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The Morning Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY TUB BEE ri'HI.ISHING CO.. I'ulillslier. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or nut otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publish Jl herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department ax Untie or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: 1 OOO Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or AT. 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnara Council Bluffs — IB Scott St. S. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louia—Syndi. Trust Bldg, .os Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Francisco—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. MAKE NEBRASKA SAFE FOR ITS PEOPLE. After contributing our share, and perhaps a lit tle more, to assist in the good work of making the world safe for democracy, is it not high time that we expend at least a little commonsense in making Nebraska safe for ordinary folk? The automobile as a social menace is coming under discussion more and more, but right now the automobile as a menace to life and limb is so tremendous and so dangerous that Immediate steps are necessary to subdue it. No man may run a railroad locomotive until he has served long years of apprenticeship. And then he runs a machine that is confined to a narrow track, moved according to orders and protected by the greatest safety devices that human ingenuity can provide! But the automobile, a machine that can in many instances distance the fastest locomo tive, which has no fixed track, but can and does travel every highway, and which conceals under its hood tremendous potentialities for death and destruc tion—the automobile is put into the hands of any moron, daredevil, harebrained, reckless, drunken or incompetent driver who is able to buy it, and that driver without any experience or training or re gard for the safety of himself or others is permitted to infest the streets and highways and hurl death or injury abroad. iwery carelul and considerate automobile driver should join a crusade to make automobiling safe alike for the autoist and the public. Every pedes trian, every father and mother, every lover of sanity and commonsense, and every lover of humanity, should join the crusade to make it impossible for reckless and careless drivers to operate an automo bile. No single battle of the civil war took so great a death toll as the automobile took in 1922. The death toll of the automobile irv the United States will be equal to or greater than the toll death took from the ranks of the American army in France. Clearly it is time to call a halt. The reckless and inexperienced automobile driver must go. The age limit for automobile drivers must be raised, and a system of examining and licensing automobile driv ers must be devised and rigidly observed. No mo tives of selfishness must be allowed to enter. Life an4 limb are too precious and sacred to be made a sacrifice to recklessness, or carelessness, or pride. Mere fines are not sufficient to curb the speeder or the reckless driver. Jail sentences, and they, too often set.aside by politicians in office, will not cure the evil. Locking the stable after the horse is stolen ' will not replace the purloined animal. The remedy must be sought at the source. The best possible method for suppressing the automobile menace, for making safe life and limb, is to make it impossible for any man, woman or child to drive an automobile without first having proved his or her ability and carefulness, and regard for the life and limb and rights of the fellows. Compel the registration, examination and licens ing of every driver of an automobile. Make it a penitentiary offense for any unlicensed driver to kill or wound, however unintentionally, any human being. And after the enactment of a law providing for these things, drastic though that law may seem, let no considerations of politics or personal friendships interfere with its rigid enforcement. More than 20, 000 people killed in automobile accidents in the United States during the last 12 months, and double that number injured, many of them permanently, is sufficient answer to those who oppose such drastic regulation as here proposed. The moron at the steering wheel must go. The reckless speeder and the driver who has no regard for the rights of others must be suppressed. Men may not engage in the compounding of pre scriptions or the sale of poisons without first pass ing a rigid examination and receiving a license from the state. Men may not drive a locomotive on a fixed track without first serving a long apprentice ship. But an automobile, rapidly developing into a modern Juggernaut, is placed in the hands of any man or woman, no matter how reckless or incom petent, who may have the money to buy it or rent it. Automobile dealers should be among the first to join in a concerted demand for licensing of drivers and the adequate punishment of the careless and the reckless. OMAHA AS AN ARMY CENTER. The army is bulking larger in importance in Omaha since headquarters of the Seventh Corps area have been installed here. The splendid showing of the military in the Ak-Sar-Bcn parades and on the polo field has called public attention to the fact that thia is one of the main army centers of the country. The activity of General Duncan and other officers in public life here likewise is bringing notice. It becomes apparent that by co-operation between civilian and military forces much can be done to ' benefit Omaha and at the same time add to the efficiency of the armed defense of the nation. One of the first steps proposed is the re-estab lishment of the old quartermaster depot in Omaha. This was formerly maintained here, but was closed down in the interest of a mistaken economy that regarded only the salaries of the clerks and forgot the added bill for freight due to consolidation with the Chicago depot. With the purchasing for the nine military posts of this area done in Chicago, it is natural that most of the supplies should he Pr>ntraded for from busi ness houses in that vicinity. To bring the purchas ing to Omaha would not only add to the trade of this neighborhood, hut would also lead to more eco nomical distribution. There has not been enough interest in military matters in Omaha. It is time the business men of this city awake to the importance of the city as a military center. There is much they can do to the benefit of the army establishment, and they will find th« army ready and willing to go half way in nny matter of mutual Interest. UNCLE SAM, CREDITOR. The matter of Europe’s debt to the United States is altogether too serious to be bandied about to make a political holiday. It will be necessary to wait un til the dust of dubious purposes settles before at tempting to gauge the significance of the inter changes between Lloyd George, and Wilson on the subject of the loans to the allies. It does not make a great deal of difference what our former president said; the question of collecting these debts was not settled in the past and hangs over into the future. For a long time now the allies have been at tempting to get America into a conference at which the matter of reparations and allied debts would be joined together. Quite rightly the government of the United States has refused to be drawn into any such trap. When the time comes to join in one of these conferences, it must be with the express under standing all around that we will give assistance to the old world in all legitimate ways, but that cancella tion of debts is not to be considered as one of them. All financial arrangements hinge on the proviso that Europe calm its shattered nerves and get down to work and peace. Once they clean hause over there, then will be time enough to discuss new terms of payment. These debts are not now hampering Europe since with the exception of England, little has been paid on account. Doubtless some readjust ment will be necessary. Armenia, Czecho-Slovakia, Esthonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland owe together some $92,000,000 for food distributed by fhe American relief administration in 1919. The United States Grain corporation also has $60,000,000 overdue from Armenia, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Poland. Some of this may well be dis , counted later for sweet charity’s sake. It will not do to press the other half of the world too hard. Neither is it advisable to attempt to collect what can never b6 collected. Some of this money we kissed goodbye when the Wilson administration gave it transatlantic wings. What bankers refer to as a “recasting of debts” may at a later date be found advisable. Unless Germany is utterly destroyed, its bonds might be ac cepted in lieu of certain French pledges on which nothing has as yet been paid, either of principal or interest. As the chief creditor and the banker of the old world, America has the power as well as the right to enforce the lesson that balanced budget, smaller armament, the^end of inflation and the resumption of promotion are necessary preliminaries to a res toration of normal conditions. Life Is full of compensations, and ever and anon comes something to Indicate that the cost of living is coming down. It is now asserted that moths will not eat anything but woolens. This means a saving to us of an investment in mothballs next spring, when we put the overcoat, the undies and the heavy suit away for the summer. Airplanes could make BOO miles an hour were it not for the friction of the atmosphere, reports a scientist. The friction would burn up the airplanes. It being foolish to depend upon that sort of punish ment for the auto speeder who ‘‘burns up the road,” why not banish the speeder? Through the cloud of gloom that enshrouds us because of the defeat of Nebraska and Creighton in their initial football games breaks a gleam of sunshine, faint perhaps, but encouraging. ‘‘A bad beginning presages a good ending.” Before awarding those Kentucky prison officials medals for bravery in subduing three desperate con victs, let them first explain how the three convicts became possessed of automatic revolvers and almost unlimited ammunition. The report that Governor Bryan will not accept the president’s invitation to attend a conference of governors until he knows what the president wants them to talk about may be dismissed as wholly un founded. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman provides its readers with an editorial homily under the cap tion, “For World Wide Peace.” But peace, like charity, should begin at home. The Georgia supreme court has decided that married women have the right to go automobiling with men not their husbands. A case where one right may result in a wrong. Women in the Colorado penitentiary may not be allowed to smoke, but we’d like to see the color of any warden’s hair who can prevent ’em from exercising the feminine prerogative of changing their minds. Holland has proved to be a safe refuse for dis credited emperors, but the population of that coun try is too crowded to even think about making it a refuge for discredited politicians. The Philadelphia Public Ledger insists that wealth is no test of an ambassador’s fitness. Maybe so, but unlier present conditions it’s n mighty telling test of his ability to hold the job. The magazine that is offering $20 for the best reason why Ford should be elected president is play ing financially safe. Counterfeit 10-dollar bill* are in circulation, but we are not worrying. New* of counterfeit dollar bill* afloat would, however, add to our nervousness. While other cities are observing “home coming week,” Johnstown, Ta., inaugurates a git for home week, applied to negroes. Lloyd George survived the strain of war, but can he survive the round of American banquets? Homespun - Verse —By Omaha'* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davit DO THE STARS DIE? I) tho stars die? I do not know, I only wonder as a child; I seo them fall. Where do they go?— Within some unknown wilderness, Where Ilea tho stars' eternal Mtss Ah Heaven to the good of this Fair universe Is fathomless, And falry-llke and dream-beguiled— I only wonder as a child. Do the stars die? I've seen them fall And loss themselves In space— A gleaming streak and that was all— done from the boundleas firmament To some Utoplnn realm extant. I've tried to find It hut I can't. Though hours In study l have spent. Pray, show ms the golden place The vanished »tara sublimely grace. “The People's Voice'' Editorial! from roadora ot Tit Morning Boo. Rtaden of The Mornloo Ben are Invited te uee thin column freel* for expreeileo on matter! ol public laterect. An Anonymous Letter, f Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: Having read so very much that our Honorable County Commis sioner Mr. Kubat had to say about that insignificant riot staged at the county Jail, staged by a very few dis gruntled prisoners, men who had been led to believe that If they could dis credit our very efficient sheriff, Mr. Endres. that pressure would bo brought to bear to shorten their sentences or get them paroled; I won dor If Mr. Kubat really knows what those poor, unfortunate Inmates of the county poor farm, over which he has jurisdiction, have to eat. I am sure he does not, for If he did I am sure he would be the very last person to make those broad remarks about the food served at the county Jail. The jail menu ns given out, read something like this: Breakfast: Toast, coffee, oatmeal and milk twice a week and oatmeal, bread, milk and coffee every morning. Dinner: Meat (chang ed every day and good varieties), vegetables (several different varieties), bread and tea. Some sweet or dessert once or twice a week and always a treat on holidays. Supper: Stewed fruit, bread, syrup, tea, bread and milk and tea twice a week. Tho menu at tho county poor farm roads about like this: Breakfast: Black, unsweetened coffee, oatmeal, black molasses, bread. The poor devils have not had sugar or milk (which they should|have plenty of) since Mr. Kubat has had charge of tho institu tion. Dinner: Boiled potatoes, half done; a very small amount of very poor meat, black coffee and bread. Supper: Stewed fruit, potatoes, tea (no sugar), bread. No sugar for tea or coffee at any time and none of that health giving fluid recommended by all doctors, milk, and only a taste of dessert on holidays. It is said that the superintendent of that Institution has never been known to come Into the dining room to see how these poor unfortunates fare. His two assistants visit about as often. Just note the difference In the above two menus and think over the fact that one Is served to men and women who are ot^tcaBts of society for the time being, on account of disregard of law, and the latter one to poor, old and unfortunate people who are de pendent upon the charity of our coun ty for their sustenance. The menu for the county poor farm as above set down was served on September 30 and Is an exact duplicate of that served most every day. If the county Judges and welfare board want to begin an investigation where It will do worlds of good, let me suggest that they go out to the county poor house and start there. They may be able to find out where that first freezer of cream went which was sent out from that picnic in July, and also what becomes of the tobacco, cigars and clgarets sent out by a firm In the city for the inmates. These poor unfortunates dare not try to voice their wrongs except among themselves, but if a committee of our honorable county commissioners would go out there and promise the inmates that they would not be discriminated against for tell ing conditions, they would learn something of how the poor farm Is being conducted. ANONYMOUS. Editor's note: The Omaha Bee does not as a general thing print anony mous letters. It prints this one, how ever. In the interest of clearing up county affairs. If the writer will send in his name, he will be given further opportunity to air his opinions. The Jumping Kind. Omaha—To ths Editor of The Oma ha Bee: I noticed by The Omaha Bee that a polo pony named Whiskey, Jumped over a table with guests seated about the board. If that horse was named after some of the stuff sold In Omaha It ought to be able to Jump over the City National Bank building and clear the Orpheuni theater. . FRANK J. CARET. The Omaha Bee welcomes let ters from readers recording In timate observations of animals or plants. A bird perhaps one has seen while waiting for a street car, or a voluntary flower or some creature one has come upon in the woods uway from the noise ot the dt)—these are—and always have been—of Interest to others. Bird Friendliness. A very Interesting and rather unus ual incident, showing how neighbor ly birds may be, happened last spring. A friend of mine has a cottage, and there Is a certain vine growing close to a window, which Is a favorite nest ing place with birds. This year two different families, a pair of wrens and ft paid of catbirds, derided to neat here, and so they set about building their homos. Strange to say, there was no quarrelling over this, but each paid ,mlnded Its own business and when their homes were finished, lo and be hold! there, perched upon the edge of the good sized nest of the catbird, was the little nest of the wren. Never were two families more so rlahle. Together the mothers sat on their eggs, and perhaps they ehatled about different things to make the long hours of waiting less lonesome. Together the wrens and the catbirds fought the eat and bravely defended their homes, when the babies were hatched, and side by side they raised their families and taught them how to fly. Now there is nothing left hut the two nests to show this unusunl friendship between two bird families. # — Bllzabeth Frederick. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for September, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE i Daily.72,518 Sunday.75,942 Dnmm not Include return*, left* over*, "Ample* nr paper* •polled In printing and Includes nr special B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to haforn mm this 8th day of October, 1023. W. H. QUIVEY. (Sa*l) Notary Public. “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Backward, Turn Backward. From the Newman Grove (Neb.) Heporter. A show rivaling Rtngllng Brothers for excitement was pulled off In Rev. Hellckson'a back yard last Saturday afternoon. The main top consisted of a discarded auto tent that had been extended by additional canvas and In one end was an improvised plat form. Here the show was held which consisted of a play that had been gotten up by the little folks. The play was an exhibition of ghosts and goblins. There was a menagerie In one tent In which Rev. Helllkson's goats and Jacobson's Shetland ponies figured together with a variety of nondescript cats and dogs. As one entered he had three guesses as to the contents of a large basket stand ing near the door. Upon failing in all his guesses It was opened and re vealed Rev. Helllkson's baby, Hope, sitting contentedly Inside. Hater In the afternoon It was necessary to substitute something else for the baby ns she unconsciously revealed her presence to the visitors. A re freshment stand w^p one of the main features where one could get a large bog of popcorn for the sum of 3 cents. The parade consisted of a pro cession of ghosts and goblins with Jacobson's Shetland ponies drawing their wagon and the largest goat hitched to his cart. The receipts amounted to over $2.50, which were to be used to provide the wherewithal for a weenie roast later. That the affair was enjoyed goes without say tnd, and we venture the statem*iU that the afternoon will linger In the minds of the participants as one of the most enjoyable and memorable occasions of the season. A Too Busy Tribunal. From th* St. Paul Dispatch. The United States supreme court opened a new term on Monday with the docket, as usual, littered up with more cases than can possibly be dealt with. In all there ore 580, of which 368 have been carried over from June. Acting under Its discretionary powers, the court Itself will let per haps 150 of these cases rest as in volving lasues too trivial to take up the time of the court. There will re main roughly 430 cases requiring the attention of the court. This means that if the court Is not to fall In ar rears each member will have to write about 48 opinions, which of course Is Impossible. Appeal to the supreme court lies as of right In altogether too many cases. It was the intention of con gress In organizing the circuit court of appeala to relieve the supreme court of a share of its burden. The new court was given final decision in cases involving the application of ordinary law, a device which was sup posed to leave the supreme rourt free to deal with only those Involving con stltutionallty, but it has been found In practice that this is a most doubt ful freedom. The question of con stitutionality Is raised easily on most any issue, and the relief which was so confidently expected has not been manifest. If the gentlemen who are so de sirous of tampering with the supreme court should turn their attention to this situation they would be perform ing a truly constructive service. The supreme court is a sadly overworked tribunal. Whereas it should be oc cupied only with actions involving constitutional Issues of the greatest general interest and the most far reaching Importance. It actually wastes its energies in the production of opinions which hinge on constitu tional principles known to every l>e. glnner In civics, and which settle cases of Importance only to the Im mediate litigants. The consequence Is that the court Is unable to exercise Its rightful function as a college of scholars, and has become a tribunal dominated by a aperies of ministerial duty and red tape. In the days when the court heard no more than a score or so of cases to a term, and those only ns raised Issues of the most Important ronsti tutionallty, actions before It were fo! lowed eagerly by the whole nation. Its decisions were anxiously awaited and its profound and rarefully prepared opinions were respected. Today all this Is changed. Quality has given over to quantity and almost no one who Is not directly Interested follows the progress of th# actions which it hears, because the court now must gallop at a mad apeed through a mass of detail, turning out opinions In trivial and great cases lndlseriml nately and without too much dellbera tion. What Is needed, ns the present chief justice has repeatedly pointed out, is the complete obliteration of the ap peal as of right, and the substitution of appeal on the discretion of the court itself. The Way of Prohibition. From the Minneapolis Journal. Judge C. L, Smith, dean of the municipal court, reports that prohibi tion protects the younger generation from jails and temptation*. He shows that the drunk of 1923 Is not only of lower caliber but older by five or ten years than the drunk of pre-prohlbl tlon day*. He Is likely also to be a repeater, and to he paying now for habits formed long ago. This perhaps will prove the great est good effect of prohibition. It may not bo 100 per cent In enforce ubility, hut on the whole it does keep a bad form of temptation from the rising generation and makes going straight easier for it. For the toper prohibition is a hard way; for youth it is a better way; for society it is the more promising way in the long run. If prohibition does result in thus protecting the rising generation, it will be worth all it costs. If it does not make the problem of social con trol easier today, it will make it so tomorrow. This, at least, must be the faith of any progressive eoclety that cleaves to prohibition, for such a so ciety discounts the present for the sake of greater future welfare and happiness. This is the secret of con servation, not only as to land, tim ber and other natural resources, but as to human life and human homes. A Poet and His Tea. From th« Msnchexter Guardian: High tea would have been deemed an abojnlnatlon by the Chinese poet Lu Wuh, who held that no food should be taken In conjunction with the most delicious of all beverages. Lu Wuh maintained that only three Ingredients are necessary for Its decoction—tea, water and salt—but each should be selected with care. "The leaves of the tea plant must have creases like the leathern boot of a Tartar horseman, must curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock; must unfold like the mist ris ing out of a ravine; must gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr; and be wet and1 soft like fine earth newly swept by rain." According to this authority a mountain spring furnished the best water for tea making, with river water and ordinary spring water next in order of excellence. "There are three states of boiling,” Lu Wuh goes on to say "The first boll is when the little bubbles like the eye of fishes swim on the surface. The second boil is when the bubbles are like crystal beads rolling in a foun tain. The third boil is when the bil lows surge wildly In the kettle." Salt Is put In the first boll, tea In the sec ond boll; at the third a dipperful of cold water Is poured Into the kettle to settle the tea, and revive "the youth of the water." after which the decoction is poured Into cups and drunk. — Daily Prayer Jlapy la ha that hath the Go-1 of Jacob for hie he!:', whore hope I a In the I.ord his God: Which made heaver, and earth, the *.■*. and all that therein Is: Which | keepath truth for ever: Which executeth ludxte.ent for the oppressed: Which flveth food to the hungry—Pr 166: 6-7. • We salute Thee. O God of the Sun rise! "My voles shalt Thou hear In the morning, O Lord; In the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up." Give us to go through this day with head erect, heart full-beating, eyes open to see. mind responsive to know. I,ct us be thankfu^for what we have, without covetousness, and grant us to share gladly with others what Thou dost drop in our laps. We do not pray j for a bank full of gold, but for a mind full of noble thoughts. We do not pray for a house full of treasure, but for a home full of Thy love. Help us to walk to the end of this day with Thee. Then, when the lamps are lighted, may this home. yes. and the great world, find Thy promise ful filled to'the soul, that at evening time tt shall b« light. In His name Who la the Light of the World. Amen. REV. FRED WINSLOW ADAMS, New York Oily. N. Y %WYORK PHILADELPHIA , BALTIMOREmdEq& WASH I NOT Stop-over permitted at W'athmgton, Baltimore and Philadelphia ^CAPITOL LIMITED Leave* Chicago 1:00 p. m. standard time. t Arrives New York 2:44 p. m., Pennsyl vania station,in heart oi hotel and theatre district. Arrive* Washington 9:00 a. m. Baltimore 9:58 a. m. Philadal. phia 12:22 p. m. An all Pullman train from Chi cago. Through service via the Nation’s Capital to Philadelphia and New York. Comfortable, moveable chair* in ob •ervation-library and club cars. Drawing room, compartment, open section sleeping cars; competent at tendants, ladies’ maid, manicurist, barber, valet, shower bath and a justly heralded dining car service. The extra fare to New York is not exacted if advantage is taken of the stop-over privilege. Fnr rut nratinm r.ruuft |W|!I Jftnl nr oJ4rtu L. G. Reynold*. Di*t. Frt. and Pa**. R*r Room 807 Woodmen ol the World Bid* Phone Atlantic 2490 Omaha, Neb. BALTIMORE & OHIO Amor/c&'s First /2&//road ESTABLISHED -103.7 LISTENING IN On tile Nebraska Tress According to the United States Chamber of Commerce Americans arc drinking more coffee this year than they did laat. That should be good news to some reformer who seeks a new peg on which to hang his hat.— Nebraska City Press. The Intent of the Nebraska law was to keep down elopements and undesirable connubial alliances, but tho practical operation of the law has done nothing In controlling these undesirable features but on the other hand appears to have made them more numerous.—York News-Times. The warning has been given several times and big business knows Just as well as we do that this country can never settle down to a stable basis until there Is an adjustment made so that the farmer will either get what he buys cheaper Or gets more for what he produces. Hlg business may kid It self Into believing that they can con tinue to take from the public all that the traffic pill bear, but they are fast bringing the day of reckoning closer to home. With everything that the farmer buys soaring skyward, and prices on what he produces below cost of production, along with Interest still above normal, while taxes are contin ually mounting beyond reason, A de plorable condition Is facing this coun try.—Scottsbluff Star-Herald. A Johnson for president move has been started by John G. Maher, who to most of us is known as a democrat, but who denounced that party during the world war. It Is said that Mr. Maher received Johnson's sanction to go ahead when that gentleman was on his w-sy home from the east some three of four weeks' ago. Johnson se cured the popular vote in this state three years ago, and has many fol lowers still In this section, but there has been considerable change in the political line-up In this state since the people voted at the last presiden tial primaries.—Scottsbluff Repub lean. "It was an ancient belief," saya the Hastings Tribune, "that nine grains of wheat laid on a four leaved clover, enabled one to see the fairies." And now they have changed the system to grains of corn in a still!—Grand Island Independent. Perhaps the most pronounced de velopment In agriculture In the last few years in the rise of the former by-product to the dignity of a ma jor crop. The advance of the but ter Industry In this country Is shown by the fact that In 1921 the value of the butter produced about equaled that of the wheat crop and was almost exactly half that of the corn produced. Nebraska has had her share In this remarkable show ing and perhaps that is one reason why the agricultural industry has been able to weather the periods of low grain prices with so little, com parativeiy, of real distress.—Norfolk News. There would be more male spend thlrfts In this world If there were fewer self-sacrificing, helpful women. In a majority of the cases, it is be lieved. men are prevented from mak ing fools of themselves, financially and otherwise, because there Is a woman somewhere In the offing to prevent it.—Nebraska City Press. There is no deadlier enemy to law and order and good government than the unfaithful judge on the bench. And a close second Is the faithless ex ecutive officer and police officer. Oma ha seems to be getting out of the reservation again In all these re spects. and Governor Bryan Is for mally Asked to lnterevens in behalf of law enforcement.—McCook Tribune. For several years farmers have been offered the services of the va rious stale and national agencies de signed to stimulate and Improve agri culture. and with the backing of busi ness men and the assurance of co operation In their efforts to recoup the losses of the last few years the prospect for Improvement Is good.— Aurora Republican. _ ^ Abe Martin | Why don’t th’ gover’ment dis continue th' 5-cent piece as it hain t good fer anything, unless we want t’ tip a Chinaman. Constable Plum broke his arm this mornin’ while barin’ a rum plot. (Copyright. 1121) To the Pioneer Out In the west, where the eun ehlnes bright. Where the sky has more of the blue. Where a man will fight for what Is right, And share his last dollar with you. Where the prairies gleam ’neath the noon day's sun. Where the eagle soars In the sky, Where the coyote hides In some dry run. And keeps up his watch on the ely. The gloriou* west where in days gone by Men rushed in search of gold, ’Neath the biasing sun, or the star light sky They toiled with spirits bold. Where the cowboy rode the long night through. And sang to his restless cattle. For well he knew what the critters would do, ^ Still he seemed to enjoy the battle, the long summer’s day. Where the pioneers toiled through By the side of their patient cattle, And sang their songs along the way Accompanied by the wagons' rattle. These sturdy men of the pioneers. Whose hearts were brave and strong. iVere always hopeful, they knew no fears As day after day they plodded along. They were up in the morning at peep of day. To drive while it was still end cool. With a rollicking song they lead the way— These sturdy men of the pioneer school. Tes, here s to the men who led the way Into the land of the setting sun: Let us lend an earto what they say. For their race wfli Mon be run. Let us give them a M, for the hill It steep. And their steps are getting flow. Few soon the records that we ehaf keep. Will be all we have of the long ago Let's give them a cheer ia thet eventide— These pioneer men of yore— For soon they will cross to the Other side To Joi» those long gone before. —Walt Nye. Ogallala, Neb. Where a Strike Would Help. If the government printers In the German mint had gone on a strike and stayed on a strike, maybe the financial situation in Germany wouldn't be so bad.—Louisville Courier-Journal. I % Tfawkeye jQmited Later Departure—Faster Time For the convenience of our Omaha patron*, tha Hawkeve Limited IravesOmaha at 5:26 p.m.,Malting September 30th, arriving Chicago tame a* formerly. The high (tandard* that identify Illinois Central *erv> ice awure on-time arrival*, hospitable courtesy and tip-top meal*. Leave Omaha • • 5:26 p. m. “ Council Bluff* 5:50 p. m. Arrive Dubuque • • 3:18 a. m. “ Freeport » • 5i20 a. ro. “ Rockford • • 6:10 a.m. M Chicago • • 8:30 a. m. Arrive Central Station. Chicago, on the Lake ftronh In the heart of the downtown boulevard — hotel— theatre district. FINEST ALL-STEEL EQUIPMENT Sleeping car* with drawing room*. Chair car*. Coachee and Dining car serving all meal*. Observation car entering Chicago. Give the “Hawkeve" a trial, you'd like it. CHICAGO EXPRESS No. 16 Leave*Omaha 7iIS a.m. Arrive*Chicago 9:55 p.m. CfttT Tick#* OScf, 1416 l\sl|f Semi. TeMitMi* ATUnbc «214 C. Htnltxk l >1 vision IXmmmst As«n| Kcom 313 C*le National Rank RuiLJini • Omaha. Nebraska | Tataphoo# JAckson 0264 * Illinois Centred