4 THE BEEt OMAHA. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1921. The Omaha Bee . VMLi iWuttMNGl EVENING SUNDAY THR HU rUBLISHIVd COM PINT MEMBER OF THE ASSOCUUO ft KM Tt IwniM Pmm, at atus TMIalll law, to aa- MUt.ll U IU M ml4WMa af Ml I aauaa IMlul I H at a aUureiaa la U a4 tha Ml aaaa paUiafe aataia. all eMa 4 Ikaib af aw ataaial ditiu a aiaa Mwa Taa IwiM Baa auala af laa ai S a af Oata. lauuaa. laa mauiia aiMaufiia aa aiiaaiini aaaua, tit TELEPHONES rrtt.ia liwa faraanaa. aat an AT lanll lfVM la PaawtaM ! ..u4 WV far Nlaal Caila Aitar 10 P. M. I filarial Daruaani .... aT laalK Kit af Mil orricu op thk sec una nrruMt ink aa ru Cam Rlyfri It rna aw i awta Saa aMJ haia lata Out-l-Iaa Ulfkaa Naa Taak Mt l u 4m l ua,aaa llll O t'axaaa UK WniUt Mo I ran, f I.. M Baa k a The Bee's Platform 1. New Unioo Psttsagsr Statloa. 2. Continued Improvemeat of tlt Ne braska Highways, iasluallaf Ik pava mant of Mala) Thoroughfares leadlag into Omaha with a Brick Surfat. 3. A short, low-rate Waterway fret ika Corn Bolt to tho Atlantic Ocoaa. 4. Homo Rulo Charter for Omaka, with City Managar form of Government. The .Threatened Railroad Strike. "We are a patient people," taid Secretary of Labor Davis in one of his recent addresses. The implication is plain public patience has a limit The Bee now repeats in substance what it said (-even years ago, that if a general railroad strike should occur, the side which brings it to pass r.ccepts a responsibility it might well shrink from. It is not a time to quibble or split hairs over the question , at issue. President Harding, clearly recognizing the danger that presents it self in the crisis, has moved with celerity to take whatever step is necessary to avert the dis aster. He may be relied upon to 'deal with the situation fearlessly and efficiently. His powers arc great, not so unlimited as those which clothed W'oodrow Wilson in the case of the coal miners' strike in 1918, but sufficient, as was proven by drover Cleveland, when he took a hand in the A. R. U. disorder in 1894. Close-mouthed as are both the men and the managers in regard to the details of their plans, enough has been said to justify the conclusion that the wage question is merely a pretext. A . struggle for supremacy between the masters and the men impends. So far as they alone are con cerned, they are welcome to make any test of strength they may deem expedient or necessary to decide the issue as it affects themselves. They are not alone; the continuous and effective op eration of the great railroad systems is vital not only to public comfort but to public existence. When the welfare of all is concerned, private quarrels must take a back seat. . The great railroad unions stand committed to, "public ownership and democratic manage ment of the railroads. Just, what that meant is not so clear that it may be stated in a few words yet. So vague and inclusive a formula at tracts great public attention, but does not sat isfy the real demand for information. The men may be assured in advance, however, that if the government does take over control of the rail roads once more, the operation of the lines will not be on the happy-go-lucky basis that pre vailed under Mr. McAdoo and his successor. Private management has not redeemed the promises made in its name when the Esch-Cunv mins law was being enacted. Instead, of restor ing the service to a point where- the public would get benefit from the existence of the greatest system of railroads in the world, con ditions have grown more and more oppressive. A more direct challenge to management could not exist than the record made by the roads since they were restored by the government to corporate control. Neither group comes with, clean hands to complain of the existence of the railroad labor board. That agency for securing the uninter rupted operation of the lines, while wage ques tions and similar disputes affecting employment were adjusted on broad and humane principles, has been hampered and obstructed by the atti tude assumed by .the unions and by the manage ment. It is the one place to which the public can turn for relief, short of the might and majesty of the police power of the federal gov ernment. If the sovereign authority of the peo ple must be invoked, the result probably will be calamitous for both the contending factions. Perhaps it will be well to have the test made right now, that the threat of revolution involved in the continuous presence of a general railroad strike may be removed. If the Plumb plan Is to prevail, "little is gained by postponing Its adoption; if the managers are to have the full and final say about the service, then that fact should be established without delay; and, if the public has rights that the unions and the oper ators are bound to respect, these should be set up once and for all time. That is why all turn to the president at this time with such confidence. - Heading Off the Home Brewer. ' Conceding for the sake of argument that the home brewer has done a great deal to nullify and set aside the main purpose of the Volstead law intended to make the country bone dry so far as alcoholic beverage is concerned, the latest move of Enforcement Officer Haynes opens a wide vista. Some months ago it was held in con gress in effect that a man's cellar may also be his brewery,- and that in it he may make such decoc tions or concoctions as his imagination may in spire or his lack of chemical training- permit , He is not, however, permitted to vend the out put of his vat , To obviate the effect of this Mr. Haynes now fironnse to shut off the snnnlv of raw material. r i i e j He will forbid the sale of malt, hops, or similar ingredients from which the domestic substitute for beer is derived. This includes a number of articles of common use, not all of which are ex clusively devoted to the production of intoxicat ing liquor. Just how the prohibition enforce ment officer will go about to . differentiate be tween the permitted and forbidden use of any of the substances in question is not made clear. Perhaps he will proceed in this matter cs in others on the simple formula that, possessing the quality of being turned into alcohol, its use ' necessarily implies that it is to be in violation of law, and therefore it must be forbidden. In this and in other ways the prohibition en forcement officer shows himself to be highly qualified for membership in what the late B. L. T. called "The Society for Making Virtue Odious." A clamor vis set up by the dry law chaniploni tha other day aain.t witticiam on tht tfe and in print directed at prohibition. V would sugge.t that theit complainants go into fierutivt session with Mr. Haynes. i-j. Bringing Peace to the World. Mrs. Fried will undoubtedly have the last word in her "argument" with the president, be cause Mr. Harding is too busy with other mat- tert to carry on a bootless correspondence with her. How has the helped to bring about dis armament? She evinces a decided unwilling- nets to follow the lead of the president, and equal insistence that he follow hers. We know in Omaha an advocate of the League of Na tions who positively refutes to concede any merit to the other tide; he knows he it right and the rest are wrong. George M. Cohan hat just left the United States to end hit dayt abroad, self-exiled, because hit business associates and friends would not admit that hit plan wat the proper one and their wrong. These instances can be multiplied, but are enough to illustrate the point Difference of opinion it composed in most instances by seek ing a middle ground. "Positive" minds reject compromise, and controversy and frequent strife follow. Just now hysterical champions of the plan to completely disarm the world are busy with their propaganda; tome of it it tincere, but much it directed solely to the end of embarrass ing Mr. Harding for purely partisan purposes. How does thit tend to aid the cause of peace? War is not abhorrent merely because it takes human life. Americans complacently face an in dustrial situation that takes a greater toll of hu man life than wat exacted from our army in France. War doet deserve the tternest con demnation of all, but it will not be done away with through the process of hindering or inter fering with reasonable efforts to reduce arma ment by insisting on programs that are im practical or unworkable because they do not give full weight to the human factor that in the end will decide the problem. What Omaha Would Like to Know. This has to do with the appointment of a postmaster for Omaha. It is not to make a choice between candidates, but to inquire why a peculiar course is being pursued. Dispatches from The Bee's correspondent at Washington say the selection is being held up because Sen ator Hitchcock is taking his time about making a recommendation. Out of this grows the won der. For what purpose is Senator Hitchcock consulted? A commission from the Civil Service bureau visited Omaha and examined any per sons who made application for the appointment to be postmaster. After each aspirant had been thoroughly questioned,- so that his fitness for the place might be determined, then an extensive inquiry was made among leading business and professional men, that the standing of the can didates in the community might be fixed. When this data had been assembled and analyzed, the Civil Service bureau recommended three names to the postmaster general, from which he is to select his nominee. Now we are told that Mr. Hays is waiting for Senator Hitchcock to de cide. No especial reason for hurry exists; the Omaha postoffice is going along very nicely un der Mr. Daniel's administration, and might con ceivably continue to give service for some time were the situation not disturbed. Yet, if the ap pointment is to be made on merit, why consult the politicians? If it is to go as a political plum, what reason is there for asking the opinion of a democrat, least of all one who named two post masters for Omaha without talking to the re publicans about the matter? Finally, if Senator Hitchcock is to decide who is to have the place, what need wat there to go through with all the elaboration of inquiry in Omaha? Farmer "Bloc" In Senate Ita Aims, Its Methods and Itt Achievements Reviewed. (Washington Correspondence of the Boston Transcript) What the farmer bloc in congress already has accomplished and what it intends further make a significant story. Immediately upon the at tembling of the new republican congress in extra tession the farmer bloc proceeded to take charge of that body and to serve notice that itt own program of agricultural relief must be put through. I he headquarters of tint new leader ship are in the tenate, although the hotie has performed strictly in accordance with the farmer frogram. The leading spirits are Kcnyon of owa, Norris of Nebraska, La Follette of Wis consin and tapper of Kansas. Kenyon, La rol lette and Norris are the more experienced of the new group, but tapper wields a peculiar iiiflu ence at publisher of Capper's Weekly, which cir culates all over the west and ts one ot the most outspoken and enterprising of agricultural journals. Others of the group include Ladd of North Dakota, Nonpartisan leaguer, Gooding of Idaho. McCumber of North Dakota hitherto a regular but now fighting desperately for re-clec tion and Norbeck of south Uakota, a former governor of his state, but new in the senate. A few other republicans perhaps might be listed, but the foregoing represent the most aggressive who do the thinking and planning. (Jn the democratic side men of the type of Harrison of Mississippi and Ileflm of Alabama are always ready to make a trade with the republicans from the farming states. Acting alone, particularly if the discipline of bygone days were in vogue, the republican farmer bloc might not be able to ac complish much. Hut the senate is necessarily without discipline, which in a measure is an ad junct of the election of senators by legislatures controlled by state machines; and as the demo crats have nothing to lose and everything to gain by combining with the republicans, the Kcnyon- Capper group has been able to attract to itscit a large democratic vote which might any time threaten to overwhelm, in addition to its own votes, the regular republican control. In pass ing, it may be said that the conditions just de scribed explain the common remark that "Leader Lodge is not leading. Ihe truth is that no man today can lead the senate. Mr. Lodge is not leading in the sense that he is not dictating the senate policies, but he has been wonderfully successful at times in harmonizing differences be tween the republican factions. His work on the peace treaty was monumental; and only this week he rendered exceedingly useful service in bring ing about an agreement on the tax bill. How to Keep Wei! By DR. W. A- EVANS QuMliaaa aaacarala fcrfawa. aaalta iwa aad aravantlaa at diaaaaa, sub. mlttaal la Or. Cvaas a raaataf af Tka Baa, ariil be aaaaataal M'aoaalla aubaci (a eraaar iMiltalta. vaare a alaaiaaa. alraaaa aaaiaa a . lfd. Dr. Evaaa vtll at aaaae rfiaiaaaia e araacrlba la laSlvMual 4'aaaaaa. AdaVaat lalUra la) cars af lb Baa. Copyright. t:i, br Dr. W. A. Evaaa. IN NEBRASKA Fact and Fun As Seen In the Old Home Paper Tha path of knowlt1 Irada throuifh tha kitchen. acurdlnif to tha Vurk Time, which reports that muny girl attending the tai uni versity ara supporting themselves y domestic service. As John Kesrnes of tha Auburn Jli-rald Improves on tha dictionary: A RArdener Is a muii who rni TONSILS AND X-RAYS. Tii orJinnrv everyday cltltens have ten connMersbly nonplused a few thins, a farmer Is a man who over the tonsilitia situation. Asioe raises ninny thinss, and tha middle from what they are told vy me imy- man profiteer is one who raises slrlans too many of them nave netn everything." cured of neuritis, neuralgia end I And the consumer raises several rheumatlam to be upset by the state- kinds of csln and ends up by mis nienta of the croups wno are tryins mg the r-asn to pay, en jckt to build themnelves up ty puiunf ,T. . down the -medical profeaHlon. Oth- Kmokil.a, Powder. era can appreciate foe th'inisclves, Years aco when one sot a, real, independently of what any physl- honest klaa, It mated like all srlrl, clan tolls them, that their diseased nnd the Btver didn't hitve to hurry tonsils and adenoids are harming and make up again. tiothenburg them one way or anoiner. independent Hut. on the other nnmi. many nnve (The Ba affara Ha Ue fraalr la Ha raaaara aaa vara n aiaawa aa avail aMMwa. ntawi Ibal Mlava M IMaiuliI) Srlrf, mut ata Su atMOa. ox il tha ImM thai i ha aaaae af llta ttrilrt aaaiar vara I'll, eat rrrmill fee aablirttlaa), Sal thai I ha rdlt aa baw Hk h-N la aValm. Tha Haa Sua aa uarlaaS la) ladora a aMt Ivaa a iIhmmi aipfraaad af aaffa- eimaaVaia la la Ia4t Pol.) had uni)lcnant experiences with toniill ooerntlons. They ore cohtly. They necessitate nunu-s and ho- pltuls, and hospitals are expensive Institutions. They sometimes lend 'A prophet Is not without honor stive m his own country." too au thor of this sentiment never visited Pawnee county. The "Holand High way" Is named In honor of the road to severe hemorrhages or otner supervisor wno im nuiuo 11 m muui-i. vet-e nnd perhaps fntnl accidents, ... ! . . . ti.v io..v a sore-iheont-for-a-week a woman wno snuts ner eyes ' . . I ivitn hf.ii-nt. ...Ml I mtt ah. tiu-nta a In the r wnke. I'l srs nave oeen -- -i, ,h. vnloa fly. l"ed her enulne four times yes- h. i,..n haneed in some eases, terdajr and said damn before she finally got the blamed thing going." fr'alrbury Journal. (ict Out the McdaR C. W. Jiotkin, editor of the doth- Independent, enys: "It The farmer bloc already has got through an unprecedented program of farmer aid bills. Among them are the emergency tariff, the Cap per grain exchange bill, restricting certain opera tions; the bill reviving the War Finance corpora tion to aid in the financing of exports, the bill in creasing the capitalization of the farm land banks, and the packer control bill, upon whose passage Senator Kenyon has been determined ever since he was assistant attorney general of the United States. Senator Capper now announces that the farmer statesmen will keep on. lhey have dis tinctly served notice that they will not stand for the sidetracking of what they regard as important farm legislation, notwithstanding the adminis tration may regard some other measures as more important to the national welfare. The senator claims that the bloc includes nearly one-third of the senate membership, and he lists the following as among the cheif measures desired: 1. The co-operative marketing bill, which has been passed by the house and reported to the senate. 2. Provision for the appointment of a rep resentative of agricultural interests on the fed eral reserve board. 3. A rural credits bill, so farmers can ob tain lone-term credits. Senator Capper has prepared such a bill. 4. Ihe truth in fabric bill, to stop the enormous sale of shoddy clothing at wool prices. Make the Dollar Step Lively. Close observers state that there is still buyers' strike in those cases in which prices have not been brought down to reasonable levels William H. Rankin, nationally known as a sales expert, declares that the concerns that led the way in price reductions are today six months ahead of those who have not made the necessary concessions. "I know also that price reduction has stimu lated buying and that advertising is the only way to let the people know where they can buy goods at pre-war prices and on a basis where the long margin of profit has been cut down to a fair margin," he says. If the process of distribution is being blocked by some middlemen who have failed to meet the emergency in the right way, theirs is a heavy responsibility. The 400 factories in Omaha whose associa tion is soon to embark on an advertising cam paign urging the consumption of home products are in line with the needs of the time. The city with men or machines idle is losing the things these might produce. Larger scale production offers a way to reduce costs, and it should be encouraged. One dollar now ought to do the work of two. If this is to be accomplished, the dollar must be made to step lively and advertising is the only way to speed up circulation. "At one of the theaters last week a woman- in evening clothes went out between the acts with her escort and smoked a cigaret on the side walk. And she attracted hardly any notice." New York World. Too bad, too, for undoubt edly her object was to draw attention. The farmer bloc has been keenly interested in the reduction of freight rates and has urged the repeal of the transportation taxes. It has stubbornly opposed any reduction of the surtaxes on income and the repeal of the excess profits tax. The tax compromise just effected has won the farmers some of the things they wanted, al though perhaps they were no more desirous of them than anyone else. The transportation' taxes probably will be removed, but the farmers have yielded in their opposition to a repeal of the, ex cess profit taxes, although it is recognized as im possible that this repeal can be made retro active to January 1, 1921, as the manufacturers had hoped. The farmers have stubbornly be lieved that such appeal could bring no,-benefit to business, or at least to themselves, for they have argued that these taxes already have been covered in the prices they have been compelled to pay for manufactured goods and that to re lieve industry of these taxes this year would be merely making a present to the manufacturers. This belief is deep-rooted, and no amount of sound economic argument can overcome it. In the recent compromise the finance committee un willingly assented to a maintenance of the surtax rates at 50 per cent in the higher brackets. It is possible that this rate may be reduced either in the senate or in conference, to the 32 per cent provided by the house. The farmers as a whole have been inclined to oppose the sales tax of Senator Smoot, but they will support the Utah senator heartily in his efforts so to amend the constitution as to remove the admitted evil of tax-exempt securities. The failure of the farmers to appreciate the fairness and the benefit of the sales tax plan is a great disappointment, for most of their measures are worthy, from the economic point of view, and are to be criticised chiefly be cause they are less important than some of the bills which they have supplanted. If the present situation needs one thing a little more than an other, it is a more thorough study of economics and business by the agriculturists, a better un derstanding between the captains of industry and finance and the great agricultural class which blindly and foolishly regards them as its enemies. They come back after removal not Infrequently. To prevent them from growing back tonsil operators say the entire gland must be carefully dissected cnbura; mu. nna yet w, .r, i.mi m,m- ukeg M nuch patrlotlgm t0 g0 nt0 lymph gland tissue i Is needed In the Llncton ond pay UxM M lt iUd ,0 throat to acta a filter for the mouth ,h. A ' and flcht .. .! s K r minv 1 " Ctllll I' lit I J II A I !. , It is not to be wondered at that Fashion N'otos, many persons are trying to find some jr. jr. McGaffln of the Tolk Prog- wny oui mner man y mw irau r(M establishes himself as a pro mute. Young babies sometimes de- Br..HiVa kivIa rriiin- velop large tonsils and naenoum ana "jt j, our cannd opinion that the ine question wnai 10 uo ucluiuco nc.male that puts on a long face and still more difficult. appears to be shocked at the annear- T 1 . -......I .Vm 4h. I - ... " ic mis ui-en buks-bicu mm mo i mica or a irlrl lit short sklrfa la a lonsus db empuea oy Bucimn. n double-distilled hypocrite." there ore suction pumps for this . purpose on the market. The act of Evidently they "roll their own" sucking out the crypts produces a In Blair. Don C. VanDusen of the temporary Increased flow of blood Blair Pilot had the following lnfor- and thnt helps. It has Deen sug- matton given him by the Girl Next gested that the tonsils be massnged Boor: "Why not go bare kneed? with the end of a spoon handle. Uriel Don t we have knee caps? ohlp.cttnn to both of these oroce- Hnrps la thnt tvvr throats are lnsensl- Business AS Formerly. tlvo enough to stand much manipu- Beatrice, which combines agricul- latlon. luI" Hnu 'uunuiaciunns io mane as Finally It has been sugfireated that we'l a balanced community aa there the tonsils be reduced by X-rays. ? In the state, sees a new slcn of There is no question as to the effl- business Improvement In the fact cacy of this method. X-rays have a that the Kees factory Is now working way of picking out Just the kind of f"1' tilt on builders' hardware, husk- tissue tonsils are composed of and lnB pegs and skates. shriveling lt up. The basic dim- main street in worrolK raced a serious predicament. A banner across the street announced a Sun day ball game. Then came the Bap tlst convention. The hnsoitalitv of k -... . ot-o k manded a welcome banner. Some culty in using X-raya to shrivel ton sils is to keep from overdoing it. Dr. H. A. Osgood has attempted to evaluate the X-ray as a method of treating enlarged tonsils. He says in be reduced to a size desired by the use of X-rays. Since some lymph gland tissue In the tonsil region is advisable the X-rays should not be used to remove it all. Three to wanted to hang It under the base ball banner, but it was finally placed on ANOTHER intersection. IWe were going to say THE- other, but inree xo ,rIi..4 - ,. . , '..: four treatments given at intervals ""uV:".,,: .Y., " of two to three weeks will suffice for most cases. Six to nine weeks after the last and his hustling little city). Despite its being so far Inland, the lu milt? weeno aitci 1110 laaL nj , . . t.,f. n ,.,m v tA r fierce County Call has made a nau proper size and appearance. So Mical discovery, which lt announces much for the favorable side. What's " wr?s: "yur ioretatners acainst if used t0 waIt for tnelr shlP to come ti,. Jr. Jo ,e, v, .n 4 in- But now their sons go out Dast X1IC UUOC II1UOL IO (3 tl 11. "S. 11 UOU j. .. ... . . . which causes reddening does more tne lnree-mne limit to meet It." harm than good. The rays must be dj,.. m i.. v. . J.110 i.v tin, viic iiijium aim m if,wfOW, k Aiier peuuons naa Deen circulated io Miimioi x icf,iuna niuok ud . . . , . . shielded by protective plates. More i? a" sainst allowing a mu- sklll and experience are required In "ZZJ , 10 a " was sus" order to know what to do. what not . -""i""iik mirauunaoie ,n Ar. fnr. v, nA scenes ana improper lines, the house when, than the average person who JT , X. .1 """"""V" was lm owns an X-ray machine has Treat- .me"se.whi'n. the suggestive situa- ing tonsils by X-rays will not be ltt,,cu 10 appear. l!nilnmaM TImb lhr's Klnnit. Ttkamsh. Neb., uct. I J. To the Editor of The IW: I hesrtlly roni- mend your editorial, "Itelirf for Farmer Imperative." In the liue of The He today, and rongratulnte you for having so ably ttu-kled one of the moat Important. In fiu-t. most serious, questions confronting our nation at tne present time. Most of the stagnation in praill cslly all lines of business Is due to the deplorable, yes, criminal, condi tion our rarniara are raring and rrnve been struggling against for a year, Thy have done their part exceed ingly well and without reward Their taxes have been inoro than doubled st a time when their produen has been depreciated to tho lowest point since the financial panic. Hud other commodities d roped In price st the same ratio that farm products have fallen the situation would be far different from what the country Is "up against" now. Most of our present financial dlmculty Is directly churgable to the m-tion that has been pursued by Hut federal reserve hoard. We do not wish to condemn the federal reserve law, for we be lieve it to be one of the best ennrt- ments In recent yars. We do con tend lt has been unwisely Interpre ted and conducted by the present federal reserve board. As conducted In the past and now. the federal re serve board has the power and could make or break the business of this country within six months or a year, a dangerous situation. Having published the Republican at Valentine. Neb., for 80 years, I naturally take a deep Interest In reading live, up-to-date editorials, especially when thoy discuss so ably questions of such vital Interests per taining to the welfare of the entire national fabric. It also awakens in me a desire to express my apprecia tion to a brother editor and pub Usher, believing such expressions win help cheer him and be a source of inspiration as he tolls to render valuable service to and in the in terest of tho public. Hoping you will continue to welld a trenchant pen along the line you nave so worthily neRun, I am, V. S. BARKER, Rational View of Situation. Omaha, Neb.. Oct. 13. To tho Editor of The Bee: I want to en dorse Benton Brown's letter In re gard to the unemployment question, but would like to set him right in one respect. He seems to be under the Impression, as many others are, that the farmer is selling his corn for 30 cents per bushel. While corn is quoted at 32 to 35 cents in Omaha, and I paid 45 cents yesterday and the dealer would not deliver it, the farmer is getting about 18 cents, and has to deliver it to an elevator at that. If lt were not sc. serious it Senator Overman wants to look over the pay roll of the Federal Reserve banks. Might not be a bad idea, at that, especially when all the other big pay rolls are being so closely combed, 1 , Mrs. Ella L. Fried demonstrates her de- votedness to disarmament by evincing a will ingness to fight to achieve it. Thus does peace come. John D. Rockefeller is getting to be "loose as ashes." He gav two dimes where one might have answered. Unless the farmers are given some substantial encouragement, the rest of mankind may yet be inquiring, "When do we eat?" That thief who made off with 30 watches need not have hurried; he had plenty of time. One of the interesting questions of the hour is the attitude the farmer bloc will assume to ward the foreign debt refunding bill or, more carefully speaking, the so-called McKellar amendment to the tax bill where it is proposed to cut off some $266,000,000 in taxes and make up for them by demanding that our foreign debtors shall pay the United States that amount in in terest money. The administration has been striv ing m vain to advance both the railroad and the foreign debt refunding bills, regarding their pas sage as fundamentally necessary to a rehabilita tion of American business and the composing of the international mind. Bankers, financiers and manufacturers are practically a unit in regarding this legislation as vitally necessary, but the' farm bloc, or some members thereof, are bitterly op posed at least to the railroad bill. Now an ominous movement has ben started to force in terest payments from Europe which presents dangerous political possibilities. The adminis tration rightly has regarded it as advisable that the secretary of the treasury should be given a free hand in dealing with the obligations of for eign governments to the United States, in the be lief that a wise and sympathetic policy would help to stabilize conditions, whereas any drastic demand for payment might cause a world col lapse. satisfactory if lt Is done promiscu ously by X-ray operators. Avoid Poultices and Salves. F. R. W. writes: "I have been troubled with what appears to be carbuncles rather than bolls on the back of my neck, the first resulting from scratching Insect bites. They kept spreading until I have had 23. They vary in size and are accom panied by a burning and throbbing pain. After five or six days a small, greenish core can be extracted with a very little pus. After that, they heal rapidly. I believe the, 'baa blood' Idea has been displaced by the modern one that boils and car buncles are due to outside Infection. Is this the sign of a rundown condi tion and would medicine of any kind be or benefit? ' REPLY. Cause, Infection of deep skin. Con tributing causes, diabetes, dirty skin, irritation and scratching of skin, too much starches and fats, certain oc cupations. There is no proof that rundown condition is a cause. Pre ventive treatment, keep the skin very clean. Avoid irritation, scratch ing, or greasing of skin. Avoid shav ing the neck, wearing scratchy col lars, and such. Avoid poultices and salves. Avoid excess of starches and sugars in diet. Keep the bowels open by taking a cake of yeast three times a day. Curative treat ment, sunburn the susceptible area to a dark brown. Do this slowly. If the carbuncles are lanced iodine and carbolic can be used In the crater. The Chamber Commerce at Kearney, Impressed fiy the emer gency that faces the agricultural sections, has petitioned Nebraska's senators and representatives 10 con centrate all their efforts in congress on relief measures. Though they submit no plan, privately they con sidered rail rates to be one of the main obstacles. The Alliance Herald reports a timid young woman was awakened by the sound of a mouse in her room. With magnificent presence of mind she did not scream and arouse the household, but 'merely sat up in bed and meowed. Aurora is to be added to the list of Nebraska towns having a country club. would hv born laufhabU ft fetv vverks ago to read ff the riuat a . . . . Ihe farmer to srnd transportation luonay for corn buskers. !.t us do a luile flk-urln to see why the farmer ln't offering more than I cents a bushel for corn husk, rs. rievonty-nve bushels Is a fair averaiin day's work. At 3 cents that is II. ti and with his board we will say ll.la. At I cents per bushel there is fit 60; after paying his man the farmer has liu lett. lie ouitht to t aatlsrted with that, you suy, but wait a minute. It tuts taken from one to two acres of ground ti produce that T5 bushels. If he is a renter paying, say, M an acre thr Is tt to come out of It for rent and he has a dullnr left to pay fur Ms work In planting and cultivating It and for his profit. If he owns hi farm h paid from $160 to 150 per acre. It doesn't require a mathe matician to see how much Interest h Is groins; to set on his Investment, to suy nothing of wages for his labor. A year or two ago when sugar was selling around $25 per hundred 16 bushels of corn would buy a sack of augur. Now with sugar at 17 It takes nearly 40 bushels of corn to buy a sack. We read such pitiful tales of the unemployed In the cities, the men who stand around with the feel ing that the world owes them a llv lug. refusing work ut good wages. sponging off other people when they could Pe seir-siipiioi't Inc. We read of the manufacturers who. when the markPt became overstocked, rlosi ; their factories, throwing thousand out of work, In order to keep prices up. The middlemen and retailers are making Just us much profit on meir investment as ever, but we don't get the farmers' side, because he goes quietly on, currying tho world on his shoulders, taking his losses like a man, whining to no ono for charity when ono crop falls, op timistically preparing for another. taking a chance on It being de stroyed by hail, wind, drouth, in sects or if brought to harvest, per naps not being worth enough to puy ror Harvesting. A farmer over In Iowa ren farm lust year for cash rent, his crops were all harvested landlord came to him and "Well, how ore you coming out this year?" The tenant replied that if he sold all his crops and his stock, Implements and everything he thought he could pay his rent. This landlord was one in a million. He said, "You will do nothing of the A kind; glvo me half the crop, you - keep your stock and Implements and farm the place another year for half." That is the only spirit that will bring order out of the chaos of commerce today. When every man Is willing to share the loss with the other fellow things will adjust them selves, and no government investiga tions, no "unemployment confer ences" can straighten things out while retail prices are so out of pro portion to the producers' price. The retailers tell us the difference is caused by the high price of labor; labor tells us the high price of la bor is caused by the high cost of living, so there we are, and there we will be so long as 'each man is try ing to keep his profits up and make the other fellow shoulder all the losses. "GOLDEN RULE." . per- o pay Aftor 1 his said. Sure Case of "Mark Time," Anyone who believes that in time the German mark will regain Its value, or at least a part of it, , has opportunity now to lay in a stock at about a cent apiece, and hold it for what may happen. Albany Journal. , Dear Cool Prevents Fires. , The price of coal ought to present- good many of the fires from over heated furnaces that usually leatukp tne nrst coia snap. ieiron rrr Tress. For Use in Hot Air Furnaces, Heaters, large and small, Hot Water Heaters, Ranges, Grates, Hard Coal Stoves (remove magazine) Who will wave Old Glory now, since George M. Cohan has gone abroad to stay? Nebraska votes wet on the Great Lakes ship canal. Gipsy Smith is off to a good start. Getting Down to Business. An encouraging sign of increased confidence in business is the gain in new corporations apply ing for state charters. A company engaged in assisting incorporators reports that business has shown definite signs of betterment recently. A large number of corporations have increased their I capital stock. Philadelphia Ledger. t Compress May Cure. Mrs. P. F. R. writes: "1. My baby's navel protrudes, although for six months he has been wearing a compress, win it disappear as he grows older? Does exercise tend to irritate it? No discharge Is present. 2. Are bouillon cubes suitable for a 6-month-old baby? Are they as nourishing as soup?" REPLY. 1. Keep up the use of the com press. It may not cure, but then it may. If it does not it can be oper ated on later. The baby will attend to the exercising. No way to stop that. 2. Let your 6-month-old baby stick to milk and fruit Juice or strained canned tomato Juice. At 7 months add thin cereal and gruels. At 8 months vegetable soup strained. Nudgin' Elbows. There Is a real flavor of Ne braska in this piece of prose verse from the Emerson Chronicle the homely sort of theme that lightens the way: t When a feller nudges elbows, as you know a feller will, that's a doin' his very durndest to scram ble up life's hill, I never stop to jaw him, or to envy him his speed, or disturb a feller feelin' that we both are sure to need so we keep a nudgin' elbows, as in friendliness we trudge each one a feelin' bet ter'n if the other didn't nudge. . It never hurts my feelin's, nor affects my mortal pride to have a feller-traveler sorter nudge me In the side; when my corns have got rebellious, or my breath's a gettin' short, the little nudge reminds me that I've got to be a sport. . . I'll leave it to a court house full of solemn circuit Judges, if it don't improve a feller's nerve, to spur it up with nudges. No Soot No Ashes No Odor Matt. .CLOSES KEfPTHRKWio, ,LMIM or j ONCMXl Hunting Same Kind of Game. We can't very well reproach Eng land (or not bringing the kaiser to trial, while Eergdol! is running around loose in Europe. Portland Express. General Directions for Using Petroleum Carbon PETROLEUM CARBON will kindle readily if broken up in small pieces. Use about the same quantity of kindling as in start ing1 soft coal. After fire is well started fill the fire-box with carbon and regulate the fire with the , drafts. The best results will be obtained if the grates are covered at all times with a layer of ashes. This not only protects the gTate bars from the heat of the carbon, but pre vents the fire from burning too freely and results in a slow steady fire with lots of heat. To Fix the Fire for the Night Pack carbon in fire-box as closely as possible and cover with a thin- layer of carbon slack, then regulate the drafts. A little experiment ing in this direction may be necessary as the local conditions are different in every heating plant Petroleum Carbon is by far the most efficient fuel in use today. It gives up more heat value, re quires less attention, practically smokeless and contains less ash than any other solid fuel. It is a fuel that is especially adapted for domestic use and has been used in all kinds of heating plants. . Petroleum Carbon is a by-product of crude oil. It is almost pure carbon, as is shown by the fol lowing analysis: Carbon 97.74 Oil 1.75 Ah 51 Absolutely No Waste Petroleum Carbon contains from 5,000 to 7,000 heat units per pound more than anthracite. Petroleum Carbon all consumes . and any particles of unburnt coke that may fall through should be shoveled up and put back in the fire pot. Should the fire become too hot open the air draft or slide in front door and if necessary the door may be left open with no effects from gas. Bay It and Try It If your dealer can't supply you, telephone THE SHERIDAN COAL COMPANY Wholesale Distributors W. O. W. Building, Omaha Douglas 2226 a. y V 7 4f 1 r