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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. ' Continued improvement of the Ne
braska Highways, including the par,
ment with a Brick Surface of Main
Thoroughfare leading into Omaha.
3. A ahort, low-rate Waterway from the)
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
"Federal Reserve" for Europe.
Robert L. Owen, United States senator from
Oklahoma, is also a student of finance, and any
proposal along this line emanating from him is
worthy of attention, because it may be accepted
as hiving been well considered. Therefore his
plan for erecting a federal reserve banking sys
tem for the European states, linking it with that
of the United States, deserves attention. Details
of his plan are lacking, but the broad outline as
indicated by the press dispatches from Washing
ton suggest that he hopes to solve the question
of international credit on a basis that will involve
the United States as lightly as possible. In this
regard it differs materially from the international
banking scheme fostered by Senator Hitchcock,
whose institution would rest substantially on the
credit of the United States. The Owen bank
will have the United States in reserve and not as
its prime mover.
Pending the outcome of the conference shortly
to be held at Cannes, where the economic future
of Europe will be considered, any American plan
of salvation for bankrupt nations generally may
be held in abeyance. Until the Europeans give
over their habit of incurring deficits and emitting
fiat currency to defray extravagant public ex
penses, and mold their financial affairs on a
solider core? the United States will do well to
hold aloof. An agency for the stabilization of
exchange may yet be devised, and should be of
great service, but it is not possible under present
conditions, short of American assumption of
sponsorship for some enormous European debts
contracted since the war.
Senator Owen's further plan for the extension
of the time for payment of , the war loans due
the United States is more reasonable." Our gov
ernment expects to fund this loan into long-time
bonds, and the terms suggested by Senator Owen
are not so generous as to endanger any of our
home interests. Making a virtue of necessity, it
will be easy to absorb interest accruing during
the next ten years into the principal of that debt,
and then to permit payment over a period of fifty
years. Under this plan no hardship will be
worked on anybody, debtor nations will be given
a full chance to order their affairs and get into
condition to meet their external obligations, and
, get back to financial health again. Any plan that
succeeds, however, must have in it a reversal of
the present day practices in Europe. We can not
regulate their affairs, but we can decline to
finance them, and if they want help from this
country it will be secured only by a show of good
faith that is not now manifest.
Shuffling With the Public Good.
Another contract for the important work of
collecting and disposing of the city's garbage is
about to be let by the commissioners to private
contractors. Assuming that these men are re
sponsible, and that they will carry out their
agreement to the letter, it remains true that they
will be doing something the city ought to do for
its citizens. Nothing new in this. For longer
.than a generation the matter has been before the
community in one or another form, at times ex
asperating, at other times a positive menace.
Scandal has arisen from it, and poor service al
ways has marked it progress. Until a properly
organized and competently directed force of city
employes is put in charge of the work, and the
offal collected is disposed of according to modern
methods, the question will not be satisfactorily
answered. If a contractor can make money by
doing the work, the city can save money by
doing it; if a contractor's employes are depend
able and efficient, so would the same men be if
they were working for the city. The Bee is not
wedded to any one of a number of plans that are
proposed or adopted in various cities throughout
the country for taking care of the household ref
use that must be handled. What it has long
advocated is that the business be taken over and
made part of the public sen-ice, under control
and direction of the health department, where it
properly belongs, to the end that at all times and
undef all circumstances the community will know
the work is being done.
Omaha's Well FiUed High Schools.
Reports from the high schools of Omaha are
to the effect that all have attendance exceeding
in numbers any previous experience. At the
Central more than 2,700 students are registered,
while at Commerce and South the registration is
bigger than ever before. This is a hopeful sign,
for it carries proof that the children of Omaha
are getting the training they should have before
going into the world to take up the big job of
earning a living. Another thing shown is the
fact that Omaha must steadily increase its facili
ties for taking care of boys and girls in school
When the new Technical High school is com
pleted, some of the congestion bow felt by Cen-
trI High will b relieved, yet It will not be a
great while before the projected junior highs
will have lo bt provide! to take care of the
pupils coming on from the gride schools. The
steady increase in attendance it the grade
schools Is a remit of the city's growth, and a re
minder that means to satisfy the demind
for seats must be provided there, Omaha can
point to its city schools, not only si art evidence
of the importsnce of its cultural life, but is
proof that its population is growing rapidly.
Tax on Official Salaries.
A report frony Lincoln to the effect that the
governor had in mind asking that an income tax
be levied on official salaries paid in Nebraska is
interesting. Such t tax, if levied, will finally
amount to merely reduction in pay to the extent
the salary is lessened by payment of tax. If this
be the end sought, well and good. As a mere ex
pedient the course will be disappointing. ' Official
Salaries fixed by law may not be reduced during
a term of office; it may be questioned if the state
can attain this end indirectly by levying a special
tax against officials. When the law is made gen
eral in its operation, all salaried officials may be
included with the rest of the community, but they
can scarcely be singled out and levied against as
a class, solely because the pay they receive from
the public is exempt under the federal law.
If Nebraska is to consider the adoption of a
general income tax law, the issue should be taken
up boldly and openly discussed. In simple jus
tice to all, the revenue system of the state should
be completely overhauled and placed on a more
substantial and accurate basis than now exists.
We have too many makeshifts and uncertain de
vices for trapping dimes and dollars and getting
them into the state treasury. The great revenue
measure that was before the legislature so long
and in so many varying forms last winter con
tained schemes for catching the dollar hidden in
one place and allowing it to escape if concealed
right next door. Such plans are idle. What is
needed is a revenue law that will in honesty and
decency carry out the original provision of the
constitution, that all property be taxed equally on
the basis of its actual value.
When such a law is adopted, and returns are
honestly made, taxes not only will be lighter, but
they will be paid with better spirit, for no man
will settle with the state in the spirit that now too
often prevails, that of envy and discontent be
cause he feels his neighbor is evading his share
by concealing some of his property, or has an
undue and unjust advantage in form of exemp
tion. Let us take up the tax matter in a fashion
that will settle it, and not continue the delusion
that marks the existing unsatisfactory methods of
securing money to carry on public business.
Cheerfulness as a Cure.
One of the speakers before the Home Eco
nomics society, now meeting at Lincoln, advises
the housewives of the state to adopt a policy of
cheerfulness. Sing at your work, laugh a little
every day, if not every hour, be charitable,xfor
giving, and forbearing, and many of the ills now
suffered in vain will disappear, and our women
folks will find the real essence of life. Without
doubt, for, as the preacher long ago told us, "a
merry heart doeth good like unto medicine."
A great many of the wives and mothers of
Nebraska just now have plenty to laugh at, 'if
they only had the time to laugh in. Most of
them are so busy, however, from long before the
rising of the sun until long after the going down
thereof, that if they take time to be merry it
must come out of the few hours they have for
weary slumber. They are not in any sense un
appreciative, they are just victims of the circum
stances that require them to give unremitting at
tention to the multifarious details that make up
the daily round of life for them on the farm or in
the city home.
The toad beneath the harrow knows
Exactly where each toothpoint goes.
The butterfly beside the road
Preaches patience to that toad.
So rhymed Kipling, in touching on a some
what similar situation. It is true that some .of
the drudgery of home-making has been relieved
by inventions, wherein machines of various types
take off part of the load, yet new duties have
been evolved, new requirements have sprung up,
and the average housekeeper of today wonders
how her mother ever got through with, all the
work she had to do and with none of the mod
ern conveniences.
' Surely, cheerfulness is a good thing, and per
haps will cure a lot of evils that are more imagin
ary than real. It is worth while trying, but it is
not easy to laugh at hard times and the h. c. of 1.
' Courts to Meet a Crisis.
New York has been aroused, as have other
American cities, by the crimes of violence against
person and property. Judges who preside over
trial courts have agreed to apply a drastic and in
some respects a novel remedy. They propose to
fix the bail bonds of prisoners having criminal
records and who are accused of other crimes suf
ficiently high to make it difficult for the culprits
to obtain relief on bail. By keeping the known
criminals in jail pending trial, they hope to re
duce the crime wave at least to that extent. The
plan has its attractive features. Courts are human
institutions, the same as criminals, existing for
the purpose of securing to society protection
from the morally delinquent or perverse. For
many years the tendency in the administration
of the law has been to the more humane applica
tion of punishment, with a most discouraging net
result of more crime. During the last two years
the country from end to end has beeii shocked
by a succession of crimes until moralists are in
despair and law enforcing officers are desperate.
If the New York idea prevails, however, and is
generally adopted, some good may come, for an
habitual criminal in jail awaiting trial is safe as
far as commission of crime is concerned, while
the same man, at liberty on bail, may do other
devilment, and frequently does. Efforts of the
police, too, deserve to be supported by the courts,
and with a little team work all around the crime
wave may be lessened by sequestration of some
known evildoers.
In a sane world the suggestion of a war be
tween France and Great Britain would be
greeted with incredulous laughter. It has not
been long since the man-power of these two
great neighbors stood shoulder to shoulder in
the trenches and less time than that since their
statesmen were vowing eternal friendship. The
people themselves have no differences today, and
will have none tomorrow unless they are de
ceived by their leaders.
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The cost of running the state government
decreased more than $30,000 from October to
November. If this rate is kept up the knockers'
dub vCI ban to find a new subject.
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Shall Forestry B Kept Akin to
Agriculture or They Be Divorced?
(From the Rocky Mountain News.)
At the beginning of the year congress and
the executive departments will have on their
hands the question of departmental reorganise
tlon that his been promised by the pirty In
power and which is being insisted upon by the
budget commissioner and many public organiza
tions outside of politics and government.
This state Is deeply interested In two depart
ments that are in the reorganization schedule.
They are Colorado's landlords. In acreage they
control almost half the state.
In this connection it is for Colorado people to.
make themselves heard and felt at Washington
in time; and this Is why we are writing about
the matter now. Individuals and societies ought
to be tip and doing.
Under the present arrangement there Is a
dual control, a divided responsibility that often
times becomes an overlapping control, requiring
so much additional red tape.
Partisan politics is responsible for the present
hodge-podge in departments. Economy and ef
ficiency had little, to say. New offices were
created and assigned to set departments purely
as a pork barrel proposition and according to
the lineup in the particular departments afTected.
11 the congressman or senator who was the
author of the new office had a friend at the head
of a department, that office was assigned to this
particular department, no matter whether or not
it belonged there.
The main issue to Colorado is what is going
? b done wi,n t,,e frdrraI forestry service and
the Department of the Interior. The forestry
service is under the Department of Agriculture
that is to state, the land useful for forest con
servation was loaned by the Interior department
to the other department. The Interior depart
ment is still the final arbiter; but it is the Agri
cultural department that controls and directs the
forestry service.
Fortccn millions or fifteen milli'nne ,,..
in Colorado are under the exclusive jurisdiction j
til? , st service- This Is quite an estate.
The forest service was placed under the con-
trol of the Agricultural department when the '
Finchot policies were much in vogue, when coik'
servation of public lands was a fetish. The con
servationist argument was that the lands under
the Agricultural department would be safer than
under the Interior department, for the reason
that the latter for a half century had carried out
a policy of disposal, instead of what the Finchot
advocates termed "conservation." Since its crea
tion, the Interior department has homesteaded the '
west, worked a quiet but nevertheless a most
remarkable economic-sociological revolution, un
equaled in many respects in history, an achieve- i
.--.m muitii mc American people are rather
pro'id of.
It was argued that if the forests were left
under the Interior department they would grad
ually disappear, whereas if given to the other de
partment they would be conserved for the pur
poses of timber cultivation and protection of
watersheds.
m , The chief complaint from this state and ad
joining states for years was that the forest serv
ice carried to extremes the Pinchot policies of
innervation, or in otner words that prospectors
and homesteaders were given to understand their '
absence on reserves was . preferable to their I
presence. It is only fair to state that in recent
years tne service has been much more liberal and
accommodating. Many forest areas have even
been made recreation districts.
Still and this is the point at issue there is
complaint in the public land states that there is
a great deal of land in the forest reserves suit
able for homestead purposes that should be given
over to farms.
If this is true and worth while, would a change
of landlordism back to the Interior department
work a reform? Would the latter department be
more inclined to segregate land actually useful
for agricultural purnoses and add to the state's
population and its crop acreage?
The west looks " this question with a dif
ferent sentiment to th-t of the east.
A strong argument in support of the retention
of the forest service with the Agricultural de
partment is that the forest lands are used for
prazing purposes. After years of dispute between
the western live stock assbciations and individ
ual grazers on the one part and the forest serv-'
ice at Washington on the other, a general un
derstanding was reached some time ai?o and since
then there has been small complaint from the live
stock interests.
Another potent argument in favor of forest
conservation as practiced bv the forestry service
is the assistance afforded to the irrigation inter- I
ests, by the protection of the watersheds. A hill
side denuded of trees and turned into arable land
sheds its snow and water much more rapidly
than one covered by trees. The latter afford
lodging places, myriads of small reservoirs, to
hold water. and furnish shade which makes the
snow slow to melt. Without "the forest growth
on our watersheds we would have alternations of
disastrous floods and ruirous water shortage.
It is not for the ooliticia".s or bureaucracy to
determine this question. ' Certainly states like
Colorado, with so much at stake, should have the
chief voice. If the west insists upon a change of
landlord, it oujrht to have it as a matter of jus
tice to the west and of economy to the federal
treasury: if the west is content with the present
arnnrement, the change ought not to be made.
The nations! budget committee that has been
active to good nurpose at Washington proposes
the following changes:
The Department of the Interior should be
abolished and a Department of Public Works
established in its place to have jurisdiction over
the following services: General land office,
geological survey, bureau of mines, war minerals
relief commissi, reclamation service, national
park service, division of camtol buildings and
grounds, Alaskan engineering commission bu
reau of ouhlic roads, forest service, supervising
architect's office, all national military parks,
monuments and memorials, board of engineers
for rivers and harbors, board of engineers of
New York Citv, office of stinervisor of the har
bor of New York, United States engineer of
fices, Mississippi river commission, California de
bris commission, board of road commissioners
for Alaska, office of buplic buildings and grounds
and Washington monument.
A Denartment of Education and Health should
be established, to have jurisdiction over the fol- j
lowing services: i-rom tne Deoartment ot tne
Interior: Office of Indian affairs. United States
Indian service, bureau of pensions, bureau of
education. St. Elizabeth's hospital. Howard uni
versity, Freedmen's hosoital. board of Indian
commissioners. From the Department of the
Treasury: Bureau of war risk insurance, office
of the surgeon general, public health service.
From the Department of Labor: Children's
bureau.
The western states interested in mining are
concerned in the proposed revis:on in depart
ments on account of the aid that may be ren
dered from the geological survey under the new
arrangements.
What's Your Brand?
Men somehow remind me of 5-cent cigars.
What a great number of S-cent cigars there arel
How they are advertised as equal to 10-cent
cgarsl Ana now notoriously tney arc now .
There are millions of S-cent cigar men trying .
to prove they are as good as the 10. 20 or 3 for i
a half kind, and cannot do it: the first evidence
that a man is getting along is that he quits S
rent cigars, and demands something better. E.
W. Howe's Monthly.
How to Keep Well
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THE WASTE OF A RACE.
The story of the Nebraska VVInue
bago Indians carrlea more than one
health leiiHon for you and me.
Vr. M. W. Koenlg studied the live
of this group of a thousand souls
st the Instance of the State Tuber
culoma oleety. The report la pub
lished by the Bute HlntoriL-al aoclety.
In this division ot the remnants
of the Winnebago tribe, there are
1.087 individuals belonging to 291
families.
This figures that on the average
each family conslnts of S.7 persona
mat is, two parents and slightly
lens than two children. It ta gen
erally agreed that, in ordr to keep
up a population Into which there la
no migration, there niunt be some
thing over three children born Into
each family if the health rata In
very high, while lour are required
If It Is very low.
Of course this figure for the Win
nebago Indians la the average family
else, and not the birth rate.
The study shows that the Winne
bago mother bore a large number
ot children, but most of them died
In Infancy.
The study showed that the Win
nebago population is not quite hold
ing its own. I wonder how many
groups know whether their group Is
holding its own; whether, after
allowing for emigration and immi
gration, the group Is increasing or
decreasing in numbers.
There are many enemies trying to
wipe the Winnebago Indians off the
earth. The wprst of these is the
baby death rate. That Is true of
your group and mine, althouKh it is
not so true as it Is with the Winne
bagocs, and as It was with yours
and mine SO years ago.
Perhaps the next worst enemy of
the Wlnnebagoes is consumption.
The consumption death rate of the
Wlnnebagoes is about 11.7 per 1.000.
That is to Bay, about one-ninth of
the deaths are due to this disease.
The tribute the Winnebago pays is
therefore about ten times that of
the white man.
The Wlnnebagoes drink very .lt
tle milk, there being only four cows
on the reservation, and very few of
their children die of tuberculosis, ac
cording to the records. But the way
it slaughters the young men and
young women is awful to think
about.
Consumption makes the same kind
of an onslaught on negro boys and
girls 15 to 25 years old.
The reasons ascribed by Dr. Koe
nlg for the great prevalence of con
sumption among these Indians were
several.
They were very careless about
spitting. They threw spit from con
sumptives on the ground. Flies
were allowed to crawl into Bpit cups
and then crawl over food. The cus
tom of visiting those sick with con
sumption and other forms of conta
gion was almost universally ob
served. The visiting, in connection
with burying the dead, was a dan
gerous custom.
The people lived in houses, espe
cially in winter time, but had no
Idea how to ventilate them or to
keep them sanitary. Many had the
habit of sleeping with bedding
drawn over the head.
In other words, while in no way
excusing the white man for his con
tribution to the wiping out of the
Winnebagoes, the bulk of the blame
was put squarely up to the customs
and habits of the Indian himself.
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Can You Stick to It?
Mrs. W. W. W. writes: "1. Would
you kindly inform me what effect
the following diet would have, con
tinued for a week:
"8 a. m., glass very hot water and
half a lemon.
"9:30 a. m., two fairly small cups
coffee and cream.
' "12:80 noon, one medium sized
baked potato and glass of cold sweet
milk.
"5:30 p. m., the same as at noon.
"9:30 p. m., an orange.
"2. Would it make any difference
if, instead of baked, the potato
should be boiled?
"3. (a) Are fresh raw apples fat
tening? (b) Are baked apples fat
tening? If so, can you tell me why?
(c) Also, are tomatoes fattening?
(d) Is fish fattening?
"4. (a) Could you tell me what
I should weigh? I am 32, 5 feet 5 hi
inches tall; I weigh 145, and I want
to lose 10 pounds, (b) How can I?"
REPLY.
1. You would lose considerable
weight. If, at the end of three
weeks, you should go back to your
full diet, you would soon be back
to your present weight, the net gain
having been one uncomfortable ex
perience. 2. No.
3. (a) No. (b) Without sugar or
cream, no. (c) No. (d) No.
4. (a) 136 pounds, (b) Work and
limit your eating, especially bread,
cereals, desserts, pastries and other
sweets. It must be a permanent
policy. . .
Pellagra Symptoms.
K. C. writes: "What are the
symptoms of pellagra when it first
starts?"
REPLY.
Among the early symptoms are
ore mouth, sore tongue, burning in
the mouth and throat, sunburn out
of season.
Endocarditis.
H. B. writes: "1. What is endocar
ditis? "2. Is it dangerous?
"3. How can it be cured?"
REPLY.
I. Endocarditis is inflammation of
the lining of the heart.
2. It is, in many cases.
3. Put yourself under the direc
tion of the best physician available,
and follow his directions.
Not Including Dollars.
A scientists finds that 200 different substances
are made from petreleum. One must be the
xiihctsnr nf tti ellnnr arhn fhinlta he knows
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Courier-Journal, lock. Way.
THE SPICE OF LIFE
Visitor How much milk does the oW
cow give?
Farm Hand About eight quarts a day.
mum. -
'Visitor And bow much ot that do you
Farm Hand About II, mum! The
Passing Show (London).
Suggestions of a Doughboy.
Being tha suggestions of a doughboy
on the mannar of conducting the next
war, together with certain reflections oa
tha conduct of the last one.
1. That there don't ba any next war.
(To Bo Continued.)
Tha American Legloa Weekly.
Mrs. M. had arrived at tha littla at
tlon In Vermont on a cold stormy evening
and had hired an old man to drive her
to her friend's farm up among tne niiit.
Tha rosds were in bad condition trooi
the storm, and the rid a was altogether
very uncomfortable one. "How much
do I owe you?" aha aeked on arriving
at her destination. "Wall, ma'am," said
tha old man. "my reg'lar price is SI. bat
eeein" as It s aech a bad night and ha
g-iln' so terrible. I'll call It It e-ents."
Th Christian Regiater (Boston).
"What's all that noiae gwlne oa avail
at you houae lart night?" asked an old
colored woman of another. "Sounde-1
Ilka a lot of catamounts dona broke
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A Volue Crying In the WIMcnica-t.
Broken Bow, Neb., Jan. . Tu
the Editor of The Ueo: We heard
the volco of Keith Neville, chair
man of the state democratic central
committee, crying In the wilderness
the other duy: "Itestore the demo
cratic parly to power in this state,
irsi government ot, xor ana by the
people perish within Its borders,"
or words to that effect
Well, that aotinds good. But the
writer of these linen remembers well
the winter of 1917, when he went
to the state rapltol to take up hla
duties as state senator from his din
trlut. The prospect appeared splen
did. We had elected a domocratla
governor and had control of both
houses of the legislature and a plur
ality of votes in the state of some
thing like 20.000. The omens were
auspicious and we felt sure that if
the party administered the state
government in the lnturext of the
people it would be many years be
fore the democratic purty would
surrender the reins of government
to other hands.
But what happened? A "bloc" of
state senators came down from
Omaha and proceeded to carry out
prohibition by electing a brewer to
the highest elective position in the
senate, twenty-one so-called demo
crats, as we remember it, stood for
three months a "living wall" to lo
feut prohibition, though the people
of the state had declared for It by
nearly 80,000 majority. These
"friends of the people" emasculated
the bill to enforce prohibition by
attaching about a hundred amend
ments thereto whlrh. if they had
been passed, would have defeated
the will of the people and com
pletely nullified prohibition, and
this with the active influence and
insistence of Governor Seville. Does
the ex-governor think the people
nave zorgotten now government of,
for and by the people was restored
in his administration?
The splendid opportunity of the
democratic party in this state was
frittered away and the party was
repudiated at the next election bv
an overwhelming majority. No, the
people want government for, of and
by the peoplo, but they know now
that they will not get it with Keith
Neville at the head of the nartv.
They know that they will have what
they had before government by
Arthur Mullin and big business,
with bootleggers plying their voca
tion wttn little restraint.
C. W. BEAL.
On the Workers Side.
Omaha, Dec. 27. To the Editor
of The Bee: As a laborer myself,
allow me to speak In behalf of the
laborer, especially those affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor. Why is it that the laborer
in the building trades whose waees
were the lowest were cut more than
anyone else connected with the con
struction of buildings? In certain
parts of the east I understand the
going rate of wages Is paid in the
construction of school houses and
public buildings. A job may not
be a closed job, but the wages are
right. Here at Thirty-third and
Cuming the wages are 40 cents an
hour. If Local No. 297 has ever
called that at the present time a
fair wage, I have never heard of it,
It is the same in your other. cif-f
work with the exception of. I under
stand, Mr. - Hummel's department
who slill pays 50 cents. While cut
ting the wages of the poorest paid,
has any of our city commissioners
suggested that their own be cut?
Now as to the laborer in the
packing houses, your editorial of
the other day to which Swift & Co.
so hotly replied, in which you stated
many of these men were paying for
small homes as well as raising fami
lies in Omaha, was not only fine,
but the truth.
Again allow me to quote from
your editorial of yesterday: "Prbb
ably there are families that can live
on $15 or $18 a week. But how
much business do they make for the
merchants? At a time when busi
ness is depressed from lack of buy
ing power, who gains from further
reducing the ability of a great class
to consume?"
Again, in another article, you ask,
"Why in certain industries are they
at this time so anxious to increase
the hours? Are one-half who have
jobs to support the other who have
not?" The editorials in question
should be in the hands of everyone
in Omaha, for they are fair to all,
and I can assure you, coming as they
do at this time, they are highly
appreciated by all of those who
labor.
As I understand the Bible, Christ
was not a shirker, but a worker.
If He. was on earth at this time I
do not believe he would preach ser
mons on bobbed hair, which con
cerns no one but the wearer, but
rather would His sympathies be ex
tended to those who. at the present
time are the most in need, they
whose pay envelops are the' slim
mest whether man or woman. Can
not some of our churches as well as
those who occupy their pulpits fol
low a little more closely in His foot
steps? If nothing else can be done,
while we have had tag days for
everything else let's have one for
the unemployed, the 40-cent man, at
the same time stipulating that his
wages be closer to 60 than 40 cents.
If not deemed proper, how about a
tag day for the wives and children
of the packing house employes who
are now on strike?
If both of these are too close to
home for to be considered, there are,
as I understand the situation, some
6,000 children whose parents have
been evicted from their homes and
who having but little of this world's
goods have been living as best they
can along the road sides or other
places. In Europe? Not in the
least, but in the county of Mingo,
ADVERTISEMENT.
the state nf Went Virginia, and In
our own U. 8. A.
CLAl'P F. ELLISON.
ItnmliHs. CuiHT-r.
Sutton, Nb., Use. 19. To the
Editor of The lico: BUnt niyseii
rraft Iclnir nhyelclun, I have been
much Interested In Dr. Kvans' two
articles on "Vltamlnes." Just what
they are has not a yet been discov
ered. They are delicately held to-
tether and always contain n iroseu.
' resembling In that respect to that
eloinent In other protion tuibntiHiree.
They are easily dissipated and da
utroyed by heat, proving that we
should eut fruit and vegetables
mottly In the raw etate or but slight
, ly cooked. The vltamlnes are stored
up ID irUlt JUKI unurr tuo anina aim
such as apples, plum",, peaches and
R runes should be eaten with the
. skins on. Before eating such frulte
can be first rubbed thoroughly witn
a dry clean cloth or one wet with
hot water to Insure a sanitary con
dition. Having been treating cancer for
more than 80 years, I can add some
thing to what the doctor saya in an
swer to an inquiry from my experi
ence and Tong study and observa
tion. It is true, as the doctor say,
that cancer has been treated with
surgical means, radium, the Ex-ray
and plaster. All but the last named
havo conflicting opinions and advo
cates us to failures and auccosscs.
Surgery notably has failed to cure,
an the knife goes juxt so far and
stops, thus allowing the poisonous
cancer cells to wander out Into the
Mood Btrenm, carrying this dread
disease to the liver and other inter
nal organs throughout tho body.
This bImo Is why radium and the
X-ray hus failed to cure. None of
these three means have succeeded
In curing because they are not seloc
tlve in their action. On the contrary
plasters are Blectlve and if prop,
erly compounded will search out I he
diseased cancer germ and destroy
thuni without attracting the healthy
cells of the body.
In 30 years there has been real
progress made in discovering the
true cause of the disease, which is
the arrested development of the em
bryonic cell, 1. e.. the cell provided
by nature before birth. This la why
in the first three days after the
birth it is all important that the
babe should not get a "back set,"
but to commence to grow and do
well from the very start.
The reason the plaster treatment
if properly compounded is curative
is by a selective action it searches
out the poisonous cancer cell and
destroys it before it has time to
spread its mischievous action to
healthy organs of the body. The
cancer growth is of a lower organi
zation and la easier destroyed than
healthy ilasura. If perchance some
if in etnhrytinlu cells escape and
Swult ilevplnpinetit until Ilia n.
t.le. I "cancer uk" 'f about 40
years or more, thuy have htn held
in check by the healthy and vig
orous friendly cr-lls of the blood
stream, Ihus proving cancer to l
a constitutional dlrieaae and needs
syatem trentmtmt audment the
l.ual lrftultnnl 1'h reason SUN
emy, radium am! the rix-ray have
and will fill la because they treat
cancer purely as a local disease.
The sf position to lake la ti
consider euneer aa a constitutional
dlaeuse with a local manifestation.
- Pit. M. V. CLAHK.
Ail Airo-Olit Truth.
You havo to be an old man be fori
you believe) Mlow ought to wort
and save while young. Kltchbur,
Sentinel.
Mi!
Lots of r'PI'le eeem t regart
birth control iccturea as objection
able papagandu Life.
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QUICKLY SOOTHED
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ritated or broken out with eczema;
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The moment this sulphur prepara
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after two or three applications, the
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lightfully clear and smooth. Sulphur
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urement. Mentho-Sulphur always
htals eczema right up.
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in all departments of the First. These
range from small savings and check
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