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The Omaha Bee M O R N J N G—E V E N IN G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO„ Publish.r N. B. UPDIKE. President B ALLA HD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, •xelusiveJy entitled to the use for republication of all newa dispatches credited to it or not otherw:se credited in this oaoer, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches ara also reserved. Tha Omaha Bea is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee’s circulation ia regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for a T* 1 Afin the Department or Person Wanted. » IRIllIC IvvU ja . ..... 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. ___—-/ Gmahd-Vhefe freest is dt its Best POLITICS AND THE POLICE FORCE. r A house divided against itself can not stand. Neither can a police force whose members are at variance concerning policies and politics be the ef ficient machine the public has a right to expect. Just •s a aoldier is required to give his full allegiance to the flag under which he is enlisted, so should a po liceman maintain unquestioning loyalty to the de partment of which he is a member. Discipline is the vital force that sustains any organization in ef fectiveness, and discipline can not be established where there are cliques and factions, opposing and thwarting the purposes and policies of the leaders. These axiomatic observations need no argument to support them. Any business man realizes the ab solute necessity of having a loyal organization to carry on hia business, and does not hesitate to re move anyone who is disloyal. And no part of the city’s business is of greater importance than the po lice force. Only when it is harmoniously and unani mously devoted to the duty of protecting the lives '.nd property of the citizens, to detecting crime and punishing criminals, to the enforcement of the law and the mainteance and preservation of order, is the police force justifying its existence. • • * Commissioner Henry Dunn takes a hold step in » direction which he says will lead to better condi tions on the Omaha police force. Both in the inter est of economy and for the preservation of harmony, he has removed 21 members from the force. Some of these have served many years in uniform, and one has risen to the position of lieutenant. Against them it is alleged they have been engaged in factional politics. No police commissioner will assume to be the keeper of the conscience of the men under his direction. He can not afford to interfere with the fret conscience or the full exercise of a patrolman s 'political rights. Such an attempt would be tyranni cal and would be sternly rebuked by the citizens. But the commissioner has a right to demand of all who serve under him unswerving loyalty to the police department of Omaha. Men so serving are outside their rights when they divide themselves into opposing and clashing groups, one favoring, the other criticizing, the man at the head of the department. The law provides a certain remedy for any griev ance, real or fancied, but it does not contemplate pro tecting anybody in what is equivalent to treason. Commissioner Dunn rightly assumes that the re sult of the election is an approval of his course as superintendent of police. He went before the voters on that record, and was subjected to considerable criticism as the campaign went on. The voters re turned him to office. Now he has set about to re construct a police department, not on the basis of loyalty to Henry Dunn, but of loyalty to the public interests of Omaha. In this he will meet with sup port from the citizens, understanding that as he has been clothed with power and authority, so will he be held responsible to the utmost for what comes out of his effort. • • • Thirty-six years ago the metropolitan police law went into effect in Omaha. Its purpose was to take the police force out of politics. One of the unfor seen results svas to put politics into the police depart ment. Continually since then the service has suffered from the one cause. Efficiency has been interfered with, and good service marred by reason of the fac tional differences that have pervaded the department from the top to the bottom. Much of this has been aseribable to outside influence. Since we have had the commission form of government conditions have been rather forse than before. Whether it was Ryder, Kugel, Ringer, Dunn, Butler, or Dunn again, he commissioner in charge has been harrassed and bedeviled from the outside as well as from the in side. Discipline has been impossible, and the work of the police department has suffered beyond esti mation. Henry Dunn is the first man to hold the "trouble job” who has been re-elected. This Implies that the voters are content with his method of doing business. Now he has set out to give us, he says, a police de ' partment that will he as nearly free from Internal dissension and discord as is possible. Hi* first move i* In the direction of saving $17,000 to avoid a de ficit of that amount on the year. This necessitated the cutting off of a number of men and reduction of expense in other direction*. In selecting the men (or dismissal, he says he chose those who best could he spared, in interest of harmony and efficiency. Naturally, the proceeding causes much com ment, and threats of suit are made. Perhaps noth ing will be lost if the matter does go into court and a judicial determination of the case be had. The big thing for the public is a police force that will at tend to the business of policemen, and let politicians look after the politics of the community. WE FAIL TO ENTHUSE. An eastern Nebraska newspaper prints In a prominent place the story of a boy in its community vho recently *hot a magnificent sperimen of the American eagle, the bird having a wing spread of six feet. The exchange says the young man in question “is one of the proudest young men in ’Rlank’ county.” We fail utterly to euthuse over the exploit of the young man, and find it impossible to congratu late him upon his exploit. The American eagle is h rare bird, and it is a cruel shame to kill one of them. Aa the emblem of the republic, to kill It appear* Mttla less than desecration. Killing an eagle just for •port seema to u* to ba very much like killing a car \ dinal, or shooting a mocking bird, or banging away at a bunch of robins. The exchange reports that the young man saw a bird in a tree, and realizing that it was not com mon to this latitude, brought it down with a well di rected shot. It was truly a wonderful exploit, this thing of killing a magnificent bird because it is not common to this latitude. Something to be proud of, indeed, this slaying of one of the few remaining specimens of the great American eagle. About the best thing we can say of the young man who is so proud of having killed an American eagle is that if be is proud of that sort of an exploit, then killing an American eagle is just about the kind of an exploit he would be proud of. TWO STORIES WITH ONE MORAL. Two little items in the news reports tell a story that should be of interest to everybody. One is of a negro, a former slave, who died in Michigan, leav ing an estate of $100,000. The other relates how James Flannery has worked 58 years steadily in one too! shop in Massachusetts. Whenever you hear some one talking about the “proletariat,” think of this pair. The old slave had nothing to start with but his head and his hands. He had a strong back, and a stronger will, and long ago he was out of reach of poverty, and beholden only to his own industry and thrift. James Flan nery landed in North Easton in 1866, and two days later got a job in a tool factory. He still has a job there. Neither of these men ever heard the call of the wild, nor did the wanderlust stir their blood. Chances are that neither of them has spent much time abusing* the government or wondering what would happen to the world if they would quit work. Each felt the urge to work, to save, to earn some thing every day and to lay aside a little of it. That is all. John D. Rockefeller started with nothing, and Henry Ford had little more. Neither is an accident. They possessed brains, and a will ingness to work. On this foundation they erected two of the noblest fortunes the world ever gazed upon. The story has been repeated many, many times,' but it does not lure like that of the soapbox orator, who tells his hearers of their woes, and of how they are wage slaves or worse, and urges them on to a bliss in which the wealthy will wait the beck and rail of the poverty-stricken. No such place exists, but poverty we will always have with us so long as the worker spends all he earns, and trusts to get it back again through some political hocuspocus. LAW CATCHES ANOTHER CULPRIT. Two burning questions were answered by a Jury in federal court in Kentucky, when Congressman John W. Langley was found guilty of conspiracy in connection with liquor charges. First, the law is sufficient to deal with offenders, if given half a chance. Second, the administration at Washington is not idle in enforcing the law. If the administration were inclined to show leniency to offenders, Langley might have been a subject for such treatment. He has served long and usefully in congress, as a republican, and is now chairman of the house committee on public build ing and grounds. If political influence were a de termining factor, he would have had its full benefit. When his connection with liquor frauds was de veloped by a grand jury investigation at Chicago, the machinery of the law was put into motion, and now this congressman stands shorn of his honors and in the shadow of prison because of his crime. If Governor Pinehot and some of the others who are complaining that President Coolidge is lax in his attitude toward the Volstead act were to devote some of their energy to actually securing enforce ment of that act, better results would be noted. The law works both ways. The conviction of Ander son, the dry agent, on a charge of forgery is fol lowed by the conviction of Langley, congressman, on a charge of conspiracy. Just a little patience on part of the people will be helpful. The law moves slowly, but it does move. Calvin Coolidge is not a respecter of persons, but he venerates the law and the courts. Under hi» direction the proper agencies of government will be exercised to the fullest extent in protecting the people in all their rights. The supreme court of Arkansas has declared illegal the custom of leasing the labor of convicts to private contractors. Courts are often slow, and often make mistakes, hut as a general thing they manage to decide rightly and justly. W. ,T. Bryan is touring Florida in the interest* of his own candidacy for delegate-at-large to the democratic convention. Mr. Bryan has a candidate for delegate-at-large that he has no hesitancy in recommending very highly. Conditions have arrived at such a stage that a man in a crowded street car doesn’t know whether to get up and offer her a seat or suggest that she sit down upon his lap. An inquiry into the txtile industry is ordered by the senate. It is to be carried on by the tariff com mission, however, and not by the senators. The announcement that President Coolidge has never played any musical instrument cinches the anti-saxophone vote for him. Hiram Johnson Is another leader who turned the corner without being seen by the procession that marched atraight ahead. Dr. Frank Crane says he ran see nothing beautiful in trousers. He isn’t supposed to. That’s one reason why they are worn. A reduction of 19,000,000 bushels in the pros pective wheat crop shows that the farmer is getting wise on one point. One great trouble about this per capita wealth thing is that some folks have the per while others wear the cap. A lot of men who think they are presidential dark horses have overlooked the length of their ears. Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie \_/ - WAYFARING. Dally he goes to hi* weary t**k — Smiling, he plod* ahead. AVIiat of the world would he love to »*k, If ever hi* wish were said'.' Nightly he glow I y homeward* trend* • Her the timeworn trail.— \\ III he he rid of the gloom lie dread*, And will he anrreeil or fall? Three are the tliouchl* of the men we meet Men who are loyal end (rue, Heating their path* In the roht and heat, (Grinding the long horn* through. Dome*llc communion forever cheer*— Children and wife and Ood, I.lghtlr.g the dark end warming the year* of thoaa who lncaaaantly plod. Still Room for Ambitious Members of Graduation Classes j . » ■■ ^ ~ ~ --l" I il \ \ MJ' _ . ■■■■ - ■ --* THE JOB THE STUDENT VOLUNTEERS HAVE MET TO CONSIDER I f ■ " 1 Letters From Our Readers A1J letter* muit be il|Hod. tint name will be withheld npnn repeat. Co m muni ratlopi of 2(KI worda and leea will he firm preference. j Radicals and Farm Relief. Omaha.—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee: When the senate passed the revenue bill last Saturday, it was with a distinct understanding that some time this week a vote would he taken on the McNary-Haugen hill, de signed to relieve agricultural distress by providing an export outlet. Sena tor Norbeck was dissuaded from add ing the farm relief bill as a rider to the revenue law, being given the promise that needs of the farmer would get attention. Norbeck has been listed as a radical, but the chief evidence he has shown In that direc tion has been an intense desire to get action on some of the promises that have been made the farmers. If this constitutes a radical, a lot of such radicals may be found In the field* of the middlewest with much effort. President Coolidge five apd a half months ago asked congress to do something for the farmer. What is the result? A combination of demo crats and Insurgents have defeated every measure the administration has brought forward. When the president asked for continuance of the War Finance corporation, with authority to make loans to help out wheat farm eis in North Dakota, the bill was voted down. The president then railed a conference and arranged for a cor poration among the financiers to carry on. When the Norbeck Burtness hill came on for a vote, the democrats de serled their allies of the farm bloc, and slaughtered the measure, after loading It down with all sorts of amendments, rhlef of which came from Pat Harrison of Mississippi and Heflin of Alabama. Since then all efforts have been directed at the Mr Nary Haugen bill. It may not he the ---- Abe Martin V> 1 There’s some folks standin' be hind th’ president that ought a' git around where he kin watch ’em. Not havin’ money is th’ root o’ most evil. <ropjrrl(lit, 1134 ) NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for April, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,265 Sunday .77,999 Does wot Intitule return*, left overs. samples or paper* spoiled in ! punting and Include* no special tale* or frss circulation of any kind V. A. BRIDGE, Clr. Mgr. Subscribed and aworn to befora me this 10th day of May, 1024. W. H. QIJIVEY, (*e#,1) Notary Public best hill In the world, but It Is drawn with the explicit purpose of furnishing a market for the surplus wheat of the United States. Strangely enough. It meets its chief opposition from two groups who are very widely apart on other matters. Kaatern senators op pose It. because they argue that it will increase the price of bread. The radi cals who oppose it do so because they think they see In the Norris-Sinclair bill something a little more to their suiting. In the house the measure en countered its chief opposition from the radical group, led by Volglit of Wisconsin, who Is admittedly the lieutenant of 1m. Follette. The polities In this sort of tattles Is plain enough. Selfishness Is hack of It all. Discussing the situation, the St. Paul Dispatch says: 'The radicals—those professional agitators of farmers' troubles, for their own political lieneflt and with no Intention of applying remedies that will give relief and deprive them ol their stork in trade—announce their intention of sidetracking the McNarv Haugen bill with the Norris Sinclair hill, thereby repeating what they did to the farm diversification measure. The Norris Sinclair hill is quite dif ferent from the grain export measure. N'orrls would have the government engage In wholesale and retail deal ing in everything from shoestrings to automobiles and to sell to American consumers, not to fore.gners, as the McNarv Haugen bill has in view The purpose- of the two hills sre totally unlike One is to Introduce state so cialism. The other Is to help the farmer, by giving him as much bene fit from the protective tariff as other producers, hut no more The real objections to the M Nary Haugen hill, and there are some KANSAS POLICE JUDGE GIVES HIS OPINION Tell* How Tanlac Helped Him and Hi* Wife Over come Stomach Trouble. Honorable Oeo. W. Oh mart. Police Judge at Augusta, Kan., lends hla name to further the cause of Tanlac, the treatment that has proved of such great benefit to himself and wife. "Mv wife and m.vself hnih have lahen Tanlac with euch aplendld rc suite,'' recently staled Judge Ohmnrt. that I do not hesitate to give It mv unqualified endorsement. 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Over 40 million bottles sold Tanlae Vegetable 1’llla for constipa tion. mada and recommended by the manufacturers of TANLAO.—Adver tisement. legitimate objections, can be cured if congress will set itself to this task In a spirit of loyalty to the farmers. The N’orris Sinciair bill is impossible. The first seeks to provide a market for the bulk of the American farm produce at home, in a protected mar ket. The other will set up barter, trading American farm products to Kuropeans for whatever they have to sell. This may aid Kurope, but it w ill destroy America. The first can be cured, the second cannot. One group of the opposition is selfishly opposed to giving the west a square deal, the other seeks to im pose state socialism. Such a coalition is unnatural, but It must be overcome, if the farmers are to have real relief. The radicals see in the situation some thing to encourage them. By defeat Ing the administration, and preventing the passage of any law to benefit agri i ulture. they will be able to make an appeal to dissatisfied voters. Yet they underestimate the Intelligence of thoee voters if they expect to get by with anything so transparent. OI.D FOOT. American Academician. The first American woman to l>e elected to the French Academy of Ag ricultur* was Mr*. Annie M. Dike, head of the American relief commit lee for the devastated regions of France. The president of the acad emy declared that the people of the devastated regions “regard these American women as saints." Only two other women were ever elected to any French academy—Mme. Curie to that of medicine, and the queen of Roumanla to that of the art*.—Path finder. Horrors! P«ggi Is her family fussy ' Polly—Fussy! They won't mention the word toothpick'—American Region Weekly. President Coolidge Summers President Coolidge is making plana lo spend the surhmer in Washington. I SUNNY SIDE UF •lake Comfoct. norforoet 1/mt sunrise neuer/ai/edusvet^.^ J 7= ~ ^ THOROKiHFARKS AMI BYWAYS. Member* of the I Remember When Club will recall the tin e wlien the corner of Tenth ami Karnam wue quite a resoi. • ' Ml ViMna restaurant at that point was ““Sy H .v congenial hunch, many of them newspaper men Today It Is giver. <pver to dry as dust business. It «««" t dr> In the o! day*. __ In those old days there was a ‘'"op house” lri the block above. Ry .losing their eyes members of the I Rernember Wh Club i an visualize the old sign above the door of that pla •Reds—10 and 15 Cents.” Dropped Into the Burlington city ticket office, Sixteenth and Karnam, “to rash a fare rebate check in order ''' Set hint monev. Forceful reminder of the 1 Remember When days. The man who cashed a fare rein.!.- click in those days con Cessed that he was not on the inside of thing*. -Now we a . all outside. John Phillip Soiish complains that prohibition has put * quietus on the rollicking light opera songs of other days. It also has put a quietus on the little Herman band, the orgsn grinder and his monkey, the panhandler, and over enthusiasm at post prandial oratorical efforts. i To us there is something fascinating about the street hawker who demonstrates potato peelers, beet sheers, Saratoga chip parers, etc,, all combined In tine implement, tv e envy him his skill, and we have Invested at one time or another quite a considerable sum with him or his kind. We have never been able to acquire his skill, but we have not lost hope Just to keep the record straight we Invested again the other day, and once more expect to fall In proper manipulation. I.olterlng on a corner at Fifteenth arid Karnam, lust a.* the big office buildings were turning loose the clerks and stenographers for the noon luncheon hour, we were somewhat lfuprfsspd by several thingp. Among them wa« the thought that for a really profitable enterprise we would like to have a monopoly of the cosmetic business of Omaha. Our favorite food resort on lower Douglas street has been installing many modern Improvements We have managed to accustom ourself to the transition from the polished walnut table top to the linen tablecloth, but we »erve notice that the moment the coffee cups appear with handles we are going out *a on strike. Open confession being good for the soul, we proceed to : make admission that this is the time rf year when we have great difficulty with an itching foot and a endency to indulge In the wanderlust. In times gone by, armed with a composing ' rule and a traveling card, vve were wont to make surreptitious entry of the railroad yards and endeavor to ma^e friendly con | tact with a brakeman. It ha* been many years since we suc cumbed to the lure, but it Is still In the blood. We shudder to think what would happen If Doc Rlghter. Kr*tln» King. 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