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The Omaha Bee vTo ~R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S U N P A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President , PAL.LARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKT.ER. Editor In ChiefBusiness Manager membeiTof the associated press The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republieation of all news dispatches crsditsd to it or not otherwise credited J in this paper, and also the local news published herein. ! All rights of republieation of our special dispatches ars also reserved. The Omaha Bea la a member of the Audit BuTeau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audita, and The Omaha Bec'a circulation ia regularly audited by their organizationa. _ Entered as second-class matter *Mny 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. BEL TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for it i ■ 1 nflfl the Department or I’erscn Wanted. I lantlC_1 QUO _____ Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—15 Scott lit. So. Side—N. W. Cor. 24th N. i New York—-World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Trilune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. I.ouia—3vn. Trust Hldg. Los Angelas—Higgins Bldg. | Sac Fran.— HoLrook Il'dg Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Hldg. MAH. SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year 15.00. 6 months «3.0D. 3- montha 51.75. 1 monlh 75c DAILY ONLY 1 vear 14.50, 8 months 52.7.>, 8 months 51.50, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year 13.00. 6 months $1.75. 8 months $1.00. 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 800 miles from Omaha: Dally and Sunday. $1.00 per month; daily only, 75c per month; Sunday only, 50c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.1 month 85c. 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday. ...a.1 month 65c, 1 week loc Sunday Only ..... 1 month 20c, 1 wefk be ^ Oradhd-Vtefc (lie^bst is at its Best WHAT THE FIGURES REALLY SHOW. A correspondent writes us: “1 refer you to the records, from which you will find it is a fact that he masses of the people have been growing poorer ,nd poorer each year.” He neglects to tell us where 0 get these records. Those to which we have ac ess show a different state of affairs. The records of the United States Internal Rev enue bureau give the most accurate index of the income of the people of the United States available nywhere. They deal entirely with taxable income. ,’rom that, however, one may obtain with little effort 1 fairly good notion of the real state of affairs. It s true not all who should do so make returns. It ' is also true that the greater number of these fall nto the lower brackets of the schedule. Allowance for any inaccuracy because of the known fact that here are many tax shirkers may be offset by the lUrther fact that those who do report income afford fair cross section of the nation. A full report from everybody would not greatly modify the analysis, however it might affect the total. * * * In the years 1921 and 1922, the latest reported on in detail by the bureau we find the following: Total number of individual re- 1921. 1922. turns .. 6,662,1 < 6 6, * 8 «,4<S 1 Number reporting income of $5,000 or under. 6,136,570 6,193,276 The total number of returns increased 125,305. The total number of those with incomes between 53,000 and $5,0Q0 increased, however, by 117,969. The number of those making returns of $1,000 or inder increased by only 227. Those between $1,000 and $2,000 increased by 30,637, and those between $2,000 and $3,000 decreased by 92,103. This makes i net increase in the number reporting income of -5,000 or under of 56,706. The total income of his group was $13,532,190,582 in 1922, and $13, 215,434,211 in 1921, an increase of $316,766,371. If this were distributed between the 56,730 addi ional reports made, it would show an average in . ome of $5,621. As a matter of fart, the average axable income for the year 1922 in the group of •t.OOO or less was $2,168.83, and for the year 1921 l was $2,153.55. * * • The great outstanding fact is that the income of the wage earning groups did show an increase for 1922 over 1921. We will show at another time that the savings of these groups also increased. That the end of the year did not find them worse iff than the beginning. Wages were higher, and more workers were employed. It would seem that ndustrial workers do not find it increasingly difficult o make a living. Wages have increased, hours of oil have been shortened, and the condition of the worker in every material way has been improved. We have every sympathy for the man who leaches out continually for something better. “The man who fights for bread today will fight for pie to morrow.’’ For the whiner, the shirker, the skulker, the man who wastes his effort in envious contempla tion of the possessions of the man who work.-, we have no sympathy. He is not helping, for he is not loing his share. ARE THEY EVER TOO OLD? Ezra Meeker, hero of the Oregon Trail, is 94 ears old, or young if you like it. What is more he •s now a candidate for the legislature up in Wash ington. He is matched by General Isaac Shorwood of Toledo, who has again entered the race for con gress, and he is 90. General Sherwod is a veteran, for this will make his tenth campaign for congress. His first office was that of probate judge of Lucas county, Ohio, :o which he was elected in 1860. He went out at Lincoln's first call for troops, enlisting as a private. In 1865 he was mustered out as brigadier general. He has held many offices since then, as well as serv ing in congress. Ezra Meeker is a novice in politics, despite his years. He knows as much as anyone can learn about an ox team and life on the trail, but he has some new thrills awaiting him along the trail upon which he Is just setting out. He has a particular object in his campaign, it being to oppose the building of a state highway through Chinook pass. Meeker fa vors Naches pass, as that is the one he used when breaking into Washington in the pioneer days. If he carries his point, it will be a personal triumph for-the veteran. What an inspiration it should be for the younger men, who arc inclined to avoid public service, to see 'he activities of these venerable leaders. They are not seeking to satisfy personal ambition, hut to serve the public. Sherwood wanted to retire, hut his supporters would not listen to his wishes. Meeker wants to get a road built where he thinks it will do the most good for everybody. Three of the signers of the Declaration of Independence lived to over 90; ten lived longer than 80. They never get too old in America. FOOLS AND FATAL FUN. A New Jersey boy worked in the afternoon one Hay lust week, cleaning cars in a village garage. The next morning his Head body lay in the village morgue, while the authorities rounded up a group of men who had “played a practiral joke’’ on the boy. One' of them persuaded him that a lonely woman I I. ■■■ - ■■■ —— - — loved him and longed for his companionship. He was to call at 4 o’clock in the morning at a house that stood just outside the town limits. Flattered and persuaded, the boy kept the appointment. Fourteen men leaped from the darkness and wel comed the lad with shots and shouts. It was great sport. The boy was so frightened he did not run, he did not even call out. He just fell on his face and remained quiet. Then the men went out to tell him the whole affair was just a joke. It was tragedy for the boy. A bullet had pierced his heart. Fourteen grown up men, experienced and tried in the affairs of the world, sought sport at the ex pense of a callow lad. They traded on his suscepti bility, his lack of knowledge, and lured him to what they had intended should only be shame and hu miliation. Somebody bungled, and the fun proved fatal. What sort of punishment the law can mete to these “comedians” is not clear, but it certainly is not adequate. Some one of them will very likely be tried for manslaughter. The others will be tried as accessories, but all may escape any severe penalty. Each and every one should be made to face the court on a charge that would include the cruelty of their fun. Horseplay or jokes that depend for their “fun” on the suffering or humiliation of another are com monly indulged. Many men see in the practice only innocent amusement. When it becomes dangerous those who indulge should get the full benefit of their fun in some fashion. “UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE.” Milk is not only food for babies, it is their very life. Mother’s milk is best, for it is the provision of nature for the sustenance of the little one. Not always is mother’s milk available, and. then comes the search for a substitute. Good rich cow’s milk is the nearest to anything like mother's milk man knows about. If we are going to get our babies through the first and second summers of their existence, we1 must feed them properly. This means that milk is the essential article of diet. To keep that milk sweet and pure, it must be kept cool, and that is where ice comes in. Many mothers in Omaha can not by themselves provide milk and ice for their babies. They must have assistance. Here is where The Omaha Bee Free Milk and Ice Fund connects up with the gen ' oral program for making the city a nice place for baby. The Omaha Bee is simply the agency for the I collection of this money. Funds are receipted for and acknowledged, and promptly turned over to the Visiting Nurse association. Expert nurses investi gate all cases reported, decide on what is best to be done, and then see that it is done. The service is 100 per cent free, without money and without price, to those who benefit by it. Hun dreds of strong young men and women arc alive today because this work was commenced years ago and has been faithfully carried on. Each year sees the Free Milk and Ice Fund on the job, carrying health and strength to little ones who, without it, would be doomed. Your contribution is solicited. An instance of how the fund is regarded is furnished by “Three in-One,” who has just come in with an annual dona tion of $100. Such modest charity, that lets not one hand know what the other is doing, surely will be rewarded. At any rate it is blessed. Not all can give that much, but “even a cup of water to a little child in My name,” is blessed, and no one need hesi tate to give because the amount is small. GEORGIA REGISTERS PROSPERITY. Again the calamity howler is out of luck. I'p from the southland comes a tale that just knocks the everlasting spots off the assertion that no farmer is doing well or will do well until either John W. Davis, or "Fighting Bob" I.a Follette, or Duncan McDonald, or W. Z. Foster, or some other accredited agent of good fortune is elected president. Here is what we find on the market page of an esteemed democratic contemporary: Atlanta, C>a„ .July 14.—Retail and wholesale business has been stimulated by receipt sc, far this season of between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 by Georgia fruit and truck growers. Jobbers report ac tive buying of fall lines v " rural stores. The morale of the farmer Is higher Slav ihan at any time sinee the advent of the boll weevil, sinc e the prospect is for a million bale cotton crop for the state with an estimated value of $175,000,000, includ ing seed. Growers are cultivating actively and seem to be waging a winning tight against the wee vil. The State College of Agriculture estimates that Georgia livestock and farm products will yield half a billion dollars this year, an increase of $55,000,000 in farmer purchasing power In the last 12 months. Now, whoever would have thought it of Georgia, of all states, to turn out this way? Just when the campaign is about to start, and the hope of all who oppose Coolidge is based on the misfortunes of the world? The first car of the Nebraska wheat crop of 1924 sold in Omaha for $1.13, and the outlook is for a fair crop of wheat, some 40,000,000 bushels, thank you. Corn is up, cotton is up, wool, hogs, cattle, sheep, hay, everything the farmer has to sell is ad vancing. Liberty bonds, all issues, are above par. It is not at all easy for a spellbinder to look at an audience and sing the blues about depression and oppression, when he knows anyone ran prove him a liar by turning to the market page of any news paper. Telegraphic advices from the effete east show that Brother Charlie'* pre*enee there was not with out result. Gasoline has dropped from 24 to 12 cents at Albany, and all over New England the Standard, Sinclair and other companies have an nounced reduction. Just see what effect that one pump station at Sixth and South street ha* had. And the first news the governor got when he re turned from the New York quest was that, hit "store" had sold several hundred gallons during the three weeks he was away. r - \ Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie _I-/ MUD ROADS. Thera In mud upon the hlghwnv, there »re *uto* plow ing through. Thrift sift thought* of brick and **phelt, thrift me hold assertion*, too, Thera hi© ninny exclamations unconventional hut true. Khali we patch up road* forever while tlifty wash to ruin fa*t, Khali we never shout our vengeance to the gumbo for the last; Shall we put he contented with the custom* of the past? Shall each year And u* *1 ebb-tide with our precious liennle* gone Shill n road complete at ev'nlng he * guttftd hog at dawn; And a great material burden ** the centuries roll on* Nations can not save their dollar* like the man who wield* the hoe; They must borrow on the future and by obligation grow; They must hind tuemselve* to Progress and make pa> ments as they go. - ' _ ' The Great Question L - —---■——-* -- -- Letters From Our Readers All letter* must he *ljrned. hut name w 111 be withheld upon reqaeat. Communi cations of 200 words and less will be fflren preference. ___—- -- _ J Source of True Salvation. O'Neill. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The writer read your splendid editorial, "Not a Poverty Stricken People," and also a few of the comments upon same. Like the first thing we learned to pick out of a typewriter, viz, "Now Is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party." I feel that a new slo gan should be adopted which reads: "Now Is the time for all good and true men to come to the aid of their coun try." From now until the last ballot 1» cast in November we are going to be given a large variety of theories of government. Each partisan organiza tion will declare that the election of its landidate will tie absolutely neces sary to save the country from ruina tion. We shall hear how monopolies, trusts, tariffs, big businesses and octopus like combinations have their I hands, claws and tentacles at our throats. What rot! What dema goglsm' But, lest I am accused of being a tool of Wall street or a backer of Pierpont Morgan, allow me to ex plain. There was a dime In my youth when I was Just ns eager to swallow all the bunk In the hatch as some of our hungry ones today, older men told me that time nnd experience would broaden the vision and expand the view. They have. Not only that, hut X have learned to spot a design ing demagogue as soon as he hoves in sight. I boldly pronounce them as the greatest curse that ever was upon the common people. They go among the people breeding discontent, col lecting toll here and there from the unwary, and. having no practical remedy, leave them worse off than before. The next greatest curse is Abe Martin Miss Tawney Apple's toes wiu run over this mortiin’ ns she vui tryin’ t’ smile an auto t’ a stop. "Love and let live," wouldn’ he a had slogan fer th’ women folks. (Copyright, 1124 ) NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for June, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,616 Sunday .76,224 not Include returns, loft* overs, samples nr papers spoilod in printing and Includes no special salsa or f»ee circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGF. Clr. Mgr. Sulisrrihed and swnrn to befora ms j thia IMh day of July, 1W24 w II QUIVEY, “I (Seal) Notaiy Publi ).... discontentment, and the greatest curse is the most responsible for it. Let me illustrate by comparison: Many years ago the writer spent a summer traveling in western Kansas It was during a period of so-called hard times. For the first week or two I thought every one was going to leave, at least every one I saw talked of getting out Just as soon as possible. I should say nearly every one. because I did find a folk who were perfectly well satisfied. One day. In the course of mv work, I drove out from the town of Ober lln. In IJecatur county. For many miles we passed nothing blit deserted homesteads, buildings going to ruin and fields yellow with sunflowers, that were so thick that even they looked sickly. All of a sudden we came upon an Inhabited settlement Evidences of prosperity were upon jevery hand. Comfortable, though modest homes, welt kept outbuildings and sleek livestock In the pastures. Not a sunflower-ridden field to be seen. I turned to the driver who had detected my amazement and asked him what magic had wrought the change, "It's a Bohemian settlement." he said with a grin, "and it do h«mt h— how them birds <an beat the game." But I found later that there was nothing marvelous about it. With the same soil, the same sunshine, the same showers, the same hot winds, the same grasshoppers, the same hail storms. and under the same govern ment that nearly every one else was cussing, this folk had become fairly prosperous. Why? Simply because they did not sit Idly by and wait for manna from heaven in the shape of legislation, or spend their time listen ing to Jerry Simpson or Mary Ellen expound wild theories for so much per expound. They simply got busy, each and every one, and grasped •very available opportunltv which the region afforded, but sparingly. By their continued efforts and untiring real they made the desert blossom, 'not with eunfiowersi, but like the roae. Now, I am a democrat, rather a disgusted ami disappointed one this1 year, I must confers, but after *0 vears of this life, two.thirds of It In Nebraska. I cannot be convinced that Bob La Follette, or John Davis, or Charley Rrvan, or Boy Harrop, or Calvin Coolidge. or "Hel'nMai iar" Dawes can begin to make successes out of failures If th* people must have a savior it must he themselves I. for one. am tired of these calamltv howling demagogues. I listened to them Ion long for my own good. 1 hope the American people are not to be fooled by their sophistries again and again. I, for one, believe that just now we should let well enough alone. This is no time to experiment with new chemicals of government. I endorsed all the experimentation during the eight years previous to the present administration, but where is the democrat who can honestly endorse the results? It is all well enough to play politics and try to attach the blame to the republican, but who gave us the financial system that has caused such havoc? Regardless of what others say, I feel that It Is best to take Honest Abe's advice and not swap horses in the middle of the stream. Keep Coolidge. (I. H NICHOLS. Infallible Sign. Another way to tell the newest memlors of the business men s lunch eon < lub is bv noting w hich ones are present at the time the luncheon is scheduled to take place.—Kansas City Star. W ell l sed to It. After all, the democratic party la well used to splits.—Boston Tran script. Elen I p. Things even up. Europe has finer art galleries but she can't compare with us In the matter of billboards.— Medford Mail Tribune Coming to Omaha? HOTEL ROME INVITES YOU Rooms: $1.50 to $3.50 HOME OF THE FAMOUS ROME CAFETERIA "Open 24 Hour* Every D*jr" ['SUNNY SIDE UP f cJaJce Comfort, nor forget <lKat iunr.ee J --■-- ' ■■ - Picking up one of our favorite exchanges this jnorning we are confronted with the question, framed in bold type, "How Are Your (rartPrs This Morning?" We deem this the proper time to make protest against this growing intimacy. There must tie a few. things left to privacy. Our garters are our own, and their condition is nobody's business but our own. If we determine to pin our hose ur> with a safety pin. who is there to say us nay? If we determine to let them roll •« they see lit, what boots It to others? Were we to fail In our bounden duty to protest against this growing evil of peering into our purely private affairs, the first thing we know we will he greeted with inquiries as to the condition of other articles not Intended for public view or explanation. Never shall we submit to explaining why we refuse to wear ruffles on the ex tremities of certain unmentionables, nor why we refrain from wearing a cute little colored ribbon at the upper extremity. We draw the line, and the time to draw it is right here. Wo are looking for a barber shop of a certain kind. There may be surh in existence, but to date we have not found It. What we want is to find out where we can enter, await our turn, get into the chair, state definitely what we want, and then get it without being asked if we want a shine, a shampoo, some tonic on our hair, a face massage or any one of a dozen things not requested at the beginning. Incidentally we would not object if the tonsorial artist, after wrapping our visage In a hot towel, would not seize the opportunity to discuss the out i come of the day's races at Hawthorne, or the merits of divers I and sundry stars of the big leagues. Having wearied of about all'of the political issues advanced in recent years, and becoming thoroughly disgusted with Peer less leaders who veer with every shifting wind to fill their sails with the breath of wild-eyed clamor we have decided to form a Fourth Party. We shall have no platform and only on# candidate, and he is to ruft upon one outstanding quality of keen judgment and courage to express his opinion. For Presi dent of the United States, the Kentucky judge who recently decided that the great American indoor pastime was not a game of chance but a gan^e of skill. Political Definitions. Harmony—Yielding everything an.1 claiming c-hing. Gratitude—(Obsolete.) Progressive—Me. Reactionary—You. Platform—Synonym for bunk, piffle, b ishwa. Wall Street—A bogy man. Predatory Interest—A term of reproach applied to success, Often referred to as "money devil," (See Wall Street.) In politics we long since discovered that there is precious little difference between being a really big man and having * really big man s ways. A growing tendency to obesity has given us the privilege of giving to the waiting world the rpal reason why the Wan dering Jew continues to wander on century after century. He engaged in a vain search for a shirt that will stay put. / WILL M. MAUPIN. II 6% NO COMMISSION 6% REAL ESTATE LOAN&lo I 6% INTEREST | 1 NO COMMISSION E © Easy Repayments ^ 0 The Conservative Savings & Loan Ass’n © 2 1614 Harney Street 6% NO COMMISSION 6% SUMMER FARES EAStI Reduced Round Tup Fares to many eastern points, oa sale daily fj to Sept. 30, return limit Oct. 31st. Liberal stop-overs. Here are i some of the round trip rates FROM OMAHA to: I Asheville, X. C.*50.70 I • Asbnrv Park, X. 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