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The Morning Bee HORWIN G—E V E N 1 N G—S U N P A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher. MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thu Associated Press, of which The Pee is a member. Is exslusivsljr entitled to the use for republieation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rifthts of republieation of our special, dispatches ere also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Trivatu Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department AT laatle or Parson Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.; 1AAA Editorial Department. AT-lantic 1021 or AT. 1042. AUUU OFFICES Main Offices—-17th and Frmam Council Bluffs—15 Scott St. S. Side. N. W. Cor. 24th and N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago-—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syndi. Truat Bldg. J.oa Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Francisco—Holihook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. OUR FAITHFUL BURDEN BEARERS. In all the rush and bustle and worry of the Christinas shopping season, did you pause for a mo ment to give thought to the men who have been bo patiently struggling to deliver the enormous mass of Christmas mail? Oh, to be sure they get paid for it. And if they don’t like their jobs they can quit. But that does not do away with the fact that if they shirked on the job; if they slowed up at this particular season •f the year, Santa Claus would have a much harder time getting around, and your Christmas would lose • lot of his happiness and cheer. No matter what the weather—and fortunately for the mail carriers In these parts it has been unusually pleasant this Christmas season—the mail carrier is always on the job. You can come mighty near setting your watch by his daily visits. He is often compelled to carry R burden that only a hard-hearted prospector would pile on the back of a patient burro. But the mail carrier never balks, and he usually makes his rounds With a smile on his face, although his feet may be throbbing with pain and his back aching like a sore tooth. Practically every day In the year he makes his founds, but never is he more welcome than during the Christmas season, when he comes with mail bag •tuffed to the limit and his arms piled high with the token from distant loved one. Christmas means more bard work to him, a doubling of duty, with a conse quent doubling of physical and mental strain. Most of us are prone to take the mail carrier’s Work as a mere matter of course. We are very apt to overlook the hard labor entailed as he brings us our daily messages of joy or sorrow, love or sadness, •miles or tears. Who can reckon the romances in Which h« plays a part all unknown to himself? Who Can figure how many the tragedies of life in which he plays an innocent part? Why not take a few minutes off to show some risible appreciation of his faithful services through Btojm and sunshine during the last year? JOf course he will get his pay check in due time, butithat isn’t enough. You know how it is yourself v-ai word now and then of appreciation makes the day! brighter and the work easier. Try it on your toal! carrier. WILLIAM D. M’HUGH. William D. McHugh missed being a judge of the federal district court for life because a republican /Senator from Nebraska favored another democrat. Rel xing from the bench after almost a year of ser vice , because he was not confirmed by the senate, Juise McHugh devoted himself to the practice of Ia«4 with such success that his material reward was far more ampls than could have come from [judgeship. Nor was he deprived of opportu for public service, for he got a full chance to leful to the people as attorney in the cclebrat-. lits between the city and the old water com fcis talent as a lawyer brought him the position I of fchief counsel for the International Harvester company, where he spent the last four years of his lif* For more than 30 years he was active at the ba*( In Omaha, and won for himself an honorable plate in the roster of local fame. A democrat in polftlcs, he was true to the best traditions of his parity, and was held In high esteem by its leaders. He did not seek office, and his selection by Grover Cleveland to fill the vacancy left by Hon. E. S. Dun dy pn the federal bench was a tribute to his fitness fori the job, rather than a reward for partisan ef fort. Judge McHugh had other attributes than those bf a successful lawyer. He took his place as a gen ial,' companionable man in society, and had a deep interast in all that went on around him. It was but natural that such a man should have many warm personal friends, and to these the news of his death, anticipated as it had been, came as a shock. Billy McHugh will not soon be forgotten in Omaha. : "LOSERS WEEPERSi FINDERS KEEPERS." Let us hope that final judgment of the world Coes not rest upon a test recently made in Lon Con. A New Zealander and a London reporter con ceived the big idea of trying the people of the me tropolis by a practical test of their honesty. Ac cordingly they dropped in various parts of the city ^0 wallets, the outward or visible aspect of which denoted wealth. A wallet, you know, in London *s what in Omaha we call a pocketbook. Of the 10 dropped only four were returned, which leads to the snapshot conclusion that but 40 per cent of the people are honest. On the surface this may appear correct, for the supposition is that in each instance the finder was supposed to know the loser. Submit the test to a little closer examination. Naturally, one is sur prised at tha audden appearance of a fat-looking pocketbook on the sidewalk. In a crowd it is not always possible to tell who dropped it, and so it is permissible for the finder to examine ita contents. Finding them, as in this instance, to consist of bits of blank paper and tom envelopes, chagrin would give way to disgust, and the finder would quickly rid himself of his treasure trove and give it no more thought. Then, there is a more or less reasonable expec tation that the one who loses a considerable sum of money is willing to pay a reward to have it return ed. Whether this is morally or ethically sound, it ia a very general practice for the finder under such circumstances to wait for an announcement from the loser. The law even recognizes this, by vesting title in the finder if after due diligence he fails to discover the owner. Such s test as that made in London is not a fair one. It merely discloses that people act much the tame when confronted by such n state of facts, no matter in what part of the world they are located. Now we are getting "Mussolini's Message to America.’’ Takes a lot of cheek for any of the Eu ropean leaders to address advice to this country. A convict at Sing Sing has been pardoned be cause he is a good actor. Most of them get in be cause they are bad actors VENGEANCE AGAINST THE DEAD. Long before King Tut was carefully packed and filed away for future reference, the Egyptians had very well developed notions with regard to the ser vice of burial. The court of the dead was held on earth as well as in the nether regions, where Osiris presided as supreme judge, and the body to which burial was denied after solemn trial, was covered in the sands, on the shore of the lake, and left there to decay. It was not a fancy with these people, for they held that the soul that had done evil only in the world, and had offended the gods by its misconduct, did not deserve to find a body waiting when it had completed its journey to the west, but should be left to wander fopever in the darkness and suffer accord ingly. Other peoples held similar ideas. At one time in England a suicide was buried at a crossroads and a stake was driven through the body, to prevent its ever rising to haunt any of its earthly neighbors. Certain classes of offenders have long been refused interment in consecrated ground. Down in Maine, a man, presumably insane, for only a maniac could have committed his terrible deeds, was refused burial in the cemetery, and was laid to rest in a shallow grave scooped out in one corner of the farm he owned. Not even there could he rest, for in the night his corpse was exhumed and burned in the cottage he had lived in. How can any justice, human or divine, be meas ured by an indignity visited on a corpse? What ever this man was or was not, he had gone to face the bar of eternal justice, and the miserable lump of clay that had been the tenement of his immortal part was insensible to praise or blame. Detestation for his crimes is natural, but it might have been bet ter, expressed than by the ghoulish act that crowned his infamy with a greater. TERROR OF A WILD FLIGHT. Readers of Victor Hugo never forget his de scription of the havoc wrought by the great cannon which broke loose from its moorings during a storm at sea. Nothing more vivid hr s ever been set down in words, describing the poten.ial malice of an in animate object set in motion by forces that merely act upon and not through it. The flight of the Dixmude offers a simitar field to one gifted with sufficient imagination. The great airship, with 52 men on board, is floating helpless in the upper air, and has been for several days. What ultimately will happen to it can be conjectured; gas may be liberated by the rupture of one or more of the inflated bags; an explosion may cause the wreck of the big balloon; its crew may be powerless to aid themselves; air planes may be sent in pursuit, and relief be fur nished in spectacular fashion; any one of a number of things may occur, but the fascination will cling to the great misadventure. The men on board are enduring privation as well as danger, for the food supply they took with them was limited, and normally would be exhausted with in four days. What else they have endured while their vessel was tossed and driven by the gales that held them in sport will not be known until the wild ride is over, but speculation will clothe the exper ience with much of dread. A French air officer is quoted as saying the ship and crew are lost, also that none may guess the suf fering the men on board are sustaining. Whether he is right or wrong, the affair is getting worldwide attention, ns it deserves. Nature still laughs at man, and swoops down on him at the most unex pected moments. The gesture of the prosecuting attorney of the District of Columbia is as magnificent as if made by a Napoleon, but one wonders if it is a crime that one’s name appears on a written list? You know a bootlegger has a right to copy anything he fancies. Dandelions, crickets and other signs of spring msy fool some folks, but the robins have not yet returned, and until they and the ducks trek to the north it will be as well to keep the home fires burn ing. "French money was very weak yesterday,” bur bles Mr. Brisbane in a recent kolm. Must be pretty weak around these parts, very little being able to creep into pockets within our ken. Ruthenburg, executive secretary of the Work er’s party, says that Secretary Hughes forged the Zinoviev letter. That ought to end the argument. Governor Bryan should give Jerry Howard plen ary power, that the absence of the executive from the state may not stop the wheels of progress. Ford-for-Prssident club will carry on, It it an nounced. Its promoters have nothing else to do, and are averse to idleness. Another marketing plan to help the farmer is about to be devised. How is he ever going to keep track of them all? , _ One thing in favor of the Mellon plan Is that It will take less figuring to arrive at the amount of tax due. The early bird at the filing office gets first pub licity, but he will not be lonesome on primary dny. Cider is not a soft drink, says the United States court. No, not when it’s hard. Poincare isn’t Santa Claus. Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie I’VE HAD THE BUDGET FEVER. I've had the Budget fever *nd I've tried to make It go; I've planned ahead and saved for that which ever comes along; I’ve thought I had the problems solved—Ilka people will, you know— But something always seems to com* to prove my Judgment wrong. • I’ve figured living pretty close and Itemised my bills. And set a day when they'd he paid to my heartfelt delight, But "Blunderbuss, nearsighted cuss," I say as Ills and Ills Increase the debts I owe until I dread the things In sight. Though we may plan for rainy dnys, and follow Bud gets too. We learn that printed pages don't forever prove their worth; We have to trust to Providence and figure—If we do— We'll keep from going hungry as long as we'ra on earth. And If we can escape the worst there's reason for a smile; There's ecstasy In trying, though wo full to get ahead; There's history In making to encourage and beguile The others who will struggle for subsistence » hen wt're dead. , “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Our Forestry Problem. From the Minneapolis Tribune. The American people are coming slowly but surely to a realization that forest preservation and reforestation constitute a very Important economic factor In the life and welfare of the nation. They are Indebted to Raphael Zon of the United States Department of Agriculture, University farm, among others, for a clear and impres sive presentation of the case as it af fects the interests of both town and country. It is the essence of the Zon counsel that the forest question be thought of and dealt with in terms of crops and not in terms of the mine. The production of trees to replace those that have gone should be considered, he says, as a vital phase of agricul ture. It requires many years to pro duce a crop of usable trees, but there is nothing in the economic necessity of the American people that should make them hesitate to undertake tree cropping. On the contrary there is abundance of reason why they should adopt tree culture on an expansive acale. According to Mr. Zon, economists have made a careful estimate that an increase in population to 160,000,000 by 1950 or 1952 will call for an In crease of not more than 35,000,000 acres of productive farm lands. In the states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota alone there are about 40, 000,000 acres of cut-over lands. Some of this land can be made profitable for agricultural purposes by ' right methods and choices of farm produc tion. but a great deal of it can much better be rededicated to forestry pur poses, even If timber crops thereon were not available for use for decades to come. Unused areas of cut-over lands yield little or nothing In revenue In the form of taxes, and yet in these areas there must be schools and roads, pay ment for the building and mainten ance of which must come largely out of the pockets of city people. In the long way us well as the short way the cities have a sumstantlal direct Interest In the productive usefulness of cut-over lands, whether for farm ing or timber. It will reduce their taxes. Increase purchasing power in the country and broaden the market for their wares. W:ith the turn that Is now being made to more intensive agriculture of the sort which diversi fied farming implies, fewer cultivable acres will serve larger consumptive needs, and there will thus be still ] better reason for reforesting those' lands that are not well adapted for profitable farming. It has been estimated that at the past and present rate even the better areas of Minnesota cut-over lands would not be taken up for agricul tural purposes for a hundred years. Meantime, the last forest frontiers are being heavily invaded, lumber is becoming more and more expensive and the demand for wood materials is growing despite the use of steel, concrete and other substitutes. These are some of tha considera tions that go to make the forestry problem increasingly Important as an economic question, and there are! others. Freight Rate Structure. From the Kansas City Times. The rate revision demanded by the ' middlewest is not merely lower rates 1 on farm products. Farm product rates are of first importance. That is all What is essential to both consumers and producers of the middlewest is a rate structure that puts the middle west on a par with the east and the lake cities. Even then the east would have an advantage in being nearer the sea board. Middlewestem rates must be such as to encourage the locating of manu factories and other big Industries in tho cities and towns. If unbalanced rates continue to givs cities on the Oreat I,akes nnd the Atlantic seaboard the flagrant advantages those sec tions always have enjoyed there can 1 he no substantial growth In the mar kets In or near the western field of production. Thnt would be bad for the railroads as well as the public. It is within the power of the Inter state Commerce commission to recon struct the rate schedules so as to eliminate the groee injustice to the middlewest. Since the earnings of the roads are governed by the rates ordered by the commission, s redis tribution of the charges would not neceesarily make any difference in the gross or net earnings. What the middlewest Insists upon is a square deal at last. It is tired building of the east and the lake cit ies at Its own expense. It is tired of the "d-«rislty of population” argument. The lesser density of certain sections of the west is offset by the greater expenses of terminals and operation In the congested pert* of the east There Is nothing to thnt. The mid dlewest Is not obliged to listen pa tlently to the argument any longer than it Is disposed to. This is not demagoguery. Indeed the demagogue has no place in the campaign. It would get along a lot better without him. Rut the fight has to be made. It Is going to take a lot of aggressive, but levet-headed fighters to win it. Where Debt raying Is Overdone. From the St Paul Dlsoatch. Chinese in this country, ns well as In their native land, are preparing to celebrate New Year's day by pay ing debts nnd starting the new year with a clean financial slate, ns has been their custom for centuries. There are some merits In this practice, as It rent rains persona from borrowing more than they reasonably can ex pect to repay hefor# the beginning of the next year, hut at the same time It is one of the brakes that the Chili esa put on ^irogress. if the same custom prevailed nmong white races, all modern business would come to a standstill. The Chinese plan prohlh Its loans for longer than one yenr or even for a shorter time. Though the western commercial world does business on loans for 90 days or less, a large number of them ate regularly renewed and actually are for long periods. Cities and stales, great cor {■orations and farmers make loans for 30, 40 or fiO years. it Is by such means that Idle money |s put to work and becomes capital In the bands of the borrower. No great enterprise exists In the T'nlted States without a large permanent debt and sonic limes an equally large floating debt The lender la really a partner In such an enterprise. He gets a definite re turn on his share of the Investment —usually not large—but has a flrse claim on the assets, In cHse of Insol vency, nnd may or may not have any control over the management of the business. Possibly the Chinese system of pay ing nit all debts on New Year's day Is one of (be chief reasons that conn try accumulates little capital of Its own, lls industry is stagnant or sin llnnary and the mass of the people live a miserable life. The want of capital, which Ihc socialists denounce, condemns the nvarage Chinese to no batter thun his great grandfather had. M other j Oh, time what havoc thou hast played Around my dear old home, Canst thou not stop, thy tide be stayed And not at wanton roam? Why. Mother’s eyes once brown and clear, With radiant youth aglow, Are growing dim by many a tear, 'Tls time that made it so. That Spartan wreath of nut brown hair Which graced her pretty brow. Could not withstand time’s load of care. It is changed to silver now. From Mother’s cheeks so soft and pink Thou, too, hast taken toll; Seeing her, I sometimes think. Thou thief, where Is thy goal? From Mother's voice, ah. therein lies The charm that baffles time, Though steps grow slow, and dim the eyes. That voice remains sublime. And though to manhood you have grown. You meet time face to face. And years like autumn leaves are blown, You can not stop time’s pace. But when you gaze at Mother dear When you clasp her time-worn hand. Her eyes are Just as brown and clear As back In childhood's land. Yes. she’s Just as beautiful to you As nny e're could be. Because you love her thru and thru, Time's changes you can’t see. , —By Walt Nye. Ogallala, Neb. Center Shots The school boy’s idea of the worst luck In the world is when the teacher assigns his heart’s desire a lot of extra work and she doesn’t have time to answer his note the same day.—Kan sas City Star. We had assumed the committee of 18 derived Its name from the number of states, but we are wondering now whether It may not be from the num ber of third parties it has attempted to launch.—Chicago Evening Post. Chicago court decides that a woman who complained that she had washed dishes for 20 years Is entitled to a va cation. If she takes one, we’ll bet her hUHband lets the dishes stack up In the sink till she gets back.—Cleve land Plain Dealer. Nobody Is much surprised by the news that the Krupp officials have been released by the French govern ment. The martyrizing of individual Germans is no part of the great game of Poincare, though this is distinc tively a freeze-out game.—Brooklyn Eagle. It Is reported that the minister of Justice In Saxony recently granted a pardon in exchange for a bushel of potatoes. At least the official's policy exhibited as much Intelligence as some pardoning governors In this country have shown.—Detroit Free Tress. In Chicago a man who killed an other was acquitted because nobody could prove that the d»ad man had ever been alive The law ought to film some of Its comedies.—Glovers villo Herald. _ I.ife sometimes proves * series of disappointments, but few are worse than finding that the spare tire bis no air in it.—Huntington Advertiser. News that the White House is In an unsafe condition has not caused the withdrawal of a single presiden tial aspirant.—New Castle News. The Spice of Life I ™■ • Kind sor. I have no horr.e.'“ •'Some times I envy men like you. Mv home has two mortgages on it.' —Louisville Courier-Journal. "De hardest housin' problem In our settlement," said Uncle Eben. "Is git tin' do people dat sho' nuff belongs Jar, In Jail."—Washington Star. Beggar—Kind sir, will ye give me \ dime for a bed? '24 (cautiously)—Let's see the bed first.—Purple Cow. "I hone." said Uncle Et>en. "dat a way will be discovered yet foh one part of de human race to reform an other part without alius startin' some kind of a fight-"—Washington Star. "Do you have to see a doctor be-_ fore you get booze in this town. No. afterwards."—Harvard Lam poon. "Why Is the little fellow crying?" "Because he can't have a holiday." "Why can't Ho have a holiday?" "Because he doesn’t go to school vet!"—Meggendorfer Blaetter iMu nlchV "What's the matter with Smith" (lot lumbago or spinal curvature or something?" "No. he has to walk that way to fit some shirts his wife made for him.”—Exchange. Daily Prayer^ | They thst trust in the herd shall be ** Mount' Zion, which rannot be removed, but abtdeth forever. A« the mountain, ars round about leruaalem. «o the laird I. round about HI* people from h*nr« forth even forsver ter the rod of the Wicked shall not r*»t upon ths lot of th« rlRhteou*; loot «b* rt*ht*ou* put forth their hand* unto Iniquity. Po good. <> lord, unto thoes that be good, and to them that ars upright In thetr heart* — I'. 126:1-4 Our gracious Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the light this morn ing. Endue our hearts with gratitude and love for the blessings of the past week, and direct our conversation and •Lilly walk through the coming week. May all we do be acceptable In Thy sight. Grant that wp n*ty render Thee service that will not only give us joy and comfort, but that our ex ample ant! Influence will lead others to love and serve Thee. Clod grant that wo may realize and appreciate every tlnv of our lives that we owe all to Thee and that nil the good tilings of life come from Thy mercy and gracious kindness. All this we nsk for Christ's sake. Ainen. tlROHdt: T .TKSTEIt. Cnr.tr.na. T*. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for November, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.7.3,950 Sunday.79,265 | Do#* not Include r*turn*. left over*, sample* or paper* spoiled in printing and Include* no *pe«i*l •ale* or frra circulation o( any kind B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to b#fom m* this titli day of December, tf»2.t. W H. QUIVCY, ( SmI I Notary Public “THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” Editorial from readeri at (III Meenlna Baa Readnri •• The *t#rela» l» an molted te oaa thle column lreel» l«e aadreailen an matter! at aablic later eat. Demanding Fair Flay. Red Cloud, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: What condition In our public life has called into ex istence the "farm bloc,” and what is the bloc endeavoring to accomplish? The farm bloc, so-called, consists of a number of republican and demo cratic senators and congressmen, who have agreed to refuse to be bound by partisan caucus decisions when ever certain legislative propositions favoring special interests are before congress for passage, and primarily the object in view is to secure the pas sage of just laws in the interest of the whole people—opposition to predatory political vultures is the purpose of this bloc. No particular locality or class of producers Is favored, and the object In view Is to safeguard industrial life against the Insidious assaults of or ganized, speculative, gambling ele ments—that element which lays in waiting between the producer and the consumer, and live by their wits. The idea of a legislative bloc Is not new to the political life of this coun try. for the original bloc is common ly known as the money bloc. Large financial Interests early recognized the advantage of organization, and since then virtually all of the more important Industries have had blocs well oiled and in perfect working or der to ^ook after their wants In Wash ington. The sole object of each of these combinations Is to promote legis lation beneficial to certain lines of In dustry, and it Is only of late years the producing portion of the public has become aroused and organized to combat what is generally considered bad special interest legislation. There is no doubt about certain lo calities and corporations having here tofore received more than a fair share of consideration at the hands of con gress. and the farm bloc members of that body have taken a position in opposition to such measures and com manded attention such as it was never thought would be received. The peo ple have woke up. and we are now witnessing one of the sharpest poli tical battles ever staged In Washing ton, and regardless of the final re sult. or which element is successful, it cannot be denied that the bloc members are right In demanding rea sonable consideration from the regular organizations of the old parties. The crid parties will make concessions in order to escape being hopelessly di vided in the coming eleetion next fall. The "old guard” wants it distinctly understood thev are In the saddle, own and control Washington and con gress In everything that is done. The rule has been: The people will re ceive consideration only when they advance on bended knee, and the fight now is to see whether certain weak members cun be Induced to straighten up their legs and stand and fight for what is right. It is no trifling matter to witness the congressional representatives from the following states lay aside party fealty until certain laws have been enacted, and these have virtually done so- Idaho, North and South Da kota, Minnesota, Wisconsin. 1 wa. Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and al so number of the southern states. It means a large number of members of congress are determined offensive statutes which we now have shall he repealed, and others enacted. Thl« Is not an easy proposition for thj eld conservative guard Iwhich is the spe cial interest’s reresentative) to cry down, ns the bloc members appear so far to !>e able to hi Id their own, and will so long as they stand to gether. Win or lose, they will emerge from the fight with their own self respect left, and also be admired by the people for their effort to right things. The hope cf the opposition is the possibility of the regular party influence to induce certain members to withdraw and line up with the special interest class. The special in terest el.-fss means the railroads and corporations re<-eiving undue and un fair favors fr. m congress, while the producing class is comt>e!Ied to shift along as best It can. The fight is in teresting, and is gelling warmer In stead of cooler. With the presiden tlal election coming on next year It is worrying both of the old political organizations, and don't be surprised If a tremendous effort la not made before long to break up the bloc by offering moderate concession* to cer tain members. In every state where election® have recently been held the Issue has been the railroads, and the repeal of the Esch-Cummlns act, with tho results strongly against the railroads. This Is not surprising, for the people know the railroads too well, and will not vote In their favor on any proposi tion that is debatable Those corpor ations have this year paid the high est dividends known In their history. Why should such an imposition be continued or tolerated by an Intelli gent j>eople. Who would be expected to support such a situation except he be a paid puppet In their hire? A more reprehensible piece of legis lation than this railroad law was never enacted. It utterly destroyed the right of the states to In any way In terfere with the business of these corporations, and as a result we are paying neatly 4 cents per mile to ride on a train and freight rates which not Infrequently exceed the value of the article offered for shipment. Pas senger rates used to be 2 cents per mile, and freight rate* were fairly reasonable, and why should they not be so again? The situation Is out rageous. and the people should not be timid In demanding the repeal of such a law. Shippers will never receive reasonable rates so long as the Esch-Cummln* act remains on the statute books. That law glvea the In terat;.^* commerce commission exclu sive authority to approve rates equal ing a certain per cent of the 'claimed' value of the roads, and this 'claimed' value accounts for the present un reasonable rate* charged and the en ormous dividends earned. But this is not the most offensive feature ofi the law. If * complaint Is made that certain rates are too high and a re duction requested by a shipper it will not be heard and disposed of until long after the necessity for such change has ceased to exist Under a rule which prevents early setion by the roads (and this act does that very thing) it Is a waste of time for a shipper to ask for rate reductions, for he will probably be dead long be fore It ever gets consideration from A. C. POTTER, the commission at Washington. The Shameful Record of Lynching*. Tuekegee Institute, Ala.—To ths j Editor of The Omaha Bee: I send you the following concerning lynching* for the past year as compiled by Tus k»gee Institute In the Department of Records and Research, Monroe X. Work in charge I find that there were 28 person* lynched in 1923. This Is 23 less than the number 57 for the year 1322. Thirteen of the persons lynched were taken from the hands of the law. 7 from Jails and 8 from offic ers of the law outside of Jails. We also find that there were 48 In stances In which officers of the law prevented lynching*. Four women. J white and 1 colored, were among (hose thus saved. Six of these preventions of lynching* were in northern states and 40 In southern states. In 37 of the case* the prisoners were removed nr the guards augmented or other pre cautions taken, in the 9 other In stances, armed force was used to re pel the would-be lynchers. In 8 In stances during the year persons charged with being connected with Ivnching mobs were brought to trial, 'if the 52 persons thus before the courts only two were sent to the pcai ten! tary. 1 Of the 28 persons lynched In 1923. ji 26 were ntgri-es and 12 were whites; I' two of** he farmer were women 7 or ! one fourth of those put to death were charged with rape or attempted rape, | one of the victims was burned to ! death one was put to death and then the body wagrburned. The charge | against the one burned to death was murder. The offenses charged against the whites were: Participation In strike depredations. 1; being taken as a Ne- j gro. 1. The offenses charged against ; the negroes were: Murder. 3; murder |j Abe Martin | —--— tel It must occur t' most anybuddy that th’ real an’ principal trouble th' government i§ havin’ in enforc in’ prohibition may be attributed directly t’ th’ fact that nobuddy seems t’ want it enforced. Circuses are t’ cut out all bunkoin’ th’ corn in’ season, but we’re alius too tired t’ stay fer th’ concert anyhow. (Copyright, 1923 > ous assault, 2; rape, attempted rape. J; killing officer of the law, 2; wound ing officer of the law. 2; no charge rejiorted, 3: assisting man changed with rape to escape, 1; resisting posse searching for man charged wiftj rape, J; cattle stealing. 1; "trying to act like white man and not knowing his place." 1: insulting woman, 1; peeping in window. 1: striking man in alterca tion. 1. The nine state* In which lynching* occurred ar.d tn* number in each slat* are as follow-B: Arkansas, 2 Florida, 8: Georgia, 4; Louls.ar.a, 1; Mis*inejp pi, 8; Missouri, 1; Oklahoma. 1; Tens*. 2- Vi-cinla, 1._RRMOTOX. 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