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Today" Good Law, Bad Democracy. 14 Muscles and 64 Muscles. Lignite 600 Billion Tons. ^ By ARTHUR BRISBANE^ The United States supreme court decides that Judge Mayer of the federal court may sentence Comp troller Craig of New York city to (JO days in jail because Mr. Craig, a public servant, criticised Judge Mayer, another public servant. The accuracy of Mr. Craig’s criti cism is ,not discussed. The highest court sustains the right of a judge to act as judge and jury, in a case affecting his own dignity. That is the law, since i he court says so, but if it is good taw it is not good democracy. •Judges may say they could not uphold the court’s dignitjt without such power!'' Ancient rulers, simi larly, would have said they could not upheld their dignity without the instant power of life and death. That which is really re spectable, needs no especial pro tection. A baker, in his shop, has this sign, “In smiling we use 14 muscles, in frowning, 64 muscles. Smile and save your muscles.” That sounds reasonable. But more real work has been done by frowning men than by chronic smilers. The smile is mere re laxation. The frown means action, concentration. You do not think of Newton, Archimedes, Shake speare, Beethovet Michael Angelo, five of the world’s seven greatest men, as smiling. When you think you frown. Vegetarians and meat packers are far apart, but this interests both. Germany, lacking meat, put all animals in the zoo on a vegetarian diet. All the nice oat meal they coujf. eat was given to lions, tigers, leopards and, wolves. But they all howled, before and after taking. They all stopped producing children, grew thin and have not been able to grow their usual thick coats of winter fur. They did not have the proteid from milk, eggs and butter with which some enthusiasts deceive them selves as to the value of a vege table diet. Vegetables only will do for the contemplative cow, slow-moving elephant, or the Egyptian slowly rowing on the Nile. But vegetables alone will not do for animals or men, obliged to fight, physically or mentally, for a living. The Japanese did well on rice, until they went to fight Russians. Fighting and long, violent marches called for meat; they had to have it. When farmers in the northwest miplain of hard times the/ are o'd “You must reconcile your •dves to an economic readjust ment. Canada can produce wheat ore cheaply than you can. You st recognize facts.” But it’s something else, when ilroads pile up 5,000,000 surplus ms of coal at the head of the kcs, and find themselves facing >s by the competition of lignite. They don’t accept “economic “adjustment” based on the fact hat the Dakotas and eastern Mon ana possess 600,000,000 000 tons of lignite coal, {pore i 1 under ground barring oil, than all the rest of the United States, more than France, England and Ger many combined. Railroads simply "rais- the freight rate oif lignite coal by 52 per cent, to make sure that lignite, a home product, of the northwest shall not compete with coal nauled 2,000 miles from the east, at profitable rates for railroads. That might interest President Coolidge. Who was it, for instance, that or dered a 52 per cent raise in lig nite freight rates, that the north west might be compelled to use eastern coal? What would be said if farmers demanded such con venient rate discrimination for their products? By the way, what a fortune for the man who discovers a way to carry electric power long distances, without excessive loss on-the wjres. When that discovery comes, the 600,000,000,000 tons of lignite turned into electricity at the mouth of the mines in the northwest will be distributed throughout the country, at a small fraction of the power cost, when coal is mined and then burned at a distance? The great lignite deposits in western Texas will also play their part in the game when that dis tribution comes. Atlantic City’s mayor says ladies may bathe in the ocean, without stockings, a new ruling. He’s a wise mayor. Bare arms and bare legs, once taken for granted, interest nobody, particu larly. If women were prudent, how ever, they would not for a showy summer’s swim, destroy illusions built up through centuries. Mod esty, mystery, morality are three useful words in woman's chief job, which, according to Schopenhauer, is to entrap each man into a hard and fast bargain to support some one woman all her life. (Copyright, 13:3) Harvey Wolfe Held. llarvey Wolfe, who gave Ills ad dress aa Ninety-fifth and Dodge streets, arrested Tuesday in con nection with the theft of an automo bile belonging to Dr. H. Wiggins, 2833 Franklin street, from in front of 1105 y'orth Nineteenth street, was bound over to district court In municipal court on $10,000 bond Wednesday. Q.S. o are Milk omj Malt Fosd-OMdk for All Ages Avoid IoJUtfeu—Snhtitit« Progressives to Join Third Party Nebraska Executive Commit' tee Endorses National Convention Call. The progressive party of Nebraska stands committed to an endorsement of a national convention -to be held in St. Paul or Minneapolis on May 30. to nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates and to adopt a platform. The third party of this state is also committed to the basic principle of the proposed national progressive platform, arranged at a meeting in Chicago. This* action was taken Tuesday afternoon at a conference of the executive committee of the progress ive party of Nebraska in Hotel Castle. Rev. J. L. Beebe, state chair man, presided, and W. H. Green, state secretary, was present in his official capacity. J. A. H. Hopkins, national chair man of the committee of 48, ad dressed the. meeting and received the signature of Chairman Beebe and Secretary Green to a call tor the na tional convention in May. The basic principles to which the Nebraaka progressives have subscribed Include public control of natural resources, public ownership of railroads and governmental banking. i Jv4.’M. 3/opkitt.xo • • • 11 "It is time for the third parties In various states to take definite action looking toward the 1924 campaign,” Mr. Hopkins said. "We have heard Borah. Ra Follette and Ford men tioned as third party possibilities, but whether they are available or not, we are going to nominate candidate* on May 30. I understand that an effort is being made to induce Iji Follette to run as a republican candidate for the r.omination, and then, if be falls in that effort, to endeavor to get him into a third party.” Slayer Confesses Res Moines, la., Nov. 21.—Robert Burris, who was arrested in Peoria. III., and brought here for questioning in connection with the slaying of Mrs. Kric Rose of Boone. Ia.. con fessed early today, according to HI Yackey, an agent of the state depart ment. The officer said Burris would plead guilty to a charge of murder when taken to Boone for arraignment. Mrs. Rose, an ageef woman, was clubbed to death at her home Septem ber 25, while her invalid husband lay unable to help her. The assailant then ransacked the home and escaped with J25 and a rifle. Burris Is said to have a criminal record in Missouri. War-Time Savior of Cotton Farmers in Omaha for Convention Mrs. G. H. Mathis, Woman Plantation Owner, Pulled South Out of Finan cial Crisis. Mrs. Q. H. Mathis, the woman who led the movement that added $90, 000. 000 annually to the Income of cotton farmers of Alabama, Is in Omaha to attend the national conven tion of the Farmer's Educational and Co-operative union as a delegate from Alabama. Frank, warm-hearted, executive, practical, it was she to whom the appalled bankers and bewildered gov ernor turned when the price of cotton dropped out of sight at the begin ning of the war in 1914, and it was she who worked out the scheme which saved a million southerners from starvation, without having to call in aid. It was no accident, hut long and sound experience, whiah brought Mrs. Mathis to the front in that crisis. The men of her acquaintance laughed long and loud when, at the death of her father Mrs. Mathis put all of her inheritance into 1,000 acres of choeap farm land and announced her decision to manage the planta tion herself. The Idea of a mere woman thinking she could run a business of that size! But she made $30,000 on her first deal, and after that they stopped laughing and be gan to watch. What they saw ia best expressed in the words of an old negro wom an who had picked fruit on one of Mrs. Mathis' farms. "Law. Mis' Mathis you took the land they didn’t think was no 'count, and, and you made It bear better than all.. And you took the,folks they didn't think was no 'count, an’ you made somethin' decent out o’ them. You 's alius pickin’ up what other folks throws dow'n!” There were 25 mountain whites working Mrs. Mathis' property whose sole ambition appeared to be to get drunk. “Seemed like somebody ought to care about those folks, and I didn't see w-ho 't would be unless ’twas 1, " says she in her southern accent, "So I set out to make a better set of men out of 'em." She talked to them and laughed at them, trying to get them to save money for land of their own. But they argued it was better to rent than to own, for if one owned land one had to pay taxes. However, she kept on devising schemes by which they could earn money for themselves cn the side by newer farming meth •uo os put? sdo-ta ejjxs Xq 'spo Sears-Roebuck Seeks Farm Data Chicago, Nov. 21.—The establish ment of th» Sears Roebuck agricul tural research foundation, set up for the purpose of determining essential facts relating to the farming Industry was announced today by Julius Rosen wald. president of the Sears Roebuck company. He declared that the foundation will be headed by "the most capable men to be found in the agricultural re search field," a field force is also said to be contemplated with head quarters In Chicago. The announce ment set out that every phase of agricultural economies is to be studied. "As business men." Mr. Rosenwald said, "we feel under a direct obliga tion to do everything we can to Im prove the farmer's condition. A care ful survey has revealed to us that where the farmer needs help la In economies, in marketing his products. 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If they would agree to plant their land, one-third in corn and beans, one-third in hay and legumes and only one third In cotton. Most of the farm ers had been raising little but cotton. Seeds were to be supplied free and the loan would be enough to keep them fed and clothed until harvest. This system not only tided over the crisis, but added $90,000,000 an nually to the value of the state's crops. Two years later the national con vention of the farm mortgage bank ers at St. Louis sent for Mrs. Mathis to hear of her experiences. In conse quence of her conferences with John S. Williams, comptroller of currency, and William Gibbs McAdoo the three crop plan was accepted by all hanks as the basis for farm loans through out the south. no equal. His problem at the present time Is the disposal of the surplus which he has piled up through better farming methods and It la essential that he ^ap the full reward for the use of these Improved methods." “Tories Take to Tariffs.” London, Nov. 21.—"Some people, when they are worried take alcohol, but the Tories always take to tar iffs.” declared former Premier David Lloyd George In & campaign speech here today. The Tories are making their cam paign fight for a protective tariff; the Liberals and Laborites are sup porting a free trade platform. U. S. Frees German Spy. Leavenworth, Kan , Nov. 21.— I ,o t h a r Wlzke, convicted German spy. was released from the federal penitentiary here today. He was met by Henry J. Wilde, German consul, Kansas City. From Kansas City he goes to St. Louis and then to New York for deportation. Johnson Forces Ready to “Move” J Nebraska Friends of Cali fornia Senator Prepare for Local Organization. The anSlvity of friends of President Coolldge In bringing him forward as a possible presidential nominee, is arousing the interest of Nebraska followers of Hiram Johnson, whose entrance into the presidential ring again has been announced. Johnson petitions are being broad cast in Nebraska from headquarters In Lincoln. The Johnson group in this state point with pride to the showing made by the California sena tor at the Nebraska presidential pri maries four years ago. They believe It is Johnson weathf r, or at least will be when the "ides’’ of next April are upon the Antelope state. E. L. Bradley, Omaha friend of Hiram Johnson, stated this morning that he expects to receive word soon to "move,” meaning to proceed with a local Johnson organization. He in timated that the Johnson forces are playing their cards “close" at pres ent. He likewise made it known that the state will be thoroughly organized for Johnson. In the meantime, Ross L. Shotwell and others are preparing for a state wide Coolidge conference to be held on the evening of December 3 in Gardner hall, for the launching of a iCooildge League of Nebraska. Parody on Banana Lyric Written by Nebraska Woman Song for Farmers With the National Farmers* un ion and the Nebraska Fanner* Co operative drain and IJve Stork State assoeiatinn meeting in Oma ha. Mrs. Cora Bancroft of Lexing ton, Neb., has written especially for these meetings a parody on the fa mous (or infamous) banana song, as follows: “Yes W»* live In Nebranka— Nebraska, the goldenrod state. We grow corn, alfalfa, eugarheet and wheat. And all kind* of thing* to eat. We raise Hereford*. Holstein and Short horn*. She<f» and Mwine of all kind*— Oh, ye* We live in Nebraska, Nebraska, the gnldenrou state. Mr*. Itanrrnft *ent the *ong to The Omaha Kvening Hee and it was delivered to J. W. Short hill, secre tary of tile eo-operative aasooiation. 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Hopkins,'chairman of the committee of 4S, who is promoting a national third party convention to !>e held in St. Paul or Minneapolis on May 30. "The action of oue organization means that we will be represented at Detroit on December 12, when Ford leaders from various states will meet to decide on a plan of action," Mr. Harrop stated. He added that 14 states were represented at his con ference, hut declined to give a list of the attendants. The situation is further involved on account of the fact that Mr. Har rop has been one Of the leaders of the progressive party of Nebraska as launched at Orand Island a few years ago. SI0,000 to Chauffeur. New Brunswick, N. J.. Nov. 21.— A Pray Ad is considered the spok en word of our stores. Its every phrase is guarded. E x a g gera tions and boastfulness play no part in Prayi advertising. H FOR MEN 1509 Farnam 1908 Farnam Justus Kirkpatrick today set aside the vs ill of the late Itr. Charles M. 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