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Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-13
DRIP PANS NEED
TO be CLEANED
OUT FREQUENTLY
When Dust and oil Are Al.
lowed to Accumulate They
Eventually Work Into
the Bearings.

Most motorists are proud Of the
external cleanliness Of their cars.
They like to see the tenders and
bodies we'll polished and the niekled
parts cIean and bright. On the other
hand, many motorists are lax about
the cleanliness of parts that are not
exposed to view. simply because
they assume that such, cleanliness
does not matter.
But it does matter" says E. +.
Strong, general sales manager Of
the Buick Motor company at Flint,
Michigan.
Good automobile housekeeping
demands cleanliness that is
thorough and extends to the hooks
and corners under the hood, around
the engine, transmission, brakes and
other working parts.
For such cleanliness has a much
deeper meaning than the mere salts
faction Of having things clean and
attractive. 1t has to do with the
life Of the car and the continued
Satisfactory performance Of the car.
"Pan Protects Engine"
THE purpose of the drip pan is
not to catch oil and dirt. It is put
there to protect the engine and
other working parts from foreign
matter that could otherwise get in
from below. When you drive along
country road after or during
rain, mud and water are splashed
up unavoidably on the under side of
the tenders, body and chassis; and
il it were not for the drip pan,
these advance agents. of rust and
abrasion would get into the hooks
nd corners of the frame, settle
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-13

around bolts and nuts and some
would sooner or later find its way
into the working parts. -.
After the car has been in use for
several months, considerable oil has
probably been allowed to drop into
the pan. At first it spreads out in .
film over the surface, and in the act
of driving dust settles upon this
film, changing it to 4 sticky, non
drying mud, which process continues
in spite of the drain hole in the bot
tom OF the pan.
Should Be Kept Clean.
"Of course, oil itself is a lubricant
and will not damage any of the
working parts. But oil mixed with
dust and foreign matter that is
bound to collect in it. is nothing
short Of in abrasive material and no
chances should be taken of getting
any of it into the crankcase or any
other part Of the mechanism. And
If the drip pan of . car is permitted
to be the gathering place for refuse
of this kind, it might as we'll be left
off the car entirely.
Not enough emphasis has been
laid on the question of keeping the
automobile. clean, and we can't help
thinking, in this connection. Of the
old retired sailor who used to tidy
up his cabin by sweeping the dust
behind the door. When the pile got
big enough he would gather it up in
a dust pan and throw it out. This
method suited him all right, but it
wasn't considered very good house
keeping. And it isn't, good automo-
bile housekeeping, either"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-13
Roamer Motor Car Varies Move Made to Get Lease
From Average Models; Is OF u. P. Rightof-Way
In An Individual Class To Establish Auto Route

The Omaha Chamber of Com
merce members have flooded the
Nebraska senators and representa-
tives with letters asking them to use
their best efforts with the Depart
ment of Agriculture to obtain So
year lease from the Union Pacific,
whereby the unoceupied portion Of
the company right-of-way through
the state may be traversed by the
Lincoln Highway.
Members Of the chamber point out
that if lease could be obtained the
state of Nebraska and the counties
along the line OF the Union Pacific
would take action relative to i'm
proving the road and that it would
soon become one of the best auto
paths in the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-13

age OF the total crop has increased,
until this year we will produce ap-
proximately so per cent of the
worlds total, the largest proportion
ever produced by the farmers Of the
United States. With the unstable
conditions in Russia, which in 1914
produced about SOO,OOO,O0O bushels
and in 1918 only 3sS,0O0. 900. and
with the machinery of agriculture
upset more or less in the other
wheat producing countries, the
United States will have to produce
an increasing proportion Of the
worlds wheat supply. This will not
only mean larger production, but it
should mean very satisfactory prices
for wheat. The American farmer
is quick to grasp such opportuni-
ties"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-13
Breaks Record in Motorcycle
Race From Mexico to Canada

Hap" Scherer, a Tacoma, Wash
ington, motorcyclist, broke the
Three Flag Record, which receives
it's name from the course it takes
from Canada to Mexico. Scherer
travelled over 1,716 miles of all sorts
of roads, including the fording of
many streams and crossing five
mountain ranges. He made a non
stop average of 26.4 miles per hour.
Scherer was trying out the Harley
Davidson Sport Model, a new light
weight, twin-cylinder machine: He
left Blaine on the Canadian side at
s a. m. June 10, and drove into Tia
Juana, Mexico, "a hours and So min,
utes afterward, cutting S hours 2
minutes from the previous record
held by big machine.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-13
Emery Ball" Origin.

Atlanta, Ga.-Back in 1907 Russell
Ford was pitching to Ed Sweeney
before game in the local park.
Ford tossed wild one that struck a
concrete pillar behind Sweeney:
Sweeney tossed it back and Ford
pitched again. 1t started straight
for Sweeney's nit, then jumped
asides .
What did you do to that one?"
asked Sweeney. n,
= Nothing" Ford replied. Then
Sweeney picked up the bali and saw
the leather was scuffed where it hit
the rough pillar. He tipped Ford
off.
In the big league Ford used an
emery paper to scuff the balls and
with Sweeney catching they cleaned
up."
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-13
lap Warships to Russia.

Toxic, July 1.-THE Japanese
warships Akashi and Chihaya, will
be sent to the Siberian coast to
guard against bo1sheviki along the
Amur river.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
Good viii and Advertising

Discussing the business situation
and security market the Bache Re-
view says:
To-day the question of continua-
ton of large profits depends, for one
thing, upon the duration of peace,
and that is so we'll settled that there
seems no limit. Out of the stage of
uncertainty which prevailed in the
earlier period of the present bull
market, the situation has grown in
TO one of assured confidence in the
continuation of a very great pros
perity for at least number of years
Prices of industrials are rejecting,
also, accumulation of profits made
during the war, which have put
many stocks into the extra safe
financial class, by reason of debts,
cleared away and large surpluses
built up. Then, too, it is to be con-
sldered in looking at reports of cur
rent earnings, that, on account of
the excess profits tax, it is adjudged
by corporations and other business
concerns to be good policy to charge
out every cent that can Se placed in
the legitimate debit-to use current
prohts in fortifying the business posi-
tlon In every possible way; for in
stance, in building up good will
through advertising, etc, ETC. There
proDaDly never was q time when so
much money was being so widely
spent in advertising. This creates
permanent asset, partically with
out cost, as the money would other
wise In many concerns be paid out
IN government tax. All this adds
TO prospective values
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
Harder and Harder to LiUe
[From the New York Sun.1


To get more pay to meet the high
cost of living the members of the
Deep Seamens Union are threaten
ing widespread strike. To eat and
otherwise live as they have been ac-
customed to doing the seamen may
need all the increase they ask; but
when they strike, tying up the vast
tonnage essential to the distribution
of the products of American in
dustry, they raise the cost of living
enormously.
When, outside of breadstuffs,
there isn't enough production to take
care of the needs of our people such
tying up of transportation, whether
by rail or by water, means that mills
and factories must shut down. Some
essential raw materials cannot be
supplied to them and some of their
output cannot be delivered to it's
natWral markets. When the demand
has already forced the price of shoes
sky high there must be still fewer
shoes for lack of leather. There
must be smaller volume of cloth
for lack of wool. When sugar is
dear coffee is dear, tea is dear; they
must all become much dearer be-
cause no ships will be bringing in
fresh supplies.
In the Pennsylvania mining dis
trict, where there has been insult
ticient labor, a heavy shortage of
mined coal threatens hardship and
disaster to householders next winter
all over the East. Aside and apart
from the danger of suffering from
lack of coal, one of the most i'm
portant factors in the cost of living is
en- 20
of what coal that goes into the
kitchen range and into the furnace
directly costs the consumer. 1t is
so because of the coal that goes into
the cost of operating a mill or a fac
tory; because of the coal that goes
into the cost of operating the rail-
road hauling the product to the mill
or the factory; because of the coal
that goes into the cost of the opera
tion of street railways-into the
whole industrial and commercial
work
Yet while there is a shortage of
millions of tons of anthracite coal
the miners in Pennsylvania are 60
ing to ask not merely for a 20 or 25
per cent. advance in wages but for a
reduction of the working day to six
hours. If the miners need more
money to live as they lived before
they ought to get it and they will
get 1t. But when are are miners of
pennsylvania, when are the wage
earners in other industries, when are
all the workers and all the consum-
ers gong TO reach a common under
standing that you cannot cut the cost
of living by cutting the production.
which is the basis of the cost of liy-
ing.
When are we all going to get down
to the brass tack business of making
sure that enough is produced for
everybody and that then the produc-
ers shall have their full share of it
because they did produce it?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
Without an Excuse

For the billboards," saws the
New York World, in commenting on
the crusade against these nuisances
recently started by a convention of
real estate men at Atlantic City.
there Is no plea of public neces-
slty. They are institutions purely of
private profit. No ranking for gen.
eral conveniences is to be accorded
10 them. They lack the qualities of
fantastic display and the virtue. of
assisting materially in the illumina-
ton of a great city which has dis
armed esthetic critics of the electric
night advertising signs along shop
ping fronts and sky lines.
Billboards in cities are indeed the
unbecoming products of special
indulgence. When that indulgence
is withdrawn by urban, authority, it
may be found practicable to clean up
the landscape along rural drives and
cross-country railway lines"
Special privilege has long been
under the ban in politics. The special
offender through municipal indul-
gence must also be banished from
the community.
1t is public taste. not the news
papers. that will gain by the elimi-
nation of the glaring and objection
able billboard. This crude form of
advertising is in no form a competi-
tor of the newspaper. 1t is just an
excrescence of an imperfect civiliza-
tion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
JdckSOn'S Horse

lFrom Christian Science Monitor.
With recent discussion OF art mat
ters in Washington has again come
up incidental criticism of the posi-
ton of the horse in the equestrian
statute of Andrew jackson in the
park facing the White House. The
alarming way in which the steed
stands on its hind legs has often
been declared something no real
horse would or could do; but now
appears an old resident of Wash
ington who remembers the sculptor.
Clark Mills, and tells how the pose
was originally arrived at. Mills, it
appears actually got the pose by
watching a horse of his own. An
ticipating criticism, he made min
iature model of horse in the SEEM
ingly impossible position, and car
ried it about in his pocket. standing
1t up wherever he might be to prove
that the position of the horse in his
statute was in perfectly natural bal
ance. Many a man familiar with
horses has since declared the posi-
ton impossible, but both the real
horse and the miniature model stood
on their hind legs and needed no
artificial support, which was what
the sculptor had in mind to accom-
plish.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
Daylight SaDing SaDed
New York Times ]

Displaying both courage and wis
dom, as we'll a stability to find out for
himself what the country wants,
President Wilson yesterday vetoed
the Agricultural Appropriation bill,
giving as his one, but quite sufficient,
reason the fact that included in it
was a section reI ealing the dayli,c ut
saving law.
In doing this the President per-
formed public service that, even
in these days when there .,.e so many
great things that need doing, can
without exxageration be called i'm
portant. Not only has he prevented
the abrogation, at the demand of a
single class, of law advantageous
to every other class, but he has re-
puked as 1T deserves a method of
legislation that is, as it always has
been, lndefensible on any avowable
grounds. Its use is never necessary,
and it is a favorite only with legis-
lators who want to avoid RESPONSE
bility for legislation in one or another
way open to just condemnation.
Congress in attaching to the Agri-
cultural Appropriation bill a rider
repeating the daylight saving law not
only resorted to a method of legis-
lation so thoroughly vicious as to
have invited and deserved severe
criticism, even If the purpose to be
accomplished had been innocent or
commendable. 1t also took action
that was against the wishes and the
interests of at least three out of
every four inhabitants of the United
States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
Return to Bryce Tradition
[From the London Nation


The welfare of the world depends,
in degree which cannot be COM
puted, upon Anglo-American friend
ship and cooperation, and no one
who is not wilfully blind can refuse
to see that the two countries are
entering upon a period full of diff
Guilty, more than sufficiently charged
with the chances of mutual mis-
understanding. On both sides of the
Atlantic all men of vision and of
good will echo the words of the
present American ambassador in
London: Let the two peoples never
quarrel"
But a pious aspiration is of little
force by itself. The friendship be-
tween England and America can
not take care of itself. Nor, on the
other hand, can it be improved,
or even tolerably maintained, if we
continue the policy toward America,
official and nonoff1cial, which was
adopted during Americas neutrality
and developed after her entry into
the war. We need, first, return
to the Bryce tradition. We need,
secondly, drastic change in the di-
rection and temper of our public
fices in the United States.
English people who are personally
nacquainted with America have no
adequate means of measuring the
greatness of the stroke by which
Lord Bryce became the spokesman
of Britain. Wisdom in this matter
consists in our realizing that the
standard then set should be as close
ly as possible upheld. To Washing
ton we should send a great English
man. He need not be a prominent
statesman; he should not be a pro-
fessional diplomat. The post does
not demand a gift of oratory; but
the ambassador must be a man who
can speak finely and variously, to
the American people.
He should be able to interpret the
common political and intellectual
tradition; he should be no stranger
to American history and institu-
tions; he should be at home in the
assemblies of educated men and wo-
men, where the vital affairs of the
new age are debated. And Ga most
essential point) he should be free
from personal affectation. Such a
man comes seldom out of legations.
He is always rare; but never, in
England, undiscoverable.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
NONPARTISAN LEAGUE

THE Nonpartisan League, which
promised-or threatened, de-
pending on the viewpoint-so
much in North Dakota and nearby
states, is on the rocks. It's end is in
sight. Its adherents are deserting
it and it's two principals, A. C. Town
ley, president, and Joseph Gilbert,
organizer, have been convicted on
charges of conspiracy.
The Nonpartisan League has
attracted wide attention. Its loudly
heralded objects were to take the
public affairs of States in which it
gained the ascendency out of party
politics and to put into force radical
theories involving State ownership
of flour mills, public utilities and
even wholesale houses. Everything
was to operate for the benefit of the
public, with no profit for anybody
and prosperity for all The farmers
of North Dakota, where the idea
first came to notice were tired of
the kind of party politics that had
been played there, and the League.
with its high sounding theories,
swept all before it.
But, unfortunately, in relegating
party politics to the background,
the League itself became a political
party, and like all parties in power
the subject of attack. Then it de-
veloped that all was not going we'll
with its business ventures and that
in lis way the League was more
autocratic and it's bosses more die
tatorial than any party or boss ever
had dared be in the old days. From
that moment the Nonpartisan
League was doomed. Slowly, but
surely, it is taking it's place with the
Know-Nothings, the Greenbackers,
the Populists and those other So
called reform movements that arose
from dissatisfaction with existing
parties and methods. 1t looked
formidable enough for a time, but
the American people were too wise
to be fooled long by a political
party masquerading as a nonparti-
san league.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
CHILDREN FIND HUN GOLD
German Treasure Buried on Island of Samoa Is Dug Up
[From Stockton (Cal)

details of his men searching for the
treasure. They found nothing.
Then Strum appealed to the school
children of Samoa, and never did
children have a job more to their
taste. They dug and delvai, they
hunted and they prospected, and did
they find the gold? They did.
Leave it to them. Almost all of
the supply has been unearthed and
turned over to Uncle Sam. 1t is
easy to imagine that school teachers
in Samoa found their lives hard dur
ing these days of treasure hunting;
for what book could hold a tale half
so exciting, or what arithmetic
problems be nearly so thrilling as
trying to guess how much gold each
chest contained. Huck and Tom will
turn in their graves when they hear
of this
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Colonel e. G. Smith, Wilkes
Barre newspaperman, is home from
France.
Captain H. T. Huston, Lebanon
furnace man, we'll known here, is
celebrating his seventy-ninth birth
day.
F. Woods Beckman, president Of
the Johnstown Chamber of Com
merce, is taking a prominent part
in the movement for a new hotel in
the Mountain City, which is being
built by home subscriptions, like
we put up the Penn Harris.
Bishop ]. T. Hamilton, of the
Moravians, will travel through
Europe in interest of his denomina-
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16

IF, as Mayor Keister believes,
forestalling has much to do with
the high prices of farm pro-
ducts in Harrisburg, by all means
let's put a stop to the practice at
once.
Unquestionably, many retailers do
go into the markets and buy up
there large quantities of fruits, vege-
'ables and other farm produce and
! sell it at their own prices. Like
wise it can be proved easily that
many men make a practice of buy
ing up farm products in the city
markets and turn a pretty penny
twice week by selling at their
. own stalls the stuff they have bought
from the farmers. The farmers
themselves, seeing the prices these
men are asking, at once increase
their own prices and the result is
that the consumer pays much more
for his marketing than If the fore
staller were kept out of the markets
altogether.
The markets were created for the
benefit of the consumer and the pro-
ducer alike. The thought that pro-
NOTED the building of market houses
was that the consumer and the pro-
ducer could be brought directly to-
gether there, in order that both
could avoid the middle mans profit,
the farmer getting the benefit of
better prices than if he sold in
bulk on the farm and the consumer
getting his provisions without pay
ing toll to the middle man. The
scheme works out generally very
well where prices are not artificially
boosted and where the forestaller,
who is simply parasite on the
market system, is not permitted to
operate. Let's get rid of the fore
staller. But let us also help our
selves as we'll.
For example, last week canta-
1oupes, which brought only fifteen
to twenty cents each earlier in the
season, were boosted to twenty-five
the retailer was not to blame. May
be the fault lay higher up. Very
likely it did. But if. instead of buy
ing the cantaloupes every man and
woman in Harrisburg had declined
to pay the outrageous prices asked
there would have followed sharp
reductions.
The people have this power always
in their hands. When any article
of food in common use is priced un-
reasonably high dealers can be
brought to their senses if the people
refuse to buy.
Let us get after the forestaller
and the gouger, but let us see to it,
also, that we ourselves are not at
fault. 1t is human nature to charge
the highest price the market will
afford. We sell our services as
workmen to the employer who will
pay most. Let us discourage un-
reasonable upward tendency on the
part of food merchants and pro-
ducers by refusing to buy when the
price is too high, just as the en-
ployer declines to hire the man who
wants more pay than he is worth.
We have the remedy of this high
price problem largely in our own
hands IL only we have the courage
to use it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16

No. 1. near Cuperly, where I passed
out at 2 A. M. 1 came to at noon
three days later, in a dark room,
with eyes bandaged-andg great wads
of medicated cause, covering burned
spots on my body"
A single entry dated three weeks
later reads "Hoopela! The Doc says
l can go to the mess hall today for
chow!"
when the Doc told him he could
rejoin his regiment" said Major
Mahin," we bet he wrote 'Hoopelas'
all over the page for that day
wish l had more of the diary-to
read other examples of the spirit that
beat Germany"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
The Miracle

When 1 was younger l would sigh
Because l was so old,
And with sad and pensive eye
The haggard dawn behold.
1t crept in then like something lame,
An old, gray, wrinkled, fumbling
dame.
But since you came I always smile
Because I am so young
And meet the morning down a mile
Before her song is sung.
And now the dawn comes with. a
whirl,
A glittering, capricious girl!
HERBERT S. GOBMAN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
Hope and Trust
IFrom Life.1

Twenty-three wars are now going
on -Bonar Law.
Do not be discouraged. Remem-
Der that the peace league has not
yet got going. Give it time. After
all, twenty-three wars is not a bad
beginning. They may be small wars
as yet, but there is all the time
in the world to mt them an a really
efficient basis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
! JAPAN AND THE LEAGUE

TT SENATOR NORRIS charges
of collusion between England
and Japan for the benefit of both
in the peace conference are con-
firmed a hard blow will have been
struck at the Presidents theory of
world peace and harmony by means
of the operations of the league.
Senator Norris alleges, and he has
documentary evidence with which
to back up what he says, that Japan
and England, both members of the
proposed league. conspired behind
their fellow members backs to pro-