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1 he Morning Bee M O R N I N G—E V ENIN G—S UNDAY •THE BEK PUBIJBHINQ CO.. Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republicstion of. sll news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this PeP*r. and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department luntie or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: vnnn Editorial Department. AT lnntic 1021 or AT. 1042. X OFFICES Main Office—17 th and Farnam Council Bluffs—IS Scott St. S. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N. Now York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syndicate Trust Los Angeles—Homer-Laughlin Bldg. Bldg. San Francisco—Hearst Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. APPLES ARE RIPE So big and rich is Nebraska that her production of apples is often lost sight of. Yet the apple belt, ex tending down the Missouri valley from Omaha to Eulo^ in Richardson county is famous all over the nation. * The harvest has just started. The pickers are in the big orchards, the packers in the sheds, box cars by the hundreds on the tracks. Several thousand carloads of the fruit will be shipped out of the dis trict this year. The orchards of Weaver Brothers of Falls City comprise over 300 acres of bearing trees. For the benefit of the city dweller, it may be stated, this is about 80 blocks. Shubert Brothers of Shubert, Frank Parks of Brownville and Ernest Pollard of Nehawka are other growers on a large scale. When all is said that can be said of the fine appearing apples that come in “stylish” boxes and with fancy names from the Pacific northwest, the \ fact remains that the epicures of the eastern markets prefer the Nebraska grown apple to the more pre tentious fruit from the far west. The Nebraska product has a delicious flavor and juiciness that is produced by Mother Nature, who, in open competi tion with the irrigators, has proved that she knows best how to put flavor into apples. Fat apples, crisp apple cakes, baked apples' sim mering in their rich juices, apple sauce, fried apples, ' and, oh, don’t forget the apple dumplings! And health in every one! For who doesn’t know the formula to “keep the doctor away?” FED BY THE SHERIFF. Out from the county jail, last Sunday morning, came the cry of despairing men, men driven to riot by the pangs of hunger. It was the hour when, in the peaceful churches of the city, ministers were preaching the brotherhood of man and choirs were singing anthems of peace and good will. And none in all the great city, surrounded by an abundance of yellow grain and live stock and fruit, dreamed that in their very midst were men, and women, too, literally, in their own words, being “starved.” A cup of black coffee, skim milk and three pieces of bread for breakfast; two pieces of cabbage leaf and a neck bone for lunch; and prunes and tea for dinner ia about as near starvation as any healthy man cares to come. The prisoners tore off w%atever they could wrench loose in their cells and raised a din of pro test. Very rude, no doubt, and entirely against the rules. , Jailor Joe Sherry, a tried and true office-holder, 1 did not quail. He sent for the police. A dozen ar rived shortly, armed with sawed-off shotguns which they directed threateningly against the prisoners. Later they turned the hose on the little band, thus making them wet as well as hungry, but convincing them that it is best not to complain. It was a sort of wholesale Oliver Twist treatment. “It was nothing,” declared Jailor Sherry later, viewing the incident calmly, as strong men do, “It was nothing. Outbreaks of the sort are not infre quent among the prisoners.” And so, the community read about it, rejoiced, doubtless, that law and order had prevailed and will forget the affair as soon as possible. Mrs. Anderson, the cook, said she gives the state prisoners more than the others. Jailor Sherry said the men get “all they want to cat.” But the sheriff gave orders after the riot that the prison fare should be increased. Sheriff Endres said the riot was caused by sev eral prisoners who want to be taken to the state peni tentiary. They arc under sentence but can not be transferred because, Endres said, there is not room for them in the penitentiary. It will be contended, of course, by those in charge of the jail that the rioters are just burns and con victs and vags. This by no means applies to all of them. Many are there on first offense charges and some of these will be proved innocent. But even if this were true, it would still be no ex cuse for underfeeding them. The man who commits a crime or misdemeanor is as much in need of food as the average man. Even a good man may be driven to crime by hunger. The sheriff gets 50 cents a day for feeding them. Of course, the less he feeds them, the more he makes. The Omaha Bee pointed out this potential abuse to the last legislature and did all in its power to have the law changed so that the county would feed the prisoners, and all temptation to profiteer would be removed. But the law was not changed. This newspaper believes in men. It believes even in the men who are confined in the Douglas county jail. Pome of them are down, but they are not out. In the county jail they can be reformed tq a de gree or be kicked on down the unsympathetic road to complete ruin. Bad and insufficient food will make them worse enemies of law and perpetual liabilities of society. Sheriff Endres has not displayed any sympathy for these unfortunates. For many years he himself has been a good feeder at the public pie counter. Elected by a handful of voters over Mike Clark, his administration of his important office, so far, has nor been such ns to command commendation. Maybe he hasn't looked at it in the proper light. Maybe he hasn’t seen that this post is not only a trust but a great opportunity to lift up men, thus rendering an undying service to them and their , families and making the world n better place to live in. It is wiser to make 10 rents a day on ench of the 200 prisoners and have them healthy and contented than to make twice that nmount and turn them to bitterness and revenge. Let there he more and better food in the county jail even though the profits he loss. Sixty-seven-pound watermelon whs grown near Columbus. And Nebraska doesn't even claim to be the watermelon state. Lightning struck an Atlantic City hotel. West erners who have stopped at some of them will see retributive justic^in this. SLAP HIGHER TARIFF ON WHEAT. Representative Anderson of Minnesota was chair man of the commission of agricultural inquiry which studied the problems of the farmer from stem to stern. Better than any man in congress, he knows. And he has gone to the White House to urge an ex ecutive increase in the wheat tariff in order to pro tect American growers from foreign competition. No doubt about it, wheat can be raised more cheaply in foreign lands than in the United States. It is not fair to ask the American farmer to risk heavy loss because of the unrestricted competition of new and cheap Canadian wheat lands. Nor should he be expected to reduce himself to the plane of the Argentine peon in order to meet the compe tition of South America. What folly, then, for any one in the west to scoff at the idea of giving wheat growers better tariff pro tection. This is partisanship run mad. It does not matter what Thomas Jefferson or Andrew Jackson said about the tariff. This is another world. The condition is a new and pressing one before which vain political theories must vanish. Because the price of some farm products has declined in this country, democratic propagandists have tried to make it appear that the tariff has not benefited the farmer. It is apparent that the pro tective tariff has not prevented a decline in the price of some crops, but it is easy to see also that it has prevented an absolute collapse of the American mar ket due to a flood of cheap food from abroad. Prices of these products have declined much more in Europe than in the United States. Today in Canada wheat for December delivery is selling at 10 cents a bushel below American quotations. Up there it is said that Canadian prices probably will decline to a point allowing them to sell some of their sur plus in the United States. Only a further increase in the tariff on wheat can head off such a ruinous outcome. An increase in the wheat duty would bring an immediate advance in the selling price of American grown wheat, Congressman Anderson declares. All right. Then let’s have it, and the quicker the better. Nothing helps the Middle West’s prosperity so much as good prices to the farmers for their crops. That means business and. employment for every man jack in the cities. WISED UP BY COOLIDGE. Senator Cummins has taken the right course in deciding to drop plans for consolidating all the rail roads of the country into a few great systems. By the same token President Coolidge has opened his administration most auspiciously by refusing his ap proval to this scheme. That consolidation plan had its origin in the de sire of the holders of almost worthless securities in broken down railways to force these lines into com bination with better and more profitaWe systems. Once this was done, the value of the securities would have ascended to a point that would have assured heavy profit to the stockholders, but no benefit to the public. If there is to be any railroad legislation in the next congress, it should be directed toward restor ing competition among transportation companies. The Middle West is particularly affected by the arti ficially maintained high freight rates. Any plan that will bring these down without doing damage to the service rendered by the railroads will be wel •omed here. “EATS” Brillat-Savarin, the epicure, wrote in mock seri ousness of “Gasteria, the tenth and fairest of the muses.” Why should there not be a muse of food as well as muses of comedy, of tragedy and of flute music? For food is the prime requisite of existence and good food is the foundation of good bodies and minds. The food show this week in the Auditorium is more than an exhibition of commercial products. It is a display of the best in each line and it provides an education in preparation of foods and their values as body and energy builders. In proper food and cooking may lie the solution of many a domestic difficulty, for the old proverb hath it that “the way to a man’s heart is through his stom ach." A good-cooking wife is better than a good looking wife. Even those good matrons whose dinners are things to delight the app*4ite may learn some new things at the show to swell their large culinary repertoires. Senator Cameron of Arizona tells President Coolidge that a wave of prosperity is sweeping the west with indications of “the best times in history.” He admits there are certain sections where pros perity hasn’t struck yet. Wheat growers may hope that the wave will soon overtake them, too. “I don’t see how the democrats can lose next year,” said Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. That’s the trouble with the democrats; they never can see how they lose. How refreshing, in these days of self-seeking, to see, not one, but many able men, willing and ready to serve their country as president! “Must Grow Moustache or Stay in Germany,” says a news story headline from Hamburg. A fright ful alternative! “Where Your Income Tax Goes” is the title of a booklet. We are more worried about where ours is coming from. Germany gives up passive resistance in the Ruhr. Wond.tr what substitute she has found. The new German “bodcn mark” will probably be a “verboten” mark to most people. Those bad Balkan boys are trying to stir up trouble again. , Homespun Verse —Ily Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie MARCHING ON. He's a morbid looking creature, bowed with ancient ness, and gray. As he trudges with an effort slowly down the trodden way; He's a wan appearing fellow; there Is sadness In his frown That suggests a lit hold knowledge of life's splendor and renown. I behold him as a baby on his loving mother’s knee, And I view him as a youngster In the visions that I see. On through youth I trace his progress with the mind's Utoplun pen, TUI he l.les uway to manhood and the wilderness at men. Growing old, I watch him fighting, falling not—nor win nlng nil; Growing gray, I sec him falter and I hear his plaintive call; Growing drear T see him standing at the Golden Gates of Ned; Gfowlng cold I see him soaring to his rendezvous with God. t “From State and -Nation” Editorials from other newspapers. An Kasy Mark for Billboards. From, the Kansas City Star. The disfigurement of the city by means of misplaced and unsightly bill boards goes on. The zealous opposi tion of the late Mayor Cowgill has been succeeded by the apparent in difference of succeeding city officials. It now develops, through the protest of the city building inspector, that for some two years the city billboard com panies have been erecting their signs in the residence section without per mits. And a suit brought In 1920 by an advertising company to compel the city to issue permits lias been "lost.'’ At least the city counselor's office does not know where it is, though It Is said to be "in one of the courts.” Nor does the new zoning law which forbids the erection of billboards In residence sections, deter the encroach ments of the sign men. ^It is time to have a showdown. Kansas City has a tolerant disposi tion, but it cannot afford to become an "easy mark.” It has been hard to write progressive provisions into the laws of the 6(ty, hut when they have been so written in spite of un reasonable selfish Interests, they should he enforced. There are now two f-herks on the multiplication of billboards whore they have no right— the zoning ordinance and the presump tion that ’it is illegal to erect signs without permits. Rut the enforce ment agencies of the city must be alert and aggressive. They cannot afford to go to sleep. The other fel ,lows are awake all the time. The Birthplace of Janies Fenlmore Cooper. From the Columbus (O ) Dispatch. With the reopening some days ago of his birthplace at Burlington, N. J.. as a public shrine, Interest has been quickened somewhat in the life and achievements of James Feniniore Cooper, considered by many as the first American novelist. Purchased from private owners by the Burling ton County Historical society, the house has been restored as nearly as feasible to its original form. By this restoration of his birthplace, little known events in the novelist's life have been brought out. Of the hundreds of thousands who have read his novels, probably few were aware that he had served honor ably in the United Stats navy before becoming an author. He and Capt. James Lawrence, of "Don't (live Up the Ship" fame, were born next door to each other, although Lawrence was some years older. More curious still is the probable fact that In later years they served on the same ves sel. C ooper for a time commanded a gunboat on Lake Champlain. Law rence successively comma mled the Argus, the Vixen and the Wasp. Ho was aboard the latter vessel until 1811, the same year in which Cooper was on duty on a ship named Wasp. It is not definitely established whether they were on the Wasp at ths nme 'me Cooper resigned from the navy in 1811, at his wife's insistence, there by just missing the War of 1812, In which Lawrence lost his life. ithln a period of 39 years Cooper wrote 39 novels, besides other writings which never were made public. Born September 15, 1789. he was the eleventh of twelve children. His father was a Quaker. It has been said of the son that he was the first Amer ican fiction writer to "extend the domain of fiction over the sea, the prairie and the forest." The later years of his life were beclouded by his bitter controversies with h<s critics, during which, as his biograph ers point out, he wasted much of his ime. energy and fortune, which might better have been devoted to further literary accomplishments. He died the day before his sixty second birth day, September 14, 1861. Whatever the barrenness of his later years, his "Xi™ ,n th,“ I^a'herstock lng rales. No real boy’s education Is quite complete unless he Is thorough ly acquainted with Cooper's romances. The Phenomena of Medium* STvSJir I'0<1*,• ,h* Nor,h American (hlldren and people generally would naturally assume that when ght went through, say. a red liquid. It flicked up color from the liquid, and hml acquired something whirh It did not previously possess. That Is false. It has picked up or acquired nothing. It has left something behind. It is less than the white light, not more. If we were to pass a thread or ribbon through the liquid the conditions would be quite different. A white ribbon passed through a red liquid does acquire color from the liquor It is dyed. It has absorbed some of the material and If delicately weighed, after drying, would he found to weigh more than before. The act of dvelng is the addition of color. I,ight which has passed through a colored suh stance appears dyed, but It Is not. And if you pass a beam of light through a succesalon of difTorent col Daily Prayer buforiothr fther Search ms. O Oort, ami know my m-si-t: try ms anrt know n.v thought Anil sss If thsre bs any wicksrt WIv |n Ps *129 .4**22 21* lD lh* W*y ,vorl*lln'( O Ood. we give Thee thanka for Thy great goodness, and Thy unfail ing kindness. Day after day Thou hast bestowed upon us gifts accord ing to our need. Teach us so to use them that In all our doings we may glorify Thy name, and further Thy rig hteous cause. Above all. Most Merciful Father, we bless Thee for Jesus Christ. Thy Son, our Savior. For His sake, do Thou receive us. one*, grant us Thy Spirit, that we may Le enabled to fol low In His footsteps, and to grow In Ills likeness. Prepare us, Heavenly Father, for all the appointments of Thy wise and loving Providence. May we he found. In :hem all, diligent, brave ami faithful! We recommend to Thy love and care all that are denr to us, and nil men everywhere In their need of Thee. May Thy gracious hand lend and keep them till the discipline <>f life ts over! Then may we nnd they be brought Into Thy glorious pres once, nnd find a plnce In Thine ever lasting kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Ix>rd, Amen B. KtCPATRtrK. r> D. _Toronto, farm.1a N ET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for August, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .72,111 Sunday .75,138 l)o«« not Include returns, left . | overs, earn pie* or papers spoiled lr printing and include* or epee in1 . sales. B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. j Subscribed and sworn to before me ibis 4th day of September, 1923. W H. QUIVEY, 1 (Seel) Notary Public ■ ... The Omaha Bee welcomes let ters from readers recording In timate observations of animals or plants. A bird perhaps mu has seen while waiting for a street car, or a voluntary flower or some creature one has come upon in (he woods away from t|ie noise of (lie city—these are—and always have been—of interest to ethers. RAPID CANYON NEIGHBORS. One of the pleasures of a trip tc the Black Hills lies in making tht acquaintance of red squirrels and chipmunks. Early each morning wt were wakened by the violent Bcolding of Chatterer, the red squirrel, wht from the top of the nearest tree wai expressing his candid and unflattering opinion of tourists camped in hlu neighborhood. After relieving his feelings in this manner for 10 or 15 minutes he scampered off in search of breakfast, leaving us to finish our sleep In peace. • During the day bright-eyed, saucy little chipmunks watched us from a distant rock, vanishing-like a flash at our first move. One day after a suc cessful hike up the canyon In search of choke cherries, we hid our weil fllled pail behind u rock and wandered on up the inviting trail, returning a little later to find a robber at work. Striped Chipmunk, having discovered a ready and convenient supply of choke cherries, was busily engaged in moving them from our pail to his storehouse. Killing the pockets in his cheeks, he would scamper olT. return ing in a few minutes for another load, meanwhile keeping a watchful eye on us as we looked on from a distance. MRS. RALPH PKMBROOK, Harvard, Neb. ored windows, there will ultimately be none of it left. They do not add; they subtract. A medium may thus act in two distinct ways. It may act by addition, or i( may act by subtraction. A solid rod or thread, passing through It, may select certain portions of its sub stance, that is to say,' of the deposit which it finds there, and pass on so phisticated by addition which It has picked up from the medium. A light beam or succession of ether waves passing through a medium may find that medium obstructive or destruc tive to a portion of what It seeks to transmit, and the part that gets through tt only a fraction of what en tered; it is sophisticated by subtrac tion. Or both these things may occur at once. The original agency many have something added to it and some thing subtracted from tt, so that in the end what emerges is quite dif ferent from what entered. And if the medium is turbid, too, th» light may lie so scattered and dispersed that nothing is recognisable; or, In some cases, bo that nothing may emerge at all. The medium ceases to be a medium, and becomes a mere ab sorbent material, a black body. All which things are an allegory. And the interpretation is sufficiently indicated by the word "medium.’' “Pigs Is Pigs." From the Hastings Trihune. "Pigs Is pigs," as the "feller" says —every hog is a valuable hog, ex ceptlng the road hog. If you doubt this make a note of the fact that 84 winter-fed pigs weigh ing 217 pounds in 165 days, were mar keted the other day down in Rich mond, Mo., for $1,419.03; netting them $776.98, or 117 per cent above the cost of production. These figures are authentic because the feeding project was carried out In co-operation with the University of Minnesota anil the Ray county farm bureau. That speaks something for the American hog. does It not? Now comes Uncle Ram and wants to knotty what is the basis of the hog's popularity which. In spite of its relatively small size, enables it to stand third in the total value among all our domestic animals in the United States. Ho answers himself when he says that the hog produces toothsome meats which in some form or other combine well with most of our com mon vegetables. Rut there are other reasons why the hog has become a favorite on more than three fourths of our farms. Do not overlook the fact that the hog converts much of our corn crop into a concentrated food. And it Is safe to say that the pigs in this coun try consume nearly 40 per cent of the corn crop. Another thing, the hog is no waster —in truth, he is an elliclent user of feed. ■ It has been carefully figured out that it takes about six pounds of grain and six pounds of hav to pro duce a pound of lamb, that Is, light weight; 10 pounds of hay and 10 pounds of corn to make a pound of beef, and 5.6 pounds of com for a pound of pork. And nnothcr thing, they save the labor*-of harvesting at certain times when thev are used to “hog down.” or harvest crops. There is no question but what pork and lard play a very important part in the food supply of the country. And the wonder Is that there are not more of them being raised. The Irish certainly appreciate the hog, and that Is why It Is a common sight to see n pig occupying h parlor In villages of Ireland. And that may explain why an Irish man frequently refers to a hog as "the gentleman who pays the tent." Ro. do not forget that "pigs is pigs."_ ‘‘THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” Editorial from render* at The Morning Boa. Reader* ot The Morning Be* are Invited te mm thle caluma freely for axerMete* on mattere af auhlic Intereet. Bryan's Defense of fl»e Senate. HaveluCk, Nub.—To the Editor ol The Omaha Bee: The newspapers a few days ago quoted Governor Bryan as being opposed lo the movement now under way to abolish the statt senute. In his first Interview Govemoi Bryan declares that if the state sen ate is abolished it will render useless a magnificent senate chamber now in eluded in the Uoodhue plans or elst necessitate new plans which will cosl the state a great deal of money. Let us ussume that the capitoi cum mission, with Governor Bryan at Its head, gues right along and builds tht capitol according to present plans— the magnificent senate chamber need not be wasted. It can tie used for pub lic meetings of various kinds, commit tee hearings and during legislative sessions, might he turned into a din ing room or soft drink parlor. But it will be much cheaper to change the plans than to suf fer the extra'expense of a two-house letpxlature for the next 300 years— which we are told is the estimated life of the new capitol. A good example of the enormous expense of the state senate is to be found in its action in 1323 on what is known as "Senate File 65"—the intangible property tax law. Perhaps no one thing contributed more to ward the election of Governor Bryan than his firm opposition to this law. It was—next to the repeal of the Mc K el vie code—Governor Bryan's prin cipal campaign issue. His stand against it brought him many thousand republican votes. This is quite evi dent when we look at the vote in the house on the bill to repeal the in tangible tax law. There 35 members voted for repeal, only 1 man having the nerve to vote against repeal. This intangible tax law—Set. File 65—was originally introduced i C. B. Anderson of Eancaster county. He W'as in the senate of 1323 also and the repeal bill which passed the house by an almost unanimous vote was re ferred to Senator Anderson's commit tee—and Anderson put it to death by the smothering process. Here he was more powerful than 39 men in the house, and his action in smothering the repeal bill will in a very few years cost the ordinary taxpayers of Ne braska enough to build several gtate capitols. In his second interview Governor Bryan fears that if we have a one house legislature, the lobbyists Will concentrate their efforts up n It and not be under their present disadvant age of having to lobby two houses in stead of erne. His fears are ground less. Wherever the carcass is there you will find the vultures. Lobbyists fol owr the bill just as football players follow the ball. Governor Bryan seems.to forget—If he ever knew—that nine out of eleven Canadian provinces have one house legislatures and are well satisfied with them. Quelac and Nova Scotia alone nave the old-fashioned system of two houses, and as 1t requires action bv both houses to abolish one of them, the efforts fail when attempt Is made to Sbr llsh one house, i have copb s or correspondence from Prince Ed ward Island, British Columbia New Brunswick and other Canadian pro vlnccs In which the alters are unani mous In their approval of the one house legislature. In no case has any province gone back to the two house pinn. The fact is. v e are using a legisla ..'J* "ytTm f ishloned in the davs of -he sickle and flail and other primi me devices With the referendum In force the old Idea of "checks and bqlances as a reason for two houses f“,R [" h:!V" force. Let us )>e l"Ll(l date jvith our legislative ma tb t’T KRrlng !t "P to the level of the telephone, radio, automob b> a|r. plane and Other modern Inventions. W rite Otto Mutz. 1700 x street. Lincoln for copies of senate abolish tng Initiative petition. _b W. JACOBY. Coal Facts. To the Editor of ‘ Omaha Bee: rn line with the gltath.n of late against the high! cost of living it is natural that the <ipuMtbrfr .r111 ,1nd a kreat deal of dasaat sfscion „t the pric„ of coaL ine UsT1'^«Cth>n ls at PBMent vent hank f chleBy against the retailer— Hr Jin ‘2, 1,ur kovernor, Charles W of Mr' nFr'>m the Publl*bed remarks j-r Mr. Bryan one would believe that the n n dca,er ln c"nl 18 bleeding seff C ,and waxing wealthy h:m f,-!n h> *xtrac!ln* exorbitant profits £gar,?sn,!178Uy'« 1 cannot 8Peak as ££te h„7 . throughout the ■ill other a i rec*1?* ourselves and nil other dealers whoa® price*. F state that such is not the case ?ta"darrt and satisfaction civ ln«t coals handled in this part of the Stubs nr,, the first grades of C.'l * r ° Maitland, Canyon Citv and Itoutt "°llnly a"d south, rn t-!,lorsdo “A Good Place to Buy Lighting Fixtures" Special Excursion NEBRASKA CETY Via Missouri Pacific Thursday, Sept. 27 Leaving Union Depot, Omaha, at 8:05 a. m. sharp. Returning, leaving Nebraska City (special train) 10:00 p. m., arriving Omaha 11:30 p. m. Round trip tickets $2.50. Famous Tangier Shrine band on this train. Avoid confusion by getting reservations now. Call Robert 0. Druesedow, JAokson 3565, Room 860, Omaha National Bank Bldg., for reservations and tickets. T. F. GODFREY Division Paaarngor Agent, Miaaouri Pacific Rrilway Fire! National Bank Bldg. coking coals. These coals retail at the yard for $13 for lump and $12 for nut. At this price the dealer makes approximately 10 per cent profit. In terest, credits . Insurance. taxes, shrinkage and plant upkeep are all items of cost which must corne out of this 10 per cent profit. Surely no business can maintain a plant and continue to serve the people honestly at less. Lignites and other grades of coals are procurable and are handled by the dealers, and these coals retail at lower prices than those mentioned above. Mr. Bryan's selling plan of coal pro vides that the price Is payable In ad vance. There is no credit, no screen ing of coal and, by delivering direct from the car. the numerous expenses connected with stock and plaint main talnance are eliminated. Instead of keeping a stock of coal on hand to meet the demand as It comes in, Mr Bryan’s plan provides that a carload of coal is ordered for a group of peo ple when they club together and present th‘ lr order for it, and In his way practically all the equipment needed Is a pencil and pad of paper. Any retailer will gladly provide coal for the people under the snme.condl tlons as Mr. Bryan's plan, the same grade of coal as Mr. Bryan sells, and take the same margin of profit for handling it ns provided by him. It is hoped that the facts here stated will throw some light on the coal situation for all the fair-minded people of our slate. PAUL T. GORDON, Kearney Fuel Company. Simpler Living as a Solution. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: When is a dollar a dol lar? An article in the latest number of Collier's, written by an engineer, dis cusses the problem If everyone had $10,000 a year." This is an interest ing subject. The writer of the arti cle outlined as his reason why every one could not have $10,000. waste In handling of ppducts and too much competition. He said that taking away profits is not the remedy. I do not fee] qualified to preach on business, but being in a store for over a dozen years I received a fair s'hool ing in business matters. I have seen all kinds of salesmen cofpe an go. I have studied their methods and stvle One that particularly eomes to mind, a real successful salesman, hut whose private life was a scandal, had this argument to a slow or hesitant cus tomer, if the price was too high and fhe man felt he could not pay so much, h» would say: "Compromise on some th;nc This seerred to be the Collier's writ er’s suggestion also. He seamed to infer that people ran have what tin,. n"° n. vear In New York will buv for! much less In smaller towns. At last people are showing almost human in-i •etllgenre. It was Jack London who "fid that happiness does n t come from satiety. What does it profit a man to make $10,o()0 or $10,000,000 a vear if thereby he loses his health hanpiness. his life? My advent into business began whtn merchants sold on small mar gins. but made lots of monev. I have seen It mme to pass when the sky wcamp tho limit, and busings was bad. I do hot begrudge them a profit t it is 1 rea son able on?. Th*? 6zcu?? is offered that overhead is so high now that the merchant is helpless. Higher salaries, rent and other fac tors are driving the business man mad today. It is the old story, too much comi>etiti<-n and too many middlemen. A government report says that the 1923 dollar Is only worth 60 cents of the 1913 dollar. Still we can "com promise on something eise." Do with out our smokes, our "hootch." our parties," we can have as much fun as a rich man by staying at home, playing with the baby, visiting our relatives, avoiding auto accidents, by Abe Martin — t What gits us is why doctors don’t spend their leisure time readin’ up on neuritis instead o’ playin’ golf. It’s no trouble t’ “git in th’ proces sion’’ t'day if you try to take a ride. ^ (Copyright, 1>22.) living a clean, wholesome life. How many rich men are spoiled? They cannot control themselves. It was Caesar that said, “He that ruleth his spirit is mightier than he that taketh cities.” Many rieh men are better men than some poor men. “Compromise on something else." but do not compromise on right and wrong. This is what is wrong with business. My school teacher, who Is now dead taught us never to accept a bribe. Bribery was an a wful crime. Bribery is dishonesty. There Is so much bribery today in politics, in busi ness, In our social life that we need a purging. _LABORING MAN. 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