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The Omaha Bee M O R N I N G—E V ENIN G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO, Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLAHD DUNN. JOY M. HACKT.F.K, Editor in Chi«f Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press, ot which The Bee is a member, exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherw:se credited in this Daper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are • also reserved. The Omsha Bee fs a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for a T 1 «a* 1 nnn (he Department or Person Wanted. ” 1 IRIltlC 1UUU | OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—16 Scott St. So. Side,N. W. Cor. 24th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Brvant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. V — —.. .../ % ~ : ©mahaVhefe is at its Best AK-SAR-BEN STANDS FOR NEBRASKA. Ak-Sar-Ben is really a name for organized optim um. The history of the institution is the best possi ■ ble proof of this. Brought into life at a time when conditions were the most unpromising, when business ■* was at ebb-tide, and citizens were discouraged and blue, Ak-Sar-Ben provided the antidote for pessim ’ ism. As prosperity revived, and enterprise expanded, ^ what was originally merely an experiment became ‘ a permanent institution. It does not belong to C Omaha any more than does the Missouri river. Omaha men are merely the trustees for the nation in the management of Ak-Sar-Ben. Under their guidance it is fostered, and through their care it blooms each succeeding year with newer luster and more magnificence. One of the best things accomplished by Ak-Sar Ben has been thfc elimination of the old prejudices that once existed between Omaha and the rest of < Nebraska. It accomplished this by correcting mis •' understandings fostered by selfish individuals and equally selfish concerns. It has banished a belief once existing out-state that Omaha was against Ne braska and only seeking selfish advantage. In the place of that mistaken belief it has builded the knowledge that Omaha is not only proud of itself, and of Nebraska, but is willing, even eager, to co operate in every good work that has for its aim the building up of this great commonwealth. • * * Omaha's program of Ak-Sar-Ben must, of course, center in Omaha. It is, however, built upon an ideal that should he fostered everywhere and at all times. Omaha wants Nebraska to prosper for the simple reason that Nebraska can not prosper without shar ing that prosperity with Omaha. It is equally true that Omaha can not permanently prosper without sharing that prosperity with Nebraska, and with all the surrounding states. The men who are at the head of the big business enterprises of Omaha are giving something more valuable than money when they give to Ak-Sar-Ben their time and business experience. To io-operate with them by taking membership in the organization and paying the. small Initiation fee is little enough for the rest of us to do. The benefits that have accrued to Omaha and to Nebraska because of Ak-Sar-Ben’s activities are beyond computation. Those activities have had a splendid part in creating better feelings between men and between sections. They have aroused city pride and state pride. They have encouraged a study of the possibilities of city and commonwealth. The managers of this organization of world-wide .fame are now staging an intensive campaign for 5.000 members. In a sense this should not be neces • ; sary. Ak-Sar-Ben has been with Omaha so long it has 'grown into one of the city’s institutions. Unfor tunately when a great movement, which we hail with enthusiasm in its formative years, grows into an es tablished institution, we come to take it for granted. * • * Too many of us in Omaha are taking Ak-Sar-Ben for granted. It is still the great institution it was in the be ginning, greater if you please—greater because of all the years of its accomplishments. Is it not strange that Ak-Sar-Bcn should be cora ■ pelled to drum up its members? Listen, Omaha! All of us with red blood, all of us who know the history of our city, who glory ;• in its past, who look hopefully toward its future, are ; going to be counted in this year. Counted in ns we have always been counted in before. I? Let's call up Charlie Gardner and tell him to send •.some one for our $10, or, better still, let’s make out •? our check today. It takes a lot of time to drum us ;? up and, beside, we will feel better if we join of our ; own act. Let’s go! MEMORIES OF A REAL THRILLER. Kate Claxton, just drad at 73, is not even a name in a land where once she reigned in the popu lar heart. Half a century ago, when she was in ihe bloom of her early womanhood, Kate Claxton's name would fill any theater. She gained her greatest fame in the old time thriller, “The Two Orphans.” Like • much of the stuff that is on our stage today, it was of French origin, but susceptible of a liberal if not a literal translation, and containing everything that is essential to the drama of zip and punch. Nothing more pathetic could be imagined, than Louise, the blind girl, left alone on the streets of Paris, while her sister is kidnaped to decorate the fete of a roue. Nothing more heroic than the appeal of Henriette at the garden party. No more sublime rebellion than that of poor crippled Pierre against his brutal brother, Jacques. The nadir of degradation, squalor and depravity was sounded by La Frouchard, and the height of devotion at tained by the young marquis, who tore the page from the records of the police. Swiftly the play moves from point to point, climaxing on several scenes, until finally it culminates in the traditional triumph for virtue. D'Ennery knew his world, and if anybody of the present thinks that improvement has been marie, let them look up “The Two Orphans.” Together with the fame she won as an actress, Miss Claxton re ceived considerable notoriety of an unpleasant sort, three theaters burning while she was playing the piere. One of these was the Brooklyn theater, De cember 6, 187fi, when 289 lives were lost. Omaha saw Misa Claxton when she was in her prime, and in later years when age had taken much 4 toll. “The Two Orphans’’ was played by an all-star east at the Boyd theater about 20 years ago, and since has been shown here as a film play. SAFE WAY THE SURE WAY. One of the earliest lessons taught the young ball player is to “Play it safe.” It is one of the hardest for him to master. In other walks of life it is the same. We are all fond of taking chances, risking a little too much, and frequently failing, sometimes disastrously, for not observing the rules of caution and prudence. One of the boys at the South High school now complains he was “double crossed.” Other boys pressed him into leadership in a bit of boyish fool ishness, and then slipped back into safety, while he stands out to "take the punishment that comes be cause he did not play it safe. He was enthusiastic, his imagination was fired, and he awakened the imagination of others, but the real instigators of the act were not there when the blow fell. This boy has had a lesson that will serve him well. A bobbed-hair girl bandit, not yet 20, pleaded guilty to a charge of bank robbery. She wants to “wipe the slate clean” by serving a term of impris onment. She bartered the glorious years of her youth, what she should have found the most delight ful hours of her life, staking them against a prison cell, for a “thrill.” “It is impossible to live on *16 a week," she said. What she meant was that on that sum one cannot have the luxuries that cost more money. Intelligent, cultured, accomplished, she turned to crime. By the time she gets out of prison she will have learned how grave her mistake, for not playing it safe. Youth is a happy time, a time for high adventure, and it is also a time for making blunders that af fect the whole course of life. Play it safe. You may not get the applause of the grandstand, but you will havf the approval of those who depend on you. IT SIMPLY CAN’T BE DONE. There are a few things people expect, but which they will find very difficult to get. They can not get increased service from the gov ernment at the same time they get decreased taxes. They can not have better schools without paying for them. They can not enlarge federal bureaus and com missions without increasing expenses. They can not match dollars with the government without putting up the dollars. They can not reduce taxes by voting big bond issues to pay for public improvements. They can not live on a higher plane than their fathers lived without paying more for their living than their fathers paid. In other words, people can not eat their cake and have it. * When this fact sinks into the public mind and is acted upon, the tax burden will grow, the cost of living will increase and the problem of how to make bofh ends meet will grow more perplexing. ITCH FOR OFFICE IN MINNESOTA. Closing of primary filings in Minnesota indicate that primary day, which falls on June 16, will see a few lively momenta in the Gopher state. Prin cipally, the interest will turn on the farmer-labor party, whose members seemingly scent victory afar off. If not that, something else has greatly stim ulated the desire to hold office among the devotees of the new cult. Magnus Johnson goes to bat with two opponents in his own group. This will doubtless assure his nomination, which might have been ques tioned by a single rival. Eight of the comrades want to be governor, five would like to be lieutenant governor. For secretary of state four have filed, and for treasurer five are lined up. The office of attorney general draws five aspirants, and'nine are out for nomination to the office of railroad and warehouse commissioner. So it goes all down the line. Zealous crusaders, these advocates of the principles inherited from the so cialist and non-partisan failures tff the past. The spectacle should teach1 the futility of abandoning political parties as a means through which to express popular aspirations. Magnus John son, hero of the lively campaign of last year for Knute Nelson’s toga, is not strong enough to draw an unopposed endorsement from those who so lustily cheered him last November. Personality does not bulk so big, where a chance to annex a fine official position is concerned. Abolish the party, and establish a scramble, and Nebraska would soon resemble Minnesota, where 65 candidates are rontesting for seven places. The democrats have passed a tax bill that con templates a deficit of only about *470,000,000. if you are interested in their idea of what a revenue measure ought to be. Of course, they expert a re publican administration to run the country under its provisions. Perhaps you have noted quite a subsidence of complaints about the dandelion since it was discov ered that it made a pretty fair basis for something that Mr. Volstead thundered against. German communists and monarchists kepp life \ from becoming stagnant in the republic. What puz zles us is where they get the munitions. When Monday morning came mother had to take ! up the routine just as if she hud not been celebrated ! on Sunday. Mother always does. One of the features of the fire stnrted by a for gotten electric iron is that the meter goes right on registering current. “Battling Siki” lost his first go in Omaha, but it was to an oil truck. No disgrace in that, just bad judgment. --- Poincare now knows where he stands with the French people. The demoeratic ideal seema to be a deficit. ---- Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s t)wg Poet-— Robert Worthinpton Davie -—---:_ FAREWELL. Frank has left US—went this morning; Didn’t give us any warning. Lately he has beon a thinking More or less—his eyelids blinking But he never Sold for certain lie was Koln’—thsl’* what's hurlin'! Home downstairs and asked his mother Where hi* i oat was. and some other Things he tried to Pud t.ut couldn't Ashed her If. >erehnnce, she wouldn't Sew a button on his collar. Said she'd do It for a dollar. • lot Ids duds all packed and ready,' Whispered his goodhy to Eddy, Kissed his mother, laughed and shook my Hand until It nearly took my Breath, and lessened my aal'allnn. Said he w as golnjy flailin'. -! A Word on Modes of the Day __ inV^T WAS WHEN MMDS we«e SoftC PE*Pltrxr.O And WEPT IN ^HCCft OCSPAlft., peciDiNG-, whsTnSR. 7hi»y i'noixo AUsaO and Bo® TmCiA. HAift. ! Them," having WHACtcE® TTieiR. Beauteous ^ock-5, each nkSht thcy Tossed, ttu £A>re, ^)e8ATING:> "Sham. me WAVC it - oft- # Oust £«avc it ’ ^amot/ng- STfrAiG-MY ?? ! mtust,_ So Tkjs ws ha© wild Pnes or curls ‘ OF EVRV DURNED ©e-SCRiFTiOM — As WELL AS ■ST«A(CSHT( SEVERE CFFECTS^ t?u«-<sss-CiHS TT.e ^GYf^TlAtM .. .....,_ Amo Them we found The LAOitS t far, 5oTn married ones amo Single, DECIOINC? 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If he expect* th# American people to j believe him when he say* th * con gress Is a credit to the nation then lie underestimates the common sense of hi* people. This present congress is the laughing stock of every other nation on earth. Kngllahmen have been splitting their sides lsughlng at I'nited States senators running around after disgruntled divorced widows, ex spies, draft evaders, crooks, self-confessed rrlminals to get their hearsay opinion*. It ha* been th# joke of this universe the wav these senators hare monkeyed with a tax reduction bill which th* people have clamored for by the million. Can any one Imagine a more imbecile thing than ; his latest election seeking stunt of Walsh of Massachusetts adding * "gift" tax. For goodness sake, [ w here 1* this man's reason? Are these thing* put into th* tax bill to make a vaudeville show of It, or have the men lost all semblance of reason? They added a ratio lax. and then, after months of squabbling, took It out: they put on an auto tax and then used up volumes of good time and paper before they took It out again; they have puttered and quibbled for months, at the people* expense, and now comes Mr. Walsh with a fool 'gift'' tax, And Pinchot say* they are efficient. Ye gods, wait until the people get a chance at the poll*. If some of these insurgent senators don't go hack Into private life it U#*trange. But Pinchot 1* playing to the gal lery, of course Me Is mixed up with Czar Oomper*' third booxe party bloc. | A be Martin ] Girl* still have th' ecstasy o’ th' first kiss, but th’ thrill o’ th’ first lonjr skirt is gone forever. No bud dy ’ll question our motive* if we at tend t’ our own business. (Cnpnlstlt, m< ) NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for April, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily ..74,265 Sunday .77,999 Ones net Include returns, left ovare. samples o» pa pet s spoiled in printing and includes no special sales or free circulation of any kind V. A. BRIDGE. Clr. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of May, 1024. W. H. QUiVKY. (Seal) Notary Public t There hnv# been severe! misguided in dividuals come on to the stage thla year. Hi Johnson has done his stunt and some one has lost considerable money on the gentleman; we have had the Japanese ambassador with his tin sword rattling; I-a Follette has come and gone; t'zar Gompers has appeared with his fight famous demands; High Prow Putter has come on the stage dressed in all the finery of the brew ers; and nowi we have Gifford Pinchot appearing in the rola of champion of an Insurgent congress. Walt until the people get « chance to say what thev think of all these actors. If election day was tomorrow, where would nny of Ihem stand? CNF, WHO KNOWS P. S Oh, ves. there was another actor who came and went again, one who now realize* the truth of the words: ' He who Uvss bv the sword will die by the sword." HI* name is Wheeler. Caviar to the Generals. From ttis St. Fsul Dispatch. The old problem of what mav tie done to make the position of the vice president of the United States more alluring has been raised" otm more by the refusal of two prominent per sonages to consider the post seriously. General Pershing, to make assurance of his attitude in the matter doubly emphatic, declared that if he were of fered the vice preaidenev ha would "decline to accept it." When Briga dier General Dawes was recently ap proached on the same subject he thought It worthy of comment only to the eitent of a few murmured "no nne« ' not even bothering to add many of those picturesque words for which he Is famous. 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By thisN method rheWnatic pain ia relieved, and the stomach ia saved the risk that ac companies the old-fashioned dosing. Thousand* of grateful users of Volta have already testified, in writing, to t he amazing benefits they have recei ved from this discovery. So remarkable and rapid have been the result* from the use of Volta Powder, both in this country and in Italy, that the Ameri can distributors have authorized local druggists to dispense Volta with an unqualified guarantee of relief from the use of the very first box or your money will be refunded. If you suffer from rheumatic pains, sciatica, lum bago. Bout or neuralgia, you owe it to yourself to try this startling scientific treatment. It. is absolutely harmless and will not cost one cent if you do not receive wonderful relief. You can get Volta Powder from all good druggist* everywhere. to the general*: a luxury not wo#h the slight effort It would take for either of them to gain It. It Is un fortunate that the.framera of the con stitution whose provisions were so wise in most particulars should have neglectedf to provide sufficiently for the dignity of the vice president. To day all that he receives with the gift of office is the dubious privilege of listening long to th* debates of the senate and even more queationable happtnesa of being the butt of many Ineffective jokes. Such a quip la the one which la customarily made to Washington visitor* w-ho naively ask if the vice president is protected by secret service men like the president himself. "Heavens, no." says the wag glsh Washingtonian, "it’s to be hoped he'll be shot.'1 For Future Reference. “How long is this investigation go j ing to last?" "I don't know," answered Senator ] fforghum. "It looks to me ss If there i were enough material to enable It to I ^ You Can’t Bequeath Your Business Judgment ! I « OU can make a will, disposing of your 1 material possessions, but you cannot pass your ability on to a successor, to man age the estate you leave. It takes all your time now to conduct your affairs. Do you know of anyone who would be able, without neglect of his own affairs, to take your place? Administering your estate after you have gone will not be any simpler than managing it while you are here. Probably, it will not be so easy. Not many individuals care to have such a duty imposed on them. » This company, with its staff of specialists trained in fiduciary service, its wide expe rience, financial resources and state-con trolled responsibility, is organized to act as your trustee and executor. * > .4 talk with one of our trust officers will not place you under any obliga tion and it may help you to the right solution of your problem. "Safe guarding Your Family's Future" is a helpful booklet that ice will glad ly send you. « • First Trust Co Peters Trust Co. " Omaha Trust Co. U. S. Trust Co. Members American Hankers Association -- l\ I SUNNY SIDE UP] 9ake Comfort, nor forget ***** j SNAP Ol'T OF IT ! Does the burden seem too heavy now and then? Does It seem the sun will never show its face? Does It seem you cannot trust your fellow men? Knap out of it and take new heart of grace: Now and then it seems tha road Is long and rough. With ne'er a friend to cheer you on the way. Sometimes it may be troubles doubly tough— Snap out of It and start anew today: Are vou often feeling »ore, downcast and blue, With little heart to tackle tasks you dread’ If that's the case, there'e just one thing to do— Snap out of it and bravely go ahead! The man who wins is not the men who wait* For easy tasks and some soft, cosy berth. lie is the man who dares defy the fetes, Snaps out of It and work* for all he's worth! Knap out of It and play the manly part; Your duty do, and trust to Ood the reft. Snap out of It! Be strong and brave of heart— Get busy now, and do your level beet! Out a block or two beyond the end of a car line looking for a house. Started back to car. Within 75 feet of car and wa ved to conductor. Conductor grinned and gave the motorman (he highball when were were within JO feet of car and going fast. We waited for next car, of course. But the suggestion la offered to the street railway management that perhaps It might avoid a lot of condemnation by employing aomebody to taach a few employes the difference betyreen humor and impudence. Our own experience with the carmen has been genera)!'’ pleasant, and we have found them, as a rule, courteou* and obliging. But one careless or impudent conductor can put an awful crimp Into the record of the whole bunch of them. Remember those old copper pennies whereon an eagle ap pears with outstretched wings? Will Morrow of Rcottsbluff got hold of on# not long ago, and meeting a German friend showed It to him and asked: "Do you know why that eagle Is flying?" The German friend admitted his Ignorance, whereupon Morrow explained: "Because he is on a cent." ^ "Dot iss goot," exclaimed the friend. "Loan me dot penny und I ask mein frau." Taking the penny home the friend ahowed it to hi* good wife and asked her why the eagle was flying. She, too, ad mitted her Ignorance, whereupon he shouted: "Because he smells somedlngs!" Barbers are now doing the shingling that mother and father used to do with a more prlmiti'e instrument. The fact that the beet field children of the old home terri tory compare very favorably with other children in intellectual development, and far excel them in health and physique, It something for the professions! child savers to ponder over But they win not. na,,,r•• Will m. maupin. i ■■■ - ■ — keep going through ye*re to come ax n valuable warning to posterity.”— Washington Star. No Kin. While calling the roll at the begin ning of the term, one of the teachers of the Tech came across the name Carl Sandburg." 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