THE BEE! OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1921.
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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Paiaenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of the Ne
braaka Highwaya, including lha pave
ment with a Brick Surface of Main
Thoroughfare leading into Omaha.
3. A ahort, low-rate Waterway from the)
Cora Belt to the Atlantic Ocean,
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Managsr'form of Government.
Taxation and Progress.
The re is no reason for believing that any line
of business, public or private, is to escape de
flation. Almost everything else has been
liquidated, and it is inevitable that the cost of
government national, state, county, municipal
and school must likewise be readjusted.
Through the budget system General Dawes has
accomplished a saving of $120,000,000 in federal
appropriations for the current year, and has
made a further cut of 5500,000,000 in the esti
mate for the coming twelve-month period. Limi
tation of armaments will add also to the national
economy. States and cities have no battleships
to junk, but still they may disband some of their
army of clerks and other appointees.
If it were possible to strip public offices in
every division of government of superfluous or
incompetent jobholders the saving to the tax
payer would be disappointingly small. There
are economies yet untried in the methods of pur
chasing public supplies, but the net result of them
all would be less than mosrpeople imagine. Few
citizens are credulous enough to believe that
merely changing the party in control will bene
fit taxpayers. There never has been a campaign
in which both parties did not pledge lower taxes,
and yet no other promise has been found so dif
ficult of performance.
Reduction in the burden of taxation must
come, if in any great amount, very largely at
the expense of such things as good roads and
good schools. Friends of education and advo
cates of public improvements will have in the
next few years their heaviest battle. Bond is
sues and special appropriations for various good
causes are bound to meet unusual opposition. At
a bond election in Kansas City last month every
proposal was turned down. This is an example
of the thrift movement in politics. The discon
certing thing about it was that out of 135,000
registered voters, only 30,000 went to the polls.
If there had been a wider understanding that
bond Issues entail taxes for interest, refunding
and for maintaining the proposed improvement,
a larger vote would have resulted. Until the
people learn to say "no" to proposals for ex
traordinary expenditures, legislatures, commis
sions and other public bodies will continue to
have before them an unending list of proposals
for appropriations, all indorsed by large sections
of the public.
There should be very little recrimination or
111 will over the subject of taxes." This is not a
political issue in any partisan sense. The respon
sibility can not be laid on any Official or on any
party. Privately and publicly, Americans have
been living beyond their income. Sacrifices must
be made in order to bring about tax liquidations.
It is of high importance, though, that such funds
for schools or public improvements as are neces
sary to the upholding of high standards should
, not be withheld. There is real danger confront
ing public education, public health and the gen
eral welfare in the advocacy of a blind and
miserly program of expenditure. Waste must
be cut out, and luxuries, too, but not one neces
sary item should be repudiated.
Bootlegging and the Soldiers' Bonus.
We hope that, if the soldiers' bonus bill is to
be passed, it will be' completely divorced from
any. consideration or connection with the pro
hibition law. However, the suggestion made
that revenue from sale of liquor under a modi
fication of the Volstead act could be used to pay
the bonus must compel consideration of the sit
uation. A "high official" of the government is
quoted as saying that the bootlegger is getting
money that ought to go into the treasury.
Without debating that point, we may make
the statement that were it not for the exorbitant
profits made possible by the law, there would
be less bootlegging. Men who enter the illicit
liqnor traffic as an avocation do so because of the
big profit it pays. Some are caught, but some
get away, and most of the vendors are willing to
take a chance on being numbered with the for
tunate few who escape the law. One other fac
tor enters, and that is a current belief that a
division of the illegal gain has been sufficient in
some instances to so interest enforcement of
ficers that violations of the law are made easy
through connivance of officials. This latter may
be pure slander, resting only on a suspicious
and not at all warranted estimate of human na
ture, yet frequently men have been known to
yield to temptation when that takes the form of
easy money.
One thing ii true. Immense quantities of
liquor are daily being dispensed ahrongh sur
reptitious methods, and the consumers art pay
ing enormous sums of money for the supplies.
Bootlegger thrive in spite of the activity of en
forcement officers; Tinge fines levied in the courts
are paid with the proceeds of the traffic, or the
convicted culprits are held prisoner for a time
fa the jails, another expense to the public Rev
enue from the liqnor txafEc vis cut off when
i
prohibition was adopted as part of the lw of
the land, but something more It needed before
the problem it entirely tolved.
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Mellon' Christmas Suggestion.
The secretary of the treatury of the United
Statet it not Santa Claut nor yet a rival of Santa
Claus. He is, however, an able and conscientious
coadjutor of the taint, and as such offers a sug
gestion that deserves more consideration than it
will probably jet. That is that belatedChrist
mat purchases take the form of treasury cer
tificates. The new issue of these tecuritiet is of
fered in denominations as low as $50, and afford
an attractive form of investment for small buy
ers. During the timet the treasury has been
compelled to resort to this method of financing
most of the effort has been directed to the banks,
where the certificates in large blocks could be
sold with little or no effort on part of the gov
ernment. Now the government is trying to in
terest the people in the purchase, thus securing
the use of money that otherwise would be
hoarded and idle. One of the serious phases of
every time of financial stringency is that con
siderable sums of money are withdrawn from
circulation and hidden away by owners who are
distrustful of the banks or other depositories.
Such money is idle, and its absence from the cur
rents of trade is felt. The present situation is
no different in this respect from all the others
of human experience. Money is in hiding, is
going to seclusion every day, and until it can
be lured from its secret nooks and set to work it
will be a drag on the general effort, slowing up
progress and retarding recovery. The secretary
of the treasury wants to get this cash into the
coffers of the federal government, where it can
be made to do something useful, and so he prof
fers the best possible security, the short-time
treasury certificate, and suggests the purchase
of at least one as a Christmas gift. The idea is
a good one.
Not Enough to Eat
Almost half the students in a great eastern
university, it has been found, do not have enough
to cat. The head of the medical department puts
it more neatly in his report, that they are "im
properly nourished." Accordingly, milk or hot
cocoa is to be served free each fore'noon to any
student who wishes it.
In every institution of higher learning there
are many men who are supporting themselves
while studying. Others are financed by the sav
ings of their parents, usually rather meager. In
view of these circumstances it is justifiable to re
lieve the college boarding houses from blame for
not supplying more nourishing food. If the hoys
would or could pay more for their board, better
food and more of it would be forthcoming. While
some of these young men may be improperly
nourished because of their own irregular habits,
either dining at odd hours or spending their
money on sport or clothes rather than on food,
yet this can not be made a general charge.
Every once in a while after one of these
nutrition surveys it is announced that large
classes of people are suffering from lack of
proper food. This is not only true among the
children in the city schools, but in the army as
well. What about the parents of these needy
collegians does unappeased hunger spread far
and wide through America? What would be
found. if the people on a street car were tested
out? The remark is sometimes heard that more
people die from over-eating than from under
eating, but this is far from being proved by the
mere saying. There is a good deal of food
going to waste in the country, yet there is star
vation abroad and hunger at home.
The Christmas Spirit.
If proof were needed that Omaha is animated
by the Christmas spirit, it will be afforded by
the crowds hurrying about hither and thither,
each bent on a mission in which the pleasure of
giving outweighs all other considerations. It is
all right for the quid nunes and mossbacks to
prate about the extravagance of the season; the
"spug" may interpose his futile objection, but
the warm-hearted populace will go right on,
buying gimcracks and knicknacks, things of serv
ice and fanciful things that never can serve, all
the endless list of articles and wares that en
cumber the pack of Santa Claus, that joy may be
spread along with the spirit of Christmas. No
where on earth fti be found a more inspiring
scene than is presented in any Omaha store these
days. What matter if the buying be a little be
lated? Who is there to set a fixed and definite
hour for proceeding on that errand. The pur
chase of a Christmas gift depends on something
that fs not controlled by a time schedule, and it
is well that this is so. Funds for the purpose of
providing Christmas cheer for the poor and af
flicted grow apace, and The Bee's Free Shoe
Fund is mounting along with the passing days,
denoting the generous impulse that swells in the
popular heart It is Christmas time, the spirit
of Santa Claus is abroad in the and, and the
people are responding after a fashion that con
vinces even the most Cynical that the world is
not such a bad place to live after all.
Footpads who hold up Santa Claus are in a
class all alone. No known or classified form of
meanness compares with theirs.
The ex-kaiser says "Germany opened her
archives freely and unreservedly after the war,"
but it is not recorded that he had anything to do
with it.
White Christmas? Santa Claus likes snow.
Return to Thrifty Ways.
The agitation for strict accounting and intelli
gent fiscal management at Washington was long
in bearing fruit. The shocking conditions of ex
travagance and irresponsibility disclosed in the
war period made the reform inevitable. Con
gress began to work from March, 1919, on in the
spirit of budget surveillance, although there was
ro budget Now we have the system functioning
with forethought and energy. In two years a
load of more than J2.0O0.00O.O00 has been thrown
off the treasury. How many other billions were
wasted because such control was not established
years ago? New York Tribune.
Turbulent China.
China hat been regarded as one of the most
peaceful of nations, when as a matter of fact it
has had so much strife within its own borders
that it could not undertake the kind of fighting
that attracts the most attention. If all its fight
inar talents could be co-ordinated, China might
take rank as a great military nation. Washing
ton Star.
Choice of How We Shall Die.
We are not a logical people when we come to
collective choice of how we shall die. We shrink
from the killing powers of a mrsterious disease.
but defy the death-dealing potentiality cf mo-
tarcari j-iVS Jaeraid.
The Husking Bee
It's Your Day
Siart ItWiihaLauh
QUESTION I
The question now before the board
On which we would get action,
Is one that has tin family floored
And yields small satiafaction;
As for the problem we would solve
It is a weighty matter, ,
As round about it we rfvolve
And hand out verbal chatter.
Old father says; "Now, hark to me
We went broke at Thanksgiving,
And yet if we can't eat, I tee
No further use in living; '
This idea strikes me rather punk,
, As one I put my feet on
To spend our jack for Christmas junk
With nothing left to eat on."
But mother banks on gifts a lot,
("Bout all she has to bank on) y
And so the presents must be bought, "
That mother is a crank on;
And now the point before the board
We ask in accents jerky
At Christmas time can we afford
To have another turkey?
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PHILO-SOP.HY.
It doesn't pay to let your wife suspect that
you think you know more than she does.
HOUSEHOLD HINT.
If you wish your husband to enjoy his
Christmas dinner don't open the festivities by
telling him how much the stuff cost.
Speaking of the "poverty of riches" we still
cling to the old-fashioned idea that it is possi
ble to be miserably rich and still be reasonably
happy. While riches may not bring happiness,
they at least have this merit they do not pre
vent it.
See where an Omaha girl had several parcels
Stolen, that were marked, "Please do not open
until Christmas."
It is impossible to tell whether she is to be
pitied or congratulated.
A CHRISTMAS PRAYER.
I heard my daddy talking
To another man one day,
Dad didn't know I listened
But I sure did hear him say;
"Oh, God, I'd like some sherry
For a Christmas gift this year!"
The first prayer dad has offered
Do you s'pose God will hear?
CAROL RICKERT.
Wonder what Mr. Volstead takes when he
gets a cold?
The 'phone company now wants us to oav
more for getting our own number. That's put
ting a tax on suffering.
Lost Gentleman's diamond ring in Wool-
worth's 10-ccnt store. Wantad.
Some one may have picked it up and out
it back on the counter.
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. UNIMPORTANT ITEM.
Heard a speaker the other day who used the
word "camouflage," but he hadn't been back in
this country very long.
OWED TO REV. BLATZLY.
Tell us not in mournful numbers
Santa Claus is but a myth,
That the story is a 'falsehood -
Used to fool the children with;
Tell us not that we are heathens
Perpetrating baseless lies,
That we've lost the truth of Christmas
That day to commercialize;
For there really is a Santa .
And he comes to us each year,
He's an all-pervading spirit
And his name is Christmas Cheer!
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Everyone believes in Santa ClauS in one form
or another, but, of course, the popular concep
tion of him is in red pants and white whiskers.
Sh-h-h, ladies, maybe hubby would like some
new lace curtains or a set of dishes for Christ
mas. It won't do any harm to hint around and
find out.
GLAD HINT.
If you've a friend you'd like to please
This coming Christmas day,
Here is a hint that you may seize
To make him blythe and gay;
A gift that entertains and cheers,
As all men will agree
Just smile and send your friend a year's
Subscription to THE BEE!
AFTER-THOUGHT: It is a wise fish who
begins business on a small scale.
PHILO.
Letters to the Editor
How to Keen Well
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Copyright :i. by Dr. W. A. Evans
MORE ON VITAMINES
The food sources of fat soluble A
vitamin, according: to McCarrl
son's collection of the report! of In
vestigations mailt) nil over the
world, are: Milk, liutter, eug yolk,
green leaves and the growing part
of plants.
It I present In abundance in
llvar, Kidney, heart; In salmon, her
ring ana other fat nan. Crude cod
lher oil contains 200 times as much
of It aa does butter or the refined
cod liver oil of the druic store. Next
to unrettnetl cod Uvit oil come
mutton fat, beef fnt and fltih oils.
It Is abundant In apinurh, lettuce,
eabbHRp, ltruiHclx aprotit. Toma
toRH and oyti beans are rich In It.
Ruch foods as potatoes, carrots,
bctetfl. ' rndlRhea and turnips a to
rather poor In It.
Tho foods whlrh contain no fat
soluble A growth principle are as
follows:
Skim milk, aktm milk chteso, olive
oil, cotton seed oil, cocoanut oil, lin-Ht-ed
oil, hardened or hydrogenated
animal and vegetable fata, margar
ine made from vegetable fata and
containing no animal tats, peanut
oil, palm oil, lard and bacon fat:
white flour, pure enrn Hour, polirhed
rice, custard powders, glucose, sugar,
Ryrup, egg substitute, meat extracts,
highly refined fonilM and white fl.sh.
The bony has tho capacity of stor
ing considerable of this vitamin.
To insure enough of it, one should
ent whole milk, butter, animal fats,
egtrs, glandular organs, fresh fruit
and green vegetables.
If the diet is too low In It, growth
is slowed up. If the deficiency Is
considerable, ulcers develop on the
eyes.
Tho food sources of the anti
scorbutic vitnmlne C are stated com
paratively as follows:
Juices of lemons and organs and
fresh raw cabbage and raw ripe
onions, 100.
Raw tomato juice, 60.
Cabbage cooked 20 minutes, SO.
Cabbage cooked one hour, 10.
Malted grains, turnip juice and
raw green beans, 30.
Potato boiled for 30 minutes, raw
carrots, beet juice and raw dry
beans, 75.
Grape juice. 5.
There is only a moderate amount
of this principle in milk, and espe
cif'iy In milk from cows fed on
w -?r feed. Fresh milk from cows
fed on green grass is fairly rich In It.
Skim milk contains as much of it as
did the milk from which it was
made. The proportion of it Is low In
old milk, boiled milk, pasteurized
milk, milk treated by hydropen per
oxide, sweetened condensed milk,
evaporated milk and dried milk.
Canned tomatoes are rich in it.
It is absent from animal and vege
table oils, canned meats, cereals,
pulses and yeast.
To insure oneself or plenty of this
substance one should eat plenty of
green vegetables and fruit. The
bedy is capable of storing up a fair
reserve of it.
If the amount of it in the diet Is
low, there is some sponginess of the
gums, some bleeding from the gums
and some roughness of the skin. If
it is very low, scurvy results.
No animal has the power to make
any vitamines. Plants pick tip ele
ments from the soil and air and
build them Into vitamines. Animals
derive them directly by eating
plants or, indirectly, by eating milk
and meat and eggs of other animals
which have gotten them from plants.
Of the three vitamines A and B
are fairly stable, but C is rather
easily destroyed by heating, ex
posure to air, aging, decay, or by
drying.
Alas, It's Fattening.
Mrs. R. writes: "Will you kindly
give an opinion, as to the value and
wisdom of eatin? yeast cakes for the
relief of auto-intoxication of intes
tines? The person is past 70 years
of age."
REPLY.
By auto-intoxication, I presume
you mean constipation. With some
people, yeast acts as a. laxative. It
is all right to use it for that pur
pose, unless you are obese, and one
of those who get fatter when they
eat yeast.
Rusty Knee Joints.
F. A. writes: "What is usually
the cause of a pain in the knee,
Jack and Jill
"Well, Just look at it snow!" and
Jack scraped the iro,t oil the bed
room window, peering out at the
eddying mate o( heavy now(Ukes.
"That inrint that we'll lave to gel
our front pmmcnt and the walk
cleared off early this morning, or
the houc will be blockaded by the
lime I come back from the office."
"There comet a man with a snow
shovel now.", said Jill. "Whistle to
him, and he can have the job
through by the time breakfast U
over."
Jack did so. and hurried down to
the front door in his bathrobe.
"Me price is tiventy-five emit fer
the job," oberved the man with
the shovel. "Ye've a vurry long
walk around to ycr kitchin, and it's
bitter cold."
"Seventy five cents tnorted Jack.
"Not in a million vears. I ran do
it in ten minutes myself." .
"Go to it, retorted the man, re-
treating with provoking speed.
"There is plinty more that are
willin' to give a poor man workl
"The very idea, Jill," declared
Jack' indignantly, as he hurriedly
dressed. "I hey used to do it tor
dime. The laboring classes teem
to think that when a fellow wesrt
a white collar and lives in a decent
little house he't a millionaire. I'll
be glad to see bread lines again."
"But it isn't such easy work at
that, dear, with half ice and half
snow. Maybe you had better call
him back and let him do it. You'd
waste an extra quarter or two on
cigarettes during the day."
"Not I! It's good fresh morn
ing exercise and I'll show them I
can take care of my own place."
Jack' was down in the basement,
hunting for the coal shovel, in no
time.
"Do you know where it is. dear?"
he called up the stairs impatiently.
"Oh, honey, I forgot to tell you
the coal man broke it when they
brought that last load H Perhaps
you can borrow one fro... the neigh
bors."
Grumbling against both coal and
snow men, Jack went through the
drifts, his collar turned up, and the
chill wind cutting through him, to
secure a half broken shovel after
visiting several houses.
When he returned he went at the
heaps of drifted snow with a ven
geance. Beneath the upper surface
of wet snow had formed a thick and
stubborn coating of thick ice.
He pounded and pried and
bumped at it with the old shovel.
He was getting wet through, and
losing more and more temper, as he
progressed slowly down to the side
walk in front of the house.
"Breakfast is ready, darling I"
called Jill. "Come in and get your
coffee and eggs and bacon while
they're hot."
"Just as soon ts I finish down
especially when bending the knee,
and also the cause of a grating
sound when bending or unbend
ing it?"
REPLY.
This Is probably a very mild ar
thritis, which is found frequently in
middle-aged people. It results from
a very mild, low-grade Infection. It
does not seem closely related to or
dinary rheumatism or any of the
more violent joint disorders. About
the only harm which results is pre
mature loss of suppleness, " prema
ture creaky joints, and limitation of
motion. ,
he called, and ploughed
will get cold,'
Mnrrlago No Cure.
E. M. writes: "I have a woman
in my employ of a ra,ther ignorant
negro class. Her daughter has
cramps so badly at menstruation
periods that her doctor hns told her
she must marry and that if she does
not marry she is very apt to die dur
ing one of the periods.
"1. ts it possible to do anything
to relieve In such an instance?
"2. If she were to marry, would
It be apt to help such a case? She
does not wish to marry, but is being
forced to by her mother and doctor."
REPLY.
1. Has she tried hot sitting baths
or benzyl-benzoate, or both?
2. The marriage cure for cramps'
fails to work unless pregnancy re
Milts, and that generally fails also '
Many married women know by ex
perience that the marriage cure
cannot be depended on. There is
no danger of sudden death.
here."
ahead.
"Hut everything
objected Jill.
' tverytlui it cold it cold as
the hoititt place in the universe I"
he muttered.
It was a good fifteen minutes be
fore he had finished the task.
Then he slipped on tome of the
unremovable ice at he walked un to
the front porch.
"It'a not such a wonderful job at
that." he told himself.
Just them his feet shot from un
der him, and he took a vicious
tumble.
Jill standing by the doorway taw
him fall and screamed.
"It's nothing' 'he grunted, as he
stiffly picked himself up and came
in to the house.
"Darling, just look at yourelf.
Your coat and trousert are dripping
wet and you'll have to change be
fore you go to town. That means
a tailor's bill for pressing. And your
new shoes are soaking through
You'd better oil them, to they won't
dry hard and crack."
Another ten minutes closed be
fore lack came to the tabic, ready
to holt a delayed breakfast and run
for the train.
"Well, dear." said Jill, "you've
rone more damage to your clothes
than you did to the snow on the
V!IV."
"Never mind," and Jack was
triumphant. "I saved the seventy-
five cents!"
(Cnpyrlfht, Thnmpaon Fentura
Kervlca.
Jewel, Flower. Color
Symbols for Today
By MILDRED MARSHALL.
The opal, today's talitmanic gem,
on thit date loset its power to brin
lad luck to all save those whose
birthMone it is, according to the an
cients. They believed that under the
proper conditions it brought the
greatest good fortune to those who
wore it, if only its wearer would be
cautious in making decisions, and
exercise good judgment in the af-
lairs of the heart.
Ihe. opal is todays natal stone al
so, therefore those bom on an anni
versary of this date are doubly sure
of its bringing them lurk. It should be
set only in gold, and should be worn
around the neck or in a brooch or
breastpin if the wearer is to benefit
by its powers.
K'ftl'yrlitht, nil, by Whealrr Syndicate.!
Kansas has 25
crs.
women officehold-
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FUNERAL DIRECTOR!
Careful aitriu.on lu th lumiort
of gueata. The minor detail nf
I.. a j comtorta, auch aa plenty of hot
wntor and linena. are watched mora
carefully hero than the ararate
We want all our guatta oon-
t ntrd.
BwUI rftoa for permanent ut oni
or two pmple, with yrtt'ta ualh, '0 lr
nionio and up.
When in Omaha
Hotel Henshaw
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Pleads for Debs' Liberty.
Omaha, pee. 17. To the Editor of The Bee:
Christmas is approaching the time when strife
and bitterness in the struggle for existence is
in a small measure temporarily cast aside when
man's normal Instincts (love and kindness for
his fellowmen) to a small extent at least pre
vail. When we celebrate the birth of Christ,
from thousands of pulpits we hear the message
of the Christ spirit .Nearly 2,000 years ago
Christ was born, lived the life of a martyr, was
misunderstood, persecuted, and finally nailed to
tho cross.
In the 19th century a boy was born In an
Indiana town, grew to manhood and developed
a love for mankind as great or greater than
any man who ever lived a man of whom
James Whitcomb Riley said, "When God made
Debs he did nothing else that whole day:" a
man who has scorned wealth and position for
principle; a man who cannot be bribed to do
what he considers wrong for any price: a man
who flays the money changer as Christ is sup
posed to have done; a man who hates all wrongs
and has the courage to denounce them openly;
a man grown old In the highest and noblest
service of his fellowmen. No nobler or greater
heart ever beat In any man's breast, and now
he is lingering in a prison cell, because he spoke
In opposition to the war. If he is left to perish,
it will be one of the great crimes in history.
Debs Is loved more than any other living
man: loved yes woshipped almost as a deity
by the common people who know and under
stand him. and he Is hated and feared by those
who fatten on special privileges a man who
drank the bitter cup of persecution to the dregs.
And it took the superman he is to endure
all this..
This country can do nothing better as a kind
and just act right before Christmas than to
liberate its political prisoners, as the European
countries have done long ago; return them to
their families and loved ones who, like them,
have suffered untold agonies. Debs was sent
to prison and kept there, not so much for what
he said in his Canton speech against the war,
but special privilege feared his influence among
the masses, and fear it atilL
What stand do our so-called Christian
churches take towards the greatest living advo
cate of real Christianity the international
rhampion of the unfortunates of all the world
Etyrena Victor Debs of Terra Haute, Ind.T
Where are the ministers who protest againft
that crime? They are silnt. It seems he will
hav to die. like others have, before his life
work has been generally appreciated.
Give your love and appreciation to the liv
ing, it does the dead no good.
R. B. BENDA,
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