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Ford, McAdoo Divide Favor of Democrats Popular Call Heard for Fliv ver Maker as Presidential Candidate — Wilson May Be Power. (Continued From Page One.) nearer 200 than 400. It is also the greater probability that the seasoned political leaders who will dominate the convention and for the most part compose It will be able to keep Ford from getting the prize. It must al ways be remembered that there is a rule. In democratic conventions which makes it necessary for a nominee to get two-thirds of the whole number in order to win. This is the same as saying that one-third of the entire number of delegates, if they are held together under able leadership, are always able to exercise a veto on the nomination of any one man. In cidentally, this is a condition which is going to work to the disadvantage of McAdoo as well as of Ford, although it. will be a more serious handicap to Ford than to McAdoo. His Party Politics in Doubt. One of the things which the more orthodox democratic leaders will be sure to look into well Is the question whether Ford really is a democrat or not. Ford himself probably doesn’t care much. Also, probably many of the Ford fanatics among the people don’t care much. But there is always a section of every party who regard orthodoxy of theory and practice as a serious matter, and this group Is large enough to make an appeal to its prejudice effective. Nobody seems to know, and a good many of the democratic leaders would like to know. Just how Ford has voted in the 10 presidential elections that have teen held since he became 21. Some who have already been looking into it report that Ford’s wife and son seem to have decidedly republican leanings and a tendency to prefer that if Ford is to take any part in national polities at all it should be as a republican rather than as a democrat. However, the politieians realize perfectly well that Ford is so individual a person, one so given to going his own gait, to "thinking across lots,” as he once expressed it. that he doesn't pay much attention to party lines. Might Have His Own Party. Politicians, feeling this way about Ford's idiosyncrasies, number among their apprehensions the fear that he may run in the primaries of both parties and figure in both conven tions. One of these leaders, survey ing the possible future contingencies, says that Ford may first go into the republican convention, make a show ing there and gather up a certain amount of republican following, which fallowing, by a familiar law of human psychology, would tend to stay with him all the more closely through his subsequent fortune*. • The next step in this suppositious course would be for Ford to go into the democratic convention. If he should again fail In the democratic convention, the as vumption is that he might organize and lead a third party and carry both his republican and democratio fol lowings Into it. All-in all, the activ ities In Ford's behalf and the appre hensions about things that Ford him self may do. if he should personally throw his energy and his resources into the situation, consume a good deal of the politicians' thought. Campaigning Asset*. In addition to the familiar reasons for interest in Ford, his making of a useful and familiar article at an as tonishingly low price, his reputation for paying higher wages to his work ers than do his competitors, his ex perience as the successful operator of a railroad which no one else could make profitable (although railroad men knew he was able to do this by concentrating his own traffic on his own road), and his occasional pungent utterances about various public mat ters, a recent reason figuring in the popular mind is the feeling that he is being made a martyr of In the matter of Muscle Shoals, This is not the place for any sufficient statement of I facts to show whether congress and ' the government have done wisely or unwisely In refusing to, so far, | let Ford have Muscle Shoals. The writer has seen a curious story about this episode of Ford and Muscle Shoals. It is to the effect that the offer which Ford made to the govern- j ment is really a better offer than he ; ought to have made, and that from the purely business point of view he ; would now be relieved rather than ! otherwise if Muscle Shoals should be j refused to him permanently. Could Work Muscle Shoals. The story is that Ford's Interest In Muscle Shoals did not arise within himself at all, but that it was brought to his attention by some of the army officers who are now In charge of the plant and who wanted to see It da-, veloped In the best way by private in | terests. The matter being brought to Ford'a attention, he made an offer for; tt which subsequent examination ahowed to be rather leas to his ad vantage than was at first realized. Undoubtedly Ford could make fertil izer at Muscle Shoals and sell It rather more advantageously than anybody else, for the reason that he already has In existence the agencies for the distribution of fertilizer. Ford has literally thousands of agents throughout the country and probably tens of thousands of men selling his present products to the fanners. Ho could add fertilizer to these products practically without any addition to hla overhead costs. Age Against Ralston. One of the men frequently men tioned ns likely to he added to the list of democratic presidential possl . billties—or, In another alternative, likely to figure as a dark hnree In a convention deadlock—Is the nowly eleclcd senator from Indiana, Ramucl Ralston. Ralston's equipment la based, In the talk of ble advocates, on the excellent record he made when he was governor of Indiana: his Im mediate availability Is based on his I proved capacity to carry ono of the [ Important doubtful states. An ob J J action which thoughtful persons will raise to Ralston Is hie age. Ho was born December 1, 18">7. On December I of this year he will be 16 years old. If he should be elected ),e would bo within eight months of 68 on the day j of his Inauguration and approaching' 72 w hen(*h« should come to end hie When a Feller Needs a Friend By Briggs “There. She sat. omly Yesterday- Today ill /zr/S o PERHAPS To CROAK And I WON'T SHE ' ' MY LITTLE GLADYS EVER AGAIN," c*..^u no. n » (M. " term. Persons who realize the im mensely increased burden of work on the president, a burden which con gress increases "every day in every way.” have come to attach weight to sheer physical fitness as one of the equipments for the presidency. Party Kift on McAdoo. One of the condition* which makes it less possible for the democrats to get the best advantage of situation* which break favorably for them lies in the deep cleavage between some of the leaders who are McAdoo men and i some others who are violently anti McAdoo. There are, of course, many leaders who have a detached point of view toward all the candidates and are merely Interested in getting the | men who can make the best possible 1 run. But there is a group of "old ' guard" leaders who hated Wilson and | hate McAdoo because of his relation ! to Wilson. With these the first thought | is to keep McAdoo out. In the same ! way there are some leaders who were either associated with McAdoo when ; he was secretary of the treasury or for other reasons have acquired a 1 strong attachment for him. Between these groups there Is a cleavage and an intensity of feeling which affects the whole party organization. Of the officials of the democratic national ^committee there are two whose rela tions arc affected by this view. One of the two is a bitter ar.tl-McAdoo man who suspects, rightly or wrongly, that the other is pro-McAdoo. The result is a lack of teamwork between them which is harmful to the party's fortunes. Some for Wilson. In the cosmos of the democratic party \Voodrow Wilson has come to he almost a romantic figure. That his health become* better daily is dear to everybody in Washington. It is clear, however, that this Improve ment Is not likely to go to the length which would make him available as the candidate next year. Neverthe less, there are hosts of democrats throughout the country whose strong sentimental devotion to him i* smh that they cling to the hope of some such miracle of recovery aa would bring him to the point where he could make the run. In spite of this lack of availability as the actual candidate, Wilson will probably he the most polent single figure in the situation next year. He may or may not take a hand In the selection of the candidate. That he will be urged to do so is certain. In the volume of letters that Wilson is always receiving there come rejieat t-dly ones from party leaders In dis tant states who say thnt they will do nothing and make no commitment to any candidates until they have had a chance to come to Washington and talk with Wilson. (mild Fore* Ills Policy. Even If Wilson should refrain, as lie refrained In 1990, from attempting to Influence the nomination “by so muehj as the raising of a finger,” as he ex pressed It, It Is a reasonable predic tion that he may have a Rood deal to do with the making of the platform. Even when Wilson's health was less favorable than It now is he main tained a keen interest In party poli cies and took steps to Influence them. With his constantly Improving health he cgn he expected to he even more active In this regard. And It must he remembered that any action on the part of Wilson In the determina tion of party policy—In the making of the platform—would Inevitably bate a collateral effect on the choice of the candidate, if Wilson, preceding the convention, should write a public let ter setting out his Idea* a* to whnl (he platform should he, the effect of that letter wmuld he to cut the cloth of the suit which the candidate must wear. Tallt of Ambassador list is. Wherever democrate come together there la gossip of the next presidency, a ml goeelp on that subject never emla without (aUlng In the name of John W. Davis, who wee ambaeenilor to tlreat Britain during the Inat two years of the Wilson admlnlatrntlon. In all auch con vernations there la gen eral aaeent to the fart thet Davis wrould make an Ideal candidate. The elevation of hla mind, tho dignity of hla pnrsonatity, hla rnparlty for agree ahlr ittul forceful etatoment, hie In tegrity nml hie nllmmind ability gr# universally conceded. But there Is always a "but." In 1920, when there was a pro longed strain between the leading can didates in the convention, and when Davis’ name was brought seriously forward as the solution, the objection made to him was that the mere fact of his being ambassador to Great Britain was a handicap in the sense that it might alienate the Irish vote. At that time the Irish question was at its most acute stage. Wince then, with the freeing of Ireland by Great i Britain, the Irish question, not only as it affected Mr. Davis then, but In the widest sere has happily ceased largely to be the factor in American politics that it used to he. The pres ent objection raised to Mr. Davis among those who think of politics in probably too severely practical I terms is that he is now what they . call a "Wall street lawyer," with clients wtiu include some of the great banks and railroads. Is Wall Slrwt Lawyer. i It is a fact that Mr, Davis, like every other man who fills the office of ambassador to tlreat Britain, was unable to live within his salary and that in the course of his term he not only exhausted his savings, but actually had to tmrrow. It was to meet this situation and to try to accumulate a competence that Mr. Davis took up the practice of law in New y.,ik. Politicians any that if. instead of doing this, lie had re turned to liis native state of West Virginia and laid out a course with an eye to the political future, he would surely he the candidate next year. When you hear this ta! kof Mr. Davis lieing disqualified by Ills present work and associations, you feel like hoping that some leader or leaders might arise in the democratic party who would have the forthright neas und courage to dismiss mere appear ances in favor of facts. Of all the men who tiring forward Mr. Davis' present work as a disqualification f"r his nomination there is not one Dut admits that Mr. Davis as president would not be affected in the faintest degree by his former associations as a lawyer. They admit that this so called disqualification Is not real at all. but wholly a deference to a preju dice. So far, however, the sort of leaders who are likely to determine tlie next nomination are men who prefer to defer to a prejudice rather than to face it and disinfect It with fads and dissipate it. I bailee fur Kohiiiseni fine of the men who will figure In the democratic situation next year, und who will come as near ns any other to lieing the beneficiary of any deadlock that may arise In the con vention, Is Hcnator Ttohlnson, the new democratic leader In the senate. Ill* equipment of personality and ability is equal to that of any other man an far mentioned and superior to some. As lender of hit* party In the acnata |he will have an opportunity to hr. come well known to the public. The session of the Hcnate which begins nexl December will he the forum In Which the Issues of the c ampaign will he developed. My the prominent part whhh necessarily he will have in the debates. Senator Ttohlnson has the op port drill y to Impress himself on hi" party associates and on the public lit a most advantageous war Kurther than this. Hcttnfnr Ttohlnson lias one of those accidental advan tages which frequently neigh much in political conventions. He was the presiding officer of the 1920 conven tion and tlie manner in which he per formed it won him enthusiastic praise. In this role he stoid day after day in action before the eyes of the sev eral thousand delegates and leaders In the hall. This experience is a decided asset. The men who were the delegates in 1920 will, to a large degree, he the delegates in 1924 also. In any one of those jams which occasionally arise it is easily possible for a convention to turn with swift suddenness to some man who has figured favorably In the personal knowledge'of many of them. This advantage which Senator Rob inson will have in 1924 Is one that Harding had in 1920. Harding had been the presiding offeer of the 1915 republican convention and as such had lmpresaed himself on the knowl edge of the party leaders in a way that made It much more easy for them to turn to him in the situation that aroae in the 1920 convention. “Noble" Husband Telia Wife Twins \re Shameful IMKroit, Mich . March 24—Her hus hamj considered a nickel a day ample maintenance for a child, Mrs. Marie Dembowgki testified in her suit for divt'H Stanley, the husband, told Marie he was of noble birth, site told the . iurt. Although he conducted a prosperous hardware store be allowed her only Si a day to run their home, she declared. When their first baby was born he increased her allowance to $1 05 a day. “Two year* later we had twins and *r ma<fn him terribly angry,” says Mrs, Pembowskl. ‘‘He told ine it was shameful for a nohleman to have twins. He K.iid he could never love me any more and only raised my al lowance tn SI 15. New Trnt and \wning Firm b Kstaldi.-lu'd in Omaha W V. Mathews, formerly with the Scott Tent and Awning company, has entered Into business at 701 South Sixteenth street. The business will be conducted under the name of the Standard Tent and Awning company. Marriage Mart Fail,. Elyria. O, March 24 —The Lorain munly marriage mart ha, collapsed. There have been tin nuptial, for five j day. The license elerk, however, voiced belief that Sunday night "apoonlnge" soon will r. ,ult In re newnl of nuptial activities. Third Class in Egypt Is Way to Meet Fellaheen Former Omahan Delighted With His Experience in Closest Contact With Dirty Natives on Train from Cairo to Luxor. By < . W M T ASK ILK. Pastor ut the Methuiilet church of llaatiiiics, Neb., ami former iiaati.r of Hansi-om I'urU VIcIIhhIIni church In Omaha. oho Is I,Hiring Kurope with his wife. Tills is line of n scries of nrtielcs he hue uritten for The Ormihu Bee. My wlmt fun! Front Cairo to Luxor, third Hush, on a railroad train. Vou pity' us? Well you do not need to. We could have tf.ken a bahabeyah and i have gone up the Nile in state just as most of the tourists do. We could have taken the train ile luxe, got an elegant sleeper, gone to bed at Cairo and wakened up next morning at Luxor. Either die might have de pleted our porketbooks more than we wished, but we could have stood it if we had wanted to. Oh, I knuw that third Hass in Egypt is dirty and smelly. Vou have to ride with the native/! and they are not ail of the upper Hass. On a Nile boat we would have ridden with Amer ican or English companions. But what Is tlie use of going to Egypt to see the people and then spending all your time witli English and American peo ple? We could sec them at home. We came to Egypt to see the country and the people. Let me give you a word qf advice: If you want to see the Egyptian peo ple as they are, the real article, un polished, unspoiled by modern life, you can see them on a railroad train, third class, better than anywhere else. I knew the car was dirty and dusty and full of sand part of the time at least, and 1 know that had we gone by boat or had we taken a first class sleeper we would have arrived at Luxor clean and spotless. But we wanted to see Egypt. Had we taken the Nile boat our sightseeing would have been limited largely to what we could see on the river, the pass ing lioats and the sights along tlie hank. But on a day train one sees vil lages and towns, the fields and road sides, the i anal* and date palms and acacia trees, the interesting birds. Every few minutes the train steps at some village and it seems the whole native population is down at the sta tion to see the train go. through, and they swarm about the third c lass cars. Here is where you see Egypt. Worthwhile Experience. 1 know that on a third-class car people tulk loudly and gesticulate ■ deafened l>y tlit* uwful jabber as eight or 10 men yelled and howled, each trying to drown out all the rest. Sev eral tin\e* w« th ught the ntm w.re about to engage In flet fights, hut discovered it was only their mild way of making themselves heard Oh. :f you want to hear Arabic as she is spoke, go to I.uxor in a third-class ca r. I know there wasn't any diner, and we had to eat our lunch on our laps while two or three people stared at us with all their eves. 1 know there were gome awful looking characters on lioard. filthy, ragged and worse and 1 know that the eight of some of the native food was not very «p petlzing Hut what of all that" This was Egypt as she Is. This was what we fame to see. and this was Inter esting. every moment of the day. 1 would not want to ride that wav ft't en, I confess, but I would not have missed the experience for all the world. You can see mrre nf real Egypt In one hour in a third-class car than in three yeats going in hahubeyahs or riding in de luxe trains. We were at the station early for' we wanted to g«-t together. We were there half an hour before train time, hut every seat was taken. About 1 10 third class coaches and every* one filled with people and their bundles of all descriptions. At last a young man got up and gave Mrs McCaaklll his seat, then shoving the luggage over, made a place for me. rirturestine Procession. Piling our luggage on top we set tled down to enjoy the sights and lis- j ten to the sounds What a procession! | Men anil boys wealing long dleset and carrying trays and hnaketn filled with every conceivable object—toys, cigarets, ft nit. hroud, boiled eggs. : corn!is, etc , pushed and jammed their way through the aisle" in one con- ] stant and continued stream, cat h yell ing his wares at the top of his voice, and each pushing the others aside as he rushed after customers. Every now and then two would gel into a a verbal Iialtle, and fm a ft w mo- 1 meats the fur would fly. at least In- ! sofnr as \o Ift-npis hit'kuage and ges ticulation were concerned. "Once ihe train started, the aisles were soon cleared ami after a few moments the terrific litlliduh subsided somewhat. For long distance the road ran neat a canal and on top of the canal em bankment was n road. This was lined with people going to Hie farms to work or coming with their produce New Pianos For Rent Within the laet ten days wo have received from eastern factones over two hundred pianos, and as a consequence our warerooms are overcrowded and wo must make room Will make very special prices until the congestion o re Iievecl. ( omc in and select your piano. Free Tuning, Bench and Scsrf for 4f» years the M uaical Center of NeHraika A.ljasp? (£o. 1513-15 DougU* SllMl AUCTION Now Going On at GOLDSTEIN JEWELRY CO. 1510 Farnam Street Est. 1892 Closing out the entire stock of high grade Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks. Ivory Goods and also a full line of high grade Leather Goods. Sales Dailey at 2:30 P. M. NOTHING RESERVED—EVERYTHING TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER from the farms to the city. How pic turesque they were—groat lines of camels loaded with sugar cane stalks which were piled on both sides of the beast and high over his hark, the bushy ends bobbing up and down like a huge green tali, little donkeys scur rying along wllh their riders seated way back almost over tlie donkey s tail, their bare feet dangling out on either side. Mud Houses in t illages. We jiusBod village after village where the houses were all made of - mud bricks, roofed over with reeds of corn stalks. Many of the villages were in the midst of small palm groves, some of them so completely in the grove that the trees were actually growing up through the houses. At first I could hardly believe rny I 'yes, but then I remembered, it does not rain here, there is no cold weath er, so what could be better or more handy than to have a palm tree grow ; ing up In the midst of one's house, ; furnishing lovely shade as well as I delicious fruit? Rome of the mud houses are decorated round the top by fancy arrangements of the bricks or by corn stalks or reeds sticking up from the mud walls. Many had round dome effects for roofs. Most of the houses, even in the larger towns and cities, are made of mud bricks sun-dried, much the same as those made by the Israelites when they were captives in Kgypt. The farmers here, as in France, have their houses grouped in villages. There are no houses out on the Indi vidual farms. However, over a large part of this territory the farmers make temporary houses out of corn stalks or reeds, or more often make just a sort of shelter in order to protect their crops from robbers. Sometimes the farmer has a stockade on his own small farm, hut more often several are grouped near each other. In these not only the families live, but also the donkeys, the camels, the sheep and goats and the dogs. If the night should Is- too cool the farmer, or "fellah." as he is called here, lies down between two camels and is thus kept comfortably warm. Mausoleum* for Manta*-*. Scattered h*re and there we Raw little aqua reshaped building* with, round dome* They are tombs erected; for some insane person. Egypt is a land where it is more honorable to he crazy than to be sane. The Moham medans believe that every crazy or idiotic pererm is » prophet, pOfiMs*el by a divine spirit. There is a |*as* sage in the book r.f Isaiah where It «ays. *'The prophet is mad.’* The . Mohammedans take this literally and believe that all mad men and mad v.omen are prophets or prophetess*-*. They- are held In the highest honor ' by ?he people «nd are showered with gd s and money while they live and nhen th*y die tombs are erected over their bodies and as nearly as jx»s*4»ble on the very sj*ot where they died. The different kinds of pump.* or devices used in getting the irrigation j water on the land was a constant novel ty to us. Ther»» were the largo wooden ; cog wheels, one horizontal and the other perpendicular, the perpendicular one having buckets, -or more often earthen jars, 'placed about its rim so as t»» fill as they reached the water below and then empty into a trough is they came to the top. The horizon tal wheel was turned by a cow or donkey, sometime* by a came). Then | there »at the long pole with a bucket on one end and a heavy weight on ihe other, something like our “well wtep " Hornet bites there would he three of these, one alsne the other. I The lowest one dipped the water from 'he canal and poured It Into a pool higher up, a second dipped it from here into a still higher pool, and the third dipped it from this and poured jit Into the irrigation channel at the top. In one district we noticed where there was a mound or step built at the rear or weight end of the "sweep.” A boy would climb on to this mound and as soon as the bucket was filled by the man Ht the oiher end. wold step into a loop of the hanging ro|ie and swing off, his weight raising the bucket. "Where the wafer did not have to be lift'd far, long cylinder* with Archimedean screws inside were used. Here is a case where water is made i to run uphill while all the time it is running downhill. Another device Is a long wooden box or trough balanced OH a pole. A man stands in the water ■ and by means of handles dips the end of the through into the water and then raise* it, causing the water .to flow out into the drain. There were still other kinds of water wheels end devices but these are typical. One of the most amusing things on the trip was to see the people eat sugar cane and the Egyptian beans or “pul.” At many small stations tnen would come into the car with , great long stalks of cane or wilh baskets of green beans. The pas sengers bought them with eagerness 1 and the way they ate reminded me of wild beasts. They would take a pod, give it one or two quick bites, I throw down the hull lind grab go other )K<d. It wa» done ao deftlf that for my life I could not a«e the beans go Into their mouths. Th$. etna stalk* were broken over th* knee Into piece* about three fe<» long Holding It much as a flu*' player hold* hi* flute, they bite In' the outer hard covering, tear It of with their teeth, rapidly chew th> Inside, «utk out the aweet Juice an* spit the refuse on the floor. In»id« of five minutes the whole car looked like a barnyard, the floor completely covered with canestalk* and chewed pith. They say the cane le very healthful as a food, and gives one lot* of strength. 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