Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 6, 1916, Page 4

4 FOUNDED BY ubvaRB ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER EDITOR Bee, three y fl. notice of change of address or irregul very to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. T Rem ., tal order. Only2-cent stamps taken 1 payment of small accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. e e OFFICES. ke ’ Council. Blufte—14 North Main street ttle Bullding. Peon) Butidine. New Fifth svenue. B L 503 New Bank of Commree. oy Jank of Washingtono 125 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. communications relsting to news and editorial metter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. AUGUST CIRCULATION 85,755 Daily—Sunday 51,048 wfhl Williavas, efreulation manager of The Bee Puablishi v H <ompiay, beioe dalf eort, T 1316, was SBTEE dully, L e WICLIAMS, Otreulation Manager. Subseribed in my ence sworn to befors me o ki el mlallié’l‘l‘l’nfl'll. Notary Publle. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bes mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as required. —_—————— 1t was a big day for Omaha, all right. g Good bye, Mr, President! Sorry you could not stay longer. Au revoir until the next visit. - Em——— Much discordant music obtains along “the beantiful blue Danube.” The measure lacks the familidr swing, but the waltzing affords a greater amount of exercise. Now, if our democratic friends will be as gracious to Mr. Hughes, when he comes, as the republicans have been to Mr, Wilson, they can make things square. False teeth are among the latest articles on the British contraband list. As the allies imagine the hunger blockade is grub tight they refrain from exciting gustatory hopes. —— The twenty-second reign of the royal house of Ak-Sar-Ben opencd auspiciously. . Never be- fore has so mighty a host of admiring subjects welcomed the gracious monarch of the corn belt. At last account Villa was limping painfully - and hobbling with a crutch. The failurg of Tre- vino's warriors to run down a cripple reveals mili- tary manana as a cordial exponent of safety first, i —e ~ The announcement of a suffrage campaign in Nebr in 1918 sharply reminds the male per- sdasion that the girls will nqt be happy until they get the ballot. Two years of preparedness in- sures a lively come-back. “gflfi.‘ we do not want Secretary McAdoo to abor under the defusion that he has satisfied ; claim for a federal land bank by sending his fathertin-law out here to make a speech, much 48 we appreciate the president's visit. 1f the old ?opuhl( party is defunct, as every- one knows it is in Nebraska, as everywhere, the democrats masquerading on the ticket as popu- .«list eandidates should have the courage to dis- card the false label and run on their own merits or demerits. e ———— _ A pull of $80,000 on the State bank guaranty fund to make good the Decatur bank losses, sug- e gests the need of increased vigilance in banking 4 yil inspection. Honest bankers who supply the fund should organize and insist on more efficient meas- ‘utes of self-defense. |, e—————— By a simple sweep of his officigl pen First Chief Carranza limits the presidential term to four years and provides for re-election. What- ever mistakes or massacres may be nailed on Carranza's door no fair-minded person will ac- cuse him of neglecting the future of No. 1. ’ Em——— American owners of mining property in Mex- ico object to the taxing methods of the govern- ment. Tax gatherers pay frequent visits for the wherewith, and each visit brings a boost of the demands. In the circumstance the owners may be pardoned for registering a protest with all the . force of home-grown experience. il one way or another the process of trim- ming political' jobs in New Jersey proceeds in a heartless fashion. Two- seperate attempts of lawmakers to hold their ancient grip on railroad passes have been knocked out by the courts. ‘This is the cruelest knock of alf, inasmuch as job holders must put up real money or walk. emp—— Machine Gun Problem Brooklyn: Eagle. The War department has acted wisely in nam- ing a special board of five officers and two civil- ians to take up all the phases of the machine-gun problem and determine finally on a type or types of such guns for use in the United States army. The situation was brought to a crisis by the charge of Colonel Isaac N. Lewis that his gun, v Great Britain is using almost exclusivel in the field, was unjustly rejected by the ord- board. fl'fim a very large element of the American g:llk, recalling the blunders of the past, has willing to sympathize with Colonel Lewis can hardly be doubted. His gun was good, bet- ter than the older type guns, or 30,000 of the weapons would not now be in use in North e. Why was it tarned down in Washington? ‘was an erican’s invention not acceptable rica? wi& only one of the cuestions that the new have to answer. Whether two or more s may be needed for different service is un- - How far the guns we have in use can ¢ depended on will be debated. The fact seems be that even army sentiment is tending toward ding lightne a big element. Many West inters do not hesitate to say that the day of ‘water-jacket gdn is passed; that a light gun cketed, but capable of, nK 1,200 discharges, e ideal for the future. This can be made a gun, and the Germans have set the pace g even their cavalry, at least a part of ey, with machine guns, time to make it dear to those who army's bills that the department is open tions, ready to give fair play to all entors, nfidence in admin- o atly preparedness program. | hind. by the United States Bureau of Education, to “teach the English language to the foreign-born citizens. The value of this undertaking is plain, but it is in no sense a novelty. Opportunity for those who come to us from countries of a dif- ferent tongue have long had ample chance to get grounded at least in the rudiments of the lan- guage of Americans. Omaha, in common with other cities where a considerable number of immi- grants have located, has long maintained special schools, at which instruction is given, and hun- dreds have taken advantage of them. The pres- ent movement is merely to give greater attention to the work, that its benefits may be extended. The need of the foreign-born for at least a work- ing knowledge of the language of their adopted country is not to be misunderstood. One of the most serious factors in the assimilation of the immigrant has been the assembly in groups repre- senting racial or local divisions, and the main- tenance of conditions resembling those left be- It is necessary to break up this segrega- tion as far as possible, in order that the new- | comers may be made into real American citizens, This process may be carried out without disturb- ing the personal relations now established, but through the certain means of spreading the know!- edge of American ways, institutions and ideals. Familiarity with the English language is requi- site for this, and for this reason its teaching is of highest importance. Corn as Food for Humanity. The mounting price of wheaten flour has re- newed the talk of corn as food for humanity. To most of those who have reached middle age, the proposition needs no argument. They can easily recall the days when corn was. served daily in the homes of the American people; corn- dodger was a staple, and cornmeal mush was an old reliable bedtime dish for the little folks, and even the elders indulged in it from time to time." “Johnny cake” and “hasty pudding” were the luxuries of those days, and a sturdy genera- tion thrived on the diet. With increasing wealth, Americans turned to the more alluring wheat bread, and commenced to take their corn in the form of meat. No question of the value of corn as food is in dispute, but the home folks will very likely continue to take it in the form of beef and bacon so long as they can get it that way, Plugging ‘Up the Holes. The court ruling excluding, from claim on’ the deposit guaranty fund loans to failed banks masked as certificates of deposit, if upheld on ap- peal, will go a great way to safeguard raids on the guaranty fund, although this abuse should have been detected and stopped by the banking board with reference to the particular bank in question and any other banks that may be in- dulging in the same practice as well. Putting an end to this questionable sort of banking, by which the guaranty fund is used to inducg loans to a bank not warranted by its own responsibility, may head off some of the outside money attracted by high interest, but it will at the same time conduce to sounder business and greater safety for regular depositors. While this weak spot in the law is being plugged up by judicial construction as to what constitutes a bona fide deposit, something more must also be done to prevent trading in the deposit Aund as illustrated by the recent revival of a com- atose bank charter, with its guaranty fund credit, to make a fat fee for a democratic lawyer cashing in a political pull. The only way to make the guaranty fund serve its purpose of insuring de- positors against loss is likewise to safeguard the fund against absorption or diversion either by bogus deposit claims or by political favor. Smpe—— Democratic Administrative Inefficiency. Senator Sherman writes that “the normal con- dition of the national finances with the demo- crdtic party in power is bankruptcy.” This only partly tells the story. It does not properly con- vey an adeduate sense of democratic administra- tive inefficiency. The party in power is boasting of the wonderful growth of business within the last eighteen months, of the unexampled activity in all lines of industrial and commercial endeavor, and cheerfully takes to itself all credit for the situation. The astonishing fact is that while the country is just now experiencing a tremendous boom, re- sulting from the export trade in munitions and war materials generally, the government of the United States is getting deeper and deeper into the hole prepared for it by the democrats. In spite of war taxes, income taxes, inheritance taxes, and all sorts of makeshifts and temporary de- vices for producing revenue, a bond issue has been resorted to, and even that expedient does not check the rising tide of the treasury deficit. More than $58,000,000 deficit accumulated in the first three months of the current fiscal year, at the rate of over $740,000 for each business day of the time. This means that every time the clock ticks on a business day, the treasury of the United States falls behind in its cash $8.50; if it is to be placed on the eight-hour day basis, each time the clock ticks, the deficit swells by $25.50. Just count the ticks of the clock for a few moments, and you will realize how rapidly the outgo is exceeding the income of the United States under democratic government. To quote Senator Sherman again, we have “a free' trade tariff act without any permanent trade, a revenue tariff without any revenue, and a war tax without any war,” and, we might add, a hole in the treasury without any bottom. Better Adjustment Needed Here, The situation in which New York finds itself as relates to its supply of milk provides further evidence that some better adjustment of our dis- tributing service is needed. When the food supply of a great metropolis is seriously interfered with because of a controversy between producers and distributers, who reach a deadlock and proceed to fight it out between themselves without regard to the rights of the consumer, some regulative steps by the government would seem imperative, Here if anywhere the principle of arbitration ought to be applied. The New York authorities should lose no time in taking hold of this matter, and should make certain that milk is supplied for the babies that need it, and that the service will not again be interrupted. Then the question of price between producer and dis- tributer may be investigated and regulated. Service first and no foolishness should be insisted upon, . —— 1f any democrat has any lingering doubts as to whether “Boss” Arthur Mallen is “it” or not, his skepticism should now be dispelled. THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, Rty et e e THE DER: OMARA P e Mflé%lflfig A gmf:fh;:f:;::: .F,O::d‘:rB:: fostered | | Pay of Railway Trainmen Collier’s Weekly. { | Our condemnation of the passage by the ad- | ministration of the Adamson so-called “eight-hour ‘ bill” (which, as everybody now understands, is really a 25 per cent wage-increase bill) has been based wholly upon the manner in which it was done and not at all upon the merits of the in- | crease. Now some one asks what we think of the | merit of increasing the wages of railroad conduc- tors and engineers, firemen and brakemen, by 25 per cent. Xl!hough we fear that discussion of the merit of the increase is likely to befog the real issue, which is the method, nevertheless we are willing to throw forward some considerations which would guide us if we had arbitrary power | in the matter, 1f we were general manager of the United States and could do what we wanted by fiat, the one calling which we should try to make more remunerative than it is now is farming. We should try to counteract the drift of men from the land to the city. We should try to do it by making life on the land more remunerative and | attractive, and life in the city relatively less re- | munerative and attractive. Arbitrarily increasing | the wages of railroad employes tends to accen- | tuate the present unfortunate drift. Moreover, we do not think that arbitrary in- | creases of fixed wages is the west way to secure | that participation in the increased earnings of any organization which employes ought to have. We think the ideal method is a rather small fixed | wage with a generous participation in the profits, | We think this co-operative sharing in profits will be the ultimate form in which industrial democ- racy will solve itself rather than in contending groups fighting for a larger and larger fixed wage. Finally, if we were making over the rates of remuneration for the several elements of labor and service in the community, there are several to whom we should give attention before rais- ing the present pay of conductors and engineers. From a compilation furnished by Howard Elliott to the New York Times we take the following sta- tistics of the present day of the four classes whose rate has been increased: The average yearly wage payments to all east- ern train employes (including those who worked only part of the year), as shown by the 1915 pay rolls were: Yard. $1384 | 1,238 | Passenger. Fre"!ht‘ ..$1,796 $1,546 1,734 1,404 1,033 903 844 Trainmen .. 1,018 858 990 Thyeeqquart f these men (inctuding all those 'who put in a full year's service), earned these wages: Road. + Yard. Engineers ....$1,585 to $3.224 $1,303 to $2,178 Conductors .. 1,552to 3,004 1,145to0 1991 Firemen ...... 933to 1,762 752to 1,633 Brakemen 862to 1,707 834to 1,635 For the whole country the average wages of three-quarters of the employes were: Passenger. Freight. Yard. Engineers .. $2067 $1892 $1,526 Conductors . 1,850 1,719 1,310 Firemen . 1,203 1,117 924 Brakemen . 1,095 1,013 1,076 Engineers .. Conductors Firemen .. | Unnecessary Hysterics. Francisce Chronicl Reading the frantic exhortations to “prepare” which are emanating in such profusion from the magnates of high finance one is likely to be really terrified until he stops to think that after all the business of the world is merely the aggregate of the efforts of each individual to earn a living. And each one of us keeps pegging away at that and somehow contrives to get on, a little more comfortably in each generation than in that im- mediately preceding. And there is no reason to doubt that this will always be so. Some of the addresses made at the National | Bankers' association are positively hysterical. They indicate the fear of the speakers that the country will go straight to the demnition bow- | wows if every youth is not trained for soldier- ing, the industrial army put into vigorous train- ing, and we do not all save more of our money. Now, we certainly shall not save more money | if all that we can save is diverted to the arts of | war, or to filling the civil service with armies of | young men at good salaries to regulate us in all our daily activities. _If governments will let the people aloné they will all manage somehow to earn a rather better living than their fathers were able to get, just as has always happened from the beginning of his- tory. ¢ %’he most powerful influence on human action is the impulse to get the utmost farthing for | whatever we have to sell and pay as little as we can_for whatever we have to buy. ‘That is an instinct which operates powerfully, universally and continuously. It survives when all other impulses fail, Just now its operation is checked by intense international hatreds which {:er\'qdr a great part of the world. While we ate intensely we throw prudence to the winds. But hate, like love, is a-transient passion. | The desire to buy cheap and sell dear persists. . 'And it will be the operation of this universal ‘ instinct upon every living individual throughout | the world which will bring to naught the devices | to perpetuate and intensify international hatred and obstruct international trade which are the output of the Paris and other economic confer- ences. Obviously, the better we agree among our- selves, and the more we co-operate instead of quarreling, the better off we shall be, but that has always been true, and natural economic forces | will, as they always have, operate to enable us to s0 pull together that each generation will be more | comfortable than any predecessor. When we consider our own situation as com- | pared with that of most other peoples, it ought to be plain to all that we have no occasion to throw fits. A ' People and Events | A bunch of gravediggers at Chicago are on a strike “for better living conditions.” A walk- out from a cemetery looks that way. A New York judge personally made good his statement that any man could get a job if he tried. The judge found two jobs in half an hour, One as a coal heaver at $15 a week, and another as yard foreman at $12. But he didn’t connect with a job that approached his size. An equestrian statue of General Philip H. Sheridan will be unveiled at Albany, N. Y., next Saturday, October 7. The fact that the capital | city was the birthplace of the general inspired the undertaking to honor fittingly the achieve- ments of a_distinguished'leader of the civil war. The ancient “Governor’s palace” at Vincennes, Ind,, 112 years old, is to be preserved as a state shrine by the city., The “palace” was built in | 1804 by General William Henry Harrison, after- ward president of the United States, and was esteemed a real palace back in the pioneer days | when Vincennes loomed big on the map of tge “Far West.” The circuit court of Missouri in a test case upholds the validity of the accident insurance policies of Theodore C. Pellzer, the Kansas City real estate plunger, who ended his career by ' plunging out of a skyscraper window. Pellzer carried 585,000 in accident policies payable to his wife, and nearly $300,000 in straight life, payable to his estate. A hurry call for homely .li’:'h' sent out by the | g‘ublici(y managers of the inting and Allied | rades of New, York, to lead the grand ballw failed to bring a single response. Homely girls? | Huh! Printers never saw one. When the pub- | licity man recovers from the shock of the bounce | typos plan to ship him to the headquarters of “the Whole Damm family.” | | 1916. TO! Thought Nugget for the Day. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire—con- science.—George Washington. One Year Ago Today in the War. Austro-German invasion of Serbla begun. French and British troops landed at Saloniki. Germans used gas in determined, but vain effort to regain ground lost in Champagne. Premier Venizelos of Greece forced out by King Constantine as result of | former’'s war policy. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Secretary Nattinger of the Omaha Board of Trade was engaged In in- | troducing to a number of our leading citizens Mr. 8. H. Teller, secretary of | the Board of Trade in Yankton, Dakota. Mr. Teller is anxious to know what Omaha proposes to do with re- ference to the Omaha and Northwest- | ern road. Two expert Omaha cooks and two walters, all colored, have gone out to the Montana ranch of G. W. Hol- drege. Reynolds R. Over and Miss Lillian | Sheeley were married at the residence of the brl‘e'n parents by the Rev. J. 8. Detweller. A social was held by the Happy | Hillside Home Helpers, a juvenile so- | clety connected with the Congrega- tional church of Omaha View. The following were on the program: Mamie McCoy, Lizzie Andrews, Edith Walton, Berchie Leggitt, Smith, Pearl Reece, Etta Smith and Tillie Benton. Mr. Peter Besen was the ‘victim" of a pleasant surprise party at his residence, 2611 Douglas. Among those present were: Messrs. and Mesdames Crager, Hayward, Donnelly, Benson, Gould, Miles; Messrs. Will Crager, John Gradstone, James Devine, and Misses Bessie Hammond, Christianson and Badger. Rev. T. C. Hall, having returned from his eastern trip, is now engaged in closing up his business affairs here and will leave for Chicago. He will still retain his intetest in the “‘Chris- tian Hour,"” of which Rev. J. N. Boyd is to remain managing editor. Chief Galligan has added John Murphy to No. 2 hose cart, increasing the number of men to five, Ed Wittig and several other promi- nent Germans of this city have gone to Council Bluffs to attend the sil- ver wedding of Willlam Dachtler and wife, relatives of Mr. Wittig. This Day in History. 1777—Forts Clinton and Montgom- ery, on the Hudson, taken by the British under Sir Henry Clinton. * 1817—First general assembly _of Mississippi met at Washington, Miss. 1818—Shadrach Bond, first gover- nor of Illinois, inaugurated at Kas- kaskia. 1848—Insurrection in Vienna and murder of the war minister, Count Latour. 1866—The Prussian took formal possegsion o dom of Hanover, 2 1872—Religious ceremony at Lour- des in honor of appearance of Virgin, attended by 40,000 pllgrims® 1878—Trial of Marshal - Bazaine, commander on the Rhine in 1870, for treachery and misconduct at Metz, began, 1892—Lord Alfred Tennyson, Eng- the king- lish poet laureate, died. Born August | 809, 6, 1910—Charles B, Hughes resigned the governorship of New York to be- | come assoclate justice of the supreme court of the United States. 1915—The engagement of President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Galt of Washington, D. C., was announced. The Day We Celebrate. John L. McCague, president of the McCague Investment company, is just 60 years old. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, where he spent his first five years. He was for seven years in the auditing department of the Union-Pa- cific, but since 1880 has been asso- | ciated with his brothers in the real estate business. He served on the School board for two terms. Fred F. Paffenrath, local manager tor Nicoll the Tallor, was born Octo- | ber 6, 1866, in New York City. He came west in the summer of 1886, en- tering the employ of Nicoll the Tallor in Chicago, being transferred the next | year to the Kansas City branch and two years later to the Omaha branch, Myrtle | overnment | | as wheat. He has been active in business or- | ganizations and also in Ak-Sar-Ben. Bryce Crawford is celebrating his | forty-seventh birthday. He was born in Sparta, Ill., educated in the Univer- sity of Kansas, being admitted in 1893 to the bar in Omaha, where he has since practiced law. Robert F. Gilder, state news editor of the World-Herald, was born Octo- ber 6, 1856, at Flushing, N. Y. He | was at one time with The Bee and is a brother of Richard Watson Gilder. Ernest E. Beale, vice president of the Carbon Coal and Supply company, was born October 6, 1869, in Van Buren county, lowa. He came to Omaha from Seneca, Kan, and has been i the coal business here since 1897, George H. Payne, real estate man, is 52 years old today. He has been particularly successful in marketing and colonizing large tracts of farm acreage. Albert J. Beveridge, ex-senator | from Indiana and one of the former | progressives who have returned to the republican party, born in Adams county, Ohio, fifty-four years ago to- day. Julia: Culp (Mme. Mertens), cele- brated Dutch lieder singer, born in Groningen, Holland, thirty-five years ago today. Rt. Rev. Mathias Catholic bishop of Great Falls, Mont., born at Dubuque, Ia., sixty-two years ago today. Joseph W. Balley, former. United States senator from Texas, born in Copish county, Mississippl, fifty-three years ago today. Rt. Rev. Frederick’ Burgess, Epig- copal bishop of Long Island, born at Providence, R. I., sixty-three years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. ° Following closely upon the Jewish New Year's festival comes the fast | Yom Kippur is considered the most ment, which begins this evening and continues until Yom Kippur is conesidered the most important event In the religious life of the Jewish people and is more strictly and generally observed than any of the other fast days in the He- braic calendar. The birthday anniversary of the late James Whitcomb Riley, the “Hoosier poet,” is to be obseryed today with special exercises in all of the public schools of Indiana. The one hundredth anniversary of | the incorporation of Pittsburgh is to be observed in that city today with a great parade and historical pageant. C. Lenihan, ! tomorrow evening. | | day is also included. Praises for the Colored Band. Omaha, Oct. 4—To the Editor of The Bee: It was the general remark of people who heard the colored band play on the streets of Omaha this week that they put more pep, life and vim into their playing than all of the white bands put together. They never fail to make things pretty lively along the | streets of Omaha and it would do well | for the white bandmen to take some | lessons of life and vigor from these| Some of the| { bands as they marched along seemed lively colored players. to be nlaying funeral marches. Such playing is inappropriate for carnival times. I believe in giving praise where it is deserved. FRANK A. AGNEW. Fire Prevention Day. Chicago, Oct. 4.—To the Editor of The Bee: Monday, October 9, the anniversary of the Chicago fire, will be observed generally throughout the United States by the proclamations of the governors as Fire Prevention day. In some states Accident Prevention The governors urge citizens to put their premises in proper condition as regards fire, and recommend exercises in the public | schools and special consideration of the day by commercial organizations etc. An editorial calling attention to the observance would be very helpful just at this time. The fire waste in the United States and Canada last year was $184,939.- 100. So far this year it is nearly $50,- 000,000 ahead of that. All the au- thorities agree that at least 75 per cent of this waste is easily prevent- able by the exercise of ordinary care and precaution, This is conservation work, which aims to save life and property and to reduce the most dan- gerous and least excusable of all the forms of public waste. I hope that you will print and sup- port editorially this movement. " R. WEDDELL, Becretary Fire Prevention Day Com- mittee. Argument for Land Bank. Scottsbluff, Neb., Oct. 3, 1916.—To the Editor of The Bee: The invest- | ment of the federal government to'the extent of $15,000,000 in irrigation pro- Jects tributary to Omaha and Lincoln territory, is#{ very good reason for the location of a farm land bank in Ne- braska. The Pathfinder project, Sho- shone project, Belle Fourche praject and Yellowstone project will all be benefited by the Nebraska location and the vast sum expended on these works will be in better shape for coming back into the federal treasury. I did not notice that this argument was presented at the hearing, but per< haps it was. Really, it is one of the best reasons for putting one of the banks in Nebraska. G. L. SHUMWAY, Corn as a Substitute. Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 3.—To the Editor of The Bee: Bread prites are rising; likewise flour. But we have a remedy, if only the people of this country would grasp it. All Germany is existing on potato bread, while here we have an abund- ance—in the aggregate—of rye, bar- ley, oats, rn and wheat. Combinatiyns of two or more of these cereals make palatable, nutri- tious and cheap bread. We all know that there is little real nutriment in the while bread made from wheat flour. Modern mill- ing methods deprive the latter of life substance.\ Now is a good time to introduce these grain mixtures, or combinations, for people will listen to any talk con- cerning cheaper bread and other foods. Their pocket is now affected by the abnormal prices prevailing and which will continue unless immediate attention is given to other cereals partly neglected at present. Barley and wheat in combination | make the most nutritious of breads, while rye and barley are second. Barley as a breakfast food, and in soup, broth or meat stews has no su- perior in nutritive value from a cereal standpoint. 4 Cornmeal and wheat flour, half and half, is a bread much used in Ireland. Cornmeal will be found a good substi- tute for potatoes—something to know in this year of potato scarcity. Both yellow and white corn grind as fine They give a little more moisture to bread, but this is an ad- vantage, for it does mot get stale quickly. The corn also is heatening —a good thing in cool weather. This maize-wheat bread would be excellent for the soldiers in trench or outdoor Iife on that account. If the allies fed their armies with more corn prod- ucts the wheat situation would be re- lieved rapidly, and greater consump- tion by our own people would heip. One-third cornmeal and balance wheat flour make a palatable, nour- ishing and cheap bread, as the De- partment of Agriculture learned a few vears ago in experimenting. At pres- ent grain prices this bread is 15 per cent cheaper than the all-wheat kind. a good Or use one-half cornmeal, 45 per| cent wheat and balance oats. The latter addition is beneficial to the kid- neys. Oatmeal porridge and other oat combinations should ba roduets and ; They are strengthening used more. |and cheap. b There are other combinations these grains, but the German | to excel in knowledge of these | many other scientific matters). | ""A little newspaper talk and maize wheat bread might become popular for corn bread itself is known and appreciated everywhere in our land But maize-wheat bread has the rirht proportions of the two grains and will please most tastes. Bakers can afford to sell the sam in full-size 5-cent loaves. An extensive use of maize-wheut bread, or combinations of wheat with rye, barley or oats, will save hup- dreds of millions of bushels of wh It will solve the bread and whea problem of any nation wise enough to abandon the all-wheat bread diet. J. M. SMITH. NEBRASKA EDITORS. The Pilger Press, Harvey L. Nye pro prietor, is now printed on a new press. The Sidney Telegraph, F. A. Gapen, editor, began the forty-fifth year of its existence last week. Charles R. Kuhle, editor of the Leigh World, has added a linotype to the equip- ment of his plant. Mrs. Edna Dobson has sold the Saturday Night Review of Ulyss Naylor, who has been cting plant for several years, Coleman & Coleman, editors of the Fair field Auxiliary, celebrated the fifth anni- versary of thelr paper last week by going on an all-home print basis. Editor Tom Wright of the Ansley Horald Intertype and his paper now appears in z brand new dress each week. The Holdrege (Progress, whose editor con- ceals his identity under the name of the “Progress Printing company,” issued a finely illustrated edition last week. . E. G. Howard, former owner of the John- son County Journal, of Tecumseh, has pur- chased a half interest in the paper, which he so:d a few months ago to Charles D. Blau- velt. | MIRTHFUL REMARKS. “What's the matter with the efficlency expert ?" “Sad blow, He wanted a 4-cent stamp, but the man only had two twos, Of courss he had to waste energy licking twice tho space.”—Baltimore American, “Strange, Mary doesn't have any offers! She'd make some man a good wife." ‘Yes; but the trouble is everyone knows ;.,.;:.d make him a good husband, too."—- e, “I gave that waltress a sizable tip in hopes she would glve me something extra. something the other boarders didn't get.” “And did she?" ‘Yes, she rushed off and got me an extra, glass ‘of water."—Louisville Courfer Journal. JEAR MR, KAVIBBLE, HOW CAN Y TELL IF HER PARBITS APPROVE OF ME > ~ AB.C.KADER % IF THE LIGHY IS LIV IN THE HALL WREN You HAVE To Go DOWN TWELVE FLIGHTS oF STRIRS! “What is your position Tl P on these publis “My position,” replied the confident c P , an- didate, "4s very simple. I am personally the answer to all of them."—Washington Star. ‘What makes Jinks so proud of his an cestors? I never h i P b eard any of them did “That's exactly the point. So m - bons' ancestors did do things which oot them into trouble with the pollce."—Rioh- mond Times-Dispatch. “Why do you go about with a lantern?’ “I am_looking for an h a5, ar awered Dlogenes, P “Well, why not adopt modern methods? You could cover more ground i . searchlight, my boy."—Buftalo Express. Friend—I unders getting larger, Young Doctor—That's true. has gained nearly ten pounds few weeks.—Boston Transcript. —_— WAY OUT WEST. You don't know, m; " S y friend, what makes You never have been in t! Boston it's beans every mo}:;u'a’:w‘ Then dress up and look Ifke a dude, In_the west, where you work for a living, Where the aweet zephyrs waft you fo rast, You lay there and thinks, inhale end you tand that your practics is My patient in the last In rin| Of the alr that makes men, in the west. Your card, with its moon, has m Looks sick, breathing fimes of the. prins: Shine on, pretty moon, in the west, please, Furnish 1ight to 'the night 'of sweet ams;, Where phe sheep In the canyon ar On the mountain and beautiful platne "+ Way out (n this wonderful country, Where you have neither ache nor a pain. Every season s good In this country, Mountalns tipped with the beautiful snow. It's the garden of riches we cherish, To come out and see it is to know; Where nature has bent every effort And has made everything of the best, Go-wan with your moon In the east, Jack, We keep all the best for the west. Cease to think of the oast and just listen To your loyal old friend of the muse; We never get sick, we never do kick, And we never are troubled with blues; But we smile when we think of our pleasures, Of the sweet things in 1ife we are blest, | T agree you're some beans in the east, Jack, | * While we're the “whole_cheese" WA-OUT-WEST. * —— SUNDERLAND BROS. CO. DS A | v v . 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