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1. Ntw Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued Improvement of tho Ne
braska Highways, including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfares leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rato Waterway from tha
Corn Bolt to tha Atlantic Ocean.
4. Homo Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Publicity for the Conference.
Will the Washington conference sit in the
1 open, with nothing concealed, or will it be held
in reasonable privacy, where the intimate and
exclusive thoughts of the conferees may be
freely expressed, with full knowledge that im
mature Or unwise publication will not mar the
symmetry of the agreement that is to eventully
emerge from the council chamber?
... "Pitiless publicity" has an attractive sound,
and has been highly recommended as a panacea
for all the political ills. When Mr. Wilson went
to Paris, he was the protagonist of publicity, de
voted to "open covenants openly arrived at."
Early in his experience there he discovered the
desirability of some measure of privacy, and, ii
Mr. Lansing and Colonel House are to be de
pended upon, the president of the United States
become the most astute and secretive of
diplomats present.
. If the conference sessions are open, it means
the presence of at least half a dozen news
paper correspondents and reporters for each of
. the delegates. Every word, however inconse
quential will be recorded and spread broadcast
throughout the world; every action, however
' trivial, will be Interpreted by one or the other
of the "experts" in the press gallery according
to his Own views, sympathies or prejudices. It
is not a very pleasant admission, yet candor
compels the statement that newspaper corre
spondents have proved their human fraility on
'several notable occasions.
Few can look upon a half-finishved thing and
judge it fairly. In the conflict of opinion that
will inevitably arise in these discussions at
Washington, heated remarks may be made that
would set the teeth of nations on edge. There
may be times when agreement seems impossi
ble and abandonment of efforts impends. Such
incidents would be meat for agitators, jingoes
and the yellow press. National feeling might
be arroused which could not easily be stemmed
, rbysubsequent cooling off of their spokesmen.
When one man calls another a liar, the chances
for reconciliation are much better if none
knows of it save themselves than if the ugly
word would be passed on a stage before 10,000
people.
Each nation is ruled by men who are sub
ject to popular control. Let these statesmen
confer and draw up their program, then let the
. people judge if it be well done. Let them have
the final authority. ' ;
Such , is the plan followed by the United
States. American treaties are drawn up by the
executive and then subjected to ratification or
rejection by the senate. There is no treaty to
which the United States is a party which is not
open and public. That the power' of . ratifica
tion is potent and can be used to kill an ob
noxious treaty has been evidenced in the treaty
mcnt accorded President Wilson work at Paris.
; Those who advocate publicity of every stage
of treaty-making either lack judgment or seek
'. to embarrass and cast suspicion in , advance
upon the forthcoming international congress.
Boot-Strap Optimism. ,
i"; Optimism is a most desirable quality, just
now. ' But those who claim that it is all that
is necessary in order to put the industrial a
fairs into apple pie order are exaggerating. Any
optimism that disregards hard reality can not be
of permanent advantage.
When things went wrong there was a cause,
or rather, a number of causes. Before sound
conditions can be assured and perpetuated, these
causes must be recognized and dealt with or the
same effects will return. One who looks over
the financial history of the United States, with
its alternate periods of exhilaration and depres
sion, must be puzzled over whether the normal
condition is one of prosperity or the opposite.
Surely ' mankind has grown intelligent
enough to be able to introduce more stability
into business affairs. Advocates of the "keep
smiling" policy are right only if they take
cognizance of the underlying factors and work
.to improve them as they smile.
Juggling With Words.
' When the supreme council reassembled in
Paris Monday it had before it as chief business
the settlement of the Upper Silesian muddle.
To this end they look to the United States to
afford some means of approach to a solution.
To get the right perspective we should keep al
ways in mind that Upper Silesia is rich in coal
and iron and other minerals, and therefore is
highly desirable as a possession. When Poland
was brought up from the depths, the region In
dispute was made part of the resuscitated king
dom. Germany protested ' so violently against
this that the Peace Conference decided to refer
the matter to the inhabitants for settlement, and
a plebiscite was arranged, the vote to be taken
by townships. When the ballots were counted,
it was found that 704,519 had voted for Ger
many; for Poland, 471,323.
' . This would seem to be conclusive, but it is
not A commission had been formed to divide
the country on the line of the vote, taking into
account the wishes of the inhabitants as shown
by the vote and "geographical and economic"
-conditions of the region. All the trouble has
arisen over the interpretation to be placed on
'"geographical and economic." It is a phrase al
most as unhappy in its application as Mr. Wil
son's' ethnic and historical formula for de-
marking the boundaries in the Balkans. How
the settlement will be made must rest on the
meaning given these words.
Germany and Poland are already at arms
over the possession of the region; France has
threatened armed intervention, and has all but
broken with England over the point at issue,
Poland's strength is vital to the French policy
of placing a "ring" around Germany. Ambas
sador Harvey may be able to give a definition
of the disputed phrase, but the probabilities' are
that more than simple diplomacy will be re
quired to restore tranquility to the disturbed
area.
Let's Look at the Doughnut.
Come on, you crape-hangers and gloom
spreaders; this is an editorial for you.
We will admit that things are not booming
along like they were in the days of '19 and the
early part of '20, when everybody had a money
bush in full bloom, and nobody cared a darn,
because the crop of coin would never fail. Busi
ness appears to be quiet now, in comparison
with those times, but let us look at what
actually has happened.
Fifteen years ago a 'big business house put
up an eight-story building of which it occupied
three floors and the basement, and then set
about to make its business grow up to its quar
ters. That building is now ten stories and a
basement, and all the room is needed by the
concern to take care of its customers. Another
also has more than doubled the space it occu
pied, having erected a handsome store building
of the most modern type during the days of
the highest cost of building ever known in this
part of the world, merely because it had. to have
the room to properly house its expanding trade..
And yet another has similarly added to its floor
space, besides increasing its factory facilities.
A great wholesale and manufacturing establish
ment has similarly, expanded its local plant,
adding building and equipment to an extent that
would look like a big factory itself, were ft not
simply a unit in a still greater institution.
Other similar instances are many, "too numer
ous to mention." Does this support .the thought
that Omaha is going backward?
Look around you see the signs of progress
and growth on every side. Any claim made in
behalf of Omaha can be supported by visible,
tangible proof. Forget your gloom; it pays to
be a "bull" on Omaha. To quote the well
known slogan of a persistent advertiser: "Busi
ness is good, thank you!"
Does Human Nature Change)
The conviction is being driven home that
the greatest bar to progress and improvement
is simply and utterly sinful human nature. Re
formers who are motivated by reason and in
telligence rather than emotionalism are coming
to recognize the truth that the mere passing of
a law can not establish a new custom. Such
success, for example, as the prohibitory legisla
tion has had is attributable to the change of
habit and regard of great numbers of the Ameri
can people toward the use of alcohol which pre
ceded the enactment of law.
In the noteworthy institute of politics which
is meeting at Williams college, James Bryce
has applied the same reasoning to the question
of international' peace. "The prospect of im
proving the relations of states and peoples to
one another," he observed there, "depends on
the possibility of improving human nature it
self." Those who speak with the voice of despair
or in the spirit of letting well enough alone
rather than from knowledge of the history of
mankind declare that human nature does not
change. t
Human nature as a. whole is on a higher
moral level than at any other period in history.
Modern invention has brought all nations into
closer connection and knowledge. Suspicion
and hatred of foreigners is surely decreasing un
der the development of travel, commerce and
immigration. Today Americans are preparing
to feed the starving in Russia, as they also have
fed the children of their late enemies in Austria
and Germany. In primitive times much of the
intercourse between different tribes was by
means of "silent trade," by which one set of
men would set down a pile of goods on their
borders and retire while their neighbors came
up and left supplies of another kind in return.
How different is the scene today where the 'na
tions which lately warred with Germany have
commercial missions there and through their
bankers are extending loans to their late foes.
Human nature can change, has changed, and
must change still more before world peace can
be possible. Out of the misery of these times
is developing a sympathetic interest in other
people's problems that is distinctly promising.
Without the growth of this spirit all the efforts
to obtain disarmament and conciliation will fail.
Sensational Divorces. ,
Geraldine Farrar and Lou Tellegen threaten
to hire press agents to spread scandal about
each other in connection with their matrimonial
disagreement. A little reticence would be more
seemly than the stripping bare of all the in
cidents leading to the suit for separation filed
by the husband.
Those who have heard the one sing and those
who have seen the other act are willing to know
them only through the exercise of their talents
and are not altogether eager to learn of their
private peccadilloes. Divorces are not yet
awarded by popular ballot, and the appeal to
public opinion which was made in the Still
man case is of no. particular avail. Sooner or
later the , people are going to resent being
dragged into every family squabble in which
the contestants are of note. A sensation is said
to be promised by Mr. Tellegen, but he is likely
to find that it is to be mainly the sensation of
disgust which he will arouse.
The governor of the federal reserve system
sees red and starts after a witness' with clenched
fists; this is only one of a number of recent
scenes of this sort. If our statesmen really wish
to settle national problems by force, there will
be several good openings for pugilists this fall.
Naturally the pride of the south would result
in a denial of the prevalence of pellagra there.
Some people would rather die of a disease than
admit they had it.
If Europe is really worried about having
15,000,000 more women than men, it might try
the experiment of letting the surplus fight the
next war.
cFamine and Revolution.
Historic Connection Between tht
Two Repeats Itself in Russia.
(From the New York Times.)
The news from Russia that millions are
starving in one of the world's most productive
sources of food surprises none of those familiar
with the doctrines of the revolutionaries. In
his "Conquest of Bread" Prince Kropotkin de
clares that famine is essential to any revolu
tion, and that it is welcomed because it drives
the hungry to co-operate with the revlution
aries. That must be bracketed with Marxism
and Leninism if there is any difference be
tween them as another theory promising the
millennium, but proved by experience to lead
through purgatory to the unknown bourne of
economics. Neither the peasants nor the pro
letariat are working to support the Russian
revolutionaries. "Rob Europe to Eat" is the
heading over Trotzky's truculent declaration
of intention "to take violently what Europe
will not give us voluntarily." Another account
describes a vast trek by millions of starving,
devouring the land they pass over as though
they were locusts, or rather as tho Goths and
Vandals ravaged in the early ages.
"The Girondists are starving us" was the
cry of the French workers in 1793, and the
Girondists were guillotined. The Mountain
and the Commune followed, the bakers were
hanged, and still Frenchmen were hungry.
Servants and duchesses lost their heads in a
sense different from the mob's loss of its head,
but want grew with the number of corpses.
Reaction and the white terror followed, just
as now the Russian "whites" are blamed by the
revolutionists.
It was the same in the French revolution
of 1848. The workers volunteered three
months of starvation for the revolution, and at
its futile end made one last bloody effort. In
1871 the commune separated church and state,
but perished for lack of cambatants because it
did not feed the people. Communal kitchens
were opened too late, and succumbed to the
soldiers of Versailles. Reviewing these events,
Prince Kropotkin as mild a revolutionary as the
world may hope to sec, said:
Bread it is bread that the revolution
needs. Be it ours to see from the first day of
revolution to the last that not a single man
lacks bread, not a single woman stands out
side the bake-house door that haply a coarse
loaf may be thrown to her in charity, that
not a single child pines for food. . . . We
have the temerity to declare that all have a
right to bread, that there is bread enough
for all, and that with this watchword the
revolution will triumph.
It is the boast of capitalism that it lias
achieved what revolutionaries assert as their
objective. Capitalism is not yet centuries old
the economic revolution dating roughly from
our political revolution but it would have per
ished generations ago if it had not substituted
comparative abundance of all good things for
the relatively worse earlier conditions. The
Russian revolution is perishing because it has
the world's experience under capitalism, and is'
substituting economic reaction under the form
of a political revolution. Czarism was faulty,
but it was benevolent compared with the
maleficent, if not malevolent, dispensers of an
earthly millenium by the Russian route. The
British promisers of benefits by the political In
stead of economic means that is, for example,
by nationalization of the coal mines instead of
by increase of product by efficiency and indus
try failed because of disillusionment of Eng
land by the Russian object lesson. In like man
ner the prestiare of the alleged British reforms
through socializing the surplus wealth for the
common good has lost 'U force in observing
other countries, of which is is one of the lead
ersr Our institutions arc buttressed upon the
solid fact that, with all their faults, they are
the world's nearest realization of.provision of
the creates good for the greatest numbers.
The cable quotes Lenin: "We must now
emoloy all our forces, cost what it will, to the
end that the small bourgeois industry shall im
prove . . . the new policy will be of long
duration . . . the country is run way down
economically. If capitalism is the only refuge
for Lenin, there is not a remnant of reason why
any other country should imitate Russia itv
peace any more than Germany in war. The
economic war on want will not be won until
there is acceptance of the idea that the world's
wants are better supplied by the workshop than
by revolution, by sweat rather than by blood,
by maximum of goods rather than by minimum
of work.
High Cost of Marriage
A sharp decline in the number of marriages
which occurred at the end of last year shows
how severely, the financial position reacts on so
cial life. The number of persons married dur
ing the last quarter of the year was 36,098
fewer than in the previous quarter and 19.534
fewer than in the fourth quarter of 1919. The
year 1919, the last of the "boom" years follow
ing the war, showed a large number of mar
riages, and it seemed that 1920 would do the
same until the break in trade occurred. The in
cidence of taxation, unemployment and the ex
cessive cost of everything have made marriage
very difficult. The birth rate for the first quar
ter of 1921 was 22.6 per thousand of population,
the lowest for any first quarter since the estab
lishment -of civil registration, excepting the first
quarters of the war years, 1916-1919.
We are beginning: to find that excessive tax
ation kills more than industry home life and
child life. J he death rate is also the lowest
ever recorded in the first Quarter of the vear.
being 13.9 per thousand of population. For
comparison, the rates in the first quarters of the
following years were: 1914, 16; 1915, 20.1; 1917,
19.3; 1918. 16.4; 1919 21.2; 1920, 14.7. Influenza
accounted for 2.5 per cent of the mortality. The
infant mortality per thousand births was 101,
being 17 per thousand below the average in the
preceding first ten quarters. London Corre
spondence American Medical Association
Journal.
' Sam Browne Prices.
When Sam Browne made the first Sam
Browne belt it probably cost him a shilling or
so for the straps and buckles. When Our over
seas officers were given permission to adopt the
nifty harness "the belts retailed at $2.50. The
A. E. F. demand advanced this price to $5. But
he end of the war, with Sam Brownes forbid
den at home, saw the belts go begging at that
figure. . According to the law of supply and
demand they would speedily have reverted to
valise fittings. Yet when General Pershing or
dered their adoption a miracle occurred. The
price soared to $15. That, again, is the im
mutable law of supply and demand. Yet the
War department proposes to furnish. the belts
hereafter at $2. What has happened to the well
known law? Portland Oregonian.
One Note of Cheer.
In Tune, 1914, the total deposits in the state
banks of South Carolina aggregated $48,560,-952.01.
On June 30 of this year the deposits in the
state banks of South Carolina totaled $82,292,-
391.92.
The hard fact is that for all our kicking we
are just about twice1 as well off in this state
as we were seven years ago on the world war's
eve. Charleston News and Courier.
Senator Cummins may be doubtful about
cutting railroad rates, but a poll of his con
stituents might not disclose such misgivings.
i Why the British Objections.
British officials object to Washington as the
site for the disarmament conference because of
fls humidity. Or maybe its aridity. Toronto
Mail and Empire.
What Makes the Waves Wild?
But are the wild, wild waves any wilder
than the wild, wild women in the wild, wild
bathing suits? Detroit Free Press.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Quaatiena cencarnlnf hygiene, aanlta
tlon anal anvintioti el diaaaaa, auo
mltttd to Dr. Evana by raadira af
Tha Baa, will be anawarod paraonally,
aubject te proper limitation, where a
atampad, addraaaad envalopa la en
claaad. Dr. Evaaa will not make
diafDoaia or areacrihe far Individual
dUaaaaa. Addreae lattara la care el
Tha Baa.
Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evana.
?5WAT FLIES. SAVE BABIES.
If we can keep the flies away from
the babies for the next month 1 a
good many lives will be saved.
Ohio's healtn department says in
a certain investigation the United
States nubile health service found
that four-fifths of the diarrhea in
children was due to flies. ,
This is exactly what they found:
They found 894 sick days due to
diarrhea anions; children in a cer
tain place. Flies were very abun
dant. Without changing anything
else, a fly campaign was conducted
and the area was converted into a
llvless resrion. In the same period
of time as that covered in the first
study there were only 273 sick days
due to diarrhea among children.
In New York City a similar com
parative study showed a record that
was Just as detrimental to the repu
tation of the fly.
Under Dr. Levy, the Richmond,
Va., health department made a
greater record for saving babies'
lives. Their plan consisted In:
a. Preventing the breeding of flies.
b. Screening flies away from
- babies.
c. Having all soiled baby diapers
put at once into covered cans
and soaked in antiseptic solu
tions. " Baby specialists are not In agree
ment as to how the responsibility
for baby diarrhea is to be divided.
They all say heat, flies, bacteria,
poor milk and improper feeding
are factors, but when they come to
rank these factors the disagreement
Is apparent
In a recent meeting a Chicago
baby specialist said he did not think
the bacteria of diarrhea was much
of a factor in his city.
If he is correct, then soiled dia
pers, flies and contagion are of a
secondary importance there. But on
the other hand, Dr. Levy holds that
in his city, In a campaign to keep
babies alive and well In summer
time, work against flies and soiled
diapers outranks everything else.
It is possible that both of these
authorities are right. In Chicago
flies are not very troublesome. Per
haps they are nearing the time when
they will have a flyless town.
Scott says that in Wyoming flies
do not live through the winter. They
would have a flyless state were It
not for the flies brought into the
state in the spring by through
trains.
Maybe that is true. It may be
true of Chicago and all the far
northern parts of the United States.
It so, the railroad people may be
come interested and stop sowing the
fly seed In the spring, whereupon tha
far north might become flyless.
But while the fly sharks and baby
specialists are fighting their fights,
the wise policy for the mother,
wherever she is, is to see that the
flies do not get at her baby and its
food.
Skillful Treatment' Essential.
Mrs. J. C. B. writes: "Will you
please tell me something about
twilight sleep?' Is it injurious to
mother or babe and does one com
pletely lose consciousness?"
REPLY.
It is reasonably safe for both par
ties when administered in a hospital
where physicians and nurses have
had some experience 1n using It
Fighting Mosquitoes.
N. L. writes: "Please give me a
remedy for mosquito bites, also
something to keep them from bit
ing." REPLY.
1. Ammonia water.
2. Oil of nfrrnnalla 1 mmn.
spirits of camphor, 1 dunce; oil of
ceaar, one-nail ounce.
Acidosis lit Children.
T)llv TftAflrler wrltaa' "Pkdu :
plain symptoms and cause of acidosis
in a cnua or i ana u mere is dan
ger or arter effects."
rfipt.v
Children with acidosis have fever,
nervousness, delirium, convulsions,
sometimes. It la what vm mim
called congestive stomach fever and
oy omer names, xnere is no general
agreement as to the cause. Probably
an imnrnnprlv hnlanra Atat la
cause. There Is no danger of after
ejects, as a rule, a child that has
naa one attack is likely to have
cmers.
Five Pounds Under Weight.
C. M. F. writes: "Please tell me
if drinking buttermilk dally with
my luncheon will increase my
weight? I am 45 years old, 5 feet 5
inches tall (without shoes), and
weigh 139 pounds. Should it be less?
I have a small frame. Have
weighed 155 pounds and do not want
to repeat."
REPLY.
1. The tendency will be that way,
though much will depend on the
other items on your daily food card.
2. You are about rive pounds un
der weight.
Only Effect Is Menial.
Mrs. T. W. R. writes: "What
benefit, if any, is derived i'rom violet
ray treatment of a person in the In
cipient stages of tuberculosis?"
REPLY. -
None, except as they would boost
mentally. Consumptives like to feel
that something is being done.
You Don't Tell Enough.
M. E. V. writes that her baby was
a fine specimen at birth. He weighed
8 pounds. At the fifth week he
started to go down gradually. He
continued to lose weight until he
weighed only 4 pounds. Finally he
Just seemed to take a turn for the
better. She beean feeding him con
densed milk. By the time he was 1
year old he was normal in size and
weight. He is 6 years old and a
fine healthy boy, except that he is
high atrung. She thinks now that
he had pyloric stenosis and asks:
"1. Could I have moved the ob
structing tumor accidentally in
handling him?
"2. As tumors are hereditary in
our family do you suppose he in
herited one?"
REPLY".
You give no symptoms by which
an opinion could be formed as to
whether . your child had pylorio
stenosis. You speak of nothing ex
cept progressive loss of weight,
great hunger and Irritability. Other
conditions as well as pyloric stenosis
could cause those symptoms. How
ever, pyloric stenosis is sometimes
recovered from without operation
anw without special treatment
1. Pyloric stenosis Is not a tumor
in any proper sense. It is an over
growth of muscle especially at the
right end of the Btomach. ' This
muscle is easily thrown into spas
modic contraction. The answer
therefore is no.
2. No.
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What About the Hungry?
Omaha, Aug. 6. To the Editor
ef The Bee: And now we mum
fAd Runsla. Fine, why not? We
have more food than we need in this
country everybody is weii-rea ana
our larders are full and overflowing.
Tell the world that we have more
edibles than wa know what to do
with. The poor children of our
cities are so overfed that many are
actually dying of fatty degeneration
of the heart. The workers of the
country are impoverished trying to
store and protect their vast stocks
of meat, vegetables, cereals, fruits,
et cetra. Let's get rid of the sur-
1 plus give In to anybody who will
I ( h..itv attnillil h0ln At
home, and we havo obeyed the
command. Every hungry mouth
has been fed: every poor, emaciated
body has been nurtured, so why not
take the hungry of this mundane
sphere under our wing and see that
gaunt hungry stalks nowhere. We
had a splendid example of home
charity here in Omaha last summer
in The Bee's milk and ice fund.
When the denizens of the old town
were shown that Just a little poverty
existed and there was Just a little
need for free milk and ice that
babies might be more luxuriously
provided for, 1,000 cold iron men
were marshalled to moot tne de
mand. Just think of it. every man,
woman and Child In the city con
tributed an average of cent
nearly, as some outside contribu
tions were received and the only
effort put forth was about eight
inches of newspaper space every
day during the summer. You bet,
we will feed them! Get busy, Mr.
Hoover, we are "Just rarin' to go."
J. H. 3. BLACK.
304 Grace Street, Council Bluffs.
Why Hotel Rat Are High.
Omaha, Aug. 5. To the Editor of
The Bee: Wa are enclosing here
with a copy of the report read at
the annual convention of the Amer
ican Hotel association In Chicago
on July 13, on the question of re
duction or hotel rates.
If you could give this report, or a
part of it, publicity in your paper
we would appreciate it.
There have been a good many
newspaper articles on the other
side of this question and the hotel
men would appreciate something
said in their behalf.
OMAHA HOTEL MEN'S ASSOCIA
TION. Harley Coriant,
. President.
At tfte annual convention of the
American Hotel association held in
Chicago on July 13 and 14, 1921,
the question of reduction of hotel
prices was given careful considera
tion and the committee after a
thorough investigation and ascer
tainment of actual facts, presented
the following report, which was
unanimously adopted.
Hotels did not Increase ' their
rates for rooms and food during the
past few years in keeping with the
increase in their operating costs, as
a comparison of ho el prices with
figures of the report of the United
States Department of Labor will
show, i
- The reason they did not do so
was because they were the recip
ients of an unusual and abnormal
volume of business, due to the war.
This unusual and abnormal vol-,
ume of business made it unnecessary
that rates be Increased proportion
ately with costs.
This unusual and abnormal vol
ume of business has disappeared.
The profits from the sale of wines
and liquors are gone.
The hotel man in 1921 is paying
practically as much as he paid dur
ing the peak prices of 1920 for such
Hems as labor, china, glassware,
freight, express and printing.
There has been very little de-
crease on such items as housekeep
ing supplies, engineering supplies
und other like charges.
In addition, the hotel man in
1921 is paying more than ever for
taxes, gas, electrlo current, muslo.
telephone service and insurance.
These are some of the reasons
which prevent the lowering of rates
for rooms to any considerable .ex
tent at present.
Comparison of present menu
prices with those of a few months
ngo will show that hotels have re
duced food prices in keeping with
the reduced cost of food materiuls.
So far as a reduction of room
rates is concerned, the hotels find
themselves in the same position as
the railroads, with whlc'.i position
the public is thoroughly familiar
namely, with practically a passen
ger and freight charge of double
their prewar tariff they are unable
to make profit owing to '.heir high
operating costs and decreased vol
ume of business indeed, the rail
roads are in a better position than
the hotels because they did not have
the most profitable department of
their business taken from them as
did the hotels by prohibition.
Homeless Diplomats
What Will Maid of Athens Say?
New York surgeons have restored
a lacerated heart to normal, show
ing that the breach of promise law
yers can't'have all that business.
Washington Post
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Saving civilization is much like
saving money. The desires of the
present seem so much more impor
tant than security of the future.
Birmingham (Ala.) News.
"Threaten to throw reds into In
dian ocean for revolutionary nets on
Australian ship." Why not the Red
sea? Buffalo Express.
The sea serpent has been con
spicuous by his absence from the
shore resorts this summer. From
all accounts, he is able to amuse
himself sufficiently outside the three
mile limit New York Evening Post.
For the general good of the com
monwealth, the Ten Commandments
Should be put Into the state consti
tution of Illinois. Portland Oregonian.
Here's a government bulletin on
how to keep the cellar dry. But is
there any better plan than calling in
your thirsty friends? Little Rock
(Ark.) Gazette.
(From tha rhtladrlphla Ledger.)
It is a sort of tragic Jest among
American ambassadors, ministers;
and diplomatic a tuffs generally that
America's foreign representatlvea
are always a homeless lot Birds
havo their nests . and foxes have
their holes, but the men who serve
the United States In foreign lands i
must lay their heads In rented quar
ters and in hotels.
Just now Ambassador Herrlck Is
wandering around Paris looking for
a house. At present he is housed
with his son in a tiny home in a lit
tie Parisian suburb. The place has
but two bedrooma and the Herricks
must get out In less 'han three
months.
Ambassador Herrlck is willing to
pay out his entire salary, and even
more, for house rentals, but there
are no houses to be had. The same
situation in regard to housing our
diplomatic representatives and their
offices exists in most of the other
world capitals.
The government of the United
States has appropriated $150,000 for
tho purchase and furnishing of a
home for the American ambassador
to France and for the offices of the
American embassy. Denmark would
be afhamod of such a showing., It
would not take car of Bulgarian
or Rumanian requirements. Not a
fifth-class nation of the world
would try to get along on such an
expenditure.
In Berlin a couple of "years ago
It would have been easy to buy for
the United States government splen
did, adequate buildings for the am
bassadorial residence and for the
embassy. That chance was allowed
to pass. The situation of the Amer
ican representatives in Berlin is
about as bad as Mr. Herrlck has
found them in Paris.
The United States is big enough
and its foreign Interests are cer
tainly great enough for us to get
away from this cheap and poverty
stricken way of taking care of the
men who do our work in foreign
lands.
Our Hides Arc Well Tanned.
The 15 per cent tax on cowhides
ouRht not to' render the cows des
perate. They ought to consider1
hew the hides of the American citi
zens are taxed. Houston Post
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