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    THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1921.
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The Beefs Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued Improvement of the Ne
braska Highways, including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A abort, lowrate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
It Knowledge Really Power?
An off-hand reply to that question is not
likely to be dependable, for, no matter which
way it may be answered, someone is sure to set
up to the contrary. Maybe the provisional
response, that it all depends, is the correct one.
A couple of years ago when we were comparing
the wages of teachers to those paid hodcarriers,
opinion inclined to the point that a weak mind
and a strong back when rightly coupled have
decided advantages over the opposite combina
tion. Happily, however, that condition is pass
ing, for it was only temporary and could not en
dure, and things are slowly righting themselves,
socially as well as industrially.
As a proof that knowledge may be translated
into power may be cited that so-called workers'
universities are springing up, to be supported and
patronized by workers, to the end that they will
be trained in mind as well as in muscle. Even
the experiment of the short-term summer
school for working girls at Bryn Mawr
is reported to have accomplished a great
deal for those who attended the classes.
This movement is significant of one of
the neglected manifestations of the ferment
that is working. That the manual toiler should
yearn for mental emancipation is natural, a wor
thy ambition. Indeed, a fundamental of our
government provides for the education of all the
boys and girls born under Old Glory, and most
of the states have rigid compulsory educational
laws. An accompanying fact, however, is that
the workers are seeking to establish their own
schools for higher training. This indicates a dis
trust of existing institutions that ought to be
dispelled.
What the workingman sees is immense en
dowment funds, subscribed to by men of great
wealth; his inference is that these benefactions
are bestowed because of especial favors ex
pected. Frequently a "high brow" affords sup- '
port for such conclusions by indulging in tion-
isensical discussion of problems he only half un
derstands. Now and then one breaks out on the
radical side, and capitalizes his dismissal from the
faculty of a great institution into an income far
exceeding that of any professor, merely because
he is adept at spreading the miasma of false
philosophy.
It will not do to say the worker can not use
the knowledge he seeks at the university. In
England is "that man Hodge," leader of the
miners. He was sent to school by his union,
graduated from Oxford with honor, went back
to work in the mine, was elected to a small office
in his union, rose to be its head, and now is
looked upon by many as the next premier, to
succeed Lloyd George. What may well be lone
in America is to readjust the great state univer
sities, every one of them open to the workers on
easy terms, so that their sound teachings will not
be swallowed up in fads or specialties, and will
be relieved of any suspicion or taint of reaction,
to the end that they may fulfill their great pur
pose, that of affording enlightenment to all the
people. And the endowed and private schools
may reach a higher stage of usefulness when they
search a little closer for the truth than some of
them are now thought to be doing.
It will be a sad calamity for popular education
should it ever be divided on class or sect lines,
s has happened to the church. Men are far less
likely to-be tolerant in dealing with demonstrable
facts than they are when in the realm of specula
tive or hypothetical things; and the history of
religion shows how sad a state it is for men
to differ about the way which is said to be both
straight and narrow. Let us have schools open
to all wherein the workers may learn and feel
that the knowledge they are gaining is not only
an element of power, but is power because it is
equally truth.
Elusiveness of Fortune.
One of the pathetic figures in modern fiction
is "No Creek Lee," in Rex Beach's story, "The
Barrier." He was the only "sour dough" in all
Alaska who had not had a creek named for him,
and this because he had never made a strike.
Years of patient effort and unremitting struggle
had brought him no reward, save the half-pitying,
half-derisive sobriquet.
His prototype in real life, from whom Beach
is said to have taken the idea, Con Van Alstyne,
is now reported to have been kilted and probably
devoured by the wild beasts in the wilderness he
roamed so long and so futilely. It is told of Van
Alstyne that once he located a claim that gave
little promise of yield, and traded it for a better
looking one. The man who took over the Van
Alstyne claim went back to Settle with more
than $2,000,000 in dust, while the discoverer of
the bonanza didn't get wages out of his. So all
through the" years he spent in that region of
wonders he was always just out of the, way
when Lady Luck-went by. But he never lost
hope, and. went on to the end, serenely con
fident his turn would come.
If his life held any lesson, it is that of per
sistence. The great reward of discovery was not
his, and through no especial fault of his own.
That he could and did sustain the buffets, and
kept his courage to the end is to his everlasting
credit In this he succeeded far better than
many another man of less worthy mettle, whose
spirit has snapped at the first setback, and who
has weakly ended it all rather than face a world
that had frowned at him.
. . "Sweet are the uses of adversity," if we have
the philosophy to apply them; none can say just
what joy Van Alstyne got out of life, but he must
have been sustained in some degree, else he
could not have gone ahead so bravely against
"the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."
His end is as obscure as his life was fruitless
in material things, but who will say he lived or
died in vain?
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Making Uplift Self-Supporting.
In his section of comment on the drifts of af
fairs, Editor Glenn H. Frank of the Century
Magazine cites the case of the Players Guild of
New York as an example ol self-supporting up
lifters. This group of genuine devotees, artists,
actors, writers, musicians and managers, so con
duct their business as to not only produce wor
thy drama, but also at such rate as returns to
them modest but sufficient revenue. No philan
thropy is connected with the venture, no wealthy
citizen donates to meet its deficit, it stands on
its own feet
Contrasting this successful so far at least
undertaking with some of the subsidized "foun
dations," Mr.' Frank finds reason for expressing
the hope that more worthy enterprises of the
kind will come to active life. One of his critical
remarks anent the endowed institution is that it
too frequently is devoted to the perpetuation of
ideas of its founder. Some are free from the
"dead hand," but most are restricted to the car
rying of yesterday's ideas over into tomorrow or
the day after.
In the Survey Jeffrey R. Brackett, discussing
constructive charity, cites a case where a will
was made setting aside what seemed to be a
modest amount to relieve distress among a lim
ited class in two small towns. The property
from which the income is derived has increased
until its value is many times what it was when
the will was made, while the class of persons in
tended to be benefited decreased, but the rigid
terms of the document bound its administrators,
who found a steadily mounting surplus in their
possession which they were forbidden to dispose
of. A court order cut the bonds, but the incident
is illustrative of a great many.
What is heeded is a more intensive study,
both of the "foundation," and the charity trust,
in order that real good may flow from the bene
factions that are now misdirected because of lack
of vision on part of the founder or benefactor.
One-Age Companies in Army.
. A new effort at classification of "rookies" is
getting a tryout at the Plattsburg training camp
this fall. Instead of associating the boys and
men who are present by towns or localities, as
has been the custom in the past, they are grouped
according to age, beginning with the 16-year-olds,
who represent the minimum in years, and
grading up from that in years. Out of this
has come the formation of four provisional com
panies described by their commander as being
"the friskiest lot of young soldiers that ever
capered in uniform." Also it is reported that
these youngsters are keener and more alert and
learn the routine of the soldier's trade more
quickly than do their elder brothers. It is easy
to account for both manifestations, they being
ascribable to the ebullient youth of the lads. A
boy of 16 has not been so long subject to the
treadmill of life's activities as a man of 30, and
therefore his mind is nearer the condition of a
blank page on which is to be recorded the new
impressions of military drill and discipline.
Actual proof in warfare sustains the theory
that the boys are more daring and venturesome,
just as they are in civil life, but the elder are
the more dependable in the long run, for the rea
son that they are seasoned, their steadfastness
being the result of an orderly mind, just as the
lad's dash and gallantry flow from the impulse
of unabashed youth. The' one-age classification
has advantages resting on the fact that effort
will be less restrained for the reason that dif
fidence due to discrepancy in years will be ab
sent Maybe the Plattsburg trainers have found
out something new about war.
Moving Picture Censorship.
A convention of considerable public interest
will meet at Los Angeles on Monday. It will
be made up of delegates from the varidus cen
sorship boards of the United States and Can
ada, and will devote its sessions to a discussion
of the topics in which its members are the most
concerned. What will come out of the gather
ing can not be told, but it is not so hard to out
line what might come out of its deliberations.
First of all, producers, authors, directors and
the like will be greatly relieved if these censors
will reach an agreement as to what is and what
is not proper to show on the screen. A definite
decision on this point will be of real service
to those who have to do with the making and
exhibition of films. Maybe it is not possible to
standardize the exhibitions, but basic rules
might be formulated without any violence
to the independent action of the separate boards
and thus a general guide be afforded for the con
trol of the industry. Maybe the gathering will
set in motion the oft-promised but long delayed
change in the character of the movies.
If that important part of the amusement life
of the world is to retain what it already has and
go on to greater things, it must be careful not to
forfeit public esteem, and it has been perilously
near to doing so of late. The work of the cen
sor may be made a great deal easier, if not ren
dered entirely unnecessary, by the producers.
The convention will give both (ides a good
chance to reach a common ground, and the case
of the movies will be helped if they do get to
gether. '
A sneak thief is reported to-have disdained
a bottle of rum, found in a valise he looted at a
camp meeting. He either had a tender heart or
an ingrowing conscience.
Not a bad idea, to give the gasoline vamps
who offer free rides to young women a free
ride at the city's expense to the police station.
That horned and winged fossil man found in
Tennessee answers the descriptions of Auld
Clootie, but the old boy has not been missed yet
Eamonn de Valera is showing himself clever
as a diplomat He knows how to prolong the negotiations.
A furniture makers' trust is being formed, as
if housekeeping was not already under sufficient
pressure.
The Husking Bee
It's Your Day
Siari ItWithaLauSh
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Starting Them Young.
Out in San Francisco, enthusiastic women
golfers have discovered a way to play their game
without neglecting their children. They just use
the caddy-bag for a go-cart, and carry the babies
around the links with them. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
THE GOLDEN ROD HIGHWAY.
It now is the bright golden season.
Vacationist time of the year
Yet Nature gives man every reason
To greet her bright fields with a tear;
Her beauty is polychromatic
And brilliant the fields we come through,
But in the still air there's a static
At-chool
When dried are the dews that have fallen
Asteraceous flora upon.
And verdure is shedding its pollen
Across Nature's lavish-hued lawn
' We are pleased in a sort of a wry way,
Our nostrils are quite tickled if
We travel the Golden Rod highway
. Sniff, sniff!
This highway is paved with intentions
Of those who have traveled of yore,
While they have tried cures and preventions
They're back to the highway once more;
For Nature that gay-hued deceiver
Whose fragrance is borne on the breeze,
But brings to her victims hay fever,
Sneeze, sneeze I
PHILO-SOPHY.
Wrinkles are the furrows in which are sown
the seeds of discontent.
When a young man falls in love with a girl
at the seashore it is usually merely a matter of
form.
There is one thing to which a girl gives a lot
of close study and that is her mirror.
Old-fashioned woman used to do all the
family marketing in a basket and carry it home
on her arm.
Nowdays, frail housewife thinks she has done
her duty if she lugs home a new hair net and an
ounce box of rouge.
LACKING.
"Hello, old man. Have you confidence
enough in me to lend me a five?"
"Yes, but I haven't a five."
When a friend owes you a dollar you can for
feit his friendship by asking him for it or you
may retain his friendship by leaving it a loan.
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LINE O' CHEER.
Be cheerful and gay, for that is the stuff
Of which joy is made, O my brother,
To laugh at misfortune is easy enough
If it's the ill-luck of another.
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LAPSUS LINGUAE.
Say, Omahans, 'jever notice when you are
touring the west and you felt the old nostalgia,
better known as homesickness, grip you by the
heartstrings and you hopped a Union Pacific rat
tler at Ogden and settled down in a double seat
for the old home stretch and inyour ardent
imagination you are nearing home even faster
than the train can carry you and as the train
slacks you peek out of the window wondering
how far Omaha really is, and you find you are
dragging into a station which a sign informs you
is Green River?
Any pleasant -memories of the pre-Volstead-ian
period which the sign conjures up are im
mediately overshadowed by a meaningless post-
errinf'iuriirll aplr in inform VOU that VOU are 176
miles from Ogden and 817 miles from COUN-1
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With your mind full of Omaha and although
you have a faint recollection of having heard of
Council Bluffs some time in the dim and misty
past, you feel a keen sense of disappointment
and even wonder if you are on the right train.
At Laramie, Cheyenne and other stops you
are again informed of the distance to Council
Bluffs, and having finally satisfied yourself that
you are really headed for home, you spread a
gratifying haM-hour ruminating on the myopic
obliquity and judgment that would prompt an
engineer to waste so much of his life in the use
less ; operation of doping out the distances to a
burg where the trains merely stop for water.
For a transportation company that prides it
self on being up-to-date, you decide that these
U. P. signs are sadly wrapped up in the cobwebs
of antiquity, and you resolve to write the com
pany a letter advising the officials to look up
their records of ticket sales and ascertain what
percentage of travelers are Omaha-bound, and
to change those signs accordingly.
They will find a large majority of their pas
sengers are not interested in the distance to
Council Bluffs, Abydos, nor the Isle of Yap.
Admitted that Council Bluffs, but Omaha de
livers the goods 1
FAMOUS SAYINGS.
Judge Cooley: "I haven't had to comb my
hair since those bandits slugged me. Between
these hard-boiled yeggs and Doc Kinyoun, I got
a permanent wave." '
Economist advises the purchase of the cheaper
cuts of meat. 'Sail right, maybe, but can't ex
pect a family to make a square meal off round
steak. ...
BUS SERVICE.
Street car system over at Des Moines died of
suspended animation. Company wanted 8 cents,
but people protested that 8 cents wasn't fare.
City commish slapped street car omciais siuy.
They were kind of silly in the first place.
Motor busses were already to duplicate tram
service. Duplication means as bad or worse.
First thing motor busses equipped with was
straps. Busses run on Darwinian theory that
man descended from monkey. If he hadn't he d
still be hanging from cocoanut tree.
Wise cracker who invented slogan, "Pay as
you enter." Enables transportation buzzards to
get the shekels before bimbo's right arm gets so
paralyzed he can't get his hand in his pocket.
Bus with six double seats has carrying ca
pacity of 40. Twenty-eight of 'em hang from
ceiling. Other 12 are dozen men who entered
ahead of the ladies. Whiskered gent sticks to
seat like fly on bald head since 19th amendment
gave man equal rights with woman.
Bus company furnishes elastic schedule.
Should furnish elastic elbows. When bus people
put forth elastic schedule, gullible public
grabs other end. Company begins to stretch
schedule. Public gets tired. Lets go and knocks
bus magnates for set of flat tires.
Street cars promise to stage comeback for" 7
cents, provided flange-wheel busses are kept off
car tracks and rubber tires off paved and un
paved streets.
WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE.
(Add realism in the movies.)
Alice Lake in "Uncharted Seas."
No, Myrtle, it isn't the initial cost of a "bob."
It's the upkeep.
SURE ENOUGH.
Some girlies wear a gartered hose
Up o'er the knee-cap's bone,
But there are tome, observer knows.
Prefer to "roll their own."
AFTER-THOUGHT: The ideal ideal is a
square deal, . BHILO,
How tb Keep Well
R. DR W. A. EVANS
Queetioa concerning hygiene, aanttatiea and prvethm el oMaeaae, aubmlttad
t. Dr. Evana by reader el The Bee. will be aaawered peraonally, "bJct
proper limitation, where a tamped addroaaed envelope la encloeed. Dr Evana
will net make oiagnoai or preacribe lor individual diaaaaaa. Addrea letter
la car el The Bet.
Copyright. 1911, by Dr. W. A. Evan
SYMPTOMS OF PELLAGRA.
Tllarra B-anarallV hrln With a
mmtrh Indication and bodily
and mental weakness and fatigue.
The tongue is pointed at the edges.
It may be sore. Tnere may db reu
nafr.v.aa and fl.anron There Is a
feeling of burning which runs down
the throat from the mourn ana inio
the stomach.
In the more typical cases the skin
shows patches of sunburn.
The sunburnt appearance la typi
cal, though tta distribution may not
be. If It comes on the back of the
hands and wrists it may form a
wristband extending around the
arm. It may form a collar around
the neck. In fact the no-called
Casal's collar is one of the best
known skin pictures. It develops
on the front of the chest. This lo
cation Is not reserved for those who
wear low neck gowns or waists with
triangular openings In front and
In nrhar word, while the
eruption looks like sunburn and Is
In the sunburn locations, wnen one
bores Into the case he finds there
has been no exposure, to sun or not
enough to account for the burn or
that the burn is not entirely ngni
for a sunburn as to location and
shape. ,
Goldberger says that as a rule
there Is constipation and no one
has seen any more . of the disease
than hi, thi oVnort Nevertheless
many cases have diarrhea and some
have foamy diarrhea similar to tnat
ot sprue. Some cases have a burn
ing which seems to extend from the
mouth throughout the Intestinal
tract which is accompamea oy
diarrhea and a brassy odor. Mental
weakness and mild delirium char
acterize certain cases.
In' the last several years wnen me
disease seemed to bo getting milder
the proportion of atypical cases
seemed to be increasing. There
were cases without delirium or
other nervous symptoms. Other
cases had no diarrhea. Still others
had no eruption. In fact there
seemed to be no landmark present
in an cases.
As a rule pellagra cases develop
in May, June, July and August.
TViav hotn rn rOanr lin In Stantem-
ber. The symptoms may disappear
entirely In cold weather and return
the next spring, xne percentage
of recurrences the following season
is said to be five.
In recent years only 10 per cent
of the cases die. Ten years ago 60
per cent died. This difference is
more apparent than real, since mild
cases were seldom diagnosed 10
years ago. Nevertheless, since the
disease is regarded as so deadly- and
since nine cases out of 10 get well.
Disciplinary Homes
From the Nw Tork Time.
Professor Perry of Harvard has an
elaborately Ironical article in The
Atlantlo Monthly on "Domestic Su
perstitions." He tells us that "par
ents and other adult members of the
family belong to the priestly caste.
It Is their business to preach the
doctrine and to be ostentatiously on
their good behavior." How many
families of readers of The Atlantic
boast of a father of a family who has
been able to keep the hieratio pose,
the majesty and the authority of a
family father of the old stock?
Probably in the largest number of
such families there are no children,
or not more than two. Years ago
that courtly Boston patrician, Mr.
Robert C. Wlnthrop, used lo say in
effect: "When I was a child I never
dared to sit down in the presence of
my parents. My children always 'sit
on' me." The Fall of Father has
been going on for more than a gen
eration. At best he doesn't hope to
be more than the tolerated Inferior,
occasionally the equal or companion,
of his one or two children. His po
sition, social and political and do
mestic, has also been reduced to one
of subordination to Mother.
Why does Professor Perry gloat'
over the fallen? Why does he choose
to imagine that Father leaves the
office, longing for his fireside, for "a
certain comfortable chair waiting for
him in an accustomed spot near a
reading lamp?" Why not near a
whale-oil lamp or an "astral ?"
Mother, on the contrary, is pining
for "a dance or the theater, friends,
gayety and late to bed." It is like
enough that some Boston suburban
fathers are "funny," but are they so
marked off from other dethroned
domestic gods as that? Are there
no -restaurants in Boston? At any
rate, the region hereabouts is full
of fathers who have no taste for
reading, and whose domestio ideal
is expressed in the comic-opera say
ing: "There's no place like home,
when all the other places are shut
up.' " This doesn't mean that these
unsuperstitious people neglect their
children, if they have any. It means
only that Father, in spite of his de
cline and fall, is not without the
fetch of his first ancestor. He tries
to "save his face." He leaves the
hearth of an evening only to please
his wife. She knows better. Of
course, there are a thousand varia
tions of domestic habit; and if we
make large assumptions It is merely
for the sake of keeping pace with the
Cambridge Ironist. "A man's Idea of
Sunday," he writes, "Is to surround
his house with barbed wire, lock and
barricade the doors and windows,
disconnect the telephone, put on his
slippers and an old suit, and then de
vote the day to reading the paper
and 'puttering.' " No golf, no motor
car? Why, even in the most bucolic
parts, the household issues from the
home to enjoy the revel of "a walk
to the cemetery." Are there no
movies in Cambridge? Slippers? How
archiac! Does anybody wear slippers
except for bathroom purposes? Do
Middlesex county papas sit about the
fortress of the home in blue-flowered
dressing gowns? Professor Perry is
a mystifler.
Is it permitted even to a professor
to make this ironical sweeping as.
sertion: "Why should scolding be
peculiar to the home?" If it were,
who would wander from his own
fireside? Congress is rich in scolds,
The pulpit is not poor In them. A
thousand high-brow persons and
periodicals avoid the ducking-stool
only by the mistaken mildness of
our laws. Professor Perry is mere
ly feeding his amusing theory. Home
life, with its scolding and various
frictions, is a school and discipline:
Both children and adults, con
sorting with one another In every
combination of age and sex, in
every condition of health, at ev
ery hour of the day, and in a
great variety of moods and tem
peraments, exhaust the whole
repertory of human relations and
learn how to live together. The
best name for this is patience.
It is the lack of it which distin
guishes the bachelor, the maid,
the orphan, and in some degree
the only child.
Many of the saints practiced pati
ence without matriculating in the
family university for that purpose.
But we best appreciate Professor
Perry's theory of the home by quot
ing from It ' As for the impatient,
undisciplined "only, child," how
many Atlantic families have more?
there are a multitude of pellagra
cases. ,
whan if nmaa to. treatment the
sheet anchor is good food plenty
of good fresn meat, ir-sn mur.,
cheese, bread and
vegetables. Ooldberger says 60 years
ago Roussel made this statement
as to pellagra: "Without dietetlo
measures all remedies .
Removal to a cold climate is help
ful. Symptoms are to be met by
the physician.
. Needs More Information. '
J. C. S. writes: "During the last
na f T.nnirv and all c,t February
I suffered with kidney colic, thought
to be stones in tne Kianey, out
doctor failed to find them by taking
X-ray pictures. Since about the
middle of March 1 have not been
bothered, with the exception of a
little soreness in the left side where
tha -M,hla urns. T urn writing VOU
to ask that you give me some idea
as to what is best tor me to eat iu
avoid similar attacks."
REPLY.
Sometimes X-rays fail to show a
stone that is present. When stone
is present the attacks of pain re
sult from movements of the stone.
C!iis.h mnvamantA WOllld be ' in nO
wise influenced by diet When this
tendency to stone is aue to excess ot
uric acid, the diet advised is one
that contains no liver, kidney,
sweetbreads, plucks of any kind,
meat, meat gravies, peas or beans.
It should contain considerable po
tatoes and other vegetables. When
this tendency is due to excess of
cxallc acid the foods to avoid are
rhubarb, cranberries and prunes.
When the tendency is due to phos
phates, the result of ammonia for
mation , it is doubtful if diet in
fluences the condition. You see you
must get considerably more infor
mation than vnu now have before
you can decide what diet you need
or whether you neea to aiet at an.
Sharing Nervousness.
W. C. F. writes: "In your col
umn you discuss asafoetida and
faith. -You might have added that
the nervousness complained of by
Miss M. D. couJd be passed on to
her friends if she used asafoetida.
The odor of her breath would soon
knock 'em out."
Des Moines' Plight
irmn tha Sortnrfleld Vnloo.)
Des Moines, a city of Just about
C 1 a!a le witllOUt Street
car service. Worse still, there is no
i.rospoct of it being resuni-u
ly and no bus service sufficient to
bridge the situation satisfactorily.
The Des Moines people held out for
years against anything steeper than
a five-cent fare. They had been told
that three cents was nearer to the
correct amount, and they considered
six. seven or eight cents extortion
ate. The city council took the popu
lar side of the controversy and held
it until the street railway became
so involved in debt that it waa
thrown into a receivership. "T"6"
the courts took the case In hand and
ordered an eight-cent fare as the
only alternative to quitting the
bumness.
Did the public , learn a lesson?
Hardly. It packed the jitneys and
congratulated itself on being en
abled to ride for five cents by this
method. The doctors, viewing the
case of the sick trolley company,
found that the medicine had been
administered too late for a cure. It
continued to go in a hole and now
is awaiting a purchaser under fore
closure proceedings. Nobody seems
desirous of acquiring the property.
It is strange that conditions should
have been permitted to reach this
pass. And it is even stranger that
the laws and ordinances should be
of a nature to prevent the cars be
ing operated on an emergency basis
nanrllnff a. I"fl d IllRt TTI an t. If 0n8
seeks a first-class example of how
not to manage the affairs of trans
portation, Des Moines is a good
place to look for it.
Worth Insuring.
It takes pretty .near $1,600,000,000
to run the U. S. A., according
to Secretary Mellon's estimates. This
indicates a property well worth a
little insurance in the shape of an
army and a navy. Boston Trans
cript. Restriction.
The United States started this
prohibition business, and now she's
starting international disarmament.
When a fellow can't emnK or ngu,
what can he do? Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Don't be content with your lot
till you have a good houe built on
It. Savannah Morning News.
About the ony difference between
the old-fashioned dime novel and
tha wild west movie show is the war
tax Birmingham News.
Again Washington comes to the
rescue of the American farmer. A
35 per cent tariff has been imposed
on "foreign-born" kewples. Sioux
City Tribune.
Inasmuch as Lord Northcllffe
seems to have made the going pretty
rough for Lloyd George lately, the
latter has fitted up the government
political machine with a very effi
cient set of s n u b b e r s. Denver
Times.
Hard knocks are good for a man
unless he's doing the knocking.-
Fitchburg Sentinel. -
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THE TIRE AND
RAUATOB MAN
"We fit aniIAinf
MO o.l3tK St.
Phone. Dou9603j
Thorough Treutment Best
Mrs, L. B. D. wries: "Is it at all
dangerous to apply nitric acid to
destroy moles, even large ones?"
REPLY.
Leave them alone or have them
thoroughly removed.
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Have Her Examined.
Mother writes. "1. Is it possible
for a girl of 10 years to have loco
motor ataxia? My little girl
stumbles around and seems to have
no balance at all. She eats well,
but is always pale and thin, irritable
and nervous. Her father had the
same trouble for a year before he
died.
"2. What would you advise?"
REPLY.
1. It is possible.
2. She should be thoroughly ex
amined. While locomotor, ataxia is
improbable, some other- form of
nerve syphilis or organic nerve dis
ease is to be considered.
Why Not Tax Franks?
(From the Chicago Evening Poet.) -
President Harding 'has indicated
favor for an Increase in first-class
letter postage as a means of increas
ing government revenue. Net in
come from the Higher rate would be
turned into the United States treas
ury for general purposes.
Congress, searching for sources
from which new revenue may be
produced, thinks favorably of the
idea also.
So we may set it down as reason
ably certain that the increase will
be made. It will raise between
$70,000,000 and $80,000,000 a year
and without costs of collection.
You'll - simply pay the postmaster
3 cents for a postage stamp instead
of 2 cents; or 2 cents for a post card
instead of one. It is all very
simple.
There will be vigorous protests,
probably, from mail order houses
and other businesses which conduct
their advertising campaigns largely
by circularizing.
The average letter-writing citizen,
too, will growl and disagree. Here,
to him, will be a visible evidence
that the oost of government service
has gone up, not down. For on its
face there is no . separation of the
amount that goes to defray the cost
of carrying his letter and the
amount that goes to the treasury
as a war tax.
Up in Canada they do It different
ly They have a one-cent tax on
letters there. But it is a separate
and distinct stamp. It is labelled as
a tax stamp, and must be licked and
placed alongside the postage stamp
on eath envelope. It is not camou
flaged or concealed as an increase
in postage. Still, most Canadians
end up by using an ordinary three
cent stamp Instead.
This letter tax leaves open only
one tax-free form of communication.
We have a tax on telephone con
versation, a tax on telegrams and
ar about to have a tax on letters.
but we have as yet no tax on the I
weighty political eommunicauons 01
congressmen to their constituents.
The franked envelope, which car
ries no stamp, will evade payment
of the new letter tax.
Yet the tons upon tons of free
mail sent out from Washington is
no email contributor to building up
a postal deficit.
If the new letter tax were made
to apply to congressional mailings,
it would help the government finan
cially In two ways.
It would bring in revenue direct
ly from all necessary congressional
correspondence.
And it would out to one-half or
one-quarter the volume of political
propaganda that now clutters up the
government printing offices and the
mails out of Washington.
That would be a tax that would
please most of us!
Woman Progresses Fast '
Smoke compartments for women
are to be provided on the Canadian
Pacific. Providence Journal.
BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK YOU
LY Nicholas oil Company
Vacation IMusic
Ukuleles, Guitars
Banjos and
Mandolins
SCORES of styles from which tb
select. Every youngster from
8 to 88 enjoys string music. Uku
leles are now played the "Amer
ican" way, which is far superior to
the original strumming. Ask for
a demonstration. Visitors are
always welcome.
1513 Douglas Street
The Art and Music Store ,
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You?" He Asked
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High Cost of Armaments.
Uncle Sam ought to " know th
high cost of armaments; he financed
Europe's. Washington Post
LIGHT VERSE.
At night the si lampa light our (tract,
Electrlo bulb our homea;
The ga la blll.d in cubic feat,
Electrlo tight la obnu.
But on illumination atlll
I brighter far, and wetr;
It Is not figured In a bill.
Nor meaeured by a meter.
Mora bright than light that money buy,
More pleasing to dtacernor.
The ahlnlng lamp of Helen'a eye.
Thoa lovely double burner I
Chrlatopher Morley. In "Sang for a
Little Home." la tb Bookman.
"Nothing," replied the
Trust Officer, folding the
Insurance Trust Agreement.
"And we will keep this in
our Vaults for you without
charge. Our fees do not be
gin until we start to handle
your insurance money in
accordance with this Agree
ment." He went away well satis
fied. He had made sure that
his wife would get a life in
come from his insurance
money. And the children
were to get the principal
sum at her death. He was
comparatively young too.
But he believed in provid
ing for possibilities. Do
you? Come in.
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