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The Bee's Platform
1. Nw Union Passenger Station.
2. Contlnuerl improTement of the N
braika Highway, including the pave
wont 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.
A Great Journalistic Success.
The closing of the twenty-fifth year of the
New York Times under the control of Adolph S.
Ochs was made the occasion of a notable cele
bration by the Times' "family" of over 1,800.
The event is noteworthy in the annals of jour
nalism, because it gives impressive emphasis to
.the fact that the American people do want and
will support a newspaper that is fair, honest and
reliable in addition to being enterprising and in
dependent. About the time Mr. Ochs took over
management of the New York Times "yellow"
journalism was at its height The irresponsible,
sensational scandal-mongering publications were
clamoring everywhere for public attention, and
apparently getting it, to the exclusion of the de
cent, self-respecting newspapers, whose editors
had as much regard for the printed as for the
spoken word, and who drew no distinction be
tween their private and public communications.
"Yellow" sheets have modified their tone, per
haps, but the respectable newspaper has not, for
there has been no need that it should change.
One of the truly great newspapers of the
world, the Times is a monument to its publisher,
whose high ideals and industry, with a whole
some trust in the discriminating taste of the pub
lic, has built it up to its present eminence.
Adolph S. Ochs at 63 is also a success. His
start in life wa$ as humble and unpretentious as
could be looked for, his only advantage being
that the material poverty of his parents' home
was relieved by a wealth of intellectual and pious
store that must give any boy a good start if
rightly applied. Taught to work from the first,
his career leads through all the stages of news
paper employment from carrier boy, printer's
devil, compositor, to writer, publisher, owner,
and finally to a pinnacle attained only by a few
princes in the domain of the fourth estate.
The material success attained by the Times
and its publisher may be measured; there is no
way of setting a gauge on its moral influence.
Its daily endeavor is not alone to enlighten its
readers by presenting "all the news that's fit to
print," but to accompany that news by comtient
and advice that is always sound and useful, and
so to direct public opinion that the resultant ac
tion will be beneficial for all. That is the true
mission of a real newspaper. Such an ideal is not
unattainable; appreciation may be difficult to se
cure, but once established its readers are not
likely to lightly forsake a source of information
on which dependence may be placed. The Bee
adds, its congratulations to those already be
stowed on Mr. Ochs and his worthy staff, be
cause The Bee holds to and practices the prin
ciples on which the Times has grown to be so
great in all that should give a newspaper proper
pride in its own work.
Over-Study Does Not Kill.
Some comfort may be extracted from the.
assertion made by certain college professors
connected with Columbia, Barnard and other
big schools in the east, to the effect that over
study does not terminate fatally. Of course,
these eminent pillars of erudition are too well
balanced to become dogmatic on the point.
.What they really say is they have not yet en
countered a case where application to books
was established as even an approximate, much
less the direct, cause of death. Little Johnny
may not detect the encouragement this con
tains, nor will it bring especial joy to his older
brother, who is just "getting by" and in con
stant dread of a call to the office of the dean.
Some who have become obsessed with a single
notion may have pursued it until a poorly bal
anced reason has toppled from Its perch, but
this Is not a manifestation of overstudy. The
"grind" Is safe, at least as'far as his assimila
tion of knowledge influences his physical well
being, and if he will only take a little material
.nourishment along with his mental pabulum,
he will survive to confute his brother, who sings:
For, when Knowledge sought me,
I scorned the lore she brought me.
My only books
Were woman's looks. v
And follies all they taught me.
Yet even the assurance that it will not re
sult fatally may fail to induce all to take up the
habit of study. A man may let someone else
do his thinking for him, but not his joy-riding.
Fearless in the Right.
That the guilty flee when no man pursueth
is more than a mouth-filling phrase. One who
has even so much as wished evil to others quite
often will be found to apprehend some personal
misfortune and to have a superstitious fear
of retribution. The phrase, "Evil to him who
evil thinks," may be given a particular app'i
cation to such cases.
Even highly intelligent persons have their
pet beliefs in omens. "The greater part of
superstition signifies fear of Impending evil,
and he who has frequently wished evil to oth
ers, but because of good bringing up has re
pressed the same to the unconscious, will be
particularly apt to expect punishment for such
unconscious evil in the form of a misfortune
threatening him from without". So says
Freud in discussing the psychopathology of
everyday life.
There truly Is no worse companion than a
guilty conscience or an evil mind. Some there
may be who are beyond the torments of con-,-ience
or above nervous forebodings, but such
armor is not within reach of the most As the
old saying has it:
Unto others always do
As you'd have them do to you,
Then your life will glide away
Like a pleasant summer day.
"As ye would that men shouH do unto
you, do ye even so unto them," may be am
plified until it applies atso to the mind. It is
not only deeds that mark men's faces, but
their thoughts also leave their impression. A
conscience clear as a summer's day 13 worth
more than gold.
Governor Allen and the Farmers.
Coming from a great farming state, Gov.
Henry J. Allen of Kansas is deeply interested
in what he calls "the tragedies of agriculture."
He is aware that no one thing can establish
this western industry on a sounder basis, but
his idea of extending state credit to farmers
who would not otherwise be able to purchase
land to till found a surprising welcome among
the audience at the Chamber of Commerce.
There is no doubt good reason for his denun
ciation of speculation in farm land, since high
land values lead inevitably to increased ten
ancy. This plan of utilizing $15,000,000 of
school funds now invested in municipal and
other public securities for making loans to
those fitted to conduct farming operations is
no' particularly radical, and similar methods
have been long in use in other countries. The
state legislature , of Kansas refused to enact
this measure, but the problem of absentee own
ership and tenancy is one that must be met.
It will not be enough to lend money for a
term of 10 or 20 years to enable men to buy
farms stabilization must proceed all along the
line so that in return for their labor farmers
will be reasonably sure of adequate profits from
which to repay the loans. Governor Allen says
that railroad rates must be reduced and the
expenses of marketing farm products pared
down. As part of this program he rightly em
phasized the construction of the Great Lakes
waterway, which is expected to add 5 cents a
bushel to the price paid for grain. "
Farmers everywhere are thinking of these
things, and a great many city people are, too.
Business men who depend on sales in the coun
try districts for their success realize that be
fore the farmers can spend they must have an
income. They are coming to see also that
ownership of the land by the men who plant
it is a sounder condition than that in which a
shifting population of tenants exhausts the soil
and turns over a goodly part of the proceeds
of its labors to an absentee landlord or speculator.
Nebraska's "Capitolistic" Tower.
Many Ncbraskans have wondered about the
tower that is to overtop the new state house
at Lincoln. It has been the despair of artist
and architect, as well as the ordinary Individual
whose notions of building, are strictly utili
tarian. Mr. C. Matlack Price writes in the
September Century authoritatively on the sub
ject of "The Trend of Architectural Thought in
America," and uses our capitol, with its pro
tuberant tower, as fit to illustrate in part his
thesis; of it he writes:
Also in the west, though the work of an
eastern architect, the design for the state
capitol of Nebraska looms up as something
of an enigma. The architect undoubtedly
wanted to rear a new kind of building in a
new country. As a practical consideration
he wanted a tower that could be seen for
many miles across the flat prairies. These
were both admirable ideas, yet the building
itself seems in some subtle, yet insistii't, way
to contradict itself. Is it a tall, vertical build
ing, or a low, horizontal building with a
tower? Somehow it seems to be neither.
The tower dwarfs the building, because a
tower is a jealous thing, and brook3 no in
fringement of its majesty. If a tower be re
duced until it ceases to dominate the build
ing, it becomes little more than a cupola.
Probably two fundamentally different types
of building cannot consistently be combined
in one design.
However, Mr. Matlack concludes, "In sub
stance our architecture is growing constantly
more complex, but, fortunately and perhaps
necessarily, it is also growing more reasoned.
And to those who have marveled at the tower
proposed to loom above Nebraska's "flat
prairies," and those who have tried to compre
hend it, the author has this consolation In his
last paragraph:
I have very little patience with people who
contend that architecture is going to the
dogs. Not a few Athenians probably said
the same thing as they looked gloomily up at
the Acropolis from the city below
Ictinus was building the Parthenon.
while
Hard Facts of Modem Life.
A writer in the Journal of Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry, in treating of "Crowds
and Their Manners," says:
The crowd protest against the high cost of
living is directed against effects, which are
present and visible, rather than against the
causes, which are obscure. It denounces the
high cost of lumber, but it institutes no work
of reforesting the farm woodlots at our back
doors. It balks at paying IS cents a wedge
for apple pie, but it lets the New York apple
crop rot on the ground and fills its pies with
apples from Oregon! In thoughtless, vicarious
retaliation against many such wasteful prac
tices the crowd urges and secures legislation
that is repressive and costly to the engineering
industries.
The counts in this indictment might be in
definitely extended. Here in Nebraska, for
example, outcry has been raised against
the price of potatoes, but the additional
cost has been justified by the manner
and method of grading for market, whereby the
consumer receives really the worth of his money
in good potatoes, and is not bothered with the
ones he used to throw away because of size or
condition. But what we really set out to say is
that grumbling will not restore "the good old
times." We have, as a people, eaten a consid
erable portion of our cake, and so should not
worry because not a great deal of it is left
It is possible, however, to materially improve
the situation. When Nebraska apples are eaten
by Nebraskans; when it is not a social crime to
purchase potatoes that grew in Dawes county
instead of in Michigan or Minnesota, and when
we are willing to restore to the farm woodlots
the trees that have been cut from them, then we
will be making some headway in the direction
of solving our problems. "
Crowd action Is never very helpful, but the
crowd Impulse rightly directed could do a reat
deal of good. It might help a little to try to
control the crowd rather than to scold it and
get no results.
Read about Shadrach, Meshach and Abed
nego, and you may bear the day's heat better.
The Husking Bee
It's Your Daij
Siari ItWHhaLauSh
SNAPPY STORIES.
When Noah Webster was alive
And here on earth a dweller,
He wrote a book that did arrive
At being one best seller;
And it's still popular somehow
We often hear about it,
And hardly any person now
Would care to be without it.
No hackneyed plot did Noah use,
No trite nor time-worn phrases
The range of words that he did choose
Bewilders and amazes;
The vords are there not one erased,
One doesn't have to change them,
To fit the story to your taste
You merely rearrange them.
PHILO-SOPHY.
Talent won't get you any place unless it Is
backed up by ambition.
' Although he may never have sold anything
but hair nets, a young man who works in a
drug store is usually called "doc."
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QUITE CORRECT.
A high school student has defined civics as
the science of interfering in public affairs.
Perspiring Citizen I don't think much of
this weather.
Cool Friend That's me, too. I try to keep
my mind off it.
"Observing some of these women coddling
their poodles, mused the corner philosopher,
as he watched a ljmousine glide by, "makes
one think that a man hasn't any kick coming
if he is treated like a dog."
TAKING THE CURSE OFF.
I called a number on the 'phone,
A man arose from slumber
He said in no uncertain tone
"Ring off, you fool, wrong number;"
I cursed the service, but alack,
How could I more abuse it?
When Central's gentle voice came back,
"Excuse it please excuse it!"
FINGER PRINTS.
Lives of bank clerks oft' remind us
If we flee like common crooks,
We should always leave behind us
. Finger prints upon the books.
How to Keep Well
Br OR. W. A. EVANS
Question concerning hygiene, sanita
tion and prevention of disease, sub
mitted to Dr. Evan by readers el
The Bee, will be enawered personally,
ubject to proper limitation, where a
tamped, addreued envelope i en
closed. Dr. Evans will not make
diagnosis or prescribe (or individual
diaeaaes. Address letters in care of
The Bee.
Copyright. 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evan.
Japing in Stone.
J. E. Hart, secretary state department of
trade and commerce, harbors suggestion from
nervous depositors that bankers be required to
furnish photographs and finger print3 to department.
Heretofore disappearing bank cashier, like
Murphy bed, leaves Gus Hyers nothing but
blank wall to stare at.
Banker shies from photographer like noc
turnal cat chorus dodging boot-jack. Only
finger prints banker leaves are on currency and
he takes that with him.
Getting description of banker after he has
flopped south is like locking the garage after
the Ford is stolen. Mugging cashier before he
absconds is no reflection on honesty. Merely
something for friends to remember him by after
he is gone. Some satisfaction to empty-handed
depositors to gaze at likeness and hiss through
false teeth, "That's the guyl"
Suggest that every bank cashier be pretty
girl with dimple. Have picture taken every
pay day. All eligible male depositors supplied
free. Talcum powder finger prints on solid
mahogany fixtures. Bertillon measurements on
file with male judges of last year's beauty con
Even honest bank clerk spends life behind
bars. Can't blame bird in gilded cage for seek
ing freedom. Can't enjoy freedom without
funds. Most absconding bankers return to
scene of crime. Emfity-handed. Arresting of
ficer handcuffs banker so he can't pick officer's
pockets.
Tried before jury of small depositors. Guilty
as charged. Hard-hearted, inhuman judge
hands banker stiff sentence. Adds 20 years to
banker's expectancy. Banker serves 40 anx--ious
days and nights waiting pardon. Then
back to business to recuperate squandered for
tune. Forrner depositors still holding empty
bag. ,
Bankers' convention asks that depositors
furnish snap-shot and digit marks. Then if de
positor skips, same guy gets the money as when
banker scoots.
When smooth banker opens dough deposi
tory, retouched negative should be tacked up in
halls of state. Another picture when cap
tured. These labeled "Before and After Tak
ing." Rready for question? Banker says "no,
no!" Depositors say "yes." Deadlock 1 Two
negatives equal one affirmative.
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Outside of age, height, weight and color of
false whiskers, Bertillon description of abscond
ing bankers would be practically same i. e.
Outs A. Temporarily.
Trunk. Checked to Mexico.
Head length. Long-headed.
- Head width. Narrow-minded.
Cheek. Plenty and over.
R. Ear. To ground.
L. Foot. Forward.
L. Middle finger. Worn off counting bills.
L. Little finger. Stained knocking off cigar
ash.
L. Forearm. Calloused leaning on golden
oak desk.
YOUR NOSE KNOWS.
'"Smatter, Sarj? Touch o' hay fever?"
"Nope. Just been smokin' one oi Judge
Cooley's seegars."
LUCK.
Superstition can be put
Down merely as a habit
And yet to have a rabbit's foot
Is lucky for a rabbit.
Ouch Hogs are getting high-toned. I saw
a load of 'em riding down Douglas street in a
motor truck.
Grouch That's nothing. Our landlord rides
around in a limousine.
Mrs. Neurich Do you ever do anything in
the nude?
Bored Artist I sometimes take a bath.
In the case of a flapper who wishes she had
been born a blonde she will probably dye
young.
i
OUR GOLDEN RULE!
If a pretty girl smacks you on one cheek,
turn ye the other cheek also.
ISN'T IT TRUE?
Girls may be and you may quote us
Sisters underneath the skin.
But a touch of art, we notice,
Makes the whole world kin.
AFTER-THOUGHT: You can usually
judge the wait of a girl by her sighs.
PHILO.
FOR MEDICINE FANS.
At the last riveting of the South
ern Medical association ur. j. u,
Love of Jaacksohvillo talked turkey
to the doctors from all parts of the
southern states.
His theme was overdosing the pa
tlents. He said patients would get
well quicker and more often If given
less medicine. First, he discussed
quinine.
Those with malaria a8 a rule do
not get enough quinine, while those
with other complaints get far too
much. Once a patient is known to
have malaria he should get plenty
of quinine until the attack is broken
and then enough each day until cure
Is complete. But patients with other
complaints should not have their
stomachs upset and their nervous
systems shot to pieces by taking a
medicine which they do not need
and which does them no good.
Next he tackled calomel of the
firm of Jonathan and David qui
nine and calomel. In nine cases out of
10 when calomel is given It does
more harm than good. It has few
advantages over other purgatives
and it upsets the stomach, causes
nausea and vomiting In cases where
It is advisable that the stomach be
quiet. It raises cain generally.
Next he discussed opium as a rem
edy for diarrhea. As a rule, diar
rhea is a self-limited disease. It
gets well somewhat promptly if the
patient will take nothing and do
nothing. It is a symptom and the
rule Is that it Is serving a good
purpose. Diarrhea mixtures, cholera
mixtures, paregoric, laudanum,
blackberry brandy, and opium, and
all such combinations are useless
and worse In the ordinary case of
diarrhea.
He next discussed cathartics In
general, taking the position that
they are useful In about 1 per cent
or the cases where they are used
and useless or even harmful in the
remainder.
Following down tha list, we come
to the use of iodides in enlarged
glands. Whenever glands are found
enlarged an effort should be made
to remove the cause. If enlarged
neck glands are due to drinking
milk from tuberculous cows, where
is the sense in giving iodides and
continuing the use of the milk?
Next comes the use of digitalis
and caffein in acute Brlght's. If it
is desirable to stimulate the kidneys
nothing equals drinking a few
glasses of water.
When a doctor is consulted about
an ordinary cough he examines the
chest and prescribes a cough medi
cine containing expectorants or sed
atives, or both. The cough will tret
well just as quickly and his patient
will miss fewer meals if he will leave
off the cough medicine.
It is customary in all cases ot
heart trouble of every sort and kind
to give digitalis. Digitalis is a fine
heart remedy. Given properly and
in proper cases It is a life saver,
but given hit or miss it does much
more harm than good.
Dr. Love closes his list with
bromides a powerful remedy badly
misused and cod liver oil as a rem
edy for consumption.
He should have delivered his ad
dress to the people as well as the
physicians. When the people learn
not to expect a pint of medicine to
follow every doctor's visit, less med
icine will be prescribed. Therefore,
I suggest that Dr. Love make talks
on this subject to the people in all
the states whose physicians belong!
to, the Southern Medical. It does
no good to pick on the doctors alone.
When he makes these talks he might
say that everything he said went for
patent medicines also. 1
Better Bo Examined.
R. V. S. writes: "The pupil of
my left eye is much longer than
mat or tne right, though my eye
sight is good. What is the reason?"
REPLY.
1 minit you snouia nave an ex
amination. Assuming the condition
to have lasted some time, there is
mucn more than an even chance
that you have some organic eye or
Drain disease.
Here Are Ways to TclL
Miss C. writes: "1. What are the
symptoms of consumption?
"2. How can one tell whether the
person they are going around with
has consumption or not?
"3. Can one catch the disease
easily?
"4. Is there any cure for it?" '
REPLY.
1. Among the symptoms which
cause suspicion of early consump
tion are afternoon fever, rapid pulse,
fatigue, pallor, cough, loss In weight,
blood in sputum.
2. Having him examined.
3. Adults do not catch it easily.
4. Yes.
There Are Other Causes.
K. L. writes: "I notice in all
your answers to correspondents per
taining to cancer of the breast you
invariably give retracted nipple as
one of the indications. Does that
mean that all cases of :etracted nip
ple are bound to develop cancer?"
REPLY.
It does not. Retraction of the
nipple is one of the later develop
ing signs of cancer of the brest. It
is mechanical and results from the
growth. Other growths and other
conditions acting the same way me
chanically can cause it. In the ab
sence of other signs a diagnosis of
cancer cannot be based on retraction
of the nipple.
Write to Washington.
Mrs. J. C. H. writes: "Where
snou'd I write to get a booklet on
childbirth?"
REPLY.
Write to the children's bureau,
department of labor, Washington.
D C, for free booklets entitled
notal .?are' Infant Care- and
Child Care."
TH SPICE OF LIFE.
Speaker And lii conclusion, I ak you
to glvs to your utmost capacity to the
sister for the fund to buy alarm clocks
vui 10 uganaa to
irjBnuui Sleeping sickness
mere. Karlkaturen
combat the
Which relzna
(Chrimlanla).
Dr. Sun Tat Sen Is by all odd the
moat Interesting man In all China. In
season and out of sesson he has stood for
true democracy In Chins against con
servatives and militarists, sometimes st
the expense ot his life. The Christian
Century (Chicago).
8h (pensively) Before we married
you declared you loved me at first sight!
Ths Brute Well. I wish I'd been
gifted with second! London Mall.
Those who are feeling denrest at the
labor troubles through which we are pass
ing would receive a good tonic If tbey
took a walk through Whltechapel. for on
the notice-board of a certain church there
the following piece of anatomical pleas
antry ha been painted:
Townly Do you often have to rush to
catch your morning train?
Suburbs Oh. It's about an even break.
Sometimes I sm standing at the atatlon
when ths train puffs up and other times
It Is standing at the station when 1 puff
up. Boston Transcrin
(From the New York Time.)
In embroidering the stones of SI.
Thomas with topical theme and con
temporary caricature, Mr. Bertram
Goodhue, the architect, was doubt
less aware that he was preparing a
scandal for the unco-pious. Of far
greater import, however, is the fact
that he was working, or doing his
best to work, in th true and abso
lute spirit of the medieval builder,
which is a thing undreamed of by
the vast majority of culture-seeking
tourists. To them a cathedral is a
"massive pile," cold and gray except
for its remnants of stained glass,
and above all severely architectural.
It was something quite different
to the man who built it.
It is not merely that the whole
edifice blazed with color, as did the
temples of Ihe classic Greeks. Color
was only the outward semblance of
the vitality and vividness of the
structure as a whole. The exuberant
spirit of the time, its form and pros
sure, pulsated in nave and aisle,
rioted in leaping buttresses, smiled
or broadly grinned in each smallest
detail of ornament. The flora of
sculptured capital and choir-stall
carving is that of the surrounding
countryside, and the student of to
day seeks in woods and fields the
documentary sources" of the work
of medieval chisels. Costumo and
bearintc, which seem to us so antioue
and clerical, were as contemporary
ns tlio monocle in the eye of the
Fifth avenue fop on the porch of St.
Thomas'. The very physiognomies
of saint and legendary hero, of
philosopher and theologian, were
from the life and were often recoe-
nized portraits. Says Vlollet-le-Duo
of the sculptured worthies of
Chartres: "Each statue possesses
its personal character, which re
mains graven on the memory like
the recollection of a living being
whom one has known." It was this
lifelikeness arid vitality that moved
Huysmans to prefer the work at
Chartres to the more conventional
Greek sculpture, declaring it "be
yond a doubt the most beautiful
sculpture in the world." So. strong
was the love of vibrant life in ail
its aspects that Charcot recognized
in Gothic stone the stigmata of the
diseases ' he had spent his life in
studying at the Salpetriere hys
teria, epilepsy, paresis. Nothing es
caped the medieval eye, the medieval
interest and sympathy.
It is, however, the devotional spirit
of Gothic that most sorely puzzles
us its exuberance of Joy and its
conviction of actuality. The fact
that the Virgin of Chartres was so
living a presence that the cathedral
chancel became, so to speak, her
boudoir commands' the admiration
of whimsical pietists of the stripe of
Henry Adams if also their whimsi
cal humor. But even Adams glides
discreetly over the fact that pious
hymns of the thirteenth century ad
dressed the Virgin in the sensuous
vein of an earthly, human love.
Equally present and corporeal was
the glad promise of a future life.
An English mystery play describes
Heaven as a region "where ever Is
game and play" and the speaker re
joices in the conviction that "of that
myrthe shall I never misse." Mr.
Goodhue would scarcely have been
false to the spirit of Gothic if he had
shown us modern flappers fox-trotting
through the Pearly Gate. Even
the suffering of tho Way of the
Cross was enlivened, in the York
Mystery play, by rough antics of the
soldiers which one speaker describes
as "bourdes" and "japes." To those
who come after the Puritans, such
things are hard to understand.
Mingled with all this was the spirit
of the grotesque the key to which,
it is to be feared, the world has for
ever lost Who shall spell the re
ligious significance of the Devil of
Lincoln? In his etching of the other
Demon that lolls on a parapet of
the tower of Our Lady of Paris, the
mad Meryon suggests a malignity of
will and an exultation in wickedness
that Is all too modern or too mad.
In the spirit of true Gothic there is
little room for the triumph of evil.
The stone itself suggests rather a
rueful melancholy of a frustrated
Caliban as if the joke were on the
devil. Henry Adams comes nearer
the truth as to sculptures diabolical
when he remarks that "the despair
of the damned Is the evident Joy of
the artist, if it is not even sometimes
a little his jest." The grotesque is
often mingled with obscenities else
where inconceivable. The carvings
on the choir stalls in the chancel of
the church at Stratford-on-Avon,
which face the tomb of Shakespeare,
tell a story that would convulse an
alehouse. By the same token, the
Gothic spirit of the grotesque per
sisted well into the times of the Eng
lish Rennaissance.
In the middle ages the clergy
themselves were a frequent target of
the most biting satire. High up on
the wall and spire, beyond the reach
of gouty legs, the bishop himself was
often pilloried in stone. Mr. Good
hue and his staff have looked out
ward for their butts. The dollar
mark over the bride's entrance on
Fifth avenue, linked as It is with
a true lover's knot, is an object- of
the most amiable "myrthe." Some
thing of acidity may inhere in the
lemon that surmounts a female
rtgure symbolizing the W. C. T. U.:
but prohibitionists of all peoplle are
most inured to satire. Perhaps the
greatest of Mr. Goodhue's services is
that his pleasantries recall the ro
bust simplicity of medieval piety and
its sense of the goodness of living.
CENTER SHOTS.
It works both ways. We get in
come tax exemption and rental pen
alty for having children. St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
If you don't get a vacation this
summer you'll be rested up from last
year's by next year. Tulsa Tribune.
Wicked men swear when out of
humor; good men hold their tongues
and take it out of the .kids. Tampa
Times.
Bobbed Hair "Going Out." Head
line. At first they said it came in
because it came out. Now that It is
coming in again we find it is going
out. Kansas City Star.
"Ulster Stands Pat." Headline.
Turn about is fair play. Now Pat
should agree to stand Ulster. Ashe
ville Times.
Wouldn't it be much simpler for us
to turn all we make over -o the gov
ernment and let it feed and clothe
us? Columbus Record.
Secretary Mellon announces money
in United States treasury will be
kept in cleaner condition. .Wasn't
a lot of that money cleaned up dur
ing the war. Springfield News.
Marriage license clerks report that
there was a falling off in the num
ber of applications in June and July
this vear but the Increased Income
tax exemption for married men will
take care of that. Detroit News.
Taken at Her Face Value.
Polly she says her face is her for
tune. Dolly And I suppose she expects
to be taken at her face value. Town
Topics.
Two Kinds of Good,
There are Just two kinds of good
people, one kind who are good at
heart and the other kind who are
scared into it. Atchison County
(Mo.) Mail.
Diplomacy's Tongue
(From the Philadelphia ledger.)
The French are alarmed and re
sentful over the report reaching Paris
that English is to be the official
language of the Washington disarma
incnt conference. It is easy to under
stand this uneasiness. French has
been the language of diplomacy for
centuries. Since tho passing of Latin
ns a living tongue and diplomacy's
medium French has. been regarded
as the accepted speech in Interna
tional conferences.
Versailles in 191!) bhw English In
troduced as a conference language.
The Americans were insistent that
this be done. Here was kind of
entering wedge that stuck as the
supreme council of tho allies now
carries on its proceedings in three
"official languages," English, Italian
and French. It is generally admitted,
however, that this is a wearisome
proceeding und that tho sessions are
dull and dolorous affairs.
Although few Americans know
much French and tho conference is
to be held In this, nn English-speaking
country, English is not likely to
be made tho one "official" language
of the parleys. Doubtless It will be
one of the "official" tongues, how
ever. There is no phase of human activ
ity that leans more heavily upon
tradition and draws more strongly
upon precedent than diplomacy anil
all its ways and works. Tho veterans
of foreign offices and bureaus would
find tho Washington scsslous Htrangn
and curious without tho accents of
Paris in conference room and over
the council tables.
The French mid Paris should cense
worrying. Diplomacy will not break
loose from ull its precedents und
traditions.-
"Wise Men of ( 'impress."
Tho Indianapolis News speaks of
"the wise men of congress." And
now the whole bunch will think that
tho world turns to look at 'hem. At-
Don't Hurry, He'll Get It.
Gov. Len Small of Abraham Lin
coln's stato is soon to havo trying
times. Meanwhile a suspension of
judgment is reasonable Brooklyn
Eagle.
MlMdlrccicd Charity.
Charity supports a lot of
agents. Washington Post.
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