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•-a— - The morning Bee M O R N I N G—E VENIN G—5 U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is e member. Is exclusively aatitled to the use for republican on of all new* dispatches credited to It W not otherwise credited In this paper, ami also the local news published | herein. All rights of republ icatlone of our epecial dispatches are also reserved. | BEE TELEPHONES I Mvnt« Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department »t l.n#|c or Person Wonted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: tnAn Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. lUvU OFFICES Main Office—17tn and Famam Co. Bluffs - - - 15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Steger Bldg. FALTERING FUTILITY. Is the league of nations an edifice of cards, to be overturned and shattered by the first blast from a blusterer? No wonder the small nations in its membership are disgusted. Those who pinned their faith to the covenant of Versailles for the suppression of war must be shocked by the news that comes from Geneva. There the league of nations stands, uncertain as to how to proceed, facing the threat of a member to with draw if the league undertakes to proceed according to its own laws and to which that member has assented. It is my affair, says Mussolini to the league, and I will tolerate no intervention and desire no advice. Greece must knuckle under to me, or I will deal with Greece. Justice has nothing to do with the case. My honor, Italy’s honor, is insulted, and we must have satisfaction. Greece, too, is a member of the league of na tions, one of the weak members which went in, ex pecting that the promise of the strong would be made good, and that the helpless would be protected in their rights against the aggression of the powerful. England, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Swed en, Norway, Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, all these and others, are pledged along with Italy and Greece, to recognize these rights. The league rests on the basis of equality of states. Greece comes pleading for protection, while Italy blusters, and the council of the league hesitates. In the presence of a Mussolini, no matter what nation he speaks for, the whole world is confronted with a high duty. Thus far the league has not shown Sany signs of competency. A madman with a torch Kamong the haystacks and grain ricks is no more of b menace to a farmer’s prosperity than is an am bitious politician temporarily clothed with power, bnd leading his people along the dangerous paths of bmbition toward domination over other peoples. Both bust be put under control and restrained from doing DIM REVIVAL OF A GLOWING PAST. I A pony express is pursuing a more or less zig ■ zag course over the western half of the continent, ■ giving an imitation of the famous Russell, Majors I & Waddell enterprise of 1860. On the afternoon ■ of April 3 of that year the first rider left St. Joseph I at 4 o’clock, his departure having been somewhat I delayed by the Hannibal & St. Joe train, which I carried the mail from the east. A stage line run ■ from Leavenworth to Denver, operated by the firm What put on the pony express. It could not move ■Pie mails fast enough, nor could the lines that run ■put from Omaha. So the pony express was started, its aim being bo maintain a schedule of 15 miles an hour from ■the river to the coast. Riders followed the most f direct and approved route, and this carried them across southern and western Nebraska. The Platte river was crossed near old Fort Kearney, or about 13 miles from the present city of Kearney. The North Platte was crossed about where the Union Pacific railroad crosses it today. Julesourg was the important station east of the mountains, Salt Lake on the west, with Sacramento as the end of the ride, the mail from there going on to San Francisco by boat. Picturesque and magnificent as the enterprise was, it failed to pay, and in August, 1861, Russell, Majors &• Waddell had to give it up. Another com pany kept it going until October of that year, when the express was abandoned, the Atlantic & Pacific telegraph line having provided mean3 for quick communication. The pony express did give a great impetus to the building of the transcon tinental railroad, and the Union Pacific was the outcome. P? Riders today are going to a lot of places the old timers knew not of, but that is permissible in any advertising stunt. They are not pestered a3 were the originals, by Indians and the like, but they can note the flight of the mail by airplane, and so understand why the pony lost out. ANOTHER GAME THE MINERS PLAY. Note was made a day or so ago of the car-loading contest for muckers at Lead on Labor day. .An event even more interesting, and, if possible, practical, competition is just ended at Salt Lake, where teams from mines all over the country tried out their skill as rescue workers and first-aid administrators. Seems a sort of uncanny game to play at, but knowledge of the ways and means for saving life is very essential to the mining industry these days. It is altogether to the credit of Americans that they have done all that can be done, with invention of apparatus and process, to make mining safe. Man is essentially handicapped when he goes below to wrest from the earth the mineral treasures hidden there. Especially in coal mining is this true, for each blow of the pick, each twist of the drill, sets free gas that is a terrible menace. All miners are subject to the danger of a cave-in or the accidental explosion of the dangerous powders they use, and in many a dark nook or cranny lurks unseen dis aster. Death is the constant companion of the miner. How to outwit death is the great game these men play, day by day, and they become expert nt it. In the competition just closed at Salt Lake over C>00 miners took part. Highest honors in the moot were captured by a team representing the United Mine Workers of America, from Benton, 111. This crack team won first in the international mine rescue con test and in the international combination mine, res cue and first-aid event as well. The coal miners show they are alive to the importance of knowing that game. A team from the Anaconda copper mine at Great Falls, Mont., was first in the international first aid contest. A Mexican team, which won first place In the contests held in Mexico, came in for their praize at the genera] meet. A lot of interesting and valuable information was brought out at the meeting, all of whieh will be adopted by the miners. What the big public will note chiefly is that the men are quick to take advan tage of methods offered by science for minimizing disaster and saving lives in the mines. Such com petitions may not draw crowds, but they are worth • lot to the world at large, * MYSTERIOUS WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. Even today man does not understand in full the mystery of nature, although he may trace with much accuracy the pathway between effect and cause. Ancient man, less enlightened, saw in earth quake and similar phenomena manifestations of supernatural power. Some of these primeval beliefs still hold, the myths having outlined many cen turies of upward climb toward the light. Dwellers around the North sea expect the Kraken at any time, and see in the storms that sweep the Skagerai signs of his malign presence. Venerable Bede’s tale of Leviathan matches with another from more ancient sources, of the turtle, on whose back the world rested, and whose movements caused the trouble. Then the Greeks and Romans noted in the earthquakes of their days the struggles of the Titans, pinned down by Olympus, Vesuvius, Aetna and other mounations. Little wonder that the simple-minded Japan ese sees in the dreadful happenings around his home the work of Jishin Uwo, earthquake fish, whose writhings shake the solid ground and bring death and destruction to the living. Science makes little headway against these stubbornly clinging myths, for against the material explanations the mind not fitted to dpal with higher philosophy ac cepts the easier method of accounting for the great disaster by ascribing it to a monster. Men whose faith is well founded, and who see with clear eyes, do not always comprehend what is contained in the event. They find it difficult to accept evil as the inevitable shadow of good, and yet it is. The fire could not warm if it could not also burn; the typhoon and zephyr originate from the same law; earthquakes are but part of the never ceasing work of nature, dreadful though they be. Understood or not, accepted or rejected, the divine order is working out. NEBRASKA NEEDS THE DAIRY COW. .Minnesota has just been entertaining a group of foreign notables, who visited her state fair and gave especial attention to the dairy display. These men, headed by F. Benzinger of Stockholm, Sweden, gen eral manager of the Farmers’ Co-Operative Creamery association, are in America to attend the gathering of the international dairymen, invited by President Harding to assemble at Washington on October 2. The incident is referred to just to remind Ne braskans of what they are missing. This state, pos sessed of all the natural advantages for a great dairy industry, is about the middle of the list of the states of the union. Farmers have put too much stress on the major grain crops, overlooking the so-called side issues. Now some of them are commencing to realize that the fullest use must be made of the opportuni ties offered if farming is to be profitable. Omaha butter makers report that they are paying 45 to 47 cents a pound for butterfat at present, a price that compares with 30 to 32 of only a few years ago. Such figures indicate the return that .s possible from a dairy herd, properly managed. Nearly all the corn and a great deal of the hay raised in Nebraska goes out of the state in the form of meat, either dressed or on the hoof. That is the better way of marketing the coarse food raised in the fields. More of it ought to be sent out in the form of butter and cheese. Omaha is the greatest butter producing center in the country, but it does not get all the butterfat needed. Why not reinforce the few milch cows, who are row doing their best, by some thousands, and turn a little more of the grass, grain and water of Ne 1 r^ka into the food products that come from milk? Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, all have made it pay, and surely Nebraska will lose nothing by developing another great natural opportunity. Now the democrats are razzing Coolidge be cause he is not loose with other ^people's money. When one remembers how the Semocrats threw public funds around a few years ago, their astonish ment at any lack or reckless lavishness is under standable. Omaha will be spared the excitement of a wrangle over the Western league pennant, but watch Barney Burch go after them next year. Birkenhead says England will pay its debts, and wants others to do the same. That is all right as far as we are concerned. _ Judge Aldrich should hold on until Brother Charlies gets out of the woods on some other judicial vacancies. The next time anybody talks to you about the solid earth, just think of Tokio and a few other towns that have felt it shake. The jealous husband and a six-shooter make a deadly combination, and one the law ought to severely frown upon. Los Angeles felt the back wash of the great wave that swept Tokio, showing how powerful the disturbance was. Great Britain is firm for the authority of the league of»nations. Mussolini does not think much of either. Union Pacific shopmen have just been given an increase in pay, another tip on how business is pick ing up. The league of nations knows where it stands in Mussolini’s books, and that helps a little. _ i A Chicago professor says the ocean bottom blippctl. Something did. It’s all right to dry out the corn, hut that doesn’t mean to cook it. What did they ever do about the Ruhr? Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— * Robert Worthington Davie __ 9_ THE CONVICT. Swept by the evil tempests to his gloom; Behind the bars and freedom does he stand, Hhut In the dingy. Isolated room— A shunned and hated outcast of the Innd flrief stricken, hapless, hopeless, smileless nn«-> Kye$ sunken from the sordidness and strife, He has a longing for the beaming sun, He has a craving for the open life. Forever closeted from out-of-doors. Forever friendships confluence denied With changes none, except as he explores The dungeon where he'll evermore ublde. His home and love and happiness nro pasl. How cruel the memories of them must seeml But he will treasure them until the Iasi, And live because he hue the power to dream. £ “The People’s Voice’’ editorials from roatforo of Tfet Moralfig Boa. Readers of The Morning Boo are lavltfd to use this column freol* tor oxproealoa on matters of public Interest. Grade Crossing Perils. Underwood, la.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Your article In The Omaha Sunday Bee on crossing perils shows they are due to the motorist. You ask can grade crossing accidents be avoided. How would it be to grade out a place near the crossing, so in case a train Is approaching a car could turn parallel to the track and have time to stop. Yours for less ac cidents. W. R. M'CART. From a Friend of Bob Wallace. Council Bluffs, la.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: As a personal friend of the late R. B. Wallace, permit me to thank you for the beautiful edi torial appearing in your paper a few days ago, headed “Bob Wallace, Apostle of Hope." Whatever present investigations re veal of complications or irregularities, If there are nny in his affairs, that particular editorial and the sentiments It expressed will stand ns a fine esti mate of him among his friends, and especially his family in which the whole community is deeply interested. I have clipped it out and mailed it tc a number of his friends uwav from here who I know will read it with much pleasure. JOE W. SMITH. In Tune With the Infinite God. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Oma ha Ree; Thank you for "Music of the Night” editorial. God's idea was to have a world of harmony, of peace, of Joy, of love that is higher than man's conception of these. You will find the world made up of all kinds of people and when you allow the baser in stincts to predominate you have a world all out of harmony with God's plan. The result Is that man suffers for disobeying God's wishes and will; in regard to this and being under a natural law that punishes disobedience the world ignores this law and goes headlong over the precipice of his own creation. God does not control that one if his desire is not toward God; drawn by God's free will offer of sal vation, for that headstrong one. Nol God recognizes the sovereign rights of that person and so he cannot blame God when he takes free choice; free reign and controls his own destiny, which is the reason why there are small graves and large ones, small failures and great failures. The sins of the parents'visited on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; saith the Lord. Many men who are doing good In this world hate God, and when the things of God are mentioned, turn away or blaspheme against it. When we flee from God. God is the wings we flee with. We can't get away from Him. "Ho, I am with you always,” says Christ to his own. We cannot escape the wrath of God. and we should bless tho one who points out the truth that helps us overcome some evil that clings to us and keeps us from victory: instead we resent the Intrusion and criticize them and fee! that the teacher is the enemy. He says "Am I become thine enemy be cause I tell you the truth?" The rea son we waste time on people is be cause of the fact that we are bur dened by these things nnd God has burdened us with a soul that we in compassion (God's) can help that one lift the load he carries and hate* to shift. "TEACHER." Calls for Artion. Grand Island. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Ree: Having been a render of your paper for ihe last two nnd one-half years nnd reading the different pleas for helping the farm er. now I Just want to express to your readers through your rolumns a very plain fact. When you take from the wage earner until he is unable to buy back that which he has produced. It Is the start of a panic. Our govern ment spends thousands- "f dollars to send out trained men and women over the countrv to show- people thev are raising underfed, undernourished chll dren. that It takes so many calories of food for proper sustenance hut how can a man with a family of five exist on $13 or $29 ncr week nnd properly feed, clothe and house his little brood? Now our government officials claim they cannot save on the vast salaries they get. Mr. Rryan oult the cabinet, so he said, because he could not live on $17,500 per year; nt the same time on his farm he was only paving his help $39 per month nnd told them they had ought to save money. Our presidents get about $75.00u. and can't save; our senators get $7,500 Now if we can afford to pay th<> heads of our government such salaries why not take a little off of each and apply It to the wage earners' stipend. Instead of giving a half million to about five men, add .a little more to the low wage nnd cut the big ones and then I think you will find a better class of work from the sa ne men They allow $5,000 a year to presidents' widows, but ran scarcely see the w-ld ows and orphans of the man who gave his life for us. All our trouble today Is we see distress across 9 009 miles of water nnd let our next door neighbor starve. We rrv about neo pie not living tin to our constitution nnd then stand bv and see our rights violated by the very servants we havr hired to head our government, for If when the railroad rates are so high that the farnfer can ship only at n less there Is something very wrong with the beads of the government or they could soon stop It Instead of taking up time in discussion, act first nnd talk afterward HOW A HP PROWS' 119 North Elm Ft. What Do Tax Free Securities Mean? Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Ree; Recently there has been not a little discussion of the tax free se purity, with proposals that laws he enacted to prevent the Issuance of any I more. Estimates as to the totnl of this form of security in existence vary, being stated nt all the wav from $12. 000,000.000 to $17,000,000,000. In this form nn enormous sum of wealth es rapes taxation In any w-nv, and lays tho burden that much heavier on Daily Prayer Prsy. I*»t y« #nt«r ®to t«mpt«Mnn — M Ark 14 .1 h n Oo<l. our Father nnd our Mother' We thank Thee that like an .» father pltfoth hln children, no dost Thou pity un. nnd like an a mother comfort nth her children, ho Thou wilt comfort un. \\ c thank Thee for our home, and for the home that It suggests to un. where w«» hope to he forever with Thee, nnd with each other. For nil the good things that come to un, we praise The#-, nnd we beneech Thee that we may never foiget to he grateful to Thee. Our even are cloned, for we would nhut everything out; we bow before Thee, for we nre dependent upon Thee, we have toothing In our clasped hand*, nothing with which to buy blessing*, an I no weapon, n Ood, wilt Thou keep un from doing anything to grieve Thee, and make un all the Jay eager to serve Thee in serving others. Help un. that we shall bring gladness Into human liven, nnd never sorrow or pnln. We pray for the whole world I91 Its great need of Thee. Clod keep u*. and all whom we love. Hear un. In Jenun’ name Amen. FRANK H IX'IIIIINH. !» |», riiiudfiphu, I'*, Nebraska often ban heard of the "crime of '73.’* and some of the men still here recall what followed Rlack Friday in New York, with the failures of bAnks, etc. Omaha as all other communities In the country, felt the blow of that calamity. On September 29, 1873, Mr. Rosewater printed his views, to the effect that the worst of the panic had been felt, and urging those who had weathered the storm to get busy on the revival. “THE PANIC SUBSIDING.” “From the principal money centers of the east comes the cheering in telligence that the great financial crisis of 1873 is now virtually over. Despondency and distrust are disap pearing while confidence in the stabil ity of our legitimate enterprises is again being rapidly re-established. "The natural elasticity of the Amer ican character, and particularly the conservatism displayed. displayed everywhere by the mercantile classes, have enabled tho country to ride triupiphantly through the greatest financial hurricane of modern times. "While great banking houses buc cumbed to the shock of the financial earthquake, while vast fortunes were lost by stock gamblers and stock manipulators, the damage to the mer cantile and commercial Interest was, after all, comparatively trifling. The contrast between the present crisis and that of 1857 is especially marked In this particular. “In ’57 the failure or suspension of a bank involved an immediate loss, not only to the depositor but the hold cr of the bank's notes. The distress ing fluctuations and mutations in the value of paper currency were in them selves a terrible calamity. Now. the announcement of bank suspensions and hank failures startles nobody. Peo ple holding the notes of broken nation al banks feel Just as safe after the bank fails as they did before. "Our currney Is Just as good today as it was 60 days ago. The national banking system has in this respect proved a national blessing. At the same time the present crisis has also uncovered the weak spots in the na tional banking system. "The depositor In a national hank ought, by rights, be Just as well pro tected as the holder of a national bank note. It is to b- hoped that the lesson of the hour will not be lost in this re spect. Dike the epizootic, the finan cial epidemic has traveled across the continent from east to west. The horse disease traveled only at the ordinary speed of the horse, while the financial eplzoo traveled by telegraph "We all remember that horses pos sessed of sound contitutlons were able to resist the disease, and escaped com paratively unharmed. The financial eplzoo errm k Omaha on her westward march simultaneously with other cities In the Missouri valley. While every one of her rivals and competitors succumbed to the shock. Omaha faced the storm with comparative equa nimity. While the banks of Des Moines. Davenport. Kansas City, Leavenworth. Chicago and St lx>uis were prostrated by the terrible shock, the Omaha banks bravely faced the onset cf the panic stricken and passed safely through the trying ordeal. Now. that tho panic Is over. Omaha may be congratulated upon the fact that this great financial epld'-mlc has left not a single wreck behind With confidence restored at home and abroad, Omaha will soon resume her onward march toward a premising destiny " wealth that is reached by the revenue collector. A writer In a financial paper sets out that Investors are continually withdrawing from the market for even high Interest bonds and are seeking the low rate tax-free bonds for investment, preferring to accept n smaller Income, feeling that while their gross return Is h-ss. any deficit Is accounted for by not having to pay taxes on n greater sum The ethical aspect of this hardly calls for discussion men w ho so will fully seek to evade the duty of all good citizens to support the govern ment of their country, whose existence means so much to them, nre bevond the reach of mere ethical considera tion. Another phase of the transac tion might deserve some examination. A 5 per cent bond is passed by for one paying but 3 per rent, as the lat ter Is tax free. A dollar Invested In the first bond will return 5 rents to the Investor, on which tho normal In come taec Is 4 per cent, nr 002 cents On his 3 per cent bond he gets 3 cents for each dollnr, but pays no tax His Income Is ! cents less minus the tax. or a net loss of 1.8 cents on the dol lar to the Investor and .002 cents to the government. When we get lip Into the high brackets of the Income tax law. this factor varies, of course, and the net loss to those who hold millions of se curities perhaps disappears, but the ordinary Investor cannot get away from It ns one must bo|,l around a million dollar's worth of bonds to be nff< cted by the difference In rate. Whether congress can mnke n retro active law that will dispose of the ex emption on all bonds Is doubtful States are not allowed lo tax federal securities, and In return the federal government relieves state securities from the tax Itut if none were is ued tax free, and the normal rate of tax were applied to all, the federal government and the Investor alike would gain, and some who now arc getting by with what they think 1" clever finance might have the me! anrhoty satisfaction of knowing they nr« helping to pay the government debt they so gladlv helped In nernmu luting. K. .T OSGOOD NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for August, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .72,114 1 I Sunday .76,138 Pec. not Include return*, left I over*, sample* or paper* spoiled In printing and Include* nr special •alt*. B. BREWER, Grn. Mgr. V, A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and iwora to before m* this 4th day of September, 1923. W II QUIVF.Y. (Seal) Notary Public “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— If Wool and Wages. Why Not Wheat? From the Minneapolis Journal. Is It such a vicious proposal, after all. to fix a wheat price when one re calls some of the other classes that have already been favored by govern ment intervention? There are, for example, the various beneficiaries of the' tariff—the men who make wool goods and metal prod ucts and all manner of manufactured articles. The government has Inter vened In their behalf so that they may get good prices for what they make. Why not the farmer, too? It Is true there are tariffs on wheat and other farm products, but they are mere gestures—they accomplish noth ing, because the farmers raise a sur plus that must be sold abroad In com petition with the world. And there are other classes in whose behalf the government intervenes. There are the rail workers, for In stance, whose wages are to be main tained artificially at war levels, by assent or decree of federal quasi-Ju diclal boards. If wages are to be fixed for rail workers, why should not prices be fixed for grain, cotton and other crops? Is the economic law to run for the tillers of the land, and to be abrogated for those W'ho operate the trains that haul their crops to mar ket? Having gone extensively Into the privileged class business, the govern ment is now besought to undertake a huge valorization enterprise that will raise the wheat grower to a better economic status. The demand Is not without Its logical basis. And after this has been done, what then? Other classes clamoring for preferential treatment, of course, and the end not to be foretold. Petty Paternalism. From the Vancouver Sun. While the Canadian parliament had the good sense to recant on the ab surd proposition that comment on horse races should be barred from newspapers, Ontario still suffers from such a law. which came not from Ottawa, but was self-inflicted. Since It Is a crime under this On tario law to display any newspaper containing such racing news, nearly every newspaper outside of Ontsrio, is, technically at least, barred from the news stands. If a man traveling In Winnipeg sends his wife a Winnipeg paper which happens to contain racing news, and his wife runs to the back fence to show her neighbor a new dress pattern in it, she is guilty under this law and subject to a fine of 1500 or six months' imprisonment. Petty paternalism of this kind is prevalent in the I'nited States, but should not be allowed to develop in Canada. Most of these silly prohibitive laws are as nonsensical as this one which says, in effect, "You may race, if you like, but you must not talk about it.” If we are not competent to choose our reading matter, we are not com petent to choose legislators to choose it for us. Selective Immigration. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Secretary of Labor Davis, back from Kurope, where for several weeks he has been studying conditions with ref erence to immigration, believes that unless America can Americanize the alien, the alien will alienize America. Congress will be presented by Mr. Davis with a tabulation of his findings and conclusions. Chief among his recommendations will be the sugges tion of a really selective Immigration basdd on consular examination by agents of the immigration service st consulates abroad, the enrollment of all immigrants umn reaching America, a close surveillance of them to deter mine whether they can and will merge into American traditions and customs, and the fixing of a five-year probation — ary period, during any part of which aliens may be deported. It will not he denle I that cruel situ ations develop at Ellis Island under .,,e operation of the immigration law. Hut it is a necessary cruelty if this nation is to be preserved from the Infection of European social virus, the Infection threatened by the admission of the undesirable. Should the selective procedure ob tain abroad, as Dr. Davis urges, these apparently distressing situations would be avoided. Europe is interested in being rid of her own undesirables, the vicious and Infirm; but we cannot have these entering the body of our popula tion to pollute it. And, as the secre tary says, “If we have the courage and vision to make a real true, rigid selective immigration laW we will 1>« able to get strong upstanding men and women from Europe to come to America." That kind of immigration or none,” says Mr. Davis. Our River Barge Service. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The towboat Cairo of the Mississippi Waterways service, with a tow of eight barges. Is bringing 15,000 tons of freight to New Orleans—the largest cargo ever hauled on the river by a single towboat. The previous “high.'' it Is explained, was 13,000 tons. With the timely arrival here of the Cairo's tow and another which is scheduled to leave St. Louis today, officers of the service hope also to establish a new high record for monthly tonnage, with an August total approximating 90,000 tons. Achievement of new tonnage records by the Mississippi barge line is becoming so commonplace and "reg ular’’ that its recital begins to grow monotonous. Neverthless, It is Im portant news throughout the valley, supplying cumulative proof that effi cient and dependable waterways ser vice has gained permanent adoption by shippers. Steady growth from month to month and year to year in the volume of tonnage moving by barge up and down the river Is one of those outstanding "bright spots" in our national transportation field, and especially noteworthy now, when rail experts are warning shippers that traffic demands this fall probably will overtax the rail facilities for taking care of them. He May Be Useful. From tha Chicago Journal of Commerce. A Virginia gentleman, who has been elected to congress seven times in succession. Is president of a coal com Abe Martin JjM 8«y»ot6*#N . /o tacmte *&* fc. ? S-\JTOf*HOMC ./^ , off-Ever<niwh+0 8<WiVWtKi»'| <•** ow»w«»AYjg Sunday is a day o’ rest, an’ a good tim# t' do th’ restin’ is jest before you cross a railroad track. Some folks look jest awful in a plug hat, but if they’re th’ president o’ th’ United States, or belong t’ a minstrel show, they’re got t’ wear one. _ pany and a realty business, and a lawyer by profession, hag been chosen as his secretary by the president. Per haps Colonel Slemp of Turkey Cove, Va„ Is not a stenographer nor swift on the typewriter, but as a reputed millionaire, adroit political manager and southerner, politicians see how and where he may be secretarially useful to Mr. Coolidge. Centipede Hogs. A bride recently went into a provi sion shop and said to the proprietor: T bought three or four hams here a month ago, and they were fine. Have you any more of them?" "Yes, madame,” said the owner, "there are 10 of those hams hanging up there now.” * Well, if you are sure they're off the same pig, I'll take three of them." said the young woman.—Kansas City Star. Times Have Cluajed. The old fashioned belle who ran to her room to have a cry now has a daughter who goes somewhere to have a smoke—Dallas News __ For sale at Mh^k all dtalcrt I All perfect for every pur pose—as soft as you wish; as hard as you please; but always smoother than you had dreamed. 17 black dafreet (lot lb *r rcitbuU court) Ain 3 npj tag American Lead Pencil Co. 220 Fifth Ave., New York ji Write for booklet on pencils, penholder*, erasers, \ ENUS Everpointed and VENUS Thin Leads The Buick Double-Service Sedan Another 1924 Buick innovation — this six-cylinder double-service sedan —has been especially created for those who wish a combined practical business car and family sedan. Its upholstery is comfortable, yet sufficiently serviceable to with stand severe daily usage. The power provided by its new Buick 70 H. P. valve-in-head motor is more than enough to carry it over the heaviest roads. Its staunch Buick four-wheel brakes assure ample safety whatever the driving conditions. The admiration which you may feel for its service utility will be matched by the pride which your family will take in its comfort and suitability. BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN Oit uinn of (Wncrol Motors Corporation Irionw BiiIMm of Valvc-in-llniti Mottv i jir« Rramk*» <*i All F^ri-eip+l C'idtfj Wa/#r# t %'+tywh*rr Nebraska Buick Auto Company LINCOLN H. F-. Sidl**, Protidrnt OMAHA Lee Huff, Vice Pre«. SIOUX CITY Chaa. Stuart, Sat’.-Traaa. j OMAHA AND COUNCIL BLUFFS RETAIL DEALERS Nebraska Ruick Auto Co. 19th and Howard St«. H Pelton 2019 Firmm St. Madsen Auto Co. 327 W. Broadway Council Bluffs