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The Omaha Bee] M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publi.b.r * N. F. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M HACKT.ER, Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for i^publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. The 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 audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha poatoffice under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. A*k fop AT Iantic 1000 the Department or Person Wanted. OFFICES jdain Office—17th and .Farnam Co. Bluffs— 18 Scott St. So. Sid* N. W. Cor. 24th N. * New York —World Bldg. Detrr^it-- Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. I- --* Omaha Vhei£> flie^fest is at its Best i _ NEBRASKA’S SALUTE TO AMERICA. “Nebraska’s story belongs not only to Nebras kans, but to all Americans,’’ says a commendatory editorial in the Chicago Tribune, commenting on the effort that is being made to put Nebraska fairly bc fore the world. In a sentence or two the Tribune refers to the making of Nebraska. Such an epic ran not be told in a line. The real story of Ne braska will not be recited save with a long and in teresting chapter devoted to the men and women who came to a new country, full of great hopes, and who set about in the most courageous manner to bring that hope to realization. Pioneers of Nebraska had to contend with many difficulties. It was virgin soil they were turning, a fertile prairie, teeming with potential wealth. et it was different soil from that with which any of them were accustomed to dealing. It contained the elements, but it presented problems In management that were unfamiliar to the settlers. Each had to do for himself the best he might under the circum stances. • • • Grasshoppers, drouth, and such like discourage ments were faced with the supreme courage that animated the great souls who laid the foundations for the present day to build upon. Settlers finally found means whereby they could exchange experi ences, and through this mastered the secrets of Ne braska's soil and climate. Steadily they moved for ward, facing new problems as they arose, until finally they had conquered, and a great state came out of their effort. Nebraska is now one of the greatest food-produc ing states in the union, and that means in the world. It does not lead in the production of any single crop, except possibly hay, but it does bring forth such a variety of food crops as sets its total high on the list. Having more than one string to her fiddle, Nebraska does not feel depression quite so keenly as do neigh boring states, where the variety of agricultural re source is not so great a factor in prosperity. On this rests the steadily expanding wealth of Nebraska, the prosperity and consequent happiness of her people. * • • Pioneers as a rule hold firmly to their opinions, Metical or religious. This was true of those who tame to Nebraska. It was the sturdy races of Europe, the thrifty and frugal, the enterprising and industrious, who settled this state. Germans, Scan dinavians, Bohemians, Irish, English and Scotch, to gether with the younger men who had followed Grant, made up the successive waves of migration that brought the prairies under subjection. While they were building their homes, they laid secure the foundations for political and religious liberty. All shades of belief and creed were represented in those ranks, but over It all was that tolerance that has made the state at once an enigma and a beacon for other states. Political fires blaze up in Nebraska, for the peo ple have great faith in themselves, and are impatient of a leadership that seeks to dictate rather than direct. But these fires have never burned so fiercely as to destroy any part of the freedom that was found here by the pioneers and has since been so carefully nurtured. Partisan prejudice nor religious bigotry have not been permitted to sway the course of this state in its steady upward march. * • * Nebraska salutes Aifierica, a proud and upstand ing sister in the great sisterhood of states. Ne braska men have followed Old Glory from 1861 to 1917. Nebraska men and women have won high place In all fields of human endeavor. Out of the fields, the pastures, the orchards and gardens of this state go every year millions of tons of food to the world. Seldom does a Nebraskan hurst like a meteor across the political sky, hut the taste of Ne braska wheat, corn, meat, butter, eggs, potatoes, ap ples, and the like is known wherever humanity has need for food. And th« men and women of Ne braska, inheritors of the strength of mind and soul that sustained their forebears—and many of these are still vielng with their grandchildren—cherish the freedom that is theirs by right, the choicest fruit of the fields that bloom for the good of the world. In honest pride, Nebraska salutes America. IT SIMPLY CANNOT BE DONE. The timberlands were cleared and homes builded thereon by men and women who depended upon their own toil and sacrifices for success and happi ness. The prairies were subdued and brought into cultivation by men and women who depended upon their own brains and muscles and industry. Law enactment can never take, the place of hon est work in building real success. Permanent prosperity is builded upon perform ance, not upon political palaver. Loyalty to the job means more than merely put ting in the hours. It mems putting heart into the work. We ran not. shirk on the bosses’ Hme without injuring ourselves. If the world owes us a living we must he our own collector. Shiftlessness is always asking alms of applies tion. and geniuses unapplied is as useless as a flask of gunpowder to a man armed only with a how and arrow. It is useless to expect the world to heat a path to our door unless we have something in the house well worth showing. It is folly to depend upon laws to make wen honest; the best the laws ran do is punish them for bein? dishoneat. Jor years men have been trying to hnd a subtil tute for industry and thrift. Only failure has been the result. They will keep on trying for ages to come. But, it simply cannot be done. WHAT PARENTS OUGHT TO KNOW. Many lectures are being read to parents just now. The Chicago boy tragedy is affording the text,. Most of the arguments are to the effect that the perversion of mind exhibited by the youthful criminals is the result of over-indulgence and lack of salutary dis cipline at home. Some truth may be found in this. It is answered on the other side that other hoys have been pampered, indulged, even allowed to go with out heing subjected to very rigorous discipline, and yet. have come to be good and even great men. Truth is found in this, too. What, then, are the conclusions to be drawn from the case? Simply that it confirms the opinion long ago arrived at by those who have had much dealings with boys, that each is an individual problem, and that no hard and fast law can be laid down for all. The bedslat method, approved by some distinguished and experienced fathers, has failed in quite as many cases as it. has succeeded. Nor will the other plan, that of inculcating stern morality inevitably produce tty> result desired. As often as in the matter of corporeal discipline, failure follows where moral teaching has been the most severe. Farents have a duty that is not always well borne. Training a boy is not a mere matter of prohibitions and permissions. The parent first of all must pro vide an example he will not feel ashamed to have his son follow. Study of the boy will disclose some salient point in his nature on which hold may be laid to direct him. Together with this goes, as a matter of course, the inculcation of those sterling virtues that are the mainstays of character. Even when all these things have been looked to, the hoy nr girl may develop some quirk that turns them from the right path and sets, them on a journey that can only end in disaster. Fortunately for humanity, most parents are devoted to the great job of training their children along right lines. Not all follow the same method, but all aim at the same result. They have brought young ones into the world, and their love and pride is sufficient to sustain them in the great task of rear ing their little ones to the end that they will be fitted for lives of usefulness. In the case of the Chicago homes that have been blighted by the terrible crime, fathers and mother* are sorrowing. Instead of reproaching them with the mistake they have made, the great majority of fathers and mothers everywhere feel for them in their grief. “There, but for the grace of God, goes Charles Wesley,” said the great churchman, as he saw a drunkard dragged along the street. So each parent may say, that but for a similar reason, his son might now be awaiting punishment for crime. FARMERS' FIGHT NOT FINISHED. Adjournment of congress without passing any of the measures asked by the farmers merely senes to prolong the fight. Up in South Dakota pins are al ready being set up for the next round. Carl Gun derson, republican nominee for governor, and head of the South Dakota Wheat Growers’ association, announces from Brookings that he is planning for the formation of an even stronger farm bloc, to go into the next congress and carry on the effort to secure justice for agriculture. Mr. Gunderson does rot ask that the protective tariff be repealed. He does insist, though, that the farmer he given the same measure of effective pro tection that is enjoyed hy the eastern manufactur ers. Here is a program that should attract support. The farmer is to he lifted up, his products to he set on a level with those of the manufacturer. It is the spirit of live and let live applied to one of the really vital problems of our national life. Farmers are industriously and intelligently seek ing a way out of their economic difficulties, and are not asking unreasonable advantage over a»y. They realize that some help must come in the way of fed eral legislation on their behalf, and in demanding this they have but followed the example of others. The tariff law takes care of the manufacturer, the transportation act secures the railroads, and the Adamson and other laws favor labor. Why should not the farmer have something of the same nature? Mr. Gunderson will find plenty of sympathetic sup port for his program. Thp expected happened, when Senator Walsh re ported on the oil lease inquiry. Every republican from Harding down was denounced, hut. no word was said of McAdoo, Daniels, or any of the other democrats. t /' ' '' ’ Many words are passing between the governor and the attorney general on the topie of gas, and the war in Omaha goes merrily on. Consumers are strictly neutral. They are getting the gasoline cheaper. Dan Steck, a grandson of James B. Weaver, is going to lead the forlorn hope of the democrats in Iowa. He will soon come to know how his illustrious grandsire felt on several occasions. Tobacco dealers arc proposing to combat the cigaret by pushing the cigar. In time amateur smokers may come to know the solace of a pipe. A Methodist, a Jew and a Roman Catholic will pray for the republican convention on successive days. All the supplications will go to one God. Japan has the thanks of the United States for courtesies extended the round-the-world fliers. No sign of war in this. One certain way to avoid trouble at a blind cor ner is to approach it safely. Legionnaires are taking our tip, and going after the bonus promptly. No trouble to get knee drep in June if you get off a paved road. Goodby, congress, what’s your hurry? e*-— — ———. Homespun Verse — -By Omaha’* Own Poet— linbrrt Worthington Davin -—— - - — 1 ~ LONGING. Take all that I have of material things! (A redbreast over my window sings.I Rut grant ns, I ask and It rightly seems— My dreams, my wonderful dreams. This Is the boon that has rom# from whence Thoughts In ths cradle age commence (shaping themselves and spreading their wing* And eoarlng—nine!—to material things This la the huh of ths wheel of Tim*, Which, epokelcss, keepeth the road enbllm* But. finished, revolves the forward way of Service to mere decay. Take all that I have of materia! things' (A redbreast over m.v window sings.I Rut grant ms I ask and It rightly seems My dreams, my \#}«iderful dreams. A Sudden and Radical Change in the Nature of His Prescription ? SUNNY SIDE UP c)ak£ Comfort nor forget *Jhat sunrise rmxrJai/ed'Usget^^" , -- ' ^ WILLIE qUITS WORRYING. When campaigns get to going good you bet your pile of dough i hat Little W illie will decline a lot of fits to throw. He will not grow excited, neither run around and shriek When John Q. Howler clears his tbroat and rears straight up to speak. For Little Willie has discerned, ’midst all the fume and fret. That dire disaster prophesied has never happened yet. J >o he'll no longer tend his shirt nor beat upon his breast, Rut go almad full satisfied all will be for the best. j Your Willie would. In times gone by, get all het up for fair. And lie inclined to loudly yell and wildly tear his hair. Rut that was many years ago, when he was young and dense; \nw years have brought experience and taught him better sense. Let politicians rant and rave and paw the atmosphere, Rut Little Willie will sit tight, his heart and conscience clear, I I «r 'spite dire prophesies of woe, disaster, grief and wreck, He* satisfied the 1'. R a. won't get. it in the neck. We confess that we are growing mightily discouraged K'-ejy now and then, over a period of something like two score years, we have been throwing fits of gloom, and trembling with fear lett the Palladium of Our Liberties be destroyed and the republic crushed into dust. Prophets of disaster have skrleked tn our ears, and soothsayers have whispered to us that the end was near unless we harkened to their advice. Rut all our fears were groundless. Th* worst has never happened yet. After due cogitation we are forced to admit that whatever of backset we have had is primarily due to our ow n lack of judgment or an inherent desire to get around things the easiest way We have listened to L'alamity Wallers for \ears on end, but it never got us anywhere, although a lot of the Calamity Wallers got into office at salaries considerably greater than any they could ever hope to earn In private life I - So far as we are concerned hereafter the Prophets of PIp aster and the calamity Wallers can all (Jo To. We are goVng b* have just the kind of government we want, and we w:!l win 1 all the success we deserve. Admitting that now and then con ditto/.** have leep pretty had. we still insist that as bad as they " er •. they were heaven compared to what would he in case the Prophets of Disaster, the Calamity Howlers and the Profes ' ; sional Reformers were permitted to run things for any consider able length of time. ^. Pn discouraged are we that from now on we refuse to listen to the Doleful Disciples of Discontent. Our ears are attuned to the music of optimism and our eyes are looking forward to the dawn of a day that will usher in a return to sanity snd com mon sense. Something tells us that we have to go through this sort of thing every now and then, just like we had to, when young and adolescent, go through the measles and mumps and chicken pox, and divers and sundry other troublesome complaints. Those things had their compensation—we didn't have to go to school. And the present epidemic of calamity and blocs and theories and reforms will also present compensations if we will but look for them. F'rinstanc©, what a grand and glorious feeling It Iwiii he when the tide recedes and we are once more enjoying ?he ralm of political reason. WILL M MAUPIN. _ —J -- Letters From Our Readers All Utter* tnn«t he »!*nod, hut name will he withheld npon regae*t. Commani ration* of 200 word* and le«* will be riven preference. V-—---/ Letter to a Congressman. Kearney, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Writing to Hon. Robert G. fllmmon* on the railroad question. T say: What I want to say Is that this question of railroad rates and legls lation is too big for a fairly busy doc tor to write about Intelligently, and I can only touch on the hem of the garment. President Coolidge, himself, could make only a brief suggestion In hla Merember address and relegate tjie task to competent authorities; but I know of a number who have a broad understanding of this subject, and one of them is Senator Cummins of Iowa. Being horn and raised in the Hawkey© state, and engaged In railroad work for eight years before I began the study of medicine, I have watched his career as a legislator, governor and I'nited States senator, and I have learned to like and admire him as a liberal democrat sometimes likes to think of and hold admiration for a big. brainy republican. Tf the Each Cummins net needs revision, snd I presume it does, at least th© rank and file seem to think so, for th© bet terment of the whole people—not es penally for and in the interest of the farmer—let this big job he undertaken by men who know something about the management of railroads and the rate question as it affects the dif ferent classes in the several states. The cases you cited In reference to the car shipment of potatoes from Dawes Hcotts Bluff counties seem like in lances of excessive freight rates, but it must he remembered that potatoes are perishable freight and this partially accounts for the high tariff A nearer market than Muako gee. Ok!., would also help th© Scotts Bluff county farmer and bring him a better net return on his shipment. On most commodities, farm produce Inclusive. I have nlw.ivs held and be lieved that eventually the consumer pays the freight. unless, of course, an exceedingly high rat© 1s charged by a railroad having a monopoly In a certain territory with control of the rail shipments, and If this he the case, the interstate commerce com mission could step in and demand an equalization and Just rate. I am glad to note that you are not In favor of government ownership Don't you think our one try at gov ernment operation was peculiarly ©ad. financially, and in particular the man agement of these great systems of transportation? 1 hope that T never live to see n. centralization of po*ci in Washington, and this goo© for railroads, schools, agriculture, money and marbles I favor a revision In the transportation act to this extent that of restoring in a gre.it measure the power of the state railroad com Abe Martin 1 Grnrral Apathy haa put a good many frllpra in oilier, hut it takps o|p High Ta\pa t’ yank Vm out. “Whpn I apt out t' do aomrthin', or go aomp plarp, I don't want t’ lip Pothered with a rar,-' aaid Mra. Tipton Hud t’day. (Coprrltht, »«•» I mission ns to local control of the rail roads It brings things closer to home and makes me think of my old friend | John C. Calhoun, when he demanded atate rights under the constitution. Now, a word relative to the railroad labor board and the fixing of wager The labor board ever since its creation and watching it function, reminds me of the fellow who was buggy and had both hands tied—It simply drove him crazy—and s similar condition exists with thln-*oa'rd In that their findings in ro many disputes have been com pietely ignored both by labor organ Izotlona and the railroad companies and no one seems to have a dlapnsi tlon to untie their hands and give them a chance to scratch and exercise their legitimate function. Another brief reference to the wage question and I am done, and. by the way. It Is the meat of the cocoanut. If you could nnlv educate the great body of the people up to thia fart. I refer to those powerful and avaricious or ganization* known as the railroad brotherhoods, engineers and firemen and railway trainmen. Right here Is where I would equalize wages Give the shoperaft, freight handlers, oper ators and track men a living year around wage and tame down and call a halt on the arrogant power of the hig brotheis In the operating depart ment. I wish T could slip you this personally, hut the information covers a long period of observation. I would not cast a slur on the sprinkling of fine Intelligence and high character of this great body of m*n. hut of this much 1 know, there I* not a class of highly paid workers in this country who exercise less brain power, less spinal column energy and receive a greater compensation In return for this basal metabolism than these same engineers, firemen and tall way train men, hut they are wonderfully organ Ized with real brains at the stern, that it would take a strong barrage of public opinion to wipe away the smoke screen and shatter the breast works. "by. say, Rub, tpardon me for being personal I. thesa birds like Slone and l.ee have stacked the cards in the wage game ever since I was a youth “watching the trains roll In at the station," and so adept have they been that Merman the Great looked and probably felt like a piker. They aim ply eat the heart out of tlie melon ami give the rest to you anil I and the engine wiper at Ihe roundhouse Once upon n time a man who is now a presidential candidate 1 think Ills name Is MrAdoo— fell hard for this crowd, and he u still falling, hut for tunately for the great cause and sue cess of democracy, down and out Peraonal observation long ago cop vlnced me that an average Intelligence could open the throttle and run an en gine and 'his goes for the the con ductor who reads the train order punches your ticket snd tells you where to get n|T. Rut always reniem her when everything goes dead wrong with tlie locomotive, ..leave it to the machinist the boilermaker and the 'Tperamlth to right tilings and gel her going again, snd by Ihe same token a apt end rail or a low joint, or an ill-lined sw'ltch or a broken bum per and a flat wheel Is not repaired by the much touted trainmen, hilt at ihe end of ilie line by tlie trackmen, yardmen anti ear repairers, who as a rule work for a mere pittance or a bare living wage. The truck Ilian and the section men s’ vnu know, were starv ed to despera tlon for years hv the railroads, slm Pl.v because they bad no working or ganization to demand a living wage, and tliat la the reason that the white man, especially along tlie line nf the mad and on ttie section. Iiavs been greatly replaced by tlie dark skinned foreigner Finally, this train is sent on Its Journey by an ever efficient train dispatcher and tabbed along (lie line h.v an a] way a expert operator or ala tlon agent, men on whom great re spnnslblllty rests, hut whom, 1 am forced to admit, at least in the past and at times in tlie present, receive not the menaure of compensation for Ihe service rendered to which they are so Inatly entitled fnncludlng with this admonition Strike a fair balance in this matter nf lbe wage question without in any way decreasing tlie efficiency of service Ihls in turn will9*salat In s Invvri tariff of freight rates i lie Mavvee countv farrnci will have Just as good a market for his potatoes with a les "ened freight burden and a greater 0 • net return for hi* product, and the dear people, the consumer*, will rise up and call you blessed for ever and a day. HKNRV FARRELL, M. D. P. S night at this time the shop craft, car repairer* and section men \ throughout the country are for the! most part on an eight-hour schedulej and five day* a week, and the switch m*n take a Sunday rest. Just to pinch them a little financially and make a better showing In appropria tlons. the railroads gave this class of employes an enforced vacation the last three days of May, and this In j of the fact that there is plenty: rf work to Vo performed in almost; every department of the various linos. When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Baths—Rates $2 to $3 I THROUGH SEVEN I || ADMINISTRATIONS | ' I Since 1902, when the I I CENTURY overnight I I; service was inaugurated i § between New York and | I f Chicago, this standard I ■| bearer of the New York I *l| Central Lines has been I il the favorite train of the II II Presidents and the men II Ip who have nominated the |l p.( I \ ; / Th* 20TH CENTL RV LlMITEP will be '• / 22 iears old on June 1 5. It ha* made more chan 8.000 round Crif<i through <*t^n national administrations. |P| ' 7 '