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The Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY NFL3QM B. UPDIKE, Publiiher. B. BREWER, C.n Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tbe Anoclbled 1'rtee. of «bic* 'lb# Bf# la a iceaiber. it u, enai •nutlaa lo tbi nt* for tibutuirit'no of ail ora* diiiiirbii rradned to tt ar oot olbuwiu rriditrd la tbli paoar. aod a!e, tba local newt tjubltihed baraia. a'l rtgb’i of rtmiblxayoaa of our i.e al dl,» bit art aln ruerveg. BEE TELEPHONES Prieata Branch Exchange, Aik for the Department AT lanlie or Paraon Wanted, for Night Calla After 1# P. M. , Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1642. ,ouo OFFICES Ma.u Office —1*0 and l arnarn fe Bluffi - - • - li Scott St. So. Side. N. W. Cor. 24tli and N Ntw Yorl.—286 Fifth Avenue Washington • - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - . - 1720 Sieger Bldg Parie, France—426 Rue St. Honor# *‘-’1 * ~ I—-ir i .1 .aicv, —u.'-ix: .21 :-j i.:r.,7 .srs. - ~i - : = IMROVING THE SUBSIDY BILL. Americans ate agreed on the necessity for main taining a national merchant marine which will put the Star* and Stripes at the mast head of ocean freighter* in every world port. Few would be sat isfied to see our immense foreign commerce de pendent upon the vessels of foreign nations for transportation. The desirability of having- a naval reserve made up of large and swift merchant cruis ers suitable lor conversion into cruisers, colliers and transports and of building up a reserve of trained seamen also is plain to the public mind. Such are the broad general considerations that ied to the passage of the ship subsidy bill by the lower house of congress. Features that appeared 1 to extend too generous favors to the shipping in terasta at the expense of the taxpayers were stricken out of the bill. Although President Harding has 1 reason on his side in seeking to restore the pro vision for a ten-year contract with ship lines, yet it is to be hoped that the senate will not attempt to reinstate the other discarded pro visions. As amended in the house the merchant marine bill would provide for the sale to private owners of the government’s merchant fleet and the establishment in the treasury of a revolving fund to be loaned to American citizens for the construe- j tion of ships. Another fund—the “merchant ma- 1 line fund”—would be established from proceeds of . tonnage dues and duties amounting, according to | sponsors for the bill, to $4,000,000 annually and 1 10 per cent of the amount of customs duties, which would total $.'10,000,000 a year. Compensation on a graduated scale would be extended to ship owners out of this fund, ac cording to the speed, size and type of the vessel, i The compensation would be for periods not exceed- j ing ten years to ship owners making contracts with ; the government, and the vessels would be classified | in the American Bureau of Shipping. Ships re- j reiving compensation would be required to carry crews of which at least one-half at first, and after three years two-thirds, exclusive o£ licensed officers, are American citizens. An excepflon was made in the stewards’ department of passenger ships. As a measure to prevent excess profits, the bill stipulates that profits over 10 per cent must be re turned to the treasury until the amount of com pensation a ship has received is repaid- In view of the failure of a somewhat similar provision in the Esch-Cummins law by which railroads would pay into the treasury all earnings above 6 per cent dur ing the six months’ guarantee period, not a great deal of reliance will he placed on this last clause for a drawback. Some very sensible changes hive been made in the bill by raising the interest rate3 to be paid on government loans made to shipping corporations to the same level at which the government itself borrows money. As the bouse amendments are studied, excellent reasons are evident for most of them. The principal alterations follow: “Elimination from the subsidy provisions of vessels owned by large corporations such as Stand ard Oil, United Fruit and United States Steel, when engaged solely in the transportation of their o\\ n products. “Elimination of the section giving a rebate from income tax'es equal to 5 per cent of the freight money paid to American vessels. * ."Increase from 2 to Ig per cent in the mini mum interest to be charged on loans made under the vonstructlon loan* fund. "Elimination of thp section giving the ship ping board power to set minimum and maximum rates and regulate practices in the intercoastal trade. "Elimination of the provision that the shipping hoard may sell ships without advertisement or competitive bids. "Provision that the "steamship Ueviathan shall not be sold for less than the cost of reconditioning. "Interest on the. unpaid balance for ships pur chased from the board shall not be lesa than 4Vi per cent instead of 4 per cent. "No expenditure shall he made from the mer chant murine fund except under appropriations made annually by congress." This latter amendment is the one objected to by the president, who makes the point that if the .subsidy appropriations are to come up each year, the shipping companies will not feet warranted in coming under the law. The alternative to this shipping bounty lies in unsparing government competition with pri vately owned ocean lines through the medium of publicly owned fleets. American shipping laws are such as to make operation under the flag more ex pensive than under the registry of other nations. Wages and working conditions of sailors on Amer ican ships are generally held to be a handicap to profitable operation. Other nations that are strong on the sea hove given subsidies to their ship owners, and it is charged that some of these foreign inter ests are now active in attempting to discourage adoption of this method in the United States. The measure which now is before the senate operates on»much the same principle as a protective tariff, although instead of excluding foreign competition it enables the national marine to meet that competi tion by money payments. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. Fewer births and more deaths are reported in the United States for 1922 than for 1921. Wc have been so accustomed to scolding France and one or two other countries on this account that we have overlooked the facts in our own case. Now it is time to consider them. According to the iigures for the first six months of 1922, just made public, the birth rate indicates a loss of 1.6 births per 1,000 population, while the death rate shows a gain of 1 per 1,000 population. Complete figures for the year may changa this; the figures are for the registration area, which comprises 82 per cent of the popula tion of the United States. Carried out to totals, the figures mean that births for the Unitod States for 1922 will be in the neigh borhood of 2,497,000 as compared with 2,673,000 for 1921, a loss of 176,000. Deaths for 1922 will total 1,386,000 as against 1,276.000 for 1922, a gain of 110.000; this shows a net loss in natural in crease of population of 286,000. However, the birth rata still exceeds the death rate by 1,111,000, or at about the normal rate of natural population increase as estimated by the census bureau. The figures are not complete, nor definite, nor . satisfactory, save as they afford a little basis for speculation. Until a closer examination of the facts can be made, with the full showing for the year at hand, conclusions can not be fixed. The death rate is about the same as for 1919 and 1920, the 1921 figures being rather below the normal. The birth rate may finally turn out to be much nearer the average for a period of years. There is nothing in the situation to take alarm at, for marriage and giving in marriage still prevails as an established American custom. HOW ARE GOOD ROADS TO BE PAID FOR? There is room for improvement in all branches of government, and nothing but good can arise from . such conferences as that of the county commission ers, supervisors, highway commissioners and county clerks of Nebraska that has just closed its session in Omaha. Each county has to meet pretty much the same problems, and their proper solution is aided by joint consideration. If some system of pooling purchases could be agreed one, an actual saving might be made. Under the present state law. the state purchasing agent is authorized to as sist counties in purchasing if requested. The public demand for lower taxes is recog nized in the preamble of the resolutions adopted at this meeting, but there is a dearth of" suggestions as to how the desire for economy is to be satisfied. A number of proposals for shifting and readjusting fhe tax burden are made, but it must be pointed out that this is not the way to lower the expenses of running the government. Transfering funds from the state treasury to that of the counties does [ not affect the total charge on the people of the state. An outstanding feature is the endorsement of continued road building under the federal aid plan. The demand made on the legislature for an ap propriation to match the state's share of federal highway funds is undoubtedly in lino with public sentiment. So also is the recommendation that the work be done more cheaply, with less red tape and overhead expense. * There is now $5,800,000 of federal funds avail able for road building in Nebraska. The retiring secretary of the state department of public works has recommended a higher tax on motor vehicles amounting to $2,250,000 a year to help provide the state's share of the expense and shift the load from real property. The incoming governor, on the other hand, is pledged to attempt to lower the automobile taxes. The county officers do not suggest what they will favor, although they urge a heavier tax, computed by the ton, on commercial trucks, the re peal of tax exemption on securities and the full as sessment of intangible property. If Nebraska is to continue to improve its high ways, the bill will have to be footed in one way or another, whether most of the work is done by the state or the counties. The people want continued service, but at a lower cost—a demand that will put every public officer to the test. * The recommendation of the United Mine Work ers of the country that experienced newspaper re porters be employed to ascertain what is wrong with the coal industry, contains so much of com mon sense that one may well doubt its acceptance by the j>owers that be. The reporters would find the facts and publish them in such simple form that everybody could understand them. But that would be entirely antagonistic to the interests responsible for conditions. Los Angeles officials are making such a fuss in chasing the Phillips lady that one almost wonders why they didn’t try to keep her when they had her. They caught a wild man down at Wichita Tues day, but nothing is said as to why he was wild. Resi dence in Kansas may be the cause. “The testimony fails to show drinking by navy students" announces the headlines. Perhaps. But what docs the evidence show? Shotgun accidents are pressing automobile mis haps closely in Nebraska, another indication of too much carelessness. Even the land of eternal summer, west of the Rockies, owns up to a touch of winter. Omaha has had to stand in slippery places, and it isn't easy. The good Samaritan hereabouts told it with ashes. The Right of Way ' From the Wprld Traveler. uf late various publications have devoted consider able space to p. serious endeavor to educate the mo toring public as to basic road rules, the observance of winch would have an excellent effect In reducing the number of accidents on the highways. The Massachusetts law, similar In text to various laws’ drafted in the east states and elsewhere, very clearly sets forth the rule to govern right hand Inter secting ways. Inroads: "Every driver of a motor or other vehicle approach ing nil Intersecting way—any way which joins another at an angle, whether or not it crosses the other, the word ‘way’ referring to any public highway, private way laid out under authority of statute, a way dedicated to public use. or a way under the control of the park commissioners or a body having like powers—shall grant the right of way at the point of intersection to vehicles approaching from his right, provided that such vehicle* are arriving at the point of intersection at ap proximately the same instant, except that whenever traffic officers are standing at such intersection they will have the right to regulate traffic thereat.” In general, the observance of this rule would be help ful. It must be borne in mind, however, that congested Motions, even if not under the regulation of a traffic officer, must of necessity involve variations of this gen eral law. Many cities have seen tit to specify certain through streets as having the right of way over Inter secting streets. There is only one way of guaranteeing absolute freedom from accidents at crossings, and that is for drivers to have machines under such control that when approaching a crossing It would be possible to come to a full stop. But this necessitates driving so slowly that it congests traffic. The most logical safeguard is the one that the Travel Club of America stands for—insistence updn a thor oughly standardized set of signals in all states. And such standardization is more necessary at pres ent than ever before, a* the adoption of electrically operated signals on the rear of the car unquestionably increases the problem. The driver of a car so equipped depends eentirely upon the automatic signal which at best is confusing when operating, as it flashes a stop signal upon the slightest slowing up—and also does other strange things. Nothing so far has been devised that will equal sig naling wdth the left hand, extending it to indicate slow ing down to a stop, motioning to the left for a left hand turn, with a rotary motion for a right hand turn. This is in vogue in Greater New York and is most effective. Above all, when being passed by another car, do not accelerate your speed. This is not only a contempti ble proceeding, but it also leads to speeding, racing and counties* accidents. If you are satisfied with the speed you are making. i why bother with th# other car? r “From State and, Nation” —Editorials from other newspapers— Will Americans Work? From the Minneapolis Journal. 1 A publicist says that, unless the nation lifts the restrictions upon im migration. more of us Americans will have to go to work. The intimation I is‘that the necessity to go to work will he taken with had grace by most Americans, resented as an injustice in fact, and that therefore «e will prefer the line of least resistance and lift tile liars. Vet, abstractly, it might be asserted that % people too lazy or too soft to do their own physical labor and de pendent on imported aliens to get their labor done, have surrendered their birthright of independent self sufficiency, and being virtually super fluous and already doomed to degen eration and extinction. Immigration has relieved Americans since the civil war from much of the burden and blessing of physical toil. So much so that, excluding immigrants, American social stratification does not so much resemble a pyramid with a broad solid base as an inverted pyra mid based on an apex of a few muscu lar toilers, supporting a myriad of traders, managers, coupon cutters, livers by their wits. The statement is an exaggeration, but it illustrates the tendency of our occupational activity under an immi gration regime. Americans, rather than use their muscles in work, would discover new means of mental emolu ment, Or they would starve on meager rations, so they could wear the white collar. Men who would make excel lent artisans prefer to be poor sales men. Men who after proper training could he good wage earners, after no training at all want to draw down salaries. Could the tendency be in dulged to the full, the American In dustrial army w^uuld consist of about 10 officer# to every private. The disease spreads, too. Even the working man. presented with & monopoly on work by the laziness or snobbishness of the rest of us. rebels against work. The more he is paid, the less he delivers in return. The better his condition grows, the lees apprenticeship he consents to serve. The children of the immigrant resent work or refuse to work, think they are too good to work, and what a fool their father was td work. So that even immigration of a million a year, as beforo the Var, "might fail to fur nish us properly trained artisans or those content to he artisans, laborers, what not. For the revolt against W’ork is even more rife abroad today than it is here. Already a shortage of labor supply is causing pressure against immigra tion restrictions. The pressure will Increase, and to maintain even the existing restrictions is going to cost us not merely effort hut also sacrifice. For it is true that Americans will have to go to work, if they are re solved upon shutting immigrants out. When the housewife cannot get a cook, she goes into the kitchen her self. When the country bars immi grants, its inhabitants must do the work. The Immediate effect of so great an industrial change must be a period of embarrassment, which promises to become intense before It lessens. Arc w*e to yield to the pressure to our own disinclination to go to work, to manuofaoturers' and housewives' Plea for relief? Are we going to fol low the easy course? Or are we to rally at this eleventh hour to the preservation and resuscitation of American manhood, self-reliance, self sufficiency? To do so means that a lot of us have got to go to work. Many may find that it was easier to brave death for their country in France than to take a job for her here at, home, although better com pensation as well as more satisfac tory ranscienee awaits them as good wage earners thq,n as indifferent sal ary makers. To change from an immigration de luged polity into one dependent upon its own physical exertions. Involves radical transformation of social life. Are we prepared to endure the or deal, which for a. period will he un comfortable, in order to realize for ourselves national character and sounder living? Man vs. Woman In Politics. From the Vancouver £*un. “No women," says Miss Alice Paul, vice president of the American na tional woman's party, “were elected to the 68th congress and nothing could show more clearly the vital need for a campaign to rouse the women to a keener sense of sex solidarity.'' On the contrary, nothing could show more clearly that a “sense of sex soli darity" will get women nowhere. As long as the efforts of women organizers are' turned towards antag onizing man and woman, woman will never be a power in politics unless by some freak of nature man nnd woman should become biologically un necessary to each other in the propa gation of the rate. There Is no more sense in a “woman's party” than there would be in a blond man's party or a politi cal [arty for bald-headed bachelors. The aims of both man and woman are for good government. They must rote for good government according to principles, and not according to sex, religion, complexion or appetite. Men and women should work to gether politically, not apart. They vote, as reasonable human beings, not as male or female. If woman can bring some of her Idealism and energy into politics so much the better for politics. But she must not imperil the confidence be tween (he sexes in so doing. History Writers Running Amuck. Willis Fletcher Johnson, In The North American Review. Mr. Henry Ford was not long ago quoted as defining history as "bunk,” and present day writers and con troversialists seem to be bent upon making his words true. They are, at least, treating it as though it were "bunk." Mr. Wells was bad enough, with his egregious misstatements and his sense of proportion gone crazy. But a host more rush In, some writ ing as if to out-Wells Mr. Wells him self, and others raging against the histories that have been written and telling how they should have been written and how they would he if only they, the ertties. had time to take a day off and perform the job. The trouble seems to he that the real ly competent historians. In striving to set forth truthfully the annals of mankind, have failed to grind this man’s ax. or to exploit that man’s favorite fad, or to cater to the other NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for NOVEMBER, 1922, of I THE OMAHA BEE ! Daily..'...73,843 Sunday .78,105 B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. ELMER S. ROOD. Cir. Mgr. ; | Sworn to and subscribed before me this Sth dey of December, 1022. j W. H. QUIVEY. (Seel) Notary Public * _ I man's pet prejudice. Out of all the i sound and fury there may come the great good of a general realization of the supreme importance of history writing, history teaching and history understanding. Other things ate more important to enable a man to trans act business, pursue a trade, or prac tice a profession. To make the indi vidual apprehend the true philosophy of life, to make the citizen justly ap preciate his country and serve it most loyally and efficiently, and to make the nation realize its true place in the world and its rights and du | ties in relation to its fellow nations, | there is no other one study that ap | proximate* history in practical irn | portance: a fact which marks tha i man who wantonly falsifies it as i guilty of a peculiarly gross disservice i io the human race. The People's Business. From the Kearney Hub. Following the rapeftfn. "When Bryan Goes Into Office." The Omaha Bee prints some timely advice that is ad dressed to Governor Bryan and to republican officials and members of the legislature. Two sentences from a readable half column gives the gist of the article, viz' "As the governor of the state Mr. Bryan will be en titled to the full co-operation of every official in promoting good govern ment." And this: “The people of the state did not elect their state of ficials to quarrel with each other, but to co-operate in the discharge of pub lic business.*' Multum in parvo' Let it go at that* A Needed <onstiditlon.il Amendment. From (he Kansas City Times. There is encouraging evidence that congress is waking up to the paradox in a representative government of a defeated congress returning to Wash ington to legislate for four months before the newly-elected congress, fresh from the ejectors, comes into existence. Moreover under our pres ent system, a newly-elected congress doea not assemble for 13 months after the election unless called in extraor dinary session by the president. Several resolutions are notv pend ing in congress to correct this mani fest imperfection in the constitution. There is. of course, but on® way to correct it adequately, and that is by an amendment to the constitution. The congressional Resolutions de signed to limit the power of a hold over congress to matter of legislative routine, are manifestly inadequate an well as unconstitutional. The constitutional change proposed by the American Bar association which is before a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee, answers the purpose fully and should unite all those advocates of a more workable system who are pushing the various proposals. This change would affect both the legislative and executive branches of the government and brings newly-elected president and congress into power January I fol lowing the election in November. This would do away with the system under which a defeated congress remains tn session from December to March and W'hlch keeps the new- congress from exercising its mandate until the old one expires by limitation. This system is directly opposed to the theory of representation on which our government is based. It may easily mean minority rule, as in the ease where a new congress is of a different political complexion from the old. The elector* decide at a con gressional election which party is to control the senate ami house,' but if that decision is the reverse ef the one made at the preceding election, the party repudiated at the polls none the less continues to exercise its eon trol and to enact Its policies Into law That, of course, is minority rule. The reasons that Induced the con stitution makers to provide this svs tem no longer are necessary. The results of a. nation-wide election are now known almost immediately and congress can assemble from all parts of the continent in a few- hours. The country s business no longer admits of the leisurely methods of the past, nor do our political institutions as they have developed since 17Sn any longer square with the old unrepre sentative system. The British dis solve a parliament before electing a new one and the new one assembles within a few* days. That svstem givps a real meaning to an election—the American system gives none. A man date acted on a year after it Is given is as undemocratic as the spectacle of a congress continuing to legislate after it has been .defeated bv the people. The time has come when the sys tem ought to he changed, and if it is to be changed the change should lie constitutional and complete. The senate subcommittee's hearing should receive public attention and be fol lowed by legislative action to initiate I the constitutional amendment process SOLEMNITY. Days come and go; Weeks pass with speed, Months fleet along; The years recede. And shorter grows Life's varying span— For T, once boy, Have changed to man. Youths dreams I find Have come to be Less brilliant in Reality; Less glorious; Less blissful, yet Too beautiful E’er to forget. 1 march along As fade the years Dissension comes And disappears; Content is born, * And likewise dies As youth to age in no time flies. And ther* I stand— 1 can't deny My negligence In days gone by, Nor fail to sea The faults of mine Before the altar Of the shrine. Therefore, I know Strive, strive I must Sincerely For all that's just. And think of her Who w-as my guide. And by her spotless Faith abide. ROBERT WORTHINGTON DAVIE. In JEST and VERSE Byplays and Comments on Events That Are Passing. Remembrance. Do you remember the night we met. Dear love of mine? The dusk was sweet. With t tie scent of primrose, and violet; Like waves upon white sand your feet Tripped down the path. I waited Jhere KnoVing that love had knit our lives: Starry your eyes, and dark your halt— Do you remember? . . You had the hives. Shall you forget our first dear kiss? Your deep eyes held the sacred light Of love and youth, and, oh. the bliss To stand beside you in the summer night! Ah you were Beauty—Love—Desire; You were my Life, my God, my Truth; 1 kissed you then, my lips were fire! Do you remember? . . I broke your tooth. Do you recall our honeymoon? The very clouds sang song that day Happy for us and our love in June. Your brown eyes danced, your hat was gay. Yet you were shy, and. oh, your blush Recalled a peach kissed by the rain— But somehow in the station crush Do you remember? ... 1 missed the train. VANADIS—GORDON SEAGROVE. Estelle, bless her dear heart, wrote in yesterday to way she was sorry we were sick. Estelle, we were so touched we spent two hours, sick as we were, in teaching Vangie how to recognize your beautiful name, and now everything you send in will be published in 10-point, black face type. A col-con gets kicked around so much that one little word of sympathy makes him just break down and cry like a child, Arthur and Jladelynn won't have to be tried for murder any more, but the authorities have taken steps and Arthur may be taken to some nice psychopathic hospital. The flinty hearted law has not yet considered what to do with Jladelynn, but it is not unlikely that she win be sen. tenced either to the Ambassador or the BlAckstone. Pooor Pierrette. I wish your arms could gather me to night, I wish your lips would murmur some thing sweet. For in my heart there is much empti ness . . . An undertone of something incom plete. But if you arms should gather me to night J wonder . . . could I then forget That you have been a wand’ring Pier rot And you will go again from Pierrette. _ ISABEL. After nil the scandals we have had In the United States during the year, rite announcement from Constantino ple that the late sultan's harem, con sisting of 150 fat, lovely Circassians on the hoof, were for sale, has not caused a ripple in our fair land. Some 60 eunuchs are also offered to the highest bidder. Well, now. that's something like! Send over the lot, T " ■ Clara Phillips, the w. k. hammer slayer, yesterday sawed her way out of jail. Hooroo! Throw away your hammer and get a saw. * Parting forever. Oh, love, if thou must go. The maiden softly sighed. With tear stained eyes And lashes blindly wet. Take what thou wilt From out my life beside, But leave with me The power to forget. • And tile good luck to Draw a damfool Jury. E. C. Gosh, we're goin' furruds baekerds. _ U. H. L. Keep On Keeping It Safe The 1018 series of War Savings Stamps and Victory I.oan bonds are soon to be redeemed by the govern ment. Now that the government is going to return this money to you, Don’t Invest It Foolishly Invest It Here at □ INTEREST « with FIRST MORTGAGE SECURITY State Savings & Loan Association 315 5. 17th St. Kealln* Bldg. C. C. WELLS, Secy j SAVE 25 to 50% on Any Kind of Typewriter We sell all kinds, guar antee them to give 100% service and back up our words with action. All-Makes Typewriter Co. 205 South 18th Streat First Church of Christ, Scientist, Omaha Announces a Free Lecture on Christian Science By Clarence W. Chadwick, C. S. B., Omaha. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, Boston, Mass. In the Church Edifice 24th Street and St. Mary Avenue. Friday Evening, December 8th At Eight o’Clock. You and Your Friendt Are Cordially Invited. ‘‘THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” COitirlol Iron mfiri o» TB* Moral** Bm. •! IB* Monloi B«* in invito* t* nw mu column troolv toe oviroMlc* mottori el ■Mbli* Intoroot. Orderly Marketiug and Transporta tion. Sidney, Neb.: To the Editor of The Omaha ’Bee: Orderly marketing of farm products is a necessity if prices are to be stabilized and they must be if the agricultural interests are to prosper. In the western territory wheat used to move to marketing stations four miles an hour from territory 20 miles wide, 30 to 40 bushel loads. Trucks now haul 60 to 100 bushels a mile In four minutes from territory 60 miles wide. Increased production, volume and speed of movement renders prompt movement by rail an impossibility and, were it possible, it would result in a demoralized market and disaster to the producer. Harvest of wheat', beginning in Texas in June, ends in Montana in August, and 60 per cent is marketed in four months, choking every rail terminal, elevator and shipping port, demoralizes the market and loses the producer and transportation com panies millions. Farmers' organisations for market ing have cost the farmers millions and have resulted In further cornpli-, eating the situation through creating doubt as to the final outcome of the experiments. The only feasible plan for bringing about orderly marketing of farm products is to make it pay the pro ducer to market In an orderly man ner. This can be accomplished by the transportation companies making sea sonal rates on grain. July to October (Inclusive); regular tariff rates, No vember to February, (suggestion only) 10 per cent reduction; March to June, (suggestion only), 20 per cent reduc tion. Transportation cost of marketing a bushel of wheat averages approxi mately 24 cents and suggested reduc tions would make it an oliject fo the producer to market in an orderly man ner. Carr are the units from which the railroads secure their earnings and conservation of equipment would he attained, as 25 per cent of tlie cars now used temporarily would suffice if kept tit for the grain trade contlnn ousiy hy utilizing them for the gram trade and commodities that would not unfit them for grain loading. The producer would have more time to devote to after harvest work stack ing his wheat, gaining better quality and grade, use months instead of weeks for threshing, a year to mar ket , enabling him to do much of the work now done by hired labor, less expensive machinery would suffice, and, more Important, more efficient attention could be given to fall seed ing, resulting in increased production and resultant reduced production cost. The sating to the railroads and producer would create a good profit for both, stabilize the market from demoralizing fluctuations now con tended with; both would have the time to produce and transport the product in an orderly way and do away with the present wastefuly extravagant methods of handling. The concession on the part of the carriers would be an audacious one under existing conditions, but it would repay them many fold and would make w heat production a business in stead of a gamble. M. A. S. "Minority Rule.” Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Your editorial "Beware Minority Dictatorship." is an excel lent article. The whole thought— every point in it is timely and right. Give the public more of that sort of reading. Yours for simpler, saner business legislation. A READER. Narrow Squeak. "A motor truck smashed the baby carriage to smithereens, mum." "Horrors! Was the baby hurt?" "You're mighty lucky, mum. He (was kidnaped only five minutes be I fore."—Life. * Moiseiwitsch Uses the Mason St.^mndin B Exclusively USIC LOVERS have a great treat in store for them, for 'on Friday evening, December 8th, they wilt have the opportunity of hearing Moiseiwitsch, the great pianist,, at the Brandeis theater. Moiseiwitsch will be presented here under the auspices of the Tuesday Musical club. One of the interesting features regarding Moiseiwitsch is * the fact that he uses the Mason & Hamlin Piano exclu sively. We feel proud to know that such a great pianist places so much confidence in this wonderful instrument. The Mason & Hamlin Piano is Sold Exclusively in Omaha by iUljospc do. “Omaha s Pioneer Music House ” 1513-15 Douglas St. “Florida The more venturesome are away on the joyous ride in the seaplanes to the Bahamas—to the fairy city of Nassau with its white beaches and tropical trees. There’s golfing, too, and tennis, swimming or motoring. K&nsasflftvFlorida Special An All-steel Through Train ^ Lv. Kansas City 5:30 pm Ar. Jacksonville 8:45 am (second morning) <ria Frisco Lines and Southern Railway Dining car service all the way Fred Harvey meals on the Frisco Good connections at Jacktonoillm for points from which teaplanet leavo Write, telephone or call at Frisco Ticket Office 70S Walnut St.. Kansas City,Mo. v F. R. Newman, Division Passenger Agent