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The Omaha Bee MORNIN G—E V E N 1 N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER of the associated press The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, it exclusively entitled to the use for 1 epublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and aiso the local news published herein. All rights of republication of out 'ipecial dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audit*, 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 AT lantir 1 Ann ! th* P»P*r*mcnt or Person Wanted. AA 1VUU 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—Bryant Bldg. St.’Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bklg. San Fran.--Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. V-> OmalidVhefe fhe^U?st is at i(s Best FISH FOR THE FUTURE. Out of the teeming water* of the sea has come such a wonderful variety, and such a seemingly in exhaustible supply, of food that one gets something of a shock to read that it is necessary for the gov ernment to throw protection around fisheries. Yet it seems to be needed. Man, in his hasty and waste ful way, is about to exterminate one of the most useful of all fishes. The salmon is a delicacy as well a* a substantial article of food, and the demand for its flesh has grown to such an extent that what once seemed a supply beyond all possible need of man is now dwindling. “Quantity production" has done its perfect work, and if no protection is inter posed, the salmon will ere long go to join the buffalo, the passenger pigeon and the canvasback duck. That is why a law has just been passed, at the instance of Secretary Hoover, which will permit the closing of certain Alaska waters against the salmon fishers, thus allowing the breed to multiply and pre serve it for fdture generations. What was some thing of a curiosity not so very many years ago has grown into a positive menace. The “salmon wheel” attracted the attention of the tourist along the Co lumbia river, where the great fish were taken by the ton. Its use spread northward along the coast, and other devices were adopted which would take the fish from the water in even greater numbers. Most tragic of all phases of the industry, the biggest takes were at the most critical time of the salmon’s life, the spawning season. The adult fish were returning from the deep sea haunt, wherever it is, to their birthplace, wherever that was, for the purpose of re production. • * * Just as in the spring shooting of wild fowl, it was not only the individual that was destroyed, but the potential family. Every salmon, male or female, was a prospective parent of a large brood. Naturally the effect was to diminish the supply, and such a stage has been reached as means the threatened ex tinction of the salmon. Alaskan waters were chosen, because the Indians there subsist largely on the fish, and if this source of food is cut off, the extinction 'of many tribes may follow. The law does not pro hibifc-the Indian from fishing, it merely shuts off the commercial fisheries. A certain lake within comparatively easy reach of Omaha was 30 years ago a favorite resort for bass fishermen. Once a certain prominent resident came back from there boasting that he had killed eight female bass, each one with roe, before breakfast one morning. He.was proud of his achievement, and grew very angry when he was told that he had in wantonness killed eight families of bass, and that such work as his would in a short time destroy the fishing in that lake. For a quarter of a century the lake has been abandoned by fishermen, for there are no bass left in it. The story can be many times re peated. It took years to convince the duck hunters that forbidding spring shooting was the only thing that would prevent the wild fowl being wiped out. So it is with the salmon fisheries of the northwest. Commercial greed has not regard for the ways of nature, and so must be repressed by law. y • * » Charges have been made, and were repeated on the floor of the senate during the discussion of the bill, that Secretary Hoover is acting in the interests of the so-called fisheries trust. Henry O’Malley, United States commissioner of fisheries, denies that any grant or monopoly was made or is contemplated by the department. Under the reservations estab lished by President Harding, no new canneries were permitted in the Cook’s Inlet region, and the opera tion of those in existence was restricted. In 1923 400 corporations or individuals were engaged in fishing there. That does not appear to be a monopoly. Legislation sought by the Department of Commerce is solely for the purpose of preserving the salmon from the fate that is threatened by the greed of those who fish for commercial ends only. Unless this restriction is applied, there will not long be left any salmon to fish for. ADD HORRORS OF WAR. Another lovely little exterminator is about to be added to the machinery for carrying on wholesale slaughter in the name of war. It is called the “dia bolic ray,’’ and Is said to possess wonderful proper ties, chief of which will be to blow up battleships, demolish fortresses, and bring down airplanes in mid flight. The machine operates like a searchlight. France is reported to be dickering with the inventor to purchase the plans and specifications of the great est destructive agency yet devised by man. Lytton dreamed of something of the sort in his “Coming Race,’’ and equipped his subterranean peo ple with “vril,” an unexplained power that was shot from a staff like the electric torch, to rend rocks, destroy enemies and do a lot of wonderful things. H. G. Wells armed hi» Martian invaders, in “The War of the Worlds,” with a similar weapon, a heat ray, supplemented by the smoke acreen, and opposi tion simply disappeared, either burned or smothered. This idea has cropped out from time to time through fiction, and has ^een a favorite resort for any who wish to astonish folks without strain required to invent something new. For many years inventors and scientists worked to bring forth new apparatus for carrying on com bat, until in the early part of the century we were told that war had been made *o terrible thet none could engage in it. As a matter of deplorable ex perience, in the actual test we found men going back to the methods of the Stone age to overcome opponents. A gun that threw a shell more than 75 miles, to crash through the rcof of a church and kill worshipers at their prayers, was employed along side clubs and daggers. Man's mind still is primitive when it comes to doing murder, either singly or in mass. Inventions merely facilitate the process, but do not vary the results. The ‘‘diabolic ray” may be an accomplished fact. Certainly, the Martian smoke screen of Wells’ imagination is well reproduced in the air service and by the navy today, to say nothing of the waves of poison gas that swept over battle fields in France. It may add terror to the contemplation, but when the time comes men will go out to face it, just as they faced the machine gun fire, gas attacks, and all the deviltry of the late war. Something besides fear will be needed to stop war. •‘THEY’RE OFF AT AK-SAR-BEN!” It is just as well that Saturday afternoon is gen erally observed as a holiday hereabouts. You would hardly find anyone at his work this afternoon, for it is the opening day of the Ak-Sar-Ben spring race meet, which has been going on long enough now to be regarded as a fixture. In point of fact, it is lo cally established as such, and horsemen throughout the land are beginning to rate it with the best. Churchill Downs, Pimlico, I.atonia, and a few other tracks have richer traditions and a longer history than Ak-Sar-Ben, but none of them furnish richer sport. That is what a race meet means, sport of the truest type. Man has ever paid attention to ' the horse, and one of the tests applied in all ages has been that of speed. So the fever that stirs the blood at the sight of a bunch of horses, grouped for the starter's flag or the barrier, is an inherited one. It has come down from an ancestry so remote there is no good wasting time trying to trace it. You simply feel the tense drawing of the nerves as the racers sweep-by, and the relief that finds vent in the shout that acclaims the winner. You are yielding to an im pulse that is as natural as breathing, and you are getting more for the effort than you can in any other way. Is ljorse racing popular in Omaha? Year after year the Ak-Sar-Ben running meet has been staged, a month of racing, with liberal purses and all paid in cash. That is the best indication that it meets a public desire. So if you are hunting for anyone this afternoon, you will better start in the grand stand or the paddock before you go to his office. ALLEE SAMEE LIKE CHINA. A cabled bit of news from Harbin is to the effect that the approach of summer has stimulated banditry amongst the Chinese, and that gangs dormant during the winter are active once more. Why go to China to get sufh news? F.very paper printed in the United States is full of tales of the like. The American bandit does not capture trainloads of tour ing foreigners and carry them off to mountain strong holds, to be held for ransom. His work is more par ticular, but even more effective. Lest some one arise to chide us, let us promptly state that banditry in this land of the free is no longer exclusively mas culine. Gentle women, equal in all other lines of endeavor to her brother, has taken up the game w:th real zest. An ordinary holdup is scarcely worth notice, unless the girl with the -shingle bob appears in it somewhere. She seldom is missing. One with a baby in her arms held up a bank *11 alone. That she was taken a few hours later is but a detail. She carried out the first part of her undertaking very deftly. Her mistake was in not planning a more cer tain line of retreat. Banditry itself is becoming so common that it may lose its sense of novelty, and become annoying. If it should come to that pass where <he public be comes exitsperated, steps may be taken to check it Maybe we will there also imitate the Chinese. When the authotities over *herc take hold of a group of sufficiently obnoxious bandits, the latter are all re quired to kneel in a row, while a highly efficient swordsman chops their heads off, one by one. The custom has not deterred others from becoming ban dits, but it does discourage any who are subjected to the treatment. Wonder why Senator Walsh did not think of it while the bill was before the senate? However, the amendment to change the bonus to a cash payment will provide a lot of talking material. Middlewest farmers are now so busy that they have very little time to devote to worrying about the measures designed to relieve them by congres sional action. A Nebraska woman who was born in leap year and married in leap year, has a child each leap year. Nothing is said about what goes on in the other years. The Louisiana (Mo.) Press asserts that Coolidge and Beveridge would make the ideal hot weather ticket. It certainly would go down easy with those who are really looking for the best and safest. A woman engaged in cleaning the Liberty Bell fell and broke an arm. A certain British monarch once essayed the same task, and just look at what he broke! "Pa” Rourke may be assured of one thing. If he gets back into the managerial game the lovers of baseball will give him a rousing welcome. "She kissed me” reminds us, somehow or other, of the fellow who asserted that "the woman tempted me and I fell.” Little wonder that President Coolidge has hay fever. He has been making vast quantities of hay of late. The manufacturers of "B. V. D.’s’* are warranted in asking congress to investigate the weather bureau. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Post— Robert Worthington Davie. y _._ 1 LIKE THE FARM. I like the farm—not for Its gold, Nor for Its weary toil, Rut for the wealth Its acres hold For one who loves the soil. And feel a deep gratuity Of Being, which portraye Its earrednees abundantly Along the rural ways. I like the farm becauee It gives Me love for common things; Its purity, though dormant, lives. And thrums the aenslve strings Of human nature, end fulfills The echlng of the heart, Which often lie devotion wills To Cynic In the mart. I like the farm because I grew To manhood 'midst Its grace. And In complacent childhood knew None but the old hnfne place. I like the farm not for Its gold, Nor for its weary toll. But for the wealth He note* hold For one who loves tht soil. (--- ' You Aren’t Thinking of Leaving Us, Are You, Bob? .--- " '■ ■ ..—--in. ' t I SUNNY SIDE UP f ''lake Comfort nor forget <lKat j e=-- ' . TIIK ULTIMATE GOAL. I’d like to pass a law compelling All men to think just as I do. To stop a lot of raucous yelling Now agitating heaven's blue. If by art of legislature We ran cure evil that confronts. And change the thing called human nature. Why don't we do it all at once'.' Whv cut the dog's tail off by Inches Instead of taking Just one whack? if law will cure, then it a cinch is We ought to fix things at one crack. In spite of all my weary labors To make men see I'm truly good. I And that nearly all my neighbors I)o as they please, not as they should. If law will make us perfect creatures, Instead of dally growth in grace, Let's burn our churches, banish preachers. And let lawmakers take their place. When this is done and for salvation To man made laws the country looks, We ll burn the Hibles of the nation And put our trust In statute books. . f?bmt of our laws are very funny in their application. A number of men out of the old home town want to bore for oil They want to do It with their own money. Instead of selling ; stock. They are willing to take all the risk and pocket all the loss if their venture falls. But the "Blue Sky" department says they must Incorporate and Issue stock. But those same men could organize a stock company to build a factory for the extraction of sunshine from cucumbers, and get a permit to j unload their stock in gobs. But they are not allowed to pool their own money and sink a test well on their own land. Funny, Isn’t It? i It would seem that since our old friend. Edgar Howard, has been down Washington way he hai been subsisting almost en tirely on a diet of raw meat. Under no other presumption can we explain hia recent action In trying to tear into a fellow II member who muttered something or other. It would not hare surprised us more to see the sheep turn and rend the butcher, ( or the jackrebbit chase the greyhound back to the kennel. On second thought we believe we'll give precedence to ft lew prohibiting phonograph music In reetaurents. We love good orchestra music with our meals, but phonograph jesa Is an abomination during meal time. • I The mere fact that he did not have • hense suitable for our purpose cuts no figure. We found an agent who was per. fectly willing to rent to a family having children. Bone of • these days that agent Is going to ask a favor of aa, and wo art going our limit to grant it. | WILL M. MATTWHl J i • -- -- Letters From Our Readers All letters muni he etcned, bat name will be withheld opon request. Common). ration* of *0(1 words and less will be (Iven preference. _ . , -- - / Bury Daylight Saving. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I suppose moat of the people of Omaha are aware of the fart that at the present time there Is a resolution on daylight saving on tile with the city commission, which will he acted upon next Monday. Now this Is a war time measure, and the war is over as far as we are concerned, hut a small active minority of the people don’t seem to he aware of the fact. They are trying to saddle this measure onto the majority of the people who do not want It. and who showed that they did not want It sev eral years ago. when they fought It. Any person with a fair mind knows very well that daylight saving is not good for the community at large. It not only works a hardship on school children and those that report for work as early as 6 or 6 SO a. m.t but every one In general. This daylight saving resolution was Introduced (by request). Now let's get together and see how far We ran bury It (by request). R M'AULIFFE. About the Apostles' Creed. Omaha.—To th# Editor of The Omaha Bee: I noticed an article in your paper the other day that the Methodists in conference In Spring held, Mass., voted against changing th# Apostles' creed to read "Christ’* Holy Church" Instead of "The Holy Catholic Church.” And why should they change it? The original Apos ties’ creed reuds: "I believe In the holy Catholic church." On* of the members of the conference eald tt should he explained to the people that the word "catholic" her* means all Christians of every denomination. This ts a mistaken Idea, because when the Apostles' creed was written there was only one rhurch and that was the Catholic church, of which the pope of Rome was the visible head. Some of th* Proteatant churChe* have changed the creed to read "Th* Holy Christian Church." because they knew that It meant the Catholic church only. What right has any church to change the Apostles’ creed? If they change It to suit themselves they are not teaching the truth. Why not in sert the words, "The Holy Methodist Church?" THE TRUTH DISTRIBUTING CO, P. O. Box No. 7. When to Oppose War. Council Bluffs.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Th# religious attitude toward war la receiving much atten tlon and publicity and th* dlacuetlona In the national conference of the Methodist Episcopal church especially are widely published. It would b* difficult or Impossible to Imagine a more fruitful field for hypocrisy and pretense than la every where revealed by utterances of public men everywhere which this subject now present*. It is of no importance now, without a war pending or about to be declared, what our sentiment* may be on thot issue. The vital fact was revealed by what those same per sona said and did in 1917 and 191$ when tli# question was a living or dying test to be made. The American people were at thot time revealed and shown to tie the most utterly savage nation ever known in the history of the whole world. We love war better than anything else on earth, and will pay s thousand time* more for wnr anil to encourage and support it than all the good purposes and causes which are possible to be known. We found that less than one tenth of 1 per cent of our people hold or maintain any righteous scruples against killing people when it Is done in mass or groups, by the process] known as war. This fact was proven by the registration statistics, and we at onie and universally sought to worse than crucify all who were of that mind and purpose, showing that if Jesus Christ came to tltis world now H® was would be killed infinitely sooner than at the time of his visita tion in the flesh. The most unrighteous and causeless war that could be imagined, so far as America was concerned, was the re cent w orld conflict. \\ e were exactly like a dog is often found to tic when « fight nmong a number of his breed arises will Join the spirit and plunge into the fray, simply because it is u fight and he lores that sort of employ ment. That was our exact situation in 3S1T. Our savage nature was such that v.e were like that big dog and had to get in on one side or the other The results of each day since show how utterly and unreservedly our whole nation were fools by our course in that senseless affair, concerning I 1 ■■■" ' UV which Woodrow Wilson said In De cember, 1916, that no one had ever known what the light waa about or the cause at Issue therein. The time to have opposed war was in 1917 and 191 * and not by an aa sault at this time upon a atraw man, when war Is not an Issue. Ali who now pretend to oppose war, hut fa vored that senseless and terrible wasted effort on our part are abject hypocrites, and so reveal themselves, in the light of that record. What a glorious result might have been achieved had our people been guf fi. lontly patriotic and loyal both to America and Jesus Christ to have paralyzed our national power at that time by the right attitude on war and thu* prevent the shameful record which we mad* thereby both at home and abroad. T. H. MONROE. Fooling the Tramps. A student of tramp life tella me a hobo never takes a chance with a dog who doesn't wag Its tail.” "In that case well move the east iron dog on our lawn further back [from the highway."—Louisville Cour ier-Journal. Getting at 111* Vfcet*. "Did aha tear* him bacaua* h* ob jected to her bobbed hair?" "No," anawered Mlaa Oayenn*. "What ahe complained of waa hi* brutal Indifference. He wouldn't promt#* not to laugh If It mad* he: baldheaded."—Washington Star. 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