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The Morning Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO- Publisher. 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 not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of repuhlication of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department /it innjtt or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: AAA Editorial Department. A*T lantic 1021 or AT. 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—16 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. Louis—Syndi. Trust Bldg, ^os Angeles—Higgins Bldg, oan Francisco—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bids IS THERE ROOM IN FRANCE FOR REASON? British official circles do not regard the confer ence on debt and reparations as hopelessly lost At least, such is the tenor of advices from London. Premier Baldwin and his associates, deeply interested in the proceedings, will try to bring the French to see what is so clear to all other nations, that the atti tude taken by Poincare is the great and almost only block in the way. That the French attitude must be modified is not to be questioned, for President Coolidge has let it be known unmistakeably that he regards a confer ence limited to the Poincare proposals as a useless waste of time. Unless the examination of Germany’s ability to pay can be gone into as completely and as thoroughly as possible, no inquiry will gain an inch in the direction of ultimate settlement. It is all well enough to say Germany can pay, has paid, and nust pay, but that does not answer the question. Payment by Germany of any sum on any ac :ount must depend on the ability of the Germans to turn their resources into available assets. Under present conditions this is impossible. What the at titude of the German government was prior to the occupation of the Ruhr has no more to do with the case than what the the kaiser’s attitude was in Oc tober, 1918, when negotiations for an armistice first were commenced. France has changed the one as the action of the armies in the field disposed of the other. By reason of the military occupancy of the great industrial region of the German republic, life has been brought to a standstill; mines and mills are idle, production is nothing, and added to this is the social chaos and political disorder, hunger, suf fering of all sorts, mental and physical, that depress the German people. This condition will not be remedied by the course that is pursued by France. Great Britain, Belgium and Italy are opposed to what appears to be the pur pose in Paris, that of creating a series of small states >ut of the German republic, 4o act as a buffer or <hield for France against possible invasion from the cast. Not a great deal of attention is paid elsewhere to the threjt of Russia, yet if it has any reason to be come a menace, that reason will be found in tne Poin care policy. The United States has agreed to meet with other nations on what all but France agree is a plan that iromises a solution of the problem that must be -olved. The alternative proposed by Poincare can r.ot be accepted by our government. If there is room left for reason in France, heed will be given to the efforts of the British premier, who seeks only some way out of the labyrinth that is growing more involv ed as days go on. So long as France remains un moved, that long will peace be postponed. WHO CUT PRICE OF GAS? Maybe there is a mystery in the gasoline situa tion, and, it may be as clear as day to those who are most concerned. When the price was dropped from 22 to 16 1-4 cents last July, prophesies were freely made that the reduction was but temporary and would affect but a few localities, and soon would be restored to even a higher price. Great conferences were held, discourses were delivered, and independ ent dealers set up a shout that they would be ruined if something were not done to head off the great monopoly about to crush them. Now comes a further cut in price, and it is made fs wide as the centra^ west, extended to the Pacific coast. If it be an endeavor on part of Standard Oil to shake out a lot of competitors, or if it be but an attempt to stabilize conditions and bring consump tion up to some better relation to production, the case for the consumer is the same. He is getting a benefit, and, although he may be wary and give some thought to the hereafter, he will take full advantage of the present or any other concession that may be made on gasoline. Other consumers might relish a little drop in the price of oil, but this will n$t be allowed to taint the satisfaction that comes with gas at 14 cents where the price but a few months ago soared as high as 26 :ents in some localities. The future may be differ ent, but it is today with which the man who drives a ■ar is chiefly concerned. SQUEEZING OIL FROM ROCKS. A great deposit of oil bearing shale, its contents Estimated at several billion barrels of oil, from which gasoline may be extracted, lies in western Colorado and eastern Utah. This shale has been tested for its contents in various ways, and laboratory experi ments have shown it to be tremendously valuable. Next comes the problem of how to extract the oil, liberate it from the substances with which it is i» imataly mingled, and put it on the market at a rea sonable price. The United States Bureau of Mines is working in this practical question, along with the state of Colorado, the University of Utah, and the Depart ment of Conservation of Indiana. Efforts so far have been in the main directed to the recovery of gasoline or fuel oil for motors, from the shale oil, ,nd with encouraging results. Good grades of the oils have been produced by distillation of the shales. One of the big jobs is to determine the distribution of sulphur and nitrogen among the shales, and to liscover the most effective methods of separating hese from the oil, and making certain of the recov ry of all the useful materials. Oil and gasoline being the first requisite, natural y the greatest stress is laid on these materials, but n the end it is hoped that all the valuable con stituents of the shale will be recovered and mado use of. Another problem is to determine how far ihe foreign methods of treating these oil-bearing shales may be adopted in this country. In Scotland 4nd elsewhere in Europe considerable success hns icen had with processes worked out there, but whether these are suitable for American use is to he established only by actual test. . The investigation is very important, for in these great shale beds will be found a source to supple ment the oil that is taken from wells. Hnd to make certain that the supply will be greatly extended. ' I KNEW THEIR STUFF AND DID IT. Leonidas at Thermopylae, Horatius at the bridge, Lawrence dying on the deck ol hie gallant but over matched ship, Nelson at Trafalgar, the Old Guard at Waterloo, Pickett at Gettysburg—how the list might be extended—had nothing on Dawson and his Corn huskers. Unbeaten and looked upon as unbeatable, Knute Rockne and his cohorts from Notre Dame marched onto the Nebraska field, bent on revenge for last year’s defeat. The Cornhuskers did not look so good to their supporters; the tie with Kansas, when neither team scored, and the tie that followed by a 7-7 tie with Missouri, which team later lost to Oklahoma, a team Nebraska had beaten 24 to 0, furnished a puzzle for the dopesters. An impressive string of victories gave the invading Notre Dame warriors a I prestige that seemed overwhelming. This makes the victory for Nebraska the more notable, fort it was a surprise to. the football wise acres, who scarcely dared to hope for victory. Coach Dawson and his team therefore are entitled to credit to the limit for the recovery they staged and for im mense progress they made in their training. “Beat Notre Dame!" was the cry on every Nebraska tongue, shouted with the courage of stout hearts refusing to quail before the prowess of the conquering Micks. A sermon might well be preached on the outcome. “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.” When fleet Don Miller tried to do his stuff, Nebraska headed him off; Crowley met the same fate, and Layden's boasted punting foozeled. So it went; man for man, play for play, the Corn huskers outshone the team that has vanquished all its other opponents, and the game was won as it should have been, on merit as developed by the rela tive value of the contending teams. Eastern experts will mention Nebraska with more of respect for the next few days. Syracuse will note the score and come ready to meet a real football squpd, for that is what Nebraska has to present for their entertainment. HOLD-OVER FROM DARK AGES. Folks who wonder that the melting pot has not done its perfect work fail to take into consideration the peculiar quality of the charge that was dumped into that pot. Odds and ends of all sorts of people, with all sorts of political aspirations, religious be liefs or national traditions, have come to America, and every now and then something bursts out to astonish and confuse those who think we are becom ing a well united people. For example, a story comes from Los Angeles that shows how the most weird of oriental beliefs still persists out there, a hangover of the magic and fatalism of the mystic east. A stepmother prayed and fasted for 40 days and nights, hoping to encom pass the death of her stepson anti daughter, that she might inherit their share of the fortune left by their father. She performed her incantations over little heaps of ashes, formed from burning personal articles of her intended victims. When her magic*failed, she resorted to the more modern method of feeding them poison. This reminds us of the belief that still persists among Hawaiian, Tahitian and other peoples of tho Pacific isles, that a victim may be prayed to death. Voodooism, brought from Africa and still existent in Haiti and Santo Domingo, holds something of the same. Once in France, and to *.ome extent in Eng- . land, devil worship prevailed, a d part of its dogma was that an enemy might be tortured or killed by torturing or destroying an image, in which something personal to the victim had been included. Enlight enment has driven out much of such superstition, but the California incident suggests that some re mains to be done. Mah jong, fan tan and other curious importations from China are now crowded for the front line by the lottery the local police has jus* unearthed. Bret Harte was right about “Ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.” Art for art’s sake, represented by nude models in a New York revue, is now wearing clothing. May be due to the coming of cold weather, but more likely to the activity of the police. Those jobless who are shying at work in the corn field are missing the opportunity of their lives. Think of being paid $4 to $6 a day to stay out doors in this sort of weather. _ Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria says he op posed the Hitler-Ludendorf uprising, but does not say whether he loved Germany more or the plotters less. If the cotton raisers had put up a fight against the boll weevil a dozen years ago equal to the howl they are raising now, a different story might be told. A youth accused of embezzlement is reported to be willing to work and earn the money he took. He should have thought of that way sooner. Bandits who rob section hands deserve a classi fication somewhere below doormat thieves, and should be dealt with accordingly. Why should anybody marvel because the presi dent is taking pains in preparing his message? Why Is he called Cautious Cal? ✓ " / Detroit has just unfurled the “biggest" American flag, referring to its area. Any American flag is big enough for proper uses. Ludendorff says he was double-crossed, but a man who wears as many crosses as he once did should not grumble at another. Berlin printers are on strike again This is hard on the newspapers, but think what it will do to the money in circulation. The cost of high living is coming out in several spots. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davit THE GREATEST PHILANTHROPIST. . . The greatest philanthropist In the Hun. Whose being Is tho nourishment of all: <lod father to nil earth’s designing done— Unmeasured to the slightest of the small. Near mother of the foliage and flowers, And giver of the blessedness of light, And all tho Indlspenslble that's ours From dawn until tho coming of the night. Hweet gratitude for something that Is free, And pure and ever faithful In Its place; Wo know and yet so rarely do we sen Us merit and lls plentitude and grace. Great beacon of the firmament aglow, And teeming with a gleaming light that gives Productiveness to all the things that grow. And nourishment to everyone who lives “The People's Voice" Editorial* from reader® of Th® Morn ing Hoe. Header* of Th® Morning Be® ar® Invited to us® thia column freely for expression on matters of public interest. Entires Challenges World-Herald. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: I have read the World Herald's editorial on my letter of No vember 1, being Instructions to my deputies regarding law enforcement. This editorial states that I charged that Commissioner Butler was trans ferred from the police department by the city council for the purpose of promoting crime. This Is not true, and my letter will not bear that con struction. I said nothing about the city commissioners and the World Herald Is not getting very far In its attempt to plate any such construc tion on what I said. I call attention to the fact, however, that for weeks prior to his transfer Mr. Butler pub licly charged that certain elements were demanding his removal because the police department under his direc tion was actually securing law en forcement. I referred to thtrsame ele ments and stated that 1 had informa tion that they were expecting to make Omaha a wide-open town. The only issue ns far as I am con cerned. is that of law enforcement. I am in favor of enforcing fhe laws and Intend to use all the authority of my office to do so. Whether there can be 100 per cent law enforcement Is not the question. The question Is: Are we going to have any per cent of honest effort In this regard. The charge that I was playing poli tics Is interesting. I was elected sheriff of Douglas county last year over the combined forces of the sup porters of the city hall lineup and my term has more than three years to run, so I am ijot worrying politically just at present. The situation with those opposing me is somewhat dif ferent. They are facing a campaign in the spring of 1924 that threatens their destruction and this, apparently, is the real cause of the criticism directed at my office through the World-Herald. The World Herald could not resist the temptation to garble portions of my letter for the purpose of mislead ing the public. The statement was made in the editorial that I said if I found any of my deputies accepting favors from law violators "I might have to ask for your resignation.” No such statement was contained In my letter. I said that if any such thing occurred I would immediately require the resignation of the offending party. My letter will, I think, be under stood by the pubhr just ns It was in tended—an instruction to my deputies to be active and efficient in the per formance of their duty. I had been informed that the forces that had clamored for the removal of Butler had accepted his transfer as an in vitation to throw things wide open. I thought it my duty to notify those making up my office force tfcat this must not bo permitted. Now. since that newspaper claims the privilege of criticising my office let me direct attention to the fact that during Com missioner Butler's entire administra tion of the police department it gave him neither support nor encourage ment in his efforts to enforce the law. Its attitude was that of criticism and fault-finding. The World-Herald in Us editorial speaks of violations of laws against gambling, etc., being done in secret rather than in the open. Is it the meaning of this comment that so long as crime can be committed In secret that the police department should not interfere? I^et it answer. Its real attitude In attacking me, and I .hlnk its real purpose, is shown in the cleverly worded statement that the laws against gambling, liquor viola tions. etc., cannot be very well enforc ed anyhow, and that Omaha is a good, orderly town, and that there are no more violations than is to be expected, so why butt In. In reply I will simply say that nvy office is not ready to ad mit that the laws against gambling, bootlegging and similar offenses can not be enforced, and that I am going to make an effort to see that thev are enforced. M. b. ENT'RES. Looking Backward and Fore. Omaha — To the Editor of the Omuha ilee: I shall not make Ar mistice day the occasion for violent charges or unseemly scorn; neither does it seem wise to spend the day in exultation over the sacrifices made in the last great orgy of international savagery. War calls forth commendable quali ties. but only as do fires, famines and epidemics. Any deliberate organisa tion for setting fires, starving multi tudes or scattering disease germs, would rightly be deemed criminal In sanity, the same Is true of war and preparation for war. It is safe to write this now; It would not have been safe five or six > ears ago. Fi om a leaflet widely cir culated then, I quote: "Why would you not believe us when we told you that It was pos sible to co-operate for the saving of life? "Why were you not Interested when we begged you to work all together to build, instead of to destroy? To pre serve, Instead of to murder? "Why did you ridicule us and call us impracticable dreamers when we prophesied a world state of fellow workers, each man creating for the benefit of all the world, and the whole world creating for the benefit of each man? "Those Idle taunts, those thought less Jeers, that refusal to listen, fo be fair-minded—you aru paying for them now. "Lo, the price you pay! Ix>, the price your children will pay! Is), ihe agony, the death, the blood, the un forgettable sorrow—” And for circulating such senti ments. this Identical leaflet, scores were mobbed, sent to prison or hur ried to front line trenches in France, where they could he silenced speed ily and thoroughly. The same thing will occur again, we shall pay the price again, unless— unless we re solve -to war on war both now and When war looms and comes. There can ho no armistice in this war, no tonus of surrender, nothing but un nihllntlon. In Ihe war on war there will tie no "selei U»t> draft,” no striking posters, no strong arm of the government reaching out to drag into the tanks. • Governments do not mobilize all their strength for peace. They do not spend billions for niuklng people hap pier, freer and better, that is, us they are now constituted. I think I see a change impending, but that Is another subject for another article. I look to organised Inlsir, by a de termined insistence on common work ing class interests, to provide the motive power of the now world sanity, but that is also another sub ject for another article. Take this as It Is—jny contribu tion to the celebration of Armistice day. Who can say it is not appro prlate? 8DMUND it. HRl’MHAt'Ull, ■OiiniiiR (lie Amount. Scandalized Judge (to enraged at torney^ Silence' 1 (Inti you $!> for i ontempt of court. Ilnniged Attorney (planking down $211 Id!!) I*'lve dollars doesn't l,eg|n to express my contempt for tills court! — Sun Dodger, Birds, plants, animals. The commonplace and the unusual. They are of common interest to all. The Omaha Bee welcome* letters from nailers on observa tions of the world of nature. “HOI DINI" OK HALE HOUSE. We were living at Hale houHe, In the South End ghetto of Boston— lawyer, manufacturer, salesman, and the great hearted Doc CJeraon. Doc was head resident, and the Abou Ben Adhem who let light into darkened lives. On cold winter nights at bed time we gathered about Doc'r cheer ful fire t," eat a snack of fruit, com pare notes and philosophize. A drawer in Doc’s desk was the commissary. One snow'y night we heard a mid night marauder at work In this locked, holeproof drawer. Mouse, we concluded. Silent and on tiptoe, Doc suddenly pulled the drawer wide open. Gone! We laid an ambush, waited, heard him again, repeated. No mouse! A moment later he rustled papers In the waste basket. Four men closed in on four Hides. He escaped unseen!’ We resorted to strategem and artifice without result, and on subsequent nights it was the same. He challenged our admiration, and we christened our mysterious visitor Houdini after the wizard. In the "wee sma1 hours." finally. Doc awoke from a "deep dream of peace, and saw within the moonlight in his room" the dynamic little rascal cut ting capers before the dying embers on the hearth With a bound, Doc leaped to catch him. but with a squeak Houdini disappeared without a trace, hut "the next night came again," and again on other nights, until both the fruit and Doc were suffering, and the, neighborhood chil dren came to recite "Dickery, dick ery, Doc, the mouse ran up the clock." We held a council of war, over which the gallant Gerson presided, adopted a policy of search and selz ure for this crafty enemy of apples and sleep, and discovered a tiny hole at the edge of the fireplace which w decided was Houdini's highway and hiding place. On the mantelpiece crouched a magnificent bronze lion with eyes agleam and jaWs agape. Here was an idea! We' placed the lion on guard looking Into the mouse hole. and for three nights quiet reigned, while Doc praised his good Lion of Lucerne. But. on the fourth nig^it the rustle, and squeak and crunch resumed. Doc awoke and shades of Belshazzar!—there sat Hou dini on the lion’s head, pawing htn whiskers and watching the bedevilled Doc. We laughingly acknowledged defeat, departed from the sporting rules of land warfare, resorted to trap and cheese, and the following morn ing the cheese was In Houdini, and Houdini was in the trap. Bequiescat In pace! ARTHUR L, PALMER. ,———-- ■ LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press John Keornes of the Beatrice Press is peeved. Vandals broke Into the office a few nights since and left visi ble evidences of the disapproval of something John had written. • • • The Madison Star Mall devotes con slderahle space to discussing coal sale* and Governor Bryan's participation therein. We are Htill puzzled to know whether Brer Barnes Is siding with the governor or merely talking about him. • • • Noting that Ed Howe Informs a waiting world that there are fellows In Atchison with as natch as two bar rels of bootleg In their cellars .Mentor Brown opines through the Kearney Hub that old Ed has gone to New York as an unofficial colonization agent for Kansas. • • • "Regardless of what our personal oplnlions may he." muses Fred How ard in the Clay Center Sun, "the fact remains that so long as a law stands on our statute books it should be ob served.” The trouble seems to lie, Fred, that people olieerve It standing there and pay no further attention. • • • The Harvard Courier remarks that those who think that Norris is the only man who can beat Bryan for sen ator may not be so far o(T, after all. • • • Jim Alden remarks in the York Re publican that a lot of folk are apt to gurgle with glee at the report of a federal Investigation of the Tea Pot Dome oil lease. The Republican says that the dome was transferred from the Navy department to the Interior department so that the odium would fall on Fall In case Fall should fall for It. Noting that McAdoo ha* opened headquarter* )n Chicago, Adam Hi-eeda blurb* In the Haatinga Tribune that all political headquarter* should be located Jir the Windy city. • • • Tha York Democrat expresses the belief that If Henry Ford get* nnv nomination at all next year It will be from the prohibition party WJiat! Hn* Henry got the blamed things to running on water now? • • • The Falrbury New* say* one good word for the bob!>od hair erase, i,|’1V Shelley hn* noticed quite an Improve ment In the language heard In the barber shop*. * • • After a careful survey of the politi cal situation, the Itentrlce Express I* convinced that prohibition Is to l>o a rotl live lamie in the next national campaign. Families. From the Nebraska CUy Press It is pointed out that populations of the smaller towns are not falling off because there is a constant de mand for new habitations. '‘Why," it Is frequently said, "there Is a house shortage all over the country, even In the smaller places. Our house-build ing program Is behind five or ten years, as the results of the war or some other cause.” It Is true that there is a house shortage in America, But it is not true that the smaller communities are gaining people. Sad to say, they are steadily losing. And It Is all due to the family unit. The average family In the United States no longer consists of five per sons. The unit is now slightly less than four, if statistics are to be be lieved—and statistics are usually cold-blooded but accurate indices to true situations. Isn't It true that a big family in Otoe county, for instance, stands out too prominently, is so isolated from the general run of other families In the community that the fact is good for a newspaper story? How many houses in your com munity, to get down to "brass tacks,” have less than five people within their walls? How many families in your town have more than three children —children under the age of lk? A sorrowful blow to the compla cency of the average small town when the 1920 census w-as taken came when the figures showed that while there were more houses in a given area than there were in 1910, there were fewer people In those houses. It Is well remembered that In a single block in Nebraska City In 1920 there was not one ldnely child. Population Increases In the large cities have been due almost entirely to the Influx from other communi ties—one town bleeding another sett5 tion of the country, as it were—or to the immigration from foreign coun tries. It Is a lamentable fact that in many large cities the apartment house population is adult. Race sul-' cido in America is not a theory, but a condition, due to the complexities amid which we live and the growing disposition of the average, modern adult to escape responsibilities which are fastened inextricably to parent hood. Why Not a Movie fllor in Congress? From the Kansas C^ty Star. Production coats must be cut in half, the movie magnates say. and to bring that about one of the biggest of them has shut down entirely. Others have announced a purpose to do the same as soon as present contracts shall have expired. Kxpert movie opinion dnds that a principal trouble with the industry is the large salaries It has been paying to stars. That was all very well while the public paid to see them, but the public hasn't been doing that with ifs old time cheerfulness. If the public won't pay the producers can't, what's to be done? The producers have given their an swer. The stars must accept salary cuts of SO per cent or the studios will remain closed. This looks like a harsh remedy and suggests that maybe the movie people haven't thought to take politi cal advice. What are the facts' There's a surplus of stars on the movie market and perhaps a surplus of dims produced at costs that won't permit their showing at prices the public will pay. That makes a clear case for government aid. as we see It. A movie bloc should be formed In fon gress as soon as it meets and a bill brought in to relieve the industry. Knr a few hundred million dollars the Daily Prayer \ .Trsun departed into a solitary plies and thers prayed—Mark 1.S8. O Ood. our Father, in the opening of the new day we look up Into Thy face to thank Thee for the care of the night and for the Joy of another morning. The new day will bring Its blessings; may we be able to see and seize them. In the new day we shall have oppor tunity—opportunity to be kind—rmy we remember that kind words can never die. We shall have opportunity to bear or share another's burden; may we. like the Great Burden Bearer, ten derly. tactfully enter into and share the needs of others Joys may come, sorrows may fall upon the heart, surprises may wait us at some turn in the way, hut do Thou, ever-present, loving Father, show us that no Joy or sorrow or sur prise can come to us. Thy children, without Thy knowledge Tench us to thank Thee for the Joys; to remember, when we must weep, that "Jesus wept;” and to trust all the unexpected—the surprises—to Him who doeth all things well, and to radiantly hope for.the day when "we shall know, even as we are known. A men. A K. rifEH. p P Wllkei Barre. Pa. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for October, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .72,205 Sunday.76,995 i Dost not Include returns, left overs, samples or papers spoiled ir printing and includes (nr specie • saies. | B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. j Subscribed and sworn to before me • ibis 5th day of November, 1023. W. H QUIVEV, I (Seal) Notary Public _ ^Detroit TWO splendid Wabash trains leave Chicago—Dearborn Station—daily for Detroit at 10:30 a. m. and 11:1$ p. m. All-steel equipment, a smooth track, courteous employes and good meals in dining cars, make ATrauvftiirfUB these two fine trains models of comfort, safety J|r --I and convenience. IVtWSiSlV Ask *ny Ticket Agent for detailed information •A V'IAdAjRW about the Wabash through service from Chicago J y)V~~~-to Detroit, Buffalo and New York, or write, \ phone or raU on me. H. C. SHIELDS, Division Passenger Agent 1909 HarneySt., Omaha Talaphone JA 0710 I government could take over the sur plua stars and hold them off the mar ket until their salaries came up again. This course is being urged for the re lief of other industries that have overproduced, and there Is no reason why the movies should be left out. This seems to us to be the simplest way of putting the movies on their feet again and would obviate the ne cessity of sending a lot of beautiful young women out into the world with out knowing where the next million dollars is coming from. “Fourth Down, No Gain.” From the New Orleans Times Picayune. Year before last, 11 retail coal deal ers in Washington were indicted for "alleged conspiracy to violate the antitrust law through restrain of trade In coal." For reasons not ex plained, trial of the case seems to have been long delayed. Recently, it appears, a “plea in abatement," filed on behalf of the accused, was con sidered" by a District of Columbia court. Last week the plea was sus tained and the Indictment quashed by judicial order. According to press dispatches, de fendants bused their motion to quash on the ground that one of the mem bers of the grand jury which reported the indictment In 1S21 was drawing a monthly allowance for disability from the I'nited States government. The learned justice held. It Is explain ed, "that a person receiving a dis ability compensation from the gov ernment is in the employ of the I'nited States and as such is disqualified for service either on a petit or a grand jury." So the wofk of 30-odd months is undone and the prosecuting of ficers nvust begin all over again or abandon their case. We cite this “modern Instance” with no Intent to challenge the cor rectness of the learned judge's ruling. The point may be beautifully taken and altpgether sound In law. On the strength of its Judicial sustainment laymen are constrained to assume that this Is so. But the proceeding freshly illustrates the difficulties that ean be thrown in the way of criminal law enforcement under our system, with what meticulous care every step In the enforcement procedure must be watched and tended by the law of ficers charged with enforcement, and the costly—not to say well nigh fatal —consequences of a single misstep or oversight on their part. Where America Will not Fall. From th* Minneapolis Tribune. President Conlirige is on solid ground in differentiating the emergency created by the earthquake and fire in Japan, and the emergency that n presses itself in impending famine and hunger in Germany. Immediate and generous help was imperative in the case of Japan, and the president knew he could count on the approval of congress and the people in what he did in the name of the humanities. The situation in Germany is de scribed as very serious at this time, but it is not so imperious in its de mands but that the president can feel himself Justified in law and morals to refer this question to congress for action when it meets the first week In December. It is expected that he will then have definite recommenda tions to make.and that he will trails- J mit Information about conditions in Germany on which the recommenda tions will be based It is possible that some sound plan may be devised whereby both the suf fering Germans and the financially distraught wheat farmers of this coun try will be benefited. A plan of that kind which would not set undesirable precedents or do violence to good business principles ought to find sanc tion in the hearts and minds of thei people of this country. What the war leaders of Germany sought to do when that country was at the zenith of its military. commer rial and financial power Is a thing not readily to be forgotten by the Ameri can people who spent billion* In treas ure and made heavy human sacrifices to help thwart the German purpose, hut there follows In the wake of Ger man collapse a great deal of suffering A Handy Place to Eat Hotel Conant lfcth and H a me v—Omaha rhe Center of Convenience Abe Martin * Some husbands are purty tame substitutes for ferns or gold fish. No community is dry than its of ficials. (Copyright, 1 ) ami privation by Innocent children and by adults who were children when the war began nine years ago. It is not in order, however, for a generous hearted country like ours to confine Its thinking in terms of hungry children. Its conception of the ordinary hu manities prompts it fo offer the help ing hand to all who may tie in dire physical distress, whether or not they had a part in waging the war launch ed by the masters of Germany in 11-14. All Germans have reason to deplore now the fact that their nation went to arms. In some respects they ai« I-eing punished today more severely than In the days of the war when the tides of battle turned against them. They are bound to feel keenly ’be pains of defeat for at least a gsr4^g tlon to come. There 1* now in th^' United States very little cherishing of the hatreds that were so manifest six year* ago. If for no higher or better reason, the < Id bitterness lias been put off because a people that hugs bitterness to its breast does wrong to itself. livestock show*. Fr^m tb* Hastings Tribune Livestock is now demanding moie attention than ever. This is i - peclally^ true relative to the cities of Kansas City and Chicago. The for mer will hold the American Royal Livestock show from the ]7’h t tie 24th of this month, while the Inter national Livestock exposition will be held In the 1 "nlon stockyards In Chi cago from the first to the eighth of December. It is well to know that these expositions are not for profit, and that all officers connected with them serve without compensation. They will have sat.sfactk ■*» in the knowledge that their efforts will play an important part in the in crease of the prosperity in the coun try. _ K ranee would do well to hire Mus solini to take rharg- of her colb tioa department.—Vancouver World. r' — EVER TRY CRANBERRIES BAKED? i. A genuine treat! DELICIOUS! and easy to prepare! BAKED CRANBERRIES 1 quart emnbeme* 1 put granulated softl Bake in quick orco until tbor» ! ought? aoft- Lte earthen or granite Tenet and do net u*e water. Recipe fodder rent free* J American Cranberry Exchange BO Wot Broadway. New York Money to Loan on Omaha Real Estate ^Conservative SAVIVCSGLOAN association / ^ Af <2 r> n o y Nose to the Grindstone isn't the way to enjoy Old Age. Youth is the time for work. Youth is the time for saving and investment—to make certain that adequate provision is made for Res* and Relaxation in Old Age. A»U our Trutt Officer to explain our plan for cheating an Incoma Fund 2^GnaIia Trust Gmpanr Omaha%itk)ml Bank Burning