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f The Omaha Bee « • MORNIN G—E V E N 1 N G—S UNDAY ! THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher J N. b. UPDIKE. President *. 'bALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKI.ER, Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, i* exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all |f' .icws 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 |J‘ ttireulations, the recognized authority on circulation audita. ta« and The Omaha Bee’a circulation is regularly audited by If* their organizations. ! Entered as aecond-class ‘mftter May 28, 1908, ’ at Omaha postoffice under act of March S, 1879. JJ; 7 BEE TELEPHONES i* Private Branch Exchange. Ask for i t l »; innn j*- thf Department or Ver.cn Wanted. ^ ^ InllllC IvxJU (• ' OFFICES Mein Office—17th and Fernem t« Co. 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I* * MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES ;; DAILY AND SUNDAY la ‘1 veer *5.00, 6 months 63.00, ;■ mourns <1.76, i month 76c <• : * DAILY ONLY !■ '1 year <1.50, 6 montha $2.75, 3 montha 11.60, 1 month 7oc it SUNDAY ONLY '! 1 year *3.00. 6 montha $1.76, 3 montha *1.00, 1 month 60c tj Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal rone, or 600 t* miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday. <1.00 per monlh; 6 -'daily on'y. 75c per monlh: Sunday only. 50c per month. ,1 CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES ■ Morning and Sunday.1 month 85e. 1 week 20c ‘.S' Evening and Sunday.1 month SGe, 1 week I6e Sunday Only .1 month 20c. 1 week 6c 15; '— j; Oradha Vhei^ fheW?st is dt its Best >«< • I* ' -- "LIBERTY*’ FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. * In voting to disapprove the constitutional amend J merit relating to child labor, the senate of the Geor gia legislature put its reasons into written form. One of the catalogued reasons is: "Georgia has neither the right nor the power to * Stive to congress the. power to limit, regulate and *2 prohibit.” Which would be important, if true. Georgia is ;; not asked to give congress any power, or right, but 2 to assent with other sovereign states to the assump » tion by congress of a right that will apply equally 2 ,o all states. If local conditions are such that Geor * git does not want to have child labor regulated or ,J prohibited, the fact should be stated, and not cov ,'2 ered up by any such evasion. 1 •: . . * 2: Georgia found little difficulty in approving the 2 Eighteenth amendment, which limits, regulates and * prohibits with regard to intoxicating liquors. Also, * Georgia finds it possible to exist under the laws f that prohibit lotteries, forbid the transportation of * prize tight pictures, the transportation of women 5 for immoral purposes, and a number of other stat 2 utes that limit, regulate and prohibit. Why not add J protection to children to the list? •*> * • • }•! A reason of far greater weight to Georgia is that •J-which asserts: ? , "The said amendment Is rejected because it * would destroy parental authority and responsibility throughout the L'nited States." J, To the extent that a father will not be permitted - to contract for the labor of his little ones, who ; should be in school or enjoying their childhood, in ", sUead of contributing the price of their keep to the J family budget. Southern states will probably reject J the child labor amendment, as they did the equal '2 suffrage amendment. That the progressive states of 1- the north and west will approve it goes almost with ■j out saying. 3, • -—-— A DANGEROUS ATTITUDE. * The Shelton Clipper, referring to the recent 2 democratic meeting in Lincoln, says: Alt Adam McMullen will have to do now Is In '* sir on the front porch and wait to tie notified of his • etc. tion." Fortunately for Nebraska Mr. McMullen does ■ not think so. And it isn’t so not by a jugful. It • is all well enough to be confident, but overconfidence 2- lias lost many a ball game, and more than one elec • tion. Nebraska republicans are hopeful arid con '2 fident, hut they are going to wage a campaign like 12 voters who realize the possibility of defeat. That is one and the only way of achieving victory. Adam • McMullen will not sit on his front porch and wait to ;5 be notified of his election. He will prosecute a ; vigorous campaign. His supporters will not sit on their front porchcp and wait for him to be notified ; of his election. They will, if they are wise, leave ;* the front porches deserted and get busy making sure f that McMullen is elected. It would be folly to underestimate the strength J of J. N. Norton. He will appeal to every element *,of discontent, and discontent, whether well based J or not, is rampant. He was not selected because of ,2 hi.A democracy, but because of his ability to appeal . .to malcontents. Adam McMullen was selocted be cause of his ability to discuss the real issues, be ;.rause of his stability and his experience. The real ‘ danger right now is that too many voters who favor ■I his election will adopt the attitude of the Shelton t2'<'lipper. There must he no letting up of activity. ’I Overconfidence is as dangerous as apathy, til SILVER CREEK’S STRAYING SAURIAN. I*; a catfish *.ve1ghing 26 pound- was pulled out of ••'a small stream in Nebraska one day not so long . I ago. Wiseacres were strangely perturbed thereby. "Much speculation was indulged as to how it got ‘Jthwe. Several ingenious theories were propounded. J.llefore the dust and quiet had settled down ngain, !eSilver Creek comes to the front with an alligator. “.Old neighbors of the late Charles Wooster report Jhaving seen n nine-foot saurian, to whose presence .^several things, among them the disappearance of a evaluable bird dog, are ascribed. ’» How shall we account for its presence in the cpastoral regions of this great, and glorious state, .whose peace is only disturbed, if ever, by squabbling •‘factions of the duplexed democratic party. One •f {silver Creek sage avers that the critter mus^ have ■ made its escape from a circus. No one has come •• forward yet to connect it with the antediluvian mon .ster that stirred the acrid mud in the depths of ijAlkali lake. There might lie some connection at j';!hat. The alligator is a hangover from the time when ‘pterodactyls, plefsiosaur* and the like were plentiful, i s Just as an hypothesis we wish to suggest another ‘•/{possible explanation. Tracing the course of the ’'gently flowing Silver creek to the Platte, and thence to the Missouri, the Mississippi, to the Gulf, we find ii direct all-water route available fur the use of nny ratfish, gar, pike, alligator, or any other denizen. All of these are migratory to some extent. Speci mens are known to wander far from the region j; Where most of them live ns a rule. Is it not possible in this year of high water these strangers mny •have swum up to where they were located? h\rn ir whale would have h hard time to tell the diflVr ence between the Platte river and the Pacific ocean, aave for the mud in the one and the salt in the other. MORE PROOF OF OUR ‘■POVERTY." If1* farmer had wanted a new binder in July, 1913, under the good old Wilson days, he could have it by trading 185 bushels of wheat, at Chicago price for No. 2 red winter. If the wanted the same binder last week, he could have it by trading 160 bushels of the same wheat, Chicago price. Blair (Neb.) dealer advertised binders at $200 last week. In 1913 these were selling around $160. Wheat in July, 1913, was at 87% cents in Chicago; on Friday last week it closed at $1.26%. In 1913, the total deposits in all banks in the country were $17,475,764,134; in 1923, the total deposits were $40,034,195,000. In the first year, savings bank deposits were $4,726,472,768; in the second named the total had mounted to $7,897,909, 000. In 1913 the aggregate funds of all the building and loan associations in the United States were $1,137,600,648, and in 1923 the total was $3,342, 530,953. This is the measure of increase in home ownership in the country wherein we are told the workingman finds himself worse off at the end of each year than he did at its beginning. In 1913 the total amount of life insurance in force throughout the country was $20,520,598,372, and in 1923 the aggregate was $56,000,000,000. The "poverty-stricken” men and women of the United States had only been able to multiply their insurance protection by 260 per cent in the decade. Every possible test, suve the l.a Follette platform and the socialist propaganda, shows not only the prosperity of the people of the United States, but the general distribution of that prosperity. Every frugal industrious citizen has his full share in the rapidly accumulating wealth of the country. The Improvident, idle, shiftless members of the body politic have only themselves to thank for their predicament. FREE COINAGE OF WATERMELONS. A German professor has succeeded in transmut ing mercury into gold at a cost which he estimates to he' about $2,164,000 a pound. This makes a pound of gold worth a little more than the commer cial value of three tons extracted from the earth. It will be some time before the war debt is paid off by the output of the electric furnace. What has that to do, however, with the situation , in New York, as regards watermelons? Last week a surplus of more than 200 cars of watermelons a day reached the metropolis. Prices fell to as low as 50 cents per individual melon of the average weight of 26 pounds. Appeals to the public to eat more melons did not affect the supply, and the week dosed with more melons on hand than anyone knew what to do with. Here is another one of the weak spots in the general scheme of things. Watermelons wiil not sus tain life, hut, as Dooley said about whisky, takei in due proportions and properly prepared, they will make life sustainable. A South Carolina jury,long ago, concluded that it was impossible to steal a watermelon, for the fruit was the inestimable gift of God to tired, hot and thirsty mankind. The mere fact that it was growing in a field did not give the owner of that field exclusive title to the melon. Arv one passing might help himself, and without sin against the law of God or man. That rule may not apply either in Nebraska or New York, but the small boy and the grownup man will unite in envy of the great metropolis where they have more watermelon than they can eat. Let the Germans pursue the philosopher’s stone. What America needs is a better distribution of the melon crop. We trust the savants of the University of Penn sylvania have examined other relics of Assyria with greater care than they bestowed on the so-called scepter of Dongi. It might be well to have a gen eral checking up to see if any important disclosure has been overlooked. A Florida ship captain has two daughters, Helen ami Kittie. He has named his new boat after them, “llelkat.” This, we insist, is the result of the bail influence of Hell’n Maria Dawes has set us. One argument in favor of abolishing the two thirds rule is advanced by a democrat, who says that there probably will not. he enough democrats left in 1928 to make two-thirds. American advertising men who dined at the Trianon may have awakened the shades of Louis XIV, but the chances ara that any spirits present were of the potable sort. It is a wise housewife who will call hubby's at tention to the fact that shoving the vacuum cleaner affords exercise very similar to swatting and chas ing a golf ball. Cheyenne county is wheeling into line with wheat yields from 40 bushels up to the acre. Ne braska is laughing at calamity right now. “Could We Hava Too Much Gold?" queries the St. Paul Dispatch. Not knowing we can not say, but we certainly would like to find out. The increasing price of wheat, corn and hogs is clearly another scheme of the Money Devil to embarrass Embattled Bob. Airplanes battling with Icebergs will interest the householder who is just now engaged in the annual struggle with the iceman. Managing Candidate Davis' campaign is a man- | sized job, and he picked a little Shaver for the task. Now if the landlords will only put into effect a repeal of their Pittsburg Plus system. Doubtless Shaver will pay particular attention to the bobbed hair vote. Any complaint about the weather being not warm enough? -- Homespun Verse —By Omaha'* Own Pgtl— Robert Worthington Davie v——--— ___ I LIKE TO GO HOME. f like to go home froin’mv toiling place, Kor | know whiit • waits me there - A « nzv mom and a smiling fare, Ami h kies from a cherub fair, Ami a welcome hue that Is aver mine v\ hen the Joy of home I share I like to go home when (he sun is low, A ml the dews of night descend,— To thnsg whg wait and wait, I know* With joy for the long day's end. VNlih « welcome that one can not And When he is his own l»est friend. I like to go home with the surging throng That trudges the homeward way. And di earns nr murmur* the mellow song * >f rest at I he close of ds v • Ami home wan! I hie, knowing why At ihe dawn 1 vrjmi away. Order Out the Regulars—the Half Breeds Are Off the Reservation ] v._,__ ——- —f --- Letters From Our Readers All Iflhrt inu»*t lir aiicnrd. Iml nanir w ill hr withtirlri iinon rrgucat. (ommunl ration* of ^U(i word* ami I#** will hr givrn iHvfrrrarr. elected, for the party would not have been divided. % Hut we are Informed that "God mo\ew in myateriou* wave Ilia won dera to perform." and thia may ha\e lieen the Kerond myaterioua way of providen- e in keeping an Aaron Burr out "f the White liouae Will the I »ruely patriot!* progteseivee \<»te to Tor the Voters to Decide. Handy, Neb.—To tiie Editor of The Omaha Bee: Do the penpla want an Aaron Burr for president? In the year 1S00 there »»» ram palgn for the election of a president of the I'nited Slates. Three candi date)! were up for that otftre; John Adains. federalist, anil Thomas Jeffer non of the demon-, it ic-republioan party. Jefferson and Burr tied on the electoral vote, with Adams, the third man in the race, and none of them getting a majority of all the votes cast. The i holre of a president therefore fell upon the house of repre sentatives. Alexander Hamilton ad vised his friends in the house to favor Jefferson as opposed to Burr. Thli resulted In the selec tion of Jef feraon aa president. Burr challenged Hamilton, and In the duel that fob lowed Hamilton was killed. The killing of Hamilton waa de nounced by the majority of people regardless of political affiliations, to such an extent that Burr was ostra claed from society. In retaliation. Burr went out Into the Mississippi valley—then a wilderness and tiled to establish a new emplte with tl* avowed object of wiping out the I'nited States These two ai ts brand ed Burr as being a man who oared mote for bis own aggrandizement, and an opportunity for venting bis own ijeraonal spite, titan be did fm the welfare of cither bin party or h, government. One hundred snd twelve ye.up later Koliert M. las Toilette was preaching the doctrine that In progressive re publics ntem lay the only safe course for either his parly or the govern inent. Another campaign was on. and he was one of the persona seek Ing a nomination for president. A lot of the other leading progressives w:cre booming the propoeed nomination of Da Toilette. Id Toilette went to the operating table, his physielan* declared that they dtd not think he could make sn other speech In two years, and the other progressives who had been booming him for the nomination de dd*d to draft Roosevelt. Roosevelt Insisted on the balance of the people expressing their preference for a can dldate at primary elections, and In the primaries thst followed Roosevelt got every delegate that wm* elected by his parly, but did not havernough lo nominate, even If the contested delegations were all decided In bis favor. Neither did Taft have enough to nominate, unless the contests were decided In his favor, or some of Ihe Da Toilette delegatee could he In dueed to t time over to hi* side The reporter", w ho were the fit at to strive at the eonvenllon city, nftei a < areful canvass of the situation, de elded that the above wits about the wav Ihe ground laid, snd that, there foie. I.o Toilette held the key to the Situation, and had the heel rhanee to secure the nomination. Tor. the re porters trasmted, the progressive* will undoubtedly stand firmly together for the organization of the oonven lion as the first snd most Important object to he obtained But they for got to reckon with Da Toilette,, who had surprised his friends and phv slclans by a rapid recovery from his operation and wag on hand In t'hi cagn Willi s privets wire to the eon ventlon hall to watch the delltiern lions and direct his lieutenants.-When House veil strived on Ihe siene, he at once advised all progressives lo get behind Da Toilettes man for temper ary chairman nnd thus secure the most Important thing or all, the pro gressive organization of the conven tion To tide program all of the pro gTensive* except Da Toilette and hi" men nstented But hearing that this was the tleeire of Itoosevelt, Da T'ol lelte wired Ills delegation to stt still sml refuse to vote on temporary or ganlzatlnn. Results i;aft got the organisation end the nomination, and lost Ihe election, nnd elona with the election the lenso of progressive re poblleenlsm was temporarily. at least- wrecked In this set. Ds Toilette showed that he caied more fm venting his own personal spite on Itooaevelt than for the success of progi esslvelsnt. tits petty, nr Ills counti v, foi he had been pleaching the doctrine of progressive l»iil as necessary lo the success nnd prosperity of both Itl* party amt Ins country. Whsl dlffereni e enn one "r-e fn tt,r action nf U Toilette In 111:' ami the j at lion of Aston Burr in lion? To my mind, ltolh men showed a greater desire to gratify their own selfish dc sires than for the welfare of edhei their jMirtlea or their country. Fur thermore, am not l,a Kollelle and his crowd boasting that It ia their hope to throw the .lection In'o the house and deprive the popular vote of the Honor of making the choice for pres ident? The repot let s had it figure,! out that after the progressives, slicking together and organizing the conven tton in 1312, there would be a dead lock for a fewt bnllots, when, the Roosevelt forces despairing of get ting I*a Fnllotte'r men to come over and nominate Roosevelt, would decide that they would rather have I*a Fol letto than Taft, and would g over and nominate I .a Follette And It has ai ways been my belirf that they were right on that guess. It will not be questioned. I think, that If he had been nominated he would have heen AnvmiUKMKNT. QUICKEST RELIEF FROM ECZEMA One Week’s Use of Mercirex Brought Astonishing Results Mercirex Cream Guaranteed “I have had a lot of trouble with eczema. blackhead* and pimple*, hut after I used Mercirex. 1 hardh enr-w that I had the same fare — my skin was so clear and healthy. I noticed astonishing result* after one week'* use of Mercirex." That’* the way Mercirex brings results—*»wiftly, surely. Use it according to the simple direction*, and you will have relief from the wont case* of eczema, pimples, itch, blackheads, boil*, etc. You don't take a (ingle chance Mercirex i* guaranteed to clear your *kin—or you get your money bark. We make thi* iron-clad guar antee because we know what Mer cirex will do. Before it wa» offered for »alc, we asked physician* to use it on the worst case* of skin trouble under their observation. Without exception. Mercirex brought satisfying relief to all. Do not confuse Mercirex with the usual dark, messy ointments that merely grease the surface. Merci rex is a professional product (not a patent medicine) produced by one nf the country's oldest scientific in stitution*. Mercirex penetrate* vanishes through the outside skin, acting on the true skin Under neath. where your trouble really is. It will not stain your skin or linen I’ut it on and go your way. It has only a faint fragrance thaf women will like, and men never notice. Mercirex is always sold on a money Hack guarantee. At your druggist's only 75 cents. (Jet Mercirex Cream to-day. Write for free booklet on the rare of the *kin The L. D. Caulk Company, Milford Del. Special package of Mercirex Cream and Soap, value $1.55, for XI "F, Sunny side up i' cJaJce Comfort, nor forget ^hat sunrise nmMrJei/«/f j r®-- ■••-■'- ■ - **■ — t The announcement of the serious Illness of Henry Cabot „ Lodge very naturally rails to mind the League of Nations, and the League of Nations calls up plan* for world peace, and plans for world peace naturally calls tip Edward Bok, and Ed ward Bok naturally calls up thoughts of his 1100,000 prize for a peace plan. Now, bv the way, what'n thunder has become of the plan for world peace that won the initial award of the Bok com • hiittee? Having announced our acquiescence In Lottie Cliffords j latest venture tn hirsute adornment we hold that we are now warranted In having our own thatch harherod In accordance with our own desires, and without any unfavorable comment from her. Just as soon as we have completed this dally stint we shall hie to our favorite tonsorlal artist and have the short '/ clippers work over the entire expanse of our caput. Ruth Hale, who would he known as Mrs. Heywood Broun under the old order of things, Is supported by us In iter cam paign. She Insists that married women are entitled to live their own lives under their own names: that they should not take the names of their husbands. That meets with our ap i probation, so fai as it goes. If now they will Insist on not taking a lot of other things rightfully belonging to their husbands w* | shall become even more enthusiastic In support of her con I tentions. Time was when we could count our personal and excluaive i belonging* up Into dozens. Now about all that is left to ua la our toothbrush. With the advent of the abbreviated hair even our safety razor Is no lunger aacred. As for Ihe weekly pay chefk, that long ago ceased remain ing with us any longer than for the time required for ua to In scribe our autograph on the reverse side thereof. It would be Interesting and perhaps Informative to have a comparative statement of jail statistics, taking the present Jail , census and i-omparlng It with a similar cenatia about the ttrne * we were being assured that s certain proposed statute would cause all of our houses of detention to become roosting plate* for bat* and owls. Nebraska Limerick. A hunch of high rollers in Salem | I .trank booze for the things that might ail 'em. They summoned physicians, Eine diagnosticians, But ev'ry known remedy’d fail 'em. Among other Items of news that fail to intrigue ua we now list the announcement that the two major presidential candi dates will make their public address** unusuallv brief. In the first place they won't, and secondly, we expec* to pass them uo anyhow. * The Tincher Barkley debates, which promised to be of in 'eresr because devoted largely to a discussion of the Barkley Howell railroad bill, have gone flooey so far as they might In terest us. Ths gentlemsn are merely engaged In a sort of Tou re another exchange of pleasan’ personalities. WILL M MACPI.V. i.rr w _ [Hit an Aaron Burr in the White House In tills coming election’ We ‘Know of no way of judging the fu me except by the past '' B. R CHAPMAN. “When a man’s wife is away,.' ! mourns Kletrh Merwln. “his clothes died buttons like a chicken sber.s leathers.“ *< When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Bat hi—Rates $2 to 13 AUGUST SALE Furniture, Rugs and Housewares Commences FRIDAY, AUG. 1st In the early part of this year we asked our customers to expect a “S-A-L-E E-X-T-R-A-O-R-D-I-N-A-R-Y,” a sale such as had never been held in Omaha before. This August our customers expect us to equal that event. We shall EXCEED their expectation. /o»p«ii»» Pop Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday Sale Goods Cannot Be Sold Before 9 A. M. Friday 4 Orchard-Wilhelm SIXTEENTH AND HOWARD STS. 'L——_L1_—___ FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY This is vour opportunity to get fresher, cleaner BONANZA at a big saving in money. BONANZA mi-Art hi sc.it e is smokeless ami sootless Mid hv* very lit, -a »sh. It is t!.«' most ee.» lom’ca! and stlisfatiory com on tli* market August Prices Will Be Higher. Order Now! Central Coal & Coke Co. JAckson 3012 414 South 15th Street I ft