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Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-20
Corporations.


Z. c. NJ am a director in a
corporation, and while l was alb
sent from the city the directors mis-
appropriated a certain sum OF
money of the company for purposes
outside of the business of the cor
poration. Am l personally liable
An attorney called upon me for the
purpose of having me settle. We
have no big attorney in our city
and therefore l am writing to you
and ask that you answer the same
at once without disclosing my name
or address.
AnSwer-lf you had no notice of
the action OF the board or did moth
ing to subsequently ratify their &C
ton, you are not liable.
Insurance.
S. B. C.-Please let me know
whether or not l can make a claim
against an insurance company for
an accident that occurred to me.
amounted to anything and conse-
quently did not serve notice within
the time provided for in the policy.
Can l still serve notice and is the
insurance company liable?
Answer-The time does not begin
to run for the service Of notice I'M
til you have reason to believe that
the injury you received would con-
stitute claim under your policy.
From the meager facts as set forth
in your inquiry, l cannot answer the
latter part of your question.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-20
Liability of City.

w. c. J.--Is the city of Omaha
liable where a fire truck going to a
fire ran into my automobile. | tried
to get out of the way, but could
not, as | did not have the time.
Answer-The city is not liable.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-20

Inevitably, we believe, it means less capa-
bic management and lower industrial efficiency,
when the need is for greater efficiency. True,
capitals motive is selfish. 1t seeks profits.
But by and large it can realize that selfish end
only through capable management and ever
increasing efficiency. It has acquired large
experience in industrial management and in
picking capable managers. We see no reason
to assume that labor would be particularly less
selfish than capital. 1t never has been that we
know of. 1t would seek wages as capital seeks
profit And capitals selfshness is readily amen
able to public control Ways and means of re-
straning it have been devised 1t is weak in
political power, in spite Of all that foolish and
frothy persons say to the contrary. The gov
eminent has no trouble, for example, in limit
ing freight rates. Limiting wages in like man
ner would be much more difficult undertaking
Capable management is the first need. The
capitalistic scheme is the best method of get
ting it,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05

and trouble to go to the polls on election day.
AS our contemporary we'll states it,
We too often attribute all the blame
for abuses in the conduct of city affairs
to evil intent on the part of the pro-
fessional politicians; but the truth is,
that the fault lies with those voters who
are willing to let the politicians work
the machinery of elections and of party
and yet stand idly by and pick flaws in
the results. 1t has been demonstrated
repeatedly that the machine represents
and ordinarily controls minority of the
party voters, and that the remedy for
maladministration is always ready to the
hand of the voters if they are sufficiently
interested to apply it, 1t is because they
are habitually Indifferent and negligent
that municipal reforms come in spasms
and that reform organizations lack that
sustaining force and persistence which is
the life of the machine"
few days ago a SOrely needed bond issue
for highway improvements failed in DeKalb
county, not because of appreciate opposition,
but because not enough registered voters
cast ballots. A few months ago a proposal
to raise the salaries of Atlanta school teach
ers by means of a moderate tax increase
failed, not because the majority of citizens
begrudged few cents on the dollar, but
because so many of them neglected to record
their will at the polls So it goes in almost
every community and State, save on rare &C.
casions, when abuses have waXed so gross as
to incite public revolt.
What we Americans need is not more rights
but more appreciation and use of those we
already possess. We think too often, indeed
OF rights and too infrequently Of duties. We
are very jealous of what the government owes
US, but all too careless of what we owe
the government The most important thing
in citizenship, as in life's every relation, is
duty. Let every American do his duty at the
polls, and we shall have regenerated govern
ment from the obscurest of town halls to the
capitol at Washington.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05
THE MENACE OF FORCE
BY DR.. Frank Crane

This is supposed to be a free country.
We have our machinery of government for
getting the people what they want If we
want change in our laws we elect legisIa-
tors TO make them. We vote on presidents
governors and the like, who run on plat
forms containing pledges to carry out our
will.
This is the theory. Like all theories.
sometimes it does not work
Sometimes the esteemed wealth units
trusts, political parties, other groups band
ed together to get their regardless of
the people, corrupt this machinery, and in
duce the officials elected by the people to do
one thing to do another.
This calls forth opposing groups, such
as Labor Unions, to antagonize and defeat
the Vaccinations of the first mentioned
groups.
So democracy muddles along. Instead of
all getting together and getting the will of
the majority enacted nationally, we make
a fight of it, for the American people can
not get interested in the common good so
well and intensely they can in a sporting
proposition
We wish this were not so, but it is So,
and we must do the best we can with poor
human nature.
But there is one place where the line
ought to be drawn. 1t is at violence.
When one party says, ''Do as l wish or I
will strike, paralyze all the railways and
street cars, take milk away from your ba-
bies and burn up your barns"-that is a di-
rect challenge to democracy.
1t means government by force. 1t is pre-
cisely the notion the kaiser had. Force never
permanently accomplished anything but the
ruin of them that resort to it. "They that
take the sword shall perish by the sword
This is not written to threaten the labor
unions nor in any wise to oppose them. My
object is simply to point out to them that
the programme of force will not do. 1t will
fail. And it will lset back the cause of labor
and not advance it.
There is a good deal to be said in favor of
government ownership Of railroads and other
public utilities. 1 have said a good deal my
SELF
But there is one thing that nobody will say
unless he wants to fail and to commit sui
eide. 1t is
eff you don't do as I say I will use force"
Most of the American people are sympa-
thetic toward the labor organizations be-
cause most of us labor. But let a labor
union, or any other group, declare that if it
cannot have it's way it will burn down the
house, and this sympathy will change to
disgust.
The ways of democracy are open. Nobody
but a fool or a mailman thinks he must
break down the door.
Copyright, 1919 by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05
The Horse Still Lives

That the horse has not yet gone the
way of the hippogriff is evidenced IN the
recent passage by the Pennsylvania Legs
lature of bill providing that hard-surfaced
and heavily crowded motor highways shall
be paralleled or supplemented by soft roads
on which the sedatest of nags can jog IN
security and comfort. 1t is quite in keep
ing with the spirit Of William Penn and
the traditions of the City of Brotherly Love,
is this kindly bit of legislation in behalf or
the horse. 1t refreshes the heart in this
mechanical age to know that faithful Dob
bin still has his respected rights and loyal
friends despite the vast hustle of the auto
mobile and the soaring pride of the air.
plane.
We like to think of motorized vehicles and
farm machinery bringing about sort of
equine millennium in which all the hack
horses and battered mules of Christendom
can lie down, each under his own vine and
fig tree (if that would not mix the metaphor
too much) and whinny forth gratitude for
deliverance from the ways Of bondage. But
we cannot endure the thought of the horse
or the mule ever being banished from our
landscapes and highways. 1t is thousand
Dities indeed that no one has yet befriended
a speed-weary generation by revivng the
stage coach with its heartiness and leisurely
joys.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05
INVEST WISELY

There was day, years ago, when the
farmer was considered inexperienced in
matters Of business and a mark for the
bunco man. Editorial writer's on city news
papers frequently published warnings to the
farmer to beware of the gold brick sales
man. And even this idea about the
farmer seems to prevail in some quarters
Just why warnings should be addressedV
to farmers rather than to the residents of
the metropolitan districts never has been
made clear. The modern bunco man sticks
to the city, for the most part He gave up
trying to gull the farmer years ago.
One of his last successful efforts was the
miracle" wheat scheme. This wheat was
supposed to have been brought from the
garden of Eden or from the tombs of
Egyptian kings under the Pyramids. 1t had
several names-"JerusaIem' wheat was one
Egyptian" wheat was another Tt wasssupA.
posed to be a miraculous yielder, and someV
farmers, scattered here and there about the
country bought it, paying $40 to $40
bushel for the seed They were told they
could sell their whole harvest in the fall at
that figure.
Then there was the rain-making machine
and several other fake schemes But no
one has heard anything about the farmers
in the country going in for that sort CA
thing for large number Of years. If the 4
farmer is caught now, he is caught on the
same sort Of proposition that the city man is
caught
Farmers, not unlike the business men Of
the country, are naturally on the lookout
food opportunities of investment that will
bring a good return. They probably take
less chances than city men, but they are not
unwilling to invest in a stock proposition
that looks thoroughly sound
The government can be counted upon to
deal with those who offer fake securities
nowadays, and the farmers can be counted
upon to resist their statesmen But there
are many companies now operating, formed
for the purpose developing oil fields pIanta-
lions, mines and all sorts of propositions
that are not SAFE Somebody may make al
Dig Killing" in some of the companies, forA
there are many that will strike it rich
Many stocks offered in exchange of
Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps It
is obvious if many shares of stock in a
company can be bought for one Liberty
Bond there is element of chance-a bic
element of chance-in the stock. There is
no element of chance at all in government
securities. Stock statesmen are now touring
the agricultural districts epdeavoring to in
terest farmers in various companies upon
such a basis.
We believe the farmers of America can
be relied upon, however, to hold their gov
eminent securities and be content, in the
main, to draw a safe and secure rate of
interest rather than to take chances ON pri-
vate securities that may urn GU a oal lose
of all money invested.
Buy War Savings Stamps -"' =.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05
BITS OF INFORMATION

The increase of single pair of rats in five
One pair of rats may have $40 descendants in
year.
An ocean steamer of tn efirSt class, going
at full speed, cannot be brought to halt in
less than three minutes. In the meantime she
will have traverSed a distance of about half a
mile.
A Montana man has invented a chicken
coop equipped with apparatus that drops a
spot of coloring matter on a hens back to
show when she has laid an egg.
Thomas Jefferson, according to William M.
Curtis, one of his biographerS, was devoid of
sense of humor Says the latter: Gle rarely
told a story and seldom enjoyed one, and
witticiSmS were wasted in his presence"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05
FOOD FUSSERS
BY H. Addington Bruce

ny II. AuQlllSlOu DlQCG
TINE other day, commenting on various
causes of nervousness not commonly
recognized as such, a medical friend
observed to me:
Il wish parents as a class could be per-
suaded to train their children to eat what is
set before them, without accepting or reject
ing according to individual whim. Then we
should have fewer food fussers in adult life
and fewer nervous invalids.
Nervousness and food BUSINESS are more
closely connected than is generally known.
And the food business stands to the nervous
ness in the relation Of cause to effect.
Il am now treating man who, from his
earliest childhood, has been finicky about his
food. Even as boy he simply would not
eat fruits and vegetables. His parents tried
to persuade him to take these, but when he
refused they supinely yielded.
LAS result his system did not get the
nutrition it required. Necessarily there was
ties, he is an unhappy, nervous weaking, I'M
dergolng dietary education which he never
would have needed had his parents brought
him up properly.
Ellis is perhaps an extreme instance of food
fussiness. But the world is full of people who
insist on leaving out of their diet articles con-
tanning essential food elements and they
wonder why they are victims of nerves.
Almost without exception they are what
they are because of parental Encouragement.
Had they been started right the chances are
they would now be neither food fussers nor
nervous PATIENTS
And from another medical friend comes
this observation:
There are undoubtedly people born with
idiosyncracies against certain foods. Thus
there are people to whom Strawberries are
poisonous, people who really cannot safely
eat shellfish ETC.
But by far the greater number of food
dislikes are entirely subjective. This is par
ticularly we'll shown in the case of milk and
eggs, against both of which many people have
acquired an unreasonable prejudice because
of their alleged indigestibility.
"Over and over again I have seen people
who had thought that eggs made them bilious
put in circumstances Gas in tuberculosis
where eggs had to form considerable part
of the diet. Then there was no difficulty in
eating and digesting eggs. And likewise with
milk"
Of course, food business may be acquired
at any age of life through accidental happen
ings. Thus lasting distaste for any article
of food may be developed if that food at any
time is eaten under conditions provocative
of nausea or sentiments of disgust.
Or food prejudice may result if any food
is for too long a time made staple of the
daily diet, People obliged to eat one kind
of meat, day in and day out, may develop
for that kind of meat a dislike amounting
almost to detestation.
But the fact remains that the average food
fusser has been a food fusser from childhood
and the blame for his fussiness-and perhaps
his consequent i'll health-rests with his
parents.
Sound food habits need to be established
early. Else they may never be established.
Copyright, 1919 by The Associated
Newspapers.)
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05
Where the Blame Lies.

w 7 HO really is responsible for inefficient
wv and unrepresentative government?
Who really is to blame for under
paid teachers and discreditable roads? Who
really holds the key to these and hundred
related needs, yet slothfully neglects to use it?
Many books have been written by way of
answer, and many labored theories advanced;
but we have seen none SO comprehensive
and succinct this single sentence from the
Philadelphia Public Ledger-"It is the voter
who doesn't vote" 1t is the citizen who be-
walls conditions as they and beTates the
powers that be, yet will not take the time
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05

The present cold snap is comfortable, but
it is also a reminder to- the poor fellow who
has to buy a regular winter overcoat.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05

Where is the old-fashioned Republican
party that was united on all occasions?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05

All work and no play makes Jacks son
rich.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05

Many people were disappointed in Andrew
Carnegie's will. Naturally. He couldn't in
clude everybody.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05
The Root Of the Problem.

w RESIDENT WILSON went to the root
of the deepest problem of the hour
when in the course of his Labor Day
message he urged that every citizen mot
only refrain from doing anything which at
the moment will tend to increase the cost
of living" but:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05

Germany has paid to France an indemnity
of 100000 francs for the murder of Serg.
Paul Mannheim, who was killed in the streets
of Berlin by a German in July. The French
government will make a gift of this sum to
the International Red Cross. France origi-
nally claimed the payment by Germany of
100000 francs for the family of Sergeant
Mannheim and an indemnity of 100000
Germany readily agreed to pay the former
sum but declared she would not meet the
demand for indemnity. The course of ne
gotiations the has not been traced
in recent dispatches, but it seems evident that
France continued to press her claim to the
demanded
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05

Nine. Curie, the French physicist, who
with her husband, was the discoverer O.
radium, has been elected professor OF raol
ologv at Warsaw university, Poland.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01
CLEVELAND PHONES BUZZING
Telephone Operators and Electrical
Workers End Three Weeks
Strike.

Cleveland, O., July 26.-This city en-
joyed normal telephone service for the
first time in more than three weeks,
as a result Of the termination Of the
strike of operators and electrical
workers, who voted almost unanimous
" last night to return to work. The
workers returned on the basis Of the
agreement reached In Washington
Monday, at a conference Of company
officials, special committee Of city
council and post office authorities.
The agreement provides that tele-
phone companies shall permit their
employees to organize, that all en-
ployees shall be reinstated, that organ
ization activities be forbidden during
working hours and that imported en-
ployees be returned to their homes.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01

When difficulty Is encountered In
Kidding place Of mice BY the ordi-
nary methods, try this one, which 10
outlined by 8. L Bastin In Popular
Mechanics Magazine: Get fairly
tight barrel and bore a hole near the
bottom to serve as am eEExnnce. Throw
into the barrel q quantity Of shavtngs
or any material that would be useful
to the mice In forming nests. Add
some grain to serve as an additional
attraction and then cover with piece
Of wood Let the barrel remain In a
place infested with mice for week
or ten days. At the end of this time
numbers of the creatures will have
taken up their abode In the barrel and
be busy nest making. Then stop up
the hole in the bottom with cork
or wood plug of proper size, lift up
the cover of the barrel a little and
pour in water until there is sufficient
to drown the occupants. The trap
may be emptied and, after drying, set
up again. In this way locality is
soon cleared Of mice.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all it's stages, and that is
catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure known to the medical fra
ternity. Catarrh being constitutional
disease. requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surface of the system, there
by destroying the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength. by
building up the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing it's work The pro-
prletors have go much faith it's cura-
tive powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for lists of testimonials, Address,
F. Cheney, & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by all druggists 75c.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01
Do 1T NOW!
Edgerton People Should Not Wait
Until It Is Too Late.

The appalling death rate from kid
ney disease is due in most cases to the
fact that the little kidney troubles are
usually neglected until they become
serious. The slight symptoms often
give place to chronic disorders and the
sufferer may slip gradually into some
serious form of kidney complaint.
If you suffer from backache, head
aches, dizzy spells; if the kidney secre-
lions are irregular of passage, do not
delay. Help the kidneys at once.
Doan's Kidney Pills are especially
for kidney disorders-they act where
others fail. Over one hundred thou
sand people have recommended them.
Here is one of many cases in this
vicinity.
Mrs. George Hammes, 1908 Ravine
ST., GAINESVILLE, Wis, says: my kid
neys were in bad shape and had Sc
we're baskaches and pains across my
hips. I had headaches and dizzy spells,
was nervous and felt miserable. Doan's
Kidney Pills cured me"
Price 6Oc at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Hammes had. Foster ilburn Co.,
Mfgrs.. Buffalo, n. Y.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01
EX-PRESlDENT TAFT URGES
PEACE PACT COMPROMISE
Opens Correspondence With the Lead.
ers of Both Parties-tvouid
Patch Differences.

Washington, July 25.-Former Presi-
Republican senators and leaders sug-
costing reservations to the peace treaty
which might be acceptable to both
sides, has opened correspondence on
the subject with prominent Democrat
ic senators.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, one
of the leading spokesman for the adj
ministratiOn In the senate fight. re-
ceived letter from Mr.. Taft.
The former presidents communica-
ton to the Nebraska senator was not
made public. but it was understood to
be of the same general tenor as those
sent to the Republicans-suggestions
for agreement upon treaty reServa-
tons or interpretations to facilitate
ratification.
Senator Hitchcock and other admin
istration senators declared, however.
that for the present, at least, they
would continue their efforts for ratif1-
cation without reservations. Express
ing confidence that there was no Ques-
ton but that the treaty would be rati-
fed, they said the fight now conferred
on the resolution accompanying ratifi-
cation In which would be embodied
any reservations or Interpretations.
Contending that senate rules re-
quired a vote on each article Of the
treaty, the administration leaders said
they believed they had the votes to de-
feat amendments to any section,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-08-01
A Travelling MANS Elk

You may learn something from the
following by w. FL. Ireland, travel
ing salesman of Louisville, KY. SIN
the summer of 1883 / had severe at
tack of cholera morbus. gave hotel
porter fifty cents and told him to buy
me bottle of Chamberlain Collie and
Diarrhoea Remedy and to take no sub
stitute. took double dose of it ac-
cording to the directions and went to
sleep. At five o'clock the next morn
ing / was called by my order and took
train for my next stopping place, q
well man.