Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 13, 1916, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER EDITOR YHE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY PROPRIETOR _ Entered st Omabe postoffice ss second-class metter i § d § i S prus ¢ Der ; nd Bunday. V00 ] vefl:.- 4.00 g vening % unday i - Hents o Grmnn ‘Beor i ral order. Only2-cent stamps Remit by draft, express or ¢ mcoounts, Personal checks, ,'xl:;"- : :fl'-:um naebuli. not secepted. OFFICES. —~The Bes Building. e i g AT e s P e et T V. CORRESPONDENCE. S e Bt SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Dublishing company, being duly sworn, says that the nverage ciroulation for month of September, 1910, wos 54,007 dily, 80,830 Sunday, DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscrided in my presence and sworn to befors me ihis 34 day of October, 1916. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. e et e Subscribere leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad. dress will be changed as often as required. W el Our compliments to the weather maker. He is & master artist, — . Mr, Hughes is heading for Nebraska. Nebraska give him a rousing reception. S—— 1f Ambassador Gerard reads all the reports of . international plans said to repose under his hat, | his sixty-day vacation is sure to be a busy one. ] — While the country’s fans eagerly inquire: “What's the score!” management and players scan the mounting split of the gate receipts. In that the substance of diamond honors shines. —— One thing at a time! 1f the proposed street lighting contract referendum cannot come to vote until after the regular November election, then there will be plenty of time to give it attention later. { | —— St. Thomas, the metropolis of the Danish West Tudies, has been swept by a cyclone. Should the United States eventually annex the islands, a vig- orous for the cyclone championship will _ appear in the ring. itm—— A million dollars an hour approximates the size of Britain's war expense bill at the present time. “Burning up money” compares with shoot- ing it up as the flicker of a match to a conflagra- Sm——— ‘Omaha is tightening its grip on the fourteenth in bank clearings. Milwaukee and New Or- already are distanced and Los Angeles is g to rear. . Steady speed and endur- e stamp (g garket town 1 prcemaer. Vice President Marshall voices the hope that _Hughes will advise the administration what with teference to the renewal of submarine fare within sight of American coasts. No of anyone advising Mr. Wilson, for he will, heretoforé, do nothing, except possibly find way of doing it. — - How “aroused” the “common people” are to ~ litlp, otit our democratic senator’s campaign slush . fund may be gathered from the $200 and $100 do- “natjons masked under cover of “Cash.” Do they come from a brewery, or is it only another fat- irying assessment levied on Fanning, Flynn and the other federal “pie-biters?” — " Chicago jumps on the blackmailers with the concentrated vengeance of spiked shoes. Their cgm unexpectedly threw a bolt into the ma- o of syndicated vice and exposed the inner working® of betting crooks. Other lapses might be forgiven, but glving the game away is beyond merey. S— Things political and moral are at white heat in Chjcago's seat of government. The county attorney’s raid on the mayor's office is the cli- ~max of a bombardment of rival statements. If Big Bill Thempson calmly submita to the humilia- tion the romance of the cowboy in politics s Address watter e e A e S 8B A S N LSS i Let : — " The fact that Great Britain is financing the _allied side of the war at the rate of $1,000,000 every hour of the twenty-four emphasizes the isimensity of the burden assumed by the empire. The mobilization of its vast financial resources, supplementing sea power and land power, proves that the Britons are “doing their bit” and some over. At People’ and Events ‘!‘hfi first monument to Samuel J. Tilden crected i this country was unveiled last week on -the 'l"“b' homestead at Malden-on-the- H{udsen. Poultney Bigelow, son of Tilden's biog- was host on the occasion. One of the officials charged with the admi .-ation of the Pennsylvania workmen’s compen ‘fon law report; ctory results so far. In he coal regions, especially, the law has cut down accident nses and greatly ruduced the num- rer of u:mu. largely through enforcing safcty et e great American institution of pie is seri sced by the grasping greed of Gotha .r‘l::. fieve; helorbc f“l {he combbme price of a slab of plain pie above Often the slab has been reduc’;d to the [ te feast. Now the slabs are 10 cents straight cry for,a state regulation of pie M&Lc chatter of politics. In- issue threatens to overshadow na- and upset the calculations of ‘ check fee. relates w.r...fi.:ar::kfif- i for the privilege of checking hats . Wages of s range from weel nrylu: according to the skill oldup, while the head checker pulls down ucl u_‘q a week for sm and bowing “evening.” Among the swells the 10-cent mnown. Less than 50 cents is considered t. On one occasion of a ban- men the hat-room privilege Voe to the diner who attempts to the chair, When Hughes Comes to Nebraska. When Charles Evans Hughes comes to Ne- braska, as he will tomorrow, the cordial hand of welcome will be out that belongs to a distin- guished public man, and particularly to the man who, in all probability, is to be chosen to occupy the White House and guide the destinies of the nation for the next four years. Nebraska has just begun its serial celebration of its fiftieth year of statehood, and the whole history of Nebraska is intimately bound up with the birth and progress of the republican party, which is today honored by having Mr. Hughes as its standard-bearer. As a territory, Nebraska emerged from the fiery ordeal that produced the Kansas-Nebraska bill and laid the foundation for the organization of the republican party. Nebraska's attainment of statehood, fifty years ago, was a by-product of the great war for the preservation of the union, successfully fought out under the republican lead- ership of Abraham Lincoln. And the very act that admitted Nebraska into full membership in the union bears the name of a president elected on the same ticket with Abraham Lincoln. Friend and foe alike concede that Charles Evans Hughes would be a fitting successor to the great presidents which the republican party has given to the nation, and it would be a fine con- summation of our semi-centennial celebration to have Nebraska help to re-establish republican supremacy in the nation under the leadership of Mr. Hughes. Regardless of election day fealty, however, the distinguished visitor ig entitled to the attention and consideration due the presidential candidate of the political party to which Nebraska owes so much—even its very being. S— American sand American History. Gutzon Borglum's criticism that Americans do not know American history is merited, the more's the pity. If our people were more familiar with the story of their country, how its foundations were laid and how its greatness was reared, they would realize it was built up on a principle that has suffered immensely for the last three years. They would know that until 1913 there was no time in the history of the country when the title of American citizen was not the greatest safeguard an individual could have; it meant security every- where. It doesn't any more. They would also know that the spirit of the Americans who made this nation the greatest in all history was not warlike, but devoted to justice and right; it did not seek peace in ignoble submission to imposi- tion. America grew great because its people were not too proud to fight; were slow to wrath, but were resistless when once aroused to action, and could not be brought to rest quietly under injustice. That spirit is not dead, but it has been chloroformed and kept stupefied for the last three years. Just now if shows signs of awakening. Let Americans get better acquainted with their country’s history and the experiences in Mexico and elsewhere will not be repeated. 1f Looking for the Explanation. The controlling influence of the Union Pacific is lodged in the big Wall street banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., one of whose members, Paul Warburg, was put in charge of the federal reserve banks by President Wilson. That will help explain why Chairman Lovett of the Union Pacific executive board, himself a dyed-in-the- wool Texas democrat, is able to find an excuse for advocating the re-election of Wilson. But as future expectations always in politics outweigh past gratitude, when Mr. Lovett feels it incum- bent upon him to front for the democratic admin- istration we may be sure he either has been per- suaded that the wage increase force bill is not what it pretends to be, or relics on assurance that the railroads are to receive compensating favors by which the dear public will be made to foot the bills. Making Clandestine Love to German-Americans, The disclosures made by Victor Ridder of the duplicity of the Wilsonites is enough to disgust any whose gorge has not already arisen in con- templation of the political tactics adopted by the democrats. Professing the utmost abhorrence for,“the hyphenates,” denouncing them in speech and in message, personal representatives of the president are found seeretly conferring with leading German-Americans, pleading for support and assistance in the present campaign. The im- pudence of Senator Stone and Postmaster Gen- eral Burleson in making personal appeals for as- sistance from the men who have been so roundly denounced by the president is almost beyond be- lief. 1If they are bargaining with the knowledge of Mr. Wilson, it makes him party to one of the most miserable features of a general campaign of deception. If it is without cognizance of the president, what must he think of associates who would so brazenly try to make such a deal in his name? And what can be said of a president who openly denounces as disloyal all who do not agree with his policy and then sends emissaries to slip around the back way and tell his victims he doesn’t mean what he says? The juggling and double-dealing policy of the democrats in the present campaign is fast being exposed, and will certainly meet the defeat it deserves, em— How the Democratic Deficit is Mounting. A correspondent writes to The Bee, asking for verification of figures published one day last week, when it was stated that the treasury of the United States is now running behind $8.50 each second of the business days. The statement was based on figures furnished by the Treasury de- partment and included only the time up to the last week in September. As a matter of fact, the calculation was under, rather than over, the mark. On the sixth day of October, the deficit for the elghty-three days of the current fiscal year was $66,850,138.03, or $805,421 per day. This is at the rate of $9.32 plus for each of the 86,400 seconds in a day of twenty-four hours, or §27.99 for each sec- ond of an eight-hour day. Just listen to the clock tick a few minutes and you may get an idea of how fast the government is running behind in its cash account under the democratic administration, Also remember that when the democrats took charge of the treasury on March 4, 1913, they found a surplus of $85,000,000 accumulated under republican control, —— Wilson never had a pleasant look or a kind word for organized labor until he thought he saw a chance to trade in a block of votes. Let the conscientious wage-earner remember that the man who would make that kind of a deal with a group of labor leaders would just as readily make the same kind of 4 deal with the capitalist employer, and is as apt to change against labor as he was to change for them. THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, Stab at Nation’s Heroes Boston Transcript: It may not be generally known that the last democratic congress enacted, practically in secret, a law placing under suspicion every union veteran holding a medal of honor, and so rigid in it terms that on a technicality this coveted prize could be torn from the breast of its possessor and he become a criminal under the law for wearing it. In fact, the act is so framed that a wholesale cancellation of medals of honor awarded to the men who fought the south in the civil war is possible, if not contemplated, con- ceivably under penalty of court-martial for the military commission created by the law if it fails to carry out to the letter its extraordinary pro- visions. The legislation which thus attempts to pass discredit -upon the most glorious figures of the civil war was sneaked into the national de- fence act in conference. It never has been made a subject of debate in either branch, nor was the existence of the amendment known until the report of the conference was before the senate and it was then too latc to defeat the amendment without endangering the whole bill. For several years military men in congress had tried to induce that body to establish an army and navy medal of honor roll, with an in- creased pension of $10 a month for the men whose names appeared upon it, and Aprii 27, 1916, the president signed a bill to this end. This measure was designed especially to exclude from the roll the Twenty-seventh Maine infantry, whose mem- bers were the possessors of special medals. The law provided that upon written application to the secretary of war or mavy honorable discharged soldiers or sailors holding medals of honor and attaining the age of 65 years should be certificated for the special pension. The law went away be- yond every other emactment of its kind in the past, however, in prescribing that holders of med- als should not be entitled to the new pension benefit unless the medal should have been awarded “for having in action involving actual conflict with an enemy distinguished himself conspicu- ously by gallantry or intrepidity, at the risk of his I’i,fe, above an?'beyond the call of duty.” The act empowered the secretaries of war and the navy to decide whether such applicant, in his de- partment, was entitled to the benefit of the act and to so certify to the commissioner of pensions, the certificate constituting “full and sufficient author- ity to the commissioner of pensions for the pay- ment by him to the beneficiary named in each such certificate the special pension herein pro- vided for.” This amendment, slipped into the bill in the dark, directed the secretary of war, within sixty days after the approval of the act, to convene a board to consist of five general officers on the re- tired list of the army “for the purpose of investi- gating and reporting upon past awards or issues of the so-called congressional medal of honor by or through the War department; this with a view to ascertain what medals of honor, if any, have been awarded or issued for any cause other than dilfifl‘\lilhed conduct by an officer or en- listed man in action involving actual conflict with an enemy or such officer or enlisted man or by troops with which he was serving at the time of isuch action.” The amendment further provided that in case the board shall find that said medal was issued for any cause other than that herein- before specified, the name of the recipient shall be stricken permanently from the medal of honor list. If a member of the army, he shall be re- uired to return the medal to the War department or cancellation; and the law even goes so far as to provide that if a union veteran is found in possession of a medal condemned by this board, “it shall be a misdemeanor for him to wear or publicly display said medal.” Secretary Baker, upon the passage of the army bill (the navy bill contains no such provision and the medals issued to naval heroes have not been made subject to cancellation), promptly appointed a board of general officers to investigate the med- alists, of which Major General Nelson A. Miles is chairman. This board held one meeting and immediately found itself in the midst of a legal mess which, it may be presumed, is as disgusting to its members as it has proved to be to the few outsiders who are aware of the facts. The board informally scanned the provisions of the special ension law and was at once moved to inquire, in its own consciousness, what possible service a soldier could render that would be, as the law phrased it, “above and beyond the call of duty.” Fortunately, the board of which the former commanding general of the army is the head, is composed of thoughtful and intelligent gentle- men, who have known themselves what it is to expose their bodies to hostile fire. They may have discovered, what is patent to others who have read the law, that although the national de- fense act requires them to report on the medalists and to disgrace them upon technicalities if they can, that it constitutes a standing insult to the union heroes of the civil war and that the most respected officers of the military service are re- quired by its terms to do the dirty work for the southern brigadiers—they may have noticed that the law does not fix a time when they shall re- port and prescribes no j)cnahy for failure to make a report. As stated, the Miles board has held one meeting without reaching any coneclu- sions, and it may hold a good many more before it fulfills its instructions. Meantime, the heroes whom the country intended and delights to honor may draw their special extra pensions during the brief remainder of their days. Root's Message to America “What America needs most of all now is that it may be revealed again in the hearts of its people; that they may realize their love of coun- try, that their patriotism may be quickened; that they may be ready again to live for its honor and die for its duty as their fathers lived and died, and as millions of men are living and dying now for their countries on those sad battlefields of the old world. “I have lived a long life, and, please God, will die in the company and faith of the republican party. I have not been blind to its faults or silent about them, But from away back among the dim impressions of childhood there comes to me now and then the voice of women praying that God's infinite wisdom might save this nation for free- dom through the trials of bleeding Kansas and Nebraska. Amonr the memories of half-compre- hending and half-forgotten boyhood arc the sounds of marching men and the strong, wrath- ful words of those who bore up the hands of great-hearted Lincoln, agonizing for his country, against those who thought this vation not worth preserving, “During all the years since then, whenever the stress of trial pressed through the surface of | prosperous life to the hard substratum of convic- | tion and sense of national duty, I have found the | men whose aroused conscience and patriotism urged them to stand for the financial honor, the industrial independence, the moral integrity, the fidelity to duty of our country, seeking their ob- ject chiefly through the organized power of the republican party. “I believe in spiritual succession, in the trans- mission of faith from generation to generation, in the ennoblement of reverence for great examples, in the purification of life by ideals, in the love of country that subordinates lesser motives, and I believe that if the real prosperity and honor of America are to be preserved, if the soul of Amer- ica is to be saved for its mission of the future, it must be through the leadership of that great or- ganization which, in its birth and its life, its vice tories and its defe ts convictions and its im- pulses, is and always has been national to the core. “And with cheerful hope, I recognize as the true inheritor and interpreter of that ancient | spirit which has made America what it is, the | strong, true and tried American géntleman whom t to make the twenty-ninth president d States—Charles s Hughes.” 1916. ugget for tise Day. When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay, And half our joys renew. Thomas Moore. One Year Ago Today in the War. Zeppeling bombarded London, kill- ing fifty-five persone. dritish - submari sunk German merchant ships in Baltie. usslans plerced Austrian line in Galicia and drove Hindenburg back from Dvinsk. Bulgarian armies cressed into Ser- bia, menacing Nish and the urlemiw refiway, Premier Viviani announced Great Britain, France and Russia would go to Serbia’s aid. In Omaha Thirty cears Ago. Henry Lovelace, son of the veteran flagman at the lower crossing of the Union Pacific, attempted an acrobatic act on a street car and wound up on a stretcher. His broken leg was prop- erly set. Folks returning in the “wee sma’ hours will not now have to look around for the moon, as C. 8. Ray- mond has built an ornamental stand- =2l ard clock opposite his jewelry store, Fifteenth and Douglas, which will be regulated by the meridian time regu- lator within the Raymond establish- ment. Mr. an@ Mrs. M. Hellman celebrated their crystal wedding at their home, 2225 St. Mary's avenue. Peter Goos has issued invitations to his friends to be present at the opening of his new hotel on Sixteenth and Jackson. Cliff Richardgon of the Richardson Drug company of St. Louis, is here prospecting for a location for the es- tablishment of a branch business here. Wells Cook, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Council Bluffs, has become as¢ociated with Charles A. Baker in the real estate and loan busf- ness, intending to handle Council Bluffs real estate as well as Omaha. Marshall Cummings and Officer Turnbull have left for a week's hunt- ing trip in the northern part of the state. They have 600 cartridges and as many pounds of lunch and refresh- ment for the trip. This Day in History. 1816—Benjamin H. Brewster, at- torney general in the cabinet of Presi- dent Arthur, born in Salem county, New Jersey. Died April 4, 1888, 1866—John Van Buren, noted lawyer and politician, son of Presi- dent Martin Van Buren, died at sea. Born at Hudson, N. Y., in 1810. 1870—President Grant {ssued a proclamation against Fenlan raids into Canada. 1872—Archbishop Bailey installed as primate of the Catholic church in the United States at Baltimore. 1889—The Italian government as- sumed a protectorate of Abyssinia. 1893—Senator Allen of Nebraska made the longest continuous speech (on the silver purchase repeal bill) ever recorded in the United States senate up to that time, spéaking four- teen hours and forty-flve minutes. 1899—General Sir Redvers Buller left England to take command of the British forces in the war against the Boers. 1905—8ir Henry Irving, the famous English actor, died at Bradford, Eng- land. Born in Somersetshire, Febru- ary 6, 1858, 1909—Prof. Franctsco Ferrer, ac- cuged of revolutionary activity, was executed at Barcelona, Spain, causing great excitement among the soclalists throughout Europe. 1911—The Duke of Connaught was installed "as governor general of Canada. 1916—The world’s championship base ball series was won by the Boston Red Sox, 4 to 1, The Day We Celcbrate. Arthur Crittenden Smith, president of M. E. Smith company, was born October 13, 1863, in Cincinnattus, N. Y. He is a graduate of Harvard and also holds the distinguished title of colonel by appointment on Governor Sheldon's staff. Major Gencral Thomas H. Barry, in command of the central department of the army, born in New York City, sixty-one years ago today. Mrs. Langtry, the celebrated Eng- liah actress now appearing in Ameri- can vaudeville, born on the Isle of Jersey, sixty-four years ago today. Samuel F. Nixon, well know theatri- cal proprietor and play producer, born at Fort Wayne, Ind., sixty-eight years ago today. . Theodore G. Bilbe, the present gov- ernor of Mississippi, born in Pearl River county, Mississippl, thirty-nine years ago today. Right Rev. Benjamin F. Keiley, Catholic bishop of Savannah, born at | Petersburg, Va., sixty-nine years ago tos 5 Ben W. Hooper, former governor of Tenncssce, and now republican can- didate for United Siates semator, born at Newport, Tenn,, forty-six years ago today. Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton, United States navy, retired, president of George Washington university, born in Philadelphia seventy-one years ago today. Willlam 1. Donovan, manager of the New York American league base ball club, born at Lawrence, Mass., forty years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Frida the h, the only day of the “double Jiny” on the 1916 calen- dar. The University of Kentucky today begine o two-day celebration in honor of {ts golden jubilec. Charles B. Hughes is to nd Fri- day, the 138th, in 1= being schednled to speak at 8 wetield this aft oou and Jop to Fairbanks, republican nominee for vice president, is sched- uled to epeak today at Bismarck, N. D. Pursuant to a proclamation of Gov- | the publle schools of Michigan will observe today as memorial day in honor of the late James B. Angell, for many years presi- dent of the University of Michigan. Dr. Carl 1‘“9;;5 Doney, formerly of West Virginia Wesleyan university, is to be inaugurated today as president of Willamette university at Salem, ernor ¥erris, Ore. This is the latest date fixed for the execution of Elston Scott, a negro sen- tenced to hang over a year ago at Murphysboro, Ill, but who has been reprieved eight times by Governor Dunne because the sheriff insisted on a public hanging. The one hundred and fiftieth anni- versary of the founding of Rutgers college I8 to be celebrated today with a program of historical exercises, which will include addresses by Chevalier Wolf Va Rappard, the min- ister from the Netherlands, and other speakers of note that | | The Bee: That Eight-Hour Day Misnomer. Omaha, Oct. 11.—To the Editor of I have been reading about and hearing democratic speakers land the eigth-hour law for trainmen only —other railway men nix. more one thinks about it he wonders what kind of a union man he must be who approves of it. Anyone who has ever had tu do with the making of a deale of wages knows that an eight. hour day without a penalizing over- time wage is not hard to get, but, oh, vou kid, when it comes to time-and- half for overtime, double time for Sundays and holidays, and, as most unions require, after midnight—then the “fun” begins. I can name on¢ firm working nine hours “open shop” that would gladly have given a seven- hour day to have had no strike and its union men, could it have been under the same conditions as Presl—{ dent Wilson's Adamson law which gives pro rata (straight) time only for overtime. What difference does make to the “boss’ whether the “men’ call It a four, elght or ten-hour day, so long as twenty-four hours cost no more pay per hour than four, eight or ten? Of course, it is recognized that the Adamson law 'puts the rate of pay for trainmen at an eight-hour day scale, but when “necessary” he works sixteen hours—sixteen hours' straight pay only. This philanthrop: law says ‘“not less than pro rata"— not one word about overtime as known to a union man. 1f you, reader, were paying wages, would you want a softer snap? You, Mr. Union Man, do you want the next legislature to pass an Adam- son bill for you—an eight-hour day pro rata, or straight time for over- time? If so, please tell us what you call an eight-hour day. It's your time-and-half and double time that enforces, is it not? Let the trainmen sit down and think} one little serious think and possibly | they will see where they have heen buncoed. They need expect nothing in the future except sentences to Leavenworth for any attempt to amend that law, or enforce any wage scale not in accord with its provisions. The law says “for all necessary time in excess of eight hours such employes | shall be paid at a rate not less than the pro rata rate for such standard eight-hour work days.” Do you see anything about time-and-a-half, or any other penalty for working longer? There is another law that says railway employes In the train service cannot work more than sixteen hours, so six- teen hours is a day's work. 1I'm from Missouri, so if sixteen hours is not a trainman's day under law, show me. TIME-AND-A-HALF. Wire-Tapping Selling Methods. Omaha, Oct. 11.—To the Editor of The Bee: Those famillar with the so- called wire-tapping game know that the victim is first allowed to win some money at a faked-up horse race, and then, tempted by the easy manner &p- parently with which he won, is in-| duced to put up as much money as he can raise, with the sad result that he awakes to the fact that the first money he won was merely bait to get all mgney. Very against this form of swindle, and every one would he outraged were any gestion made to repeal them. Yet, in- consistent as it is, our another form of swindle that along certain lines is just as reprehensible. J | = refer to the cut-price game used by certain classes of stores, which fs nothing more or less than a swindle | except that instead of the victim los- ing all his money, he gets a portion of it back in merchandise. A store of the cut-rate type will And the| the| ( | properly, there are laws| laws allow | !mum a just tariff s will be | entitled to the g st mr-n_v:mcnt | ever erec ted to the memory of man, for the wisdom of a Jefferson, & Web- !ster. a Franklin or & Linc | dwindle into insignificance 'to his. Whene [ing of re jto my memor | curred some celebration. The ‘grum had employ | turnish music for one of the musicians was playing a slide | trombone, and every time the band | played an elderly lady kept watching this particular player closely. In the latter part of the day she turned away with an air of disgust and remarked. f 1 were that young man, I would give that instrument up. He has been ?mmmg it back and forth all day and hasn’t got it to the right place yet."” Let's give that old bone of contens tion (the tariff) a rest, and turn our attention to is and problems that | we can solve that will be beneficial he people of the greatest republio (to t [on ecarth. H. SCHUMANN instance t ttee on pro- oral bands to | Note the Gentleman’s Exception. West Point, Neb,, Oct. 10.—To the | Bditor of The Bee: 1 would request | correction of head line on page eight | of yesterday’s Bee, “Lutherans Stand | Against Prohibs.” First, the prohibi- | tion question was never discussed on | the floor of synod; second, the head |lines are misleading and are not a | correct summary of the declaration of | prohibition embodied in the write up. E. OELSCHLAEGER. Note: The item came from regular publicity sources of the synod. 5 LAUGHING GAS. “You see the man over there? He never falls to get all the game he's after."” “How lucky!” “Not at all. You see, he is always hunte ing trouble."—Louisville Courler Journal. pleased to say how well I held announced Mrs. Fortey. & ouldn’t you?” snapped a neighe |bor.” “Think of the years of practice | you've had."—Juuge. “He was my Hotel Attendant—Get your head out of of the elevator shaft. What's the matter | with you? Uncle Eben—Just a rainute, son. There's |a tellow just made an ascension in that durn thing and I'm going to watch him | make the parachute drop.—Puck. | BACK TO THE FARM. Detroit Journal. Erasmus was the huskiest of all the college team; His kicking was a classic and his running was a scream. The enemy all took fiight, their terror {il concealed, Whene'er he grabbed the plgskin and went . H tearing down the fleld. He was the very llmit In strenuous pastims; !To ask a man to tackle him was nothing but a crime. \ He was the strongest man they'd had ia | twenty-soven years; He always left the fleld bestrewn with arms and legs and ears. But back home .In vacation time his strengtih Just falled, I vow He was so weak he couldn’t think of follow- ing the plow. He couldn’t hoe potatoes and he couldn't split the wood, Although he told his parents he would llke to if he could. Ho simply seemed to pine away and dwindle as a rule, 'Til in the fall when time came 'round for him to go school, Then he'd recover suddenly and take an awful brace. In feats of strength a deal depends upon the time and place. “I admire the ingenuity of t complled this pocket diction: “For what?"’ “For getting in s0 many words that no- body would ever have any possible occasion to use.” £ YSPEPSIA man who = take a well-known article, or evenE UF quEN food, and sell it at such an exceed-| ingly low price that the proprietors actually lose money on each and every sale. The man or woman who does not understand that this is merely bait used to get them into the cut-rate stores believes, in his or her simple mind, that because they sell these well known goods so much lower than is lower as well. Like the wire-tapper they give you more than your money's worth at the start, and then get more than you saved when they sell you other things. If every man will show the inter- est in this matter he should, it would not take long to compel merchants who are using cut-rate methods for getting busipess to run their affairs in a strictly above-board manner | Naturally these dishonest merchants are fighting with all their power, and 8o far have succeeded in keeping the bill to stop these practices getting be- fore congress, as they feel that once it does it is sure to be passed. The arguments they advance against the passage of the bill sound very plaus- ible until brought against the cold truth, when one can plainly see that they are merely the attempts of the drowning man to grasp a straw to gave him from sinking. T. L. COMBS. The Tariff Problem. St. Mary, Neb., Oct. Editor of The Bee: President Wilson in his acceptance speech boasts that the tariff has been revised, and Mr. Hughes tells the people that If he is elected the tariff will be revised, and political orators have taken up the slogan, arguing the tarlff issue prc and con. But what is a just tariff? All the great statesmen of the worlc have been striving for centuries to solve that problem and are apparent- ly no nearer having it solved than when they first began. In my opinion 11.—To the| Special Treatment Required, Many women suffer from a form of indigestion or dyspepsia which does not other stores, everything else they sell | yleld wordmnry treatment. While the symptoms are similar to those of ordi- nary indigestion, yet the medicines usually prescribed do not restore the patient’s normal condition. There seems to be a kind of dyspepsis caused by derangement of the female organism. While this appears to be the same as ordinary indigestion it can be relieved only by a medicine which, be- sides acting as 8 stomach tonic, is good for female ailments. Read what such « medicine did for Mrs. Williams :~ She says: — ‘“Before I began taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Come ”"]Ilmmun“"l“ pound I was troue bled with dyspepsia and bearing down pains in my back and sides, and after my meals my stom= ach would bloat up { till T could scarcely [ get my breath. At | times I was so weak ‘ 1 could hardly stand. on my feet and I 4looked hollow-eyed and my ekin was yellow. Now I have a good color, have gained in every way and can do my work without any paine. I think it is the best medicine on earth for stomach troubles of wo- men.” —Mrs. NELLIE WILLIAMS, 81 the man that has the wisdom to con- ‘West 3d Street, New Albany, Ind. 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