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The Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.# Publishers. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press, of which The Hee is a member. Is exclualTsly entitled to the use for rcpublication of all ne*s dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republics lions of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department A i lantic or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M : 1000 Editorial Deportment. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffa ... 15 Scott St. So. Side. N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington * 422 Star Bldg. Chicaga - - 1720 Steger Bldg. PERILOUS SWAGGERING. France, in the new role of the European bully, has refused to consider the new reparations offer lrom Germany. Inasmuch as this revised proposal was made at the request of Great Britain, Italy and Japan, this is a direct affront to three of the nations that fought as allies of, the F'rench. What this means to the stability and peace of the world only time can tell. , Until the German note is brought up before the cabinet in London for discussion there can be no official comment on the part of Britain. However, the London Times sees both in its ^one and substance a great advance on the German offer of May 2, and forsees the gravest consequence if it is not given due consideration. It says on this point: "The German memorandum represents, In fact, the last word of the German government, in the sense that its mere rejection would almost certainly lead to the abandonment of any further attempt of the kind, and to political and social chaos in Ger many, which would finally place beyond the bounds of possibility the hope of obtaining any substantial sum by way of reparations at all." Contrast this with the semiofficial position of • the Paris Temps, which puts the matter up to the British premier thus: “Either you throw down the German note as worthless of discussion, in which * case you are on our side and endorsing our policy in the Ruhr, or you announce that the note is a basis for discussion, in which case you openly ally yoursejf with Germdny.” An influential Berlin newspaper declares: "Poin care is not looking for money, negotiations^>r secur ities—he wants the Rhine,” and adds: “The world’s capitals would do well to settle down to serious con templation of the ultimate significance and working out of the Rhineland irredenta, which aspires forci bly to place 20,000,000 Germans under hostile for eign domination.” What Germany offers is, briefly, the payment of $300,000,000 a year for reparations, beginning in 1927, after the German people have had an oppor tunity to recover from their disorganized condition. To this cause Germany would pledge customs, rail road revenue and its entire industry, banking and agriculture. Chancellor Cuno offers to leave the deci sion both as to the total amount of reparations and the method of payment to an impartial international body, throwing open the financial records of the nation and of its industries to international investi gation. This proposal, which amounts to the suggestion that the whole controversy be taken out of the hands of the politicians and settled on a businesslike basis, is due to attract favorable attention in the United States. The American suggestion to the French gov ernment prior to the occupation of the Ruhr was that a conference of the interested nations be called to seek a practical financial basis for settlement. The proffer from Berlin is directly in line with the American position. Certainly the American people hope for a speedy adjustment of the dissension that threatens to plunge Europe into ruin. The spirit of force and fear that Clemenceau advertised so frankly on his American tour offers neither peace nor safety but only an ever lasting struggle for the upper hand. In spite of our friendship for F’rance, America will not endorse any mistaken or unjust course dictated by the politicians of Paris. Despite the late war with Germany Amer ica wants to see no wrong wreaked on the people of that unhappy land. F'ranee, refusing consideration to this reparations plan, warrants the conclusion that no matter what Germany offered, still more would be demanded. Poihcare turns a deaf ear to any proposal that would take the French armies out of the Ruhr. Apparently he is in the mood to defy England’s conciliatory policy and stake all on France’s ability to swagger through with the program of its imperialists. The tension in the old world is fully as great as that which preceded the outbreak of the world war, and no man can say what is in store. AN ARMY OF DESTRUCTION. Oregon is just now reported to he infested by an army of caterpillars, whose forward march is one of complete devastation. A broad belt is denuded of all vegetation as the great mass of wriggling worms moves forward, wave upon wave, engulfing all that grows from the ground and leaving a wake bare and barren. Settlers are battling the plague, but with little success, for the worms are too much for the men. Something in this will recall to Nebraskans of the older generation the experiences of half a cen tury ago, when the grasshopper indeed was a burden. Report* of the 17-year locust this year are disquiet ing only in the way of proving that the grasshopper is not yet extinct, but he no longer inspires the terror he once produced in these parts. Iowa suffered from an invasion of the “a\my worm" about the same time, and the farmers over there met the onslaught in a very effective fashion. Trenches were plowed in advance of the oncoming hosts, and as they filled with the wrigglers, kerosene was poured on the mass and ignited. Cultivation has largely done away with the grass hoppef, and only on rare occasions doos the army or cut worm become a real menace. The Oregon infliction will he met in some effective manner, and the danger of a repetition of the experience will be removed as far as is humanly possible. It serves to remind us, however, of the truth of what the natural iats have often told the world—that if left uncheck ed, the insects would soon destroy all other form* of life. So fecund are they, so rapidly do they multi ply, that were the constant warfare of man and beast and bird against bug and worm to be relaxed, even for a short time, calamity would result. Yet, were the bacteria of decay to be destroyed, animal and vegetable life alike would soon ceaae, because the elements needed by the one would be locked up in the other, and could not be released for want of the work of the little wrigglers who. begin at the foundation of life and build up to the highest forms. All have their use*. The nur*a who routed the "well dressed" burglar deserve* a medal. . Cadets in camp are getting a taste of what the boy* put up with in France. ' * t ‘ HONEY LORE. “How doth the little busy bee7” has puzzled moro than the author of that famous juvenile epic. Honey is not a new thing in human life. It was known to the ancients, far back in the early days of recorded time, and was esteemed greatly. The Land of Canaan was described as one that “flowed with milk and honey,” a figure of speech to denote its great fertility, but showing how honey stood in the estima tion of the people. Homer and Horace alike sung of the honey of Hymettus, not because it was allitera tive, but because the Greeks set it above ail other honey. Incidentally, the Gauls, the Allobrogi, Alle mani, and some of the other allies of the days before the Christian era could take a little honey and a few herbs and make an example of home brew of such potency as commanded both the ardor and the awe of strong men. Hiawatha saw in the honey bee the harbinger of the oncoming white man, and withdrew accordingly. Bees and honey have had a great part in the affairs of men from earliest antiquity. A judge in the east has just ruled that neither a bee nor his owner can be sued because someone has been stung and feels damages are due him. Most folks who have felt the resentment of a bee, expressed in his own terms, feel they have been sufficiently damaged. It is wiss not to dispute i*ight-of-way with a bee. All of which leads up, by easy stages to the pres ence in Omaha of a group of earnest men, who rep resent an industry that turns several thousands of tons of delicious nectar to the tables of the homes each year. Buckwheat cakes may be eaten without honey, or honey without the cakes, but the combina tion is irresistible. In fact, good reason exists for thinking this was the true ambrosia thijt was served to Jupiter and others on the Olympian bill of fare. Producers of this honey are the bee keepers, who have studied the habits of the industrious insect, taking advantage of the same, and putting him to work for the benefit of the human race. A bee is not to be blamed for making more honey than he can use; he shows a human trait in this, for there a^e men who labor all their lives to accumulate that they can never use. And just as the bee keeper takes the honey from the frugal and hardworking insect, so somebody gets at least part of the accumu lation of the overthrifty among men. It is not true, however, that the'bee has been successfully crossed with the lightning bug, in order that he can work nights. • TOWARD SPOTLESS TOWN. While the passion for paving has not subsided in any of the Nebraska towns, and the general program for strpet and highway improvement goes steadily on. a number of the smaller communities are turning attention to another important element of municipal housekeeping. This is drainage. Louisville, for ex ample, has just adopted a comprehensive plan for the building of a sewer system to serve its inhabitants, to be installed at a cost of $40,000. No other undertaking is of more importance to the general health and well-being of a community than proper drainage. This was one of the feature* of city life that developed very slowly. While the Ro mans had the idea, it did not get under much headway, for at the utmost the length of the drainage ducts of the Imperial City—the “cloaca”— did not exceed six and one-half miles. In the twelfth century Paris had an imperfect system of drains, and made but partial use of them, while in the fourteenth century in London the sewers were for carrying off surface water only, and the use for any other purpose was forbidden under severe penalties. As science broadened the knowledge of disease and how to combat its ravages, man’s mind took up the problem of disposal of sewage. This is not yet completely solved, but its importance is fully under stood. Uncontaminated supply of water for domes tic uses in the first necessity in a public health campaign, and the second is the complete destruc tion or removal of anything that will encourage the development of disease germs. A good sewer system is essential to the latter, and an adequate water sup ply must exist to aid in carrying out the purpose. With these provided, the chance for health is greatly extended. So the establishment of the sewers is a step toward the front. Ti|ket sale for the exercises at Shelby is said to have reached the total of $450,000, and Jack Demp sey has laid off training, so the preliminary arrange ments for a successful show may be said to be com plete. The undertakers agree that a golfer may be buried in his knickerbockers, but "Sandy” long ago solved the real question by requesting that his “sticks" be packed in his "hoxie.” Captain Robert Dollar is after the United Slate* vessels running from Pacific coast ports to the Orient. And the captain has a reputation for never getting on a losing venture. You can't blame the democrats for dinging to a "nonpartisan” ballot. They so seldom win office when running under a party label in Nebraska. “Curb market” brokers in New York are fail ing at a ratp that gives rise to the belief that oil stock and similar sucker* are scarce animals. I.eadville comes to the front with the first dune •-now storm of the season, but other Rocky mountain towns will yet he heard from. Homespun Verse —By Oinilii'i Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie FIXING FENCE. , Fixing fence! The awful horror of that l«ek of Long Ago: When It rained I could expect It and It xeemed to chide me »o. Get the hammer and the Maple*, tiring a *ti etcher.' ordered dad. Better take the team and wagon, don't forget the apade. my lad." * How X wlahed that I were gliding through the city tn a Cad! "Stop and gel a couple dozen of the oak po*la over there.” X auppoae he thought my anawer iv.ii the grunting of a bear. But I aomehow did rny duty In a half haphazard way, .Much concerned, and very anxloua for the Anleh of the day, And I thought that he'd he aorry when I trotted off to alay. I am at III alive and healthful, and my evea look up to night To the piclure in my inem'ry with an Infinite delight. And the crowd la aurging 'round nth and the city la my home, And it arrma 'twould he a plenaure If I could tlir coun try roam, And repair tho broken fcncea on the aweetiy ajjented t leant. “The People’» Voice” (.dltorlib from rtadirt if TIM Morilii Rm. Rea dm at Tin Marnlaa Bm ara Ineltad to uie this column trail* tor narauloa aa ■altera at aublla lataraat. Right Will Prevail. Omaha.—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee: Discord love* company and will have it, even though it blocks the wheels of progress, starves the innocent and robs the defence less of hope and faith. "My rights," "our rights"—defined from the standpoint of personal de sires seems the motivating thought of men today; the personal equation bulking so large in the mentality that right is ignored to such an extent that the repeated claims of "my rights" and "our rights” seem to be causing lop-sided viewpoints of the fundamental bases of national exist ence. Discord, greed, selfishness, avarice, lust, never did anything but destroy. The time to tear down is past, now is the time to build up—to gain the greater union of the constructive thought and to consign the destruc tive desires to the uttermost depths of oblivion. Many gleams of light are shining through the dark clouds of prejudice, revealing themselves as rays of truth, which is the foundation of right, and here and there causing a little more consideration of that which is right instead of seeing only that which will gain or protect what are called “my rights” or "our rights.” As these seeds of right thinking bring forth the sweet smelling blos soms of right acting, they inevitably culminate in the perfect fruit of last ing work well done. Let us recognize, both rich and poor, labor and capital, that the standard of right can never he leveled, can never be harmed, can never he de stroyed, that right must prevail. No matter how much or how often the effort is made to superimpose the personal desire, or to obscure the right with the claim of "my rights” or "our rights,” nor how successful these efforts may appear to be, the final effect always and without fall shows truth triumphant with the standard of right more firmly im planted- in the consciousness of the nation. Would It not be wise then to recog nize that the only path to real suc cess or progress possible to men. Is to think right, do right, Judge right, and most necessary first and last, to daity train ourselves to know right, when we come In contact with it, then, make sure we never lose eontart? J. S. DA VIP. Rebellion at the Table. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Who. I wonder, make* the etlquet rule*. By what right doe* he exercise authority and what kind of a rare of spineless creatures are we who blindly obey his dictates even at sacrifice of our comfort and sense of fitness? 1 love to dip my toast lightly In my coffee. But the etlquet. autocrat from his hidden lair ha* sent forth the edict that to dip one's toast is to prove one's self of the lowest order of humanity, in fact, scarcely human at all. Personally I won’t accept this dic tum. But. as long a# nearly every liody else does accept It, lam help less and must obey. Like other liberty lovers. I oe casionally rebel and dip my toast, vea even before the multitude In the city’s best eating places. But at what s sacrifice! A way out has suggested itself to my ingenious mind. Why not display a placard above our table on a neat pedestal, the placard to read thus: ”1 know dipping toast is pronounced ‘de trop’ by some unidentified and probably boorish etlquet dictator. I do not agree with the fellonr and I hereby invite other Independent soul* to revolt against the autocrat. Amer cans never shall he slaves! Aux arm**, cltovens’” How ths drven creatures, harassed under the lash of the hooded and un known auto* rat of etiquet would flock to the banner! How we would laugh in h*« face' How his hollow power would crumble under the battening of a free people, determined to dip their toast if they want to! Hipping toast, would Income respectable as well as delightful. "Hup cuddling.” "ostrich eating” and "the touch system.” none of them per ** displeasing to the eye or taste would lie clothed with tha mantle . .f re spectability and freedom. And the whole world would tie happier. Who’ll be the first to enlist In the noble cause? REBEL. Minority Kule. Omaha—To the Kdltor of The Omaha He»: Our theory of govern ment la that the majority must rule; that any other rule eubverta democ racy. But actually, we submit to the domination of minorities, blind to w hat Is wnnui An examination of facta and figures may relieve ttie be wildered voter and enllahten those wearied of the charge of responsi bility for conditions they have no power to alter. The wrongs to majorities by minor! ties are easily done in our representa tive bodies. The most effective method la factional control In caucus, hy a majority of the majority, necessarily a minority of the whole This is right, under our simple minded belief that our methods secure the sanctity of the majority. Party responsibility, a second fundamental theory, can only he sustained by caucus control. To demonstrate: lorne rears ago 45 aldermen were elected In New Vork cltv Twenty-three were democrats: 11 of these were Tammany men: Tammany Is a perfe. t example of a Daily Prayer Bins th» T.enl O hit *o»t " Ps 1<I> t. Oh Ood, our Heavenly Kniher, (Trough Thy mercy we have been "brought to the saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; and by Thy goodness we are permitted to niter upon the dutlta of another day We thank Thee for Thv loving kindness, a;id humbly beseech Thee that we n.ay this day show forth Thy praise with our lips and In our live* llanlah a'l doubt from our minds, and drive away all shadows from our souls, and e sable ua to realize Thy presence in our going out and our coming In. in ow n down sitting »nd our uprising May we have grace to think those thing* that are right. *nd courage to apeak the word* that may set forward Thy Kingdom! We pray that our dear one* may he kept both out wardly In their bodies, and Inwardly In their gout*, and lie defended from ail advertltlen which may happen to tli# body, and from alt evil thought* which may aasnwlt and hurt the soul. Keep Thy Churrh In continual godli ness; end grant that through the con secreted work of Christian people everywhere, the whole world may he brought to .lesti* Christ, and lie saved And oh. blessed l.ovd. when the busy it ij- of our little life on earth Is over, may w* with ill our loved ones, enter the service of eternal piuise In Thy Heavenly Home, through the sol* merits of ottr Lord and Savior, .lesue I Christ. Amen. bishop JAMK* n WIMCjnegTEB. |).D., Lit Us Rock. Aik. -T We Nominate— For Nebraska's Hall of Fame. STRONG force In Nebraska for the development of the com munity chorus is Charles V. Kettering of Crete. He presents at least two of the standard oratorios each year, with a chorus of from 70 to 100 voices. He has sung with suc cess the baritone roles In "Elijah,” "The Messiah," "Holy City," "Seven Last Words," "The Rose Malden," "From Olivet to Calvary," and many lesser works. Mr. Kettering Is director of the Doane College School of Music at Crete. He came to Doane last Sep tember from Marion college, Marion, Ind.. where he held a similar posi tion for two years. Was^ director of music at Miltonvale Wesleyan college, Miltonvale, Kan., for four years be fore going to Indiana. He Is a grad uate of Kansas University School of Fine Arts. Vocal study covering a period of nine years with Herman Springer of Kansas City, William B. Downing and Harold L. Butler of Kansas university. John C. Wilcox of Denver, and Percy Rector Stephens of New York. detested, well developed faction In It* party. Tet. under the right of the majority to command, with . the solemn sanction of the voters, 12 men. out of the 4.# elected, had the sole power to govern the city. This mischievous division of representa tives Is carried out In congress and legislatures, in conventions and pre convention trades, makes possible bar gains with lobbies and their employ ers and explains the power of small groups In legislation. The only remedy Is the election of represents tlves Incapable of evil dealings. 'The voter may use the same iniquit ous but constitutional privilege. Small groups, flrmJy organized under a skillful bos*, hold the balance of power in districts, wards and precincts and are frequently held together by no higher sentiment than a willing ness to accept a bribe. This sweet privilege Is the haaia of all corruption In political organization, which, while the honest voter is helpless, has come to merit contempt by the electorate. It tangles the voters In a web of in difference, dlakust, exasperation and s bitter feeling of neglected duty and frustrated rights. All these influ ences keep a large percentage of voters from the polls and result In minority control. In another form. Of the 80.000 registered voters In Omaha, only SO.000 voted at the recent pri mary • Thus a minority decided the issue. Throughout the state, the per cenlage Is about the same. At the last presidential election. 1.000,000, less than half the vote, was cast: another minority decision. The gerrymander the Inequalities In the number of voters In congressional districts, the activities of third parties, and. parti rularly. control by groups who do not rare who Is elected, so long as he will support their desired legislation, ail work to tha disaster of the actual tnalorlty. t The easiest and mn»t frequent soil! tlon offered for this prohtem. a fa vorlte subject for published Vrietures. is to blame the indifferent voter: the true cause of the trouble In the ms chlnerv of election. Is not recognized. Experience finds a remedy in pro portional representation. MRS T. T NEAL. Flapperism anil Future \nieriea. Funk. Neb.—To th# Editor of The Omaha Bee: Must America suffer the fate of ancient Rome? Must the young American with high Ideal* he a victim of A Cleopatra as was Caesar? We are waging a war with three modern enemies—fashion, pleasure anil luxury. Most young American* are turning traitors and are remodel lug the sturdy osk of America. Only the few are fighting against the sneaking enemy The causes are the lack of obedience to parents, lack of sense of response* blllty In parents, lack of shillty to grasp the higher ideals In life, lack of modest> lack of will power and determination to turn down f*»hlon. religion become* a habit more than a sacred duty. Young Amorim, must the solid foundation and untiring' effort of Washington be turned Into dissatisfac tion; must the modesty of l.tncoln lie converted Into style: must th* stun bines* of Rnnacxelt he changed Into fickleness, and America dwindle and fall for the lack of modesty and i dutiful living to God and country In the young American? It 1* time we woke up. take heed, admit the slogan "Excelsior." lest w-e suffer the fate of ancient Rome- to tie defeated by fashion, pleasure and tlixurv. which can be defeated hv courage and a d»termlnalon to win. E K ACKERBON. I.Ife's Utile Tragedies. The great tragedy of this mortal a* istence is this that hv the time a man gels better sense he'd lot* rather have better teeth —Ohio State Jour nal. N'ET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for MAY, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.73,181 Sunday. 80,206 Poet not Include return^ left over*. •ample* or pap*ra *pe»led in printing and Include* no apodal | •ale* R BREWER. Gen. Mgr. V. A BRIDGE. Cir. M«r. 1 .Snh.r, th.H and .warn la bafara ana thla 2d day nl June, IMJ w. h. quiver, | ISaal) N alary Public ; Debating Governor Srm k Reactions of Nations Press to New )ork s Move l ary Widely. To judge from the newspaper com ment, the country is taken somewhat at a loss by the action of Governor Alfred K. Smith in signing the meal ure abolishing the state prohibition enforement laws of New York. In some quarters he is condemned as a traitor to the United States Constitu tion, while In others he is praised as a patriot. "It is an act of nullification. There is no getting around It. It Is a declaration of state s rights," says the Rocky Mountain News of Denver, and the Kansas City Star agrees. Cap per's Weekly speaks of it as "New York's Whisky Rebellion," and con cludes: "in the end prohibition will win even in New York City. If put to a vote at this moment In the United States, it would carry by a larger ma jority than ever. The New I ork politicians have delayed its benefits in their own state, that Is all." The attitude of the New York press is in general acquiescent, and in a number of cases even ^ jubilant. "Fanaticism tries and fails,” the New York World exclaims, adding: "The Volstead law was never an honest measure, honestly designed to enforce the l*th amendment in ac cordance with the will of the Ameri can people. The act was not drafted in congress. It was drafted by the mercenaries of the Anti-Saloon league, who wrote their personal and their paid fanaticism into the law. Con gress acted merely as a rubber stamp for the league, and it has remained a rubber stamp ever since. No other law ever enacted has bred such wide spread corruption and inspired so much popular resentment as the \ ol stead act. but as long as congress is the creature of the league under the balance of power system that prevails in American politics both the corrup tion and the resentment will con tinue." "It is plain.” observes the New York Times, "that the whole matter of prohibition has been thrown into politics as neveer before. But, after all. that ia the American way. We may approve it or deplore it, but all such public questions, when they rouse general interest and seem to party leaders to be big with the pos sibility of votes, have a fashion, sooner or later, of being flung into the political arena.” The Brooklyn Ragle contents it self with remarking that "if the re peal leads to larger floods of liquor, good or bad, the issue of state en forcement will become a dominant one in the campaign next year.” "A courageous decision. ” is the verdict of the New York Journal of Commerce, which alleges that the whole question ff prohibition has been surrounded with "sheer hypocrisy and blind fanaticism." The Sioux City Journal disco%ers that "down at Omaha thgre 1* * movement on foot-to launch a Smith-! for President club." It believes, how ever, that the democrat* back of this are off on the wrong foot, for "the majority of the people are by no means convinced that prohibition does not prohibit, and they are going to keep at enforcement until they prove their contention is right or And out what is wrong ” There is no clear note in the chorua from the Nebiaska editor*. The York New* Time* thinks that "Governor Smith said a fond farewell to his po litical ambition* " Kdgar Howard in the Columbus Telegram *ay* that Smith's "demand that all the states be left free to determine the alcoholic content of all liquors dispensed with in state lines, regardless of the pro vision* of any federal statute regard ing interstate traffic in liquor* rnanu faetured or sold a* a beverage. ’ la "deserving of earnest consideration." Adam Breeds of the Hasting* Tribune refuses to become excited ._« - -*■ - ■ ■ - - but remark* that the repeal 1* * de cided victory for those opposed to prohibition. The Norfolk News doubts if Smith will draw much sup port from middle western democrats for the presidential nomination. "Every citizen of New York state believes that the repeal of the state enforcement act is tantamount to nullld^Uon of the prohibition law. the Fremont Tribune,asserts. "Every peace officer In the state believes that the governor's signing of the repeal amounts to a silent order to him to confine his attention to criminal pur suits other than those relating to liquor traffic." M. A. Brown, editor of th* Kearney Huh, put* It tl^ "We may admit that the city of New York and the city of Chicago are In rebellion against the federal au thorlty and that the latter is not any longer able to assert itself, but even this humiliating fact does not give the legislature or chief executive of either state the legal right to declare that those commonwealths will secede from the union of states and refuse to be bound together by the processes of lawmaking argl government which are supposed to bind all the states re gardless of the doctrine of state sov ereignty which was shot to smith ereens between 1880 and 1885." By his act, says the Lincoln State Journal. Governor Smith has destroy ed himself politically outside his home state: he may be a senator, but never a presidential candidate. Blxby fa vors his readers with a ditty for the occasion: Prothlcihibltlon is a myth In old New York at least. The slogan “Hlc-hurrah for Smith. Ip popular down oapt. As that repeal law takes effect We see the water wagon wrecked. Opinion is divided In Ohio, where the Cleveland News sees a prolific cause of lawbreaking, a great source of comfort and confidence for Lawless liquor dealers, a potent aid to those who want to see the forces of law and order defeated and broken dow-n The Cincinnati Tlmes-Star holds that New York Is within its right*, and that the expected centralization of prohibition enforcement in the federal government will contribute to the un popularity of the Volstead act. The Washington Star, being in the center of politics, sees in the move a great national question in the next Presidential campaign. Other papers, such as the Minnesota Star, regret the possibility that other issues which it considers of more importance will be obscured by thia one. "As a prac tical matter It is Impossible to get *n amendment out of the Constitution after it is once there.” that paper states, “And those who take com fort in such things as the repeal of Abe Martin Before we have any more “te Kreatest” contests let’s all git t'gether on what constitutes great ness. If some folks profit by their mistakes they must be awful tight wads. (Copyright. 1923.) A Book of Today Milford W. Howard's romantic story of life In the Ozarks of the south has been published by the TimesMirror Fre*s of Los Angeles. It is melodramatic In spots and con tains some sound philosophy. As a literary effort it does not rise above the mediocre. It is evident that Mr. Howard is familiar with the country of which he writes The story has been adapted for the motion p: -lire screen and is released by the Klim Booking Offices of America. Ine. A* a cinema production probably the story would have a stronger appeal. state enforcement laws are simply kidding themselve:-. The sale of in toxicating liquor is going to remain^ outside the law in this country. Why not let it go at that and turn our at tention to things in which we can effect needed changes." To a>! of which the Topeka .=*ate Journal adds: "The liquo* question has been sc useful to politicians that they simply will not give It up. It has brought office to thousands of them and r.*s been a great source of re\enue *o thetr friends. Probably it has tost the friends and foes of liquor and -be taxpayers more than did the war which put an end to human slavery in this country'-” “Home Owners” We want the loan on your home. Take advantage of our 6% Interest and Easy Terms “ 'Pioneers ” Capital and Surplus Jh’cCM illio n TDolla rs Butter, Eggs, and Ice Cream, too ^ Nebraska farms grow more valuable and Nebraska farmers grow more prosperous as new markets are opened for the products of the state. In 1900, Nebraska’s entire output of butter was no more than that of the Omaha plant of The Fairmont Creamery Company today. In 1884, when this company was es tablished, it churned approximate ly 35,000 pounds of butter. Today it churns more than that much in a single day in June. Its total annual ouU)Ut includes 46,000,000 pounds of butter. 300,000 gallons of ice cream, 119,000,000 eggs and 6,000,000 pounds of poultry. The Omaha National Bank points with justifiable pride to the part it has played in facilitating the dis tribution of Nebraska products by the various marketing agencies. For many year* the Fairmont Creamery Company has been a customer of this bank. The Omaha National Bank *3arnam at 17 th St.