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The Omaha Bee MORNiN C—E V E N I N G—3 UNDAT THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER, Editor la Chief,Business Manager MEMBER Of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tho 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 alio reserved. The Oasaha Bee is' a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by *beir organisations. _ Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1808, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1878. ' BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for 1 fiAft • the Department or Perscn Wanted. lanalC 1UW - OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—63 Dovenshlre St., Room 8 Seattle—A. L. 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Address ing himself to Cromwell, he adjured him to fling ayray ambition. “By that sin fell the angels,” he s4id, and attributed his own downfall to it. t What has this got to do with the campaign the democratic party is setting out upon in the nation? Clem Shaver, chairman of the national commit tee, personal champion of the candidacy of John W. Davis, is beginning to understand. When the e&pvention at New York named Mr. Davis as the nominee for the presidency, a bit of clever finesse was indulged. George L. Berry, who was put for ward in all sincerity as a candidate for vice presi dent by the liberal element of the party, was set a|ide. It was necessary to placate Mr. William Jen nings Bryan. The convention was dragooned into accepting Brother Charlie, the Cinderella of the family, as the radical-progressive who would offset the reactionary-conservative Davis and “balance the tifcket.” * * • • I Now Mr. Shaver is learning that the ambition of the Bryan brothers is to have one of their number in the White House as president. Brother Will has had three tries at it. Frontal attacks. All failures, had three tries at it. Frontal attacks. All falures. Here is a chance by indirection. Let Brother Charlie run for vice president. Get the electoral college deadlocked. Throw the election into a house that is impotent. Have the senate choose Brother Charlie for vice president. The trick is done. On March 4, next, at 12 o’clock noon, Charles W. Bryan be comes president of the United States. ; How to do this: First, secure the favor of Rob eft M. La Follette. If a little assistance is given I* Follette, he will surely reciprocate. Adding his influence to that of the democrats in the senate he will make Bryan vice president. “Pat” Harrison did not know just what he wits doing when he con gratulated Brother Charlie on being elected by 75, 000 when the rest of the state ticket was repub lican by around 55,000. Yet he touched a keynote there for fair. * • • The “Harmony club” idea went big in Nebraska. Why not extend it to the nation? The stake is worth playing for. It is not the office of governor hut of president that is in reach. And Wolseley was not one whit more ambitious than Bryan. Nor was Machiavelli any deeper in the gentle art of winning when you seem to lose. ; So Clem Shaver learned something when he came to Nebraska. He finds the pathway of his candidate obscured by two shadows. One of them is the long, s&jister shadow of the double-cross. BUNK, BLUSTER, BLOVIATION. Hon. Byron Patton Harrison, senator from Mis sissippi, is doing a little more than yeoman service for the democratic party this year. He keynoted the New York convention into the most remarkable ex hibition of “harmony” recorded since the famous - affair between the Kilkenny cats. Now he has just ratified Charles W. Bryan of one of the results of tbat convention. He did it remarkably well, too, when one considers the material he had to work oh. But “Pat” Harrison is not to blame for what he does not know. \tfhen it comes to Nebraska politics and the Bryans, he only knows what some body told him. One of the points made by “Pat” as a notifler is that Governor Bryan received at the April pri mary 78 per cent of the vote of the third party. That sounds big, and will be impressive until one looks at what really happened. The total vote cast by the “independent” party at the April primary Was 2,170, which is just one-half of 1 per cent of the 1922 vote of the state. The equivalent of the alco holic content beyond which liquor under the Vol stead act must not go. So the 78 per cent cast for Governor Bryan really amounts to three-quarters of '-''-half of 1 per cent, or three-eighths of a vote out each 400 cast in November, 1922. As to the i...husiasm of the democrats it may be noted that Ifte governor received as candidate, of that party at ($ie primaries 58,854 votes, which is equal to 14.7 jjer cent of the total. , Also, the notifier congratulated the notified on *<the saving to the people of Nebraska, due to the courageous manner in which you handled the coal and gasoline situations.” So far ns the coal situa tion goes, the governor’s action had about ns much effect as the legendary mandate of King Canute, forbidding the tide to rise any higher. A gasoline War was under way in Omaha for months before the governor did anything. He then started up a one pump station in the southwest corner of Lincoln, and went off to New York, shouting along the way: ^Ses what I did to the old devil!” Sad to relate, the •riee In Omaha and at the uptown stations In Lin coln was 18 cents for many days while it was 15 at, governor’* pump. Senator Harrison also should be apprised that great reform achieved by the governor in the Department of Public Works was to stop public work. He thereby reduced the number on the payroll to the extent of those Who were engaged in road build ing. His 13 per cent reduction in taxes is also sub ject to revision. His tax commissioner only makes a claim of 10 per cent. As • matter of fact, the re duction is 40 per cent, when compared to the war peak in 1919. But the governor will hardly claim credit for that. His secretary of finance has just been detected in the omission of a little more than $700,000 in order to make a good showing on ex penditures for his chief. If Senator Harrison will stick around and get posted on Nebraska affairs, he may find reason to revise his notification remarks. “WHAT’S IN A NAME?” Somewhere along the ling, after man assumed an erect position and began to co-ordinate articulate speech, he found it necessary to refer to one of his fellows. This caused him to employ a descriptive noun. If it were sufficiently pat it stuck, and a name was bom. Since then the individuals of the race, and family groups as well, have had names. Some were given in praise, some in derison. Some denote a personal attribute or characteristic, some refer to trade or calling, some to place of residence, but each designating its wearer. Names are honored, family names in particular, and it is a poor man who can not refer with pride to some one of his forebears as having accomplished something to dis tinguish him among mankind. Occasionally names lost something of their sig nificance. Smith, for example, has come to be so common that most folks have forgotten that it originally was used by the first artisans. Tubal Cain, who was a worker in metals, was the first smith, and whatever the pre-Noachite appelation might have been, he undoubtedly wore it. There fore any Smith may look back on a very direct line of descent from “the gardener, Adam, and his wife.” The average boy curls up when he hears anyone tailing Percy. It sounds so sissified. Yes, but just ;um back in English history a few years, and find tut why Percy was also called “Hotspur.” He was 'ar from being a sissy, and the boy who bears his name today ought to feel a bit of a thrill from the ract. This might be said of all the popiflar names in use today. Before feeling bad because the name given by your sponsors in baptism can not be twisted in some hard-sounding “monicker,” trace its deriva tion, and find out if somebody worth while did not once wear it. It must be so, or the name would not have come down through the ages. Most boys would object if they were named “Orgetorigis,” and yet the great Julius Ceasarwas tickled pink when he learnei that that old warrior had crossed the Styx. Maybe there is nothing in a name, but it pays to look it up before condemning it entirely. MEXICO .AND THE IMMIGRANTS. Word comes that Plutarco Elias Calles, who will be president of Mexico to succeed Obregon, has in vited 10,000 Jews, forbidden to enter the United States, to come to Mexico. This is regarded as a good stroke of business for the president-elect. It insures his country the presence of that many fu ture citizens who are industrious, thrifty and enter prising. It will be an experiment worth watching. Specu lation is idle that gives thought to the condition of the Jews in Spain, and their fate under Ferdinand and Isabella. The Jews went to Spain with the Moors. By their presence there they enriched that land in every way. Principally intellectually. His tory does not hold a brighter chapter than the un folding of science under the influence of Islam after it had been suppressed in Alexandria, Athens and other centers under the Christian rulers. The over throw of the Moors in Spain was accompanied by the inevitable expulsion of the Jews, hut Spain suf fered the most. The religious aspect of Mexico is not so formida ble under the new constiution as it was under the old. The future for the new group is apparently safe on that score. We say apparently, because the possibility of revolutions adds the tang of uncer tainty to other pleasures of life below the Rio Grande. Porfirio Diaz once invited Americans to come in and make their homes down there. Many of them accepted. What happened to them after Francisco Madero got tired of paying taxes to Por firio Diaz will be unraveled during the next few years by the joint commission. It is enough. If Calles can keep his effervescent countrymen from bubbling over, and can induce other immi grants of the capacity of the Jews to mingle with them, the development of Mexico may get quite a push forward. The opportunity and the resources are there. Also the temptation to dolce far nlente, and manana. Unhappily these latter nsually are in the majority. John W. Langley of Kentucky Is a candidate for congress and under sentence to the federal peniten tiary. It appears that he is quite certain to reach at least one of his destinations. Maine has enacted a law prohibiting carrying loaded guns In automobiles. But the half-shot driver will continue to explode and scatter death and de struction. LaFollette’a campaign will cost $2,000,000, con tributed very largely by those who bought gold bricks from a man named Townley. Governor Bryan is the recipient of n squlrrelskin skull cap. The urge to say something about "nuts” is almost irresistible. To date it has been difficult to interest France in the matter of interest. It seems agin* French prnciple to pay. The LaFnllettc campaign fund is said to top $2, 000,000. The Money Devil is no respecter of per sons. We suggest that even the mayor of Omaha should have some regard for road laws. La Follette will not he notified. He knows It. -N Homespun Verse —By Omnhs'i Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie H .. ---1--J LEAD US ON. Lend us on and guide us ever. Give us courage day by day. Teach us that our high endeavor Is to Thee ns we would pray. Let sunshine he our rldotto. Make the rainbow'* end our goal; "On and upward"—mould the motto As Thou hast designed the Soul. Let us see the blue through sorrow As obedient mortals must; Laeh today and earh tomorrow Find us keeping true Thy trust Lend us on snd guide us ever Till the rsce of life Is run. And the fruit of our endeavor Itlpens with the setting sun. , Down the Wrong Aisle. | ___—-- ■ ■■■ ■ . ■ , ■ - 1 —1 ■ 1 ■ ^ | - - -1 SORRY SIR,BUT THE \ BOX OFFICE MUST ) HAVE MADEAMISTAIcE — THERE'S SOME BODY ALREADY IN’ CCATf* HiH ■» -———— ' Letters From Our Readers All letter* must he1 aimed. hut name will he withheld upon requeat. Comiaunl ratlnpa of 200 word* and Ifaa will bo tlTon preferonoe. - -—-—> Meter the Hoad Service. Omaha—To the Editor of Ths Oma ha Bee: Your editorial In August 14 Issue Is a good one, "Painless Pay ntent for Roads,” Our Iowa friend must believe that the producer of wealth In the great state of Iowa is not capable to accept a true system of merchandising her highways to the private consumer thereof. Iowa has the same vague, scram bling and accidental system of getting money for roads as all the rest of the states, to Invest In highways pur chased by the unit and turned out to private consumption, without any re striction on how much the private user consumes, and no way of rebat ing the one who pays for more than he consumes. Iowa is using a dimension that they call "Horsepower" per year and also a dollar as a meter of value per year, with a fictitious price on this unit, which does not ascertain the number of ton miles that the payer of such taxes may require or desire. If he gets more ton mile service than he has paid for, then the unjmld balance Is passed to the one who Is not able to consume nil that he pays for. and If that doesn't cover the cost, then we tax it to the roof over somebody’s head. He also mentioned a 5 cent gas tax. which Iowa does not have os yet, but no doubt the unsuspecting public will accept that also, and the way we do things, not confiping us to the truth of arithmetic, wo do not want lower taxes. Gasoline is not a meter of ton mile under all conditions, such as quality of gasoline, efficiency of mo tor and condition of highways at all times and season* and geographical location. The only question In this matter Is. □ Martin * 1 are we going to keep up u»ing a con glomeration of dimensions by the year to meter this ton mile service or shall we accept the truth and met er our highways by the only one fac tor of dimension that you can apply, "ton mile." By first ascertaining the cost of building and maintaining all highways and bridges in the nation, also Including police costs to direct traffic, and bookkeeping, all this must be merchandised to all, covered by a ton mile rate, comprehensively met ered, which will Inspire the confi dence of everybody. The private ton mile traffic on high ways has Increased about J.000 per • ent In the Inst 10 years, and this cost has been charged to taxes in various ways that are vlclotl*. Industry to the east paid the bulk of this increase and charged It to their product, and passed to the ultimate consumer of1 tho product. In the west the agri culture paid a good share of this in creased expense In taxes, but could not add the tax to its product, but were compelled to exchange their product for tho industrial with tax added, therefore absorbed all the ag ricultural tax as well as the tax added by the industrial. Neither the agri cultural or industrial arts were re sponsible for this increased ton mile -ost. This conception is based upon a mode of transportation during thei days that we used oxcarts, and then we followed buffalo trails and cow paths and that mode of private trans portation was not able to consume a great deal of highway service In a year Mechanism has put such speed in transportation In the last few years, that It is difficult to escertain Just how much ton mile service wo can consume on our present high ways per year, and we certainly can not determine In advance how much the requirement and desire of the tax payer Is going to be for the year. W« have accused the producer of wild spending and extravagance. This I will not agree with: the fact la he haa never reached that point yet. The fact la that the producer In the two arts, agriculture and industry, does not possess the strength to pro duce enough to pour Into the con stant consuming stream of private traffic, and keep the abyss full at all times. I believe that every man, woman and child and all kinds of tonnage should contribute to the highway as a coordinate system In the nation, according to the benefit derived, met ered at a ton-mile coat, based on the, cost of building and maintaining. ! will not argue the gasoline tax, only to atate that it la baaed on the conception of getting the money with no regard to the equity established in society. No honest and Intelligent man can furnish any defense for any kind of tax that we are using, only bankruptcy of brain power, not being able to apply anything else. It does not concern the highway ^’Itutton what energy or how much energy is expended to move,,tonnage per m:le. Regardless if the private tonnage la moved by the energy of coal, kerosene, electricity or gasoline and horses, and the effort expended in another way, has nothing to do with the highway cost. Tour editorial la correct, highway service must be metered at a price based on the unit coat. H E SANDERS. Chairman Good Roads. Commander Post A . T. P. A._ AN INVESTMENT of 1109 nr trnrf. placed after careful inveatigation of the merit and legiti macy of an offer I will make you by mail upon requeat- ahouid at leaat double your money, m-i-.IS every reeeon able protiaion for aafetv of principal, shich la latar returned out of a fink ing fund provided therefor. My offer la atrletly limited and for aerioue-minded people only who can realise when shown the unlimited pos sibilities In the manufacturing of Elec tric Heating Equipment. Write me today for proof. D. J. O’Keefe. S2 Church Street, Room 5-C. New Havea, Conn. 6% NO COMMISSION 6% 11 REAL ESTATE LOANS |o I 6% INTEREST g 1 NO COMMISSION E 2 Easy Repayments ^ o The Conservative Savings & Loan Ass’n o Z 1614 Hiraty Street ^ S% NOCOMMISSION 6 % Odd facts about c End them this vOrilS rieiv way SINCE man started to wear shoe* his feet have hurt him. Score* of ways to end corns have been tried. Most are alike. Blue-jay is scientifi cally different, quick, safe; the dis covery of a noted scientist. It stop* the pain instantly. Then the com loosens and comes off. That's all — paring a corn yourself is dangerous. Use it tonight, walk in comfort to morrow. Your druggist has it. SUNNY SIDE UP 9ake Comfort, nor font t I 9Aat J Postmaster Black says a letter sent by air mall with a special delivery stamp attached Is an ordinary letter with a college education. Sign erected at a near-by cemetery: "Blank Cemetery— Exit." We have selected that particular burial ground lor our own. We hereby serve notice that for the next three or four days this department Is going to be worse than usual. If such a thing Is possible. The reason therefor Is that we are mingling with our kind, the country newspaper brethren and sisters, In annual convention. This has become a fixed habit with us. We have missed but one such annual gathering In 38 years. We hope to be able to register annually for the next 38 years, because It would be next to impossible to mingle with a finer bunch of folks. Next week, providence permitting, we shall take an ex tended tour through the southern half of Nebraska—the South Platte country. Time was when the Platte river waa a politi cal boundary of considerable Importance. That Is no linger true. It Is now merely a river that flows through the best state In the Union, bar none. On this trip we hope to meet an army of old friends. Praise be, the South Platte country Is not the country we first knew nearly four decades ago. We shall start our Inspection tour from Imperial Monday, work ing eastward and criss-crossing the country by the Burling ton’s numerous branch lines, spending an entire week. We are especially fond of fried chicken and chicken gravy, hot corn bread and every kind of fresh fruit pie. Lottie Clifford will accompany us on the trip, prepared to Issue the usual admonitions against over-indulgence In eating, and prepared with remedies that have proved efficacious over a long period of years. Watch for a peculiar looking engine, which has Its cab out In front, but do not go to the trouble and expense of having the band at the depot. The fried chicken will be sufficient. < Almost as many people witnessed the notification of Brother Charley as witnessed the Cornhusker-Notre Dame foot ball game last November. Many of them for much the same f reason. "Kid" McCoy hsa given many a hard punch, but the evidences are that he is due to get one in the neck that will put him down for a permanent count. Mike Harrington intimated at the La Follette meeting that an electoral vote might easily be worth J100.000. The line will please form on the right. A man down In Fillmore county called attention to a fact that we pass on to some prohibition enforcement officer. He named a bachelor who owned one hog. but had just bought 500 bushels of old corn and eight sacks of sugar. If some of the old time farmers of Nebraska who have U gone to their reward should come hack and see their followers 1} actually cultivating sweet clover, they would probably ask to B be sent back. We can remember the time when farmers are re i urged to mow the sweet clover along the roadside to prevent Its seeding over on the farms. WILL M. MAUPIN. ! - j • » * + » 10,000 LAKES 7U LcnJofti,' Skf B/u* Wcrrr The lakes are full of tighten end they're hungry now—bass, pike end muskiee. There’* every vacation sport in the world here— bathing, boating, golf. Iannis, riding. Hiking, camp ing Hotels < ampa. cottage*-all at reasonable rates. LOW SUMMER FARES Reach the 10.000 lake* via the Chicago Great Weatern. Kaat time and good service. Send fee free book. 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