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The Morning Bee MORNINd—E Vfc NIN G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Puhlithern. MEMBER OF T H EASSOCI ATE D_PRESS The Associated Press. of which The Bee Is a member, is exclusively entitled tb the use for repubiic&ticn of alt news dispatcher credited to It or nrtt otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here'n. All rights of republloatlons of our special dispatches are alia received. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for <h* Department AT lantic or Peraoi* Wanted. For Night Calla After IX) P. M.: . nnn Editorial Department. AT Janfic /021 or '1042. IUUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs ... IB Stott St. So. Side?, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New Yorl*^28fi Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Steger Bldg. BANKRUPT STATECRAFT. > ' ■ France tightens iti grip on the Ruhr, while the Germans boil, the Belgians hesitate and British opinion presses for a peaceful compromise. In cer tain districts German workmen riot and loot the homes of mine directors. Radical leaders are said to be hack of a plan for a general strike that would be directed not so much against the occupation as against the capitalistic system. It is one of the surprises of the present situation that the wrath of the poor is turned against their wealthy fellow countrymen instead of the French. Yet a break in the present deadlock along the Rhine must come, in one way if not in another. If European statesmanship is so bankrupt that it can not adjust human affairs in workable fashion, then almost any thing might be expected. Homer L. Morris, professor of economics in Earl ham college, a Quaker school in Indiana, who has just returned after two months of service with the Friends’ relief committee in the Ruhr valley, ex presses'the conviction that France's actions are re sulting in the spread of dangerous doctrines in Ger many. He says: "The situation is daily growing more serious, and a communistic Germany may be the result of the present French policy. The rapid depreciation of the German mark, which Is resulting from the occupa tion, is accompanied by an equally rapid advance in prices. This makes it difficult for the people to buy food, and as a result there have been serious food riots within the last two weeks. These demonstrations start simply as a protest against the rfse in the prices of food, but they are used by the radical clement to spread communism. The situa tion is made more serious by the fact that the French have entirely abolished the police force In the Ruhr, so that there is no police protection. When the riots have occurred, the French military officials have refused to interfere to protect the property of the storekeepers." It would almost seem as if the French were will ing to fake the chance of a radical revolution in Germany. Communism can not save Germany. Much more likely it would result in the splitting up of the.country into small units that might later fall under French domination. Fortified with the best military machine in the w-orld, the French leaders seem to feel secure, but it is not certain their arma ment would long protect them from the spread of unrest in their own land. Two articles in last Sunday’s edition of The Omaha Bee give a very good picture of conditions. Mark Sullivan there expressed the belief that if the French people could learn the objects and results of the policy of their leaders, they might bring a sudden halt to the whole militaristic adventure. Lloyd George, in an article that is likely to make history, endorsed the German offer and' shows the folly of French policy. He is writing for the people, not for statesmen, and it is to the people that the whole issue must be shifted. Lloyd George has no doubt that the German- -people are willing to pay reparations' to the extent of their ability, no matter to what class they belong. That also is the word brought back by Prof. Morris, the Quaker relief commissioner. Their government has even offered to leave-the amount of reparations to the decision nf an international commission. If an offer of this kind is to be flouted by France, then indeed is this the insolvency of statesmanship. - A BOY AND A GIRL. People are most real in their own homes; in fact, it is only after one has seen a person in the midst of his one family that one can feel truly acquainted. That is nart cf the charm of the. novels of Dorothy Canfield—rhe takes her readers right into the living room and gives them the seat by the hearth. A good hook to read is Mrs, Canfield's “Rough Hewn,” which is now beginning serially in the morning edition of The Omaha Bee. The fact that this great author lived in Nebraska in her youth gives even more local interest in her writings. It is not too much to say that no writer has better un derstood the hearts and minds of the children than does she. Before she had made her mark as a novelist she was known as an authority on child training. If one wished to search out such things in a novel, a good deal that is helpful and sug gestive to mothers might be found in the pages of "Rough Hewn.” An American hoy grows up in a mctdel home on the Atlantic coast. We see him in one chapter, and in the next we visit a little girl who is living in France, utterly without any home life. Eventually, we know, they will come together, but in the mean time we are enthralled to watch the processes of their character building. A real boy, and a real girl, but as different as night and day. And out of their adventures Mrs. Canfield has woven as inter esting and important a novel as has been seen in many a day. THE ECHO OF A GREAT BOOM. The salvaging of the big potash plants at Antioch, Neb., marks the final collapse of one of the greatest industrial booms in the history of the central west. A few years ago millions were made in Nebraska potash and later sunk in the same thing. Antioch sprang into being almost in a night. From a mere siding constructed for the con venience of the cattlemen in the sand hills, it be came in the twinkling of an eye a busy city, with four big potash plants running night and day and employing hundreds of workingmen. Several mil lions of dollars were invested in plants and houses for the workers, and speculation ran rife. The potash business was “wildcatted” with frenty, and the man who owned an alkali lake in the sand hills was a potential millionaire. Then the World War ended, and the potash bal loon collapsed. Fortunes disappeared over night. Now the big factories are being torn down, the shucks for the workers are being hauled away, and Antioch is becoming a memory, all too painful to some people. Frank Broome, who started a news paper nt Antioch when the boom first began, and who stuck to it long after everybody else gave up hope, has announced that he will take his plant and paper to Alliance. That seems to he proof positive thnt the potasJxiivivstry tn. Nebraska is as dead aa the late Juhri y, Lises**'- liut-it was a hummer while It lasted, , , , . , ^ , i » <i •* *•- - ** ~ WITHOUT FAITH. At a moment when religious effort all over the world is stimulated to greater activity by the ad mitted success noted in the awakening of man’s faith in God, comes a harsh note from Russia. There the Third Internationale, which is the fantast/ic name of a group of extreme radicals, has been hold ing one of its periodic meetings. However vague and undecided it may be on its program, which con tains no exact economic principles, other than a general hostility to what it condemns as "capital ism,” the Third Interntionale is positive in its stand on religion. G. S. Zinovoff. chairman, frankly answered Swedish and English delegates who ob jected to the anti-religious propaganda: “In our program we do not declare war against honest but religious workmen, but our program is based on scientific materialism, which includes un conditionally the necessity of propagating atheism certainly anti-religious propaganda must be car ried on wisely." To the “honest but religious workmen,” and you will please note the plaip distinction Zinovoff draws, this is flat notice that when a clash arises between their “honesty” and their religion, the latter must go. A world without order and without religion is the goal aimed at by the Third Internationale. “Honesty” is a strange word in such mouths, yet America is represented at that gathering, just as it was when the First, and the Second, and the “Two-and-One-Half” Internationales were framed. The one note that has run through all is atheism. American workmen, who are now being cajoled by the anarchists, under various disguises, should look at the flag of their country, realizing that it flour ishes because the people have been true to their motto, “In God VV’e Trust.” Then let him look at the red flag of social, industrial and political dis order, and understand that it means “scientific ma terialism, which includes unconditionally the neces sity of propagating atheism,” and make his choice. God, home and native land, human liberty and human rights, none of them higher or more sacred than that of owning what one earns, on the one hand. The misery, discontent, suffering, brutality, of bolshevism on the other. WIVES WHO WORK. How far is the modern system of industry in truding on the home life of the nation? The ques tion is one sociologists are studying now with a little more intensity that it has had in the past. We used to assume that when a girl got married, her future employment would be about the home, taking it for granted that the household duties would give her suf ficient employment, and that her husband would pro vide for her needs. A decided change has come over the spirit of this dream. Miss Mary N. Winslow, of the women's bureau of the Department of Labor, says that between 1910 and 1920 the number of married women employed in mechanical occupations has increased hy 41 per cent, while the total number of women so employed has gained but 9 per cent. Thus it will be seen that the proportional increase of married over unmarried women so employed has been very great. On the basis of known facts regarding all industries, it is estimated that more than 2,000,000 married women are today employed in mechanical industry. Careful analysis is not made, so that the distribution of these may be stated, but the textile, shoemaking and needle trades have the majority. Of these fully 6 per cent have dependents, chil dren or a sick husband, and so are really breadwin ners for a family. A great many more work to piece out the family budget. The average size* -of the family for which the working mother provides at least partial support is 4.42, and the average number of workers who bring money into these families is 2.52. When further examination of the figures has heen made, a basis may be found for determining the economic situation of the married woman who works outside the home. Itjs enough, though, that circum stances are such that she is compelled to look for employment in order to provide or help to provide for her family. HUSTLING THE NEAR EAST. While the constitution follows the flag, th? spread of American enlightenment goes ahead of either. Syria, allotted by the grah-hag game at Paris to France, is coming under the influence of America after a manner that was not expected. Henry J. Allen of Kansas, just hack from there, tells of some things the Near East Relief is doing that charm the imagina tion. First of all, it will be well to remember that no similar area on earth has been so copiously or con tinuously drenched with human blood. Hittite and Hebrew, Egyptian and Assyrian, Persian and Greek, Arab and Roman, Turk, British and French armies have moved over the land. The dust has been stirred by millions of marching feet, the air rent with hideous battle, and the night made mournful by the wail of the widow and the cry of tho orphan. Nebu chadnezzar set up a memorial for himself on one of his raids into the land, and alongside it are memor ials to Alexander the Great, Napoleon and Allcnhy. What a chronicle! Almost within sight of these memorials of a bloody and desolate past and present, an American typesetting machine, capable of producing both Eng lish and Arabic characters, is turning out reading matter for the Syrians of today. Boys at the orphan ar.yluma conducted by the Near East are taught base ball, and teams from different orphanages play mntch games. If anything can end the age-old slaughter of the innocents in Syria it will be education and healthy sport, and America is providing these. A California girl eloped and got married, despite her broken back. You can’t hold 'em, once they take the notion. A counterfeit $1,000 bill is in (Circulation, hut that fact need alarm but few. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Ovm Poet-— Robert. Worthington Davie JUST THINK. Just think, boms future day Beloved ones will pray. And grace with flower* the clay Beside a huilsl stone— Your own, your very own. Just think Dear hands will place Above your Bleeping face Life * love to death * embrace With flowers, while silence tell* The saddest of farewells. Just think, a* you survey The e/ieied mound* of clay, bom* sad and distant day Thy tired eyes will close To darkness and repose. * —' Whin, .in 1*71, tha legislature* 1m pearhed and removed from offlre Governor David Butler, because of his complicity in alleged land fraud*, tne matter did nor end Early in 1*72 a clamor war raised for an extra session of the legislature to deal with Acting Governor James and others because of the name proceedings The editor of The Omaha Bee spoke ri|rht out In meeting concerning the subject, his editorial on Saturday. February 17, paying his respect * to his Journalistic contempo raries and the governor in the following burning phrase* GUBERNATORIAL CORRUPTION —NECESSITY OF IMMEDIATE LEGISLATION. Never in the history of any state have the public interests been so shamefully neglected, official obliga tions and pledges so boldly violated, and public thefts so audaciously cov ered up by a public press, than has been done in the state within the past two years. Scarcely is one governor deposed for corrupt practices, lhan an other governor, heedless of the ex ample made by our legislature, not only follows in the corrupt footsteps of his predecessors, but even the or gans which defended Butler until they saw him powerless to do them fur ther service, again pursue, by willful lying, the course of defending and bur nishing the acts of a still more cor rupt and incapable official. The huge cry that the state will be put to unnecessary expense by an ex tra session Is the cry of a thief, who sees the police at his heels, and desires to evade discovery. Not less than $500,000 worth of state land has been misappropriated by the acting gov ernor. who is either knowingly guilty of those most damnable and corrupt acts, or having no mind of his own, is the ready tool of any and every political hack, whose services are read ily secured by large corporations for a paltry contingency. The disposition of 20.000 acres to the Brownville * Fori Kearney Railroad company, and of nearly 100,000 acres above the legal limits to the Midland Pacific, with a host of other land grants, are among t$ie few transactions which have cony* to light despite the efforts of postal rings and Tribune autocrats to cover them up by burnishing the character of an imbecile and drunken governor. Shame on the paper that, for a paltry amount of printing Illegally given them (the contracts belonging to lower bidders!, will prostrate Psejf to the defense of a man whose corrupt deeds ore robbing the state of hun dreds of thousands. The legislature is indeed becoming odious, but not the hopesf r'sea of people. Never before has a hodv of representatives exposed «o much cor ruption and fought it with such *en aclty as has tie present bodv The fact that the corruptionists control, as did Tweed n large number of or gans in the state Is the reason that they have been hooted at and their acta falsified for the purpose of mak ing THEM appear as thieves while In the art of dlscloslpg the real fraudu lent parties. Center Shots Sky writing would seem to offer a splendid rhance to a man who wants to go hark and tell some town what he really thinks of It without giving Its Inhabitants opportunity to retail ate.—New York Herald. An Ohio girl prodigy has slept out doors since she was a hahy. and to this fact her mental alertness Is *s tTibed. Now we know why hoboes are such intellectual giants.—©love land Plain Healer "Bandits Get Miners' Pay,” savs a headline Supporting our contention that hard work and strict attention to duty will hrlng promotion In time. — Kansas City Star. Greatness Is three parts vision, two parts industry and five parts head lines —Birmingham News The police seem able to see only the "Sin" in l/pton Sinclair—Greenville Piedmont. If your motor is missing keep chee,r fill. Hn many people find their entire cars missing.—Hartford Times. Getting old Is Just a slow process of reaching the point where nil the now books seem rotten —Birmingham Nows. Daily Prayer I preyed unto the t.ord. my ring, and made my 'Onfesslnn -Pm • 4 Kver living, ever loving God, our Heavenly Father, we bless and praise Thee, that Thou didst set the human race in families for Its higher devel opment nnd Its greater Influence. This morning we bless Thy holy name that we have been called Into this f.imly now before Thee In prayer. May we gratefully recognize our duty and our responsibility to Thee, and to on# another, and to this com munity. Keep us this day from sin. as we do the tasks of the day. Watch Thou over us snd guard us from danger. Teach us how to live unselfishly, each for the other, In all the little things of the home Msy we, as father and mother, as brothers and sisters, fulfill our tasks to eaoh nnd to all. with the blessed example of our Filer Brother always before our minds Prosper the work of each one of us. and the labors and business of all our neighbors Grant, above all. to our family the real end abiding prosperity of a rich and helpful faith In our Lord and Master, to Whom he praise nnd glory, now and forever Anu-n L. f» wolf, n n Hummers. m<i I NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for MAY, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.7.",,181 ‘ Sunday. 80,208 pf>#» not Inrluri* return*. kft oviri, fimpkt nr papar* »pntkd In printing am! Inrludra no aparlal •aka B BRF.WK.R, Gen Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir Mgr. j Suhtrnbfd and aworn to htloia pw thia 2d day of Jun#. I1M W W H QUIVF.Y M ($*al) Notary Pu| 0 L--- _ T “THE PEOPLE’S VOICE’’ Editorial from reader* of The Momlno Bee. Reader* of The Mernln» Boo are invited to use thl* column freely fcr aapreuion on matter* of public interest. (.'alls Butler a Failure. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: It Is only a matter of time until the citizens of Omalia will have to decide whether we are going to have an autocratic or commission form of government. Our present po lice commissioner has adopted a rule or ruin policy and seems to think the rest of the commission or the public should have no voice In the affairs of the city. Several months ago Mr. Butler boasted how he could clean up the city and the commission took hint at his word and placed him In charge of the police department. Since the change was made crime has more than doubled. Safe blowers, holdup men and pirkpocisets are at large and con tinue to operate In large numbers. Our police commissioner has ordered all criminal news suppressed. The gang, whoever that is. shoulders the blame for his failure to check the wave of crime which exists If this so called gang is interfering with law enforcements why doesn't he lock them up? He has the whole police force at his command, to use as he sees fit. I also notice he has threatened four of our commissioners with recall pro ceedings, but fails to mention on what grounds. These commissioners have nothing to fear on that score, as thev h ive the confidence of all fair minded citizens for good services ren dered. It Is a well established fact that our police commissioner is in competent, Judging by the way the criminals are flocking to Omaha and the sooner he is removed the better for all concerned A CITIZEN'. For Standardized Farm Freight Rates. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: In the theory of the "long and short haul'' some prospect of success on the farm may be found. The long haul rate, as understood by transportation men, is well illus trated by the following example: A car of freight, su.v orange* or lemons, originating in southern Cali fornia, badly needs a market. The far east wants ihis citrus fruit Just as badly as the grower wants a mar ket. The railroad men took In the situa tion and came forward with the proposition of the long haul rate, which simply means that tney forgot the distance from San Kranctsto to New York and made a rate to meet an emergency. Ocean rates were to be met and competed with and time favored the railroads By this method southern California oranges were brought as close to New York as Florida oranges and the Sicilian lemon with a cheap all water rate could not drive San Diego's lemons out of the market. Everybody happy—the grower, the railroads and the consumer. Had mileage rates been used the result would have been no market, no freight, no fruit. Can we not apply this same theory to all the raw materials of our farms? Allow me to cite a local application of this Idea The street railway Axes the rate of fare s’.171 ient to make a fair return on their Investment and applies the long haul fate. Conse quently the person rides In the end of the line for this fare, and another person pays the same fore for a few blocks' ride The fixed rate equalizes the expense and create* * profit, and does this not prove that the short haul rate ran be abandoned To Justify the acceptance of the long haul rate, engineers and fln.an ciera have shown that with roadbed ■md equipment all readv for service, an engine, coaled up and crews paid for the run, that the difference be tween operating loaded or an empty I train are not to be considered. The long haul rate has alwayscotn rr. nded the respect of the Investor. When It is realized that the local, or short haul rate, has produced so much inequality tn farm products' value and cut the tonnage of our railroads so badly, something better mov be looked on with favor How would a zonlrg rate Instead of a mileage rate sound to the American farmer’ Everv year tons of alfalfs. potatoes and other valuable products never leave the fields and are allowed to rot be. nuse no satisfactory farm price has been worked out. If the zoning Idea coupled with the long haul rate will produce a farm price of cost plus w ho will say not to try it’ Suspending the mileage rate and using a zoning rate would tend to make every bushel of grain of practically the same field or farm value. The market price would then be the farm price with a uniform rate added Discriminations In value caused by distance from market and seaboard would be a thing of the past The mechanical age has progressed even unto the skies' Is it not time that economic theories should catch up a little? With a rate adequate for fair re turns to the railroads and protection to the public, it would, in my humble opinion, be possible to zone the coun try in such a manner that freight charges can be absorbed by the public and passed on instead of deducting from the value of raw products. If a bushel of wheat or of corn can be placed at a common farm value per bushel and the railroads can deliver the same under a zoning system for a uniform rate per bushel (subject to classified requirements), and produce wealth for all. who is hurt? This zone (like parrel post! could be established for a given area surround Ing the principal primary marketing places, and this area widened to meet national and seaport needs Coal has every Item of expense added to Its cost till It reaches the firepot, and the same Is true of lum ber. and they are both classed as raw material Wheat, corn, etc., have de ducted form their cost every item that ran be taken from this cost. Why shift the freight on the farmer’ .« ARION LEWIS Suggest Drinking Fountains. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I am surprised at the lack of drinking fountains in Omaha, many villages being far ahead of us in this respect. I think every city in the land should be filled full of them and those in the residence districts should bear a tiny bowl near their l as bearing a sign above It with the inscription, ' Children wash their hands here." Tots are quick to grasp anything like this and housewives would quickly note a wonderful dif ferent e in the amount of soiled linen they have to look after. A. E Y. Immune to Worry. Omaha —To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The greatest disease in the world today is worry. Many men and women go to premature graves because of this diabolic disease Thou sands of others live miserable lives because of worry. In fact, the great percentage of people in the world are continually worrying about some thing Why? Because they do not trust God Worry is a clear indica tion of lack of faith in the Almighty. The true Christian can never catch this disease. He is immune to If Then why not accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior? To Him you can bring every care. 1 Be not dis mayed whafe'er betide. God will take care of you will then be real to you THE ONE IT HELPE© Legislator Explains Marriage Law O'Neill. Neb —To the Editor ■ f The Omaha Bee Knr the benefit of many people over the state who seem to be laboring under a false impression of the new Nebraska marriage law as passed in the recent session of the legislature, I will give a svnops;* of the law, ufclch goes into effect Au gust 2 It fXIows 1. At the time of the man age the male must be at least 1< years of age and the female at least 1* years of age. In case either party is under 21 years of age the' county judge must notify the parents before issuing the license 2. Persons adjudged to he imbeciles or feeble minded, as well as persons sdjudged to be afflicted «.'h heredl tary insanity or epilepsy are barred from marrying in the state unless they first submit to a specified opera tion S. Persons intending to be joined In msrriage shall, not less thsn Id days before obtaining the license therefor, cause a written notice of their said Intention to he filed in the office of the eountv judge. The notice must con tain the same Information respecting, the persons Intending to msrrv that Is now required by law before Is suance of a license and must state; that the parties do not come within any of the prohibitions as set out in paragraph two hereof The notice must he posted In the eountv court room In a conspicuous place con tlnuotisly during the 1» dav period The countv judge mav dispense with the notice frff cood cause shown « Each soph-ant must make an affidavit before tn* Judge stating that s.Vd applicant Is free frog any vener ea1 disease This, in brief, (a the law and It can readily be seen that the measure will not wnrk a hardshln on any person fit to enter the marital state hut on the contrary. It mav do untold good In preventing unwise and hastv mar riages The provlaion calling for a physician's certificate of health was eliminated and the requirement for the aopllcnnt s affdav.t wes substitu ted therefor DONALD GALLAGHER i It’s a Boy Time to “tell the boy*"—pas* the cigar* —receive congratulation*! But what of the future? The boy in a few year* will need an education. A TRUST FUND, properly safeguarded, will insure him against the chanee—ever present of his father's financial failure. A WILl.. with proper provision for able administration and wise guardianship, will insure him against the chance ever present -of his father's death Don’t take chances! Play safe! Consult our Trust Officer! “From State and i-Nation” Editorials from other newspapers. --—-w To Those Who Didn't Pas*. From the Detroit Free Pr»M Herts one for the pupils who "didn't pass." Some of you have been hoping to graduate, and for one reason or an other cannot do so. Some of the rest of you have been expecting a promo lion you are not going to get. Natur ally you are not as happy as your classmates who are to receive diplo mas or are being transferred to a new grade Maybe your failure Is partly your own fault or maybe it iR only your misfortune. You may have been ill. or the worfc you have been taking may have been especially hard for you. We are not all made alike. What is hard for one is easy for another and what is easy for one is hard for another. So perhaps you have been "up against it this term." But however things are. don't b» dis couraged. There is a very old and very wise Chinese saying that goes this way. It is no disgrace to fail, but it is a disgrace to give up " So if you have done your best and hate failed. grit your teeth and hold up your head and smile Or if vou have not done vour' best, he just sorry enough to make some good, last ing resolutions, remember that an other chance is coming and determine net to be foolish again But don’t any of you give up Go to it once more Maybe a few thoughtless people will laugh, and maybe you will! be scolded g little if you have been at fault. But. re member. the disgrace comes in quit ting. not in failing The ereatest people fail sometimes: all who are worth anything make mis takes. But they do not give up. They remember that "If at first you don’t succeed." you must "try. try again." This rule, and the old Chinese saying, are wonderful back stiffeners if you will only use them. With them, you can turn any failure into a success Too Many I ai ws. FVim the Washington Per Senator King tells the public what rybody cognizant of the plethora legislation knows when he says that America Is afflicted with too many lav,.-?. In multitude of counsel there tn-y be w.sdom, but in multitude of laws there may be-—and often Is—un wisdom Quantity of legislation is one thing: quality is another. The Roman code and connected parts ran only to a few volumes Their contents covered the legal nerds of the Romans. Thev have served as the fountain head of law- for modern civilization. The decalogue runs only part way down one column of the primed piage—but it" inhibitions include the ma;or;'v of offenses. The flreat Charter does rot stretch over much Type, and the American constitution goes only to a few pages. While those instruments are basic, and must needs be supple mented by detailed legislation they "’and as example* of rlarltv In ex pirs. on and oon',l«sne«* In phm*!n» and mibstane* In thought that sre worth following Happy University Commencement. From ;h# 8? Lou.# Glob#-Democrat. The possibility that the University of Texas will com# into enormous wealth from the possession of oil lands appears in an account of the dillling of an oil well in Reagan coun ty Texas, near the center of 72 sec tions of land owned by the univer sity It is s-ated. in fact, that if the weil lives up to the expectation* of oil opera-ort the University of Texas |j Abe Martin [ f I un£ Trr Pftiru&n (uuirr , A iTfter toK&HiuiJ lL\ toPKUtoMirnwA 2>w(*oio]j Have you noticed this about our world famous prosperity—that while ever’buddy’s spendin* money freely an’ only work when they feel like it, all th’ towns an' c;tie« are broke? We never knowed a feller named “Al" that wuzn' party lib eral. , (Copyright. 1*8J ) may become the richest educational Institution in the world. Though the instances are few, in stltutiona of learning have benefited before through kindred possessions. Iron deposits in the Mesaha range have contributed substantially to the funds of the University of Minnesota. But in owning 72 sections of land— 4(1.080 acres—which may prove valua ble in oil. it seems possible that the University of Texas will obtain far greater wealth from such source than has ever come to any other like in stitution. Should this Texas oil field actually prote as rich in oil as the flow of the first well is thought *o i-dk^ dicate, there will be cause for more general satisfaction than in the ca=e of many other successful oil ope-w lions, where the promoters ar,d not the public, were chiefly benefited From the time of "Coal Oil Johnnie ’ to the present wealth from pe'rrieum has often been directed in th» wr'-e channel*, and never before has there been as great a probability as Is this rase that It would be d.re- 'ed toward worthy purposes. And since universities are seldom th» ret-fpler.’* of bequests as libera! as those made to private institutions it would be especially fortunate if the slate insti tution in Texas should find a sour * cf huge income in the possess on of land* proven valuable in oil. Tt* ef. forts toward the advanrerre-* -f edu ••a: on. efforts which are nf»«- a-, •ended by serious financial questions complicated by politics would be made easy. Their Hope. "What do : ~u plan to make cf vo-jg bov-t "We are going to ge» him a r ape with the hcuiin; commission as soqc as h* is old enough Some day he mat he able to find a hou«» for hla par ents."—Die Muskete (Vienna*. Prohibit It. of Course. Complaining because people in Eng land stlli make fun of prohibition. Lady Aster says, it ha* got to stop ’ But how is Lady A*tor going to sof-' it’ Freedom to say what b“ like* ( one of the Englishman * tnof cher ished privileges—Philadelphia In quirer. Built Right \ ears of service, without apparent de» terioration, have proved the superiority of tapered asphalt shuttle roofs. The thick butts, with extra heavy coatings of asphalt, give thickness where thickness is needed. Inthrop Tapered Asphalt Shingles are the only shingles of this kind. 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