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The Bee 8 Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of tho N
braska Highway, including tho pave
mailt of Main Thoroughfares leading
into Omaha with n Brick Surface.
3. A abort, low-rat Waterway from tho
Corn Bolt to tko Atlantic Ocoan.
4. Homo Rulo Ckartor for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Square Deal Harding's Policy.
President Harding Is introducing a new
practice to world diplomats. He proposes to
vhen the conference he has set under way con
vene at Washington, everybody will start flat
footed on scratch. There will be no preliminary
conferences, no agreements or conventions, at
least so far as the United States is concerned.
By declining to take part in any "conversa
tions" anticipatory of the assembling of the
delegates, the president almost totally disarms
the diplomats who are expected. It is possible,
of course, that they may exchange views
privately, but such a course would be highly
impolitic, especially were developments such as
might disclose the secret compacts, as hap
pened at Paris.
Disraeli laid down the maxim that "no man
can be diplomatic on an empty stomach." He
also made it a practice to sit with his back to
the window, that he might study his opponent's
face. In other words, if any advantage were
to be had in the little game, he wanted it. Such
has been the course of European diplomacy
throughout its history. A1J the records of all
the dynasties that have controlled that unhappy
continent reck. with deception and duplicity of
diplomatic intrigue, politely played by experts,
each seeking advantage and none expecting to
be bound by any compact or agreement longer
than was necessary to initiate a. more profitable
bargain with some other rival. Out of this
game grew the "balance of power," this in turn
leading to the great war.
America's shirt-sleeve diplomacy has been
a disturbing factor in Europe from the time our
representatives first went abroad. It was dis
concerting to the chancelleries, accustomed to
deceit and double-dealing, to listen to down
right proposals and to be required to stand by
bargains. Wilson failed at Paris because he
could not compete with the practiced political
thimb!e-riggers.he encountered there. Harding
has before him the example of his predecessor,
and hopes to profit by his experience. What the
outcome of the Washington conference may be
is not so important as that it will be open and
above board on part of the United States.
Plenty of reason exists for thinking that Great
Britain will also "come clean," and this justifies
the hope that out of it is to be born a new world
diplomacy, in, which self-interest will be made
secondary to the good of all.
When nations can realize that development
of all is essential to the growth of any, and
that none can permanently prosper at the ex
pense of all the rest, the great ideal may be at
tained. Peace for all and security for all are
possible, but the square deal for all must come
first.
China and World Peace.
China has as much at stake in the disarma
ment conference as any other nation, but there
must be some doubt as to which one of its two
presidents will be represented in the Washing
ton meetings. Just now Sun Yat Sen, a leader
of socialistic tendencies, who was provisional
president of all China after the revolution, is
head of the southern government at Canton and
is menacing the military chiefs who rule from
Peking. This movement is no new thing, but
has been powerful for months. John Dewey,
who is now in the Orient, declares that the Can
ton government is the most promising, being
less corrupt and not under the domination of
foreign influences.
In the event of war with the United States,
Japan's first act would be to seize control of
northern China in order to be sure of food and
other supplies. In the event of the renewal of
the Anglo-Japanese alliance, Chinese are said
to believe, Japan would take the north and
England the south. There is no question but
that a great game of international politics is
being played in China. In linking up the prob
lems of the Pacific with the discussion of dis
armament President Harding may not only
save China and maintain the open door, which
gives all nations equal opportunities there, but
eliminate a great menace to world peace.
Less Cotton, More Corn, in Dixie.
The Department of Agriculture announces
an "unprecedented change" in the use of acreage
in the south. Land heretofore devoted to cot
ton and tobacco is now given over to the pro
duction of wheat and corn, and on this is pred
icated the astonishment of the experts at the
capital. The change has been coming on grad
ually for a number of years. Long ago south
xern planters learned the economic folly of not
raising enough food to live on, and before the
war had listened to the preaching of those who
advocated a variety of crops. Demand for cot
ton and tobacco during the war swung the
planters back to the old program, but the lesson
was not forgotten, and, with the disastrous ex
perience of 1920 to spur thera on, they have
turned this year to the production of food. Cot
ton and tobacco will remain the staple or lead
ing yields there, but wheat, corn and hogs are
coming in for special attention, Nebraska and
Iowa will lose an easily accessible market be
cause of this change, but a demand for the sur
plus of the northern fields will exist, while the
economic position of the south will be greatly
strengthened by the new depcrture, and some
change may follow in its political practices. A
land that can feed itself has little to worry about.
Tinkle, Tinkle, Little 'Phone.
Among the casualties of civilization is dis
tance. The obstacle of space and isolation has
been obliterated by modern science. A party of
explorers is climbing Mount Everest, the world's
highest peak, yet from the heart of this Asiatic
wilderness electricity enables them to inform the
world of their progress. A ship at sea has an
accident in which a sailor is killed and no one
aboard knows the burial service; it is secured by
wireless from a liner far away. Not long ago
the remarkable story was told of a ship's doctor
who was guided in performing a delicate opera
tion which saved a man's life by instructions sent
by wireless telephone by a great surgeon on
land. Army aviators, equipped with wireless
telephone sets, now carry on conversations from
their planes with a radio station SO miles away.
By this means and by radio telegraphy they are
able to steer a straight course among the clouds
and through the night.
News also comes that the police automobiles
in a California city have been equipped with wire
less telephones, and that through these instru
ments the officers send reports as easily as if
they were ringing up from a call box on the
stteet corner. There is also a plan on which
the government is working to adapt the radio
phone to communicating market reports instan
taneously to farmers. It is evident that the in
vention is catching hold and will be found videly
useful. As far as public knowledge goes, how
ever, this system will be worse in one way than
a party line. Anyone with a receiving set may
listen in on every conversation and what would
happen if all should want to talk at oncer" Nb
doubt some variation of tuning the instruments
so that everyone's telephone will not ring every
time a personal call goes out will be devised.
but it docs seem that even with this system
privacy could not be assured.
Fixing the Surgeon's Fees.
Johns Hopkins has led off in a movement
that has had much preliminary discussion, but
to which the vitality of action has not yet been
given. Une thousand dollars is hxed as a maxi
mum fee to be charged by a surgeon for any
operation, no matter how wealthy the patient
may be, while $35 per week is suggested as a
reasonable charge for attention after the opera
tion. This is striking at a custom that is at
once an evil and a necessary element in the
practice of the healing art.
A practitioner is entitled, to reward for. his
skill and knowledge. He spends years in pa
tient study, research and training to fit him
self to do the things that will lessen human
suffering and prolong human life. He has at
all times given freely of his knowledge to the
world; whatever of discovery he has made is
immediately made available to all. Keenest of
all critics of the profession are among those
who follow it. These men and women surely
deserve well of the world,, and none who give
thought to the matter begrudge them the pros
perity that ttends their efforts.
The value of human life is not gauged by
dollars and cents when the operating table is
prepared. A real surgeon works as skillfully
over a pauper as he does over a plutocrat. Yet,
the latter can pay, and who will say it is not
proper that his fee should also contain some
thing of compensation for the attention given
the indigent? It may be that Johns Hopkins
authorities have gone a little beyond the scope
of their reasonable control in fixing a maximum
for what is customarily a point to be settled
between the parties most immediately con
cerned. When other great hospitals fall into
line, the issue may be considered .is fairly
joined-
Watching the Trackless Trolley.
Trackless trolley cars are now being tried
out in Richmond, Va., and if the experiment
results successfully the present style of street
railway transportation may within a few years
be discarded. Officials of the Baltimore street
car system recently inspected the new system
in the Virginia capital, with an eye to adopting
it as a solution of the traffic problem in the ter
ritory where bus lines have been springing up.
Detroit, also, which has a municipal system, is
interestedly watching developments.
The trackless trolley cafs resemble light
street cars of the present sort except that they
have rubber tired wheels and easy springs. A
trolley wire is strung above a street much' as
now, but there are no rails, greatly to the re
duction of expenses for roadbed. It now costs
about $60,000 a mile to lay tracks. The cost of
operation for a trackless trolley is said to be
about 17 cents a mile, as compared to 27 to 30
cents a mile for a motor bus.
' In Minneapolis the street cars carry a sign
warning tne public that street cars can t
dodge," but no such restriction applies to the
trackless trolley, which can drive anywhere in
the street and can not be blocked by a stalled
truck or dead engine on the track. To load or
unload passengers the car swings in to the
curb, thus lessening street perils. The innova
tion seems to have many advantages, and if
this impression is borne out by examination,
cheaper car fares ought to result. Only such a
possibility would warrant its adoption.
Jeanette Rankin, formerly a member of con
gress, is advocating the maternity benefit bill,
but Congresswoman Alice Robertson has spoken
against it before the committee of the house.
"Dangerous class legislation, separating women
from men," she calls it. "Daddies ought to take
care of their babies and wives," she opined, "and
if they did not, they are brutes of men and it
would take more than the children's bureau to
handle them." What these sentiments have to do
with the assurance of proper medical attention
for women who do not now receive it is not
apparent. A debate between Jeanette and Alice-
would be Interesting.
Marconi has now invented a method of wire
less by which atmospheric disturbances are
rendered powerless to interfere with transmis
sion. The breakdown of radio service through
such causes has been its greatest handicap. If
it is now overcome, telegraph and cable com
panies maywih they had sold out to the gov
ernments while their wires still were necessary.
A Canadian farmer has been made prime min
ister of Alberta, another instance of the fact that
if the farmers don't get what they want from
the government they will simply vote themselves
into office and take it.
Lake-to-Ocean Waterway
Meant and Methods for Getting
Great Project Under Headway.
This Is the eighth and concluding article
of the series published by Tho Uee relative to
the Lakes to Ocean waterway project.
By VICTOR B. SMITH.
If one is convinced of the practicability and
desirability of developing the St. Lawrence
river as a shipping highway from the Great
Lakes to the ocean and as a source of hydro
electric power, the question of interest is:
What steps must be taken to accomplish
such a result?
As the situation stands today the ground has
been plowed, but the seed has not yet been
sown; preliminary surveys have been made and
public interest has been attracted to a consider
able degree, but the order to go ahead has not
been given.
The St. Lawrence river, for some distance
below Lake Ontario, is the boundary line be
tween the United States and Canada. For a
longer distance it lie's entirely in Canada. The
rapids which furnish an obstacle to navigation,
and at the same time afford the opportunity for
power development, lie partly in the interna
tional section and partly in the Canadian sec
tion. By treaty signed in 1909, the whole chan
nel is under the control of the International
Joint commission, composed of representatives
of the United States and Canada in equal num
bers. First official action on the St. Lawrence
project was taken in March, 1919, when the
river and harbor act passed by congress con
tained an item requesting the International
Joint commission to investigate the matter and
report to the two governments. That investiga
tion has been made. The engineering survey
was directed by Col. W. P. Wooten of the
United States army engineers and W. A. Bow
den of the engineering staff of the Dominion
of Canada. Roy S. MacElwee and Alfred H.
Ritter reported on the economic problems in
volved.
The International Joint commission now is
reviewing these reports and is expected to make
its recommendation to the respective govern
ments within three months. Assuming that this
is favorable and no doubt is expressed but that
it will be the next step is winning the assent
of the two governments and mapping out a
method of procedure.
Two courses are open. I he American secre
tary of state and the British foreign office may
negotiate a treaty which, when approved by the
American senate, will set up the machinery for
carrying out the project. Or the American con
gress may pass legislation outlining the pro
gram, to be effective only in case Canada enacts
identical legislation.
-Whichever plan is to be followed, the settle
ment will rest undoubtedly with public senti
ment. Will the people tell their congressmen
that they want this done?
Fifteen western states have organized volun
tarily to support the project Ohio, Michigan,
Iowa, .North Dakota, Montana, Indiana, Wis
consin, Nebraska, bouth Dakota, Wyoming,
Illinois. Minnesota, Missouri. Colorado, Idaho.
Of these, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota
have commissions created by act of legislature
to offer effective support. The last Nebraska
legislature passed a resolution urging congres
sional action.
From away down in Louisiana there comes
support. Louisiana has no direct interest, but
that state remembers still the aid given by
middle western states when it was endeavoring
to open the Mississippi as an outlet to the Gulf
of Mexico and the Atlantic ocean. In return
Louisiana, as represented by its United States
senators and governor and its principal cham
bers of commerce, is supporting the St. Law
rence project. ,
There will be opposition. New England
manufacturers are- swinging into line for the de
velopment; they have been attracted by the
promise of electric power. But New England,
ports are opposed because of the prospective
loss of commerce. Important interests in .mew
York City likewise have indicated their oppo
sition, for that city,, already grown so great as
a transportation center that its congestion bur
dens the entire nation, dislikes to have its
monopolistic grip broken even a little bit. In
Canada, Montreal occupies somewhat the same
position.
borne of the opposition may disappear. A
number of very able men in the east have been
converted to the movement. President Todd of
the Bangor & Aroostook railroad, solely a New
England institution, voiced their sentiment when
he said: "What is good for the country is good
for New-England and what is good for New
England is good tor the railroads of New Eng
land. We can not afford to be too selfish in
this matter; we must look a bit beyond the end
of our nose."
In this connection a certain railroad presi
dent told a story of his own activity. He feared
that his directors, who represented New York
banks, would not approve of his lending his
name to the movement. He asked them. The
answer came back: "We understand that New
York is opposed. But we are national bankers.
Uur interests are not limited to New York, lhe
national interest is bigger than that of New
York. Go ahead."
The opposition, however, will not lie down.
It will be active, well financed and well directed.
The thing which will squelch it effectively and
quickly is evidence of an overwhelming sentiment
on the other side. It will take from six to eight
years to build the dams, the canals, the electric
power stations and the distribution lines. The
quicker it is started, the sooner it will be done.
The greater the support given now, the quicker
the start.
In the opinion of those who' have studied the
situation, the Lakes-to-Ocean waterway means
a tremendous saving of transportation costs to
farmers and other producers of the middle west.
Based on a -cut of from 8 to 10 cents a bushel
in the cost of shipping grain to Liverpool
which would "come back to the farmer in a
higher price at the farm the saving amounts to
over $400,000,000 a year, as estimated by Julius
Barnes. If only half of that were actually
achieved, the saving still is over $200,000,000.
The whole cost of the project, at present prices
of material and labor, is only $250,000,000. The
development also means the eventual generation
of 4,000,000-horsepower of hydro-electric energy,
available to eastern manufacturing centers at
less than half a cent per kilowatt-hour.
That is the stake. It is a big stake. It is
worth fighting for. Those who favor it should
make their attitude known to their congress
men. Those who do not favor it should investi
gate it. It will bear investigation. The number
of those who have been doubting Thomasas
and who have been convinced is large, and
growing every day.
As the Pulpit Cools Down.
A St. Louis pastor will preach next Sunday
evening on "A Cool Breeze," with a bouquet
frozen in ice on a pedestal at his side. How far
we have departed from the "hell-fire and brim
stone" sermons of the past. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
He Carries Hit Meals.
Prices in dining cars are decreased on a
number of railroads. This is a valuable reform,
but it does not go far enough to satisfy the
commuter, who does not remain on the train
for luncheon. Washington Star.
Did They Overreach'
Woman complains that since women were
enfranchised, men have begun to show lack of
sympathy and consideration. Looks as though
they are beginning to think that when they got
equal rights they got left. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Who's Yonr Angel?
Any nation that thinks it can afford to take
part in another war will arouse inquisitiveness
as to how it suddenly became so indoendently
wealthy. Washington Star.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Question concerning hygiene. tnita
tlon and pravantloa of dtaeese, ub
mitted to Or. Evan by ruder of
Tho Bm, will anewered pronlljr,
subject to proper limitation, where a
stamped, addreattd envelop i en
closed. Dr. Even will not make
disgaosls or proscribe lor Individual
diseaeea. Addroaa letter la car of
The Bee.
Copyright, 121. by Dr. W. A. Evan.
ANOTHER DIFFICULT
PROBLEM.
Karely is my mail bag so light
that it does not contain at least one
letter on bed wetting. This is a
model for the lot:
"I am desperate. My child, 7 years
old, wets the bed every night. I
have had him to seven doctors and
he is just as bad off as he was in
the beginning. What can I do?"
Change the age of the child and
the number of physicians seen and
you have a letter that comes to me
by the thousands.
I am afraid when they get through
with me they have merely added
another to their list of useless ap
peals. As in the case of nail biting. I
have been surprised at the number
of appeals which come from adults
who suffer from the affliction.
In early Infancy the bladder is
emptied when asleep or awake just
on impulse. The process is psycho
logical. As children get older they
gradually acquire the ability to re
strain this Impulse first when awake
and later subconsciously when
asleep.
Thus we see that bed wetting is
instinctive and natural. The reverse
freedom from the habit Is arti
ficial and unnatural, a power ac
quired by an intellectual mastery
which, in turn, is social in its origin.
Some are unable to make the
grade.
The reasons are many. It is the
multiplicity of the reasons, the
scores of things, many of them
trifling, which make it difficult to
cure cases of bed wetting.
That cause may be one of 20, most
of which are removable, and there
Is no way to tell which it is in a
given case, except to try out each of
the 20.
In Clark's method of character
training normal babies learn to get
along without diapers by the time
they are three months old. Babies
trained by the Clark method are not
apt to develop into bed wetting
children. Dr. Hawke of Wlnfleld,
Kan., says If a child still is a per
sistent bed wetter at the end of the
third year, treatment should be
started.
If the child is an idiot or an im
becile, not much can be done. If he
has epilepsy, chorea, habit spasm
or night terrors, the case will prove
difficult, but it may not be incurable.
It is estimated that about 90 per
cent of the bed wetters are neurotics.
In fact, all adults, adolescents and
children in the puberty period who
bed wet are either mentally incom
petent, badly neurotic or have some
organic bladder weakness.
But most neurotics are far from
being untrainable. Among local con
ditions responsible for bed wetting
at times are phimosis, adherent pre
puce, inflammation of the outer
urinary organs, poorly developed
bladder wall, stone in the bladder,
intestinal parasites. Among other
causes are faulty diet, especially one
tco rich in sugar; diabetes, Bright's
disease and enlarged tonsils.
Prendagast cured 75 cases out of
SO in a boys' orphanage by douch
ing the spine with cold water and
then giving a vigorous rubdown. The
boys emptied their bladders and
went to bed at once.
Pisck employs a kind of bladder
training.
Several times a day the subjects
are made to pass the urine on com
mand. At the word "stop" they fle-j
sist. This is done two or three times
at each urination, or about 10 times
a day in all. The subject keeps a
monthly record of bed wetting and
nonbed wetting nights and mails it
to the doctor at the end of the
month.
Another method la to give no
fluids after 4 p. m. The child
passes his urine at 8 p. m. and goes
to bed; At 10:30 p. m. the parents
awakens the child "wide awake"
and has him empty the bladder
completely and then go back to
bed. Nervous children are not al
lowed to romp or play after 5
o'clock in the afternoon.
Some children lack thyroid and
are cured by taking that substance.
How Family Tree Looks.
T. T. T. writes: "1. Will you
please tell me the difference between
first and second cousins?
"2. What relation would my
cousin's baby be to me? Our moth
ers are sisters. Fathers not related
except by marriage.
"a. Would there be any danger in
marrying a man who had malaria?
"4. Would It affect offspring?"
REPL-T.
1. The children of first cousins
are second cousins.
2. First cousins once removed.
The baby's mother is your first
cousin.
3 and 4. No.
To Keep Down Fat.
Margaret B. writes: "1. Are gra
ham crackers fattening?
"2. Kindly name some foods that
are not fattening, as I am over
weight and would like to keep down
my weight.
1. Yes.
2. Meat, eggs, watery vegetables
and fruits, fats of all kinds, soups.
It is assumed that you cat in mod
eration. Foods low in starch and
sugar but rich in fats and protein
can fatten if taken In excess.
About Uremic Poisoning.
Subscriber writes: "Please tell
me what are the symptoms, cause
and cure, if any, for uremic poison
ing. REPLY.
Among the outstanding symptom
are coma and convulsions. Uremia
develops because the kidneys stop
work. The most frequent cause is
acute Bright's disease. A patient
wtih uremia should have prompt,
active medical treatment.
Russian Soviets Banish Circus.
The circus is to be banished by the
Russian government. The deepest
thinkers in Russia, it would seem,
are to be found in the clowns in the
circus. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
ADVENTURE.
If the luck change tomorrow,
Our aun may be seen
Purple, fantastic.
In a wide eky of green;
Or waves, flowing outward
Away from the hore.
May bring u no music
To fear and adore.
Our bodies may b broken
A tones are In quarries.
Our thoughts ground fin
As grain In the mill.
By the passing of hours,
Since fate never tarries
For the heat of the heart
Or the flint ot the will.
The day may he filled
With Impossible thing
Saint without haloes, at
Angel without wings
O my spirit, be ready
For the hasard, the mirth
Who can tell the peth
Of the turning earth T
-Marguerite Wilkinson la tb Forum.
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Blames the Girls.
Omaha. July 25. To the Editor
of Tho Bee: Last Saturday night at
11:30 three young girls of our city
were walking home.
As many young men asked them
to sro lov-rldlng and it seems they
went to Elkhorn. Think of it and it
was midnight then. On the return
trip at about one of the young
women was killed when the car
turned over at "Dead Man's" curve.
Are the young people of today
going entirely to the devil and can't
they find enough amusement before
midnight.
What kind of tomniyrot was going
on in that car when the driver did
not slow down for this dangerous
curve?
The girls were to blame for con
senting to go on such a trip at that
hour of the night and the men are
to be equally censured for extend
ing such an invitation.
Something has got to be done
about this man and a young girl
in an auto on a country-road-after-midnlght
business or else we might
as well cut virtue and chastity out
of our language, becaune there won't
be any such thing. There should
be an iron-clad law passed with
plenty of teeth in It to keep young
girls off country roads and out of
automobHes and in bed after mid
nlpht. The girl who turns up her nose at
this is courting dishonor and ruin
and perhaps death.
P. L. HARPER.
Pleads for Trees.
Omaha, July 27. To the Editor
of The Bee: I am writing to pro
test against the cutting down of the
trees on South Forty-second street
during the grading of the street.
These treees are a landmark,
much loved by the people living
southwest of Hanscom park. They
are a great addition to the beauty
of the city and it seems inconsistent
to teach the children to plant trees
on Arbor day and then to destroy
ruthlessly, this beautiful "Griffen's
Grove."
I trust the city officials will see
their way clear not to cut these
trees for the sake of a foot or two
of added width to the street. This,
aside. from the personal side of it.
My grandfather planted those trees
many years ago. He was one of
this city's first pioneers, coming
here in 1856, and was honored and
loved by all, and this memorial of
his useful life should be left alone.
Trusting that this protest will be
heeded and these beautiful trees
not cut down.
It. E. GRIFFEN,
3401 South Forty-second Street.
German-Lutheran Schools.
Omaha. July 2. To the Editor
of The Bee: Kindly grant me a
few lines in your valuable columns
to correct the erroneous impression
no doubt left with many of your
readers concerning the German
Lutheran schools, as the result of
having read the statement of your
correspondent, A. C. Rankin.
The writer is a staunch supporter
of the American- public school sys
tem and hasn't been a member of
any church for many years, but I
am a graduate of a German-Lutheran
parochial school and can and
do emphatically deny the infer
ence that these institutions are con
ducted to promote German propa
ganda. In my . school days fully
half of our studies were executed
in the English language and I have
it on the best of authority that the
studies in the English language pre
dominate by far at the present time.
Your correspondent evidently
"jumped at conclusions," and many
uninformed are under the same im
pression, simply from the fact that
the schools are conducted by Ger
man-Lutheran congregations. Their
educators are of the highest type.
physically, mentally and morally and
really spend much more time at
strenuous preparatory work than
what, is required for our public
schools. Graduates of German
parochial schools and colleges are
to be found all over this broad
land, many in highly responsible
positions and in practically every
sphere of endeavor. Thousands
served in the war of the rebellion,
in the Spanish-American war and
many thousands more were repre
sented among officer and enllnted
men in the A. E. F. Would Nebras
ka, the home of only a small frag
ment of the great Lutheran body,
attempt to legislate against as
peaceful, thrifty and law-abiding an
element of cttisens as any state can
boast of. Your correspondent be
trayed his Intolerance and incident
ally his ignorance of the German
Lutheran school system.
II. A. RAVENS,
Chicago.
Ireland Again DiaiMwod Of.
Omaha. July 27. To tho Editor
of The Bee: I have Just read the
article written by Rev. P. J. Judge
and published in The Bee. Ireland
has no more right to secede from
England than had North Carolina to
secede from the United States. De
Valera and his fellow fanatics have
been offered an Independent govern
ment, and have refused. Their
hand has been forced and their pur
pose laid bare, and it leaves thrni
floundering. The whole deal is about
as raw and awkward as anything
could well be.
Admiral Sims stated the rase ex
actly. He deserves the thanks of
every true American. He should
have had the commendation of his
government Instead of the censure
of Jelly-tlsh politicians.
An Irishman who becomes at
heart a real American makes a
splendid fearless citizen. So does a
German. But any emigrant who
does not at heart sever his foreign
allegiance and enter into the spirit
of our institutions, and only uses
America as a safe refuge to fill his
pocket-book and radiate his foreign
propaganda, is a danger and a
menace and should be summarily
dealt with.
S. J. WOODRUFF,
3846 Hamilton Street.
THE SPICE OF LIFE.
Teacher And what was Nelsons fare
well address?
Bright Boy Heaven, ma'am. London
Matt
Johnny The camel can go eight days
without water.
Freddy So could I If ma would let me.
Harper' Blur.
"What would you suggest for our liter
ary club to read?" asked Mrs. Flubdub.
"A good cook book," responded her
brutal husband. Kansas City Journal.
"Is your husband a good provider,
Dinah T"
"Tessum, he's a good providah sli right,
but I'se alius skeered dat nlggah's gwino
r git caught at it." O. E. R. Bulletin.
A Manchester grocer is advertising for
a man to look after customers, partly
outdoors and partly Indoors. We dread
to think what will happen to him when
the door slams. Punch.
F. C. Comstock, tonsorlal artist and
base ball magnate, has been washing the
celling in his shop and finds the original
color was white. The color will be re
called by many of our older residents.
Meshoppen Enterprise.
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The teacher had asked, "Why did David
say he would rather be a door-keeper In
the house of the Lord?"
"Because," answered a boy, "he could
then walk outside while the sermon was
being preached." Boston Transcript.
School Teacher (to Llttl Boy) If a
farmer raises 3,700 bushels of wheat and
sella it for $2.60 per bushel, what will he
get?
Little Boy An automobile. Western
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