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The Morning Bee M O R N I N G—E V ENIN G—S UNDAY THE BEE EtBURHI.NO CO„ Pnhljnhvr. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of Which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republlcation of ell news dispatches credited to it or ‘not otherwise credited in this paper, and also tha local news published herein. All rights of republieatlon of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Depnrtment it i.ntls For Ni*M Calle After 10 P. M.: Vtlftn Editorial Department. AT Untie 1021 or AT. 1042. OFFICES Main Office-—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—15 Scott St S. Side. N. W. Cor. 24th and N. New York-World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicggo—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. ah. xvi'ITS,,ldI; £ru,t RW*- Angeles—Higgins Bldg. Ban Franelsco—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg CORN-SHUCKING TIME. Right now two contestn aro raging in the rural regions. Let ’em rage. Reference is made to the exciting contest between corn growers as to the largeRt average per acre, and to the contest between cornshuckers who are denuding the glistening kernels of their crinkly covering. May the 'best fanner win in the former, and the best cornshueker win in the latter. They make up a pair of contests that arouse in us more interest than any contest between padded mitt artists in the squared circle, or even the shock of combat between moleskin clad athletes. We have not the slightest interest in the corn shucking records made in the olden days. Right now our entire interest is centered upon the modern gladiators who have donned the husking pegs and are busy making records for future cornshuckers to shoot at, or should we say shuck at. We recall the time when friends could stand with one foot upon the floor and the other foot upon the bras* rail and shuck more corn in one hour than any man alive could shuck in the field. But those days arc past. And We are not going to consider those expert corn shuckers of today whq gather around the radiators to perform their record-breaking feats. Much as we may be Interested in being witness to the Corn htiskers smiting fiercely and successfully the Syracuss ians, or is it Syracussers, we are far more interested in watching the daily reports of records broken by slamming the denuded ears of Nebraska corn against the throwboards of the receiving wagons. RIPPING UP THE FEDERAL LAWS. One of the little odd jobs President Coolidge proposes to look after in the very near future is ripping some 36,000 pages out of the statutes of the United States. At any rate he is going to ask con gress to drop a fight that has been going on for half a century, and make an appropriation for the codi fication of the laws. The last time the job was done was in 1874, and since then congress has enacted bills to the extent of more than 40,000 pages. This means that somebody mjiBt go through all this mass of laws and weed out the dead ones, the chaff that should be blown away, but still clings to the record because no attempt has been made to dis lodge any of the dust of wornout and superseded things. In 1897 a commission was appointed to do the work, and spent $300,000, only to have its re port rejected after long and heated debate in con gress. The whole difficulty seemed to be that no one in congress had time to check the report of the commission, and the suspicion was strong that the body had done a little legislating on its own ac count. Here is one of the troubles with our law-making methods. F.ach of 48 states has its own legislature, working full time, and on top of that is congress, with its contribution of thousands of measures every year. Nobody can keep track of all the laws that are made, and every now and then the smartest of lawyers trips up on a statute he had never heard of until it rose suddenly to overthrow him. Revision and codification of the federal statutes is undoubtedly needed, but it would be well if few more laws were passed anywhere in the country until we learn how to U3e the ones already on the books. DRIVERS SHOULD BE COMPETENT^ A series of shocking accidents in Omaha and Council Bluffs gives greater emphasis to the need of better control for traffic. It is not satisfactory to have reports of death coming to pedestrians, men, women or children, followed by statements from the coroner’* office that the accident was “unavoidable.” Many people are profoundly skeptical on the point, holding that accidents are avoidable and can be pre vented by the exercise of proper care. A careful and long experienced driver says that dangerous intersections and corners can easily be located, because of the broken glass that is always lying around. This is the remains of broken wind shields, denoting the coming together of cars be cause neither of the drivers was exercising the ordinary rules of safety. One of the commonest of sights in and around Omaha is a group gathered around • couple of cars that are bent and broken because of a collision in which one or both of the drivers had been negligent. The best and easiest applied remedy so far sug gested is that the driver of a enr be examined as to his fitness for that delicate and critical work before he be permitted to engage in It. This will not inter fere with the driving of any who is qualified to drive, put nobody to serious inconvenience, but it will elimi nate the unfit, of whom too many are now careering over the city streets, everyone of them a menace to all others who have to use the streets. Why should a wild, a. careless, or incompetent driver be allowed to jeopardise the lives and lipibs, property and safety of others? Another church cornerstone has been laid in Omaha, adding weight to the answer to the assertion that this is a wicked community. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie CHARITY. ' Sometimes we hear of truths that don’t Exactly sound O. K., And we Interpret them In some Extremely senseless way. How often comes the thought of one Queer stature to my mind, Concerning the free mall that nay He carried to the blind. Likewise I wonder ns one will In trances of delight. When comprehension seems to climb Where naught is pictured right. And where I feel—as Is my choice To strengthen my belief— That 'twould be line If we would five J'rec whispers to the deaf L. SOUTH DAKOTA FIRES FIRST. Coming events cast their shadows before, just as in the days of I.ochlel, and therefore the impending conventions in South Dakota are of prime impor tance. On Tuesday, Decefnber 4, less than two weeks ahead, what is called a presidential proposal convention will be held at Pierre, it really being a tripartite affair, at which republicans, democrats and farmer-laborites will name those who are to go on the primary ticklet that will be voted for in January. This is the first formal move in direction of the preconvention campaign, and, while it does not pre clude any candidate from going on the ticket in another stcte, it gives those who are out in the open a chance at a trial heat. South Dakota does not pretend to make or unmake candidates, but it does give them the first chance to come forward and make their desires known. Four* years ago the proceedings up there were of deepest jnterest., and attended by certain moves that drew great attention at the time. It is not at all likely that the contest up there Will be marked by the excitement that went along with the contest of 1919. In advance of the date adherents of Hiram Johnson and Calvin Coolidge expect considerable of a contest. What this will develop into remains to be seen. McAdoo will probably go over there with little opposition, and whoever may be decided upon to head the farmer-labor ticket will also get a com plimentary vote. As the opening gun of what will develop into n general engagement all along the front, the South Dakota •convention is worth noting. Beyond that, however, it will not decide much, although it will give the winners each a good talking point. CUT IN TAX RATE POPULAR. Senator Smoot declares his readiness to support the Mellon plan for a general reduction in taxes, and as chairman of the senate’s committee on finance the senator from Utah will have great influence in putting through the new revenue law. Perhaps the schedules as outlined by the secretary of the treas ury, in his letter to Congressman Green of Iowa, who is to be chairman of the house ways and means committee, where the revenue law must originate, will not be fully adopted, but on one point there Is general agreement. Secretary Mellon recommends a cut of at least 25 per cent in the tax on earned incomes. This will find an echo in the heart of every man whose income is the result of his personal effort. The secretary, as do all other tax ^prts, draws a clear distinc tion between ineomes^Rsulting from personal effort or paid for personal services and those that flow from business or investments. The earned income is subject to controlling conditions that are not to be considered in connection with the unearned variety. Concessions to professional men, wage workers and salaried employes, proposed by the secre tary will surely be made. Senator Smoot favors going a little further in reductions that might be made than Secretary Mel lon provided for. This will be a matter of detail, to be handled by the committees. Tax reduction, too, will be bound up in a large measure with the adjusted compensation to soldiers bill, which will be revived. Debate on these measures is certain to be heard before the season has gone far. If a federal bonus is to be allowed the veterans, means for paying it must be provided. This phase of the issue can not be dodged. What the method is to be congress must decide. That was the proposal made by President Harding, and it was never answer ed. The body soon to assemble may have a solution tq the riddle. There has arisen a controversy over the amount of duty to be levied on imported mah jong boards or boxes. Let it he hoped that the decision is about 7,000 per cent specific and twice that ahnount ad valorem. A certain song about the lack of fruit supply is to be translated into Chinese and used as a march ing song for Chinese Boldiers. That is where it should have been used, and exclusively, in the first instance. Hank Ford is not having a luxurious private car built by the Pullman people. He will take his chances along with common folk3, who find the Pullman luxurious enough when they come to pay the fare. The Sick Man of Europe seems to have been greatly benefited by letting of blood, but the nations furnishing it are not, It would seem, in quite so good condition as before. The Minnesota enforcement officer who finds a deluge of hootch coming over t)%e northern border must have been wakened by the dampness of the flood that has been flowing since 1920. The “port of missing dogs” seems to have been discovered by the police. Only the dogs were not missing. The man who had them knew where they were all the time. Mr. Kavan's assurance that $3 will be limit of admission charge to future boxing bouts is not enough. Will purchasers get even the worth of that much money? Not many men live to tell of it after the Over land Limited train runs its full length over them, but George McCreary of Fremont has just had that experience. If Canadian farmers arc having any toughej time than those of the good old U. S. A., it will take more than three cheers to revive them. Suppose that by some mischance Syracuse should win from Nebraska, how will that leave the count between Notre Dame and Colgate? Monday morning’s smoke screen wasn’t * marker to the one that will develop next year about the time tho filings for office are all in. A man who took a drove of sheep across from Indiana to Texas in 1862 deserves an audience when ever he wants to speak. “Borah scores tax burdens,’’ shrieks a headline artist. A lot of us have gone to even greater lengths than that. Nebraska farmers are reported to be turning to oil for fuel. That is better than burning corn. The proposed trip around the world for army airmen will not be a picnic for anybody. Poincare's Sunday discourses are losing their fino flavor. „ _ Once for all! And everybody in It. “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspaper§— The Green Groerr, From the Nebraska City Press. The green grocer Is so-called be cause. In the old days, he sold noth ing but spinach and green tomatoes. Nowadays a green grocer sells any thing, except oranges to a republican Irishman. Mnny people, think a gro cer is called green because It ill too easy to obtain credit at gome grocery stores, but such is not the case. Be sides. it is no credit to a dead liest to obtain credit to which lie Is not en titled. If it were not for the green grocer, who temptingly displays his wares on a bench IS Inches higher than the tallest dog in the neighbor hood, we should still be following the example of old King Nebuchadnezzar who ate grass In the Helds with the horses and rows. Safeguarding the Human Body. From the Minneapolis Tribune, It is scarcely too much to say that the greatest secular movement in the United States today is that which has to do with organized and unorganized efforts to widen the span of human life. Only when one attempts to sum up the several phases of this move ment does he gain a fair conception of its scope. The most important single phase is the saving of ch id life, or the reduc tion of infant mortality. To this end governments, civic organizations and individuals are co-operating increas ingly. This is the most Important because what the child is, the adult is most likely to be, whether refer ence be had to moral character or physical being. ’The great life insurance companies are making It one of their major tasks to inculcate habits that make for sound bod.es and sound minds. Their Interest may have its selfish side, but it is more altruistic than selfish. The medical profession is ..ng its talents and counsel more and more tow.au am prevention of disease, and hence less to the cure of disease. The Rockefeller foundation is spend ing millions of dollars of a private fortune yearly to reduce the physical scourges that ravish the human body. Athletic clubs are Increasing in num ber, and they are giving themselves as never before to the work of keep ing the human organism fit and lengthening the days of its produc tive usefulness. Bus.ness men are eating with deepened regard for what diet means to the operation and en durance of the dynamo they call the body. They are devoting themselves to “the daily 12“ nr to the outdoor air and exercise which the golf grounds afford. In short, there is no period of life from that of birth and babyhood to advanced age, that is not getting sci entific attention with the purpose of keeping breath and vigor in the aver age body for a longer term than here tofore The effort is counting, too. The life span is broader than it used to he, and it will be still further broadened as the years go on. There has Just appeared on this page a story about the Milbank me morial fund of $2,000,000 which Is to he spent “In three typical communi ties In New York state to determine whether by intensive health measures the extent of Illness In the United States can lie materially diminished and the mortality rate further reduced and whether these results can he ob tained at a cost within reach of the average community.” The experiment will he of interest to every community in the country. There ought not to be any doubt that it wilk justify itself in results. What has been accomplished is the true fore runner of greater things yet to bo accomplished. To what better pur pose can public or private funds be used? It Is a purpose that lends it -elf to passing hspplneis around atm to fostering sound economies. Hoboes Going West, from the York News-TImn. The authorities at Columbus report the city Jail tilled nightly by bums westward bound. These men are not hands who have been picking corn, hut men who have left cities In the central and eastern states for lack of employment. They are going west and probably south. In the south they may get some work to do and they will eccnpe the rigorous winter that may break at any time In this section of the country. Some of these “tourists'' are of the criminal class, but most of them are workingmen of peaceable Intentions and only go to the Jails tn order to get a warm place to sleep and some times for something to eat. In many western towns and cities the councils set apart a fund to be used each winter In feeding the tramps that keep streaming through. Livingston, Mont., one winter spent nearly $1,000 for meals for men of this class However, It was humane to treat them that way and they moved on better when they had some thing to eat. A man is much better natured when he is not hungry. Some times ho 1* cross when the pangs of hunger torment hlnv. He Who Forget* Not. From tho Dei roll Free I*re»». The speech he delivered over the radio Indicate* thnt Woodrow Wilson ha* forgotten nothing nnd ha* learned noth.ng since hi* retirement from pub lic life. The world haa moved on and score* of event* have demonstrated the ghastly Impracticability of Mr. Wilson’s semi-theocratic scheme for administration of the affair* of man 'nd through a superstate. Hut the significance of what has occurred is to have glanced hack from the impregnable armor of hi" egolvti with ■* leaving tho trace of an itnpre* ■Ion. Mr. Wilson, as much as ever, is tho victim of an amazing incapacity to understand his own fundamental responsibility for the degeneration and confusion 1 llKuroP£ because lie i'c Daily Prayer T.et my mouth bo filled with Thy — I’ll. 71 *. We thank Thee. () Lord, that Thou hast been our dwelling place In all generationt. Before the mountain* were brought forth, or even Thou I luidat formed the earth nnd the world, oven from everltudlng to everlasting Thou art Ood. We thank Thee that the Word 1>« name tleeh and dwelt among u*. full of grace nnd truth. We are grateful to Thee that lie took upon Himself the form of a man like other men, nnd thnt He became obedient unto death—even death upon the rrosa— that we might have life, nnd have It more abundantly. Cl rant, O Lord, that we, (be chil dren of men, through the power of Thy Holy Spirit, may become like the Bon of Man In mind nnd heart und will. May we be brother* to the race. Knable tie to toll patiently up the elope* of service. Tench u* to be willing to forgive as He forgave. Wo pray for all the natlim* of the earth whom Thou hast made of one blood. Speed the coming of Thy Kingdom upon the car^th, that nation m»v no longer make war igainat nation, llaetcn the coming of the day when the knowledge of Ood Mhrtll rover the enrth a* tile water* now cover the *ea, nnd bring u* all at IuhI up to that city who*e Maker and Ituildor la Ood. Amen. HOYT M Donna DD Tort Worth, Te«. 1 fuseil to listen to reason or wise coun sol, resented the intrusion of dlsruii I live fact regarding practical condl linns and the uncelestlul texture of human nature; and, in the face of pleas from h a most faithful adher ents, insisted upon following out his own preconceived fixed ideas to the bitter end. lie declines to recognize the existence of what is, where :t happens to clash with what he thinks ought to lie. r er all these year*, too, the angei of Woodrow Wilson remains because i he United States backed the senate in its crossing of his Imperious will, declined to bend to bis dictation nnd adopt his mlst->v*-t, and impossible deles but turned to wise statesmen ship and self p. eat. rvHUVe American ism. And he hurls in the face of the nation a gross, slanderous Insult which Is without reason or shadow of excuse, nnd In contradiction of all the facts nnd records, affirming that the country which twice signally honored him with the highest place within its gift, is ignoble, cowardly nnd dishon orable It is scarcely worth while to resent Mr. Wilson's Words. They are the unbridled utterances of a deeply dis appointed man who has suffered n reverse of fortune as strlk.ng In its way as the reverse suffered by Na poleon Bonaparte, and who Is ill-fitted by nature to face Such a hardship gracefully. They ate more pitiable than anything else. But at the same time n speecli which Is about 50 per cent threshing over of old straw and about 50 per cent tirade, will certainly not incroase the Influence and stand ng of its maker with the people of America. The Press and the University. From th® Brooklyn Eagle. It Is easy to understand the ener getic indignation of Charles H. Den nis. editor of the Chicago XXally News, when he says to a gathering of re gents of state universities: “We are menaced by pseudo-gov ernment swathed in bed sheet*, that knows no law; hy mass misundr standing* of the essential character istics of a freeman. This, gentlemen, is our America, Such conditions mean that the press must look to the unlver sities for young men with enlightened idealism, with devotion to right, to liberalism, and to democracy. . . . for the force and fervor that charac terize those conscious of a mission worth while." Ih other words, the newspaper wants from the university nven of conscience and character as well as cultivation. Can the typical univer sity furnish enough such men? The bar wants and needs them. The edu cational Held wants and needs them The ministry wants and needs them. The press is only one bidder for such raw material. The term “raw material" is not used at random. The young man of force and fervor and devotion to the right aa he sees it wall he raw enough on entering newspaper work. He will find that for several years in the tasks incident to news collecting and news purveying his opinions will count for little. His character will count for muolj, nevertheless, in ever lasting devotion to truth and acour racy, everlasting maintenance of sen sitiveness to the joy and the sadness of life; everlasting conscientiousness in industry. And by the time his opinions begin to “cut some ice." ns the saying goes, he will have changed or modified a lot of them- That is inevitable. Which reflection offers a very good reason for not worrying over the growth of socialistic theories, of Tol stoyan anarchy, of religious skepti cism in the university young men who are to take part tn making our newspapers. Youth is youth and. like beauty, is Its own excuse for being. If its idealism were cramped by adult restraints, education would be indeed a failure. The Presidential Primaries. From the Washington gar. By a coincidence the states in which delegates to the national convention are chosen by preferential presidential primaries will send to the republioan national convention Just one half of the entire delegate body, towlt, eld. The total membership of the repub lican convention in 1924 will lie B03S, and it will require fillI to nominate candidates for president and vice pres Ident. This condition of affairs constitutes an asset to candidates for the presi dency who are appealing to the popu lar vote, or are In revolt against "the organization” and the "machine." They can go direct to the people. At Jhe saw time It la an element of strength to "favorite son" candidates, supposed to have prestige and follow ing in their Individual states greater, possibly, than an outsider coming in. In the approaching presidential campaign Kenator Hiram Johnson. In his ranidacy for the presidential nomination by the republican party, is credited with the Intention of mak ing a special drive in the states that hold presidential preferential primar ies He has long advocated country wide preferential primaries. In the coming light, it is said, he hopes to gather a substantial bloc (,f delegate* from the primary state* ns a nucleus for his contest In the convention, where he will appeal to unlnatructed delegates for support. Senator Johnson may come into a head-on collision, however, with the favorite son movement in Illinois, where former Governor Bowden Is ex pected to announce his candidacy. Illinois choose* delegates under the preferential primary plan, and the outcome of the contest tietween these two will add Interest to the great bat tle now Impending * \ Man as a Machine. From Copper'* Weekly. I)r. ('rile, famous physician amt surgeon, ungues man Is n machine, and has written a hook to prove It. Did the doctor ever know of a ma rlline which constructed Itself? or of « machine which went about doc toring or repairing other machines, which, according to Dr. Crile's theory, la what i physician does? To be ^■urc machines do repair other ma chines. hut such machines simply .ire tools and a skilled nr master work man must direct them. Such a Work man must reason, and reasoning Is something more than automatic. That Is Iho roek on which the materialist's argument goes to pieces. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for October, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily . Sunday . I Doe* not inf'ii.!•* return*. I*f%- ] 1 over*. *nnii'l<** nr paper* spoiled »r printing end Include* nr *pefiai • sale* B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. I V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. j SuliiniM And •worn to before me thi» ftth Hey of November, 112.1. W II. QUIVfcY. tSeal) Notary Public “THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” Ctltarlal Ireai >min at TM Karma* Baa, Kaatart at taa Maraia* Baa art latitat ta eta tali aolaaia traair tar aatraaalaa on miftar* at mMI# latartat. Kat Nebraska Potatoes. Omaha—To the Kdltor of The Oma ha Bee: Do you realize that 85 per cent and probably 30 per cent of the potatoes you are consuming each day In the great city of Omaha are pota toes that have been raised on soil foreign to that of your own state? Do you realize that the money you are paying out for potatoes Is paying off the mortgages and building con venient. and modern homes for the farmers of Minnesota, Idaho and Utah, while the farmers of your own state, are scarcely ahle to meet their interest payments, let alone paying anything on principal: scarcely able to meet their store bills and many are really unable to properly clothe and educate the families they are trying to raise? A survey of conditions of the potato market in (jnuhi Is appalling and one that needs Immediate thought by the unbiased minds of the consuming public, undirected and uncosched by the commission men of the city who, It seems, are milking longer profit on the foreign tubers, than they can make on the home product and are therefore biased in favor of the for eign potato. Are you aware that the west half *if the atnte, that part of the state that depends laigely upon potatoes as the big money crop, is practically boycotted in the city of Omaha" In Chicago, Nebraska potatoes sell right on a par with Minnesota pota toes and the people there pronounce the Nebraska potato as good or better than those from Minnesota. But, the freight rate is so high to Chicago, thut the producers of the west end \ of the state cannot pay it and have! anything left. If the Nebraska potato is just as good In Chicago a» the Minnesota potato, why, in the name of fairness, should it not lie just as good in Omahu where the freight rate, although plenty high enough, is within the possibilities and within the reach of the producer? Do you good people of Omaha know that the potato raiser of western Ne braska cannot sell a carload of pota toes here in Omaha without coming here personally and fairly getting on their knees to the dealer to get them to buy? And then, while they sell on a par in Chicago, the potato raiser of your own state has to undersell the Minnesota potatoes from 30 cents to 40 cents per hundred to get our homo product In? The writer saw a letter recently from one of the commission firms of this city to a large potato consumer, wanting to put In a erfrload for him and, what potato do you suppose he wanted to put In? Minnesota potato, of course He offered, at the close of the letter, to put In Nebraska pota toes at a certain price but in a veiled way, deprecated the Nebraska potato and practically ssld that If this man wanted the Nebraska potato, that he would hfive to take them at his own risk. As much as to say, that the Nebraska product was not good and would not keep. Two years ago, one of our western Nebraska raisers challenged the com mission men of Omaha on their state ments that they were broadcasting to the effect that the Nebraska potato would not keep. This was the only bugaboo that they could put out, and not get Immediately caught, for, should they claim they were not as good cookers, etc., they could be i caught Immediately by a competitive] cooking of the potatoes from the va rious section* and leave It up to the public to ^udpe. Therefore, they used ' the bugaboo that Nebraska potatoes] would not keep. Thl* western farmer «nd potato raiser, challenged them in th»ir state ments and offered to put anywhere from 50 to 100 sack* of potatoes from western Nebraska in the Rome Miller cellar In Omaha, against anywhere from 50 In 100 narks that they would put In of their foreign grown pota toes from any section from which they wished to bring thenv, leaving the potatoes, in the said Rome Miller cellar until the first day of the follow ing May and then have them examined hv a committee from the Chamber of Commerce on the basis of winner take all. Towit: Whosoever's potatoes kept best, should collect from Mr. Miller, who offered to back' the test by buying the potatoes at their mar ket value on the following May 1, for all potatoes. Now then; had they have thought for one moment that they were right in their story,*do you not suppose that this western potato raiser would have had plenty of takers'.’ Did he have any takers of his "halleng*7 None—not a one of them did respond J However. Mr. MIlKr, at his own ex pense, went on with the contest as outlined by the western potato grower, and he put In some 10 sacks of th< western Nebraska potatoes, furnished by this western potato grower and la sacks of Minnesota, 10 sacks of Idaho, 10 sacks of Utah, and some other kind or two that were being lauded by the Omaha commission men. Mr. Miller happened to lie away on May 1 and it run along until May 22 that be returned and got a commit tee together to examine the potatoes. Out of the seven different samples, some were entirely gone, and unfit for use; some were partly bad snd only two kinds were In good stale of preservation and one of these were Dawes county, Nebraska, potatoes that the commission men told the people would not keep. The sworn statement of the com mittee examining the potatoes was published in the Omaha papers. That was May 22. 1922. In the fall of 1S22 a little echo about the matter was apparent and perhaps 20 jpr cent or 25 per cent of the potatoes used In Omaha were Nebraska potatoes. How ever, the western Nebraska raiser has his nose to the grindstone finan cially and is not able to con* down here to Ornrfha and put up a fight1 every week out of every month to keep Nebraska potatoes tiefore th<* public and. as a result, and as a show of how much Omaha thinks of its own state farmers, today and for all the fall just past, from k5 per cent to 90 per cent of the potatoes consumer! and being consumed in Omaha are potatoes ralsrd in Minnesota, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, etc., to whi *i sec tions. the money is sent and from which sections, Omaha never gets back a dollar DAWES COUNTY FARMER. LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press "What Is a congressman?" queries Edgar Howard himself one, through the columns of the Columbus Tele gram. We'll lie In better shape to an swer. Edgar, when we get an answer to this one; "Why Is a congress man?" s * • John Kearnes of the Beatrice Ex press advises Oscar Underwood so to organise the republicans of Alabama that the state will be doubtful, or move to Ohio. • • • John Sweet of the Nebraska City Press admits that he always gets a hearty laugh when he sees a solemn faced politician drawing conclusions from an election. • • • The Kearney Hub admits that there la a feeling that Senator Norris' last word is not final. Possibly Editor Brown feels that the senator is giving Abe Martin Charley Schwab is generally pur ty level headed, but when it comes t’ discus-sin’ happiness, we’d prefer t’ listen t’ Somebuddy that don’t live quite so close t’ Easy street. Th’ only time th’ ole self-respectin’ night gown ever gits in th’ news papers is when there's a hotel fire, but no questionable escapade is complete without pajamas. (Copyright. 1E-3 > u* a sort of Adelaide Patti-Sarah Bernhardt series of farewell tours. all J,ew- Shelley of the Fairbury News regrets that the Coolldge dog doesn't get into the public prints as often as Laddie Boy, but expresses the belief that it Isn't Cal's fault. Fred Howard always wants to have the news of his Clay Center Hun thoi outrhly reliable. Hearing that a Clay Center woman made her guests da£/c In their rubbers to pr tect her fres. waxed floor, Fred made a personal in vestigation. He discovered that the rumr r was unfounded. She made her guests dance liarefooted. m m m Asa Wood of the Oering Courie, admits that he takes in all the football games and roots for the home team as lie comes his age and dignity. And to think that there are so many of us who labored under the delusion that Asa had neither. • • • The York Republican complains that whenever a group of Nebraska newspaper men meet there will be found special representatives of the special interests of the state. The Re pubiican thereupon Issues a Solemn Warning. • « • Referring to ex-Senator Kelloggs appointment as ambassador to Great Britain, the Wayne Democrat admit? that after looking ov<*r the house and senate fhe people will admit that thev are very often fool'd. • • • Noting that Cass Bams# has bought the Madison Star Mail and retains Pell Barrows to write republican dope while Cass writes democratic dope, the Norfolk Press, published near by, ex presses the expert judgment that Cass and Pell ought to be able to catch ’em coming and going. A Haady Place to Eat Hotel Conant Uth and Harney—Oratha i The Center of Convenience ————— Nebraska Power Company Each share pays over ^ on your money Buy your shares from any employe of the Company— they’re the sales' men. Clip & mail coupon for coni' plete information \ FREE BOOKLET COl PON ~ I NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY | Omaha. 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