant an unreason
ing hate on the part of the public. It is a mat
ter of rational importance that full facilities
for transportation be assured. A breakdown
in the movement of farm products and manu
factured goods would further delay the recovery
from general depression and injure the interest
of all. If, having been given all they ask, the
managers still fall short of the requirements,
public ownership will gain the endorsement of
many who heretofore have steadfastly defended
private operation. The railroads are on trial
and, to date, the public is not satisfied with
rates or service given by private operation,
which promised to do wonders once the hand
of the government was removed.
Soviets and the Disarmament Conference.
Soviet Russia announces that, having re
ceived no invitation to be represented at the
Washington conference, it will not be bound
by any action taken by the delegates to that
gathering. This will probably be given its due
weight, merely another effort on the part of
Lenine and Trotsky to direct attention to them
selves. Soviet Russia presents the anomalous
appearance of a nation professing to be devoted
to the object of universal peace, yet maintain
ing under anus a force that exceeds that of
any other nation on earth. The United States
army has just been cut down by congress to
150,000 men; Russia's red army numbers 2,500,
000 well-equipped and well-disciplined soldiers.
It comprises the best clad and best fed portion
of the suffering population of that unhappy
land.'
The soviet government is accepted by other
nations at its own valuation. It is essentially
communistic, and as such opposed to the prin
ciples on which any civilized government is
erected. I.enine'has very frankly declared for
the launching of a world revolution, and pro
fesses only to await the auspicious moment. To
invite him to sit with representatives of govern
ments he proposes to destroy is to give standing
to conception of communism, with all its
political and economic corollaries, incapable of
compromise with the conceptions of law that
govern modern civilisation, or the economic
foundations on which are based actual world
welfare.
Therefore,, the word from Soviet Russia may
be accepted as notice that it will continue to the
end a menace to civilization as it exists. Its
challenge will be accepted, and under whatever
guise it comes it will be met. Unreason lias
never long made headway in the world, and
bolshevism need not be dreaded where justice
prevails.
A Blow at Street Carnivals.
Grand Island wants no more carnivals at
least until the recollection of the last wear off.
Yet two weeks after the departure of one
tawdry assemblage of freaks, sharpers and en
tertainers comes another street show, setting up
its tents just beyond the city limits and out of
the jurisdiction of the authorities.
It is possible that the people whom the city
council would protect by its prohibition will re
train from attending these exhibitions, but
scarcely probable. It might be thought that the
public would tire of being piled by false mar-
Budget-Saving a Public Benefit.
The New York Times reads a sharp and
perhaps deserved lecture to the heads of de
partments of the government for not having
mado reductions in estimates now achieved by
the budget director. This failure, it assumes, is
a confession that estimates purpesely or care
lessly were made too high, and that in absence
of the oversight now effective, would have added
to the general waste about which so much com
plaint is made.
Conceding everything the Times says on
the subject, its implication that the fault at
taches solely to the present administration is
scarcely warranted. Mr. Harding went into
office on a platform that promised economy in
expenditures, and the activity of General Dawes
affords support to the belief that the pledge is
to be redeemed. All can not be achieved at
once, nor is it humanly possibly to retrieve in
less than five months all that was lost throug!
eight years of democratic mal-administration,
So far as the budget system is concerned, it
was seriously proposed when Mr. Taft was ii
the White House, but was abandoned imme
diately on the accession of Mr. Wilson. Now and
then it was brought forward as the topic for a
tentative discussion, yet not until 1920, with a
republican majority in both house and senate,
did it get attention. One of the last acts of
Woodrow Wilson was to veto a budget bill
because it interfered with the president's pre
rogative of removing his own appointees. Eight
years was not sufficient time for the democrats
to get around to regulating governmental ex
penditures on a reasonable basis.
As to the surplus, when William Gibbs Mc-
Adoo went into the Treasury department, he
found a surplus of $350,000,000. In two years
this was turned into a deficit of $350,000,000.
Long before the war came current expenses of
the government were paid on borrowed money,
and the enormous pyramid of treasury cer
tificates, now hanging over the land, is a heri
tage from the democratic administration, a re
minder of the economy it talked about and did
not practice. This will be cared for in time,
but it should never be forgotten.
Lake-to-Ocean Waterway
Breakdown of Railway Service
and What It Means to the Nation.
This is the third of a series of articles
explaining the scope and purpose of the pro
posed improvement of the St. Lawrence river
for navigation and electric power develop
ment. Data here presented is preliminary to
an outline of the benefits that will accrue to
all Middle Western states by the lowering of
transportation costs.
"De Ducks Got 'Em."
a concession amounting to $isu,ouu,uuo a
year will be granted to the shippers of the
nation if congress sticks to its intention to cut
the transportation tax in half. For this allevia
tion farmers will return much thanks, for it is
they, and not the consumers of their products,
who pay the freight There are many charges
of one kind and another, 'as is illustrated by a
story which is now going the rounds.
It concerns a sheep raiser of New Mexico
who shipped two loads of common sheep to
market and found that when sold they lacked
a few dollars of paying the freight and charges.
The village banker met him on his return with
the suggestion that, having sold the sheep, it
was a good time to clear up his debt.
'"Nick, what in the world did you do with
the money from your sheep?" the banker asked.
"De ducks got them," was the reply.
"See here, ducks don't eat sheep; I know
that much about farming."
"I'm telling you the truth," the sheep man
answered, "de ducks got all my sheep, and I
still owe the man who sold them $1.15." Pull
ing out a greasy account of sales brought back
from the stock yards, he read to the banker:
"De duck freight, de duck war tax, de duck
yardage, de duck insurance, de duck feed on
the road, de duck hay at yards, de duck com
mission. Oh, I'll say de ducks got them."
The Department of Agriculture reports that
prices of meat animals are 40 per cent lower
than a year ago, 51 per cent lower than two
years ago and on June 15 were 21.9 per cent be
low the average of the past 10 years. The level of
prices paid producers of the principal crops is
65 per cent lower than a year ago and 37.5
per cent lower than the 10-year average.
Surely the farmers are entitled to relief from
"de ducks," and the reduction or elimination of
the freight tax is one way in which congress
can help.
The state department of agriculture, in
urging veterinarians to co-operate in the move
ment for the elimination of tuberculosis on the
dairy farms, is doing its bit to assure the health
of the people. Yet some complain of the ap
propriations for agricultural purposes as being
a subsidy for the farmer and declare that more
money is spent for the protection of live stock
than for children. 1
Among those who were disappointed at the
success of the airplanes in sinking that German
cruiser were the sailors of the Pennsylvania who
had been promised a crack at it with the main
battery of fourteen-inch guns from a distance of
13,000 yards.
South Africa has established a federal re
serve bank on the American model and doubt
less there will be some critics to murmur that
distance lends enchantment.
By VICTOR B. SMITH.
The United States is suffering today from a
virtual paralysis of transportation.
Four years ago the situation was physically
acute. The neck of the railroad transportation
bottle lay from Pittsburgh east, particularly
about the port of New York. The neck wasn't
big enough to handle the traffic poured into it.
The system was choked and stalled.
The government took over the railroads in
an effort to expedite business by unifying all
traffic facilities. Embargoes and preferential
shipping schedules were resorted to. Business
generally received a body blow from which it
did not recover for months and for which it paid
a penalty running into tens of millions of dollars.
Factories were shut down, laborers were thrown
out of work, in some districts people lacked fuel
and necessary supplies for comfortable living.
The situation today is different but no less
acute. Physically the railroads are able to handle
the traffic effered, not because their capacity is
bigger, but because the traffic is less. But the
rates are so high as to be a staggering burden
in most cases and positively prohibitive in some
As ex-Governor Harding of Iowa says, the cost
of transportation of corn from Iowa to New
York amounts to two-thirds of its value.
The worst of the situation is this: The high
rates are not improving the power o; the rail
roads to handle the nation's business. Railroad
mileage, railroad equipment, railroad terminal
capacity are not substantially larger than in 1917.
If prosperity returns, if agricultural and indus
trial production again becomes normal the
country is certain to face a second breakdown of
its transportation agency no less staggering than
that of 1917-1918.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Question conctrnlnf bj sisnc, sanitation and prevention of diseasa, submitted
to Dr. Evan by rtadara of The Bn, will ba answered personally, subject to
proper limitation, where a stamped addressed envelope ia enclosed. Dr Evana
will aot make diagnosis or prescribe for individual diseases. Address letters
in car of Tba Bee.
Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evana
In 1916 a committee of experts reported that,
if traffic continued to increase in 1916-1926 at the
same rate it had during the preceding 20 years
the railroads would be obliged to spend $1,500,
000,000 a year or $15,000,000,000 in all, to care
for the business properly. (Testimony of Alfred
P. Thorn, general counsel, Association of Ameri
can Railway Executives.) No such sum has been
spent, or any considerable part of it. The Rail
way Ace estimates that 712,400 freight cars are
needed in the next three years to make up the
present .shortage and provide for normal require
ments, this involving an expenditure ot iW.UUU,
000,000. In addition it is estimated that the rail
roads will need locomotives costing $618,444,000
in the same period.
These figures are for motive power and carry
ing capacity alone. In addition the cost of ter
minal facilities and trackage runs into the hun
dreds of millions of dollars.
The railroads are not making these exten
sions. Apparently tney cannot, vvnat win Hap
pen when they are again placed under the load of
normal business is something which no one likes
to contemplate. It will be 1917-1918 all over
again and is likely to be a good deal worse.
Under these conditions even railroad men
are turning to water transportation as a possible
solution of at least a part of their difficulties.
The water project under immediate considera
tion, which gives promise of greatest results, is
the opening of the St. Lawrence river and the
Great Lakes-to-ocean traffic. This project will
not only save the long haul on many bulky com
modities, but it will take millions of tons of
freight away from the congested port of New
York. The new attitude of the railroads toward
water transportation is indicated by a recent
statement by President Todd of the Bangor &
Aroostook railroad.
"I am a railroad man, he said, ' and a New
England railroad man at that. Conceivably, my
railroad may be damaged somewhat by this St.
Lawrence protect. But I am here to sav that the
country must have increased transportation fa
cilities. What is good for the country is good
for New England .r.d what is good for Nev
England is good for the railroads or New England."
ACCIDENTS AND THE PUBLIC
Nearly every week this column
carries a story about improvement
in general health conditions, evi
dence that health habits are better,
or that some important aisease
seems to be on the point of "folding
its tents." In many instances the
statistical proof is slven in terms
of the item in which health records
are kept to wit: death rate.
I am sure there are those who
agree with the critic that one can
be too damned happy, and there can
be too damned much good news.
It is well, therefore, to turn on
the tremolo occasionally. The gen
eral fatal accident rate is now
among the more important causes
of death. So heavy did the tax on
industry from that cause become
that a powerful national organiza
tion was formed the National Safe
ty council. Thanks to the wonderful
work of this organization, the acci
dent rate in Industries is falling as
rapidly as in the sickness rate or
even faster.
But when it conies to public acci
dents, the rate is rising about
enough to offset.
By public accidents are meant ac
cidents in the streets and other pub
lie places; accidents that do not oc
cur in industrial establishments or
along railroads. Many of these ac
cidents happen to children. The
American Red Cross says 20,000
children under 14 years of ago lose
their lives in the United States each
year.
Of each 1,000 deaths of children,
5 to 9, 167 are due to accidents. For
ages 10 to 14 the proportion is 177
of each 1,000.
In 1917 more deaths among chil
dren were due to accidents than to
epidemic diseases, according to the
Modern Hospital.
We spend considerable money to
save children from contagion, and
yet we are very careless with them
in the streets.
In Cook county, 111., In 1920, 499
children under 16 years of age were
killed in accidents.
Automobile accidents are inereas
ing all out of proportiton to other
forms of accidents, or 1,807 fatal
accidents in Cook county in 1920
there were 540 due to automobiles.
Tor the three months ending Feb
ruary 28, 1921, deaths duo to that
cause increased 80 per cent over the
rate of the same three months of
the previous year.
In some places campaigns of edu
cation are reducing the automobile
fatal accident rate. In Cleveland
Inst year this rate was reduced 49
per cent. In St. Paul in the first
four months of 1920 there was a
reduction of 4 2 per cent. Milwau
kee and Detroit also showed an im
provement. In St. Louis there was
a material reduction In accidents to
school children due to instruction In
"Safety First" in the public schools.
Send to Snn Francisco.
A. G. writes: "Having read sev
eral times about T. Mack's little
book, "Outwitting the T. 13. Bugs,'
in your column, I would be very
REPLY.
From the Macks, Pacific building,
San Francisco.
CENTER SHOTS.
Reports that one of the railroads
has cut the wages of its freight
clerks nhows to what extremes our
saturnalia of extravaKance has car
ried us. Fancy a freight clerk get
ting enough salary to stand a reduc
tion! New Orleans Item.
Put none but Americans on guard.
Hut do not look to their names as
the gauge of their Americanism.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Another time she is a raving
beauty is when the drug store de
livers her complexion next door.
Muskegon Chronicle.
Did you ever atop to consider that
the man who is continually blowing
his own horn always remains at the
little end? Jackson Citizen-Patriot.
Five teaspoons removed from a
woman's stomach headline. Yes,
but of what? Baltimore Sun.
WHAT IS WOMAN?
A cart of the present financial difficulties of
Nebraska farmers is due to the breakdown of
transportation. When farmers desired to ship
trrain to market in the early summer of 1920,
with prices good under stimulus of an export de
mand, the cars were not to be had. Because of
this shortage of cars, the movement of grain was
delayed and this contributed to the plight ot
many farmers who found themselves caught
later on a falling market, which did not enable
them to get even a cost-of-production price for
their grain.
One investigator reports: "In January, 1918,
there were 418 vessels held in New York harbor
because of lack of fuel and cargoes, due to car
shortage. In the fall of 1917 the great north
west suffered for lack of 6,000,000 tons of coal
and to supply the urgent deficiency it was neces
sary to use 50 per cent of the freight cars of 47
railroads for many weeks and later to utilize
them to make up an iron ore shortage.. The
shiftinar of the car supply to meet supernormal
needs caused by deficient transportation facili
ties has resulted in complete disruption of the
railroad svstems of the country. Some com
munities suffer for food, others for fuel, still
others for the raw materials of manufacture, while
the important industries of the country are unable
to make the prompt deliveries which are essen
tial to maintenance of trade. These conditions
are not temporary. Ihey are the result ot con
stantly diminishing transportation capacity, as
compared with constantly increasing transporta
tion requirements. The trouble is not alone with
the shortage of cars, but is to be found also in
the inadequacy of terminals, as a result of which
cars cannot be unloaded promptly."
(Tomorrow s article will discuss just what
savings water transportation will effect.)
The World Behind Him.
We mav believe that Mr. Hardinc has taken
the most direct, the most practical and, what is
lgrhly important, the most opportune step to
ward limiting excess in military and naval es
tablishments, for which, unless limited, oc
casional excuse for employment will be found.
We may believe that his memorandum of July
10 will add distinction to his administration.
The best thought of the world is behind him in
this high endeavor. St Louis Globe-Democrat.
President Harding went camping with
"Tom" Edison and "Hank" Ford. We hope he
doesn't spring another questionnaire as a result.
The state agricultural college is offering a bul
letin on how to make unfermented grape juice.
Publication of a sequel is anxiously awaited.
That New York congressman with a proposal
for a tax on spending evidently does not have the
idea of breaking up the buyers' strike.
There is hope that congress can take a recess
at the end of next 'week. It would give some
heated dispositions a chance to cool out.
TeNas has tackled
atch something drap.
the Kukluckers; now
What some people need is the eight-hour
nigH
They Will Have to Hurry.
The new slogan of the Christian Endeavor
ocietics is, "A warlcss world by 1925." Which,
one may judge by present conditions in
Eurone. Asia and some of the Spanish-Ameri
can countries, would be "going some," to say
the least. Springfield Union.
Alpha and Oi.iega.
The first man to earn a living dug it out of
the ground and the last man will do the same
thing. The farmer is the Alpha and Omega of
all things human. Elizabethtown (Ky.)
Journal.
But Parades Cost Money.
England is wedded to a constitutional mon
archy, probably because the royal family is
such a great help on parade days. Birmingham
Age-Herald.
You Can't Prove It by Us.
How is the householder to tell the difference
between bandits and prohibition enforcers who
search a house without warrants? Or is there
any difference? Houston Post.
Who Cares, Anyway?
The present garb of woman seems to be a
small affair about which to raise all the fuss
that ia going on. Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
What Is the need of the world today?
Will votes for women dispel Its dismay?
To give woman the scepter God seems to
have bidden
Young Adam to hold when ha placed
him in Eden?
To be sure, we all welcome the modern
"She"
With her progress, her talent; are glad
she is free
From the handicaps custom had placed in
her way
Tet we turn longing eyes to her grand
mother's day.
Lest that something God gave when he
first fashioned live
Should be lost, with no power In man
kind to retrieve
For many long days has Eve'a modern
sister
Matched wits, side by side, with the
UD-to-date Mister.
She sits at her desk in the great marts
of trade
And no phase of "big business" has
made her afraid.
Among the professions her laurels she's
won.
And proved she could do what hss had
to be done.
She has leased and cajoled, and told
what she would do
If the president's Job were but handed
her, too.
And so out of sheer desperation. It seems.
The men have consented to sharing the
rein.
And now the world -waits to see what will
take Dlace
If like Lord Lltton's "Gye," she will
head a new race.
Will the quick pulse of romance at last
cease to be 7
Will the words "Wife" and "Mother"
become obsolete?
Far back in the past, when the world was
vet vounir.
God placed here a man, Its bright ver
dure among
And gave him dominion o'er all living
things
From the reptile that crept to the bird
that naa winss.
And bade him control, with a wise guld-
inff hand.
Those humbler creatures within his
command.
And then, as a crown, to the gifts be had
given.
God gave him a Woman, the best gift
of Heaven.
'Tis related they happily roamed side by
a da
Ere the serpent ambition had taunted
Eve s pride
And taught her the lesson to rule a man'
heart,
By the power of her love was a piiiful
ran.
That the thing ithe should do as a com
petent mate
Was to take a firm hand and remodel
his fate.
God had not done enough to have placed
him in care
Of the great Infant earth that swung
smiling and lair
That the thing ho should do was to
break now the seal
And the knowledge God kept as his
own to reveal.
It seems that she knew Just what she
was about
And to get what she sought took the
certalnest route.
For she handed him something delicious
to eat
And thus brought about man's first
moral defeat.
And proved then and there the sure high
cost of living
The whole human race ever since has
been giving
The sweat of it's brow, yea, It's anguish
of heart
To pay for that meal in which two
took a part.
Whatever the truth that this fable would
show.
We know 'tis the key to humanity's
woe.
And though woman became the first cause
of its crlef
It was promised through woman should
come us rcnei.
Oh Woman, the highest and best that
God gave
Has been yours from beginning. From
his birth to the grave
The soul of the man-child is placed In
your care
To train and to mold It's fair substance
more fair.
No loftier crown could be placed on your
brow
Than the fair crown of Motherhood
decking it now.
For the lips that draw life from your
wnite breast today
And the thoughts they express will be
jour thoughts retold
Rock gently the cradle for what it
may hold.
In your long line of lives, live each life
as its own
Create not a Karma for which to atone
For the great cyclic law must be paid
to tns last.
In the house of my Father, mansions
many and vst.
Each on must be lived In, and perfectly,
too.
Ere you pass to the next that It wait
ing for you.
In your strife to be equal with man, lose
not sight
God msde you that equal at dawning
of light.
But gave you that nature through which
best to express
That part of Himself hs most wished
to Impress
On His only begotten, ths great human
race
That needs always It's mothers, needs
you In your place
To tend tho pure fires of the soul of the
earth,
While death and rebirth succeed death
and rebirth.
Till the soul of mankind o ercutms dust
and the sod
And stands forth redeemed a the
Christ of our God.
MRS. EDWIX HOLLISTER.
Ashland, Neb. 1
Depends oil Amount.
J. K. writes: "1. Does bathing
make a thin person thinner?
"2. Does dancing make a thin
person thinner.
REPLY.
1. No. "
2. If she drives hard enough.
Moles anil Cancer.
A. H. writes: "On my back over
the shoulder blade I have a pro
truding mole which I once nearly
scratched off when annoyed by a
mosquito bite. This was 11 years
ago and the mole ia half on and
might be torn off in some effort
at athletics. Should it be cut off
to prevent such a possibility?
Would a mole lead to cancer when
tompered with? What is the rea
son of such a belief?
REPLY.
It may be good judgment to have
the growth removed by a clean in
cision. Cancers frequently develop
from moles. The opinion is based
upon observations of cancers which
clearly have started in moles. Since
it has been established by many ob
servations that repeated irritations
cause cancer, and al.so that cancers
frequently develop in moles, it is
concluded that moles should not be
irritated.
Symptoms of Pellagra.
E. M. J. writes: "What are the
symptoms of pellagra and how can
a person tell when he has it?
REPLY.
Among the symptoms of pellagra
are: Sunburn eruption on exposed
parts of the body without history of
adequate exposure to sun, red
tenque, burning sensation in tongue
and oesophagus, diarrhoea, great
weakness, mental disturbance. In
some cases one or more of these
symptoms are absent. Just now we
hear a good deal about pellagra
without an eruption. The treatment
consists in eating plenty of fresh
milk, butter, meat, vegetables and
fruit. If possible, a person with
pellagra should spend the hot
months in a cool place.
When tho irresistible reformer
meets the immovable sinner the re
sult is generally a parade down
Broadway. Kansas City Star.
Those reform preachers who de
signed the moral gown for women
ilid a good job. Now to design a
woman who will wear it. Houston
Chronicle.
THE SPICE OF LIFE.
'The Hotel Biitless has a moat won
dcrful outruns. "
"You sk for tea, I suppose ?" Darn
mouth Jack-o'-Lantern.
A Mentnl Test for Cicnenral Ve.
1. What was the war of 1813?
S. From what province of France wa
Joan of Arc?
3. Who Is the author ot Macaulay'i
history of Kngland?
4. What two countries were partici
pants In the Spanish-American war?
5. In what season of the year did
Washington spend his wintsr at Vallry
06r.BTell about the Swiss navy. Tht
Scalper.
In the rook's absence the young mis
tress of the house undertook, with tin
help of an Inexperienced waitress, to get
the Sunday luncheon. The flurried maid,
who had been struggling in tho kitchen
with a coffee machine which refused to
wnrl rnnfriwd that sho had foi'fotlen to
wash the lottuoe.
"Well, never mind, Marie," aald the
considerate mistress. 4'Oo on with the
often ami I'll do If. Where do you keep
Iho soap?" Harpers.
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Rates average $2.50 the day
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Fine, All-Steel Train
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KANSAS CITY AND LITTLE ROCK
with through sleeping car between Omaha and Hot Spring
Every travel comfort and convenience is pro
vided on thia fine, all-steel equipped train drawing-room
sleeping cars dining car chair cars
and comfortable day coaches service to please
all classes of patrons. Beautiful riverside ride
leaving Omaha and into Kansas City. Good
roadbed all the way.
via the
Missouri Pacific
Lv. Omaha
8:05 a.m.
Lv. Lincoln
7:20 a.m.
Lv. Union 9:35 a.m.
Lv. Atchison .... 2: OS p.m.
Lv. Leavenworth.. 2:55 p.m.
Ar. Kansas City.. 3:45p.m.
Lv. Kansas City.. 4:00p.m.
Lr. Independence. 8:53 p.m.
Lv. CoBeyville ... 9:30p.m.
Lv. Claremore ...11:01 p.m.
Lv. Wagoner ....11:43 p.M.
Lv. Salltsaw 1:15 s.m.
Ar. Ft Smith 2:00 a.m.
Ar. Little Rock... 7:23a.m.
Ask Burbank.
By the way, why isn't a seedless
watermelon produced, or at least
one in-which the seeds are so placed
that tney can be easily removed, as
in a muskmelon? Albany Journal.
We Didn't Know It.
Dr. Einstein says he had a good
time explaining his theory to us
Americans. So that Is what he was
doing, explaining it. Detroit Free
Press.
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.
For complete information
apply to
City Ticket Office, 1416 Dodge St.
Phone DO uglat 1648
Or Union Station Ticket Office
Phone DOuglas 5570
Omaha, Neb.
For It. or Against It? -The
chief interest in life for many
people now is finding out what to do
for sun burn. Indianapolis News.
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