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Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
IfBarneyHad Waited
tFrom the Baltimore American.)

A peculiar feature Of the business
situation this year is that there is
more depression than failure. Busi-
ness men were tuned up to fast
clip by the transactions of great
war and the problems of vast
peace, and it hits their nerves to real
ize that in place of drive pushing
them onward they need to sit tight.
The American business man seeks
the tonic of action. Without it he
sees blue and fears the worst. His
hard problem is to wait for the turn
of the tide. A great authority has
said that American business can
stand anything except uncertainty
and just now the world Is full OF
uncertainty. But it is absolutely
certain that the tide will turn. 1t
always has and it always will.
One of the most tragic instances
Of giving way to depression that
turned was the death Of Barney Bar
nato, the diamond king Of South
Africa. The story is told authen-
tically in Scribner's by John Hays
Hammond, who was his consulting
engineer Barnato had formed a
new corporation, but financial de-
preston fell upon London and the
Rarnato shares declined sharply. He
started for London to meet his dis
appointed shareholders On the voy
age his depression increased and it
weighed so heavily on his mind that
he threatened to commit suicide.
Then his friends kept watch over
him, but the day before the steamer
touched at Madeira he escaped from
them and jumped into the sea. 'That
was before the days of wireless"
says Mr.. Hammond. Had Barney
lived to reach Madeira, he would
have learned that the market had
taken turn upward, that the shares
he sold to friends were actually
standing at a premium" And to-
day, adds Mr.. Hammond, "the Bar
nato group is the greatest group OF
financiers in England, SURPRISING
even the Rothchilds in money.
power"
Business operates under pretty
much the same rules and the same
chances and the same Influences,
whether it's operations be in hun
dreds or hundreds, of millions. It
hasits ebb and it's flow and there
always comes a time Of slack water.
Since last August there has been a.
good deal Of ebb, and in this present
waiting there is need Of a fisher
mans sound sense and philosophy.
For the real fisherman is our cham
pion optinlist; he never even thinks
of suicide, for he knows that tides
have their ways and that it is the
duty Of man to adjust himself to
their laws and opportunities. He
may not catch as many fish in slack
water, but it gives him good time to
mend his lines and dig more bait.
If Barney had waited; if he had
not given way to his depression, he
would probably be the richest man
in the world. Mr.. Hammond says
he was financial genius. "If he
were alive today and without cent"
he declares, II would grubstake him
with a few thousand dollars, and,
launched with that small capital in
Wall street, he would soon have all
the money there was In that specu-
lative center" This seems a big
statement-but Barney dfd not wait.
The lesson Of his fate alone remains.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
Department of Public Welfare.

One Of the first practical steps in redemption
Of the pledge to reform the administration OF our
government has been taken in the introduction
Of measure to establish cabinet Department
OF Public Welfare. Under such head will be
grouped various bureaus and commissions now
functioning as portions OF other departments.
The step will simply bring together in CO..
ordinated and properly related manner the activ-
tiles now scattered among the Treasury, War,
Agriculture, Interior and Commerce depart
ments, and by closer association make them more
effective.
However, there is danger to our democratic
ideals in such a movement. Public health, educa-
ton, care for the wounded veterans direction of
the pension bureau and war insurance, and all
the related processes of government are in them-
selves appropriate subjects for regulation, and
yet the presence OF the government in such fash
ion in the ordinary lives of the people indicates
paternalistic attitude not always in harmony with
accepted notions of democracy. Some regula-
ton is vitality necessary but the temptation to
abuse is always present, and it may well be queS-
toned how far Americans are willing to advance
along lines that lead inevitably to bureaucracy.
President HardinE's devotion and pledges to
the wounded soldiers are shared by the Ameri-
!, can people. He properly said Alabama and Ohio
are one on the point and he may safely add all
other states to the list. This willingness to pro-
vide for disabled veterans, however, must not be
taken as basis on which to found a system of
interference with personal affairs. The Depart
ment Of Public Welfare may be made most use
full and beneficial agency of the government. and
il NAV become burdensornc II unWsely framed
or extremely administered.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
A Pitiable Shame.

We are not in position to know what meas
ures should be taken by congress in the way OF
co-ordinating various bureaus which now deal
with the necessities of disabled soldiers, but we
know that the American people want everything
done for these men that gratitude and money
can do. The burden OF war falls very unequally
upon citizens. War >deprives some families of
their bread winners; some men it disables for
life; it impoverishes millions of families. On the
other hand, it pours into the lap Of the small
minority wealth such as they never could have
amassed except through war. There are men
in the United States and, of course in every
country in Europe, rich beyond their most
avaricous dreams. They made it all in the world
war. And they made it by prohteering. These
war-made mionaires are pouring into New
York to spend their fabulous incomes War
did it, II we are not going to continue civil war
among the white races. might not something be
done to prevent these war fortunes? That may
be impossible We do not know. But we know
that it is ptiable shame that one section of the
population should be fattening on war profits
while disabled soldiers are being neglected.
Churchman.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
Profit and Loss in Farming
Experience in Gage County
.Analvzed by Real Experts

On the theory that farming may be approach
ing preWar conditions, the Nebraska College OF
Agriculture has made public an analysis OF the
incomes from So Gage county farms in 1914
The farms are graded according to their losses
and profits and an attempt is made to analyze
some of the reasons for the variations, the pur-
pose being to encourage farmtrs to keep books
and check up their operations from time TO time,
as is the practice in the business world.
The figures make an allowance for interest
on investment, which in some instances was
large Also the income allows the farmer no
wages. In other words, the profits as set forth
in the report represent the annual salary of the
farmer, and in addition must cover interest on
investment Allowances are made for deprecia-
ton.
Six of the So Gage county farms lost money in
1914, some OF them as much as $l,s00. Not only
did the man who operated the farm receive moth
ing for his years work and capital invested, but
he was worth 81 500 less at the end of the year
than at the beginning. Twenty farms made less
than $500 EACH Eighteen of them made less
than $1,000; FIVE farmers received more than
$1,000 for their years work, and only two re-
ceivcd more than $4,000.
The farms ranged in size from l9l to 40S
acres, but TIL. college analysts do not consider
size as one OF the important factors in the profits
and losses in this instance. The analysis shows
that the men who had low income made less
efficient use of man and horse labor. The farm
as many acres per man and per horse as did
those who lost money. Likewise, the efficient
management OF live stock stands out rather
prominently on the more successful farms. On
the three highest classes OF farms, where the
live stock inventories were between 5000 and
$4,000, the sales of live stock varied from 772 to
$1,000, difference of 16o per cent. On these
same farms the sales of crops varied from $2l70
to $500, or a spread of 90 per cent. Crop
yields were also materially better on the farms
making the most money.
In order to encourage farmers to keep simple
sets of books for the purpose of checking their
profits and losses, the college provides account
books, assists in keeping them, analyses them
and makes confidential reports.
"A business capitalized at $35,000 in the qty
represents good-sized investment, but it would
be dead one if the manager did not keep care
full accounts and study his business, so that he
could plug up the leaks-large or SMALL" says
the analysis of the Gage county farm incomes.
IF study and analysis Of his business pays the
city man, why shouldn't it pay the farmer? AS
matter of fact, it does pay very we'll"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
Are Athletics College
Advert9s1;nQ?

believe in college recreation; | delight in
going to undergraduate parties myself And
especially do believe in the value of athletics.
have no thought of launching conventional
diatribe against an activity that contributes to
student solidarity. encourages fair competition,
and serves in score of ways as an antidote for
undergraduate provinciality. But the use, either
official or semi-official of athletics to advertise
the academic departments of an institution is dis
honest in principle and vicious in its ultimate
effects.
"But college is like business" one of my
former students said to me recently. "You see,
the successful automobile manufacturer must
look after his advertising department as well as
his production, and in college your advertising
department. is your athletic sport"
industry what does the advertising department
advertiser"
Why, he replied, "the production end of it.
And" inquired further, "if athletics are to
be regarded as the advertising department of
college, what department do they advertiser"
He hesitated nlomsnt and then replied, in
a good-natured effort to get even: well, pro-
lessor, when I was in college you didn't teach
me to reason straight enough. OF course, see
now that athletics advertise the advertising de-
partment."
sent the professed chief business Of an nstitu-
ton may be seen in the following instance: A
state university in the middle west secured new
foot ball COACH In order to let the world know
that new era was dawning for this institution
committee prepared an illustrated circular
which set forth vividly this new coach's athletic
proves. By utilizing sectional basket ball
tournaments that the high schools Of the state
held soon afterward, the committee placed this
circular in the hands of virtually all the pupils
who were then attending high school in that
state. Some Of these boys and girls at once de-
cided to attend this university. Among them
were many who could give no reason for doing
so, other than that this physica giant was going
to bring the institution to the front" Now.
this state university is honored by having at its
head man Of great capacity and unusual per-
sonal charm, and it numbers among its teachers
many men who are known to thinking people
throughout the entire country. Yet when
questioned some of ,these boys and girls who
had decided to go thtre to college, found that
many of them did not know the name OF the
president; that they could not name any teacher
in the institution; and that they did not know
what courses, or even what subjects they would
have the opportunity to study once they were
there. Some of them vaguely contemplated
studying subjects which had never been in the
curriculum of that university. Perhaps when they
matriculated the following autumn, the obscurity
OF their own purpose kept them from being
greatly disappointed. But if mail order house
had resorted to the same methods in securing
them for customers their fathers would have
prosecuted it for securing money under false pre-
tenses.-Prof r. w. Brown, in Harper's Maga-
zine for May.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
Peace by Resolution.

The New Zealand court Of appeals should
look up the records in the case; it might then
modify its opinion that the United States, having
accepted no responsibility under the Treaty Of
Versailles. is entitled to no rights under that
treaty. Primariy, this view is wrong, for the
Treaty OF Versailles affects the rights Of every
organized government, whether signatory to it
or not. Likewise. the United States has accepted
certain responsibilities under it, or rather, those
growing out of the war, and therefore must be
considered in all settlements flowing from it.
Secretary Hughes made this so clear in his notes
on the Yap issue and to Germany that even
court a. far away as New Zealand should be
we'll informed as to what is concerned in the
matter.
Chairman Porter OF the house committee on
foreign relations is holding up the Knox resolu-
ton, that he may study its possible effect on
points. He gives as his opinion that peace may
be established by single resolution, declaring
the war at an end. However, he says there is no
pressing need for haste, and he is desrous of
learning just what may come out Of the possible
participation Of the United States on the repara-
ton commission, and the Yap controversy. be-
fore. determining finally the form in which the
peace resolution will be presented to the house
Matters are moving with some speed in
Europe just now When the German cabinet re-
signed, as the net result of the failure Of DR..
Simons to secure important concessions on the
reparation question, it was taken as indicating
eventual acquiesccnce in the Allied program
This conjecture may not be justified, but while
the settlement is pending it is assured the United
States will be no worse off if the peace resolution
is temporarily held in abeyance.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07

those who differ from them. who clamor at any
innovation and Shrek at the thought OF reform.
It is as Hszlitt once said: THE most danger
Gus enemie. to established opinions are those
who, by. always defending them call attention
to their weak sides"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
The Bees Platform

/. New Union Passenger Statiea.
2. Continusd improvement Of the Ne.
braska Hishways. iaeludiny shs pave
msnt Of Maia Thoroushfsrss leading
into Omaha with Brick Surface.
3. A short, low.rats Waterway fren the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager fern Of Government.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
Jerry Il G. to X,

Omaha, May 4.-To the Editor Of
The Bee: l am curious to learn the
reason for the harmony that existed
between big business and the work
ing class on election day. as during
the remainder Of the year labor and
capital are found working entirely
in different camps. 1t appears to the
writer that on election day the in
terests of the workers and corpora
tions should clash, their interests
being entirely different. I have no
desire to raise a class question, how
ever, ] fail to see where the labor
class derives any benefit from the
election of corporation men, whether
at Omaha, Lincoln or elsewhere.
Perhaps this harmony is brought
about on election day by a pecuniary
consideration for the leaders.
Let us hope that the day is not far
distant when the horny handed sons
and daughters OF toll will do their
own thinking. JERRY HOWARD.
What Made the Landslide.
Omaha, May 5.--To the Editor of
The Bee: Who defeated four of the
six candidates you endorsed for city
commissioner? Was it not the pro-
hibitionists and the equal suffrage
people?
OF course, both will vehemently
deny the charge, yet Is it not really
true? The prohibition advocates
said all they were after was to wipe
out the public saloon. They falsi-
fed. Although Uncle Sam allows doc
tors to prescribe whisky within GER
tain limits, for the sick. the Nebras-
ka statute will not permit it. and the
aged and sick, to whom a limited
quantity of whisky, as medicine.
would be very beneficial may 'just
as we'll die is the evident viewpoint
of prohibitionists. The writer once
knew a case, in Nebraska, of an in
sane reformer whose dying wife
asked for drop of wine, which he
refused to give her. saying you shalt
die before / will permit you to
touch it'-and she died. They We're
most reputable people.
An the equal suffrage people ex-
pected to make politics cleaner" by
the women's vote, refusing to believe.
when they We're told, that many of
the best of women who did not want
the ballot would refuse to use it,
whereas, on the other hand, the ig-
norant, the n-Americanized, those
who could be easily deceived or pur-
chased, and even well-meaning and
well-intentioned women, who do not
understand politics and the willy
politicians, would be more likely to
vote. The inevitable result would
naturally be worse than the prev1-
Gus condition" increasing the num-
ber Of voters but decreasing the pro-
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07

Ii Senator Kenyons bill prohibiting senators
from having any source OF income outside 'ot
their federal salary should, by any miracle, pass,
considerably property would have to be put in
the wives names and many a statesman would
have to borrow carefare from his better half.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07

New York City wants statehood because of
the domination OF the upstate majority, while
in Illinois, the down-statc folks want to make
Chicato into separate state in order to avoid
its dictation. This is class conscience on a large
scale.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
are half a dozen kinds of heart

are half a dozen kinds of heart
leaks.
2. I have heard OF persons living
with the heart leaks for a long time,
say 70 years. The state Of the mus
Gle is more important than the leak
in determining the question.
8. There are very good books for
the laity written by Babcock, Bishop
and Hirschfield.
Probably Not Harmful.
s. s. writes: "Is the amount of
saltpeter used, in preserving meat
harmful in the system? IL so, in
what way does it affect one?"
REPLY.
I do not think the dose of salt
peter you get will harm you.
Training Is Essential.
Anxious writes: "Please give ME
advice regarding extreme self-con-
sciousness and blushing. l cannot
even walk in the street without
blushing. I am quite well other
WISE"
Training is what you require.
Avert 1t.
Mrs. f. NJ. f. Writes: "1s there
any cure for person infected with
the worst stage OF hydrophobia? ?"
REPLY.
Hydrophobia can be prevented.
There is not much that can be done
in the way of cure for a well de-
veIoped case of the disease.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
Flaw in His Eloouenee.

Senator La Follette's eloquent espousa of the
cause of ireland might have more influence il
he had espoused the cause of the United States a
little harder during the recent Var with Germany
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07

The spectacle OF a world almost crippled bv
the burden OF debt which it owes itself must
seem like paradox to the inhabitants OF Mars
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
SCARS ON THE FACE.

| A fair number of people write to
me about scars left on their faces
| by pimples. As rule they want to
know what can be done to remove
| such scars. There is not much that
l can tell them to do.
| The deed is done long before teey
| become interested and not much can
be done to undo it. / commonly sug-
gest that massaging be done. Per-
| haps this accomplishes something
| when persisted in.
1t is more important that the pub
lie know how such skin disfigure-
ment can be prevented. Why is it
that some people pass through the
greasy age. having a multitude of
pimples all the time, and come out
OF it without any scars, while others
will reap number of scars as the
result of a few acne spots? ! have
seen some people pitted from acne
far worse than others have been as
the result of smallpox. Why the diff
ference in the results of pimples in
different people? The answer is
scratching and picking.
The 1920 volume on skin diseases
of the Practical Medicine series de-
votes eight pages to neurotic ex-
coriations. The page illustrations
might well be pictures Of men and
women we meet on the street daily.
One is closeup side view Of the
lower half of the face of man. On
his cheek, jaw and neck just below
the jaw are 25 ragged scars the like
of those which ! see almost daily.
An article by MacKee quoted says
at times the excoriations may be pro-
duced by the habit Of picking at
every slight elevation on the skin.
This picking or digging may be quite
unintentional and in mild cases it
is limited to an unconscious habit of
passing the hand over the face while
deeply absorbed in study. locating
little rough spot and digging it with
the finger nail until an excoriation
is effected.
If a crust comes, it is picked off
repeatedly. thus causing the lesion
to persist for months.
In the more pronounced cases the
habit is almost uncomfortable and
the person finds it difficult or almost
impossible to avoid picking at the
little islands of epithelial debris. 1t
is nervous habit, the same kind of
impulse that makes one bite the
nails, chew the mustache, bite the
lips and suck the thumb.
Another type is that in which the
person has mania for picking at
sores of various kinds for the pur-
pose of promoting healing or to re-
move foreign bodies supposed to be
present.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
Omen Flats 70 Children

New York has 1egislated against the lap dog
and the canary and in favor Of the child, by max
rent to family which has chrIdren.--Boston
Globe. ~
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
How to Keep Well
By DR.. w. A. EVANS

AL
The will personally suhjsct
notm individual diseases Address
Copyright W. A.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
DEPENDS On Conditions.


A. T. writes: a. If one has bad
cold, but the day is fine, is it better.
to be outdoors or indoors?
"2. Can you name some things
that will make a person stouter?"
REPLY.
1. II you are in the fever stage.
stay in bed or quietly at home at any
rate. In fine weather it is better to
be in bed out of doors or to sit out
than to be in bed or in a chair in
doors.
2. Do not worry. Get nine hours
sleep. Cultivate poise and calm. Eat
a bowl of milk and cereal twice
day. One such portion should be
taken at bedtime.
Leaking Heart Valves.
NJ. NJ. writes: Il. am As years
old and would like to know if leak
ing valve of the heart is serious.
"2. About how long can person
live with that trouble, or are there
two forms of that disease?
"3. Could you please give me the
name of the doctor who wrote a
book on the subject, as I would like
to read it?'
REPLY.
/. 1t is serious or not, according
to the condition of the heart mus
Gle, the habits of the person, and the
degree of injury to the valve. There
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07

portion OF fair-minded and intelli-
gent voters.
Neither the prohibitionists nor the
equal franchise reformers are ex-
pected to see, or seeing, TO admit
the truth. Il TOLD YOU So!'
Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-07
You Are Mistaken.

A Mother writes: "Iehould like
to help the high school ~ who asks
how to get rid of nits IN her hair.
Neither vinegar nor kerosene will do
any good, as they feed on kerosene.
Use 10 cents worth Of red precipi-
tate mixed with fresh lard made into
salve and rubbed into the scalp,
the head covered with a, cloth over
night, two or three nights, then
shampoo
REPLY.
You are wrong in yout statement
that out your way lice eat kerosene.
Either you have confused your bugs
or the oil dealers are selling you fake
kerosene. When kerosene or vine
gar fail it is because the instructions
are not carried out in detail. Kero-
sene is so distastefu1 to lice that
they try to escape from treated
head and may take temporary refuge
in the clothing,