Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 30, 1916, Page 18

P s P T SaY Two Years of the War. The second year of the war ifi Europe, just _|closing, teaches one thing clearly. At its outset i |[man thought he knew his capacity for endurance and the limitations of his powers of destruction. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Eatered_st_Omaha_postoffice as second-class ngfx'; TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, By cartier per_mon! 50, By mail per year. without Sunday. and Sunday Daily Daily sworn, says that average criculation for the month of June, 1016, was 31957 daily DWIGHT and 52,877 Bunday. LIAMS, Circulation Manager. ‘WILLIAM Gm r s “Hands Across the Sea” remains the motto over the door, but the grip depends on a thorough inspec- tion of the hands. Afthonlh not chronicled in Holy Writ, King Solomon has nothing on Judge Landis in the unscrambling of mixed-up mgtheu. My, what a lot of coal shoveling could be saved if part of the sum- mer’s heat could be interned and re- 13 leased in the winter time! . The presumption is the White House would go tenantless if the landlord did not have a Mayflower, _or some other boat equally as good, ' to go with it. i T | g ¢ E : - 3 8238 B —— President Poincare of France an- nounces that the allies can t'be beat. " The central powers express like con- fidence in ultimate victory. Mean- _ while the killing proceeds with no . ‘prospect of an early deci According to the boot makers, wo- " men's shoe tops are to be lower, but . nothing has yet been heard officially 'from the dressmakers as to skirt lengths, We insist that this is a place « demanding team work. E——— One of the apologists for demo- . cratic unpreparedness is quoted as saying, “The soldier boys on the bor- | ' der must not expectj summer resort . quarters nor Waldorf-Astoria meals. . 'No, and it's & cinch that they will not * get them! * The estate of the late J. Pierpont Morgan appraises at thel pittance of MM “exclusive of property . outside of New York state,” which | cannot amount to much. In a word, he was only an imitation Croesus, . _many times outclassed. How disap- " pointing! — + Losses by fire in the United States and Canada for the first half of the .year foot up $125,776,420, compared with $92,891,000 for the first half of 1915, The great difference in the figures suggest that lean months - make poor fire economy and fat months go to blazes. v ——— 3 . There is just one sure way for _“Omaha to land that federal land bank: “Let our democratic’ United States senator step up to the counter and “say, “I want that bank for Omaha; I - must have it and if T don't get it, I _ will take it as notice that the admin- Uistration does not want my help far anything else.” iy | m——— - The railway commission of Cali- fornia criticises the allowances for services in connection with the re- ceivership and sale of the Western Pacific railroad. An attorney's fee of 172000 for sixteen months' seryice and $7,000 to the man who read the . notice#! sale may appear extrava- , gant to plodding' workers, but the commission forgets that receiverships are designed to fry the remaining fat, Publicity and Good Roads, | The création of a state highway ommission is the first indispensable step Nebraska must take to become L eligible for the state’s share of the ' federal good roads fund. That will * be an important task for the legi: tors chosen next fall, Little can be done officially until the legislature yacts and the commissioners are chosen. Assuming the legislature takes favorable action, eight or twelve months will elapse before the Fstat. buckles down to the serious busi- “ness of inent road - building. uch: preliminary work _might 1 3&5 in . thoroughly ac- &qflhflu the people with the neces- \sity and practical value of this pub- c work. Taxpayers are entitled to on the cost. e law fixes at $10,- - mile the cost limit, of which , the actual cost may ral limit, and the ex- be borne by the state or directly concerned.” An campaign for a compre- Events have proved otherwise. Predictions freely made by experts before the fighting commenced that war had been made too terrible to last long have been swallowed up in occurrences so shock- g ey o.00 | ing that sensibility has been dulled, and the an- S wokhos of Shager of adirwe & resUaciiy _f“ nouncement of new agencies of death and deva T 7T REMITTANCE. [ tation more awful than any dreamed of are ac- B e e ot of emali sicounts, - ber. | Cepted as matters of course. Men by millions are mu.muuwmw'h- and eustern exchangss, | cont against other millions, each force equipped OFFICES. with scientifically contrived instruments for Orakaciiie Boe Bulidiue. slaughter; whole battalions are obliterated by sl Biah 14 North Mas e, chemical blasts, and regiments and brigades wiped Do VIt DOy Gos Dl out, demonstrating the accuracy of calculations %.m:‘-;'fl,;‘-;ogm:fi ko0 made for capacity of modern weapons to destroy, " CORRESPONDENCE. and confounding all theories as to man’s capacity Addres communications E.:"“h'.fin:f"m::a\mfi; to defy destruction. T JUNE CIRCULATION, This is the one lesson of two years of fighting ly—Sunday 52,877 on the most stupendous scale imaginable. Other Tublshing Compens, Do duly wwom, says that the | ossible results are yet speculative. Much of rea- soning has been logically applied, but the postu- late is presumptive and not positive, and so the conclusion is necessarily guesswork. Evidence is ly | plenty that peace would be welcomed by the bel- should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad-/| [igerents; this is not within reach until one or dress will be changed as often as "'."_",."_‘; the other side has gained an advantage, and the As an industrious rumor factory |indecisive character of results so far achieved Amsterdam has Rome beaten to a |prevents either from enforcing its demands. Qb SRadetll: How much longer the struggle may go is al- most as uncertain now as it was two years ago. A limit will be reached, but how soon or where none can say. Partisan bias supports most ex- pressed opinion, which is consequently worthless. Human endurance is being tested to the utmost, and on it depends the outcome. — The Spirit of Nationalism, From the birth of the republic the spirit of nationalism has been the propelling power of its onward march of progress. It is this spirit that cemented the colonies together after they had won independen;e from the British oppressor and it is this spirit that kept the union from division through a bitterly fought civil war. The spirit of nationalism also offers the explanation of each successive step in territorial expansion which the United States has undergone and which in turn has tremendously strengthened that spirit. By force of national necessity the different states that had claims to the Northwest territory relinquished them in favor of the federal govern- ment and out of that empire were carved all the new states between the Alleghanies and the Miss- issippi. The acquisigion of Louisiana was brought t by the nation as a whole and not by the ad- 3 joining. states, either indi idually or collectively, The territory taken from Mexico became federal territory and likewise purchased Alaska and wat- acquired Porto Rico and the Philippines. It is the irony of fate, almost, that the most important enllr.emenl_l of our territorial area have come under democratic administrations in direct con- tradiction of the democratic preachment of states rights and anti-imperialism, and if the Danish West Indies now come under our flag, we will have another illustration directly in point. “The spirit of nationalism simply cannot be re- pressed where the welfare of the American people requires’ the concerted action of all. The Pacific railroads would never have been built at the time they were needed except for the federal land grant and subsidy and the construction of the Panama Canal would be still lagging had not Uncle Sam taken it in hand. So we see congress passing laws for land banks, for restricting child labor, for good roads, and other subjects, formerly claimed as belonging exclusively to the states, because ‘there is no other way of dealing with them effectively and efficiently. The spirit of nationalism cannot and will not stop short at artificial state lines merely out of deference to a discredited sentimental theory of states rights, S — The Normal Child in School Massachusetts educators are setting about an inquiry, the utility of which may be questioned. The quest is to determine the point at which the abnormal child may be detected, the purpose be- ing to give the unusually talented youngster the full benefit of his excess of intellectual gifts. This plan will, it is supposed, supplement the special effort that has long been made in behalf of the subnormal child, whose lack of faculty has ren- dered him an object of special care and solicitude in the public achool. When it is worked out, the backward and the forward children will be cared for, but what of the great mass of youngsters who have the misfortune to be Just normal boys and girls? Our public schools are supposed to provide for the intellectual needs of the children of the “aver- age” American home. The question before the conscientious school teacher ' should always. be: Does the course of study meet the requirements of these boys and girls, most of whom will get no other schooling than is to be had in the public schools? The effort should not be to locate the especially gifted, but to so plan the work that the apt and energetic will find plenty to do, while the less qualified are not neglected. The sub- normal and the abnormal usually discover them- selves, 50 that the problem of the teacher con- tinually lies with the far greater number, It is still a mooted point whether the substitu- tion of practical for cultural training in school is t_he wiser plan, So-called technical training, taken in schools specifically instituted for the work, is indispensable. But it may be well doubted if the pseudo-vocational training now undertaken in many of our public schools is of any real service, Out and out trade schools have a purpose as de- finite as that of the technical, and should be sup- plemental rather than a part of the purely cultural school. These matters are far from being definitely fixed in our school system, however, Much of effort will still be wasted in experimentation be- fore the crystallization of opinion takes perma- nent form, In the meantime, however, we submit flm development of prodigies is of less real sery- ice than giving a clear track to the energetic aver- age child, i —— A large part of the money spent on road im- provement in Nebraska heretofore has been vir- tually thrown away, Every dollar of the good should be made to count in a that will con- tribute something tangible mwmm et scientifically planned and complete good roads System. This money must be, spent for the bene- The | fit of the whole state rather than Yor any favored under- | section or any special group of land speculators, gfifl "Thats what “Eq” ; 8ood six years ago Howard gets for not being roads appropriation from the federal treasury | Thought Nugget for the Day. An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands. —William Cowper. One Year Ago Today in the War. Holland passed a law increasing her trained soldiery from 330,000 to 550,000. Reported that Austrians were repulsed with heavy loss in attack on Italian position before Gorizia, Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria held war council on the fate of Constantinople. This Day in Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The trustees of the South Omaha Land Syndi- cate held a meeting with closed doors at their soffice in the Millard hotel. The following were present: Messrs, Swan, Paxton, Iler, Murphy, Swobe and Woolworth. Fifty couples gathered at Ancient Order of Hibernians hall in response to invitations to a farewell party in honor of the Misses Annie and Maggie Carroll and Mr, James Kenney. The Misses Carroll go east next week and Mr. Ken- ney leaves for Green River, Wyo. Mrs. Louisa Mohr, wife of B. M. Mohr, 418 North Sixteenth street, has returned from New York, where she has been visiting her sister. T. W. T. Richards has gone to San Francisco in company with his old companion in arms, Senator Mahone. W. V. Morse and wife have gone to Spirit Lake to join the Omaha colony there, which now numbers over 100, Miss Nellie Bassett of Galesburg, Il is visit- ing Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Whitmarsh. Dr. H. Gifford of 1404 Farnam street became -exhausted while bathing at Manhattan Beach and was taken to the Pacific Housé, where Dr. Graddy, who had been summoned from Omaha, stated that he would come around all right but that it pas a close shave, Today in History. 1609—Firearms first seen ? battle between the Iroquois an lowers near Ticonderoga. 1711—An English expedition sailed from Bos- ton to attack Quebec and Montreal. 1822—William T. Adams, author of the “Oli- ver Optic” books, born at Medwng,g Mass. Died at Dorchester, Mass,, March 27, 1897. 1830—Charles X deposed from the throne of France, 1866—President Johnson replied to the mes- sage of congratulation received from Queen Vic- toria on the completion of the Atlantic cable. 1874—Athletics defeated thé Bostons at Liver- Eool, in the first professional base ball match in ngland. 1887—The great railroad bridge over the St. Lawrence at Lachine was completed. 1891—John Dillon and William O’Brien, the Irish leaders, released from jail on the comple- tion of their six months' sentences for advising Irish tenants not to ely rent, 1896—President Cleveland issued a proclama- tion of warning to Cuban filibusters. 1898—President McKinley, through the French ambassador, stated the American terms for peace with Spain. I90(§,—Kin| Humbert of Italy was assassinated at Monza, 1909—Earthquakes in Mexico did great dam- age, Acapulco being practically destroyed. A Centenary for Trousers. 3 Full-lenghth trousers were invented in the year 1816; and the first social lifht to approve them openly was the duke of Wellington, a man of iron nerve and consummate daring. Regard- less of the consequences, the duke wore a pair, the Indians in Champlain’s fol- right out on the street; and from that day his | unpopularity grew. As compared with satin knee breeches, trousers are crudg and unlovely, Sculptors rage at their graceless appearance and make remarks about them that cannot be re- peated in mixed t;ntherin(l. They are, however, known form of garment which can suc- and strain which n its various rami- A telegraph linesman, for instance, would enjoy afl unpleasant time if he were obliged to go about his business clad in satin knee breeches or the togs of the ancients. Since the year 1916 is the centenary of the birth of trousers, every trouser-wearer in the world might combine sentiment and practicality by purchasing a new pair of trousers at some time during the year—K. L. Roberts in Life, This Is the Day We Celebrate. Charles F. McGrew, retired banker, is just 60 today. He was born at' Mt. Pleasafit, Ia., com- mencing the banking business in 1884 at Alex- andria. For ten years he was state national bank commissioner. Arthur C. Crossman, investment and real estate broker, was born‘]uly 30, 1851, at Bur- Ilntton. Vt. He formerly resided at Atkinson, Neb, from where he removed to Omaha in 1906, l'fenry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer and peace advocate, born at Greenfield, Mich., fifty-three years ago today. John, Sharp Williams, United States senator from Mississippi, born at Memphis, Tenn,, sixty- two years ago today, Rt. Rev.‘ Charles D. Williams, E iscopal bishop of Michigan, born at Bellevue, (g., fifty- six gelrs ago today. . Ozora S, Davis, president of Chicago Theological seminary, born at Wheelock, Vt., fifty years ago today. Henry A. Du Pont, United States senator from De]lware, born near Wilmington, Del., seventy-eight years ago today. Dr, Henry Louis Smith, president of Wash- ington and Lee university, born at Greensboro, N. C, M}t{-teven years ago today. [lnfh . Gulliver, president of Rockford (IIL.) college, born at Norwich, Conn., sixty years ago todg. _h.!kl D. Stengel, outfielder of the Brooklyn National league base ball team, born at Kansas City, twenty-six years ago today. Where They All Are Now. C.,C. Wright, when here assistant general at- torney for the Northwestern lines west of the issouri river and before that city attorfiey, is now in charge of the Northwestern's interes! before the Interstate Commerce commission, lo- cated in Chicago. James B. Sheean, who was assistant attorne; olh(he lfiu_flllwuterln, is nmlw l‘ivmg (11';1 St. Plu{, where he is general counsel of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minnedpolis & Omaha rond'! < Storyette of the Day. Duriq‘ the recitation of a college class in natural pl ilosophy the professor observed a tall, lanky youth in a rear seat, his head drooping, hi body relaxed, his eyes half-closed and encumbering an adjacent » UMr. Frazer,” said the Kr is ey Or The freshman opened s slowly, but did not change his pose, , “Mr. Frazer, what is work?” tEverything is work™ was the drawling reply. “Sit, exclaimed the professor, “do you mean m'll’! me that is a reasonable answer to my ques- “Yes, sir.” “Then I take it that you would like me and the class to believe that this desk is work?" “Yes, sir," replied the youth, wearly; “it is woodwork.”—The Christian Herald, THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 30, B L o 1916. Vs, Rerans ond. Sndartanrs By Victor Bosewater. HO NOW, after two years of fighting, pre- tends to keep up with the literature of the war? When %he war books and pamphlets began to roll in, shortly after the outbreak of hestilities, this war stuff was my regular diet and, if I read one, I read fifty of them, almost without stopping. These early war books were in a class of their own. They told how it happened and who was to blame and what they were fighting for and how the map of Europe would be redrawn at the cons clusion, but no one is excited by this guess work any more. Then came a literary output' of per- sonal experiences of those who happened to be marooned in the war zone or caught in the lines or who had chance glimpses of the mobilization and early fighting, with descriptions of the ruin and havoc being wrought, but these, foo, are now shop worn. The war literature of today is mostly in the fiction class, stories with the war as a background, entertaining and interesting many of them, but with a tense war flavor which, in large doses, is not pleasant to the literary palate. The real histories of the war are yet to come and the first histories will be warped by too close vision. After while we will have the personal narratives corresponding to those of our ‘civil war like Grant’s Memoirs and the stories of Sherman, Mc- Clellan, Sheridan, Logan and the other military leaders, providing, of course, that the guiding spirits of!hc present European conflict are not first killed off, as was Kitchener, without an op- portunity to give their observations to us for pos- terity. Talking about books, the readers of this column will remember a reference some time ago to the unique Children’s Book Alcove which had been established by Mrs. Matthews in the new book store, Mrs. Matthews launched the idea into a broader field by reading a paper on “Women irf” Bookselling” at the big national convention of booksellers in Chicago this spring, and her ac- count of what she had accomplished was gener- ously treated in. the “Publishers’ Weekly,” the standard trade paper, with a consequent result that the story or !rw children’s corner in Omaha now comes back all the way from London in a chatty book column in “The British Weekly,” To use a pardonable slang expression, “That is going some.” At the time I originally commented on this subject, I believe I offered some sugges- tions along the same line for making the children's department at our public library more attractive and serviceable by furnishing it like a lounging room and equipping it with comfortable chairs and desks and amps and window hangings, and making it so homelike and cosy that the children would prefer to spend their leisure in its book and picture atmosphere than any other place that might tempt them. By doing something that would make the children’s room its most striking feature, our public library, too, could draw atten- tion from strangers as well as home folks and have its fame spread far and wide. We Omaha people are just beginning to ap- preciate our parlIJ(s and to see the beauty and ad- vantage of them, but not everyone harks bagk to the comparatively short time ago when most of these parks were either ravines filled with un- derbrush or sunbaked cornfields. A drive through Elmwood park the other evening impressed me with the tremendous improveraent it has under- gone and then the very next day I received, al- most by coincidence, a letter from my old friend, John T. Bell, now living out at Newberg, Ore.. to remind me that we owe the possession of this ark to the homely industry of “pickling cucum- gers." Let me give Mr. Bell's story in his own words and they will require no further explana- tion or comment. He writes: “I take some satisfaction in the reflection [ that I had something to do with getting Omaha started in securing a system of parks. Driving about in the northern part of the city—north- ern part as it was then—along about 1884, I stopped at the market garden of Henry Hurl- but and Henry B, Wiley. It was on land owned by John A. Horbach.” They were putting up cucumber pickled. I said I though tgere ought to be money in cucumber pickles. They said there was and that if they had some more capital they would go into the business exten- sively the next year. I suggested that I buy a third interest in the business. The proposition was accepted and shortly afterward I was a partner in a business I i:ad no experience in and I found it a very fortunate investment in- deed. Messrs. Hurlbut and Wiley were experi- enced market gardeners. Before locating on the Horbach land they had been engaged in that line out on the Big Papillion on the old mili- tary road. I had nothing to do with the opera- tion of the business, but my investment brought me the biggest dividends I ever received for the same amount of money. “A year or so later Mr. Horbach wanted his land for residence purposes and we went out west of town and bought quite a tract of land of Pierce Himebaugh, a portion of which land we afterward sold to the seven men who platted the West Side addition, of which seven I was one, the others being Silas H. H. Clarke, John M. Eddy, M. H. Goble, Frank Murphy, John A. McShane and Nathan Merriam. We then bought seventy-five acres a little farther west and there fardcning operations were carried on success- ully. A beautiful stream, fed by springs, ran across this land, and on the borders of it were many large trees. . “I suggested to Mr. Hurlbut and Mr. Wiley that, as this stream cut out several acres that could not he used for gardening purposes, we give it to the city for a public park, They at once agreeu ana aiier uiscussing the matter, we concluded to ask some property owners above and below us to join in the plan and thus make the tract of considerable size. The property owners we had ip mind were Henry Snyder, Lyman Richardson “and Leopold and Charles Doll. “My recollection is that from our garden property we donated twenty acres and that the others contributed enough to make the entire tract offered the city fifty-two acres. I wrote the offer of the land and was exceedingly care- ful in the penmanship. We all signed the docu- ment and handed it over to the city council, “A council committee went out to view the property, in order to se¢ whether it was worth accepting as a free %ift, I suppose. Newspaper men went along with the committee, and I re- member that one of these was my esteemed friend, Sands F. Woodbridge, then' city editor of the Herald, and his story of the attractions of the proposed park site was of a graphic order. Of course, the offer was accepted and we each received a copy of a resolution of thanks from the city government. . “Soon afterward a bond proposition was submitted calling for $400,000 to be used in buy- ing a considerable tract of land in the vicinity of the land donated (and which took the re. mainder of our garden property), a tract north of us, another between the latter pro rty and the river, and still another to the southeast and bordering on the river, The bonds carried and all of these tracts were bought, options on them having been secured at a stated price before the bonds were voted. “It is not a stretch of the facts to say that the Omaha park nyahm would have beeyn de- layed in installation, if installed at all, to its present extent but for the incident of putting up of the cucumber pickles that day on Hor- baugh's Second addition to Omaha and the sale of a one-third interest in the gardening business of Hurlbut and Wiley for the express purpose of getting additional capital in order to put up more cucumber pickles the following year. That accounts for the present Elmwood park at any rate. And we didn't put up cucumber pickles the following year nor in any other year,” 8 A DESERT MEETING. J. D. Adams In Sunset Magasine. blue, unchanging sky RS inst the blue, tained desert town comes thundering BRIEF BITS OF SCIENCE. Waterproof magnets will lift scrap iron from the river bottom in salvage operations. A French inventor is making gas pipes from paper, compressed; dried and var- nished. And then upon the su The great through tra down, the blue, unchanging sky, AN G e ‘ereue"Ted "rocicn, untit the train joes by, And then against the windows of the cars Are eager, childish faces pressed To see the people strangely dressed, Brown-faced, with black eyes keen Iike stars, Wrapped in the blankets of their race, A quiet scorn upon their lips. The Indlan wam!n‘ #it and watch where slips it the traln, B OF curtolis travelers from the east, And here upon the parched and dazsling Among the various economic products of the plant knigdom the pith. of the sun- flower stalk is by far the lightest. The average weight of the Greenland whale is 100 tons—224,000 pounds—equal to that of eighty elephants or that of 400 bears. Selling_seaweed is one of the functions of the 'Philippiné fishermen. ' “The . women miske use of it in the'preparstion of a dessert much like gelatine. Aluminum is one of the most abundant of metals and ranks third among the ele- ments which compose the crust of the earth, being exceeded only by oxygen and silicon. laln 2 (A mo:u-.nl meet the two whose wars have cd Amid l‘l"’l‘:‘mlflhly rise of cities; the grim east . Of conquest finished and the board swept clean, i Save where on life-forsuken lands like thess . ""2“"' " d'""{“"' ,,"';", ";‘ which | e e vemmant of the vanquished wajt. roened foeny rocks and shoals has pro- {5, 1l [Clicimurance of & once mors splen- wressed from wood fires and candles to oil vapor and electric lamps. The early light- houses were lighted by wood or coal fires wurned in open braziers, and later by can- iles inclosed in lanterns. did state, e ‘Taking the crumbs and lees, ABd Watohing their Inexorable fate. ]AME; WHITCOMB RILEY. ‘ Gone! Can it be that that tender hear s0 LINES TO A LAUGH. o Melindy, bereaved of her husband, con-|On the Jove and woes of earth has censed J 13 . B i ue e istrsas ouithe nropse wear(i Lo UL I8 RS he lipe baloved the world “Ah wants a black hat, an’ a black dress, n' black shoes, an’ black gloves, an’ a whole lack hank'chief, ma‘am." around s Are closed forever now, devold of sound? Can it be that the mind and pen so eloquent, | Whose wo.us 80 oft the souls of men have ‘ bent To happiness, contentment or to grief, Ate stilled at last: that he has found relief? Or shall we say rellet? For he, it seems, Found joy supreme in memories and dreams, But greater joy In sharing all of these With youth and age alltke, and strove to please, And in the striving greater pleasure found. DId not then happiness and pece abound In such existence? Was it not a bond That bound him, mortal, to the Beyond? How shall his epitaph be writ by man? Who of our host of bards and singers can In worthy sentiments the praises sing, Of him, who even In the plainest thing, Found beauty of a rare and touching kind To soothe and comfort troubled mortal mind. | How can we on his stone of marble white, ‘ Words that will please his humble spirit write? Had we not better in his own tender way ‘Write In his simple pathos, this, and say: ! “Well, goodbye, Jim! Take good keer o' yerselt.” ‘ Omaha, ~—RALPH T. WILSON. { . no Aalindy. her mistveas protested, “not n solld black handkerchief!” mked o ind . imnvessively, “when ah mourns, ah mourns!"—New York vening Post, VEAL MR, KADABBLE, A LIFESAVER AND AN ICE MAN '\5 QOURYING ME —WHICH SHA L 1 ACCEFY ? SARMY R (SDELL. =, YHEIR 15 N0 CHOICE ~THEY BOM OMLY EARN A LIVING m‘me.w-?‘nue great Mrs, Goodley—I suppose drink was the cause of your downfall, my_poor man. Bill Boozer—Yes, mum. I took a drink of water wot had microbes in {t, an' I ain't been a well man since.”—Boston Transcript. SUPERIORITY IS DECIDED TODAY JUST AS IT WAS DURING THE DAYS OF THE OLYMPIAN GAMES THE SUPREME PRESTIGE IN THE FIELD OF MODERN LIFE INSURANCE ENJOYED BY THE Woodmeh Of the World WAS ATTAINED ONLY AFTER YEARS OF FIERCE COMPETITION ‘ RING DOUGLAS 1117 NO CHARGE FOR EXPLANATION J. T. YATES, Secretary. W. A. FRASER, President. A word to the buyer of office space You buy beeause YOUR NEED is to furnlsh your patrons with Service and the better your service is to them, the quicker they respend teo your desires. THE BEE BUILDING “The building that is always new” offers the best there is in location, sase of aceess, eonvenience, safety, attention, light and air, which are the best aids to servics. The beautiful avehitectural lines of The Bee Building mean prestige in your iness. OFFICE ROOM 103 It takes GUMPTION and CONFIDENCE to spend money advertis- ing for a position The weak-kneed, incompetent kind of workers never think of advertising their services-they wait for something to come to them-and it rarely ever does. Many wide-awake men and women se- / cure positions through the “Situations ™. ‘ _Wanted” columns of The Bee. 3 Employers know that only live, energetic ] workers'spend their money advertising §> their/services. 1 Persistence is the cardinal vir- tue in advertising; no matter how good advertising may be in other respects, it must be run frequently and constant- ly to be really successful.