Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-17
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Blair, Neb,, Noy, 16.--To the Editor
OF The Bee: In your issue yesterday
there is letter from "A. b. Mickle,
in which he states.
Il found a copy of The Bee severa
days cid yesterday with an article
about what Miss Jackson of Bellevue
college has been telling how to sup
port a family for $3.50 a week Now
the ladys idea is eommendable. but
can show her where her figures are q
good deal too high yet. ] do all the
buying; Just last week | got bargain
The grocery had fifty pounds of oat-
meal that he was going to feed to the
horse; he said 1t had weevils in it.
got 1t for As cents--and cooking kills
weevils, ETC." - . .,.5
Now, Mr.. Editor, ! wonder II he
found any weevils in that old copy OF
The Bee to feed his family of seven
Perhaps Mr.. Mickle would do better to
hunt up few old copies of the World
Herald, possibly he would find the
weevils from that source more
healthy and fatter bunch than the
common Bee kind-after being fed on
so much prosperity dope for the last
few months.
l. all O1t VI tHOoN WVittCh "Aio oN'
the money to squander ON careless
buying" | am q daily reader of The
Bee, but don't find them lying around
stale, and | am very much Interested
in the discussion in regard to the
high cost of living" but heaven Tor
bid that | should have to get out on
the mat with the dog and worry a
bone, or even Join the prodigal son IN
feeding on the husks that the swine
did eat"
Weevils for breakfast. weevils for
dinner and weevils for supper at the
Mickle homestead. Why doesn't the
Board of Health get after the gro
cePyman who sold him the dope
II had a man like Mickle ! would
steal nickel from that pile he has
saved from robbing poor horses OF
their food and go buy him dose OF
poison and give 1t to him as an anti.
dote for those weevils II he Woulo
only eat all the weevils himself the
poison would not be necessary,
/ have seen the poor, starving
wretches In the city of Chicago, around
the wholesale produce district, diggine
in the refuse barrels for food, prob
ably containing millions Of weevils, In
order to keep down the high cost Of
living. But even they. poor wretches
did not feel like publishing 1t in the
newspapers. No, they leave II to mer
like this Miekle to feed their family
on weevils and to feel SO proud OF II
that he wants all Of his friends and
neighbors to follow his example.
PURE FOOD"
More Post Election Reflections.
North Platte, Neb.. Nov. 15,-Te
the Editor Of The Bee; From study
Of the returns from the recent cleo
ton I would submit the following
opinions for your consideration:
The majority Of the American
voters amiably informed President
Wilson that they are entirely in &C.
cord with the policies of democracy
as propounded by his highness.
Apparently American citizens dote
on the fickleness of the Wilsoniar
democracy as expounded in the last
four years Of submarine government
1t Is hard to censure them. Nearly
all great students have at one time
or another evinced a desire to delve
into the unknown.
Had the republican slate been re-
turned the victor 1t would hardly
have been necessary for your greai
newspaper to have continued a politi'
cal page. No one would have read
1t, as there. Is no incentive to reat
something he knows will be- How
much greater zest there Is in moi
knowing what the next step will be-
Did you ever, at the seashore,' watch
several of the more scientific swim
mers diving; one dives, disappearing
from view, not an onlooker but will
eagerly scan the water for his reap.
pearance. AS he stays under, seem.
ingly for minutes. each one dreads
he is lost the moment Is tense, Z
ripple appears, his head break.
through and, as he hobs up snortine
with delight, how great the relief Il
and the intensity vanishes. Just 81
with the Wilsonian brand of states
manship; tenseness. uncertainty, ther
relaxation, continuing ad libitum.
Still further: American Literature
will receive another spur Our liter
airy efforts to foreign countries mus
improve, each new note emanating il
Washington certainly will be an i'm
provement over the last and eventual
ly a masterpiece should be pro
claimed. Possibly 1t will not be an
nounced as such until the European
struggle ends and the foreign critic'
have more time on their hands t.
take up literature again as a pastime