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10 HIE ME: OMAHA. SATURDAY. JUNK 3. The Omaha Bee MORNING EVENING SUNDAY, TUB VCI rt'PUkHINQ COMFANT (4JM)ft) . trtilal, TuktuW (v fcWl. OeearaJ kuiiif MCMtCI Of TiC MSOCMUD rCM Vto limiiM raa al MM tlM ! M I a ewtS IA 14 at eU UM ! I ) 1 14 W It M M MUM Ml Imi U Ui . .-4 Hmt tea mi rum nii aa r"es al m-jumma if aw a) in4 ftai taw al CM ajftee Ua i ai 1 1 1 1 wfc aw ae iiwai art aaaveis a) lani'D 4iu4 kr HWH i Tk ituUlU ( Ti Os. lal fer April, lU D.ily Avr.f 73,390 Sunday Avrf ...79,595 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY HtWU, Caaaral Mmmw t IX 111 a. HOOO. CtfaaUlM Maatv tvera tm xiaiirltil fcaler lata 4l Ui ( Hr, iu. (Saal) W. H. QUIVIY, HaUrf reU US TUX PHONO Privet trasab tuaa- A.k See DaBarUBal ar r.roe WaaleSt far AT UU Hiakl Call After It f. M l Mltorlal laM Derertauat. AT ball Itlt at ll. louv OPTICU Mala OffWe Itla tai Tnm C itaffi II St, taaik tiaa 411 S. !4Us IX tit Y ark IK fifth A. Woklkftoa tilt O. It Celr lite Steaet Bid, rsrta. rraaaa 411 He M. B.aara Nebraska! Road Building. At hat Lccn foreshadowed, the report f( the special comoiiltee that inquired Into the illega lioni of rxtravigancc, mismanagement and graft in connection with the road building in Ne braska completely exonerate the itate engineer and hit department. The report ii not a white wash, but the unanimoui concurrence of all its inemhert that no foundation for the alanderout assertion discovered. The committee doei carefully and with jus tification criticize certain methods adopted by the counties. Instead of complying with the law and keeping a separate account for each mile of road built, so that a full and dependable record of costs will be available at all times, many of the counties have made no separation of costs whatsoever, with the result that the accounts are inextricably confused. An intelligent com parison is thui rendered impossible. Another county practice that is condemned by the com mittee is that of paying lump sums to county officers, they to distribute the funds by personal check in paying contractors, supply bills and the like. This loose method of doing business should he stopped. Definite recommendations made by the com mittee include one that will provide for the separation of state or federal aided work from that done exclusively by the county, both as to construction and maintenance. Counties should lay out definite road construction programs but should also see to it that these are co-ordinated vith the general plan of highway improvement, 'iiat the state system will be harmonious in its details. Authority and responsibility should be given the county engineers. : Of great importance also is the recommenda tion that the federal aid program be continued, the committee finding that "federal aid roads, built under federal, specifications, are more sub stantial and in the long run cheaper than any other road." This report explodes one of the principal mines laid by the democrats to blow up the re publican administration in Nebraska. It shows the bomb to have contained much wind and little powder. Those who objected to the activity of the committee' as an unnecessary expenditure of money ought to join in congratulating its mem bers that they have so thoroughly cleaned up the situation. The fact that Messrs. Epperson and Hofmeister join in signing the report is the most conclusive proof that the findings are based on facts developed by careful inquiry, and trust worthy in all regards, and this will reassure the taxpayers who had been led into some misgiv ings as to the expenditure of money in the road building campaign. Nebraska's roads are good, and they have been honestly constructed under a republican governor by a democratic state engineeer. This fairly divides the credit and disarms the critics. loan board, white deserting credit for bt it hat done, must be made to feel tl.it the agri cultural we it tpects the utmo.t concession that j t aranted by gooj business practice. When the government gelt into busine'i, no matter whether it be the leaning business, the ship bus! i-ru, or railroading, the proper way it to enter into the competitive field, and not defer to any set of private interest. i , , Vttcran Schoolmaster Retires. Out at Grand Inland there it transpiring thi month an event of real significance. A man is retiring from the aupertntendenry of the city schools, ju.t many others arc doing in cities II over the country. But this case it different. The man it K. J. Barr and he hat directed the Grand Island schools continuously for forty yean. Administering a public school system requires something more than mere book learning, some thing more than knowledge of pedagogical the ories and practice. It takes diplomacy, executive ability, patience and courage. Boards of edu cation popularly elected at best are a makeshift effort on the part of people untrained in a highly specialised profession to direct the practice of that profession. There ii far more than an even chance that a school superintendent cannot con tinue, year after year, to command the confidence and respect of constantly changing boards. Mr. Barr hat done that. For virtually two genrrationi he hat satisfied the people of Grand Island that he is the best man available to guide the development of their more precious posses sion, their children; that he is best qualified to make tlje city's most potential source of wealth pay dividends of mature ability and character. The boys and girls who first went to school to him today are the lawyers, the doctors, the busi ness men and the respected matrons of Grand Island and other towns; more recently their children and even their grandchildren have come under his guidance and felt the impress of his personality. In their success Mr. Barr finds the reward that comes to all teachers, the knowledge of a service to his fellow man that has been well done. Three Keys to Reconstruction. Politics having failed to readjust the jumbled affairs of postwar Europe, the politicians are giv ing way to the financiers. Today we find J. P. Morgan listened to as an oracle as the interna tional bankers meet in Paris to arrange a Ger man loan. This is counted on to stabilize Euro pean financial and economic conditions by har monizing the reparations program in accord with the hard facts. No doubt it will do much to advance the con tinent along the road of reconstruction. Where the statesmen obsessed with dreams of power and national advantage failed, these financiers with their international viewpoint have a much better chance of success. Out of it is apt to' come encouragement for the proposed confer ence of banks of issue to consider means of stemming the tide of paper money that is drag ging commerce on the shoals. The failure of statesmanship at Genoa may be laid partly to the too ambitious attempt to settle every world question at a single clip. There was no Alexander ready and able to cut the Gordian knot which must, it appears, be picked apart piece by piece. . . A series of supplementary conferences, each to deal with some one portion of the problem of stabilization and reconstruction offers hope. The bankers can not do it all. Just as the emergency was found not to be solely political, so is if not entirely financial. Europe, and the whole world with it, is in the throes of a social crisis. Noth ing has yet been done to give proper treatment to the human factors. Faith, trust and good will must be restored before peace and happiness can come to the peo ples of. the earth. . The disarmament conference called in Washington by President Harding was a step toward the recognition of the need of hu manity for a broader world spirit, but much more remains to be done. The keys to the situation are three: Political, economic and social. It surely is within the. reach of modern man to fit them to the locks and swing wide the gates of peace and prosperity. Ak-Sar-Ben's Race Meet. Ak-Sar-Ben's annual spring race meeting starts today, a harbinger of the merry monarch's season of sport and entertainment for his sub jects. It is a little more than that, too, for it car ries with it the added prestige the community shares in the presence of a really important sporting event. The sport of kings horse racing . has been called, and as well it is the game of the ordinary folks who make up the world. Men and women alike enjoy a horse race. It possesses . in a high degree the element of uncertainty, to gether with the test of skill and speed of jockey and mount, and offers a thrill that is obtainable N in no other way. Ak-Sar-Ben's meet is now recognized as one of the fixtures of the country, and is gaining in importance as it is being more firmly established. Horse owners are drawn hither from all over the country, bringing the best of their stables, because they know of the liberal purses and the splendid conditions for rac ing provided. Nebraska once gained consider able prominence as a horse breeding state, al though it was the harness horse and not the . thoroughbred that got the attention. Maybe the influence of the Ak-Sar-Ben meet will in time re vive and extend the industry that has languished for a quarter of a century or longer. At any rate, the daily program for the next two weeks will afford ample entertainment for those who still love horseflesh, and there are many, even if the automobile does hold the road. . Saving Interest Charges. Reduction of the interest rate on farm loans by the Federal land bank reflects the financial improvement If the other agencies, privately owned, and some of them enjoying the privilege of tax exemption, meet this cut, many millions of dollars in interest will be saved to the farmers. The rate now is 5', 4 per cent, with the pos sibility that public pressure on the federal board can lower it to S per cent In France the farmers through their co-operative credit banks get loans at 2 per cent. Such a thing in unheard of in the United States, where the interest charge is a heavy burden on agriculture. In Nebraska, Iowa South Dakota and Wyo ming farm loans are estimated at $1,000,000,000. A reduction of 1 per cent in interest charges on this sum would save $10,000,000 to the producers. Tail is a tun worth going after and the farm Back of the Dyestuffs Tariff. A five hours' debate, characterized as the most stubborn of the many that have ensued over the provisions of the tariff bill, ended in the adop tion of the committee's provision for a tariff of' 50 per cent ad valorem and 7 cents a pound spe cific duty of coal tar dyes and dyestuffs. Back of this lies a chapter of history that should not be lightly turned down. Prior to the war German chemists had acquired a virtual monopoly on synthetic dyes, a result of the intensive study and research car ried on in their great laboratories. Discoveries therein made were protected by patents, and Ahe great textile industry of the world paid full tribute to the German chemical industry. When the war came on America in common with the world suffered because of the shutting off of the supply of dyes from Germany. One of the ef fects of our entrance into the war was the seiz ure, among other things, of the German patents registered in this country, and the subsequent sale of the same by the war board to an American chemical syndicate, which is now producing the dyes. It is beside the question to contend that the patents were sold at too low a figure; if any blame flows from that, it should attach to A. Mitchell Palmer, former head of the alien prop erty board and later attorney general of the United States, under whose administration the sale was made. The question to be considered is: Shall the dye industry of the United States be denied protection, and the German monopoly be restored, as will follow, or will congress sus tain the home manufacture by laying a suitable tariff on imported dyes? That is the essence of the problem. Most of the farm land of Lithuania formerly was held by Polish absentee landlords. Now a law provides that no man may hold more than 200 acres, and the government will buy up the surplus of the great estates at a fixed price per acre. This is a back to the land movement with trimmings, and 14,000 new farmers will have land of their own this year. ' More jobs than men are reported from New York. About the same condition that prevails here. Balloon racing is not devoid of thrills for the aeronauts. - From State and Nation To ItiUmnJ Itim lleacilon, flaw IS. t'h. Pail, N. It is now not itiiiiOMibie, If in I-niW ta or thru seam alii4, to a fltaiue t proiirva. atviam a emrvnta u lht rvt'etii r"H'Un anauiat lroKiwivUm, I'olitu Itti.n ta Ilk ihrtttrit'al mattatvr. it on iilay istu li ' lunling lv. rld" or "I'mi-hoi smh the fum-h") win an tinttti'iii suci'MMi. unit ihrv kk inwitri ue. I if that new di tuna tin era i'un4iin jut about totally of that on i. Aii tilur aurt f play la nt IihiiiI. Thinking an. Hit do in thiiiM that nel to nmka it ao. Tlia irony ui the matter In this irnun' u thai tf rrulgn run on taauea aolld and a tuina n tho reduction of taxes, while t'ttn-linl ran on thu pruareaaive hut certainly far from dangarout hit that paopia out: lit nut steal, lie wanted ihain to atop aiaallit lime and monay front iha pay roll and the treasury of the state vf Pennsylvania. Naverlheleia. In all inula of the country Pro fessional polllh itl opinion ha been aspretard to the effact thai the corner has been reached, the tide hat turned, reuciion haa run lie courae and the new era of revived revolt of the peo ple la dawntnf. Doubtleaa profreaslve pluya will be put on in many state between now and 1124. and rumor are not wanting that a proiraaaive candidate for the republican nomination for tlia preairtenry in 1934 will be dreaa4 up and brought forward to the footllghte at the right time. This movement of course, will brine many advantage. After a run of political plujaJln which every hero said. "It ua never revtaa the constitution never never!" It will be amusing to hear a few heroea exclaiming once more. "How can a constitution that waa made In the deya of the atag roach be any good in the c!av of the locomotive?" Only now he will pay "air plane, tnu making the argument new. Perhaps one may welcome this nanny relief and hope even agttinat hope that the revivers and revoltara and renewers will not ba able to get us nrmly Into their clutches as did the re- actloneere. Thnaa backward-looking fanatic had us o errata or new ideas that In many purta of the country wo were unwilling to let a man express any new ideas for fear that somebody might learn what they were and like them. It Is to be hoped that when the new ultraorogrea- elves arrive they will not tar and feather a man lor being fcuxperted or having an old Idea. In the meantime It might pay the ultrasupcr. ronaervatlves of a certain sort to turn to a little deep thinking and to a little practice In actual arguing. They may need It pretty soon In a proper defense of the sound part of their con. servailsm. Room for Both. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The agricultural bloc has apparently won Its right for representation on the federal reserve board. Acceptance by the houxe of a' bill that had previously passed the senate providing for six instead of five uppointlve members on the board and the inclusion of the word "agricul tural" with the other interests specifically enu merated in the original act makes the president's obligation In the matter clear. The fact that he had already announced his Intention to appoint a "dirt farmer" to the first vacancy on the board precludes any possibility of a presidential veto. This newspaper has never believed that an in crease in the size of the federal board was desir able. The nature of its duties are such that a small group is more likely to function to advan tage than a larger one. However, six appointive members plus the government representatives still leaves a board that Is not likely to be un wieldy on account of Its size, it would be un fortunate, however, If other specific interests or groups should sleze upon this amendment as a precedent and demand for themselves specific representation In the nation's high finance court. The bankers on the board are there not to rep resent the interest of the bankers as a group nor should the agricultural member who is now provided for enter upon his duties with the idea that it is his business to interpret the law and to direct the financial policies of the country in the particular interest of the farmers. That kind of representation could end nowhere but in disaster. There is one ground, however, upon which the enlargement of the board will be agreeably accepted by those who have up to this time op posed it. The way is now open for the president to satisfy the agricultural bloc, make good his own commitment and still reappoint Governor Harding when his term expires In August. Preservation of the high and non political char acter of-the federal reserve board is the fund amental problem involved In the entire issue. Governor Harding's reappointment Is from that point of view virtually necessary. The Twin Menace. From the New York World. There were two paragraphs in Governor Miller's speech which deserve the thoughtful study and the conscientious application of every voter: There are two classes of people that are the greatest menaces in this country today One of them consists of those without char acter, without conscience, without scruple,, without morality, who for place or profit or ' personal ambition attempt to corrupt the electorate, to poison the minds of the peo ple, to flatter and to beguile the people on the pretense that they are their friends, when they merely seek to debauch them. The other class is the opposite extreme. No less dangerous because they furnish am munition for the class to which I have al ' luded are those who think that because they possess power they may exercise it as they please, that because they possess property property rights are supreme to the public Interests, that from habit or desire to have come to think that they are chosen to direct the destinies of the people, but that that di rection must be along the line of putting money In their own pockets. , The governor mentioned no names. He left the matter of identification to his audience, but nobody had diagnosed more clearly or precisely the fundamental evil of American public life. Jess Willard, Potato King. From the Kansas City Journal. Almost on the same day that Jack Denipsey returned from Europe and posed for the camera, uncomfortably wearing a monocle, the Union Pacific- railroad published Individual statistics of the potato acreage in the Kaw valley. Glanc ing down the list, it Is found that Jess Willard has set out 225 acres. Further perusal dis closes the illuminating fact that Willard has planted more potatoes than any other farmer on the north side of the river. While Dempsey cavorted over Europe, Willard was making a material contribution to the national potato production. In the old days, it used to be the general im pression that after a champion prizefighter had heard the birds twitter as the referee counted ten. he opened a saloon. More recently ex champions have been going in for the stage and the movies. Willard goes back to Kansas and outdoes all the neighbors raising potatoes. Pugilism needB . more fighters of Willard' kind. Dempsey may have demonstrated that he was quicker than Jess with the gloves, and Jess himself may have said he never cared much about fighting. The fact remains that if there Were more men like Willard in the game, many who condemn boxing now would have a better opinion of it. Pugilism needs more men who put the children in the car on Saturday night and drive Into town to see the movies. How to Keep Well r PR. W, A. (VANS Qua.tiaas saaearawf t.a.l. mi tad aaaaiiaa) al iut. aiilU4 ! Pr, Eaa r t.iSwa at laa fcW, ill a. aa.MrW B.aMll ukjatl t aoaaar iMallalata, klwt a aiaMaad, 4ttn4 avlaaa la ' .tana1. Dr. fc.aaa vill a.1 ai.lt 4iaaai ar araaariaa lar ia4ialual rfitaaH. AMraaa hHlers as car at Ta . CaarnyMl I! College Mermaids. ' From the Philadelphia Publlo Ledger. Beginning with the class of 1924, the young women of Radcliffe college who want a degree must be able to swim, dive and float. It would bd a good thing if all colleges, for men and women alike, enforced a similar prescription. President Briggs, of Radcliffe, some years ago asked for specifications for a swimming tank. A New York firm replied that for a certain sum it would supply a tank with a cap acity of "4,000 gals." Dr. Briggs replied with dignity that there were but 400 young ladies in residence at Radcliffe. But now there is a tank, and it is employed to good purpose In training young women to be at home in the water. In every form of ath letics today the effort Is to make the benefits distributive. It Is not thought adequate for a few to stage a competition in a vast arena while thousands look on. It Is a wise administration of athletics that makes participation in sports general and builds 'up the physique of many instead of developing extraordinary prowess on the part of a small number. Swimming in moderation Is among the most salubrious of exercises, and a fair amount of skill in the pas time may be the means of saving life in an un predictable emergency. Beware the Woodsman! From the Wuhington Pott. Now If Gift Pint-hot can run the machine as easily as he beat it, he'll be a great Fcnpvi. van lan i MR A TOI.IIOI.D tX 1.1 I K. It lu tint tier ii lung since 1 hntt an article on this ubject. based on ilie wme lot of experience. My reaeon la the Importance of tlia aubjiH't and the few wlui are writing about it. That W far a I fel Ilka going by way of apology. Tlia siiiiji'ct i iirittr rare of Hie baby during the first month nf life. tdalinlliMi prove t hut the improve ment In the condition of babiHi re late to babies ivci 1 mouth old, liable under S month of age die about as rapidly ua they ever did. fcithcr w do not know what to do for young babir or else we do nut apply what w know. The lot of experience on which we are ainln drawing I the clinic for newly-born conducted by Dr. Duhuy. Thl I what they do: They nut a drop of nitrate silver solution. 1 per rent. Into the baby' eye. The law require thi in many state. The baby 1 cleaned with warm olive oil and wrapped in a warm blanket. Even this I quickly carried out In a warm room. The old stylo ceremonial, washing with water elaborately, laboriously, thoroughly and slowly, carried out by otno green gmnddmne of the neighbor hood, followed by decking of the young one In great trousseau of rlrh and gaudy clothe. I not per mitted. ' It ! too apt to chill nml kill the bit of humanity almost without a toehold tn life. If the baby U good and strong Th Bee offers lla ootiimne frerly to Ha rradrva whn rare to dl.ru.a any publlo q ur. t Ion. It requeat that Irltera br muonahlr brief, not over SIM word. It alao tiwi.ta that the name of the wrltrr areamoany earn letter, not nereaaarlly for publication, but that the editor mar know with whom he la dralin. The lie dnea not pretend to riiiliimo or aerrpt viewa or opinlona expremrd by eerre- .ponurnt. in ine Letter uoi.) Newspapers and Religion. Grand Island. Neb., May 26. To the Editor of The Bee: I have had it In my mind for some time to call your attention to the manner In which your paper, in common with many other papers, treats religious news, i do not reel that you give religion and religious news sufficient consideration as compared with the consideration that you give to news that is simply wordly, and especially sporty. I think that Christianity should be given a larger place in your paper than it receives. It is true that you publish in the evening paper Saturdays the church notices. but they are not In the morning Issue and they are not in the Sun day Issue. I think it would be well if these notices were printed in the Saturday morning issue, or in the Sunday morning issue. Again, I wish to call your atten tion to the fact that too little atten tion Is given to the subject of Chris tianity in your Monday papers. For example, in your issue of May 22 an entire page is given over to sport news and elaborate accounts are given of Sunday baseball games and other sports, but one looks in vain in that paper for any mention of any of the churches in your city. Those churches and their ministers are making a great effort to dissemi nate a knowledge of the truth as taught In the Scriptures and to stay the tide of evil which is so prevalent, and it certainly seems to me that a paper should give some considera tion to the sermons that are deliver ed and the services that are held in these many churches instead of de voting so much space simply to worldly amusements and sports. I am heartily in favor of baseball and other proper amusements, but not on Sunday, . Last Sunday, the general assembly of the Presbyterian churches in the United States of America was in ses sion in Des Moines, la., and more than 60 of the leading ministers of that denomination preached in the various churches of that city. If there were five baseball games in that city their performances would go out all heralded to the world through the newspapers. However, I find no account whatever of any of these meetings, or any of the ser mons that were delivered, in your naner. PerhaDS your excuse for giv ing so much space to news of sport is that the public demands it. Thia is true in a measure, but I beaevo there are tens of thousands of per sons who demand that Christianity and the church be given greater publicity than your paper is giving to this subject. JAMES H. WOOLLET. he may get a b4tli in warm waiar and hii hm J I Imkis old. If ! I waak liei.ny not be alird with auap and water until M i it "tenth old or ol'Ur. The !ey is kept warm for lit first l-w days. M.my luting babiv iv torn killed by t hilling Imrir. the first : hour he i put io i ha breual every six hur I lin ing lb aen.nd day. every four hour. Many young babir need le be given a little warm water, Tim old etl woman with Iter warm tea for the baby wn not fir wrong though pUIn warm watar might have proved little better lb ii warm lea. In many case tli voting onuy. waiunc for the inoilirr' inilk l come, I given a little very diluted COW'I IllllK. Of rour. very at rung babies ran wull suml the permit of huimer and thirst, with Hi aiinuUni b of weight, while waiting for the mother' breast to secrete, but Ihe wank one go down under It. The baby' mouth i not washed out unleaa there I some specbil re on for doing so. Nor are the eye Witched out. Psfnro the baby i put to the brest the nipple are clrtined with ii Niiitiilon of io per cent alcohol ill Wilier. If the mother' nipple are aore they are wushed in a solution of 10 minim of compound rinctur of benzoin in en mil parts alcohol, glycerin and roue water. In some tasea It ta beat to nom up the brensia with adhealve atrlpa and to rover the nipple with aluminum shield. Dr. Duhuy. apparently, lis not had hi patient make us of the Lou'inun iHckrt a a uiiort. An essential part of the scheme- 1 to give the baby tho center or tne ataae after the labor I completed. it I recognized that from that point am. new that tit mother I jirl.atly (it from daner rhlld bed fever, alia (a f, but lhe Ihe fbaneu K Ilia bb will mil tit la lar fioiu belli m4- !) lore ami nui iiu-riuiai mm Hioiialil on areiua tli4t lite baby get 4 loebuld OH life lines' upon a time, in a rertun hoapiial a newly Mm baby w k..r,l ervina on Ihe window !! Tba nuixi bad put Ii theia while she was bu.y wllll lit" llre.l. i.i in mother- 't'h-n sha bad fui..iien it The lr. lubu . hi ni" a nely goes fr putting lb lUothrr on ihe window sill. CUNARD ANCHOR ANCHOR DONALDSON Safe Deposit Service We offer absolute nrote. tie for your valuable. The cost is I than two cents a eWy. The locatioji is convenient. The Omaha Safe Deposit Co. 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Keryts Kcad the lice Want Ad next. ADVERTISEMENT. OLD EXPRESS CO, MESSENGER TELLSTROUBLE Veteran of Railroad Serv ice Says He Is Energetic As Young Man of 25 Since Tanlac Completely Ended His Dyspepsia. ''I have picked up ten pounds since taking Taniac and feel like a brand new man," said Henry Ferrcn, 4332 N. Keystone Ave., Chicago, III., mes senger for the American Railway Express Co., on' the C, M. & St. P. R. R., between Chicago and Kansas City. He has been in the service forty years. "I am now past 50, hut T feel as good as I did when 25. For over two years I had a bad case of stom ach trouble. Indigestion kept hitting me harder every day. My appetite went back on me and my food stuffed me up terribly causing sourness and awful spells of heartburn. I suffered from headache, backache, nervous ness and loss of sleep. My strength and energy were leaving me. "Four bottles of Tanlac have given me a corking good appetite, set my stomach in applie pie order and rid me of every ache and pain. I am in the pink of condition and I never lose a chance, at home or on the road, to put in a good word for Tanlac." Tanlac is sold by all good druggists. EUECTRIC CLEANER This dandy electric sweeper is again being sold so as to enable everyone to satisfy that longing desire to lighten the burden of housekeeping. 'Till June 15 21 t All we ask is the very small initial payment of 4 And then until you have paid the small sum of $ ; . . you only pay monthly $ 4 With every Premier Cleaner purchased dur ing this sale will giva (while the supply lasts) thi beautiful metal and art glass boudoir lamp FREE "Electricity Is Cheapest in Omaha" i Nebraska Power Co. Farnam at 15th ATlantic 3100 2314 "M" Street MArket 1500 Mr. Brown is carrying his joke too far. f