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T1IE BEE: OMAIIA, THURSDAY JANUARY 22, 1914. 9 Dr. Parkhurst's Article Her First Proposal $- By Nell Brinkley Copyright. !(, lntfrmittenat Nwi Fmlt ON Purging New York of Criminals How Fine if Such a Policy Could Be Nationalized Dr. Eliot's Creed; Harvard's Ex-President Forgets Every Man Has Some Form of Faith ii v ii By DR. C. II. rAKKHUllST lt.ls already evident that tho negative policy of police administration, latterly in vogue in this city. Is going to bo re placed by a policy that la positive and that law g going to bo treated as a substantial fact and not as a whim to be respected or Ignored, according to executive cap rice The same holds In the law as in business that peo ple want to know whnl can bo counted on. Peo. pi that would not utherwlso be crim inals become such because the atti tude of the govern ment Is so unpro- uounced as to leave It uncertain whero the line lies between what is crime and what Isn't The edict has gone forth that profes sional criminals will have to sleep and take their meals somewhere outside of Now York. That is as far as our own local government can go, and it is going a great way, and is evidently appreciated by the law-abiding element of the town. It is no argument against what has been already achieved that it simply ex pels an undesirable class nnd does not regenerate It or destroy it. When our Lord, cost out tho unclean sp'rlts and sent them into a herd of swine which .ran down a steep place into the sea and wero drowned, wo infer that that was the end both of the swine and the un clean spirits. Now, it is neither constitutional nor humanitarian to treat In exactly the same way the unclean eplrlts with which we are locally infected, and to send them out In scows and dump them in tho bay. They will simply rnove on are moving on going to Philadelphia, Chicago and St. ' Louis. "What Is our gain is some other cities' loss. Wo are better off, but If dlscaso is transferred from the sto mach to tho liver, tho body considered as a.' corporate whole, is as much In valided as .it was before. It, would bo a "wonderful 'achievement If the -.policy which our local administration haa''Jjut In "force" could T riatfonallxed," and, '.If tho largo cities throughout the country, whero tlio vicious experts, who' liavo just bidden us a. hasty goodbye, are now continuing their operations, would join' us in tho chase and pursue them till thoywere compelled cither to Jump Into tho Pacific or to adopt habits of respecta ble living and of honest Industry. Ex-President Eliot of Harvard univer sity' ;has again pronounced himself on questions of religious faith. This is a frequent habit of his. His ambition seems to bo to Induce people to believe as little as possible. He has a passion for pulling down, but no genius for building up, and will hardly be likely to create a large following among either Jews, Catholics or Protest ants. Differently brought up, he might have Issued as a gunman or n dynamiter. Ac cording to tho account furnished by the press, he has eliminated theology and dogma, from the twentieth century. His destructive criticism has gone even to the extreme of exterminating cieed, but he so far forgets hlmtelf as Immediately to proceed to the formulation of a creed of his own. The creed which ho exterminates was not one of his making. The 6no which he claims Is henceforth going to prevail Is one of his fathering. Like other manu facturers, he Is enamored of the excel lence of hln own goods and Interested to have them usurp tho market. The creed which ho proposes1 docs not contain a great deal, hut lie thinks Just as much of It as other people do of theirs, and that Is the reason why ho keeps talking and writing about It. In decrying forms of faith, the wall against which the learned ex-presldent butts his head Is that every man has some form of faith, and has to have It he Is going to be any kind of force in the world. In every department in which one would be anything more than a -nonentity, one must have a creed, a creed of his own; not one,- perhaps, that has ever been put down In black and white by one's self or by anyone else, but a set of convictions that give shape to whatever one says or does. That .holds In the matter of politics, of morals, of business, of Journalism equally as in affairs of religion. One's significance In any department of life depends on the beliefs that are Hair Grew 4 Inches In A Few Weeks A St. Louis Lady Increased tho Length of Her Hair Four or Five Inches In u Few Weeks With Thts Simple Home Iteclpe. A well-known St. Louis lady, after using a sample recipe on her hair which she mixed at home, made the following statement; "Without exaggeration, my hair has' grown four or five inches." The recipe she used Is as follows, and any lady or'gentleman can mix It at home; To a half pint of water add 1 oz. of bay rum, a small box of Barbo Compound and U oz. glycerine. Apply to the scalp two or three times a week with the tips of the fingers. It not only promotes the growth of the hair, but removes dand ruff, scalp humors and prevents the hair from falling out It darkens streaked, faded 'hair, gray hair and makes It soft and glossy. These ingredients can bo obtained from any drug store at very little cost and mixed at home. Advertisement. cherished relevant to that department and upon the Intensity with which they mo cherished. Without such Inward assurance n man becomes like a balloon which Is ablo to float because It Is so empty, but no one ran tell in what direction it will float, and consequently so unsubstantlaras to bo unable to draw anything after It. It is cry much to be deplored that the Influcuco over young men which Mr. Eliot lias acquired by virtue of his brain lncss ho prostitutes to tho end of foster ing among them a state of negatlveness and Incertitude that saps vitality nnd un dermines cfflcency. rr- What a Dollar Represents -.J By ADA PATTERSON. A girl of 20 who Is engaged to marry a young man "worth" according to his father's bequeathed fortuno $100,000,000 caused a smilo to ripple across tho Amer ican continent by refusing to pay 75 cents for a Christ mas treo. Sho de clined to pay TG oents for It be cause, she said, it was worth' but 60 cents. What caused tho contlnont-wido smile to broaden was that she got the tree for half a dollar and drove away In triumph In her hundrcd-mll-llon-dollar fiancee's sleigh, with her hundred million- dollar fiance beside her. This is a caso In which first thoughts are not best. Your first thought was that the girl who wilt marry the richest man In America is mean. You applied Mhat scorching word, "stingy," to "hef, didn't you? Tho second thought was that if the tree was of S0-ent size nnd quality, tho girl would havo boen foolish to pay more for It. Tho fact that n quarter of a dollar Is an Infinitesimal amount compared with her prospective share of an tlOO.000.000 -had nothlne fo iln with it. Tho green grocer who sold her the Christmas tree wns doubtless not nn ob ject of charity. If he had needed that extra quarter of a dollar for a bottle of medicine for a sick child no one doubts that the future mistress of mllllnnn would have gladly given It to him. It was not the 23 cents that was tho stumbling block In their transaction. helpful, everyday common sense rebelled at paying more than anything was worth. unaniy sno was willing to bestow, for she does It every day with lavish imn,i and overflowing heart and kindly eyes, out cnanty in tbe guise of nn excessive charge for a purchase she denied. When milliners, dressmakers nnd shoe makers say to you. "nich those who haggle most over a fuw cents," look hard at them and do some thinking. Are they telling you the exact truth? Is It not, rather, that the men and women of fortunes, especially thou whn havo themselves earned their fortunes, and, next In degree of experlonce, thoio who have learned to preserve tho for tunes they have Inhorlted, have fortunei because they know the worth of 100 cents that comprise each of their dolIarsT Not one of these persons but Is chnrifnhln you will nnd, If you take the trouble to investigate, and some of them are un ostentatiously charitable. It In of a narrow, miserly trend of character mat they count the outgoing dollars as carefully as the Incoming ones. The comer stone of every competence Is tho knowledge of what a dollar twnrn. sents. "It's ot.ly a dollar" pleaded a salesmen anxiously to mako his sale. "Only a dollar," but in tho apportion ment of values what docs that dollar rep resent? The continuous hard labor of a JM-dollar bill for a year and ht In nn. of the few states In which 15 Is the legal rate or Interest paid by savings banks or for mortgages. In muny states It Is less. "Uniy a dollar." yea I know IIMl pale-faced girls who work half a' week for that sum What will a dollar fin? It will buy two or three irond. nlnln r,nr Ishlng meals for a medium-sized family. u win Duy me material for slater' hour muslin dress next summer anri h .. learn to make It herself. Whenever you are temnterl in money for what you do not need paint a hasty picture of what someone has done to earn or has done without to save that money. - Form that habit and money will never leave your hands without vnn. receiving Its equivalent. The smile that beenn in m-i- .... future multlmllllonalreas should end In commendation of the girl who has a truo sense of values. I don't know the crest of the family Into which she will marry, but I hope she will graft upon It that which began In war, but should be ap- pnea to trade, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." One of the chlof differences between people who make a goodly showing or their lives and those who allow them to slip as waste sand through their fingers is that the first have cultivated their sense of values. They know what Is worth much, what is worth little and what Is worth nothing. Not only what a dollar la wortn, but what time Is worth, how little beauty may be worth, how much character Is worth, what la th value of manhood and the worth of romanhood, how fine Ideals are nbov d'amonds and usefulness beyond rubles. Her first it is, too. So you see, with that. It Is on titled to come In tho list of "torrlblo minutes!" It might bo 'that It will be thoir last, but when Youth Is this young two, round-cheoked things with fratornlty pins on thoir-chests, his hair with the convict cut, horu clinched at tho nape of tho nock with a black velvet bow that butterflies out above her brows and rippling still down her back when Youth is this young It likely f The Virtue of By DOROTHY DIX. The most over-estimated weupon In tho world Is the hammer. It isn't ono mil lionth part as effective as the salvo pot, though the great majority of people Bo through lite without finding It out. The average Indi vidual's Ideal of the way to reform things Is by perpet ual knocking, which perhaps o x p lalns why so few abuses are ever changed for the better. Theo retically you can smash anything by lamming it hard enough and long enough, but In ac tual practice this does not work out successfully, espe cially when It is applied to the faults and foibles of hu man nature. Still, when a man doesn't like his wife's housekeeping, or thinks she spends too much money blng! ho begins lambast ing her cooking and extravagance. And she goes on burning tho roast, and mak ing dish water coffee, and buying Imported llngcrlo and French hats. If a woman objects to her husband's belonging to a club, or smoking, sno keeps busy, day In and day out, pegging away with her little hammer knock-knock-knock, and still ho puts on his hat and makes a break for freedom tne minute dinner Is over, and he smokes like a furnace. If Johnnie Is awkward and spills things at the table, and hates school, tho wholo family organizes Itself Into an anvil chorus, and .It's blng, bang, blng! from morning till night until Johnnie grows surly, and hates home and books, and spends all the time lie can with" ac quaintances ho picks up on the street. If an employer wants to speed up his employes and got more work and better service out of them, he goes for them with a trip hammer, and abuses them for loafers and Incompetents, and shirks, and tho employes say to each other that the old man Is a grouch who never ap preciates good work, anyway, so what's the use In giving it to htm? And they don't. Fault finding and blamo never yet re formed anything, but praise Is the lever of Archimedes with which you can move the world of humanity. And the reason of this is plain enough. Praise touches us In our weakest spot, our vanity, whereas blame wounds us In our most vulnerable point, our self esteem, and there Is a natural Inclination to revenge our hurt pride by persisting In doing the thing we were censured for doing ' II lilt I Praise A Talk Of course If wo wero the grand, noble creatures we should be, bent on our high est self-development, when our atten tion was called to our faults we would dovote our energies to building up and strengthening the weak spots in our char acters. That would be the logical thing to do, but alas, which of us la logical, when It comes down to brass tacks with us? Surely this alone should furnish a tip to tlip knockers that It would bo better to throw away their hammers and get busy spreading the salvo if they 'want results. As a matter of fact, everybody knows that all you've got to do to make a woman break her nock la to dangle a llttlo flattery before her. She will go for It every time, and so I advise tho husband who bemoans his wife's bills to try praising her economy a little. Iet him dlscourso before company upon her thrift and what a help sho Is, and, my word for It, she will put a Yalo lock on her pocketbook that It will tako a pro fessional safe cracker to undo, Ltkcwlso any woman can bo turned Into a good housekeeper by a husband who Judiciously prulses a good dish and sor rowfully remarks over a bad one that It Isn't quite up to her usual exalted cull nary standard. Positively the only thing that will nail a man to his own hearthstone and make him a generous, attentive and interested lover as well as a husband, Is to find In his own home a brand of flattery so much more potent, so much higher spiced and so much more inexhaustible than any to be had abroad that it puts all other women Into tho amateur hot air class besido his wife. As for employes, isn't it Invariably the man who knows he is most trusted who Next Monday "The King of Diamonds" A most thrilling serial of great .imaginative range, the annals of another Monte Cristo, By Louis F. Tracy will start in The Bee, to run in dally installments. Start this great story with the first in stallment Next Monday should bo called tho "first," for thero will como othorB after. Babotto Is tho prottlest girl In school, and she woars hor hair In puffs over her oars and her ankles aro slim llttlo affairs sheathed In clk stockings. Billy Is a blondo chap with his vests cut extremely high, and hla collars deeply pointed, and his coat plnchod in tho smartest way across the shoulders, and ho wears his pipe-like trousers turned up short so short that It to "Knockers" is most trustworthy, the one who knows tho boss dopends on him who Is most dependable, the crackerjack salesman who works ten times as hard to sell as tho man who knows that not much Is ex pected of him? Oh, It's praleo, and not blamo, that makes the world go around. We give the best of us to thoso who expect the best of us, and who appreciate that best. Throw away the hammer, and try spreading the snivel Road Funds and Posterity -.J Pennsylvania is preparing to issuo bonds for DO,000,00O for' road construction, and if tho plan goes through the people of that stato In tho next generation will bo paying for roads which have long since been worn out and replaced with new ones. Tho Keystone state should profit by the costly experience In New York, where $50,000,000 lias been expended already nnd $50,000,000 more Is to bo sp'ent in tho same extravagant manner. In New York state the bonds are to run for fifty years. This will mean that the people of tho next generation will be paying for roads which they never used. The ordinary life of Such roads as aro b. lng constructed In New York Is little more than four or five years. Tho roads will have to be replaced many times be fore the people have finished paying for the original work. In Massachusetts the bonds run tor only fifteen years. This Is a much fairer proposition, If slipshod roads must be built The people who use the roads pay for them. The next generation Is thus left at liberty to provide Its own improve ments in Its own way. Although New York has been spend, lng such vast sums, an Insufficient amount Is being laid aside for the pur pose of maintaining the roads. Hut even thou ah the fund wero larger nnd strict attention were paid to mainte nance, the roads could not possibly last fifty years, and yet the people fifty years from now will be paying for them. Bconomlsts who have studied the proh. cms Involved in the financing of roads agree that the serial bond Issue Is the better plan If bonds are to be Issued Thus bonds will expire periodically, and the people who enjoy the Improvement will pay for It. There Is an excellent opportunity here for tho conservationists who are anxious to protect posterity. We have a right to saddle posterity with debt when we are leaving Improvements which may reasonably be expected to be permanent, but we have no right to spend posterity's money when we are leavlnr nothing to show for It, Washington Post. civos him tho look of a young heron gono a-wading. Well, It's a torrlblo minute. There's a. miserable silence, and evon her bird and her dog Bquaro them selves around and, looking him steadfastly in the eye, floom to wonder when ho will begin. And he wonders if sho has any notion of tho thing that's on his mind. If she has, sho manages her faco pretty well. "But girls aro deep," ruminates Billiam. "You never can tell what's in their Head!" Seeking a By CONSTANCY CLARICE. Dr. Hammond proposed that night. Just think, Peggy, you might have been en gaged today, nnd things might have been altogether different, but as it Is, hern you are, Jus the samo Peggy, and I think you're Just as happy, although I suppose you really can't tell unless you've really been In love. I wore my darling white lace gown when he came. Of course, I didn't ex pect him to do anything foolish, and, to tell tho truth, I had lost all tho funny Illusions I had about him long ago. I remember how I felt tho rainy day I learnod to make tarts. Hut ho has the most adorable hair. ' Even last night I wanted to rumple- It up. Ho was different when he came. I went to tho door, and he brought in that dear, funny medicine smell with him. I sniffed and wrinkled up my nose, and ho Just looked at me, and I waa afraid. I was afraid he was going to touch, tne before he said anything, and I didn't know what to do. So I slipped into the library, and called back, "Wo have somo new record." Then ho camo in, and was really quite senslblo and friendly while I munched marrons nnd sorted out records. I never stopped to think boforo what a help a Vlctrola Is In tlmo of trouble How couill anyono propose to a-ragtime tune? "Peggy," ho said suddenly, "every time I think of my first impression- of you, I smile to myself. Didn't I say you wero a mixture of frivolity and serlousnoss that was enough to puzzle anyono?" "Yes, fair hero," I said, dropping him a mock courtesy, "and you said I didn't have enough sense to bo a nurse." "Hardly that." "Well, at least you said I waa in love with the Idea." "And now you aenr't even In love with tho Idea." "No, you see, I have taken your advice Hair Coming Out? Does Scalp Itch?- Save your hair! Make it soft, glossy, fluffy, beautiful Grows hair and we prove it. Try as you will, after an application of Danderine, you cannot find a single trace of dandruff or falling hair and your scalp will not Itch, but what will please you most, will be after a few weeks' use, when you see new hair, fine and downy ut first yes but really new hair grow lng all over the scalp. A llttlo Danderine Immediately doubles the beauty of your hair. No difference Husband to heart. That ought to flattor you, any way.'.' "It does. But. Pffecv. vnu wntilif ionic nlco In uniform." And then ho laughed snoruy, and I, with the bulk of the Vlc trola safely between us, said tantaliz ing)'. "Much a nice liuirh. hut whv and why do you havo such very nlco rumply nairr- Ana tnon I Knew that I really shouldn't havo said It. fapciuutn. rt.r nil the Vlotrola wasn't a very safe barricade, una ne camo around so very determlndly. "Well, you have," I said lamely, back ing away, and then he crushed me up against him and I didn't like It, because I wasn't In lovo with him a bit. I could hear his heart beat Just as plainly, but all I could think of was that I wanted to get away. "1 don't llko your hair at all,' I said, with my faco all muffled against his shoulder. "I take back everything I said. Please, please let me go." And thetv "Don't you dare to kiss me. I hate being kissed." "Dear," he whispered, In such a funny voice, 'T lovo you, I love you, you'll never know hoy much till you fait In lovo yourself somo day, Some day when you won't hato being kissed." And then ho kissed me on my throat, under my chin, and I let him go without saying goodby. Oh, why do friendships always have to end In such a horrid way? "Some day when you won't hato being kissed," he had said. Why do kisses always make such a difference? And then I ran out into tho hall after him. I wanted to say, "Aren't wo going to bo friends still?" Hut ho had gone, and I had such a queer little acho In my throat, and I put my fingers up to the place whero ho hud kissed roe. I wasn't going to see him nnv mnra ..... big, udorablo boy doctor, lie might have said goodby. nut I'm not In love with, him, and ho really shouldn't have kissed mo, eron on tho throat. But I'm golns to miss him, and, anottiat part about kissing. I wonder what he meant? Oh, Peggy, what a lot you have to learn about life. Got Dandruff or -25-cent Danderine how dull, faded, brittle and scraggy. Just moisten a cloth with Danderine and care fully draw U through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. Tbe effect Is Immediate and amazing your hair will be light, fluffy and wavy, and have an appearance of abundance; an incompar able lustre, softness and luxuriance, the beauty and shimmer of truo hair health det a cent bottle pf Knawlton'a Dan derine from' any drug store or toilet coun ter, and prove that your hair la aa pretty and soft aa any that Tt has been neglect ed or Injured by careless treatment thats all. Advertisement, ,