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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1921. A ' I ' I 1 '' . .r-r . f nt - . - ir, 9nw. , TheOmahaBee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COM PANT NELSON 8. UPDIKE. Publihr MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED MESS Tka iMMud Fra. of hlk tV hM ll I laemeer. U SlUlrell WIM w IBS UN KW reimoiUHloa OI u amwm ndlteii U tl of ih etbenrtse " UtS leCSl m MIBIIIRM MWV niaw M KimiHiMuua v. Uf SDMiS) SlSPStSSSS Srt MM NMfTM. The (hatha Sat to a number of the Audit Boms ef Clren Ittlais. Ik rwofUMt authority oo elrouUuoe tttdit. BEE TELEPHONES NnU Brsni Kuhaate, Art far AT lantlC 1000 Ik DtPtrUMnl i hnt Wsated. lauiMV. vw rr Ntakl Calla After 10 P. M. dltsrlal Depsrlsssnt ATUstta Kit at 1011 OFFICES OF THE BEE Mill OfflMi ITth ul Parsea . CoouU Bluffs 19 Soott It I South lid 4115 Sen lb Mlb ; 0it-fTrva Office X Tort CfeMMO tM rtrik Jill WrWj Bid I WtshlBfUa 1311 a at I Paris. FT.. H Bvm St. Honors The Beefs Platform 1. Nsw Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued imprevamont ( ths Ne braika Highways, including tha pave mant tf Main Thoroughfares loading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A abort, low-rato Waterway from tha Corn Bait to tha Atlantic Ocaan. 4. Homo Rula Chartar for Omaha, with City Managar form of Government. Control of State Expenditures. With that charming inconsistency that has ever been characteristic of its erratic career, our esteemed democratic contemporary assails the governor of Nebraska because he has essayed to ! establish reasonable control or oversight in state expenditures. For many weeks the World-Herald has displayed the utmost ingenuity in ad vertising the fact that Nebraska is saddled with the heaviest load of taxation ever foisted on the property owners of the state. Persistently it has bewailed the extravagance of the republican ad ministration, and bemoaned the fate that is sure . to overtake us because of the public waste that is made possible. Now, when the executive of the state, who really is the head of its affairs, and has been under each of the three constitu tions to which such dramatic reference is made, undertakes to adopt prudent business methods in the management of state housekeeping, he is pilloried as a "czar" and a poseur, and everything else but a ninny. Under the good old democratic definition, an appropriation carries with it an obligation to ex pend all the money set aside on estimates. No thought of managing so that the expenses will fall inside the forecast ever enters the head of the donkey. Worse than that, the system to which the democratic party is devoted contem plates always the creation of a deficiency, so that no matter what sum the legislature has provided for the carrying on of the state's business during the biennium, it must be supplemented by addi tional appropriations later, , It Is this that Governor McKelvie seeks to avoid. He does not want to cripple any depart ment; he knows that all the money may be apent if it Is needed, but he does want each ad ministrative head to so arrange as to keep within the limit! of the appropriations made, and to turn over if possible a balance at the end of the term. This is good practice and it has sound foundation. ' - The dispute between the governor and the Board of Regents of the University of Ne braska may be settled without all the hullabaloo that is now being raised. Salaries for instruc tors deserve to be increased, and provision spe cifically made for that purpose should be faith fully carried out. If the university needs every cent set aside for its activities, it will get it, and it will also Kt more if necessity requires. What The Bee finds to commend in the action of Governor McKelvie is that he seems to be im bued with a desire to curtail expenses and to get well inside estimated of the cost in his ad ministration of the business of Nebraska. This ought to be appreciated by the taxpayers. Verdict for the Battleship. ,' After the experimentation carried on at con siderable expense, the purpose being to demon strate the usefulness of the heavier-than-air flying craft as means of offense as well as defense in warfare, the conclusion Is that the battleship has not yet been displaced by the flying bomber. This does disparage the feat of sinking the Ost fricsland, which in itself only confirmed still fur ther the well demonstrated fact that if a suf ficient quantity of high explosive be detonated close enough to a vessel the effect on that vessel is likty to be disastrous. The more impressive fact also was demonstrated that accuracy of placement is not such as to justify the claims that a moving target is at the mercy of an air plane. Another, and governing point, is that the airplane is not sufficiently mobile to be depended upon. Its range of action is limited, and unless It be extended by the adoption of some device, such as the airplane carrier ship, its use must he restricted to areas that easily may be avoided by an enemy fleet. In other words, the battleship, like the Infantry in the army, retains its place for the good reason that no advance in military science can do away with it On land and sea the aircraft have a function, and for scouting and similar service are beyond any other device .known, but the nucleus of the army will remain the foot soldier while the "battle wagon" will hold a similar position in the navy.' Pellagra a "One-Crop" Disease. Probably the heaviest penalty laid on the farmers of the south is the presence of pellagra, which disease is reported by the federal health department to be on the increase. Surgeon General Cummings says the disease is due "to the one-crop system, essential food required to prevent the development of the disease being obtainable only with difficulty and in some in stances beyond the reach of the poorer working people.' , This reduces the problem, to what ought to be a reasonably easy solution. Some weeks ago Tha Bee called attention to the fact that in the eouth had been noted a tendency to produce more and more of food and less of cotton. A greater diversity of crops is the admitted salva tion of the agriculture in Dixie. Cotton will con tinue to be the staple, but it cannot continue longer the almost sole reliance of the farmer, big or little, of the southern states. This change will not be brought about easily, for too much of the agriculture of that region is in the hands of unintelligent and unskilled farmers. They will have to be taught, however, to do things in a new way, to give attention to something beside cotton, and to produce those things that are vi tally needed for health and physical comfort. Along with this training must go better edu cation in other branches. In time pellagra should be as rare in Mississippi as it is in Nebraska, but that will be when the average of intelligence there more nearly approaches the mentality of this state. Welcome for Scott's Caravan. Omaha should prepare some sort of wel come for "Scott's Caravan," now approaching the city's gates. It would be' unseemly, indeed, were this great Gate City to allow this modern instance of an hegira to go by unnoted as merely an incident in the passing of auto tourist traffic. The Scott caravan stands for something that is more than unique. As the bull teams of the Argonauts pulling out of the east for the golden shores of California were precursors of .the greater migration, "the first low wash along the shore where toon shall roll a human sea," so this train of automobiles may mean the begin ning of another era. Omaha has been a familiar name for generations to the pioneers of the west. From here or hereabouts set out the stream of travel that made the northwest an empire. The historic Mormon trek across the American Desert took off for its final stage from Florence, now part of the city; Ezra Meeker marked the "Oregon Trail" through the streets of Omaha; the Overland Trail is yet preserved to us, and all the early traditions of the town are bound up in these movements. As the oxen gave way to the faster moving mule and horse teams, and these saw the pony express and the stage coach superseded by the railroad, so now the airplane and the automo bile are opening a wider vista to man, and challenge anew his imagination. Scott and his company from Brooklyn are typical of some thing greater. Omaha ought to acknowledge their presence in some appropriate manner. Americanism. From the filth, the brutality, the despair of a Russian prison, where he was beaten, thrown bodily down stairways into foul, vermin-infested cellars, sentenced to death subjected to injuries and indignities without precedent Dr. W. B. Estes of New York wrote Secretary of State Hughes that he would rather die in a Russian dungeon than have his liberty purchased at the expense of American recognition of the soviet government. v Dr. Estes had not the physical vigor of Cap tain Emmett Kilpatrick, who used his fists to compel his cell-mates to submit to the opening of windows when the prison air was almost un breathable, but he had the moral strength that knows not the meaning of defeat, and does not swerve from a principle that is right. He knew what the soviet government stood for, and he knew the methods,, they employed to attain their ends. He knew the impracticability, the unfair ness, the ruthlessness of the bolshevist organiza tion, and he recognized that the United States must never countenance such a regime of de struction and death. Americans read with pride of Captain Kil patrick' fistic encounters with his ignorant fellow-prisoners, who objected to fresh air. The affair was comparatively unimportant, but there is sdmething so truly American about the oc currence that Yankee hearts tingle with pride at the reading. There is little doubt but that Captain Kilpat rick would have joined Dr. Estes in his letter to Secretary Hughes had he known it was being written. Theirs is the Americanism that places right and justice above self. Theirs is the pa triotism that subjugates comfort, happiness and life itself to the best interest of their fellow-men. . In reading of Dr. Estes' letter, and his noble choice .of death rather than see his beloved America clasp the hand of a criminal govern ment, the statue of the revolutionary martyr, Nathan Hale, which stands on the campus at Yale is called to mind. On the pedestal of the statue, in bronze, is engraved the following quo tation, the last words of the noble patriot: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." - Silence and Thought. One of the easily accepted .conditions of life is that silence and thought go together. Just what constitutes silence, however? Is it the utter absence of sound, the deadening of all noises, to the end that no disturbance whatever may assail the external ear? Men have been known to be come so accustomed to the uproar and din of industry that they were able to endure its clangor and yet carry on not only delicate operations of mind, but to produce such thoughts of beauty as might have been the effect of real inspiration. Solitude may be restful, but it does not in all cases operate as a stimulant. Hotels and clubs are providing rooms where silence is to prevail, to which the distressed individual may take his wrought up nerves, and sqothe them into qui escence, but it may fre questioned if this will engender a process of deep thinking, either imaginative or analytical. Not that we would recommend a boiler shop as a place to go when solution for some perplexing problem is sought, or a shipyard as a place to write a play or a poem. What we do have in mind is that the normal noises of the city are not nearly so dis tracting ordinarily as would be their absence. What one is accustomed to is the controlling influence after all, and if one is inclined to be "temperamental," then the concentration afforded by a "silence" chamber may be the thing needed. Most folks will seek the crowd, however, just because they are nearest to normal. Our democratic friends ought to keep in mind that some of the people have not forgotten the enormous deficit in Nebraska's business that was piled up when Holcomb and Poynter were gov ernors, and which the republicans later had to clean up. ' If Sao Paulo likes our street cars, it is showing good judgment, but it may be able to buy cheaper from Des Moines, where the tram is no longer in vogue. - President Harding's exhibition witha paint brush may encourage some of the opposition to refer to it as having come from experience as a whitewasher. Iowa's corn crop is lining up right behind Nebraska's as safe from all da'nger of drouth or heat. And these two states produce the corn I A lot of stage beauties appear to be in need of either publicity or alimony. Sidelights on Far East Characteristics of China and the Qualifications of Japan to Rule (From the Washington Post) As the time approaches for the armament conference it is noticeable that the world's at tention is turning more and more earnestly to the orient The problems grouped under the title of "questions relating to the far east and the Pa cific" are many and intricate. They have proved rebellious against any solution thus far offered. Whether they will be solved by the combined intelligence of the Washington conference re mains to be seen. . Several aspects of the question of China may be worth the study of those who are now begin ning to inquire into the nature of the problems that will confront the conference. China is such a vast subject for thought and presents so many angles for consideration that it is impossible to do more than sketch a few of the salient points that may present themselves to the conference.' It is China's relation to Japan that will naturally arrest attention. Japan claims to have a special interest in China. This claim is somewhat hastily denied by many westerners. Is it a just claim? When the relations of the two nations are studied, even superficially, it must be admitted: that Japan's welfare seems to be bound up in China. Japan has reached a stage of industrial development which cannot be destroyed without virtually de stroying the nation. Granting that much more land could be cultivated by employing better methods, the fact remains that Japan is depend ent upon foreign lands for foodstuffs and raw materials more dependent - than Great Britain, because its population is twice as large and its cultivable area much smaller. China is the chief source of Japan's supply. It is asserted by ex perts that if Japan should be cut off from China, even for a month, there would be general suffer ing and probably national disaster. Consequently Japan believes that its relations with China should be acknowledged to have a special character, to be safeguarded in the adjust ment of the world's relations with China. On that claim there may be a deadlock in the con ference, for it is the very core of the forthcoming discussions. Grant Japan's special claims, and the Chinese question takes on a new aspect. Deny it and the Japanese danger threatens to become acute. China has been invited to send representatives to the conference to participate in the discussion of far eastern questions. But what is China? In many places throughout that vast country the authority of the Peking government is denied. Local chieftains maintain private "armies," made up of mercenaries, usually bandits, who number 1,500,000 in all. These bands roam about, de vouring the people's substance. At Canton the southern republic flourishes in spite of Peking, but it is not strong enough to supplant Peking, nor is Peking strong enough to cope with Sun YatSen. The population of China is variously esti mated at 300,000,000 to 400,000,000 individuals. The exact number does not matter, as it is too large in any event to come within the scope of the human imagination. The percentage of Chi nese persons who are educated sufficiently to in terest themselves in their country and its rela tions with other countries is so small as to be without influence upon the mighty current of deep ignorance that sweeps that nation into the unknown future. The Chinese people as a whole do not know what kind of government they have; they have no interest in politics because they cannot read or write or understand politics; they feel no sense of duty to their country; in a word, they have no patriotism. Acting upon that mass of humanity is the highly organized, patriotic, ambitious Japanese population, operating through an efficient gov ernment which seems to adapt itself with peculiar success to every need of the situation. The Jap anese people are 98 percent literate; education is compulsory; national expansion is both a necessity and a delight to the eager youths who are gradu ated from Japanese schools. These youths are well trained in the politics of their country and make patriotism a religion. They are trained in military or naval life as well as in business. Their capacity for working in organization is unsurpassed. These few sidelights show that the far eastern questions to be considered by the Washington conference are of an extremely complex and dif ficult character. It is not surprising that Japan pondered long before accepting the invitation to discuss these questions. The fact that Japan is now ready to review these questions is solid evi dence ot its desire to maintain friendly relations with all nations. How to Keep Well . By DR. W. A. EVANS Questions concerning hygiene, sanita tion and arevenMon of disease, sub mitted la Dr. Evans by raadera ! Tha Baa, will ba answered personally, subjsct ta proper limitation, whara a ' atampad, addrotstd anvelopa is an closed. Dr. Evans will not maks diagaosls or prsscriba for individual disaasas. . Addrass Isttars In car of Tha Baa. Copyright, 1921, br Dr. W. A. Evans. OX League of Walkers Dr. John H. Firiley, New York's former com missioner of education, iust back from Eurooe. says he's going to start a campaign to popularize 1 pedestrianism in this country. As chairman of , the league of walkers he has been impressed by the fact that self-locomotion is rapidly becoming a lost art in America as compared with the de gree to which it is practiced in foreign lands. On his recent voyage Dr. Finley promenaded the steamship deck to the extent of 100 miles. In Ireland he covered 60 miles in two days and also did considerable walking in Finland, Russia and Alsace. He met a young refugee, who had been a prisoner of war in Russia, who attributed his escape to his powers of walking, having traveled on foot continuously for 13 days. Dr. Finley says Americans are missing a lot of healthful en joyment by not cultivating the art of walking. Of course, there are reasons why pedestrian ism does not flourish among us. No other coun try has so many excuses for riding, in the shape of automobiles. In Europe the motor car is still a luxury, the pleasure vehicle of the rich. It costs far more to buy and operate than it does here, and money is less plentiful than with us. But Europeans have always been fonder of walking than we. Charles Dickens was a prodigious pedestrian, thinking nothing of a 10 or even 20-mile stroll, and in making many of his char acters equally athletic he portrayed a contempo rary custom and was not regarded at the time as indulging in exaggeration. Pittsburgh Chron icle Telegraph. , Injustice in the Small Town. An idle girl who visits in town is given a complimentary notice every week, but the indus trious young man who quietly and modestly at tends to his work is seldom mentioned in the newspapers unless he gets his hand hurt in the machinery. Howard. (Mo.) Courant ; Gambling on a Bill of Fare. Hotel men at their recent convention say the hotels are going back to the American plan. If they will also include the American language on the menu-, the average diner won't be ordering three kinds of potatoes in the hope that one of them will be meat Detroit News. "CURING" 1922 HAY FEVER. The letters are pouring In from people who are suffering from hay fever. "The devil Is sick, the C U a monk would be." There Is not much I can write them, io far as re lief for this year la concerned. They can take calcium chloride or calcium lactate for the remainder of this hay fever season, with some degree of relief. Some if them will get temporary relief from the use of adrenalin and local applications of one sort or another. I hope none of them will Jump from the frying pan Into the fire and pull up at the end of the season with the cocaine or morphine habit. The time to begin treatment for hay fever la In the rpring. Dr. ! Chandler Walker says in New Eng I land those who are sublect to the , spring variety of hay fever frequent ly called rose cold should begin the j preventive treatment the first week i In March. Those subject to the usual ot August variety of hay fever should begin treatment the last week In April. These are seasonal diseases, and the New England seasons do not come on colncldentally with the sea sons elsewhere. It follows that the dates for the beginning of treatment differ In the different sections of the country. Before the treatment Is begun the ckln should be tested to discover which pollens are responsible. There Is no reason for delaying this testing until next spring. With our usual tendency to procrastitnate we might forget it or put it off uni.il too late. Why not have that carried out this fall, while the recollection of the 1921 discomfort is still with us? While reports have been made on the pollens chiefly responsible for hay fever and rose cold in several sections of the country, it does not follow that a given individual in any section is affected by the prevailing harmful pollen of a section. There fore preventive inoculations based on the usual or expected cause may fall in a given case. Exposure to ani mals, stable odors, fur dust, face powders, or the eating of fruits any one of these may be the cause in a given exceptional case. The preventive treatment, accord ing to Dr. Walker, consists of five cr six injections ot a ont to 500 di lution of pollen extract In many cases 14 inoculations are required. The injections are given hypodernii cally, at intervals of one week. If the treatment has been well begun be fore the season starts it can be con tinued with advantage during the season. Therefore a person who for got about it in April can begin dur ing May or June with moderate hope of success. However, if he postpones it until August he mlgnt as well spare himself the trouble and ex pense of preventive treatment . In New England 90 per cent of the rose colds are due to timothy pollen and 90 per cent of the August hay fever to ragweed pollen. Brown Skhi Gradually. W. E. tu writes: "I have been told that rubbing linseed oil on arms and ; legs before bathing at the seashore and after tha hn.th tn would prevent sunburn and instead brown the skin. Do you think this is a safe thing to do?" , REPLY, It is a safe thing to do, but I think It will prove ineffective. You are right in trying to brown your ekin without blistering. If you have the time brown your skin by short ex posures. As soon as the skin is well browned you can expose yourself for a long time without burning. Why not brown your skin by short ex posures to light and wind before you go to the seashore? Exposure away from the beach is less apt to blister. Last week I saw a professor of hygiene in a great university. He was burned to the shade of a Moor. He keeps his skin of this hue by ex posure at home. . Needs Varied Diet. ' " Mrs. M. M. C. writes: "My baby. 1 year old, has four teeth. His bowels never move except when he is given an enema. At 9 months he got a bad cold and he never got over it I think he Is too fat At night he is very restless. At 8 months I weaned nim and rmr. liim nn v.rt.i i... the milk was toe strong because he aid not thrive until I diluted his milk with an equal quantity of water. At 9 months he began to eat gruel carrots, orange juice, and fruit sauce! He kept this up for about six weeks, but since that time he will eat noth ing but fruit juice. Many times he w only eat half of his bottle and will not drink from a cup. I have bronchitis. Is it possible that he caught It from me? Should he be walking? Should he have more teeth? REPLY. A child 1 year of age should be fating cereals, soups, toast, cracker, finely mashed vegetables, fruit, to mato Juice and milk. Whn v,Q On a more vtnrl lii n i, : 1 enould not be so constipated. He is not quite old enough to walk. He Is a .little behind schedule with his iccm aui nor much. Common Sense and Disarmament. York, Neb., Aug. 17. To the Edi tor of The Bee: From he clouds and stars now visible on the horison It sure looks like unsettled weather ahead for some time. With the extremes for disarmament and pre paredness eagh fighting for peace alog their own lines, each knowing ( ?) they are right and hive the only way it can ba done; and both so far wrong that they will get badly left at the "disarmament conference." Then the fur will fly while they devour one another, and the conference for what they did and did not do to save the world from war. Well, we might just as well warn them here and now they will not get whnt they want. First because while that conference may make some progress toward better meth ods of settlement of vexed question:, yet they cannot change human na ture, and that is the only way or only thing to change that will end all wars. So we will be glad, yes, very thankful for whatever advanced step the conference may take in the way of reducing armaments and pacts for peace and brotherhood, but be not deceived, you cannot have i '-r-feot peace while you have an Imper fect race, and those who dream such Btuff are dead asleep to human his tory. Did you ever stop to think that there have been more treaties of peace than there have been declara tions of war? Yet the end of war is as far off as the end of human depravity. Now, I do not want to throw any discouragement in the path of any move for peace or spoil a night's rest for any lover of peace. But for people to be carried avvay with such fads and then be disap pointed makes grouches of them and they lose heart, then quit trying or hoping and by so doing cause far more harm than they ever did it -good. Against both of such actions I wish to protest. Then you say, what am fcr in this case I am for common sens and Justice and that can n..i from either extreme. How far we shall go in disarmament depends on how far other nations go. A preacher, who has more al than knowledge, says, "Let us do right whatever others may or may not do." - That is good doctrine to preach or ictice In nearly all cases, but in th!a uase what is right for us depends on wttat others do. . A statesman said for us to disarm and thereby compel others by the force of example to do the same. What happened in 1914 proved how wise he was. Come, now, let us reason together. Come with me into the banks where these people de posit their money and you tell the' banker that he is only making the world worse than it is by his break proof vaults and safes; the way to do is to leave the money on the Counter1 and leave the door open and prove by example and by your faith in hu manity that you are honest and ex pect them to be the same. Can you guess his answer? I can. He turns on you first in scorn, then in pity, then he reason, "That is a consummation devoutly to be wished." And I wish it might be so, but it is not My knowledge of and experience with human nature has taught me it is not what we wish humanity was, but what we know it to be that dictates our preparedness for safety. It is the same with our police, penal institutions and in fact every law we have. Shall we disarm along all these lines? I say no. You and the banker may try it. : How much preparedness shall we have? I said that depends. When we find the square of that factor, then let us make it just as small as safety will allow and for two reasons. First, the kiuing cost, then the rapid changes in what it takes to fight with or defend with. The Oregon, when built, was the greatest floating fort ever made, but 10 years ago tnis summer they spent 2,600,000 to Woes of the Commuter. " "Look pleasant, please," chirped the pho tographer. "Can't be done," growled his victim. "I'm having this picture taken to paste on my com mutation ticket." Dental Digest. , New Mascot for Congress. Congress in adopting the alligator for a mas cot has naturally picked the animal having the toughest hide. Washington Post. Improvement is still the order in Omaha. ' . Might Discuss Disarmament Would the great powers consent to including Chicago and New York in the disarmament con ference? Pittsburgh Dispatch. For Locating Bootleg Stock. - An X-ray device has been perfected that will take a picture through a wall. Kansas City Star. overhaul and bring it up to date. Standing alongside It was the Penn sylvania and nearby was he Nebras ka and I thought what a sight, the greatest machines we had were for human dlstructlon, but where are they now? Obsolete, and the greater ones of today will be Junk tomor row. Then halt building, care for what we have and watch events while it is day, for the new world we found ourselves In at the close of the war is peopled with the same family with its same fallings, and the hatreds and passions that were burned out in the fires of war are yet there and must be re'kond with. And one of your contemporaries that Rot very vindictive some years ago, because some one said The Hague conference would not keep peace, now throws a fling at a man for "Insulting the Intelligence of think ing people," for suggesting the using of those treaties for a foundation. Yet he is now behind a plan very much poorer than they are. Give us common sense. FRANKLIN POPE. Downhearted Over Situation. Omaha, Neb., Aug. 19. To the Editor of The Bee: Your editorial, "Preparing for 1922 Campaign," re flects political conditions in years gone by, but is not up-to-date. The time is past when you an count your political chickens oefore they are hatched. You say, "the popularity of the Harding administration is increasing as each day unfolds more perfectly the president's program. ' Evidently you have not associated very much lately with those who labor for their living; or you would put a different construction upon the senatorial out look. Congressman Esch of Wisconsin was turned down by his constituents because of his obnoxious railroad bill. And Harding appointed him before his term in congress was out on the Interstate Commerce commis sion. The people turned him out and Harding put him in a position where he could continue punishing the people, without fear of hin drance. La Follette will be re-elected, but not because he is a republican. Harding recommended the shelv ing of the bonus bill, and a fair treatment of the railroads. And the republican congress tn shame sub mitted. Lincoln, our first republi can president, said in substance: "Labor sflould have the preference over capital," but as between the boys who went over the top to make democracy safe, and the railroads, Harding submitted to the power that nominated him, and kicked out the boys that did the fighting and helped elect him. Believe me, there is a storm brew ing, if we can believe what the peo ple are saying. Seventy-flvi per cent of the voters, outside of the politi cians, are thinking that we are fools to vote either of the old party tick ets, and who can successfully con tradict the statement? What has either political party dsne for the common people, that they should continue to be their slaves? Congress opens up the vaults of this nation for the railroads to take what they demand. Nearly 6,000,000 labor men are out of employment Oats standing in the fields where it Brew in Nebraska, because the price for the grain is not enough to pay for the cutting and threshing. Wheat vcm un irum not cents yesterday, Harding said "farmers cculd thrive on dollar wheat," but they are not getting it Not one finger raised by congress to Improve conditions of the producers. If you can see anything to encourage the people, kindly ad vise where we can find It. A. M. TEMPLIN. Mr. Kinder Suggests a Reform. Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 19. To the Editor of The Bee: Either I am pe culiar, our government is peculiar or the American people are peculiar. Don't be an eveadropper; brace up end butt In like a man. Altoona Mirror. Never talk about your aches and pains. You will get the other fellow started and feel under obligation to listen. lilrmingham News. The government Is figuring on how It can help bulncss. It might try letting business alone. Loulsvillo Post This is no time for the Philippines to seek independence. It is too diffi cult to borrow money. Toledo Blade. According to a news Horn, "The French are considering a role In the Pacific." Going to cast their bread upon the waters?" Elmira Star Ga sotte, Stlllman's contention, reduced to plain talk, seems to have been that what was sauce for the goose was pudding for the gander. Portland Oregonian. Every time an effort Is made to shelve Samuel Gomners, the Amer ican Federation, of Labor takes a second thought and considers the value of a trademark in an old-es tnbllshed business Anaconda Standard. America, says a dancing lady, thould lead the world in dancing It already leads the world in paying the piper for the dancings of other na tions. Dallas Tlmes-Henld. It is now claimed from the number of automobile accidents that gasoline ts more deadly than whisky ever was. It may result tn Mr. Volstead tacking cn a new amendment to his well known measure. Nashville Banner. A young man was married on Mon day, Just after he had ben sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. This marriage was no lottery. The parties played entirely safe. Buffalo Express. We have the dead of winter; also the half-dead of summer. Worces ter Post "Navy blue" Is a product of dis armament talk, not of our dye trust. Greenville Piedmont. One auto is sold earn minute. Keeping up with the lustly cele-Vv brated birthrate. Toledo News-Bee. Pig iron is the lowest sinoe 1913, being the only thing not used in home brewing. Muskegon enron-Icle. The doctors use cancer to scare the people; the politicians use war; the preachers, hell. Saturday Evening. Post . We boast of our democracy yet with in our country we have men that put on as much if not more aristo cratic airs than do the aristocrats of , Fiurope and Asia. Take our railroad offlolals for ex ample. Did any one ever see more pomp and tomfollery than is dls played by a high salaried railroad official while traveling owr the road ? There is his expensive private car er cars and off times a prlate train. All other trains have to get off and take the sidings when this divine shows up somewhere within the radius of several miles. When Mr. Ford recently bought a -road the first thing of importance he did was to take the private can away from the officials. That road is now paying a surplus. When the brotherhoods clamor aga'nst cut in wages, for some peculiar reason they never suggest that fflclals dc away with expensive prlvpte cars ani ride like mere human beings. That li enother peculiarity of American peo pie. Probably the individual mem bers of the brotherhoods , ach expeef to become a nabob some day and then he too can out such fantastic tricks before high heaven to make the angels weep. JESSE S. KINDER. So Many "Best Remedies." B writes: "Please advise me as to the best cure for poison oak." REPLY. There are so many best remedies and each has so many followers tnat l might get in trouble were I to take sides. The public health service rec ommends bathing with salt solution or one teaspoonful of boric acid in a glass of hot water or bicarbonate of soda made into a thin paste with water. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. iJ-'lir, ,To?,,mis Brown w" always In terested In his new baby sister. One day J' ' l d. Pee'lns down up0 ,t hj, nursn was singing it to sleep. Norse, he whispered at last, "she-s nearly unconscious, isn't she?" nodded ths nurse, and continued singing the lullaby. Tommia whispered in alarm: "Then flon t slnr any more or you'll kill her. J.fenlng News (London). .i.T.hLr?'11 obJ6c,lon to a butter knife Is that it Isn't sharp enough In winter and Isn t enough like a spoon in summer. UtlCtt Horning Telegram. "Whst is velocity?" saks a science jour nal. We hsve always thought that it was tha thing with which one lets go a wasp. London Opinion. Blmpaon (greeting his old friend) Whr, Jones. It's ages since 1 saw you ,'last. Married now, aren't you?" Jones No, no, old man. It's not that. Just business worry and nerves. The Bulletin (Sydney). Inauranca Agent But you surely agree to taking out an Insurance policy to cover your burial expenses? Wily Scot Na, ns. mon; I micht ba loat at sea. The Passing Show (London). Sally (tha farmer's wife) There's a let tar from a London lady thla morning, Timothy, aa wants to tnke a hopen-alr eura at this ere fsrm In tha summer, and asks if wa have a bathroom. What am I to ssy? Farmer Wrlta and tell her the truth at once, Sally. Ssy she'd better hsve her bath the day before she cornea hers. London Iall. The Grand American Prerogative THE right to choose is the grand American prerog ativethe glory of American democracy. And a most important part of it the right to choose what you buy was bestowed upon you by advertising. Advertising is as much a part of today's life as elec tricity, antiseptic surgery or motor traction. It is the system whereby a man who has something to sell tells about it to those who do or should use it. For no one can want anything until he knows of its existence. Advertising is the way by which you are told why you should have certain goods and how to identify those goods. So the advertisments you find in this newspaper make up a catalog of needed merchandise. Articles of all kinds and for all purposes are pre sented in a pleasant way through the medium of type and pictures. The outstanding requirements of every member of the family are met by offers of good mer chandise of proved value. v The advertisements will help you in the selection of all manner of things. Use them for guidance and you will be a constant gainer THE OMAHA BEE fx M K 4W v-sf it