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Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
The Disappearing Carriage.

Who bought the 244,oOo carriages which
were manufactured in the United States in
1892 Occasionally one sees one Of these vehi-
cles behinda spanking team on country road,
and once in while decrcpit specimen Of the
buggymakers' art penetrates into the heart of
Che city. But the only place where shiny new
vehicles are noted is'at horse show. Large
though the output reported by the census Office
is, yet it represents halving Of the number Of
carriages produced in 1914, FIVE years before.
Wagons came nearer to holding their own,
4l36O0 Of them having been sold, but even this
is falling off of 10000 in half decade. And
only $1,000 sleighs were contributed to the
pleasure Of winter days.
The present year probably will see further
decreases in output from the carriage and wagon
works Yet one does not hear any public COM
plant on the part of the manufacturers. They
have turned their plants to other uses, and for
every employe turned off the automobile indus
try has hired two. When Uncle Sam took the
pledge and the saloons closed down. consider
able agitation was heard for indemnifying the
liquor trade for its losses, but here is another
industry evidently on the way to extinction,
without a word being raised in its behalf.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
Francis Morion's Craze

Writing from ST. Stephens to the County
Record Of Kingstree Mrs. D. D. Mckenzie tells
Of a visit which she has just paid to the old
homestead and grave of Gen. Francis Marion,
South Cardinals great partisan leader in the
War Of the Revolution. The condition of the
family cemetery in which General Marion is
buried filled Mrs. Mckenzie with humiliation
that one to whom South Carolina owes so much
should lie today amid the neglect she there wit
messed. "The tombs have falfen," she says,
"somc of them smashed to pieces and no signs
of neatness, care or attention in the old ceme-
tery-nothing but weeds briars. bushes and
trees growing over and around General Marions
resting place." At the generals old home, some
Of the rooms are still in good repair, but others
have fallen in.
Francis Marion was not only a wonderful
military leader whose part in the revolutionary
struggle has been immortalized in American his
tory, but he was one of the best and wisest men
of his day. His name and fame are perpetuated
all over America in the towns which have been
called after him. Is South Carolina so poor
that the grave where lies his dust should be left
to grow up in weeds?-Charleston News and
Courier.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
Sims Charges Sustained.

A. majority report to the senate from the
committee that inquired into the merits of the
controversy between Admiral Sims and the late
Secretary Of Navy Josephus Daniels finds that
the charges made by the admiral are well
founded. These include the assertion made by
the indignant naval commander, who was sent
to England with the parting admonition that he
should not let the British pull the wool over
his eyes, for I'VE would ss soon fight them as
anybody" that delay At Washington cost half
a million lives and $ls,000000000. Also the
charge that recommendations made by him after
he had reached the war arena were held up
some for weeks, some for year, yet all finally
acted upon, the delay, however, in each instance
being vexatious and costly.
A minority report finds all the other way
around, and gives the former secretary Of the
navy clear bill This, however, is purely
partisan view, something that supporters OF
Mr.. Daniels will not hesitate-to say in regard
1t does bear out much that was said in criticism
Of the conduct of our share Of the war at the
time. When complaint was made that time
was being lost, Newton D. Baker replied that
the war was 5000 miles away. The action Of
the navy at that time was as mysterious and un-
certain IS the armys.
Sims made his charges knowing the conse-
quences of failure to make good when called
upon to establish them. The situation is one
that will not admit of whitewash. Action by
the senate may not settle the controversy, but
it will do much to decide in the minds of many
Americans as to whether the government moved
as wisely or as expeditiousy as il might in the
critical early hours Of 1917.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
Pie for Patriots

New England once was called the pie belt.
Today the United States is the pie belt There
is also the individual pie belt which every man
wears every summer as a, sustainer of his in
dispensabes He lets it out two holes in the
season when the esculent fruits and -four are
brought into succulous association.
The American pie is slander proof There
may be those to say that the philosophers and
poets Of New England would have lived longer
and have written better if they had not eaten
pie for breakfast, dinner and supper, but no
proof can be adduced in support of the saying.
It is the weakest of assumptions. Comparison
of the intellectual merits of New England pie
eaters and nonpie eaters is impossible, because
every man and woman in New England who
ever wrote anything worth while worked on a
basis of pie three times a day.
Recently there has been an attempt in the
lands more glitterng inns to substitute French
pastry for American pie. The pastry is peddled
about upon board and displayed to the eye
with all its gummy trappings. 1t depends for
patronage upon the kind of customers one of
whom is said to be born every minute. Even
the timid who yield to the arrogant-eyed i'm
portunities of the board bearer, and even those
who supply the statistics for the one-every-
sixty-seconds birth rate never 60 twice to the
trap.
1t takes more than glucose, saccharine and
plaster of paris to draw the patriot away from
pie, the delectable Of all right-thinking, right
living Americans.-Chicago Evening Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
Is the Habit of
Reading Lost i?
From the baltimore Amer,can.)

At the convention Of the National
Education association at Des Moines
Ella F. Chamberlain, a librarian.
made a.statement which is startling.
il true. She asserted al tho result
OF her own personal experience that
today neither the average teacher
nor the average pupil is a reader OF
books and that for everybody read
lost art. If this statement as 1t
stands represents her deliberate
Judgment, 1t surely needs good
number Of readers Of books either
now or in any previous generation
with which comparison can be
made will never be known. All that
can be said is that probably 1t has
always been small proportion OF
the whole population and there
seems no ground for saying that the.
proportion is any smaller now than
1t used to be in "the good old times"
The newspaper and the widely
circulated magazine have become
the library Of large masses Of people
and may have tended to displace
books. But even If they have. they
have attracted, many thousands OF
readers who would certainly not
have had the inclination. and per-
haps not the ability, to read books.
After making this allowance. there
still remains the question. who Is
it that reads the books published In
quantities?
Many people do their reading
chiefly in books obtained from IL
braries, but there is a large book
buying public, the number of which.
If not as large as 1t might be. ap-
pears by all recent accounts to be on
the increase. Publishers, booksel-
lers and other people who ought to
know say that during the last year
people have been buying more books
and better books, which in most
cases must be for use and not merely
for display as furniture. At the
moment the high cost of books
makes them a prohibitive luxury
for many who ordinarily would be
regular buyers. There Is also
among the enormously large propor-
ton Of people who earn their living
in business and manufacturing con-
Germs a considerable sale for books
dealing with business and manufac-
turing methods and developments,
which are not usually to be found In
libraries and must be bought by the
people who wish to study them. Al
together the statement that "reAd-
ing at home is fast becoming a lost
art" while it has a percentage Of
truth in it, is far from being the
whole truth.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

employment one week and the remainder the
next.
Vast experiments are going on. and what the
eventual result is to be no man can tell. If, as
we are being told, Americans normally produce
more than they can consume, and if foreign
markets are to remain inactive, limitation of
working hours eoneeivably might come to pass.
Certainly one-hsf the population can not ex-
peet to have all the jobs and support the other
half by their charity or taxes.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
Rail and Water Transportation.

Were it only the farmer who is adversely
affected by the existing railroad freight rates,
the case would be bad enough, but the burden
is irksome to others as well. news telegram
from Pittsburgh says:
here. that unless the Ohio and Allegheny
river Improvements were completed and the
Lake Erie and Ohio River canal constructed
it would be necessary to move most local fur
naces to the Great Lakes or the Atlantic
coast, have jst received striking, confirmation,
Steel corporation few days ago shipped
5000 tons Of steel from Mobile to Alaska en-
tirely by water because OF the high rail rates.
Last week the first shipment of wheat was
made from Duluth to New York on inland
waterways--the Great Lakes, the New York
Barge canal and the Hudson river
The Importance of developing inland water
ways, to provide cheaper method for
transporting bulky commodities is admitted
Only when this is achieved will the producer be
freed from condition that is. becoming more
and more oppressive. So far as the railroads
are concerned, they must prepare to meet the
future on different basis. Methods of opera
ton will have to be revised, economies sug-
gested in management during the war must be
adapted to produce the saving expected, be-
cause present charges for service are too great
to be permanently sustained.
That the public is willing the railroads should
prosper has been we'll proven, but that pros
perity should not be achieved at the expense
of ruin for others. Somewhere the reasonable
relation between service and charges should be
established, but at present rates are sadly out
Of proportion and business suffers accordingly.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
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John BrogaA's Homo.

Corley. Ia, July 16,---To the Ed
tor of The Bee; 1t Is hard to get
the idea OF what Jerry is trying -
do or explain by his quotation Of
figures and confession OF ignorance
as to when Brogan's homo will be
paid for. People generally get their
homes paid for when they deliver
the cash for them. When they can
not deliver the cash probably Jerry
would like the state to do so. Prob
ably Jerry would like the state to
deliver the cash for home for him.
Brogan bought home worth So
500 on a capital of $1,000. He lived
rent free on the place for 1s months,
paying $40 a month and $110 addi-
tional. Thus he had the use of over
$4,000 Of the sellers money for Is
months, which would be worth
about $3.50: $500 plus $3.50
amounts to $3.740. He paid $3.50.
leaving balance Of $2.1b0. The
difference between that. and what
his books show he, owes Is $l26..
Probably taxes and insurance In
large city like Omaha for Is months
would amount to sl26. What then
Is wrong with Brogan's case. II he
Is out of work and has sick wife
and five children by all means give
him work, give him money and give
him home without his paying for
it II you can find someone who has
already paid for their home to hand
over the necessary spondulix, Jerry
Is talking to hear himself talk or
no is one Of those g1nks who want
something for nothing. Well. II he
hollers loud enough the state might
give him and his friends a home in
the poorhouse some day where he
can converse witls others who want
ed homes without paying for them.
ONE WHO HAS NO HOME YET.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

and unbending Adams may have
seemed in his later years, he could
write verses which would have won
him a niche in almost any Of our
contemporary columns" Here Is
a stanza from his paraphrase OF
"Integer Vitae" which he made
over into a variation Of Sally N
Our Alley"
Else wherefore was II, Thursday last,
While strollIng down the valley,
Defenceless, musing, as I passed
A canzonet to Sally,
A wolf, with mouth. .protruding snout,
Forth from the thicket bounded
clapped my hand and raised shout,
He heard. and fled, confounded.
Benjamin Franklin was q satiristl
in his own college---the printer n
galley. But here the list seems toE
come to an end. We have constant
stream of foreign ministers who
were once literary men and no end
of literary men who once enjoyed
political favor, but Mr.. Hughes ap-
pears to be the only avowed college
wit who has managed to make an
impression in political life. Per-
haps potential statesmen are al
ready serious in college. Or per-
'haps we have been overlooking
source of material for the diplo-
matte service by not reading regular
ly the college comics.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
Passing Jobs Around.

All navy yards and shore stations, it is an
nounced, are to go on a 6ve-day week. Private
industrial plants in some instances are likewise
running on shortened time. Voices rise here
and there to suggest that in order to remedy
unemployment il might be wise to install s.
hour week in some lines. 1t will be re-
membered that the miners almost two years
ago proposed plan Of this sort as way out
of the three or four-month period in which they
had no work. although in the rush season they
had to- put in overtime. By one system now in
use IN the east half the working force Is given
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
DEATH LOVES A FAT MAN.

The old saw nobody loves a fat
man" cannot Withstand scientific in
vestigation.
Death loves the fat man.
The insurance companies will rec
off yards of figures to prove it
Diabetes loves the fat man and
Joslin proves 1t by string of fig.
ures.
A study of the weight for heigh,
and age for 1000 cases of diabetes
under his observation, proves that
when a person begins to put on ex-
cessive weight he starts for diabetes
If he gets wise to the place he is
headed for and changes his habits
eats less and exercises more, he may
never arrive at the goal, or some
other malady may catch him before
he gets there, but that does not
alter the fact that fat men and
women are on the way. .. =.
Joslin was not disposed to split
hairs. so he counted all persons be-
tween 5 per cent below and per
cent above weight as being in the
normal weight class. OF the ,000
only 159 were in this class. There
were a few underweights-107 of
them. OF these 81 were under 80 ~
For some reason or other weight
doesn't seem to be an important
factor in diabetes Of the aged. How
ever, closer studies of diabetes in
relation to weight in children are
being made, especially diabetes In
persons who were fat boys and fat
girls.
All the remainder of the 1000,
that is, 734. were overweight. Why
10 Of the number were more than
70 per cent overweight. For in
stance, a woman who should have
weighed 140 pounds was found to
weigh 23s and to be a diabetic. "
Consider the pounds of candy, pie,
sugar, ice cream, bread and pota-
tees eaten up to make that 23S
pounds, good part fat. and the
strain 1t must have put on the or
gans which convert sugar and
starch into fat and energy
A long time ago Won Urden said
all fat persons should have their
urine examined periodically for sug-
ar. He said that many who found
no sugar in their urine and who
were disposed to think themselves
out of danger would find that they
had an excessive amount of sugar
in the blood If they also had blood
sugar test made.
Joslin took up a number Of causes
Of diabetes and showed how they
operated by bringing about obesity.
There was diabetes in husband and
wife. Easy! They got fat together
because they ate at the same table.
Diabetes in Jews? Easy! What
other group likes so well to eat?
Fat? No need to answer.
Diabetes among the rich? Again
easy! Heredity? Unusual ex-
posure to an obetic environment"
to quote our Boston friend. !.
Among metal workers.. Do they
not tend to become fat? Among
convalescents? Are they not over
fed? +.
Age? The ages in which obesity
is greatest are those in which there
is most diabetes. In, ages SO to 70
there are more cases Of overweight
and more cases of diabetes.
In Joslin's test no person over so
years Of age and 20 per cent under
weight developed diabetes. AS a
rule, a person gets all the weight he
needs at the age OF 80. He has
enough to protect himself against
consumption. Joslin's opinion is that
all the weight we put on above that.
proper for height and sex at age OF
80, is definite liability, and out OF
1t diabetes may develop.
The moral is: Exercise more
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
WIT of Statesmen
Robert A. Simon. In the New York
Evening POSI-

Evening TON.D
Charles Evans Hughes under
graduate essays In satire may have
helped to ft him for his present
post. but the roster Of our high Of
ficials. past and present, reveals few
ons-time college wits. A glance
through a collection OF old campus
comics shows many contributors
who have since become celebrities
but the political celebrities are al
most nonexistent. Perhaps there Is
something in the atmosphere Of
Brown university that turns literary
seniors into secretaries OF state, for
John Hay. who preceded Mr..
Hughes at Brown and In the State
department. indulged in humorous
verse with no little success.
Apparently. John Hay did not
make his debut In the pages of an
undergraduate publication, for these
oddities were scarce In his ballad
days. However his verses Jim
Bludso" and his Little Breeches"
were composed long before their au-
thor became asnational figure, and
even today they are better known
to the majority than Hays contri-
buttons to our foreign policies. After
Mr.. Hay became distinguished
statesman, many persons attributed
Little Breeches" to Bret Harte, be-
cause 1t seemed impossible for q
dignifed diplomat to have written
poem with so informal title. The
confusion amused Bret Harte. who
once told lady. who insisted on
ycomplime menting him on Little
Rreeches," that she had put the
breeches on the wrong man.
Theodore Roosevelt was at one
time editor OF the Harvard Advocate,
but that was before the Advocate
issued burlesques of the Atlantic
Monthly. T. r. was one of the lead
crs Of his class, but he seems to
have refrained from any manifesto
tions of published hilarity. 1t is
rather startling to see his name
signed to a piece in the June 25,
1880, Lampoon-but the contribu-
ton was only a primlyworded an
houncement from a class day COM
mittee of which Roosevelt was a
member.
Although Woodrow Wilson's repu-
tation as wag is private rather
than public, there are bits of charm
ing satire in Mere Literature. which
he published quarter Of a
century ago. 1t is possible that some
Of these essays may have appeared
originally in Princeton journals, al
though some good Princetcnian may
be able to furnish proof to the con-
trary. 1t Is said that Mr.. Wilson'S
favorite form of humor is the
limerick, and some years ago the
following verse was ascribed to him
perhaps: 4
For beauty am not q star:
There are others more handsome by
far, l"
But my face, don't mind 1t
For am behind it.
It's the people in front that Jar.
There have been other writer's Of
light verse in the presidential chair,
although 1t is surprising to find that
the only accomplished one was John
Quincy Adams. However formidable
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
Where to Expect Progress.

Modern men, when they change
locations, inquire first about the tax
rate in the communities they are
attracted to. Everywhere they find
sufficient school houses. churches,
and sufficient moral standards. The
first question they ask is: What is
your tax rate Pc. w. Howe's
Monfh1y
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
The Bees Platform

I. New Union Passenger Station.
!. Continued improvement Of the Ne.
braska Highways, Including the psvs-
msnt Of Main Thoroushfarss leading
into Omaha with Brick Surface.
3. A short, low.rate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
{. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
What's the Answer?

Musings of non-expert: We
must sell abroad If we desire pros
perity, they tell us. If we sell abroad
we shall have to produce merchan-
disc cheaper than the people abroad
can produce it themselves. Are we
doing it?-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
How to Keep Well
By DR.. w. A. EVANS

Questions concerning hygiene, santa
tioR and prevention Of disease, sub
mitted to DR.. Evans by resders Of
The Bee, will be snswsrsd personally,
subject to proper limitation, where a
stamped. addressed envelope 10 en-
closed. DR.. Evans will not make
diagnosis or prescribe for individual
diseases. Address letters In care Of
The Bee.
Copyright. 1921, By DR.. W. A. Evans.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
Japan on Disarmament.

Advancing to the stage Of the postal card
vote, Japan took one on disarmament, "a per
cent voting "aye." But what's postal card
between nations whose natural and inevitable re-
lations must be those of ennnty? Japan can
still serve as an ogre justifying huge army and
navy bills at Washington.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

If Henry Ford leases the government water
power plants in Alabama and makes success Of
what has been a failure, why not turn the rail-
roads over to him or let him collect the taxes
and run the government?
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

and eat less and thus escape obesity
and her daughter diabetes"
If you have not sufficient self
control for all the year perhaps you
have enough to last through the hot
weather. Try it during the dog days
ANYHOW,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
At Least That,

p. If Lloyd George comes to Wash
ington for the conference he will be
sure at least Of pleasant sea. voy-
age and a certain amount of space
in the American press.-Boston
transcript. 1877 arEaf
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

Only eight people were hurt in auto crashes
hereabouts on Sunday. Yet none Of these would
have been injured If the drivers had all been
careful
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

Secretary Mellon need not worry over the
appearance Of the money if he will just arrange
to give each all he wants.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

Just because General Sawyer has taken up
horseback riding is no reason for calling him
horse doctor.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

In revising taxes it is to be hoped congress
will drop the transportation taxes. These bring
in $3O0,000,000 year, but they add just that
much burden on shippers who are already bowed
down with freight rates.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

The "wobblies" seem bent on filing the jail.
the dry laws emptied.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
Women Coming With Rush.

Since the signing of the armistice half mil
lion women have come into this country.-Dear-
born Independent. 81
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

Mr.. Hoover may find out that most of the
savers Of the United States already own homes
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19
Country Children Do.

You never see children playing horse any
more.-StS Louis Globe Democrat.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

Old J. piuvius il on the side Of King Corn
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-19

There have been other writer's Of
light verse in the presidential chair.
although 1t is surprising to find that
the only accomplished one was John
Quincy Adams. However formidable