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The Morning Bee _ MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO. NELSON B. UPDIKE. Fr«*ident B. BREWER, Vic* Pruidcnt and General Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha AMocUUd Pre>«. or which The Bee ie a member, le exelueleelr entitled to the nee for republicetlon of all neve diepetchee credited to it or not otherwiee credited in thie peper. end eleo the local newe published herein. All righto of ropublieetlone of our epeciel diepetchee ere eleo reeerved. „ . _ BEE TELEPHONES ._. Private Branch Exchange. Aelc for the Department AT la ntie or Pereon Wanted. For Night/ Calle After 10 P. M.: 1000 Editorial Deportment. AT lantio 1021 or 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnaan Co. Bluffs ... IS Scott St. So. Side. N. W. Cor. 24th and N .. New York—286 Fifth Avarua ^^ngton_^422_S^Blft^Chicago^-^m0_Steg«r^BUg. END OF THE LANGUAGE LAW. The supreme court of the United States has declared the Nebraska language law invalid. Simi lar statutes in Iowa, Ohio and a number of other states, inspired during the tension of war, likewise were found unconstitutional. It is well that it is so. If the scars of the world conflict are to be healed over, these things that needlessly rankle and irritate must be removed. The cause of real Americanism . gains from this judgment of the nation's highest tribunal. Broad, tolerant and sane, the message from Washington puts a check to what amounted to a denial of the rights of American citizens to develop their lives and those of their children ac cording to their own1 judgment. It would have been better if the state legisla ture of Nebraska had repealed the Reed-Norval lan guage law instead of leaving the question to be dealt with by the court The Omaha Bee conducted an earnest campaign during the last session against certain features of this measure. A word from Governor Bryan at that time would have eliminated this repressive statute, but it was not forthcoming, and now relief comes from the supreme court. The Nebraska law forbade the teaching of any foreign language in schools below the ninth grade. It left only one day in the week, the Sabbath, on which a child could be taught a foreign tongue. Designed to discourage the use of any language ex cept English, it actually resulted in hampering the religious education of a considerable number of children whose parents were born abroad and still continue to worship in the old country way. A wedge was thus driven between parents and chil dren, and the influence of religion was weakened. A glance at one of the cases carried to the su preme court gives the best idea of how this law worked. In this Robert T. Meyer, instructor in Zion Evangelical Lutheran college of Hampton, Neb., was fined $25 for teaching German to some of his pupils during the recess period. Under the interpretation of the state courts, not even after regular school hours w'hen the children had com pleted all their regular studies was a teacher al lowed to give foreign language instruction. The supreme court, however, has decided that this restriction is not in accord with the theory that America is the land of freedom and opportunity. One is no less an American because of knowing an other language in addition to English. Moreover, foreign languages are more easily learned in child hood than in mature years, and there is an actual mental broadening in having control of more than one language. Nebraskans want all the children in the state to know first the English language, but once this is assured, there is no more reason for forbidding them t® be taught German, Swedish, Polish or any other tongue than there is of forbidding them to master the deaf and dumb alphabet. There has been a great deal of friction over this language law. The decision handed down from Washington is to be welcomed as ending the whole controversy. MADE TO LAUGH AT. Our British, cousins, according to reliaole news reports, find themselves no longer moved to tears by the American “western” movie. If this be true, it affords one more item on which they are slowly catching up with us. Americans never did weep at the thriller, and quite a while ago began to laugh at it. So general has the custom become that it is now a question as to which is the funniest, a film with a two-gun man as its hero or one with a pie throwing comedian for its central figure. Tlte “western” play with the sheriff, the gam bler villfan, the lovely and frequently weepy maiden, and the remarkable young hero, belongs all by it self. It once was as popular on the stage as it ever was on the screen. A score of years ago the crowd that packed the gallery on a Sunday night wanted to see the freight train run through the parlor, but r.ot to weep at. Go back forty years, and it was the same, or sixty for the matter of that. Certain forms of drama have lived for many generations, and will persist. But the things that were set out on the screen never did and never could happen outside the movies. Men who shot swiftly and ac curately, and frequently on slight provocation, were plentiful in the old west, but none, not even the Karp boys or “Bat” Masterson, “Wild Bill” Hickok or any of those famous characters ever achieved the results that came out of the Hollywood studios. However, while the reminiscent mood is on, let us not forget that we owe something to England on this line. It was from over there we got “The Ticket-of-Leave Man," “The Silver King,” "Romany Rye” and “The Lights of London.” Who that ever heard the lines will forget the scene: “Now that I have written the letter, who will take it?” “I will!” “Who are you?” “Hawkshaw, the detec tive!” And that was long before Sherlock Holmes made a fool of Old Moriarty and his gang in the gas chamber at Stepney. Let them cease to weep at our westerns, but not because they are wholly without sin against good taste at the theater. EARNING THEIR PLEASURE. A sign is up on the sidewalk in front of the court house to which we respectfully draw attention. “Will you help the Boy Scouts earn their way to Camp Gifford?” That is the legend, and it should have an appeal to everybody, for it breathes the spirit of the Scouts. Earn their way! That is the motto. Camp Gif ford is a pleasant and altogether delightful place for the boys. It has grassy awards to drill on, and nice, cool water to bathe in. It has trees and dells and all the variety of nature that makes a camp ground attractive to a Boy Scout. He gets ample opportu nity to practice what he knows of scout craft and to absorb new knowledge. He is out in the open, uway from the hent and the noise, and the dangers of the city. Sleeps well, eats well, works hard and plays harrier, and comes home from his trip a better boy. Scouts so trained are not only manly and self reliant in boyish things, but they are laying broad and deep me foundation of their success in after life. We value what we have by what it cost to geL m OKLAHOMA'S SCHOOL ROW. If it were permitted to peer under the lid, the chances are it would be found that the students of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical college are protesting over the discharge of one president and the appointment of another one being made the tools of political enemies of Governor Walton. Col lege boys are alrays ready for a ruction, and noth ing could be greater than their glee to find that in a first class row they have the backing of a large section of the townspeople. Political feeling runs high in Oklahoma, where the democratic party was overthrown by a com bination of farm and labor. Neither Governor Walton nor his opponents have shown any desire for conciliation, and even the schools have been made the arena for partisan warfare. President Brooks of the state university pulled out to be come head of the neighboring University of Mis souri, but the president of the state farm school, J. B. Eskridge, decided to stick. Governor Walton, however, desired to change the atmosphere of the agricultural college, and se lected George Wilson, who had managed his cam paign, to become president. Immediately seizing their opportunity, those hostile to the farmer ad ministration made a strong protest against the plan. Mr. Wilson had been a lecturer in the north west for the Nonpartisan league, and he was first objected to on account of his radical opinions. The majority of the people of Oklahoma, however, had voted for Governor Walton, who holds exactly the same views as Mr. Wilson, so the appeal to popu lar indignation was altered in gome of its details. Mr. Wilson, it was discovered, had never received college degree. Although he was a normal school graduate, and had taught in the agricultural col lege, and a few years before had received a heavy vote when he ran on the democratic ticket for state superintendent of schools, yet there were many who felt that without a college degree he was not com petent to become president of Oklahoma Agricul tural and Mechanical college. The governor took all this lightly, merely observing that he could ob tain an honorary degree if it were desired. Certain fundamental changes in the course of teaching were forecast, and some objected to this. For instance, Mr. Wilson planned to make the in struction more practical, dealing more with farm and mechanical problems and less with cultural sub jects. The professor of ancient languages sent in his resignation with the remark that he regarded "a man who has less education than half the student body as absolutely unfit for the presidency.” Mr. Wilson’s grammar, it is true, is not always certain, and he is not conversant with any other language, dead or alive, than the English. His ap pointment as president of a state school :s an experi ment, not necessarily doomed to failure, fcowever. The complaint is often voiced that there is too much theory and too little practice in technical schools. Mr. Wilson intends to stress the practical end, and has not much use for Latin or Greek or some of the other standbys of professional educators. He feels that the school has made the students feel them selves too good for the farm. Instead of going home and taking hold of the plow, they want to tell some one else how to do it, or go into some other occupation. Installed now in his cha r, not as a teacher, but as the executive head of this Okla homa school, he has a great opportunity. Soon the students will go back to the farm, on their’vacations, and they will have the whole sum mer to think over their threats never to return to the campus at Stillwater. The chances are that if they listen to their old dads they will cool off by the opening of the next term. THE CHINESE PUZZLE The muddled situation in China becomes no clearer as a result of the kidnaping of a train load of passengers by bandits. Just what sort of po litical hocuspocus is being employed only a Chinese statesman can understand, but there is good reason to believe that certain of the high officials at Pekin were well aware of what was going on, if they dM not exactly have a finger in the pie. On the sur face. this would look like a conspiracy to discredit the federal government before the world, but the "foreign devil” powers declined to play the game. Instead of sending in troops, to emphasize the pow crlessness of the Chinese government, the outsiders simply put the matter up to Pekin, with a stiff sug gestion that action was expected. Most of the prisoners have been released, and it is believed all will be. Bandits are reported to be enlisting in the regular army, or, as might well be suspected, are returning to the regiments from which they were drafted for the kidnaping expedi tion. Sun Yat Sen is reported to be winning vic tories in the neighborhood of Canton, although he has been reported to be in full control of that region. Wu Pei Fu is also credited with victories in the west, and in the northern provinces the local mili tary despots are holding their own. The immediate unification of China does not seem likely, although the co-operation of Sun and Wu, said to be impending, will do more than any thing else to make such a result effective. Other great leaders are to be pacified or conquered, and some disposition made of Yuan, who, as president of northern China, has much the same standing at Pekin as does Sun at Canton. One influence that may serve well in the end is the consortium; China needs money, and lenders will not consider the loan until a stable government of some sort ia brought into existence. Her poverty may yet bring tran quility to China. Those Chinese bandits are slowly working them selves off the front page. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie MY NEIGHBOR JONES. My neighbor Junes an auto owna, ant] renta a garage swell; He rides around as one renowned tn splendor does he dwell " 'Tia truly nice to have the prire," I told a friend one day, "I'd like to be as rich aa he and roam my Ufa away," "But," said my frlsnd, "his bliss will end and he'll lie sad at Iasi; Hla home a for sale, he's out of kale the tale of living fast He's pleasure mad; what means he had have gone to frills and sty le. Hla dignity will coma to he repentance after while," True kings and qurens maik well their means as through the years they glide. They pay the prue of aacrlflea anil shun nslenslve |n hie And when the drv has left them gia> thet need not hide their tears, And mourn mistakes— like Jonesy mokett— In his is •ourcaful year*. A “The People's Voice" Editorials from roadoro of Thi Moroinp Baa. Rtadort of Tha Mernlnt Boo oro lovltod to u*• thlo column frool* for oxprossloo to matters of public Interest. "Fairness In Our Young Men." Wolbarh. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omnha Bee: In days gone by our young man had a snap finding him self a young lady companion, but think of the obstacles he is up against now in these days of "Bobbed hair," "Short skirts," Rolled stockings, etc. Why. like as not the poor boy will go through terrible ordeals to meet some promising looking damsel (from the rear) only to find out that she is his school mate s grandma. I’ll say it is injustice to allow elderly women, married women and nice companion able young girls to dross li^c they were all the same age. Not only is it injustice to the young man but to the young lady also as the older (even the married) women have adopted all of their wiles which the poor young things use to ensnare ■ their victims. Why not petition our legislature to pass a law providing that young ladies, unmanned, shall be permitted to wear skirts not shorter than to the knees and may wear their hair bob bed and roll their stockings, middle aged ladies shall not roll their stock ings and must not wear skirts shorter than half way to the knee, while elderly ladies will not be allowed in public with bobbed hair and must not | roll their stockings, also they must [wear skirts not more than eight inches | from the ground Married women of all ages to he required to dress in sub dued colors, not roll stockings and must wear skirts at least to the tops of their shoes' shoes not to be higher than 14 inches, also each married woman he requested to wear in plain view a small tag not smaller than a quarter. From 15 years to 25 shall be considered young women. 25 I to 40 years middle aged and above that elderly ladies. Now, would not a statute like that on our law books and enforced, be a gieat boon to our young man as well as our young women? But think of the agonies of the older women who have had their “back to childhood.” dresses! And if this law be adopted, better hold the milila in readiness for there'll be wailing and gnashing of teeth. W. F. RHODES. A Minister Endorse* Governor Smith. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Governor Smith of New York has, in my opinion, rendered the country a real service by his stand in relation to the repeal of the New York state law concerning the enforcement of prohibition. I agree with his position from the standpoint of a determined opponent of alcoholism. I believe it points to the only satisfactory and sensible so lutlon of the problem of a rational and enforceable temperance legisla tion. The 18th amendment was passed by the American people not as a measure against alcohol as such, but as a measure against intoxication and the social misery resulting therefrom. The real meaning of the amendment is: "It Is forbidden to manufacture and sell beverages which produce alco holic intoxication." Now i maintain that it is in the interest of the enforcement of this law that congress change its definition of what constitutes an intoxicating beverage. A sensible definition would say that a beverage may be called In toxicating if it contains a quantity of alcohol large enough to produce in toxication in the average adult if taken by him in a liberal but not ab normal quantity. Let me make clear what I mean. L'nder the Volstead act beverages containing one-half per cent of alco hol are considered as nonintoxicating. Still, if certain people would drink all they could possibly hold, during a whole day. taking no food, they might get drunk on this kind of a beverage, especially if they were children. But It would b« plainly nonsense to call | such a drink for practical purposes Intoxicating. Now a large pact of our population —a part by no mean* rcetrfcteil to undesirable folks—want a drink that, to talk plain, has Just enough "kick” In it to cause a pleasant relaxation of the nervous tension under which we are living. Just enough to stimu late sociability and conviviality with out producing Intoxication even if taken in quite liberal quantities. These people feel keenly that the preji nt definition of ihe 18th amend ment prevents them from procuring Just such beverages, and because of that go a good deal farther than the amendment Itself goes. Now a law that Is too sever* Is Just as bad ss one that Is not se\ere enough; they both defeat their own purposes. as every disciplinarian knows By forbidding even the brew ing of light beer the radical prohibi tionist actually drives the masses, who would be content with a very slight stimulant. Into the ranks of the bootleggers. I know that the fear Is expressed that if we give the "liberal" element the little finger, they will want the whole hand. Now, thla Is no douht true In the case of the professional liquor Interests; their campaign for "light beers and wines” Is hypocrltl cal. and the fact that the people feel this. Influences them against a liber allzlng of the Volstead act. Still I believe the people should have cour age enough and know their own mind well enough not to be scared Into harmful narrowness by the liquor gang. 1 believe that disinterested scientists should establish liv extensive tests Just how much alcohol a beverage like beer may contain without getting the average adult drunk even If taken very liberally. If. for Instance, a 4 per cent hecr cannot get the average man drunk even If he drinks a dozen schooners of it, why. for the love of Daily Prayer l.t* the poor and needy pr«l*e Try .4 II. Our Father In Ffenven. w* kneel to gether to thank The* for Thy good nes* mill merry, which ha* been *o manifest In our live*. Thy good Rift* have not failed, morning nor evening. When we have forgotten Thee in the Absorption of work nnd play, when wo have neglected The* through lack of gratitude and love, Thou bant con tinually looked upon ua to hie** and keep u*. We bcHeech Thee, blessed Lord, to keep ii* from ail unholy dealre* nnd practices, and to Insplr* within tin a love for Thee, for *11 our fellowmon. and *11 good work. We aak Thee to open doors of opportunity to u*. ttint we may in acme wav cm h day honor Thy Name and establish Thv will In Ih* world. Give ti* the Fiighest pitvil * ii* of hourly fellow*hlp with Thee, that we mav he confident of Thy nearnew* to us and Thy intne*t in out affair*. Forgive the many thing* that have marred nur live* and stained our •Midi* We are ashamed of them, nnd turn from them in sincere repentance. Mending The* that that i* forgiveness md clesnaing in .lean* t’hriat. out Lot d and havlor In III* Name we **k *|i fhryp good and precious sift" Amen W CQlTft tt.AND *♦'PINSON, fc.D . rbiiadtiphit r*. We Nominate— For Nebraska's Hall of Fame. ALFRED SORENSON is the real doyen of Omaha newspaper men, having been actively en gaged in the work for longer than 55 years. A native of Wisconsin, he first learned the printer s trade, and then attended Harvard Law school, from which he was graduated in 1870, ajid began to practice law- in Chicago. The great lire discouraged him. and he came to Omaha, where, in 1871, he was employed aa typeset ter on The Omaha Bee. In 1878 he was made city editor, and has con tinued a varied career since, with serv ice on papers in Omaha, Denver, Butte, Spokane. Tacoma, Portland and San Francisco to his credit. Since 1901 he has published the Examiner. Mr. Sorenson wrote and published the first story in hook form of the life of Buffalo Bill. He has twice published a "History of Omaha,” and is about to bring out a third, greatly enlarged and carefully revised edition of this work. Sorenson has written a number of other books as well as many articles for magazines and trade publications. His wide acquain tance and personal experience has marie his "History of Omaha” inval uable as a reference book, the first edition, long out of print, being re tained in libraries as a real treasure. The appearance of the new edition is eagerly awaited. sense, should it be forbidden as ‘'In toxicating'.'” In fixing the limit of alcoholic con tents permissible in beverages, a wise government will, in the interest of teal law- enforcement, ignore the clamoring of both extremes, the liquor radicals and the water radicals If In certain states public opinion should he overwhelmingly in favor of a drier definition, the people of that state could adopt that; thus each sec tlon of the country would have the satisfaction of feeling that it is work ing out its own salvation By nothing in what I have said do I want to give anyone the Impression that 1 am anything but a sincere ad vocate of war to the knife against the evil of alcoholism, an evil which every man who is not blind to the Interests of humanity must hate and combat. ALBERT KUHN. Pastor of Bethany Presbyterian church. Third Parly Excitement. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee. Frank Munsey, publish er of the New York Sun and several other publications, l* using several acres of print paper to warn the con servative lnteresis to the menace of the "third party." Munsey beseeches the republican and democratic parties to fuse so they will bo able to present a united front to the political enemy. The New York publisher has made 140.000.000 within the past 15 years underwriting the respectability of the steel trust and kindred Institutions and fear is the monitor that disturbs his peace of mind. The poll for presidential candidates by t’ollicr's. among Its subscribers, which shows that in the states of Arkansas. Louisiana. Oklahoma and Texas, Henry Ford received more votes than Cox. McAdoo. Wilson, Bryan and Smith combined, gives Mr. Munsey a chill which becomes political ague when he reads that in the Pacific and mountain states Ford gets more than Harding. Johnson and Hoover. And what is an Intelligent analysis of the situation from the Independent movement standpoint? If Piesldent Harding is nominated—and It looks ns though he would be—on Interna tional questions the Hughes Hoover influence will keep him from lending ear to that substantial faction of his party which recently declared that "It is perfectly apparent to every one conoerned that England and hey Eu ropean allies are determined to bl.k tho United States out of this money by hook or crook.” If the Cox MeAdoo Wilson element control* the democratic convention— and everything lend* that way—the League of Nation* will be endorsed, in substance. Tills will leave at least 4f» per cent of the voters bitterly opposed to either of the old parties On the financial question, including the complaint against the federal re serve banking system, the democrats am In worse ihun the republicans. If the democrats ti.nl not made It pos sible for a few unscrupulous finan ciers to expand or contract the cir culating medium at will without any check upon their greed, the repub beans would not have lieen able to spread ruin over the land. On this issus the independent movement will tear holes In Ih* ranks of both old parties • in the Ksc h Cummins railroad law both of ths old parties sre also on the defense. In Nebraska the titular leader of the democratic party and the main spring of the presrnt republican par ty, who have been making faces at each oilier all winter like two school gills, are lining up for another con IihI on the "code ’ at the taxpayers' expense. If the progressive party can gather In Hu voters who are utterlv dla rusted with the horseplay politics, Nebraska will turn over a new leaf. The poll!lea! fiasco, c alled the balance of power. Imported into Nebraska, never functioned after those foxy po IlMclan* got through using It as a stepping stone Into office. At tin* time arrangement* arr being made to send s ptogresalve itelega tl"n lo ebb ago next month to attend the farm and labor national confer ent-e Afier this conference slate ac tivities looking toward* a complete tugemination will begin W It URKKN. Heresy I'ront Kansas It’s a stn to mates s law that the people will t c-giid ns foolish Huvh s law cheapens sll the good law*.— Atchison Ulobe “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers—_ Another Ice Age. from the Oiscinnell Timee-Star. Donald B. MacMillan, the Arctic explorer. Is to sail for the Arctic regions, and among other forms of research will try to determine wheth er we are in for another ice age. He will measure the recent movements of glaciers, to see if they are prepar ing for another visit to temperate regions, similar to the four excursions arranged by nature in the past million years or so. But it will not be the Arctic explor ers who shall first advise us of the approach of an Ice age. During the present "warm interval." • the fourth, which has now- continued for 12.000 jears, man has done more than to invent stone hatchets, his greatest achievement during the third "wurm interval" of about 30,000 years. In addition to inventing a language of his own. he has devised methods of reading the language of the heavens. The astronomer has become the prophet of the stars. He knows their "beats" as they patrol the heavens. He knows their physical character. And if the sun and all the rest of them decide to stage another ice age, the astronomer will tel! his brothers «o that they may arrange their habi tations. The last Ice age came almost as far south as Cincinnati. But long before future glaciers shall come crunching down upon our descendants, bringing with them bowlders and other im pedimenta for the information of geologists of future "warm Intervals," there will be astronomical announce ments. with the schedules of the glaciers. It will lie a long process and man will be able to adapt himself. Of course, eouatorial land values will in crease. Southward the course of em pire and everything else will take their way. The man from Brazil, clad In furs, will he seated on ice that once was the Ohio, sketching the ruins of the Union Central building Meanwhile It is just as well to remem ber that there ha\e been colder springs than this of Annus Domini 1923. For • NonpoUtk-xl legislature. from the York Republican. E. R. Purcell, editor of the Custer! County Chief, a newspaper without editorial comment, was a member of the late legislature and in a resume of the work of the law making body delivers the following opinion, which is the important observation of a keen student of public affairs and stresses a view that will become more general: "I want to give voice to a conviction I have had since I served my first term in the legislature. It is this: I believe that the members of the house and senate should be elected on a nonpolttlcal ballot Af ter seeing the struggle for political supremacy in every legislature and the effort of members of both polit ical bodies to put the opposite party lr. bad. I am convinced that the non political ballot is the surest and quickest way to eliminate politics from our lawmaking body. "It seems to me that it is juit as necessary for the body which makes the laws to lie elected from a non political standpoint es it is for the supreme, district and county judges, who Interpret the laws. I know this opinion is not popular with party leader*, but I believe that It will eventually come about. Political parties are necessary and I believe in them. The party should be responsi ble for the acts of the individual office holder, but that should pertain to those who enfores the laws and not to those who make them for the observance of people of all political creeds." Mr. O'Brien's Scalp. From the Nebraska City Pres* "Bill" O'Brien has been the fisher man's friend In Nebraska for several years He. more than any other man is responsible for the promotion of fish and fishing In the state. He has built up a great organisation in his department, has been conscientous and capable. But "Bill" is a poor po liltcian. apparently, and in a few days, probably by the time these words appear In print, his scalp will be hanging from the belt of the gov ernor of the state. It matters not to a group of politicians what personal and official qualifications a mai\ may have; it matters greatly. In their scheme of things, what hts political leanings are. The Ghost of Nullification. From th«* Kidiu City 9t»r New York can do without a state prohibition enforcement law if it want* to, but the ISth amendment to the constitution and the Volstead law made In pursuance thereof Will still be the supreme law of New York. The federal judge* will be bound thereby snd the federal government will en force them. No state can nullify the federal constitution or prevent the I'nited States from enforcing laws made to carry out Its provisions. Nevertheless the state legislature and Governor Smith has done an anarchistic thing. The moral effect of their action must be to encourage law breaking. The arguments used by the wets at the hearing before the gov ernor Indi cate a remarkable lark of comprehen sion of the nature of the American constitution. Something may be par doned them perhaps tn view of their seal and their excitement, but we should have expected that on an oc casion so public Americans assuming to speak In terms of law and policy would have hesitated to exhibit ignor ance so stupendous The statement was gravely made by the wet attorneys that the constitu tion of the United States prohibits ihr federal authorities from exercise lug any power whatever within a state, as ths state, are sovereign What the constitution does say is this The constitution and the taw* of KC-KC-KC-KOKOKC KC BAKING POWDER 250unces for 25' Use less than of higher priced brands. Same Price for over 30 yaars No bettor at any price OH OOVCTNMFNT SOUGHT M1LUONS OF POUNDS ttCKCKCKCKCKC A the United State* made In pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land; and the Judges tn every state shall lie hound thereby, any. thing tn the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwith standing. ’’ „ , The doctrine of the New ^ ork wet* Is simply the old doctrine of nullifica tion. It is ecarcely less surprising in these days than would be the ghost of John C. Calhoun if it should ap pear among us. We hadn't supposed there was a lawyer In the United States, with the slightest regard for his legal reputation, who would take a brief for that doctrine. The state of New York is not sov ereign. The three principal functions of sovereignty ha\e been legally de fined as the power to make war, the power to coin money and the power to make treaties. New York can ex eroise none of them. New York cam cause inconvenience and expense to the nation In enforc ing prohibition But it will have no belter luck with nullification than South Carolina had. The State Tax Cut. From the U*rin* Courier A tabulated statement of the ap propriations of the late legislature shows that the two houses finally agreed upon an amount more than half a million under the rcommenda tlons of Governor Bryan The actual total foots up for the biennium ap proximately *1».000,000. hut it should be rerfiembered that this Includes amounts which will be derived from fees and federal aid. From a stand point of economy the legislative ses sion has done well, nor do we belieie the Interests of the state fiom an administrative standpoint will suffer by the drastic reductions effected. This outstanding fact will lie recog nized when the hue and cry of par tisan criticism has w-orn itself out, and the truth soaks in that th» ap propriatlons are about five millions less than for the previous two years. Why is it that the man who Insists the world is going to the dogs never has callouses on his hands’—Grand Island Independent. i Abe Martin lM/rseRt*6H£KY A 'frforrtfufaWlSti 10 In kVa /jl 7i /ff 4*^ I / Nt'*Bi[>/Krt/#6 jftl J*Hirl46 FOR HIM fl I Wouldn’ it be dandy if women wuz only as ole a* they look around th’ feet? We wonder how' much th’ farmer git# out of a new $10 straw hat? NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for MAY, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.73,181 Sunday. 80,206 Does not include returns, left overs. samples or papers spoiled in printing and includes no apeciaJ j faJes * B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. | V. A. BRIDGE, Ctr. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2d day of June, 1923. W. H. QUIVEY. 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