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The Morning F>ee MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO- Publikhrr. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee »v a member, ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this patter, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department vr lunfie or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: T f)00 Editorial Department. AT iantic 1021 or AT. 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—16 Scott St. S. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N. New York—W’orld Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bidg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansaa City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis —Syndi. Trust Bldg. ,»* Ange>s—Higgins Bldg. San Francisco—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg POPULATION CENTER OF NEBRASKA. According to the census bureau at Washington, the center of population in Nebraska has shifted six miles on a line 1.5 miles northward and 5.8 miles westward. This may not mean much to anyone not in a mood to analyze statistics, but it Isas some significance. Chiefly it shows that the population of the western end of the state is coming nearer to a balance with that of the eastern section. In this is found a further reason for disregarding the oldtime North and South Platte tradition, that tised to govern in political councils, especially for the division of high officials. Long ago the South Platte lost its supremacy in political councils, although some -of the old boys are not ready to admit it yet. The people of the state began to select their officials on the basis of merit or fitness for the job, and not with one eye cocked on his place of residence. This is as it ought to be, although several shifts have been made in order to get regional representation , on the supreme court bench, the regents of the uni versity and other places in the government where the rule might be applied. Eventually, the people may select all their officers from a single city block, if they actually be the ones who are best qualified for the places to be filled. Getting back to the center of population, it is 5.8 miles south by west from Clarks, Merrick county. SHOWING THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. The Christmas shopping rush is on in full swing, and the stores are crowded to the limit. In spite of the fact that all of the stores have put on extra salesmen and saleswomen, there will be the usual last minute rush, and perhaps the usual heartburn ings. But why delay the exhibition of your Christ mas spirit until Christmas day? Why not exhibit some of it right now, some of it every day while you are doing your shipping? Your shopping expeditions occupy only a small portion of your time as indivi duals, but remember that the time of the saleswomen is from early morning until late in the evening. You can make life a lot easier and a lot brighter for the girls and women behind the counters if you will show them so.me consideration, if you will bear in mind that they are subject to weariness of the flesh and exhibitions of human nature, even as you are. They are youtv sisters, human flesh and blood, and just as likely to be weary and worn out by their long hours of hard work as you are ufter your hour or two of shopping. Show some of the Christmas spirit in your shop ping by trying to make things just a bit easier and just a bit pleasanter for the salesgirls. A few smiles from your side of the counter will make shop ping easier and service quicker. “Thank you” from your side of the counter will probably make the sales girl’s “thank you” a bit more sincere. Yes, you do not like to wait for your change or for your parcel, and you are in a hurry to get to another department, or back home, but you will not speed things up by snarling at the clerk who waits on you or voicing loud complaints because she does not disregard pre vious customers to wait on you. Be just a bit pati ent, just a bit good natured, just a bit more “Christ masey,” if you please. Things will be rushing for the next two weeks. Everybody will be busy. But is that any reason why we should not be good natured? Is it any reason why we should grow grouchy and take it out on the tired salesgirls who are on the go from morning until night, with aching feet and frazzled nerves and human feelings the same as yours? Let some of the smiles and “thank yous” go across the. counters from your side. The consider ate shoppers will be able to scatter quite as much Christmas cheer during the next two weeks as they will on Christmas day when they distribute the gifts that were sold to them and wrapped by the sales girls. It doesn't mean much to the individual shop per, but it means a lot to the girls behind the counters. BIBLE STILL THE BEST SELLER From time to time the advertising pages bloom with announcement of gome popular book that has reached an unusual number of printings, and taken rank among the best sellers. One of these books is said to have reached as many as 1,000,000 copies; most of them stop far short of that mark, and one that goes as high ag 50,000 is looked upon as having a remarkable run. What is the best seller among all the hooks print ed? The Holy Bible outranks them all. Accounts have been coming in of Bibles as old as 400 years, now owned in Nebraska. It is not to be wondered at that the first hook to be printed was the Bible. No more fitting combination can be conceived than that the wonderful agency, that of movable type, should first be employed to release to the people of God’s world God’s word. So the first printers rev i rentiaily gave their earliest and best efforts to print ing the Bible, and the care they expended in that work is attested by the fact that copies of thu Gut (enberg Bible, the first printed volume produced by man from movable types, still exists. Some figures from the report of the American Bible society are of interest. From 1858 to 1922, inclusive, this society printed and distributed 20, 056,316 Bibles, at the rate of 286,518 per year, or almost 1,000 copies a day for 70 year In 1922 the kociefy issued 442,869 Bibles, 615,958 Testaments, and 3,504,240 portions, or a total of 4,563,067 volumes. In the 107 yeurs of the society’s history it has put out a total of 161,153,588 volumes of scrip ture. Any need to expound the eloquence of these figures? Do they not convey their own message, and are they not inspiring to those who regard the Bible as the best possible guide for both here and here after? Those eleven new democratic senators exhibit characteristic modesty in demanding the choice com mittees. By charactariitte modesty is. meant, the kind that impels the average democrat to demand what he is least justified in asking, and claiming lo be able to du.what he is least able to do SMOKF. GOES UP THE CHIMNEY. Now that winter may soon be upon us, Omaha may as well get ready for the annual soot bath. It is too bad that the city and its people are compelled annually to undergo the deluge of uncomsumed car bon, since that is what soot consists of, but seemingly we must. One of the big items in the cost of living in this or any other community is the fuel hill, and it is not to our credit in any sense that fully half the potential service of that fuel is wasted. Most of this goes up the chimney in the form of smoke, un consumed gasses, useless smudge, to dim the sky, offend the nostrils and soil the linen of the multi tudes that use the streets. A smoke consuming furnace is not absolutely essential to a reduction of the smoke nuisance. Care ful firing of an ordinary furnace will get heat and fuel economy at the same time, and without undue smoke. Whenever a smoke stack belches forth great clouds of smoke, it is a sure sign that the furnace has just been heaped full of coal, and the door clos ed. Every particle of the smoke is wasted fuel, un consumed gas that, had the stoking been properly clone, would have been burned in the furnace and added its rpiota to the resultant heat. Men who own the buildings where the smoke pours out intermittently during the day in cold weather might do well to interest themselves in this. A little correction of fire room practices will maybe not only do away with a considerable percentage off the fuel bill, but also aid materially in brightening the vistw from a downtown window by cutting down the smoke clouds, —_-_\ Prince Alexander of Schaumberg-Lippe killed himself because he was not allowed to marry the girl he loved. Lucky girl, to escape marrying a fellow who couldn’t keep a stiff upper Lippe and marry where he pleased. Are our great universities slipping? Comes now Notre Dame with the notice that its football schedule will be cut from 10 games to eight because the longer schedule interferes with class work of the team members. • ___ A Philadelphia brother has prescribed conditions on which all may go to heaven, but only those who accept his creed. That man is likely to be surprised some day at folks he meets inside the pearly gates. A judge admitting that his threatened punish ment was a joke is calculated to make a lot of people believe that some judges are about as much of a joke as some of the laws they pretend to enforce. The Birmingham News says the world’s cham pion pessimist is the man who refused to take one of Henry Ford’s checks. And now you have one guess as to who is the world’s champion optimist. The local federal land bank looms up with assets of $100,000,000 if you are looking for a real finan cial institution. As the assets rest on farm lands in the vicinity, they are worth full value. A Missouri man who was bitten by a dog recov ered $600 from the dog’s owner. Men bitten by the presidential bug will have to grin and bear it, there being nobody to sue for damages. Senator Robinson of Arkansas finds much to complain about in the president’s message, which was rot written with the thought of pleasing the hard hoiled democrats in the senate. Marconi is preparing a device that will direct radio waves in any particular direction. This may he all right until two people want to use the same air at the same time. A Minnesota woman has been^sentenced to five years for manslaughter because the automobile she was driving killed a pedestrain. This may excite comment in Nebraska. Those Texas convicts may not succeed in elimi nating “Doc" Cook in the checker contest, hut the courts very successfully eliminated him from the oil stock promotion game. Not much evidence of n combine when a Ilea Moines insurance company comes to Omaha and snatches a nice chunk of business away from the local agents. Governor Bryan thinks he will try to get along without an extra session of the legislature. He does not want to blow up what he considers^ good cam paign issue. How much water can a cow drink? This question was brought up in one of our local courts, hut the answer was not that the cow ought to be water proofed. Conditions in Europe are not so had that the countries over there are unmindful of the fact that I he Monroe doctrine is might y sound and strong for' its age. Courts that complain about the growing disre spect for courts should bear in mind that the courts are accorded about all the respect they are entitled to. The threat of the movie magnates to leave I.os Angeles is calculated to incite other municipalities to reinforce their sanitary ordinances. The courthouse chimney has a right to smoke; that is what it was built for, hut it ought to do so in more decorous manner. Delay of a bowl of cracked ice cost three lives in a Chicago dance hall. The'hot head certainly needed the ice. Some men are awfully lucky that courts can not fine or imprison for contempt felt but carefully sup pressed. Homespun Verse —Iiy Omalm's Own I’oel— Hobrrl Worthington Dm ir TRUE GOLD. When one i»«-ki 11 m the Journey that lend* him to hi* And to rcdeatlal region* where all Him! eotint* 1* Houl Vthink not of the ilrh«*H hi* llrde** toll him brought, But of the* mark hiernwl IiIh kindlin' •** ha* wrought And If h« Im* l**c*n proven a hu*bnnd tried and true. A cheerful, faithful brother, a loving father, too— A comrade of I I* neighbor* and lo/ul to the end— Th»* world will long rowan.•her and prize him a* m friend. It* not cold wealth that measure* a mortal for hi* wort h, Nor monumentm coIohmhI that give the niOHt to earth. But rather it Im being a faithful, kindly one That win* the prai*e of other*—und count* whan day I* done. ^ “The People's Voice" f.ili’o- tain f i om r»pdfr^ of Tb» Vorn in* Bp*?. Re'aiif'm yf Th*» Morninp !’• •• are Invited to uk^ ihle nilumri f> • -Iv for • iiression on nmtteri of public intermit. All Not .funk Tlmt Rallies. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oral ho Bee: In your news columns an Item regarding the proposed lie. list law for automobile drivers, which was approved by the Tenth Word Improvement club, contained this statement: “Another man leaped to his feet. 'This low wouldn't do any good—not much,' he said. 'What we need is to educate t ho people to b*' good drivers and careful pedestrians.' " ‘The men who drive bunches of Junk that might fall apart any min ute or cause their drivers to lose con trol, ought to lie controlled,’ said another. 'There's no way to collect in cose of accident. The cars are worthless and their owners aren't worth a darn. At least as far as character goes.' ’* This man seems to he covering a lot of territory. He seems to judge a man's character by ihe kind of car he drives. In his estimation, a bootlegger who drives a high-priced car has a better character than a man who works six days a week, highly respected In his neighborhood, but hfs character is disputed because he takes his family for a ride on Sunday afternoon in a ‘ bunch of junk," which happens to carry no mortgages or liens oti same. I am In favor of the proposed li cense law, but not to discriminate against a man Just because he does not have a swell car and a lot of payments yet lo make on it. One law abiding citizen has as much rights to the streets and high ways as another, regardless of the car he drives. DRIVER OF A "rtl Xril OF JUNK." Defends Deaf Drivers. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: Have been reading with in terest your proposal to license drivers of automobiles, which for safety s sake, seems an excellent idea, as through such procedure, reckless driving and speeding, of course, shall be reduced, but I cannot approve of the scheme if the proposed ordinance requires that deaf mutes be not al lowed to drive their cars. The thing Is being stretched too far, then. I am a deaf mute and have driven icy car for over three years without having troubled anyone, not even have X ran over a stray dog or fowl. Then why, tell most careful deaf mute driver* that they cannot use. their cars on Omaha streets? There can be but one answer to this question, other than to suggest a touch of prejudice is being enacted into the proposed ordinance. Science knows that dear mutes are quicker of eye than hearing people, because of their'lose they depend on their eyes threefold, and this, together with their wonderful ability to ob serve, think, and perceive more con selentlously than he i ring people, 1 r- fer you to the groat Helen Keller— the bss said of her Is enough. 1 have In the course of my three years of driving caught night of speeding fire trucks, stopped and steerod my car to make way for their right of way. Two of these Instances were when they were coming along from behind my head. The great cities of Chicago, New York. Detroit, and others permit of the ileaf mutes to drive thetr cars, because they know the deaf, as a rule, are keen-eyed, adapt and versa tile In n.ottera. Is Omaha going to deny llcensts to deaf mutes Just lie cause It thinks It is above these cities III everything concerned? The Omaha public shpuld have a better conception of the deaf mutes and not idly think they are a menace on Omaha streets with their cars, for they are not. Mere's hoping vour ordinance suc ceeds, but by square dealing I .HO It. HOI.WAY. Critic of Prohibition. Omaha—To the Kditor of the Orna ha Be*'' 1 have noticed from time to time, considerable discussion of pro hibition in your "People's Voire ' rob umn, amt while I am, personally, very nell satisfied with ti e absence of sa loons mid have no difficulty In avoid ing the bootleggers. I realise that It Is by no means a dead subject, one thing that atmts* s me most Is the plea from press pulpit, and pub lic officials, urging (lie iieople to "sup port the constitution and strictly obey the law until modified or repealed." If universally obeyed, when would It ever he repealed? I actually heard, recently, a prom inent local orator make the above plea and then, in the next few moments, be was glorifying our forefathers for breaking the laws of their time and age. It all depends on how you look at It. No law was ever repealed if respect ed anil obeyed by a large majority of the people but. If passed by a tgire majority and neither respected n*>r observed by a considerable jsirtion of that majority as well as by all or s large part of the minority. It bo comes simply a question of paid offi cials shutting off the supply and forc ing compliance. It Is so hard, how ever, t<> stop the very common pro cess of fermentation. No exhortation to "obey the law’ will have any effect upon one who knows that a gnat majority of his friends and acquaintances will not . only wink at his Infraction of such law, but willingly aid him, If Invited, In the breaking Say what you will. It Is less a matter of ’’what the law Is" and more "what your own people1 think alsntt It anil w hat clmm a of detection by Interested offh lals I believe that the prohibitory law can never be enforced so long as It jirnscribes the manufacture, sale or iiosse«slon of anvthlng containing more than "one haif of one per cent1' alcohol. Such limitation is In Itself ridiculous and unenforclhle It break* the law no more to drink liO jier cent whisky than it docs to utilize n fruit juice that has stood for a couple of w ee ks on a pantry shelf flKOnOB II 1,1 IK Center Shots Historian* are dl*«u**lng Kuropenn possibilities In n manner Implying doubt a* to whether the meat war wtiN rv*'r actually finished Washing: ton Star. The a**a**ln of a Thdgnrlnn mini* ter a* Prague ha* been Imprleoncd f<" two day* This will wnfn hltn that If h* murder* anybody really Important he in likely to draw a heavy line Cleveland Plain Jnalci. A New York Jury ha* aw aided a woman * a verdict for IMWO for a stolen kl** which the man In the c*«e •utyi he tifv* r cot W hen husln* * eu terpilae* of that kind me imleted upon nowaday* all pm ties aliould In Mist on re. elpt* In black and wlHte for every transaction Kansas City Star Dr Mayo h i* de. hired tl f men have only 2fi pet cent control . f their bodily nctivltieM Which put* the min-h vaunted *e|f control a* 7.’. per cent off l.mji villi- i*ourlei .b ut iml Thoae who go to church may barn more about heaven, hut t hn*c who go autotiiK on Sunday a get there Hi *! Canton New*. • “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other News papers— loll. Uilgnr Howard In fcilumbm Telegram. 1 tjd you ever play cards with a man who did not know how to speak your language, and whose native tongue you did not know how to speak? it eery Inters sting. Last evening I held a seat at a whist table where one of the players Was an attache of .1 foreign embassy. Near tils chair was an interpreter. It was ever so odd. The man of foreign tongue would look at me and tell me some thing. Then his Interpreter would tell me what the something meant. Sometimes my own odd speech was difficult to interpret, and tlie puzzled interpreter would he in eon fusion. In one play I had made a venture. My foreign adversary witnessed my ven ture and exercised his legal right to elevate me. My own cards looked appealingly strong, and so 1 remarked that I felt in duty bound to admonish the foreign brother that he was In a little light, and that it seemed wise "ii my part to insert an additional gob. which I proceeded to do. My foreign friend looked at the interpre er, but the interpreter shook his head, finally saying to me; "If the senor will pardon me I will say to him that his speech is unfathomable, not ca pable of being reproduced in the lan guage of Spain. You have stated that you must, insert an additional gob. There is no such word in the language , f Castile. I know It is proper to speak in vour language of a sailor is a gob, but 1 look In vain to discov er where you have laid ui>on the table the sailor of whom you speak." Then a congressman from Kansas explain 'd to my interpreter the literal mean ing of my speech when i slated that I must insert an additional gob. apd i he Interpreter explained to his chief, who ejaculated something which sounds in some languages like "bueno," in other languages like "dobra." In still another language like “gute," and in our own Nebraska language just like "that’s good. I was happy to hear the foreign broth er speak these words, because when I took a closer look at my own hand I made the discovery that one of my cards was a club, whereas I thought all five of my cards were spades. And then an Englishman at the table told me It was jolly lucky for me that I had intimidated the foreigner who culd not speak my language. I guess he meant to convey the idea that I was a blawsted bluffer at whist. Wily Can't We See This • From the Minneapolis Tribune: It requires no sr.iail Ingenuity at times on the part of the wise men of the New Republic so to posture them selves on current issues that they will appear isolated and conspicuous. It would he Interesting to know what these secants would do to improve the decalogue, the golden rule, the Lord's Prayer, the beautitudes and the law of gravitation. Surely there must lie flaws in the universe which they have not yet pointed out. It 4not bo possible th«t the star* an<! planets are functioning a hundred per cent strong in the test of this earthly omniscience. The Republic editors are very gravely in doubt about the wisdom of reducing federal taxation, or In other Words decreasing the revenues of the country. What would happen, bland ly Inquire these sages, If. after we had reduced taxation, "We found our selves compelled to take over the rail ways and pay their owners In cash*' That would la? a dreadful mess, they admonish, and since we are a prosper ous people. ' we would be prudent to mike ns much speed with our debt extinction as we can.” Whv on*t mention of the coal mines in the possible things we shall hive to hm''^il'l there are others net to he overlooked If Uncle Sam takes the plunge Into the country's activities as a business man. The New Republic should not stop with proposals that we keep on paying taxes on the re cent scale; it should counsel us to, increase taxes heavily so that we may have a good sized volume of cash on hand to make g-serous first pay ments on purchases. Obviously Sec rotary Mellon has not thought of these considerations that ir« giving the New Republic so mu- h anxious concern, and If we may Judge from what we have read and heard. n,,t idtm the long visioned progres sives In congress have been able to comprehend In their great wisdom and foresight all that Is envisaged in this editorial sanctum. They appear to igrce with Secretary Mellon that taxes should be reduced, and theie 1* very little doubt that an overwhelm ing majority of the taxpayers ere grop ing thdr way with blinded eyes, to • -.11 v unable to catch out if the haze the light that the New Republic fimsls on the true path. What a land of happiness, prosper its- and even handed Justice this Daily Prayer | ■ >f the earth. Thou art worthy of our dally love and eonatant gratitude Thou knewest we i.in never t*e other than children , rvlng to Thee for fo.nl, raiment and shelter for our susten ance and protection. A\ e stretch our hands toward Tliee to l»e led through paths we cannot know, beside which temptations luik and anar w are set Deliver us. we beseech Thee, from the evil one. Help us lo appreciate our earthly family relations, established and won drouaty tilers, d by Thee Grant that our home may be kept In peace and c,.,„| will among all of Its members hy that hoe for one another which’ casts out suspicion and fear We con serrate It with all Its Interests to Thy cure and service, that the yearning of our heat ts for Thy approval and in dwelling may bring us godliness with content mi nt. Tod '. In our family worship, wc confess our sins that lie ho Is faith fill may forgive and cleanse IIS from all unrighteousness As we go forth to our Individual tasks, give us corn tec, strength, patience and that wls tun,. Which e meth down f.<*i shove which Is first gentle. peaceable. easily lo he entreated, full of good works All of these blessings wc a«k In the nutno of .fesua t'hrlst our Lord. Amen .. .. _ f l< r.Hl 1'I N'T I N V CASH. I I n, NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for Novrmhtr, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily. Sunday . Dn#i not Include rotuin* Irft nv*ti, •Ample* nr paper* •polled lo pi itt11nb «nd include* no l«l ta'ra or fro* clrtillation ol any bind. | B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. ! V. A BRIDGE. Cir. Mgr. ( $tih*rrll>od And •mm to t*ot«ro m# thin fllK d«v ol Doc author. 197 1 W II QDIVF.V, ( Seal ) Notary Public would be if it were under a benevo lent dictatorship shaped and guided in the editorial office of the New Repub Ur: Why America Is Wanted. From tlie St P»»«I Dispatch; Iiesplte Secretary Hughes’ very definite and very mgatlve reply to the invitation from the reparations commission to send representatives to help In a limited inquiry Into Ger man finance, M. Poincare is > iid to >>e still hopeful of so presentig the case as to obtain American partielpa tion It is explained at Parts, indeed, that M. Poincares chief desire is to word a note surrendering to Secre tary Hughes on tbe point of a full and free inquiry, but so constructed as not to cause him any embarrass ment at home. This is as it may be. ( It is difficult to believe that M Poin care changed his whole point of view since he refused Secretary Hughes terms a fortnight ago, even though he his in the meantime persuaded the coal and coke of the Ruhr to “agree' i with the iron of Lorraine. We do not think that there is going to be any discussion of all the means of making Germany as great a producer of reparations as possible. But M. Poincare's n.ost earnest do sire to get American participation in whatever inquiry is made is easily j understood. Nothing can be done in Kurope without money. Sound money' is going to be needed for the lestora tion of German currency. A f- r eign loon will be requisite. All tides agree that America should bear a part of this burden, as a good 1 usi ness proposition of course. But it is most essential that the absence of the American government from the con ference table does not scare American capital away from* the loan. Also, the political efforts at home and the diplomatic effects abroad of the iso lation in which -NT. Poincares pol icy has thrown France may work to modify his recalcitrance. There is. however, only one answer. Outside of the full and free inquiry which Secretary Hughes had in mind when he rr.ude his reply to Lord Cur zon's note there is no object in Amer ican participation in the reparations problem. Liberalism Versus Radicalism. From the Cheyenne Tribune It takes a goodly quantity of moral courage to preach the gospel of gen eric liberalism In these days of dicta torial regulation of • pinion The innn who does so must believe firmly in his rights rfnd in the rights of his fellows, and he must care nothing of the penal ties which may be visited on him for boldly opposing a trend, which, in its various forms, seems to have the mo mentum of majority determination. None is so open or positive In an tagonizing collectivism, bureaucracy, paternalism and sumptuary laws as the noted president of Columbia uni versity I>r Nicholas Murray Butler. He is declaring the principle that progress in republicanism con»-s from she will or sanction of the majority, from the consent of the governed, and that departure from this p. I le leads to detrimental reaction. Dr Riftler s definition of liberalism Is worth memorizing Here It Is; "To begin with, liberalism i* rather a temper, an attitude, a state of mind, than a fixed and definite creed It looks Utckward in order to learn whence man has coine and what his experience has been. It looks for ward in order to g dde nxtn's next step in a spirit of liberty and the Sight of experience. In political affairs it is what (iladstone once said it was— trust in the people tempered by pru dence—while conservatism is distrust of th» people tempered by fear The liberal Is reailv Hie only pro gressive He is broad, and human, and fair; he is charitable; atxive all. he be lieves in liberty and justh-e Liberal ism I* having one of Its hardest fight# in the solution of pending social, eco nomic and political problem*, and prominent men. like I.tr. Butler. mu«t rail attention tv, the dangers of alt types of radicalism and fanaticism. In the end liberalism will prevail; for lire under irrent of the age is liberal. \n \ged Sinner. Brother Johnson hid labored throughl H long, perspiring even.ng to convince his colored congregation of the dreadful fate of those who re mained unsaved. He concluded. “And the w h 'veil shall be cast into . iter darkness, there shall te walling and gnashing of teeth 01,1 Sain Jackson rose from his seat, demanding "What about me. >lr. Johnson? I ain t got no teeth " Lenning far over the pulpit and shaking a long, bony forefinger at the aged sinner. Brother J< hnson said tensely: "Never you mind, Mr. Jackson' Never you mind' Teeth will lie provided:"—Everybody's Magazine. r l,ess than forty hours away on the Kansas City-Florida Special! An all-steel train equipped with every mod ern convenience. Dining ear service all the way F iV«l Harvey meals on the hr\co. Reduced round trip Ni inter tourist fares. 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Fiumm C«T Through Slarper k<mu City In Miami < •J I « LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press The Omaha Bee having asserted that HI Johnson's keynote was pitched In the treble clelT. comes now the Wear ney Hub to insist that it is pitched in tlie trouble clefT. • • • Ol' Man Weekes of the Norfolk News hopes tfirst if there are automo biles ill heaven they will lie the kind that never need repairs, lie doesn't expect to And any automobile repair men there. • • • ' Forgiving our debts as we forgive our debtors is the inexorable law of love." muses the Osceola Record, but the general practice Is to scurry out and collect so we can pay. « * • The York Democrat insists that Sen ator Norris' criticisms of Governor Bryan sound like the words of a man who Is getting ready to try for the job at Lincoln. • » • lOdltot* Grosvenor of the Aurora Sun opines that the determined stand of Secretary Mellon to dictate the finance and taxation program of the admlnis tration threatens to transform him into the "lemon" of the republican party in the coming campaign. • • • Gene Westervelt of the Hcottsbluff Republican thinks he knows what s the matter with politics. He says It is allowing democrats to vote in republi can primaries, and vice versa. • • * The Lisco Tribune is first-paging a double-leaded, pica demand that Al Mathers run for the senate. And the Tribune demands that Norris run for governor. • • • The Curtis Enterprise wants to or ganize ;t CoolMue club, not for politi cal purposes, “but In order that some people may learn to keep their mouths *hut.’’ • • • Gus Ruechler of the Grand Island Independent quotes i minister as say ing that the word damn would clear the atmosphere at many a deacons' meeting Gus takes this a* an intima tion that the minister is going to make an especial appeal to golfers. • • • The Central City Nonpareil says it is high time to remodel our jury laws and make it possible to secure an In telligent jury to try a murder case. • • • Don VanDusen of the Bhiir Pilot is not happy yet. He has bought a grape fruit compass and can now tell which way the Juice is gang to squirt, -hut he insists on having a safety device that will keep the filling of a custard pie from clinging to his ears. • • • K W Hure of the Wayne Herald is worrying I'nless we modify football and other nxiteria istic tendencies ar.d swing back to safe and wholesome middle ground, as Brer Hure puts It. Abe Martin No wonder a bank take- advar. tape o' ever’ holiday an' lock.- up Anybuddy that’s ever stepped on chewin’ >rum will study a long time before they'll be far Johnson and Wrigley. (Copyngnt. lfr-3 j we are g-ing on to a fall and w.!l have to start civilization al! over again. Has anybody been slipping a pair of blue glasses into Breriluze's spectacle case? • * • J Ft. 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