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The Bee' & Platform
1. New Union Paaaengcr Station.
2. Continued improvement of the Ne
brailta Highway, including tha pave
ment with Brick Surface of Main
Thoroughfare Jead-'ng into Omaha.
3. A hort, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
The quality that particularly distinguishes
Warren G. Harding, and for which the American
people turned to him with such confidence, is
his capacity for looking at matters from a prac
tical viewpoint. This does not mean that his
ltieais are not high, or well defined, but that his
conduct is measured by the safe rule of common
sense, and he knows that great ends are reached
by slow and sometimes painful progress. In his
Christmas message to the people of the United
States and to the world he says: "It is one
thing to talk about the ideals of peace, but the
bigger thing is to seek the actuality."
Take the matter of the submarine.. Amer
ica will cheerfully say farewell to the U-boat
with all its unhallowed record. It may have its
legitimate uses, just as does any lethal weapon,
but it is capable of being illegally used, to ac
complish cowardly and criminal designs. Yet
France and Italy ask to be permitted to retaiu
the submersible in their armory of defense. These
nations have yielded to the more powerful on
the general subject of the navy; it is not en
tirely unreasonable that in some regards their
wishes be respected. America is not exactly in
the position 'of dictator, as yet. By precept and
example we may "be able to show the world how
to' get along without submarines, although at
present we have a greater and more powerful
fleet of these than any other power.
It is the peace of agreement that is being
sought at Washington, not of compulsion. When
accord is established, even on a minor point, a
way is opened to approach the greater.- There
fore, the conference is proceeding along lines
that will bring great good to the world. The
four-power treaty contains the essence of a coun
cil to settle any dispute between the parties and
without intervention from others. The United
States and Great Britain have found it possible to
adjust some grave questions across the table, and
have maintained amicable relations for longer
than a century, just because the statesmen of the
two nations have realized the truth of what is
contained in the simple statement made by Pres
ident Harding. 1
The world is not quite ready for the interna
tionalism taught by Weodrow Wilson; the work
able plan sought by Warren G. Harding may
lead in the direction of the greater objective, but
it certainly does show a way to enduring peace
without the necessity of any people surrendering
its individuality, sacrificing any of its national at
tributes, or submitting to any limitation of its
right to self-determination. The only restriction
placed on any is that, in asserting its own rights,
it give due consideration to and so regard the
r'ghts of others.
Wesleyan's Proud Achievement.
In the midst of "hard times" such as Ne
braska has not seen in nearly thirty years, Ne
braska Methodists have achieved a goal of more
than passing importance. A campaign for a million-dollar
endowment for Nebraska Wesleyan
university has brought subscriptions not merely
of that amount, but a) total of $1,341,000. The
excess is to be used for the building of a gym
nasium and a women's dormitory.
This sum represents more than one-tenth of
the entire expenditure of the state government
in Nebraska; it is equal to one-half of the entire
amount spent for maintaining all of Omaha's
public schools for one year. It comes not from
taxes or compulsory collections, but from the
voluntary contributions of men and women" al
ready taxed for state schools, who give this addi
tional sum in order that a high-grade college may
be maintained under the influence of their church.
This particular achievement is noteworthy
because of its total There are other church
schools in Nebraska, ranging from collegiate
rank to primary grades. Their continued main
tenance, frequently at a cost which involves sac
rifice on the part of contributors, indicates the
strength of the religious conviction of many
housand Ncbraskaus.
The Carry-Over From Christmas.
.Christmas is past, much to the regret of the
children who realize that it will bf 365 days be
fore the same spirit of jollity aud play will fill
their lives. There is something for grownups
to regret, too that the spirit of loving kindness
dies away so soon.
No one need wait till Christmas to show that
he is human. Neither is it necessary to curb or
abandon on December 26 the interest one has'
shown December 25 in the welfare of every
human being from the widow, orphan or invalid
to his own friend's and relatives. It would be a
very different world if some of that expansive
holiday cheer could be carried over through the
year.
For one day out of the many the world's heart
is allowed to dictate. No one is to go hungry,
r.o child, however poor its home, is wittingly
permitted to be lost to the attention of Santa
CI j us. To forget ou the very next morning it
to nuke t mockery of this most beautiful piece
of sentiment.
These people grow hungry anew catli day.
The basket of food, the pile of coal or the trifles
of clothing that are given them gradually are
consumed and need reappears. The generous
mood which decrees that there shall be no misery
in the world for one day does not offer any gen
eral relief Liter. Nor ought charity to te de
pended on for the continuous support of any one
able to work.
These people whom we think of on Christ
mas day deserve opportunity for self-support, or
training which would fit them to find or meet
opportunity. Christmas is a splendid time to
think of their need and to alleviate it temporar
ily. The rest of the jear might well be spent in
the same spirit of brotherhood, but to the prac
tical end of lessening unemployment, exterminat
ing poverty and opening tin avenues to self-help
for these who have skidded into the ditch at the
edge of life.
Arbitrate the Packing Strike. '
The stand of The Bee for arbitration in the
packing house strike has drawn the criticism of
an apologist for one of these corporations. The
recent wage reduction, he writes, "is distinctly
for the benefit of the public and for our wage
earners as well as for ourselves, because not un
til the industries of the country in general have
reduced their operating costs can' we return to
prosperity and can labor be fully employed."
The alluring suggestion of lower prices for
meat has not yet been realized, even though it
is asserted that the packing plants are working
with normal forces at the new scale of wages.
It would be unfair to place any heavy blame on
the packers for this, because they - have fre
quently shown the public what a small part of
their total expense goes to defray operating ex
penses. Time and again they have demonstrated
to the farmer that he gets practically all the
money taken in from the sale of meat. It will
be impossible to convince the public now that
labor is getting it all. It may even be suspected
that the packers themselves enjoy a more or less
modest profit.
According to the census of 1910, wages were
only 3.9 per cent of the reported expense of the
meat packing industry. If wages then had been
doubled, it is clear that the cost of meat would
not have doubled also, but would have gone up
a little less than 4 per cent. The proportion of
wages to costs may now be somewhat greater,
but at all events, any hope for a sizeable de
crease in the cost of meat through savings in
wages is bound for disappointment.
The defender of the packers presents a num
ber of facts, but avoids any reference to the
actual wages which will be paid under the re
duced scale. From another and a neutral source
comes the information that 65 per cent of the
packing house workers will be receiving a weekly
wage of $18 under the new plan. There will be
some who receive less than this amount, and
some will get more, but the reduction in the
wages of the lowest paid labor, the man who
lives closest to the subsistence line, is the
greatest.
Probably there are families that can live
ou $15 or $18 a week. But how much business
do they make for the merchants? At a time
when business is depressed from lack of buy
ing power, who gains from further reducing the
ability of a great class to consume? It is to
be doubted if many of these people will be
able to patronize the meat shops selling their
product as they would if their wages had been
left at their present level.
This is not to plead offhaiTcl for the main
tenance of any wage scale. The fair way to
get at the right of the question is by impartial
arbitration. This method was accepted by the
packers during the war,, when labor was scarce
and wages might have been forced much higher
except for the restraint of mediation. They ought
to accept it now, even though there is a surplus
of unemployed to draw from, in wise anticipa
tion of a day when labor once more will be
scarce and hold the advantage, able to repay in
kind whatever treatment they received.
One Good Reason.
'Tis well, nigh a hopeless task to please one's
democratic contemporary when that contempor
ary happens to be an Omaha newspaper bur
dened with the difficult and disagreeable task of
trying to re-elect its owner to the United States
senate.
The Bee recently condemned the profligate
expenditure of huge sums of money in the recent
Michigan election of 1918, which sent Truman
H. Newberry to the United States senate. It
urged that "the senate so act as to put its dis-v
approval clearly upon such campaigns." Yet
The Bee draws a scolding from its neighbor be
cause it ventured to suggest that "for the good
of the country, perhaps, it is fortunate that New
berry was seated instead of his democratic op
ponent." Apparentlj', to satisfy its contemporary, The
Bee should have indicated a preference that
Henry Ford be senator. That is too big a price
to pay for winning the favor of Senator Hitch
cock's newspaper. Emphatically, other things
being "anywhere near equal, The Bee would not
relish the picture of Henry Ford in the United
States senate. A country founded in the spirit
of religious tolerfhce can hardly expect its ideals
to be fostered by public service of a man whose
principal ambition in recent years appears to be
the kindling of religious hatred, the stirring of
racial prejudice. -
Henry Ford is a successful builder of auto
mobiles; by that he has amassed a fortune re
puted to be well over $100,000,000. But no man
who will turn the tremendous power of such
wealth to the persecution of a race a foolish,
fanatical attack which condemns all without re
gard to individual merit or without apparent
necessity of cause or proof no such man is en
titled to public lienor in a country dedicated,
among other ideals, to religious freedom and
political asylum.
One of the incomprehensible tfiings about
this period when work is so scarce are the ef
forts to increase the hours of labor in some
cases. Are one-half the people to have jobs and
to support by their charity the other half who
would be without?
Air mail pilots are not supposed to be en
tirely weather proof, and for that reason the
98 per cent service reported during the big
storm looms Bp as a fine accomplishment
Correct the National Count
Census of 1920 Should B
Brought Up to Date in 1925.
Say what yon will about the conservative
politicians, there is generally less humbug about
them than about the radicals, ,
(From the Boston Transcript)
Recommendation made by Mr. William M.
Sttuart, director of the census bureau, that a
national census he taken in 19.' 5 rarrirs with it
an admission that the census as taken in 19J0 it
open to grave suspicion afan accurate presenta
tion of aspects of the life of the nation which
the cenus undertakes to portray. It is a case in
which even if the figures are correct they may
be misleading. It is perhaps not too much to
say that here is a rase in which the statistics
may be guilty of the offense clrscribed by the
shorter and uglier word. Mr. Steuart explains
the situation when he says that the rmtnu'ratioii
of the population was made at a time when, it is
widely believed, the distribution of the popula
tion was abnormal. There had been rush to
the cities during the boom times that continued
for a year after the end of the war. It is be
lieved that there was marked movement from
the cities to the rural regions soon after the cen
sus was taken. Attention is also directed to the
fact that business was still in, a most unusual
condition as the result of the war and that con
sequently the census of manufactures did not
present a fair view of normal industrial condi
tions. These causes of dissatisfaction do not neces
sarily imply that the figures themselves were
wrong. Even accepting as accurate the state
ments of population, objection might well he
made to an enumeration at a time when many
country people were temporarily making their
homes in the cities or, as between the cities,
when there had been shifts of population from
one to another because. of causes transitory in
their nature. But, as a matter of fact, there is
reason to doubt the accuracy of the population
figures. The census was takeir on the first of
January instead of the first of April, as had been
the custom. The change was made by congress
in deference to the wishes of the agricultural
states, but it is open to question whether the
attempt to count the people in the dead of winter
did not result in blunders that would otherwise
have been avoided. Here in Boston, Mayor
Peters has maintained with much force that the
count fell about 50,000 short of the true popula
tion. Whether or not there is a new enumeration
of the population and a new census of manufac
tures in 1925, the proposition serves to call at
tention to the increasing need of accurate knowl
edge concerning population and its distribution.
Great sums of money are now spent on the col
lection of vital statistics which would be of
limited value were there no means of comparing
these figures with those showing population. It
is, for example, the rate based on population
rather than the actual number of deaths and
cases of illness that is often of chief significance.
Unless the population figures are accurate, vital
statistics as they are ordinarily tabulated may
prove as misleading as the present census is said
to be.. That is one reason why the time may
come when there will be a demand for a system
that will keep abreast of the times in the
enumeration of the population, substituting yearly
for decennial reports.
Perhaps work now done in many of the states
points the way to such a system. The American
people probably would never tolerate such regis
tration as that which has obtained in European
countries. We want here nothing comparable to
the dossiers in which old world police have kept
the personal records of the people. But in di
verse ways a large part of ifte population of the
United States is already registered. There is
the registration of voters, now including women
as well as men. We list the poll taxpayers. Much
of the efficiency of public education depends
upon the knowledge obtained through the regis
tration of the school population. In the thirty
three states now .composing the registration area,
so-called, not only is an entry made on book or
card when an infant starts on the journey of life,
but many of his adventures as he passes from
stage to stage of the journey are similarly
recorded until the story ends with the death cer
tificate and the burial permit.
All this registering and making of records
has not yet reached a point where it may be made
the basis of a national enumeration of the pop
ulation year by year, but it indicates a tendency
that may in time work a revolution in the estab
lished methods of census taking, leaving the na
tional authorities only the duty of operating the
adding and computing machines in tabulating the
returns collected locally and forwarded to the
central agency. Regarding that possibility, how
ever, as a subject merely for speculation, the
question of immediate interest is whether- the
people will support the recommendation for a
new enumeration in 1925, especially in view of
the fact that congressional representation is de
pendent upon the distribution of population.
Washington dispatches indicate that the subject
has been brought up at this time with a 'view to
ascertaining what the people think about it and
what they want.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS.
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Copyright. IS!, br Dr. W. A. Evan
Return of Confidence
The practical effect of the Washington confer
ence upon industry and economic prosperity is a
subject that is beginning to attract attention. No'
one thought of the conference as a potent agency
for promoting business, but it is proving to be
such an agency. Its decisions are beginning to
exert a world-wide effect upon finance, industry
and production.
The business men of the world have been
appalled by the conditions which confronted
them in attempting to transact commerce. With
exchange demoralized, shipping uncertain or non
existent, labor costs excessive, raw material sup
plies diminished, new tariff walls rising, and
the buying power qf consumers, impaired y
crushing taxation, it seemed that years must
elapse before the disordered world could knit
again the strands of commerce. But the proc
ess of recovery is setting in with vigor in several
portions of the world, and it was accelerated from
the moment when the great powers announced
their agreement to work out a plan for cutting
down naval expenditures, on the lines of the
proposal made by Secretary Hughes in behalf of
the United States.
In most of the great developments of natural
resources the nerve lines run back to such finan
cial centers as New York, London, Paris and
Amsterdam. Therefore, when these financial
centers are affected, there is stagnation through
out vast areas of the world. But with confidence
returning to the financial heart, there are stir
rings of energy visible in the remotest extremi
ties, preliminary to the resumption and increase
of production of raw materials. In this branch
of activity alone, the beneficial effects of the
Washington conference touch nearly every coun
try in the world.
Commerce, consisting of the exchange of ma
terials, is actually sensitive to the influences that
are working for betterment" through the im
provement of national finances and the assurance
of general peace. Ships run to cover in war
and stay under cover during uncertainty and de
pression. Cargoes cannot be obtained when,
producers are idle, railroads run down, prices
demoralized and money debased. But with the
reappearance of confidence comes the thrill of
enterprise in all the activities that make up com
merce, from the farm aud factory to the foreijjn
ultimate consumer. Washington Post.
American People First
The American people to a certainty agree
with President Harding that the United States
sould be the first to ratify the four-power treaty
covering the insular possessions in the Pacific of
this country. Great Britain, France and Japan.
New York Herald.
POWDER AND PIMPLES.
An ordinary powder, harmleaa
i lirmliully, having no poUonoua
tiuulliii, one In common ue as a
diluting powder for both healthy and
xlt'k sklim, hue proven to le a cuuae
ot a sKin dlnemie i lonely akin to
none.
It this U true, I It not poasible
IliHt UHlng ordinary race powder
('ommimly licM to be hHrmlt'M -ami
rmmvini; no poinorii on anaiyaia.
limy bo uno ot the chunm of bad
skin, pimples, and minor blem-IhIii's?
Item) the story and form your
own opinion.
'J'lio powder In oxide of sine. The
pine, a furtory In which till pow
Uit Is muilp. Thoso affected, the
niployea working In the fuctory.
"i" lt reporter, Dr. J. A. Turner. The
medium of reporting, the United
tjlHtPN public health reportn.
Zinc Ih a li.irinlcHM. nunpolsonous
mineral In wide una In the arts, con
siderably uhp(1 tor dtiHtlni; powdery
ft lid a frequent medieant employed
to cure Bkln dlxenxt'M.
In a certain factory where this
Kulmtnnee was ground and put up
for the trade 14 out of 17 employes
Rave a history of what they called
the oxide pox. At the time of the
InvPMtiKution elfiht had It.
The investigation found that It re
fulted from the clogRlnK up of the
pores of the greaso glands with the
iionpolsonouH powder. Since the
khuko could not escape it ac
cumulated in the KlunriR. This
caused an eruption resembliwr acne.
The placen where this eruption
Bfnerally developed were those
where two skin surfaces commonly
rubbed against each other.
suveaty areas were most subject
to it.
In this factory the clothing of the
men was constantly dust laden with
this powder, and most of the. shot
like papules, and papules changing
into pustules were found under the
clothing.
The men said the disease was
worse in summer than in winter.
The recommendation, so far as
this industry was concerned, was
removal of dust from the air by
well known devices and manufac
turing methods, cleanliness of the
workroom, cleaner clothing, better
facilities for bathing the body as
well as the face and hands.
There are not many persons en
gaged in the manufacture or the
putting up of the ztnc oxide powder;
therefore, from the standpoint of
employes, this subject is not one of
wide Interest.
Butthere are many million peo
ple who dust more or less of their
skins rather heavily with harmless
powders.
They may not use as much as got
on the skins of these men.
They may not rub it in as much
as the contigous skin did in these
oases. But they use it rather plenti
fully and lots of them have skin
blemishes of one kind or another.
Some of them have tried many
methods of cure, some of which
were both costly and troublesome.
Here is a suggestion.
She Should Eat Bran.
. T. R. writes: . "What course do
you advise to overcome constipation
in a girl 7 years of age? She is
active and keeps herself well occu
pied, but she has a slight tendency
to be cither nervous or a 'busy
body.' "
REPLY.
Give her bran as a bread and as a
cereal. She should eat plenty of it.
Likewise plenty of vegetables and
fruit.
Have, her drink a glass of water
on arising and another before break
fast. Likewise one or more glasses
between meals. This in addition to
the water taken with the meals.
. Insanity Not Inherited. .
X. writes: "Some time ago I wrote
for information regarding insanity.
I have found no reply, so am writ
ing you again. Is insanity inherited
or not?"
1 RFPLY.
For a prompt answer send a
stamped envelope. Only a small
part of my letters can find a place
in this space. i
Insanity is not inherHed.
Poor balance, lack of emotional
stability and similar qualities of
mind are inherited.
People of these classes are liable
to become insane if subjected to too
much' strain, if their associates rub
them the wrong way or if they are
untrained. '
Operation Will Not Help.
I. W. writes: ' "My? mother, a
woman of 50 years has developed
cancer of the liver. She has been
tortured by terrible pains and her
skin has turned yellow and she has
lost considerable weight. The doc
tors advise her to be operated upon,
others say no. Do you think an
operation would be successful and
prolong her life?"
REPLY.
There is no operation that is of
any service in cancer of the liver.
An Itc-h Victim Reports.
T. E. H. writes: "I desire to give
those afflicted with winter itch or
all-year-round itch the benefit of my
experiment with the trouble in the
use of .distilled water and 2 per cent
lysol applied at night to the affected
parts of the body.
"In my case it unfailingly pre
vents the itching for that night and
often for several nights. My itch
ing occurs on my right shoulder
blade and at other sections of the
body; those are especially treated
with the dope.
Negro Farmer Prosperous
Dublin, Ga., Dec. 25. Business is
good on Cain Foreman's farm. Cain,
a negro, brought into town speci
mens of a second pecan crop in this
year and a second apple crop on om
tree this same season. Both pecans
and apples were nearly matured.
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Itallntuil Man's Wife llcpllm.
Jted Oak, !., Iec. :,To the
Editor of The He: due a polo
git and thunki to the editor of The
Uee, I wilt write one mora. Hardly
any two persona who read the annte
article will form exactly the same
opinion of it That Is why there are
so few successful writers, and J cer
tainly do not claim to be one. Mrs.
J. P., I think you undervtood that
by referring at all to my family I
meant only to show that I knew a
little about both aides ot the ques
tion. However, alnce you are worrying-
about the podsible nkcleton in
our family closet which I might be
trying to keep from the cold public
eye will tell you: After a very seri
ous illnesn and not being able 10
work for more than a year, my
father thought to better himself
nnimi'lally by trading: waa too hon
est for that game. Then when hard
times followed, and they have been
hard in this country before this, he
could not pull through.
During the reccntwar the farm
ers were the ones who supplied the
food; they were also paid the very
highest prices and the whole coun
try' literally turned in to help them
raise, harvest and ship the crops.
Uuring that same time the railroad
men had to tight for every raise
they got and even then the money
could not be made to reach the
heights of food, clothing and rent.
However, I do not grudge the farmer
one cent or one bit of glory he may
have received; they deserved it. But
why turn around and kick us? I
am merely curious (o know why you
wrote your first letter.
Did you want sympathy because
you had to work so hard and for
nothing at present? Did you really
want Ideas from the railroader's
point of view, or did you Just feel
scrappy and want some one away
from home to scrap with? You and
I could go on indefinitely picking
at each other, but I fail to see what
good it would do.
Miss Fairfax recently wrote a
splendid article, asking that the
girls, regardless of outward dress
or makeup, should look deeper and
pull together for each other. Why
not borrow her idea? We are all
working, whether it be for a bare
living, or for a home, or to protect
money invested, and we are in prac
tically the same boat on a very
rough sea. Why can't we all pull
together for once, just to see what
good we might do foiv ourselves as
well as the whole country. Even
if we don't reach a landing soon
we may at least become better ac
quainted and can weed out some of
the wrong ideas we now have of
each other. We have tried fighting
a long time why not try the other
way now? Wishing you a. Happy
Christmas and a better year to fol
low. MRS. II. H.
Farmer Needs a Market.
Omaha, Dec. 20. To the Editor
of The Bee: The editorial, "Betting
on the Farmer," would seem to be
through a desire to light or rekindle
the waning fuel of hope in the
farmer's breast.
The situation in Nebraska today
will not be materially benefited by
light and superficial opinions, either
verbally or with the pen. It carries
with it for each a responsibility and
just in proportion that each meas
ure up to that responsibility will
Nebraska go up or down (in fact,
this is applicable to all nations).
Regardless of contrary opinions,
it is logical to reason that an indi
vidual, already prudently- borrowed
even though solvent, cannot get
much cheer in an extension of time
and less in the thought of the "op
portunity for more credit," when
can be seen the limited possibilities
of the necessary market which will
permit his liquidation. There are
too many farmers (tine in others)
who are practically Insolvent be
cause of no market. Wherein is the
sound policy of more credit exten
sibn for a community already obli
gated to its elastic limit.
It does seem that the lead know
ingly or unknowingly is . to make
more unnatural an already unnat
ural condition, the outcome of
which cannot be other. than an un
foreseen reaction, unanticipated and
unhoped for.
It is serious to endeavor to not
see a prevalent malignant condition;
w-hen it is done, always suffering fol
lows. It is far better to recognize
an inevitable collapse and head It
oft if possible. The most glowing
pictures, painted in millions of dol
lars, will not raise the ' mortgage on
the old place," nor will it make an
honest market price for grain. What
Nebraska farmers need is a legiti
mate price for corn, developed
through a demand for corn created
by the citizens being patriotic
enough in peace time to consume
corn through making it more and
more a part of "Give us this day
our dally bread."
GEORGE H. ALWINE.
Pay, Not Charity, Wanted.
Omaha, Dec. 22. To the Editor of
The Bee: Did you notice that Item
in the paper, "Congress Proposes
liquor Tax to Raise Fund for Sol
dier Bonus?"
'S funny, ain't it, how many things
those birds back there (the ones you
and I put there to do something)
can figure out and propose, and
dispose, and cuss and discuss, when
ever a bonus for the soldier is men
tioned. Some say there's an "in
visible government" at work. Maybe
the government is invisible, but so
far as accomplishment in regard to
the ex-service man is concerned ine
government's work is even more in
visible.
Suppose they put over that beer
tax they are 'now spending our
When in Omaha
Hotel Henshaw
Enough to Start Tears.
Somebody has revived the agitation for Amer
icans to call themselves "Usonions, but some
body else objects on the ground that the word
would probably be pronounced "Us-onions."
Toronto Mail and Empire.
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money dlacuaalnf. Who'd buy waid
beer? Oh, no, nt the noldler! He
never had drink In his Ufa! And
who would pay that lax they talk
of? The manufacturer? Thal'a not
the way tha manufacturer keepa
down "overhead expenses." It
would be a case of buck-pHaninir, and
the boomerang would lilt the "re
turned oldlr element." That'a
what they call us now. Once It was
"our brave fiBhteri," then "our
heroes."
puck in Washington they any that
It would mean a (treat aacrlfire to
pay a bo nun. Of course, the aoldlor
didn't aacrirlce a tlilim to no over
and flaht? Hut, aa Hal 1'robaaco
says, "That'a different."
A burr tax bonus would mean
taklnc the Jack out of 'ne pocket
and rutting It In the other. It la
Imply an excuse to seemingly give
ua something. In order to get our
191 vote.
What't the answer? Simply this:
While iin-rvsa spend our sheckels
discussing and proposing a "soldier
bonus." the fact Is they're trying to
keep from paying a "bonus" In the
proper aenae of tha word, t
Personally I don't eare o much.
I lost out financially by going over
to France, but 1 can hold niy own
now, providing I hold my Job. Hut
when 1 go over to American Legion
headquarters and see 40 to 60 boys
waiting to get a chance to do any
thing to earn a square meal, and
stop to think that a few ycura ago
the public cheered as they passed,
and said that nothing was too good
for them (and I guess they meant
that,, I any I am for a bonus for
service well done.
Just the other day congress au
thorised $4. 000,000 to be spent for
Russian relief. They should relieve
their fighters. The first Is. charity.
The last, pay for work.
CLARK.
CENTER a'HOTS.
In ordur to relieve the strain upon
"the man In tha street," America
propoaea to scrap the bnttleahlpa.
And then along cornea Henry r'ord
and want to convert th Junk Into
more fllvvera: Denver Tlmea.
Harding la a doctor of laws. They
nsd one. Flint Journal
Washington hotelkeeperi must be
alarmed over the progreaa tha ar
mament conference ia making.
Indianapolis tstsr.
Warfare la of two kinds, offensive
and defensive. Hut the world ia get
ting into a atute of mind where all
vvur ia offensive. Arkansas Ga
sctte. A Chicago profeHsor of 70 haejust
married 1 1 tat childhood's playmate.
When men of that age marry they
generally choose their chlhlren'a
playmate. Columbia (8. C.) fcitute,
"Muslo and Accordion Teacher."
reads the sign displayed In Chicago
by one who evidently gave the cub
ject Some Thought. Springfield
Union.
We already feel so encouraged
over the situation that we feel the
notions can, through patience, coun
sel, bankruptcy and other powerful
Influences, stave off another big war
for 20 years or more. Houston
Post.
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Whenever a man says something
(hat sounds well but menus nothing
he Is classed as an orator. Burling
ton News.
A fellow who brags about hie
furnace may merely have an un
usually capable wife. South Bend
Tribune.
Our Pre-Inventory Sale
STARTS TUESDAY MORNING
TERMS IF YOU WISH IT CASH IF YOU HAVE IT
Price is no object We mutt move our
stock immediately We need space.
8-PIECE WALNUT DINING ROOM SUITE
Regular price $296.00. d1 HO ff
Sale price J) J ,OAJj
One lot of Odd Rockers,
formerly sold up to $27.50,
now
$7.95
3-Piece Living Room Suites
Valour and Tapeitry.
$227.50. Now-
Regular price
$149:50
BEDROOM FURNITURE 60;, OFF
Just Think of Such Values as Follows:
Walnut Dressers, formerly '$69.50, now $32.50
Walnut Bed, was $58.50, now $29.75
Walnut Dressing Table, was $57.50, now: . . .$25!oO
Many "others at manufacturers' cost.
We have arranged to make this a real value-giving sale. Clos
ing the old year and starting the new year with prices lower
than five years previous.
Positively nothing reserved. Buy
now and pay for later.
Ask about our exchange department.
State Furniture Co.
Corner 14th and Dodge Sts.
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