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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 f*D.. Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of whieh The Bee is a member. Is exclusively entitled to the use for republic^jon of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. -^—.-- ' BEE TELEPHONES Pr.’vat^ Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department lantie or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: 1000 Editorial Department. AT Untie 1021 or AT. 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—16 Scott St. New York—World Bid*. Chicago—Tribune Bid*. St. Louis*—Syndi. Trust Bid*. San Francisco—Hollrook Bid*. S. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and W. Detroit—Ford Bid*. Kansas City—Bryant Bid*. jOs Angeles—Higgins Bid*. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bid# A FAIR RECLAMATION POLICY. One portion of President Coolidge’s message will be of more than usual interest to the farmers under the irrigation projects in Nebraska. It is evident that the president has given careful consideration to conditions as they exist, and as a result he realizes that something should be done to relieve the situa tion. The land owners under the reclamation projects ii) Nebraska are not asking that they be relieved of any cost; they are merely asking that they be reliev ed from paying for mistakes made by others and be given the same consideration that has been extended to others. President Coolidge suggests that the secretary of the interior be empowered by law to suspend, read just and reassess all charges against water users, and this is what the water users have been asking. They are seeking relief from excessive charges based on excessive costs of construction, and they ask, also, that the arbitrary rule of no pay, no water, be sus pended in a measure at least until agricultural condi tions are readjusted. They are not seeking to evade payment, but are certainly within their rights when they ask that the government treat them with at least a modicum of the consideration shown them by other creditors. Secretary Work of the Interior department has already shown that be is taking a sensible as well as a humane view of the plight of the land owners under the various reclamation projects, and now President Coolidge comes forward with recommenda tions that are in line with what the land owners have been asking. All the land owners are asking is a (hance to pay out in a reasonable length of time instead of being forced out by arbitrary rulings and excessive charges based upon excessive costs of con struction. This particular portion of the president’s message will meet with the unanimous approbation of the farmers of irrigated Nebraska, and doubtless ’hat of all who live under the reclamation projects of the Department of the Interior. NO FREE RIDES IN NEBRASKA. .Judge Morning of the Lancaster district court lias just issued an injunction restraining five Nebras ka railroads from giving free transportation to religious or charity workers. Announcing his ruling the judge says: ‘•To me, to say that a school teacher, a unher sitv professor, a social worker, a doctor, a lawyer, a merchant or a farmer Is Kuilly of a crime and Is liable to a severe penalty for accepting a pass and that a minister or charity worker is not, and that in the former case the company is liable for giving a pass ami in the latter case is not, if mere arbitrary legislation having no reasonable or just basis Common sense supports this view. \V hen the intipass law was put on the books it went there with ihe support of the people, even the great majority of those who had been beneficiaries under the old system that provided free rides for so many giving iheir approval. It is good to feel that one pay* his own way, even on the railroad. Ministers certainly will have a higher self-respecc if they can at all times know they are supported by means that actually are their own, because they have i arned them. The day of donation parties has gone by, and any congregation should have pride enough to pay its pastor not only a reasonable salary, but to iare for his traveling expenses when he is called upon by the business of his church to go abroad. Salva tion still is free, but«the maintenance of a churchy organization entails certain things that must be paid for, and the members of the congregation realize ibis, and meet the cost cheerfully. Charity workers are in the same fix as the preachers. Cost of management is part of the work, and it ought to be met. Extravagance is not justi fied, but the legitimate traveling expenses of agents or managers may well be cared for in the budget, and thus the work be kept on a higher plane of efficiency. Anyway the free pass is looked at, it lacks something to commend it entirely to the public, which has so definitely disapproved the custom. FIREMEN GET GOOD NEWS. Come here, a lot of you white-haired boys, who W’ere stoking locomotives 40 years ago. Here is some thing that will interest you. An engineer of the Union Pacific has just gathered in prizes totalling $500 for writing the best article on how to save fuel. In absence of the text of the article, comment on it will be omitted, beyond the statement that it recalls a time when no real engineer ever thought of economy of coal consumption. His was the business of getting the train from one end of the rond to the other, with the least possi ble delay, and it was up to the fireman to look after the coal end of the game. All “eagle-eye” required of “tallow-pot” \tas “plenty of putty.” How many of you old timers can now recall without swearing what used to happen when the "captain” gave the “high ball?” Remember how he put her down into the corner, pulled the sand pipes wide open, and then took her tail out into the tank? He wanted to get away from that station just as quick as he could, and he usually did, hut, what a hole he made in the coal pile by doing so! And when “she flew up,” it seemed as if even the grate bars were going out of the stack, but all the fireman could do was to grin and wait for his chance to mend a lire that had been ruthlessly damaged. All the way over the division something like this was going on. An engineer got the name of being a “hard hitter,” and he had to live up to that reputa tion, no matter how much coal it took. Some fire men even took pride in the amount they juggled, and this was often increased by the ejection of an unruly lump through the gangway onto the scenery. If all the fuel that was wasted in those dear old days were gathered into one pile, its owner would lie com fortably situated. However, it is good to know that t ngineers are taking an interest in fuel economy, even if most of the stoking is done nowadays by machinery. Our idea of a confirmed optimist is a man who thinks that Christmas turkeys will be cheap because ha paid so much for l^is Thanksgiving bird. TORIES ROUTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. Premier Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain has been unhorsed by the voters, according to the re turns that have been received from the election held Thursday. Who his successor will be is not cer tain, but if the laborites continue to hold the lead they have piled up, and the liberals will consent, Ramsey McDonald may be called upon to form a government. Such is the change of sentiment in England that the man who seven'years ago was the most execrated among his countrymen is now within reach of the highest office in his country. A coalition of labor ites and liberals will be needed to form a govern ment, but this will not be difficult to obtain, unless, perhaps, one of the conditions will be the return of Lloyd George to power. It may be questioned if the former premier can command a sufficient vote among the laborites to safely hold the seat of power. Conservatives will have sufficient strength to form "his gracious majesty’s most loyal opposition,” and, in the bitterness of their defeat, freely predict the new government will not last three months. A few far-sighted labor leaders have expressed the opinion that the worst thing that could happen to the labor group is to obtain power. With that power goes responsibility, and confidence in the ability of Mc Donald and his supporters to lift British industry out of the slough into which it has fallen is not shared by all. One thing that will embarrass a labor premier Is the radical demands of the communist group. Eng land is not yet ready to adopt the soviet program, and it will not be easy for the leaders to restrain their following from pressing that program to the end of wrecking the party. Such factors as unem ployment, farm depression, and the housing situa tion had their share in the result, and success for a labor government will depend on its ability to solve these problems. HOAGLAND ALSO A BUILDER. Another of the pioneer business men of Omaha has been summoned from this life, George A. Hoag land. For 62 years he was continually active In business here, and during that time made a record that will not be reviewed in a few words. Chiefly he was noted for the quiet way in which he went about his daily affairs, but this did not mean he was not active in the life of his home city. Omaha owes a great deal of its growth to the foresight and enter prise of this quiet man, who was associated inti mately with the builders of the city. His own busi ness prospered, because he gave it careful attention, but he shared with others the burden of carrying on through the days when Omaha was struggling against heavy competition for the place that now is its. Hoagland is one ot the names that some day will be honored in the local ha^l of fame, because he helped to make a gTeat city out of a frontier village. The Salt Lake Tribune devotes a column to de scribing what it calls the highest earth dam in the world. Maybe it is, but the biggest earthly dam is the one that follows the automobile driver who has just missed us after we’ve dodged seven ways for Sunday. The spectacle of Governor Bryan asking the courts to define his powers is indeed reassuring Many had come to believe that the. governor reeog nizetf only one higher power, and even entertained some doubts about that. The hosiery saleman sentenced to jail for crooked dealings will have time to roll his own without inter ference. now that he realizes that the Omaha courts will sock it to fellows of his kind. Just as soon as the contest to prove ownership of the oldest Bible is definitely settled, wouldn’t it help the country a lot to have redhot competition over the ownership of the most used Bible? American-Canadian Liquor Pact Assured, is the way a Salt Lake City Tribune headline artist wrote it. Perhaps h^ meant pack instead of pact. The Canadian girl who went to New York City and won the all-American beauty contest was lucky. There wasn’t a Nebraska girl in the contest. Judge Landis says he assumed charge of the umpires because they had no fathers. But a lot of fellows have tried to be “pop” to them. Women will still have a full share in the manage ment of Nebraska campaigns, despite the efforts of the democrats to ordain otherwise. Nebraska and Iowa canners are in convention in Omaha, telling how to can what they can and to tan what they can’t. Dinosaur eggs are now quoted at $24,000 a dozen, which is still some few points above the more fa miliar hen eggs. Chancellor Marx has constructed a cabinet at last, but the chances are that the drawers will stick, » ^ just the same. South Dakota is going to have a Ford party any how. You can’t keep a squirrel on the ground. Speaker Gillett was re-elected, but for a time it looked like a close shave. (.unmaker Browning of Utah at least proved that his rifles will kill. At least the world knows part of what is in Silent Cal's mind. It seems that the Ford machint in South Dakota backfired. Now, listen to the anvil chorus ring. Homespun Verse —By Omahn’e Own Port— Hubert Worthington Davie DEJECTION. Tha root ian’t paid for, tha Intereat ia due, I atm owe a little on clothea for the boy. My ahoea need repairing, I'm bueted Boo lloo! And teare lake the mlnutra I'm needing for Joy. » My wife la complaining we need thla and that, And worry I" making me weary and blue. My girlie la elghlng and wanting a hat, And often I wonder how will we gat through. The furnace needa fixing and winter la here! The grocer la calling, demanding bla paj. And aeemtng to doubt I hat. I'm really alncere In all that I prornlae and half that I aay. The wealth I expected from unrlea and aunta Itenialna Ilka the gold In I'loplan mlnea, My wife goea on mending nvy atocklnga and panta And hate I am left t£ Impoverished wblnea “The People’s Voice” Editorial* from reader* of The Morning Be*. Reader* of Tho Morning Bee are Jn*ifc*ri to u*e tbi* column freely for «ipre»*ion on matter* of public Interest. Railroad Regulation!. Omaha—To tha Editor of The Omaha Ree: > steady volume of com plaint* about freight rates causes the public to wonder whether there Is any relief through goiernmental agen cies. It is well known how futile It Is to make requests to the railroads for adjustment of rates. The follow ing statistics mey show’ how valua ble the Interstate commerce commis sion Is. In Its railway atatistlca for tha year ending December 31, 1922, the bureau of railway news and statistics says: During the year 1922 the prevalent current of legislation can be judged by the following summary of decisions granting reduction and reparations or dismissing complaints. With the In crease In the membership of the com mission. the hearing of complaints has been distributed among five divisions: but the majority fall to the lot of Division 3, to which Commissioners Hall, Eastman and Campbell have for the most part been assigned: —General Docket— Reduct'ns Dismissing or Repa Opinion by Complaints, rations. The Commission.... 37 . 45 Division No. I. IS 31 Division No. 2. 20 25 Division No. 3. 172 228 Division No. 4. 14 35 Division No. 5. 2 Total* . 263 364 Per cent of total.41.95 58.05 From the next su»nniary the reader will perceive that the trend of ruling* of the commission has steadily fa vored the shippers for the 13 years listed: DRIFT OF DECISIONS—1909 1922. Dismiss- Granting log Com- Reparations or Year, plaints. Pet. Reductions. Pet. 1909 .138 39.7 219 61.3 1910 .138 41.1 198 68 9 1911 . 93 37.4 156 62.6 1912 .132 36.2 243 64.8 1913 .118 42.8 158 h~ 3 1914 .Ill 49.8 112 60.2 1915 .124 45.8 147 54.2 1916 .326 47.6 369 62.4 1917 .296 47.4 328 52.6 1918 .207 48.4 221 61.6 1919 .165 37.0 281 63.0 1920 .232 47.2 260 52.8 1921 .264 46.6 303 63.4 1922 .263 41.95 364 68.05 J. C. CROSS, 2423 Fort Street. Is Civilization a Failure? Gqring. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Reminds us of the story of the missionary and the Indian. The missionary had traveled many miles to Instill a few truths In the minds of the poor savages. Especially the eighth commandment. Having worn a very valuable fur overcoat, he asked the chief where he might lay It that It would be safe. The Indian replied: "Just lay It down anywhere, there Isn't » white man within a hundred mile* of here.’* Fifty year* ago the latchatrlng was always on the outside, and any hun gry wayfarer might go In If the fam ily were not at home Imd help himself to the beat the larder afforded. The unwritten law being to leave the dish e* clean and kindling ready for the next who came. And the line out where the west begins was the other side of the Mis sourl river. Oh, those were reel days: you could park your ox team In per fect safely, which you can't do with your flivvers nowadays. Do some of you oldest Inhabitants remember back In the day* when Ger !ng was young? A lot of friends and neighbors gathered at the home of A. M. Pattlson on Sunday- afternoon and. there not being enough chairs to go around, the m»n carried In some large pumpkins, which served as chair*. But. as civilization marches onward, the friendly line la moved a little far ther back, and we sometime* wonder If In time It will lose Itself In the Pa rifle ocean. If you want to know your next door neighbor you must be long to some lodge or fraternity In order to become acquainted Out w here the west begins the hand ihake Is a little warmjer. \Ye know, because we were there. MRS. ANNA M. JOHNSON. Evolution. Omaha.—To tha Editor of The Omaha Bee: My revolution against evolution was started on that day mere man said he could convince me man made God, and 'ere vve are called hack to lay beiieath the sod I must begin. This radio of my mind has lieen listening In. ntul her* the fact* that come to me. After sin, prayer to the skies— soul saved free. Then a warning of hell—It shattered me. That awfulneas no tongue could tell— only that we know there can be hell. Again came the message—salan has power. Ho 1 battled that hour after hour. This year I knelt at parents' grave*, safely anchored from life'* stormy waves. Then cam* the fact Daily Prayer By f»Hh Abraham, whan he was railed In so nut Inin a place whlrh he ehnuld efler receive for an Inheritance, obeyed; and he went out. not knowing whither he went For be looked for e oily which hath foundation*, whne* builder and maker le (jod. Heb. 11:8. la. Our Father, Who are In Heaven, w* thank The* for Thy presence In our heart* and In our home, for Thy lov ing kindness and Thy tender mercies. We desire to give Thee the largest possible place In our life. Ihat Thy Ideals for us may he realised and that w* may fulfill our llttl* part In Thy great plan. Ho humbly pray Thee to pardon anything In our live* that hln dtrs our fellowship with The# or our usefulness to our fellow men. and correct In our characters whatever Is not Christ like. Teach us to trust Thee for all our needs, both of soul and body. Defend us In the time of tempt* tlon. and help u* to realize Ihat w* are citizens of the spiritual kingdom Bless ell our fellow dlarlple* the world around Empower Thy church that she may win great victories over evil, and at iaat revel vs us to be with Thee, through Jesus Christ, our Ford Amen. BKV W O ROORR8, T#rf* Haul*. lad - ■ ■ "T,r LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press The Clarkaon Pres* doesn't hesitate to voice the opinion that Governor Bryan's coat stunt will not make him senator, and mors than a flivver will make Ford president. • m • T' liat a pessimist I.ew Shelley Is coming {o be. In his Felrbury News he complains that every time he stops his auto at a crossing to look and listen, sonve darned fool bumps into his rear. • « • The Tekamah Herald voices a great truth when It declares "we can make politics Just as good or Just as bad as we want It to be, for It all rests with the voters.'* • • • • Th# Fremont Tribune says that ex service men sometimes wonder why Secretary Mellqn did not make a teal effort to reduce taxation before cer tain big interesta were awarded their adjusted compensation. * • • Cass Barnes, the sterling old demo crat who edits the Madison Star-Mall, frantically calls upon Representative Kdgar Howard to return again to the democratic mansion. * • • "Do you feel tired after eating?” aaks Joe- Newsom of the North Bend Kagle. Well, speaking In confidence. It la only occasionally that we are able to eat until we are tired. • • • The Hastings Tribune Insinuates that the Ford boom would run better If It had a couple more cylinders. . . . Joe Alden seems to have been mak ing a quiet survey of York. He an nounces In his Republican that while there is a surplus of people who can point out the defects of the old home town, there is a big shortage of folks who will take a hand In remedying the defects. • • • The Tllden Citizen save It would deem It a pleasure to support Norris for the senate again, but It plaintively asks: "Is there no other republican In Nebpaska who can be trusted to represent this great state In the sen ate?" The Wayne Democrat asserts that an Increaalng number of democrat* are casting their glances In the direc tion of William Jennings Bryan while whispering about possible presidential candidates. "There Is always a first time If one keeps at It," hints the Democrat. • • • Gen* Westervelt of the Scottsbluff Republican and Harry Wlsner of the Scottsbluff Star Herald are both boom ing A1 Mathers of Gerlng for the re publican nomination for governor. The first thing anybody knowa there'll not be a thing In the world between Scottsbluff and Gerlng except the North Platte river. • • • ‘In Nebraska." sarcastically d* clares the York News-Times, “there Is good air, outside of Omaha.” But, after all, hr.tgelr Is not exclusively an Omaha production. right from the skies New life can come—these souls can rls*. Man may think himself great, but king or man his sin should hat*. His spirit may go Just In n Hash. Then In our memories * little splash. Year* come on a* they have run nothing new under the sun. T’nder th# sod and the dew waiting for the Judgment day. beef we forget. Just say It vet — God made man. H. W. DIAS. The Responsive Chord. Iji Crescents, Cal.—To the Editor of The Omaha Re*: I had a brother who served for three year* In the union army. He was wounded In his left leg and limped heavily for all the balance of h1s life. I heard him tell, many time*, the following In cident: In the spring of 1SS3 when the federal and confederate armies were confronting each other on the opposite hills of Stafford and Spottsyl vanla, two bands 'chanced one eve ning at the arm* hour to begin to discourse sweet music, the friendly picket* not Interfering, and soon the bands began to answer each other. First, the band on th» north side would play "Star Spangled Ranner." "Hail Columbia." or some other na tlonal air, and at its conclusion the "boys In blue'1 would cheer lustily. Then the band on the southern t>ank would respond with "Dixie" or "Bon nie Blue Flag," or some other south ern melody, and the "boy* in gTsy” would attest their approbation with an old "confederate cheer." “ But, presently one of the bands struck up 111 sweet, plaintive notes which were wafted across the beauti ful Rappahannock and were caught up at once by the other band and swelled Into thwgrand anthem which touchet every heart, "Home, Sweet Home." At the conclusion of this piece there went up a simultaneous shout from both sides of the river— cheer followed cheer—and those hills which so recently resounded with hos tile guns, echoed and re-echoed the glad acclaim. A chord had been struck, responsive to which the heart* of enemies could beat In unison on both aide* of the river, and then— "The sweet, sweet note# of 'Home, Sweet Home,* Reminded one of hie mother: The next one would remember The girl who called him lover: Then tear drop# down the soldiers' cheeks— Washed off the stains of powder." AIXIBPH HERMAN. I,a i’resrenta, t'al. Hotel r Rome Cafeteria The Be»l Thal'i All Noon Lunch Special 11 A. M. to 1 P. M. Juicy, Hot Barbecued 1 P Beef Sendwltheo.13C Served on Hve Breed with our femoua ••lie*. Coma In and try on*. , bO Out IT OMAHA Public Service Corporation of New Jersey Dividend No.M on Common Stork Dividend No. 20 on •% Cumulative Preferred Stock Dividend No 4 on T% Cumulative Preferred Stock th# 11 Art i d of niter tot* of Public Service Car* I (Miration of Nfw J*r*et nas deflated dividend* ai the tale ot i% pet annum nit the i um«i •ative Pref^ted Stork l»eina $J pei *haie. at the • ate nf 7% per annum on t it* t iiipulatu* I fret erred Slot k. being |l 7% pet ahar*. and |i tier ehat* on t h* non nar value t otnmnn btov a. ■ ot i he quartet ending Her ember It, |0?« dividend* payable to *tot kholder* of recotd l>*ce*b*t 14. 1121 T \4 • ' an MMd.eavailh. Tt—jmt m “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Horse Than Newberry Case. From the Sioux Fall* Prn« Senators who voted on the seating of Senator Newberry, especially those who voted in favor of it—cannot be blamed for dreading more contests of that sort. It is not surprising, there fore, that a move has been reported tinder way to dispose of the Earle B. Mayfield case "quietly.” But George Peddy, who opposed Mayfield in the Texas senatorial fight; Scott Wood ward, his attorney, and R. B. Creager, republican national committeeman from Texas, won't let them. This Mayfield case resembles the Newberry case in that conspiracy and extravagant, illegal election expendi tures are charged. But It has an other brand of dynamite in It, the Ku Klux Klan. Mayfield was avowed ly the kluxer candidate, and that or ganization la charged with having had an official part in the alleged con spiracy and corruption. It Is certain that few senators are anxious to he forced to a showdown on the klan Issue. Even discounting the kluxer claims of strength liberal ly, the organization Is likely to be something of a factor in the next elec tion. It is likely to last that long. Hiram Johnson and Oscar Underwood would be specially glad to avoid a fight of the sort that looms. Other potential candidates, Ralston and Wat son of Indiana and Copeland of New York, no doubt are envying those who are looking toward the White House from some other starting post than the senate chamber. There is no good reason, of course, why the klan as such ought to enter into the matter. If Mayfield was elected in a proper, legal manner he should have his seat; otherwise lie should lie denied it. It should make no more difference whether some of the voters for him were so called “100 per cent American" than if they were Masons or Odd Fellows, Quakers or Catholics. But the klan's own attitude has mad* that Ira possible. Had It* or ganizers been content to sell the bed sheet regalia at $10 per outfit and pocket the profits the situation might ha\e been different. But nowr. kluxer opinion is going to interpret the votes on Mayfield as pro or anti klan. and many outside the organization will ac cept the same view It’s a tough line up, bur the senators Just as well make up their minds to fart It. "Will Mr. Sterling have to vote again? After the Oate I* I.orked. Prom the Wyoming Tribune. The time for receiving essays in the Bok peace contest has expired. At the committee's office in New York City 22.165 manuscripts were receiv ed The committee hope* to announce the winner of the $100,000 prize by [the end of the year. According to the regulations, the maximum length of each essay was to be 6.000 words. If all contestants wrote the maximum, and there is scarcely a doubt that* most of them did. members of the committee will have to read about 110.000,^00 words of typewritten manuscript, the equiva t 000 words eael Quite a job for 45 days' The reading perforce will a mat ter uf elimination. Those essays which obviously a**- inferior end un merltorlous will be tossed aside, as they should l»e. The ie«t will be class lfted according to quality. Then, the elimination will !•« careful. As most of the 22.165 will be pretty much alike, that Is, average or l*-s*. there should not be many contenders for the award. But the best essay* will not be con sidered by th# committee at all. The committee will have no opportunity to read superexcellent intellectual products. After the door had t>efn locked last Thursday night, closing the contest, six men arrived at the office with their documents. Under the rules these essays were rejected. The most practical peace plan was among the half dozen pence manu scripts which the time limit barred. Maybe not. however. It may be among th* good Intentions of citizens who m*ant to write essays, but just did not get to work. The Radio an t'o-Renpnndent. From tha Mtnneapol • Tr.bur.e If It had to come at all, it might just nn well have cotive now—the precedent of a woman suing her spouse for divorce and naming his radio apparatus as the co-respocdent. The lure of the **voices In the air” always has l»een seductive and in sinuating. It mo\ed President Wil son to one of the m«*st eloquent pas sages in his Immortal war utterances, but the voices he heard were not the same as those tluit figure In the di vorce suit. The voices in this latter instance appear to be more like the songs of the sirens, made famous by A Handy Place to Eat Hotel Conant lith tad Harney—Omtha The Center of Convenience BEDDEO 1415 17 Douglaa St. Big Mamma DOLLS Walks and Talks A $5.00 Value $3-85 Doll Is 24 Inches High a Dandy Christmas Gift. Homer, who transfixed men with their singing only ,to get them Into their power and destroy them. There le a legend of eimllar destructive crea tures along the Rhine called lorelel who enticed sailors and their craft to ruin and irresistible music. The marcelle wave haa figured In the circumstances that led up to many a family chism. but the etherlc wave, or whatever It la called, appar ently has Just begun to exert Its sun dering fascination. It Is charged with playing Its vibrations on one marriage tie to the serious detriment of the tie, and there is danger that the precedent thus set may have a rgrettable fruit age In still further cluttering the courts with tales of domestic Infelic ity. Sitting up all night with a radio re celver attached to one's head, and slighting famllj' relationships to do It. may or may not be Immoral. It all depends on the view of what is moral in the true test of the rrsir riage vow. Swearing when radio things do not go right can very easily become Immoral in Its Import and ef fect, and it might even be deemed Im moral to plunge pecuniarily on radio equipment to the neglect of the fam ily wardrobe. No JBdgment Is being passed here on a particular case. The purpose is to point out the possibilities of the radio as an invader of domestic happi ness when or if devotion to it reaches the point of excess. The thought is the more disturbing because there is no way to call to account and dis cipline the co-respondent in such an affair. Jt is impervious to rebuke or to the chastening of conscience. Moreover, it is a wholly Innocent par ty without power to say to Its de votee: "Now you've had enough: run along to sleep and keep me out of your dreams.” Tlie I uree of Child I^abor. From the Oklahoma I-eeCer. Collier's Weekly sums up a series of articles on child labor with the following words: “When we say that over 1,000,000 American boys and girls are doing child labor we mean over 1,000,000 and we mean labor—not just chores or helping mother or dad around the place—but downright hard labor—for hire—at competitive wages. That means cheap and nasty Jobs for the unprotected kids. "Every' child ought to do work—but not for a dead stretch of 10 or II hours a day every day, and not at the expense of present schooling and future health." Labor, the railroad brotherhood's organ, makes thg following comment; 'The supreme court by a vote of five to four, has said that the con stitutlon throws a thousand safe guards around the dollar, but leaves the child at the mercy of heartless ex plotters. “How long will the mothers of America tolerate this situation? They are no longer helpless. They have the ballot Will they use It to protect the most precious asset of the repub lic?” Radios on Farm*. T * speed with which fanners have taken up radio for practical and social purpose* is shown by a recent survey nvade by the 1 nit*d State* Depart ment of Agriculture. There are approximate! r 40,000 radio »»’s on the farms In 750 coun ties of the I’nited States, according to reports from county sgent*. This is an average of 51 set* per county. Ap plying the average* in 1.559 agricul tural countie*, a total of mors than 145,000 seta on farms throughout the country la estimated. The esti mate* covered every state.—Wiscon sin Agriculturist. What It « u. “Tou must have had a heap of will power to quit drinking all of a sud den. admiringly *aid an acquaint-j ance. •'It wasn't to much my will power." replist^/1 Jig Fiddlin of Clapboard Springs. • as It waa wife's won't pow or."—Boston Transcript The Great l nwashed. “Why. Ellen, this is the fourth time lie had to tell you about the finger bowl* Didn't the last lady you worked for have them on the table"" ' No, ma'am; her friends always washed their hands before they came.’ — Everybody's Magazine. Abe Martin I If “taxpayer” pot paid fer his newspaper articles he wouldn’t have t’ worry about taxes. College girls’ feet hain’t gittin’ bigger, they’re only givin’ ’em more rope. (Copyright, 132J ) WHEN I LOOK IN Y 01 K EY ES When I look in^your eves. And vou look Into mine, I s«>e there reflected Heaven’s own light divine. A\ hen I look in j our ey es And you smile up at rr.e. I know that I love you. And see your love for me. In those sparkling blue depths I see love shining through. When I look in your eyes— In your sweet tjts of blue I notice the changes When lliOMe blue eyes are glad And the drooping lashes Of those eyes when you’re sad ^ Oh. eyes so bewitch'ng. In a face sweet and fair, Although coy and timid. There is power hidden there Sweet maiden, I love you! Heed my pleading and sighs— A slave to your fancies When I look in your eyes —Catherine Elizabeth Hanson. BENO’S of Council Bluffs Says to You: —Don't judge the size of this store by the midg et size of these ads. —Come and see a splen did, modern store with five selling floors and stocks as well selected as anywhere. —Let us show you the ^ fine things you need at a price nearer your idea of live and let live. “Come on Over” A Department Store for Youn| end Old Store hours 8 to 6 each day. Cff/cleomes Ihe Friend / Warns the Intruder ! THK brilliant porch light welcomes t) friend atul warns the intruder. To the friend it shows that the hostess is thought ful. The guest feels his company really is desired. To the intruder it is the sign of warning It notiffes him that the piercing eye of light - is ready to expose him. X Because of the extremely low elec tric light rates in Omaha, the cost is insignifiesnt. To burn your ooreh light for seven hours eosis only a penny. tl Light At! Night for a Penny and a Third Nebraskd t-zj Power €