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The Morning Bee morning—e v e ning—su n d a y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO. Puhlithcr N. II. UPDIKE. Prr'idmt BALLARD DUNN. Editor in Chief. JOY M. HACK!.HR. Rusiticaa Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to *he use for publicaticn of ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dUpatches are •Jso reserved. The Omaha Bee ia a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee'a circulation ia regulaaly audited by their organisations. Entered as aecond-rlasa matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffica under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for tv • s AAA the Department or Person Wanted. At ItntlC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnnm t o. Blum —16. Scott St. New York — World Bid*. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. 8t. Louis—Syn. Trust, Bid*. Sen Fran.—Hollrook Bid*. L__ so. Side. n. w. tr. Z4tn n. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Hide. A.lanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. TRANSPORTATION AND THE PUBLIC, H. G. Taylor of the Nebraska state railway com mission touched on a very vital point when address ing the Omaha Rotary club on transportation prob lems. He said much of the friction that exists be tween the people and the railroads is due to the activities of demagogic politicians. This is unde niable. Interested men have taken advantage of the situation in order to gain their own point. In stead ef making explanations that explain, the course adopted by them has been to befuddle still more the public view. Transportation is one of the basic industries. On it depends the life of the nation. The United States is held together by the trunk lines of rail roads that link the Atlantic and Pacific in indissolu ble bonds. These are strengthened by the innu merable lines that radiate in all directions, forming a network that draws every community in the coun try close to all other communities. Without these, the nation as it stands would be impossible. Destroy it, and America will soon revert to the primitive life of isolated communities, each sufficient unto itself, and living without the sympathetic touch with others that now makes all one. The greatest single problem of the railroads in the. last dozen or more years has been to get money for extensions and betterments. Service must be continually expanded and improved, in order that the needs of a rapidly growing country can be met. Capital will not seek employment in any work that does not offer return. Therefore, the railroads must earn sufficient revenue to at least show some profit. This is elemental, and apples to any business, no matter how big or how small. Every item of cost of operation for the railroads has increased enermously since 1913. Wages, taxes, equipment, supplies, everything that enters into the expense bill has gone up. Rates have gone up, too, but not to a point where earnings have be come prodigal, or even unduly profitable. The ag gregate earnings for the calendar year 1923 were just over 5 per cent on the tentative valuation fixed by the interstate commerce commission, and about 4 per cent on the railroad estimate of value. One of the chief troubles is that the railroad case is usually presented to the public by somebody who deals in generalities, and rarely takes the time to be specific. When he does particularize, it is to distort. Efforts to combat thi* have been made by railroad managers through advertising the facts as they see them. This form of argument is confronted by the assertion that it is supported by self-interest. • * • What Mr. Taylor asks is that the public give a little more attention to the railroad side of the prob lem. Not to make up final judgment after hearing but one side of the case. Capital is needed to keep the roads up to the service point, and capital will not work for nothing, any more than a hod carrier will. Grumbling about rates and demanding better service in the same breath will not solve the trans portation difficulties that deserve the nation's best thought. The farmer, particularly the farmer of the middle' west, who must pay increased freight rates both ways cannot solve his problems wholly through de creased rates. His salvation lies in bringing up the price of what he sells to the level of other priges. That is more easily said than done. The tariff which lifts the load of Canadian competition on wheat is one worth while step. Reduction of acreages to bring production to a domestic demand is probably most important of all. A readjustment of freight rates to the seaboard must *!«o be worked out if the wheat farmer is to have a fair competitive chance with Canada. PRINTING PRESS MONEY. The approach of the franc to the disappearing point in both France and Belgium should carry a solemn warning to that school of financiers who believe that money will sustain itself. In Russia the collapse of the ruble was intentionally brought about. Lenin set out to destroy all wealth. To rarry on his work he made money worthless. He not only destroyed all wealth, but he also destroyed all means for creating wealth. Out of the experience of Russia the soviets have gained wisdom. They have put their money on a fold basis and industry is slowly reviving. Recent news dispatches in fdct contain the interesting in formation that the American dollar is at 50 per cent discount in Moscow. That is, it is equivalent to a ruble In value, but the ruble is only 50 cents in relation to the pound sterling. Germany is passing through the same cycle. Whatever the cause, the German republic started its printing presses five years sgo. It sent out such a flood of marks as fairly drowned the country and all its people. Germany is now striving to win its way back. A new currency, based on gold, is being substituted as fast as possible. The. T)awcs commis sion will recommend a gold bank as one of the means through which the German nation is to be revived. In France a mounting budget is continually pres ent, and the government seeks to bridge the gap hetween income and outlay by using the printing press to make new francs. The outpouring of paper money has brought the inevitable. With ail the resources of a busy, thrifty people, steadily em ployed at productive work, the franc is falling at a sensational rate. In each of these instances the credit of the government, the basis on which money must rest, was impaired, if not destroyed. Russia, Germany and France alike are unable to pay. They have issued drafts on credit that was not hacked with funds. France hed been through the experience once before, when the assignat? taught the world the greatest lesson in the way of fiat money, a lesson which stood as a record until the ruble led the way to a new depth. ‘ In Russia all internal indebtedness was wiped i out by the soviet government, and a determined effort was made to wipe out the external debt. In Germany internal private indebtedness incurred be i fore the war was discharged by the easy method of using depreciated marks. In both countries enormous private losses were sustained. France is in danger of having to share in this debacle of values. Thrifty and industrious will lose, because their savings will be wiped out with the wiping out of all values. The moral is so plain that it scarcely needa to be pointed out. Paper with printing on it, and nothing to back it up, cannot support a nation in distress or in prosperity. # DIGGING THE ST. LAWRENCE DITCH. The smoke barrage laid down by the oil scandal at Washington is now clearing away. It reveals that some important matters are going steadily on. One of these is the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence canal project. Jone Stone Pardoe, assistant executive di rector of the asiociation, said to a convention at Wakefield, Mich., that Canada and the United State* are getting closer together on the great undertaking. The approach to their common problems has been greatly accelerated within the l»st six weeks, and “more visible progress was made in January than in the 18 month* preceding,” Mr. Pardoe said: "At the time President Ilardlng proposed to Canada that the two countries go on with their joint consideration of the problem, In May, 1*22, there were reasons for postponement on the part of Canada which that government deemed sufficient. But now either those reasons have vanished or they have been overcome by more cogent reason* why Canada should go ahead." While this ha* been going on in Canada, mat ter* have not been at a standstill in the United States. Activities of the opposition have been met and turned back on their advocate*. One of these has to do with the engineering estimates of cost,) material and time for the great job. It is now clear that engineers have for 20 year* known more about the St. Lawrence project than the Panama engineers knew about the canal job there when it was half done. The practicability as well as the desirability of the big ocean-to-lakes canal is generally admitted. Its advocates are staunchly supported by develop ments, and are looking ahead with confidence. Ample and accurate surveys have been made. Esti mates prepared have been carefully scrutinized and are found to be sound. Unless fhe government at Ottawa is making meaningless motions, the day when tide water will be 1,600 miles nearer to the Nebraska wheat fields is not far off. KEEPING THE PRESENT FOREVER. Historian* of the year 2924 will have a decided advantage over those of today, if present plans be carried out. A bill has been prepared for congres-' sional consideration that will require that photo graphic films of all great national events be deposit ed with the government. This will provide researah workers with an excellent quality of source material. Not only will they have the recorded words of the day, but they may view the actual event, preserved in moving pictures, showing the actors as they were in life. The idea is attractive. Future generations will know Caruso, for they will hear his voice from the phonograph. Sem&rich, too, and a lot of others. They will not be mere traditions, as are Jenny Lind, and Ole Bull. WhaJ would not the public give if it could have Campanini to compare with Caruso. Or to hear a Rubensteln record after listening to De Pachmann? Sara Bernhardt preserved her golden voice for ages to come, but Siddons and Cushman died forever when they passed on. Bas reliefs on friezes of old temples and palaces, fragmentary presentments of the triumphs of gods or kings, are the unly records we have of the life that stirred when the Aryans came down from the Himalayan heights and set civilization on its way. Reconstruction from these ancient bits of sculpture challenges, but does not always content the imagina tion. We would like to know more, to see more. But the task before the archeologist, the an thropologist, who is to come a millennium or two hence Will be greatly simplified. Our ways will be laid before them. They may marvel at the clothes we wear, at the things we do, or the sentiments we revere. They will not be left to guess at the man ner of their doing or saying. The phonograph and the cinema are attending to that detail for the future. The Kansas City\journal fears that if this craze for congressional investigation keeps up they will soon begin prying into the “crime of ’73." And then comes an investigation into the smiting of Billy Patterson, the ngp of Ann, and the priority of egg or hen. The possibilities of finding something to do in order to avoid doing something that needs to be done are multitudinous. Recent mine disasters may give thoughtful peo ple some idea of why the wage question is of con siderable importance to the coal miners. A progressive, according to Governor Bryan, is one who will cheerfully and uncomplainingly play tail to the democratic kite. T.o* Angeles’ sardine catch for the year is given as 50,1)00,000 pounds. The sucker catch is not given. Perhaps the French franc is taking the dive for the purpose of interviewing the German mark. In the meantime the silence of Jimreed is be coming positively ear splitting. A hat. In the ring does not always mean a candi date on the square. It is taking a long time to get that Washington ml well spudded in. --—-— Homespun Verse —By Omaha'* Own Purl— Robert Worthington Davie THE HAZY DAYS. I'd Ilk* to return to the Hazy Hava— To the farm with lie wheat and lla rye; I'd Ilk* to atroll over the laiy Way* of Youth, whh'h ha* sauntered by. I'd like to climb up to the hny barn ledit* To the plar* wheie the ap*rrow* wl o>, And tlplo* nut to the very edge, And flighten the hud* away. I'd like to return to the *< hunt of vote,, Where the Mover complaeeptly flow*. And lift the latch of the scarred old door, And share I he deltKht Youth know*. I’d like to return to the Sunny Hell uf the joyoua Yaaterday Mur Time ha* scattered th* dear thing* well In heltery akeltery way. “The People's Voice" Editnrial* from reader* of The Morning Bee. Readers of The Morning Bee are Invited to use this column freely for expression on matters ef puhlis interest. Omnlia and Itn Neighbors. Omaha.—To the Kdilnr of Thai Omaha lire: An editorial In Friday's i Bee presents this important and In teresling subject for consideration. Ill truly says that “one of the elemen.j tary Jobs of the Omaha forward com mittee will he to establish closer and more friendly relations between file city and the country. ' The interde pendence of the one on the other is apparent to all." There are no better means by which to bring about closer and profitable relationships between ttie city and country sections than the use and maintenance of the aotomo bile Industry. Our cities have come to realise this, and therefore every progressive city maintains and supports an auto club. The state of California has 100,000 members enrolled in its clubs. The railroads of the country have contributed Important benefits to our cities and the country. The owner ship and maintenance of the auto as a vehicle of transportation has es tablished a chain of relationships be tween the city and the country pro moting educational, social and busi ness interests that did not exist be fore. The auto clubs and good roads associations have caused hundreds of miles of good roads to be constructed and maintained in tlie state. Fume of our wealthiest and most progressive states have expended large appropria tions for this purpose. Tile Omaha Auto club has a large membership at present, hut it should he materially expanded to enable it to accomplish more fully the aim and purpose it lias in view. It contributes substantial benefits to its members and to the public as well. The use snd maintenance of the auto industry has helped materially to eliminate the troublesome problem of congested populations in our cities, causing high rents and unwholesome conditions. The auto enables its owner to live in the open country in the city suburbs. He can reach his place of business in the city in much less time than for merly by any other means. Mem bership-in the Omaha club will ensure its members the attention and hos pitality of other clubs of the national association they may visit. i>. F. DO LAX. 'lea|>ot Itomr anil I’rjhiliitiun. j Missouri Valley. la.—To the Editor] of The Omaha Bee: i w.i.s puzzled i at a letter by Miss Watson of Albion, as she seemed to think the Teap-t Dome business a smoke screen for 2." tier cent. Wou'tl Mis* Willson cut out a little of the Sunday school in her next letter and tell me what direct line of thought led her to that conclusion. For the life of me I cannot fathom it. About Nie only thing I can see that the Dome is IIh hie to do is raize the deuce with the goood old parly. If you do not believe it take a republican nomination blank around for signers. You'll eel the tea! dope on this "public opinion" stuff. As for prohibition and a few other things, if a Jot of jieople would quit j hunting up beautiful passages in the j Billie to quote and get out and hunt tip »om“ real facts, there would lie less foolish talk. It's riot what you make yourself think that does any good, it s what you get from the real facts. 1'alk witli a prohibition agent that's square enough to tell you the truth aud you'll get more stuff io, think squarely about than >ou will from reading prohibition magazines or listening to "soli" speeches from birds working like the devil to keep the graft that s in prohibition. Booze Is liHii, lady. You're tight Hut get the Joy out of vour heart oxer prohibition. If vou try as hard to get facta about prohibition as vou do to believe In It, you'll ahiver. You don'J have to ask a booze fighter for contrary opinions. Oet |(1 touch with keen analytical minds that think. I never won an argument iu m.v life liny wife wins), but I learn each time 1 lose. What's (he Dome got to do with 2.7a per cent? I.ty the .aids on the table, please. I. T. Dt'ZZEN'MATTEl:. < rimes mil Punishment. Omaha—To the Kditor of The I Omaha Bee: In thia .lav and age I when ho nianv terrible murder* and crime* of all kind are liejng committed I ail over the country, would •! not lie well to look into our method of handling crimes and criminals'.' The enforcement of the rules of perpetual silence and iaolstion by wlch Its ad vocates hoped the pi isone,- would lie i reformed by inward meditation is ab solutely wrong. Such remedies are like giving a man whisky to cure him of being a drunkard, the more' h« drinks the drunker he gets. So It Is with a felon, the more he meditates the more he becomes convinced that lie Is forever disgraced and has no rhanre to heat hack, and for these poor unfortunate* there, is just one course to pursue. They must he nested civilly, kept busy at some useful task, and he ab solutely sh<v*n they . <u beat hack and that It Is up to them mid them alone to do so-—under our guidance. The desired reform will come as soon as night follows day (In nine cases out of ten), for no matter how low or hardened a man or woman may get. there Is at ill wav down In his or her heart some good left and that good inn only lie brought out in one wav. which I* by kind treatment and use fill instructions. The old method of putting stripes on men anil lelling cruel, feather brained. ignorant guards bent them and starve them Into doing s* they wanted them to. is too Hiitliiusted for Abe Martin A apeeialiat ia a feller that really know.' a thinir or two. If anybuddy ; la drainin' o' keepin’ a Kiefer pear, ha kin do it by puttin' aealin' wax on th' atrm. tCopy right, 1114 ) It? EDWIN ti. PINKHAM. How the Supreme Court Gav^ Shape to the Government The government of the union is, emphatically and truly, a government of the people. In form and sub statue it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.—Chief Justice Marshall, opinion in McCulloch against Mar\land. XXXV. HE man to whom fell the chief task of interpreting the constitution judicially was ■John Marshall, third chief justice of the i'nited States. He had been a soldier in the revolu tion and had observed, at Washing ton's side, the evils of the weak gov ernment of the old confederation. He emerged from the war a strong na tionalist. and during Ilia long service of 34 years as chief justice, sought to Pnd in the constitution the powers necessary to make this a strong na tionalist government. In this task he relied largely on the Implied powers in the constitution. That is, lie held that if congress had an undoubted power to do a thing it also had the power to employ the means to execute it In the most ef fective way. In one of his most fa mous decisions, that in the case of McCulloch against Maryland, he illus trated that theory in this wax: "Take, for example, the power ‘to establish postofflees and post roads.' This power is executed bv the single act of making the establishment. But, from this has been Inferred the power and duty of carrying the mail along the post road. . . . And from this Implied power has again been in ferred the right to punish those who shall steal letters from the postof fice." The right to punish those who rob the mail, he said, might not he indis pensably necessary to the establish ment of a postofdce. but. he pointed out. it was "essential to the bene ficial exercise of that power" That was tile Marshall theotv of Implied powers, and lie carried it into all his decisions. In the same decis ion. asserting the powers of the fed era I government, he said: "Sit trace is to he found In the con stitutlon of an Intention to create a dependence of the government of the union on those of the states, for the execution of the great powers assign ed to it. Its means are adequate to its needs; and on those means alone waa It expected to rely for the a* oomplishment of its ends. To impose on it the necessity of resorting to means which it cannot control, which another government may furnish or withhold, would render its course pre carious, the results of its measures uncei lain, and create a dependent e on other governments, which might disappoint its most Important designs, and Is incompatible with the language of the constitution." Marshalls decision In this case, made in 1S19, is icgsriled as funds menial in all questions Involving con do is of the federal and sdite power. In an earlier and even more famous! ease Marshall had held an act of ,.on gress unconstitutional, thus asserting lor the first time this high pret tiga J Intelligent civilized people t„ t.delate or condone. There are among He todav many "ho are exactly like the gcalera ' or the old-time keeper* of English pris cne They are mercenary, oppressive. Inrharuns fellov.a who have le-.* re gird for a poor prisoner than for the life of a ht ute. I he first fact overlooked by most of our officers anil keepers of these unfortunate* Is the fset that most of them are to a large .extent defective, mentally and physically, and the proper medical advice and treatment] would restore them *nd make of them' docent member* of society. Thi« cannot he denied. How often do we *ep In the daily press Items, the ah , surdity of some of our learned judge* sentencing some vagrant nr wife de serter to SO day* In jail, there to he confined in idleness and fed regularly —ah. what punishment—but this Is not the fault of the judge, tt is the system we have of dealing with this elas* of offenders; and the very svs tem whereby this petty offender get* his past graduate eduree «n crlmlnsU Itv and perfeet* hi* plan* for the committing of some more serious crime against society The whole scheme of which he ha* figured out a* wrong, that I* he has figured it wrong in his way, caused by hi* environ ment* and not having anyone to "how him anything different So it tr. and so It will he until you and I and the rest of ns take an Interest in the weifaie of our unfortunate brother. Now. there is a way of remedying this evil here in our own community, find 1 will he glad to cooperate with those who want to do something In Hie matter and make suggestion* which. I know, will remedv a lot of • ho wrong In our system of dealing with the petty offender* at least, and this I* the proper place to start anv •ffcctlve reform. A. H n i.HAM 2120 Blnney Street b if!) bitty. Hull—We shall have to reduce ex pern.,.* the coming jear. Ihi you mind cutting down hv one half the number of people wo have at our week end*? Wife i sweetly I- Not If you wish It, d**r. Hut 1 shall miss not seeing any of your friends.—Exchange. Hotel Rome Cafeteria The Bert That's All NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION I for February, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .75,133 Sunday .80,282 Daaa nat Inrltida raturna, laft avatf, •ample* or paprt • spoiled in printing and influda* n«. « per In I aalaa 01 fraa circulation af any kind V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mfr. Sokarrikad and rwara ta kafaia ma thi* 4tk day of Mart h. 1974. W. II. QUIVF.Y. iSaal) Notary Public rtv« of the supreme court. In Maroury against Madison (1803) he held that a law of congress not in conformity with the constitution was null and void / This decision gave a great shook to Jefferson and the anti-federalists— the republicans as they then were called—-and plans were made to im peach Marshall. Rut they came to nothing. Marshall's logic in this de cision could not he answered. The question was. could "an act of con gress repugnant to the constitution . . . become the law of the land?” If it could, what would he Ihe u*e of a constitution? The instrument itself said: "The constitution, and the laws of the t’nited States which shall he made In pursuance thereof^ . . shall lie ihe supreme law of the land . . Raws not made in pursuance thereof could not be valid, and the su preme court was the appointed au thority to determine whether Statutes conformed to the constitution. If it was found that a statute passed by congress snd signed by the president j was not in conformity with the «u- . preme law of the land, it v.is the! right and the duty of the supreme eourt, when the statute was brought before it, to set it aside. ThM decision gave the shape to our government, it haa since retained. Re tore that the supreme court itself had : not been highly regarded. John Jay and Oliver Kllsworth, the first two chief justices, resigned. Congress had shown a disposition to play politics with the court, and its pretensions and dignity were not high until Mar shall took his seat on it and asser’ed, ; with extraordinary statesmanship and legal ability, those powers that! made the Knited States a nation and! the court Itself the greatest and most ! respected tribunal in the world. To show what small things go to make history, mark those two names —McCulloch and Marhury. They were insignificant persons, and the causes in which their names appeared were insignificant. McCulloch was the cashier of the Baltimore branc h of the 1'nited States hank, and because he refused to pay a tax lab! on the hank by the state of Maryland, his name lives with Caesar s. Marhury s case originally involved nothing more im portant than the validity of his com mission a« a justice of the peace of the District of Columbia. But that commission had l*een issued under the authority of a judiciary act pasted by congress. It being withheld from him by James Madison, then secretary of afate. Marburv sued to compel its de livery. Long after Marhury had ceased to care anything about the job of justice of the peace, the case came before the supreme court on a sort of side issue. involving the right of the ourt to issue a writ of mandamus Marshall saw in it a greater issue, and directed his decision to the funda mental Involved—the validity of an act of congress that was in conflict with a provision of th*» constitution. Marhury s name and his just he of the peace job will always be associated, therefore, with one of the greatest and most far-reaching principles ever laid down by the supreme court of the I’nited States. If f'hief Justice Marshall had not i made this decision early, it is poasi-! bie. as Mr. Beveridge reflects in his “Life of Marshall.'' that such a de eiaion might never have l»een made. A generation was to elapse ltefore the supreme court was to exercise this fcreat prerogative, and that long lapse of time a ml the want of a precedent might easily have operated to restrain the court from assuming a power so , great. But Marshall saw' the neces sity of consolidating the government and asserting the principle of nation ality. In Marbtiry against Madison he laid dow n the doctrine that Web ater afterwards expounded with such force. It was that the powers of the goternment. executive, legislative nnd Judicial, derived from the people, and not front the states The penpl* granted them to be exercised on them selves. and neither the power of the states nor the acts cf their repre sentatives could intervene between the people and the operation of the supreme law of the land—that is, of the constitution. Thus was laid the foundation of American nationality. Before Mar shall spoke in Marhurv against Madi son it had not been determined w hether the powers of the federal gov ernment were those of a nation or of a league of states. The doctrine that Marshall laid down, that Webster ex pounded and that Lincoln enforced, made America a nation and Ameri cans a people. Wopvrlghf K»ii»m City S*«r > When in Omaha Hotel Conant j .and let the world laf with you Don’t kaap that funny atory fo yourtalf. If it makrs you l»f, it will tirkla othara and may win for you ona of tha Cash friifa for “Local Laf*” "hlch will ha awardad by Tha Omaha Raa. Think up a fun r:v story, ami *aa how you ma> lot only win a priia. hut fit .vour natna in tha tnuvirs Sand your !af to tha T.oral I af Kdifor, Tha Omaha Rra. HO.MKW VKI» IH>» M». ril. b»v < II. k . >r the miles of bright steel Speed the wheels of the fast flying tiain And faster- ami faster as miles backward r*->! I hasten on homeward again. Over the rivers and valleys ao wide. And over the prairies so fn-e. My loved ones. | know. In the soft eventide Draw neifrer and nearer to me. Rumble and roar through the hours of night, And rushing anil roaring by day. The train moves along In Its mile eating flight To hurry trie off and away To sweetest home ties in the far golden w-est Where true love haa builded • shrine. And offers tile joys and the infinite *»»t Of greeting those kiddies of mine. Mi'e i ron rniie. o the hours go by T e*e the low hills for away: Tim lari tint of go'd in the far western *kv That brightens the end of the day. And nearer, still nearer, the train In its flight Is drawing my loved ones to me. And ere soon 1 shall see the loving home light That shines through the window for ine. An Omaha manufacturer and wholesaler of ice r eam ?> reived an order from an out-of town customer who had con tracted to furnish hrick ice cream with a red heart in the cen ter for a wedding dated for February 22. A few days after tb* wedding date the Omaha rrm received a letter from the out-of town customer, from which the following extract is taken: That sure was a bonehend you pulled in filling our order for red heart ice cream center*. Imagine the when we served hatchet renters to the wedding guest*. We are going »o h»ve ^nothe" wedding next week and wPl order «ome more heart centers. Please do not s<-nd us hatchets or rolling pins An Omaha nvn drifted in an hour or two later than usual, and found his wife reading in the lihrarv. "Really, my dear’ 1 started home more t^nn two hours nco. but I happened to think of a business conference engage ment and I— “O, never mind, dearest. I’m sure any bedtime story vou might fell would- he uninteresting compared with the one I heard over the radio about 7:30.** The first *»f the year an Omaha wife agreed to 1e» her hus band play poker with neighboring husband* every Saturday night, provided he would gi\e her all hi* winning* and quit v.hen he had lost a certain amount. To date lie hasn’t lost, but he ir *4out” $J33.4ft. 'which his i wife has stowed away In her private saviors account. This i« a r-oblem in mathematics that von’!! have to fl*nire out for yourself. We are p; rurally of mild disposition and much opposed to iolence and bloodshed. Rut we announce here and now that we wiU throw on shudders of horror should we read of the lynching of the fellow' who invented the kaduku* that slips into the of a cornet and makes it sound Mke the place that mod el nists say is not. We shall not mention it again. T’nless this last notice suf fices to bring *tu us the pleasure of hearing the ladv harpist in the Rialto plav a solo, we are going to seek the aid of a T.eg Islative Knactment. Nebraska limerick. 'rhere was a man in Syracuse Who dallied wif*h the ponny juice. He cooked hi* nil! When feeling ill. And found at lest it cooked his e oo*e. With the AMD^irh of April we find a re *»sion of our Inv t :|gr to make, garden, and a groping impulse to harvest apples. WILL M MALPIX. k^as-pou^l BROMQ, QUININE “There is no other BROMO QUININE' Proven Safe for more than a Quarter of a Century as a quick nnd effective remedy for Colds Crip and Influence nnd ai a Preventive. The First and Original Cold and Crip 7 ablet Pric* 30 Ceou USE REE WANT ADS THEY 11RING RESIT.TS