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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1924)
Today Plenty of Cheap Money. Its the Citizens Fault. Big American Figures. High Tariff or Bread line? ^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^, You could borrow all the money you wanted at three per cent yes terday, to gamble in stocks. It cost you five and a half per cent if you wanted it to build a factory. That, as Mark Twain said of Wag ner's music, “is not quite as bad as it sounds.’’ They lend “call” money for gam bling at a low rate of interest, be cause they can “call” it back when ever they want it. And the great thing it to have money when you want it. Washington news is not pleasant. One set of officials rob their gov ernment treasonably, taking bribes in exchange for the navy's oil re serves. Another set, in cowardly fashion, robs -wounded soldiers through graft in the Veterans’ bureau. Another set organizes bribery and blackmail, through the Inter nal Revenue department, with the help of the prohibition laws. Earnest cartoonists show the haughty American citizen, deeply depressed, highly indignant. Let that citizen ask himself how much interest he has taken in pub lie affairs. He ought to know that the citizens get the government that they deserve and as much grafting and dishonesty as they permit. American enterprises run into big figures. United States Steel reports for 1923 a business gain of $500,000,000 over 1922. Ninety million dollars were spent for permanent improvements, and even after that, net profits in creased more than $65,000,000. The total business was more than $1,500,000,000, and profit $16.43 a share on common stock that Andrew Carnegie said was only gas, because it wasn’t even water. These gigantic profits are shown despite the fact that the company has changed from a 12 to an 8-hour day, employing in consequence 17,000 men more. Moral: This country is rich -nough to treat workmen generous y. Noble women propose to expose by terrible examples the dreadful high tariff. They will go through the country exhibiting clothing and other things, placarded to show the tariff cost. Such an exhibition all by itself is not exactly fair. The ladies should also take with them photographs of old breadlines, common in this country when jobs were scarce and wages low. High tariff, high prices, every body making good wages, is better than low tariff, low price# and a first-class breadline in each im portant city. You can't have everything. Near Los Angeles they found a skull, older than the Neanderthal or Piltdown man. Found in gla cial sands below the Pleistocene clay. This old American probably lived 500,000 years ago. Los An geles real estate dealers weep, to' think of the bargains he might have picked up. Yet, had he- bought the whole of California 500,000 years ago for $1, his ancestors wouldn’t be at rich today as they would be if he had taken his dollar and put it in a good, safe bank at compound in terest. The result of such an in vestment would be enough to buy th# entire earth, if it were made of solid gold, or solid diamond. Buy good real estate if you can, but don’t despise the little savings hank account or the power of com pound interest. Explain this. Eight Italian mu sicians were locked up for playing in the public streets, on Sunday. When it was explained that they were playing and marching at the head of a funeral procession they were set free and the policeman that arrested them was reprimand ed. . Wouldn’t it puzzle a man from Mars to learn that it is all right, on earth, for eight Italians to play music in front of a corpse that can’t hear it or enjoy it, and all wrong for them the play the same music in the same place in the same day for the pleasure of those with ears to hear? We are queer bi peds. You would say that big muscles on arms and back are more valu able earners than deep convolu tions of the brain as you read of offers made to Mr. Jack Dempsey. He has a moving picture offer of a million and two offers running from half a million to a million for a few minutes of fighting. “Muscle is king,” you say, but then remember that John D. Rock efeller, leaning over his 21-foot putt, might have one little thought that would earn him fifty millions, and he wouldn’t have to be photo graphed or fight, to get it. Dr. Leitch of the Cancer hospi tal in London, has discovered a. method of producing cancer arti ficially. Isoprene tar, on a mouse s back, causes a small wart which soon branches out and becomes a cancer. That’s an important dis covery, for knowing how to cause a disease is the first step toward knowing how to cure it. Some of the extra kind-hearted people will probably say “poor, dear little mice, how horrible.” They wouldn’t object, i(thcy could see a human being slotvly dying of caneer. Russ Pogrom Reported. London. March 25.—An ISxchangc Telegraph dispatch from Berlin thb afternoon contained an unconfirmed report that soviet troops had executed l.ROii women and children In the oliwopol district of Ukraine hemilRi -.-units had attuyked and killed local communist leadera. Former Member Y] Cabinet Will Answer Johnson Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa to Address Meeting Here— l rges Nomination of Coolidge. Leslie SI. Shaw, former governor of Iowa and for five years member of the Roosevelt cabinet, will be in Omaha today to answer Senator Hiram Johnson. Mr. Shaw is urging the nomination of President Coolidge. “Say for me," said Mr. Shaw in a ntesage to Coolidge leaders in Omaha, “that the president is every inch a leader. Mr. Johnson mistakes loud talk for leadership. “The president's mesagrs to con gress reveal the finest kind of leader ship, of the sort that Is all the more valuable in Its quiet contrast with the loud talk we are getting these days from every side.’’ Mr. Shaw will arrive at 11:30 over the Northwestern railroad and will he met by a committee at the Union sta tion. He will speak in the evening at the Brandeis theater. Seats will he reserved on the stage for prominent citizens and the meet ing will ho in charge of W illiam Gurley, as chairman. Former Omaha Pastor Commends Poliee Chief Columbus, Neb., March 23.—Em phatic commendation was given Chief of Police Jack Lehman in an address by Rev. E. I^mont Gelssinegr, for mer Omaha clergyman, pastor of the First Methodist church, because of the chief's declaration that giving liquor to boys and girls In Columbus must stop. “It Is refreshing to know there is a man at the head of the police de partment In a town like Columbus willing to act," declared Mr. Geissln ger. Rev. Mr. Geisslnger said he would be willing to get up after midnight any time to help the chief. Roads in Bad Condition. Beatrice, Neb., March 25.—High* ways leading to Beatrice are in bad shape as the result of the blizzard which visited this region a week ago. PRISONER LEAPS jl OUT CAR WINDOW •enW Dispatch I* The Omaha •« Sidney. Neb., March 24.—8nmu< I Franklin, 26, wanted for white slav ery In California, escaped from United Stales Marshal Jacob D. Walter, Connecticut, and hie deputy, by leaping through the w indow of a train as It wae drawing out of the Sidney elation. After a diligent naurch by Walter and local officers, Franklin wae lo cated hiding in a Sidney drug sloie. Franklin had been a fugitive from justice for two years. State Traversed by Gulf Highway Sand Hill Road Only Bad Por tion of Road From Texas to Canada. Oshkosh, Neb., March 25.—Though the fact has not received much pub licity, a highway running from Can ada to the gulf of Mexico crosseB Nebraska. This is the GulfPlains Canadian highway, which begins at Corpus Christie, Tex., and enters Ne braska at Julesburg, Colo. The entire route from Its southern terminus to this city is In fairly good condition. The sand hill road through Morrill county is the only bad por tion of the route, so far as it has been laid out and approved, although a short piece of sandy road in Dawes county needs rebuilding and some of the South Dakota roadway has not been completed. The high association is fully Incor porated in each state the road crosses and its promoters believe that it will be recognized by the traveling public as second in importance in the cen tral states only to the Lincoln high way. Old Resident Dies. Glenwood—John P. Colwell, for 50 years a resident of Glenwood. died at the residence of Lewis Johnson. Head colds Melt in spoon; inhale vapors; apply freely up nostrils. VICKS T VaroRub Owmr i 7 MUlimm Jmrm t/mrf Yamrty Smart Spring Styles in Nelly Don Wash Frocks For Home and Informal Wear i-etty little frocks of ginghams tnd Windsor prints cut full and in 3inart modish styles, they are a de light to the woman who wishes to look well about her home at all times. They are simply cut, which assures perfect and easy launder ing. Specially Priced 1.95 and 2.95 Extra Sizes 2.50 and 3.50 Third! Floor—South Come to See Our Novelty Shoes We have a wonderful line of new slippers for spring. Ask to see them. There is an un usual variety, a com plete range of sizes, and most moderately priced. Priced, at 6.50 Shoe Department— Third Floor Wednesday is Caramel Day “Caramel Day” at Brandeis means de licious, full cream car amels, plain or filled with nuts, offered at a lower price than asked on any other day. Special— Per Pound, 43c Candy Department— Main Floor 3,000 Yards Pretty Colored Dress Linens Per Yard 69c 3,000 Yard* Colored Dress Linen—A new shipment of 36-inch colored dress linen; warranted all pure flax; of a beautiful soft finish; in the season’s most favored colors: / Copenhagen Blue Maize Reeeda Green Golden Brown, Lavender Silver Gray Honeydew Old Rose Medium Blue and Tan Main Floor A rrived by Fast Express for Wednesday ^Remarkable Sale 325 Beautiful Goats Made to Sell to 55.00 25“ Xever have we received an express shipment * that contained better merchandise or aroused more enthusiasm than this. They are of the highest quality and made to sell as high as 55.00. In this sale for half and less than their value. The Coat Opportunity of the Sea son— Be on Hand Early Coats for Women For the Miss For the Young Woman For the Large Woman For the Matron For the Small Woman > For Dress For Motoring For Street For Morning For Sports For Afternoon For Shopping Materials English Plaids Homespuns Twills Chartneen Juina Cloth » Shades Tans Russets Grays Browns Blues In a wide range of sizes, from 3d to 53. They are lined throughout with high grade silks, crepes and novelties. Plenty of Extra Sizes Every one is smartly tailored, beautifully styled, and each is correct in every detail. They are such that the most fastidious, the most exacting woman will he proud to wear on any occasion, yet priced so low that the most economical can afford them.