THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1921.
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The Beefi Platform
1. Nw Union Passe agar Station.
2. Coatiaa4 ImproremeBt of the No
hreske Highways, Including Ik pv
Meat of Mala Thoreafhrara leeeliaf
lata Oraaka with a BriA Sarfa
3. A short, low-rat Waterway from tha
Cera Bait la tba Atlaatie Ocean.
4. Homo Rula Cbartar for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
For a Better Balanced Nebraska.
Nebraska it not a manufacturing itate. Ham
pered by lack of fuel, power, but chiefly by
costly transportation, it may never become in
dustrially as great as many other states. Yet
there is opportunity for the establishment and
growth of many factories here, mainly of the
sort that take the raw materials of the farms
and turn them into finished products.
The census report of Nebraska manufactures
hows that the value of manufactured products
for 1919 was $596,042,498. The estimate of the
: value of all crops raised here in the same year
it given as $1,071,542,103. There are 2,884 fac
tories with 49,076 officials and employes in the
state, and 436,033 farms. Any plant it rated at
an industry which employs one man and turns
put products worth more than $500 a year.
, So much for the comparison. There has been
an increase in the importance of manufacturing
in the last ten years. The value of products,
, ' owing partly to larger production and partly to
higher prices, has doubled in five years and
trebled in ten. The number of wage earners
meanwhile increased less than one-half, from
24,336 in 1909 to 36,521 in 1919. The number of
establishments was enlarged in the same period
by 384. The gain in Omaha alone was 129
plants, giving the city a total of 561, with 21,305
wage earners, of which 3,410 are women. Ten
years before there wer.e only 8,020 persons so
engaged.
Splendid at this increase is, the total is not
impressive, More goods ought to be made in
Omaha, and the small towns throughout the
state should have their own little plants to re
fine local products and supply more of their
own needs, giving employment to labor that
now only comes and goes with the harvest
There are only nine canning and preserving fac
tories, with a labor force of 82 persons, in all of
"v Nebraska. Six condensed milk factories, while
promising, are not sufficient And it is surpris
ing to find only eight houses fabricating agricul
tural implements. Furthermore, the wild, specu
lation jn blue sky projects probably has resulted
in setting back industrial progress throughout
the state, making investment in new home in
dustries seem precarious.
These facts make the movement to buy goods
made in Omaha and in Nebraska bulk all the more
importantly. Such beginnings of manufacture
as now have taken root here should be encour
aged. Nebraska ought not place all its eggs in
the agricultural basket, but should endeavor to
build up a nicely balanced system which would
not lessen the production of food and raw. ma
terials, but decrease shipping costs,, provide all
the year employment and make it more nearly
self-sustaining. ...
Illusion may be maintained. But whatever set
fitment may finally result, there teems now to
be mora human wrong than divine right in im
poverished, distressed Hungary. In fact, in at
tempting to rttura there it almost teems at if
Charles wert endeavoring to csrry out the war
time tlog an which advised the Hohentollernt and
the Haptbvrgt to go to a certain uncomfortably
warm spot Perhaps he had better re-examine
his royal charter and tec whether he got it from
above or below.
Male Choirs in Heaven
Woman and Cathedral Muai
Bring Out On Great Fact.
(From the Musical Courier.)
A sorely grieved contralto hat written to ask
why women are not allowed in cathedral choirs,
and il the cho'rt ol heaven will be male only.
We hardly U qualified to answer the latter
cart of the UCj't question, at the Joyt of writing
for the Musical Courier and the delightt of
earthly tinging have engrossed our attention and
kept our thoughts too far from the chorus of
the righteous up above. We might appear to re
lacking in sympathy if we told the anxious lady
that, in the words 01 the late Kobert Jngersoii,
Decency in Congress.
A remarkable incident hit cropped out in
congress, wherein a member hat sought under I we know no more about the subject than the
privilege to insert in the Record matter that is I greatest doctor of theology. But we have the
obscene and unreliable. Mental processes of ""ony oi uanie mat a iriena oi nis, a
. . , I woman named Beatrice, was seen singing in
sucn a man art oeyona easy comprehension. Pirtdiet Vtnl.; ,cltimony j, unsupported,
vin a language so ricn as ours in wnicn 10 ex however, and he may only have been dreaming,
oreis his wants and needs, the ordinary or I We know that the sopranos in the Italian
exigent requirementi of hit plan, he eurely could ehiarches for many a long year after Dante had
c.j . . .. vu t.i- .!.... hit vision of Beatrice were not women. In those
...... . w.7 ,w .... r-.i " -... . . wnm,n , .. iee of
indulging in obscenity, or covertly seeking to
spread such objectionable matter on the official
record of the august body of which he it a mem
ber. Blanton of Texat hat gained tome degree
of notoriety by hit intemperate attackt on hit
opponents, his virulent assaults on labor unions,
and a peculiar persistence in thrusting himself
forward at all times, in'season and out of season,
to vent his spite, his envy or his malice on the
floor of the house. What service he can be or
has been to hit constituents is not clear. Even
when the democrats were in power he wst with
out influence in the house, and with a strong
republican majority present his share in legisla
tion, either for or against a proposition, must be
passive only and of no effect By his own action
long ago he deliberately destroyed any useful
ness he might have possessed in the beginning,
and the contemplated expulsion of "Blatant"
Blanton, aa he has been designated, will have
little reflection in the course of national his
tory, other than that such action will evince the
determination of the house to insist on com
mon decency among its members. Texat, too,
will be gainer, when no longer misrepresented by
tuch a man.
Government Expenditures Diminishing.
Some little consolation may be extracted
from the showing made by the Treasury for the
first three months of the current fiscal year in
the way of diminishing expenditures. While the
total is yet large enough to be impressive, it is
coming down at a rate that supports the an
nounced determination of the authorities to save
as much as possible. Totals for the three
months , of all the brdinary expenses of
the government as reported by the Treas
ury department are: July, $321,818,569.24;
August, $291,157,847.34; September $266,523,
932.70, a reduction of more than fifty-five mil
lions in September below July. The first quar
ter of the 1922 fiscal year shows total expendi
tures of $879,500,349.37, compared to $1,250,849,
556.65 for the first quarter of the 1921 fiscal year,
or a saving of nearly $400,000,000 for the three
months. These figures ought to' impress anyone
with the sincerity of the Harding administration
in its approach to economy in government ex
penditures. In addition the Treasury statement
shows that more than $265,000,000 of public obli
gations, such as Liberty bonds, Victory Notes
and War Savings certificates were retired dur
ing the quarter, compared with less than $100,
000,000 for the same time last year. Transac
tions' in Treasury certificates were reduced by
nearly a billion dollars in the same quarter.
Health is gradually being restored to the finan
cial department of the government.
Making a Booby of Charles.
"Strip 'majesty of its exteriors and it be
' comes 'a jest," Burke once remarked. This
play on words, depending on dropping the initial
Hid final letters of the word, came dangerously
tear to befng a pun, but that there was wisdom
In it too, is proved by the stripping of former
Emperor Charles.
' This limb of Hapsburg has endeavored to
keep alive the tradition that his family was di
vinely ordained to rule. Perhaps he even be
lieved in this himself; at all events, he evidently
was firmly convinced that the peasants and sol
diers of Hungary believed in his divine right
His forces broken, himself a prisoner and only
saved from suicide by his wife, he still is far
! from being a tragic figure, but will only be writ
tea down in history as an ass. '
Admiral Horthy was there like a duck. This
land-faring seaman with his horse marines
would himself Eke to enter into the business of
divine righting. As long as he maintains the
I biggest guns and the tatt loyal troops, this
Defeating Dread Diphtheria.
For many years medical men combatted
diphtheria, not understanding the nature of the
disease. It was a scourge of childhood, more
dread than any other. A generation ago Omaha,
in common with other communities, annually
felt the effect of the diphtheria epidemic, and it
may truly be said the disease never was absent,
while its little victims numbered thousands. In
time its true nature was discovered, a specific
germ was isolated and recognized, and a serum
preparaed to cure its victims. Parents breathed
easier, for a remedy had been found where none
before was known. - '
Now further research has disclosed a positive
test for susceptibility to the disease, with an
equally positive method for rendering immune
those who might succumb. Physicians have great
faith in the new method, which has proved its
efficacy and is being generally applied. Subjects
that do not react to the test are naturally im
mune, those that do are easily immunized, and
with no bad effect or after treatment. (
Diphtheria is prevalent in Omaha far in ex
cess of any recent experience. More .than 400
cases' and twenty-five deaths have been reported
for the five months ending with October.
Health Officer Pinto has recommended to
the city council the appropriation of $25,-
000 to defray the cost of applying the
Schick test to the children . in the city
schools. By this means the epidemic will be
checked, and many lives may be saved. The test
will not be forced on any one, but if this applica
tion will have the effect claimed for it, the money
will be well spent' Omaha's best asset is its
school children, and no pains should be spared
to make them safe. , .
Understanding- Other Nations.
Meeting at the crossroads of the Pacific, the
Press Congress of the World searches for the
straight and narrow path to lasting peace. No
statesman - or set of statesmen could have as
much power as the newspapers in building up a
sense of international solidarity. The matter,
however, is not so simple as some of the editors
meeting in Honolulu would have it appear.
Wars, according to the sentimental theory
voiced by a British journalist, result largely
from misunderstandings. He and his associates
make a well founded demand for cheaper cable
communication between nations, but their view
that if .peoples of every land understand each
other 'veil enough peace. will reign forever can
not be entirely endorsed. Brothers and sisters
quarrel within their own homes, and not even
twins are without their differences. '
Nations are not peopled, much less, governed,
by celestials. Their aims often are selfish, some
times coming in conflict with the aims of other
lands. Although misunderstanding foreigners is
bad, understanding them might also in many in
stances fail to "prevent conflict For all that, the
press has a duty to acquaint peoples with each
other. Further than that, however, and more
fundamental, is the duty of the newspapers of
ieach country to uphold a high standard of con
duct for their own nation. A jingo press, stirring
up undue suspicion of other peoples, or urging
national aggression in the name of honor, safety,
minifest destiny, or duty is a menace.
Complete publicity for the proceedings of the
disarmament conference in Washington would
not lessen the peril, but add to it instead. Things
that ought to be understood would in some cases
be still misunderstood. There are limits to the
uses of frankness, and history in the raw is not
easily digestible. Each nation must muzzle its
own dogs of war, and this operation is one in
which the newspapers can be of the utmost
service." ,
An American buyer has paid 200,000 for
two pictures sold by the Duke of Westminster. I
They are Gainsborough's "Blue Boy" and Rey
nolds' "Mrs. Siddons." America's art fanciers
appear never to go broke as do their English
contemporaries, but still these masterpieces will
never be safely anchored until they are in the
possession of a public museum. :
Governor Kendall declares the midwest faces
a crisis, but even this is better than turning its
back while the crisis sneaks up behind.
An abandoned auto along the roadside is a
good thing for anyone but a regularly ordained
sheriff to let alone.
Indian summer may be over, butbt fall-
the devil by the monks and cardinals. They
were not only debarred from the bliss of voting
and the rapture of rerving on the jury, but were
prohibited from sitting in the chancel of the
church. Of course we admit that the mother of
the women folk brought on all the trouble by
her foolish inuuisitivene's about a forbidden
apple. And moreover, St. Paul very cleverly
says, in I Corinthians, xiv, 34. "Let your women
keep silence in the churches; for it is not per
mitted unto them to speak."
We need not now examine too closely the re
ports which have reached us concerning the ex
official way in which certain medieval monks
treated the women they were obliged to con
demn officially. Nor is it worth our valuable
time to point out that St Paul wrote: "Your
women" meaning the women who managed the
Corinthians to whom Paul was writing. No argu
ment however brilliant and in our best manner,
can do away with the unpleasant fact, that fe
males have been excluded from cathedral choirs.
Only the pure and uplifting voice of males rises
like holy incense in the vaulted aisles. Is this
fair to the fair sex? Surely today, when women
have been brought down to an equality with
men and are allowed cigarets and motorcycles,
it seems illogical to shut them out of the choir
loft We think it very selfish of the men who
retire to cathedral choirs in order to get away
from the ubiquitous ladies for a few hours every
week.
Why are the voices of young boys purer than
the sophisticated voices of women? Perhaps
they are not really any purer, but only seem so.
We are reminded of the saying that married
men do not really live longer than bachelors.
Life only seems longer to the married man. It
may be, therefore, that boys' voices seemed
purer to the medieval monks, who were forbid
den to associate with females, than the more
emotional and richer voices of women seemed.
All churches in all ages have clung tenacious
ly to established customs. The strongest argu
ment the church can bring in favor of the boy
choir is that the custom of centuries has estab
lished the practice. All churches, moreover, are
better supported by women than by men. With
out the women, in fact, most churches would
languish for patronage or have to go into the
moving picture business. Men, as a class, are
not church going creatures. Hence it is neces
sary to consider the wishes of the vast major
ity. And that vast majority, being women, are
mostly in favor of the boy choir. A female so
prano here and there might feel slighted and
annoyed that she was denied the right to take
her place in the choir, but most of the female
worshippers in the church would prefer to hear
the cold and passionless voice of a boy. The
lady -who complains about "the boy's pure voice'
must remember that the expression means the
pure voice of a boy and not the voice of a pure
boy." We, naturally, are as ready as usual with
a satisfactory explanation of the word pure. Did
the complaining contralto ever think deep enough
to discover that the Latin word for boy is puer?
The boy choir was established long ago, in
the dark ages, when women were too badly edu
cated to read the manuscripts, and the men
were too busy learning Latin and religion to flirt
with the lady members of the choir. But a boy
or a manufactured neuter was the only other al
ternative for a soprano in those distant ages when
males only were worthy to sing in the great
cathedrals.,. The male choirs were not always
satisfactory, but no one seemed ready to suggest
the admission of the female to the choir stalls.
The monks wanted the musical monopoly and
would probably have raised a great outcry
against the wickedness, of women who did not
keep silence in the churches. Four centuries ago
the famous Dutch theologian, Erasmus, wrote a
scathing attack on the church singing in Eng
land, where he was then living. The original was
in Latin, but a translation into English, made
some 200 years ago and now modernized, reads
as follows: .. , - -
We have brought a tedious and capricious
kind of music into the house of God, a
tumultuous noise of different voices, such as, I
think, was never heard in the theaters either
of the Greeks or Romans; for the keeping up
whereof whole flocks of boys are maintained
at a great expense, whose time is spent in
learning such gibble-gabble, while they are
taught nothing that is either gbod or useful.
Whole troops of lazy lubbers are also main
tained solely for the same purpose, at such
an expense is the church for a thing that is
pestiferous. .
No doubt the present paucity of good music
for the cathedral service is greatly owing to the
limitations of the boy's voice and the total ab
sence, of musical intelligence in the male children
for whom the soprano part has to be written.
As soon as a boy is old enough to understand
good music he loses his "puer" voice. It breaks.
For a- time the boy's voice fluctuates between
the chirp of a chicken and the wheeze of a
rooster- before it settles down into a tenor,
baritone, or bass. Meanwhile the choirmaster
has to train up another brood of pure voices to
sing like parrots the simple music of the cathe
dral service.',
. The admission of women to the choir, so that
the tenors and basses could be properly bal
anced by intelligent sopranos and contraltos,
would be an unspeakable boon to composers and
choirmasters alike. The women have not shown
any desire to monopolize the singing. They are
satisfied to be sopranos and contraltos. Even
the extremists among the newest women have
not yet claimed the right to sing bassi The sur
gical science which learned to keep the male
vocal chords short has not yet discovered how
to lengthen and thicken the famale vocal cords
to produce male tones. Whatever happens,
baritones and basses at least are safe from fe
male competition. This thought will doubtless
bring much comfort to the men who see women
ousting them from the senate, the forum, the
hospital, the police force. Musical composition
and fiction writing were captured years ago. Only
the heavy bass remains in solitary grandeur, free
from Amazonian assault. .
How to Keep Well
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DIRT'S LITTLE TREACHERIES.
New York Assessment
The real estate assessment for 1922 is $9,947,-
323,092, against $9,972,895,104 on which the city
is being taxed at present. The personal property
assessment for 1922 is $667,480,950, against a re
vised assessment for personal property- for 1921
of $213,222,175, or an increase of $454,250,785.
The fieure of $213,222,175 as the personal prop
erty assessment was arrived at last year after
approximately two-thirds ot tne assessment tor
personal property had been sworn off. New
York Times.
Showing Great Guns.
The navv has stot a new sixteen-inch rifle,
the most powerful in the world. Couldn't the
navy manage, sort of careless like, to be carry
ing it past the Pan-American building about the
time the foreign delegates to the Washington
1 taafanacM are acinar in? Kansas City Tisier
wnen a man epita up gray or
black eputum he may think be la In
a bad way and pay out acme good
money roe a laboratory examination.
as a ruia tne report eomea bark
tubercle bacilli abaent followed by
a considerable llt or cocci found
proaent
He may d lam las hie worrica with
the thought that the examination
proved him free from eonaunibtlon.
As a rule he le Juettned In dtemtea-
In that dlaease from his list ot
worries.
Occasionally tubercle bacilli are
present though not dlacloeed by the
examination. And occaxlonallv
man haa consumption without hav
ing tubercle bacilli In hie eputum.
Tne etory today araia with an
other anaia to that black enutum
situation. While black sputum does
not mean coneumptlon It does mean
that the air breathed la dirty. When
dirty air Is breathed some ot the
dirt la caught In the nose and
thrown out. soma la inhalnd Into
the lunge, caught on the surface of
the tubes and thrown out as gray
or oiacK sputum does no Jiarm
and the coughing up of such mate
rial la to be 'regarded aa nothing
more than a proof that the air we
breathe la dirty or worse. That
which gets into the lunaa may do
some narm.
A study of the lunss of eulnea
pigs held In laboratory cages for
several years waa made by Willis.
The lungs always get rather black
with dirt nfter exposure for a year
or more, not so black as the lunm
of a city man, but quite black at
mar.
When the olcrment vets Into the
tissue It tends to accumulate at cer
tain places. Most of all It tends
to gather in Imyph glands around
the base of the lungs and near large
air tubes. The pigment Irritates and
tnis causes new lymph tissue to
grew. Presently there is a large
lump of lymph gland tissue stained
black by dirt
These studies throw a side light
on the growth of tonsils and ade
noids after removal. . It does only
temporary good to remove such
growths unless the focus of Infec
tion is cleaned up at the same time.
That source of Infection may be
tuberculous milk, decayed teeth. In
fected gums or nose, dirty air or
mouth Infections.
The study 'explains some chronic
coughs that are not tubercular and
the cause for which is not easily
found. The pressure of a large
black lymph gland on an air passage
could easily produce such a chronio
cough. The dust particles also tend
to accumulate under the pleura,
along the ribs, and at the apex par
ticularly If there are old apical scars
and adhesions due to pleurisy or
tuberculosis. If these dust particles
happen to carry tubercle bacilli
along with them consumption may
De set up.
Some kinds of dust particles are
very much more apt to do this than
others. Soot particles are not bad
offenders In this particular. Parti
oles of sand, particles from grinding
stone, and particles from grinding
metal are particularly harmful. Or
ganic dusts -such as flour dust and
grain dust are far less harmful
Germans Have It, Too.
Mrs. S. B. I writes: "I noticed In
one of your articles that it Is cus
tomary in all cases of heart trouble
to give digitalis. Can I purchase it
in any drug Btore arid In what form
could it be had, liquid or tablets?
Could I send it across the ocean to
my mother, who is sufferjrig with
heart trouble? Or do you know
what digitalis In German is?''
' HE PLY.
Digitalis la to heart trouble what
morphine Is to severe pain and car
bolic acid is to skin irritations. It
is the master remedy. But Just be
cause it is so powerful for good
when properly used it is very pow
erful for harm when improperly
used. Every drug store carries . it
in various forms from leaves to ex
tracts. You can buy it at a drug
store on the same basis you buy
soap.- "You says what you want,
pays your money, and gets it" But
take my advice and use it right or
not at all. The Germans know all
about it, and it is sold everywhere
in their drug stores.
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C'rlliclrs Governor's Itbva,
Pavld City. Neb.. ft. SI To the
Editor Of The llee: In The Ha r
uciooer Jl I read with regret an 4
aiKgusi an article by Uovernor Ma
Kelvle on how to handle the uneni
pioyeq or NeUrenk thla comlns
winter. Klrat wlih rearet. because
had great hopea that McKelvIe
was a man with a "viaion" and that
I by my vote helped elect him. and
second, dlaguated because 1 conalder
ne insulted every farmer's wife In
this tulr state of ours by adding
burdena In the way of cooklnn
meaia. weaning bed clothes anl
otherwise taking responsibility of
taking Into their homea a class of
men who thi police of our cities are
unable to liandle
I live In a wonderful productive
eountry, aa most of the state Is, and
have sold more than a dosen women
cotton flannel mittens myself who
are working side by side with their
huabanda helping gather a crop of
corn that Is not anywhere near
paying the expense of raising.
I also have laying on my desk at
the present time the names of farm
era around David City who want me
to send out men. If any appear, to
help gather the corn, for which thev
are ottering 4 rents a bushel and
board: but no Idle or unemployed
men seem to want to earn any where
from ft to $4 a. day, according to
their ambition or ability,
wow, i do not want or Intend to
say that there is not some splendid
types of men who are helping to
gather the corn who would other
wise be Idle, but we all know there
are other hundreds who will not do
an honest day's work but who
would . gladly, during the coming
winter, take advantage of Governor
McKelvle's "generous ' offer of room
and board at some one s else ex
pense. Now if McKelvIe wants to
do something In that line, and really
means It, let him place SO per cent
of his salary in the hands of a re
liable committee to be used for the
benefit of the needy and open his
home to the homeless and let his
wife wait on some of those unem
ployed, and at the same time let
him appeal to all the men under his
administration to do likewise, they
are la much better condition finan
cially and otherwise than the farm
ers who pay the taxes from which
they an draw a portion or tneir sai
aries at least v
The governor's salary no doubt
has been going to him just the same
as it would in good times, while our
farmers are facing bankruptcy and
not a few have already failed, and
lust why it Is he still wants to mul
tiply their troubles, both financially
and mentally, I cannot unnersiana.
O. E. IJAV1H.
Hardware, David City, Neb.
Word to the Strikers.
Omaha, Oct 24. To the Editor of
The Bee: If these railroad agita
tors who are trying to tie up trans
poratlon - and thereby make us all
suffer were receiving wages in pro
Dortion to what the farmers and
others get for what they have to
sell, then possibly they might be
justified in striking, but in doing so
they will hurt themselves, tho peo
ple and our government.
Strikers haven't the sympathy of
the people at the present time, and
they will surely find it out
"dTlJ&ISN."
Farm Finance
What Uncle Sam It
Trying to Do to 11 tip.
' Conquering Bedbugs.
Mrs. E. I B. writesr "After buy
ing gallons of' liquid exterminator
for bedbugs I came across this clip
ping in your column which I had
never needed until this summer,
Please republish it, as it is so effec
tive, cheap, and can be afforded by
the poor who are suffering from the
pest"
W. it. W. writes: "I have seen
your articles on bedbugs. I have
found that a saturated solution of
corrosive sublimate in powdered
form in kerosene is an infallible
remedy. It will kill every buy and
egg that it touches. I always have'
applied it te furniture with a paint
brush, but I believe an atomiser that
would drive it into the cracks bet
ter than a brush would be the thing.
Once we moved into a house that
had thousands of them in the walls.
We had tba Walls and . floors
scrubbed with something like an
ounce of corrosive sublimate dis
solved in a tub of water. That was
effective."
Eyldcnco Hot Conclusive. '
In F. writes: "My son, 18 years
old, height B feet 10 inches, weight
160 pounds, has since childhood
been troubled, periodically with
worms. As a child I treated him
by giving enemas, but now he ob
jects to this treatment and I thought
perhaps you could tell me Of some
simple remedy. Like most boys of
his age he dislikes medicine. When
he has these attacks he is very irri
table and has a variable appetite."
REPLY.
You should have better evidence
of worms than is given in your let
ter If you have such proof the
next question is, what kind? For
round worms give wormseed: for
seat worms, salt enemas. While the
boy may not like the treatment,
the worms like It less, and that is
what counts.
Many Sorts of Headache.
L. K. writes: "1. Kindly advise
what to do for nauseating headaches
which occur very often? 2. Can
this be the cause of high blood
pressure? 3. Is aromatic spirits of
ammonia harmful taken intern
ally?" .
1. There are many kinds of head
ache, due to many causes. Among
these are eye strain, constipation,
blgh blood pressure, anemia, pitui
tary trouble, rheumatism and. a
mysterious combination wnicn we
call migraine. You must first find
out which kind you have. What is
good for one kind is not good for
another.
2. High blood pressure sometimes
causes headache.
2. No. -
Farmer Answers Governor.
Schuyler. Neb.. Oct. 24. To the
Editor of The Bee: Through the
columns of your paper, if you will
allow me the space, I wish to voice
my protest against a recent sugges
tion made by Governor McKelvIe
that the farmers of Nebraska give
homes to the jobless class during
winter.
I aa a firmer wlBh to ask you, Mr.
McKelvie, how would you like to
take some of these men into your
house, which no doubt is more m
tnndaoiis than the average farm
er's house for your wife to board
and furnish room to 7
. As far as these men helpihg tis
with the chores, etc., we can do
that, work ourselves, being-that we
did all our work without their help
during summer.
The greater per cent of these job
less men are those who refuse to
nick corn for us for 4 and 5 cents
per bushel for which we ourselves
get 17 to 25 cents: and yet tne.se are
the men we are asked to keep over
winter and chances are that about
the time when spring comes and we
could use these men and pay them
good wages, they will beat it for
the city.
it appears as though aa if some
one was continually, dictating to the
farmer as to what he should' do
or not The trouble - is that ithe
farmer has been made the goat long
enough. But when the governor
makes such a suggestion, which is
an outrage upon the dignity of the
farmer and his wife, it is about time
for him to speak up.
A NEBRASKA FARMER.
Plea for Union Shop.
Omaha, Oct 24. To the Editor of
The Bee: Representing the execu
tive committee of the Omaha. Typo
graphical union, I have recently
called on a number of local manu
facturers, wholesalers, retailers and
others buying printing, and have
found them generally favorable on
the proposition of distributing a
fair share of their printing to union
shops. , -
Why is not this a good way out
of the printing contention ' at the
present time 7
In this .way no union man nor
business sympathizer is compelled to
sacrifice his principles, and it leaves
the non-union people, who have
conscientious or other scruples
against unionism, free to maintain
their non-union shops. Since the de
struction or crippling of unionism
(the forced "open" shop) is not
right and both union and non-union
shops are American, and all . have
to live and both sides are demand
ing what is right why isn't it in or
der now for both to be free to build
up their own shops to compete as
much as possible under the circum
stances for the Improvement of con
ditions for all concerned?
WILLIS HUDSPETH.
New Qualifications for Servant
A new standard has been set in
housekeeping. The following ad
appeared in an evening paper the
other day: "Wanted Housekeep
ing position by young woman, SIC
a week. Can make home brew.
Write Box 65." Pittsburgh Leader.
The Straggle Today.
The world struggle today Is be
tween the ideals of Abraham Lin
coln and those of Karl Marx. E.
D. Austin in a Letter to The New
York Herald.
Lost Opportunity.
If the theory of eugenics had
been fully established in the world
at the time of the Declaration of
Independence we might already be
eight feet high. Los Angeles Tjpes.
Valbta ta Ika tUmt ml wta ml
artlla M a aw Tks Mm all, aaaartk
ta aaillaa taa fmrmamm mm Maa4 f
aaarall ml Ik 4t ftaaaaa aar.
lawallaa la kaaklac Saaa Jar Ik ratlaf
at arWtlafa4 BVaaMHtaS.)
II.
Under the agricultural amend
ment to the war finance corpora,
lion set, the corporation Is author
ised to make advances to any bank,
banker or trust company which may
have made advances In turn for
sgricultural purposes, or to any co
operative aaaoclallon of producers
which may have made sucn ad
vances. Loans for "agricultural
purposes" are defined as loans for
any purpoea connected with the
growing, harvesting, preparation for
market or marketing or agricul
tural tiroduetca. or the breeding,
raisin, fattening and marketing of
live stock. The term "advances'
Includes also any discounting or re.
discounting of any note, draft, bill
or exchange or other negotiable In
strument Issued for agricultural
purpoaea.
The whole purpose or the leclala
tlon Is to aid farmers and stork-
raisers rather than banks. If banks
need aid In the ordinary conduct
of their buatneae, they are expected
to seek relief through the federal
reserve or their correspondents. Uut
If the luck of funds on the part of
the bank results In denying liberal
credits to sgricultural producers
wno, ir able to borrow, could "pull
out or tne note." men tne war
Finance corporation Is the proper
source or assistance.
The War Finance corporation Is
able to grant relief by reason of two
things: First, It need not consider
the restrictions applied by the fed
eral reaerve to the amount .which a
bank may borrow; second. It may
discount agricultural paper on
somewhat more liberal terms than
are permitted by the federal re
serve. The first Item means that I
limitation Is removed from the ulti
mate borrower, the producer.
(Tomorrow: Terms of Advances.)
THE SPICE OP LIFE.
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ttmt r'i aa " "'I
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kHo, IMulaa,
0 S.r a ! kavlna a fim
Kit ! la ektualoit. Ska ak4 (kail
II ikoy kaaw itut lh' aa a aarnlKS
fir. la ifca 4y all ai Ika lima.
lima ir aaa up ana mis:
"laai kaa l It a raid 4a V. 1 B
a Ik sataka." Tka Kpallh ItatalS.
'Success brlnti noise'
wniar. EDaclally
land news.
nri a masailne
svolrdupola. (.lava
Chaar opt Whan all tha nalshbora tuy
auloa you can sat a Mat la a alfaat car
bu raul Kawa.
Juat bacauaa a crank can atari aotna-
Uilns. ba thlnka ha la tha aource of tha
horsepower. Baltimore Sun.
It's aaiy to meat nvnm tbea days.
Tou run onto them avery time you turn
around. jackaon citizen Patriot.
'Jack, what causes those marks en
your nosaT"
'Ulaaaas.'-
"Ulaaaca of what?" London Matt.
"Lanlne aaya ho la dtmvDolntsd In tha
Ituaalan people." Probably thought they
oould lire without eating. Toledo Blade.
Those keen eastern business men learn
something every day. X candy atore
'BUSINESS tS GOOD THANK YOlA
LV Nicholas Oil Company
Sacrifice Sale
60 PIANOS
j
at Bargain Prices
Thete instruments returned
from rent and taken in exchange
on Reproducing and Grand
Pianos.
All Fiolebed and la Fine Condi
tion Bearing Our Guarantee.
Priced to Sell
Wonderful Values
Below era listed a few of the
many styles for your selection!
CRAMER
Oak Case. Dull Finlih. Late Style,
$175.00
SCHILLER
Dull Mahogany Only t years eld.
$19500
EVERETT EBONY
Old but In good playing condition.
$85.00
HAMILTON MAHOGANY
Regular price new, 1676.00.
A Bargain.
$235.00
SEYBOLD
OaV Case. Very Little Used.
$210.00
HOBART M. CABLE
Polished Mahogany. Fina Condition.
$225.00
VICTOR
French Walnut Finish.
$175.00
SINGER
Refinlshed Case. A Practice Piano.
$14000
Don't pass up this opportunity.
Buy a Piano now. Terms as low
as $10.00 down, balance $5.00
par month.
BARGAINS WHILE THEY
LAST .
The Art & Music Store
1513 Douglas Street
Savings Account
. HO. 23QQ
Savings account No. 2399 was opened
back in November 1914 with $25.
Slowly but surely, month after month,
the account grew.
The man who opened it made sacri
fices to keep it growing, and today it is
a fine, big account amounting to almost
$1400.
Ydu can do no more sensible thing
than open an account in the Savings
Department of the First.
l-fet National
iBank of Omaha
Phone DOuglas 2793
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