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4 THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1921 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publisher MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS lta awelaod Prtu. ' irhlrh Ths Be It a mrmber. It n ehisltalr enUllfd le th ua for rciubllitpa cf til news dispatches mdlud ta It or not etiwrwiM cmlited In this piper, and also Ik lose! Mm ruMihd Benin. All right of republication of our (serial dlipttabs r am rtwrraa. Tk Omh Br Is member of th Audit Bureau of Clrcu letlon. th nootnliea authority on circulation auait. BEE TELEPHONES Print Bnnrh ftchtrire. Ail for AT lanti 1 fWA For Nlffkt CIU After 10 P. M. Editorial Dtpirlnent ATUntlo 1031 of 101 J OFFICES OF THE BEE lir'n nrrir: 17th and rirnaa Council Bioffs 18 fcott ic I rVxitli Bid 403J South ZtUi Out-ot-Town Office Km Tork !M riftk A. I Wi.htnitoa 1.111 O Bt. Chles i:i Wrlglsy Blag. I Parle. . 410 Bu St. Honor The Bee's Platform 1. Nw Union Paaaangar Station. 2. Continued improvement of tha No bratka Highway, including the pa. ment of Main Thoroughfare leading into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. Panama Must Accept the Award. One of the sad reflections in connection with human affairs is that small things usually cause the greatest trouble. Thus it is that Panama, one of the smallest of earth's nations, has managed to draw an ultimatum from the United States, the greatest and most powerful of all. No distinction can be drawn between ' ' nations on account of size when justice is at issue, for all are equal before the law. On this point rests the action of our government in serving formal notice on the Panamanian au thorities that they must accept the ' award of the arbitrator to whom the dispute between Panama and Costa Rica was referred. The amount of territory involved is insig nificant, but the principle is big enough to take in all the earth. A dispute arose over control of a little section of land where the territory of the disputants joins on Dulce bay. The dis pute was carried on for some time, and became more and more threatening, until finally the governments were induced to submit the mat ter to arbitration. Chief Justice White of the United States supreme court was selected and the case was laid before him. After full and careful examination into all the details, Justice White awarded the section in controversy to Costa Rica. Panama refused to abide by the award, and took the field with all its forces to resist Costa Ricaii attempts to occupy the region. This war was ended last May by the intervention of the United States government, and since then efforts have been made to in Vice Panama to abide by the White decision, to no avail. Now, patience has reached its limit, and the recalcitrant patriots of Panama are notified - they must resign themselves to accept a de cision even though it be averse to their aspira tions. Of such things is life made up, and even nations are required to go along with the de- . crees of justice. The United States will gain nothing in prestige or otherwise by compelling compliance with the White award, but it would lose immeasurably v if it did not. Were evep Panama permitted to flout a court of arbitra tion, the way to disorder would be open. That is why it will always be necessary for even a powerful nation to maintain something of an army and navy, as processes of the court finally must have back of them some agency to make certain of their execution, and an international award will need to be supported by sufficient of ' force to make certain of their acceptance. . This instance will not lead to a catclysmic war, but the terrible visitation that deluged Europe with blood started over something that ; on the surface was as trivial as the boundary dispute between Costa Rica and Panama. Such little things can not be neglected, for national honor is far more sensitive and jealous than individual, and public quarrels can grow from matters that privately would be unnoted. Mrs. Storer's Story. From Faris comes the tale that Mrs. Bel lamy Storer is to print for "private circulation" a book that will give her version of the once ery interesting but now almost forgotten "Dear Maria" episode. It concerns Theodore Roose velt, John Ireland, James Gibbons and Bellamy Storer, and is to explain why Archbishop Ire land was not made cardinal and' prince of the Roman Catholic church. When all the charac ters of this stirring tale were alive, its recital excited only mild interest, and did not disturb the current of events to any great extent. What good can be accomplished by a revised recital of the details, now that those most concerned are dead, is beyond surmise. Perhaps the an nounced title, "Theodore Roosevelt as a Child," may give an inkling as to its character. As to its continued privacy, we may be very sure that it will not be long after the book is off the press before its general character and text will be pub lished so that all may know. Many of John Ire land's friends thought he would have made a mighty fine cardinal; quite a few Americans were convinced that a blunder would have been made had our minister to Spain and later to Austria become seriously involved in an in trigue of church politics. The controversy be tween the Storers and Mr. Roosevelt was al most exclusively theirs, and it might with pro priety be allowed to remain so. At the County Fair. This is the season when the county fair blooms; but the man who went io uu forty years ago and had not been since would never recognize it for the same. Fashions change, and the "punkin show and hoss trot" of the early days no longer prevails. If anything modern is to be had, it will be found at the county fair. One enterprising Nebraska county announces a radio station as a central attrac tion for the current year. All of them show airplanes, and races between automobiles have superseded horse racing. Of course, the fun damentals of the county fair are preserved. It 'still holds out the opportunity to compare re . suits in all processes of farming, with the same difference that is noted elsewhere, all in the j: :- r .- - tl.tL.J. at.-.. A j the way to good results no longer are prac ticed, nor .will the tiller of the soil be content with them today. As the cradle and the flail have vanished before the binder and the separa tor, so have other adjuncts of the olden time disappeared and better ways of doing things have brought about more satisfactory ac complishment. The spirit f the county fair survives, and will, for it is the spirit of progress. Ford and the Railroads. Henry Ford's experience with his own little railroad may hardly be taken with safety as a criterion for judging his capacity to operate all the systems of the country. However, he has one idea that rings true. Cut out the loafing is his prescription. When railroad managers boast of thirty miles a day for loaded box car travel they are, of course, taking into consider ation not only the actual distance covered by all moving freight trains, but the relation of that mileage to the entire equipment of loaded box cars. One that is idle at a loading dock, or has been "spotted" for a consignee, or has moved but a mile or two in a terminal yard, cuts down proportionately the ratio of travel for the whole. If Mr. Ford can improve this condition, he will go a long way toward solv ing the most intricate phase of the present day transportation problem. His notion of lighter locomotives and lighter cars is not unique; in the August Atlantic Philip Cabot has a comprehensive and convincing pre sentation of the case for the New England roads, in which he argues forcibly and ef fectively that the light engine and the smaller car is the offer of salvation for New England's industries dependent on local transportation. Others have been imbued with the same thought, and it may hold good for that region. Mr, Cabot is careful, however, to differentiate be tween conditions in New England and conditions in the middle west. He views the long freight trains and huge engines that ply the region west of Chicago with satisfaction, for they are doing the work. Whatever else may be said of E. H, Harriman and J. J. Hill, none will accuse them of being mere exploiters; they were builders in the truest sense of the word, and each has left a magnificent monument in the form of a great and profitable railroad, whose success is founded on the principle of heavy engines and full train-loads. , However, the meat of ''the matter has been touched on by Mr. Ford in his proposal that "loafing" must be done away with. Greater service must be had lrom the equipment , m service. This will require co-operation of ship pers as well as operators. An idle box car at a loading dock or on the customer's private sidetrack is just as idle as if it were set out on the lone prairie. Not all the blame rests on one side. When this is fully accepted, and all- hands get to work to apply the remedy, the rest of the solution will , not be so difficult nor the remedy so desperate. Step Toward The Hague, Washington Conference May But Lead to the International Court Judge Boyd Again to the Rescue. The procession of the equinox is not more dependable than Judge Boyd, who occupies the federal bench for the district of North Caro- ina, in his opposition to attempts to regulate child labor by federal enactment. "It shall not pass," is his motto, apparently, and the French at Verdun were not. more inflexible than the judge on this point. Each time he has as sumed the ground that the effort to set up re strictions on the employment of children is an invasion of state's rights, and beyond the power of congress. Once the supreme court upheld him; he presents a new point this time, in deal ing with the right of congress to lay a re strictive tax on articles into the manufacture of which child labor enters. It is barely possible that he may be mis taken this time, for the supreme court has held in connection with the Volstead law that con gress may extend the police power of the na tion to prohibit what is considered vicious, dan gerous, deleterious or harmful; in this, of couse, congress has the support of a constitutional amendment, but no such foundation underlies the law that forbids the shipping of prize fight pictures, and that law is at present being en forced. In the absence of information as to the line of reasoning followed by Judge Boyd, discus sion of his conclusions is out of the question, save as to the general theme. He has a second time disappointed the hopes of a great many earnest people, who were confident a way had been found to check child labor in the cotton mills of the south. His decision is subject to review and probably will be taken to the su preme court, where the next chapter in a long fight will be written. Footprints Versus Fingerprints. We are inclined to put in with the banker who says what the secretary of finance needs is footprints rather than fingerprints of abscond ing cashiers. A whole gallery ot nnger im pressions would not have the effect of restor ing any of the cash that disappeared under the manipulations of the slippery digits, whose pper ation has proved again and again that the hand is quicker than the eye. Defrauded customers can not use them, nor will they pass current in the process of refilling the reservoir of cash they emptied. But a footprint, there's the se cret; if possessed of one of these another may be discovered, and in time such a succession as will lead to the seclusion of the defaulter. If any memento of a dishonest juggler of other people's money really is to be preserved, let it be one by which he may possibly be trailed, and as long as men do not walk on their hands, the foot has the better of the finger for tracing purposes. Secretary Dcnby is going to clear the navy of its dry land sailors, as a retrenchment meas ure. Service is soon forgotten by the taxpayers. The Missourian who is inflating another boom for William Gibbs McAdoo is quite ap propriately named Looney. The Pennsylvania man who is advertising a long hard winter ought to run for office and test his popularity. Those fire-eating Carolinians in the house might get a game if they just pick the right man. Omaha clearings continue to run above $6,000,000 a day; "business is good, thank you." Coal diggers are actually digging coal again,' which may allay some apprehension. Panama may not like it, but even little na tions must behave. Peru, you know, is where the bark comes from. (From the Boston Transcript.) Amid all the discussion of disarmament, so called, that has preceded and been provoked by the proposal for a conference at Washington, we have yet to see any tentative program pre sented that would provide for a reduction in armaments afield or afloat by the six powers concerned. As long as the Anglo-Japanese alliance remains intact the United States must consider the combined fleets of those two pow ers in the organization of any American system of national defense. That alliance was formed originally with Germany in view; it can only be continued with the United States in view. No exemption clauses have been or will be framed that will alter the fact that in the event of war between the United States and Japan, Britain, as a partner of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, will be morally obligated to give aid and suc cor, however indirectly, to her ally. The Japanese would be foolish to support the al liance upon any other theory; the British know that hence the eagerness of the British col onies washed by the Pacific to denounce the Anglo-Japanese treaty without delay. As long as France is left alone and unpro tected by any alliance against Germany is it reasonable to expect that the French people will voluntarily reduce their land forces and leave the Germans free to work their will and their way back to power via Russia? If the United States were willing to guaranty "the territorial integrity and political independence" of the French republic at all times and against all comers. French curtailment of land arma ments might become a practical proposition. But it was the unwillingness to do that, among other old world chores, that was in part respon sible for the cis-Atlantic repudiation of "the evil thing with a holy name." 1$ it conceivable that the American people are so coon willing to eat their words and reverse their verdict of Novem ber last? As long as Russia remains in a chaotic con dition, the victim of bolshevist rule, is it rea sonable to expect that the outside world will be Willing to blind its eyes to the consequences that might ensue if the armies of Lenine and Trotsky were the only land forces of large size left on the globe These questions are asked not with a view to retarding the work of the coming conference but rather in the hope that the obstacles that stand in the way of immediate curtailment of armaments afield or afloat may be clearly seen. Otherwise the powers will not know how to go about eliminating them. If the United States were willing to permit Japan to police the Pacific and Britain the Atlantic and to remain faithful to all the entangling political obligations that such a dependence upon the Anglo-Japanese alliance would involve, the cur tailment of the American navy to a small po lice force just large enough to keep the peace 1 in the Caribbean might be accomplished, lhere are among us a few who would delight in such an arrangement; but the few are a very small minority of the great American family and they would just as willingly see the United States enter into a hard and fast triple alliance with Great Britain and Japan. The argument in favor of such an alliance is chiefly economic; it would cut the cost of our national defense but the reduction would be paralleled by a reduction in American pres tige on the seven seas. We should lose in honor, freedom of action, trade and influence far more than we could hope to save on arma ments. Instead of taking orders from Germany we should be taking orders from the Anglo- Japanese alliance. No ' doubt our British and Japanese friends would be better masters to serve under than the Germans; but in granting that have we made out a case in favor of turn ing over "the freedom of the seas" and the honor of the Stars and Stripes to the exclusive keeping of the Anglo-Japanese navy? It is better to begin now to face some of the hard facts that will force themselves into the Washington conference than to raise our hopes too high and suffer disillusionment later. A better understanding concerning troublesome questions now pending in the Pacific will un doubtedly ease the strain in that theater of pos sible war; such an understanding might well lead to an attempt on the part of the six pow ers soon to meet at Washington to set about the codification of international law; that begun, they might then agree upon the terms of a call to be issued by all the powers signatory to The Hague society of AH Nations for the third in ternational conference at The Hague, which could easily meet next year. Out of that con ference there is ground for hoping might come the creation of a permanent high court of in ternational justice, which would have jurisdic tion over all justicible cases arising between the signatories; the creation of anciliary ma chinery for adjusting disputes before they reached the stage of litigation; and even an agreement that the signatory that refused to submit a justiciable case to the high court, or to abide by the decision of the high court in such a case, automatically outlawed itself from the company of every other signatory. In the wake of such a harvest m the field of international relations would come a reduc tion of the causes that lead to war and there fore a reduction of armaments with which wars are fought and by which causes are defended. 4f the Washington conference turns out to be only a preliminary to the third international conference at The Hague it will have been well worth while. That it can do very much more in the direction of actual curtailment of arma ments without involving free and independent America in those "entangling alliances" for which the American people have no stomach, appears to us at this writing extremely doubtful. How to Keep Well By OR. W. A. EVANS Question concerning rtygUn, sanitation and prevention of disease, submitted to Dr. Evan by adr of Th Bee, will b answered personally, ubjct to proper limitation, whare a lUmpad addressed nvlope la nelod. Dr Evan will not mak diafaoei or prescribe (or individual diseasse. Addr lttr In care of Th Be. Copyright, 1811, by Dr. W. A Evan v SPREADING INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Wa are in the midst of the season for enldemle infantile natalysls. Sev eral years ago an epidemic occurred in winter in Sweden. The New York enidemle of 1916 wns under neaa way in May. But the rule is that the disease does not bocome very prevalent until August and it is well under control by October. The fact that the disease prevails during the insect season always has caused insects to be undor suspicion as the fipreadingr agency, mrticularly since Infantile paralysis Joes not fol low the epidemic laws followed by othed forms or contagion, n is cer tain that ordinary methods of quur antlne of the patient do not make headway. Closing the schools has not helped to prevent it from spread ing. It is not worst in tha congested districts of a city. Cleaning up seems to make an epidemic worse. At least vhen Newark cleaned its streets and alleys thoroughly its epidemic got worse and in the 191 b xvew xonc epidemic that section which came rff lightest was the reRion around Fire island, where the flty refuse is disposed of. All in all it looks as if the health officers attempting to control in lantile paralysis have been watching the wrong rathole. For a long time it has been no ticed that when there was a good deal of infantile paralysis among people, limberneck in fo-.vls and pa ralysls in dogs, cats and hogs was prevalent. A possible connection re tween the two conditions was inves' tigated at Buffalo and in Vermont. The conclusion was that there was no relation between tno two con ditions. Nevertheless Dr. E. W. Saunders of St Louis and his associates think there Is a relation, and that a fly is the agent which spreads the dis ease among lower animals and in all probability among mankind also. The fly is the green fly called the Incilla caesar. There are many green and blue bottle or blow flies, but this one is recognized as being green with a. sheen of almost rainbow colors. Lucllia caesar lives on decay ing animal and vegetable matter. It likes fish, but it will go farther for a meal of boiled cabbage than for any other food. It flies fast, travels long distances, and is very wild. It likes hot weather, but it can exist even out of doors in the middle of winter. The female lays her eggs generally on meat, and in a short time the larvae or maggots have hatched out. It is these larvae which cause the disease, according to Saunders and his associates. They have gathered maggots from- carcasses of animals dead of limberneck, ground them up in a mortar, injected the mass into fowls, dogs, and monekys, and produced limberneck. The disease produced in monkeys, if the doe given is not large enough to kill quickly, Is typical Infantile paralysis. When the carcasses of those animals were fed on by lucilta larvae and those larvae Injected into monkeys, infantile paralysis again was produced. Wilklns and Butcher of Minnesota confirm the observations, at least so far as limberneck in domestic ani mals is concerned. Saunders says the lesson Newark made its infantile paralysis worse when it cleaned the alleys was because it deprived lucllia of its usual food and forced it to feed on human food. At Fire island lucllia keeps away from human food because it has plenty of food elsewhere. The Energetic Bnby. Mrs. J. A. writes: "My baby boy is just Si months old and weighs 24 pounds. I bought a baby pen for him to play in. He crawls to the sides, pulls himself up, and stands on his feet no matter how oftvn I sit him down. Will he get bowlegged? "2. Are there any bad effects from taking thyroid for reducing? "3. Dieting does not reduce rrffe," as I have tried it for a year." REPLY. 1. Probably not; but do the best you can to restrain him. 2. You are running an unjustified risk when you take thyroid except under observation. 3. Of course, you have not dieted. You may fool yourself. Lots of peo ple do, but you cannot fool me or the wise people who read this column. vox To Treat Ringworms. Patron writes: "1. I am sending my third letter in regard to ring worms and have not seen a prescrip tion in your column so far. "2. I have ringworm spots that worked out on the back of my head, and these spots keep gradually get ting worse and hair falling out around them. I would like to know a remedy for this." REPLY. 1. Had you read the heading of the column you would have known that we make no promise to answer anonymous letters or'to prescribe. z. xne approved treatment of rintr- worm of the scalp is burning with X-rays. After the hair has been burned away a few applications of loaine will cause the ringworm to leave. Egg Addict's Query. F. K. writes: "Please tell me if drinking a dozen eggs a dav can harm me or cause kidney trouble." REPLY. 1 I can see no reason for taking so much proteid and think it unwise for you to do so unless your physician lias ordered it for some reason not stated. Living Off the Arctic What the Public Wants When the principal mercantile houses in Chi cago petition their Washington representatives to oppose, the high schedules in the Fordney tariff, it ought to convince even the most ardent protectionists that the bill is calculated to en rage the rank and file of the American people. The house had gumption enough to kill the pro posed levy on imports of oil and hides. There are other levies, and many of them which should and doubtless will receive similar treatment at the hands of the senate. The truth is that con sumers in this country feel none too friendly towards business interests, because of the whole sale grouping which was indulged in during and after the war, and because of the many revela tions of extortion and graft in numerous trades and industries. The administration will be wise f it gives first consideration to the interests of the public rather than the interests of this or that powerful industry or group. Let tariff leg islators wait until tax legislation of the brand demanded by the people has been enacted. The public will be better served by low taxation than a high tariff. Forbes Magazine. Will the League Stop 'Em? The discouraging thing about this war be tween the Spaniards and the Moors is that the last time they fought they kept it up 700 years. Obviously if they intend to protract hostilities to that length again it's a mere waste of time to read about the opening battles. Kansas City Star. Six Cents Worth of Progress. If, as Washington statisticians now estimate, 84 cents out of every dollar of national revenue goes to pay for wars, past, present and future, the nation is making progress. The last previ ous estimate was that 90 cents out of every dollar was so expended. Chicago News. (From the New York Times.) The arctic explorer, Roild Amund sen, interviewed at Seattle about his expedition to the North pole, says that he has made a contract for the shipment of supplies for seven years to Nome, the starting point of the expedition, next May. It Is reported that Amundsen has no faith in an alleged theory of Stefansson that an explorer can live "off the country" on a polar quest. Amundsen is tiuoted: "North of 85 degrees there is little animal life. In the dead of winter nothing short of dynamite would penetrate the ice to the depth where fish can bo obtained. One must take food along on dog sleds." It is improbable that Amundsen could have taken seriously a story circulated in Seattle that Vilhjalmur fe'tefansson was planning a pout ex pedition without food supplies. The latter explorer is a man of as much intelligence as daring, and must be familiar with arctic lite. a ture. Admiral Peary was the only authority upon conditions beyond 85 degrees, and in his "dash" for the pole he saw no animal life of any kind. Except for pressure ridges the ice surface for many days' march was monotonously level, with infre quent leads for soundlnsr- No man could have lived in that desolate ex panse without sled rations. In Peary's story of the North pole there is nothing about supplying the larder with game after the base at Camp Columbia was left behind. In that region musk ox and caribou were abundant enough, and fish could be had if they were wanted. One of the most remarkable pictures in Peary's book shows the rigging of the Roose velt lined with the horns of musk ox and caribou, but the hunting was done on the land of the far-scattered Eskimos, or not far north of it. Stefansson has been a mighty hunter of arctic game, but he could have no illusions about living "off the country" at 85 degrees and north of it. On the shores of the Arctic ocean he has lived like the Eskimos on seal, bear, ox, caribou and fish. but he was generally in touch with the natives. Sometimes It was not possible to live by hunting. In the winter of 1909-10, which he spent at Cape Perry, Alaska, he would have perished if he had attempted to prove the theory attributed to him He found that "the let-alone policy of the government, the cupidity of traders, and the ignorance of the Es kimos themselves had practically de stroyed the caribou." Stefansson would hardly contend that it is safe for an explorer to push north very far beyond the last Es kimo settlement without the usual rations. On his expedition of 1913 18 he encountered on Dolphin and Union straits Eskimos who had never seen a white man, and he lived a year with them. He explored Vic toria Island, Banks Island, and found new land north of Prince Pat rick Island. There was usually game to be shot, but the explorers were almost at an extremity for fat, indispensable in the arctic regions. In one period starvation threatened them. "It was, indeed," Stefansson wrote, "a period of famine not only for human beings in that district, but even for wolves, all of which were skin poor." His furthest range was far short of 85 degrees. Ac cording to a' report of June 23, Ste fansson. was planning to explore arc tic territory "to the north of Can ada," and had no intention of seek ing the pole. Real New9 from Florida. The melon crop in this section this year has been fair and would have been exceptionally good had there been more rain. The long drouth during the growing season cut down the size, and there has not been as many large melons as usual. The cantaloupe crop has been good, and quality first class. William L. Wil son of the Bay farms brought to this tewn the past week the largest wa termelon we have seen this year, it weighing 53 pounds. It was perfect in form, and an all around beauty. He also had some fine honey dew melons, a variety that is being grown more and more each year. Panama City .(FJa,) Jot. A Breath of Sanity. (From the Mew York World.) A return to sanity in the Russian question may be noted in the dis cussion of famine relief in the su preme council of the League of Na tions. Premier Briand remarked that the Russian people, who had fought with the allies at the begin ning of the war, might justly look to them now for help. To make cer tain that help should be given promptly and effectively he pro posed "that all the allies join with the United States and the other na tions who are interesting themselves in relief through Red Cross societies and other private organizations." Mr. Lloyd George, while expressing himself as in hearty agreement, pointed out that something more than private relief would be neces sary. "Relief," he declared, "must be organized immediately on a great scale, not only for the sake of Rus sia but for the sake of the world, because typhus, cholera and other plagues incident to famine would cause more losses than the last war." There is no exaggeration in this statement. Russia's danger is a dan ger to every nation on earth; its loss and suffering will be shared to a certain extent by every civilized people. If a quarter of the reports of its condition are true, no private agency, no combination of private agencies, can begin to meet the situation. And in spite of all that can be saidy in their disfavor the people of Russia are .human, their government is human. Every prin ciple of humanity and self-interest demands that Russia be salvaged, whatever it cost. The premiers of France and Eng land are aware of this fact. The government of the United States, with a surplus of food and ships at its disposal, hesitates over technicalities. Theater Costs. From the Baltimore Sun. Whether the theatrics! managers who got together in Now York to discuss lower costs are going to suc ceed in presenting shows more cheaply remains to be seen. And it is also open to question as to wheth er the public will greatly benefit. There Is no doubt, however, that American shows are expensive. Cer tain operatic and theatrical stars re ceive salaries about which, in these troublous times, little is said, and the cost of stage settings, gorgeous out necessary, is a constantly mount ing item. Moving picture producers bitterly assert that they cannot com pete with cheap, foreign productions, even though they have the advan tage of quantity production, organized aistriDution and a presumably clear understanding of what American au diences want. The New York meet ing of the magnates talked about stage employes and musicians, but one can guess that waste motion and wasteful expenses are not confined to the lower levels of the profession and its adjuncts. Let's Remember Sambo Johnson. When you next eat ice cream, enn. sider the debt you owe to Samh Johnson, negro pastry chef in a New York tavern, who gave the world its first dish of ice cream 105 years ago this month. For years Sambo had a monopoly on the manufactnra of ice cream because he kept his process u. i-iuaeiy guaraea secret. All that is deflnitely-Jknown about his discovery a mat it was an accident, and a happy one. It mieht not ha a ha a idea to erect a monument somewhere io samno. And while about it, sur round his memorial with nthr n the men who gave us the other things unit neip io make summer endur able artificial Ice, lemonade, re frigerators and fan s. Fitchburg Sentinel. What's the Answer? If less people paid Income taxes in 1920 on incomes over $1,000. thnn there are registrants of automobiles, what is the answer? A n d o v e r Townsman. Freight Rates on Hay. Omaha. Aug. 20. To the Editor nf The lies: The Association of Rail wav Executives have published an article under the caption, "Has the Farmer a Real Grievunce," in which they say that some blame their troubles on "freight rates" and claim that this is the cause of low prices for grain and live- stock. They say further that "the decline in prices of farm products began before freight rates were advanced and would have occurred if freight rates had never been advanced. Assuming the facts to be true as stated in this article, that the de cline In prices was entirely due to adjustment of conditions to the pre war basis and that prices on some farm products did begin to decline before the advanced froicht rates be came effective1, does it seem logical for the railroads to advance the freight rates at the time that market prices had started on the downward trend? In other words, just at the time when farmers were being bur dened with lower prices, the rall- roads, instead of adjusting their rates in the same direction, slap on a heavier advance in rates than had ever been made before. Freight rates on hay were ad vanced 25 per cent during the war time period, then a further advance of 35 per cent wai inde on the Increased rate, August 26, 1920. These advances, together with the 3 per cent war tax, which is still ef fective, figure a total increase in rates of 73.8 per cent over the pre war basis. Between January 1, 19?0, and the time that the 35 per cent Increase in rates became effective, tlu average price of No. 1 grade alfalfa on the Omaha market was $l;8 per ton. The -average prlco at the present time is $16 per ton. Since the ad vanced rates became effective, prices of hay have shown a steady decline, thn reason being as we sec it, that the prohibitive rates have restricted thi consuming territory which It is possible to reach within the limits of the transportation costs that the traffic Is able to bear. The railroads claim that their in crease in revenue has amounted to CO per cent, whereas their increase in expenses has amounted to 110 per cent and apportion thnlo increase in expenses to these four Items: 65 per cent advance in cost of ma terial and supplies. 90 per cent advance in taxes. 144 per cent advance in price of coal. 124 per cent advance in cost of labor. We do not question the correct ness of their figures, but it occurs to us that perhaps the greater part of the increase in the cost of mate rial, supplies and coal -an be at tributed to the prevailing high cost of transportation which these com modities have to bear, the same as they do commercially. If a business organization carrying a heavy overhead expense appor tloned their expenses on a small and diminishing volume of business, the selling price of their product would become prohibitive to the buying public nml tho organization would boon go bankrupt. On the other hand, with reason able prices within the reach of the buying public, the increasing volume of their sales would yield aatisfnc tory returns and they would be pros perous. This is precisely the position tl-aC the railroads are in today. The prices of their product (which is their service) are too high Tho volume of their business Is steadily decreasing, as shippers will not ship as much as they would with more coultahle rates, or else the shippers will avail themselves with more ero nomical means of transportation, such as boats and auto trucks. A much greater volume of busi ness created by lower rates could ba handled by the rallroadH with the Fame labor and expenno they are now under. F. A. MATTHEWS. 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