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• The Omaha Bee M O R N I N G—E VENIN G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN, JOY M HACKLER, Editor In Chief Buxine** Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is * member, fa exclusively entitled to the uie for 1 epublication 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 ia a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audita, and The Omaha Bee'a circulation ia regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as serond-claas matter May 28, 1908. at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT lwntic 1000 the Department or Person Wanted. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—16 Scott St. So. Side—N. W. Cor. 2 4th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Loa Angeles —Higgins Bldg. San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. ------* ©roabdVhefe (heVfest is at its Best COOLIDGE AND WHO? The convention which opens at Cleveland Tuesday will nominate the next president and vice president of the United States. It has been known for weeks who the presidential candidate will be. Calvin Cool idge has had the most impressive expression of public confidence recorded in many years, with the single exception of Woodrow Wilson, whose second nomi nation was accorded practically without opposition or demur. The republican party, for the first time in a long while, finds its candidate ready and waiting for the ratification by the convention of the popular expression of the voters throughout the union. It is the answer of the people to the question that stirred so many minds when Warren G. Harding passed away in August last year. The renomination of Mr. Harding was forecast as a certainty, but his death reopened the lists. Plenty of presidential timber can he found in the party, and the only perplexity was which of many available men to choose. The matter was not left long in doubt, for the people made their own choice. * * * From the start President Coolidge caught the public, and soon he was well entrenched in the hearts of the people. He has suffered nothing because he has been so opposed by congress, especially by the senate. Calmly and courageously, he has steered by the compass of his conscience, resolutely holding to what he deemed to be right. In his message to con gress last December, he outlined a constructive pro gram. If that was not adhered to or followed out, it is because of the waves of partisan politics, and the breaking down of party discipline, that disor ganized congress and rendered it impotent. The executive is not chargeable with the failure of the legislative branch of the government. ‘ With the nomination of Mr. Coolidge certain, the great question is; Who will be the candidate for vice president? Delegates to the convention who are pledged to Coolidse will certainly he guided to some extent in their choice of a running mate by his wishes. In other words, he can, if he wishes, name the man for second place. It is not likely that he will he guilty of so unusual an act. He is re ported to have said that one man who has been named would be satisfactory, but this is not taken to indicate a preference. The most significant state ment from the president is that the candidate for vice president must be big enough in all ways to properly fill the high office of chief magistrate. Of all the names so far mentioned in connection with the office, that of Frank Lowden, former gov ernor of Illinois, seizes the imagination most firmly. He showed his capacity for public business as gov ernor of Illinois, where he made an excellent record for efficiency in the management of the people’s af fairs. He is a farmer, engaged in stock raising on an extensive scale; an improver of stock, a man of forward look in the agricultural industry. His name is connected with the great co-operative marketing plan, contemplated by the Aswell bill, which has been so extensively discussed. Experienced in the world of affairs, he is known as a man of high ideals, and in this regard will he most satisfactory. Other names. Capper, Dawes, Hoover, Hyde, Rorah, Beveridge, are mentioned. Each of them has some peculiar qualification of his own and any of them might he chosen with credit to the party. It will not he for lack of material, but because there is so much of it, that th<» convention may he delayed in its choice. "THREE COUNTIES” PLAN MOVES. One of the last minute actions of the senate is of interest to the people of Nebraska, especially it is of interest to the residents of Phelps, Kearney and Adams counties. Senator Norris secured favorable action on a resolution to have a committee examine and report on the supplementary irrigation project that has been so carefully worked out. A sub-com mittee of the senate irrigation committee will make the investigation during the summer vacation. The plan is to take water from the Platte river at or near the northwest corner of Phelps county, and divert it through a main canal in a generally southeasterly direction across the three counties named. Included in the project is a great retaining basin, as it is planned to use the flood waters of the stream, that now run to waste, storing the supply for i*«e during the summer months. The region to he served contains many acres of rich soil, subject, however, to the drawback that the rainfall is not al ways adequate. With the water to be provided by the supple ' menlary irrigation system, the crop yield from these acres ran be enormously increased. Last summer an informal visit was paid to the region by three mem bers of a house committee, and each expressed him self as favorably impressed with the project. It has beon thoroughly engineered, and its feasibility is as well established as its desirability. We hope the step taken by Senator Norris will be the means of bringing this enterprise to completion. ALL SET FOR THE SETTLEMENT. The Herman cabinet crisis has passed with the stopping of the whirligig that bewildered Berlin and puzzled the rest of the world. The fiermnn peo ple’s party has united with the clericals and the democrats, and thus is assured support to the Marx St rcsemann cabinet, which has been reconfirmed by President Ebert. This coalition is pledged to carry out the terms of the Dawes plan. Its official control will restore general confidence in the stability of the German republic, and the sincerity of its promises with regard to the proposed readjustment! In France the government is not functioning, awaiting the resignation of President Millerand, which must soon be announced. A peculiar provision of the French constitution makes the president neces sary to the formation of a cabinet, and then leaves him without power, once a cabinet is formed. No act of the president is valid unless it has been counter signed by the cabinet minister under whose depart ment the object of the act is located. Harriot is ready to assume power as premier when a successor to Millerand has been named by the chamber of deputies. Until then, the French government will mark time. The president states he will only leave office with dignity, and delays solely for that reason. The significance of the situation is that the. new’ policy in France will be a reversal of that followed by Poincare. Understanding with England, a more friendly and reasonable attitude toward Germany, reform in domestic administration, these are the main things expected from the Hcrriot group. On the surface, and as far as any can see beneath, the governments of Europe are getting ready to settle. Chiefly this is for the reason that the people have had enough of strife. VOTING AND KEYNOTING. If there be any one thing that the democratic party has consistently advocated over a term of years, that one thing is “local self-government.” Once upon a time it was called "states’ rights,” but that term w’on some opposition and has been somewhat disguised of late. But, speaking in broad terms, “local self-government” has been the dominant demo cratic note. If there ever was a proposition to interfere with the right of a state to manage its own internal af fairs, it is the proposed child labor amendment to the constitution. No democrat true to the traditions of his party can vote for that proposition. But between remaining true to democratic tradi tions and sidestepping them in order to curry favor and win votes, sidestepping wins every time. Senator Pat Harrison, the gentleman who will do the key noting at New York, will work himself and his hear ers into a fine frenzy of enthusiasm over democratic history and traditions, carefully avoiding some por tions of the history. He will bear aloft the ark of the democratic covenant, with the usual mental reservations. And he will call the roll of the illustrious democratic dead, and most illustrious democrats are. But Senator Pat Harrison voted in favor of the child labor amendment. This is not against him as a man, but how cap he square that action with his democratic conscipo'te? A clear invasion of state rights, a palpable limitation upon the rights of the individual, and clearly a curtailment of personal liberty, how can Senator Harrison support that amendment and then stand before a democratic con- I vention and with a straight face and a vibrant voice talk about democratic history and tradition? We inquire to know’. I ___________________ 1 i Surely this is a matter for senatorial investiga tion. Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, po- ■ tentially a democratic candidate for the presidency, and a physician by practice, is actually syndicating a daily health talk to American newspapers. Such exploitation of his senatorship clearly demands in vestigation, to say nothing of Having Something Done about his violent assault upon a certain code of ethics. Talk about logical situations in politics, look at this: William Jennings Bryan says Mr. McAdoo is not a fit candidate for president. The Florida demo- , crats give McAdoo a 2 to 1 endorsement, and Wil- | liam Jennings Bryan leads the ticket in every Florida i county as a delegate at large to New York. Well, you remember what happened to Champ Clark. That Milwaukee tailor who offers himself as a r $1,000,000 substitute for Loeh or Leopold hasn’t < said what his wife thinks of the proposition. No pos- 1 sible angle of this case is being overlooked by the ' reporters, probably there will be an interview with ' her before long. c -.— - , When mamma bobbed her hair her 7-year-old c son slapped her face and then ran away from home. r It happened in Minneapolis. Mrs. Gunderson de- ' layed entirely too long in becoming an active mem- ( ber of the Bedslat club. , A Chicago scientist says the two young mur- i derers of the Franks hoy should be treated as patients, t not as prisoners. It heats all how much interest science is taking in a criminal case that promises millions for defense. The “brain storm” theory saved Harry Thaw from the electric chair, and the Leopold and Loeh millions , really ought to be able to purchase something just < as good. This new thing of sending pictures by telephone j merely means bigger telephone repair gangs, as the women drop the receiver to use both hands in pat- ' ting their hair into place. A union of 7,000 ports has been organized in Mosrow. Yet there are those who clamor for the the recognition of Russia! It was the Nineteenth amendment that caused the retirement of the old adage, “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” A running mate for Coolidge has not yet been selected, but whoever he is he’ll have to go some to keep up. That bird-lowing young murderer of Chicago seems to have something of the buzzard strain in him. “Eleventh hour battles” Irresistibly recall death bed repentance. ----V Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie -----' i FISHING. [ Such slippery, little prickly things! I learned what others oft. have aalii; ' I Journeyed forth with poles and strings. And hooks snd angle worms and bread, I found a placid little nook Above what I might name a hrook— But prudent crltlca here would ai ream With horror till their bodies shook, , And call Ihe waterway a stream. I fished-what matters where It w»»?— In stream or great, unbounded aea, Or tiny eathen bowl because Myself was not precisely me: — Among the Idle clouds he (lew Who lay upon Ihe greenish blue, And held Ihe pole between his arms. And pondered the expanse where grew The verdure on surrounding farms The., panorama caused the loss Of many half sagacious trout; I glimpsed their sun muds golden gloss *1 wasn’t.'1 here to pull them out, And I have found It doesn't pay To dream while ‘'flshea'' get away; But then, I have no call to fret, I spent a truly pleasant d<v In spile of what I didn't gel. | The Skeleton at the Cleveland Feast. ] 11 - • - .~T I r Letters From Our Readers All letters must lie signed, hut name will be withheld upon request. Communi cation* of 200 words nnd less will be given preference. J Damn the Communist*! Let’s Go. Omaha- To the Kditor of the Oma ha Dee; in behalf of the farmer-labor meet at St. Paul the 17th of thi* month: 1 wonder If it Is too much to ask «pare for such a purpose, even though the near radi< al senator from Wn ronsin will stay away because of the presence of a few more radical than he. No less a speaker and writer of standing than John Haynes Holmes has declared it his confident belief that June 17 will be a great day in American history because of the or ganization of protest and the concen tration of purpose that will result from the convention coming to order on that day; and no doubt hundreds of others, nor so prominent, but boast ing an equally high tvpe of American ism, will approve hi* declaration. I am aware of. and do not care to disguise, the presence of communist* at the St Paul convention. What if they are there? What If they are organizing? What if they d<* seek to control the convention? They are; there openly; they are organizing for a definite purpose, as they have a perfect right to do, and certainly they are trying to control, but they can do nothing unless every move is Jus tified in the minds of the assembled delegates. Against overwhelming odds, they will have to plead and per suada and explain. Nothing false or vicious can possibly endure the or deal of fue through which every fun damental measure must pass. And if it should prove that these despised communists have something to give ns, if even far off Russia can furnish an example of dauntless idealism and intelligent rebuilding, we of America may well follow, then we have only to thank God for the day that disci p|e« of Marx and Lenin first threw themselves In earnest against the seemingly impregnable wall of Ameri can prejudice and reaction. Without r \ Abe Martin _j When you see two pedestrians hobnobbin' thy’re awappin’ close calls. "What’s more aKjtravatin’ than uittin’ all comfortably settled on a train an’ then rrmemherin you feiRot t’ tell your newspaper you wur. sroin’ on a visit?" asks Sir*, doe Kite. (• 'npyrltht, l •>‘'4 > NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for May, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.. . . 73,980 Sunday.. 76,373 !)••• not include return*. left over*. • ample* or paper* spoiled In printing and Includes no iprrial sale* or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Hul>*< l iked and iwnrn to kefete me tkl* Utk day of June, 1W24 W II QUIVF.Y. (Heel) Notary Puklle. a doubt, whether communism be true or not, a genuine farmer-labor move ment in this country must be animat ed by the communist spirit or it will die in the very throes of birth. The burden bearers of this country have no sacrifices to make for any move ment of mild protest, nor time nor money to lavish on grand opeta agi tators and foghorn statesmen. Far hetter submit to slavery forever than follow the banners of those who take in vain for their own selfish purposes the sacred name* of justice ;»nd free dom’ Only a few days ago I signed a T*a Toilette presidential petition. Pre viously I had written In rather unre strained endorsement of his candidacy. Howler he is nothing alone. Only as the willing head of a genuine farmer labor movement can he be of substantial servl e. "The St Paul convention Is not called to crown a king. ’ one editor has already written, "hut to found a party, rooted in the economic organization of the exploit ed workers of the city and country.M If Mr. La Toilette is willing to agree, let.him come forward, but not fit her wise. EDMUND H. BRUMBAUGH. Mission of the Teacher. Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: With the end of the school and college year at hand, criticism of edu cational institutions and practice* seems more frequent and vigorous than usual. Besides what is in the dally press, we find in only one week’s output of the newspaper stands, art! * les in the Outlook, the New Repub lic. the Nation and the Independent, j All are interesting, hut of them all. The Liberal f'ollege and Ita Ene : miea." by John Dewey, in the Inde pendent. seems the most outstanding article and one which no parent of a «“olleg#» hoy or girls can w ell afford to leave unread. Three important points made by Dr. Dewey concern ill the underpayment of the teacher. 12» the harm done to hia teaching bv administrative duties, and 1.1) the harm done to his students by outside interference The result, . f these and other tendencies is "to restrict intellectuality." More specifically. If one might j wrap an educator a phrase in a more rawer breath,'' these things seem to us decidedly to exploit the student. Bv underpaying, interfering unintelli gently with, crowding administrative duties upon and applying numerous supposedly out-dated practices of a laissez-faire age to an instructor, the .college governors too often effectually deprive the student of the education for which he is paying time and money. The insructor, a nonunion man. under the application of “old line'' business methods, is sometimes caught up and thrown out bv the machine; at other times he Is thrown In—with not very happy results. Most often perhaps, he dries up and hard ens Into a cog or. sometime., a mon key wrench in the machiner> net the product suffers. To remedy the situation seems not too diffieul' hut public opinion must he the Spur. When the profession nf teaching < eases to be a profession of poverty and servile state, the good effects Will he felt in every corner of the country. We are hound too much todav bv ignorance, w-ith su< h result* as our Judgment and our conduct show Purely, the emancipation of the teaoh»r Is not too much to ask. If this mean* 'he progressive freeing of the nation. P- F. SEARS. That's All for Brown. Osceola, Neb—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee; I am neither Judge nor teat her of this man Brown of modern ist fame, hut as a public character, any man has a right to criticize him. Every real Christian knows that he and his followers are on the high road to npostney. but we will call them doubting Thomases. Thomas would not Itelleve until he hail abso lute proof. Maybe he thought It all symbolism There is no limit to this doubting faculty When Spurgeon was a young man he was a great doubter Me g"t so far along with his doubting that he began to doubt his own existence Then he thought It was t me to go the other way. with the result that the world was filled with hi* glory. Brown is doing his doubting at the wrong end of the road, and hn teach Ing s filling the world with evil glory. If correctly reported h« says that Jesus t ‘hrist never existed. The) devil hint.elf cannot ask more. That is what he wants Me wants Jesus Christ eliminated from the universe and has been trying to do it since the day of the resurrection. As for me. I can bear witness that this same testis has been my defender and has cheered and comforted and blest and preserved sod sustained nte prsr . Ths first loan* mads ky kanka wara mads to Rossrn , | manta, principally to finance ||jj 1 ||j| wara. I || I Bonk Loam today arc made to individuals, partnerships and corporations. By this extension of credit — made upon adequate security — | ‘he hanks assist in financing 'll'; industry, in creating wealth yy ||| and in providing employ ment. ' i ll. pj'j |i; L- U ATI A National Rank I 5C yiAriAlrusttitnpany | 1 SUNNY SIDE DP' chJoe Comfort, nor for net <lKat sunriten'*r/*</eJusvrt^.f'r . ^ In order to head off any possible Inquiries we stop the press j ut this juncture to remark that we arc not going to devote our approaching vacation to an automobile tour. In the firat place the family car has not yet recovered from its nervous collapse just before the end of our vacation tour last September. Sec- I ondly, our chauffeur is otherwise engaged and we know abso lutely nothing about driving a car, although ignorance seems to be In the majority behind steering wheels. Thirdly, we do not like to ride In automobiles Fourthly, and iterhaps this reason should have been given first, we do not expect to have any vacation this summer. Doggone it. we were never so disappointed in all our born days. Congress has adjourned and our old side kick and be loved companion of many a friendly gathering, Edgar Howard, hasn't collected a single dodgasted penny of the monies owing to us by fonelgn nations. Edgar promised us by all the fabled gods of politics that he'd collect that money or die a tryln'. and he hasn't done either. And we had so depended upon Edgar, too. We hereby tender our personal support and the support of this department to the gobs’’ who have Inaugurated a revolt against so many buttons on the bell-bottomed navy trousers. Custom and orders from headquarters have long decreed that the "gob’s" trousers should have 13 buttons. And each "gob" must keep those 13 buttons securely sewed in place. Wre do not blame the sailor boys for revolting. We have long yearned to revolt on this button business, oun nerves being often frayed by Lottie Clifford s studied neglect of our diplomatic insinua tions, but prudence has restrained us But no such considers tions restrsin us in the matter of th» navy britches, and so we are going to assert ourselves and Insist that some of those 13 buttons be removed and the remainder insured against being missing when most needed. - • If charity consists in giving away a lot of stuff one doe* not want, then we are going to be very charitable in a day or two. We have just received notice that the carload of lares and penates has arrived from the old home town, and having helped to load it we know that a very large proportion of the cargo consists of shoes in a more or less dilapidated condition, numerous coats long since bereft of the accompanying trousers, hats and caps in great prenty, and various other articles of t wearing apparel designed for parties ranging from the ages of 5 to something like SO years. Were we possessed of cash equaf in amount to the Initial , cost of the above mentioned articles soon to be donated to char ity. because that is cheaper than having them hauled to the garbage dump, we would begin immediatelV to negotiate with some realtor whose publicity appears regularly in these pages w ith a view to acquiring in fee simple s deed to a palatial real dence well within the corporate limit* of Greater Omaha. | WILL M. MAITPIX. tically all my life and Brown may Just as well tell me I never had a human friend as to tell me that Jesus Christ never existed. 'Tie that endureth to the end the same shall he saved." Brown is not enduring to the end. "Be thou faith ful unto death and I will give tijee a crown of life." He will not get the rrnwn of eternal life. Blessed and holy Is he that hath a part in the first resurrection." He will have a part in the resurrection at the last. "Blessed is he that overeometh and he shall Inherit all time. ’ He will inherit nothing but misery and de spair except he repent. It is no won der that the hypocritical humbug re sorts to svmboiism. They have noth Inc else to give them dignity. No douht they admit their robe* are not myths The moat charitable thought for Brown !• that like Solomon of old. hi* mental machinery !» worn out and find will have mercy on him for the good that h* ha* done 1n hia lifetime. Amen so let it be tV. T I ..A WHENCE. Good Investment. ■ Seven year* ago I arrived In 'his town, with only one dollar, but that dollar gave me my start." "You must have Invested It very profitably." "I did. I telegraphed home for money."—Exchange. These Moderns. "I thought you didn't smoke, Mrs. Butts?" Mrs. Butts—No. I don't care for it —it makes me sick—but I do it onro in a while in the presence of the chil dren so they won't call me old-fash ioned.—Boston Globe. W hen in Omaha Hotel Conant ^ 250 Rooms—250 Biths— Rates 12 to $3 6fj NO COMMISSION 6% § I REAL ESTATE LOANS \l l 6% INTEREST § I NO COMMISSION E O Repayments Y (j w o The Conservative Savings & Loan Ass’n c Z 1614 Hernejr Street ^ 6% NO COMMISSION 6% Cclotex is the building lumber that adds \ value and comfort to a home and that] cuts the final coat of home ownership.! For details and pnee, ASK YOUR LUMBER DEALER WHAT SCHOOL OR COLLEGE? ! The School and College Bureau of The Omaha Bee will help you in the selection of a school, col lege or university. 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