THE EKE: OMAHA. MONDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1921.
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Ford. And it lometlmei appears that the rr.en
in chrf t of th transportation line themselves
are not fully tlivs itbr to the reiponiibilitJei or
poitibilitict ei their petitions. If itdotmot pay to
run heavy engiiitund heavy cart on thii route,
uiitead of eattlni off communication it would be
much wlier to try lighter equipment auch aa
Ford ctaima the railroad muit coma to. Motor
truck are running ever tht dirt hlfhways and
handling good deal of traffic; why, Indeed,
could not a limlltr expedient ba vied with iter 1
rail Inttead of ruts?
The Bee? Platform
1. New Uaiea PeeseBger Statiea.
2. Cealiav! ItnerevesBtat ef tko Ne
retka Highways, lesluelag Im pave
meat of Mala Taoreughfaree leailag
, lata Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A hart, ItwraU Waterway fresa tha
Cara Bait to the Alloalle Oceaa.
4. Home Rule Charier far Omaha, with
City Maaagar form of GeverasaeBt.
Farm Prices and the Reserve System.
The unemployment conference pointed out
' that the purchasing power of the farmer has
Lcen cut two-third and recommended the ad
iut:nent of price to give the farmer their fair
share. Among the mean suggested were lower
freight rates and improvement of credit condi
tion, with lower interest rates.
In face of this the attitudcof the Federal
Ueservc bank of this district ha bec un
clianjed. Appeal after appeal has been made,
first by Governor McKelvie and later by Ne
braska bankers, for a reduction hi the rate of
rediscount from 6 per cent to 5JJ per cent. In
some eastern district a rate of 5 per cent hat
been granted. The reply of L. II. Earhart,
. manager of the Omaha branch of the Federal
Reserve bank, take no recognition of the feel
ving that the farmer has been deflated to the
limit and that the agricultural crisis demands
emergency treatment. " ,
Mr. Earhart displays a praiseworthy desire
that the monetary system of the United States
be kept sound, but it has not been demonstrated
that with the huge reserve and the accumulated
profits the granting of lower rate's and Tnorc
cencrous condition for acceDtanee of agricul
tural paper y ou'd endanger the system. Further
more, why jhoutd the federal reserve officers
feel any repugnance to the idea of helping bring
prices' of farm products up to the general level?
The reserve system is popularly credited with
having forced prices down by the process of
liquidation, and at one time was not above claim
ing credit for the reduction of the cost of living.
There is no more doubt "that it could drive
prices up than that it could drive them down.
7 While this power is a dangerous one, yet
it . is properly a . part of the function of the
reserve system, which was founded to stabilise
.Jjnancial, industrial and agricultural conditions.
And it would not be misused in giving succor
to the basic industry of food production, upon
which the' prosperity" of all. lines of business
depends The War Finance corporation is do
ing what it can to meet the pressing need, and
millions, pf dollar have been lent through it to
enable farmers to hold immature live, stock, off
the market and to adjust the available supply of
other products to the demand. But ht Federal
Reserve board appears to be working at cross
purposes. .' -
VThe demand of the 'Nebraska bankers for
lower rediscount rates and more liberal credit
is to.be endorsed. : Agriculture must be assisted
by every, government agency to get on a pay
ing basis. The farmer ought not be liquidated
ont of their means of livelihood and deflation
Iia; already gone too far. ;
Reduced Freight Rates Ordered.
Some material relief to ' the farmers Is
promised by the reduction in freight rate on
grain, grain products snd hay, just ordered by
the Interstate Commerce commission, to be
effective on or before November 20, next The
need for this has bten expressed so many times,
and rests on fact so familiar to all, that lit
tle argument is needed to support its Importance
at tht time. The concession comes too late,
to be of its greatest possible service, and yet
It will have the effect of stimulating a move
ment that Is now in abeyance. Within the state
it will be of benefit to feeders who must move
feed by rail from fields to feed lot, while the
out-bound stuff will go to market at a better
price, because here is a contribution thst nor
malty chould be almost exclusively for the farm
ers advantage.
Now that the Interstate Commerce commis
sion has its hand in, It may well take up the
matter of rates on fuel and building material,
which still are too high. When schedules on.
these materials are brought down to something
like a level with other commodities, the whole
public wilt share in the benefit.
Commissioner Browne of the Nebraska board
estimates a saving to the shippers of $3,000,000
a year on the outbound stuff alone. This is a
distinct addition, nothing like the loss sustained
by the farmer because of the shrinkage in crop
values, but an item of salvage not to be ignored.
Perhaps with a readjustment of rates, affording
even partial relief, a better tone to the general
situation may be expected, and the farmer will
eventually get something for his crops. At any
rate, it is better than burning the corn.
f A Magnet for Youth.
"Boyhood's love oi rnystery arid longing for
. power .find satisfaction today in other ways
i8an -hyj. digging - caves, . searching for buried
.treasure -or wishing to Jc a pirate pr a police
man'.''; Probably more of the rising generation,
would like to be an inventor such as Thomas
A. Edison, than auything "else; There is both
mystery 'and power in -electricity, and the boys
:.re naturally drawn to experimenting with it .
llaiiy" toys manufactured for the .enjoyment
of ch'Jdrsn run by electricity. A ride on the
Street j-carr a" call over the telephone, a ring
-Sit the doorbell or the turning on of a light
, vuts theh in daily contact with one of .the
greatest of modern wonders. Their curiosity,
early j? aroused, and a juvenile magazine is
bcarccly to be considered complete without its
corner for amateur electrical engineers. It al
most appears that such diversions as stamp col
lecting are to be left entirely to old men, while
their children devote their attention to more
practical matters.. ' 5
Wireless outfits top a large number of homes
in Omaha, installed by the sons of, the house
hold,' young men and boys. Messages are sent
and received by radio telegraph and conversa-
'tions held by radio telephone. A national or
ganization, the Amateur Radio League, has been
"formed, and a local club has affiliated with it.
It is interesting to contemplate the important part
taken by the younger generation in popularizing
this -method ot communication. Certainly no
work of fiction could make a greater appeal to
the Imagination than does the actual use of
electricity, .'
. Rounding Up the Recalcitrants.
One of the difficulties encountered by the re
publican majority in the senate of late has been
the absence of senators from the chamber. This-
applies to both parties, but with more force to
the republicans, who are charged with responsi
bility for the legislative program now pending
and some phases of which have been too greatly
delayed because of the failure of the membcr
to attend to business. On the democratic side
a disposition to embarrass if not actually to ob
struct has been shown for weeks, and th?s has
been encouraged by the action of republican
senators in neglecting to attend.
Everybody realises that the. sessions of con
gress have been long and arduous for years;
.members have been In Washington almost con
tinuously since 1913; vacations have been short
and infrequent, and generally a great deal has
been required of the national legislature. After
this Is all conceded it still is true hat the public
business of the country requires this steady ap
plication on part of the lawmakers. Some, part
of the blame must rest on the senate, because of
its penchant for debate, long-drawn out dis
cussions ensuing on matters that might be dis
posed of, and frequently are, by a vote the
nature of which is absolutely unaffected by all
or any part of what was said by the debaters.
With the important revenue measure given
the right-of-way over tha tariff bill, the leaders
of the majority party are not only anxious but in
sistent that republican senators give attention
to the redemption of the party's platform
pledges. This- is imperative, not because of any
possible effect it may have on the fortunes of
the party, that being a matter of secondary con
sideration, but for the paramount reason that the
party was entrusted with power because of cer
tain definite pledges made, and its members
should do all they can to redeem those promises.
in spirit, as well as letter. .
Leadership in Democracy
Senate Vota on Panama Carat
Tolls Bill Show Its Nd
. Motor Busses to Run on Rails.
"There is novelty in the petition of Omaha
business men . that motor busses with flanged
'wheels be run on the railroad line which recently
has abandoned running two passenger trains on
the ground that they did not pay. The Chicago,
St.' Paul, Minneapolis fir Omaha railway owes
'. proper service to the cities along ki line, and the
diseontinusnce of the trains between Omaha and
Emerson has worked a hardship at both end.
.'Service is all that is asked, and the state rail
way commission has the power to compel this.
The line was constructed with the intention of
linking up Omaha and the Nebraska towns to
the iiorth, but at present it serves mainly to
carry their trade -to Sioux .Gty.
" The, Associated Retailers of Omaha' and the
Chamber S Commerce may not know a great
deal about railroading but neither did Henry
Lenine haa at list said something that the,
restKof the world, and America' as much as any,
can take to heart "De-centralixe; do it your
self.", Russia waited for Moscow to pull it'
through,-and America is inclined to look to
Washington for the solution of problems that
can be handled better by the states or even
smaller divisions. ,
The proposal that the United States guarantee
the safety 6f Germany from attack would have
had a queer sound during the late war, or even
before the war.; Not even our associates in the
war have such a pledge, which would amount
to nothing less than a treaty of alliance.
The senseless arrangement of railroad tariffs
is exposed clearly by the complaint that cement
shipped from Superior down into Kansas a few
miles, and then back to Nebraska has been get
ting a lower rate than if' shipped direct without
going out of the state.
Perhaps, you noticed that Babe Ruth did not
suceumb to the call of duty until it was made
plain to him that the $1,000 a day he expected
as an outlaw was not to be forthcoming any
longer. '
Politics in Portugal continues to hold some
thing of interest, if only to the officials, who
wonder when their turn will come to be assas
sinated. ,:! . V '
(From tha Boston Transcript)
The passage of the Panama tolls bill, we are
told, show the failure of senate leadership. Both
the republican and democratic leaders deprecated
uch sction by the senate, but were impotent to
prevent it Knowing that the alnuui,trtion
did not with the bill passed at thii time, and that
its nastaae would be a potential cause of em
harassment at the conference fur limitation of
armament; they should have seen to it that the
thing was burked, pigeonholed, denied unani
mous consent, or iu some way kept back from
the action which the nujurity of the eimte de
sired. Obviously the party leaders have lost their
grip upon the senate.
Such is the facile comment of the thought
less, or of the malicious; the comment of those
who mutatis mutandis, would be foremost and
most vociferous in condemning the "bostism"
and "dictatorship", of senate leader for doing the
very thing which they now blame them tor not
doing. No Ion memory is required to recall all
but innumerable case in which senator have
been denounced as obstructionists and czar, be
cause they prevented some measure from reach
ing a vote. It is a perfectly saie assumption that
in this case such exercise of "leadership" would
have incurred such criticism, from all and we
mast concede that they arc many who desired
the passage ot the bill. Messrs. uodtfe and un
derwood were confronted with Dow' dilemma.
You'll ba damned if you do,
- , You'll be damned If you don't.
Iu that predicament, they chose, apparently.
to pursue not merely the coarse of least resist
ance, but also that course, which, in the last analy
i, is most accordant with the principles of
democracy and of republican government In
uch a government not only should the majority
rule, but also the majority should be free to ex
press and to exercise its will. For a leader to
thwart or to blockade that will is not so much
leadership as dictatorship. It is not democracy.
but autocracy. For a few members to obstruct.
either by filibustering or by parliamentary sharp
practice, the will of the majority is nothing iu
the world but minority rule.
In the case before us there can be, we fear,
no doubt that a considerable majority of the
senate wished the Panama tolls bill to be voted
upon, and to be adopted. That was regrettable.
It was, we believe, a grievous error of judgment.
But it was the fact. And since it was the fact,
however much w-e may deplore it, we must hold
that that majority was entitled to have its wish
respected and executed. Doubtless the leaders
might have brought "pressure" to bear upon their
colleagues, or might have employed some tech
nical parliamentary advice, and thus have pre
vented the issue from coming to a vote. But we
should not envy him who undertook to demon
strate their moral right to do so. If we lay
down as a foundation of government the prin
ciple that the majority shall rule, we can scarcely
qualify it with the proviso that the majority shall
always be right.
Leadership in a democracy is not v an easy
thing. It cannot properly assert itself v through
coercion or . dictation, any more than (through
physical force. It is essentially intellectual and
moral in its attributes. Its appeal is to the judg
ment, to the patriotism, to the conscience, of the
people. Such leadership has happily been often
known in both our earlier and our later history.
It is known and is effective today. There have
been; it is true, some cases in which it was not
effective, but in which ignorance or passion or
prejudice or some other unworthy injluence
moved congress or moved the people to adopt
courses, which were not justifiable. In such a
case the leader, having made his strongest and
most persistent appeal for the right, must be
content to stand aside and let the misguided ma
jority have its way, confident that in the end the
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penauiun,i wui swing oacn ana inc wrgng win uc
lighted. . " '
There have, indeed,' been some rare cases in
which it seemed not only justifiable for a single
leader or for a minority to obstruct, by any
available means, the will of the majority, but ac
tually incumbent to do so. ' That has been either
when some precipitate action has been contem
plated, without sufficient deliberation, or when
the' prospective evil was so great as to be irre
parable and actually menacing to our national in
tegrity.-. In the present case it can scarcely be
maintained that such circumstances existed, lhe
leaders would hot, therefore, have been justified
in resorting to those obstructive or dictatorial
tactics which would have been in essence revo
lutionary. They did their best as leaders. Their
hands are clean. Their leadership was not per
verted into dictatorship, but that is no cause for
saying that it failed.
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Young People and
Amusements
Why wouldn't it be .wise to let the railroad
managers and men name a truce, and then pro
ceed as Sinn Fein and Lloyd George are doing?
The tender regard the anarchists evince for
their own lives is only equalled1 by the disre
gard they show for other people's. -
German chemists say the mixture which
caused the explosion at Oppan was wrongly
compounded. Evidently. '
Opening of corn husking season has Jiad a
marked effect on unemployment in this neck-'o-the-woods.
'
Jt was decent in the railroads to wait till the
world series was over before setting off the fireworks.
Old King Corn may go to market like a
monarch yet - v
Uncle Sam is a busy old person these days.
How hard it is to find the golden meant Just
when the more liberal elements in the Methodist
church clamor for the lifting of the ban imposed
by the Book of Discipline on amusements, 14
Episcopal congregations in Louisville make a
simultaneous drive against what are coming to
be known as jazz manners, jazz morals, .jazz
music and jazz dances. They declare that under
no circumstances should they be pemitted in
any church or parish house under Episcopal con
trol. ' It seems that advantage has been taken of
the leniency which tpiscopalian-leaders have al
ways exhibited toward relaxations which in some
other branches of the church are considered ques
tionable and even wrong. But lowered standards
in these post-war days all over the world are
forcinc Christian churches and homes to con
sider whether the youth of today are steady and
hish-mmdcd enough to indulge in exciting pleas
ures without being harmed thereby. Between
wholesale prohibition and judicious participation
we declare for the latter. At the same time we
are confident that not only in Louisville but in
every city and town in the land parents should
have a more intimate knowledge of what their
children are doing and with whom they are go
in. Homes and churches should co-operate in
the effort to strengthen the inner lite ot young
ceoole so that in matters of dress, amusements
and behavior in public they shall for themselves
draw the line between liberty and license, between
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a reaiiy gooa time ana me Dogus Kina. inis is
the only cure which we see for the laxity of the
world. Congregationalism
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1 Better Stick to Omar.
Some of the preachers are complaining be
cause an eminent heel-and-toe. artist is doing the
twenty-third .Psalm, the Doxology and the Bene
diction in interpretive dancing. It might be pos
sible for one of these classy posers to lie down
in green pastures, but that is about as far as the
Biblical interpretation would go according to
the ministers. 4 there is no objection to inter
pretive dancing", but the fox trot through the
Book of Psalms is another matter. It depends
upon the spirit in which it is approached. If the
Shepherd Psalm is undertaken in a frame of
obeisance and devotion it might be wholly wor
thy. But the average interpretive dancer would
"tetter stick to the Rubaiyat and be freed of any
hint pf sacrilege. Lot Angeles Times. ; -
Our Paternal Government '
v People of the United States are now required
to ask permission from the federal government
if the wish to make "non-intoxicating" wines for
their home use. Probably by next year s permit
will be required for, making biscuits. Florida
Times-Union. . v .
Women's Rights in New England.
Women's rights were vindicated in about a
hundred thousand Massachusetts households the
other day. The women folk went down cellar
and started the furnace firc--Boston Transcript
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XPES RANDOLPH IS DEAD.
Enre TUndoIph. prldnt ot motl
of tha Southern rarltta ltnrt in
the far auucliweM, di4 racenilv at
" nn a yuuns inan na was
a prominent railroad en1nr In ih
!. building brnlirM acrota the
Ohio and doing oilier worthwhile
tiling. Thar was no mora proinin
li s: railroad man of hi age In the
country. Thn came consumption.
Forty year ao ba waa nt to
Arlsona to Utile against hi dlae
In tha dry country. )l Uld up un
til liia fever had nodded and tha
rapid prcgre.t of the diaa had
stopped, and then h got bark Into
the asm.
When about 1 tie litld out tha
Southern 1'aclflu nnUn line wt of
Kan Antonio. . . Later h build and
niuiiaged tha eleutrie tyeiem of the
Loa Angeles end of California. Ha
wns president a well u bulldwr of
practically all the rallronds In Arl
soiia except tha 8ant Ft and the
KI 1'ato line, lie conceived the
Idea of & yteni of railroads down
the west const of .Mexico to reach
to the City of Mexico and to open
up tha great mineral district of tho
went coast mountain country. Un
fortunately, before the great ayateni
was completed President Diss fell,
and then began the aeries of revo
lution from which Mexico la just
now emerging.
When the Colorado river had
buiat lta bank and waa flooding the
Imperial valley "converting: it into
the gal ton sea, private corporations
and even tha federal government
round themselves powerless. Preai
dent Roosevelt sent for Xr. Ilarri
man and asked him If his men could
dam the "break In the river bank
"Sure." Harrlman said: "dss Ran
dolph can do It." Tha comniisVon
was given htm. no built a trestle
loop circling across the break and
back. He assembled on the sldines
from 6an Antonio to San Francisco
a multitude of freight train con
dinting of flat cars loaded with brok
en stone. When tha signal was giv
en, a procession of freight trains
bogaa moving slowly and continu
ously ncross the break, unloading
stona Into tna water as they moved.
Never for rt second was there a letun
in the unloading; of stone from the
time tho first train started until the
washout was closod. - Epes Han
dolnh had Cone what the gods had
done in tha making of the world
ne naa saved trie imperial valley
from the sea. that it might be made
into a garden.
No great enterprise has been pro
jeeted in Arizona for a generation
without first getting the views ot
Kpes liandoipn. tie was the same
typo of Colossus, the same mixture
of visions and clenrneaded business
sense tho same dreamer of dreams
and hardheaded man of decision
same all envisaging and all power
tui personality for his section, the
southwest, that Cecil Rhodes was
for South Africa and Jim Hill was
for the northwest
He never was cured of his con
sumption in a proper sense. He had
hemorrhages repeatedly, and finally
died suddenly as a result of one. He
could not live east of San Antonio.
and he knew It, When as a young
man he left his old Kentucky home
and took up the fight on the desert
he was not figuring on whether he
could return east for six months,
nor was he homesick or worrying.
He cast his lot with the west for
better or for worse. He had no
fears, no re pinning, no yearnings.
He did the day's work calmly, coolly,
and without - words. . He had the
temperament" to get well, likewise
the . brains, also the courage. His
life Is a lesson not only for con
sumptlves, but to men with all kinds
of ctjrpnio ills.
'. : Children's Weights.
H. II. writes: "I have at one time
seen a table giving the correct
weight of children from 10 to 15
years of age. If you have such a
table available will you please pub
llsh it?'1 .
' REPIiT. '
The weight depends ,on the sex,
race and height
Boys-
10 years. . .... .
11 years
12 years.'.......
13 years
14 years.........
15 years ,
Girls
10 years........
11 years
12 years
18 years........
14 years. .......
IE years..;.',
.53 to 71 pounds
.61 to 78 pounds
,.62 to 85 pounds
, .87. to 100 pounds
.67 to 123 pounds
, .79 to 133 pounds
.64 to 69 pounds
.60 to 75 pounds
.63 to 94 pounds
.65 to 104 pounds
.78 to 114 pounds
.8 to 118 pounds
: Send for Pamphlet.
M. D. writes: "I have great trouble
every month owing to painful men
struation. . I am 15 years old and
have been suffering for the last 15
months. Will you kindly advise me
what to do?"
:. . - , REPLT. , r
Tou can overcome this in all prob
ability by regulating your bowels,
taking tepid, baths frequently and
exerclslne. Send a stamped ad
dressed envelope for pamphlet. Dr.
C. D. Mosher has a Very good little
book on the subject which is sold
by the T. W. C. A.
Bran Bread Is Good.
Mother' writes: "1. What should
bo the weight. of a little girl 8
years old? Her height is three and
one-third feet. z. sne onen com
nlains of her stomach hurting. What
foods Would be best for her?"
REPLY.
1. About So pounds. ' :
2. About a pint of milk a day.
Bread, preferably whole wheat or
bran; cooked cereals; fruits except
those that are very sour; cooked
vegetables except corn and cucum
bers: fresn meats ana eggs, simpie
desserts, especially those containing
fruit; milk and plain cakes or cook-
ice. No candy. io xooo Derween
meals.
Borrowing Habit.
Soma neighbors will borrow any
thing except the baby. Harrisburg
Patriot.
THE NEW GODS.
Tht eld rede, the sr Sods,
Th (ode of Rom nd Greece, '
Foncotten all their oracles.
Their tale ot war ana peace.
The rods of Egypt and tha Nile,
Rtra.na vada ot sand and aea.
Oreat Sphinx with thy alluring trolle.
save lorsoiien ibmi .
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Tha eld dreams, tha say dreamt.
Of eourase, Iet and youth;
It seems such dreams vera puerile,
That sow we know tht truth I
Ne soldier in the war was brara.
No cause worth flchtlns tor.
Not on ke sleeps la forelin srave
Knew why be went to war.
Oh, little teds w serrt today, '
said, snnvaiea, prematurely Cray,
Those gods whom realists deere
Must srv-.a gods tor you and me.
Tour tribal name la Irony:
Hart men surrendered all ws cave.
From mountain, temple, atreet or mart.
Wis Buddah, with ehy brooding- vase,
Touns Jesu with-thy broken heart7
Sliaabeth Newport Hepbura, in tho
w I or a jimes. .
Also AdiiUrrs Dudley.
Omaha. CM. St. To tha Kdltor of
Tha lKt I want tu juln A. UO
8tsru In hU praise and wom.
mndtlon of Traitlo Officer ludl.-y.
What Mr. Sleveus says regarding Mr.
Dudley's ability, energy and smcer
tty In his work will ba sanctioned
and o. K.'d ty thousands of Omaha
people.
No doubt the must principal and
busiest Intersection In tha city of
Omaha la at slienth and Karnam
street. More itafllc la to be han
dled at this pvlni iua a any oilier
plae in Omaha.
To handle tlila t raffia In a wit!
factory manner need an omVtr with
a clear and fair mind ami qukk Iu
docUlnn and action, and all who
have had the pleasure of ateltig Mr.
Dudley perform his duty at Klatrenth
and rarmtm will say he was the right
man in tha right place.
Tha work to be don at this cor
ner is no bov'a Duty, but an all day's
strenuous task and should b com
pensated aarcrdlj'gly. V lien ir.
Btevfiie says Mr. Oeinpsey should
nut XI r. Dudley back at Sixteenth
and Karnam with double salary he
speaks the truth and voices the sen
timents of thousands ot Omaliuns.
I am Informed that Omaha has
about 100 omcers on the police roroa.
This we w ill auy, averaging 1 10 per
month, means an expense of 110,000
per month. If Omaha had 100 Dud-
Uva tha work of this department
would be handled In a mora efficient
manner and at a saving or iii.ouu
per month, or nio.ouo per year.
Givo us more Dudleys.
CntCS BAKER.
A Former's Balance Khct-t
Kdgar. Neb., Oct 20. To the
Editor of The Bee: Thirty minus
three euusls 27. Certainly. But
why the 80 and why the three?
Nfneteen hundred snd twenty corn
does not require picking. Why dis
cus it?
New com! Now we're talking!
ID A? Oh. lust the cost of plant
ing. the cost of cultivating, the cost
of seed, tne cost or norse isea, do
fore, durinr and after the corn sea
on. Kln-hteen-eent feed? Horrors,
no; $1.70 about this time last year
down to so cents tnis year mi new
corn came in. Don't forget tne nay.
Then add tha cost of wear on old
machinery or the cost of new. Now
Hgure 27 cents pronr. we cani.
So much for corn. Try wheat,
Nebraska's other big crop. One
hundred acres of 1921 crop, the
average number of acres In the
south central part of the state:
Plowing-, gang plow, SO days a'
ii.io .;
Harrowing and disking, 10 days
at 17.40
DrUllng. 11.5 per aero
124 bushels wheat at 11.10......
Uorte feed during this work, hay
at 116 per ton; corn at ti.'iO per
huehel
Harvesting, man and team, 7 days
at tl
Shocking, t"o an acre
Binding twin
New binder (every year something
new) .-
Threshing machine at 7o
Man : days at tt
Home fed. corn 15 bushels at SOc,
Men's boArd at Boo
Hired hand's board, i weeks at 13.
150.00
71.00
1C0.00
iii.W
12E.00
42,00
10.00
10.00
S50.09
M.00
115.00
4.64
12.50
15.00
Total coat of wheat $1. 124.10
100 acres yield 13 bushels at 80c.ll.OJS.00
One-third off for rent of use ot
land 352.60
Crop value to farmer ....... v...t 726.84
Total lots on wheat f 68S.75
Excess profit for rarmer. Try
again. .. .'
A trip to California: .o time.
Too busy scraping up money for
rent or interest on -mortgage.
Spending money I What is it?
Wouldn't it be interesting to
know how many farm, mortgages
were foreclosed this year?., There
have been a few farmers who
seemed to -prefer that ' "slar feet of
earth" to - their own mortgaged
states. see newspapers of the
past year: '
"Some farmers would see tho un
called for war continued Jut so
they could pront by l'" Jutt on
the eve of tne wan "The formers
ere so greedy they wen t stop their
money.makliig to go to war for suf
fering humanity."
What la the difference between a
laboring man and a farmer? Let's
uke a guess anyway. A laboring
li. an Is one who works sight hour
with pay, A fanner Is one who
works II hours without pay.
"Hay farmers, get out of the ditch,
net good books end read them."
It's examine tha farmers' and
laboring men's libraries. Bsgtn,
Mr. Taylor. How many volumes
have you? We have 400.
A church teaches charity to all
men even farmer. Join one, Mr.
Taylor.
once aiuin. I disagree with Mr.
Taylor. I believe a newspaper to
be a fine place for tha use of reason.
JOHN DOW.
CENTER SHOTS.
There ran be no sueh thing as
the disarmament parley. One for
each of her dreadnoughts. Nhvllle
Denner.
"We serve a piece of cheese with
pie upon request," says a sign In the
one-armed lunch, but who's going
to admit being a piece of chtete Just
to get a triangle of pie? rtuffalo
Express.
Xstions still wish to be judged by
their combating average. Ashevllle
Times.
The school slate Isn't as common
as It was In the old days before so
many people used anthracite coal.
Duitimore bun.
Tf women should go back to hoop
skirts there would be a howl from
some Quarter about the growing im
morality of the race. Wichita
blc.
Same Old Itoy Scouts.
One traveler In the Ankole district
had rather a pleasant surprise some
time ago when he offered a rupee
to two boys who had pushed his
broken down "plkt (bicycle) along
the road, when they turned round
and told htm they were Boy Scouts
and did not expect to be rewarded
for the deed they had done. Uganda
(.Central Africa) Herald.)
Woman's and Man's Hope,
A hat for every month In the year
is decreed for wometv It Is a man's
unfulfilled longing to have a necktie
for every day in the year. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Economics.and Long
Shirts
Still An Outcast.
The cost of living has not yet gone
down far enough to permit the ultl
mate consumer to feel that he is in
on the ground floor. Washington
Star,
THE SPICE OF LIFE.
Bambo "Looky heah, big boy, don' yo
all mass wld me. 'caus Ah's hard! Las
week Ah falls en a buzz saw an' AH
busts It eom-plete-ly."
Rambo "Call dat hard?" Ll'itrS. man.
Ah scratches d bath, tub." The. Amer
ican Legion Weekly.
"When do yon intend to make another
epeech?"
-.Not oerore tne noudays," replied
Senator Sorghum. "Things out horn are
getting into suolt a etata r agitation mat
about the only really discreet remark a
statesman can make to his constituents
la "Merry Chrlitmaa.'" Washington Star.
After Mr. Brown had raked his rard he
took tht accumulated rubbish Into the
ttreet to burn. A number of neighbors'
children came flocking about the ton.
tire, among tnem a ntti girl wnom r.
Brown did not remember having seen be.
for. Wishing, with his usual kindliness,
to make the stranger feel at ease, ha '
nesmea upon ner ana sua, nearuiy: i
"Hello! Im't this a new facet"
A deep red suffused her freckles. "No."
eh stammered, "it ain't new. It's jutt
been washed." Harper's Siagatlne.
irrm Us ftew He (.fit JMraaJ.I
Wo have puld little ir no alien
tlon to the decree of the Paris drew
makers that longer skirts must take
the place of tha short skirts thl
winter and spring. We have lborl
under tha man's notion Unit the
were things beyond the ken snd
business cf the sterner sx, ami
were strictly mattsrs to be deter
mined In the sewing room and nt
tha tea table.
It appears that we ore wrong ami
that as a matter of fact It Is of eco.
r.omlo Importance whether nt thi
time the skirts are to be short or
long. The government experts have
been studying tha problem and have
concluded that If the Paris riec.rr
is obeyedfrom which we had sup
posed there was no et.-spe IJ.OOO..
000 yards of cloth will be maoufne
tured aud sold over end above the
demsnd Of hut season. Twenty
thousand additional employes In
textllo mills and stores will be re
quired to handle this business. In
sdditlon to this economic stlniujiit.
there will bo an increased demand
for low shoes for women together
with a big turnover lit trimming,
braid and othrr decorations needed
In the manufacture of suits and
gowns under the new styles. Ex
pressed in terms of dollars and
cents this runs up into iuuUl.mil
llons In trade, and starts things all
along tha line, down to the farmer,
until the picture conjured up Is one
of Joyous contentment and happi
ness all over the American lot.
Thus mere mun finds his falla
cious notions of life corrected at the
spigot and bung, and, more than
that, lis finds that the short skirt
Is not after all evidence of the
emancipation of women and the
manifestation of their new-found In
dependence. Wille men have been
wondering where the rising skli-t
and the lowering bodice were t"
stop, conjuring pictures ot an earlier
and simpler Japan, as a sort of
study in feminine eccentricity, eco
nomic law has been at work upon
fashion and subjecting it to roM
philosophy. As the years roll by. it
will be comforting to Know that
high or low skirts will reveal the
law of supply and demand at work
ss It operates upon the habits of
the sweeter sex.
Women Expect Too Much. ,
The tendency of college women
not to marry came in for a goodly
share of criticism at the eugenics
congress. Partial isolation during
four years of young womanhood, tho
nature of the studies pursued and
the close association with unmarried
women to the exclusion of men are
held to be factors in subordinating
marriage to - the ideal of personal
culture. Another causa for feminine
celibacy remarked is that women net
the qualifications of possible mates
so high that they cut in two their
chances ot marriage. Nsw York
Tribune.
Garages Come First.
Perhaps the reason there are more
garages than houses built is due to
not. having enough money for a
house after the garage is paid for.
Imperatives first. Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times.
De Volera's Greatest Trouble.
In spits of liberal remittances
from America, Mr. De Valera's
greatest trouble in Ireland continues
to be to make botn enas meet.
Philadelphia North American.
Base Ball Fans Human.
Tha bass ball fan may appear io
some persons as a curious species,
but he is intensely human; perhaps
more so than some of his critics.-
Harrlsburg Patriot
One Horror of tho Future.
The greatest horror about the
next war Is the armistice that will
follow. Boonville Mo. Republican.
Not a Peck of Ashes to the Ton
i-i If You Burn
- The Ashless Fuel ,
ALL HEAT.
pETROLEUM CARBON is
v the carbon of the crude oil
--it is not made from coal as is
;;h the case with all other cokes.
The fire is as easily
regulated in mild
weather as on zero days.
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