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The Morning Bee M O R N 1 N G—E V E N I N Q—S UNDAY THE HEE PVBI I HIM! CO.. Publisher. MEMBER OF THt ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, fa exelus'rely 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 republlcation of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department sT lunti. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.i d fa Art Editorial Department. AT lantie 1021 or AT. 1042. OFFICES „ ii in . Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—IS Scott St. S. Side. N. W. Cor. 24th and Nf. New York-World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg Chicago—Tnbune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St Louis—Syndn Trust Pldg. ais Angeles—Higg,ns Bldg. San h ranclaco—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta— Atlanta Trust Bldg JUSTICE A PUBLIC RIGHT. Minder is not an uncommon accompaniment of bootlegging. Men who engage in illicit traffic in liquor are outlaws, and seldom hesitate at adding one crime to another. They recognize no law but their own interest, and execute their own decrees in their own way. Therefore the brutal and shocking crime com mitted in Omaha in pursuance of a quarrel between i ival gangs, or factions of the same gang, is not especially an astonishing affair. Many such murders have taken place in all parts of the country, until they almost may be recorded as commonplace events. If only the bootleggers were concerned, public at tention would scarcely be warranted. But something deeper is involved. i he very fact that a bootlegger is engaged in the traffic implies a disrespect for the law that forbids the traffic he fosters. Federal, state, county and city officials are continually in pursuit of him, and he goes about his illegal and nefarious occupation with full knowledge that detection sooner or later will over take him. Men who take up the business very soon become calloused to a degree that is beyond the com prehension of law-abiding citizens. Even the law of the wolf pack does not prevail among them, and none trusts another. If a common impulse leads them to act together for a time, each understands that any of the others may turn on the rest at such moment as he thinks he will gain anything by his treachery. Moreover the bootlegger knows that when he is sentenced by his compeers, his death is decreed. Such desperate men halt at nothing, least of all the killirg of one they regard as a traitor. These facts com plicate the business of the officers, but they also lay on the protectors of the law a heavier burden of responsibility. Even the murder of a bootlegger is a matter for the law to deal with, because of the obvious reason that no form of crime can be looked upon compla cently. Unless these men are curbed, there will be no end to the mischief they ane capable of doing. Public welfare demands that the officers keep at the job they have so well commenced, and bring home the responsibility for the death of Hank McArdle to the men who so cruelly slew him. Only when the majesty of the law is completely vindicated by the conviction and the punishment of the murderers will the case be closed and Omaha be able to stand upright and without shame again. So far the case seems to be well handled, but it must not be bungled or neglected in any of the steps that are to be taken yet. Bootleggers must be brought to know that murder is murder in Nebraska. WIZARDRY OF THE WIRELESS. Accounts have come from Europe of how air planes are stopppd in flight, automobiles halted in their journeys, and other similar feats performed by wireless. These stories are disputed by experts, but the editor of La Liberte, a Paris newspaper, says he actually witnessed a test that stopped designated taxis and motor cars at the will of the operator, and the mystification of the drivers, and then released to proceed. It is easy enough to say no to this. Doubters al ways have the best of the argument, when anything new is presented. Morse, Bell, Edison, Marconi, and others who have astonished first and then served the world by their discoveries and inventions, have met similar objections. Langley died of a broken heart, because a thoughtless world ridiculed him, and yet all over the world today men soar aloft on machines that employ exactly the means by which Langley proposed to prove, and did prove, the possibility of mechanical flight. Credulity is not be wondered at when men pro duce the marvels that soon become commonplaces. Few who use the radio ever think deeply as to what it contains, and seldom does anyone look up when the roar of a flying machine assails the ears. We know that those things do work, and we are not ready to say tne things proposed can not be done. Who will set a limit to the achievement of man in the production of wonders? The search for the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life gave birth to the science of chemistry, and unlocked the door to many of nature’s secrets. Why will not the electri cian be as successful us was the chemist, and con tinue to do things that were impossible only until lie harnessed the mysterious force he deals with to the right point? WHO WANTS TO BE AN ESQUIMO? Wliat is behind this sudden outburst of activity in connection with the Arctic regions? If it is a real estate speculation, we incline to the thought that it is not well timed, for July and August would seem a better time to sell building lot* in and around the north pole than late November. Folks will soon have all the zero weather needed for ordinary purposes, without going even as far as Medicine Hat, while the December nights are long enough for the man who has to foot the lighting bills. As far as food is concerned, most folks in this neighborhood are quite content to chew on cornfed beef or breakfast bacon, garnished with home grown potatoes and the like, or even turkey and cranberry sauce. Whale blubber, train nil, and similar del icacies have not, been popularized in these parts, even by the most persuasive of propaganda. All well enough to tell us about the delights of cruwling two or three miles over the ire, through puddles of water and the like, to get a shot at a sleeping seal, in order that fresh meat may he had for dinner, hut so long as the market is connected with the home by telephone, hunting for game may he left, to those who love it or are compelled to do it or go hungry. Some time, when the United States is as densely populated as India, say, the tide of emigration may turn northward and overflow into the regions where they have 10 month* of winter and two months late in the fall. And until the Ameriean ceases to be and the Esquimo becomes the physieal and intellectual standard of the race, we believe that Nebraska’s climate will hold its own against uny that is offered north of Point Burrow. * AN OLD TIMER REAPPEARS. A once familiar friend, in retirement for several years, has again appeared upon the scene of action, and unless all the signs and portents are wrong he is going to be with us numerously and persistently for some time to come. Everybody will recognize him when his name is mentioned—old John Q. Per Capita. A bit more than 30 years ago he was known to every man, wo man and child in the United States. He showed up at every schoolhouse, on every street corner, at every public meeting, wherever two or more men were gathered together. He was discussed and cussed far and away more than any other individual or scene or thing. Then he subsided somewhat and for a number of years sought retirement. To a many of the younger generation he is unknown. But the indications are that before the next national cam paign is fairly sturted old John Q. Per Capita will he flitting hither and thither with his seven-league boots working overtime. The trouble with old Per Capita is that he is so blooming elusive. Always necessary, he is seldom in one place long enough to be of any real service to a majority of us. He is altogether too prone to linger in vicinities where he is not greatly needed, thereby working a hardship on individuals and communities that must suffer by his absence. Time and again have we longed for close communion with him, only to learn that he was far away and wholly disinclined to come to our rescue. Now that a na tional campaign approaches there is good ground for believing that he will be less aristocratic in his choice of companions. He is going to be more in the spotlight during the next few months than he has been for some five or six years. His aid and as sistance is going to be requisitioned by a lot of office seekers who are hopeful that if they appeal long and loud enough to old John Q. Per Capita they will have easier sailing into the port of officialdom. It is really a joy to welcome the old fellow back into public life. But we will sorely miss some of the old-timers who leaned so heavily upon his broad shoulders in the days gone by. By no means the least among those who will be missed is Cyclone Davis, and governor—what is the name of Okla homa’s first governor? Isn’t it strange how soon names slip from the memory. But, you know, we have been hearing so much about a very recent gov ernor of Oklahoma that we are to be pardoned for forgetting some who preceded him Those who have been fearful lest the approach ing campaign be without high lights and welcome diversions, should perk up a bit. Old John Q. Per Capita always enlivens things when he steps down to the political footlights. FOOTBALL ALSO HELPS THE NATION. Look over the columns of the sporting page of any paper published in America on Sunday morning, and then ask yourself if college football is a popular game. Big college games were played before throngs that aggregated half a million or more spectators, and to these should be added the dozens of lesser games that drew from 1,000 to a score of thousand attendants. Then take into consideration the other thousands who could not get to the spot, but who watched newspaper bulletin boards or extra editions, eagerly following the fortunes of favorite teams, and you may get some notion of the devotion of Americans to this great sport of the fall season. Why is this so? Partly because of the innate love of the people for good sport, cleanly played. Americans are venturesome, and therefore keenly interested in contests of any kinds. They have learned that no form of sport so completely embodies the true spirit of competition as a clash between col lege teams. Boys who wear the colors of the in stitution at which they are registered among the stu dent body are playing, not for individual prestige, but for the honor and glory of the school, for its traditions of the past and its hope for the future. Each does his utmost, and falters not, even in defeat. Football is the major sport of our schools. Almost by common consent, it is left to the schools to foster the teams whose prowess is the pride of those who support the school in particular, and nowhere does friendly partisanship run higher than in this regard. It is a splendid tribute to the spirit of our nation that this is so. If Wellington was right, when he said Waterloo was won on the cricket fields of Rugby and Eton, is it not true that the greatness of our nation is made secure by the clashes between Ne braska and Syracuse, or Vale and Harvard, or the Army and Navy, or any of the other contests, in which young men learn discipline, fortitude, and fair play? Anything that disciplines the mind and body, co-ordinating thought and action, and welding a group into such perfect harmony that eleven may act as one, is good, for it develops the ehivalric as well as the practical natures of the youth, and its example is not lost on the school nor on the public. Football is a greater agency for good morals than has been generally admitted. The Washington Star gives us one guess ns to the democratic presidential candidate Mr. Bryan would favor. Now who in the world has the Wash ington Star in mind. A confirmed bachelor is mean enough to remark that the rcagon more husbands are staying at home of nights is because more wives are going out to the bridge parties. South Dakota insists that all presidential candi dates shall file a declaration of intentions on or be fore December 4. That means Mr. Ford must soon get out and crank. What the farmer would enjoy coming from the railroads would be a little less advice and some sub stantial concessions on rates. Some day the road claims will have to he paid, despite any buck passing that is now going on. Homespun Verse ! —II; Oniahi'i Own Pori— Haltert Worthington Davie PRAYERS. Nullre. I.ord. give me wealth that I may get A limousine arid drive about, Ami a'er no obligation* fret. And no ilealrpn go without. I,ord, give me privilege to be A wile old dark In all my drain, Willi knowledge that mj eyen tniy nee The way an lionent fellow itealn, blneeiity. I.old. ghe me faith thnt I may he True lo niy own pro|iennlty: Thnt I may itrlve fa goaln nubllme Through I he vlelnnlt udea of Time, And be nlneere, and eurnmon, loo I’laetng iny triinl. <>, laird, In you. laud, he my guide, and lent I wtray. lauol me along the rlghteoun way I “The People’s Voice” Editorial* from reader* of The Morn ing Bee. Render* of The Morning R*>p are !n\ited to use this column freely for expreaaion on matters of public interest. Excess Earnings of Railroads. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Whether an adequate system of railway transportation throughout the United States shall be maintained and to that end whether the transportation act of 1920 is a valid exercise of congressional power is the question, and whether a partic ular clause of that act is constitu tional when torn from Its setting, is decidedly not the question, as pre sented by the counsel for 19 railroads In the case before the supreme court of the United States: i. e., Dayton Ooose Greek Hallway company against the United States, deserves some con sideration from the people and par ticularly the shippers of the middle west. The appearance of 19 railroads, trunk lines, representing approxi mately 89,000 nriles of railroads, or one-fourth of the total, no longer makes the case one between the Day ton-Goose Creek railway and the gov ernment; it is now a case in which practically the entire Hystem of rail way transportation has representation. The railroads argue that the "recap ture clause” violates the 5th and 10th amendments: that It does not assess or levy a tax and that the rec ord does not show a valuation upon which the quantum of the so-called excess earnings may he recaptured. Thus, these 19 railroads, trunk lines and their counsel embrace readily those paragraphs of the transporta tion act which are accepted as fa vorable to them. Their argument Is that any law which provided that money which the public must pay to maintain an adequate transportation system.' is a valid regulation of inter state commerce: but that any limit fixed upon beyond which congress will not go is unconstitutional, even though the returns amount to 100 per cent. The government says the carriers use the words "income appropriations” in the face of explanatory statements of members of the congressional com mittee on interstate commerce and of the opinlion of the United -States dis trict court, that the excess is never collected by the carriers as its abso lute property, but under the statute it is a mere trustee of the excess earn ings over fair return which the Inter state commerce commission has said for this year is 6}* per cent. Congress never enacted a law In Its history In which the sections were so closely interlocked and dependent each upon the other ss in the trans portation act, and that if the "recap ture of excess earning” provisions are torn from the body of the act the whole foundation of the entire legis lative scheme fails. This Is the way the railroad man agers and lawyers are crying: "Hands off—with a wink." The principle upon which the recap ture clause was founded was not un known to our law. It is common knowledge that public utilities com panies in some of the large cities, such as street car, traction, gas and electric light turn over to the mu nicipalities all earnings in excess of certain amount. Municipal ordinances so provding have frequently been ac cepted by public utilities. J. C. CROSS. In Reply to Mr. Otis. Omaha.—To the hMltor of The Omaha Bee: In The Omaha Bee there was an article In the "People's Voice" column which considerably aroused me, not to agreement with Mr. Otis, but to show him some points he over looked. He says that he accepts the Bible absolutely as it is written. Now a person must not take the Old Testa ment as It stands, but to take it as significant of general happenings. It Is absurd to believe that the earth and man were made in as short a time as the Bible say*. That would defy the laws of nature, which are the laws of God Almighty. Certainly no one would believe that God would violate his own laws. The earth was evolved from the sun as is shown by fad the course which the earth takes Is significant of Its once being part of the sun; (b) by the fact that the earth contains many of the elements which the sun contains, as is shown hy the spectroscope. Now, concerning Darwinism Mr. Otis mentions the fact that Darwin said man came from a monkey. This Is not true. Darwin said that man and monkey have come from the same source, For that matter, all verte brates evolved from the same source. I myself believe that the Bible Is the most thorough and splendid hook ever given to man to read. Now, I bear no prejudice against Mr Otis because of his views. I have merely tried to show him In what respects he Is wrong 1 am not beyond conviction, but a person must give belter argu ments than those of Mr. Otis. CRESTON B. MUGGINS. (■ovfrnor Bryan'* Mistake. Omaha.—To tho Kdltor of (he Omaha Hoe: Oovernor ltrynn, ail dressing the farmer* In session last Tueaday. issued a national platform for the democratic national conven tion to consider. The first plank reads. "Reverse the present policy of currency deflation until the volume of currency again reaches at least JM) pf'r capita, *c» a* tn kIv* th* Harlcui tural Interests a living price for what they produce." Some one ought to tip It off to the governor that the Issuance of curren cy, the power to expand and contiaet Is a government delegated prernga five to the national hank*. The wise farmers smiled, hut the governor did not catch on ns to what made thrni grin and wink at one another. It was his money plank—II would make Wall street snicker out loud T. S. KBNlcON. 'Hie Tate of An Isle. Santa Ke. Isle of IMnes. Culm. To th« Kdltor of The Omaha Her Fate plays strange pranks with man, Jew pis Hud property; hut thus far, it seems the Isle of IMnes. whose fate has horn hanging in the balance for ’JO years, pairs them nil. At the close of the Spanish American war. by the treaty of Paris. Spain reded to the United States n 11 of Its 'aland nos sessions In the West Indies, except the Island of Cuba Then. In order to tarry out 'he In tent of the treat', to expressly sep nrate the Tslo of Pines from Cuba, the Platt amendment was written ami ac cepted hv the Cuban constitutional convention, sod was passed l»y an net of congress In 1901. That the Isle of Pines shall he omitted from the proposed constitutional boundaries «*f Cub*, the fit's thereto Join-' 1-ff f future adjustment, hv treaty ’* No such treaty adjustment has e'er been made A* the - lose of tho American mid tary government of Cuba in 190’. when the republic wjim created Hie •. > r* tar' of war Instructed that "the military governor eonflnue the pres [ ent goiernment of the Isle of Pines) ns a de facto government.” This pci Ion left the island under Anieilcan administration and control; there being no other government un der which It could remain, than the t LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press hew Shelley of the Fairbury News confesses he would like to see one picture of President Coolldge with his mouth open. This lends some of us to wonder if Uw really sees better With his mouth open. • • • The York Republican expresses a fear that Nebraska republicans can not take on the added burden of nomi nating a banker for governor. • • * The Central City Nonpareil is either of a very inquiring turn of rnind or Inclined to question the ability of Ne braska’s chief executive. Noting that the governor claims that by snapping his fingers he made the malefactors of great Industries sit up and beg for mercy, the Nonpareil wants to know why’n thunder he doesn't do a little Anger snapping and bring to the farm ers a larger return for the products of their toll. • * * • The Falrbury News says that the Omaha Chamber of Commerce realizes that it ts helping Omaha when it hus tles out and tries to help the whole state of Nebraska, as, for Instance, Its getting behind the dairy development movement. • • • Noting that a New Jersey judge has ruled that a man has the right to rule in his own home, Ole Buck pathetical ly remarks in the Harvard Courier that a man also has the right to tickle a mule’s heels. • • • The Stromeburg Headlight wants to know what has become of the Nebras ka headlight law It must be con fessed that the Only Headlight that continue* to shine properly is the one at Stronvsburg. • • • Frank Kimmel of the McCook Tribune, having carefully Investigated the situation, ventures the prediction that the most popular legislative per formance during the coming year will be that which removes some of the burdens from the shoulders of the taxpayers. • • » "What Is the oldest known road ma terial in the world?" asks Editor Witherow of the Palmyra Items. Ac cording to the best obtainable in formation it is good intentions. • « • The Grand Island Herald asserts that putting teeth in the Volstead act will bo a red-hot issue when congress meets. Great excitement In certain quarters. Will the Issue be as hot as sorr.« of the stuff now issued despite the Volstead act? • • • The Mullen Tribune rejoices and wants all the world to know why. Holders of Hooker county warrants can now go to the bank and get par ; in real, honest to goodness money. Adam Breeds of the Hastings Trib une says the news that a Nebraska man has made two heads of cabbage grow on one stalk ought to call forth (reat rejoicing from the makers of wo-for-a-nickle cigars. • • • There are those who claim that America got nothing out of the world war. but the Grand Island Indepen dent calls attention to the fact that we got a right to erect a telegraph pole on the island of Yap. • • • After a careful survey of the situa tion. .lack Kenrnes announces in the Beatrice Kxpresa that one man in every two in all the world is a farmer, and the other man is telling him how to farm. • • • Ed T. Best, for 3* years editor of the Neligh Leader, di^d at his home on November 20. The profession loses an upstanding member and the tributes paid to him by the state papers evidence his popularity. United States military government, which had been In control since Janu ary 1, 1899, when Spain withdrew. Then, without any knowledge on the part of the Americans residing on the Island, and after having been assured the military government was to be continued, the island was most unceremoniously turned over to Cuba for administration: notwithstanding the net of congress expressly egrbM Ing the Isle of Pines from Cuba, also the instructions given the governor general to continue the American military government. In 1904, the tjquiers-Dc Zaldo treaty was drawn. This treaty relinquishes nil rights, and the title to the Isle of Pines in favor of Cuba. Thus the United States would give away to Cuba, after proclaiming through an official bulletin, that the Island was. and always would be, American ter ritory. Who In this country knows, that right now, while you are reading this story, there nre living on the Isle of Pines, an American colony; the only colony of Its kind In the world, band ed together In a common cause—that of developing a place of Ideal sur roundings, on what was advertised by their government as theirs. These efTlolent people live under no constitution, not being within the con stitutional boundaries of Culm They are victims of the Cuban police law. are hauled up for the slightest of fenses. and are denied the right of trial by Jury. The treaty will ls> brought up in the next session of the United States sen ate. The people of the Isle of I'lnes will appreciate the opinion of their countrymen. _M HARUMPH 1 liTT ICR. A Handy Place to Eat Hotel Conant 16th and Harney—Omaha The Center of Convenience “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Around the World ill the Air. From the Wnnhington .Star What a thrilling thought there is in this contemplated journey of four army fliers round the world next March, encompassing, as It proposes, ail the globe and touching both ' Greenland's icy mountains and In dia's coral strand.” The record of long distance flying up to now is from England to Austin lid. hut now man's ambition and genius is to take hint a!| the way. The air his been conquered to bans mil tiic human \oi e. and this trip. If successful, wiil go far totvaid fur ther hrliling the air to carry the hu man being and his baggage. Think of the long flights across the seven seas, the ah planes with their lion toons resting between laps upon the ■V iter. Tiie long ■-■t nonu ip pass. i<s will be TOO miles. Starting from Washington the flight will he to Se attle. Alaska, the Aleutian islands and thence to Japan. Skirting the shares of China, Slam, Burma, across Inlia and the Persian gulf, the route goes through continental Europe to Eng land. Then ‘taklne-off" f' r 'he Ki'roe islands. Iceland and Greenland, the filers w ill I nd Tl ne . a .»t. I can continent in Labrador and so home across Canada. All hall to the intrepid army officers who will risk their lives In the undertaking—and good luck to them! No Fionomir Conference Possible From the New Republic. A ronferencf- of economic experts on Germany's “capacity to pay” is bound to be. more or leys a 1!*- The French government, while pretend ng to s»-#k reparations, is wrecking the economic michinery of Germany ami is making it morally and physi cally impossible for Germany to pay anything. It docs not require a con ferenep of economic experts to estnb lish this obvious fact. Such a con ferenee would in ell probability be loath to admit this fict and to em phasize its full significance, for by so doing it would Implicitly deny its own competence to %rontrbute any thing essential towards the solution of the problem. It would say in ef fect that German reparations had be come a political and a moral rather than an economic predicament, and that a way out would be found by acting in the lit'ht of relevant pcditical and ethical rather than economic truth. “O Say, Can You See?** From Thp Milwaukee Journal They're tinkering with the anthem again. Recently an assistant super intendent of New York schools Issued an edict requiring teachers to use a deleted and mutilated version of "The Star Spangled Banner" in their music classes. The entire third stanza was left out. because it talks about the "havoc of war." "the battle's confu sion.” and even uses 'hat terrible word "blood." In other e'anzas ref erenres to war were stricken out. What monstrous things to have In our national songs! Now the New York authorities are visited by s delegation of women in protest They want the anthem sung as it was written and accepted by America. These women are against wai—most women are. ard rightly— but they see the titter futility of try ing to bring universal peace by sugar Daily Prayer Pr* the Lord call upon His name. — 1*h 12 4. Almighty God. our IL-avenly Fath er. in Whom we live end move and have our being, from Thy kind hand mm* a dow n every good and perfect gift; and we humbly thank Thee for all Thy loving kindness to us \V» come t»efore Thee confessing our sins. f r which we a»k Thy for giveness. Bless ua in «»ur bodies and our spirits, which are Thine Grant us food and strength and lothing and shelter as we n* ed And give us grace to knuw and do Thy holy will. Make the path of duty plain b« fore us keep u« from temptation and front s:n, en aiding us to glorify Thee upon the earth. Bless, too. all our loved ones w hom, in the arms of <*ur prayer, we wuld bring la-fore The- H* d anv who tre sick, comfort the sorrowful, and strengthen any who are faltering; grant them each one Thy favor, in which is life. Thy loving kindness which is l»etter than life Remember graciously the commun ity in which we dwell, in all its inter ests temporal and spiritual Prosper Thy Church among us and give sue cess to its work. Bless mir country, and nuik« us that happy people whose God Is the Lord. Send out Thv light tf- Thy truth, and hasten the coming of Thy Kingdom. In Jesus' nnnH Amen THOMAS II I.aw. l> r>, _Spartanburg, s C . NET AVERAGE j CIRCULATION for October, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.72,205 Sunday.76,995 Do«* not Include return*, left over*, lamplet or paper* spoiled it printing and Include* *«' ipeela •ale*. B. BREWER, Gen Mgr V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr Subirt ibed and iwotn to before me thi* 5th Hay of November, 1P?J. W H QUIVF.Y (Seal) Not mty Public Reduced Fares via To Chicago and Return Amunl International Live Stock Exposition and Horse Fair DECEMBER 1*8, MIS A Great Annual Event. Brilliant Evening Entertainment Round trip aveurainn fanes will he one and one third of ths n<u’..w norm at Iaits ami tukrt' will l>e on asle da»’ (jram Nov mlvr U\h, Deveuibst 5ih. im lustve Final return limit * WrmUi lOih, Wl\ Fm* I mil ImfrrmslHm t/f/* S . oturlidAtrd 1 i. list Ollli*. 1418 Pt»d|f Mrool J S McNally. P V A., *10 W O W l\ldf coating our history. If we ever abol ish v nr. that uchievement will require more moral courage than digging holes in the sand and putting our heads into them. The next logical step for those who seek peace by the ostric h route would be to delete from our history the battle of Fort Mc Henry and the story of Francis Scott Key's detention by the enemy's fleet. This, in effect, would be to say to the c hildren that when that patriot, look ing anxiously through the mists of dawn, rejoiced at aeeing his country’s flag still flying above the battlenien's. he was engaging in most unholy glee. We have had these attempts to “re fca ci* our n *ii >nrl songs before. And we shall hav’e them again, no doubt. For It seems that the sheer futility of the tnl g does not act as a leferrenf. If we cannct bring about pea v bv facing I be farts as they are. jy bail ling on our Idstory as It hss neen written, then what car. we do? Bay State Shows the Way. From 'he PtttiVinrii h ' *r.ror,;-> T* ' ersph Here is a sentence from a speech on automobile accident* and the prob. lem of their prevention: “Motor fa talities are rapidly increasing every day and in every city and state." Most of us. no doubt, would be in clined to accept the statement as ac curate, hut there is at least one sur prising and highly encouraging ex ception It is afforded by the state of Massachusetts, where fatal acci dents due to automobiles are actually, decreasing With many more care in | service each year there has been a! steady reduction in fatalities. Last! month there were OR motor fatalities In Massachusetts. In October. 1922, there were 79 The total in the same1 month of 1921 and of the year pre ceding xas «I In October 1970. there was one fatal accident to 3.7B9 automobiles; in 1921 thp proportion was one to 4,453; in 1922, one to 5.692, and d iring the past month one to 9,203. This remarkable showing should send the officials of other states who! are entrusted with the public safety, hurrying to Massachusetts to learn how it does it. They would get the simple answer: "By enforcing the laws, without fear or favor." Last. month the licenses of almost 2,000 Abe Martin _ I We’ve got t’ live in a f.ia e a couple o’ years before we git cr.f" a good boardin’ house, so how e.u a congressman size up Europe in a month Another thing they ought t’ teach in college is tha' th’ g; i uates ’ll have t’ beg'n at th’ bot' when they get raedy t’ go t’ wor, (Copyright. t923 > Massachusetts motorists were revoked for cause. At this rate a small am of reckless or incompetent dri‘ • • wouid find themselves deprived coveted privilege during th« ye.: For it is to be recognized that di irg an automobile on the public streets ar,d highways is only a pci ege and no* a right It is one that can be taken away at any time f those who abuse the privilege. I the deprivation were made more f quentlv thete would be far fewer accidents In Pennsylvania the j e motor highway patrol has r 1 9| had an opportunity to prove Its v .e Perhaps when it gets down *o w in e.-rnest our state also will si Instead of an increase in automobile fatalities, a gratifying decrease. BIG, FREE POULTRY SHOW At Auditorium Tuesday to Saturday Starting Tuesday, this week, and running until Saturday n.ght. the biggest and best poultry exhibit ever staged in the west Over 3,000 birds; three national meets: brds from Ohio to Cali fornia, Wisconsin to Texas. Don’t fail to come and see the big show. 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