Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1916, Page 6

6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. _ Entered at Omaha postoffice ns second-class "7 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier per month. Daily and Sunday. ‘Daily without Sun Evening and Sunday Evening without Sunday. Sunday Bee only..... and Sunday Bee, Send notice of change of address or irregul livery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps taken in payment of small accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaba and eastern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2318 N street. Couneil Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—526 Little Building. Chi 818 People’s Gas Building. New York—Room 803, 286 Fifth avenue St. Louis—503 New Bank of Commerce. | Washington—726 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. dress communications relating to news atter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. OCTOBER CIRCULATION 53,818 Daily—Sunday 50,252 Dwight Willisms, circulation manager of The Bee blishing company, being duly sworn, s that the erage circulation for the month of Octol 1916, was ,818 daily, and 50,262 Sunday. 'BWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subseribed in my presence and sworn to before me 4th day of November, 1916. C. W. CARLSON, Notary Pubme. | Subscribers leaving the city temporarily hould The Bee mailed to them. Ad- ss will be changed as often as required. and editorial OB NS T O O RSN ! But the Boy Scouts have no moropoly on outing for funds. : “How old is Ann?” may be a rival in “How | ‘an is a cold storage egg?” | ‘: Looks like something were about to happen 5ver in the eastern war area. | | . | The light issue is not so much a question of ‘honey as of who will control the switchboard. | The livng cost problem simmers down to intel- ent buying, elimination of waste, holding fast food essentials and discarding unnecessary dec- ations. | " A survey of the relation of fife protection to ‘!n rates holds promise of belated information. these days of shifting prices stationary rates open to suspicion. | | The deficit in the democratic campaign fund ould not cause uneasiness to the leaders of 'a 50 accustomed to seeing ‘the balance of the nited States treasury written in red ink, | " An ancient girl of fifteenith century vintage, d-carved and painted, brought $17,900 at auc- on, Pretty stiff figure for a wooden image, but carcely within hailing distance of the figure of the modern live one. | — Jimmy ‘Wetz, the egg king of Chicago, re- arked to the local inspectors: “Yes, I've got the goods; what are you going to do about it?” immy might find the answer in what happened e | authorities agree that we eat too much that heplth and happiness wait on modera- Perhaps, after all, fbod speculators care — Despite occasional cynical remarks, the coun- must doff its hat to the chivalry of little old w York. Native gallantry rises to incandescent in the public ceremony of showing Miss the great white way. ! | e—— ‘Bootlegging,” says the report of the federal oner of internal revenue, covering the fiscal year, “continues unabated and will con- ¢ until there is more hearty co-operation of in the various states.” Paste this in | for future reference after Nebraska ' ) i —————— The latest output of the census bureau places estimated population of the United States at ~ 113,000,000 in round numbers, of which 103,000,000 § ‘mda on the mainland and the' balance entirely * surrounded by water, Some crowd, fellow coun- ~trymen! | The Interstate Commerce commission finds a t\‘ile of $32,000,000 between the capitalization and he cost of reproducing the New Orleans, Texas ¢ Mexico railroad. The gulf region affords un- d facilities for pumping wind and water into all classes of stock. b [ —— | In the old days of placer mining the skilled ter for golden flakes quickly spoited a played- ut digging and shifted his field of operation. . Colonel Bryan's switch to so-called “moral ‘mun" indicates that the economic field no ger yields the necessary color. ( Omaha seems to be the t city in the world when it comes to auto stealing. They even visit the garages of home residents and take cars by breaking locks to get them. Ord Quiz: An Omaha man shot himself the other day when his wife urged him to quit hk‘n‘p One thing about the man is com- mendable. As between himself and his wife he made the proper ‘choice for a target. York News-Times: “The failure of the Ex- residents’ club to increase its membership dur- the year is not due to lack of zeal and enter- on the part of the membership,” says the maha Bee. And we do not believe that The Bee itself can be blamed to any great extent. Wayne Herald: The reason Douglas county's wote is not included in the returns given out after ‘election is not clear. Tuesday’s reports on votes ceived by candidates for state offices gave totals lusive of Douglas county, and the latter's vote résults in a number of cases. Why is county always kept out of the totals so “after election? Valentine Republican: Here's to the Omaha which made a game fight for republicanism Nebraska, and the things for which the re- ean rrt{ ;‘h‘l’xds. k:nt‘l iu!vlhiéchdinhlhc long run ople ebr will find they ought to i ?of. It was overwhelmed {n the Wil- wave, but at least it has a clear conscience. ‘stood, for something, did not sit on the fence, did not allow itself to be so obsessed with 0 one local issue that it forgot ‘national ones. THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, Demand for a Peace Conference. Again a considerable number of enthusiasts are raising the cry that President Wilson should call & peace conference, looking to an end for the European war. If he should issue the invitation, who would attend? So far as is publicly recorded, each of the nations now engaged in the conflict has announced a determination to fight on; gauged by outward appearances neither of the belligerents has reached a place at which it can call a halt without admitting defeat. Until one or more of the interested parties give signs of will- ingness to harken to proposals for a settlement, it is idle for outsiders to offer plans. The neutrals have only moral suasion with which to support mediation, and this is not likely to be of much service as yet. It may be something is going on behind the curtain which will lead to the hoped- for armistice, but the onlooking world has not as yet been taken into the confidence of the dip- lomatists. Peace seems still only a cansumma- tion to be wished. Honest Confession Good for the Soul. Accepting the preachment that “honest con- fession is good for the soul” we congratulate the World-Herald on the amazing somersault just performed in giving the lie to all that it, itself, said in one of its most specious campaigns. Those who can remember back will recall the strenuous fight made by the World-Herald for an independent telephone franchise, on which its chief owner rode into congress by an alliance with the promoters very like his recent alliance with ' the “wets,” which returned him to the senate. Of this telephone franchise campaign the World-Herald now brashly declares, referring to the present demand for a competitive light plant: “It would be sheer' waste to duplicate the present extensive equipment of plant, conduits, wires, etc,, with another just as extensive and just as expensive. It would mean the tearing up of the streets from one end of the city to the other and more unsightly poles and wires overhead. Two plants would be an abomina- tion. This newspaper at one time favored a competing telephone plant. The experiment was tried and it proved, to our great chagrin, a failure.” If it were wholly frank the World-Herald should have gone on to say that the bunco game it played, and for which it is now apologizing, cost the dupes who invested in independent tele- phone securities a round million dollars and cost the telephone users of Omaha another million dollars saddled onto the Bell company by forced purchase holdup to eliminate the “abomination.” The only beneficiaries were the slick ones who put the deal across and cut out from under and the World-Herald man who cashed it in for an election to congress. The World-Herald now says it has learned “its lesson” and the people of Omaha ought also to have learned their lesson nmot to accept the advice of the World-Herald when its selfish in- terest is involved, The fulsome eculogy of President Yost .of the, telephone company, now lavished on him by the World-Herald must also be intended for expiation of the million-dollar shakedown of the company, which that paper helped to perpetrate not so long ago through that independent tele- phone job. ' ; SEmS— Fight the Cattle Plague. Nebraska ¢ authorities have one imperative duty before them—to fight the cattle plague, if it be found to exist within the state, with the utmost vigor, to keep healthy hercfl secure. This state was fortunate in escaping the ravages of the foot and mouth pest two years ago, but only be- cause of the most rigid care and watchfulness. Through strict quarantine, the farms and ranges were kept free irom the disease. It is not known certainly that they are now affected, but at least one county is under suspicion, and therefore extreme vigilance is required. Cattlemen and farmers should co-operate with the authorities to the end that this danger to our live stock industry be speedily removed. The careless or indifferent man is a menace, not only to himself, but to all the state in this. A Noteworthy Centennial. The closing day of this week marks the turn- ing point of one-hundred years of the savings bank in this country, an institution which has worked wonders in stimulating thrift and accu- mulating the wealth that has served as the na- tion's industrial capital. On December 16, 1816, so the record runs, the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society began to re- ceive deposits, although it was not chartered un- til three years later. On December 13, 1816, the Provident Institution for Savings opened its doors for business in Boston, while Ke oldest savings bank in Baltimore dates back to March, 1818, and the oldest savings bank in New York City to July, 1819, From these small beginnings have grown the great savings institutions, including the Postal savings system, until today the total of our savs ings deposits is estimated at nearly $9,000,000,000. It is not the deposits credited on the bank books, however, that give the true measurement of this movement, for the savings account is only the initial step to cultivate the habit of frugality and open the way to 9thtr investments which, under another name, serve the same purpose. It is a far step for a short hundred years and a centennial whose significance cuts deeper than the surface. The Bee has been called for'a technical error in referring to President Wilson as being elected without a plurality four years ago. Strictly speaking, he had more votes than any other can- didate, but on the commonly accepted meas- urement of the democratic vote against the com- bined republican and progressive vote (which was the republican vote split in two), he was far behind. Obviously in a big field a plurality is meaningless as to popular choice except as giving a legal claim to the certificate of eclec- tion. The real reflex is the relative strength of the two great political parties whose prepond- erance chooses presidents. A writer in the New York Sum, reared amid the incense of New England sanctity, pronounces a shocking senténce on the venerable gastro- nomic institution known as the New England boiled dinner, “One of the inexcusable horrors of the world” says the heartless writer, “indi- gestible and inartistic,” and responsible “for cer- tain marked Yankee traits originating in dys- " The vigor and intensity of the con- demnation evidently springs from contact with the festal feed. 1916.° How to Counteract Prohibition August A. Busch For counteracting the prohibition sentiment which has grown so rapidly in recent years that territorially 85 per cent of the United States is dry by prohibitory or local option laws and 48 per cent of the population lives in dry territory: 1. A strict enforcement by state authorities of all excise laws. 2. The establishment throughout the country of the German saloon system, which permits only beers, light wines and temperance drinks to be sold in dramshops. ) 3. Co-operation by brewers with the state authorities to put out of business every saloon keeper who does not obey the excise laws. 4. Abolition of treating in saloons, to dis- courage drinking to excess. 5. Discontinuance of bars in saloons, all sery- ice to be given at tables at which customers will be seated. \ This is the comprehensive plan outlined by August A. Busch, president of the Anheuser- Busch Brewing association, in an interview in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “To what do you attribute the growth of the prohibition sentiment?” was asked. i’ “To the violation of the law by saloons,” he answered. “Unquestionably the prohibition senti- ment is directed against the saloon. Not all saloons violate the law, but the law-abiding saloon keeper is the victim of the law-violating saloon keeper. “A liberal excise commissioner—one who does not enforce the law strictly—does more harm to the brewing interests than one who rigidly en- forces the law. We want the law enforced. Some time ago I wrote a letter to Excise Commissioner Rumsey to that effect.” Mr. Busch turned to his files and withdrew a copy of the letter, dated March 29, 1916, in which he said with reference to the agitation at that time for enforcement of the excise laws: ] “There are two sides to this question and our own observation prompts us to say that you should be sustained in any effort to correct con- ditions. We make no question that the respon- sibility for the correction rests, in a large part, with this business itself. The law alone cannot do it. An an official you are put to the proof, and you must often be hampered by technicali- ties. On the other hand, we cannot do it without your 'guidance. We are persuaded, however, by co-operation, a better result can be obtained. Every disreputable saloon should be closed. Whenever your authority is insufficient to dis- continue such a saloon we are prepared to act upon your judgment. If you will say to us that a saloon which is our customer should, in the interest of public peace or welfare, be closed we will withdraw whatever support it may derive from us. We do not ask you to take any re- sponsibility beyond suggesting what should be done. We will take the responsibility of the decision. Inasmuch as the police department must be conversant with conditions, we shall be lad to have you confer with that department in order that no establishment, that in the judg- ment of properly constituted authority, is a menace to society, may be overlooked.” “It is my belief that the ultimate outcome of the prohibition sentiment in this country will be the establishment of the German saloon . sys- tem,” Mr. Busch continued. “In Germany sa- loons sell only beer, light wines and temperance drinks. There are no bars and no treating. Many of the evils of drink are attributable to the treat- ing habit. A man goes into a saloon to get a lass of beer. He meets a friend, or a group of riends, and sometimes twenty or thirty drinks are consumed. The treating system ought to be prohibited. “I am spending $125,000 to build a Deutsche wirtschaft at Gravois and Morganford roads to demonstrate that an institution at which only beer, light wines and temperance drinks are served can be made a success. I am going to call this the Bevo Mill. It is to be constructed of principally of vari-colored stone, most of which, with my own hands, I gathered from my place, the Grant Farm. There will be no bar in this establishment. All drinks will be served at tables. I want to make this institution an object lesson of an orderly conducted place, where every law will be observed.” v Asked if he was manufacturing the temperance drink in anticipation of prohibition in Missouri," he said: “No. I conceived the idea that the people wanted a beverage containing less alcohol than beer contains. There is 4 per cent of alcohol in beer and less than one-fourth of 1 per cent in Bevo. I think the real .remedy for the drink question is education. By education all the evils of drinking will be gradually eliminated. If I forbade my children from drinking, they prob- ably would develop a strong desire for it and get it Inyw;{. “My father was!ivery strict with me about smoking., Every time he met me he would smell my breath to see whether I had been smoking. The result was that I used to take his cigars and hide myself away and smoke until T was satisfied. Now my family can have anything in the world it wants in the drink{ line, and I do not think there is a family in America where there is less dripking.” | “Do you think that there will come a time when the people will tire of prohibition and per- mit the sale of beverages for consumption in the home, but not in the saloon?” “I 'do not expect such conditions,” he said. “As 1 said before, I think the saloon, with the bar eliminated and the sale of stronger drinks prohibited, will not be objectionahle. I think that is the solution of the question. I do not think the middle-man’s club should be taken away from him. There ought to be a place where people can meet, exchange views and be served with light beverages. People would not care to transfer this sort of pleasure to their homes. There ought to be an institution peculiarly for such purposes. “And then, in conclusion, if I had before me a convention of the brewers of the United States, I should say to them that if they wanted to render the greatest possible service to their own interests they would insist upon the strigt en- forcement of the dramshop laws and co-operate with the proper authorities in closing every saloon that has not been conducted strictly ac- cording to these laws.” Nebraska Press Comment Beatrice Express: There are a lot of dinky state offices which might as well be abolished. Nobody expects any particularly valuable service from them, which isn't important anyway, be- cause the salaries are low. The only cqmmend- able thing about a lot of the'se officers is that they don't cost the state a great sum. The gov- ernor is able through them to distribute favors which are small, though eagerly sought for, but it would no doubt be a relief to him if he could get away from the job of appointing a lot of fellows to draw salaries for doing nothing. Aurora Republican: The Lincoln Journal is already beginning to have bad dreams about Sen- ator Norris being defeated for renomination in 1918. Probably a case of guilty conscience, Senator Norris showed mighty little respect for Norris Brown's toga in 1912, and cannot now claim greater consideration for himself. A good many republicans believe that Brown, as the father of the income' tax amendment and other impor- tant legislation, has the better record of the two, and if he or some other equally good republican shall decide to entef the l}ists against Norris it will take something more than the Lincoln Jour- nal's frantic protests to stop them. Enthusiastic sl:l)port from the Journal is beginning to be con- sidered rather suspicious in orthodox republican circles, anyway, according to State Chairman Beach. " Thought Nugget for the Day. Old failures, like old garments, should be cast away and forgotten for- ever.—Newton Dwight Hillis. One Year Ago Today in the War, Beérlin announced the close of the Serbian campaign. Italy continued vigorous offensive at Gerizia. Squadron of French aeroplanes bombarded the hangars at Habsheim, setting them afire. Storms delayed operations in Bal- kans, giving opportunity to allies to bring up reinforcements. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The children's ball of the Hebrew Sabbath school was held at Metropoli- tan club rooms. The following ladies were in charge of the affair: Mes- dames L. Oberfelder, A. Heller, Ben Newman, Adolph Brown, Leo Kopald and Goetz. Henry Atkins has returned from Red Oak, la., where he spent Sunday with—well, somebody. The directors of the Omaha Base Ball club met and voted. to admit Kansas City and Pueblo into the West- ern league. Lucien Stephens has accepted the challenge to a bicycle race for the amateur championship and a money consideration issued to him some time ago by T. F. Blackmore. The horses on car No. 1 on the South Thirteenth line ran away down the incline from Hascall's and over- turned the car at the foot of the hill. Sam Jo‘es has ended his revival meetings in Omaha and has left for Cartersville, Ga. Jack Hanley and Paddy Norton are training for their match, which will take place in the Exposition annex next Monday evening. Prof. Day will also give an exhibition of club swing- ing and Prof. Kendall will do a slack wire feature. This Day in History. 1745—French and Indians de- stroyed the village of Saratoga, N. Y., and carried away captives over 100 men, women and children. 1773—Arrival at Boston of the first of the tea ships, with 114 chests of tea. 1776—Eight thousand British troops landed and took possession of Rhode Island. 1820—The Missouri legislature passed an act fixing the seat of gov- ernment at St. Charles. - 1832—Louisa M. Alcott, author of ‘‘Little Women,"” born at Germantown, Pa. Died March 6, 1888. 1847—First steamboat in California waters left San Francisco,s reaching Sacramento in six days and seven hours. 1859—Washington Irving, the au- thor, died at Tarrytown, N. Y. Born in New York City April 3, 1783. 1870—The French army of the Loire was defeated by the Germans under Prince Frederick Charles. 18856 — Austria intervened and caused a cessation rof hostilities be- tween Serbia aand Bulgaria. 1899—Boers defeated by British at battle of Modder river. 1903—Grover Cleveland announced that'he would not accept’a renomina- tion for the presidency. The Day We Celebrate. John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American union, born at Grafton, Vt, fifty years ago today. Rear Admiral De Witt Coffman, who retires from the navy today, born in Virginia sixty-two years ago today. Lindley M. Garrison, secretary of war during the early part of the Wil- son_administration, born at Camden, N. J., fifty-two years ago today. David Warfield, regarded by many critics as America's greatest actor, born in San Francisco fifty years ago today. Alexander Zaimis, who was ousted from the Greek premiership for his failure to espouse the cause of the allies, born in Athens sixty-one years ago today. ® Lemuel P. Padgett of Tennessee, chairman of the house naval affairs committee, born at Columbia, Tenn., sixty-one years ago today. Swager Sherley, representative in congress of the Fifty Kentucky dis- trict, born in Louisville forty-five years ago. today. Lee Fohl, manager of the Cleveland American league base ball team, born in Pittsburgh thirty-seven years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Simon Wolf, the eminent Jewish leader of Washington, D. C., of whom President Roosevelt once wrote, “No better American lives on this conti- nent,” is to be the guest of honor at a banquet to be given in New York tonight In celebration of his eightieth birthday. After forty years of active service Rear Admiral De Witt Coffman is to placed on the retired list of the navy today on account of age. The Associated Advertisers’ Club of Florida is to be organized at a con- ference of delegates from the princi- pal cities of the state, to be held to- day at St. Augustine. For the first time in the history of the Mystic Shrine a lodge is to be instituted on foreign soil today, when thirty American business men of Ha- vana, Cuba, will be initiated into the order by a degree team from Jack- sonville and Tampa. The ten allies’ costume ball, to be given In Madison Square garden to- night for the relief of distress in the various countries engaged in the Euro- pean war, promises to be one of the most brilliant affairs of its kind given in New York in recent years, A conference of all New England dairy interests has been called to meet) today at Springfleld, Mass, to form ' a general organization for the protection and advancement of the dairy industry. JUST SMILE. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Say, folks, I've learned a thing or two in these past forty years; I'm going to pass It on to you— May save you bitter tears. I've traveled up and down the lanes That lead out different ways, I've had my aches, my breaks and pains, My “off” and lucky days. I've seen the deal almost go through And had the money spent, I've raved and sworn as most men do To get so badly bent. T've thought at times, The hand of fate f§ sw Fve felt the stings of long abuse And know the word endure. Say, folks, I know just how you feel ‘When all your plans go wrong; The *punch at times has made me reel And almost missed the gong. But, listen, folks, to what 1 say: Your life and mine's the same; If yowll do your part every day We'll win, though hard the game. Now_ follow me: It's just like this: It'a free and without guile; It moves the world and cannot miss, It's this, just keep your smile. h, what's the use, The Pees LeHer. Speaking of Prohibition. Council Bluffs, Ta., Nov. 25.—To the Editor of The Bee: 1 would have liked to have read something by Charles Wooster on the gquestion of | prohibition as viewed from an histori- | cal standpoint, and it is possible he may later have a word to say on that| phase of the matter. Meanwhile, I would like to quote from a letter written in 1717 by Mary Wortley Montague, at that time living in Turkey. (The letter is to be found in her published works and is dated April 1, 1717, and is addressed to the Abbe Conti.) Turkey had given pro- hibition a long trial, a trial of several hundred years, and here is what the wife of the British ambassador found out about itr ““Achmet Beg (a Turkish potentate of the time) was of this opinion, he made no scruple of deviating from some part of Mahomet's law by drink- ing wine with the same freedom we did. When I asked how he came to allow himself that liberty, he made answer, all the creatures of God were good, and designed for the use of man, however, that the prohibition of wine was a very wise maxim, and meant for the common people, being the source of disorders among them, but that the Prophet never designed to confine those that knew how to use it with moderation. However, scandal oughtito be avolded and that he never drank it in public. This is the gen- eral way of thinking among them, and very few forbear driking wine that are able to afford it."” Here then is a glimpse of a prohibi- tion country two centuries ago, and it raises a suspicion in the minds of a good many people if fanatics here are in the long run likely to achieve any greater success than the Turks. WALTER BREEN. The letter I refer to is letter N. 35 and is to.be found in the Octave Thanet edition published in 1890 by McClurg & Co. The letter itself is dated April 1, 1717, For a New Capitol Building, | Omaha, Nov. 25.—To the Editor of The Bee: My old friend Wooster, I see, objects to a new capitol building. That will help. I should have been' disappointed had Brother Wooster failed to protest. I am rejoiced at this welcome and deserved support in behalf of a widespread sentiment among the farmers, business and pro- fessionel men of every class and clan, to the uttermost parts of the common- wealth, for a new, commodious and modern state house. Of this sentiment I am assured. I have letters from legislative members- elect who frankly state their reluc- tance to enter the house chamber, and assert their intention to get behind any good measure for a new capitol building. Mr. Wooster is wrong in as- serting that the good people of Lin- coln are responsible for this agitation. And yet, it's. complimentary to Lin- coln people to say so. No one can blame them for being ashamed to live in a capital city whose state house is a wreck and a shack. And these terms are not unfair. I challenge you to find a responsible engineer or archi- tect who will sign his name to a state- ment asserting that the house wing, for instance, is absolutely safe. Even the state engineer does not say so. For ten years a catastrophe has been imminent every time the house cham- ber has been used. Brother Wooster would remove the state capitol to Podunk. I'm with him there. I have always favored remov- ing it to the beautiful city of Grand Island or the still more beautiful city of Kearney. But, before doing so, 1 wish to have the national capitol re- moved to a geographical center—prob- ably somewhere in the sand hills of Nebraska. “Congress seems to be in no_hurry, however. ‘Wherefore, during the centuries we are waiting, let's have a new state house—a capitol building capable of accommodating our growing needs—a.| modern building worthy of kinship with our sister states of Kansas, Mis- souri, Towa, Colorado, Oklahoma, Wis- consin and Minnesota. Nebraska is rich, and growing richer, It has millions out at interest. Its state house is miserably deficient —— and shockingly unsafe. “Let's take the matter up in earnest, gentlemen of the legislature, and respond to the prayers of our constituents for a new capitol building. HENRY C. RICHMOND. Why Not an Omaha Practical? Omaha, Nov. 25.—To the Editor of The Bee: During the last few years there has been a great deal of agita- tion about “Omaha Beautiful.’’ Under the strain and tension of the high cost of living, I think we had better agitate more in favor of making it “Omaha Practical.” If all of the vacant lots, unused streets and alleys and back yards were put into potatoes, onions, cabbage, beans and tomatoes it would go far towards settling the question of the high cost of living. Back yards with vegetables might not look so beautiful as green grass mixed with dandelions. Yet they would be of more use to the residents of our city. It would do the boys and girls and grown people, too, more good if they would use all of the surplus ground of the city, including the beautiful back yards, for gardens and as a form of recreation than all the playgrounds and park plays and dancing in the parks would do. I know of one large family, personally, of this city whose boys this year raised enongh potatoes to last the family all winter. They raised them on vacant lots. Better put the boys and girls to work raising gardens next spring and cut out a lot of useless expense to the taxpayers of this city in the way of playgrounds and park amusements. It will do them more good and be of practical benefit to them as long as they live. It will keep them at home, too. Fresh vegetables from the garden are far superior to those we buy at the stores, for I have raised them my- self and speak from experience. I never raised more luscious lettuce or finer tasting beans than this year, and they lasted until the dry weather killed them off. Let us all try raising gardens the coming year and see if we cannot cut the hjgh cost of living down a great deal. It will not only be beneficial to us physically, but will be a great pleasure as well. Nothing is more satisfactory than to eat vege- tables of your own production, and they taste so good as well. FRANK A. AGNEW. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. “I'm going to smash that dude,” declared the bad man of the camp. “Whaffor?” demanded the sheriff. “He's looking fer trouble.” “G'wan! Quit your trying to pick a fight. A feller never looks for trouble with a monocle."—Louisville Courfer-Journal. He—I always fall into conversation when I'm out anywhere! She—And I suppose you keep it shal- low, 80 you won't get over your head.— Judge. S “So you took your old uncle from Ver- mont to the banquet' last night. Didn't ;he ‘Prolullan of cutlery at his plate bother “It did at first. Then he gave it up, pushed his three forks aside and proceeded to eat with his knife."—Boston Transcript. ““There's rather a fine looking man.” “Isn’t he? The last time I saw him he was on the bench.” “What, a judge?” “No; a substitute ball player."—Boston -anscript. ¢ “And, pray, madam,” asked the pension examiner, “why do Fou think yourself en- titled to a pension?" “My nd and 1 fought all through the war,” was the reply.—New York Times. F3 H Sponger—What do you mean by telling people that I drink like a fish? You know very well I only drink when I'm invited to. Smart—That's why I sald it. A flsh doesn't pay for what it drinks.—Boston Transcript. “I suppose,” sald the diplomatic passenger to the liner captain, “that you are asked all sorts of fool questions?” “Yed," replied the captain, “that's one of them."”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Aria from “Strenade”—Frans Schubert If your piano or player piano sounds as though “‘some- thing’s loose,” it is not a Kranich & Bach. EFach of the 329 screws in the Kranich & Bach Action has a Spiral Spring Washer that holds the connected parts firmly in all changes of weather. This Washer is pat- ented and is found only in the Kranich & Bach. It is one of the “little things” that create Kranich & Bach quality. ICH-8-BACH SOLD BY A. HOSPE CO. / 1513-1515 Douglas Street WH J. SwoB PHONE DO oDA RETAIL DEALER LAS 222. OMAHA N EB run frequently Persistence is the cardinal vir- tue in advertising; no matter hpw good advertising may be in other respects, it must be ly to be really successful. and constant- ‘ y 1} ! e .