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The Morning Bee M O R N 1 N G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher _ . N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOV M. HACKLER, Editor in Chief Business Mgr. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republieation of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulations audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1909, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for , AT 1a* 1 AAA the Department or Person Wanted. j ** * IttllllC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—15 Scott St. So. Side. IS. W. Cor. 24th and N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. 8t. Louis—Syndi. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Francisco—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. PARTY GOOD, OR PUBLIC SERVICE? A Minnesota divine, delivering himself of sen tence sermons, inquires, “Are you a skyscraper man, whose politics is above partisanship?” Such men may be found on the ways and means committee of the house of representatives., One of them answers when the name of Hull of Tennessee is called, and another when Garner of Texas is asked for. Judge Cordell Hull is genial, affable, a deep stu dent of the theory and practice of taxation, and also national chairman of the democratic party. Natural ly, he is concerned in the prospects of that organiza tion. John E. Garner of Texas is the ranking demo crat on the committee, and a valiant fighter for the party to which he adheres. Also, they are both patriotic citizens. This may explain why, when Chairman Green of Iowa offered to lay aside the Mellon proposal and proceed with the active participation of the demo crats to form a noppartisan revenue bill, Mr. Garner, after consulting with Judge Hull, announced that the democrats would adhere to the measure they had already proposed. This is putting politics above partisanship with a vengeance. Reduction in taxes will come, because the ma jority party in congress is pledged to that course. The democrats will not help to bring it about, unless the confessedly partisan plan they have presented is adopted by the majority. Republicans are anxious to give relief to the country, and have offered to ac cept a compromise between the administration bill and that proposed by the opposition, but the latter will have none of it. Persisting in the foolish promise to relieve the poor by taxing the rich, the democrats are striving to make political capital out of a public necessity. Taking the tax off the lower brackets and putting it on the higher is but a shift that gives no relief, and really lays a heavier burden on the millions who pay no income tax directly, but contribute most extensively to the indirect collection. Messrs. Hull and Garner know this, and they also know that in the campaign that will follow during the summer any act of a republican congress will be assailed and criticized by the democratic spellbinders, billing as they are to relieve the tax payers, they are not willing to do so if in any way the act deprives the minority party of an oppor tunity for partisan advantage. No statesmanship can be seen in this. Any political party that relies on such tactics deserves defeat. Politics may never rise above partisanship in this country, but patriotism should be above either. Service from congress should be on the basis of what is good for the people without question of the party. PUBLICITY AND OTHER MATTERS. Propaganda is one thing, and publicity is another. The line between them is not so clearly nor sharply drawn as to make the division boundary absolutely plain at all times. For illustration, Henry Ford has secured more publicity within the last few years than any of his compeers. He has done those things which attract more attention and make better read ing than his rivals accomplish. Edward Bok is just now accused of carrying on propaganda for the peace plan. The result is about the same as that achieved by Mr. Ford. Each has secured an enor mous amount of advertising of a sort no money could buy. $ , Something like this has just taken place in Eng land. Over there, in interest of outdoor scenery, the great oil companies have ceased a generous but active rivalry in bill board display. Taking down the great signs that cluttered up the scenery along the highways, these oil concerns have seen that, according to the view of the New York Times, "by the simple expedient of announcing their determination to desecrate scenery no more forever they not only would cut down overhead appreciably, but would turn animosity into enthusiastic approval and get of 'publicity1 great quantities of the very best and most profitable kind." Women's clubs and other similar organizations long conducted a futile campaign against the bill board in the United States. It brought no relief, and today the sign board is the most conspicuous thing on the American landscape, no matter where one goes. Such display has become a great in dustry, allied with other great industries, and so firmly intrenched that it has smiled at all efforts to dislodge it. British oil companies have set a note worthy example. Would American outdoors look queer if that example were to be followed on this side? | The people would surely be glad to see the land scape once again. Maybe some big advertiser, who now uses bill boards, will realize the excellent plan of bis British fellows, and go and do likewise. Tha Omaha Bee stands ready to give its share of publicity. I GETTING OUT THF. NATION'S VOTE. Woman’s share in practical politics is to he ex hibited this year in an cfTort to get out a larger per centage of the vote of the country than ever be fore. We can see no good reason why this stibuld not be successful and serviceable as well. One of the ever-present dangers to our free institutions is the neglect of the voters to attend the polls. This danger has grown steadily for n number of year* Even before the women were clothed with the suffrage, the number of votes cast at each election was but a fraction, and generally a minor fraction, of the possible total. With the addition of the women to the voters’ roll, the discrepancy has be come much greater. Organized effort to induce women to give at tention to the greatest of all privileges, that of ns ■iating in the selection of the ofllcers of the govern ment, is as important as anything the women lenders can undertake. Little good will come from scolding at the politicians, or criticizing the nominations or the result of elections, if the complaining voter does not take a full part in the proceedings. Politicians rule only by consent of the voters, either active or passive. Election this year will be of first magpitude. President and vice president, one-third of the senators and all of the house of representatives, governors cf states, legislatures, county officers, and in fact the entire government from top to bottom will depend on the will of the people. Every citizen should ac cept a full share of the responsibility, and make certain by voting that nothing has been left to the choice of a minority. SCOTLAND’S SWEETEST SINGER. Robert Burns left to the world a legacy of song, simple, sweet, and homely. As days go by, and year after year his natal day returns, added lustre glows around his memory. Newer understanding comes with time, and the gentle philosophy of the man, his humor and his melody, are better known to all of us. Critical re-examination of his character in the light of modern knowledge and experience gives to him a standing that was denied while he was living. But to one who truly has come under the spell, Burns needs no apology nor defense. He was out of lire with much of the sentiment of his time. He rebelled against the narrowness of the dogma that was accepted as religion, but he devoutly worshipped God, esteemed Him as the source of all th'ngs. He was grateful for the bless ings he enjoyed. Society’s shams were not to his taste. He could not abide the little hypocrisies that passed current among men of his day. He was a morulist, but not of the canting sort. Against the pretenses of man and wonhin, the smug, the self righteous, .the snobbish, the insincere, Burns loosed shafts of ridicule, irony and satire. He burned the unworthy with brands that endure forever. Those who are truly pious, honest and clean find their lives reflected in poetry that is sublime and tender as well. Happy the man who loves as Burns loved, toils as he toiled, suffers and sings as he suffered and sang! Called a scoffer, abhorred as a ribald and ungodly roysterer, scorned as an unlettered boor, he bore it all. and gave the world some of its most beautiful poetry, wherein majesty of thought is wedded to simplicity of language; songs whose sweetness and charm is not excelled by any, and bits of philosophy as powerful and as sage in their truth as if they had been clothed in the formal words of an Epictetus instead of the laughing rhyme of a plowman. Now that he is dead 128 years, a world is begin ning to realize in some degree his worth. Truly a poet of the people, his hold is on the popular heart. The freshness and truth of his thought and expres sion never lessens in its appeal. That is why around the world tonight glasses will be lifted to the “Im mortal Memory,” while Bobby Burns and his songs are toasted wherever Scots are gathered to cele brate his birthday, one that deserves to live while men have hearts to love, to sing, to sorrow, and to conquer. CURTAINS FOR A GALLANT PAIR. Gen. I^ee Christmas is dead at New Orleans; the old revenue cutter Bear has sailed its last voyage. The hero of so many filibustering expeditions, leader of more forlorn hopes than he could count, soldier of fortune, and fighter for the fun of it, died in bed, as peacefully as though his life had been spent in monastic seclusion. No history of the Cen tral American or South American republics can be written that does not hold a chapter on Lee Christ mas; no maker of fiction concerning the mutations of power in those regions feels his job complete if he has not drawn a prototype of the greatest of ad venturers, whose story exceeds any romance ever put together. Yet his end came quietly, prosaically, and with only slight notice. The Bear braved for years every terror of the northern Pacific and Arctic oceans. Whalers in peril, sealers caught in the ice, any sort of quest that had for its mission the rescue of somebody, whether be leagured seamen or outpushed settlements threat ened by starvation—it was all the safne to the Bear and its gallant erbw. Its nose was thrust into the ice, and its frozen sails slatted in the blizzard that howled and roared with deadly cold, but the Bear drove on. Many a rescue adorns its hiitory. It, too, is brought home from all the danger of adven ture in the frozen oceans, to be broken up by junk men. Was it providence or just luck that carried these gallants, man and ship, through the vicissitudes they endured, to the quiet end? Formerly they organized "armies” and marched to Washington to voice their complaints. Now they get elected to congress and waste the public’s time in protests. A casual reading of Arthur Brisbane’s column will convince you that Arthur is not in favor of any plan for world peace that is not of his own devising. Accepting pay for coining the word “scofflaw” really ought to come under the statute penalizing .the securing of money under fnlse pretenses. Henry Huddleston Rogers havjng forgiven his daughter and her count, the rest of the world may declare a moratorium or an armistice. Another item in favor of dairy herds is that they will eat a lot of home-grown hay that now has trou hie finding a market. Another soft coal miners’ strike is being talked of. But why? At least one-third of the miners are idle now. Hi .Johnson does not see much to encourage him these days, but he should remember that if winter comes spring is not far behind. f Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poet— ^ Robert Worthington Davie ^ THE ANSWER. Some folks have asked the reason why I sit up writing rhymes When I could go to sleep and get the rest 1 sadly need. Or sally forth to shows and have some truly splendid times. Atal share the One enjoyment of the life the others lead. Some folks have asked rne why I waste these entertain Ing nights Whic h will soon leave sweet youth behind, 'while 1 grow old and gray. Some have suggested that I go to dances, feeds and tights, And live- the life of others who go gaily on their way. Hut here I hide myself and see yon joys and taste yon food, And feel the thrill of strolling where the gala beacons shine, While verse and books and little ones, along with soli tude, Olve faith nnd charm and fervor to the schedule which la mine. “The People’s ^ Voice” Editorials from reader* of The Morning Bee, Reader* of The Morning Bee are Invitee, tu uae thin column freely for expression on matters of public interest. Appreciation of letter Carriers. York, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: As president of the State Association of Letter carriers I desire to express to you our appreciation of your kind editorial In the December 28 and former Issues of the Bee. As is often the case, such kind nesses are not responded to verbally, nevertheless we appreciate your thoughtfulness. When wo know such a spirit is present it lightens our loads, melts the snow drifts and shades us from the blistering sun and our work be comes a pleasure. CLAKK 8. PINE. A Tribute to Lenin. Omaha—To- the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: A short time ago I began making a list of the world's nsist re markable men. One was Jesus, one Socrates, one Galileo, one Christopher Columbus, and one Abraham Lincoln. The last in the list, as In time, was to lie Nikolai Lenin. Now Lenin is deud. At last it seems possible to grant his death with a fair degree of certainty. Not rumor nor malice nor imaginative news writing, but Old Nature itself, has closed this career. We know that Lenin had his faults, that ho made mistakes, could lie Intolerant, at times appeared to be careless of human life. He was not striking to behold, dressed plainly and even carelessly, was extraor dinarily detached from the common concerns of life. Y'et today millions are in sorrow, not a formal, placid, patriotic sorrow limited to Kussla, but a deep feeling of bereft love /ind real loss that leaps over boundary lines and attains International scope. The only explanation is that Lenin was and is the personification of an idea. He earned the distinction by amazing ability and devotion, but others have been able and devoted. The idea made Lenin, the idea of a world of workers \jnlting, overthrow ing old tyrannies, raising up new and revolutionary conceptions of life, ac tually creating a new social order, instead of uselessly, endlessly discuss ing the theoretical aspects of pro letarian revolt. "1 am nothing; the idea is every thing:" Lenin said repeatedly . in effect. He was not modest, but truth ful. He was not anxious for praise, and neither did he avoid it: he was simply not thinking of praise. Prob ably he was human enough to be deeply grateful for the support and confidence of his comrades In the supreme effort. He was hated. Even now that hatred is manifested. I do not refer to those who shrank from the rigors of a revolution and forgot great issues In fretful complaining of petty discomfort, nor of innocent school children who are having their minds maimed by the misinformation of so called "Americanization” courses In this country. The hatred that is significant comes from those who have lost precious privileges or who fear the losing of privileges was the Idea that spreads and permeates. "Truth looks into the pit of hell and Is not afraid." writes Bertrand Russell. For Lenin In our day, as for others In other days, truth and courage paved the wav to glory. EDMUND R. BRUMBAUGH. Harness the Missouri. Council Bluffs—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Tour editoring, "Make the Missouri River Work," !h W'hich you proceed by quoting Rep resentative r. A. Newton and like wise his specific knowledge of river transportation as affecting the price of wheat, sounds good. All of Mr. Newton's speech along the line of waterways as the logical wav of re lief in transporting the heavy crops of wheat, corn, barley, etc., ts easily grasped by every Intelligent farmer. Make the Missouri river work. Why not make the Missouri do mechanical work as well! The capacity of the river even at low stages of water to do work ts rati muted from 14,000 to 20,000 horse power. To do this amount of work the river must show a total discharge of 50.000 cubic feet per second. Who can crack this nut and give us the clean meat? According to the Encyclopedia Britannlca, the Missouri river dis charges more than these estimates, making it 90,000 feet per second, and In flood stages It swells this amount to 250,000 cubic <eet, while the velocity is greatly Increased so that at peak stages the river would readily yield approximately 90.000 to 100,000 horse power. The question naturally bobs up, who can make a river har ness that the old Missouri will lie able to pull in. A $100,000 "Bok" prize might bring results. If the Omaha Chamber of Com merce or another Mr. link would hang up a $100,000 prize for obtaining 100,. 000 horse power with maximum cost not to exceed $25,00 per horse power. 1 think It would bring results. The main outline of such a finding would have to l>e governed by a perfectly working mechanism automatically governed, and also to develop all en ergy or force from the Initial or nat ural flow of the sltream without a dam as on nld for such achievement. If Omaha, Kansas City or St. Joe want water power, let them hang out the $100,000 prize and state their case (conditions! on which the award will • >e made, and 1 wager my own best Judgment, with odds of 10 to 1, that within one year the whole ground-1 work of a solution for obtaining, not only an abundance, blit a superabund ance of mechanical energy from the Missouri river, will be disclosed. Money talks; but It will take skill to snatch this amount of power from the sturdy old stream. Hang out your prize money! Also, be prepared to part with it. Harness the Missouri. D. H. OLMSTED. H*ve tli* Trwi, from Ths Kanaas City Post. The total annual timber production In the United States barely equals the loss from decay, an expert tells mem bers of the American Wood Preserv ers association In session here. The condition Is one of commentary on the great wood waste throughout the entire nation and betokens a fu ture perplexity both as to building and fuel. There ran he no more Important economy than that of forest conserva tion and Its opportunities arc near nt hand. The slaughter of trees In re < laming lands from the timber was ruthless and extravagant. Uholcest walnut whs split Into i ills and stove wood and the rule was one «*f timber waste. Trees were not viewed as things of beauty and of use. but mere ly regarded as obstacles to the plow and barrier* to bind development. Nor can the townsman shift to Ids country cousin the duty of saving trees. There is opportunity and plenty to conserve trees on the city lots, not for tho possibilities of timber, but for tbs beauty they lend to landscapes otherwise drear and mechanical ill up pesrnnre. 8a v# tree* • very where. f LISTENING IN *1 ^ On the Nebraska Preaa The Central City Republican ia in clined to believe that President Wil son had the Bok plan in mind when he advocated peace at any price. • • • The Pierce Call warns Trenmore Cone that lie may talk himself out of a senatorial nomination. • • e Kditor Cass Barnes of the Madison Star-Mail, warns Governor Bryan that between the different things he is trying to choose he la likely to fall to the ground. • e e The Wayne Herald notices that while Governor Bryan was quick to claim credit for tax reduction in con nection w-ith the operation o f the state university, he was a whole lot quicker to disclaim responaibtllty for the Increased fees laid on the stu dents attending. • • • Admitting that Nebraska occasion ally experienced away below zero weather, the Aurora Bun gleefully shouts that we never have any earth quakes’to shake us up and make us afraid. • • • Feeling In a philosophical mood. Fred Howard recently sat down and dashed off the following column ln-a sentence editorial: "Bo long as right and wrong are displaced by gain or loss the world Is going to have heavy mushing." • • • The Aurora Republican opines that (he citizenry would become consider ably more exercised over the Mellon plan to cut the income tax If there were more incomes to cut. • • • Ole Buck of the Harvard Courier gays that a place that had nothing to sell but common sense would soon go broke. • • • Mentor Brown of the Kearney Hub insists that taxation Is nonpartisan. But Isn't bi-partisan the word Mentor wanted to use? • • • Noting that Governor General Wood is willing to have a congressional In vestigation of hts administration, the York News-Times remarks that Gov ernor Wood certainly would have nothing to fear. Judging by other congressional Investigations. • • • "Girls." blurbs Adam Breede of the Hastings Tribune, "may be growing lopsided from playing golf and tennis, but none of them get that way from washing dishes." • • • The Grand Island Independent glee fully reports that one of the investi gations of numerous scandals In Washington has succeeded In running one of the suspects into hiding. Ed Curran of the Greeley Citizen assures a feminine subscriber that the Greeley Commercial club will prosper In spite c* its new president. Ed Is the modest boy. He is the new presi dent. • • • Noting that Brother Charley had such a hard time deciding whether he wanted to he governor, senator or president, the Cedar Bluffs Standard expresses regret that they can not fuse the three offices and give them all to him. • • • The FaJrbury News says that in all Mexican revolutions the side that gets to the telegraph office first always wins. pig and calf clubs have exceeded Townley clubs In North Dakota the farmers of that state are beginning to glimpse the surprise of a new era of prosperity. s • • The Northeast Nebraska Editorial association will meet at Wayne Fri day, January 25. • • • The Seottsbluff Republican demands the repeal of the law which invites states to nvatch dollars with the fed eral government. • • • The Kearney Hub grows captious. Referring to the Columbus Telegram's department, "Truth and Other Things," the Hub says It would be just as Interesting and more valuable If the reader could distinguish one from "tother. • • • The Nebraska City Press charges that the trouble with the average towns Is that "we talk a great deal about what ought to be done, but we are so Immersed In our private affairs that we fall to do them.” Center The winners of the Bok peace prize and the KUene peace prize ultimately may have to settle the championship with a trial by combat.—New York Tribune. The Chinese do not "savvy" mah jongg. but that will not make much difference to fashionable American de votees of the game, and It will serve as a fad for some time to come.— Sioux City Journal. A scientist asserts that ships and trains 'n' everything weigh more when they are Journeying west. That is an other reason for the movement toward California. Even a prominent citizen may take on added weight on his westward Journey.—Los Angeles Times. The Chicago youth whose mother recently shot hint to reform him has been arrested on a holdup charge. If the cure wasn't effective the mother's diagnosis at least was correct.— Louis ville Courier-Journal. The German government has dis missed 400.000 employes "In order that the state may survive." And Just 400,000 are convinced that the state will go forthwith to the dogs. —Tacoma Ledger. Henry Ford, observing how n prrsi dent proposes nnd congress disposes, decides that he doesn’t want to he president of anything In which he doesn t own a controlling Interest.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Dacambar, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .75,107 Sunday .80,795 Dona not (mind* ralilrna, la ft - ovnta. tampion or papers spoiled in printing and Incltidaa no aperlal •alea or tree circulation ol any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed end ateorn fa bnfora aaa tbia 7th day of January, 10*4. W. H. QUIVEY. ISael) Notary Public ! 0*From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other ^ Newspapers— j Hits Those Free From Income Taxes. From the Kansas City Star. The great majority of voters are free from Income taxes. Some of those who are not subject to those taxes may fancy they are not con cerned in the proposed reduction in income tax rates. They will he little affected. It is true, by changes in the normal rates. They are. however, vitally concerned in the surtaxes, for whatever affects the cost of living affects thenv. The Mellon plan, recommended by President Coolidge, Includes substan tial cuts in the surtaxes, first of all to reduce the cost of living to every body. but also to stimulate business, Increase employment and make more active markets. Thus, the Mellon plan, while making generous cuts in all incomes, but giving more than 90 per cent of the benefits to those of smaller earnings, and making ad ditional cuts on incomes from wages and salaries, not only helps Income taxpayers, but every consumer, man, woman or child. This plan Is the only source of real relief for those farmers or others who do not pay income taxes but are burdened by the high cost of living. The opposition tax plan, which makes little change in the higher rates, offers no real relief from bur densome living costs. In this plan the surtaxes are left substantially as they are now, on the specious theory that they tax the rich. They do not tax the rich, most of whom have adjust ed themselves to the present tax system by passing their surtax costa on to the consumer. High surtaxes affect everybody, but especially the poor, those who are not subject to in come taxes at all. The only way this class can get any relief from the general tax reduction is through a measure providing for lower surtaxes. Diplomatic Habiliment*. From the Wyoming Tribune. Even the Hon. Magnus Johnson cannot be displeased at the demo cratic start which Ambassador Kel logg made in Dondon. Mr. Kellogg and all the members of his staff paid their official call on hia imperial ma jesty, George of Great Britain, and they established the precedent of wear ing dignified evening dress. Since buying a new $40 suit. Mr. Johnson cannot possibly detest plain, black evening clothes quite as much as he does knickerbockers. And if they ever Induce Mr. Johnson to join a golf club in Washington, he may learn to like kneeout pants and to wear them. We hope that Mr. Kellogg did not Insult the democratic sentiment of America by allowing his tailor to set glistening silver tape over the outer seams of the trousers legs. That would he too great a concession, not so much to royalty as to wealth and society. Mr. Johnson was technically right, however. In maintaining that our rep resentative at the court of St. James should not wear knickerbockers. Diplomatically, it is good Judgment to follow the custom of the country to which an ambassador happens to be accredited. Yet. official agents of for eign governments at Washington wear habiliment symbolic of the potentates or states from which they come, and [ Three Women Br CATHERINE ELIZABETH HANSON One was a woman of the home. A mother with a sad, sweet face; Another, was a nun whose feet Traversed the paths of love and grace; The other was a wretched feoul—■ A cast off woman of the street! The woman of the home—a star That ever shines and guides us on; Her loving vigil there she keeps— The sweetest face to look upon! And nightly she consoles herself By placing In her window there. A tiny candle that might guide Her boy back to her love and care. The woman of the street! Oh. God, Have pity on her in the mire, Enslaved, degraded, and defiled To such a level! Misery dire Shows on her haggard, hungry face. Oh, God, such souls are like crushed flowers; They’ve felt the blight of sin and shame, And if they're lost, the fault is ours! , And there’s a woman veiled and pure, With radiant mercy in her eyes. She walks with steps serene and calm. And gives her life to sacrifice. And when the evening chapel bell Rings clear upon the silent air. You'll find her kneeling humbly With head bowed in reverent prayer. One was a woman of the home, A mother with a sad, sweet face; Another, was a 'nun whose feet Traversed the paths of love and grace; The other, was a wretched soul— A cast-off woman of the street. In dress do not conform to American fashion. Since the foundation of the republic there have been controversies over the garb which our representative should wear. At times there has been bitter arguments regarding the proper mode of living of our presidents and cab inet members, senators and repre sentatives. We should eat. drink, live and dress like republicans. Italy Turns Against France. From The N#w Republic. To how slight an extent the entente remains a reality In Europe is well Illustrated by the present attitude of Italy toward France. The Mussolini government had served formal notice that it will not countenance the per manent occupation of the Ruhr. It has concluded an agreement with the Rivera government in Spain which has as a major purpose a check to French aspirations In the Mediterran ean basin. Especially does it menace her communication with those Afri can colonies where exists the man power on which her whole military scheme Is predicated. Rome Is also running a race with Paris In the favor of the Moscow government, a race in which Italy will probably be the victor. Finally, Mussolini and his followers have been aroused to a pitch of bitter resentment over the new treaty Just negotiated by MM. Benes and Poincare. Rome belle’. es| When in Omaha Hotel Conant -^ Abe Martin L, v_> ' We don’t see how th’ flappers stand winter weather. Little Goldie Moots came in th’ grocery t'day shiverin’ like a Ford fender. Joe Kite hit a vein o’ white mule this mornin’ while drillin’ fer horse radish. # Copyright, ISM. that the “little entente” should have beeen formed under Italian, not French auspices—in the heat of its disappointment quite overlooking the quarrel with Jugoslavia which would have presented a grave obstacle to any such procedure. If the ItaiiarH^^ are candid they must admit that the " French have beaten them. Franee is mistress of the continent today. Of her allies only Belgium remains, but as long as she can juggle her finances to maintain the appearance of sol vency, she can stay where she is. Perfectly Reasonable. Trust Magnate—So you have at last succeeded In tracing my ancestry. What is your fee?” Genealogist—Five thousand foi keeping it quiet.—Exchange. AT the urgent request of numerous Cad illac owners we will re pair their various makes of cars in our Cadillac shop as an accommo dation, however— Cadillac Service First See Alexander CADILLAC BLDG. cTht SERVICE that must not FAIL / V m ^ILE temper ature& irop and snowstorms •age little do we real ize what is going on to main tain the conveniences we en joy every day. As we eat our toast, prepared electrically in the morning, we don’t know that at that very minute, men, belted to poles, are battling in the storm to make it possible for us to enjoy our breakfast. Electricity is a service that must not fail. Upon it de pends home necessities and conveniences; the power of factory and industry; the operating rooms at the vari ous hospitals; the elevators of downtown buildings; X-ray machines; light for of fices and stores, and much else. » i' It is tied up with the very life of tl community, every hour, every minute, every day of the year. In the switch room of the power plant at the foot of Jones street, silent men, ever on the alert, keep a careful eye on the multitude of switches. Every move of the thermometer interests them. In order that our service “must not fail” we must keep pace with growing Omaha. To maintain our present high standard of service and to join in the further development of our city, we are now expending more than $3,000,000 for im provements and additions. Omaha Is a Great Place in Which to Live! Nebraska I Power <§.