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The Omaha Bee MO R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY 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, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication 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 postoffice under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for 1 AAA the Department or Person Wanted. ** * lallWC lvvU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam ' Co. Bluffs—15 Scott St. So. Side—N. W. Cor. 24th N. New York—World Bldg. 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The commission on the reduction of armament, named by the league, has adopted certain principles. A convention will be called to consider these. The national control of private manufacture of arms should seek: ‘Firstly, complete suppression of clandestine manufacture, thus supplementing the provisions of the proposed convention for the regulation of inter national traffic, and secondly, that it should do away with all irregular practices and all attempts at cor ruption in transactions connected with the acquisi tion of war materials by governments." Full control of the private manufacture and sale of arms would in the end control filibuster expedi tions, and so would discourage petty revolts. This would not necessarily interfere with the righteous effort of any people to gain freedom or to change its government. Today throughout the world gov ernment is at the disposal of the citizens. They may at any time by peaceful methods change their rul ers, or even their form of government. The cause that rests wholly on force or relies on armed effort seldom has back of it the popular support that will make it a permanent institution. Established governments may provide their needs for arms by manufacture or purchase. The commis sion does not hold that the league should interfere with the purchase by governments of war material from either private concerns or national factories. No denial can be made of the right of any govern ment to arm for defensive purposes. Already the United States has exercised its rights to forbid the sale of war material to aid revolt in another coun try. The principle adopted by the league commis sion is in line with practice established in this coun try. What the commission's plan looks to is the reduc tion of putput of private munitions factories, by limiting the field of sale. Taking the profit out of the manufacture is one of the first steps toward the general imitations of armament. As democracy spreads throughout the world, the need for arms be comes continually less. Self-governed peoples will 1 always find some way other than fighting to settle differences with their neighbors. Democracies are rarely aggressive. NOW SETTLING WITH THE PIPER. The one great newspaper of the nation having cause for rejoicing at the outcome of the New York convention is the New York Times. I/Ong ago it began a consistent advocacy of the claims of John W. Davis, and not once did it swerve. Even when the McAdoo or Smith tides were rolling highest, in . the preconvention days, the Times insisted that Davis was the man for the party. Now that it is settled that Davis is to lead the race for the democrats, the Times finds great com 1 fort in the way his nomination has been received. Particularly because the “ogre of Wall street” had “a preliminary exhibition right in Madison Square Garden, and did not . utceed in terrifying anybody.” This latter phrase refers to Mr. William Jennings Bryan’s attack on Davis. If Wall street, as painted by Mr. Bryan, does not terrify a democrat, what will? Mr. Bryan, Mr. McAdoo, Mr, Smith, all the forces that wrangled and snarled across the arena for sixteen days, come smilingly forth and tell us they are not only for Davis, but were for him all the time. Who believes this? Anybody who believes that McAdoo carried on his campaign just to see where he stood with the democrats. Or that Smith made his fight just to show the western delegates how a New Vork politician goes about to accomplish mira cles. Or that the governor of Alabama roared “Twenty-four for Underwood!” while the roll was called 103 times just to show that Alahama wanted Davis. Now that the ticket is named, these will all sup port it. They must, in order to maintain their party regularity. But that does not mean no disappoint ment was felt or heart ache left by the outcome. And Davis knows this as well as anybody. "WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS.” E. C. Houston of Tekamah, republican candidate for congress in the Fourth district, has a campaign slogan worthy of more thun passing notice. “Horse sense in public affairs,’’ according to Mr. Houston, is what this country needs. And those who have listened to diatribes against success and the woeful prophecies of ultimate disaster, falling from the lips of Mr. Houston’s opponent, will read ily agree that the Tekamah man is correct in his diagnosis. “Horse sense” Is a term easy to understand. Translated it means common sense. Absence of hysteria. Ability to resist being stampeded by po litical piffle. “Horse sense In public nlfuirs” means handling the public’s business in a businesslike way. It means the opposite of pandering to political prejudices. It means the opposite of sacrificing sanity to cntch the plaudits of failures and Incom petents. The country has had a surfeit of professional re formers. It has had too much of shifting policies to catch the constantly veering winds of popular :• t clamor. What this country needs is a revival of sanity and sense. A speedy return, if you please, to “horse sense in public affairs.” Mr. Houston is a successful business man. His success is to be attributed to hard work, honesty, frugality and “horse sense.” It seems to be the idea of many persons these days to look upon success in business as a crime to be punished by boiling in oil, or something equally lingering. But the “horse sense” that has enabled individuals to win business success is the kind of sense that should be utilized in the management of the public’s business. More “horse sense” upon the part of the repre sentative from the Fourth, and less of platitudinous piffle, would be a welcome change, easily obtainable by the voters of the district. ON THE GOVERNOR’S DOORSTEP. Paris had nothing on “Brother Charlie.” Paris slipped the apple to Helen, who had a “face that launched a thousand ships, and burned the topless towers of Illium.” That counted for something in those days. Now, Brother Chnrlio holds an apple in the form of his place on the state ticket. He is going to slip this to some deserving democrat. Around him trip a bevy, or is it a covey, of the best, displaying their charms and graces. Mayor Jim Dahlman, John H. Norton, who has been repub lican, democrat, nonpartisan leaguer; Smith, Shum way, F. S. Taylor, Butler, Osterman, and the rest. Each is eager to have the favor. Brother Charlie may be embarrassed, os Paris undoubtedly was, by the display before him. If he is, it is probably the first time he ever was embarrassed. Very likely the governor knows who will get the prize. It will go to the one he thinks will do his cause the greatest sendee. He need be in no hurry, for several weeks will elapse before the real work of the campaign begins, and if the democratic candi date for governor is known by the first of next month, that will be time enough for purposes of practical politics. In the meantime, it will do no hurt to let the boys guess a little. At that, the situation is interesting. For the first time the candidate for the high office of vice president is required to face the delicate job of nam ing his successor as head of the state ticket in his home state. He faces the possibility of offending somebody whose aid he may need. And, as a high democratic authority puts it, there will be no need to draft his successor. Awaiting the governor’s de cision on the point, we wish the aspirants the best of good luck. BACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES. The front page looks a little odd with no news from Madison Square Garden blazing therefrom. But the sporting page holds its character and its at traction. Conventions may come, and conventions may go. For a moment they may catch the eye of the populace. It is the box score, though, and the summary of the race, the card turned in by Hagen or some other golfer, the outcome of the match be tween Miss Wills and Suzanne, that possess the in nermost soul of the reader of summer-day news. Bryan may be a big man in his line, or “Fighting Bob,” yet either must give way to “Babe” Ruth or Paavo Nurmi, home run hitter or champion long distance runner of the world. Washington in first place, the tug hetw’een the Cubs, the Pirates and “Cincy” for the honor of chas ing the Giants dow'n the home stretch. Omaha’s magnificent command of the Western league. The way the Yankee athletes are piling up points at the Olympic games. These are what the citizen wants to know. Next to them he sees the price of corn nnd hogs going up, and it fladdens his heart, for he knows that means prosperity all through Omaha’s territory. Time enough for politics when these matters are out of the way, when the schedule is played out and hogs going up, and it gladdens his heart, for he days statesmen and spellbinders will lift their voices to tell the people of their country’s peril and how to avoid it. Then the mind of the average Ameri can will arouse to the realization that we have to choose a president this year. Just now', for the good of his soul as he sees its good, that same citi zen is interested in s'.riething else. An account of which is found on the sporting page each day. Now that La Follette has accepted a nomination from the socialist party and turned his hark on his own party, the Minneapolis Tribune suggests that it would be the decent thing to do to resign the sena torahip given him as a republican. For a close neigh bor the Tribune exhibits a curious ignorance of the mental make-up of La Follette. Hearst begs La Follette to start a new party. Maybe that is the very reason why “Fighting Bob” hesitates. He knows if he did start n party' Hearst would step in and grab it. before it was dry, nnd maybe bend it all out of shape. What, we would like to inquire, do you think was the matter with the veteran who whipped Brign <1 ier General Hines as an intimation of dissatisfac tion with the disability rating accorded him? Wonder whatever became of that Texas delegate who vowed he would be there voting for McAdoo when the brimstone lake had become a skating rink? Somehow or other a lot of Nebraska democrats recall one Marse Henry’s famous utterances con cerning open slaughter houses and bloody graves. It is with no sacrilegious intent that republicans review the recent democratic national convention and murmur, “Blessed are the piece makers.” There arc more than two million law’ on the statute books of the United States, most of them put there by somebody for somebody else. “Can a man love two women?’’ asks a contempo rary. If he can, and does, he would be foolish to admit it. “It was all right to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me downstairs?” -W. J. B. Mr. McAdoo’s “last drop of blood" seemed sadly lacking ip red corpuscles. That “sting of ingratitude" seems to have been a permanent puncture. s Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Koltrrt H’nrtliinaton Davie \__— MY BOY. Rocking him. rocking him. murmuring low.— Happily wati hjng him—proud ne a king; Wheeling hlrn. wheeling him, wheeling him alow,— Marking (he notes of the song that I slug. ■ inkling him, scolding him. praising Ills daed: Rollicking with him In mendow nnd wood; I,earning him how to mnkn letters and rend; Teaching him all that Is graceful and good. (Siilillng. advising him, wishing hlrn well: Olvlng hlrn courage and lending hint Joy; Living my years to exultantly tell Others the divide lie la doing my hay, V / / 1,1 Trying to Take Out the Soreness ( NE\ltU MIND. I'U m IT UP 505 WOBODY'll, EVER, NOTiCP IT—HARDLV % I I I __^_-_I Letters From Our Readers All letters mast be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 words and lose will be given preference. -----/ Dan V. Stephens a Political Solomon. Beaver Crossing, Neb—To the Edi tor of The Omaha Bee: Should our state be widowed, heaven will com fort and provide, and, being the itest qualified and most available, Stephens may sacrifice himself, if democracy's call be distinct and Imperative. We are specially blessed and are duly grateful to providence, who has fa vored us with a superstatesman, so intelligent, so veracious, so cour ageous, so conscientious, In a word, he is the quintessence of political bunk. Full of courage, he sacrificed himself on the altar of democracy so that frep speech and free press might he pickled and preserved—freedom of speech was. as you remember, the es sence of Wilsonian democracy. Dan's constituents, being reactionaries, naturally failed to recognire a real progressive and mistook him for a barnarle, rushed him to the demo cratic cemetery and wrote his epitaph something like this: "Here lies a true progressive—metrically ranging from the half of 1 per cent to 100 per cent—killed by reactionar ies.” Rome still weep, not that the funeral took plaqe, but because It was so long delayed. Home say Mr. Stephens was ton conscientious and too consistent, and in this you must decide for yourselves —he Is quoted a* having said he was ' firmly convinced" McAdoo was the choice of the people, hut he is con vinced" that there could have been no wiser" choice than Davis—'.a not that illuminating? Bryan and Mc Adoo failed to see the "wisdom" in the selection, hut I have already told you that Stephens Is nothing if less than omniscient. Dan claims hie fac tion nominated Davis—some nuts / "" ' -. ■ V A be Martin One good thing, ther won't be no p’litical spell bindin’ from th* tail end o’ nirplancs this fall. Demo cratic Delegate Ike Soles finally got home an’ is already beginnin’ t’ talk about when he used t’ live in New York. (Copyright. 1(14 ) NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Juno, 1024, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,616 Sunday .76,224 Dflflt not Includes return*, left* over*. **mpU* nr p*p*r* *pnit*ci In printing *nd Include* no iprrUI or fr*« circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. 9iiliirrlb«J and sworn to hrfar* m* thi* 0th day of July, 1U24 W II QIJIVFY, I (Seal) Notary I'uhllc | ",*nr" 1 here In their stupidity believed the nomination was unanimous. He was "convinced" the people wanted the Californian, but as It is not whole some ,to give the darned public what they want, in his superior wisdom, the ex congrussman of Fremont gave them a legal adviser to the interna tional bankers. As we cannot ap proach the Are without receiving some heat, so Dan in his charity, radiates knowledge, so it is our own fault If our domes remain vacuums. Ho says eastern democracy has van ished. its sponsors nre a handful of reactionaries, who still dream about those obsolete documents, the con stitution and bill of rights. These easterns talk glibly of condemning lawlessness, masked or unmasked— poor fools—has not Dan assured them that that would he a religious per fomance and. as a consequence, an thema to prog-ressiviam. He does not forget his party attempted to rob the constitution of its religious safeguards and waged bloody war in defense of slavery. The eastern dunces know they are negligible, and that Is why they never vote and. of course, that accounts for Ihelr absence from national demo cratic conventions—that's why all the responsibilities devolve on the Fre monter's faction. Atta, boy, Dannie. M. C. V. \ Popular Idea. Omaha—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee: If the republican and democratic papers of the country would quit their hig advertising of Da Follette and Just decline to men tion his name In their papers, his campaign would quickly flatten out. Why don't they do it? XXX. Business of the Vagrant. It is very good to get away once more and pick up the old and ever fresh business of the vagrant, loafing through new towns, learned in the manner of dogs, babies and perambu lators half the world over, and track ing the seasons by the upgrowth of flowers in stranger people's gardens. —Itudyard Kipling. STANDARD ■ ERICS URNACE Bolls THERE is a reason for every thing that happens. Com mon-sense kills misery. Common sense also svnps hwilsl S. S. S. is the common sense remedy for boils, be cause it is built on rea son. Scien tific authori ties admit its power! S.S.S, builds blood power, it builds red-blood-cells. That is what makes fighting-blood. Fighting-blood destroys impuri ties. It fights boils. It fights fimnles! It fights skin eruptions I t always wins! Mr. V. D. Schaff, 557 15th street, Washington, D. C-» writes: ”1 tried tor years to get relief from a had case of boils. Every thing failed until l took S. S. S. 1 am now absolutely cured, and it was S. S. S. that did it." H. 8. 8. Is sold at all goad drug atoraa la two slate. Tha larger nn la mors economical. “CC Bwt iJ,JL '/flood Medicine Center Shots A picture in this year's academy was painted by a grocer. In advanced Chelsea circles the opinion is that it would be much more remai kable If the academy exhibited a picture painted by an artist.—Punch. Senator Brookhart reports that the entire expenditures of his senatorial campaign in Iowa were S3T 84. It Isn't the first cost of a senator that the country minds—it's the overhead.— Chicago Tribune. A pedestrian, as a Massachusetts judge ruled, is not obliged to Jump out of the path of a motor car, but it sounds like a good time to waive tils rights.—Wall Street Journal. The Scottish home rule bill cam# up for a second reading on Priday last. As we already have Scottish rule in England there seems no reason why Scotland shouldn't risk it as well.— Punch. YOU CAN RIDE FROM OMAHA TO NEW YORK FOR ERIE RAILROAD TOOM CHICAGO Ths scenic passenger route Two of the finest through trains daily. Nightly sleeper to Columbus, Ohio. A»k any Ticket Agent of connecting linet or write S. L. CLARK. General Agent Woodmm of the World Bldg., Omaha, Neb. A. F. W’ain»cott. Tra* Pan. Agt., 339 Rrilway Eve. Bldg., Kanaai City, Mo. H. C. HOLAB1KD, G. P. A., Chicago [SUNNY SIDED?! cJake Comfort, nor forget | IKat J Something must be done about it. Probably a Law will have to be Passed. When we common mortals who must oc cupy the dny coaches go to Lincoln over the Burlington, we have to walk back from Crete to the Lincoln depot. When we leave Lincoln for Omaha, we have to walk back from Council Bluffs to greet Joe Mik. This discrimination against us com moners In favor of the aristocrats who can pay the Pullman surcharge Just must be stopped. Here is something real for Governor Bryan to agitate upon before he quits the executive mansion at Lincoln. > " Brother Charley explains his skull cap by saying that ex posure of his head to the light has a bad effect on a certain set of nerves, causing violent headaches. Nothing, however, seems to affect his political nerve, we are told by Interested observers. At a local picture house last week a picture of President Coolldge and his family was nightly shown upon the screen. But It brought forth no hand-clapping, no applause in any form, but as the smiling face of Calvin, jr., appeared there was a catching of the breath, an audible sighing, more meaningful than the most tumultuous applause could possibly be. Even there, in a palace of amusement, one sensed the heartfelt sympathy of the American people for a stricken family made prominent by the blazing white light of publicity. Mrs. Marie Weekes, president of the Nebraska Press asso ciation, recently expressed regret in our hearing that the "wrecking crew" no longer foregathered in close harmony and odeled as of yore. Having played an humble part in the "wrecking crew" in days atone, we conveyed the proper ex planation to the president. The inspiration so freely offered In the old days Is no longer obtainable, and there isn't a barber shop chord in a whole barrel of charged water. Resides, with a woman for president and a woman for secretary, It Is incumbent upcu us mere male members to be very ladylike in our actions. About the only features of press association meeting left < untouched by the hand of progress Is the annual meeting of the "uplife committee." That still functions In about the same old way. At divers times and often we have been seized with the | idea that our lot in life is extremely hard, at which times we have yearned to seek other occupation. Yesterday we saw a steeplejack per<hed at the top of a 70-foot flagpole made of wrought iron pipe, gilding the ball at the summit. As he clung to the pole, swaying back and forth in the wind, the thought came to us that we are mighty lucky. Whereupon we proceeded onward to the office and tackled the day s work In better spirit than usual. ______ Synthetic gin is bad enough, but when it comes to syn thetic politics as displayed at New York we are impelled to Put II'p a Loud Holler. And It now appears that as a convention manager, Mr. Bryan is a wonderful great grandfather. WILL M. MAL’PIN. jj National ZIUni ** 1 A MILLION SUNSETS PRESERVED IN STON. □ ^ION, Bryce Canyon. 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