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The Omaha Bee MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publi.h.r N. B. UTDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN, JOY M, HACKLKR, Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, exclusively entitled to the use for repuhtication of all news dispafct-ea rrediied to it or not otherwise credited in this osi»er, and also i he local news published herein. All'rights of republicans of our special dispatches are alsi* reserved. iTie Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee’s circulation is regularly artfrted by their organization?. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March S, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for a T* I *.• 1 AAA the Department or Person Wanted. ^ * IftlltlC 1V/UU OFFICES Main Office—17 th and la main Co;*JJluffs —15 Scott St. So. Side.N. W. Cor. 24th N. York — W’orld Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City — Bryant Bldg. St. Touia — Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Fran.-—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg, s - - / » _ _ _ OaidhdVhei^ tho^si is a( i(s Bes( : WALSH AFTER WOMEN’S VOTES. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana is a fork ing good democrat.. So it is not to be wondered at that he told the women he addressed at Buffalo that President Coolidge is doing nothing to aid in restor ing peace in Europe. It was a gathering of the Na tional League of Women Voters, and the senator’s speech was intended to influence their action when they go to the polls. He denounced the World Court plan as dead. On this he should be posted, for it is the senate that is acting as undertaker, not the pres ident. "I do not plead for a reversal of the verdict through which the United States declined member ship in the league,” said Senator Walsh. "But I do pleAd for the active participation by our government in Any effort which may be made through it or any other channel to bring about a restoration of normal industrial activity in Europe and to establish a state of actual peace among them, in every rase in which it is reasonably safe to do so without entangling our selves in their quarrels.” Note the saving clause of the senator’s remark, end-then ask how or in what manner the president may do more than he has done. The Dawes commis sion is the latest, and the most effective attempt so far made on our part, to show Europe the way to peace. Our government is represented officially or unofficially on every important board that is working under the League of Nations. So far as "it is rea sonably safe to do so without entangling ourselves in their quarrels,” we have taken part in the affairs of Europe, earnestly striving to assist at all times and in all places. The record is entirely against Senator Walsh, but such a fact does not worry him. He will persist in dispensing his glittering generalities, covering his pious wish with the air-tight saving clause, and blam ing the republican president for not doing what he would vote against doing if the matter were brought up in the senate to he voted on. A democrat look H'rhert Hoover is quoted as saying that what this.‘country needs is more fishermen in public life. ( an; it he possible that Herbert is making a strategic • nlay for the presidency? HAND SHAKING AT THF. WHITE HOUSE. Senator Thomas Heflin, who hails from the state of Alabama, hut whom, we trust Hoes not always rep resent that state, indulged in a wonderful hurst the other day, anent the shaking of hands. It had been announced that the president would discontinue the custom of grasping the good right hand of an aver age number of 250 visitors a day. Senator Heflin arose to address the senate on the subject of the bonus bill, but he used the first 15 or 20 minutes to bold up to scorn and derision the occupant of the White House, because he no longer shook hands with all who come. Incidentally, Bascom Slemp re eivod some of the backfire of the senator’s oratory, hut *the main stream was directed at the chief ex ecutive. •hist why should the president of the United States, ir ati.v one else be required to endure the pump-han dle jlrocess of hand-shaking? A friendly grasp in greet ing ms all well enough, but where the visitors pass ill n line a block or two in length, the process becomes somewhat of a burden to the man who has to receive them all. We know it is an honor to “shake the hand that -hook the hand of Sullivan.” It is reported that|sonietimrs the hand that grasped that of the president is not washed for days, in order that the essence of the contact may not wear away. America expects a great deal of the man they put Into the highest office of the nation. Not only do they load him down with a job that is too big for any one man to carry comfortably, hut they persist in thp idea that he must he continually on parade for their benefit. When the country was suffering from the shock of the news of Warren G. Hardings death, many resolves were made that the president's load should be lightened. It has been, by omitting the hand-shake. We do not think any of our institu tions will topple because of this, however it may be regarded by thp senator from Alabama. After the hand-shake has been cut out long enough, it might not be a bad idea to curtail the custom of allowing visitors tn wander into the White House, unless they have more reason than mere curiosity. Every good loyal American citizen has an inter est. in the president, and that interest ought, to take some thought for his comfort. Wc pray for his health; why not help to answer that prayer by helping him to keep his health, through the simple process of not intruding on him at unseemly times? "THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE” Mother’s place in the machinery of the house hold is too often not realized until she finally suc cumbs to the everlasting strain and goes to bed, and then the whole machine is out of keltPr. The cogs will not mesh, the belts will not hold, the cams stick and the spoiled product piles up on every hand. When mother gives up and goes to bed, every thing around the house quickly changes places. Nothing is where it ought to he, and nobody knows where anything is. When mother is able to be up and around she has the uncanny knack of being able to locate tlie mislaid cap, the hidden shoe, the clean shirt#, the unfrayed collars, tre hastily doffed coat, the missing pipe, or anything else needed quickly and insistently demanded by every member of the housphold, from Dad down through all the member ship from the oldest to the tiny toddler. When mother is up and around, looking patient It and efficiently after all the multitudinous affairs of the household, Dad is very apt tn throw nut his chest, and try tn convej the impression that he is at the head of things. Mother seldom undertakes to disabuse his mind, but within a half hour after she has broken under the daily strain Dad nas found his place and realizes that he hasn’t been playing even second fiddle in the orchestra of household affairs. His chest deflates, his hat becomes uncomfortably large, and he wanders aimlessly about like a lost soul in the outer fringes of Stygian darkness. Every year we observe Mothers’ Day, but why not extend the time a bit? Instead of wearing a flower one day in honor of mother, why not have a “Mothers’ Week"? Why not a week during which mother shall be seated like the queen she is upon household throne, with Dad and all the children joy fully playing the parts of courtiers and court at tendants, and paying to mother the homage she has so honestly earned and so well deserved? PASSING OF THE PIONEERS. A few days ago the word passed that Jonathan Higgins had died at the home of a daughter near North Platte on April 26. This bit of news, buried under the greater news from Washington and from Europe, did not mean anything to the younger gen eration. But to the older generation of Nebraskans it recalled stirring days when the pioneers were building the commonwealth, and when politics was a most serious business. For nearly 70 years Jonathan Higgins was identified with the agricul tural and political life of Nebraska. He came to the territory of Nebraska in 1S54, locating first at. Nebraska City. He piloted a freight wagon across the plains from Nebraska City to Denver for many years. He was one of the founders of a Methodist school at Peru, later sold to the state and made the beginning of the state normal school at that place. The life span of this good man includes the his tory of the territory of Nebraska, the founding of a state, and the development of a great commonwealth. A generation ago the name of Jonathan Higgins was as familiar to Nebraskans as the name of Roosevelt, Wilson or Coolidge is to the present gen ertion. He was one of the real leaders of the revolt against old political conditions, and his frequent contributions to the press upon the political sub jects of that early day were eagerly read and had a forceful effect upon the thought of that day. The announcement of his death will cause scores of aged men and women to pause, and in memory hark back to those stirring days when Nebraska thought and Nebraska ideals were in the making. Only a few are left, of those who saw Nebraska's transition from a territory to a state. But they, and all those who have gone before, played well their parts in life. They braved the dangers of a trackless wilderness, strong of heart and strong of soul, and builded therein the homes from out which flowed the spirit that has made Nebraska great. The Nebraska of today owes more than it can ever pay to those brave men and women of a generation now almost passed from the stage of ac tion, and of that generation Jonathan Higgins was a man among men. LIKE A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK. The radio fan murmurs to himself, when he picks up some distant station, "How small the world is!” Indeed, it so appears, when science sets to work and puts a girdle around the globe with such speed as makes Puck seem like a modern messenger boy. Small as the world has come to be, under the com pression of discovery and invention, it still is plenty big enough to get lost in. Take the ease of Major Frederick L. Martin, one of the four army flyers who set out to make a trip around the world. He is missing, somewhere in Bering sea. Look at the map. and see how small this sea is in comparison to the Pacific ocean. Hardly seems possible for a man to get lost in so small a space. He was only a couple of hundred miles be hind his companions when he started on his last jump, but that 200 miles was over wild water, whose angry waves surge against a wilder shore. If Martin landed on the water, his seamanship would be tested to the limit by the breakers if he attempted to land. If he did land, where is he? Somewhere on the icy rocks of the most inhospitable coast known, that of the Alaskan peninsula. If he is safe, he is hungry. Even though he he supplied with aims, he is in a region where game is scarce, and food fit for a white mao is unknown. He has the company of his me chanic, but that only means there arc two instead of one in the dire predicament. '.Martin and his companion may he found, and live to add another very entertaining chapter to the an nals of adventure. Searching for them, though, is much like looking for a needle in a haystack. The world hopes they will be found alive Rnd well. Yes, the world is still a big place for one who has missed his way. Two girls and two hoys in Minnesota staged a holdup party and got $15. Then the judge staged another party, and the quartet drew ten years apiece. Now one of the girls says the ‘‘investment in crime” is bunk. Speaking of taking care of the hoys, our idea of useful service would be to build a fence around the ball park out of the knottiest lumber possible. The actors' strike will probably he called off. but once the public takes a notion to strike for better dramas it will not be called off until won. Omaha got a most impressive object lesson of what the public and parochial schools mean to the city. Preparations for war will diminish if reparations for peace continue in fashion. Ambassador Hanihara seems to have been badly hurt in the recoil. I Homespun Verse -—By Omuhi'i Own Poet— v Robert Worthington Jhttie v__/ FAREWELL. (A Kulogy.' Time flies within the humdrum spare Where side hy side the tollers bend To duty, each In fltte.l plate. From mm n until the work hour* end. Friends are they all who come to meet Within the mail, and march along The year* together, while their feet Grow weary, and the heart a grow' strong — Strong with the faith they jointly share— The pride of fining well their deed — The bliss that Intermingles there With gentle quip and honest peed; And still, famlllai as Ihev grow While days and months ami \ears pass by, What means It all" they do pot know Till fine among them has to die. Jiarh flay (and day* are fleeting things) Brings forth new mysteries, the light < >f Mope to Heaven ever clings I,Ike dewdrnps to nn autumn night. Friend* gather, and the tear* reveal Their homage and their great regret And thenre the vrars # »ulenee steal Along, but friends ran not forget. We Aren’t Going to Need Life Guards to Prevent Drowning ^ ___—-J t-J Letters From Our Readers All letters must he signed, but name w ill he withheld upon request. Communi cation* of 200 words and lees will he given preference. V_- ' Butler'* Business Methods. Omaha -To the Editor of The Omaha Bor: Fait* about the effleien 1 > in management of the department of accounts and finance under Dan B, 1’tiUtr. From the audit for the year 1922 2 : under Butler s supervision: Butler advertised Colorado lump for $9 ') per ton, and what really was sold and delivered to the public was Colorado lignite lump for $9.50 per ton. The difference between the Colorado lump (good roalt and Colorado lignite lump is about 4,000 units in heating cuulity. Colorado lump contains thour 1.1.000 heating units and Colo rado lignite coal contains only :< 600 unli*. i difference of 26 per cent. This difference would greatly In i ir»:iin .f i-oal kept in storage and ac <• ssibh* to the air would then slacken and crumble. Lignite coal Is fit only for power plant - for immediate use and not for domestic use: therefore, people who bought coal from Butler were bun coed. believing they bought good coal." What was Butler s object in buying *Ut h coni, when for less money and about $1 25 lev* Jn freight rates, he could buy better coal from Illinois or Kent tick y ? ! at iste frotn Illinois nitr** »a t || Ft **l 1/ ll I I ilf r. ..Ill I uliilailu III i Ii t* 4 j«, I** II 4 4 t, t' t i i *• of I on I flUlli 111 i ||4i I • .* p»»r t on ..... . ... 2 1Z t‘> * *• '*1 ioal f I «• III 4 'oltii ■ it o ii* paid t* liuf !*• «■ w an I . f-iiH.rr 7 to N'ltrii i * r If, 19. • iiir tun . Sis Fi'.n» Now tnto-r 17. to Krltr my II, l t i —r 'on f m Front tviirumy 1& to Mniih 11, tvj t. per toll |2 4iS nnd .i 71 Why stu b a disi repancy In pay merits fur c-oal at the time when the coal yard was transferred to Henry Dunn, In March. 192.1? Did Butler < ash ln some kind of a rake off before the coal yard was transferred? Anyway, the difference in price points that wav. If Butler's department was efficient, "by did he not purchase a better coal from Illinois nr Kentucky, where coal • really twice as good as Colorado llgn.te coal? Ask any coal dealer. Butler could ha\* bought coal from the above states as follows " 'hnuf HU' mkeoff n#>- 'nn 1* * . Freight. to Omaha. per ion . s tfsiiitnisf. per ton ■ *»s Allowance for shrink***. etc, ton ' »■ To'at, per ton ..|4 J4 Butler could have sold ' good coal for %s. 0" and have made a good profit, the same as Mayor Dahlman did in the seasons of 192.1 1924. Butler’s main object, which w - known to his auhordinates. was in gain vot# s and not for the interests of the public. Butler s claim of |e.« expenses ti.an ptexious veins is a poor specimen of ati « ftl. lent lie: t’-« ' 'll f'»r 1914 .. ft « Payroll for 1919 . 1« t*. Pa vi oil for 1920 ... 21,704 Payroll for 1 *2 1 ... 22 7"f Payroll for J923 .. 9$ jmr Payroll for 1*21 . . ?? :,«( Therefore a slight increase oxer th# >fter war period of <1114. which Mr Butler calls s de< i ease Ln his inef ficient way. This offii e nexer w as managed Ir such a slip shod wav aa It ]« now Butler should have an expert ac count a nt ln his offii e. ** the Nehra* ka statutes prescribe. Some time ago Mr. Butlers alien f|cn \x aa called to the "accumulate* "Ver deposit" at the Koiintre Bros l».ank New Vmk, V V to the a mourn between $30,000 and $35,000. and' uii which, if In the hands of the cltv| of Omaha, there was a loss of about JJ 000 per year. If Butler's office was efficient the surplus money would i»e withdrawn long ago and the taxpayers would l-e benefited by the use of l he money recovered. If Butler calls that efficiency, I have a different story for it. which even Mr. Webster failed to put In his dictionary. The gasoline situation defends it self, for upon recommendation of Mayor Dahlman. rommieeioner Hop Uns inaugurated a campaign against ?he big oil companies by trying through public sentiment, to compel the big oil companies to redy* e the price of gasoline. in his efforts to purchase enough gasoline to keep at east two stations going, he was hin dered by the laige concerns, and Mr Hopkins could purchase only s limited amount of gas, which he sold at cost to the public. If the «a* he purchased was sold to other city departments the general! public would not l»e able to secure i any. and the efforts to get "price re duct ion” would fall and the public j would not know' anything about it. Therefore Mr. Butlers argument, who himself is paying 20 and 22 cents per gallon, 1h slander on the good name of Omaha and should be re sented by every voter of the city Butler never was on the square with the laxpjayer* of Omaha, and if anyone wants him as his represents the at the city hall—then vote for him—hut if you want men who have] the welfare of Omaha in their heart—| vole against Butler. S K. C. Ml Made t fear. Teacher -Johnny, what are two genders? Johnny—Masculine and feminine The masculines are divided into tem perate and intemperate, and the feminine int• *. fr igid and torrid.— American I,eg;on Weekly. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for March, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74.860 Sunday .79,850 DfiM not ln« lode ratrtrns, loft, ovi'i, sample* in papers spoiled m printinc and include* no special sales or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. M*r. *uh*i »ih*d and sworn to hefora ma this 4th day of April. 1*24 w. h ouivrv. (*eal) Notary r.uhlic ^__ 1 Rein' poor ne' er hold* itjdlih peo-1 pie hack. Operation* are »o com mon these day* that th' weather’* hardly ever mentioned any more. ii npulih'. OM )_ See Dodge Brothers Four When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Baths—Rates $2 to $5 ft Quebec. This way you arewnly 4 days on the open sea. landing at (Cherbourg. Southampton. Hamburg. Or sail on one of the Monoclass Cabin Steamships from Montreal, the comfort ships at moderate rates, land- , ing at Liverpool, Belfast. Glas gow. Southampton.Cherbourg. Antwerp. Further information from local steamsh>r> it F. F.lwof ih> ^ 5 Gfn Ag*. 7! F Jackson Blvd . Chicago. Ill lor Freight Apply G l Nichols. 102S W. O W Bldg Omaha Nrh Canadian Katie M IMS* 1 hi »ori» --— rotlTI<\l. VIIVERTISKMEXT. si Candidate A Succeai More I VOTE If the Square Six are Six »av» he it Why Nc and place UIIFRI I.AM.I A(.K FAIIAf. I'm not vlndlrtlve as a rule, to hate is not for me lt Is my w ish to live in peace with all of humankin I. It pains me more than I can t?il when something wrong I see And I'm compelled to lift the lid and thus relieve my mind I hate the hypocrite and rh*at, >ti» chi grouch dtsp **: I'd like to tioil in oil the man who feel-- puff-d up and prrurt But the one t loathe the most of all ben- tth I f#'» sunnv *kie« is the landlord who put* up the sign: ‘No Children Ate Al lowed." 1 hope the winds of adverse fate may visit him with blight. That bats and rat* is* left to fill the house* he may own. That people shun him as a plague, his ev'ty joy ta ke flight. And his own children pass him up and le-ive him sad and lone. I try to love my fellow men. but now and hen I s»e Some one I simply <• nnot help hot wish th- worst of fates; And he who l>ais the children out. I think you will *gre-. Iteserves himself to be barred out from Heaven's Golden Gate*. There are * unrulier of residence* in Omaha that ate vacant, and almost any one of them would not only suit tts pretty well, hut would come within our limited means in the matter of r*n* Rut it seems that we are a pariah an outcast from th* : Irrl* of the elect, because we have a household that consista of more than a wife and a pug dog "No children al'nwed" ia the sign that seem* in he out on all aides. Much as we desire a home in Omaha, we'll be ever lastingly condemned if well drown our kiddi-s in order to acquire a roof to shelter us. Disclaiming that we are responsi ble in any way for their good traits, we make bold to say that the kiddies that have comp to bless our home are worth a red hot adjective sight more than the finest mansion in Omaha. We maintain, moreover, that the Little Woman who bore them Is entitled to more consideration than any woman whose moth ering instincts have been confined to poodles and pomeranlans. We are going to Insist upon Passing Another Law. It will treble the taxes on the property owned by a landlord who dis criminates against children. That law will suffice to take care of such landlords during this earthly life Provision ha* al ready been made for them In the life to come—and heat is not the least of the things provided for. Conditions prevent us from writing as we would like to do upon this matter. But if you are at all . urious to know just what we think you might rail up and make an appointment. In such event you'd better btlng a gas ma«k for the atmosphere is quite likely to become sulphurous. Under special stress we are able to fall bark upon a considerable vocabulary. At this juncture we would like to submit a question to several of our good clerical friends including Frank Smith. George .Miller and Kdwin Hart .tenks Is profanity ever ujstlftahl*'’ if nor what recourse has the father of a family when he finds it impossible to rent a decent domicile because he happens to have rhild'-en? If so, i« there anv limit **t for the emphatic IsYtguag*. other than tims and vocahularv ’ We are not t nntepf to |ra e the «e|fi*h landlords to the punishment of the future. W* don t expect to be there to **e th»m suffer. WILL M. MAUPIX. K\er> thing All Kight. Bumping into a pedestrian, a tour ist slightly dented a fender. Instantly stopping the car. the oc cupant climbed out and proceeded to examine the machine with deep con •rn. He then turned to the pedee irian and aaked: ' Are you lneured"" ‘Yea." ‘ Good. So la the car."—Louleville Courier-Journal. something new this summer — Very low round-trip fares to (alifomia - Arizona vOJOrado -New Mexico andyour Rationalftuip Santa le Superior Service**/ Scene^-^Red Haivcy meals-yo ur assurance of a delightful trip— f A. Moor* C.« Ami. JOV jPKtU/r s»n» k» R. i and detail* . *1 KouitaH* BW* . Iw» V..m«a. lows L J KW«A» I'honc Market KHO |-t»l I 111 VI ADtl li l ist Ml M_rol ITU A 1 Proud , for City Commissioner ful Business Man of Proven Integrity. 3usiness--Less Talk / BE SURE TO VOTE what Butler says they are and if Butler is what the Square >t Vote for Stroud a balance wheel on the city commission?