THE RKK: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1. l!i TheOmaha Bee DAILY (MORMNO-EVCMNG-SUNDAY 1UI BIB fUaHlN(J COMPANY MLSUH I. ITBIAE. Nbluaat B. MCwER. Caaeral M MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PREAS lM(t M lit. MM M erti..UUt ( ftij Ml 1U fci 1e M m ifa4riiB la U lew. ft4 au. na em ptuM . Ail nam al wmimua at Tto Hun Km M wta at IM km at (W Tk alrtulatioa of Th Omaha B SUNDAY, FEB. 26, 1922 77,813 THE BEE FUBLISHINC'COMPANV I tlirWU. Cwnl MuifH LLMtK A. POOD, ClrcuUiM Muifir Inn to w4 uhMrlk' kwfer M thi lath ear ( (Seal) W. H. QUIVEY, N.tr faUta AT Uatic 1000 BEE TtttPHONU Private Braac Fthani. A.k for the reartment er rron Wmnlrd. Per Nlahl Call Aftr I T. M. P.dilnrul trwrtam(, ATlanU 1MI or I02. OFFICES Mala Of fir. 17 th anil r'arnam C. Bluff, U bxxi til. tiuuta bule mt 8. tta St. K.w York Filth Ave, WeaiaUi llll 0 81. Chw.go III Wrlfltf Bid. farts, Fraaee 4J0 Ku. St. Honor Tlie Bee's Platform 1. Naw Uoloa Pataeofer Statioa. 2. Continued improvement of tha N kraaka Hifhwa, Including tba par, maal with a Brick Surfaca of Main Thoroughfare laading into Omaha. 3. A abort, low-rata Waterway from tba Cora Belt to tba Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. Good Cheer for the Middle West. Significant of the improved situation on the farm of Nebraska is the fact that the need for ready money with which to meet "settlement day," at March 1 is knowii in the country, did not bring an avalanche of live stock or other product to market. The idea of orderly market ing bat taken hold and a more even distribution of shipments may be counted on to stabilize prices at least to the extent of discouraging wide fluctuations. Farmers do not customarily look to J. Ogden Armour for guidance, but there may be some profit in examining his recent statement on the condition of trade. His claim that corn is worth $1 a bushel when fed to hogs is undoubtedly true in some cases. The returns, however, vary with each farmer, depending for example on whether the hogs are fed in conjunction with cattle. It is safe to say that most pork raisers are selling their corn on the hoof for more than 60 cents a bushel, and many at 75 cents, while some make more. Cattle feeders are beginning to get a profit. The market has been rising, and salesmen on the Omaha Live Stock exchange estimate corn fed in this way is fetching from 60 to 75 cents per bushel. ( Pure bred cattle, for a time without a market, are now in demand for breeding pur poses. The confidence thus roused is being reflected even in such matters as land values. During the year in which all agricultural prices dropped so violently, some, especially those who had bought their acres at high prices, even doubted the soil itself. The conviction is being revived now that this fertile section is such a good country that the land still is going to hold a high value. The mortgage situation provides proof of this feeling. The talk among loan agencies is that we are soon to see a borrowers' market. Inter est rates may take a fall. The farmers have once more shown themselves to be the most solid and dependable class. Their obligations are being met, with proper help, from the business and financial interests. There are fewer payments past due to the Federal Land bank of the Omaha district now than last year. Out of $60,000,000 in loans, only $30,000 is now overdue, and most of that will be cleaned tip in a short time. The middle west has come back so quickly that a good many people, especially in the east, can't believe it possible. Mr. Armour, in stating that there may be price reactions, and that some prices may be pushed too high, has given proper warning against any resumption of the wild speculation that marked the period of inflation. Clarify This Ordinance! It avails nothing for city and Nebraska Power company officials to "interpret" the new electric rate ordinance so as to remove the obnoxious features of its ambiguous phrases. Such inter pretations may tend to prove the good faith of those who drew and passed the ordinance, but they bind no one. Interpretations are dangerous. The actual language of the ordinance is the im portant factor. That is what some court may base a ruling on five or ten or twenty years ; from now. As the ordinance stands, its wording is curiously Involved and double-edged. By any literal understanding of English, it forbids the city commission which passed it ever from chang ing it except upon petition of the Nebraska Power company. By . any ordinary use of -words, it levies prohibitive penalties upon patrons of ' the Nebraska Power company who have any auxiliary . connection. The city's lawyers and the company's experts contend that this language does not mean what it siys, but that it means something else. That may be. If that is so, no one should object if the city commission changes the language to say what everybody says it means anyway. This should be done, promptly and definitely. Omaha's experience in giving away public utility franchises by negligence and carelessness should inot by given the slightest chance for repetition. Woman's Right to Vote. Any question as to the validity of the nine teenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and the legislation enacted there tender, was removed by the supreme court Mon day. Especially convincing is the dismissal of the suit brought by Charles S. Fairchild of New York, who sought through the courts of the Dis trict of Columbia, to compel the withdrawal of the proclamation of ratification. Justice Bran ideis told him flatly he had no standing in court .The other challenge came from Maryland, where the federal constitution was found to conflict with the state constitution, which limits the suf frage to men. The court holds that the federal constitution "transcends any limitations sought to b imposed by the people of a state." This pnds a struggle of almost three-quarters of a Bjentury with full yictory for the women, No - ft longer it then any doubt or quction at to the lrglity of her full and complete cuercite of all the power of ciiinhip. A years go by the beneficent effects of tier active participation in politic may be mort clearly teen thin now, Rod Probe Should Be Thorough. Dicloure contained in Engineer Johnnou' report tukUin the need for in inquiry Into the road situation in Nebrulu, Allegations therein are not to be accepted at conclusive proof, but at indicating that something is wrong. Sweeping auertiotii of incompetence and corrupt practice hive been made against the state road builder, and these now retaliate with timilar charge giimt the county authorities. Only by a thor ough ifting of these chirgei, will full develop, ment of all the facts, and the complete exposure .f any wrong doing, will the end of justice be met. The people are providing liberally for a gret project of road improvement. Scandal ha tainted it progres. Thi i not to be removed by charge er countercharge, but only by in inquiry that will go to the very bottom, and leave nothing to conjecture is to what took place. The road probe should be thorough. Power to Fix Rail Rates Located. The upreme court has definitely decided the issue between state and federal government at to the power to fix railroad rate for service of all kinds. The rule is laid down in these words: Congrest in its control of it interstate commerce system is seeking in the transporta tion act to make the system adequate to the needs of the country by securing for it a rea sonable compensatory return for all the work it does. The states are seeking to use that same system for intrastate traffic. That entails large duties and expenditure on the interstate commerce system, which may burden it unless compensation is received for the intrastate business reasonably proportionate to that for the interstate business. Congress as the dominant controller of interstate commerce, may therefore, restrain undue limitation of the earning power of the interstate commerce sys tem in doing state work. It can impose any reasonable condition on a state's use of inter state carriers for intrastate commerce it deems necessary or desirable. This is because of the supremacy of the national power in this field. Whether this is to be regarded in terms of fnality, or whether by another approach the question may be raised again, the decision at present puts an end to the existing dispute as to the power to fix rates. Consideration has turned for several years on the point, whether state or nation has control, and now the supreme court clearly vests that control in the nation. Intrastate commerce may be dealt with by the states, as heretofore, but not to the detriment of the interstate carrier. Judge Sanborn laid down this rule in the Minnesota case years ago, and it has steadily grown in importance, until now it is adopted by the federal courts as the law of the land. State rights are thus subordinated to national authority. In none of its peculiar functions is the state interfered with, but it is forbidden to assume to affect by its own act the interest of all the rest of the land. Congress passes general laws, and these, so far as they apply to state af fairs, are paramount to state legislation. For the good of all it is hoped the decision of the court may be allowed to stand until experience shows whether it is to be turned Over to the enactment of a law that will clothe the states with the power now denied them. . Medical Care in the Country. The group of lively towns in Scottsbluff county are uniting in a campaign to finance the establishment of the Western Nebraska Meth odist hospital. Pledges of $75,000 already have been assured, and it is heartening to see the friendly way other communities in the valley are backing this project which would add so much to the prestige of the city of Scottsbluff, where it is to be located. So often needed im provements have been lost through the disin clination of one community to aid another. The Mitchell Enterprise, urging its readers to make contributions, calls attention to the fact that the carrying out of the plan will provide ample capacity for the sick of forty or more western towns and that service of the hospital can be reached within an hour from the homes of fully 30,000 people who are now living within a radius of thirty miles of Scottsbluff. There must be more hospitals at strategic positions about the middle west. It is said that the difficulty of supplying properly qualified medical practitioners to the rural regions is be coming a grave problem. Modern medicine can not be conducted at its proper level out of touch with the laboratory and the hospital. Doctors do not like to serve without these aids, antf the country people are entitled to the best of treat ment. The New York state grange has recently dealt with this question by endorsing a proposi tion that each country community 'now without a physician (and there are said to be many such in the east), should erect a home and a small hospital for the accommodation of one. The Rockefeller Foundation stands ready to help by sending a physician to any community that pro vides a home for him. Good roads and modern locomotion . have widened the area that can be served by a hospi tal. The North Platte valley is cm the right track in seeking to create for itself a medical center. England has served a lot of critics a bad turn by ending the protectorate over Egypt. The next complaint will probably recite the brutality of turning the Egyptians loose to shift for them selves, - The former kaiser of Germany sent a pho tograph of himself in answer to an appeal for aid from the crippled veterans of his late army,' He is getting liberal as days go on. Nebraska's senators are likely to be together for once, as both will probably vote to ratify all the treaties coming out of the arms conference "Charley" Dawes is keeping very quiet, but tht budget is talking, all right. Lenine is said to be suffering from insomnia; most of us thought it was grouch. Ash Wednesday; what are you going to give up this year? Deaf-mute swearing must be intensive. Here comes th March lion, all right t About the Federal Reserve Bast of Opposition and Some Truth a to System' Work, (From the Boston Tnnacript) Much of the rriicim of the Federal Krtrrve nvatriu originated in the unfortunate (act that Hie Federal Kcrve board repeatedly advised agaiiut "pyramiding" by buiur men and speculator during the period of inflation in 1IVJ0, and when the crh came the natural inference was that the Federal Keaerve w responsible, and that this was what it deirrd. Ngiwiihktanding that there are few organization about which more exact tatitticl facts ran be Kithrred on abort notice, many of the attack of I tie critic of the Federal Krerve have apparently been in blifful ignorance of the fundamental plan under which the systemt operate, and the mis rtatemeut h4ve enjoyed a wide circulation be fre the dcnul rould be made. The annual re port of the Federal Reserve board, which ha v - i i . . . ...... . I juil prrn iviru, auppura a inuni emuum vi detail concerning the oreration of the ytem which hv itself answer it critics. The recent attack against the Federal Re serve board have been directed more on the basis of extravagance than on the earlier grounds of willful restriction of credit. It is singular how the facts of the situation compare with the state mrntt of it opponents. At all earnings of the Federal Reserve banks above dividend are paid as a franchise tax to the treasury, thi account for the public interest in the economical opera tion of the bank. Last year, for instance, the United States treasury received Sj9,974.'W trom the Federal banks, which compares with only 56.120.0lK) paid in dividends to the banks which are member ot the system and wnicn are oniy entitled to bold stock in their district reserve bank. The public has a direct interest in the economical operation of each of these banks and has a right to insiM that it officers shall be a frugal in their administration of its affair as if it were a private bank. Thi account for the interest of congress in the salaries of its officer tnd the expenditures the reserve banks are mak ing for new quarters. In the current report of the board a com parison is made between the average salaries paid to reserve bank officials in Federal Reserve cities. In only one instance were the salaries of the federal banks higher than in the national banks; in Richmond the yearly average was $6,6 and $6,473, respectively. For the twelve hanks under companion the average for reserve bank officials was $7,743, against $13,092 for private bankers. There is not much to choose between thi relative responsibilities of both classes of bankers. In answer to the charge that $26,000,000 was to be expended for a building for the 1-ederal Reserve bank of New York ap pears the official estimate in the report that the building will cost $19,976,368. From savings that have already been achieved due to the reduction in buildings costs, a former member of the re serve board has recently been quoted as saying that possibly the cost may be cut to less than $13,000,000. Comparing the total expense of operation of the twelve Federal Reserve banks and the Bank of France, Senator Carter Glass re cently showed that although the Federal Reserve handled about seven times as much business as the Bank of France in 1920, the expenditures of the two institutions were about equal, further more, instead of the $50,000 salary that some be lieve Governor Harding of the federal Keserve board receives, judging by recent comment in congress, his salary appears as $12,000. Antagonism against the reserve system from the agricultural districts originated several months ago on the assumption that the banks were curtailing credit available for farmers. This objection has long since been removed by the evidence of the weekly reports of the system, which showed that during the time the hysteria was greatest and farm prices dropping most rapidly, the Federal Keserve system increased its accommodations to member banks by $472,- 660,060. The present report answers the criticism that interest rates charged by memoer banks were unduly high by showing that 69 per cent of the loans made last year that were rediscounted were done at rates of 6 per cent or under, and 92 per cent at 7 per cent or under. No loans were made at a rate higher than 12 per cent. In a year when the best grade of commercial paper sold at times on an 8 per cent basis, the charge that member banks were forced to quote usurious rates of interest to their borrowers is not imoressive. In this connection the question naturally arises whether there is not some relation between the fact that in the leading agricultural states of the west and in the southern states, with the ex ception of Virginia and Alabama, over 75 per cent of the banks are not members ot the fed eral Reserve system and that these districts were most severely distressed durine the deflationary period. Certainly none will argue that most of the criticism of the federal Keserve system nas emanated from precisely these states. The in ference obviously is that the southern and west ern states which had relatively tew banks 111 the system were not taking advantage of the orivileees accorded them to secure the benefits the system has to offer, and that in some meas ure they had themselves to blame tor the dim culty with which the storm was weathered. At any rate it is noteworthy that much of the an tagonism to the system comes from a quarter which obviously has not yet tried it out, white satisfaction is the rule in the northern and east ern states where the majority of the banks are members of the system. It's King David's Turn Religious England is watching with interest what shall befall the vicar of St. Johns church in Leeds, who has taken it upon himself to ex purgate from the service the use of the One Hundred and Ninth Psalm. His explanation that the chapter is "un-Christian and anti-Christian" is the cause of much speculative interpretation, with his criticism as a guide. The vicar declares that no one has been able to explain the curses contained in the Psalm named or in the Thirty fifth and Sixty-ninth Psalms, nor yet the appeals to the Aimighty for the punishment of personal enemies. These, he asserts, represent human nature at its very worst. , Modern psychologists are teaching that altru ism is a distinctive element of the instinct of the human herd and not, as many suppose, an evi dence of the weakness called pacifism during the war. Accepting this as true, tne action or me vicar is easily explicable. However, the ques tion remaining for determination, is whether theological authorities in the British kingdom are ready to adoot this theory and whether they will permit individual excisions of canon and rubric by ministers and teachers at will. It is to be feared that the vicar of St. Johns at Leeds is in a fair way to be summoned before the ecclesiastical courts for discipline. Mean while the world will continue to sympathize with David's entirely human conduct in time of trouble and secretly to admire his talent for denuncia tion. Cincinnati Enquirer. Life Cost of Progress. The development of aerial navigation is of more ultimate importance to peace than to war. The men who risk their lives aloft are serving the cause of science, and their sacrifice will not go unheeded or without result The conquest of the air is but a matter of time, and the progress of humanity towards that conquest will not be hindered bv accidents. The details of such a disaster as that at Norfolk, however, can not fail to drive into the minds of the general public the fearful risk that men take in the fight for knowl edge. All humanity can do is to honor them- in death. Science is the ultimate gainer, but every body must deplore the awful cost of attainment. Montreal Star. ' 1 Read Cable News Occasionally. Some attention to foreign affairs is a good thing for Americans who like to know when they are well off at home. Boston Transaifit, How to Keep Well By PR. W. A, EVANS QwMlwa teataraiaf am we. eauiutiae) en pievaelie mt 4iMa, ewkedlt4 e Pr. Eveaa imImi el le Um. will e eaaoatW a,eally, uil le rapa, limiuiia. ee'e a luapii edJiaae' eovalaye la eecleaa. P. aae UI al make a 4tatMie aer aKiibe lar Ie4i4uel aieeeeee. A44ea letter la tit el Ike H. lpn(ht, l:i. f Pr. W. A, I an. OH, IP FEET COULD TALKI Thero ara a multitude tf terona no are unliappy iterant ir Ihrtr fret. They are not . k. and Hiey may never be. fur ai. kneae hue noih ln to do with th . Hut If they liienHca to art thrmiah the lay wide out rU-hllii 1)10 rmii.miti ihrv pit nnm at main ami v$nt ilinr faiie lltee. If A clerk or a tiiininfti-a nmn hu t4 feet, be careful about Irriutiua him afit-r t p. m. Ho might bawl i'ii mil, or wiiM. iul there la not much uae In writ Inr about It, Itecauae, a a rule, no Imily think about weak ft unill t Fie wreck ha liiippe nit. Th foot train no doubt hna a wUUtla and a bell, but n'tboily heara thrni until afifr lh t'Olllolon hu nreurred. - TI10 r'lrat lntitu if pediatry In New York I'Hy, with the aaalaiuncn of th health department and the board of edurntlon, mad an Investi gation of lh feel of a group of 195 "hod children and 159 young peo la In th training achnol for tnrh ira monily young women. They got th following pereentuK': Toed In (plgfontoedl Hoy. 21 per rent; girl. 3 per cent; embryo trarhere. 1 per cent. Thi hnbit, when mild, la a eouree of atrensth and endurance. When bad. it In a deformity. Toed out (stew-foot) Hoy. S3 per rent; girl, 41 per cent; touchers, B4 per cent Thie la A very bad hnbit. Out of It develop weak feet, fallen Hrrhc. painful feet, calf tramp, painful heel. Morton's toe. Faulty 8hom lloya. St per rent: girls, 84 per cent; tttchern, 75 per cent. Faulty Socka Hoys, 28 per cent; girl, 29 per cent; tfachcre, 3S per cent. Kxcrescencea lioya, 39 per cent; girls, 36 per cent; teachers, 73 per tent. I prpKiune this iiiphii corns, cnl hisea and bunions. If ao the period betwpen grammar school and nor ma t school la very tiard on tho feet. Ingrowing Nails Boys. 10 per per cent; girls. 17 per cent; teach ers. 19 per cent. Weuk Foot Boys. 47 per cent; girls, 74 per cent; teachers, 86 per cent. Flatfoot Boys, 6 per cent; plrls, 10 per cent; teachers; 6 per cent. Deformed Toes Hoys, 7 per cent; girls, 6 per cent; teachers, 3 per cent. These figures show that a large proportion of school children have bad feet, stand Improperly and wear poorly fitting shoes. The lnvesti- gtttoift dim t-f ilia opinion that HHMlirt uuioiiiii of training would collect niwl of th trouble and aav the children from th diMbllitiea for mother of only thildrrn and Prat WliH'll thy hi headrd. In ihoao I'hrrikhed volumea which moi !'! i.f only children and riri born ucciiitiul.it lolacellaneoua M onrni.lil. (lain wo aotnrihimee rind alona-Hiilr; "Uiiaalo Inking hi ft ret step," "(iiiMiie eating pork and brum with apHtuer." "Oueale Handing on Ma head;" "An Ink im print of liuaaie'a bare foot." Tha ciiNtomnry tichnii)ii is to black tha aole of the foot with Ink and then liuv Hopeful aland on whit paper. tir, J.ieoU Uroninmn adviaea a bl ter method. A t'd f blotting pa per Is plai-ed on the floor. Tha aole of both fe-t aro well painted with solution of Iron. Tha child quickly einnils with both ffct on tha papr Thn pohiilnn should be natural, and tho weight of the body la born on the feet, Th print Is now painted with A watery solution of tannlo acid. Th aliap of the feet and tha po anion are cartfully noted. Nct lti feet ur examined aa to strength, and tone of tha muscle, holuht .f the anh and position of the bones. lint it until lb child la more Ihiin 4 yours old. Th hollow In th foot ot a. joiing child will dig a hoi Iu the ground. Hud feet In children under 7 are corrected rather easily, aa a rule. The Jlmintod Fear. S. S. writes: "I think I am A neurasthenic. I have a feur of meet ing people. The only time I ri contented Is when 1 am alone. When I nli'ct several persona and on of them should happen to talk to ma I lose my senses ami sturt to do things, unknown lo niyselr. "I dread to go Into stores, restau rants, imd other public placea. When I do go In these places I get fright ened und It takes me several minutes bt fore I can talk. "1'eoplo tell ma I am the queer est man (hey ever met. I try to make friends, hut when I am with them a short time the haunted fear comes to my mind and I leavs them, wishing I had never met them. I was told that I was In a very ner vous condition. "When I am In a place where it la very quiet and aomeona touches me on tho shoulder, or something drops, or a loud noise la made, I jump and shako or tremble. "I overheard a doctor say I had no blood pressure. Could you tell m how I could lnere my Wofl4 prraaurt? "I aUo have fainting apell. I wonder If liter i a cur for rut, I am It r old." nerLY. You ai a neuraaihenir. Worries, feara and anxietira are prominent In 'your aymptom picture. War you to fall Into th hand of a Frudian h would psycho-anal) ou. War you to fall Into tha hand of an anthualaat in dunleaa gland, h would toy that you bv poor ad renal glande and that you are suf fering from adrenal Insufficiency. Some flavor You'll say so too! No fancy wrapper just good gum ADAMS V7 Chewing1 Gum American duel Co. VOL Yes It's Answered Vhot do MEN want At the Sun Next Week How Many Days Could You Wear a Whit Overcoat? THE PANTORIUM Certainly, ordinal y medication orTei vim nollilng. In em way or other you rouit get mental training, Imlidnapoli Hunk HiiJrtl Iiulwnapoli.. I nd , I'fb, 28. rive armed bandit shortly tter U o'chuk today held up and robbed a branch of the I Indier saving and irwd company and eirapH with M),. t.HJ in rah. T hree ol the men en tered the bank and Ururk R. A. Hrihtnld, the Assistant manager, orr the lea! a be ws closing the door to a vault. Have You Heard the New Victor Records March Numbers Just Out 1.25 .75 1.25 .75 HEAR THESE NEW ONES: Paul Whitcman plays "On the 'Gin '(iin 'Ginny Shore"... $ .75 Chaliapin'g first Victor Record, "Song of the Flea" 1.75 Henry Burr's lateat. "That's How I Believe in You" 75 John McCormack sings "Sweet Teggy O'Neill" "Wimmin." Medley Fox-Trot, by Club House Orchestra., Heifetz plays d'Ambrosio's "Serenade" Benson Orchestra plays "Railroad Blues" FAY.Trnt. anno- and duct. "Ron Hon HoO." StanleV And Murray ..r .75 jou cannot call ree 11 gladly send those records you select to )our home. ,- ' Victrolaa $25, $35, $150 and others. Easy term. A0c$pedo The Art and Music Store 1513-15 Douglas Street Liquid Strength Straight run gasolene means gasolene made by condensing the vapor which rises from heated crude. 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