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I The Omaha Bee mTo R N 1 N G—E V E N 1 N G~S U N P A~Y THE BEE PUBT ISHlNG CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKT.ER. _Editor in Chief Business Manager l MEMBER OF.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS * * The Associated Tress, of which The Bee is a member, 4* exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all ^ J«w* dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited w-r—i -3n this paper, and also the local news published herein. ' r All rights of republication of our special dispatches are ^also reserved. * The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of m » Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, * * end The Omaha Bee’s circulation is regularly audited by n * their organizations. - Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, ■ » at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3. 1879. 5 r- SIe telephones Private Branch Exchange. Ask for A T iaaa *m Department or Person Wanted. ^ * lOlitlC 1 vvU "offices ,T' . Main Office—17th and Farnnra " Co. Bluffs—16 Scott St. So. Side- N. W. Cor. 24th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. ^ t San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. tr MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY *» 1 year $8.00, 6 months $3.00, ? months $1.78, » month 76c DAILY ONLY '•sSfcl year $4.50, 6 months $2.75, 3 morAhs $1.80, 1 month 75c i SUNDAY ONLY M year $3.00. 6 months $1.75, 3 months $1.00. 1 month R0c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per month; daily only, 75c per month; Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES m Morning and Sunday.1 month R5c, 1 week 20c * Evening and Sunday.1 month 65c, 1 week 15c % Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 6c i ■ V___—-' ill • ■ _ j I' OmjkaVketb is al its Best : THE “RECALL” JOB HUNTER. !jj . Lyman Wheeler—recently resigned as a police cfcptain, seems to feel that he represents a great [ "cause.” He has started out to get some 9,000 sig j ! natures to a petition asking the recall of Police I I Commissioner Henry Dunn. ; ! If his plea was solely for a recall his argument 1 ! might be discussed on its merits. He mixes up his I ! "cause,” however, with his own candidacy for Dunn's 111 plare on the city commission. A special election, * which this move would entail, would cost the tax \ payers of Omaha, it is estimated, some $20,000. Such an expense is without warrant. If Wheeler * had made a conspicuous record as a police captain— ti i£ he were outstandingly superior to Henry Dunn the * cjty of Omaha might be justified in such an expendi I Hire. His record not only is not conspicuous, it is J quite mediocre. Whoever is advising him is leading 5 him astray. The Omaha Bee will praise or criticize the police department as occasion may warrant. At this time it is working in harmonious co * operation. If former Captain Wheeler will with ji draw his own efforts to get a job out of his recall i scheme and then file away his petitions^ a pigeon * hole until the next election, he will stand better with i> the community. Omaha needs fighters, but they must be con structive. Wheeler’s plans are not constructive and, ; ip the judgment of The Omaha Bee, they will fall “ a* * consequence. HOW DID YOU THINK HE DID IT? Readers, meet Mr. Tom Owens of Frontier coun « v, Nebraska. We have never met. Mr. Owens per * tonally, but we found nut something about him by ■fading the local news in the Stockville Faber, a ive weekly newspaper published in Mr. Owens' home S ..own. Here is the item: ••Tom Owens returned from Kansas City the other day where*he had marketed two carloads of *, , steers. Tom reports that he topped the market 25 } cents with his offerings, receiving $11.25 per hun f tired. His steers averaged 1,270 pounds. “While driving them to Bartley early Saturday is . morning about 25 of the animals went into a wash |J ; out on the road, crippling one of them quite Itaiily * - a rid several others more or less. About a half dozen o, were cut out of the bunch which brought the high l i P'lee. » t ''Congratulations, Tom. Ill < — J "The followin'- appeared in Tuesday’* Kansu* * (*itv I >itiIy Drover? Stock Journal: 1 "‘Top ?tecr? on yestenlay’s market, which sold * !;ile, were marketed t»y Tom Owen? of Frontier * • county, Nebraskn. in the extreme 'vent end of the * state. They brought *10.25 and weighed 1.2SS the. * "Besides tlie?e. Mr. Owens marketed a earload of J steers averaging 77R at *9.25. " 'For several years Mr. Owens lias been raising .J hi? own rattle, the hight grade Hereford breed. He * raises all his own feed corn and alfalfa, and always makes them good. Going to that country with but J; a few dollars 32 years ago, Mr. Owens has become ■ a very prosperous farmer and land owner.’ < Please note that Mr. Owens went to Frontier a county 32 years ago, with only a few dollars in his » pocket. It was the frontier then, in fact as well as in name. Grover Cleveland was running for presi | dent, and was elected. The next year began the *• worst period in Nebraska’s history. In 1889 and 1890 the Farmers’ Alliance was spreading the same * gospel of La Folletteites are spreading now. No 1 fate could be worse than to be condemned to manage '?! it farm for a living. Especially in Nebraska, and ? more particularly in Frontier county. '* Yet Tom Owens started there, with only a few * 'dollars. Now we are told he “has become a very '» prosperous farmer and land owner.” How did he ; do it? We can not tell it all, but feel very certain J he did not spend a great deal of his time singing j< the blues, or attending political hurrahs. He prob J ably wore overalls most of the timr, took very few [I joy rides, made every lick count. He probably also I looked at every dollar twice before he spent it. We ? do not know what his politics are, or how he is going to vote next fall. If we had to guess, we would say he will not vote for “Fighting Bob.” We have pleasure in adding our congratulations o those the editor of the Stoekvillc Faber has ex ended to Tom Owijns. “THE NEBBS”—MORE THAN A “COMIC.” I’ Are you reading the story of the Nebbs? It is ji: bring told serially i« the comic cartoon of that name printed daily in The Omaha Bee. ’* The Nebbs is more than a comic cartoon. It is a story with a real lesson, told in the delightful humor of a comic drawing. Rudy Nehb, a sort of {!, rye'cr-do-well with Col. Sellprv’ drenms of wealth, is in partnership with Slider, a shrewd little fellow, JS who runs a drug store. Nehb has inherited an ”es (« late” on which there is a well of marvelously cura £*■ tive water. r >* A popular contest among Nebb “fans” resulted in |* naming this water “Noxage.” Slider, who has a business head, sees a fortune for the partner*. * Nehb is full of dreams of vast wealth, hut he is easily fooled. The story, hs it is revealed from ,{, day to ilny, has its vidian, its romance, its schemes of high finance, and always, the little druggist, 311 • I. rier. who holds the keel level. The Nehb* is the best of the "romies” now being II; published. There are thousands of Nebbs ”fnn»” among the readers of The Omaka Bee. They talk about the story at home, on the street, at the luncheon table. If you are not reading The Nebbs, you are missing a treat. MAKE THE STREETS SAFE. Once more a home is darkened, because a little child is dead. The victim of a street accident. One that might have been avoided. Only a moment of hesitation, to make certain that all was safe. Just that, and a life would have been saved. A little boy would be playing around home, delighting his father and mother and enjoying his sister’s com pany. He is dead, his life the price of failure to observe the rules of safety. Not a driver in Omaha but knows that the “boulevard stop” rule is practically a dead letter. That drivers come into heavy traffic streets from cross streets with utter disregard to their own or the safety of the others. It is humanly impossible to patrol every intersection in Omaha, hut it is hu manly possible to make it clear to drivers that the rule designed to protect all will be enforced against all, and should be observed by all. Leniency shown by the courts has had the ef fect of encouraging the reckless driver. The care ful drivers are in the majority, but there are enough who simply do not care for the. rules or anything but their own whims to make trouble for everyone. Careful inquiry should be made into the fatal accident that toook place at Seventeenth and Chi cago, and responsibility definitely fixed. It is one of the really dangerous downtown intersections, chiefly so because those who drive esat and west do so with little regard for the traffic that moves north and south. It will be a menace until better condi tions are enforced by law. FOLLOW THE AIR MAILS FLIGHT. Interest in the move originating in Omaha to have the round-the-world fliers visit this city on the way back to the Pacific coast is becoming general. It is proposed that when the fliers leave Washington for Dayton, that instead of pursuing the crow-flight line to the Pacific coast, they make a sufficient de tour to get on the air mail flight line and follow that track. Plenty of good reason supports this. The Dayton-St. Joe-North Platte route was se lected by Lieutenant Russell Maughan for his dawn to-dusk transcontinental flight because it is a few miles shorter. Distance was a vital consideration with him. He had to make every minute count, and cut off every mile he could. With Lieutenant Smith and his companions the matter of distance is not a governing factor. They are winging their way leisurely around the world, stopping at pre determined points along the route. When they reach Washington, their mission will have practically been ended, and the balance of the journey will be something of a joy ride. To fly, then, from Dayton to Cleveland, or to Chicago, will take them but a little way off the straight line, and they may travel a well marked, lighted and equipped route, that is used every day by the mail. There must be a community between the army and the mail in the matter of flying. Both are in tegral parts of one service maintained by the gov- 1 ernment, although under different auspices. Co- I operation at this time between the two should have I an effect on congress, which has been somewhat nig- ' gard in supporting either. It would possibly present argument in favor of a little more liberal treatment for the air service. We suggest that General Mitch ell and Postmaster General New consult on the point. The New York Times is worried for fear some of the republican papers with withdraw compliments paid to John W. Davis. No need to. Let them ride, but remember the republicans offer a man just as good and on a platform that is a good deal better. Enough names have been mentioned in connec tion with the democratic nomination for governor to make an outsider think the honor something worth having. It is a forlorn hope in Nebraska this year. We congratulate Martin J. Dineen on being made chief of the fire department in which he has served so long and with such distinction. If experience counts for anything, Chief Dineen will fill the bill. I * --— William H. Johnson is very certain that all or ganized labor will get hack of La Koliette. Less than a year ago “Billy” was pleading with organ ized labor to get back of Lenine and Trotzky. Iowa does not share in the Standard’s general cut on “gas,” but it need not worry our friends in Council Bluffs any. They can save more than bridge toll any time by driving over to Omaha. Another victim of the dangling wire is an nounced. One good plan is to let all loose wires alone, and another is to see that all high power lines are fully protected at all times. Weatherman Robins is also a diplomat. He promises the grocers and butchers fair weather for the picnic, and he will do well to deliver. Promise is made that the enmpaign will he short and snappy. But it is a long time until November, j and what will the committees do? A large consignment of war-time tobacco is being used for road filler. Some pipes smell like their owners were smoking the filler. There are democrats in Nebraska who hold that some of the governor's "yardsticks" are .shy about 18 inches at one end. Omaha can well afford to wait until November for any recall election, even if one is deemed nyes sary then. Wheat out in Red Willow county is turning yields of 4U bushels to the acre ami no grumbling is heard. It begins to look as if Germany will have to pay somebody, either France or the bondholders. f --N Homespun Verse —By Omaha’* Own Poat— Robert Worlhinidon Davie — — --- ---v THE PASSING OF ISAAC. Isaac came arrow* the prairie Jn a schooner year* ago When the thoroughfares were vague end skeptic dreams. When upon the verdant glasses hrow«ed great herds of buffalo. When there were no bridges built across the streams. Isaac chose a virgin homestead Tn the terming middle west, In High# days those rough and trying days long gone. There from yeai to year be prospered as the present doth attest. Htep by step he scaled the -o dr and Journeyed on. Isaac saw the prairie hullded to magnificence; slung Little streams towns sprung to being and grew fast. * While the rich loam, stirred and f411 rowed by those willing hands and strong, Fashioned true a dream as aged as the pant. Isaac saw the dawn of progress In this region rich and wide He beheld the noon sun casting forth Its golden gleams; In the silent, solemn gloaming with Ids loved ones b\ his side, He laid down to sleep,ever with Ida dreamt. - ".. . A Why, Robert! We Thought You Believed in the Direct Vote of the People >___/ ^ \ y»3>hS' --------- Letters From Our Readers All letter* mud be «igned. bat name w ill be withheld upon request. Communi cations of -.*0« words and lens will lie giten preference. majority of writer* are neither bril Iktril nor stupid: as the majority ot citizens are neither heroes nor criml , nals, hut just folk—why expect genius m ihe pulpit?—William i.yon Pheli>* n Scribner*. lie lliil Ilia llest. "No. Reginald,'' observed the girl, ''your blossoms made no great hit with me." ' I was merely trying to say It with flower*, as we are constantly advised to do by astute commercial men." j ' You sent only daisies." I "Well, daisies mean 'I love you.' " That's all right, hut Tom sent or chids. Orrhidf mean 1 went broke |f«r you.”—l-ouisvllle Courier Journal. Two Faults. Women have many faults; Men but two, Everything they sav and Everything thev do. — North Western Railway Magazine. Money. Palisade, Neb.—To tli# Editor of The Omaha Bee: Money is the rir rulatlng medium of exchange, i* is the business life blood of the l 'e. It controls their lives. libert\ U prosperity, it has no value in Itself, but stands for or represents value and the value thrtt our dollar stands for Is fixed according to the numlier of dollars in circulation or In the hands of the people that make Ih' exchanges. Money locked up In hanks and held as reserves is out of circulation, and the hankers, by lurk ing up one-half of our money sup ply, Increases or doubles the purehnf Ing power of the dollars left In cir eulatlnn. which doubles the value of their loans and the bonds that they hold. The loans of the hanks In 1 !»20 were over $.10,000,000,000. Then the bankers commenced to decrease and corner our money supply by col lecting It in and taking it out of the hands of tile people and lurking It up in their vaults, and by this method they have increased or doubled the purchasing power of their dollar, which compels the farmer to put up double the amount of farm products to get the dollar. And through I heir si hem ing the hankers are (nnflsrating the property and wealth of the farmers hv billions, and furring them into bankruptcy through the vicious and corrupt laws passed by congress, w hich Is causing and spreading liani tuptcy, suicide, crime and distress through the nation. The people should wake up and send honest men to congress, who will repeal the hanking laws so as to take the con trol of our money supply out of the | hands of the bunkers and give m I honest Abraham I.incoln money. Ful 'legal lender for all debts, public am private, issuer! and put in circulation by the government, by paying iti debts and expenses The people should organize honest money dubs [and have the science of money ex plained so the people will understand I the dishonest and unconstitutional money system that ws have, whirl gives the bankers that great powei over the people. L.H.UWTPN. Farmer John's lament, Omaha—To the Editor of Th< Omaha Bee; Farmer John cries he'i always broke and never hag a cent his cows and pig* are all in eoak though his back’s with labors bent He mint have credit to buy food an* plows and rakes and twine and can not buy a stick of wood unless he'i given time. He makes the dealer is the goat, who for his stock payi cash, anil then he takes ttie farmer'! note, which is not worth a dush. liul when Fat met- John buvs gasoline am, pumps and oil and tires and otilei tilings fur Ins machine, he must dig up the lire* lie forgets the dealer r note and the Interest coming due ami goes ami sells aunt he shoat, or four or three, or two. Then lie diverts the proceeds for burning up the mail Instead of tending to the needs h» knows that should lie sowed. And at the state fair In the fall Farmer John is always there with his wife ami kids and mother-in-law, at all th« sights to stare. Oh how, when he is bent on pleasure. <nn he always find the rash, when he can't pay for a gallon measure or a walking stick ol ash. But the time will come when the de»ter'» phi* will freeze hnd hi* heart will turn to *tnne and Farmer John will have to tend his bees and work hard for Ills pone. He'll work a full eight hour* a day, like every person should, and will not wander from hi* home, but will plow his corn and chop hi* wood. T^e sooner the dealer's purse strings tighten will '•'■it day come to |inss and the i n i ness world will hrlghfen when the farmer knows he'll have to pay the <ash. DOt'BLE X. latch of (senilis. Whv on earth, then, should so many sermons he dry" Surely It i« not the fault of the theme. Perhaps the laiise of the stccous nature of sc many sermons Is al*o the cause ot so many failures In business, of ;-e many Ineffective lawyers, of so many fifth rate professors, dramatists, must clans, painters—but why go on'.1 I leuven's gift takes earth’s nliate ment," said Browning. As the ma HUll.v of human heina* have neither black nor yellow hair, but brownish is the majority of singers ean neither go very low nor very high, but are either mezzos or baritones; as tin When in Omaha Hotel Conant 25(1 Rooms—250 Ihult'—K»ti\s $2 to %i I Abe Martin } I.ifp in filled with poo pin who don't know th’ pnrndr him coup hy. I.aw mnkrrn makr law brrakrrn. __ _> "t(rM. ii«24 ) S%_NO COMMISSION_S% 51 REAL ESTATE LOANS 5 : 6% INTEREST ° i NO COMMISSION i ^ Ro*y Repayment* £ o The Conservative Savings & Loan Ass’n ? ^ 1 fil 4 Harney Slr.el ' * ___I_ 6/o NO COMMISSION 6% . —4.. j SUNNY. SIDE UP cJaJce Comfort, nor foroet [ IKat ] 1 The young man who takes an active Interest in politic*, «*t • oui'sr, should be rewarded In later years. Postmaster Will > Mi Clay of Limtpin Is now enjoying the reward of Intense I activities when AS was considerably younger than he is new. Assy hai k in 1994 Major William McKinley spoke from a platform erected in front of the north entrance of the atete house. Billy VirCIay and a young comradh carried a Iran* earency in the tdg parade that "preceded the speaking. Billy / and his comrade proudly sat upon the platform while Major McKinley spoke. But they got into a quarrel ns to who should , hold the transparency, anil the scrap was just getting good when Major McKinley Intervened. “I'll take care of the banner,said the Major. And he ' did He took it from the quarreling patriots and gently de posited it on the ground. Then he proceeded with hi* speech. Some 30 years later Billy McCtay came into his reward. People in Lincoln say that he 1« just a* good a postmaster l| now as he was a republican 30 years ago, which speaks well for his efficiency as the local Nasby. Speaking of Lincoln postmaster*, right nosv a tot of demo- i crat* are recalling the treatment accorded to J. D. Calhoun. ‘ Cal ' fought, bled and died for the democratic party. H« went to the front for W. J Bryan in his first campaign for con gress, and was virtually promised the post mastership when Cleveland was elected in 1S92. But it seems that in his zeal for Bryan 'Car' had offended some of the influential friends of I Cleveland. They opposed "Cal'’ anil Bryan did not stand by < him The result was that Bryan compromised by appointing I. M. Harley, and .1. It. Calhoun was utterly ignored. The Nebraska National Hoard will go into camp at Ash land July L’X. The people who opiaise spending the money for training the stalwart young Nebraska Guardsmen are the •ume [tropic who hollered their heads off because this country was not prepared for war in 191«. Charley Pool, who is running for secretary of state for ihe fourth time, has a knack of landing when all his comrades of the democratic ticket tall by the wayside. But Charley has a better chance for free publicity than most folk, his name J being attached to all the Initiative pamphlets and-“information for voters" stuff that goes out of the state house. But Char lev is pulling an even better one than that now. has procured ( about a hundred thousand postcards bearing a highly colored lithograph of the new capitol building, with Charley's good- • i natured phiz aa an insert. It 1* a nice souvenir, hut th*r« la , danger that some voters will lie seized with the idea that Char ley is responsible for spending no many millions on the build ing and vote against hint a* a rebuke. The onlv thing Charley is responsible for is the picture Nor tan Lottie Clifford understand why it is so difficult to procure bottles in which to preserve the tomato sauce which she is so adept at making. There are a number of puzzling things pressing for ex/danation these days. People who used to raise the* own vegetables and milk their own row* now buy vegetables and milk in oan«. A lot of I 'hem seem to think they can get their political relief the »am« I WAy- B ILL M MAI'PIN. 'll_ ' •// t USE BEE WANT AI)S--TlfEY~RRING RESULTS ^ J3 | WHAT IS SERVICE? j r ^ t ^4 Newspaper Is Fundamentally Built Upon Service 2 - This service manifests itself in many forms, most of which ^ ; are very apparent to the reading public. First, there is the current 2 p- news service, something impossible to do without. There are 3 - market reports, weather forecasts and other sendees too numer- 2 p ous to mention. -m l In addition to all these, services printed in the form of news * items, there is an all important force at work giving to thou- 4 F sands each day a service so vast that it cannot be measured in r dollars and cents. This service takes the form of hundreds of ' * classified ads appearing each week functioning as the middle- l f man for hundreds. A classified ad usually costs less than lc„ . ^ based, of course, on the amount involved a baby carriage or a 1 ^ railway system. ‘ \ > Why not start today? Take advantage of this huge public * . service that thousands are using to their great advantage. \ THE OMAHA BEE 1 * Clarified Advertising Department " ► AT Untie 1000 J ^ikkkLlLkkkL.kkiUL\kikk.L