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The Morning Bee' M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO, Publisher N. R. UPDIKE, Provident BALLARD DUNN, JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief. Buslnm Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Antedated Preng, of which The Bee It a member, i( excluaively entitled to the une for puhlicaticn of all newg digpatchea credited to it or not otherwise credited In thig paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee'i circulation is regularly audited hy their organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28. 1808. at Omaha postoffiee under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Privata Branch Exchange. Ask for a T I *• a nno the Department or Person Wanted. Al iRTItlC IUUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—18 Scott St So. Side. N. W. Cr. 24th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bide. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. 8an Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta--Atlanta Trust Bid. >-r __j TIME TO ACT, MR. PRESIDENT. Edward L. Doheny admits that he sent Albert B. Fall $100,000 in currency, several months before Fail as secretary of the interior approved leases that gave Doheny control of 37,000 acres of oil land in California. Doheny says he took Fall’s note, pay able on demand, bearing no interest, as security for the loan, and that no demand has been made for payment. He once boasted that the lease would net him $100,000,000. The public will not, and the president should not, regard Fall’s weak denial that he was in any way influenced by the Doheny loan. If their friend ship was so strong that the loan would be made as it was, it was strong enough to give the secretary a bias in favor of a friend so generous. Any other conclusion would be strange. President Coolidge should act without delay to restore to the public domain the land Doheny says he is willing to return if by so doing he can clear the name of Al Fall. Likewise, the lease Harry Sin clair holds on the Teapot Dome should be canceled, and all other leases of whatever kind or nature made while Fall was secretary of the interior should be carefully examined. If the president has not authority so to act, he should ask congress for the proper support without , 'waiting for criminal investigations. The Doheny statement, made to the senate committee, and the action of Sinclair, in running away, leave no room for questioning. Such deals show on their face that they are not ibove suspicion, and, believing that ‘‘a public office s a public trust,” we also hold that any action by 1 public officer that is not clean and clear in all its ietails should not be permitted to bind the public o its actual detriment. TARIFF AND THE SHEEP MEN. Whenever a democratic editor sets about to show the farmer what he should do to be saved, he usually begins by making a catalogue of the farmer’s sins. Right at the top he sets down that the farmer voted for republicans who went to congress and passed a tariff bill. If it had not been for this, nothing would have happened, and everything would be lovely. What do the farmers say in reply. Wool growers are usually classed under the general heading of agriculture, there being a suf ficient connection between that industry and grain growing to warrant the connection. President Hagen barth of the National Wool Growers’ association, ad dressing the convention at Salt Lake City on Tues day, dealing with the tariff said: "The unusual threat of Injury to the livestock In dustry from political Influence and reduction or destruction of tariffs doee not seem to be as Im minent during the present presidential years as we have been accustomed to." * These are the words of a man who is deeply con cerned in the affairs of an important branch of general agriculture. He ought to know the disposi tion of the fanner; he certainly knows what hap pens to the wool grower when the democratic party frames a free trade tariff law. President Hagen barth will not meet general approval for his utter ances in the councils that oppose the republican ad ministration, 'but he talks like a man who knows what he is talking about. * MIRACLES PERFORMED BY MAN. Little boys and little girls will stuff things up their noses or down their throats. Mothers can not always watch them. Once surgical science was un able to aid them. Many a time a sorrowing desper S, ate mother and a sympathetic and almost as desper ate doctor have been compelled to watch a baby gasp out its little life, because it had swallowed something that lodged in the windpipe or the lungs. This menace is now almost completely removed. Surgical skill and invention has provided the means to overcome it. Twice within a week the broncho acope has vindicated itself. A baby was hurried from St. Louis to Philadelphia, where a surgeo'n re moved a carpet tack from one of ita lungs. Another was brought to Omaha from North Platte to have a kernel of corn extracted. In both caaes the work was deftly and expeditiously performed. The modern surgeon works wonders. Hd takes hold of the very secret springs of life. Brain, heart or lungs, the most vital parts of man, are dealt with after a fashion that is almost uncanny by these men whose educated fingers are the instruments of s highly specialized mind. They can make inanimate instruments aot as if they were alive. These two recent incidents of babies preserved from certain and painful death are land marks in the work of the modern surgeon. IS LIBERTY A VAIN THING? Is there to be no letup in the campaign now waged with the seeming purpose of depriving us of every possible liberty that has been won on many a battlefield, vocal and military? When William Dorsey insisted upon cooling his coffee in a saucer in a Kansas City restaurant, he was thrown out. More, he was later arrested and fined $50, ostensibly for throwing a brick through the restaurant window, hut really for having in dulged in the old-fashioned pleasure of saucer-cool ing his coffee. How long are we who love liberty and in the long ago somewhat given to exercising it, going to stand for this sort of thing? Must we be forever edging over and allowing ourselves to be divested of privileges as old as mankind Itself, or must we arise in our majesty and, drawing our cloaks about us, draw a line and exclaim. “So far and no farther.” We are willing to bow to the decreea of fashion and drink our coffee from the cup, or even sip it from the aide of the spoon, but only because we have a desire to maintain friendships. But when it comes to b»*"g arbitrarily denied the solace of saucer-cooled coffee, at the point of the bayonet, so to speak, we Tebel, and glory in being called rebel. If the glorious star-spangled banner under which we have so long and so proudly lived, permits the curtailment of many more "of our liberties, we are going to hoist the banner hoisted hy John Paul Jones, and which bore the legend, “Don't Tread on Me!’’ The worm is about to turn. MR. FALL’S WONDERFUL FRIENDS. Edward L. Doheney, also a multimillionaire oil man, tells the senate committee that he loaned Albert B. Fall $100,000 as a friendly act. Mr. Fall was preparing to retire from the office of secretary of the interior. Also he was making ready to conclude a lease with an oil company, of which Mr. Doheney is the head, by which he would dispose of a valuable oil deposit. And he planned on buying a larger ranch. Now, aii of this looks quite simple on the sur face. Mr. Fall was quite anxious to get into a sustaining business of his own. He had to have capital to start on. We have it on the testimony of Harry Sinclair that he sold to Mr. Fall certain blooded stock animals, wherewith to start his herd; alsp that Mr. Fall was charged full price for these animals. Mr. Edward B. McLean of Washington, also a multimillionaire, has testified that he personal ly loaned Mr. Fall $100,0(0 as a friend, although Mr. Fall did not cash the checks. On the surface again, everything appears to be shipshape. The one outstanding fact is that Mr. Fall was exceedingly fortunate in his selection of friends. Men who can write checks for $100,000 and hand them out on simple promissory notes are good to have as friends in time of need. Yet, how does such friendship strike a cynical world? Men are so prone to be distrustful of these acts of pure philanthropy, you know. Messrs. Doheney, McLean and Sinclair did not think of the oil lease at all. What they had in mind was that Mr. Fall is a good fellow. They wanted to sec him get along. He had been United States senator for a long time, at a starvation stipend, then a member of the president’s cabinet, at an equally low salary, and these friends of his merely had the object in view of helping him get something in the way of a new start. But the world does not see it in that light. Some how, folks will question such kindly acts, and ask, “How come?" If Mr. Fall’s friends had really been kind to him, they would not have placed him in such an embarrassing situation. It will be a long time before ordinary folks will believe that loans of $100, 000 or any similar sum are made without a "quid pro quo,’’ and that is just what is troubling the oil that is not smoothing the waters around the Teapot one little bit. Another interesing point. When Mr. Doheney prepared to loan his $100,000 to Mr. lull, he didn’t just hand him a check, which Mr. Fall would need to endorse and put through his bank. Mr. Doheney cashed the check himself, put the cash in a satchel and turned the satchel over to Mr. Fall. Funny way to handle a loan from one business man to another. But then this seems to have been funny business. Senator Reed asks all who have knowledge of any propaganda of any kind, past or present, to impart their knowledge to ^lim. Senator Reed might step into a quiet comer and whisper into his own ear what he knows of the propaganda that resulted in hia re-election to the senate. After General Butler drives all the crooks and other undesirables out of Philadelphia, and the cities where they flock drive them back to Philadelphia, what is General Butler going to do about it? Sup pressing vice and scattering criminals are two separ ate and distinct propositions. Among other policies of the Liberal league is to “check indiscriminate recourse to legislation.” The successful carrying out of that policy would result in a lot of professional reformers either working without salary or engaging in some useful line of human endeavor. Senator Wadsworth said, “I have not read it, and that probably indicates my interest in it," refer ring to the Bok peace plan. A little more reading and thought mig$t beftefit even some of our sena tors. A new spaghetti eating champion has been dc eloped in Kansas City, but we still keep our eyes /hied on the medal won by Secretary Wallace as a milker. We have no hesitancy in admitting that it would take something more than a radio to reconcile us to a winter on an icebound ship in the frozen Arctics. A San Diego policeman spanked a woman who was beating her huaband. The bravery of our police men become more evident with each passing day. A com-fleld sailor Is to sit in on the shipping board. One of them once ran a large section of the United States navy, and he came from Nebraska. Wouldn’t it be the height of something or dther if the winner of the Bok peace prize had to pay income tax on it in order to pay war’s expenses? Presence of several of Uncle Sams warships in the vicinity of the Mexican ports appears to have modified Huertistas plans for a blockade. If Claude Bossie should come back, he will be as sured of a reception at New York fcuch as he did not get the first time he landed there. The inventor of the circus pink lemonade died the other day. The inventors of synthetic beverages ure still alive and taking toll. Disclosures warrant the conclusion that Ludwig Lewisuohn had a real reason for not coming to Omaha to lecture last week. Having about located the Hin in Sinclair, it is time to put some clarity Into the situation. That word “scofflaw” is calculated to make almost any normal man do that very thing. What ever became of the move to disarm Jerry Howard? Homespun Verse —tlj Omaha's Own Toe!— ^ Robert Worthington Davie ^ FATE IS AS WE MAKE IT. We may distrust the world that given us that f..r which we seek, Ami feel that credit is withheld and prestige given not; We may grow strong In loving, nr In hating life grow weak, And by our actions elevate or falsify our lot. We may see gloom behind the sun s resplendent, ar rowed reys; We may nee Age come stealing In upon n III tie child. And sunshine we mny view behind the drooping clouds, iind gu/.e lleyond depression till we aie consoled and reeonr.lod. Tench ns to know our Fate In wrought l>y what we choose to he. And as we Judge our fellow men thus an- we Judged, end led Along the trull to take or lAave life's opportunity. And sink In pessimistic mire or bravely march ahead. / [“From State and Nation’’ —Editorials from Other ^ Newspapers— ^ “Helping the Farmer.'' Joseph L. Bristow in Selina (Kan ) Journal A large majority in both branches of congress has declared In favor of legislation that will 'help the farmtr.-’ It is universally recognized that the agricultural Industry Is very much depressed, but almost every scheme that is proposed fur its benefit is wide of the mark. Members of the farm bloc in both houses at the close of the lust session boasted about the fine measuies that had been adopted for the benefit of the farmer, but they seen-.' to have been of little prac tical use. The trouble is that our statesmen appear to think that tlie way to help the farmer is to make It easy for him to get Into debt. The agrlcuitura! Industry is carried on to a large extent by borrowed capital. The farmer as a class is now, and has always been - heavily in debt. Ex perience demonstrates that tl. does not help, but hurts him financially, to get deeper In debt. What the farmer wants is a good price for hts product so as to enable him not only to live comfortably, but to pay his debts. The grentest burden on agriculture today Is excessive freight rates, not only on the products of his farm, but upon the things which he has to buy. The bulk of the farm products in the United States is grown in the Mississippi valley. The prairie states comprise the rich and productive sec tion of our country. The whole in dustrial and commercial life of fhat section of the country is dependent upon the products of the soil. The expense of transporting those pro ducts to market is of the most vital consequence. Moreover, all supplies of every character, fuel, machinery, lumber, brick, cement, household necessities of every kind that are used In the building of cities, towns, homes and farm equipment, must be moved over the railroads A general increase of a few cents per 100 pounds In freight charges Is of more conse quence to the people of that territory than a federal tax hill, yet our rep resentatives in their effort to help the farmer, most of them at least, dodge this issue. With the exception of a half dozen senators and a score or so of congressmen, no one in con gress is making an effort to reduce the expense of transportation. The reason for this timidity on the part of our statesmen is the political power of the railroads, organized as they are. The controlling Influence of practically al! lines centers in New York, and dominates the politics, not only of that region, but very materi ally of the entire country. Our Altruistic "Isolation." Wlllla Fletcher Johnson In The North American Review "To administer to their wants, with out being engaged In their quarrel*.’’ The words of Washington to Edward Newenham come gratefully to mind today, in a noteworthy example of their fulfilment, as the ideal of our policy toward the nations of Europe. The want of Russia was that the sick should be healed and the hungry fed and the naked clothed: and we did that work to an extent and with a thoroughness unrivaled In human an nals; despite the fact that at the same time the Russian government was treacherously trying to stab us with a poisoned dagger. The want of Ger many Is said to be that, the starving shall be succored; and we are under taking that work, regardless of the overflowing granaries and storehouses of that country, the contents of whlcn are not distributed to the needy only beeause of the criminally perverse policy of the government in wrecking the national flnances In an attempt to •wind's Its creditors. The want of our recent allies Is that we shall aid them In determining the complicated controversy over German reparations: and to that call we respond by send Ing * commission of highly competent authorities to do that work. And In all this administration to their wants, we scrupulously refrain from being In any way engaged In their quarrels. That is the answer to the Insincere or ignorant reproach of our "selfish iso latlon." Where Is there another na thm in the world that has been so leady unselfishly to aid its neighbors? I have been temped to wonder wheth er some of those who rail against our present w|se and generous policy ore not more desirous of meddling than of helping, and would not prefer to re verse Washington's rule, and "engage In their quarrels without administer ing to their wants." So much seeme certain, that If we were at this mo ment Implicated In European Intrigues and rivalries, as a member of the I-eagua of Nations, we should be Ipso facto Incapacitated for the very ssrv Ices which Europe Is now begging of us and which we are altruistically rendering. Popguns and Big Berthas. From ths Niw York Time* Hulletlns and proclamation* by a political committer have a*x>ut as much effect on public opinion a* one paper bean bag ha* on the procession of the equinox* * The waste basket is the Inevitable home for that sort of “literature.” The long statement of the democratic national committee about “/he Teapot Dun** scandal” and other Iniquities is another of the floun dering attempts of too many demo era tic politician* to turn the genera! attention from the one point on which It is fixed unalterably. Anticipating the report of the senate committee whose business it is to find the facts, t-hairman /lull's sages give their own rhetorical narrative and surmise. Those who have followed the testl* mony, without partisan prejudice, must be convinced that Secretary Denhv. relying upon naval expert* who believed that the oil would be sucked dry by outside wells, is blame less. if any blame attaches to this aspect of t be lease Tbs personal and pecuniary affairs of former Recre tary of the Interior Full ore another matter. Meanwhile this premature explosion of the democratic national committee and the bombastes furioso rodomon fade of Senator faraway of Arkansas make Judicious democrat* grieve For this is bur another act of "Trying to MambOogla the People.‘‘ Revenue bills to catch voles, playing, ill the house | and in the senate, into the hands of indicnl* with m preposterotiglprogram, i including I he reirnp*isitbrn df ex< ess profits tax*** these me among the expedients by which too many demo*'rats In congress * i-<*k to obstruct or prevent flic realization of the gen eral demand fm Secret *i y Mellon's plan of lax i billet Pm Denvocrntlc secretary of the trens urv after demnet .itlc secretary i f the freasmv called for tax reduction. I.opplng off tb*' high brackets of the surtax was good democratic doctrine whin expressed by Mr. Houston and Mr. Ulna.* Homing from a repubti can Secretary t-f the treasury it won t *1*1. The I « ’ 11! t • 11 ill would ‘get file credit ‘ of it Why not taka the high er, the patriotic and even the w|m partisan vle\#, ns some thoughtful democratic congressmen do9 Tax re • Inet Inn Is a notional necessity Ret the demoernts |nlu life i epublP ir s in giving It to tic country. If they don't, if, in fancied cleverness, tliey I r-> ^ What Counts J O. what Is the all that matter* To one who would follow far— With follow ly might and manner— The courses of things that are? Not anything counts in heaven, Or under the earth or sun. So much as a Christian effort Of labor uprightly done! By mortal machines constructed. According to God's great plan— The complicate engino, woman. The complicate engine, man! Dust flies! Fast the true attritions Change forests to burnished boards. Laid by Divine provision For paradise building hoards. Force fails! For the heart wheel ceases: But not till Us tireless strife ITrfects the Creator's purpose For lending It breath of life! ENVOY. Omnipotent Operator, Who sets all the sou! wheels free. At turn off time, O commend them To enter Thy Joy with Thee! —Alta Wrenwiok Brown. juggle away tax relief at this session, they will give to President Coolldge the strongest of issues—the sole issue They know it Is. The more they try to befuddle the people the more open ly they confess. They can avoid that Issue by helping the republicans to end it. They can avoid it In no other way. If it remains the Issue, the re publicans will go Into the next cam palgn with high hopes. IJncolM. From tbs Detroit News Representative Ira Greenlief Horsey of Moulton. Me., took the floor in the house of representatives for 40 min utes on "Lincoln, the Man of Common Sense.” Unanimous consent was granted. * Representative Mersey has chosen a fine subject. Mr. Lincoln, about whom ho will speak for 40 minutes, was once called on for an address, the occasion being a stirring one. Me responded with an address which lasted all of three minutes Doubtless Representative Herse.v has 13 times as much to say as did Mr. Lincoln, and 13 times the common sense which Lincoln uttered In that address should be a great boon to the world. Lincoln's three minute speech lives through the ages a» the "Gettys burg Address.'' Mr. fink's Refusal. From the Brooklyn Eaxle. Mr. Bok politely hut firmlv tells the parked Investigating committee of the senate that his personal expenditure In regard to the so-called peace plan is his own business. He refuses to give figures. Ho holds that he has the right to spend his money to secure something approaching a popular referendum on a subject in which he I is deeply interested, and he rightly r< gards the action of the committee in seeking the sum of this peculiar In vestment ns unwarranted by any pub lic necessity. Everybody knows that Mr. Bok's i adventure Is a costly one and every body knows that the Beed committee was picked for the purpose of dis crediting him. if possible. The com mlttee may .tine or otherwise penalize him for contumacy. He is doubtless prepared to welcome such an outcome In the spirit that ones led Theodore Roosevelt to remark concerning an executive act undertaken without di tect legislative sanction: "Congress can Impeach ml if they choose, but I'd like to see them try it ” Nothing would be more likely to create sym pathy for the Bok peace rlan than the punishment of Mr. Bok by a coir, mittee dominated by senate shellbacks implacably hostile to any proposal for world peace through American co operation. Mr. Bok Is not abusing his prlvi leges as a citizen If he seeks to influ enee public opinion in what he con aiders to be a right direction He may well say that If this he propaganda those who disagree with him mav make the moet of it. The senate itself goes In for propaganda on a large and expensive scale. Not so long ago one member of that august body read into the Congressional Record page after page of moth eaten documents In an effort to prove that we should have nothing to do with the wicked gov ernment* of Europe These pages were printed at a large expense to the taxpayer and circulate!! at still great er expense. But when a private citi zen undertakes to defray from Ins own pocket the cost of a popular, referendum senators treat him as a suspect to be bullied and badgered bv a prejudiced conwnlttee. f Center Shots j Every man who ha* gone tti and tried to stop a family row knows why tTncle Bam healtatea to Interfere In Europe.—Akron Beacon Journal. President Ooolldge Is gold to he very fond of dumb animals. That's cer tainly fine, nnw that congress Is In session—New Castle News. A man Is but a worm of the dust He comes along, wiggles ntl-iut a bit. and finally some chicken gets him — Norfolk Ledger Dispatch. German Immigrants nro arriving In such largo numbers at Elhs Isl in-l tbnt the quota Is expected to he \ hausted within a few days. From all accounts. It Is rather a go. d tlm-> to get out of Germany for gemd.— Sioux City Journal "Ford has bought a herd of prize milking cows"' Thought they were steers. But what we started out 10 say was that he has probably abandoned the Idea of giving the world a synthetic cow Toledo Blade In Europe people have i n Idea that every American who lands h is a I. t of money. But that's the only time he has It—when h» lands Bethle hem Globe. We have been wondering If that gang of robbers and pirates was si rested In Florida because they didn't have an office or a hotel —Cleveland Nows. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Drc*mKtr, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .75,107 I Sunday .80,705 Dn*i not iiulndf return*, laft over*, samplva or pap»ra •polled m printing and include* no *p«ct»l • oi fiM circulation of *nv kind. V, A BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to halor# me ihiR 7th doy of January, 1024 W II QUIVFY, (Stall Notary t’trWIia .. ■ i ■ i f "THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” Cdlterlal from raadart of The Morninp Baa. Reader* of Tha Mtralnp Baa ara Invited to uta this column freely for expraatios l an siattara sf public interaat. J Religious Instruction in Ptiblir Schools Wausa, Neb.—To the Ldltor of The Omaha Ree: Suppose there were on the statute books of Nebraska a law in substance like this: Sec. 1. Religious instruction shall be given two hours each week in all public schools locate* within Incorpor ated villages or cities In Nebraska. All pupils above the second grade shall tie required to attend these sessions, and may be excused only upon request of the parents or guardian. Sec. 2. The instruction shall be given by clergymen, if obtainable, to siding In or near the village or city, or In the absence of such clergymen, by a layman or woman appointed by the church not having a clergyman. Sec. 3. The pupils of each school shall choose their own religious in structor, guided by the advice of their parents or guardian, and shall he or ganized Into classes so that each pu pil is placed in the class of the In structor he or she has chosen. Sec. 4. The clergymen shall be paid for their services at a rate per hour equal to the highest rate paid any In structor of the school in which they give instruction. Sec. 5. In all schools outside of In corporated villages and cities the teacher shall give Instruction In Bibli cal elides at least one hour each week of school. The above Just suggests the main body without trimmings. Of course there would have to he more details and provisions to fit different circum stances and conditions that might he met. Is there need of such a law? Well, there is a crying need of something In taking a general survey of condl tlons today one cannot help being shocked at the alarming rate at which juvenile delinquency Is mounting Something must .he done to Inculcate ■adequate standards of moral Integ rity or our social welfare Is doomed. Rut 1 hear some one give the old familiar philosophy, "Well, that Job belongs to the church.” Let us see. It has been found by recent Investiga tion that there are In the United States 27.HOO.OOO children and youth under 25 who are not receiving systematic religious and moral instruction from any church, while seven out of every ten of the children and youth of Ameri a are not enrolled in any Sun day school or parochial school for re liglous instruction. The church cannot compel attend anee an the state cgn. and therefore so many millions of the children of our country grow up untouched by any churrH. The state requires all children to attend school at a certain period and It prescribes the course of study. But it leaves out the main subject for good citizenship, for it is a well established fact that learning without religion is a dangerous thing. The two need go hand in hand to make good citizens, and prom-ting good citizenship is the fundamental ■bject of our laws for compulsory school attendance. This lack of religious instruction for our youth probably contributes more than any other one thing to wards lilllng our penitentiaries. \\ e read of a welfare worker making a study of the convicts of a certain pen itentiary. He found among all those convicts only three who had ever at tended a Sunday school, and they had attended only an inconsiderable time. However, public sentiment seems to begin wakening to the needs of the hour, and we find tn one school of the state at least a chart containing the Ten Commandments hung on the wall of each room. J. E. BAGGSTROM. I >ies .No on B«k. Wayne. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Many people will not send In their "no" votes on the Bok peace plan because they think they will not he counted. X took pleasure In sending In my "no" vote and wish X had a million more to send. My main reason for opposing any kind of a scheme for a world court or league of nations Is that I have been taught loyalty to the United States of America. My ancestors fought for the unloq and to preserve our Independence, which 1 prize loo highly to sacrifice for a peace plan which Is a peace plan only by name. The democrats found out what the people thought of a league of nations, and so will XJres!dent Coolldge find out what they think of a world court If he persists. Courts do not keep people from fighting, neither will a world court keep nations from fighting If they see lit to do so. 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