The Plaindealer 1919-current from Wichita, Kansas • 3

Daddy's 1 Evening Fairy Tale 6Y MARY BY GRAHAM NEVIANA BONNER. VESTIAN UNION WHERE THE LIGHTNING STRUCK Vera always thought it was foolish to be afraid. She was not afraid of anything. She was not even afraid of lightning. She was not even afraid of being out in a thunder and lightning storm.

Now her sister Dora was very different. Dora afraid of a number of things. She was afraid of lightning more than of anything else. "I think you're too fearless, Vera," Dora would often say. "You don't take enough care.

You'll be in an accident some day." And Vera would laugh and say, "Oh Dora, what a cheerful person you are!" "Very well, "Dora would answer. "but it makes me nervous the way you are. Why the other day in the city you wouldn't hurry when that great big automobile came rushing down the avenue." "I knew that they weren't going out of their way to run me down," Vera would always reply. "You are constantly speaking of that too." To tell the truth Dora worried a good deal over Vera for she felt she would always be so fearless that she might not be on the look-out to avoid being hurt. Vera was rather proud of herself.

She was different from Dora. She was so different from many who were afraid. It was one day when Vera and Dora were far out in the country walking that a horrible thunder and lightning storm came up with a great and sudden rush. "Oh dear," said Dora, "that thunder is so awful." "Thunder can't do any harm," said Vera. "I know that but those great peals and roars of thunder mean lightning too, for thunder and lightning are very nearly inseparable friends.

It makes me so nervous. "Oh, see that fork of lightning! Oh, it is going to be a terrible storm." "Well, said Vera, "I don't propose to get my new shoes and my secondbest hat and my every-day dress soaked even if they're not all my very best. I say we stand under that enormous tree over yonder." And Vera pointed to a great tree. "We won't get wet there." "Oh no," said Dora, "it is better to get wet. Much, much better.

Our clothes are of no importance beside "We Won't Get Wet." safety. Let's stay out where there are no trees--right in the middle of this field." "We could find a dry place in the woods I'm sure," said Vera, "and it doesn't look as though it would be a long storm. The rain is beginning and the drops are very big." "But don't you know that it is more dangerous to stand under a tree than anywhere else?" Dora said. "Pooh." said Vera. "Only 'fraid cats think that.

And I guess if I stand under that great tree I couldn't very well be hurt." She pointed to the big tree in the field. And started to go toward it. "Oh please," sobbed Dora, "If you are not afraid, for my sake stay with me in the open. Please, sister. Please Now Vera did not like Dora for behaving as she did and for spoiling their walk by making them get wet when it wasn't necessary in the least.

But she hadn't the heart to go against her when she felt so about it. So out in the field they stayed while the rain poured down, the lightning flashed and the thunder rumbled in its 8 great deep way. Suddenly something seemed to strike. Had they been struck? With beating hearts they looked at each other and moved their heads and arms to make sure they were alive. Yes, they were alive, but the lighthad hit the great tree.

It had ning merely knocked them down but had not struck them as they were sufficiently far away from the tree. There before them was the tree, broken right in the center, slashed and killed by the dangerous power of the lightning. "Oh Dora," Vera said, as she put her arm around her sister, "you have saved my life by having the bravery to be afraid of things that are really My dear brave sister." dangerous. And Dora's heart rejoiced. Yes, she had saved her sister and she knew that In the future Vera would not be frighteningly careless! And then too she had been called brave.

That made up for all the times she had been called a 'fraid cat. Yes, It made up for every, every time! LOCAL NEWS DISARMAMENT Next Sunday morning the Rev. Geo. T. Ashley will speak upon the subject of disarmament.

This is a question that is now receiving the attenof what is called the civilized world. If you wish to hear the subject discussed in a logical and scientific manner, come out. Also next Sunday evening he will commence series of evening meetings which promise to be very interesting. Everybody invited and will be gladly welcomed. SHEPPAR RESOLUTIONS Whereas, the brilliant working-class lawyer, Jacob I.

Sheppard of Fort Scott, has passed to the Great Beyond, and Whereas, for many years Mr. Sheppard unselfishly devoted his splentalents to the service of organized labor, and to the whole working class; therefore, be it Resolved, that we, the officers and members of the Wichita Trades and Labor A Assembly of Wichita, extend to the family of the deceased our sincere sympathy in their sad bereavement; and be it further Resolved, that a of this resolution be sent to th coper bereaved family; that a copy be spread upon the minutes of this body, and that it be published in The Plaindealer, our offiorgan. Signed, TOM TILMA, Pres. W. J.

SHERMAN, Sec. STREET CAR EMPLOYES. The Street Car boys will hold an entertainment and social on next Thursday evening. Bro. Sherman, of the maintenance of ways, will give us an address and we know that he is entirely capable of filling the job.

He is a man of wide experiece and has a happy faculty of telling it. The Garment Workers Comedy Co. will put on their sketch entitled: "No Man Wanted." Maybe get the title right, but boys, it certainly is a scream. Better not miss it. LABOR TEMPLE ACTIVITIES.

During the past few weeks, committees have been selling badges for Armistice Day, the proceeds of which are to go to the Labor Temple Building Committee. They have met with very encouraging results. These badges have been selling for 50 cents and a chance is given on a $750.00 Electric Piano free. This piano will be given away on Armistice Day, November 11 at the Brosius Buildng. The Committee in charge requests everyone holding tickets to cash in on Thursday, November 10, so that they may have an opportunity to clean up as nearly as possible at this time.

A meeting for this purpose will be held at that date in the Brosius Building. The building is in course of construction and it hoped will be ready by January 1, 1922. It will consist of five meeting halls. All those who have pledges should redeem them as speedily as possible, so that the committee may not be handicapped for finances. How about taking another share of stock? L.

D. BARRETT DIES. L. D. Barrett, a member of the Railway Clerks, died Wednesday.

While on his way to work he had an attack of heart failure and died shortly after being removed to his home. He was Barrett was a frequent visitor seventy years old. to this office and contributed many articles under the signature of R. A. Dical.

He was one of the best read men in the city and active in the labor movement. His voice was always raised in behalf of labor. Bro. Barrett is gone and we will miss him. His work here is donewell done.

We extend our sympathy to his bereaved family. PRINTERS. Born, to Mr. and a son. This is a facts, but some of what this means cially as this is No.

Mrs. E. G. Wooten plain statement of you san appreciate to Earnest, espe1. GARMENT WORKERS.

The Garment Workers Local 113 held a social Saturday evening at their hall, 116 S. Lawrence. The evening was spent in playing games. Several prizes were given, one of them being won by E. H.

Vandenburg in an apple-eating contest. After lunch, the spirits of the dead wandered around the room. Everybody had a dandy time. This is a good wide-awake local and believe in patronizing home industry. for the soldiers.

Dinty Moore Boot and Shoe Hospital We Make Sick Shoes Well Through a Skillful Operation We call for and deliver. We pay parcel post both ways, Better work at right prices. 09 S. Main St. Phone Mkt.

5167 Vernon Hendry, prominent American Legion man elected by ex-service men of Kansas to be one of four to represent his state at Washington, D. on Armistice Day, will leave this week to attend the memorial ceremonies and burial of America's Unknown Soldier, whose remains are now on the way from France. He is a senior in the public speaking department of Wichita College of Music and Dramatic Art, and is one of the many federal vocational men in this city who are making good. Mr. Hendry is a psychologist of national reputation and has recently opened a studio at 200-11 Brosius Building, where he also receives students in expression.

On his trip East he will touch New York and will bring back to his classes the latest teachings in applied psychology of Dr. Elizabeth Severn and Andre Tridon, the greatest American and French authorities on the subject. Mr. Henry is quite influential in. obtaining compensation Henry Ford Judge says- Clyde Reed saysE "The Ford Company was built "A public utility corporation out of its own earnings, and, is essentially different from a considering the size of the bus- private business.

It must serve iness, very little money, in- ALL the PEOPLE. It is a just deed, has ever been borrowed. and fixed principle in law that A PRIVATE business ought no public utility should be alto make a sufficient profit to lowed to pileup profits sufficientpay for its ly large to pay for extensions. We are quoting from these two outstanding characters in the public eye of Kansas today in an effort to drive home to you a truth in regard to the public utility business which the public does not un- derstand: There is an outstanding and clear-cut difference between- A PRIVATE AND UNREGULATED BUSINESS AND A PUBLIC UTILITY, A REGULATED BUSINESS Henry Ford has been unusually successful in a private business because he was able to pile up unlimited profits and make extensions to his business from these profits--the immense surplus created. Judge Clyde Reed, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Kansas, is typical of the public officials who are charged with the duty of executing laws relating to public utilities.

No public utility is permitted to earn UNLIMITED profits. No public utility is allowed to pile up large surplus and do as the Ford Company and other private business have done. We are permitted only to pay a reasonable interest rate to people who invest in our stocks and bonds. We are not allowed to make profits sufficiently large to retire those stocks and bonds. We firmly believe that if the public fully understood this big and vital difference between a pub- lie utility and a private business they would change their attitude toward the utility from one of hostility to one of business-like co-operation, if not of friendship.

Kansas Gas and Electric Company "At Your Service" Statement No. 45.